A Life Long Wait... By Fleur and Zombierocker NEW!

Ya know in this one there will be no AZ kissing Rardy..Not like in CCD....

The bang at the door of the TV room startled Rardy and Byn. In walked a grinning AA and Bobby. They were pushing a table and Vanessa the candy striper was carrying a vase with a REAL single flower in it.

The table had two big silver domes on it. The nurses postioned the table so the young couple could still stay on the couch.
"Eatting on a couch while being entertained, very Roman don't you think Robert?" AA said jovily. He was obviously on cloud nine about something.

"What's gotten into you?" Rardy said laughing.
"Oh, I just have a date tonight." he said preening. He then grabbed a pillow and propped it up behind Byn to help her sit up better, Byn couldn't resist asking as he did.
"With my mom?" AA grinned at her before speaking.

"Yes Robyn, and I swear I will do everything in my power to make her happy. I will not hurt her. But you can do something to make her even happier, and this young man here as well. EAT." Byn blushed as AA looked at Rardy. "She's been skipping meals." AA turned back to look at Byn as he scolded her.
"I bet you thought you had fooled old AA..Well you'd be surprised by what I know about you."
"What he knows about the Both of you." Bobby added. AA glared at Bob before looking back at Rardy.
"You DO know what Dr.Friz will do to her IF he finds that out.."

"Byn he'll tube you..It's NOT fun at all. And there will be no chance of anything like tonight if he does. You'll be stuck in that bed..And I'm SURE he won't let me see you.., let alone anything else."

"Exactly..no more movie nights..and worse..No more kisses."
AA crossed his arms and looked down at them.
"Don't think I don't know. And don't try to deny it. I know two souls falling inlove when I see it. I know what it looks like, I've seen it thousands of times. Now..Robyn you eat. And you, make sure she does..and Rardy don't push yourself too hard, keep up your strength. You both still got a long struggle ahead of you..But.. I think you can make it."

Infront of Byn, he uncovered a small bowl of delicious smelling broth and a few noodles inside it. And for Rardy, there was a thick juicy hamburger with all sorts of toppings arranged on the plate incase the boy wanted them.

"REAL FOOD!! Oh AA does that ever look good! But can I really have this?"
"Gotta get those red blood cells up again! You need the iron. Eat!" He smiled at them, he knew they were on the right track. They were falling for each other.
"I'll be back later when your done eating just push the table to the side. One of us will see if you want dessert, or take the table away."
Bobby and Vanessa waived at them and left as AA gave his final instructions. "Have fun with your movie. But I don't want either you over tired. Dr Friz will wonder why. And I don't need to have another run in with him. ..I'll be back at 9:30. I want every one settled by ten. I can't work overtime tonight. I have a date!"
AA finished as he closed the door behind himself.

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Barbie and Frankie had finished their meal. They had moved into her huge entertainment room. Barbie had opened cooler. Even though Barbie was underage. Her parents shopped for her and had her pantry well stocked. Barbie didn't drink even one drop if she thought there was ANY possibility of driving. And she wasn't offering Frank any either, atleast not yet.

"You drink Frankie?" she said and took a sip.
"Sometimes..not much a beer or two here or there. Why?"
"You want a cooler? They're really good. I let you have one, IF you promise, you won't drive if you have even a slight buzz."

Frankie grinned and blushed at the same time. "You're assuming the buzz I'll have will be from the alcohol. What if it's something, someone else that giving me that buzz?"

Barbie blushed and rolled her eyes.
"I guess what ever the reason, you'll have ta crash here I guess. Would that be a problem for you Frankie..If you had to spend the night?"

Frank licked his lips and dropped his chin to his chest. He was nervous around Barbie still, maybe it was because he like her so damn much. He swallowed hard and just raised his eyes to look at her. "That depends..Are we talkin', crashing on the couch sleeping in my clothes kinda deal? Or.., or spending the night with you? I cause I Like you Barbie..I really do..hell I said it in the kitchen before..I think I'm fallin' for ya..I just..I don't wanna rush things..Imean..you and Rardy ok, I know you..but..." Frankie shoved his hands in his pants pockets.

