cape_kore | 010 | Private Audio to assorted residents

[Things suddenly got complicated. Crowley is a manageable annoyance, as far as Balthazar is concerned. He's been here before. Michael, though...

Honestly, he'd rather have Lucifer back, and he feels just a bit guilty for it.

The net result is that he's on edge and worrying what this means for certain friends and acquaintances around town.]

Private to Donna

I'd like to visit as soon as possible, if I may. Some of the new arrivals are...look, let me come and set up some warding for you, please, love?

to Ellen

Do you know how to angel-proof? Might want to consider it. We've got a volatile situation.

to Raphael

Have you met the boy with Dean's face? Alec. How close to Dean's genetic makeup is he, do you suppose, and what, if anything, ought we to do about cutting off potential trouble there before it starts? [Because he can't see Alec being anything but obnoxious toward Michael, and probably rather incautious, as well.]

to Castiel

[A brief, simple audio:] Cassi? Do me a favor and don't do anything foolish.

to Mina and Fortescue

Hello! I've been distracted by our new arrivals. If you're not worried, you should be. But I've promised to introduce you to one another. Would you be available to meet at the library after dusk? I can explain more then.

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[About 99% of everything you do these days, Castiel.

But that's not diplomatic. Balthazar takes a deep breath.]

I don't have a list, darling, sorry. I don't...you just...

There's no way this isn't going to blow up in our faces, you know.

I know and my priority is keeping the people who matter most to me safe.

[ He loves the angels, even Raphael and Michael in some way, but if they make him choose, they won't like the choice he makes. ]

That includes you.

[ Because Balthazar has made his feelings clear and snark or not, he doesn't ask Castiel to turn his back on the Winchesters or Meg. Just that means a lot to Castiel. ]

It shouldn't. Include me, I mean. Don't risk yourself for me, under any circumstances.

[ That's not an order that Castiel has any intention of following. He'd expect the same from the others, too, but he couldn't live with knowing that he let any of them get hurt when he could have stopped it. ]

Then don't do anything foolish.

[ He parrots Balthazar's own words back at him. ]

Oh, Cas. What does it matter, for me? [He shakes his head, quietly bitter.]

I can't watch any more brothers die.

Neither can I.

[ Maybe it's misplaced, but he does feel like he owes something to Balthazar for killing him. ]

I'm not losing you again. I don't want to lose any of you.

Then do whatever you can to keep the peace, between all of us. That's all I ask.

I'll try.

[ And he will. There's no edge of petulence here like there was with Michael and Raphael, because Balthazar doesn't treat him like a naughty child. ]

[Castiel drives Balthazar just as batty as he does some of the older angels, ultimately, but he loves and respects him too much to talk down to him. There's a brief, gusty sigh at that acquiescence, half relief, half resignation.]

Good. Thank you, Cas. And...best of luck.

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