Friday
Lucifer was very rudely awoken at 6 in the morning by a squawking nightmare. The rest of the flock had left as soon as they had finished with Lost. Since they had ended up watching a full 5 episodes, it was bedtime for most of them.
He had wanted to stay up a bit later, but Dusty was very tired and irritable. Which is why being woken up at 6 in the morning, considering that wasn't enough sleep for the bird, was a bit of a surprise.
He heard a spill of seeds and another squawk, though this one of surprise and Lucifer realised that the nightmare part of things might actually be what happened.
Still, he went out to the living room, lifted the sheet off the cage and found a more than ruffled bird.
"What happened to you then? I know you spilled your seeds, but did you fall in your water?"
Dusty looked at him, his wet feathers puffed out as Dusty shook himself of water drops. The feathers settled back, now less wet. The bird then looked to his food spilled all over the cage floor, then to his water which had a few down feathers floating in it. That angry gaze then turned to him.
Lucifer sighed. "Okay, let's get your cage cleaned up then, shall we? It should wait until it is later but we're both up now. And you, Little Bird, are definitely going to be napping today."
Green and grey feathers puffed up again, this time in anger. Lucifer grinned and shook his head. "You know you're going to be tired after a bit of a proper flying session. You'll probably cause Dan quite a bit of trouble tonight if you sleep too much though, so only a nap."
The feathers calmed down and settled once again, before Dusty started trying to find some edible and clean seeds on the floor of his cage.
Lucifer sighed. "Okay, Little Bird, I'll get you some more seeds. Do you want your fruit early or wait until 8 like normal?"
Dusty cocked his head off to one side, beady little eyes turned away from him as he thought that one through. In the end, the bird answered him with words. "8 in the morning, Dusty! Argh."
And with that, Lucifer's day was already looking up. He laughed at the ridiculous image of Dan saying that to the bird in the mornings just as he was getting ready to leave for work, being hounded by his pet.
He nodded. "Yeah, best to keep eating to schedule, even if your sleep schedule is out of whack today. I'll get you some seeds though. You can eat what you like of them while waiting for your fruit."
Before feeding the bird though, he needed to clean out the cage. He quickly removed the water bowl and the food dish and laid them down on the coffee table nearby. He then pulled out the tray from the bottom, which was covered more in seeds and water than droppings, but hey, accidents happen. The cage itself was cleaned only two days ago and didn't need a full go over thankfully.
He took that out to the balcony, where he usually cleaned the cage, because it is where the hose was and dumped the mess and the used liners out into the bin he had out there. He gave it a short wash over with the hose and dried it with a clean cloth.
He put in new liners, went back inside and stopped. Dusty had come out of the cage and onto his perch and was resting, his eyes closed. He grinned at the sleeping bird and as quietly as he could he put the tray back in place before going out to the kitchen, cleaned out and filled up both the seed and water bowls and went back out.
Dusty was still asleep on his perch.
Taking the cue and still being tired himself, he grabbed his blanket, curled up on the couch and went back to sleep himself.
He was woken up two hours later to a bird landing on top of his head and grooming his hair. He blinked tiredly at the feeling and sighed deeply. "Is it 8 already?" h asked.
Dusty twittered the affirmative into his ear, before giving it a playful nip.
Yawning widely, he got up, Dusty flying back to his perch to watch him. "Okay, Little Bird, what do you want? I have apple, orange and berries. Oh, I think I might have banana too."
Dusty blinked slowly at him, before telling him he wanted the berries. The berries were by far his favourites, but he did occasionally want something else, so he always made sure to have other options available.
He went to the fridge where he kept the berries and picked up a small handful, going over to the cage and putting them into a food container higher up than the floor of the cage where the water bowl and seeds lived.
He felt ridiculous to have two lots of water and food, but it worked for the both of them, so he kept it up.
After Dusty had eaten as many of the berries as he wanted for breakfast, he opened the doors to the balcony and he two of them went outside to see the sun slowly rising between the cities buildings.
He let his wings out, Dusty flying to his shoulder to watch. It was pat dawn, s both of them were generally asleep to see that, but the early morning sun was something the both of them enjoyed watching quietly.
For the bird, it started the day. For Lucifer it resonated in him. He was, after all, called the Morningstar for a reason. It eased him to see the sun begin its rise into the sky.
They stayed like that for half an hour, just hanging out and quietly enjoying the view, before they both stretched out their wings and he vaulted over the railing.
He would usually ask Dusty if he wanted to fly or watch television for a while, but that morning he was just craving the wind running over his feathers, if for no other reason that it would wake him up further. He usually only got 4 hours sleep, which was plenty for an angel, but he had gone to bed too early for that and overslept. He always had a hard time waking up properly if he overslept.
He shouldn't have curled up on the couch and gone back to sleep for those two hours.
Still, the cool morning air did its job and as he spread his wings to glide, Dusty flying his little heart out around him, he smiled and steered them both to a nearby park with plenty of trees to land behind, so he avoided the majority of joggers and humans walking to work.
Dusty landed on his shoulder again and they walked around the park, enjoying the time together. Fridays until yesterday had been special as it was the only day he did things like this. Now he had more days like this to look forward to, except with new and shiny activities. Birds were schedule oriented, while humans weren't so much.
He knew he would be doing different things not only with each different member of his flock, but form week to week too.
Buying a burger at a nice little burger joint he was fond of, he made his way back to the park to eat it for his own breakfast, before going again behind the trees, unfurling and opening his wings and flying off, in the direction of Lux.
He was so glad that the majority of humans had forgotten the importance of looking up, instead keeping their gaze either straight ahead of them or to the ground. Or, as is more common nowadays, on a phone.
By the time they got back to the flat, it was 11 in the morning and Dusty was beginning to moan from being tired. Dusty didn't normally take naps when with him, but today the bird decided he was right and immediately went to his cage. Lucifer obliged him, throwing the cover over the cage.
"You're getting only an hour, Dusty. Have a nap."
He got a chirp at that, before things went quiet.
Lucifer went to his new study, which used to be one of the two guest bedrooms he had and booted up his computer to look up what was new on one of his favourite porn sites. The one bad thing about Fridays is he tends to miss out on sex in the morning and he liked to wake up and go to sleep with sex.
By the time an hour was up he felt ready to face Angel without a bird laughing at him. Silly Little Bird refused to allow him to live down his stupid crush on David Boreanaz. It was the vampire mask, really. Having sex with a demon can really do it for him if he was in the mood. On Friday's he was always in the mood.
They watched two episodes, before Dan showed up to take the bird home.
All up he felt it was a good day. He was surprised that apart from needing the nap Dusty hadn't mucked up during the day.
Now to make it an even better night. He grabbed his phone and called Maze to come over for the night.