Raw Interview

Dr. Branton Church will be doing a seven week article on The Chosen seven.  Each week there will be an in depth interview to help everyone get a peak inside and see how the Nephilim tick.  Okay that is all you will hear from me.



xoxo

Christine

















Hello, Angelo. Have a seat. You
can call me Branton or Brant. Whichever you’re comfortable with.

I'd
rather call you Dr. Church if it's all the same.





Dr. Church is fine, albeit a bit
formal. You’re not always so stiff and proper though, are you? Tell me about Erin. You’ve lost your cool with her quite frequently.

 I
don't see how that is really any of your concern.  What happens between Erin
and I is not relevant to this interview.



This is an in-depth look. How would
the piece be complete without the Nephilim you claim completes you? Or is the
relationship not as serious as the community has been led to believe? Has she
left you again? She does have a flair for indecisiveness. Some might even say
she’s a bit too wishy-washy and that you deserve better.

First
of all, if you want to continue this interview you WILL NOT speak ill of Erin again. She has saved this world more times than you
will ever know and she deserves the respect that carries. As for the rest of
your "question" Erin is/was young
and confused. She was told that she had to have these feelings and wasn't
supposed to have feelings for anyone else. She's not had the centuries to
adjust to her powers and feels as the rest of us have. I do not feel that I deserve
better because, in my honest opinion, there is no better than Erin.



So you do love her.

Of
course I love her.



You say that so as to imply it
should be obvious to any on-looker. However, it was you who broke the link
between you, not Erin. How did that feel? Was it easy at the time?

Tell
me something, Dr. Church. Would it be easy for you to break your leg and not
feel the pain? Of course it wasn't easy, and it hurt like hell. I had to make
that choice to make it fair for her. It was the single hardest decision I had
to make in my entire existence, but it had to be done. She needed to figure out
her feelings for me, but she couldn't do that if she were linked to me.



Let’s change direction for a
moment, shall we? Tell me about your friendship with Blaze.

Blaze
has had my back from day one. Like any other friendship it has its ups and
downs, but we've made it through. He is still young by our standards and I've
had the chance to watch him grow into a pretty amazing man.



You speak of him like a proud
father would a son. In my estimation, you could have easily persuaded him into
giving up on Angie, yet you fought alongside him to save her. That can’t have
been an easy decision. Why didn’t you think killing her sooner, and therefore
getting rid of the evil within, was a better option?

Because,
in a sense, we are all family. I probably could have persuaded him to give up,
but it wasn't my place. It was his decision to make and I supported him. I've
known Angie for a long while, and I also saw the hope in his eyes. It was that
hope that helped him fight. If he had given up that hope, we were doomed to
fail.



Does it burden you to be the
father-figure to your “family”? That must carry an enormous sense of
responsibility. Do you ever feel like stepping aside, letting others take your
place?

No,
it's not a burden at all. It does have a certain amount of responsibility. As
for stepping aside, sure, what leader doesn't want to step aside every now and
then and let someone else take charge? If someone wanted to take on that part I
would let them. I'm not hungry for power.



Consider for a moment that you
are able to step aside. Now that the “epic battle” has been fought and won,
what kind of position would you rather have, were someone else to take your
place?

I
never really wanted the position in the first place. It was appointed to me
from the beginning. . . . I'd be content to be just me. I don't know, take up a
hobby or something. Fight when needed, but otherwise try to live my life as
normally as possible. . . .



And normal to a Nephilim would be
. . . ?

You
know as well as I do that Nephilim can blend in and live normal lives. Just
because the seven of us are a little more . . . ah . . . gifted, doesn't mean
we can't be normal. Go to movies, buy a house, read a book . . . things like
that.



Is Erin
in this “normal” picture as well? Does she share the same aspirations?

She's
involved in my picture. She never wanted this life. Before she was dragged into
it she was taking college classes. As for her aspirations, well, you're going
to have to ask her that. I can't speak for her.



One last thing before I let you
go, Angelo. It’s no secret that your friendship with Thaddeus was irretrievably
broken with his betrayal. If he were sitting in front of you right now, as we
are, what would you say to him?

What's
done is done. There is no need to bring up what  I could have, would have, should have said
because it does nothing but sate your need for a juicy story. It most certainly
won't fix what happened between Thad and myself. We've said our piece to one
another and it's done. And yes, the old friendship was broken beyond repair,
but I'm not saying that in the future a new one could not be formed.



So you’ve had contact. I was
under the impression that he had gone into hiding since giving up Erin.

He
didn’t go into hiding. We've talked briefly, but no, I do not know where he
is.  Sable is the only one that knows
that.



Then perhaps I should speak with
him next. Thank you very much for your time, Angelo. It was truly enlightening.

Thank
you.