VII ► Acc. Video ~ Song Remains the Same

[gotbackupagain]

[The feed patches in mid-conversation, video only partially skewed, a side angle view of both Anna and Castiel in her house.]

[Castiel is all business at the moment, mostly because despite it being seemingly impossible for him to be a worse mood than he's been lately, he actually has managed it.]
Has there been any improvement in your

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[checkoutpandora]

Your phone's on.

[Annnd here we go. Gabriel's Enochian sounds like ass and shit, because he hasn't spoken it in ten thousand years or something, but whatever. He can speak it. And no one can tell, because ENOCHIAN SOUNDS LIKE GARGLING NAILS ANYWAY.]

I swear, it's always something with you two these days. And this time? Castiel's right.

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[gotbackupagain]

Yeah I noticed.

[Wow bro. Anna's heard some grinding in her day but geez.]

Castiel's doing something he shouldn't. [And that's... basically a theory, but it's not really that hard to guess at.]

And I don't want to be part of it. There isn't a way to fix this; if he's got some other idea, and he won't 'tell me'? How the hell is that not a bad thing?

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[painhumbles]

[Oh shut up. It never made romance language status for a reason.]

So what else is new? Hasn't he kinda been going against protocol for years now?

He's saving your life. How is that not a good thing?

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[gotbackupagain]

[ffffffff]

Not if it costs someone else instead.

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[checkoutpandora]

What do you mean?

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[gotbackupagain]

I'm willing to look at all sides of the coin here, but if he still won't tell me.. Then it means I'm really not going to like his 'process'.

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[painhumbles]

[And in English, because Enochian is a bitch to show true compassion in.]

He can't keep a thing like this a secret forever. Not if it'll save you.

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[gotbackupagain]

[... Good point. Even if it is a bit jarring switching back. Mental skills are slow.]

I don't want him saving me if it means someone else gets hurt.

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[painhumbles]

You don't know that's what it is. This is Castiel we're talking about here. He'd probably tear up if he stepped on an ant.

[Except Gabriel doesn't believe that for a second. Not before and definitely not now that he's gotten a little more hardcore. Castiel was a soldier, not a child. Earth didn't make him softer anymore than it made him. But he still has faith in the fact that Castiel wouldn't willingly endanger a human.

...Sometimes Gabriel has too much faith in his family.]

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[gotbackupagain]

Why wouldn't he tell me? To outright tell me 'no' when I asked?

[She has more faith in Castiel then most of her siblings, but there's a line. She knows her instincts and if he won't tell her... Then something is wrong. He's not the same Castiel she knew, he even said it himself. He was too different, too... Well. He was acting more like an Archangel by the day. ... No offense.]

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[painhumbles]

I don't know, but if he really wants to save you? He'll tell you. This ain't the kinda crap that can be conditional.

...I'll talk to him.

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[gotbackupagain]

[She just.. sighs. She had a feeling Cas wouldn't be listening to anyone stronger than him- even if Gabriel was the most likely of the three for him to do so. But hey, maybe he'd get lucky.]

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[wingsandwill]

[Wow, he hasn't heard those words in awhile. Way to skyrocket right back up to favorite present sibling, or you would've if you didn't already have that position at the moment anyway.]

I don't understand why she won't let me help.

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[checkoutpandora]

You're not being straight with her, maybe? Vague in this family doesn't tend to work out well for anyone.

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[wingsandwill]

I know that, but everything would work out if she'd simply trust me. I can save her.

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[painhumbles]

Tell her what she wants to know and she will. You broke her trust, Castiel. That's on you. If you want it back, then you have to act like you trust her.

[And then, in English.]

It's Kindergarten logic, bro.