Through Different Eyes 2/3
Title: Through Different Eyes
Author: candylovinangel
Rating: PG
Pairings: Castiel/Lucifer and Gabriel/Lucifer if you looove to read between the lines
Spoilers: None: Just know who Gabriel and Lucifer is
Warnings: Crack from me
Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Summary: Lucifer is learning and quietly mourning when another member of his dysfunctional family decides to show up and pick a fight...
Word Count: 3,803
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
It turned out the case in Muncie had been that of a modern day medusa, who had actually been a rather beautiful woman despite what Greek Myths had said…at least until she tried to petrify you in which yeah, the Greeks had that right, damn snake hair and red eyes…
Dean, Sam and Castiel had been turned to stone and Lucifer had seen where Sam’s Hand had reached out to and he was frozen, holding his brother’s shoulder… Castiel had been caught in the middle of trying to throw a mirror to Dean…
The Medusa looked Triumphant, unaware of the silent watcher as she calmed down and back into a beautiful woman and looked around and screamed when suddenly Lucifer had his hand pressed over her face as he summoned the mirror to him from Castiel’s hand and as the Medusa went into her stone gaze he brought his hand away and forced her to look at her reflection, at which she screamed as she became stone. Yet that didn’t unfreeze the people caught as statues…No...She needed to be killed for that. So he snapped his fingers and she was a pile of Rubble and blood. He heard gasps of air as the boys were freed and he stood there looking at the medusa rubble in disgust.
Dean looked to Lucifer with wide eyes, seeing the angel…cause really he said he had Gabe’s grace so that could only really elevate him from fallen angel to wandering angel… yet…Lucifer looked sad and close to heartbroken as he silently walked back to the car and Dean and Sam exchanged looks while Castiel silently went into the car with Lucifer.
“We’ll find him Lucifer,” Castiel was whispering as Dean got into the car and said they were going to check on the families of the other victims..
Soon they were at one of the houses and Dean sighed.
“Okay, Sam, Lucifer you guys go talk to them,” He says and Sam and Lucifer visibly blink.
“Why us?” Sam asked and Dean gave him a knowing look.
“We’re letting him tag along to see how human’s are, Sam. Let him see what humans are like when they are relieved and happy, not selfish and sad,” Dean said with a shrug. Lucifer silently agreed. Lucifer had been silent ever since the Unicorn and Phoenix encounter… Lucifer got out of the car with sam and both walked up to the house,
Sam knocking and doing the talking before the woman let him in. She was talking and happy. She was happy that her husband could move again and that he was home. Lucifer could tell that she was happy, relieved and grateful.
“I don’t know what you did but thank you,” The woman said, hugging Sam and then Lucifer, who didn’t hesitate in hugging her back.
“We did what we promised, Mrs. Sanchez, we got your son back to normal,” Lucifer said in a soft, genuine tone, his grace burning with warmth and affection and…and something else he had never really had but for his father and brothers. Something he had told himself not to have for the humans when he had seen how ugly they could be… He let her go as her son, Jeffrey came running into the room and immediately hugged Lucifer, who blinked and knelt down.
“Hey there kiddo, you feeling okay?” He asked and Jeffery nodded.
“Thank you, Mr. Nick!” He said happily and beamed at Lucifer, that emotion going strong as he ruffled the kid’s hair and watched as he thanked Sam in nearly the same way and Lucifer could see the young boy’s soul shining with happiness, as well as his mother’s soul shining with that as well.
“We have to keep going Mrs. Sanchez. Stay safe!” Sam said as Mrs. Sanchez hugged him and Lucifer smiled softly at her before turning and going down the steps as he forced his face into a neutral expression as he turned and then he went and got into the Impala again. This was repeated about four more times before finally the Winchesters drove back to the hotel they had been staying at. Lucifer and Castiel went into one room and Sam and Dean into the other. The rooms were meant to be gone between because there was an adjoining door…
Lucifer again was quiet for a while as he sat on the bed he deemed his, he could hear the boys in the next room as clear as day, even though they were whispering…He shifted on the bed and knew Castiel was watching him even as he spread his wings out and flexed them before he let them be visible as he brought them to his side and he frowned. His wings were changing color like there was no tomorrow… They were a mix of white and gold now as he brought the wings close and he started grooming them with his fingers, ignoring the stunned look on Castiel’s face as he listened to the Winchesters.
“Dean, he was nice with all the victims, no trace of Malice, Hatred…anything…He’s actually pretty good with kids and women, the guys he’s adequate with but damn. He looked…like he was in his element there and he actually looked happy, and content,” Sam was saying as there was a trace of disbelief.
“Maybe that’s the bit of Gabriel he has coming out? Gabriel was known for being the protector of Children and Women…” Dean said and there was a snort from Sam. Lucifer looked to Castiel who was watching him groom his wings and Lucifer shifted and looked to his sibling.
