Reason Behind It All ( Gabriel )

[Ceraphine Davis]

Carmine had brought Kevala to the hospital after finding her in the location she had told him to go to. It had been easy enough to lift her up and put her in the back seat of the SUV, knowing from the looks of her, she was in no condition to actually sit up.

Of course the doctors had looked at him as though he were the guilty party when he had carried the young girl in and handed her over. She had been busted up pretty bad and from what he had gathered from her, they had given her something that kept shooting pain through her at a steady and constant rate.

Currently the doctors were trying to figure out what to do in order to negate the drug. Unsure what it was and unable to really help her until the blood work came back and they could identify the toxin.

So there was not much he could do besides sit there in the corner of her room, eyes transfixed on the girl as she shifted about the bed lightly in pain. Her broken wrist had been bandaged and her ribs as well...The bruises on the side of her face and neck as well as other parts of her body were evident......

As were the cuts they had inflicted upon her flesh....It made his sick and angry at the same time....

Yet he did not know what to do....She was not talking to him, not telling him anything and she would not let him try and sooth her....Nor was she letting the doctors touch her very often..No medications were to be given......Stubborn girl.....

So, with a light sigh he did the one thing he knew he should not do, he waited until one of the moments where she finally passed out from the pain and left the room, going to the car and finding her cell phone in the glove box.....

If he did not get fired over this then it would be a miracle...but as it stood he was doing what HE thought was best for her.....

Going through her address book, he found the number he was looking for, punching it into his phone and then applying a simple text to it before hitting send.

Hosptial. Room 247. Won't listen to anyone.

It was the best sum up of what was going on he could manage before slipping both phones into his pockets and heading back up to the room. Not wanting to leave her unguarded for long.

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Kevala was once more in that state of not know what the hell was going on....She was aware that Carmine had come for her as she asked, he had brought her to the hospital where the doctors had fixed what they could.......

Yet the pain from the drug still remained and every time they came at her with another shot, saying it was pain killers, she jerked away from them. Screaming for them to get out.

No, she was not exactly in her right state of mind. The pain having long since corrupted her thought process and deluding what she saw as reality and what she saw as her time with her family.

Yet she could always tell that Carmine was there, just his loyalty seemed to be coming into question the further away from reality she slipped...

He had only left once....and unsure where he had gone she had simply remained there, unable to move other than to writhe about on the bed in pain.......

However he returned soon enough, only sending her mind into thoughts of how he must have gone to speak to the family...She had to get out of here somehow....Not about to go through that one again......Not if she could help it.

[Gabriel Seran]

Word didn't take long to get to his ears unfortunately for Kevala, Gabriel had been patient of all things when he heard the girl leaving for her own death wish and he'd learned very capably from their last encounter that he wouldn't unnerve Alexis nor Zeke when he made his move. While they were dismally distracted by the placating sounds of the piano he'd signaled his entourage of agents to keep the girl in check. Phillipe had always been the resourceful type, he'd gotten to the bottom of how she ended up in the hospital if only a few details were missing but the picture was looking quite clear as Gabriel read over the files giving Carmine a few harsh words that would've crippled anyone.

By the time he'd entered the room his nerves were solid, controlled and cold as ever. Gabriel Seran was dressed from head to toe in his normal business attire though set to black as though today were a day for mourning. A Fedora angled at an angle at the top of his head, cold features resting beneath it as his darting eyes doubled over the file in his hand.

Stupid Girl.

Seems thanks to her Gabriel Seran would be needing to make his presence more known at this school, be it under the directive of the Agents or not. From beneath his collar purple slashes across his throat were visible the signs of gruesome battles taking pace during work hours and concealed through secrecy.

[Ceraphine Davis]

She laid there, her mind going from one rational thought to the other and then back again. It was torture on her mind that made the pain in her body seem not so bad. With a little whimper she cast a glance over to Carmine, still seated in the corner of the room, his eyes ever watchful over her.

It made her nervous, to say the least, but that was nothing compared to the sudden presence that filled the room now. Icy, almost white eyes darting over to the doorway to spot none other than the LAST person in the world she wanted to see right now.

Annnnd he was not happy....She didnt need her emotional radar to tell her that....But then she had known he would not be...his last conversation with her making that clear.....

With a hard growl sounded in Carmine's direction, certain he was behind this, she forced herself to turn over, cringing as the pain shot through her body...yet she got her back to Gabriel, and that was all that mattered.....Balling her fists in the sheet to stifle the pain as best she could.

