Gabriel and Lucifer
Lucifer remembered Gabriel. He remembered more about Gabriel than Gabriel remembered about himself.
He remembered when Michael first returned with their fourth and final archangel fledgling. How he used to stay, watching over Gabriel while he gurgled and made lovely little sounds in small bed.
He remembered when all the archangels were resting and little Gabriel couldn't sleep, and how he would rub the sleep from his eyes and cradle his baby brother in his arms and rock him until his eyelids shut before going back to his bed.
He remembered how whenever he heard the slightest whimper from Gabriel's bed how he would be at his side in an instant. How he would watch the small crease on the fledgling's forehead as he had some awful nightmare.
How he would take Gabriel into his own bed and cuddle him until the whimpers stopped and he fell into a peaceful sleep with Lucifer's arms wrapped around him.
How when Gabriel cried he would hear it no matter where he was in Heaven and he would fly back like the wind for his little brother and take him from whichever archangel was trying to comfort him, how Gabriel would clutch his robe and hide his face in his chest and how the shudders soon stopped once he held him.
Lucifer remembered how Gabriel started walking while Michael, Raphael and he sat around him, and how Gabriel took his first steps towards Lucifer, reaching out his arms for his big brother.
He remembered when Gabriel's first word was 'Luci', and how it was because of little Gabriel the other archangel's called him Luci as well.
He remembered how once when Gabriel fell he was right there to pick him up and kiss his knee and stop the tears.
He remembered when he taught Gabriel to fly and how he would catch him every single time he fell before he finally did it.
Lucifer remembered how he taught Gabriel how to make clones of himself and duplicate objects. How he taught him to make the clones speak, and how to make objects into something different.
He remembered when Gabriel got so tired of Lucifer and Michael's fighting that he left Heaven. Lucifer mourned the loss of his little brother; it was for Gabriel Lucifer tried his hardest to love humans but he couldn't do it.
He remembered all the time he was locked in his Cage, all he could think about was whether Gabriel was okay.
Lucifer remembered when he was finally free, the first thing he wanted to do was find Gabriel, but he knew he was the reason Gabriel had fled and he forced himself to stay put.
He remembered how when his little brother confronted him, how Gabriel apparently remembered nothing of their time in Heaven and was ready to kill him.
He remembered how he pleaded and tried to coax Gabriel into joining him so he wouldn't have to kill him, so he could have his brother back.
He remembered how he kept up the façade of being the arrogant and smug victor when Gabriel refused, despite the fact he was hurt that his brother didn't join him, and he turned around to stab the blade into Gabriel.
He remembered how it was only when he twisted the blade in him and he heard his little brother's tortured scream that he realized what he'd done and his smug look broke.
He remembered how he stared down at his body and knew he was dead because of him. He remembered how he cried because his favourite little brother was gone.
Because his baby brother never remembered his time with the angel he once nicknamed 'Luci'.
And he never remembered just how much his older brother loved him.