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[integrity]

As everyone is delicately tip-toeing around what a few select people have figured out, let me spell it out for you, for the individuals who lack the brain cells to rub together.

It's guilt. The feelings of guilt. Decisions that you regret. Things you've done that you wish you could have done differently. That is what is causing you all to be so sick, why certain people are targeted and certain people are supposedly immune.

If anything, you should stop feeling sorry for yourselves and start wondering why, exactly, some people are so healthy. Those are probably the people you should be watching warily -- because I doubt they're all saints.

In other news, Castiel is in a coma, which I'm sure is a grand surprise to all that know him and have connected piece A with piece B. Stop texting him and calling him. I'm going to feed the NV to my dog shortly if it keeps going off.

The first person to suggest that I take him to a hospital will have their throat cut.

Continue panicking at your leisure. I am going to return to my work.

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[integrity]

If I fall into a coma because he doesn't recover because you assigned me responsibility, my dog is going to rip out your vessel's organs and feast on your wings.

Fuck off, feathers. I don't have time for your brainless idiocy today.

[learnyourplace]

If you fell into a coma, I would rejoice. You should be wallowing in guilt.

[pause] I hope you feel guilt over threatening me.

[integrity]

No, actually, I feel a lot better after threatening you. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

I hope you feel guilty over attempting to stab your brother instead of using your words.

[learnyourplace]

[Stow it, Crowley. If you get her sniffly, she'll end you.]

It's hard to feel guilt when I ended up dead.

[integrity]

No, but you did nearly kill him and pushed him to extremes, thereby leaving him lost and alone in a world that wanted to do nothing but tear him into tiny little pieces.

Surely nothing to feel guilty over.

[learnyourplace]

And you were nothing but a bastion of good faith and support? You pushed first.

What's to feel guilty over? It's in your nature to betray and destroy, is it not?

[integrity]

No, I was the one that got sick of Hell being a cesspool and Heaven being a mockery of what it should be and I decided to go find the one other person in the world that agreed with me.

Unfortunately for me, I placed far too much faith in the ability of others to trust that a demon might know better than the Angels on High, for them to possess a certain level of wherewithal to see past their idiotic racist mentality and listen to an intelligent point of view.

Your Daddy forgot to program that into you, apparently.

[learnyourplace]

There was nothing intelligent in what you had planned. You would make a mess someone else needs to clean up. Don't pretend that what you planned was for the good for us all. It was entirely self-serving. You know that.

[integrity]

Do you know what Hell was before I took over, princess? Because I can paint a picture for you, right now, that would make you molt. You know nothing about me, where I come from, what I've done, or my motivations, you insignificant little insect.

The only one who was self-serving in this little war to preserve free will was your team. Not mine. But go on -- paint me to be the bad guy, the one who destroyed everything you loved and held dear, because out of every single person in this silly conflict, I am the only one who didn't stab anyone in the back.

[learnyourplace]

I don't care to learn anything more about you.

[Pause] If you cannot take any responsibility for the things you've done, then I have nothing more to say.

[integrity]

I'll take responsibility for my actions when your side takes responsibility for assisting in springing Lucifer from the fucking Cage, which will never happen, so bite me.

[learnyourplace]

I take responsibility for my own actions. [Get out, Crowley. You want her to take responsibility for every angel? She'd love to beat you to a pulp with her NV.

... Good luck getting her to respond to anything else.]

[integrity]

Good.

So take responsibility for your assassination attempt instead of shielding it as a merciful act.