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Carmine had sat there, waiting, and when that figure entered he was instantly greeted by a very unhappy little female in the bed...Her growl only making him that much more certain he had done the right thing.....

Even if he lost his job, he was sure she would listen now.....More than he could achieve with her.....

Pushing himself up to stand, he would offer a solid nod in the direction of the one known to him as Gabriel....Letting the man enter enough so that the doorway was no longer blocked and then silently making his exit.

He could explain everything but he felt it best that he not speak unless spoken to.....He was in enough trouble as it was.....For now, he would just take his seat in the waiting room....Letting the two talk and hoping that in the end he was proven right for sending that message.

[Gabriel Seran]

Speech, it was entirely unnecessary as Gabriel fluidly handled every situation with a developed skill of kinesthetically, a wave of his hand as best could describe it ushering Carmine to leave without a word as Gabriel was swiftly flanked by the large black man. Phillipe's dark features burdened by a scowl along with a scar running down his right cheek. A constant reminder of his unfailing loyalty.

"Its best you leave now..."

Eye contact from Phillipe to Carmine as it was assured that the message would get across and Phillipe would nod to Gabriel and take the man's position by the door having to duck the corners to manage getting through. His frame instantly blocking the passageway.

As for Gabriel, well the man had something of his own in mind as he paced around Kevala's bedside taking up Carmine's old seat by her and sat a slow drawn out motion as he crossed his legs and pulled out a paper from beneath his arm. His mouth sealed and silent not making to gesture the first response as he wasn't exactly sure of how conscious the woman was.

[Ceraphine Davis]

Kevala laid there, not noticing the presence of the big guy given she had turned her back to the pair, but of course Gabriel would take a seat in a spot that she had no choice but to acknowledge he was there.....

Wincing once more she closed her eyes, better to lay there and pretend he wasn't there than to..........

"Why are you here? Here to remind me again how worthless I am?"

She spoke before she could even stop herself, clearly not what she wanted to do as her hand came up to cover her lips, holding them shut....Gah!

With that she grabbed her pillow, burying her face in it as she curled up all the more, the lack of the use of her other hand making it all the more difficult, as was the pain that roamed through her in steady and constant waves.

She honestly did not know why he was here, other than to tell her some shit about how bad of a mother she was, how bad of a fighter she was, how much he......pitied her......

He should have know that by now she knew all those things to be true...So he could just save his breath.

Another soft whimper as she again drifted out of reality and back to the place she had spent days being drugged, tested and tortured........

"Or do you just enjoy helping them...."

The words were muffled slightly by the pillow, and clearly not the most coherent thing she could come up with, at least clear if you knew how she felt about the man seated before her.........But they were there none the less.....Obviously true in her mind at the moment.

[Gabriel Seran]

Gabriel ignored her, while all of the pieces she'd thought him turning out to be he would not. All very capable resolutions to a very irksome problem which Kevala tended to be he'd known better, or perhaps best of all her acquaintances. Yes there were no others who knew Kevala quite so well as he having seen her through her first children, her first war, her first challenges that the girl was forced to go through. Gabriel knew her backwards and forwards and she was likely to know him just as well but the aged man still knew quite a bit of his own little tricks, things that very few would expect him to anticipate. So for now he remained silent, his eyes turned to the paper still reading it steadily as he read the obituary file on his Cousin's unlikely death. A warm smile curving up to his lips silently and still obstructed by the papers.

"Or do you just enjoy helping them...."

His attention never wavering still silent as he'd wait a beat flipping onto the next page unconcerned as she'd no doubt tire of talking at least for a moment.

"And who is 'them'?"

Gabriel's speech calm and unaltered as he still flipped behind the papers knowledgeable and patient.

[Ceraphine Davis]

It was probably not the best time to pose such a question to her, not with her mind lost in the time prior to her stay here. Head turning as she shot him a very unhappy glare.

"You know who? My fucking family!"

She practically hissed the words out, both due to the thought of those monsters and at the pain she felt as she forced her movements to face him fully.

Biting back the tears that stung her eyes, narrowing her gaze upon him. It killed her inside to think he had anything to do with them, and if she was thinking clearly then the thought would never cross her mind. Because even though there was always something about him she did not know, there was more that she did.....She had been with him through so much, spent so much time with him, and forever would, in some way, love him.

She understood him, most of the time, where others would not even give the thought of doing so a chance....

So to rationally believe that he would have a hand in hurting her or Zeke was insane, but at the time, it was all too clear....

