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Date: January 23, 2000
Setting: Michael's Room
Status: John, Raphael, Michael, Adam, Gabriel (Semi-Private, Complete)
Summary: John vents his feelings at Raphael. Mayhem ensues. (Continued from here.)
It was a pretty decent plan, John thought. Find Raphael, get him away from his oaf of a bodyguard by whatever means presented itself, and teach the little rat a lesson he'd never forget. He liked it. It was elegant in its simplicity.
The fact that it included no provisions for ensuring his own safety (or survival) in the event that Michael proved less easily hoodwinked this time than last--or that Raphael unexpectedly grew himself a pair--he considered a minor flaw. He was too hacked off at the moment to think that far ahead.*
He found Raphael's room unoccupied and proceeded to Michael's, ducked momentarily down a side-hall to avoid a frustrated-looking Snob along the way (hadn't that damn fool got things sorted out with Belial yet?) and strode up to the door, knocking sharply before he could think better of what he was doing.
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*Anyway, his most clever, complicated schemes always seemed to lead him into worse trouble in the long run. If things were going to go pear-shaped, they might just as well go pear-shaped straightaway and get it over with.
Setting: Michael's Room
Status: John, Raphael, Michael, Adam, Gabriel (Semi-Private, Complete)
Summary: John vents his feelings at Raphael. Mayhem ensues. (Continued from here.)
It was a pretty decent plan, John thought. Find Raphael, get him away from his oaf of a bodyguard by whatever means presented itself, and teach the little rat a lesson he'd never forget. He liked it. It was elegant in its simplicity.
The fact that it included no provisions for ensuring his own safety (or survival) in the event that Michael proved less easily hoodwinked this time than last--or that Raphael unexpectedly grew himself a pair--he considered a minor flaw. He was too hacked off at the moment to think that far ahead.*
He found Raphael's room unoccupied and proceeded to Michael's, ducked momentarily down a side-hall to avoid a frustrated-looking Snob along the way (hadn't that damn fool got things sorted out with Belial yet?) and strode up to the door, knocking sharply before he could think better of what he was doing.
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*Anyway, his most clever, complicated schemes always seemed to lead him into worse trouble in the long run. If things were going to go pear-shaped, they might just as well go pear-shaped straightaway and get it over with.
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He swung himself out of the bed and opened the door.
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Perfect.
Baring his teeth in what could not even charitably be described as a smile, he sucker-punched the archangel as hard as he could, square in the face.
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Great. He thought. He's heard something.
He still felt ambivalent enough - not to mention tired - to want to see the situation come to an end without further escalation. Even so, he already felt his blood starting to boil.
"Get out of here Constantine," he said dismissively, sounding merely irritated, healing himself as he stood. "Go away and play somewhere else."
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Incensed at the archangel's dismissive attitude, he shook him violently. "Do you have any idea what you almost did? What Lucifer would do to him if he got his hands on him now??"
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"I fixed it didn't I? He didn't discorporate," He said, assuming that's what 'almost did' meant and feeling some slight relief. "Besides, you weren't there, you have no idea what went on, so mind your business and stay out of it. You don't know what went on so you have no right to speak to me about it.
I don't need you wagging your finger - or your fist - at me, telling me I've been a bad boy. Leave, before Michael get's back," he snapped.
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Unfortunately, Raphael did neither, and being told that it was no business of his if the guy who gave him back his soul got his arse handed to him by an angelic goon squad was the final straw. With an inarticulate growl, he grabbed, heaved, and pitched Raphael head-first into the nearby dresser hard enough to leave a dent in its wood veneer.
"Don't care if it's my business," he panted, unused to this sort of violent exercise, "you go near him again, you useless little shit, and I swear to God I will send you back to him in so many pieces even He won't be able to put you back together."
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"If he insults me, manhandles me and keeps blockading me from what is my right then he will get worse. And if you call me useless you will get the same. You're already stretching you tobacco-stained lungs to the breaking point. Your body can't take much more - whereas I can repair mine. Tell me, how smart does that make you?
So I will tell you one last time," he explained deliberately. "Get. Out. Now. Or... or I swear you'll regret it!"
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He laughed derisively at the threat. "Oh, that's a good one. You couldn't even bring yourself to finish off a demon. What are you gonna do, try to kill me too?" He threw another punch, no longer seriously trying to hit the angel or even really even listening to what he was saying, aiming more for Raphael's wrong-headed notions than his body. "Go on, do your worst. Smite the obnoxious human. Make the damn Horseman's week. I fucking dare you."
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"Promise not to mock me?" He asked, his cheeks wet. "And ask Crowley not to either? I should tell him I'm sorry, I didn't mean things to get so bad; I was angry but I didn't mean to discorporate him..."
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The gun went off.
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He put his hand on it and started to heal it...
Then felt his energy run out.
