Love Lost Chapter 1

Cupid, Eros, bringer of love and desire, son of Venus. It's all a load of crap. My name is Ella, Ella Valentine, and I am Cupid. All most all those stereotypes have it wrong, I'm a girl, I do use a bow, and I have a small pair of golden wings on my necklace. They give me the ability to fly. No diaper, no godly title, just the spirit of love. I don't just bring romantic love to people either, I bring familial and friendly love to those too nervous to show it.

One common misconception is that I make people fall in love, that's not possible. I can only give the courage to express the feelings someone has deep in their heart. While seeing into someone's heart allow me to help them, it also lets me see how the other person will respond I can also see how a love will turn out, and if someone will find new love. I've witnessed many people get hurt, but I'm able to take part of the pain away. When I take away the pain of others I feel it all. Emotions need an outlet, so I become their host and release them. When I first started I used to take all the pain, but I quickly learned that was harmful to myself and those whose pain I took. It took me 50 years to learn the right amount of pain to take.

Which brings me here, watching Sophie Bennett confess her feelings to a boy who couldn't care less. Her pure feelings grabbed my attention, and one look at this boy I knew he didn't like her. As a spirit of love I can not stop someone from confessing, so even when a friend of the Guardians is going to get hurt, all I can do is watch, and let the Guardian know she will need cheering up. If I were to take away her feelings of love I'd be worse then Pitch.

"So can I ask how this will end, or is it like client secrecy?" I look up to see Jack perched on the roof next to me, staff in hand ready to pounce at a moments notice. He's changed since being made a Guardian, more on edge and wary. Fighting someone so evil must have been quite difficult.

I look back at Sophie, her face is red and she is anxiously awaiting a reply. "She will need comfort, but I can not allow you to interfere as you are aware." I nod to Jack and make my leave, casting one last glance at Jack I fly away. I know he'll help Sophie once everything is done with. Jack is my closest friend and the only one who knows the full extent of my powers. Though the last few years we've not really talked, he's been very busy and has less free time to chat. Even still we at least say hello from time to time.

I focus in on my current task, a young woman wants to propose to her girlfriend, she has the ring, and a plan, but lacks the courage. I pull back an arrow and launch it at her, giving her what she needs to go through with her plan. Not long after a squeal followed by many yeses rang out. Love like this is why I love my job, pure happiness, no hidden agendas.

Another happy couple, it reminds me of how I died, it has been 100 years and yet the image of my death is still haunting me. I was killed protecting the man I loved so he could marry the woman he loved. I once was heartbroken, now I just laugh at the man on the moon's cruel sense of humor. His biggest joke being I can't use my powers on myself. So I can't find my own love, can't see if there's love in my future, and if I fall in love, I can't give myself the courage to speak it.

100 years, all this time of helping lovers, and I've never felt more alone. I'm not a guardian, so I've never fit in with them. I have the cherubs, but they're as useful as elves. They help bring love, but not much else. So I just drift through life, flitting from one person to another helping where I can. I often wonder what my purpose is, Jack had mentioned that each Guardian protects something important, they all have a core. Do I have one, what would it be? I don't protect anything, I barely bring love to the world.

Thinking of Jack leads me to Sophie, I feel her pain. the sadness of a broken heart. I take some of her pain and leave her feeling a bit better. The tears stream down my face and I can't control the sobs that have me doubled over. I fall to my knees and wrap my arms around myself. First loves cause so much pain, especially in early teen years where emotions are stronger. I take deep breathes, calming myself, the pain will end soon. A spike of pain cuts through, not Sophie's but someone near me. Feeling out I find a couple who had been so happy and in love just moments ago, now they're fighting and full of hate. What just happened?

Hope you like this quick intro and beginning to the story. Not much happened but it wont be long before the story kicks up!