Author's Notes: Okay, this is just directly quoting from the novelization of the movie (which I liked better anyway), a nice little prequel to refresh your memories.
Disclaimers: I do not own Any of the characters or the story Constantine, be it in the movie or the book.
Prequel: Appetizer
"He looked at her. Thinking that he wanted to go the next step with her, if she wanted that too. But there were things he wanted to do first. And maybe she wouldn't be interested anyway-could be he was just putting off the inevitable rejection. A relationship with him would be a constant reminder of the things she'd wanted to put behind her. Literally: her time in Hell, among other things. Still…she wasn't looking at him like she wanted to put John Constantine behind her…
"…The way she'd said it…see you around?
"Just a tone of voice, but defiantly: an invitation.
"And going down the fire escape, thinking about Angela and God and Heaven, Joh Constantine had a strange sensation, a strange feeling deep inside him. What was it exactly? It was something he hadn't felt in a long, long time, and it too him a while to recognize the feeling.
"It was hope."
-Pages 319-321 of Constantine, a novelization by John Shirley