His mouth dropped and he looked up at John desperately, though he never got to speak. As he started to black out he dimly realized he'd used up what little energy he'd recovered healing himself earlier during the fight. The biggest veins were sealed up but not much more than that...
Then with an indistinct 'guh' he collapsed.
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He threw open the door and froze in shock at the sight in front of him. Raphael, his dear beloved Raphael, lying on the ground with a bleeding wound in his abdomen. Why wasn't he healing it? Surely it couldn't be that bad... It couldn't, it couldn't, it couldn't...
Why oh why did he have to be about useless in healing?
Then, however, he saw the human. Holding a gun. Which was still pointed at Raphael.
Now, this was something he knew how to do.
With a roar he attacked the man, punching him hard at the nose.
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War hit harder, he noted in some clinical corner of his brain as the punch connected, but Michael had better aim.
The pain, oddly enough, wasn't as bad as the distinct crunch as his nose virtually collapsed under the blow. He reeled back into the wall behind him, the gun flying out of his hand, and slid to the floor with a thud, blinking at the infuriated archangel through a haze of blood and shock.
"Didn't," he croaked, too stunned for a moment to recall what exactly he hadn't done, but that was all right, as he was fairly certain the rhino wasn't going to buy it in any case.
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He kicked the human's side as hard as he could, then grasped his throat, lifted him up, and slammed him again at the wall with a thud. "I'll teach you to hurt Raphael," he growled through clenched teeth, starting to tighten his grip around the other's throat.
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Those blood vessels around his eyes that hadn't exploded from the face shot started to burst, and his vision fuzzed out completely in a uniform bloody pink wash.
No talking his way out of this one. He'd have laughed if he'd had any air left--talk one archangel down from murdering him just in time to be murdered by another. Story of his life. Crowley was going to be incredibly annoyed with him...
He stopped struggling. No point, Michael might as well be made of cast iron and his body didn't want to obey him anymore. Hurt too much. Just give it up and go. Outlived his time anyway, hadn't he?
He did wish, though, as his brain ran out of oxygen and shut itself down, that'd he got to see Kit once more before he went to Hell.
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He'd arrived just in time to see Michael lunge at Constantine, who had looked more than a little baffled himself; instinctively, Gabriel realized that the mortal was probably not stupid enough to have still been standing around if he'd just deliberately wounded an archangel, but Gabriel was faced with little choice as he didn't dare leave Raphael unattended. Momentarily ignoring the scuffle, he rushed to the wounded angel's side.
"Raphael, hold on," he whispered calmly, soothingly, falling without thought into ancient words as he knelt, gently urging the other's hands away from his abdomen to see the extent of the injury. "It'll be all right, dear, you'll be all right..."
He pressed his hand to the other angel's chest, feeling Raphael's chest rise and fall weakly beneath his touch. A shock of pain seared his own nerves when first he reached out, but he pressed on in his effort, seeking torn vessels and damaged flesh where the life slowly seeped from this mortal form. His eyes fell closed, and though yelps of both anger and pain filled the air around him, he struggled to stay focused. Little by little, the damage began to reverse itself; the offending bullet lodged deep in the angel's abdomen dissolved into nothingness; muscle, sinew, flesh was knit together; and with some struggle at the exertion of his powers, Raphael's body was once more made whole.
Gabriel gasped faintly when his awareness returned once more fully to himself, but he recovered from the shock of it quickly to turn his attention to Raphael's yet unmoving face. He touched one cheek lightly, cautiously, asking quietly, "Raphael?"
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A short while longer and the jabbing, throbbing sensation in his abdomen was gone. There was still some phantom soreness there as his corporation was momentarily confused about why the wound there had gone away and briefly persisted in telling his nervous system that it hadn't.
He waited a moment or two for his mind to catch up with his body, then looked at saw Gabriel in front of him. Raphael looked at him blankly for a few moments, confused, trying to piece together the last few minutes before he'd pased out.
John. Threatening. Gun. ohshitgun? Gun shot.
The angel shot upright and clutched Gabriel.
"Got shot!" He gasped, his tongue working clumsily. "Was messing around. Hurt... Gabriel, thank you, what's..."
He turned and saw Michael having at John like there was no tomorrow.
But John hadn't... Raphael's eyes grew wide and he nearly choked.
"Stop him!" He shrieked, desperately trying to stagger to his feet and nearly passing out again
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Only then did Adam storm in, looking for all the world like an avenging angel in grubby trainers. His face looked almost cruel with his mouth set and his blue eyes flashed coldly like chips of ice catching the light.
"How dare you!" he yelled at them all. "I said that this was not allowed here and I meant it. Michael, get over there and take care of Raphael. If you don't know how, then you better learn real quick. Gabriel, John needs your help now. Get him to the hospital and I'll see if I can find someone to come help you. It won't be Aziraphale 'cause he's busy takin' care of Crowley."
