When you simplified things down to a human level understanding the best friend of the girl he was seeing didn’t like him. Probably hated him. And you know, that was fair. There were surely whole tv dramas about that, right? And Raz knew Ruby was upset. They had fought more viciously over text than they had since they made up.

Maybe it hadn’t been that long, fine. But that didn’t mean Raz liked that they reverted. In fact, he hated it.

This was important.

So he exhaled through his nose, leaning against the closed door of her bathroom.

“Ruby... Can I come in?” A pause. He could feel her stewing inside, he wouldn’t be surprised of the bath water was literally boiling, “I’m not here to fight with you. I want to apologize.” Try to at least. He waited for a response, “I’ll do it from out here if you want.”

[txt >> Ruby, unsent ]: I didnt know what to

To say Pari almost choked on her hot chocolate would have been an understatement.

“What?” she paused mid stride, using her free hand to take Ruby’s, keeping the other woman from running off, “No one’s ever taken you on a proper date before?” A pause to think, “Well, that just won’t do...” Off the top of her head she couldn’t think of anyone she could ask that Ruby wouldn’t be upset at Pari for setting her up on a date with. And blind dates didn’t count -- not that they couldn’t be special but -- for their purposes Pari wanted to make sure it would be lovely undoubtedly. “-- I got it! What if I took you on a date? Oh, Ruby,” she smiled dreamily, “It’d be so fun. You wouldn’t have to do anything. I’ll take care of it all. Who better to spoil you than me?”

Raz had enough going on between planning and wrangling the rest of the love struck angels and hoping that he was making the right choices. Dorian and Gabe and even Lucifer had been telling Raziel to take a break so that was what he was trying to do. 15 minutes to just sit in the coffee shop and try to relax. The last thing he needed was to see her.

He had been so busy he didn’t even notice Ruby was in town until he saw her. Raz couldn’t remember the last time they spoke, not really, and yet it felt like it was just yesterday.

“-- Lord help me.” He stopped in his tracks outside of the cafe, debating turning the other way but she had already saw him. And just like that whatever stress he had gotten rid of shot right back up his spine, “Hello Ruby. What a noxious surprise.” He gave her a once over then crossed his arms, “New vessel? Well, good news is you look just as ungodly as ever.”