He got up and began to pace. He felt trapped. Frank wanted to make a move, but he also didn't wanna take advantage of her if she was still in love with Rardy.
"But I also know you couldn't even go out with me to TacoBell without telling him for crying out loud.. I just wanna make sure you're REALLY over him before..before we get in too deep. I loved Bert..part of me always will but... It's not the same anymore..not since I met you..I just want to be sure it's the same for you about me..is all."

Barbie got up and stood infront of him to stop his pacing. She smelled like berries as spoke to him.
"Hey, Frankie..I know. I know it's weird them being sick and us not. I know it's weird how, one minute I hated you and an hour later I let you kiss me..but sometimes weird things happen, and they turn out okay. Look if they were healthy..,if we were just all hanging out..,and Rardy and I were over like we are, would you-"
"Wanna steal you away? Oh Hell yeah! Would I wanna try and get you to go out with me just to tick him off? Fuck yeah! He's a blue knight and I'm a patty..Our schools hated each other! We're rivals we'll never be best buds. I guess I'm over thinking it..I guess, I should be trying harder than I am to get'cha..after all you're a knight AND you were a knight's girl..That's two for the price'a one." He smiled at her staring at the lips he wanted to kiss again.

"That I am. And I can still kick your sorry green ass out on the field."Barbie smiled at him knowing he was about to kiss her again..
"I don't doubt that you could Barbara Joan..I don't doubt it at all.." Frankie couldn't resist her when she smiled at him. He leaned in and kissed her again. She tasted vaguely like the berry cooler. She pulled away, smiling still. she sighed happily.

"....Now, bout this movie..Could you stand a chick- flick?"
He pulled his car keys out of his back pocket and handed them to her.
"Give me a cooler, a soft place to be, and let me put my arms around'ja and I can stand anything..it's a done deal."

You know a man loves a gal when he is willing to watch a chick-flick for her...

