sickle_stories

Topics:

General
✓ Kezef
- The hunt for Lucifer!Sam
✓ Pre-apocalypse life flashbacks (in terms of their dead)
- Lucifer taunting the camp, Dean and Icarus
- Influx of refugees
- Hellhounds and other apparitions of evil being afoot (including Fenrir?)

Chip
✓ Chip's training and use of his infected- and night-vision
✓ His dwindling night-vision related to Icarus' dwindling powers
✓ Making a family with Saunders, Agatha
✓ Friendship with Icarus (one-sided attraction)
- Chip on clean-up missions and Lucifer searches
- Dean and Chip conversations (i.e. the hero and the minor character with the focus switched)
- Chip going back on the road, possibly with Saunders and Agatha
✓ Icarus and Chip friendship, teaching, conversations

Icarus
✓ Icarus and painkillers
- Disillusionment with Dean
✓ Humanification and loss of powers
✓ Pining for the other angels

Dean
✓ Dean turning into Future!Dean even more
- Dean's suicide mission

Scenes:

~~- Woman tucks a saint medallion out of the way - into her bra strap - before starting a guard, or when hostiles are seen.~~

~~- Dean sets up new accomodations for Icarus. Chip is pokerfaced about it, but doesn't take it well.~~

- "Come on baby, light my fire," whispered before throwing a Molotov at hostiles. Try to set the night on fire.

~~- Icarus drinking alone because "my grace is gone".~~

~~- Chip's vision only works in the camp as Icarus' powers decrease.~~

- Icarus gets the children to, as a game (for them), paint (or repaint those he did before the angels left) the wards around the camp. Chip doesn't take too well to the children's inclusion into the fight.

- Chip walks into the cabin to see Agatha with a gun on the bed. He freaks out a bit but Agatha calmly explains it was a gift from one of the adults, "Don't worry, it's not loaded or anything. She's just taught me how to clean it so far, so I'm practicing." Chip fights the urge to take it away - again, sad at the children being brought into the fight - and instead gives her a rag to work on instead of the bed, or suggests she work at a table properly.

- At his loss of grace, Icarus is open to posession - as are Chip and co. - so anti-possession measures have to be taken. They ran out of medalions months ago, so it's home-made tattoo / brand solutions. Particularly necessary if they want to leave the warded camp. That or they wait for someone to get killed near-enough the camp to take their medalion.

- Chip angrily chases Dean - revenge, retribution or in defense of someone's honour, maybe even Icarus' - in the dark, having an advantage in the pursuit due to his night-vision, although Dean beats him, hands down. (See also Placebo's Infra-Red: "I'm coming up on infra-red, there is no running that can hide you, 'cause I can see in the dark. I'm coming up on infra-red, forget your running, I will find you."

- Regarding Kezef: "How do you kill an angel?" "You have to make him Fall first." "What, trip him or something?" "Take away his grace: make him mortal. Like me."

- The camp plays baseball or catch, and Chip's fresh new crowbar muscles and aim make him a fearful contender. Beats the hell out of Ultimate Frizbee, although he'd give anything for those days to come around again.

- Kezef appears not in a vessel but in an assumed shape and also taking on the identity of all other creatures and gods of destruction, anger, death and wrath, such as Kali. (See also: Neil Gaiman's The Price: "The figure flickered and changed as it walked up the drive. One moment it was dark, bull-like, minotaurish, the next it was slim and female, and the next it was a cat itself, a scarred, huge grey-green wildcat, its face contorted with hate. [...] The Devil was a woman, now. [...] The woman glanced up at me, then, and if I had doubted that she was the Devil before, I was certain of it now: the woman's eyes flashed red fire at me; [...] The Devil twisted and writhed, and now it was some kind of jackal, a flat-faced, huge-headed, bull-necked creature, halfway between a hyena and a dingo. There were maggots squirming in its mangy fur, and it began to walk up the steps.")

- Kezef shows up at the gate one night while Chip is on guard, although he can't get in because of the wards. Chip can see him even though he's not inside a vessel because of the angel!vision. Chip knows he's not an infected when Kezef stops at Chip's raising of the gun, although the red!vision is doing massive noise. Kezef tries to taunt or trick Chip by shifting into a woman, then a man, then with a wicked smile, into Steve. At seeing Chip's angel!vision, Kezef says, "I see that my brother has already marked you," or "touched you".

- Dean is angry with Icarus, resulting in a fight, because Icarus never once suggested giving Dean the Infected!Vision.

Quotes:

- There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights. - overheard by cleolinda
- The one aspect of themselves they cannot change is their eyes - Interesting Times, TPratchett
- Take the time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive. - Doctor Who, The End of the World
- Nobody changes at summer camp. They merely find out who they are and become it more. - Happy Campers, 2001
- Broken bottles and bloodstains on the floor. - "Ready for War", Throw the Fight
- Don't be a hero - Common expression
- Don't be a dead hero - Robert Stallman, The Orphan
- Until you're dead or something - Marika Kailaya, here
- Insignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed...this was Icarus drowning. - Landscape with the fall of Icarus, WCWIlliams
- Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering. - Deuteronomy, 13:13-19, NLT
- God's gonna cut you down. - Johnny Cash
- Things do not change, we do. - WThoreau
- Any road leads to the end of the world. - EFitzgerald
- First there came a hurricane, but God was not in the hurricane. Then there came an earthquake, but God was not in the earthquake. Then followed a fire, but God was not there either. - 1 Kings: 19 (loose quotation, here)
- And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said: 'Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. - 1 Kings: 19
- When I see the blood, I will pass over you - Exodus 12:13
- It is better to reenter Hell and become an angel, than to remain in Heaven and become a demon. - Victor Hugo
- For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope
- It is better to conquor yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from ou, not by angels or by demons, heavon or hell. - Buddha
- If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking down to be a devil - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. - Lao Tzu
- Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons. - John W. Hinckley, Jr.
- And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. - Matthew 10:28
- I will send the sword to pursue them until I have completely destroyed them.- Jeremiah 9:12-15 NAB
- Delegation Quotes