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Fandom: Noblesse
Summary: There was an angel in the city; Tao could sense it.
Notes: Angel/demon AU!
This was an idea I was working on yeeears ago that I shelved for a couple of reasons. I thought I basically revived the storyline in the steampunk au, but now that I wrote this out, there's a couple of similar plotpoints, but the journey is different.
So I might try to polish this off for nanowrimo. :3
I guess one of the things I'm unsure of is that Noblesse makes sure to subvert the vampire myths – I'm kinda playing the angel and demon myths straight. Sort of.
I'm trying out ze/hir/hir for Tao's pronouns.
Rating: PG-13
Genre: General
Word count: 702
Status: Complete



There was an angel in the city; Tao could sense it. The angel hadn't tried to hide their presence, their aura skirting the edges of Tao's senses. It was annoying, really. These little flashes to awareness and then flitting off again. It was like the angel was taunting hir, saying 'I'm here! No, I'm not!' Which was very unangel-like, in Tao's opinion.

But it had been centuries since Tao had walked Heaven's clouds, choosing to follow Boss when they descended. Tao had dragged Takeo along for the ride, of course, because they did everything together. That's just how it always was - Tao would decide to do something, and Takeo would try to warn hir away from it, and then follow hir anyway, saying it was the easier way to minimise the amount of trouble Tao found hirself in.

The Fall had been anticlimactic, honestly. Their wings had blackened the further they went, and the energies of the physical realm had changed them more, their bodies sprouting horns and a spaded tail.

Tao preferred how ze looked afterwards. At least then ze matched.

The angel was still an angel though, seemlingly untouched by the realm's aura, or maybe that was why the angel kept moving, to not be changed.

But that didn't explain why the angel was there though. Anyone from Upstairs stayed there. There was no reason for an angel to be here.

Tao had nothing better to do, so ze flitted over to where ze had last sensed the angel.

* * *

The angel was gone by the time Tao got there, but Tao hummed, feeling the angel's aura prickle hir skin as ze investigated the area. It wasn't a solid trail, but it was better than nothing.

Tao closed hir eyes and exhaled, opening up hir senses further. Ze ignored the duller human auras swarming below hir and focused on the trace the angel had left behind.

And it was…there.

The angel's trace was nearly completely gone and it was weird, that the angel alternated between announcing their presence and hiding it so well Tao wouldn't have known they'd been around if ze hadn't sensed the angel beforehand.

Maybe they were young. But then why was an angel sent down here? It was a punishment to be in the physical realm. That was the point.

Ze shook hir head. Ze'd wasted enough time thinking – ze had a trail to follow.

* * *

The angel liked heights – Tao must have landed on the fifth rooftop by now. There wasn't any kind of pattern to it that Tao could tell. Was the angel sight-seeing?

It was the sixth rooftop Tao flitted to that ze caught up with the angel.

The angel was facing away from Tao, standing on the edge as they peered down.

They had shoulder-length silver hair and wings that were still growing out. They were also grey. Huh. The angel was-

"The fuck do you want?"

-not what ze expected. Oooh, this was interesting. Tao grinned, stepping closer.

"I was thinking of maybe throwing a welcome party. Show you the sights, take you to the places with good atmosphere. You know, give you a good time."

This time, the angel looked at hir over their shoulder to glare at hir, even going as far as lifting their lip to bare their teeth. It made the scar across their lip more obvious. Hm, angels weren't made with those in Tao's time. What was Upstairs doing…?

Another burst of power, the angel's wings rustling before they settled again.

This angel was getting more interesting by the second. Was this a test to see if the angel should be kept Upstairs or kicked out into this realm? The angel's wings were darker than usual, but they weren't turning black either.

"Fuck off, demon!" the angel snarled, whirling around, flaring their wings out.

It was cute. The angel would have to do more than that to intimidate hir, but Tao stepped back, raising hir hands and folding hir wings closer to hir body. "Touchy." Ze huffed, blowing the hair out of hir eyes. "Fine fine. Later, angel!" Tao turned to leave, waving with hir tail.

"Never," the angel muttered.

Oh, there would be a later. Tao would make sure of it.

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