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The Best Laid Plans

Preface

Patch P.O.V.

I feel good, better than I have in a long time, but I'm also sure that if it were possible for me to be nervous I would be. I don't feel nerves anymore. I mean, in theory I should be very nervous. This was a huge task with so much thought put into it, but I think that's the very reason that I'm not worried at all.

I've been planning on this for months now, almost a year, and I've been meticulous, making sure everything is controlled by me. Does everything need to go exactly as I've planned it to go? Yes. Will it? Yes. I refuse to be anything but confident because this has to work. This is my last chance. With Hell breathing down my neck every second of every day, if I'm not careful, if something goes awry, that will be it. I'll have the last of my feathers burned and be chained in Hell permanently. I can't say I don't deserve it, but I most definitely don't fancy the idea of being down there, stuck with all of the others that I've screwed over. My past isn't glamorous and I'm not willing to have it come back and bite me in the ass. Soon, very soon, I will be able to feel again, something physical for the first time since I fell. I'll know what hot water running over me in the shower is like, the sensation of having someone touch my arm instead of having to react when there's nothing. I'll know the experience of having a woman kiss me and touch my face (among other places). This is everything I've been striving for since the day I fell and I am confident that nothing will go wrong. I won't let it go wrong.

You see, the Fallen don't feel, not physical sensations anyway and those are the only type I care about. We still have hold on our emotions but what good are they when they can't be coupled with things like pain and sex? The Fallen, all the others like me lost the right to their physicality when we made the choices that undoubtedly changed our lives forever. Everyone has a different backstory be it one of deceit, defiance or whatever else the others might have thrown at the archangels. Even through all the differences in backstories, we all have one common factor; every one of us got kicked out. You may be wondering what my downfall was and I'll tell you this, I never was one to follow the rules. What specifically did I do to earn the excruciating pain of having my wings ripped out of my back? All in due time, for my story is far from a bedtime story.

My final act as a fallen angel will go out with a bang, as I always do. The balls in my court, get ready to play.

Authors notes from me will almost always come at the bottom, unless I have to clear something up at the beginning of the chapter, just so you guys know. I know this story is just starting out and isn't the most interesting yet but it will pick up. Next chapter will be the Prologue of Hush, Hush from Patch's perspective. I highly doubt that I will be changing Points of View very often if at all so expect a lot of Patch, Patch and more Patch. While a lot of the main story elements will coincide with the books, the chapters will not all fall on the same numbers. For example: Nora showing up at Bo's arcade occurs in Chapter 2 of Hush, Hush. In this that may not happen until the third or fourth chapter because I will be establishing some life outside of what we know for Patch.

I know that this was a short update but this is the most excited I've been about a story in quite sometime, which also means that it is the one that I am most motivated to write at the current time. I'm sorry if you have read or start reading my other stories and this is being updated more frequently. I just really want to get this one on it's feet so that I can start to delve deeper into Patch's world. be updating the others I promise as well as maybe taking on a new project after I get this one going. We shall see.

So anyways enough of my rambling. Thank you for reading and if you liked it, review and favorite the story or if you like my writing in general so you can favorite me as an author and get updates for everything yay. Thank you thank you thank you for support however it comes!

~Ashh12