"Sinking" continued. (12/7) No warnings.

[jeriendhal]

Interlude

“I was expecting you.”

“I shouldn’t have come, not now.”

“You needed to come here, my love. Sit, relax. Regain your center.”

“I know how to regain my center.”

“Yes, but shaking Laurence until his feathers fall out isn’t the best method.”

“Is it that obvious?”

“Well, that and I doubt there isn’t a reliever in Heaven who hasn’t heard about your little chat with him by now.”

“It’s wrong. God must know it’s wrong, so why is it happening?”

“Because the world is a flawed place since Lucifer lost his way, and we are also flawed, even those who stayed in Heaven.”

“I can’t help but think I should have done something different. Gotten closer to the kid. If I had been there to listen to him, maybe I could have been there to stop him before he stumbled into Andre’s trap.”

“Your Word and his aren’t compatible, my love. Even if you had tried, niether of you would have been comfortable.”

“Not compatible. Oh, you always were good at putting things gently. No, we sure as Hell aren’t compatible, are we?”

“Not your fault.”

“What happened, happened on my watch. I turned a blind eye, when I should have been cracking heads. But I was so certain that they wouldn’t go against Heaven in such a way…”

“God is omnipotent, the rest of us just have to stumble along.”

“When they convicted me of Pride, they were right. Dominic was right.”

“What happened afterward wasn’t your fault either.”

“No, but it was a result we should have seen coming. The revelation of the Hunts were one of the things that started Christopher doubting himself.”

“And if we get him back, will you tell him then, all the Truths that he should have known before?”

“Yes. He has the right to know. Heaven has the right to know. We’ve been all hiding in the dark for too long.”

.
.
.
“You think I’m wrong?”

“No, I was thinking… that I should have spoken to him before as well. But I didn’t.”

“As you said, sometimes we just have to stumble along.”

TBC