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You already have everything you need. Now fight. (heavenslancer) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2009-08-05 18:33:00

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!open, adam young, castiel

I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes
WHO: Castiel and Adam Young
WHAT: Arrival in Colligo
WHEN: Now.
WHERE: Outside the library
RATING: Low (to start)
STATUS: Complete

They were coming down, fierce and absolute. The house trembled, their light puncturing the windows. He was only one and it would take only one of them to defeat him but still he stood, steadfast, his head titled back to catch the first glance. The first blade came into view...

... It was a city like any other. People walked by, about their business, not noticing one more standing off to one side in his non-descript trench coat.

Castiel stood outside the library he had just been escorted from. Some sort of device, similar to Dean's phone, had been pressed into his hand by the men who escorted him put.

He stood on the pavement and watched the people going by. Sooner or later one would stop and he could ask them where on Earth he was.

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heavenslancer
2009-08-05 01:36 pm UTC (link)

Castiel, eventually, expected a human to stop and give him some manner of direction, answer his simple question, and leave him to find his way.
That was all he required for now.

He did not expect the boy.

He knew the boy's name and yet it was different to what he knew. It was not a glimpse of what he had left, nor a mark of his failure, but the boy was still very much and wholly was what he was.

He tried to work out what his presence here meant but he had nothing to go on.

We've been waiting for you
He wondered of the archangels had sent him here to witness something terrible, forced to watch the end of the world as his punishment.
Yet here were few angels here and fewer demons. But there were angels and demons here

Where was he?
"Colligo?" he repeated the boy's strange word. It was not a name he knew.

He had questions. He asked his second, looking down at the boy his eyes narrowed, seeing the boy for what he really was. He swallowed hard before speaking, his voice had a slight catch in it as he spoke.
"Where is this place? Did you bring me here?"

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unantichristly
2009-08-05 02:02 pm UTC (link)

"Nope," the boy answered the question with a cheerful tone, ascending the last couple of steps and moving to stand before the angel with all the effortless confidence of someone who knew, completely, who and what he was. The confidence of a being that could, essentially, remake the universe as he saw fit. "Someone else did," he added after a moment, shoving his hands in the back pockets of his jeans and rocking back on his heels restlessly. --No matter what else he was, he was still an eleven-year-old boy, and his energy never seemed to run out. "It ain't Earth. Ain't even the dimension you're used to."

A pause, then, and he seemed to take a moment to regard Castiel. Seeming to make a decision at last, he held out a hand for the angel to take. "C'mon, then. It's okay. Ain't nothing here to fight." The bright smile returned, blue eyes gentle and oddly understanding. "I made a choice for myself, you know. No world-ending. I like Earth, and I like humans, and I think fightin' over it's stupid. So don't you worry about that, okay? I'm better than that one." He'd refused to allow himself to be a slave to destiny. He'd turned away from his purpose-- chosen the part of himself that was as human as any of the billions of people that lived on the planet.

And more than that, he'd overturned prophecy and what had once been believed to be His plan.

"Call me Adam, by the way." And then: "Anna's here. So're Aziraphale and Crowley. And Chalky and an elemental version of Azrael." A pause, a thoughtful frown, and he curled one small, dirty hand around the warrior's, tugging it as if to draw him down the steps. "Don't bother Zira and Crowley, okay? They're tryin' to sort stuff out, and I don't want no one to spook 'em."

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heavenslancer
2009-08-05 09:09 pm UTC (link)

Castiel was a little assured by the fact he had not been summoned by the antichrist. He was rather more disconcerted by the fact the being expected him to shake his hand.

The boy chatted easily, seeming to know what Castiel needed to know, what questions he needed answered, before he even spoke.

Castiel should not have been surprised.

The anitichrist was assuring him he was not going to act out his scripted destiny. That he liked humans and he didn't want to fight. Castiel stared at him. More than that, be believed him. Castiel took the offered hand and was surprised when it didn't burn him.