I think this won't be what Lis wants...
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Robyn and Gerard watched the whole time as Azrael left the room. Once he was gone Gerard’s eyes shot to Robyn.
“Byn! Why on earth would you skip meals? I mean…you are kinda this as it is and with the cancer you need as much strength as you can get. This cancer stuff is no joke!”
Robyn stared down at her hands that were busy fraying the edges of her hospital gown. She wished that she had gotten one of the nicer ones that Barbie had given her.
“Are you even listening to me,” Gerard asked with a sigh as he began dressing his burger.
“Yeah,” Robyn mumbled, poking her soup trying to think of it as something that she really loved to eat so she wouldn’t make them worry. “I…I hear ya…but…but I have good reasons for what I do.”
“Like what,” Gerard said thickly through a good size bite of hamburger.
Robyn opted to start with crackers, nibbling the edges as she pondered her next words.
“Well…when every time you get violently ill you really lose interest in eating.”
She chanced a glance at Gerard who had just set his burger down and was studying it as if trying to fathom how someone could not want to eat it.
“Um…also…” Robyn began again, looking at her knees again, “if…if I got sick they um…they wouldn’t have let me see you yesterday or today…or ever. So…I’d rather skip food and getting sick then miss seeing you.”
Robyn allowed her gaze to travel toward Gerard. Starting with his feet, then his knees where his hands were sitting, up his shoulder to his neck to his chin that was facing her. She realized he was looking at her, which only made her further not want to look him in the eyes. She backtracked, turning away from him completely. She felt a small tear trace her cheek, she wished that she wasn’t so weak. She wiped it away, trying to be discrete with her motions, trying not to let on how upset and foolish she was feeling. She felt something shift next to her. She tried to move away, but she didn’t have time before Gerard had wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to him.
“I know…I know I am dumb Ge-Gerard…I don’t need you to tell me that I…I just thought…”
Gerard turned her to face him without much effort, and wrapped her close in his arms. Robyn felt her cheeks burn, this somehow seemed so much more meaningful that the kiss…so much more raw and emotional. Robyn hugged back burying herself in his smell of old smoke and hospital soap. She breathed deep, not wanting this moment to end too soon.
“Byn,” Gerard finally said, his words muffled by her hair that his face was currently buried in, “I don’t think you are dumb. I…I would never think that about you. I didn’t mean to hurt you I just…I dunno what I’d do if they wouldn’t let me see you or if something happened to you, especially if I caused it to happen. Just…Just please watch out for yourself I…I just.”
Robyn pulled back from him, seeing the beginnings of tears dancing in his eyes, making the brown in his hazel eyes pop out instead of the green. She smiled at him, holding his warm face in her cold hands.
“I promise Gerard…I promise to watch out for myself but…but you have to make sure that even if I get sick you see me. I mean…I will probably get worse before I get better right.”
Gerard gave a strangled sound before giving a nearly imperceptible nod of his head, “but there is no way that Fuzzy will let us.”
“Then…then…I dunno. To bad we aren’t roomies huh,” she said with a soft smile as she kissed one of his tears away.
Gerard looked at her, her dark eyes wide and waiting. And oh how he wanted to tell her that he loved her, that he had from nearly the first moment he had seen her. That he dreamed of the two of them, healthy and together and oh so happy. He wanted to tell he all of this, but there was always the ‘what if’…what if she didn’t? What if she still loved Frank? What if they never got better at all?
Finally he leaned forward, kneeling on the couch facing her as she was him, and pulled her so close that their bodies were pressed against one another, only their hospital gowns separating them. Gerard let out a hissing breath, planing on trying to say something at least.
“Its ok Gerard,” Robyn said softly before he could even start, “we will make it. I know it.”
Gerard gave a sigh, losing his confidence all together.
He then just nodded, “um…come on Byn. We uh…probably should get to eating.”
Robyn gave a small frown and then brightened suddenly, “ok. You are right Rardy.”
Gerard smiled at the pet name a little as he took another bite of his burger, watching carefully to make sure Robyn at least ate some of her food. Over all, the night he thought was going well. He just hoped it ended as well for all involved.

Frankie sat on the big sectional Barbie had in her entertainment room. Barbie had given him a blueberry cooler and she was sitting next to him. His arm was around her as he leaned against the padded arm. He took a long swig as the credits began to roll.

"This is one of my FAVORITE movies." she said as she moved a bit closer. She had made popcorn with plenty of butter, and had twizzlers on the table next to Frankie. she scooted so she had her head on his shoulder. She looked up at him. "Look, I know it's a chick flick but give it a chance will ya?" Frankie nodded.
"Sure Barb, I mean..As long as I am here with you...I don't really care what we watch."

As the credits began to scroll the title was..
"A Walk in the Clouds."

"Wait...is this that Keanu Reeves movie? The one where he pretends to be married to the girl he met on the train?"

"Yup!" Barbie's blue eyes sparkled up at him. "Yeah! Yeah it is!"

"Aw man! This is one HELLOFA romantic movie!! Why didn't you SAY it was gunna be this?"

"How do you even know it Frank? It's not a exactly guy pic?"

"Well no maybe not, but it starts out with GI's coming home and the the next scene is Debra Messing in her underwear...Come on, that was enough to grab my attention on rainy Sunday..I laid on the couch and had nothin better to watch..and then the story of him trying to do the right thing got to me..that and the Grandpa in this reminds me alot of mine..He was a real Ladies man when he was young ya know.."

Barbie looked up at him. Her face alight with happiness.
"Yeah well I bet you take after your Grandpa in that department.. Atleast you kiss like a great italian lover would I think.. "

"Yeah you think so?" Frankie leaned in and kissed her again. She could taste the blue berry on him, and he the strawberry on her. They both pulled back abit from the kiss as they heard the key on the lock in the movie. They snuggled closer and started watching.

