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Who: Lucifer, Michael, and Victor Brannigan
What: Little brother is bored so he creeps
When: Thursday
Where: Michael's Police Station
Warnings: Lucifer


After the debacle that was Valentines Lucifer had gone quiet. He very much wanted to scorch every Greek out there, but that would mean admitting Satan was right, and he didn't feel like being gloated over. The fact he'd do the same, was ignored. Instead he'd made his way into the police station his brother worked and when he found his desk had sat behind it.

Mostly, because he could. And he felt like snooping. Michael was probably the single most boring Angel in their Father's entire army, but he had good taste in sweets. And considering Lucifer took it upon himself to keep Michael employed by committing various murders (and various other offenses that never got pinned on him as Hell owned quite a lot of judges and cops) he felt he had a right to take Michael's stash of sweets.

Plus, it had the lovely benefit of annoying Michael. He'd found his way to a box of sweets he was happily devouring and into Michael's computer system (it paid to own a fair few computer geeks who had taught him how to break into most things. Plus Michael's passwords were horrifyingly simple to guess), and was going through a few things. Michael didn't even own a facebook profile he could toy with so he just switched every site he could find to the most gratuitous and shocking porn sites he could find.

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The idea of Kat coming anywhere near a building Lucifer had just come into and might be returning to caused his heart to seize up. "No!" he said, more loudly that he meant to. "I...I mean, I can meet you at the diner across the street? I don't want to be here any more. They'll let me go."

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The forceful answer had made her frown, but his other words relaxed her. She was part afraid, and part deathly worried. "Okay, if you're sure you'd rather not have a place where we can talk privately?" A diner wasn't very helpful at calming someone down, and she wasn't sure how social she'd be right now.

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Victor thought for a moment as he stood and gathered his things. "No...no you're right. We should go somewhere else. I just don't want you here. Not-not because of you. Should...should we go to my place?"

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"I know," she didn't think he'd push her away from his work because of her. "Yes. I'm on my way there. We can keep talking and don't drive okay? I'm not very far."

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"I'll leave my car and get a taxi," he assured her. "I can be there in ten minutes."

He had indeed continued to talk to her as he travelled, but once he was in the taxi, he had had to change the topic to innocuous things. When he reached his house he let himself in and once he was safely inside the warded door, he leaned against the wall and slid down it.

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She was glad he didn't drive. He didn't sound like he'd be in the right state for it. Neither was she. She'd rambled whatever had come into her mind while she went to his place, only ending the call then.

She let herself in and closed the door, not saying anything but sitting down beside him and setting her arms around him. She was happy he was okay, at least physically, but she wouldn't deny her own fear and panic either.

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The moment her arms were around him, he leaned into her. "Thanks for coming," he said softly. He felt half stupid for being panicked, and half like he wasn't panicking enough. He had just spoken to the actual devil.

"He knows my name," Victor whispered, suddenly shivering.

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"Of course," like she wouldn't be here for him after something like this. She hadn't even taken off her jacket yet, but all that didn't matter. She ran her hand through his hair, and didn't really know what to say to the last bit except hold him closer.

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"This is the guy who killed Michael and buried him in a field so he would stay dead for weeks," he whispered. Michael had explained that recently and it shook Victor to his core. "How can I know he won't do the same to me? I don't think I can do this."

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Just hearing that made her more then uncomfortable. And more then that, but she couldn't quite give a name to it. It made her shiver and she held him a little tighter.

She wished she could answer his questions, but she couldn't. "What do you want to do then?"

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"I don't know," he said, letting her hold him tightly. "I honestly don't know. It's my first day back in the field and I left early and now I'm panicking on the floor of my entryway.

Victor had heard some of the things Lucifer did to mortals when he was bored. Now Lucifer knew who he was, and he had already threatened to kill him about three times.

"He kept saying he could kill me as if he was talking about the weather."

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She closed her eyes and shivered again. She wasn't sure what to say, or what to do. Seh could only hold him.

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He sat like that for a long time, but eventually he seemed to get ahold of himself. He wrapped his arms around her instead of making her hold him up. Then he took several deep and calming breaths.

"It's days like today I wish I still smoked," he grumbled. "I'm sorry. I'm being an idiot."

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"Hey, no," she drew back enough to look at him. "This is a terrifying thing. If you weren't acting like this I'd be very worried something was wrong with you. I just don't know what to say. What to do. I'm scared you'll hurt yourself, or that this thing will hurt you. I think all of that's normal."

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"Hey," his face creased with worry then and he reached for her hand with his free arm. "Why do you think I would hurt myself?"

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She took his hand, "You said you didn't think you could do this. I kind of panicked with that, went to all the really bad places." She frowned, "I had an aunt. She learned about all this and couldn't do it either. So she took her own life. I didn't know her very well, but it is a worry."

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Victor hadn't even thought about that. He had meant he couldn't work with Michael any more. Immediately he hugged her close. "No. Kat, no, I didn't meant that. I'm sorry." When he pulled back he said, "my mother took her own life too and I was the one to find her. I would never put someone else in that position. I'm so sorry I scared you."

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She gave him a shaky smile, because she was here for him, not the other way around. "It's okay. Really, I just went to really bad places." She shook her head, "But I'm here for you. Can I do anything?"

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"Understandable," he assured her. "I just want you to know I would never mean that. I meant I don't know if I can keep working with Michael. Lucifer said he could burn me. My...my father burned to death."

Victor hardly ever talked about it. His father had been his hero, and he was happy enough to talk about the wonderful man who had shaped his happy childhood. Taking about the night the man had been taken from him, however-

"He was...he was at a housefire and there was a little girl trapped in an upstairs bedroom. He just wouldn't leave her even though it was too dangerous to still be inside. He helped her out a window but then the floor collapsed under him-" Victor sniffed and wiped at his suddenly wet eyes. Losing his father like that was why Victor was so afraid of fire, even now. He didn't even have candles in the house and when he had smoked, he had used an expensive lighter with a safety switch.

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She could tell he was distressed, and this wasn't easy to talk about. "Hey." She offered gently and wrapped her arms back around him to hold him close.

She couldn't imagine how terrible that had to be, even now. She'd wondered about his fear of fire but she hadn't ever pressed. But she could understand it.

Gently she ran her fingers through his hair. "It'll be alright. That won't happen. We'll figure it out. Promise."

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He hung his head but he nodded. "At his funeral I heard the men he worked with talking about how they could hear him screaming. I've never been able to forget that." Which could have gone without saying, considering she knew how his memory was. "I don't want that to happen to me."

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"It won't." She couldn't be sure of that of course but she would do what she could. It wasn't very much, she knew that. She continued to run her fingers through his hair, trying to do her best to calm him down.

After a while she drew back, "do you want me to stay?"

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He didn't even answer, he just nodded. He didn't want to be alone. If he was being honest, he didn't want to leave his nice and protected home ever again, but he knew that wasn't going to be an option.

"I hate this," he finally whispered.

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"I know. I hate it too," part of her hoped that didn't include her as well. She released him then so she could remove her coat. "Do you want to sit somewhere a bit more comfortable?"

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Victor glanced around and realised they were still on the floor. "I hadn't even noticed. I think my ass is numb," he admitted. He stood, wincing at the pins and needles in his legs. "Scratch that, I know it's numb."