Alexandra Hennessey glanced up at the ceiling as the lights flickered in her home. "What the Hell?" She turned around. "Hannah? Hannah!" Are you messing with the switches up there?"

There were four separate laughs, then her nineteen-year-old sister called 'no.' before laughing with the others.

Alexandra sighed. Sometimes she hated modern teenagers and how they just shrugged off people of authority. She wondered how bad she was when she was nineteen. She was in the middle of considering her past when she realized something. The girls had laughed nervously, not the typical 'whatever' laugh. " She huffed, put down her dishtowel, and headed up the stairs. No sense in asking what they were doing so they could hide the evidence. "Guys?" She pushed open the door and froze, going wide eyed. One of Hannah's friends, Jenna, had Alexandra's old spell book open her lap, and Hannah and her other two friends, Sally and Rachel, were hunched over a Ouija board. "No." She barely managed out. "Hell no. You will not do that in my house. You three, out now." She ordered.

"But Alex-" Hannah began.

"Out. Now!" Alexandra barked.

The three girls looked at Holly before leaving quickly. Alexandra didn't wait for them. She entered the room, scooping the book and the board up. She tossed them outside where they landed in a heap. She went back to her sister's room and let out a growl, ,. seeing a summoning circle with candles lit in each corner of the circle. "Damn it, Hann!"

"What? We were just messing around!" Hannah replied. "No one was getting hurt!"

"Mess…" Alexandra let out a disbelieving laugh. "Messing around? You know just as well as I do we can't quite 'mess around' with that shit, Hannah! Not to mention you do know people get hurt when you do!"

Hannah sighed. "Alex, it's been three years!"

"And the attacks still come!" Alexandra replied. "We talked about this! When we agreed that us hunting needed to stop, we agreed we'd get rid of that stuff. You told me you threw it out when I asked you to toss it for me." She jabbed her finger at the objects. "You lied to me! Those are the reasons demons are still coming after us! You put us in danger with keeping it, Hannah!"

"I didn't know it was gonna be a problem!" Hannah said.

Alexandra put a hand up to silence her. "No. Just stop. I can't… after all we've gone through… you would think you would've learned, Hann. I… I can't even look at you right now." She scoffed. "You still shoulda known not to do this. Get rid of it now, or you can just as well go back to Mom and Dad's place." She headed into the living room and crossed her arms, standing in between the fireplace and the door into the backyard. She sighed, trying to collect herself.

"Whoa. Tough break."

Alexandra let out a yelp and whirled around. A man with medium length, slicked back blonde hair was standing on the other side of them room. It scared her that she hadn't so much as sensed another person in the room.

He smiled warmly. "Hi, there!"

She didn't reply so warmly. Having been a hunter, instinct took over. She grabbed the fireplace poker a couple of feet away, then brought it up and threw it at his shoulder. No sense killing him quite yet. The poker ended up going right through him- and through him like a through and through. Through him like there was no damage done and he wasn't even there. Stared in disbelief.

The man glanced down at the poker that was now embedded in the wall. "…Ow?"

Alexandra finally found her voice. "Who… who the Hell are you? Why are you here?"

He shrugged. "I dunno, you're the hunter-"

"Retired, hunter."

The man waved his hand dismissively.. "Whatever. Once a hunter, always a hunter." He shoved his hands in his pockets and leaned forwards. "Most people call me Gabriel. You, Pretty Lady, can call me Gabe."

Alexandra snorted, brushing off the last comment. "Wait… Gabriel, like the archangel?" Again, the hunter side of her kicked in. She was still weary, but now was more curious then worried. "…Wait… word has it that you… How...here?"

Gabriel shrugged. "Don't ask me. You're the-" he made air quotes "- 'retired' hunter. You're the one and made me like this." He motioned at the poker through his shoulder. Alexandra wanted to know why he hadn't moved, and he could tell, so he did move aside. Like she thought, no damage. It just went through his arm as he walked away from it.

