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[alexseanchai]

Title: Have Some Sympathy
Rating: PG
Summary: Lucifer at the conclusion of 5x22 "Swan Song".
Pairings: None.
Warnings: Um. See summary.
Word Count: 100

Lucifer punches Dean again and again, putting into it all his fury against the brother he loved, who loved him, imprisoned him, would kill him. Dean keeps talking through it, tugging at Lucifer with the same power, untrained, that Sam has used to remove demons. It's pitiful.

Light catches on the car. There's a toy stuck inside, and through Sam's reflection Lucifer sees that memory, feels the next, lives the third. Lucifer is only dimly aware of when Sam meets Dean's power and uses it to seize Sam's body and Lucifer's grace.

Lucifer hadn't realized that humans, too, could love.

Comments

[neotoma]

Lucifer hadn't realized that humans, too, could love.

Oh, now that's a kicker. Given how Lucifer acts and talks about humans, it's also totally believable...

[alexseanchai]

I think he saw humans as...best parallel I can think of is video games. Particular buttons or combinations of buttons--wtf Firefox spellcheck, 'combinations' is so a word--have consistent results that often mimic the actual responses of actual people (that is, angels), but couldn't possibly be anything but preprogrammed responses because we're talking about clay dolls, not people. So it perplexed him no end that Sam reacted directly counter to expectation just about every time. And then the end of Swan Song and the light dawns, and he's so busy staring at the pretty light that he doesn't notice Sam jumping down the rabbit hole...

Glad you enjoyed!

[grimalkin]

That last line kind of punched me in the gut. And I liked it. XD Very insightful drabble.

[alexseanchai]

This is my counter to all the "yellow-crayon moment THAT ENDING SUCKED" people.

Glad you enjoyed!