Be the time the frost scene was on Frankie had turned so he was laying on the couch and Barbie half next-to, half on-top of him. She lay there with her head on his chest listening to his heart as much as watching the movie. Her hand brushed up and down his chest over the thin fabric of his t-shirt. His hand caressed her arm and every one in a while he would plant a soft kiss on her hair.

As they lay there holding each other watching this romance on screen, they became more in-tuned to one another. They seemed to breath as one. Their hearts matching each other's rhythms.
As the grape harvest scene came on and Keanu's character began to compete with the father on screen Frankie laughed. It was a very pleasant sound to Barbie's ears.

As the next scene came and The heroine danced first by herself crushing the grapes and then the threw Keanu's "Paul" into the vat with her, Barbie lifted her head and whispered, "Frankie..This is my favorite part of the movie.. Look how he looks at her..I want that ..I want someone to look at me like that..Like he was falling in love with me."
Barbie said staring intently at the TV.

"Really? You think love can really happen that fast? It's what just a little over a day in the movie? I mean I know I think it can.."

Frankie was staring at her face the whole time and now he took two fingers and turned her face to his.
"In-fact Barbie I KNOW it can.."

Barbie looked down at his lips and then into his warm brown eyes. "They're the same color as Hershey's kisses.. but you taste sweeter." she said as she closed the distance between their lips and covers his with hers.

In a very few moments the movie was all but forgotten. Barbie 's hands were all over Frankie's body. He was trying to not push his luck, and he was hesitant as to how and where he should touch her. Barbie guided his hands and placed them on her. One on her lower back up under the edge of her shirt, and the other on the side of her breast over the shirt.
Frankie pulled back for just a bit, panting like he'd just run a fifteen minute quarter against the dreaded duo of B and G on soccer field. "Barbie? Are- are ya sure?"

"Don't you want to Frankie? Don't you want me?"

"Hell yeah! FUCK yeah I DO but.."

"Then shut up and kiss me.." Barbie said as she covered his mouth with hers once again. This time opening her mouth and tracing his lips with her tongue WHILE unzipping his now VERY tight pants.

Frankie groaned into the kiss, he was commando as usual. Frank groaned even louder as he felt her cool hand wrap around his burning cock. She began to give him, what the boys in his locker room called "the friendliest hand shake".

Frankie didn't want her to stop, but then too, he didn't want to take advantage either. He tried to tell her she shouldn't feel like he EXPECTED her to. It was just so DAMN hard when her body was pressed against his and her hand More than knew what it was doing...
"Ba-- barbie.. You, You don't ha-" His head flew back against the couch and his hips arched upwards trying to encourage the contact of their bodies. Even as his words said the opposite of what his body wanted.
"OH ffuCK! You don't hafta ta.."

"What if I wanta Frankie..? Am..am I not...Is this not doing it for ya?" She started to scoot herself down to blaze a trail of kisses towards his belt as she started to push his T up with one hand. She stopped jerking him off in order to unbuckle his pants. As she leaned up a bit to do that, Frankie grabbed her by the arms.
"BARBIE! I Can't believe I'm saying this but..I can't let you do this..I can't let you FORCE yourself to prove to yourself or me or..anyone..That you've moved on."

Barbie had tears in her eyes. "But It's not about that..It's not! it's-"

"What Barbie? What sweetheart tell me?..What is it about?..Why are you doing this? You gotta know I don't wanna stop but..I don't want you to feel pressured either."

"Frankie do you think I'm pretty? I mean would you WANNA fuck me?"