"Hey, don't you go anywhere." She ordered. "My sister was the one who toyed with the book and the board, so go bother her. Not me-"

Gabriel smirked. "This still counts against you, ya know."

She narrowed her eyes. "How?"

He laughed now. "Next time don't let the kiddies watch Van Helsing." He sighed. "I hate that movie. Such a miserable interpretation of… me. At least they paired me with Kate Beckinsale."

Alexandra stopped and blinked rapidly, still trying to process everything. Needless to say, she was failing… horribly. Having this mystery archangel/demon/whatever the hell he was going on tangents wasn't helping at all. "Whoa, whoa. Just… stop. Hold on a second and answer me, here."

"I thought I already was." Gabriel smirked.

She shook her head. "I just… this is just… you're a demon. You have to be a demon." She went to get the poker again.

"Hold on just a minute. Me? Demon? That's just plain rude."

"Then start talkin'. Why the Hell are you here?" Alexandra demanded, taking the poker out of the wall with little difficulty. "Faster answers make for a better chance of me not trying to kill you."

"Well, wouldn't stabbing me be out of the question since you just tried and the thing went through me. Last I checked, you can't kill ghosts, anyways."

She raised an eyebrow. "That's never stopped me from finding a way of killing people who aren't quite… helpful to me. Start answering and stop stalling." She hissed.

Gabriel put his hands up innocently. "Fine. Like you just said, your sister did it… probably saw my name in a book and thought seeing the 'monster hunter' would be cool."

Alexandra blinked. "Go on."

"Okay. Okay, take it easy. Look…" He clapped his hands together. "How skilled is your sister with spells, assuming both of you are hunters?"

"Were hunters. What's that got to do with it?"

"Possibly nothing, possibly everything."

"How-"

"Just answer, Sweet Cheeks."

"Don't call me that."

"I don't know your name, so that's kinda hard. Anyways, just answer. Trust me." Gabriel replied.

Alexandra scoffed, then froze when she heard footsteps coming from another room. "Hannah, don't-"

Too late. The teenager entered the room, shrieked, much like her sister and stared at the archangel.

Gabriel did a two finger wave, then looked at Alexandra. "Good, she's legal."

The statement came across perverse in Hannah's mind, and she shrieked again, picking up a paperweight on the fireplace mantle. She tossed it at Gabriel's head, and much like the fireplace poker, it went right through his head, though this time he did flinch.

"Nice shot. I could've died if I wasn't halfway there already." Gabriel replied, then saw the girl prepare to scream. There was definitely a resemblance between the two. "Don't scream. This is your fault, anyway."

Hannah paused, then went to scream again, but Alexandra clapped a hand over her sister's mouth. "Okay, Gabriel. Talk to us. If you were a demon, you'd already have tried to kill us by now, I'll give you that, so I'll give you a chance. What's so good about her being legal?" She blinked, realizing why her sister reacted the way she did, then turned her attention back to Gabriel.

"Because you look like you came from a family who lets the kids hunt later." He turned to Hannah. "You're what, eighteen, nineteen… twenty? That's the age of beginners for the magic mumbo jumbo. That must explain this." He reached over next to him so his hand went through the wall.

"So if you go through walls, why aren't you going through the floor?" Alexandra demanded.

Gabriel shrugged. "That's the way things work up there, so I guess the same goes down here?"

Hannah broke the focus on the one topic. "Alex, tell me what the Hell is going on."

"Well, apparently when you girls messed around with the spell book you must've done a summoning spell." Alexandra replied

"But wouldn't something have happened inside the room? Why didn't you appear in the circle we had?" Hannah asked.

Alexandra raised her eyebrows. "You're taking all this in strides, aren't you?"

Gabriel pointed at the floor on the other side of the room where a large, dark, oval stain was. Water damage, he guessed . "Well, Hannah, I guess I found the closest thing. As far as the rest of the theatrics… "

"The lights flickered. I don't know about anything else." Alexandra replied.

