Author: Az
Fandom: Angel
sanctuary
Characters/Pairing:
Rosiel/Katan
Prompt: Envy
Word Count: 670
Rating: R
Disclaimer: All
characters belong to Kaori Yuki, not me!
Author's Notes: Still
AU.. I just realised something that I didn’t get
to explain on the first part of this thing, I interpreted Sloth, not as laziness,
but as I quoted Dante for, as in not loving God enough, and that is why I
made up Raphael’s little suicide attempt.
But the more I read up on the deadly sins, the more I discover the
different meanings. For instance Envy is not the same as Greed, it is not
a longing for material things, Envy is the same as shadenfreude,
or as malice or jealousy.
"Love of one's own
good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs."
Dante Alighieri.
INVIDIA
Rosiel felt proud of himself, he had seen it in Raphael’s eyes just how
frightened the poor elemental angel had been. Funny how someone who tried to
end his own existence can fear death that much or maybe it was that he had
later found out what happened to suicide victims in hell.
He closed the door behind him and just stood completely still for a
moment. The sun fell though the stained glass windows and bathed Katan’s coffin
in the colours of the rainbow. Rosiel sighed. “Katan you fool” he walked slowly
over to the coffin and sat down with his back against it. “Why won’t you just
stop this? It is most tedious waiting for you to stop being offended” he
whispered, but his smile faltered, and his eyes were sad.
The lid of the coffin opened slightly and little tendrils of cord mixed
with some organic pulsing strings, almost muscle or maybe a blood vein. It
wrapped itself around Rosiel’s ankle and up his leg.
“Sometimes I wonder if you can’t change back” Rosiel whispered “maybe
there is too much of me in you” more tendrils came out and gently caressed
Rosiel’s cheek. “My son” Rosiel said softly. “Were you ever friendly with the
doctor, Raphael?” the tendrils stopped caressing Rosiel’s cheek “I guess you
were, though one might ask oneself why, he is a despicable creature” Rosiel
shook his head slightly amused. “He thinks I sent him to his death, I could see
it in his eyes” he whispered.
The tendrils rattled as a rattlesnake.
“I didn’t really hurt him, Katan. I just played with him” Rosiel said
with a slight chuckle. “And if he is such an idiot that he let the Ghouls
devour him, then it is really no loss” the tendril that had caressed his cheek
withdrew “I have sent six others there to retrieve that journal, and they have
all perished trying. Raphael is strong, he can do it. He will have to succeed,
since you refuse to return to me, but chooses to slander away your days in that
forsaken coffin. You would have done this for me in a matter of days Katan, I
just know you would” the tendrils came back and caressed the ivory skin on
Rosiel’s cheek.
“Imagine Raphael” Rosiel said softly “Doing your job” an amused laughter
filled the room as Rosiel found the mental image too funny. “Maybe he can seduce and smooch the ghouls to
death” he laughed.
Silence followed and Rosiel closed his eyes letting what he imagined to
be Katan’s hand caress his skin. “I need that journal Katan, I need it badly,
Sevothtarte cannot know of its content” Rosiel took a deep breath, “I will see
to it that you are fed” Rosiel got free of the tendrils and stood up. “I will
be back tomorrow” he said trying to hide his disgust of the sound it made as
Katan withdrew his tendrils into the coffin, it sounded like mechanical
slurping.
“I sent a sniffling moron to do a warriors job” he mumbled to himself,
“and the warrior is laying dormant as a moron” he sighed dramatically as he
opened the door to the crypt and left Katan in the dark.
TBC