Title: from the beginning to the end
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for season 5
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 195
Point of view: third
Prompt: Michael/Lucifer, I've killed a million petty souls but I couldn't kill you.
They will battle across creation, from one side of the sky to the other, from the beginning to the end and beyond. But not to the death.
Never to the death.
Because Michael and Lucifer can erase continents from existence, can call down the mountains and summon the seas, can destroy worlds. But not each other.
Never each other.
They could, and they both know it. To kill one is to kill the other, and that might end this entire war. Heaven will succeed without Lucifer on the other side, most powerful of all angels save his elder brother, the first and the best, God's Bright Sword, Father's Thundering Fist. The demons are not an army without a king to follow, without a leader capable of planning.
It will end with them, as it began with them, and they will battle forever because it will never be to the death.
(Uriel, and Raphael, and Azazel, and Zachariah, and Alistair—none of them understand. Joshua does, though. Once upon a time, when he walked the earth he had a brother named John, and John stood at the foot of his cross, and Joshua loved him so very much.)