Angels and men and monsters. They fought and bled and loved and danced and the world ended that much sooner. An anthology of drabbles based on prompt table fills.

Title from the Hold Steady song cattle and the creeping things. The quote goes like this "she likes the part where one brother kills the other/she has to wonder if the the world ever will recover/because Cain and Abel seem to still be causing trouble" It's a lovely song and the analysis of original sin "I heard the dude blamed the chick/ I heard the chick blamed the snake/ I heard they were naked when they got busted/ and I heard things ain't been the same since" just makes me laugh.

Gaimen's Murder Mysteries had a major influence on both Fall and Push.

037. Fall. Michael and Lucifer at the beginning of time. 301 words.

He (God is a human concept and the word will not come about for a time yet) is raging over the betrayal of Lucifer. And Lucifer will not kneel. This Michael knows. Your Father's heavenly host sprawled out behind you and your brother has lost his rebellion. You hold out your hand, ask him to repent. He will not. Lucifer was the brightest of all of your Father's angels, the Morning Star, the light-bearer. He does not know how to alter his course. (Neither do you.) You know this but for a moment you allow yourself to hope.

This is your sin. You let yourself hope and the feeling sinks into your skin. Angels were never meant to feel.

You hope and your brother is proud. Together you are defective, imperfect in your Father's eyes.

You hope and your brother is proud and golden. Lucifer is defeated but from his view he has not committed a crime for loving your Father most of all. Again you ask him to repent fully prepared to do your duty should he refuse. Your heart is heavy with the knowledge that he will refuse your Father's forgiveness. It is not murder, not yet.

Your brother spares you this duty. He smiles at you, golden, burning with something you cannot understand and closes his wings with a snap and falls.Like a comet to the Earth, your brother burns.

Heartbreak has not been designed yet. So you stand on the edge of the clouds and watch Lucifer fall (he will not be golden by the time he reaches the end) as the host dissipates and your Father's rage turns to grief for his brightest son and wish that you knew nothing of emotion as your Father wanted for you.

Your brother fell. And you did nothing.