Raphael | 001 | Audio | Day 60

[servingmichael]

[Locked to Lucifer.

Raphael still sounds like a toddler. There's even a little sniffle.]

Lucifer? Could you come here, please?

[He even has manners. Something is clearly up.

It might have something to so with the dirt over his body, and badly abraded palms, knees, and left foot, the cuts and blood over his legs. Seems someone got told to "Go run off" and he isn't really good at running. He's also missing his arrows, though he still has his bow.]

Comments

[servingmichael]

Do you actually believe I'm stupid enough to lie to you? I know what happens. For all you don't care what I want....I don't want it to happen. I'm trying to fix it.

[And if fixing it ends everything. Well. Good.]

[villainized]

There is nothing to fix.

[ As far as Lucifer's concerned, there is no fix. Nothing that could heal the rift between himself and those he once considered family. At this point, he doesn't want to fix it. ]

[servingmichael]

Yes there is.

[Not that he's willing to to Lucifer what he means.]

If Michael agreed to stop...to just not do this...what would you do?

[He doesn't mean short term.]

[villainized]

[ Michael won't stop. Lucifer knows this better than anyone, and playing hypothetical games won't change that. ]

Enjoy my retirement far away from Heaven and its host.

[servingmichael]

[Raphael knows it as well. He can't stop either, for similar reasons - they've gone too far to turn back now.

But he's quiet for a while, maybe for long enough that Lucifer would think he dropped it. When he finally does say something, he's quiet.]

Sounded differently, from what I heard.

[Maybe he just wanted it to be different.]

[villainized]

Is there any other reason you contacted me, Raphael? Your insistence upon revisiting ancient history bores me.

[servingmichael]

There are many reasons I keep contacting you Lucifer, but it call comes back to you being my brother.

[And Raphael misses him.]

[villainized]

Perhaps you might have remembered that eons ago. Claiming kinship now whenever you want something isn't going to win you any points with me.

[servingmichael]

I've never forgotten it. I've never not claimed kinship. No matter how angry I was over what you did, you were still always my older brother.

[villainized]

[ His anger? Oh, but that provokes Lucifer's. As if Raphael has any right to be angry; he hadn't been rejected for humans. ]

This conversation is over. Find aid for your wounds with one of the others. Anna, perhaps. She's the bleeding heart. Let her spill some for her family instead of the humans for once.