Sweet Blasphemy
Summary
Seraphina Blakeley can see the dead. At her grandmother's funeral, while talking to her Gramma's ghost, she says blasphemous words against Death- and He takes interest in her. Instead of murdering her, he decides to get to know her better. He sends five of his fallen angels to befriend her as she grows older, and to kidnap her when she is old enough to be his bride. Seraphina befriends these strange men and grows to trust them, learning to trust for the first time in her life. But are the people who taught her how to live going to become those who lead her to Death?
Characters
Acheron Nightshade
The eldest member of the Nightshade vampire clan. He is the leader. He is the strongest vampire in existence, and him and his clan take a liking to Sera.
Andy Sixx
He is the main fallen angel assigned to Seraphina by Death. He quickly becomes Seraphina's best friend, and grows depressed knowing that he is not who she thinks he is, and that he will have to kidnap her and bring her to the person she despises most, his master, Death.
Ashley Purdy
He's Andy's best friend. He often makes passes at Seraphina, much to Andy's annoyance. Andy says that this is only because he doesn't think it's wise to hit on Death's obsession girl, but is that the only reason?
Brianna (BriBri) West
A popular girl who bullies Seraphina at school.
Christian Coma (CC)
He is always coming up with outrageous ideas of how to have fun. He seems to be eternally in a good mood, but his past is mysterious. No one, not even the other fallen angels know how he lost his wings. He is the newest to the group of five friends, but it's hard to tell because he gets along with everyone so well. Always good for a laugh.
Colton Marx
A boy that Sera had a crush on from the time she was seven til when he treated her cruelly and abused her feelings when she was fourteen. There might be more to him than you'd originally think. He grows to be more important later in the story.
Death
The Lord of the Dead and the fallen angels. His consciousness exists in all those who are dead, but is only activated when his name is spoken. He hears Seraphina insult him and watches her while she is in the institution as a kid. He realizes that she is not just defiant of him, but she also has extraordinary powers, waiting to be unlocked. Rather than kill her, he sends five of his best fallen angels to watch over her until she is ready to meet him.
Ezra Nightshade
Ezra is the youngest member of the Nightshade vampire clan. He is oddly child-like, and seems to have no concept of right and wrong.
Jake Pitts
Jake is a fallen angel assigned to Seraphina. He's Jinxx's best friend, and is also the only one in the world who can calm Death down when Death is in one of his rages, because Jake was one of the first fallen angels and spent many years as Death's sole friend.
Jasmine Wells
BriBri's best friend. She's in Seraphina's art class.
Jezebel Nightshade
Jezebel is a part of the Nightshade vampire clan. She is the older sister of Ezra, and the younger sister of Acheron.
Jinxx
He does not like Seraphina at all, because Death is holding his girlfriend captive until Seraphina is old enough to be brought down to Hell. Jinxx is the bodyguard fallen angel, and is meant to protect Seraphina from physical assault, whether it be from strangers, or even the other fallen angels. He is good friends with Jake, and often speaks to him. Otherwise, he does not talk very much.
Lavinia Winslet
Lavinia is a girl who is nice to Seraphina at school. She is two years younger than Seraphina, being 15. She is in Seraphina's art class. She stands up for Seraphina when she gets bullied, and ends up becoming Seraphina's first mortal friend. Lavinia finds out about the fallen angels and becomes an important plot point.
Lincoln (Link) Cartwright
Link is an "emo" boy who goes to Seraphina's school. Although he is different, he is not bullied like Sera is. One day, he takes an interest in Seraphina, and it starts to go downhill from there...
Seraphina Blakeley
She is 17 years old, and the heroine. She can see ghosts, and this alienates her from humans and her family. She says blasphemous words against Death and he takes interest in her. He sends some of his fallen angels (Andy, Ashley, CC, Jake, and Jinxx) to look after her as she grows up and then kidnap her when she is old enough.
Chapters
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To Live is Just to Fall Asleep, to Die is to Awake
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I Want to Draw on Your Skin Again and Again
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I'm An Angel With A Shotgun
Warning: has sexual assault. If this may trigger you, don't read, or proceed with caution.
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Is This the Way You Get to Hell?
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On the Other Side
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Listen to Me Scream And Shout, But Do Not Say A Word
Warning: has sexual assault. If this may trigger you, don't read, or proceed with caution.
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Staring at the Edge of the World
Warning: has sexual assault, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. If this may trigger you, don't read, or proceed with caution.
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You Show Me Hell in the Most Beautiful Light
Warning: has slight gore, physical assault, and sexual harassment. If this may trigger you, don't read, or proceed with caution.
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Can You Stake My Heart?
Warning: has suicidal thoughts. If this may trigger you, don't read, or proceed with caution.
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You're in a Place for Fear
Warning: has slight gore, physical assault, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. If this may trigger you, don't read, or proceed with caution.