“Want to help me out here? Got that bit around my back I can’t quite reach,” He said and he saw Castiel blink in surprise. Hell Lucifer was surprised he offered that but hey…family right? And Castiel looked bored.
Castiel got up and went over to Lucifer and threaded his fingers through the feathers at his back and slowly moved outward. Lucifer smiled as he very visibly relaxed and he loved the feel of this and again that warmth he felt…Castiel may be powerless but he was still a brother, and he still loved him. Not to mention the last person who had done this for him before he fell was…Gabriel…
“Dean I don’t- I don’t get what happened back there. I know that Unicorn, yes Unicorn, did something to him…You saw how he was afterward…Before he still had that sense of…destruction and potential to go off at us about him really…and now. Now it’s something I can’t even explain properly…” Sam said as Castiel kept working diligently on Lucifer’s wings until he got to where Lucifer could take over. Lucifer turned and looked to Castiel.
“Come here you, your turn,” Lucifer said and he saw Castiel blink.
“I don’t have the grace to manifest my wings,” Castiel said with a depressed tone to his voice but Lucifer just pressed his hand to Castiel’s back and made his wings manifest, giving it a teeny bit of his power to do so.
Castiel shivered even as Lucifer started grooming Castiel like he had before he fell. Lucifer straightened out of control feathers and the process was faster than with his wings as Castiel’s were smaller but still a good size, and black as night in some lighting but if the light hit them just right there’d be a dark blue sheen to them.
“Just let it drop, Sam. We don’t want to piss him off…” Dean muttered as there was the creak of a bed.
Lucifer brought his hands away from Castiel’s wings and he let Castiel look at them before Lucifer took back the bit of power and the wings vanished from sight. Lucifer went back to his bed and was silent until Castiel had fallen asleep. He’s made a sketchbook come up and he’d started drawing his brothers in their true vessels. He paused when he was halfway through Gabriel’s vessel, and he heard the door to the other room open and Sam came in and saw that Lucifer was sprawled out on the bed staring at a piece of paper.
He had this…expression on his face that looked torn before the piece of paper burst into flames.
“Didn’t like the drawing?” Sam asked and Lucifer looked up and then to the ash on the bed.
“No. I liked it but it isn’t…it isn’t what’s going to happen.” He mutters as he sits up and looks to Castiel on the bed. He then thought back about something quietly. What if…he was being haunted by Gabriel?
Gabriel had appeared twice now when he was least expecting it…Maybe…Maybe he should go somewhere where Gabriel had once lived…
“It was a drawing about the vessels?” Sam asked and Lucifer nodded.
“It isn’t true anymore, Sam. You should be happy…” He said even as the room started to shake and a light started coming in through the windows.
“Well…look at that...Raphael’s pissed…” Lucifer says even as Dean comes into the room and Castiel starts awake as a high pitched tone started to shatter the glass.
“Oh crap,” Dean hissed but Lucifer only smiled grimly.
“I’ll see you lot later,” and he sent them away with a snap of fingers and he sat there on the bed as the door was blown open and Raphael came in, he was tall in his vessel and Lucifer didn’t bother standing up.
“Hello Raphael,” He said calmly and he saw Raphael blink at him in shock.
“Lucifer? What are you doing here? I heard from Michael you were…conflicted,” Raphael then looked Lucifer over quietly. Lucifer looked at Raphael as well and he saw Raphael’s eyes widen.
“Brother you…you’re free…” He whispered and Lucifer just watched him quietly for a long moment.
“Why are you here Raphael?” Lucifer asked, standing at last.
“I came to get Dean. Adam is not as good a fit as Michael would like. He is burning out like your vessel was,” Raphael said after a moment, still staring at Lucifer.
“Mm. Too bad you just missed them,” Lucifer said calmly and Raphael’s fists clenched.
“You did this, Lucifer?” Raphael asked, though it’s clear he knew the answer as Raphael’s wings flared out and prepared to fight, Raphael had his sword in his hand.
“Yes, I sent them away…And put the sword away, I don’t want to fight,” He said calmly but Raphael still advanced on him and tried to attack him. Lucifer dodged away from it.
“Raphael, I don’t want to do this anymore,” Lucifer said, his wings flaring out angrily, “I don’t want to kill my brothers-“ And yet Lucifer was flung back into the wall and he sighed. Raphael had always been the foolish hardheaded one…
Lucifer pulled out Gabriel’s blade that he had taken with him, his own having been lost years ago… He fought his brother…powers and everything, the clash of swords loud before Lucifer found himself pinning Raphael, the other angel’s eyes wide as he had a sword to his throat.
Lucifer didn’t hurt him but Raphael took advantage of his distraction to slash him across the chest, it’s a shallow cut, but he can hear the ripping of the clothes he wore and Lucifer got up and glared at him.
