Disclaimer:I don't own anything related with or to 'Dominion' like characters etc. I am just a fan of the show, it's plot and actors.
Pairing: Michael/ Gabriel
Summary: "Gabriel... this darkness...why would you allow it to overtake you?"
M note: This story is AU-ish, has mild Archangel Yaoi-slash...twincest...the characters are kind of ooc and an established relationship is there but not really. You'll see what I mean if you read the story.
I'll be busy the rest of the week so I won't post anything else until the weekend, maybe Saturday meh..I'll try to post part of it. Oh I have two new stories I'll post if anyone wants to read them later.
1. Bialate- Uriel/Raphael: Yuri twincest smut but with some plot
2. Cairo- Michael/Becca origin- Hetero smut, relationship twoshot
New Delphi
He has no idea where they are exactly because most of the day has gone by in a haze thanks to the darkness attempting to take over him every couple of seconds.
Michael found him... somehow, this should be alarming.
Honestly he doesn't know why because he is not completely unwilling to fight him if it comes to that but the preparations for his plans are far from finalized.
"It is only fair brother. That you loose Alex by my hand as I lost David to yours." The words are out there.
Up in the air around them until they disperse into nothing but fragments of a forgotten emotion.
It isn't like he wishes to take them back even though the mention of his dead son will always hurt his heart.
"Brother-" Gabriel punches him in the face because he doesn't want to hear it. Whatever lies his twin brother is willing to shove in his face.
"Gabriel... this darkness...why would you allow it to overtake you?" Michael's voice is accusing and he looks confused, sad.
Perhaps he is wondering how it is that he can be related to someone who just gave into his fears so readily.
"Listen to my voice. Fight it. You are all I have left, please don't forsake me."
Michael leans against him and Gabriel feels a little worried because his resolve is beginning to waver with every second Michael is in his presence.
He doesn't like the fact that his twin has this amount of power over him. He is positive that Michael doesn't even know how to use it properly and his words are not helping anything.
"I will make sure it doesn't consume you."
"Why?" He wants to run a hand over his face them probably slap himself. He was supposed to ask or care for an answer.
Just remove him from your path. Your feelings are holding you back.
The words play out on his mind. They echo along with the memories of long ago. He simply needs to stop making excuses and go for the kill.
Not necessarily Michael's. That would be too easy. Kind
"You are my gift from Father. As I am yours. Yin and yang. You are my home and I have failed you time and time again." Michael drops his swords and hugs him tightly as he buries his face against his brother's neck.
Tears of sadness and slow resignation are all he has left to offer. They are not enough, he knows this but he doesn't stop.
He is terrified, waiting for the sake of it because nothing will stop the empyrean steel if he doesn't fight but the thought of him being responsible for his brother's absurd thoughts and actions because he apparently has little to low self-esteem is just wrong.
"I love you. I..I want- need you to know that..." Gabriel shoves him away just enough to look into his eyes.
He will not be fooled. But he would be lying to himself if he didn't say this is what he wanted to hear.
"Why are you lying? Take it back, I have never attempted to hurt you but even in your last moments...here you stand wounding me so..."
He's still hasn't let go of the sword but he presses his other hand to choke a little bit.
Enough to make it clear that he isn't getting away but not with force behind it to hurt or bruise.
"I am not. Keep it, this simple fact. Gabriel, you are all I have ever aspired to achieve. You just want to destroy humanity, that is the only flaw and even then I don't disagree with you all that much."
Michael kissed him as he holds onto the hand against his neck and the one holding the blade.
"Allow me this act then."
Gabriel smirks something that doesn't show an ounce of mirth. Just a barely concealed look of understanding to his features.
"You just want a way out of this moment. One in which you can later use to control me. Something personal. Dangerous. Now, I see how far you would go. The old me would have cried at the sight of you now Michael."
"Gabriel, I truly believe in the fact that you can and will beat this plight which fills your feelings. You are my light even when engulfed and sinking in darkness. I will not abandon you again, you will not drown."
"Michael. I just want to kill him. He took you away and Father is not here and Uriel is dead...And you left. You let my David die and call Alex your true brother and broke me. I...I will go after everything you love in this world. Only to stop when and until you are just as broken as me."
