14 [Video]

[ofthursday]

[The feed crackles on in the Darkness, the usual growls and other eerie noises of night at Siren's Port conspicuously absent in the area. It takes a moment for Castiel's image to become clear on the screen, almost melding out of the dark, expression smoothly neutral except for the faint hint of a smirk that looks completely out of place on his usually serious face.

His eyes are dark in the dim lighting, endless and like staring into an abyss, and even across the electronic feed the sense of wrongness is readily apparent.]

So I find myself here once more.

[His voice is soft, calm, almost uncaring, as if showing up in the Port again is a curiosity and nothing more. Then he smiles.]

It seems a good place to begin.

Comments

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[paterelohim]

[He only hesitates for a few seconds before answering.]

He swallowed all the souls and monsters and- things in Purgatory. Some asshole made him so desperate that he thought it was the only way to save the world.

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[servingmichael]

And released monsters we can't fight into the world. Wonderful plan he had.

[Hey! LOOKED WHO LEARNED SARCASM.]

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[paterelohim]

Oh, come on- that's not fair. YOu can't get on his case for a plan going wrong when it's your fault anyway.

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[servingmichael]

I believe I just did.

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[paterelohim]

I- [He sputters. Just. Really, Raphael?] I meant that it's douchey.

He... took in those souls for power, he had no idea it would drive him crazy. He didn't really understand the mechanics of how drawing power from souls works, I think. I mean. Nobody ever told him.

He's just an angel. He didn't have any leaders or big brothers he could actually count on. Just- Raphael? Please. Just. Keep yourself safe, and don't talk to me about how it's all his fault. He screwed up, but he was pushed. I mean, hard.

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[servingmichael]

I don't care what you meant. [Yes really.]

The fact that he had to sink to that should have told him he shouldn't have done it to begin with. Not to mention what it must have taken to find Purgatory, considering I don't even know where it is, much less how to open it.

He might have been pushed, and you might blame me for it, but if it was my doing? It was because I was trying to hold the Host together, to prevent war between us, and rescue my brother from the Cage.

He wasn't the only one under pressure.

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[paterelohim]

Don't be so self-righteous. You were working with a demon.

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[servingmichael]

[Well if that isn't one of the most interesting face Raphael has made, a mix of disgust, disbelief, and anger, all warring for domination and none of them succeeding.]

Seems like I was more desperate than Castiel then.