Fame Crazy (Sequel to Strings Attached)

Chapter 13

"Well, duh," Lucifer replies. "I'm fabulous enough for the both of us."

"No, you're really not," Gabriel tells him.

As the two bicker, Castiel reads the comments.

"Looks like my brothers and me."

"I think you're fabulous."

"Is Castiel even gonna talk or are we just watching those two?"

Castiel cracks a smile at that one. "Sorry, Sarah. They talk a lot. You get used to it."

"Who's Sarah?" Lucifer asks.

"One of the commenters, dumbass," Gabriel replies.

"Hey! I'm telling Dad!"

Gabriel just rolls his eyes. "I'm in college now, Luce. What's he gonna do?"

"I'm beginning to understand why you moved out," Anna tells Castiel.

"Because I'm apparently the only smart one here?" Castiel guesses with a joking smile.

"Hey, I'm smart!" Gabriel says defensively. "I moved out!"

"You just followed your boyfriend," Samandriel counters.

"No, I — Actually, yeah. I pretty much just left for Sam," Gabriel agrees.
"Which is awesome, because Sabriel lives!" Lucifer adds. "My ship and all of its fabulousness survives!"

Castiel can't help but chuckle at one of the comments on this.

"I'm beginning to wonder if this whole family is gay. Castiel is, Gabriel is, and Lucifer says fabulous, and that's such a gay person word."

At least Castiel isn't the only one to wrongly assume Lucifer is gay.

"How is 'fabulous' a gay person word?" Anna wonders aloud.

"It's not!" Lucifer protests. "It's a Lucifer word!"

"So it's a gay person word," Gabriel repeats.

"Why does everyone assume I'm gay?" Lucifer whines.

"Do you even listen to yourself?" Anna asks. "Why would we not assume you're gay?"

"Gotta agree with Anna," Michael announces, standing in the doorway. How long has he been here? "I'm pretty sure the reason everyone thinks you're gay is that you act like you're gay so every girl just assumes you're not going to be into them, so you've never had a girlfriend to prove that you're straight."

Lucifer nods thoughtfully. "Yeah, that would make sense," he agrees.

"That's my brother Michael, by the way," Castiel tells the computer as he reads all the confused comments. "Finally joining us?"

"No, I'll pass," Michael replies.

Lucifer gets up suddenly and walks over to his twin. He takes his brother's arm and drags him over to the rest of their siblings, despite Michael's protests, and sits him down with the rest of the family.

"Okay, we're all here now," Lucifer announces.

"We should live stream with the Winchesters soon, overcrowd the room," Gabriel suggests.

"Dean's not here yet, remember?" Samandriel reminds him.

"This summer, then," Lucifer decides. "So we can have your boyfriend, too."

Samandriel rolls his eyes. "Stop trying to make Adamandriel a thing. It's never gonna be a thing."

"Was that a Mean Girls reference?" Lucifer asks.

"Yeah, you're totally straight," Anna says sarcastically.

"Shut up," Lucifer replies, but not in a mean way.

Castiel reads through the comments as they joke around, seeing a lot of people asking why he's not talking. He can't really say anything about it, though, because his siblings are bickering and he doesn't want to interrupt and doesn't really know how to join in. He does fine with one on one conversations, but group conversations are not his thing.

"I don't get what people are talking about," Anna says randomly as she skims through the comments as well. "I feel like this is pretty much you on a daily basis. You kinda just sit and listen."

"I talk a lot more than I used to, though," Castiel reminds her.

"You mean you say more than a sentence a week to us?" Lucifer clarifies. "Yeah, not that hard."

"I said more than a sentence a week to you," Castiel says defensively.

"Yeah, totally," Lucifer says sarcastically. "Like that time you were in the hospital and I literally recited the entire Bee Movie and you didn't tell me to stop once?"

"That's different!" Castiel protests. "I was in the hospital. I wasn't really in the mood to chat."

"Okay, how about that time I dragged you to the Winchesters and you refused to really talk to me and Sam?" Gabriel reminds him.

"I spoke to you guys!" Castiel protests.

"Right, those, like, two minutes you spent with Dean before you ran out of the house?"

"I had my reasons for that," Castiel tells him.

"Yeah? And what were those?" Gabriel challenges. "Your fear of humanity?"

It's clear Gabriel thinks he's won this one, and Castiel has to agree, though not for the same reason. Gabriel thinks Castiel doesn't have a reason, but in reality, he just can't say the reason on his live stream. He's under orders from his label not to mention his previous habit of cutting, and he's definitely not going out of his way to break that rule.

"It's called anthropophobia," Castiel replies instead. "It's a real problem, and I would appreciate it if you didn't joke about my mental problems," he adds with exaggerated sass.

"Sassy Cassy!" Lucifer laughs.

"It's my specialty."