Archangel Lucifer

As dawn chases away the night's terrors, I shall chase away your fears. I am the torch to light your way. I am Father, Brother, Friend. I am Lucifer.

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

Victory does taste sweet.

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@SwordofVega @ThePatientHeart @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie Oh yes.
<heavy plop back onto couch>
Hear me out. Pretty please?

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@ThePatientHeart @SwordofVega @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie <claps hands, jumps to feet, throwing arms wide>
We do it ourselves! Simple as that. <snaps right hand fingers>
We restore home ourselves, we and our brethren go home, the humans have their world back, and when Alex is ready to return, life will be back to normal. Easy. Peasy.

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@ThePatientHeart @SwordofVega @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie Our job now is simple. We must ensure the world is ripe for picking when dear Alex decides to join us in the land of living crazies, rather than that fun little desolate isolation he buries himself in.
<leans forward, elbows press knees, fingers rub>
Do you want to know how?

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@ThePatientHeart @SwordofVega @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie But you do have a point, Gabriel. Nothing we say or do has had an immediate effect on the boy. Poor lad. His mind is more twisted than the branches of the Eden apple tree. But it is a mind we are talking about. His mind. His choice. We can only offer advice and assurance.

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@ThePatientHeart @SwordofVega @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie <smooths non-existent wrinkles from blanket covering boy>
<gestures to living room>
<settles on couch, legs stretch out, cross at ankles>
Oh, I suspect there are a great many things we could yet try, Gabriel, but I was under the impression you wanted him whole. Am I mistaken?

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@ThePatientHeart @SwordofVega @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie <dragging crawl of eyelids heavy open to dual quiet intensity boring through soul with ferocity>
<they never were patient>
<ambles to feet, from toes to fingertips a languid stretch, as much a dragging crawl as any stretches time and nerves>

No change.
<shrug>

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@ThePatientHeart @SwordofVega @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie Alex... Do you deserve to survive? Do they? Is there a difference?

Alex... Our one binding truth: Faith. Hold it near. Press it to your chest and bury your tears and sins and regret in it. Faith can hold it all. Close your eyes. One deep breath. Take a step. Have faith.

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@ThePatientHeart @SwordofVega @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie <a promise for them alone>
Father has asked you to do unspeakable things to maintain his position. It won't be like that with us. We will do better, be better. Alex will awaken, and when he does, together we will forge our destinies with renewed vigor. This I promise you.

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@ThePatientHeart @SwordofVega @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie <brothers, shoulder to shoulder, one on the left, other on the right, family spreads before them, massive>
<contented sigh nearly escapes, drapes an arm over each, pulling them in partial hug, fading scar of constellation mark from melding an itch as skin stretches>

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@SwordofVega @ThePatientHeart @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie <break of dawn slips under cracked eyelids, limbs heavy and stiff, pulls hand from Chosen's chest, examines burning itch, constellation etched red on back>
<the boy still sleeps, awake, unaware>
<the twins remain unmoved, interesting tidbit to explore>
<for now, a long day ahead>

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@SwordofVega @ThePatientHeart @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie <scorching wind whips into frenzy, it crackles with dry heat's intensity, shoving until toes dangle over edge, gaping jaws of depthless chasm yawning wide in wait>
<teeth grind in effort push away>
Alex, I'll help you. I'll help you.
<blood pours from nose, ears ring screeching>

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@SwordofVega @ThePatientHeart @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie Leave the real world behind to die, or return to it and prune the garden so that good can flourish. Either way, you and I, we carry that decision and its scars splashed across our souls. That is who we are. That is who you are.

[Archangel Lucifer @FirstSonofMorn]

@SwordofVega @ThePatientHeart @DyadofDelphi @Eziliveve @Kathy_Porter @Na0sGlass @NaughtySuzanne @ajenjo @Grasser33Helene @AngelNinaBanks @Angelab0424 @CuddyAnnie You can forsake them, all of them, and stay here. You have earned your peace and if this image you have constructed brings it, I envy you. But I know what is in your heart, because it is in mine too.