Because angels, and prospective apping decisions are scary.

[afallenstar]

I wouldn't worry too much. Even if you don't make it in, you can always try again. It's not the end of the world, trust me.

...Anyway, I'm already stuck in one little town aren't I? Surely there's no real need to upgrade. I know you'd like to see more of my family, but I'm okay with who I have here. Seriously.

Well, maybe it'd be nice to see some of the others

Why don't you just bring some here instead?

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[hung_garian]

How about because this town ain't big enough for more than the three of us? You might be surprised how much space full on angelic war takes up.

[afallenstar]

I was thinking a little less war and a little more-

...yeah, there's not really an option B with our family, is there.

[hung_garian]

'Fraid not, sweetheart. The blue and the gray's pretty much the only way it can go if they're from our time. Maybe if they were from earlier - a lot earlier... but somehow I don't see that happening.

Hi. Being heavily enabled.

[servingmichael]

Or later, perhaps.

Oh yes? :D Hi!

[hung_garian]

[Ah. Raphael may not be Michael or Lucifer, but he's not the most peaceable angel there is, especially in an enclosed town including Castiel.]

You think so?

[Gabriel would like to, but he's not sure he can muster the optimism to believe the family will get less violent with time. Then again, if Raphael seems to think so, then it's at least worth listening... if only because it's been quite a while since they last talked.]

yeeeees. Maybe late Feb/March

[servingmichael]

[...Can't he just kick Castiel in the head once or twice? He'll stop after that. Maybe. Probably.

...Gabriel will head slap him and tell him to quit?]

I'm tired of fighting Gabriel. Michael was as well.

[Which is why they did what they did, as weird as that logic was - because bringing the end means The End, and Paradise, no more struggle and strife.]

EXCELLENT. Would love to have you <3

[hung_garian]

[And that's a slap in the face, in a way. Call him self-centred, but that hadn't really occurred to him, that Michael and Raphael might be just as sick of it as he is.]

I'll believe that when I see it.

[Much as he'd like to believe it. Until there's incontrovertible proof, he'll be sticking with bitterness; it's easier not to be let down if he doesn't get his hopes up.]

You're saying if you got dragged in you'd be willing to play nice? Sit around playing tea parties and exchanging pleasantries and all that crap?

Thaaaaaaaaaaanks I want Raphael with more of his sibs <3

[servingmichael]

[They had been, but neither had been able to leave. It's why they had turned Heaven into what they had, to stop the fighting.]

You could have.

[Gabriel isn't the only one who is bitter.]

I'm saying I'm willing to get along. Am I willing to forgive past sins? Not entirely. But I have other problems to deal with than being angry at runaway angels, and given the enclosed environment a full scale battle between angels is nothing but cruel to those unable to get out of the way.

With a bit of luck, we'll have a respectably sized collection before long :D

[hung_garian]

Didn't know you still gave two rodents' rear ends about collateral. Not that I'm complaining, Super Smash Bros is hardly my idea of a good time either.

it's my RP dream to get the four archangels together

[servingmichael]

I'm the Healer, Gabriel. I don't enjoy seeing people suffer.

Absolutely. A slightly chaotic dream, but a good one.

[hung_garian]

[He shrugs. He can't point the finger on that count, anyway - even if Raphael doesn't enjoy it, Gabriel kind of does.]

People change. I don't know what you enjoy any more. For all I know, you could be an avid stamp-collector with a soft spot for Sandra Bullock movies.

It's angels. Chaos comes with it.

[servingmichael]

[It's part of how the archangels balance each other, really. It's why Raphael went so off the rails when he was alone.]

There isn't much.

I'd think you were the movie watcher.

It's part of their charm.

[hung_garian]

Sure am. Not Sandra Bullock, though - I'm a Julia Roberts kind of guy. Maybe you should get a hobby besides singing praises and smiting the unfaithful or whatever it is you do. You know what they say, all work and no play...

Really is.

[servingmichael]

There's much work to do. Especially with two doing the work of four.

[And then one doing it alone, but he's not telling Gabriel what happens.]

Besides, you were the one who played.

[hung_garian]

What can I say? All play and no work makes Gabriel the least boring angel.

[Or, rather more accurately, the least helpful angel.]

I'm sure Heaven can take care of itself without you two idiots running yourselves ragged all the time.

[And maybe the most naive too.]

[servingmichael]

Boring could never be applied to you. And you know it.

[Or something.]

Do you remember what happened when Michael was off at some nebula or another, I was guiding someone in stopping a plague, and you had a prophet that developed laryngitis, and we left one of the seraphs in charge?

[Never. Ever. Again.]

[hung_garian]

You're too sweet.

[He grimaces.]

Well, you could try shifting the workload to people who aren't morons. Or corrupt. I think you could do without a repeat of the Dobiel situation.

[servingmichael]

You're the only one who thinks so.

[...Yeah. Let's not do that again.]

Joshua has his duties and won't bend. And Zachariah is too over burdened now.

[Or was. Still. Moving on.]

I could do without a repeat of many things.

[hung_garian]

Yeah, no kidding. Well, look at this way - at least if you end up getting dragged to Kore too you at least get a vacation from all that crap.

[servingmichael]

I don't want a vacation.

But it would be nice to have us again. Especially if manage to get all of us in one place.

[hung_garian]

So long as Mike and Luci are on board with your 'give peace a chance' plan, sure. Go knit them friendship bracelets if you want, let me know how it works out for you.

[The problem is that that's all Gabriel really wants, so of course he's not going to let himself get his hopes up.]

Me, though? I'll be over here, stocking up on canned food and digging out a bomb shelter. There's no way the two of them are gonna play nice.

[servingmichael]

[Gabriel might have a brother with him in that bomb shelter.]

Lucifer might actually.

[It's not a guess. He knows what Lucifer said to Michael, about the Apocalypse. Michael had been unwilling to yield and Raphael unwilling to let go.]

[hung_garian]

You sure? Last time I saw him he didn't seem too inclined to discuss things over a nice cup of tea.

[Which admittedly was Gabriel's fault for trying to stab him in the first place, but hey. Details.]

[servingmichael]

'We're going to kill each other. And for what? One of Dad's tests. And we don't even know the answer. We're brothers. Let's just walk off the chessboard.'

[It probably sounds as strange to Gabriel as it feels to Raphael, to mimic Lucifer's voice so perfectly. But he recalled that conversation down to where the blades of grass where leaning.]

That's what he said to Michael.

[hung_garian]

[...ah. Well, that changes things considerably, but if there's anything he's learnt over the years it's that every silver lining has a huge-ass cloud, and happy endings are the exception to the rule.]

And then they drove off into the sunset and everything was sunshine, lollipops and rainbows for the rest of forever?