"Right you are, Alex."

Alexandra shot him a glare.

He shrugged. "Hey, your sister said it. I didn't look into your mind or anything."

Alexandra shook her head. "Can we get back to what we were trying to figure out before she got here? Please? Why are you here?" She demanded.

"I told you. Your sister and her friends did a spell that brought me back from the dead. Impressive, being that I'm an archangel."

"Archangel? What?" Hannah gaped at him.

"Hon, Van Helsing doesn't exist. Gabriel the Archangel." He motioned at himself. "Moi, does. Read up on mythology next time you wanna play 'bring-cool-guys-back-from-the-dead… 'specially the ones that get murdered by their brother…."

"WHAT?" The girls chorused.

Gabriel smiled. "Story for another time. Anyway. Getting me back… ain't gonna happen 'til I do something… heroic. Save a kitten from a tree, put out a fire… save someone from an assassination." He shrugged off the last bit like it was nothing.

Alexandra nodded slowly. "So what does that mean?"

"My resurrection had… bad timing." He fished for the rest of the sentence. "The resurrected person, angel, demon, whatever, is stuck with the person who did the resurrection and their family until they do something… that would fit them."

Alexandra sighed. "Define 'stuck with.'" She still wasn't fully sold on his story, but he was already pissing her off, so if he was telling the truth, she wasn't looking forward to spending any more time then the fifteen minutes they had been speaking with him.

"As in I have to be around you guys a lot, and chances are, you guys are the only ones who can see me."

"And you know this… how?"

"Experience with an old pal back in the 1800s. Long story."

Alexandra blinked. " 'Scuse me. Stay put, you."

"Gabriel." Gabriel corrected.

"I know." She replied before dragging her sister into the kitchen. She went over to the sink, took the cup that was beside it. She turned on her heel and went back into the living room, closed the distance between her and Gabriel, who had obeyed and not moved. She tossed the contents at him. He closed his eyes and turned his head, but like the two other objects, the water went right through him.

After he opened them, Gabriel rolled his eyes, now growing impatient. "Are you satisfied I'm not evil now? I'm an angel! Trust me. I'm as confused as you right now."

"You seem to have all the answers, though." Alexandra replied.

"Well, Alex, they're more like educated guesses." Gabriel shot back.

Hannah watched the two glare at each other, not liking it one bit. There was something about him that she just trusted right away. She paused. Then again, she had liked Soren, and this Gabriel guy was quite like Soren so far. That might end badly for everyone. "Can we just try and do some research so we can figure out what the Hell to do, then."

"Deal." Alexandra replied, and Gabriel sighed. "You guys can, I only have what's up here since I probably can't turn pages." He strolled over to the bookshelf and went to poke a book, but his finger went through. "I can't even hold a book."

"Good, then we'll do it." Alexandra replied.

"So what can I do?" Gabriel asked.

"Nothing. Stay put here and just… try not to cause trouble in any form." She replied.

"Why don't you-"

"Hey, just because I might be stunned you're here, but I do remember the research I did on you and your buddies upstairs. You used to be a trickster. You may not be able to hold anything, but that doesn't mean you still can't cause trouble. I'm not taking any chances."

Gabriel smirked. Maybe this gal wasn't so bad. She was smart. "Alright, do what you need to do. I'll stay put."

"Yes, you will." She opened a box that was on the fireplace mantle and took out two large crystals.

"Aw, really? Protection crystals? You can't just take my word that I'll stay put?"

Alexandra smirked and gave one to her sister, who took it and put it in the archway that led to the entryway into the house. She stepped back into the kitchen with her own. "Like I said, you're a trickster. I'm not taking chances." She put down the other crystal in the arch between them. "Good luck trying to amuse yourself." She added before heading upstairs to find the spell book again.

Gabriel watched her, with his smirk back on his face. Yeah, he definitely liked her.