Thinking about stuff ... [OTA]

[gobacktoheaven]

Gabriel was gone - it sort of sucked. On the one hand, the guy was family, and the sort who wasn't actually trying to either kill Aaron or get him to redeem them. On the other hand, Debra was gone, too. Of course, it wasn't a guarantee that the two of them ended up together, but Aaron wanted to believe it. The archangel was dead, after all (yeah,

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[not_dead_angel]

"Sulking looks better on vampires." His British accent came at the same time as there was the sound of a soft flutter of wings. Balthazar appeared leaning against a tree trunk, arms crossed, looking at him.

[not_dead_angel]

"He'd have taken it as a compliment, but say something sarcastic." Balthazar might have spent more time around the Winchester boys than he'd like.

[gobacktoheaven]

"I can believe it." Aaron said. "Gabriel liked those guys - makes sense if there were smartasses like him." He chuckled.

"So Gabriel told you what I am, I guess?"

[not_dead_angel]

He nodded. "Not to mention I had a daughter show up over that weekend a few months ago and you two feel awfully similar." And maybe that was why he appeared here, too. "Easy to seek you out, so to speak."

[gobacktoheaven]

"Yeah, we've got a particular smell, as I understand it." Aaron said. "Just figured I'd ask in case you were planning an afternoon of 'smite the abomination' or something."

"I met Gabriel's daughter - she was a trip."

[not_dead_angel]

"I don't do the smite thing." Balthazar had been there and done that enough, thanks.

"My daughter was cuter." They were competitive in everything. "And she could turn things into gold."

[gobacktoheaven]

"Good. I had to talk pretty fast to keep Michael from putting his foot up my ass." Aaron admitted.

"Gold? That's a handy talent." He thought for a moment. "It was tough for a lot of people, meeting those kids and then having them leave. You got someone - back home?"

[not_dead_angel]

"Funny because I always thought his foot was up his own ass."

He lifted his eyebrows up in a 'what do you think' manner that was really just Balthazar's way of distancing himself from how he really felt. "Like Gabriel, I felt the lovely piercing of an angelic blade through my abdomen."

[gobacktoheaven]

"Damn, I'm sorry, man." Aaron said. He couldn't help remembering what had occurred to him during the Reaver invasion:

Angels love to kill.

"Michael ... you know, it's kind of funny." Aaron began hesitantly. "I think I sort of miss him a little? Yeah, he was one serious jackass, but there was something about him. I heard that he and Gabriel kind of made up a little, before he left."

[not_dead_angel]

Balthazar sort of missed him too, but would never admit it. He sort of missed most of his family.

"Michael, for all his faults, means well." He paused, his eyes growing a bit dark. "Of course, he doesn't know, really, how to think for himself."

He shifted uncomfortably, then walked to one of the gravestones instead and sat up on it. "He's the one who'll kill Anna, eventually, when she goes back. I don't think she knows it, though."

[gobacktoheaven]

Aaron frowned at that. "He was doubting himself, feeling regret. I think it was terrifying for him, to actually doubt his purpose."

He sighed. "This is one fucked-up family."

[not_dead_angel]

His comment caused Balthazar to laugh a little. "You're right about that. It gets worse, I'm sure, but thankfully I'm not around to see it. Sad thing is, Dean and Sam might be dicks, but they're the only ones who really understand what family's about." And probably the only hope for humans, really.

[gobacktoheaven]

"Easier to be true to family when everyone on both sides of the war isn't family." Aaron said.

"Still, Dean had regret coming off him like crazy. I'd have thought he was one of the Fallen if I didn't know better."

[not_dead_angel]

"Well, he is Michael's vessel." Something he was sure Dean didn't like to be reminded.

[gobacktoheaven]

"I can't even imagine how much that must have pissed him off." Aaron said, laughing. "Just imagine what a pretty princess the two of them would have made together."

[not_dead_angel]

Balthazar laughed again. He could see why Gabriel took a liking to Aaron. "It would have been something, that's for sure. God definitely has a sense of humour, if nothing else."