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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.
Re: Hang out with X-23
She sounds fairly certain.
And--
"I like having friends."
Re: Hang out with X-23
"Having friends is a very good thing."
Angels do not form friendships, per se. Not the way people define friendship. And Castiel still isn't quite sure that he has the right to claim such a relationship with the people he has met in Milliways.
But he watches. And he knows how important friends are.
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X is curious.
"Friends. Here. Or at home."
Raguel seemed to. Maybe X will ask a demon, next.
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Then closes it.
And opens it again.
And closes it.
"I am not sure," he says, finally.
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X is silent for a second. Or two.
"You do not say that? Friends."
She didn't for a while. Years, even.
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Castiel pauses, trying to work his thoughts into comprehensible words.
"And I am coming to know people through Milliways. But I am unsure if I can call them friends."
"I do not know that that's my place."
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She is trying to understand.
"Because--"
Beat.
"I do not understand."
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"And part of our purpose is to serve them."
The great rift among the heavenly hosts had been because of the decree that God's most beautiful angel bow before man.
"I am not sure it is....permitted that I claim humans as friends."
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"They tell you what to do? Humans."
That--
X is not fond of that idea.
Re: Hang out with X-23
It's been known to happen. But only rarely.
"But we are charged with their care."
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This--makes a lot more sense.
"I protect my friends, too."
Beat.
"And other people."
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"It makes things like friendship complicated."
Although, that leaves Castiel at something of a loss to define his relationship with people he has met here.
Were he anyone (or anything) else, he could claim them as friends without thinking twice.
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"I do not think it is like that."
Beat.
"For me."
But she--isn't sure.
Re: Hang out with X-23
When your job has occasionally required you to assist in wiping out an entire town of innocents for the greater good of humanity, it makes you leery of getting too attached to individuals.
Fortunately, X does not have that problem.
At least, Castiel hopes she doesn't.
"I am not. A person. That makes it more difficult."
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It's a different dynamic.
"You are a person."
She sounds--a little fierce about that.
"You do not have to be human. For that."
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"I cannot be both."
"I am an angel. I am not a person. That is simply how I was created."
"But that is okay too."
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She's not exactly mulish. Just a teenager. With issues involving identity and self-determination.
"And a person."
Whether or not Raguel would agree--
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They have met.
"I appreciate that you think of me as a person."
Semantics aside, he knows what she is trying to convey.
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Then she nods, relaxing faintly.
"Okay."
Beat.
"Good."