“Surrender Raphael,” He said in a low voice and Raphael glared at him clearly full of hate and wrath and Lucifer just shook his head and vanished. He knew that Raphael would follow, so he led him all over the country until he finally lost him and then went to where he’d sent the boys.
He landed with a harsh cough and staggering over to the couch where the boys instantly got up and caught Lucifer before he could fall. He was panting hard and he was bleeding in several places as he was put down on the couch…Everything felt….disconnected. He barely registered what was being said by the boys even as they were taking the jacket and shirt off and started working on his injuries.
He was completely out of it when his grace suddenly twisted as it felt something familiar nearby and he opened his eyes and he yelped loudly at what he saw and tried to scramble to his feet when Castiel and Dean were holding him down.
“Whoa! What happened?!”Dean was saying but it kinda went over his head as his eyes were locked on the person they clearly couldn’t see.
“You didn’t kill him,” His voice was quiet as he sat next to Lucifer, the boys trying to ask Lucifer what was wrong.
Gabriel traced a finger across the slash across Lucifer’s chest and Lucifer shivered and saw the wound had healed. Gabriel did this with each injury.
“I’ve been watching you for a while now. I know what the Unicorn did and that it told you that you should be able to sense me…but not if I don’t want to be sensed." Gabriel smiled faintly and Lucifer cleared his throat but Gabriel pressed a finger to his lips and silenced him.
“Don’t speak; you’re still too worn from that fight. It was definitely more exciting than my encounter with you…” Lucifer looked at him and tried to say so many things with just his eyes.
“I know you’re sorry bro. Though you still need to learn about humanity-“ Gabriel started to say before Lucifer’s eyes narrowed and he reached out and actually got a hold of his dead brother somehow.
“Now without you,” He said in a whisper. Gabriel looked him over and sighed.
“Well, usually when you save the Winchesters you’re good in their book…But you know as well as I do that only dad can bring us back…” Gabriel said sadly, “But bro…you’re…you again, you’re the Morningstar before this whole conflict started…and you’re learning. You’re learning Humanity isn’t all that bad…” Gabriel smiled at him and suddenly Lucifer’s eyes were snapping open and he looked to Castiel, Sam and Dean with wide eyes.
“How long-?” He started to ask but it was Sam who cut him off.
“Two days. Your wounds healed fine we were just wondering how exhausted you were…Then you started muttering about Gabriel and well…here we are.” Sam said and Lucifer sighed and nodded. He then got up and fixed the clothes and put them back on.
“Where are you going?” Sam asked and Lucifer smiled faintly.
“To talk to a family member I haven’t spoken to since the humans were created…” And then he was gone and he was then on Mount Sinai Even after all these years Lucifer could feel his father’s presence there and then he fell to his knees and he prayed.
For the first time in thousands of years he prayed… There was a whisper of wind that blew teasingly at his hair.
I know what you want… Was the voice that came and Lucifer felt Gabriel’s grace stir and suddenly it was gone… Yet his grace felt…whole still and it felt so much…purer than it had been since his fall.
He then blinked when suddenly he was chillier and he felt his hair and it was Nick’s again though the hair was longer, but not as long as Gabriel’s had been…
“Luci?” Lucifer stiffened and then looked to the side and saw Gabriel sitting up and shaking his head, confusion written all over his face and Lucifer…He pulled Gabriel into a hug faster than Gabriel could blink.
“Um…Okay, what happened? Why aren’t you stuck looking like me and…why am I alive?” Gabriel asked with clear confusion even as Lucifer wrapped his grace around Gabriel and he took in a breath.
“Whoa…someone recharged you…and you’re…well you’re Morningstar again…No corruption, arrogance, hatred…nothing but what dad wanted in us…How’d you pull that off?” Gabriel muttered.
“A Unicorn felt like being nice…” He mumbled and Gabriel started laughing.
“So a unicorn got rid of all that, really?” He asked as he ran his hand through Lucifer’s longer hair. Lucifer just smiled.
“Yup, and dad brought you back...so come on, show me what Humanity is really about…but first…” Lucifer drags Gabriel with him to the place he’d stashed the boys and they blinked in shock at what was going on. Castiel’s eyes widened and he pulled Gabriel into a warm hug.
“You’re alive…” He said into Gabriel’s jacket and Gabriel laughed softly.
“Guess I am bro,” Gabriel said with a cheery voice as Lucifer yawned and sat on the couch and he ached and was tired.
Yet the boys got him up and moving and into the impala that Lucifer had sent with them and was outside while Castiel, Lucifer and Gabriel got into the back and Gabriel decided to amuse himself while poking Lucifer’s side and getting him to snort with laughter until he was full out laughing as Gabriel attacked his sides halfway through their trip and onto the next case.
“Gabriel, leave him alone, he’s going to have a hernia if you keep doing that…” Dean said from the front and Gabriel pouted and stopped. Lucifer wrapped his arms around both brothers.
