Razielle nodded slightly "yeah, they are." He sighed softly and started reading through an article he had found while idly petting Jack's head, massaging behind his ears and neck. "Are you ready to talk about what you got from Luc or not yet?" He asked softly, glancing over at Simon. "It's ok if you're still.processing everything, I can keep doing more research." He reassured, waving to his computer and notepad
Simon frowned. "I can take care of myself, Raz." He concentrated a moment to bring up the memory. Lucifer was having some sort of conversation with one of his minions. It was weird because he was seeing it in the first person.
"The Deity isn't in heaven?" Lucifer said, sounding agitated.
Soft murmurs from the minion that Simon couldn't understand.
"How long have they been gone?"
More murmurs.
"Alright. We'll have to do something about it. I don't know what yet. Stay on standby."
Simon opened his eyes, slightly dizzy. He grabbed Raz's shoulder to steady himself, his head spinning.
"sure you can." Raz muttered, writing down a few notes on his note pad and scrolling through the article as Simon recalled the memory.
He glanced up as Simon grabbed his shoulder, brows creasing in worry. He extended his wing to Simon, gently brushing against his back as he held onto his forearm, in case he decided to fall forwards it something
"I'm fine," he said, mostly for Raz's benefit, and not because it was true. He didn't feel too good, but Raz was already weird enough. He pushed himself to his feet. "I'm going to get the lasagna out of the oven," he said, holding his arms out to stay balanced.
Raz let go as Simon stood, not entirely convinced as Simon tried to find his balance. He watched Simon for a few moments to make sure he didn't fall before slowly returning to his research. "I'm assuming he didn't know about the Diety dissapearing either?" He asked, clicking off the article and opened opening another one
"Nope. But he's going down the same route we are. He wants to find the Deity, although for what purpose I'm not sure." He carefully removed the lasagna from the oven and put it on top of the stove. "I'll do my best to stay ahead of him, but I can't promise anything."
"not so sure I want to know the reason. But if it's important enough to concern Lucifer then we should keep our guard up." He replied, taking a few more notes before setting the laptop aside and nuzzling Jack. "You're lucky, you know that? No worry for what's going on around you as long as you get attention and food."
"You're jealous of my cat?" Simon said, slightly amused. "It seems to me, Razielle, that you're getting both food and attention." Simon filled two cups with water and set them on the table. He took a fork out of the drawer and a plate and set them next to the cup, then meticulously cut a piece of lasagna and set it on the plate. He sat opposite the plate and looked at Raz. "Dinner's ready."
"yes, that may be true but at least they don't have to worry about a Diety being gone." He pressed a kiss to Jack's head and gently set him aside. He stood with a smile, settling across from Simon and poking at the lasagna, waiting for it to cool down a bit. "This seriously looks amazing."
"Thank you," Simon said tentatively, unused to compliments. He folded his hands and set them on the table, studying the lines in his skin, rather than looking at Razielle.
Once the lasagna was cool enough, Razielle dug in, humming softly in appreciation and enjoying the wonderful meal. "You're not going to try any?" He asked, noticing that Simon hadn't served himself a plate. "It's really good."
Simon smiled slightly. "No. I'm fine. I'm glad you like it." Simon sat forward, putting his elbows on the table. "I didn't follow a recipe or anything."
He sighed softly but didn't argue with Simon, not wanting to ruin the nice dinner with more fighting.
"really? Well it came out pretty good, regardless of a recipe." He noted, happily eating some more
"Thank you," Simon said again. "You can take the rest home, if you'd like," he offered.
"not sure it'll all fit in the fridge, and that's if the cats don't eat it first." He chuckled lightly and stood, scooping Spooks up before she could start eating the lasagna. "Here, entertain your owner for a few moments." He said, setting the cat down in Simon's lap
"Um," is all Simon said in response to Razielle's 'present' (if you could call it that). "Thank you?" He rubbed Spook's ear and she pressed into his hand.
Raz just shook his head with a smile and settled back down to finish his food. "So if Lucifer doesn't know anything about the Diety, this puts us back at square one." He mused, bunching his lips to the side in thought "there's always research we can do but people only have such little knowledge that would be useful here. We need to get back to heaven. We could probably find something more helpful in the archives or something."
Simon pointed at him. "You need to go back to heaven. I highly doubt that: a) the angels will be happy to see me, or b) that they will approve of our detective work."
"I don't see why they wouldn't, it's to help find the Diety. It seems as if they'd need any help they can get. Though you might be right about them allowing you back in…though we might be able to maneuver around that if we have the excuse of it being necessary for our assignement with Urielle. Not many would argue with an archangel." He reasoned, leaning back in his seat as he finished hus meal
Simon shrugged. “Alright. If you say so. We’ll need to do that tomorrow. Go to heaven, I mean.” He popped the joints in his fingers and stood up.
Razielle nodded "I hope we can get into the archive. Gabriel will be hard to convince but hopefully he'll work with us than against us." He said softly, gently plucking a feather from his wing.
“Hopefully this will help my case somewhat,” Simon said, watching Spooks and Jack play in the livingroom.
"yeah, hopefully." He stood and went over to a window. He opened it slightly and let the wind carry the feather off. "Thank you always." Raz whispered, shutting the window before any of the cars could get the idea of escaping
“Why did you do that?” Simon asked curiously. He watched the feather float away on the current of the breeze, then looked at Razielle.
"to let them know we're coming back. It should reach Urielle soon so very he's the one who gave us the assignment." He explained, sitting down on the ground and watching as the cats played around.
“Oh. Interesting.” He watched Razielle with the cats, an odd feeling rising in his chest.
Raz nodded and flicked a toy in front of Jack and Spooks, watching as they pounced at it. He glanced up at arched an eyebrow "look who staring now." He teased, letting Spooks and Jack have the toy
Simon scoffed and looked away. “Whatever.” He sat next to Razielle, keeping distance between them.
Raz laughed and took the toy again, hiding it behind his back for a moment, letting the cats poke and prode at his hand and arms before rolling the toy across the floor for them to chase.
“You really like them,” Simon said, more as an observation than as a question. He was happy that Raz liked Jack and Spooks, but the tone of his voice implied otherwise.