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[outsidewindows]

[The PCD is lying against the wall nearby, so it doesn't catch much of Lucifer. Just that he's sitting--looking almost as contemplative as a yogi--on charred floorboards of the beautiful (if neglected) Chateau

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[checkoutpandora]

[So here's Gabriel, equally covered in black ash and looking miserable.] She'll be back.

[abrotherlikeyou]

[With no idea what will be taken from her, he just has to shove it all aside and prepare for the worst. He leans back on a hand and looks at Gabriel, seeming as exhausted as he is.] And in the meantime, brother?

[painhumbles]

We do what we always do? We wait. [He bites his lip and shrugs.] I hear we're all really good at that.

[Waiting patiently has been a staple of angels for eons. It's no different here.]

[abrotherlikeyou]

Yes, well you can't expect me to wait around doing nothing but singing. I was never as on key as the rest of you.

[He stands, albeit reluctantly.]

Castiel is probably celebrating. Let's go crash his party.

[painhumbles]

I'm tone deaf these days. [Possibly on purpose. It's neither here nor there, though.

That comment, however, gives him pause.] Ohhh, don't tell me I heard something before you did this time.

[abrotherlikeyou]

If you did, I'll have to fire my spies. [Frowning at him curiously.] What's wrong with Castiel?

[painhumbles]

Raphael coughed up his Grace. He's a real boy again.

[abrotherlikeyou]

You're joking.

[painhumbles]

Not about this. Turns out, the Tin Man had a heart after all.

[abrotherlikeyou]

...I was counting on that, but I thought we had another two dozen relapses to go through first.

[painhumbles]

Amazing what death brings out in a person. [Said in a droll, casual tone, too neutral to be genuinely so. Gabriel remembers what coming to terms with something that he'd been avoiding right before dying feels like.]

[abrotherlikeyou]

[Small flinch. Ouch, regret still sucks.]

She'll probably try to kill him again when she gets back, you know.

[painhumbles]

[Gabriel gives his brother a knowing look, before turning the focus back to Raphael- better that way.] She kept a diary. Not that a bunch of sad poems're gonna change Heaven's hardwiring right here and now, but she actually wants to make sure they don't take anything from her, she can't just snatch right back.

[abrotherlikeyou]

She took my advice about that, Gabriel. [He's a little proud of himself.]