Rena was one of the few aliens living on Earth. It was the year 2400, and she had just moved here from her home planet. She lived in a small neighborhood of a species similar to hers, and that was a race of elemental aliens. Rena was an alien from a dying water planet,she moved here on this blue rocky planet in an act of desperation, and is currently living a content life.

It was morning, and the young pale blue alien woke up to the sound of the local garbage truck.'Ugh....I hate those things.My planet never dealt with this.'Rena muttered to herself,as she tossed off the covers from her bed,and got ready for the morning.Rena's species had the potential to live on land, but their old home barely had land to live on.She walked out of her bedroom,and into her closet, she took a medium length dress,her undergarments,and a towel; before heading out of her apartment and walking towards a bathroom that everyone on the floor shared. Normally, Rena was out and the first one there but unfortunately,she wasn't the only one who was woken up this morning. The alien sighed deeply at the sight,and waited at the back of a fifteen line.


Meanwhile....
In a nicer part of the same city, a young man was waking up. His name was Henry,and he was an Earth-born human. Henry,unlike Rena, lived in a good sized home. It was big for one person, but it belonged to his uncle who gave it to him when he died. The young man was around the same age as Henry which was about twenty-three to twenty-four. Henry combed his tan hand through his hair,and yawned.'Great day outside!'He thought to himself as he turned his head and looked outside to see some of the waking city. The buildings were being fixed up to be more compatible with the new solar engery systems that are starting to be placed in to every building.

Standing up, Henry gather his undergarments,as well as a pair of black jeans,and striped tee shirt. Fashion hasn't changed much since the start of the 25th century, he thinks it's funny that people from 400 years ago thought fashion would look more spacey.Henry enjoys watching old sci-fi flicks to see what they got right and what they got wrong. In his opinion, people of the old 21st century didn't get anything except space travel correct. The man then walked out of his bedroom,and walked to his bathroom, where he turned on the light and closed the door behind him.

Ime, was dodging the early morning traffic, trying not to get hit as she rushed home to get there before too many people saw her giant golden wings. Spotting Hans, her human, below, she stopped mid air to watch her human friend, and was hit by a double-decker bus.



Hans was going home after work when a figure dropped out of the air. He could hardly believe what his eyes were telling him. He stood, in shocked horror, staring at the small frame attached to two huge wings. The girl he was looking at had dark skin, gold, swirling, tattoo-like lines covering her skin. The figure had long brown hair, and wore red silk dress. Is that Ime?

The figure stood and turned around, looking at him through impossibly light gold eyes. "Hans?" It is her!!



Ime wanted to go home but was too dizzy to say anything. She just pointed at her wings. "Oh! Right!!"Hans hurried to her, and perfectly executing the exercise they had for when Ime got stuck out side during the day.

"Careful, honey. They're heavy. This statue isn't the lightest." He told her pretending that he was her husband helping her carry a statue home.

"I'll be fine. It's not that heavy." Was her well trained reply.

Rena was by her window placing her dark orange hair into a pony tail when she saw Ime fall out of the sky.The alien blinked a few times before watching Ime,and Hans. Since Rena wasn't an angel she didn't have to worry about the laws against them,but that didn't stop her from wondering why an angel would be on Earth if there's laws against them.

Shrugging, she placed the idea in the back of her mind,and finished getting ready.After a few more minutes of grooming,Rena was ready to head outside.The young alien grabbed her bag,and headed out of her apartment.Walking down the hallway,she checked to see if she had everything she needed.'Wallet,keys....bag....'Rena thought as she went through the list in her head. After she checked off everything, the alien had a smile on her face,and headed out into the city.


Henry in the mean time was eating breakfast.Rena didn't need such a thing since back on her planet, the only food available to them came during the Earth lunch hours. As he ate, the man watched the city go by,and sighed.He wasn't looking forward to his work,since all he did was sell door to door products,and most people both alien,and human, hated such things."It's a miracle that I even make money..."He muttered to himself as he placed his spoon down in his bowl of cereal.

“Now, let’s have a look at you.” Hans grabbed Ime as soon as they closed the door to their house.

“I’m fine, really.” Ime rolled her eyes, not pulling away. She knew she wasn’t really fine, in fact she’d be lucky if her right arm and wing weren’t broken.

“Ok, Ime, you’ve got to be more careful. Rest your arm for a day or two, and please don’t fly for at least a week, since you heal so fast.” Hans told her after determining that she had dislocated her arm and broken her right wing. Hans was a doctor and he had his very own office in the building they lived in. He’d gotten into medicine several hundred years ago when he’d met Ime and hadn’t left it since.

“Fine, Dr. Glothin.” She relpied, sarcastically. She wouldn’t have ever complied with his request if he wasn’t a very good doctor. “I can still go out and grocery shop right?”

“Yes, you can, but not during the day until your wing has healed. I don’t recommend retracting your wings until the right one has healed.” He told her to distract her as he put her arm back into socket.

“OK. I won’t.” Ime lied, she intended to go out as soon as he was with a patient.

It was several hours later when, “So what seems to be the problem?” Hans asked a patient from the other room.

Ima quickly put on clean clothes and having retracted, quite painfully, her wings, left to get fresh groceries for dinner that night. She was walking along the street wondering which store to go in when she felt the strong urge to walk into the next one she saw. In doing so she ran smack into someone leaving the store. “Oh, I’m sorry.” She said, moving on to pick through the apples, that were just inside the door.

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The angel as smacked into Rena, who was finishing up some last minute shopping before she went home. Henry in the mean time was still looking around in the same time. "It's okay. I was just taking some last minute shopping."The alien stated picking out some apples. She sniffed one and made a face, she then tilted her head,and placed it in her basket. "I miss my home..." She then stated sighing deeply. "These fruits, are the same size, but their a bright blue color,and are really sweet." Rena then stated happily, as she looked at the apple, and reminisced about the little fruits from her planet.

Henry made his way over to the apple stand, and saw the two girls. He stopped and listened to their conversation. Rena was an alien, that much he knew, but he was a little puzzled at Ima, so he stood there and watched the two talk.

Ime picked up an apple and winced as her back lanced with pain. “Hmm. Sounds like they’d taste good. Where are you from?”She was trying to concentrate on what the woman was saying but her back hurt too bad. “Ugh.” She put a hand on her lower back trying to loosen the muscles that cramped from her recent injury. He was right, I should have stayed home. I’m not going to hold this much longer. She looked around and spotted an abandoned building. She continued to browse through the fruit and pretended not to care about the incessant pain in her shoulder and back. Ime leaned forward and yelped when her shoulder popped loudly. “That was bad. Real bad.” Her whole arm had gone numb.