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Richie during the Apocalypse That Wasn’t when he would see angels and demons alike on the streets of LA: Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them knooooooow.
Lucifer: *Appears because of some operation or something in LA*
Richie:….CONCEAL, DON’T FEEL, DON’T LET THEM KNOOOOOOOOW
Richie promptly calls in sick to work and hides under his bed. After stocking up on non-perishables, including All The Chocolate, the complete works of Monty Python, and his Sword. (Probably won’t do much good, but it makes him feel better!)
Meanwhile Lucifer sees that that one human he ran into at that gas station in Utah apparently lives here and is quite the celebrity. And has been calling into work sick since Lucifer has arrived.
Odd that.
On a more serious note, if Lucifer did find out that Richie was Gabriel’s son, I honestly don’t think that Lucifer would hurt him, not if Richie didn’t try to attack him first (which Richie wouldn’t because he is not suicidal, thank you very much). He might place a hand on Richie’s cheek and just look at him for a moment (look at him and, now that he knows, see how much he looks like Gabriel). And then leave him be.
After that, Richie might notice that there is a demon or two who tail him, but make no effort to approach him or hurt him. Rather they’re there to make sure Heaven doesn’t find out about Richie and that Richie is left alone.
Because Gabriel was Lucifer’s favorite brother, after Michael. Because it hurt to kill him. So he can leave Gabriel’s son in peace and make sure that his peace is not interrupted by others.
He can at least do that.
The feels.
Oh good grandpa, Richie probably hasn’t been that frightened since It touched him and let slip that they were relatives. The parallels are all too striking; Richie is terrified, and he’s bracing himself to *run*. Forget all the rules, forget his self-imposed resolve to stay off the radar, if ‘Uncle Luci’ makes one move towards him, he’s off and running.
Gabriel was the Messenger. Was, perhaps, one of the fastest entities in existence - when he wanted to be. Richie might be only half-angel (mortal soul and angel fire, a combination that is frankly terrifying in its implications to the entirety of the supernatural world) but he is still fast. Luci does anything more, Richie will *run*. …probably to Bill, honestly, to ask if he can hide out in Underhill for a little while and have a nervous breakdown.
It doesn’t come to that, but even Luci might be a bit hurt by the sheer fear in his nibling’s grace.
No, but you see, this means that after the plug gets pulled on the apocalypse that wasn’t, there are demons who know what Richie is. And probably try to use that to - blackmail him or kill him or use him as leverage. …Richie ain’t having that. It’s probably the first time he takes up his sword and uses it to fulfill the purpose it was made for; he’s still messily sick afterwards. He’s never killed anything - anyone - before. (He heals the humans hosts if they’re still alive and sends them on their way, blessedly absent of all memory of what happened to them - and then he thinks of the parallels with Derry and the Forgetting, and he laughs to himself.)
And years later, Richie adopts Uncle Luci’s son. It’s - funny, the way the world works in circles.
Richie is utterly petrified and Lucifer can tell and…he doesn’t blame him. Doesn’t blame him when Lucifer killed Gabriel. It was to defend himself, yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that Lucifer turned his younger brother’s (his favorite younger brother) blade back on him and killed him with it. And this boy, because that is all that Lucifer can really see him as, just a boy, a fledgling, not even a hundred years old yet, this is Gabriel’s son and he knows who Lucifer is and Lucifer does not doubt that Richie knows what Lucifer did.
So, in retrospect, when he sees how frightened Richie is of him, Lucifer doesn’t try to touch him. He raises his hands in the universal gesture of “I’m not a threat, I’m not going to hurt you” and tells Richie that he is going to leave him alone now. That it is all right. That he will ensure that no one, Heaven or Hell, bothers Richie again and then, after one last look, committing the face to memory, he leaves.
And Richie just crumples back against the door to his room, sliding down, breath beginning to hitch. There are several calls to the Losers that night and they all fly out to Los Angeles the next morning. Their Trashmouth needs them.
I do wonder, however, just how Lucifer found out about Richie being Gabriel’s son…
Poor Richie. The demons who tailed him are loyalists who wouldn’t hurt him because they were explicitly ordered by Lucifer not to allow harm to come to him, but after Lucifer is trapped back in the Cage and Crowley takes over…Probably someone finds out they were on a special mission for Lucifer and tortures them for the info and then kills them once they’ve got it. This might also be the instance where someone was stupid enough to threaten Richie’s mom.
Richie is protective of Jack and will not allow any harm to come to him.
Lucifer might even think he’s being kind. That he hasn’t just torn open old memories of the only other paternal family member Richie had the misfortune to run into being ‘friendly’. Personally, I - think that Luci regards himself as being ‘generous’ enough to spare Richie - after all. His father might have been Luci’s youngest brother (the youngest of the Four), but his mother? A mud-monkey. And Lucifer hates humans.
…maybe he deludes himself into seeing Richie only as Gabriel’s son. But - I’m not sure.
…I’m pretty sure that Richie starts making arrangements to move to a new apartment, at any rate. No, it wouldn’t really help, but - he’s never really going to be able to stay there without remembering his ‘Uncle Luci’ surprising him in his own damn home, the one place he was supposed to be safe…
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