Valentine Returns

Zephyr's Perspective
    "Check MATE!"  Aeon called proudly, complete with a little victory dance.
    I silently pulled my knees to my chest and watched as my black king rolled up against my remaining knight.
    I heard a hesitant knock at the door and looked up.
    "Ah, come in?"  Aeon called, noticeing my glance.
    Mom poked her head in, a confused look on her face.
    "What is it?" I asked, my voice sounding hollow, even to me.  I really need to work on that, but when I think of Bane, I just...
    "There's, ah, somone here to see you two."  she responded, cutting off my thoughts.  Her voice was odd, and she sounded somewhat confused.
    "Really?" Aeon said, standing up as Mom pushed the door open, "And who might that --"
    When she saw who stepped around Mom, her voice cut short.
    It couldn't be!  I remembered...we...I saw!  He was --
    "VALENTINE!!!" Aeon screamed, running across the room.  Mom had the good sense to move out from behind the target before Aeon got there.
    Luckily, someone was ready for her reaction.  He caught her as she buried her face in his shoulder, crying for sheer joy.
    "It's been a while, hasn't it?" Valentine chuckled, his deep voice finally proving his reality. I recovered from having fallen off my chair at the sight of him about then.
    "Bu-but, you were- I saw you! You were dead!!" she jabbed him in the chest with one finger. "I was there! We buried you, Val! And you gave me..." her arms fell limp at her sides and her voice fell to a whisper, "Val, how are you here?"
    "Well, I was getting to that." he said, stepping around her and into the room.
    I almost fell out of my chair again.
    Why?
    Because, folded tightly against his back, was a pair of white, feathered, wings. Aeon noticed there was a different texture to his t-shirt and his back. She looked behind Val. "wha-wha-wha-wings?!"
    "WHAT THE--?!?!" I said, finally finding my voice(I'd left it on the floor when I fell over.) "YOU'RE AN ANGEL?!?!"
    "Well, yeah." he said embarassedly, letting his wings relax.  "I guess you could say that.  But I'm special.  VERY special.  And more than that, you ought to know I'm beyond lucky."
    "H-h-how??" Aeon said, still startled beyond words, fingering his wings gingerly and looking at his wings in every different angle possible.
    He sighed and looked at somewhere in the region of Aeon's shoulder.
    "I knew you'd ask that."  He said softly.  "I'd love to be able to tell you but I...can't.  Not until I have to."  He shook it off and pulled the smile back.  "But I'm here.  Might as well make the most of it."
    "I can't believe you're back." Aeon said, her face buried back into his shoulder. He wrapped his arms back around her and gently kissed her forehead.

Author's Note

its the unedited version for now because I'm too lazy to do anything else right now.