He stood there, hands on hips, breathing heavily and trying to control his anger. "Well, what are you waitin' for? Do it now!"
Everyone suddenly unfroze and started to move. Adam stomped out to find someone to help Gabriel with John, but he called over his shoulder, "I'll be back to talk to you later." It was definitely a threat but no one was quite sure to whom he was speaking.
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It seemed like Gabriel had managed to heal Raphael -- thankfully so, seeing as Michael himself knew next to nothing about healing. But, given everything that had happened, Raphael now probably needed rest even more than before. He couldn't very well rest on the floor, now could he? No, he couldn't. Michael had to get him somewhere else. The bed, preferably.
The sense of satisfaction that came from the realization that he could actually do something to help Raphael was incredible.
He picked up the smaller archangel and started to carry him towards the bed. Worry for Raphael was still seated deep in the back of his mind but he managed to wipe most of it away due to the fact that Raphael didn't appear injured anymore. "Raphael?" he asked, remembering his earlier confusion. "What exactly happened here?"
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Then he turned to Michael as the warrior picked him up.
"It was an accident, Michael," Raphael told him, softly but somewhat indignantly. "It... it's a long story. But I was the one who conjured the gun. You can't just go around punching everyone you think has caused a problem... you should have asked..." He sighed. "I'm sorry about all this. It's mostly my fault..."
He closed his eyes then opened them again.
"Just let me explain, OK?"
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Michael now remembered the horrifying moment he had seen Raphael lying on the ground, bloodied and wounded, and shivered. Almost without consciously noticing it he held Raphael a bit closer to himself. Not many things could scare him, but the mere thought of Raphael getting injured, perhaps even discorporated, because he wasn't there to protect him was simply terrifying.
"I just wasn't thinking," he finished quietly.
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"Look, I'll try to say this as quickly as possible - and I hope you're not too mad at me.
The other day I... I exaggerated about what Crowley did. We fought, I made it seem like more than there was because I lost and I wanted to start a fight to... well... get him back, sort of. John heard about how badly I hurt him when I got angry and punched me. And don't be mad because... well... I sort of deserved it.
He got in a few blows, I healed them, then got upset and pulled a gun on him, not the other way around. I couldn't shoot and he talked me out of it, but when I handed him the gun it misfired.
By then I was out of energy so I could't heal myself.
And that's... that's pretty much it." He said, exhaling and looking up at Michael. "I'm sorry about getting you involved. And I don't blame you for thinking like you did.
I wouldn't blame you if you were really mad at me..."
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So Raphael had exaggerated the fight. The dishonesty did upset him a bit -- he always told the truth to Raphael, after all, and expected the same in return -- but figured that it could wait. Well, he didn't know how much of a difference there was, but that hardly mattered. After all, despite his anger he hadn't actually attacked the demon, right? Raphael himself did know the whole story and thus could figure out whether there was enough of a reason for him to attack the demon. That wasn't his concern right now.
However, to hear that Raphael had actually been the one threatening the human with a gun... There his understanding simply ended. He wasn't mad at Raphael, no; he knew wrath and the desire for vengeance better than most angels -- perhaps better than any other angel. But, like witnessing Raphael's rage the first time, hearing of this action of his beloved flled him with a mix of confusion and fear he wasn't sure he wanted to examine further. Some deeper part of his mind was genuinely scared, terrified even, and although he suspected he did know the reasons for that fear he refused to think about it.
"It's okay," he said softly, burshing a stray lock of hair gently away from Raphael's face. "It's okay, love. I understand." Except that he didn't. He didn't understand a thing.
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I worry about you Michael..." He bit his lip. "Sometimes... sometimes you should see things for what they are, no matter how it hurts. No matter how much you love, it doesn't do to ignore what's in front of you."
He lay down.
"Please be careful... and that counts with me too..."
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His powers of healing, so rarely need in the past, had been called upon twice in one day; the second time took far more effort, but he found it within himself to carefully reconstruct the man's trachea, weave together the tissues in his throat to clear the passage for air. Expand the lungs with the air the archangel himself found habitual, but which Constantine would not live much longer without. Start his heart beating, weak but constant, rhythmic.
"Come on, Constantine," he muttered, brow creased as he worked, knowing even as the signs of life returned that the mortal was still dependent as much on his powers as the blood that slowly started to recirculate in his veins. "Come on. I'll be damned before I'm giving you mouth-to-mouth..."
Finally, Constantine shuddered, arched, gasping as he drew in breath of his own accord. Gabriel pulled back, satisfied that at least his vitals were stable enough for the trip to the hospital. He stopped short, however, of drawing the mortal into full consciousness; one glance at his beaten and bloodied form assured him not even Constantine deserved to be awake through this.
Carefully, Gabriel hoisted the limp form in his arms, brushing past a surly-looking Adam without meeting his eyes as he headed quickly for the hospital wing.
*Figuratively and, quite possibly, literally, knowing Constantine.