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chapter one | video | day 93

[ The feed turns on to display a particularly worried-looking blonde woman, frowning more like an annoyed mother than anything. ]

You know, I'm getting major All Hell Breaks Loose flashbacks right now. Waking up in a creepy abandoned town with a bunch of people I presumably don't know? Yeah. I have a feeling this won't end well. I mean, unless the Winchesters are here by some off chance. And then...

Well, honestly, things might end worse. As much as I love them — [ she sighs wistfully, smiling to herself at the thought of her boys, then quickly returns to a slightly more concerned expression ] — they aren't exactly the best good luck charms. Even when they had a good luck charm.

[ She leans in closer, holding her hand at the side of her mouth, lowering her voice as if she's admitting a secret, though she looks particularly excited to be sharing this not-so-secret. ]

One of my favorites, by the way, Bad Day at Black Rock.

[ And then the big thing occurs to her and she frowns again. ]

I just hope there aren't demons involved. Sam didn't exactly let me keep the demon slaying knife as a souvenir for ganking my first black-eyed SOB. All he gave me was a big fat annulment and a broken heart...

[ She sighs, resigned. Nothing she can do about that now, and there's not really any point in making a big deal out of her predicament here. It's not like she has anyone back home who will miss her. Except maybe her Twitter followers. But even then... She shrugs, then offers something resembling a smile. ]

Well, at least I still have my journal. Maybe now I can get to work on that fanfic I've been meaning to write...

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No, you're more like a plant. Pets tend to require a little more attention.

[ ...hanging around Gabriel may or may not be a good thing. ]

...What?

[ Chuck's eyebrows furrow together. Did... did he just get called a house plant? By an archangel? ]

No, that's--that's not the point.

[ Yes, yes he did. ]

It's my point.

But it's not my point!

[ Which, let's be real, is the only point that really matters. ]

And?

[ Raphael is of a different opinion. ]

And... And you can't say things like that.

I can do whatever I want Chuck.

[ Way more implications to that than what he means to show. ]

And why do you think it was me intervening before Zachariah?

[ The implications might not be stated, but he can still hear them. Archangel or not, they still had rules. They were not, in fact, able to do whatever they want. And if you do not believe it, you may ask Lucifer, who learned that lesson the hard way.

He knows he can't say anything about it, not as a prophet to an archangel, and so he lets the comment slide, despite the inaccuracies in his statement. Instead, he address Raphael's other statement, about intervening. ]

...what?

[ Dad's not around to enforce the rules, and now neither is Michael. Which means Raphael is the one making the rules, so he can do whatever he'd like.

Not that he's enjoying it - it's frightening, scary, and he doesn't really know what he's doing. Nor does he want to be in this situation. But he is, and he's the most equipped, and that means he needs to get Michael back. But he can't show that fear. ]

I watched over you. Long before the Winchesters found you. But you proved you needed a more direct watching, and I had other duties. So I delegated.

[ And, to be fair, he doesn't blame Raphael for that. All things considered, Raphael is doing the best he can with with he has, and he can respect that. At the end of the day, it isn't Raphael who needs to be sat down and have things explained to him, it's Michael. ]

Wait, so... you knew I was a prophet?

[ Okay, that was a stupid question. Of course the angels were going to know who the prophets were. ]

I mean... why didn't... you could have told me.

[ At the end of the day, it's Raphael who is too codependent, too frightened of being cast out by his beloved brother, to have any part of the conversation he knows Michael needs, and not aware enough to have it all. ]

You saw what Castiel told Dean, did you not? We know every one of you.

[ Yes Chuck, it really was. ]

We did tell you.

[ It's mostly flat, with a slight upturn at the end of the sentence. He might be serious, or he might be being sarcastic, but his head is slightly cocked, one brow lifted and knitted, a faint twitch at the corner of his mouth.

Sarcastic might be the best guess. ]

[ If he hadn't been trying to prove a point, he'd be able to sit Michael down and explain things to him before everything got too far out of hand. Unfortunately, that's just not a possibility, with what he wants Michael to try and learn without his intervention. ]

Yeah, but...

I mean... would you have told me if Sam and Dean hadn't confronted me?

[ He has a feeling that answer is no. ]

[ And how did that plan work out? Oh. Right. ]

Had we not wanted the Winchesters to find you, they wouldn't have. Had we not wanted you to know, you wouldn't have.

[ All part of their plan. ]

[ True. It hadn't worked out. But his ultimate goal of keeping the world turning had worked, as well as some of the angels learning and accepting free well. He wasn't pleased with Michael himself not learning that lesson, but, well. Two out of three ain't bad.

Chuck gives a slow nod. Because that does make sense. He had a vision of Sam and Dean at his house, and he had a vision of Castiel telling Dean that he was a prophet. He guesses he wouldn't have gotten those visions if that wasn't what was supposed to happen.

But, well. He'd been given false visions before. And there had been times where things had happen that he hadn't seen. So the visions weren't a 100% foolproof map of the future. ]

Yeah, but... I mean, my visions weren't always... you know, accurate? I mean, Castiel changed the future, with the last seal. I didn't see what he really did.

[ Castiel, you'll notice he said. Not Dean. ]

[ Raphael would say that many of the angels learned of Free Will - it's why they had Naomi's entire department. But he's also not going to tell Chuck about that. He would also argue, even if he knew who Chuck was, that "free will" as humans had it destroyed the angels. They weren't meant for it. ]

Well. Castiel is a bit of a problem child.

[ Not that he really cared about that part. ]

[ They weren't made for free will, no. That wasn't how he designed them. But they could learn it, as so many angels had proven time and time again. ]

Yeah, but... Castiel helped save the world.

[ Which, you know. Is a pretty good thing, as far as Chuck is concerned. ]

[ Chuck, hey Chuck? Remember when Raphael was very young, and sweet, and his smiles, however rare, were light and joy? When he wept over predators killing prey animals because of the pain they caused?

What does it feel like, to see something that's almost empathy, almost warmth there, then that countenance twisted into something cruel, capable of inflicting pain, capable of enjoying it? To see a predatory flash in those eyes, the faint twitch of a smirk lacking warmth and kindness? ]

Is that what you think he did?

Edited 2013-08-15 03:50 (UTC)

[ Even though they're talking over the feed, Chuck can't help but move back, just slightly when he sees that look cross his face, like he's afraid that Raphael just might reach through the feed and...

...well, who knows what? ]

Uh... yes?

[ Probably not hurt Chuck? ]

Try again.

[ Raphael is an archangel and he's frightening and he could rip him in half if he ever wanted to. ]

But... the world's still there.

[ Good thing Chuck is a prophet then ]

A brain dead person with machines breathing for them and shocking their heart into beating is still there as well.

Yeah, but... that's not how the human race is.

[ At least, he doesn't think so. ]

You lot aren't terribly far from it.

[ It's not said with anger or disgust. If anything, it's hollow, perhaps even a little sad. ]

But... we aren't.

[ The human race has done so much. Cars and airplanes and space ships and technology and science. They've accomplished a lot in their time on the Earth. That's not an opinion, that's a fact. ]

No?

[ The look he gives Chuck is almost gentle, save it's so unyieldingly firm. ]

Human do many neat things. They have more opportunity than anything I've seen before. And what do they chose to do with it? They do so much damage to one another. Cause so much harm. I wouldn't call that a species which is healthy.

Didn't you pay attention to what I said to Castiel and Dean?

[ When he declared God to be dead. ]

Think of recent human history.

Edited 2013-08-30 00:20 (UTC)

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