Broken Angel

Gabriella waits at the bus stop after her shift at the hospital. She hated the cleaning job, but study fees had to be paid. She had no one with both parents deceased and not leaving a dime. She had to make her own way. Either that or sell her family home and that, she is not willing to do as it is all she had of her parents.

Angel Zurier accompanied many humans in his life but never felt loved for them the way he felt for Gabriella. He really wanted her to succeed in living a righteous life so that she can one day go to heaven, but with all the curve balls life has thrown at her it sends her down the wrong paths.

She tries so hard, but nothing works out for her. She is almost done with her Doctor of Physical Therapy Degree and then she will apply to intern at the hospital where she is a cleaner. She just hopes that she can get a paid internship as she cannot bear her peers see her cleaning. No one really pays attention to her. There is not much staff on the night shift and her shift is only 5 hours in the evening from 8 pm to 1 am. She always waits 45min for the 2 am bus as it takes her 15min to walk to the bus stop.

This night Angel Zurier felt very uneasy. He could see three fellow angels at the bus stop, but their humans kept a low profile. If only Angles were Guardian Angels like humans believed them to be instead of Observers. Gabriella saw the mass of Angels at the corner of her eye but when she looked in their direction they were gone. ''Who is there? I know you are there! Show yourself!'' Gabriella regrets not equipping herself better for the night, but she always felt that she lives in a safe city, a safe country.

''Hey little lady, what you got there in your backpack?'' a middle-aged man approaches her, walking slick.

Gabriella gave a couple of steps back. ''Stay back!'' she tried to say with confidence.

''We won't hurt you, just give us your backpack and we will be on our merry little way,'' another man says lying, with a baseball cap on; covering part of his face.

Gabriella tries to reach for the bus stop panic button but before she could reach it a third man pushes her from behind to the ground.

''Don't make us angry or you will regret it! You should have just given us the backpack, you stupid girl!'' She tried to scream but the three men quickly surrounded her, one of them choking her. She felt the life leaving her body and close her eyes in defeat.

''Dude! Do not kill her!''

They quickly dragged her behind the bus stop through the bushes into a kid play park. There is a lovely Jungle gym with lots of hideouts that made it perfect for the three men's real intentions.

They could hardly believe their luck, no one saw them. ''Give her CPR! I am not a murderer!'' One of the men said a bit worried.

''Relax! She is breathing, I only made her pass out, we need to hurry before she wakes up. Where are the drugs?'' One man asks taking her jacket off and tying an elastic around her arm.

''Common," he starts tapping on her arm to get a vein while Baseball-Cap shines a dim torchlight. The third guy stepped up and neatly inserts the needle and injects her with Benzodiazepines.

''Just in time,'' Baseball-Cap says as he notices her eyes opening.

''What are you doing, let me go,'' she said her words slurring. She felt something heavy on her waist. One of the men was sitting on top of her. She was not sure if she is dreaming but she felt so weak. She felt hands on her bare skin. 'Hand on my bare skin!' She panicked as she realized she is not dreaming. She is now alert and can feel several hands taking off her clothing... she can feel the cold air piercing her skin.

''Oh goodness, your breast wants us to touch you so much! Look how stiff your nipples are!'' Baseball-Cap discards the flashlight to get in on the action. He could not believe how good her breast feel.

Gabriella feels guilty for welcoming their warm mouths and hands over her breast and wishes they can get closer with their bodies to hers as the cold air is piercing. She feels a warm hand moving down to her waist, seeking out the pubic hair. She thinks to herself... 'what did they put in me... why can't I move?' She is filled with fear. She cannot believe this is happening to her. 'They are so careless...' she wonders if they are going to kill her when they are done. She feels her legs being parted with a leg. She hopes for a body to cover hers quickly as she is freezing. She can feel hot tears running down the side of her face only for a warm tongue to lick it up. She can feel the warm breath of the man on her face. She feels warm legs entangling with hers. She enjoys the warmth of their legs. She can feel fabric, so she realizes they are still dressed.

''Come on, I also want to feel her," the man that just licked her tears said pushing Baseball-Cap of her. The cold air seems to hit her breast hard and her nipples stiffen even more erect into the air begging for a warm mouth to cover it. ''Wow, she has beautiful breast!'' one exclaims, admiring the exposed breast with the moonlight shining on her stiff nipples that seem more plumed now after the harsh sucking and nibbling from Baseball-Cap.

The three men have their way with Gabriella, taking their time.

Gabriella can make out futures a bit from the side of her eye. Four angels standing around watching her. 'Why do Angels do nothing,' she thinks, crying within.

This was not the first rape any of these Angles have witness. He wanted to save her from this, but they can physically not touch a human or any earthly things, even if they try.

Angel Zurier watches the men closing in on Gabriella again.

Gabriella feels like choking and are unable to breathe anymore and thinks this should be the end of her.

She hears a bus coming to a screeching halt not too far away. 'It must be 2 am.' She wonders, 'why they are taking their time with her. Are they not scared to be caught?'

Gabriella feels she can hardly breathe. Her tears now running down in streams down her face from the pain between her legs.

