{"id":349,"date":"2008-06-19T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/?p=349"},"modified":"2008-09-26T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T20:25:49","slug":"dance-on-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/2008\/06\/dance-on-the-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance on the Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexiel stared. "But why<\/em>…?"<\/p>\n

"Revenge is supposed to be served cold, isn’t it?"<\/p>\n

She gave Lucifer the look she’d perfected as a teenage boy. "It’s a metaphor<\/em>."<\/p>\n

Lucifer’s lips curled for just a moment. "Many humans say that about our entire existence, don’t they? Just because something is a metaphor is no reason for it not to exist." He settled back in his chair, looking very smug for someone without any expression.<\/p>\n

Alexiel drove a hand into her hair. "That isn’t the point. The point is… is…" she trailed off, distracted by the thing on the table in front of them. "The point is<\/em>… How did you get the expression so close?"<\/p>\n

"I did see him a few times, myself," Lucifer pointed out, and picked up a knife. "So?"<\/p>\n

Alexiel planted her elbows on the table and buried her face in her hands, laughing helplessly. "Okay, okay. I can’t believe you actually did this. Um." Her eyes were starting to sparkle. "I’ll have some of the mouth."<\/p>\n

Lucifer cut into the ice-cream cake in the shape of the Creator’s head, slicing her out a large section of beard and mouth and laying it rather ceremoniously on her plate. This time, his smile had a bit of Kira’s glint to it. "Happy birthday."<\/p>\n

"You are so weird," Alexiel muttered, taking a bite anyway.<\/p>\n

She had to admit, it did taste good.<\/p>\n

End<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucifer gives Alexiel a present. Written for the OTW Online Con Hodgepodge Challenge<\/a>, with the prompt: Angel Sanctuary: Alexiel and\/or Lucifer, revenge is a dish best served cold. Total Crack, I-1<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Alexiel stared. "But why<\/em>…?"<\/p>\n

"Revenge is supposed to be served cold, isn’t it?"<\/p>\n

She gave Lucifer the look she’d perfected as a teenage boy. "It’s a metaphor<\/em>."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25,511],"tags":[301,169],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asalone","category-as","category-crack","tag-as-alexiel","tag-as-lucifer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}