Michael pressed him against the wall with enough force to actually hurt him a little but it's just a distraction.
"I will save you from this." He extends his wings and they encircle around them as Gabriel growls commanding him to leg go of his arm.
Michael kissed him for a second time, it is desperate and forceful but sweet in its attempt at distraction.
"Were you happy...The instant you realized that he died and I was free to worship your every move. I wasn't. I loved him, he was my child and you let him, watched him die!"
Michael winced as the severity of his words reach him in abundance.
"I'm so sorry Gabriel, I was not swift enough to catch him as he fell. You do not need to forgive me but I attempted to safe him. His death was quick. He did not suffer."
"Why would you reopen my wounds, brother? After so long, I haven't managed to forget him but you went out of your way to remind me just how much I failed not only humanity and Father but also Heaven. My son, most importantly!"
Gabriel looks down at the concrete floor and takes a deep breath as if thinking about life and what he wants to say next.
"I hate you."
Michael looks solemn one moment and broken the next because he knows this isn't the darkness speaking.
"...I don't want you to suffer anymore, I never did but without you there is nothing left and I don't want to live with this fact."
Gabriel says this but he doesn't see what his brother's reaction to them is. Instead he focuses on the way the wind feels against his wings.
He's ready to move.
To leave it behind, this longing.
"Dependency, it's never suited you Gabriel." Michael looks at him oddly as he spoke quietly while holding onto his swords a little tighter.
"I will not stop until there is nothing left but me and you. Until you see me as I see myself and you admit that-"
Michael nicks him across his arm unexpectedly as he cuts him off by speaking himself. "Stop talking Gabriel-"
He cannot help it, the annoying thing he feels every time his brother can't go five seconds without mentioning the Chosen one.
He laughs as he thinks Alex won't be so chosen when he lays gagging in a puddle of his own blood.
"I will draw out his death. You know. It will get boring at times, yes but the fact that you will come around to acknowledging the fact that I must be stopped at whatever the cost. It will be worth it, the only time-"
Michael kissed him as he holds onto his hand and unbuttoned his pants with the other. "I'm going to take care of you until you start to believe in my words."
"What is to happen afterwards?" He asks as if there's hope, as if anything good will actually come of such an act.
"I will love you all the more brother."
Gabriel throws his sword somewhere nearby and his brother smiles but there's a weariness to his demeanour.
He can't place it, the reason for it to be there so he ignores the thought and moans quietly when he feels Michael's erection against his thigh but he's not going to fall so easily.
"You are perfection." As Michael says this he leans forward to gently cup him trough the fabric of his clothes.
After a few seconds of slow teasing he unzipped Gabriel's pants and starts to fondle his own cock as he possesively jerks his twin brother off.
"If you wanted this you should have asked me sooner." Michael kissed him again as Gabriel growls his name and an explicitive.
There is something wrong here.
He doesn't know what, besides the obvious but he can't point his finger on it.
Michael stares down at his cock hungrily and looks back up at Gabriel as if asking for permission or something.
"First, I'm going to save you." He doesn't stop touching him as he says this. And Gabriel's uneasy feeling increases all the more.
"Michael.. please-" He stopped talking because he doesn't know what he wants or how to get it.
"What brother?"
"Bend over a little." Michael looks solemn for an instant. It's gone the next as he complies and Gabriel spits onto his hand.
"I'm going to-" He was supposed to say speed up because enough time has passed for Michael to get used to the sensations but he doesn't.
He assumed Michael would catch his drift.
"What? You wish for me to say, I want you to be as rough as you desire." He winks at him and for a second Gabriel feels vaguely confused about this but he doesn't know why.
This not knowing what is bothering him is just about ready to make him flip his shit.
"I'm going to kill him I.." He trusts, quickening the pace a little more every couple of seconds at a time.
"Come now, brother. I would never allow you do such a thing." Gabriel trusts harder and faster than before.
Pulling out halfway just to thrust in and Michael looks like he loves the fact that he is not holding back on him. "I'd sooner see to your death myself."
.
