7 days. 7 days passed without me meeting anyone, be it Derek, Angela or Lucifer. I was alone back again. 7 days without a single person to talk to or touch to. Mrs.Webber was there but the lady talks of either dogs or her dead husband only, both creeps me out. I spent my whole week in my room only. No one came to even give me the work even, I was afraid that pissing off my supervisors might cost me my job. It was too much for today, I thought of  reaching Cristina but turns out that I myself crushed my phone few days ago.
Angela and Lucifer behaved like completely forgot me. I regretted my words and behavior for yelling on him like that and of course, over judging him but I wanted to apologise and they just weren't coming back to me. Surprisingly, none of the other ghosts also came to irritate me or threaten me. I was feeling like immobilised in my room with no one in the world knowing me or giving a damn about me, exactly like before.

I was paranoid and started rethinking of everything that happened days ago and what wrong did I do and  found  one thing only and that was yelling on Lucifer, apart from that, nothing else. Saving Derek was my prime responsibility no matter how cruel and bitchy he thinks of me. I was so penting up inside that I had to vent it out, to someone...but sadly I had no one. So I got up from my bed and said no more crying on pillows. Got ready in normal ignorable clothes and got out locking the room.

After half an hour of travelling and struggling in walking, I rested myself on the bed beside me...precisely, my body. I, without looking at myself, started blabbering things I wanted to talk about...to someone normal, like my COMAed normal body. Tears already took their place in my swollen bagged eyes, I wiped them along with the talking. I started feeling relaxed and then very relaxed. I talked about how I crushed myself and how I found about the ghost me and everything. My body kept listening me, duh. There was no other option for it of course.
I was talking and talking only when I heard the gate open with chitchats and then suddenly stop. I froze again. Did they see me?
I turned around very slowly only to find three young scrub wearing doctor types looking people stood frozen on the gate of my room having a food tray in their hands. They definitely saw me. I panicked inside, it felt like end of the world to me because if they saw me that means they will know about me and my little paranormal secret and that would ruin everything because everything is supposed to happen secretly. I tried to stare them down like I did with Mr.Jingler but nothing really happened to them. They were also equally confused and shocked to even move from there. I was panicking more and more when suddenly enormous gush of light happened between me and the interns standing on the door, and a few seconds later I saw the light decreasing and the interns absentmindly closed the door and went away while I also found Angela standing right in front of me staring me with a pissed off face. I have pissed her off again. Yay for me!

"I'm...I'm sorry Angela...I'm really really sorry....I didn't.....I didn't heard them coming.....I'm so sorry I'll never ever come here or anywhere like this.... seriously sorry....I..." She raised her hand and cut me through.

"Iris....(putting her hand down) you need to be extra careful and over alert because obviously I can't save you always. Lucifer has told you this quite a hundred times now, I presume." She said and my eyes were stuck at her face which was devoid of any expression any warmth for me. Have I really lost her? Do I really not deserve anyone?

My thoughts broke when I saw her turning away to leave most probably, I stood Immediately to try and stop her and apologies because I couldn't afford that. I wanted her back, wanted her warm loving sight towards me back.

"Angela wait." I said and tried to hold her shoulder but got hand instead.
She turned around me and looked at my hand clutching her's. I immediately left that, perhaps that was offensive for us humans to hold angels like that.

She looked up at me, still with her plain look.
"I'm sorry...for yelling on him that day. I don't know you guys and I shouldn't have said that....or....or anything. Seriously Angela don't leave me alone again. Please...I beg you" I couldn't just hold myself. I needed someone as desperately as a dieing person wants someone to hold hands to. I was so sick of being alone that it was eating my body like scavengers. Perhaps it would have bothered me so much if a) I weren't been pregnant and b) wouldn't have killed myself because of loneliness before. It was stuck inside me like fear of water in someone who drowns accidentally.

She looked at me and somehow I saw those emotions coming back on her face.
"I....I can't...you hurt......you hurt him.....us so much Iris..." She struggled in saying all these, probably she wanted to say more but I wasn't the right person.
I held her shoulder gently and rubbed them in order to pacify her a little.
"I know...n I'm really sorry for that because I don't know anything...but Angela, I want to know everything. You guys are...you guys are my family now, can't afford to loose you people or not know anything about you "

She hung her head low and I saw teardrops hitting the ground. She sobbed.

"I warned you if you hurt her again..." Suddenly I found a pair of gloved cold hands around my neck tightly strangling me and pushing me on the wall. It happened so suddenly that I couldn't even shriek for defense. I saw his eyes burning all red.
Angela immediately rushed towards him. She was standing one foot apart from Lucifer and stuck-and-strangled on wall me, she forwarded her hand in order to touch Lucifer and what I saw next, shocked my mind and heart more than anything else. Her hands started burning as much she was forwarding it towards Lucifer. He loosened his grip immediately, the moment he felt a pair of hands behind him on his shoulder and the chshhh sound of burning just freaked him out.