“You two? Are the only awesome ones,” Lucifer says with a goofy grin before he looks at Gabriel with a smile as his slightly younger brother messed up his hair and Lucifer smiled.
“Oh! I have something to give back to ya…” And he pulled Gabriel’s sword out of his jacket and handed it over to his brother who nodded silently. And Lucifer couldn’t help falling asleep, or help leaning against Gabriel, who didn’t say anything as he looked to Castiel and exchanged a smile with him…
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Gabriel watched Lucifer quietly as his older brother slipped into a delirious sleep. He could see his brother’s grace shining with what had made him the morning star so long ago. Gabriel had missed it, he was so glad his brother was back… He looked at his brothers wings which he of course saw clear as day. They were a bright white again though with a yellow orange ting to the edges that was the color of the setting or rising sun.
Gabriel was quiet for a long while as he looked at his brother. When his dad had brought him back, he’d given Gabriel full access again and warned him quietly that Raphael was out to kill Lucifer. That was just great, another dysfunctional family member to fend off. Gabriel reached over and pressed a hand to Lucifer’s chest and marked him like Castiel had marked the two up front.
Lucifer let out a yelp of pain, his eyes shooting opened and a flare of grace shining in them before he went limp again and Gabriel did the same to Castiel, though Castiel was awake and he only yelped, no grace to shine through… Gabriel then took a breath and did that to his vessel’s ribs as well, hissing at the pain.
“What’s with the yelp convention back there?” Dean asked as he looked back and Sam gripped his seat tightly as the impala swerved a bit.
“DEAN!” Sam snarled and Dean looked back and yelped as he quickly swerved back into the right lane.
“Watch your driving or I’m taking over!” Sam snarled and Dean shot him an annoyed look.
“I was marking them and myself with the same sigils you guys have. Why else do you think Lucifer never really left you guys? He still can’t sense you cause of those sigils. Figured I should make him Cas and myself because of Raphael. I was good enough without it but Lucifer…he’s always been too proud to do it himself.” Gabriel said as he looked to the exhausted Lucifer.
“Wait…how did you know about Lucifer fighting Raphael?” Dean asked and Sam looked back at Gabriel who blinked.
“Wait, he actually fought him?! He didn’t kill him?” Gabriel said in shock, “I was only told that Raphael was after all of you.” Sam frowned at him.
“Lucifer didn’t tell you?” Sam looked surprised as Gabriel shook his head.
“He was…is still out of it from that fight apparently, but…damn he was actually…he was actually praying to my dad, asked him to bring me back. And well my dad always did like to give him what he wanted, but for the whole not wanting to bow to humanity….” He trails off as Lucifer lets out a soft breath and shifts closer to Gabriel.
“I was told to protect him and you guys from Raphael’s wrath…and-“ He paused as he saw Dean pale, his knuckles white against the steering wheel.
“Guys…Adam’s out front….He doesn’t look to happy…And he looks kinda like Lucifer did before y’know…”
“Before my grace healed Luci’s vessel, yeah… Great…” And Gabriel vanished from that spot and was out in front of the car as Lucifer ended up sliding down the seat and came to a rest at where Gabriel had been sitting. He was still out like a light.
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“Oh crap, Gabriel’s gonna get himself killed again…” Dean yelped as he brought the car to a halt and looked to Castiel.
“Wake Lucifer up, now!” He said and Castiel nodded even as flashes of light and the sound of metal on metal filled the air and there were yells from Gabriel to run at the boys yet even as Lucifer woke he stiffened.
“We’re cornered,” He said as he looked behind them. Raphael was there. Before they could protest, he grabbed his sword from Castiel. The sword that Uriel had found and had put to use on other angels. The one that Castiel had always had on him til now… Lucifer ran over to Gabriel and Michael, doing his best to keep from having his back turned to Raphael.
“You’re out of practice, Gabriel!” Came Michael’s voice and Lucifer spun around even as he saw Michael slip under Gabriel’s defense and the sword coming fast at Gabriel’s chest.
No, Lucifer wasn’t losing his brother again! He dove in front of it and grabbed the blade with his hands. It hurt like hell, and his hands were bleeding as Lucifer let out a hiss but it effectively stopped the attack and both of the other angels were clearly surprised.
“Behind us…Raphael…” Lucifer gritted out as Michael was looking at Lucifer in shock.
“Hey Michael!” Michael looked to the side where Dean Winchester stood; he had a stiff posture…
“Get lost!” Dean yelled and Michael went for him as Lucifer dove for him and grabbed Michael with his bloody hands, only to get elbowed…and then stabbed.
“Nnngh…” Lucifer brought his hands to his gut and he heard a loud ripping and several yells and then there was a flash of light from Dean’s direction and pain lancing through Lucifer…
When he next woke he was in a hospital and hooked up to all sorts of human machinery...
