Title: a bed of weeds
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for season 5
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115
Point of view: third
Prompt: Raphael, how did he go from Healer of Heaven to what we saw in the holy fire ring?
Father is gone. Father would never leave unless it was important. Father would never leave without a word of His going unless it were a punishment.
Father is gone. Zachariah has taken command, despite Raphael and Azrael being of higher rank. Gabriel left, Sammael fell into the Adversary, and Michael... Michael waits, unmoving, a sentinel at Heaven's Gate.
Father is gone. Joshua claims to hear His voice, but Father left without a word. Joshua is hearing his own voice, in his desperation and grief, because Raphael knows—
Michael has left the Gate and wanders in the far orchards of God, where the Garden is withering.
Father is gone. So, Raphael knows, Father is dead.