So I have been away for a while... deal with it. :) Anyway here you are. I don't even... :nod: :)
The most beautiful and equally disgusting thing ever witnessed. The most graceless and equally harmonious thing to ever lay eyes upon. The most heartbreaking thing in the universe and he witnessed it, has experienced it from both viewpoints. The fall.
He has no words to describe it, to describe how loud everyone screamed, the falling and the remaining. How horribly dramatic it was watching them fall, with their arms outstretched to their brothers, sisters, their family in hopes of salvation they knew was never coming. The sickening sound of wings snapping and breaking as they flutter uselessly on their downward spiral. The weightless feeling that comes from having your soul, your essence torn out of your body as the clouds bellow you fall away, plummeting you towards the earth. The sense of impending doom that comes from knowing without doubt that this is the destruction of everything you knew, everything you are.
He witnessed it, watched as his brothers, his sisters, his mentor and his charges, watched as they all fell, listened as they all screamed, cried as they all lost their way. He lamented their loss and blamed everything and everyone for it. Then he followed them, not by choice but not unwillingly either.
The pain was unbearable for him; he felt it as his wings snapped open of their own accord. He screamed in helpless agony as they broke and splintered and tore themselves apart as they fluttered hopelessly in the wind, trying by instinct to keep him afloat. He gave Michael one last heartbroken smile before he was gone. His Grace, his essence clinging onto him with all it had. He was the only angel to hit the ground still whole and yet broken all the same. It was a curse and a gift and he knew, as he had always known, that even the Archangels fall. He looked up at Heaven and a sad smile graced his features. Of the first 4, only the 1st remained wholly naïve, and of course, Gabriel knew it never could have gone any other way. Michael was the 1st, he knew Dad the longest… Dad gave him loyalty above all else, it was never a surprise that he never fell.