Author: candylovinangel
Rating: PG
Pairings: Castiel/Lucifer and Gabriel/Lucifer if you looove to read between the lines
Spoilers: None: Just know who Gabriel and Lucifer is
Warnings: Crack from me
Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Summary: Lucifer is learning and quietly mourning when another member of his dysfunctional family decides to show up and pick a fight...
Word Count: 3,803
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
It turned out the case in Muncie had been that of a modern day medusa, who had actually been a rather beautiful woman despite what Greek Myths had said…at least until she tried to petrify you in which yeah, the Greeks had that right, damn snake hair and red eyes…
Dean, Sam and Castiel had been turned to stone and Lucifer had seen where Sam’s Hand had reached out to and he was frozen, holding his brother’s shoulder… Castiel had been caught in the middle of trying to throw a mirror to Dean…
The Medusa looked Triumphant, unaware of the silent watcher as she calmed down and back into a beautiful woman and looked around and screamed when suddenly Lucifer had his hand pressed over her face as he summoned the mirror to him from Castiel’s hand and as the Medusa went into her stone gaze he brought his hand away and forced her to look at her reflection, at which she screamed as she became stone. Yet that didn’t unfreeze the people caught as statues…No...She needed to be killed for that. So he snapped his fingers and she was a pile of Rubble and blood. He heard gasps of air as the boys were freed and he stood there looking at the medusa rubble in disgust.
Dean looked to Lucifer with wide eyes, seeing the angel…cause really he said he had Gabe’s grace so that could only really elevate him from fallen angel to wandering angel… yet…Lucifer looked sad and close to heartbroken as he silently walked back to the car and Dean and Sam exchanged looks while Castiel silently went into the car with Lucifer.
“We’ll find him Lucifer,” Castiel was whispering as Dean got into the car and said they were going to check on the families of the other victims..
Soon they were at one of the houses and Dean sighed.
“Okay, Sam, Lucifer you guys go talk to them,” He says and Sam and Lucifer visibly blink.
“Why us?” Sam asked and Dean gave him a knowing look.
“We’re letting him tag along to see how human’s are, Sam. Let him see what humans are like when they are relieved and happy, not selfish and sad,” Dean said with a shrug. Lucifer silently agreed. Lucifer had been silent ever since the Unicorn and Phoenix encounter… Lucifer got out of the car with sam and both walked up to the house,
Sam knocking and doing the talking before the woman let him in. She was talking and happy. She was happy that her husband could move again and that he was home. Lucifer could tell that she was happy, relieved and grateful.
“I don’t know what you did but thank you,” The woman said, hugging Sam and then Lucifer, who didn’t hesitate in hugging her back.
“We did what we promised, Mrs. Sanchez, we got your son back to normal,” Lucifer said in a soft, genuine tone, his grace burning with warmth and affection and…and something else he had never really had but for his father and brothers. Something he had told himself not to have for the humans when he had seen how ugly they could be… He let her go as her son, Jeffrey came running into the room and immediately hugged Lucifer, who blinked and knelt down.
“Hey there kiddo, you feeling okay?” He asked and Jeffery nodded.
“Thank you, Mr. Nick!” He said happily and beamed at Lucifer, that emotion going strong as he ruffled the kid’s hair and watched as he thanked Sam in nearly the same way and Lucifer could see the young boy’s soul shining with happiness, as well as his mother’s soul shining with that as well.
“We have to keep going Mrs. Sanchez. Stay safe!” Sam said as Mrs. Sanchez hugged him and Lucifer smiled softly at her before turning and going down the steps as he forced his face into a neutral expression as he turned and then he went and got into the Impala again. This was repeated about four more times before finally the Winchesters drove back to the hotel they had been staying at. Lucifer and Castiel went into one room and Sam and Dean into the other. The rooms were meant to be gone between because there was an adjoining door…
Lucifer again was quiet for a while as he sat on the bed he deemed his, he could hear the boys in the next room as clear as day, even though they were whispering…He shifted on the bed and knew Castiel was watching him even as he spread his wings out and flexed them before he let them be visible as he brought them to his side and he frowned. His wings were changing color like there was no tomorrow… They were a mix of white and gold now as he brought the wings close and he started grooming them with his fingers, ignoring the stunned look on Castiel’s face as he listened to the Winchesters.
“Dean, he was nice with all the victims, no trace of Malice, Hatred…anything…He’s actually pretty good with kids and women, the guys he’s adequate with but damn. He looked…like he was in his element there and he actually looked happy, and content,” Sam was saying as there was a trace of disbelief.
“Maybe that’s the bit of Gabriel he has coming out? Gabriel was known for being the protector of Children and Women…” Dean said and there was a snort from Sam. Lucifer looked to Castiel who was watching him groom his wings and Lucifer shifted and looked to his sibling.
