spread your wings and fly, fly (rp for Ynez)

[onewingbloody]

Night air. Cool. Cool on his face, sweet, bringing the smell of Rome, the smells of any city mixed with the things that are uniquely her. Goes back for centuries, and memory steps in when scent fades, brings back memories of this city as it was when the Gauls sacked it, when Caesar was stabbed... Gabriel hums wordlessly to himself as he circles

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[ynez_castillo]

Ynez isn't asleep yet. She won't be asleep for hours. The television hadn't interested her tonight and she'd fled earlier than usual, shutting herself in her room with her computer and a glass of wine. Absorbed sites about Spain, she loses track of time.

Unconsciously she hears the first pebble click against the glass. The second one draws her confused attention, but she doesn't know what it is.

"Darius?"

[onewingbloody]

Gabriel continues to hum to himself as he sorts through the bits of rock in his hand for a third one, tosses it after the first two. Tak! This time, though, he follows it up, settling in his usual perch outside the window. He peers in looking for Ynez, seeing the computer's glowing screen.

Rap rap. This time it's his knuckles on the glass and not a pebble.

[ynez_castillo]

The window. That's where the noise is coming from. She looks over -- then tries again, this time with her glasses -- just as Gabriel knocks.

She stifles a shriek.

There's a man outside her window.

Then she recognizes him. Not a man, an angel.

Throwing open the window, she exclaims, "Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!"

[onewingbloody]

"No," Gabriel says seriously, shaking his head. "Wouldn't need windows to do that anyway." He can't help a broad smile at Ynez as he peers at her through the window; he's glad to see her even if she may be annoyed at his method of arrival.

"Anyways, you know me and front doors." Another big smile; it seems ages since he saw her last. "Hi."

[onewingbloody]

"Shan't. Unless I really really want to," Gabriel qualifies as he turns around. But it's just a pleased grin he gives her as he takes in what to him is excellent flying attire. He nods his approval, then heads back toward the window.

Back through it-- he tosses over his shoulder a muttered-- "You know, you're lucky you're small"-- and then he's once more outside. The window has a corniced molding, and Gabriel crouches on this, ignoring the laws of physics that say his weight should break it, that say he shouldn't be able to find enough balance on such a small projection. The angel shrugs his shoulders and the tail of the coat hanging down behind him is now the tips of two folded wings, black feathers shifting just a bit with the breeze.

Gabriel smiles, pleased and full, breathing deeply of the night air. The moon is bright on his teeth and white shirt. He holds a hand out, through the window.

"Take my hand, Ynez."

[ynez_castillo]

Ynez doesn't even hesitate. Watching him go through the window, her heartbeat had accelerated. For a moment, she'd wanted to go find Darius, show him, tell him, make him see this marvelous thing that's happening.

She puts her hand in Gabriel's.

"Do you want me to climb out?"

[onewingbloody]

"Be easier that way, yes," he says, smiling mischievously at her through the window. "Unless you just want me to yank you through..."

His smile loses the hint of mischief, becomes just a full and happy yet almost-conspiratorial smile, smile between two friends, for what he gets to show her. "You know I won't let you fall."

[ynez_castillo]

"Well, you know," she says, climbing through the window, "I thought you might do some sort of hocus-pocus, so I wouldn't have to look too undignified."

Reaching out for him, she says, "But I've been climbing out bedroom windows for as long as I can remember. It's all good."