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Aight, you asked.
Beatrice’s faith is shaken after Ava. Not even after loosing Ava, just after Ava. But without Ava there she has nothing to steady her. She spends a couple months while still at the OCS working closely with the priests and decides that’s where her faith calls her now. Working closely with people, helping them from beside them, living in community with them. Away from the eternal fight physically and closer spiritually. She changes from being a nun to being a priest, from Sister to Father. She’s assigned a small community that experienced a truly bad prior priest. Not as punishment, but as Hope. They need her and right now, she needs to be needed. Over six months the community warms up to her. They don’t like the word ‘father’ anymore so she offers to let them call her ‘padre’. She’s kind. Reserved, almost shy, extremely private and incredibly endlessly kind. They get used to seeing her running around and encouraging everyone to attend her self-defence or languages or study groups. Things are good, Bea’s living.
But Bea’s gonna Bea. So when she sees some black cars with obvious mercenaries pull through her town, she follows them. And when they stop at the small house of a single mother and her pre-teen son (quiet people she’s worked hard to connect with) so does she. She knocks on the door and one thick necked man tells her to leave. She smiles politely and explains she’s here for her flock, gestures at the scared mother holding her son protectively behind her. Another man, one with wealth dripping off him, orders her away. She smiles even more politely and says there’s only one person whose orders she obeys (Ava). The mother, desperate, begs her to get the cops before they take her son. Bea says they won’t be doing that. That they could do this the easy way or the hard way. The mercenary, goaded by his boss, slaps her across the face. She smiles up at him with bloody teeth and say “god forgive me, but I was hoping you’d pick the hard way.” Then she beats the everloving fuck out of them one by one. She uses the crowded room to prevent them from reaching for guns, focuses on one until he’s truly down before doing more than dodging the rest. The boss is the one that pulls a gun, threatening to shoot her once his goons are down. He does the whole “i’ll shoot” and she says “why would I doubt? Faith is my business.” Then she dodges, grabs him by the gun hand, punches him unconscious, and kicks him in the junk before releasing his hand and gun.
She takes a moment to wipe off her bloody face (some hers, mostly not) and think about how much easier it is to fight people who aren’t possessed. Then she turns and asks the mother and son if they’re ok. It’s only then she sees the son was secretly recording everything. She’s pretty sure she’s loosing her touch because she’s been retired too long. The video goes viral. ‘battle priest’ and ‘padre punch’ are tossed about far too much for her liking. Maybe she has a talk with they boy about him thinking she said violence was never a solution and clarifies what she said (gently teasing him about not paying attention during sermon) about how violence should be the last answer. How it’s sometimes a necessity because god wants them to live (Ava wants Bea to live).
The gang that was trying to grab the boy decide they need to end the myth that is Father Beatrice. They threaten her town unless she willing comes to fight them alone. She does. They film this because they don’t need her to die, they need her legend to die with her. They need everyone to see she’s human. They beat her up and have her on her knees, gun to head, and ask if she has any last words. She looks up at the sky and says her last words. “You were right, I can live. I know this is me joining you a little quicker than planned but I don’t regret anything. In this life, now the next.” The gun’s hammer clicks back and a blue portal splits the space between a kneeling Beatrice and the guns aimed at her. A halo of golden light flares out, tossing everyone away and only causing a small breeze to blow through Bea’s hair. The halo becomes a person, floating off the ground. The camera catches Beatrice say something pundits will later say is “Ave”, or ‘hail’ in Latin. Father Beatrice reaches up in what feels like slow motion to catch the falling Angel. The gang refund their feet (those who can). Some pause when they seen the Angel, the one from Adriel, cradled reverently in Bea’s arm. The leader whips them into a fury, saying ‘what is an Angel to us? We are devils!” They go to shoot Beatrice again and she puts her body protectively over Ava’s.
The sky opens up again. This portal is red and fiery, this winged person is no Angel but the opposite. Lilith flies out, takes a look at the group threatening her best friend and says “Hell’s done waiting for you boys” then she murders everyone. Except Bea and Ava. “Is she hurt?” She asks when she’s finished.
Bea shakes her head. “No. I think she’s just exhausted from whatever she did to get here. I’d like to get her to a hospital anyway, just to make sure.”
Lilith snorts. “i’d like to get you to a hospital, Father Beatrice,” she teases. “l think you’ve gone soft during your retirement,” she looks around, “I’ve seen you fight more demons than this with far less wounds.”
Beatrice shrugs. “I had a good team then,” she explains. “And I didn’t need to fight according to man’s rules. Just God’s.”
Lilith rolls her eyes. “enough with your excuses padre. Let’s get the two of you some professional help.” Then she grabs Bea’s arm and portals them back to the OCS. The world, watching via the still running camera, is shook.
Ava, waking up with a muddled memory of her time on the other side to Beatrice as a priest, is shook. Beatrice laughs until she cries when Ava blinks open her eyes and her first words, after looking Bea up and down, are “new kink successfully unlocked”
no seriously, is there no avatrice request from yall?
COME ON GAYS I know i've mentioned my posting will be SLOW bc of my study doesn't mean I'VE STOPPED DOING IT
GIVE ME PROMPTS, IDEAS, AU OR WHATEVERR. my brain is not working!