“Want to help me out here? Got that bit around my back I can’t quite reach,” He said and he saw Castiel blink in surprise. Hell Lucifer was surprised he offered that but hey…family right? And Castiel looked bored.
Castiel got up and went over to Lucifer and threaded his fingers through the feathers at his back and slowly moved outward. Lucifer smiled as he very visibly relaxed and he loved the feel of this and again that warmth he felt…Castiel may be powerless but he was still a brother, and he still loved him. Not to mention the last person who had done this for him before he fell was…Gabriel…
“Dean I don’t- I don’t get what happened back there. I know that Unicorn, yes Unicorn, did something to him…You saw how he was afterward…Before he still had that sense of…destruction and potential to go off at us about him really…and now. Now it’s something I can’t even explain properly…” Sam said as Castiel kept working diligently on Lucifer’s wings until he got to where Lucifer could take over. Lucifer turned and looked to Castiel.
“Come here you, your turn,” Lucifer said and he saw Castiel blink.
“I don’t have the grace to manifest my wings,” Castiel said with a depressed tone to his voice but Lucifer just pressed his hand to Castiel’s back and made his wings manifest, giving it a teeny bit of his power to do so.
Castiel shivered even as Lucifer started grooming Castiel like he had before he fell. Lucifer straightened out of control feathers and the process was faster than with his wings as Castiel’s were smaller but still a good size, and black as night in some lighting but if the light hit them just right there’d be a dark blue sheen to them.
“Just let it drop, Sam. We don’t want to piss him off…” Dean muttered as there was the creak of a bed.
Lucifer brought his hands away from Castiel’s wings and he let Castiel look at them before Lucifer took back the bit of power and the wings vanished from sight. Lucifer went back to his bed and was silent until Castiel had fallen asleep. He’s made a sketchbook come up and he’d started drawing his brothers in their true vessels. He paused when he was halfway through Gabriel’s vessel, and he heard the door to the other room open and Sam came in and saw that Lucifer was sprawled out on the bed staring at a piece of paper.
He had this…expression on his face that looked torn before the piece of paper burst into flames.
“Didn’t like the drawing?” Sam asked and Lucifer looked up and then to the ash on the bed.
“No. I liked it but it isn’t…it isn’t what’s going to happen.” He mutters as he sits up and looks to Castiel on the bed. He then thought back about something quietly. What if…he was being haunted by Gabriel?
Gabriel had appeared twice now when he was least expecting it…Maybe…Maybe he should go somewhere where Gabriel had once lived…
“It was a drawing about the vessels?” Sam asked and Lucifer nodded.
“It isn’t true anymore, Sam. You should be happy…” He said even as the room started to shake and a light started coming in through the windows.
“Well…look at that...Raphael’s pissed…” Lucifer says even as Dean comes into the room and Castiel starts awake as a high pitched tone started to shatter the glass.
“Oh crap,” Dean hissed but Lucifer only smiled grimly.
“I’ll see you lot later,” and he sent them away with a snap of fingers and he sat there on the bed as the door was blown open and Raphael came in, he was tall in his vessel and Lucifer didn’t bother standing up.
“Hello Raphael,” He said calmly and he saw Raphael blink at him in shock.
“Lucifer? What are you doing here? I heard from Michael you were…conflicted,” Raphael then looked Lucifer over quietly. Lucifer looked at Raphael as well and he saw Raphael’s eyes widen.
“Brother you…you’re free…” He whispered and Lucifer just watched him quietly for a long moment.
“Why are you here Raphael?” Lucifer asked, standing at last.
“I came to get Dean. Adam is not as good a fit as Michael would like. He is burning out like your vessel was,” Raphael said after a moment, still staring at Lucifer.
“Mm. Too bad you just missed them,” Lucifer said calmly and Raphael’s fists clenched.
“You did this, Lucifer?” Raphael asked, though it’s clear he knew the answer as Raphael’s wings flared out and prepared to fight, Raphael had his sword in his hand.
“Yes, I sent them away…And put the sword away, I don’t want to fight,” He said calmly but Raphael still advanced on him and tried to attack him. Lucifer dodged away from it.
“Raphael, I don’t want to do this anymore,” Lucifer said, his wings flaring out angrily, “I don’t want to kill my brothers-“ And yet Lucifer was flung back into the wall and he sighed. Raphael had always been the foolish hardheaded one…
Lucifer pulled out Gabriel’s blade that he had taken with him, his own having been lost years ago… He fought his brother…powers and everything, the clash of swords loud before Lucifer found himself pinning Raphael, the other angel’s eyes wide as he had a sword to his throat.
Lucifer didn’t hurt him but Raphael took advantage of his distraction to slash him across the chest, it’s a shallow cut, but he can hear the ripping of the clothes he wore and Lucifer got up and glared at him.
