"Maybe," she said with a slight chuckle. "You still around till Christmas and we'll talk. I'll even put a bell on the tree for you," she added, knowing he wouldn't understand and being greatly amused nonetheless. She felt the slightest twinge of guilt, out of nowhere. He wasn't an angel anymore. He didn't know who Clarence was, but did it bother him when she called him feathers? Hot wings? Any of her little nicknames for him? She knew she could call him by his name, but she felt more comfortable using her pet names for him. She couldn't call him Cas, as the boys did. There was the fact, on one had, that it was their name for him, and she didn't want to be connected to them in any way if she could help it. But there was also the fact that his name, his angelic name, was important. Names, in and of themselves, were important. It was, after all, why she'd kept the name Meg, after so many years and so many others. Naming something was a powerful thing, and she'd named him Clarence the first time they'd met. She didn't want to have to give that up.
"This," she supplied, "is one of the few decent things humanity has brought to this planet." She slid the DVD into the player and used the remote to scan through it's menu and set it to play. As the familiar fanfare began to play and the black and white title card reading Casablanca came up on the screen, Meg smiled to herself and moved to sit on the couch. She patted the spot beside her, but pointedly remained on her side, propping her feet up on the coffee table.
The room was dark, with the only light leaking from the hallway to her bedroom, but the black and white on the television screen provided more than enough illumination. Meg didn't have a lot of respect for humanity on a whole, but she liked old movies. She liked the feel of them, the obvious effort it took to make them. Maybe it was in part because she'd seen their evolution, first hand, and she could look back on these films with nostalgia. But it was also, she thought, because they were just better, in every way. And this film? This film was the best.