"Will you be punished for your choice?" Castiel asked with vested interest. It was not the most tactful question but it was inspired by fear after all. Fear and a certain kinship. Would Hell be more forgiving than Heaven? Castiel wondered.

Castiel, for his part, was still rather amazed by the fact he was still alive, uninjured, whole.
Than, and the fact he suddenly found had far more in common with the antichrist than with his fellow angels.
He gave a tiny shudder.

The boy gave his name, though Castiel knew it.
"Castiel," the angel supplied in turn.
Then Adam gave Castiel some other names he knew.
"Anna?" the angel breathed, his eyes wide. She was here? That would explain her absence from the endgame. His shoulders fell a little in relief. He knew there were angels here, he hadn't dared to hope-

The others he had not seen for even longer. He was not sure how his presence would "spook" Aziraphale but if it was required he would wait to see him.
"I will wait," he said. He wondered what they needed to sort out. It didn't sound good. Castiel's unease returned.

He was anxious to see Anna but there were things to do first. He withdrew his hand, following the boy as he moved away from the library. He pulled out the PDA and showed it to Adam. "They gave me this. I believe it is a communications device. Is this significant?" Of all the things he wanted to know it was the most mundane. He didn't want to ask the other question, the one about leaving, not yet.

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unantichristly
2009-08-05 10:00 pm UTC (link)

Expression going solemn and thoughtful, Adam was quiet for several moments after the question about punishment, letting the other's words wash over him-- noting them, but not reacting for the moment. He turned them onto the street, toward the apartment buildings. "No," he finally said, seeming to shake himself, and glanced up with a quirk of a smile. "Other than Him, there ain't really no one that can punish me, and He's pretty much happy just to let me be. My dad--" A pause, his brows drawing together momentarily, as if the title never had really sat well with him (unsurprising, given that he'd been raised by human parents). "--My dad already knows I'm a little out of his league." He'd banished him back to Hell just a few short months ago, at the Armageddon-that-Never-Was, and he was almost positive that Lucifer was furious with him.

Not a lot he could do about it, though.

A pause, and he glanced back up at Castiel, the expression on his face knowing and faintly sympathetic, bright eyes guileless in his face. "You'll be fine, too. You're here, ain't you? You think I'd let anyone mess with you?" If anyone could say anything about Adam, it was that he was awfully possessive, and very protective. He'd decided that he'd just have to look out for the ones that showed up in Colligo, and so he'd done it.

Especially Crowley and Aziraphale. They were the closest thing to family he had there, really, which probably wasn't saying a lot since they largely didn't seem to know what to make of him.

"The PDA lets you connect to the network," he added belatedly, pulling his own out and pausing under an overhang to type out a message and show the angel how to post it. "It's how lots of people here talk to each other. You can get some money from the bank if you show it to them, too. And it shows who you're rooming with." As he said each thing, he brought up the information on his own PDA. "If you don't know what room Anna's in, you can message her here."

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heavenslancer
2009-08-06 07:02 am UTC (link)

Castiel was not sure this was not some subtle and cruel sort of punishment or merely just an indication of how strange his existence had become.

He was being offered comfort and protection by the antichrist while his own siblings descended from On High to destroy him.
And this boy was stronger than Lucifer? This boy who offered kindness, who wanted to protect the world? That explained why Adam had escaped punishment. Castiel would not be spared for the same reason.

And he could not be spared merely by a quick escape. There was no victory in this.

He followed the boy down the street.

"Adam, the time I came from, the place, it is imperative I be returned there." He had already sent Dean where he needed to be but who was going to hold back the archangels? Who was going to buy Dean, the world, time?

It was clear the angel was distressed though he made efforts to hide it. He kept looking back towards the library as if it offered his way home. For all he knew it might but Adam was leading him into the city as if he expected Castiel to be staying without asking him if he was.

