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Jan. 17th, 2020 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tryingitallA whirlwind romance is a wonderful thing. For Balthazar, there are multiple dimensions of whirlwind. Lucifer and his passion is the main focus, but being accepted and treated as a friend by so many of the angels of his court--not to mention his children--has been almost as compelling. It's all very beautiful, and so much of what Balthazar always hungered for in his own family, that it feels like the proverbial dream come true.
Which is why part of him is waiting for the other shoe to drop, for some sort of catch to show up (as if being aware that Lucifer is going to have a final show-down with God some day wasn't enough of a catch? but Balthazar is able to compartmentalize). Perhaps Moloch sensed this and found the gap in the angel's armor he was looking for, or perhaps it's Balthazar's own uncertainty catching up to him.
Either way, they need to discuss practicalities sooner or later, and not merely live in the joy of mutual emotions.
Lucifer will find his angel on the terrace of the apartment, with a cup of espresso and, incongruously, a bag of gummi worms, nibbling one of the latter slowly. He lights up when Lucifer arrives, smiling, eyes crinkling at the corners, and holds out the bag.
"The red and yellow-ish ones are the best," he tells him.
Which is why part of him is waiting for the other shoe to drop, for some sort of catch to show up (as if being aware that Lucifer is going to have a final show-down with God some day wasn't enough of a catch? but Balthazar is able to compartmentalize). Perhaps Moloch sensed this and found the gap in the angel's armor he was looking for, or perhaps it's Balthazar's own uncertainty catching up to him.
Either way, they need to discuss practicalities sooner or later, and not merely live in the joy of mutual emotions.
Lucifer will find his angel on the terrace of the apartment, with a cup of espresso and, incongruously, a bag of gummi worms, nibbling one of the latter slowly. He lights up when Lucifer arrives, smiling, eyes crinkling at the corners, and holds out the bag.
"The red and yellow-ish ones are the best," he tells him.
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Date: 2020-02-20 09:54 pm (UTC)But those details aren’t really what he was asking about, and he nods at the offer to sit in and observe their parliament. “Yes, I think I had better. You don’t operate like the Host as I’m used to it. That’s not really a surprise, we were never a democracy, but just watching the protocol as it happens is going to be a new experience for me.”
Angels that talk back to their superiors? Questions and doubts freely voiced? He can’t wait to see this.
When Lucifer begins to explain about Moloch, he settles again, restlessness leaving his body. He wasn’t entirely wrong, he thinks, in his initial analysis of the fallen angel at the Christmas party. Someone’s done a number on him. He just didn’t realize it was done so long ago.
“Does he expect you to turn on him, too? Is that why he’s so bloody contentious?”
That would make Balthazar’s arrival intolerable, wouldn’t it? A potential catalyst to turn Lucifer against him utterly. Unendurable—or else an opportunity to prompt a fight that might finally kill him.
Good thing the Rit Zien never got their claws into Balthazar, because that is exactly the kind of pain that would make their sense of mercy go haywire.
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Date: 2020-02-21 03:18 am (UTC)That wasn't the only reason and he goes on. "You do not understand our war. Maybe you consider it sheltering but we are not fighting battles as a normal war between angels. It is attrition, and God himself attempts to breakdown our door. I had to tear out Michael's throat to distract Him and drive Him back just before the holidays or God may have broke into Chaos."
It's Lucifer's turn to frown. "If an actual war breaks out there will be no one to heal because we will either be back in the fire or destroyed. I am not strong enough yet to face an open war so I keep their attention fixed on me, and subvert God's power among his own angels while I wait."
He lets that explanation stand unless Balthazar wants more information. It is better to focus on things that can be done. "You should sit in one within Chaos with all the angels. When you are ready we can see if the wards I used to protect the human from Chaos will work for you and Levi."
Lucifer can't help but think that it will do Balthazar good to see how many angels there are and how they interact as a people instead of the few that visit the Nexus. There's a long silence after the questions about Moloch. With the other angel there were no easy answers. Everything was twists and turns, as convoluted as how he spoke.
"Yes, and no." Lucifer shakes his head. "He is both hopeless and fearless, full of hatred and feelings of betrayal. He pulls at people, unravels them from their weak points if he finds them. Behind all the deception he's honest and will figt for the fallen until death if he has to. You're new, and my partner. I'm sorry you have to endure his attention."