I Moderate (i_moderate) wrote in we_archive, @ 2006-05-06 01:00:00 |
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Entry tags: | gabriel, lucifer morningstar |
i_amthelefthand Up from below (narrative, open?)
If only somebody had told him before now that the First had been killed, and that he wasn't so much consigned to Hell any longer. Can't be kept some place by somebody who wasn't there anymore, can you? He let the irritation slide off of his back. It didn't matter now anyway.
The only real problem was that the heart he had in him now wasn't whole. Wasn't even particularly even mildly put together. He'd found the bits that had been squished, and shoved them back together and put them back inside. It had all been rather morbid.
But he'd been so twisted up inside at the time that he hadn't cared at all.
Something in him had changed down there. There was a new sort of cynasism in him. Bitterness. His Doubt had only grown. He couldn't go back up. Not all the way, anyway. He didn't want to face any of Them. And especially not Him. How could He let his son go through everything that he'd gone through? How? How could He turn a blind eye and cast out His son because of what somebody else did.
Alright. So he'd been doing something that maybe he shouldn't have been doing. But why didn't he get free will like those stupid fucking humans did? Why didn't he get a choice?
Of course, now that he was back... he wasn't sure where he was. This wasn't the place where he'd dropped from. Not any place that he could recognize at all. There wasn't much he could think of right now other than finding a bar and getting a beer.
A sign blazened overhead and he looked up at it. LUX it screamed out at him. Well. This was as good a place as any. He ducked his head and pushed through the door.
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/06/2006 01:08:43
Gabriel entered to the sound of laughter. Jazz music politely sputtered on an old turntable behind the bar, just barely audible above Lucifer's mirth.
There were no clients. This didn't feel particularly right to the fallen angel. It wasn't that he cared whether or not their were clients but he had the distinct impression that this place was supposed to be popular. That when he played the piano, patrons would come from all over the City but no one ever did. It would be fun, he would be the center of attention in his own tiny little world.
Instead the Lux was a magnet for the lost, and God was it fun to see a familiar face.
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/06/2006 01:12:55
It, of course, felt familiar. But Gabriel was in no mood to pay attention to any of that. He didn't even want to think about it. The possibility that he had, here, out of everywhere else on the stinking planet, managed to run into the Morningstar.
He went right to the bar and leaned over onto it. Elbows on the top, like every etiquitte book tells you is rude.
"Beer." He said softly. There wasn't any money in his pockets, but he'd worry about that when the time came. "Start a tab."
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/06/2006 08:37:38
Beer! When had Gabriel developed such a sense of humor? This seemed only to fuel whatever it was that the Devil found so funny about this entire situation. Tears started to run down his eyes and if the fallen angel needed air the way mortals needed air he might have been gasping right now.
Lucifer toppled to the floor, and the laughter only seemed to grow louder, echoing in a very empty club to the tune of softly playing jazz music.
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/06/2006 23:58:05
There was no way to ignore that laughter. Or the rolling on the floor.
Gabriel turned, keeping one elbow on the bar and leaning and sighed heavily.
"Yes. Hello. I'm quite sure you realize that I knew you were here and that I was taking great pains to ignore you."
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/07/2006 11:36:47
Slowly, the Devil started to compose himself. He lay there on the floor and stared up at the ceiling happily, wiping a tear from the corner of his eye.
"You look like a girl. Actually, you'd give Desire itself a run for its money." Lucifer grinned. He didn't bother to get up quite yet. Gabriel would have his beer soon enough.
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/07/2006 18:23:53
Gabriel sneered.
"And you look like an asshole. Like you always have." Look like a girl. Just because a fellow was pretty, didn't mean he looked like a girl.
Clearly Lucifer had no taste in anything.
The beer was presented to him, and Gabriel took a long swallow of it. There was nothing like the bitter, foul tasting spirit to let a man know that he was, indeed, alive. The only creatures in the whole of existance that could make something this wonderfully foul were humans.