“Surrender Raphael,” He said in a low voice and Raphael glared at him clearly full of hate and wrath and Lucifer just shook his head and vanished. He knew that Raphael would follow, so he led him all over the country until he finally lost him and then went to where he’d sent the boys.
He landed with a harsh cough and staggering over to the couch where the boys instantly got up and caught Lucifer before he could fall. He was panting hard and he was bleeding in several places as he was put down on the couch…Everything felt….disconnected. He barely registered what was being said by the boys even as they were taking the jacket and shirt off and started working on his injuries.
He was completely out of it when his grace suddenly twisted as it felt something familiar nearby and he opened his eyes and he yelped loudly at what he saw and tried to scramble to his feet when Castiel and Dean were holding him down.
“Whoa! What happened?!”Dean was saying but it kinda went over his head as his eyes were locked on the person they clearly couldn’t see.
“You didn’t kill him,” His voice was quiet as he sat next to Lucifer, the boys trying to ask Lucifer what was wrong.
Gabriel traced a finger across the slash across Lucifer’s chest and Lucifer shivered and saw the wound had healed. Gabriel did this with each injury.
“I’ve been watching you for a while now. I know what the Unicorn did and that it told you that you should be able to sense me…but not if I don’t want to be sensed." Gabriel smiled faintly and Lucifer cleared his throat but Gabriel pressed a finger to his lips and silenced him.
“Don’t speak; you’re still too worn from that fight. It was definitely more exciting than my encounter with you…” Lucifer looked at him and tried to say so many things with just his eyes.
“I know you’re sorry bro. Though you still need to learn about humanity-“ Gabriel started to say before Lucifer’s eyes narrowed and he reached out and actually got a hold of his dead brother somehow.
“Now without you,” He said in a whisper. Gabriel looked him over and sighed.
“Well, usually when you save the Winchesters you’re good in their book…But you know as well as I do that only dad can bring us back…” Gabriel said sadly, “But bro…you’re…you again, you’re the Morningstar before this whole conflict started…and you’re learning. You’re learning Humanity isn’t all that bad…” Gabriel smiled at him and suddenly Lucifer’s eyes were snapping open and he looked to Castiel, Sam and Dean with wide eyes.
“How long-?” He started to ask but it was Sam who cut him off.
“Two days. Your wounds healed fine we were just wondering how exhausted you were…Then you started muttering about Gabriel and well…here we are.” Sam said and Lucifer sighed and nodded. He then got up and fixed the clothes and put them back on.
“Where are you going?” Sam asked and Lucifer smiled faintly.
“To talk to a family member I haven’t spoken to since the humans were created…” And then he was gone and he was then on Mount Sinai Even after all these years Lucifer could feel his father’s presence there and then he fell to his knees and he prayed.
For the first time in thousands of years he prayed… There was a whisper of wind that blew teasingly at his hair.
I know what you want… Was the voice that came and Lucifer felt Gabriel’s grace stir and suddenly it was gone… Yet his grace felt…whole still and it felt so much…purer than it had been since his fall.
He then blinked when suddenly he was chillier and he felt his hair and it was Nick’s again though the hair was longer, but not as long as Gabriel’s had been…
“Luci?” Lucifer stiffened and then looked to the side and saw Gabriel sitting up and shaking his head, confusion written all over his face and Lucifer…He pulled Gabriel into a hug faster than Gabriel could blink.
“Um…Okay, what happened? Why aren’t you stuck looking like me and…why am I alive?” Gabriel asked with clear confusion even as Lucifer wrapped his grace around Gabriel and he took in a breath.
“Whoa…someone recharged you…and you’re…well you’re Morningstar again…No corruption, arrogance, hatred…nothing but what dad wanted in us…How’d you pull that off?” Gabriel muttered.
“A Unicorn felt like being nice…” He mumbled and Gabriel started laughing.
“So a unicorn got rid of all that, really?” He asked as he ran his hand through Lucifer’s longer hair. Lucifer just smiled.
“Yup, and dad brought you back...so come on, show me what Humanity is really about…but first…” Lucifer drags Gabriel with him to the place he’d stashed the boys and they blinked in shock at what was going on. Castiel’s eyes widened and he pulled Gabriel into a warm hug.
“You’re alive…” He said into Gabriel’s jacket and Gabriel laughed softly.
“Guess I am bro,” Gabriel said with a cheery voice as Lucifer yawned and sat on the couch and he ached and was tired.
Yet the boys got him up and moving and into the impala that Lucifer had sent with them and was outside while Castiel, Lucifer and Gabriel got into the back and Gabriel decided to amuse himself while poking Lucifer’s side and getting him to snort with laughter until he was full out laughing as Gabriel attacked his sides halfway through their trip and onto the next case.
“Gabriel, leave him alone, he’s going to have a hernia if you keep doing that…” Dean said from the front and Gabriel pouted and stopped. Lucifer wrapped his arms around both brothers.
