«Supernatural». Adam Milligan/Michael, is mentioned Sam Winchester/Gabriel and Dean Winchester/Castiel. The Winchester Brothers
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When Sam called them to the bunker for some celebration, Adam was confused. Michael felt the discord in his feelings inside him and cautiously asked:
"I'm nobody to them," Adam frowned, "they left me in a Cage for ten damn years, they left us!" Milligan's voice was filled with strength, anger from injustice rang in it.
"Life is never fair", Michael chuckled softly, remembering what his brother and the Winchesters had told about his Father. But he had been praying to him for several (tens, if not hundreds) of years, asking — begging — to get them out of the Cage. Then he lost all hope of his salvation and began to ask for salvation only for Adam. But his father didn't hear him…
At first, even after Sam and Lucifer left, Michael did not pay attention to Adam, who behaved very quietly, realizing that he was stuck here forever. But gradually, in order not to go crazy, Adam began to talk to the archangel, who did not answer him, busy with prayers. At first, Michael sat at this activity all the time — after all, what could you do in a Cage in which there was, in fact, nothing but darkness? — but not finding a response, I began to despair. His despair was expressed in the fact that he kicked the walls of the Cage, broke his hands in blood, trying to find a way out, and when, finally, Michael broke down, he began to cry. For the first time in his life, the elder archangel cried in despair. But never—never—did he hurt Adam. The archangel could not harm someone who trusted him, trusted his soul and body.
Michael emerged from the sad memories only when Adam called out to him louder.
"What were you talking about?".
Adam's fingers were drumming on the table, and he didn't seem to notice it. Michael was smiling.
Adam already knew the answer.
"We'll get out of here," Milligan said with conviction, squeezing the archangel's hand in his.
Michael gently ran the finger of his other hand over Adam's palm. He understood that Adam was trying to cheer him up and was very, very grateful for it, but he no longer believed that they would ever get out of here.
Adam leaned against Michael shoulder and closed his eyes, inhaling deeply. He himself was on the verge of despair, but he understood that Michael needed his help in order not to go crazy.
"Everything will be fine," Milligan said quietly.
Michael suppressed the urge to laugh. People have always believed in the best, even when the situation was hopeless, like, for example, now. Michael knew that Adam himself could hardly believe in his words, but he allowed himself to believe in them at least for a while. For a brief moment, he felt better.
"If you feel uncomfortable, you can leave at any time," Sam seemed to feel out of place, however, Milligan could not see him: they were talking on the phone.
Adam-Michael listened attentively to him, and then grinned.
"We will decide for ourselves if we need to leave".
They both agreed with this idea.
When Dean saw them, he froze at first, and then smiled and hugged Adam. He has already begun to forget that he is a Winchester for some part. Milligan slapped his brother on the back several times, smiled and pulled away. They exchanged a few words, and then Sam appeared. The latter also hugged him, and then they walked together to the table. Adam ate almost nothing, the brothers frowned, but tried not to show that it bothered them.
The brothers told about their hunting, and Adam told about their travels around the world with Michael. Sometimes they talked together: Adam recalled some detail, and Michael immediately voiced it, or vice versa, Michael recalled, and Adam repeated it aloud.
About half an hour later, more people came. Dean and Sam immediately introduced them to each other. Mary Winchester, Bobby Singer, Charlie Bradbury, Kevin Tran, Castiel, Jack Kline — Michael already knew that this was his nephew, Lucifer's son, and could not say that he did not have a biased attitude towards him, but when they met and talked a little, the archangel could no longer say that he's pure evil—and a few other people.
Adam had already managed to wind himself up about Mary — he knew that she was the mother of his brothers, but did not know how she would react to him — the fruit of her husband's affair with Kate Milligan. Michael calmed him down, saying that she was a wise woman and probably realized it even then, maybe John himself told her about the affair, or maybe it was the Winchester brothers.
To Adam's surprise, Mary Winchester treated him warmly, gave him a motherly hug and did not show any anger, disappointment, or other feelings that he expected from her. He was even embarrassed because he thought so badly about this woman, and she turned out to be not what he imagined her to be.
When everyone sat down at the table and immediately started talking, Adam felt superfluous. Almost everyone here — if not all — were hunters and, naturally, the conversation first turned to hunting. Then Charlie sat down next to Milligan, as there was an empty seat next to him. Bradbury started a conversation with him and Adam was relieved to pick him up, he felt at ease with this girl. Charlie was very smart (and, of course, she knew that Michael was sitting inside Adam).
They started talking about what happened after they fell into the Cage. Adam listened with genuine interest, as did Michael. They learned that Eve, leviathans, angels who fell from heaven, Darkness visited the earth…
Michael smiled, although he was also somewhat shocked by this information, since the Winchesters told about it without details.
"It seems that we have been in a Cage not for ten years, but much more, since so many monsters have visited the earth...".
Adam silently agreed with him.
Fortunately, Charlie had the tact not to be interested in what was with them in the Cage.
Then Cas came up to them and greeted Adam and his brother. Adam remembered that Michael had told about the affections of angels and archangels, and in particular Michael himself. Michael was attached only to his brothers, and especially to his younger brother Lucifer. The Archangel exchanged a few words with Castiel, and then he was distracted by Charlie, who chatted about everything that came into her head.
Michael suddenly remembered how he threw his brother into a Cage, how he begged not to do this, but Michael was an obedient son, he obeyed God's orders, and therefore, when he received a direct order from him to imprison the rebellious archangel in a cage that God created in a special place for him — Hell, he also obeyed and he fulfilled the will of the Lord.
"You know it was right to some extent".