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/07/2006 18:30:03
"Not an asshole, the asshole," Lucifer corrected. Having finally gotten up and presented Gabriel with the cheapest beer the Club offered, it seemed only right that the angel should have to stare at Lucifer's grinning face.
"How are things?" he asked idly.
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/07/2006 18:32:05
Gabriel shrugged.
"Making sure I'm alive." He said, taking another drink of the beer. "Beer's a good way to do that. Not many creatures think that this product is actually a good idea."
The bottle was pushed away.
"How good can a guy be when he's just been released from Hell?"
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/07/2006 18:43:38
"Actually I would think you would be feeling pretty fantastic," Lucifer gave him a smarmy sort of smile. "You've got this whole new world ahead of you, granted it may be a little smaller than what you're used to, and you're going to spend your time on it crying in cheap beer about what's already past?"
The smile quickly disappeared.
"I don't peg you for pathetic, Gabriel."
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/07/2006 18:47:10
"You don't peg me at all, Lucifer."
Gabriel was still having a bit of a difficulty getting used to having a body again. Having form. Having a heart, no matter how mangled it might be. It was his, and it was in him.
His head was a bit off, and he felt like he was walking in a dream.
"This place feels odd in many ways, not just size. Like things are normal, but in all their normality, they're completely and utterly wrong."
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/07/2006 18:50:08
"Its unnatural. Your point being?"
The ex-ruler of Hell scratched his forehead, the tips of his fingers feeling over the right scar just barely hidden in his hair line.
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/07/2006 18:52:50
"It was a mild observation. Nothing more."
This was one hell of an introduction into a new place. No pun intended.
Gabriel noted the movement.
"You seem to be missing one or two things."
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/07/2006 18:56:59
"Three, actually, but who's counting?"
The Devil put on a choice smile, which did not come out the least bit forced or fake. If Lucy hadn't been known for his wonderful ability to deceive one might have the impression that he wasn't the slightest bit concerned.
"It's good to see a familiar face," he said a bit sincerely, "And no, you don't need to respond to that with another one of your sarcastic remarks."
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/07/2006 19:00:13
"I take it we're in a small percent here." He could feel one or two others, from above and below, but nothing like the numbers he was used to feeling. It also seemed to him that there was a certain light missing from the place. But he wouldn't say that out loud.
"What brings you here? Accident? On purpose?" Gabriel found it hard to believe that anything Lucifer did was not of his own volition.
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/07/2006 19:06:54
"I could ask you the same," Lucifer replied without answering. Lying was petty and beneath the Devil, but that didn't mean he wasn't uncomfortable with omitting certain facts.
Lucifer looked down at Gabriel's beer and arched a brow as if in sincere disbelief with the fallen angel's strange new tastes.
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/07/2006 19:16:50
Another shrug. "I climbed out, and this is where I ended up. I guess it was an accident, looking at it that way. Unless we wish to believe in Divine Purpose. Then it was likely on purpose. But let's not take that route."
Gabriel followed Lucifer's gaze to the beer. "Look. I already told you. It's a good way to discover that you're alive." He held it out. "Smell it. If I were dead, that smell wouldn't be half as awful as it is, right?"
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/08/2006 15:22:27
"I don't need to smell it, I serve it. I just don't see how that's any less ridiculous than if I pinched you," he replied flatly.
From: i_amthelefthand Date: 05/08/2006 15:24:49
"Because you could just as easily pinch me in Hell." Gabriel made a face. And then another one. "You know. I don't have to sit here and justify my beverage choice to you."
He straightened himself out and moved to the door without even making a move to pay for the beer.
"I'm sure that I'll be seeing you again. This place seems entirely too small to be able to avoid you completely."
From: i_fellfirst Date: 05/08/2006 16:03:48
"It was lovely to see you too, dear."
Lucifer grinned and watched him walk for the door. He didn't seem to mind the fact that Gabriel didn't pay, he didn't even know if the angel even had money (coming straight from Hell, Lucifer suspected that he didn't).
Looking back at the beer, Lucifer stared at it and made a face.