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Birthday Party for Laura/X-23
It's a pretty low-key party, all things considered, and not significantly different than the one Parker or Meg would have thrown in a dorm room for a friend at home, not-exactly-traditional menu not withstanding.
There's music, low enough to talk over (and maybe with a little more folk in the mix than one expects to find a party). Balloons and streamers in purple and blue and red. A place to leave presents. People to meet or catch up with.
And, most importantly, a chance to wish X-23 (or Laura) a very happy birthday.
There's music, low enough to talk over (and maybe with a little more folk in the mix than one expects to find a party). Balloons and streamers in purple and blue and red. A place to leave presents. People to meet or catch up with.
And, most importantly, a chance to wish X-23 (or Laura) a very happy birthday.
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Because, if she's being honest, oh, yes.
"But . . . I meant more that I found that my strange was someone else's normal, and vice versa."
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"Perhaps we are all sent here to learn things."
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She smiles.
"I like that better, as an explanation, than just sometimes there's a bar where the library should be."
In that it's less random and more rational.
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Nothing is truly random or coincidence.
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"Of course."
Admittedly, he may be a bit biased.
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(Not as long as Castiel took to consider the balloon, but long enough.)
"That . . . that seems to be . . ."
She pauses again.
". . . asking a lot, maybe."
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"Asking a lot to believe?"
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Castiel tilts his head.
"The Universe was created, by and large, to work in cooperation with itself. Much in the way individual cells and strands of acids make up a human body."
"Most events....they are as good as random to most people. It is only when viewed from a distance, sometimes over hundreds of years, that patterns form."
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"There's special providence in the fall of a sparrow?" she asks, finally.
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"Has a seemingly random event ever had an impact on your life? One that would seem of little importance, that may not even have happened to you directly?"
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Profound impact, really. In many ways.
"But I don't know that it necessarily follows that every seemingly random event has an impact."
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"I believe your scientists even have a term for it. Chaos Theory?"
"Something to do with butterflies."
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(The theory is around, of course, but it hasn't gone quite mainstream in 1988.)
". . . butterflies?"
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The enigmatic air comes with the wings.
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"I don't know. Butterflies can be a lot showier than sparrows."
All those colors.
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"But ultimately much more fragile."
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Meg is not even really sure she knows what they're talking about anymore.
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He's an angel. Not a theological scholar.
He smiles.
"Have faith that there is a plan. But don't let it become worry about each step and every turn. Every sparrow. Don't become so preoccupied trying to see the plan that it becomes impossible to live."
"Men and women have gone mad that way."
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"I'll . . . I'll remember that."
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"I do not doubt that you will."
Meg is reliable when it comes to remembering.
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"Thank you."