[Most days, Lucifer does not think of heaven. This is not from any conscious effort- just habit. In the Cage it had hurt too much to think of the betrayal, and most days now he gains nothing to think of What Had Been Before.
He remembers now. He remembers a time when there had been no need for deception, and he and his brother had seen each other as they truly were, and spoken their thoughts without fear of rejection or rebuke.
How naive they had been.
The anger that has smouldered in Lucifer since he was cast down is stoked a little more, thinking of how their Father has ruined this between them. Michael should never have been set against him. Can he be satisfied like this?]
Of course not.
[There are other words he might say, if he had not already learned that vulnerability was not a strength.]
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He remembers now. He remembers a time when there had been no need for deception, and he and his brother had seen each other as they truly were, and spoken their thoughts without fear of rejection or rebuke.
How naive they had been.
The anger that has smouldered in Lucifer since he was cast down is stoked a little more, thinking of how their Father has ruined this between them. Michael should never have been set against him. Can he be satisfied like this?]
Of course not.
[There are other words he might say, if he had not already learned that vulnerability was not a strength.]