Michael sat down on the ground. His feathers are truly magnificent even as the ones he's currently looking at rest perfectly just above the ground.
He supposes that he's made a mistake by staring too long because suddenly Michael is staring into his eyes.
He can feel it.
The darkness, it still lingers in his eyes but most of it has seeped into the cornea.
"You think just because we've fucked, I am magically supposed to revert back to normal. The normal me still wants him dead. All I care for are his markings."
He sighed then began to walk away. To sit somewhere near the building's entrance maybe but Michael's next words make him tense up even though he wishes he hadn't.
"Why are you so insecure?"
His answer is instantaneous and he wishes it hadn't been. "Every two seconds. Alex is all that occupies your thoughts! Everything that's left is divided-"
"You're wrong."
He doesn't appreciate being cut off like that but curiosity gets the best of him so he asks.
"Really?" Gabriel cannot help the fact that he actually is hoping for his words to be true.
He finds this saddening, that he's so starved for attention from one of the only beings that matter to him.
Michael stands and walks towards his swords then returns to stand in the same place he had currently been sitting.
"Father commanded he be by my side, forever. Our path is tied after all. He is to take your place in Heaven. No longer do you have a purpose in Paradise. You are not my brother, Gabriel. You mean nothing to anyone but yourself."
Gabriel looks down at the swords Michael tossed at his feet and it dawns on him, finally.
What had happened.
What he must do.
What Father and his twin want of him.
Vega, Nevada
It hasn't been more than a day and couple of hours since he arrived with Noma and Alex. He hasn't really missed Vega but these people need him.
Honestly he hasn't even been gone all that long and most of the population is divided, out for blood.
Justice.
He wants to go back to New Delphi, to save his brother but he needs to stay here a little longer. He needs to protect Alex, all these humans and he needs to regain his strength.
Most of yesterday went by with him having odd visions of Mallory and he thinks he should go check it out sometime soon but honestly he needs to get his priorities in check.
A couple of feet away from his bedroom door Michael gasps in agony as his chest starts to bleed profusely but none of that matters because he can feel Gabriel's anguish and smell the distinct fragrance of empyrean steel as it lingers in the air.
"Oh God. What is happening to Gabriel?"
The lights are flickering above him as he falls to his knees. He's praying for Father's mercy as tears are streaming down his face and he just wants his brother to be safe but he cannot reach out even with his link.
Something is blocking his path to their bond and he's going to eradicate whatever it is because even though he has had no need to use it in quite some time, it is something that is theirs.
Personal, unique.
It is a gift to him from Father just like Gabriel. He will not abandon his twin in his time of need.
He winced as he staggered to his feet and the ledge of the building after having charged straight through a couple of walls and windows.
"Listen to me Gabriel. I will not forsake you, not again." His words are spoken quietly.
They are a prayer, a command to stay put because nothing will stop him from being found.
He jumped off the ledge before he could even begin to think of where he should go exactly.
It's not like he could find Gabriel through GPS but it doesn't matter because he is soaring the sky at a pace of speed he's only ever used in Heaven.
He's positive that he's about to cause some tectonic and aerial trouble but he doesn't care because it's not like most of the earth's population isn't dead already.
He's never felt this lost, this empty and he's had vivid nightmares of Alex dying and thoughts that tear his very essence as he cannot help but wonder what crossed Uriel's mind as she lay dying in Gabriel's Aerie.
Or what Raphael must have felt at the time of her twin's passing. He wonders if this is a similar instance but shoves the thought away.
Nothing, no-one will take Gabriel away from him. At this point he isn't even sure if he isn't all that unwilling to defy Father if he so much as tried to do just that.
"I will save you. You are the light that will guide me...us... home." Michael descends into a spiral to avoid losing track of Gabriel's generally estimated and established location because the closer he gets to his brother's pain the closer he gets to actually finding out where he could be.
He doesn't want to block him out but these words, they are only meant for Father to hear.
It is a threat that's far from empty and he is positive it will land him in a worse place than Morning Star but he isn't ashamed of it, not if it means saving Gabriel.
"Father. Please, do not test me...if he...if you take him away. I will burn it all to ash. Eden. Paradise. Your precious mortals."