Title: let me praise men for eating the apple
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: spoilers for season 5; AU
Pairings: Michael/Lucifer, Dean/Sam
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 155
Point of view: third
Prompt: AU where Sam went to hell and broke the first seal and Dean broke the last one by killing Lilith
Her eyes are wide and shocked, until her head caves in and the stolen body falls backward. He steps closer, still holding the Colt ready, just in case.
Her stolen blood flows into the sigil pattern, and he watches as the doorway opens and his brother walks free for the first time since he tempted Christ.
"Took you long enough," Lucifer says, smiling the same smile that almost won him over, back before the Fall.
"Sorry," he answers, holstering the Colt. "I got a little sidetracked."
He sees Sammy in there, too, not just Sammael-Lucifer-Satan. "Welcome back," he murmurs, moving in close, savoring the tastefeelscent of his brother.
"Dean," Sammy whispers. "Michael. Dearest of all."
They grin at each other, breathing in tandem. "Let's go play," the MorningStar says. "I've been away too long."
The archangel who had once been God's Sword replies, "You have."
(In Heaven, Zachariah wonders how things could have gone so wrong.)