Living Among Giants

by Monkeygirl77

She was adopted into the fold of Archangels and now she's learning how to be a fledgling again after the end of the war. She's got plenty of older angels to show her the way though. A new set of Guardians, a new home, and a present Parent, she's living among giants now.

82. Conspiracy

"They're out to get us."

It was the third day in a row that the two troublemakers were spotted plotting something between the two of them, caught whispering and giggling to each other. They had been scribbling something on a piece of parchment shared between the two of them. Whatever it was had at least three days of planning behind it, perhaps more, so it was bound to be something big that was being planned as well.

Next to him, Raphael chuckled at the Messengers complaining about the supposed trick that was headed their way, "I do not know what you are worried about. That messenger of yours is not foolish enough to try and get one over on me."

Despite Gabriel being his master, Zaveriel only ever avoided the Healers wrath, something that left his master in anguish trying to figure out his secrets. The Healer would merely chuckle and shake his head, his discoveries and subsequent victories, were his and his alone.

They both knew that Michael would return the trick on them, despite his stern appearance on the battlefield and among training sessions, he was surprisingly playful away from public eyes.

So that left the Messenger and the Morningstar.

Little Akeelah was no foolish enough to torment her own Master, something she had learned, he was a sore loser when it came to practical jokes.

It was a work in progress between her and the Healer.

"Raph, come on, please!" he was not above begging when he knew that it was him who was most certainly on the butt of this joke that was about to be played, "They've been giggling about it for three days."

"I would help you, little brother, but it was you who said you could handle your own problems and that you were fully grown not just last week."

"Come on! You chose now to listen to me!"

He narrowed his eyes when the Healer chuckled again, turning back to the volume he was reading through, on their day of rest they enjoyed together. Lucifer and Akeelah were playing in the lake, and the fledgling with her wide bright eyes, had managed to convince Michael to join them.

Gabriel pointed an accusing finger at his older brother, "You're in on it!"