accidental video;

[expunger]

[The first thing to come through is a horrible electronic feedback screeching from everyone's PCD; the video flickers and statics and coughs into life in fits and starts, with the picture scrambled for a few long seconds. The sound of sparks and distant sizzling can be heard.

Comments

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

You seem stressed.

[Just making an observation~ Also the idea that she really does want to wear his grace as jewelry should be incredibly upsetting to him, but it isn't. He just doesn't care.]

[Video]

[expunger]

On the contrary, Cassandra. I am putting infinitely less pressure on myself than ever before.

[Video]

[wingsandwill]

By making yourself earrings?

I hope they're hypoallergenic.

[Video]

[expunger]

Nickel-free, just for you.

Isn't life better this way? The fighting is gone. You and I get along.

[Video] 1/3

[showchoirstar]

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

[Video] 3/4 actually

[showchoirstar]

[And, suddenly, the 5'3'' Rachel Berry fucking snaps.]

Do you happen to know what I have been praying for this entire week? For everyone to come to their senses so no one gets hurt! Including you! And I am sick and tired of everyone acting like an idiot every week and then just brushing it off the week after, you are a damn archangel, you should act like it!

[Video]

[showchoirstar]

[And then, Rachel Berry draws herself up, and through clenched teeth:]

Dear Father in Heaven, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive the idiots acting like fools within Adstringendum. I'm certain come Sunday, they will all regret their actions, and they will need your guidance to set themselves straight.

Amen.

[And she cuts the feed.]

[Video]

[fairymicrowaver]

And one of you finally says it to the masses instead of swift genocide. Not that I actually care anymore. I used to. Used to break myself to pieces trying to save it all and keep from killing my brother. You all have no idea how close to the end game you nearly got me. I was going to take in your general and do it all. End it, the way you wanted it.

But I don't care anymore. Not about them, not about this, not about Sam.
[He has to resist a laugh because it all so funny to him. It won't be after this is over, when he's staring at his face in the mirror in the morning and hating it.

Self-loathing is a Winchester trait. It's something he understands. He's been so wrapped up in worry about Sam, about Castiel, about Jo, and trying to keep things alright that he couldn't even see what the angels were doing. He'd managed to watch and keep an eye on them before - and he failed

[Video]

[expunger]

[She laughs in delight] I remember that one.

Zachariah had a flair for the dramatic. That stunt got him sidelined from the garrison. It was supposed to scare you straight, not scare you into Sam's arms.

[Video]

[fairymicrowaver]

When if he'd killed me and let me find Joshua sooner, you'd have your paradise. Funny how that works.

[Video]

[expunger]

He took everything too personally. I can understand, of course- the emotions, the pride. But it just didn't work. He was bad juju.

[Video]

[capuletnomore]

Lady Raphael....

[Whatever this event has done, it has turned the archangel into something frightening. For her to say such things about the Lord sends chills through Juliet. It has taken her most of the week to realize there is something affecting them all, herself included, but she'd thought that surely the angels would be immune to the tricks of the Animus.]

What you say, it cannot be true. You yourself have encouraged prayer before today. You have bade me recite it for you - the Nicene Creed. You would not have done this were your words today true. The Animus have harmed you, Lady.

[And now she scowls.]

Would that I could make them suffer for such a horrible deed.

[Video]

[expunger]

Juliet. [A little admiringly.] Look at you. There's more fire in your belly than I've ever seen- I saw you standing up for someone earlier this week.

Standing for something, not in shadows of someone who doesn't care.

It's magnificent.

[Video]

[capuletnomore]

I will always stand up for those whom I consider friends or worthy of my respect, Lady Raphael. Were someone to say such horrible things about you, I would tell them the very same. Hence, why I wish I could hurt the Animus, because they have hurt you.

[She isn't convinced that God doesn't care; she only wishes her faith could break the archangel free from the Animus' tricks.]

[Video]

[expunger]

They haven't hurt me this week, Jules. I feel free.

{Video}

[thewinterdoe]

I've tried. {Lily's voice is lower than usual and she doesn't look completely put together.} Everything I touch goes wrong today.

{Video}

[expunger]

So don't touch anything. Try something new.

{Video}

[thewinterdoe]

I could try sitting in a field, but that's hardly helpful.

{Video}

[expunger]

[Snapping at the camera] Get up, do something else, try something new. Stop whining.