Falling back onto the bed, she rolled onto her back, hand gripping the sheet once more as she cast her eyes up to the ceiling....Not speaking any further, as she saw no need to do such.

[Gabriel Seran]

"You know who? My fucking family!"

Gabriel didn't budge an inch at the cursed thought. Imagining Katsuri or his other lineage proceeding to torture their estranged daughter. Though horrible it was just their style to do something so obscure so strange that it could only draw peculiarity. He'd have made to hiss as well if he knew that much though he did hold in his hands a file containing certain individuals flagged for their regional questionability. The Katashi's being one such clan. That was the reason he didn't flinch he'd expected as much, though there was nothing he could do now but flag their attention elsewhere. Gabriel was no match for an entire Katashi clan not in his current state while he was sure he could take one or maybe three on a good day their sheer masses would overrun him. There was a long term plan set in mind to handle them but for now Gabriel spent the earlier part of the day detouring the Katashis' eyes giving them falsified information that Kevala had been seen fleeing north into the Alaskan wasteland.

One thing the Katashis' lacked was an intellect that focused towards reason only their own self worth and she was an interest to them. In the ideals of furthering thyself Gabriel set up a false identity to suit their alliance and keep tabs on the unruly hoard. For now Kevala was safe, but the Katashi's would never stop.

"and you honestly think I would have a hand in such matters?" Gabriel said fluidly his tongue parting to waver for an instant his attention solely focused on the battered and bruised girl before him.

"It seems as if you've caught the Katashi curse, blinded by whatever enters your brain first you forget that I am a Seran, bloodline of ambition and what worth are you to me in the hands of a Katashi?" Gabriel said with a hint of arrogance in his voice.

Yes he was reverting back to his old self once more bounding between good will towards furthering Kevala and then going once again to his harsh roots telling her of her place in the legacy of Gabriel Seran. And quite a legacy it was to boast, this was not their end just yet.

[Ceraphine Davis]

His words echoed in her mind, thoughts of her past with him filling her head as she closed her eyes and shook her head from side to side. No, no, no......If she listened.....What then? Gah!

Yet there was that part of her, the rational side that thought things through, the part of her that knew better than to believe such wild thoughts...and it slowly started to surface.....

She knew him so very well, she trusted him above everyone else in this world.....In her mind, she knew he would not have anything to do with what was done to her or her son...Especially not Zeke....

Growling softly, a single tear breaking free from her eyes and rolling down her cheek she bit her lower lip in frustration.

"Gah! Did you see what the fuck they did to him!?"

Her anger slowly rising as images of her son....the very last images she had of him, filled her mind and worked their magic on her sanity.....She had wanted to hurt them so badly but she knew better....She had known better than to call Gabriel.....She had done the only thing she could do.....

Now here she laid, no doubt being judged for it. What a fucking life for trying to do the right thing. That alone was enough to confuse her.

"I am nothing like my family. You know that! So dont you dare compare me to.............them again...."

She winced, her hand gripping the sheet as another short wave of pain rolled through every nerve ending, every muscle, every inch of her body........

[Gabriel Seran]

Evidently rationality was a necessity here, Kevala was lost inside her mind again, a force no person should reckon with though where others hesitated Gabriel ran straight in. Headlong ignoring the threat of danger and disheartening stings that ripped, tore, and inlaid images of ruffage. Inaction to Gabriel was a word that meant a fate worse than death for the moment he sat still he left open his weaker points something he dare not do.

"Gah! Did you see what the fuck they did to him!?"

Sitting there as calm and controlled as ever, the paper in front of him settling down under the weight of his palms as he focused his stare forward on her the weight of his eyes being his weapon of choice for this interaction seeking not to raise a fist or battery in unsuited attempts. Calm and controlled was not achieved through beating a tired sick dog.

"I saw... and Zeke is alright, a little tired and sad but he's safe." Gabriel's voice showing an evident calm despite the urge burning beneath his skin to tear off the head of the Katashi responsible for harming Zeke, even touching him was short of deserving a fatal death blow in Gabriel's mind. Though he controlled his emotions well having sat on them for a long while now. The game however turned to something more of plotting their evidential demise.

"I am nothing like my family. You know that! So dont you dare compare me to.............them again...."

"Then be wise not to loop me in with that band of Neanderthals. " Gabriel fired back harshly as though his throat had been laced with acid. "You and Zeke are safe so long as you don't go making stupid moves." Gabriel said quickly.

