Life's Gifts
-Chapter 9-
Rowan sighed as she sat at the kitchen table of the loft her family lived in waiting for something to come up, so John and her could go investigate and kick some demon ass. As she works on a paper doodle the phone rings making her jump in her seat a little, John shouting from the bedroom.
"Phone!"
Rowan shacked her head getting up from her chair and walking into the living room to a small coffee table near the couch, picking up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Yes is this John Constantine?"
"No I'm sorry this is his Daughter, hold on I'll go get him."
She walked from the living room to the master bedroom opening the door seeing John putting on a black tie, handing him the phone.
"Dad it's for you."
"Thanks sweetheart."
He takes the phone putting it up to his ear beginning to talk to the man when Rowan walks out back to the kitchen to her seat, John turning off the phone and walking into the kitchen near the door out.
"It's time come on and get ready."
Rowan smiled wide as she ran to the door slipping on a pair of tennis shoes keeping on her black t-shirt and dark jeans, both John and her walking out the door as John gets his black trench coat on the way out. She beats him down the stairs and waits for him at the beginning of the stairs,
"so what are demons like?"
John looked down a little at Rowan giving a odd look,
"well they can be vicious things…Thought you would already have known that since you were in Hell once or twice."
She shrugged,
"not really I can't remember seeing any demon's down there."
"Your lucky but you might see one today so be brave no matter what it does or says."
She nods standing up straighter looking brave as possible as they walk through the bowling alley and to the exit, getting onto the sidewalk while John hails a cab. He sighed as one just totally ignores him driving on,
"I sure do wish Chas was still around."
Rowan looks at John oddly,
"who's Chas?"
"He used to be my apprentice until he got out of the city. But now officially you're my new apprentice, he's a half breed now."
"The evil kind?"
"No the good kind with wings."
Rowans eyes widen a little from remembering something and then smiling,
"so that's the man from long ago with the beautiful long Angel wings."
John smiles nodding as a cab finally pull's up to the curb in front of them, John opening the back car door letting Rowan in first, then himself closing the door. The cab driver looks at John and Rowan in his back mirror,
"where to?"
John looks at the cab driver,
"42nd and main…Downtown."
Thirty minutes pass when they finally arrive at an old apartment building almost looking like it's about to fall to pieces. They both get out of the car and walk into the building, a man looking to be in his early 20's with blonde hair and priest garb greets them. He smiles at John,
"you must be Mr. Constantine I've heard so much about you…You're a legend. I called you when I found out that I couldn't do the exorcism myself, I'm Father Woods."
He looks from John to Rowan still smiling,
"and you must be his Daughter and Apprentice…Rowan I presume?"
She nods as they all walk upstairs to a certain apartment finding people outside of it gathering around whispering out of suspicion, and gossip. They walk into the apartment finding a man huddled in the corner of a kitchen being cared for by an elderly woman, John walking into a bedroom seeing the possessed person first. A boy looking not a day over 16 strapped to his bed sweating, and veins popped out all over his skin.
Rowan stood next to her Father near the bed taking a good look at the boy, fair skin, green eyes, partly shaggy chocolate brown hair barely covering his eyes. John walked over to his window getting out amulets picking one at a time seeing which one would expel the demon better, the boy hissing at one amulet John picked, a sun-looking image. John stood near the bed putting a knee on the edge leaning over the boy looking into his eyes, then leaning down to his ear whispering.
"This is Constantine. John Constantine, asshole."
Although he was whispering Rowan could still hear him and she smiles for some reason proud of the work her Dad does, fighting evil everyday. The boy looks up at John speaking to him in Latin making John smirk,
"in your dreams."
He puts the amulet to the boys head burning him making the boy thrash and turn on the bed in pain from the amulet, smoke emitting from the burned flesh of where the amulet is. Rowan standing back watching all of this as Father woods stands at the door waiting for John to give him a sign, that he needs help. The boy stops moving resting as John puts his amulets back in his coat pocket, putting a hand over the boys eyes chanting. The boy starts moving and thrashing again on the bed,
"Rowan help me here damn it!"
Rowans eyes widen,
"I don't know how to do any of this!"
"Repeat after me!"
Rowan gets closer to the bed putting a hand on the boys shoulder as John chants, Rowan picking up fast helping him chant the words to expel the demon from the boy. The demon automatically leaves the boy as Rowan starts chanting, the boy's skin going back to normal but still sweaty, looking at Rowan first whispering something.
"An Angel…"
Rowan looks at the boy curiously when he says it John looking at Rowan oddly, both of them getting off the boy as he goes unconscious. Father woods goes over to the boy checking him over as the man who was huddled in the kitchen runs in over to the boy and the priest, as John and Rowan walk out. The man holding the boy his son shouts to John and Rowan outside,
"thank god for Constantine!"
Rowan smiles looking up at her Dad as he smiles back both of them walking downstairs,
"so how did you like your first exorcism?"
"It was great!"
Rowan smiled enthusiastically as they walk outside the apartment,
"was that wonderful huh?"
Rowan smiles John walks out onto the sidewalk trying to hail a cab. The boy who John and Rowan saved wakes up seeing his Dad looking down at him,
"Dad? What happened?"
"You passed out Alex."
"Yeah but who was that beautiful girl…?"
Father Woods looks at Alex,
"that was Ms. Rowan Constantine John Constantine's Daughter, their responsible for saving your life."
Alex smiles as he passes out again from lack of strength as John and Rowan get a cab driving back home to the loft above the bowling alley, when they get back to the loft they find Angela there waiting for them at the kitchen table. She smiles laying eyes on Rowan and John as they walk in,
"how was Rowan's first day?"
"She was good…She helped me out."
Rowan smiled wide up at John as he put his coat on the coat hanger calling it a day.
A/n- That's chapter 9. Rowan did pretty well for a beginner wouldn't you say? And it looks like we have a new character Alex who has a crush on our lovely Rowan...Could they ever be? R&R for future chapters. Also! I dedicate this page to my Gothy sista Michy, Happy 18th Brithday Michy!