lucifer saw it on michael's face, he liked this. he liked what he was doing to his brother, sure he tried to fight back, but it was difficult with angelblades sticking out of him left and right. lucifer couldn't believe it. he screamed at his brother to stop, to cease and desist. he didn't, he just kept tearing at those beautiful mahogany feathers. he tried to make himself forgive michael, he tried very hard. the feeling became neutral after thousands of years. michael couldn't keep the warmth in lucifer's body for long. the vessel eliminated certain functions to prepare for the great sleep. it was just around the corner. lucifer was like a computer that had to do updates: it had to shut down, it became very slow, and it normally took forever to finish. he was getting ready, now all he had to do was get comfortable. michael had that look on his face sometimes, the one that said that he was sorry, but then the other half said he had no regrets for doing what he did. lucifer didn't blame him. he tore this family apart, and now he was trying to piece it back together. "We're brothers, we're supposed to love each other-- michael, don't-" he would plead, defensive hands up. he wasn't michael from that day on, and he wasn't lucifer; but a drone, and a ghost with a mission. he tried not to talk about it. the demons still scolded him for being too warm, being too soft with the brother that banished him. lucifer was talked into tearing michael's wings apart to get pay back by abbadon. what would that solve? that'd just make it worse, even if it did make lucifer feel better. michael wouldn't react, he knew his brother better than he knew himself, and he knew michael would lay there and let it happen. it wouldn't do anything to michael on a biblical scale, they'd just sprout again because michael is higher on the food chain than lucifer is, the power is clearly unbalanced. unless god got in the way, then they'd probably end up killing each other. lucifer moved like a ghost over the gray carpeting, he almost glided. an angel's vessel would also begin to go into a sort of preparation for a coma, even if comas are normally unexpected. lucifer warned alex, and stuffed him full of food and water, carbohydrates and enough food to create ATP for months. his cells wouldn't be damaged, they'd be cradled by angelic grace. if only a biologist could see an angel's cells, they were different. grace hid in the vacuole of a human cell. normally the cell is used for storage, but it is very small in animal cells. in plant cells, the sack can grow to the size of half the cell. a plant vacuole provides strength and structure to the cell, if that plant leaf shrivels, it means the sack does not have enough water, and eventually the cell would die. grace lies in the sack and accelerates the cells' chemical reactions, and speed up healing. lucifer's grace was dwindled, and he was about to shrivel. he couldn't die from this right away, so he slept. he kneeled down and got inbetween his brother's legs, wrapping pale arms around michael's waist. " I'm tired, " he said and looked up to the brother that paralyzed him.