spn fic - like a game of pick-up sticks - gabriel&michael
Title: like a game of pick-up sticks (played by fucking lunatics)
Author/Artist: unholygrace
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Gabriel, Michael - mentions of various others.
Rating: PG/ K+
Summary: It's the silence that finally gets to him.
Notes/Warnings: Spoilers for Changing Channels.My muse? She's a whore. Instead of putting out for “Crowns and Thrones”, she wandered off with Gabriel. Meh. I wanna say this could be related to the Halo-verse, but, it's probably not. Take it as is.
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Eventually, it's the silence that gets to him. Heaven's so, so quiet ever since Samael- since Lucifer left. Their Father, too, has left. Gabriel no longer feels His love. Heaven is as barren as a desert, it seems. The younger angels are confused and uncertain, the elders still reeling from the War. There's no laughter like there used to be.
Michael doesn't speak these days, either. The great general sits alone at the Edge of Heaven, gazing down - Down into Hell, into Lucifer's prison. Sometimes he'll weep for the brother he imprisoned, other times he'll shine so brightly with his anger. How dare he do this to us? He asks with his silence. How dare he do this to me? Michael and Lucifer were so close, loved each other so much, second only to God the Father.
Gabriel often tries to drag him out of his self-isolation. Tries to tell him that it wasn't his fault, that he couldn't have seen it coming, that he couldn't have prevented it.
Michael only ever speaks once. He says, “Gabriel, our Father ordered his death. That would have been a mercy to what I've done - I've removed him from God's love and my sight. I wanted him to hurt.”
“Like he hurt you,” Gabriel whispers, eyes pained.
Michael's smile is clearly forced. “I wanted to punish him. I betrayed my brother, Gabriel. I'm as wicked as he is.”
“Michael-”
“Please leave me, Gabriel,” Michael commands gently, eyes closing. Gabriel departs soon after, stricken in grief.
He Falls on what would eventually become a Monday. He's angry and hurting when he leaves. He hears Michael gasp and call his name when he Falls, but he ignores his eldest brother. He's so tired of the quiet. He wants to hear laughter, even if it means living among the humans that indirectly caused his family to fall apart.
Gabriel swears to make himself laugh enough for all of Heaven because even though Lucifer lost, he won.
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Author/Artist: unholygrace
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Gabriel, Michael - mentions of various others.
Rating: PG/ K+
Summary: It's the silence that finally gets to him.
Notes/Warnings: Spoilers for Changing Channels.My muse? She's a whore. Instead of putting out for “Crowns and Thrones”, she wandered off with Gabriel. Meh. I wanna say this could be related to the Halo-verse, but, it's probably not. Take it as is.
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Eventually, it's the silence that gets to him. Heaven's so, so quiet ever since Samael- since Lucifer left. Their Father, too, has left. Gabriel no longer feels His love. Heaven is as barren as a desert, it seems. The younger angels are confused and uncertain, the elders still reeling from the War. There's no laughter like there used to be.
Michael doesn't speak these days, either. The great general sits alone at the Edge of Heaven, gazing down - Down into Hell, into Lucifer's prison. Sometimes he'll weep for the brother he imprisoned, other times he'll shine so brightly with his anger. How dare he do this to us? He asks with his silence. How dare he do this to me? Michael and Lucifer were so close, loved each other so much, second only to God the Father.
Gabriel often tries to drag him out of his self-isolation. Tries to tell him that it wasn't his fault, that he couldn't have seen it coming, that he couldn't have prevented it.
Michael only ever speaks once. He says, “Gabriel, our Father ordered his death. That would have been a mercy to what I've done - I've removed him from God's love and my sight. I wanted him to hurt.”
“Like he hurt you,” Gabriel whispers, eyes pained.
Michael's smile is clearly forced. “I wanted to punish him. I betrayed my brother, Gabriel. I'm as wicked as he is.”
“Michael-”
“Please leave me, Gabriel,” Michael commands gently, eyes closing. Gabriel departs soon after, stricken in grief.
He Falls on what would eventually become a Monday. He's angry and hurting when he leaves. He hears Michael gasp and call his name when he Falls, but he ignores his eldest brother. He's so tired of the quiet. He wants to hear laughter, even if it means living among the humans that indirectly caused his family to fall apart.
Gabriel swears to make himself laugh enough for all of Heaven because even though Lucifer lost, he won.
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