There are some essential facts not generally known to most of the multiverse.
One of them is that even God needs a break sometimes. It's only logical, if you think about it; he's got one hell of a job after all, if you pardon the french. Those breaks occasionally stretch out over a few millennia, but that's another matter entirely. It is also not the point right now.
Gabriel is not God. He still needs a break from time to time, too, though, especially with a particular couple of mortals (along with his little brother) being a spectacular pain in his ass lately. He deserves a day off, seriously.
While he usually is the type to go in for ridiculously colourful, cheerful, overly sweet drinks, preferably with umbrellas in them, he settled for a simple beer today, simply because the beer at this place is amazing.
He tips his bottle in the direction of his seatmate and inquires cheerfully: "Off on a break, too, huh?"
A grumpy mumbling could be heard from under the mass of bright blonde hair that pooled around the face of a small woman with a fairy-like appearance, which was currently in solid contact with the table.
Before the archangel could make fun of her position, the barman called out "Histoire!" (because in this bar you could damn well pick up your own orders, or you needn't have bothered coming), so she waved a hand, and a platter laden with steak and fries started floating across the room, accompanied by a bottle of beer that looked ridiculously large next to the tiny being.
Raising her head from her frustration induced power nap, she raised her sky-blue eyes to Gabriel's face. She had a long way to look up to, seeing as, even seated on her floating book, she still barely reached up to his chest.
"I wish. But knowing Neptune, if I leave for more than a day, the country will probably be on fire when I come back. Urgh, why is she only motivated to be productive whenever there's a giant monster trying to destroy the world?!"
Gabriel smiled wrily. "That is more relatable than you think, believe me," he told her. "Although, with the Apocalypse underway and everything, the boys are holding up pretty well at the moment. You don't seem to happy about your bunch though." He took another sip of his beer. "Sounds like you could use more than just a day off."
She took the bottle in both hands and tilted it to her mouth. It looked less like drinking from a bottle and more like sipping from a bowl, but it also meant she got more out of the best beer in the known Multiverse, so she didn't mind that much.
Right now her dignity was not really a concern.
"All the CPUs are horribly stressful when they have too much time on their hands. Is it bad that I wish for another monster plague, or the return of evil Arfoire or something?"
"Oh, I know what it's like," Gabriel responded, waving a hand. "I have siblings. Tied one of them up with duct tape once. That was fun." He sighed wistfully, took a sip of his beer and then paused.
A grin forming on his features, he turned in his seat. "Hey. I think I might have an idea. You want some holidays, right?"
"That's an understatement, but yes. I wish I could just kick back and relax for a few days without having to clean up after Neptune every 5 minutes"
The Tome-Fairy sighed and shook her head.
"I could get caught up on paperwork, read a good book, play some of the new releases, catch a good night's sleep..."
Yes, Gabriel was an angel. An archangel, in fact. But he had also been a trickster god for thousands of years and some opportunities were just too good to pass up.
"Okay, Histy, listen here," he said, leaning forward, "I've got an idea..."
AN: Why hello there, dear readers. Those among you who are here because you follow me may be thinking: "Dammit, Eis, why are you starting another project when you have yet to make any progress on Protagonist or Yeah Complicated? You haven't even given us those shorts you promised!"To which I say... yeah, you have a point. Though, in my defense, the rest of my stuff is being worked on. Also, this doesn't take much of my time and attention, give that everything I publish in this story was written long ago, in collaboration with my dear friend Majinie (check him out over on Archive Of Our Own if you like Avengers, Supernatural or Hamilton stuff). I'm only now editing and uploading it because I felt like sharing this little silly story that came from one of my many silly ideas.