The pain is too much.

As the men are reaching climax they trust faster and more violently.

Baseball-Cap position himself as he has not yet had a turn. Gabriella gasp... she finally can move a bit, but she has no strength and the cold is overwhelming. Gabriella feels that this man is much larger than the other two. She can feel her skin tear. He is much more violent than the other two.

He seems to struggle to orgasm while the other two have a smoke enjoying her breast bouncing. She can make sounds now but the only sound coming from her is that of a woman having hard sex. She prays that it will be over soon, but it feels never-ending. He is still at it violently.

Gabriella cried and tried to catch her breath and regrets the sounds coming from her as they are certainly not sounds of satisfaction but pure pain.

In the distance, Gabriella hears the 3 am bus coming to stop and taking off again. ''Two hours to go boys.''

Angel Zurier can see Gabriella dying. He can also feel it. He feels such heartache knowing if she dies today, she will never see heaven let alone judgment day. He turns away and goes to the bus stop. He takes his final Angel breath and reaches over his shoulder with his right arm to tear off his left-wing. He manages to tear it only ten percent out of his back, but the pain is too much.

He knows Gabriella does not have much time so with her in mind he gathers all his strength and painfully tears his left-wing out. With only one wing he can touch things in the world as he is now part human part angel. He has barely enough strength to push the 'bus stop' emergency button. Before he could reach it, he sees a blurry vision of an angel.

"Need some help?" an Angel asks. Zurier reaches out and pushes the emergency button before collapsing at the feet of the angel. The Angel position himself in one knee kneel, grabs Angel Zurier's right-wing with both hands push himself up by putting his one foot on Angel Zurier's back, and rips his last wing off with great effort. The wing goes up in smokes and leaves a large black imprint just to the right of the bus stop.

Gabriella hears police sirens. Baseball-Cap still has not orgasmed, but they must get out of there. The three men quickly gather their things and run towards the opposite exit of the kid's park as from the bus stop. Gabriella can now only see one angel from the corner of her eye. She hears the police sirens go off, but she can see flashing lights shining into the hideout as she surrenders to die.

The police officer comes to an abrupt halt next to a man lying in a puddle of blood. She calls in on her walkie -talky..., ''Ambulance needed at Bus stop 12112.'' The man tucks at the hem of her pants mumbling.

''It is ok sir, you going to be ok. I am officer Lan,'' Sandra says reaching out to the blood-soaked white cloth to pull it over his body.

''Monkey-bars,'' he barely gets out.

An ambulance with sirens loud stops in front of the bus stop. Angel Zurier can barely hold on to his life but knows he must save Gabriella. Ambulance sirens are now on silent with light flashing. People from the flats across the bus stop-starts to gather around now, mostly interns from the hospital.

''Playground...'' he says, no one hearing him as he gets lifted onto the stretcher.

''Holy shit!'' Sandra exclaims when she sees his back, ''turn him on his side!'' The medics turn him on his side and all gasp at the huge and deep holes in his back with bones splinters sticking out like knives. Zurier points at the playpark but no one notice but a photographer snapping away. ''Good thing the hospital is only 2km away," one of the medics says once inside the ambulance.

The photographer starts walking to the playpark wondering if the half-dead person is trying to show everyone, who did this to him.

Alex is a reporter and stays at the blog flats as it is the nearest to the hospital and it helps him get stories before anyone else gets them, but this is a first. He carefully approaches the playground and starts peeking around. It is very dark, so he takes a photo for his camera flash to go off. 'I must have imagined the man pointing.' He looks at his camera screen and swipes through his photos. A couple of dozen does show clearly the man pointing. Perhaps he will find the weapon that hacked that man's back open. Alex starts looking again. He carefully turns his camera into the Play-gym-monkey-bar hide-out to take a photo, too scared to go in, in case the attacker is in there.

After taking the photo he ducks and waits a bit to listen if there is someone. After a couple of minutes, he looks at the photo he just took. ''Oh, my word! He immediately reaches for his pocket to take out his phone to call emergency. ''Dammit!'' He left his phone back at the flat when he grabbed his camera in a hurry.

He runs into the hideout. It is dark, except for a bit of moonlight shining through the monkey bars and the opening. He is not sure what to do. Should he take photos for police evidence or should he just take her down and run with her to the hospital or should he run to the bus stop and ask someone for a phone to call. He takes a photo and with the flashing light, he sees the young woman whose body is already blue and lips a darker blue. He reaches out to feel for a pulse but there is none. He fiddles with the ropes to get her loose and feels her icy cold hands. He struggles to get her hands loose. ''HELP! HELP!'' Alex started calling out, hoping the people at the bus stop will hear him.

He finally gets the rope loose but is too slow to catch her before she hits the ground. ''Dammit! Sorry, sorry,'' he quickly takes off his jacket and covers her best he can. He does not know how to give CPR but puts his ear to her heart and hears her heart is beating. He picks her up in one sweep. She is light and easy to carry. Alex is a well build 31-year-old. He started running with her to the hospital.

One kilometre away an Ambulance cut him off. Two female medics got out and one made her way to feel for a pulse, "what happened?" medics ask.

