"Have you ever been in love?"
"… I've loved, yes," Gabriel answered, voice becoming strained for one moment. "Though I think you aren't talking about the fiery passion-y stuff?"
Lucifer smiled. "No, I'm talking about the terrifying one that takes hostages and makes your life not your own anymore. The kind of love that would make you risk everything just to see the other smile, and destroy you as easily with one, too."
"I think so," Gabriel murmured. "I've tried to stay away from it, but there are many kinds of love that even I can't avoid them all. All of them awful though."
Lucifer grunted an affirmative as he licked his lips, taking the lingering feeling of Aaron's memory into him. "They are. Though I can't blame Aaron; I was the one who accepted the deal and the one who asked him to become a couple. I can only—"
