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[ there's the sound of a few notes of an organ being played...nothing fancy, but it does have certain ring to it. it suddenly stops for something, and joshua's voice can be heard as a slight echo ]
Bless me Father, for I have sinned.
[ there's a stretched out silence, as abel just walked into the church after looking all night and day, to find ( Read more... )
Bless me Father, for I have sinned.
[ there's a stretched out silence, as abel just walked into the church after looking all night and day, to find ( Read more... )
the resemblances between Joshua's situation and Cain's were innumerable. and in the end... Abel doubted he'd afford the boy much greater mercy than he had his twin when he'd discovered what he'd done to Lilith all those centuries ago.]
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the 'noise' is lashing out again, begging him to Stop this thing. he wants to, so badly, and he could...but that isn't the plan. it isn't. and so he struggles with that, wide open to whatever attack is next ]
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it seizes Joshua by the throat, slamming him against the ceiling and letting a vicious voltage of electricity course through the Apostles body - more than enough to render him numb and twitching - before letting him fall as he would, his own feet leisurely touching down on the ground.]
We're hungry...
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he doesn't need it, though, having gotten what he wanted in a roundabout way ]
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We thought this was fun, Joshua...
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It will be again. When this is all over, I'll be the winner!
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Abel straddles his knees, looking into the boy's face with an impassive indifference...
inconsequential. this creature was inconsequential. just another buzzing fly in the millions and millions it had destroyed across worlds, galaxies...
keeping hold of his head with a handful of his hair, Abel let the other clawed hand graze across the Apostle's stomach before beginning to pierce flesh. slowly. s l o w l y digging into skin, then muscle... seeking the tissue and organs beneath, red trickling over his abdomen in a steady flow.]
You should've released her when you had the chance.
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Stop him, STOP HIM. joshua screams as his flesh is pierced, the smile wiped off his face for once as he struggled with the desire to let his own power loose. he could Stop the whole castle...Stop them all but then he wouldn't win, and he wants to win ]
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Her knife left her hand in a second, aimed toward vital organs. Fucking wannabe vamp.]
Abel!
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She's following in a moment after, gun drawn and...goddamnit...staring in horror at the unholy mess inside. This was simply not right. She should not be here, this was...
...But then she sees the mauled form underneath that monster, blond hair, familiar...
Her gun goes up and she's firing off her clip into the monster before she can stop herself]
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Despite all the carnage and the sight of Abel slowly tearing into Joshua her expression is remaining passive. A moment later, Abel is on fire]
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And Clark's all about going in there and doing whatever he needs to.
He races in, and still at superspeed, seizes Abel by the shoulders and yanks him back, aiming to hurl him into the opposite wall.
Which, to a normal person, would just look like Clark standing there (in a black S t-shirt and jeans, not the suit this time) and Abel suddenly be against the wall.
Lookin' pissed.]
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the moment Faith stepped into the room and said his name, he was snapping back to his senses, drawing control away from a starved monster and back to something resembling a human in his head--
then consecutive gunshots. he dropped Joshua, trying to stagger to his feet and lifting his hands in some form of a plaintive plea to be understood as he killed off the nanomachines' fusion levels - from 80, to 40%, as his face contorted in surprise and regret--
and then? he was abruptly alight with flames.
his body was thrust backward and into the wall where it collided, cracking plaster -- black feathery wings dissolved like dust into the air, and the man who slumped beneath it with long silver hair falling in front of his face was nothing more than a panting human.]
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joshua's hand slips in his own blood as he struggles to sit back up, draped over his shredded stomach, breaths wheezy from his shattered ribcage as he surveys the scene, his horns suspiciously gone. abel is in a pile of rubble, the gunfire has stopped, and the church is eerily silent for moment.
before it's interrupted with hysterical laughter, only occasionally jarred with a rattling wheeze, and there's nothing that can stop it ]
Hahahaha... I told you! I told you! Look at your faces... All of them. [ except mai but she doesn't count ] Who's the monster here, I wonder?! The priest? The alien? The demon's saviors?
[ the laugh is cut off for a moment by a choked sound, and his nails dig into his growing pool of blood as he slumps onto his side, and then there's another laugh as he practically screams ]This is what you've become after only days of losing ( ... )
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[well, if he has time to crazy rant, he must be fine, so Faith ignores Joshua and runs over to Abel instead, kneeling down.]
Abel?
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Moving through the church, Faye stares at the ranting thing that looks like Joshua...and can't bring herself to get closer than several steps away from him]
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