“You two? Are the only awesome ones,” Lucifer says with a goofy grin before he looks at Gabriel with a smile as his slightly younger brother messed up his hair and Lucifer smiled.
“Oh! I have something to give back to ya…” And he pulled Gabriel’s sword out of his jacket and handed it over to his brother who nodded silently. And Lucifer couldn’t help falling asleep, or help leaning against Gabriel, who didn’t say anything as he looked to Castiel and exchanged a smile with him…
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Gabriel watched Lucifer quietly as his older brother slipped into a delirious sleep. He could see his brother’s grace shining with what had made him the morning star so long ago. Gabriel had missed it, he was so glad his brother was back… He looked at his brothers wings which he of course saw clear as day. They were a bright white again though with a yellow orange ting to the edges that was the color of the setting or rising sun.
Gabriel was quiet for a long while as he looked at his brother. When his dad had brought him back, he’d given Gabriel full access again and warned him quietly that Raphael was out to kill Lucifer. That was just great, another dysfunctional family member to fend off. Gabriel reached over and pressed a hand to Lucifer’s chest and marked him like Castiel had marked the two up front.
Lucifer let out a yelp of pain, his eyes shooting opened and a flare of grace shining in them before he went limp again and Gabriel did the same to Castiel, though Castiel was awake and he only yelped, no grace to shine through… Gabriel then took a breath and did that to his vessel’s ribs as well, hissing at the pain.
“What’s with the yelp convention back there?” Dean asked as he looked back and Sam gripped his seat tightly as the impala swerved a bit.
“DEAN!” Sam snarled and Dean looked back and yelped as he quickly swerved back into the right lane.
“Watch your driving or I’m taking over!” Sam snarled and Dean shot him an annoyed look.
“I was marking them and myself with the same sigils you guys have. Why else do you think Lucifer never really left you guys? He still can’t sense you cause of those sigils. Figured I should make him Cas and myself because of Raphael. I was good enough without it but Lucifer…he’s always been too proud to do it himself.” Gabriel said as he looked to the exhausted Lucifer.
“Wait…how did you know about Lucifer fighting Raphael?” Dean asked and Sam looked back at Gabriel who blinked.
“Wait, he actually fought him?! He didn’t kill him?” Gabriel said in shock, “I was only told that Raphael was after all of you.” Sam frowned at him.
“Lucifer didn’t tell you?” Sam looked surprised as Gabriel shook his head.
“He was…is still out of it from that fight apparently, but…damn he was actually…he was actually praying to my dad, asked him to bring me back. And well my dad always did like to give him what he wanted, but for the whole not wanting to bow to humanity….” He trails off as Lucifer lets out a soft breath and shifts closer to Gabriel.
“I was told to protect him and you guys from Raphael’s wrath…and-“ He paused as he saw Dean pale, his knuckles white against the steering wheel.
“Guys…Adam’s out front….He doesn’t look to happy…And he looks kinda like Lucifer did before y’know…”
“Before my grace healed Luci’s vessel, yeah… Great…” And Gabriel vanished from that spot and was out in front of the car as Lucifer ended up sliding down the seat and came to a rest at where Gabriel had been sitting. He was still out like a light.
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“Oh crap, Gabriel’s gonna get himself killed again…” Dean yelped as he brought the car to a halt and looked to Castiel.
“Wake Lucifer up, now!” He said and Castiel nodded even as flashes of light and the sound of metal on metal filled the air and there were yells from Gabriel to run at the boys yet even as Lucifer woke he stiffened.
“We’re cornered,” He said as he looked behind them. Raphael was there. Before they could protest, he grabbed his sword from Castiel. The sword that Uriel had found and had put to use on other angels. The one that Castiel had always had on him til now… Lucifer ran over to Gabriel and Michael, doing his best to keep from having his back turned to Raphael.
“You’re out of practice, Gabriel!” Came Michael’s voice and Lucifer spun around even as he saw Michael slip under Gabriel’s defense and the sword coming fast at Gabriel’s chest.
No, Lucifer wasn’t losing his brother again! He dove in front of it and grabbed the blade with his hands. It hurt like hell, and his hands were bleeding as Lucifer let out a hiss but it effectively stopped the attack and both of the other angels were clearly surprised.
“Behind us…Raphael…” Lucifer gritted out as Michael was looking at Lucifer in shock.
“Hey Michael!” Michael looked to the side where Dean Winchester stood; he had a stiff posture…
“Get lost!” Dean yelled and Michael went for him as Lucifer dove for him and grabbed Michael with his bloody hands, only to get elbowed…and then stabbed.
“Nnngh…” Lucifer brought his hands to his gut and he heard a loud ripping and several yells and then there was a flash of light from Dean’s direction and pain lancing through Lucifer…
When he next woke he was in a hospital and hooked up to all sorts of human machinery...