VII ► Acc. Video ~ Song Remains the Same

[gotbackupagain]

[The feed patches in mid-conversation, video only partially skewed, a side angle view of both Anna and Castiel in her house.]

[Castiel is all business at the moment, mostly because despite it being seemingly impossible for him to be a worse mood than he's been lately, he actually has managed it.]
Has there been any improvement in your

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[gotbackupagain]

[It's vaguely belittling, being stared at like that, evidence enough is on her face.]

No. But you're ... [How could she put it. He scared her? In a way, yes. But it wasn't just that.] Are you sure being an Archangel hasn't gone to your head?

[wingsandwill]

[He's beginning to get more annoyed, and his tone turns slightly bitter to accompany the echo.]

Why? Because I won't back down and give up when I'm told to or when the situation is difficult?

[He's still doesn't understand the difference between confidence and pride.]

[gotbackupagain]

[She rolls her eyes.]

No. The situation isn't just difficult, Cas. It's impossible.

[So unless someone has an ace up their sleeve...]

[wingsandwill]

[He fixes her with another look, this one very neutral and completely certain, as is his voice.]

It isn't, at all; I already know what must be done, I simply need a chance to accomplish it. You must trust me.

[Her words from his past and her future come to mind then, 'All these centuries, and you're underestimating me now?']

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[soulcontracts]

Children.

[And while Johannes may not look like it - he's not look up from his book as he speaks, afterall - he is interested.]

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[gotbackupagain]

That'll get you far.

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[soulcontracts]

[And his eyes cut up to her.]

What language was that?

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[gotbackupagain]

[For a brief moment, she almost seems confused. But oh-]

Enochian.

[checkoutpandora]

Your phone's on.

[Annnd here we go. Gabriel's Enochian sounds like ass and shit, because he hasn't spoken it in ten thousand years or something, but whatever. He can speak it. And no one can tell, because ENOCHIAN SOUNDS LIKE GARGLING NAILS ANYWAY.]

I swear, it's always something with you two these days. And this time? Castiel's right.

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[gotbackupagain]

Yeah I noticed.

[Wow bro. Anna's heard some grinding in her day but geez.]

Castiel's doing something he shouldn't. [And that's... basically a theory, but it's not really that hard to guess at.]

And I don't want to be part of it. There isn't a way to fix this; if he's got some other idea, and he won't 'tell me'? How the hell is that not a bad thing?

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[painhumbles]

[Oh shut up. It never made romance language status for a reason.]

So what else is new? Hasn't he kinda been going against protocol for years now?

He's saving your life. How is that not a good thing?

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[gotbackupagain]

[ffffffff]

Not if it costs someone else instead.

[marsfireignite]

[... Cas, what did you do. 8|]

What's wrong?

[gotbackupagain]

[ALL THE THINGS.]

That... Is a very broad question.

[marsfireignite]

[That -- gets a tiny smile.]

Good point...Start with the most obvious?

[Normally, she wouldn't intrude on conversational like this, because she finds it really annoying when it happens to her -- but Castiel is totally her favorite angel one of her friends.

So spill, ginger.]

[gotbackupagain]

What? That I keep telling him no? [ :T Be more specific Rei, Anna isn't paying 100% attention to everything.]

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[buntails]

[The part she could understand was enough to make her worry.]

Anna? Will it be alright like that?

[It didn't sound like leaving it alone was, well, an option; but Anna must have had her reasons not to want to try whatever Castiel was suggesting. What else was there?]

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[gotbackupagain]

[Looong pause on her part, like she's contemplating.]

I don't know.

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[buntails]

I don't really know everything you were talking about, but... There must be something that can help, something that would be alright.

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[gotbackupagain]

It's unlikely. I was hurt with something that's meant to kill Angels. The only reason I'm still here is because the hit wasn't deep enough.

If the Archangels can't do anything.. Then it's impossible. [She can't flit up to Heaven, not that she would back home, either.]