"I am not sure, I found her at the play park, she is naked under here and in very bad shape," Alex said out of breath, temple a hint of sweat. The second medic opened the ambulance door and pulled out the stretcher, wheels smashing into the ground with a bang. Alex puts the lifeless woman on the stretcher while the medics secure her body on both sides. They push the stretcher back into the Ambulance with one medic following into the back and the other getting into the driver seat of the Ambulance.

"Get in!" the medic orders Alex. Alex gets into the back and the medic closes the door. One minute later they are at the emergency entrance of the hospital. The medic already called it in, and nurses and an intern doctor received them. The ambulance doors swing open and the medics quickly pull the stretcher out of the ambulance. The two nurses and intern lift Gabriella's body onto the hospital bed and the medics secure the railings of the hospital bed. "You can go to the reception and wait for the police to give a statement," the medic tells Alex. Alex did not like the idea of that but knew it had to be done.

This won't be the first time he has to give a statement to the police as he is most of the time the first one on the scene to get the photos but from experience, he knew he had to hide his camera or the police will take it to get the photos. He is not one to hold back something that could help solve a crime, but law-enforcement doesn't really have respect for other people's things. He is not about to get another camera damage. He hurriedly slipped away to go put his camera back at his apartment, after all, it is only two kilometres away, surely, he can get back before the police arrive. Alex saw that the doctors are still busy working on the man that were found at the bus stop and quickly snapped a picture before making his exit.

"Wonder if she will make it, she's practically a goner, yet her Angel sacrificed his wings. The last time an angel did that for a human was over 3000 years ago, not for the same reason thou," Baraqiel, Gabriella's replacement angel says, talking to the angels around. He reaches out and touch Gabriella's forehead and immediately is taken aback. 'A reincarnated Angel. She has reincarnated 46 times. I wonder if Angel Zurier knew this? Did he ever touch her? Is that maybe why he decided to become a human? Was he thinking about it for a while?' he thought to himself. He looks up at Zuriers Angel. "Why did he give up his wings?"

Angel Bethor reaches out and touches Zurier. "No, he never touched her, and it seems that he loves her, but it was never in his plans to become human. He wanted to save her from dying because she did not lead a righteous life that will qualify her for judgment day and believed that she will go straight to hell," Angel Bethor respond sadly. She has never felt so sad for a human, if only he knew that she was an angel. Angels that give up their wings to become human reincarnate over and over until judgment day. They get a new Angel every time as only the last life before judgment day will count as that will be the life of Good Vs Evil.

While the Angles get to the bottom of why Angel Zurier gave up his wings the doctors struggled to keep him alive, while a doctor is on top of Gabriella giving her CPR.

It seems that the doctors have managed to stop the bleeding from Zurier's back and now make their way to the theatre. The doctor on top of Gabriella has stopped SPR and pulled the heat blankets over her lifeless body's face. "Time of death..."

Before the doctor could give the time of death, Gabriella gasp for air. "Stay with us, there has been an incident," the doctor said quickly pulling the cover off her face. Gabriella tried to talk but she could not get the words out. The doctor is concerned that they might have to amputate her breast, toes, and fingers due to frostbite.

Gabriella is finally set up in a hospital room, but she is too tired to care what is going on around her. All she knew is that she is getting the same feeling she had when she was drugged.

"Start treatment on the affected frostbite areas and let's try to save the infected areas," the doctor instructed the intern and nurse.

While on the operating table the doctors could not believe the extent of their patient's wounds. All his ribs at his back have splintered into his muscles and one of his broken ribs poked into his right lung. "Good thing this is not in his left side," the doctor says trying to get the rib out of his lung without having to break it completely off. He manages to get the rib out and felt around the area for splinters. Once he were happy, he pushed some cotton fabric in to prevent bleeding and he, together with an intern started to remove splintered rib cage pieces.

It was a long morning on the operating table but eventually, the doctors manage to repair Zurier's back and he is now rolled into the same room as Gabriella.

Alex finally got home at 11 am after being interrogated and giving his statements. He quickly got ready to put his story together as he knew that it will already be all over the news. He hoped that no photos were circulating yet and had a feeling that he had the best. He scanned through his photos and paused at the first photo he took of Gabriella.

It looks like a dead person already. White and blue patchy body. Hands, feet, and breast blue, almost black. He zooms on to her breast, 'what a pity, those are such nice breasts, just the right size nipples but they are damage from frostbite,' he continued to scroll through his photos and landed on the last one he took before he exited the hospital. He decided to use that photo because he felt pity over Gabriella and will wait for permission from her or wait and only publish it if she dies.

He boiled his kettle and made himself a cup of coffee. Thirty minutes later he was happy enough with his story to publish it on his News-site of over one million followers that generate him a good six-figure income from advertisement.

Alex owns the Penthouse on top of the Student flat building. His three-bedroom apartment has glass all around the living space and you could see the whole city from there, but the city could not see you as the windows were one-sided windows. He had full access to the rooftop where he enjoyed his greenhouse vegetable garden and dwarf fruit trees.