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[Jinx looks excited. So excited that she might explode if she doesn't tell anyone and everyone why. Meanwhile, Gabriel is in the background, leaning against a wall and looking like the cat who ate the canary. Oh, he's smug.]

I have an announcement-- [She stops herself and looks back at Gabriel, her grin only getting bigger.] We have an announcement to make. Last night, Gabriel proposed to me...

[She shows off her left hand and has to contain a squeal. What the audience should be turning their attention toward is her recently acquired fashion statement.] I said yes!

[As if everyone in the Port is too dumb to put two and two together, she just has to add:] We're getting married!

[From the peanut gallery:] Never let it be said that I didn't make an honest woman out of her. [A beat.] ...Well, sorta.

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[BUT MICHAEL...

Lucifer flips his NV off telekinetically.]

I thought you wanted me to make friends.

[NO BUTS MISTER.

He removes his hand even if the disapproval doesn't go away.]

Not like that.

What, not with jokes?

[He stands, looking at Michael intently.]

Not with those sort of jokes.

[He's sure that things just became a hundred times harder in trying to get them to all get along again. Michael tilts his head up to keep his gaze on Lucifer's eyes.]

Who cares? The 'baby' she didn't have was an abomination and we both would have slit its throat anyway. I'm just glad there's someone else who can find something to laugh at in all of this.

As true as that may be you were no longer talking about her 'baby'. Even if you were, its gone so there's no point in making jokes about it.

Then what's the problem?

Do you hate Gabriel so much that you can't just ignore things like this?

[He grits his teeth, to keep from spitting out the answer. It comes in another way, anyway.]

If I hated him, I would have left all of that public-- oh. Wait.

[Michael reaches out to put a hand on his brother's shoulder.]

I don't like the fact that the two of you have grown so distant from each other.

He ran. And he left you, too. He's distant because he wants to be.

[And Gabriel is dead. Lucifer can't bring himself to say it, not right now, not with Michael standing in front of him. But Gabriel is dead, and whatever is here...it isn't his little brother.]

I know and it was hard [Downright painful.] but he's here. And he wants to fix things. Gabriel's just found someone important to him. We can either accept it or you can go on hating him for the rest of eternity.

[Michael doesn't hate Gabe, but if the pain of being left didn't do it then nothing will. Of course, Lucifer is a different story.]

[Lucifer looks at Michael, and finally reaches up to touch the side of his face.]

I know how much you must have missed him. And I know that it must seem like a second chance with him here.

But he is nothing to me now.

[It's not just a second chance to be with Gabriel but to have two of his closest siblings back. To see them fighting...or even ignoring each other or Lucifer picking on Gabe from afar is getting harder.]

Is there nothing that can change your mind?

He's not one of us! He hasn't been since he ran off with the pagans! Don't you understand? He doesn't care about me, Michael. The only reason he got rid of the oil was because I told him I would kill her if he didn't. You think he cares about you?

[Lucifer's tirade stumbles to a halt, but he slowly shakes his head.] He sees us as obstacles. He's not the brother we raised.

Just because he left doesn't mean he doesn't care. [For a second the line of pain between God's departure and Gabriel's blur to the point where Michael's not sure which one he's even talking about anymore.] I can't push him out of my life.

[He lifts his eyes to Lucifer.] Ignore him. For me.

[Lucifer glowers at him uncertainly, wanting to argue, to insist there will be no peace. He has to force that down, because Michael (who never asks for anything) is asking.

He exhales heavily and pulls Michael into a one-armed hug that still manages to be greedy.]

For you. I'll pretend he's not even here.

[He knows it's going to be hard for Lucifer but Michael still hopes they can reconcile. If Lucifer kept pushing Gabriel away like this, it would become impossible.

With the hug and the words, he lets the subject drop. His fingers curl around his brother's wrist.]

Want to feed the animals and Erik with me?

Think we can get them all to hang their mouths open and wait for us to throw food to them?

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