Raphael couldn't understand it, and a lump formed in his throat every time he thought about it. It couldn't be, not Simeon, not him tooā¦. When Michael gave him the orders, he didnāt quite understand what he meant, and then the words he heard next distorted in his ears: āHumanā What? What human? That was all he could manage to say āSimeon is now a humanā He felt his heart stop, as if heād stopped breathing. Simeonā¦ a human? Whatā¦ what had happened?
However, he didnāt give him much of an explanation. Simeon had stolen a relic from heaven to give it to a mere mortal. It didnāt make sense, Simeon wouldnāt do something like that. Why would he betray the Celestial Realm?ā¦ Simeon wouldnāt do that, noā¦ Not himā¦
He hurried off; he had to go to the human world and see it with his own eyes. He was convinced that Simeon couldnāt have done something like that. Not of his own free will, he must have been forced or misled. Too much time in hell, surrounded by Lucifer and his brothersā¦ He knew that Simeon never truly understood what had happened, that he still loved themā¦ But what about him? Did he still love the brothers? It didnāt matter, it had nothing to do with the matter at hand. He had to think about Simeon. How had he been dragged into something like this? Did that human possess some kind of magic? Was he someone very important? What if Simeon had made the same mistake as Lilith... what if Simeon had fallen in love with that human?
He shook his head; he was rambling. He arrived in the human world, telling himself over and over that he would prove to Michael there must be a mistake, that it wasnāt possible. He turned onto the street where that cafĆ© was located; he wouldnāt go through the same thing again. It was all nonsense, it had to be. He wasnāt going to let another loved one lose their wings. He stopped abruptly when he reached the spot.
When he saw him, he understood everything. The Simeon standing before his eyes seemed happy; he laughed while he cooked, joked around, and his eyes filled with affection as he looked at that human, as he laughed with the brothersā¦ He hadnāt seen him like that since before the war; after that fateful event, his brotherās eyes had always been tinged with a veil of sadness, of unfulfilled longing, and of regretā¦ He knew that Simeon had sometimes wished he could have followed Luciferā¦
And now it was clear to him that what Simeon had always wanted was the kind of life he was now living, not to be a guardian of a deity who championed a superficial familiarity. No one had forced Simeon to do that; perhapsā¦ he had been thinking about it for millennia. And now Raphael didnāt know what to do.
This is something I wrote back when the final season of the original Obey Me! game came out, and I felt bad about just letting it go to waste, so Iāve polished it up and am sharing it with you as some vintage content from this, our, wonderful fandom.
To be honest, it was the first time Iād ever followed a season episode by episode (I downloaded Obey Me! when the third season was already complete), and I really enjoyed itāthe fandom discussions, the new characters... Anyway, Iām feeling nostalgic; weāve come a long way since then š„¹ .
Thank you for reading š©·