There was no intention of putting her down to such a degrading level however he felt it necessary to scold her as a child seeing as how she was acting like one.

[Ceraphine Davis]

She laid there, her eyes wavering to his for a moment. She was happy beyond all reason to hear that Zeke was okay....yet the following words only made her wince as she turned her head to look anywhere but at him.

"So I am stupid. That is fine...But what would you have had me do? They took my son......I could not let them do to him what they have tried to do to me for so many years....I could not go to you....You would have done anything to get him back, even risk your own life.....and then where would that have left us? I did what I thought was right, I turned myself over to save him....."

She sniffled, closing her eyes as she shook her head, her back arching off the bed once more as pain ran through her....Mind once more flicking in and out of what was real and what was not....

Though she did well to contain herself.....At least for the most part.......

"Besides....after....the last time we spoke I figured it best not to have you angry at me at such a time....Best leave that for......after..."

She laughed softly, thinking about how she never really got out of trouble lately. Fuck she hated her life as of late....All the weight of everything seeming to crush her....Now this....What else could possibly go wrong?

[Gabriel Seran]

She got him right with that equation. Exactly right, Gabriel would have risked his life and gone to all attempts to regain Zeke, but the chance would have turned up more dead Katashi's than Gabriel would have done so out of pursuit then out of vengeance but who was to decide for him. Kevala truly was a foolish girl if she thought his own life mattered more than Ezekial.

"You have no right to decide what I want to do with my own life." Gabriel said back through fiery laced lips. He was coming off cold more so than fiery at this point wanting to make her hurt to the point she could realize how much they actually meant to him.

"Kevala, you are a stupid girl." He would be so bold to say without permitting himself to stop, "But if thats the case then I am the king of all idiots risking my neck to think you'll change by whatever actions I take in your defense."

His words coming out a bit softer now simply edging for her to shut up and just listen for once, no reply just to understand what he goes through just to ensure the future, not just for him but for all parties.

"I punish you with such ill wills because if I can break you down like I did in that cell so many years ago you'd stay out of sight, out of harms way and foul play, so that you'll be safe and manage a life that is more so yours than anyone can stake claim to."

Heated words of a fiery gullet as he remained at center, still and focused. "If you can do this just once for me Kevala, sit still." His hand ushering to her bed side pressing her belly down with enough force to pin her, "You are truly a gift on this earth, it'd be a shame for such a thing to die and not wonder what it'd be like for just another breath."

Gabriel would take a steady breath, the air siphoning through his lungs as the man stood weary already as he studied himself. His features warmer than they were when he entered as he turned about to leave the room Phillipe moving in synchronism to let him through the doorway before Gabriel's head tilted back. "Alexis and I are taking care of Zeke until you get back on your feet, when you're better drop by Zeke is dying to see you."

Gabriel made a genuine smile before turning out leaving Phillipe in the room. The big man would come and tower over her bed and look her dead in the eye, "Now Sleep!"

[Ceraphine Davis]

Laying there, she listened, her eyes closing as she let his words race through her mind....The thought to simply turn away from him, to hide her own pain at his words entered her mind.

But like so many times before, he anticipated her next move, his hand coming to rest on her stomach and pinning her to the bed....Then he continued, his next set of words doing well to keep her in that position, no longer shifting about, only doing as he desired...Laying there and listening.......

She could tell, and probably always had known, that he loved her be it in his own way...it was still there, and as for Zeke? Well she had no doubt in her mind what he felt for her son.

Teas silently sliding down her delicate little face, she continued to say nothing......Only listening as he spoke things she never thought to hear from him.....All of it tugging at her mind and her heart......

Could she ever look him in the eye and tell him no? Ever walk away and not long to have him in her life again?

No.......She knew that was impossible...There was too much there....Too much that both of them knew yet very seldom spoke of.

She loved him just as he did her....both of them a pain in the others ass at times, but then....was that not what made them who they were?

As he got up to leave, that smile cast back at her, she would nod, her good hand coming up to wipe away the tears from her face as she spoke up softly.....The first time since being here that she was actually calm and a glimmer of the girl she could be showing through.

"I am sorry Gabriel...."

She genuinely meant it, and even though the words went unspoken, she knew that he knew damn well how she felt about him.

As he left, the larger man came over, and though reaction should have been to jerk away, she just laid there......Looking up at him.....That command ushered and her eyes growing heavy......

It did not take long for the girl to curl up, eyes closing and her mind becoming consumed by darkness......Sleep....The first real sleep she had in a very long time............