Adam tried to calm the archangel, but he — for the umpteenth time — began to reproach himself for having listened to his father right away, and did not even bother to listen to his brother.
Now Michael fully understood Lucifer's feelings — when he was betrayed by his Father, whom he loved, and by his older brother, whom he also loved very much — and this only made it more bitter.
"Answer Charlie," Milligan interrupted his train of thought.
Michael stared at the girl in disbelief, waiting for some kind of answer from him. Carried away by his thoughts, he did not notice that he was asked something.
"And what was the question?", he cautiously asked Adam.
"Did you have time to check out "Star Wars" and did you like them? It seems like she was talking so fast that this is the only thing I managed to remember. I think she was talking about her favorite characters from these films," Adam smiled tightly.
"Mmm... no, I haven't watched "Star Wars" yet," the elder archangel smiled.
Bradbury stared at Adam in utter amazement.
"You have to see them! These are cult films!" She exclaimed with conviction.
Michael just nodded his head, ignoring most of what Charlie said next, as she began to paint all the charms of these films.
"Haven't you both watched them?" Charlie asked again.
Adam's eyes flashed blue and he answered:
"I didn't watch, because I simply had no time, I studied in medical school," the memories made Adam experience a dull longing for his mother, "and Michael was too busy, so yes, we both didn't watch them," Milligan smiled only with the corners of his lips.
Michael allowed only two beings in his life to call himself "Michael"— Lucifer and Adam. To everyone else, he was either Mikhail or the Leader of the Heavenly Host.
Charlie continued to chatter, but neither Michael nor Adam paid any more attention to her.
After the holiday, when everyone started to disperse, Adam asked a question:
"Somewhere far away", was the laconic answer.
Dean and Sam finally invited them to come whenever they wanted. Adam-Michael agreed and moved quickly until they started talking about Adam being their brother, they shouldn't have left him in a Cage and blah blah blah…
On the one hand, it was a shame that the brothers did not pull him out of the Cage.
On the other hand, at first they did not know that he was still alive and thought that their brother had gone to Heaven.
"You're trying to justify them".
Adam saw no point in denying it.
They ended up in one of the archangel's houses, of which he had many all over the world.
"I need a drink, but I won't," Milligan muttered, pouring himself some juice and gulping it down.
Michael once told him that drinking alcohol brings the archangel closer to falling. And it does not matter who drinks it — the archangel himself or the person in whose body he moved (however, the archangels did not leave the souls of people in their bodies, they immediately sent them to Heaven).
Michael smiled. He knew that Adam really cared about him and it warmed his heart and soul pleasantly. But gloomy thoughts overcame him again. Him father never did such a thing, for the most part, he didn't care about his creations, how they would live or adapt to life. And he didn't care about the older children, although the Lord claimed that they were his most beloved sons, not counting the people he also considered his children (but the archangels knew that the Lord was lying about loving them all equally and his most beloved son of them was Lucifer).
But Michael continued to love his father and was faithful to him until he found out that none of them was really his favorite, that their whole life was just a game of the Lord and universes with such children he could have hundreds of thousands. Michael had seen only one so far and knew about the existence of the second one.
At that moment, Michael was disappointed in his faith, in his Father, whom he could not even call a Father now.
He played with them over and over again, forced them to throw Lucifer into the Cage, who was right in something (but not in everything, of course; after meeting Adam, the Archangel could not say with certainty that all people are bad and deserve death, this boy forced him to reconsider his priorities).
"Michael?" Milligan couldn't hear the archangel's thoughts, he closed himself off from him. Adam tried to reach Michael, but he seemed to have built an invisible impenetrable wall around himself and it was impossible to reach him. But Adam wouldn't be Adam if he tried to call him just once. They had no one in the Cage but each other, and no matter how desperate one of them was, the other always supported him, regardless of whether it was related to the past or what was happening right at that moment.
"Talk to me," pause, "please," Adam didn't even know if the Archangel was listening to him, but kept trying, "Michael, please, talk to me, please..." he was ready to beg, just so Michael wouldn't close himself off from him, wouldn't be left alone with his pain.
"He lied to me", bitterness was heard in the voice of the archangel. He appeared in Adam's mind, looking like his young father, but his hair was very disheveled, and something seemed to break inside. Adam felt something crackling inside him.
He was not ready to see Michael so broken.
"He lied to me," Michael repeated, still unable to believe in the betrayal of his beloved father, "he lied to me all this time… I was ready to do anything for him, but... I'm not even the only Michael!..", he covered his eyes with his hands and shook his head. "Nobody needs me… All my brothers are dead, and I... I'm left alone. I couldn't protect them, I'm good for nothing but war, I...", there wasn't enough air and Michael began to suffocate.
Adam took a few steps towards him and put his hands on his, gently stroking.
"Hey," he said softly, "it's not like that," Milligan exhaled: it was much harder to speak than expected. They had not discussed this before: Michael was not one of those who likes to vividly express their feelings, emotions and experiences, so they had not even raised this topic since the Winchesters told them about the betrayal of God.
Michael didn't seem to hear him.
The Archangel froze, taking his hands away from his face, which Milligan never let go, and squinting incredulously at Adam, but beginning to calm down slowly. Then he smiled, thinking that, judging by what Dean and Sam were saying, saying these words to those they love is family.
"I need you," Adam repeated, "and you will never be alone," "as long as I'm with you" did not escape from his lips, but Michael understood him without words.
Adam was intently peering into Michael's face, trying to predict his next actions, when he suddenly hugged Milligan tightly.
"Thank you...", Michael nuzzled Adam's shoulder, hugging him harder.
They don't care about God, Heaven, Hell and Winchesters — as long as they have each other, they will never be alone.