"Hell yeah! Whad'rya you nuts? You're amazing! I mean your funny and smart and bright and-"
"Sick and almost bald and-.." Frankie couldn't help but interrupt her.
"Beautiful...And I don't just mean your eyes or your body..I mean on the inside too." He brushed some of the synthetic hair back from her eyes. Then he sat up and re-adjusted himself. He got her to kneel on the couch and face him.
"Barbara Joan, I KNOW about the peace offering you took to Bert. The night clothes and perfumes and smelly stuff.. And I saw what the stuff you brought to Gerard did to his spirits. And that video idea..You helped them feel...normal..Like they were gunna have a regular an evening as they could..I bet tonight you helped them forget, for atleast a little while, that they are as sick as they are."

He took her face in his hands. "YOU did that Barbra Joan because you have a good heart and a gentle spirit despite how you kicked my ass on the soccer field. That you inside, not what color hair you have or anything physical about you is what makes me ..feel the way I do about ya..But having said that, that doesn't mean I don't WANT to fuck you until all I hear is OH Frank don't stop Frank!"
He kissed her for just a moment, it was soft and gentle.
"Because I DO WANT to...I'm just..I want it to be right..And...I'm just a bit..nervous.. But Barbra..I DO want you..Don't think otherwise for a minute. Not even for a second."

"Really Frankie? Ya mean it?" her eyes, usually a nice stormy sky blue, were now a bright aqua from crying. "Yeah Barbie.." his eyes darted from one to the other of hers and then down to her lips..
"I REALLY mean it.." This time when he kissed her she Knew he meant what he said. There was something different about this kiss. It seemed, more intense, then the ones before had.

As he slowly and very reluctantly stopped kissing her, she whispered looking into his eyes. "Then stay with me tonight Frankie..Even...even if we don't..I just..I don't wanna be alone tonight..I wanna feel you close..I wanna know that you want to be with me...Would you mind holding me all night Frank?"

"Barbra Joan, tonight, there is NO place I'd rather be.."

AA hummed merrily as he finished his paper work. He was not only ON TIME, he was AHEAD of Schedule.
He would NOT be late going to Lil's house. She had offered to make him a light dinner and he COULD NOT wait!
He closed the last file and checked his watch on last time, pleased with himself that he had everyone happily settled in for the night.
He grabbed his jacket , punched his time card and was out the door by 10:55. Lil's house was a short walk, he'd easily be there by 11:15. The stopped at an all night super grocery store and bout a bunch of flowers and a bottle of a nice desert wine.
A Strawberry Chocolate Shiraz. HE was hoping she'd like it. She had loved strawberries every time before.

As he passed a store window he looked at his reflection. He was used to the blond. He had tried to switch to dark hair, but he just didn't look like himself to himself. The short almost military style was similar to the style he had worn in his youth, the FIRST time he had seen her.

The first TIME he had fallen in love with her.

But she had no clear memory of all those times. That was how it worked with mortal souls. The each got a chance to come back over and over and learn each lesson on the road to perfection. But for Angels it was quite another. AA you see had a CLEAR memory of EACH and every time they had been together.

Every time she had almost fallen in love with him.

Each time she had made a choice to love and live with another.

And the times she HAD begun to fall for him she met some horrible fate BEFORE the could be happy.

All except once.

The one time, the first time, they had fallen in love.

Angels weren't supposed to fall in love with anyone. Let alone mortal females.

He had seen her, her long hair falling over her shoulders.
She was young and beautiful.

And her father, wanted to sell her to the highest bidder.

She was raised expecting a marriage of convenience.
She was a daughter of a Greek prince. And in her father need to make an alliance...

But she had given AA a gift of gold, to bind his heart to hers she had whispered. She had called to him, as she was pulled from his arms, that he should wear it until their souls found and LOVED one another again..

He still wore it..ONLY when she could completely return his ,love again, would he be able to return the gold chain to her.


AA shook his head, he stared at the chain still around his neck.
"Perhaps soon, I will be able to see you wear it once more My Beloved."

Byn and G-Man-Aww...
Frankie and Barbie: AWW...
Az and Lil-AWW...

