Týsdagr: Dictionary Definitions

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Suffer Well; Michael + Adam; PG-13 ish I guees, 1/2

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Notes: I've been rewatching Inception, and Angel of Death again. And RPing crazy!Adam. I blame this fic on that.

Adam is not an easy vessel to use.

It takes a lifetime in his own heaven, for Michael to get the barest utterance of the word yes out of his lips. Adam is resilient, strong, unwavering. He doesn't break under Raphael's hands or even under Michael's own. It takes the mention of Kate Milligan for the boy to give. He spits out his assent in all righteous fury. Even then, there is a hint of something dark in his eyes promising revenge, promising Michael that he will regret this as Michael fills in inside him, spreading his grace through Adam's nerves and making Adam's body his. The boy is definitely a Winchester, even if he denies it.

Michael pushes Adam's soul to the far recesses of his mind, and Adam retreats, not hissing and spitting like Michael expected him too, not yelling for his wife's safety like John had, but brimming with cold fury and determination. Michael thinks nothing of it, and flexes his fingers testing out this new improvised true vessel.

(The lack of any reaction should be a sign of things to come, a sign that maybe Raphael or him may have broken something essential in Adam, but Michael is too focused on bringing about Paradise, to realise it.)

~

It starts with small things. Things not really worth bothering about when the bigger picture is much more important than trivial matters. Like how Michael needs to focus more grace than he should to use Adam's body. That makes sense. Adam is not really his true vessel, and while he isn't a completely imperfect fit, he's not a perfect one either. Michael had the same problems during the short stint when he used John.

But then there's the ever obvious presence of Adam still in there. The boy does nothing – well not always, but he makes his presence known. It's unnerving because in the years he's lived and the temporary vessels he's taken, no soul had such a strong presence once he took over. Most of them simply slept inside him. But Adam is wide awake, and there, waiting for something, even if it means risking burning out his soul bit by bit on Michael's grace.

Once, while he's busy searching for Lucifer to keep tabs on his brother's whereabouts, Michael realises just what the boy is trying to do. Adam isn't simply lurking, he's filling the gaps of himself where Michael's grace can't reach, systematically trying to take back control of his body. And he's succeeding.

Normal humans shouldn't be able to even do that. Their will isn't strong enough.

(In two days, Michael will learn that he's wrong, and humans are perfectly capable of taking back control when Sam Winchester does it, but for now he tries to push Adam back. Adam retreats, soul burning out, but with a sort of smugness that tells Michael that this won't be the first time it happens.)

~

For the next two days, the presence is still there, but now Adam starts talking to him. Not threats, not taunts, but the boy casually starts throwing out these tiny hypotheticals. Most consists of what would happen if Michael lost, and Lucifer won. He goes on gleefully about exactly how Lucifer might get his revenge, what Lucifer would to if he won. To earth, heaven, the angels, and Michael, all in lovingly excruciating detail, in a voice that suggests he's simply talking about the weather.

~

Castiel molotovs him with holy fire. Through the haze of that white hot, Michael feels Adam bury fingers into his grace and claw at it, cackling all the time. The pain is excruciating in it's own, but Adam takes the liberty to actually increase it.