This was not a good sign.

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unantichristly
2009-08-06 07:38 am UTC (link)

"You can't go back right now," the blond boy explained after Castiel had gone quiet again, glancing back at the angel with an apologetic expression. "Nobody can get out of the city." At least, Adam didn't think he could-- he hadn't tried, to be honest. If he'd been brought there, obviously there was some reason, right? And He wouldn't have let it happen if it hadn't been meant to happen. "Don't worry, though-- your timeline is gonna go on, and you'll still be there." A pause, and he ran a dirty hand through his hair, nose wrinkling at the bridge as he tried to think of a way to explain it. "Some.. version of you. See.. it's kinda' like this. You're here.. but you're there, too. You mighta' seen Dean just now, but he's been here a while, too." His expression shifted into another smile, shoulders lifting and falling again in a shrug.

He turned them down another street, tucking his PDA away again and falling back slightly to walk beside the distressed angel. "Things're gonna be okay there, Castiel. Sam might've buggered things up a bit--" It had been dumb letting his dad out like that. "--but it'll get sorted out in the end." That was all Adam could really say about it without using more of that deep, dark, frightening part of himself that he kept locked away as tightly as he dared. Adam looked out for the dimension he'd been born in--especially Tadfield--but he tried not to get involved with other ones. They usually had other kids that belonged to Lucifer, anyway-- some similar, in some ways, to Adam, and some cookie-cutter stereotypes. He was aware of at least two of them located in Colligo, but had said nothing thus far.

It wasn't polite to call attention to them, especially if they didn't want it.

"Sam's here, too," he added a little belatedly, finally spying the apartments and heading toward them. "Him and this lady named Lois are gonna' have a baby soon, only he's being a dummy about it."

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heavenslancer
2009-08-06 08:55 am UTC (link)

There was a lot to take in in the boy's words. He would go on in the other universe as if he hadn't left. He was relieved, he supposed, though he would rather be there, rather know how things went down.

Still, it was better than leaving a hole where he had been with only Chuck standing alone. At least Chuck would be protected. Probably.

Adam was speaking with such certainly. It had seemed so long since he had heard anybody speak like that. Zacharias didn't count.
It was going to be OK, he promised, speaking as if it was all said and done. Castiel could not be as sure.

Then Adam said something that made Castiel stop short. "Dean is here?"
His expression changed, subtly as always, but it may as well have been a whoop of joy. "He is safe?"

It took Castiel a moment to form further words. "And Sam?" He wrinkled his nose at the news of the baby. Castiel didn't understand family in the way humans did. And now, family was a bitter word to him. The concept of Sam being "dumb" about it did not surprise Castiel. He had not seen the younger Winchester made many wise decisions at all, not that he would comment on any that did not effect his mission.

Castiel looked up at the building, recognising it as a residential area.
"Why are we here?" he asked. "Is this your home?"

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unantichristly
2009-08-06 09:16 am UTC (link)

"They're safe," the boy assured him, pausing in front of one of the buildings and shoving his hands in his back pockets as he glanced up at Castiel. "Dean's even got his car here." Crowley had his, too, and he had a feeling he'd need to introduce the two of them-- they at least had that much in common. Adam himself didn't really understand caring that much about a vehicle, but he supposed people had to have hobbies. "You can say hey to him once you're settled in, I reckon. I bet he'll be glad to hear from you."

He was quiet then for a moment, peering up at the buildings, eyes wide open despite the sun shining down. It was sort of funny how things happened, wasn't it? A year ago, he would never have thought all this would have happened to him. He definitely wouldn't have imagined who he was or what he would be doing with the rest of his life. His long, long, immortal life.

Immortality was scary. He didn't like knowing all of that.

