A/N This is my first Supernatural fanfic and I hope that you like it.

The Lies We Tell

Chapter 1: Truth of All Things

Written by RippleInThePond

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Angels lie. This is known to be a novel concept as angels are meant to be pure and perfect beings, incapable of making mistakes.

Angels lie about their intentions, they lie about their motives, and they often lie to themselves. It is how they are able to face every new day.

But, the biggest lie anyone was ever told was told by the archangels. You see, they have this little gift that no one knows about.

Erasing.

That sounds completely ridiculous, right? Well, it isn't. It is painful and emotionally scarring. The archangels can take someone's name and erase it from all books and all records. They can take the memories of a person and remove them from someone's mind, replacing them with new ones. They can make it so there is no proof that someone never existed, and then they can make that person no longer exist, decimating their body. It is the worst punishment they can give; even worse than the cage.

And this is their lie, because they can't forget what they erase. It is burned into their minds like a brand. They told the world that there are only four archangels, but they lied. There had been five, but one was betrayed. Michael, Lucifer, Gabriel, Raphael, and the one that no one remembers anymore.

Her name was Lyriel. Yes, she. She was different from all of the angels. She had taken 9 months to take form, starting as a child. The strangest thing was that she had a physical form.

She had long hair that lay on her back in delicate beach waves that were such a dark black it was as if it was merely the absence of light. Her eyes were the exact image of opal, and her lips the color of a rose; constantly in a slight smile. Her skin was extremely fair, so fair it could have been mistaken for pure, clean snow.

Lyriel had been the most powerful archangel out of all of them.

Because she had loved the idea of the humans immediately, they had chosen to erase her. It took all of the others to complete this task. It had been Lucifer's idea and Raphael followed immediately. Michael had been coerced into believing it was right, but Gabriel... he hadn't wanted to.

You see, he raised Lyriel after she fully formed. He was the closest to her, but he did it anyways because of course the Morningstar couldn't have been so wrong.

So, they erased her while she was on a mission and when she returned home, she found that she was a stranger to those she loved.

Lucifer had wanted to erase her completely and destroy her body. Maybe he thought that it would rid him of guilt, but then he ultimately decided to let her live and suffer. After all, what worse way could there possibly be to make someone suffer than to take what they love and leave them completely and utterly alone?

No longer having a home, she left and went to Earth. She gave herself a human name and she hid from from the sight of the heavenly host. She masked her grace and changed her face and dreamed of the times when she was loved.

This is the archangels' lie, and their greatest betrayal. Erasing someone and leaving them alive is more painful than any physical injury that someone could possibly inflict.

I would know, for I am Lyriel, and this is the story that tells the truth.