"Luci leave her....aaahh... Pl....please...." Angela said difficultly with crying and painful voice when Lucifer immediately left me and turned to her with horrified expression.

"Step away ang." He yelled and she withdrew her hand back and bending downwards a little holding her hand and panting...she tried to normalise herself a little meanwhile her burnt hand fixed back in few seconds.

"You risked yourself for her? Seriously.....for this super selfish idiotic bitch who thinks she is the only one...! Are you out of your mind Angela Vicario Christ" he yelled at top of his voice. She panted for a few more seconds. I was shunned, by the way, on the corner, still stuck to the wall so tightly as if I'll push it inches back as an escape. He was right, I was nowhere around good enough to deserve all this.

"Lucifer....(pants) she needs us.." she said and a rush of sheer guilt and remorse ran throughout my body. What was I even doing to gain this angel's love and support?

"Oh come on...done with your charity Ang...not everyone deserve your pure heart. Look what she made you do today. You burnt your hand." He said with his gritting teeth and somewhere in the corner, I found a teardrop in his eyes.

"I had to touch you" she said with her light as air voice filled with pain. They both were having an eye contact, meanwhile I was putting all the blocks together and still not understanding the fact that why would a wife get her hand burnt for touching her husband. Just when it stroke my mind...sacrifice is it? I looked horrifyingly at them.

"Angela.....why....why your hand burnt?" I asked with my horrified eyes looking at Angela and hoping she won't say what I was thinking.

"Oh so you care now huh...! Done with obsessing yourself...?" He snapped at me which hurt alot but I told myself he was pissed and nothing around us was happening in his favor for sure. His wife was hurt touching him....what do I even expect from him?

"Angela...please..." I said coming to her and touching her hand very very lightly. She looked at me and her eyes filled with another set of tears. I was still horrified from the theory going on in my mind.

"It's...it's a long...long story Iris.....you have...nothing to do with it." Angela said and I nodded in a no immedietly.

"And we have nothing to do with her. I told you a hundred times Ang but you just don't listen to me" Lucifer said from behind pushing his hair back like pulling them in frustration. His anther hand was back in the pocket.

"I get it okay...I get it, it was my fault and I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry for that more than anything else in the world I did wrong. But you....she....you guys are my family and okay you don't like me, but let me please talk to her. She is upset and no one wants to be alone when upset." I yelled at him back, keeping my mind on point to filter out all the wrong and disrespectful words before sending them in my mouth. He was staring me with his most highly fuming red eyes and balled fist.

"Angela...tell me..." I turned back to her before I start to argue with him again. She nodded and hung her head low.
"Angela please...you know you can trust me...ask him...ask him to read my mind and tell you if I have anything but remorse inside me for that day" I begged her to share because being alone and broken was worst thing possible.

" I can't touch him...I can't so much as go near him for last 867 years....do you understand that? No...you don't...! He can't come to me and hug me when I'm upset or when I miss our child....we can't.....(started crying)" she yelled at first and ended up crying. I was so speechless to even sigh at. I just engulfed her in a bear hug while I saw Lucifer punching his fist on the wall and looking upwards with open mouth to get some air and avoid tears.

"We....we we're punished...  For marrying. We were punished because although life and death are same part of the journey, they can never be together just like the earth and sky. We broke God's rule by falling in love and making a zenith of our own but.... It was forbidden and against the nature. I was pregnant when they found out about us and punished us. I lost my child.....(cries hard for few seconds) I lost....it...and everything. We were spell bounded after that which made an invisible wall around us. We stay a foot or two apart from each other and what happens if we try to break the spell....u saw it yourself." She parted away from my shoulder and wiped herself. I couldn't even imagine or portray how I was feeling listening all that.

I blinked a few times processing all that in my mind and when turned towards Lucifer, I saw his head bowed against the wall with his fist balled. I immediately went to him and hugged him from behind. He shuddered immediately which made me stumble but before falling, Angela held me and I hugged him again as he straightened himself now. Angela hugged me from behind. Lucifer let out a compressed grunt and just held my hand wrapped around his stomach and inhaled deeply. It was....it was a divine family moment...I was wrapped back and front from two reallly strange yet known from decades people. My life behind me and death ahead. That's how everyone lives.

We parted away finally after a few minutes and after Lucifer trying to un-grip himself away quite a few more times before also but we held him back.
We left the hospital not through the gate but their powers. I was back at my advantageous days. Finally woof! Now only ache left in the most part of my heart was Derek.

Angela and Lucifer went off to their heaven or wherever they live in. I thought of sneaking Derek stealthily as it was alot of days without seeing him since I have gained the proximity with him, since I've found how comfortable and loved i feel with him.

I walked slowly behind his house and very slowly tried to peep inside the window off the hall. I saw him doing something in the kitchen as the window was straight directly in front of the kitchen. It felt so so so good to see him again, he was swirling while most probably cooking something as he had songs playing loudly. He seemed happier and not missing me in his life. I was watching him secretly without making any noise when suddenly something happened and I shrieked loudly, gaining Derek's attention unintentionally.

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