"Yours, too," he answered a little distractedly, tilting his head slightly to meet Castiel's eyes. "At least while you're here. --I'm with this lady named Kara, and she makes me go to bed just like my parents do." He rolled his eyes, making a disgusted face. Grown-ups were so troublesome! Sending people to bed and not letting them play and making them eat gross stuff. At least there wasn't school to worry about.. at least, not yet. "You should check your PDA and see who you're rooming with. If you're lucky, it's someone you'll like, or you might not have one, yet."

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heavenslancer
2009-08-06 09:37 am UTC (link)

It seemed odd, yet strangely comforting, to have so many people he knew here. It was like a strange kind of homecoming so very far removed from what he had been facing.

It felt odd, a shock. He still felt like it was going to be ripped away from him at any moment, at Zacharias' whim. Yet he decided to play along for now. Even an illusion of peace and friendship was better than oblivion and the pain of those around him. If it was a lie he trusted he would see through it soon enough.

He though of Jimmy with a pang of guilt and hoped his vessel would be spared. Jimmy had done nothing wrong but trust in Heaven after all.
It was Castiel's punishment to bare.

He pulled out the PDA, at Adam's suggestion, and pressed two of his fingers to it. "My room assignment is A208 and I am alone there," he said flatly. "Though I require no room. I neither eat nor sleep. I have no possessions and do not take advantage of plumbing."

He looked down at Adam. If the boy was looking for someone to sympathise with his plight he had come to the wrong being. "It is necessary for children to have adults care for them. You are fortunate they care enough to send you to sleep when you require it."

He stood a little aside from Adam now, looking up at the building, the sun warming Jimmy's body though Castiel did not feel it.
"If I am to stay here then so be it," he said as he headed for the stairs.
As he reached them he said, "Is Anna safe?"

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unantichristly
2009-08-06 09:58 am UTC (link)

Grinning, not the slightest bit daunted, a wickedly amused cast to elfin features, Adam shrugged. "You only say that cause you ain't a kid, yourself," he pointed out unabashedly. "If you were, you'd think different. Bein' human can be a pain, sometimes." Still, he did love his foster-parents, and he missed them more than he'd ever admit to anyone. It was sort of hard being in Colligo pretty much on his own. Oh, the angels were there, of course, and Crowley.. but angels tended to either be wary of him or afraid, and Crowley was.. Crowley. There was White, too, but he was a Horseman, and so his mind didn't work like other people's.

"Anna's fine," he assured the other, looking young and small and terribly human standing there. Bizarre, the contrast of body and being. "She's waitin' to hear from you. Don't make her wait too long, 'kay?" And then, unexpectedly (given his earlier smiles and enthusiasm), a frown. It wasn't an unhappy one, though-- it just seemed thoughtful and a little disapproving. "And Castiel.. try to enjoy yourself here, okay? You can't do nothin' by worrying, and you're just gonna' worry the rest of them if you do. --Send me a message if you got other questions."

For a moment more, then, he stood there, staring up at Castiel-- through him, even, as if he were seeing down into the deepest parts of the angel. The hopes and fears and doubts.

He took a step back, onto the street again. Someone stepped in front of him, and when the figure had moved past, he was gone.

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heavenslancer
2009-08-06 11:07 am UTC (link)

"I have never been a child," said Castiel, his attention still elsewhere.

Castiel did look down when he mentioned Anna. She wanted to see him? They had not parted on the best of terms, at all. He had been afraid she would refuse to see him. He would not blame her.

He looked down at the boy, who looked like any other boy to the people walking by but something terribly different to Castiel. Adam was now saying things that make very little sense.

"Enjoy myself?" he repeated. He said nothing more to this. It had seemed so long since he had experienced joy he no loner even bothered to miss it. Still, the boy was right. He didn't want to worry the others.

But perhaps it would be acceptable just to tell Anna. She would understand and he found he did not think he could keep silent.

He opened his mouth to promise he would contact Adam again when someone passed between them and the boy was gone.

Castiel blinked, cocked his head and pulled out his PDA again.

It seemed he had a message.

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