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[notrunninganymore]

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[thedevilwhorose]

So who's this Josie?

[notrunninganymore]

Hey, I ask you extremely important information about your love life and you basically tell me to go ask Castiel, and yet you expect to get your own questions answered? No, I'm holding a grudge. Go ask Michael.

[He is not actually holding a grudge but this is far too good an opportunity to pass up.]

[thedevilwhorose]

Are you saying Josie is a part of Michael romantic life because otherwise I don't see the relevance.

[notrunninganymore]

I'm not not saying that.

1/2

[thedevilwhorose]

Come onnnn, Gabriel.

2/2

[thedevilwhorose]

How about an information trade, then? Or are you too scared?

[notrunninganymore]

What could you know that I would possibly care about and couldn't find out some other way?

[thedevilwhorose]

Fair point, but information directly from the source? Well, that's a rarity.

[notrunninganymore]

What, about your love life? I'll just ask Istredd. We hang.

[thedevilwhorose]

'We hang' Gabriel please.

[notrunninganymore]

I could come up with alternatives but do you really want that?

[thedevilwhorose]

I'm picturing you in a hodgepodge of a neon surfer's outfit and a hippie outfit, do you really want that?

[notrunninganymore]

I've worn a lot worse.

Anyway, point still stands, you're going to have to up the ante if you want me to risk Michael's wrath for your curiosity.

[thedevilwhorose]

Istredd isn't fool enough to air much more than the default details and answers to my siblings.

But then, for all I know this person is just someone that's brought him mail, once. I have no estimate of the value, other than it's enough that you are concerned with Michael's wrath.

Really, I just want Michael to make friends. That's the only reason I'm not just asking Wanda.

[notrunninganymore]

You can keep the non-default details, thanks.

Don't worry, Michael's been making friends. Multiple friends. I'll him you were wishing him well, though.

[thedevilwhorose]

As though Michael would believe you.

[notrunninganymore]

Michael doesn't believe anything I say, so don't think you're special.

[thedevilwhorose]

I don't believe anything you particularly say, so...

Look at that, Michael and I can agree about something.

[notrunninganymore]

See, there's hope for you two yet. You're welcome.

[thedevilwhorose]

I wouldn't go that far.

[notrunninganymore]

Yeah, well, how many things have we all said that about that ended up happening anyway?

[thedevilwhorose]

[there is a long pause between responses to make up for the fact that Lucifer is physically sighing]

Ain't that the truth.

[notrunninganymore]

Best of luck, bro.

angel radio

[thedevilwhorose]

[ultimately, Gabe is the one he needs to maybe get Michael to do anything, but hey, Lucifer didn't outright put Gabriel in the middle this time]

angel-fucking-direct radio

[thedevilwhorose]

[with surround-sound sonic shaking wavelengths]

Screw you.

[notrunninganymore]

[Wow, bro, what an overreaction.]

Hey bro. You know that's like well-wishes to me, right?

[He loves screwing in all configurations!]

[thedevilwhorose]

How long have you been back?

I forgot how to format angel radio sigh

[notrunninganymore]

Oh, you know, time flies and all that. About a month? Before the Nether opened up.

idek what it is I just go italics over his usual lolol

[thedevilwhorose]

[screaming]

You didn't think, maybe, to inform the rest of the class? But sure, no, why would I care.

[notrunninganymore]

I did think about it, and decided I'd stay on the down low for awhile. Did the same thing last time too, and it's not like it was just you, soooooo...

[So really, calm down!!! Everything's fine no need to get in a tizzy!!!]

[thedevilwhorose]

Oh good so you are equally hiding, again, from everyone else.

[Except probably Michael, but Lucifer is sensible enough for-fucking-once to not open that can of worms in Gabe's face and maybe/kinda-sorta feeling a phantom pain in his true form from an injury that both happened and never happened]

I found out from Istredd. Of course. How many times are you going to run away, Gabriel? Are you ever going to stop?

[notrunninganymore]

Yeah, yeah. You're definitely making me regret the last month of not getting bitched at.

[Or at least not bitched at any worse than Michael's complaining whenever Gabriel specifically annoys him.]

[thedevilwhorose]

If you were actually in my vicinity like half the other people from home are now I would certainly make you regret it, Gabriel. Did you go back to the Nether? Did I just miss you?

[he should've done this via Horizon Instant Messaging because in case Gabriel couldn't figure it out:

Lucifer in genuinely Upset]

[notrunninganymore]

[He does, for better or worse, get that Lucifer is mad. But he's also doesn't have the patience to deal with that in any sort of sensitive way, especially when he's annoyed by the entire fact that Lucifer's mad at him.]

If you're trying to make me feel bad about this, you're kind of having the opposite effect. No, I didn't go to the Nether, and I also don't answer to you, so why don't you pack up the attitude a little and try this whole thing again. I'll even go first: hey bro, did I miss anything important?

[thedevilwhorose]

Do you even care? What even classifies as 'important' to you?

[notrunninganymore]

[He sends an extremely dramatic sigh through angel radio.]

Look, Luci, if you called just to whine at me, I'm out.

[thedevilwhorose]

[the low hiss is there, catching and tripping over radio waves, upticking and out] WHAT do you want to know, Gabe? Or rather, what don't you want to know? Because believe you me, I am trying to keep you out of what I can. [you're welcome]

[notrunninganymore]

You can't just say that and expect me not to wonder what the hell you're talking about. Besides, you didn't even know I was here, how have you been keeping me out of anything?

[But he's intrigued now, because of course he is.]

[thedevilwhorose]

Surely Michael has been, unless you're not in Solvunn anymore.

[which is

well

it might actually say a lot if they both don't entirely want to tell Gabriel how absolutely fucking Fucked they are, worse than before, worse than the Beginning, after Gabriel was gone]

Never mind. The Singularity's had more problems and everyone's been dispersed, but you were clearly here for all that, right? So I don't actually need to tell you anything.

[notrunninganymore]

Michael hasn't said anything about you, just that you're still around.

And yeah, I got that much. That's really it? Nothing else important happened while I was gone? I get that Solvunn's boring, but wow.

[thedevilwhorose]

Wow, that's more care than I thought Mikey had in him. Though he probably meant it as a warning, not a kindness. [said in a biting tone

before it eases back into his current snippy, clipped behavior] I don't know the dealings of Solvunn. They sure finally stopped playing the guise of neutral party. There was some war, now on the wayside AGAIN because the territories never know how to commit. Some ship damage on Thorne's harbor that your little Commune claims they weren't involved in. Thorne had a coup. The old Crown is dead. My gilded cage is less cage, still very gilded.