CAUGHT UP! *scratch that off the list*

and poor poor poor Azzy (btw girls, this... is SO weird having the fab 4 in this alternate universe... its like a double AU)

but yea! Love is in the air... everywhere! Cheers to all *clink*

AA pulled himself out of his thoughts of the past.

"It doesn't matter what happened before that cannot be changed. What DOES matter is the here and now. I have yet another chance to win her love, heaven be praised! And if heaven helps us now, maybe we can help Robyn and Rardy too. Maybe if they see that love can last and conquer anything, any obsticale..
EVEN death..maybe that will give them inspiration enough to keep on fighting and live."

Before he even realised it he was at Lil's door once again.

"H-ahem" he cleared his throat and straightened his clothes..He had changed at the hospital, he didn't want to look like Nurse Angel tonight. He got enough of a hard time from Robert about that.. Az had picked the name early on before the word Angel was in common use. Then they were still called Messengers.

The term angel became the commonly used one and he was basically attached to it.

Besides.., the soul that he loved..The one that in this lifetime was called Lily had called him HER Angel. Once he had heard that from her lips, there was NO WAY he was letting that go.

Bobby could say what he liked and tease him all he wanted, AA was taking no chances..He hoped that some tiny part of her remembered and responded to that name.

He knocked on the door. "I can only hope and pray that you will once again tell me I'm your Angel..." he said BEFORE she answered the door.

Lily ran up to the door, and then purposely made herself slow down. She checked the mirror and liked what she saw.

The red dress she wore went to the knee. It fell in soft almost toga like folds. Her shoulders were bare except for the two pleated straps of the dress. She wore her hair down, the soft curls cascaiding down in a un-tidy riot.

Even though she was a mom, she had to admit she didn't look too bad.

"I hope AA likes it..I cannot believe how I feel..I'm almost giddy!"
She looked at herself again. "Now calm down..you know he's incharge of Robyn's advocacy..he may NOT want to get too involved..And Lily you ARE just barely divorced..DON'T set yourself up to be hurt again. DON'T get too involved..No HEAD over HEELS this time!"

Lily walked carefully over to the door and took a DEEP breath. She opened the door. She was grateful she had just remembered to take that breath.

Because the beautiful man standing before almost took her breath away....

"Good evening Lily...I hope I'm not too late."

Bobby!*smacksupsidethehead*

YAY!!! I really really really hope 'Lily' (god, I HATE calling her that... cuz... well... you know...) ...no, im calling her Lillith.... I REALLY hope LILLITH remembers in this life!!! PLEEEEEEASE!! That poor poor Angel loves her so bad, it aint funny! Dont make the Angel cry...

...though ya know... if he does... you could always write Emerald in HERE too!!! *wink*

The smile she gave him in return almost seized the breath from his lungs.

"Please..AA, please come in your timing is impeccable..Oh the flowers are beautiful."

"They pale in comparison. I also brought a Shiraz..I hope it will go well with what you have planned."

"Strawberry! My favorite!! Oh what delightful thoughful surprise! It was as if you've known me forever.." AA felt every muscle in his frame tighten at the thought that she might rememeber even the tiniest bit.

"Here let me just go and chill this. Make yourself comfortable."

AA watched her leave barely being able to breath. He took off his jacket and hung it in a coat rack near the door. He walked a bit further into the sunken living room. Had it truly only been days since he helped carry Robyn out of the room on a stretcher?

Now the room looked entirely different than it had that night..The lighting was soft and there was a roaring fire in the hearth. and a small table set up near it with two chairs.

"I thought we'd might like eating in here..far less formal than the dining room..Unless you'd prefer that?" She said as she came back into the room and handed him a half full wine glass. "No no, this is very old world..I feel quite comfortable here."

aww YAY!! maybe she DOES! remember... sh-she's gotta!!!!!

you're breakin my heart girls... Az has gone through ENOUGH!

I hope she remembers! Even if it's only a tiny bit...