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Angel of Darkness, the World is in Your Hands
Warning: has gore, physical assault, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. If this may trigger you, don't read, or proceed with caution.
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If You Want to Get Out Alive, Run for Your Life
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THIS IS AN AUTHORS NOTE
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ANOTHER NOTE PLEASE READ I NEED HELP
I'm am so sorry I dropped off the face of the earth, I haven't been able to get on this site for a long time, once I managed to get on long enough to update a shitty chapter of my own fic (that like yours was intended to be a regular story but I had no one to read it so I made it a fic to get feedback I knew wouldn't be biased), I love this story so much. It's so much better than most actual books I've read. I see you in the same league as the likes of Walter Farley (the black stallion series), Elyne Mitchell (the silver brumby), John Masden (the Tomorrow series), and P.C and Kristen Cast (the House of Night series). And I see you as BETTER than Stephenie Meyer (The Host -i love the twilight books but the host blows them out of the water-). You really need to believe in yourself because you are incredible.
I can relate to pretty much everything you're going through minus the mental institution (I'm very good at hiding my problems, been practicing my whole life) and physical abuse part (my dad was severely abusive to my mother, nearly beat her to death many times while I was growing up and, it turns out, the hidings he gave me and my sister weren't normal, for a long time I thought being slapped with all his strength was normal, being punched but not hard enough to bruise and in areas that don't bruise easy, and picked up by our hair and dangled in the air well above ground - once even up a flight of stairs that was on the outside of the house- was normal).
I know exactly how you feel about losing your dog's, I had the same thing happen with my cat, then one went missing, then either late last year or early this year (it was a numb time for me) I lost my childhood dog Rene (reenee it's pronounced, I was a kid when I spelt it, that's just her name in half the fulll name is renebabe -baybee-) at 9 or 10 I think it was, her mother and father at each died at around 14 so it was a shock, we think it was a series of small heart attacks, I was devastated my animals are my life. People terrify me, animals are the only living things I trust fully, so as a result I have only one in person friend who was a childhood friend that only wants me to hang with her if she's bored and no one else will hang with her, she actually calls me to get my mum to call her not to talk to me, it makes me feel horrible because we weere really close once, my mother actually stole my friend by being the cool parent, and my other friend lives in tasmania so I can't ever see her.
all I can say to try and give you comfort is try to do some things that you like even if they only make you the tiniest bit happy, in time the hurt will become less and hit you less often. This is bad I know, but the best way I've found to get over a beloved pets death is to find a new baby to love, you find yourself throwing all you love and affection into caring for it that the pain starts going away, or becomes more bearable. I was given a kitten a few weeks after Rene died, caring for him did wonders for my grief, after a couple of months I tried to adopt two different dogs (at seperate times) from the animal welfare league, part to fill the huge void Rene left that, though I loved my kitten, could only be filled with a dog, but mostly because my front door is dodgy and liable to open if the person tries hard enough at the right time, so I was scared of being robbed and raped (there was actually a guy on my street who was a known murderer that had gotten out of jail, he openly told my mother who lives across from me, that he was going to rape me and my sister, so I felt I needed the protection. Neither of the dogs worked out so I gave up until one day I came across a puppy, I knew she was too young to be of any use yet but she's a shar pei x staffy, so when she got older shed be perfect, I got her and I know it sounds crazy but I felt rene's approval of her.
your story is amazing and while I'm sad about Andy and sera possibly not being together, I'm also intrigued by the idea of her being with Jezebel, I like the idea I just feel for Andy, i've been through domestic and mental abuse and I have my own monster (a result of, I'm guessing, the abuse but also my rcbd), so I can see through everything Andy does and still empathise with him, I guess I see myself in him. No matter what you do I know it's going to be amazing, now that I have a blackberry again I'm hoping I'll be able to find a way to get on the site often enough that I can read my favourite fics (yours is my most favourite, I'm not just saying that) and actually comment when I do, now that I have a phone with a keypad again (my thumbs are so small and dainty that using a touch screen is a fucking nightmare). I do hope that seraphina and Andy can at least become good friends again, I hope she can see past what he did and concentrait on WHY he did them. You're a rare talent Emily, if you honed on your writing skills, went to a creative writing course to learn how to structure a real book (I want to do that one day when I can afford to go to a good one), you could become a published author, if you can find a publisher who actually knows a good book when they see one that is, some of them are idiots, since I can never be a jockey or musician, I hope one day I can not just write, but be an editor and maybe even own my own publishing house eventually, then talents like you would actually stand a much better chance of being published, I would never allow crap to be chruned out of my ph just because it's the type of genre or whatever that is 'Hot right now'.
I really look forward to reading your next chapter and I wish the best for you in your personal life, I hope you feel better as soon as possible
9/15/15