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cape_kore2013-05-17 02:03 am
servingmichael) wrote in cape_kore2013-05-17 02:03 am
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Raphael | 002 | Video | Day 71
[ Raphael's post comes at near nine pm. He's sitting, not that the small camera gives much of that, but he's on the walkway at the top of the lighthouse. ]
My brother Lucifer is missing. If you think you are the last one who spoke with him, speak up.
[ His voice is cold and commanding. ]
Anna Milton is also missing, although that alarm has already been raised. That's two from my world. So those from it, pipe up. Dean I assume you are still hiding in your little attic, but if I need to come over to confirm it, I will.
[ The rest is locked to all the angelsibs. ]
Castiel, I would imagine you want to keep to your household, with Meg and Dean.
[ Why he didn't know. ]
But keep an ear open. I will come looking for you if I don't hear from you. The rest of you - House 11 is Gabriel's. I expect everyone there.
My brother Lucifer is missing. If you think you are the last one who spoke with him, speak up.
[ His voice is cold and commanding. ]
Anna Milton is also missing, although that alarm has already been raised. That's two from my world. So those from it, pipe up. Dean I assume you are still hiding in your little attic, but if I need to come over to confirm it, I will.
[ The rest is locked to all the angelsibs. ]
Castiel, I would imagine you want to keep to your household, with Meg and Dean.
[ Why he didn't know. ]
But keep an ear open. I will come looking for you if I don't hear from you. The rest of you - House 11 is Gabriel's. I expect everyone there.
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[Less sarcastic, now:]
Out of everyone, Lucifer and Anna are probably the most able to take care of themselves. And hey, who knows, maybe they're off gallivanting and they'll be back within the week. Maybe someone else is feeding them.
[...no, Gabriel, you're thinking of cats now. It's not really the same thing.]
Think it's just coincidence? Both of them disappearing like this? [He's not sure that it is, evidently.] If they're not back within the week, I vote we go smash shit up until whoever's in charge gives 'em back.
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I tried to summon both of them, to no avail.
[ So they aren't here. ]
I don't know. Probably not. But I can agree to that plan.
[ ...Two cranky archangels could be a bad idea. ]
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[That's not a question, however much it might sound like one - it's more like a demand. He's trying to keep from getting irrational about this, but with Lucifer and Anna missing already, he's disinclined to risk losing Raphael too. Presenting him with the possibility of being able to keep his brother within arm's reach at all times, well - it does sound clingy, but being around his brothers after so long apart always leaves him feeling slightly off when they leave again, even though they're still within the village, and he'll jump at the chance to keep Raphael close. Would even if the threat of him being taken away weren't looming especially large, in all honesty.
He doesn't say that, of course, but it does bleed into his voice, just ever-so-slightly.]
They'll be back. Nearly everyone who got taken came back sooner or later.
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[ Pretending, of course, that making sure Samandriel feels safe is the only reason - without singling him out.
Because Raphael feels it too, that same off kilterness. He'd grown used to it in Heaven, he'd hardly noticed - and he still felt Michael's loss keenly. It was something he had to force himself not to dwell on.
And Gabriel was a good help for that, even if he didn't mean to be. ]
Good.
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[He'd appreciate it if you wouldn't comment on just how evident the relief is in his voice and on his face.]
I'll set up mattresses in the living room and put some popcorn on, huh? We can watch the static and stay up til 3 am bitching about boys - it'll be phenomenal.
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[ He won't. He notes it, but he won't bring it up. ]
Do you even know how to make popcorn?
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[Just this once, he won't point out that that was the joke. Well, he just did, a bit, but - well, at least he won't be horrendously sarcastic and mocking about it. That's about as close to a confession of love as anyone will get out of Gabriel in a non-life-or-death situation.]
Of course I do! You... get a bag of microwave popcorn and you put it in the microwave. Simples.
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[ He's distracted - and worried. Which means he's being far too serious. But he's hunkering down beside Gabriel when he's upset - which from Raphael might as well be the same. ]
What button on the microwave do you push?\
[ His vessel says it's the popcorn button.
...is there really a popcorn button? ]
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Whatever buttons you want. Who's gonna stop you? You just cook it till it, y'know. Pops. Then you stop cooking it and you put it in your mouth and you eat it. It's not rocket surgery.
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[ He's partly joking. Something to hold this front of normalcy up they have built. ]
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[He sounds as if he's speaking from experience. He isn't, but like Raphael, he needs to pretend everything's okay. The brittle quality to the joking isn't well-hidden, but he's certain Raphael could see through that even if it were, so it doesn't matter, really. It's the pretending that's important anyway, even if no one believes it.]
Maybe we shouldn't cook, actually.
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[ Raphael is no less forced - maybe more so. If Raphael was honest about it - it's not that dissimilar to the first few days after God abandoned them. ]
...Maybe Chuck knows how to cook? He has to eat, right?
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[At least when God had left they'd known it was His choice. And that He wasn't off being potentially tortured and experimented on by some mysterious force. A constant presence lurking in the back of Gabriel's mind is the way Sam had been when he'd come back, after being one of the first to go missing: bloody and hurt and out of his mind. And then he'd left again and never come back. Since then, people have mostly returned unharmed, but apparently Gabriel's subconscious doesn't care about that.]
I'm not convinced Chuck does eat. Pot noodle, maybe, and an awful lot of alcohol, but I'm pretty sure he's allergic to nutrition. Could ask him, if we, uh, actually had any popcorn that... wasn't popped. Just corn then, I suppose.
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[ Raphael's doesn't care about it either. It's only been weeks since the Cage closed with Lucifer and Michael inside it, and he's not - at all - being rational about being trapped and siblings being out of reach. ]
I think it's still popcorn?
[ Not touching on Chuck since, he's pretty sure Gabriel is right. ]
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[Not that he'd actually lift a hand against his siblings over something so petty, but he can defend himself without hurting them. And one should never underestimate the importance of non-violent retaliation, especially in the form of small animals in one's sister's hair.]
Can't say I'm an expert on culinary terminology. For that matter, can't say I care. [And, because skirting around the actual serious discussions can't go on forever when they're this stressed:] When're you coming over?
[The now, please is technically only implied, but it'd be obvious to even someone with Castiel's social skills.]
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[ He knows Gabriel wouldn't hurt her over that - that's what makes it funny to watch. ]
Soon. I have a couple sigils I'm putting it to keep an eye on something, then I'll be there. Five minutes, at most.
[ The church, the graveyard, the lighthouse - unseen and not harm but if an angel crosses them, he'll know. ]
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[He nods, with just a hint of reluctance. But that's what really makes him realise how oddly he's acting about this: he'd gone millenia without his brothers until they'd all arrived here. When five minutes starts seeming like too long to wait, he figures he's probably being a little too clingy, even given the circumstances. He forces himself to relax a little.]
So I'd better set another place for dinner, then. Good to know. I'll see you soon, Raphael.
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[ ...God, Lucifer and Job Bro. What else is there to say?
Raphael knows he's being clingy - but then, he's convinced none of The Host, none of the archangels were ever meant to stand alone, and he doesn't want to have it happen again. ]
Keep the door unlocked.
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