Our Lady of Fandom, Sunday all day

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

As it was Sunday, Gabriel put the note up on the door:

Do it yourself Sunday Service.

He then sat down and waited, chweing on a donut. With some luck someone might show up to amuse him. Cat lay snoring on the altar.

[The church is open]

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[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

In her walks around the island Juli had noticed the church before, today though was the first time she'd gone near it.

She noticed the sign, and it startled a laugh out of her. Juli was quite certain, that wasn't how it was supposed to go. She slipped inside, wondering what kind of a priest would put up a sign like that.

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

Gabriel looked up, now on his third donut. So did the Cat. Perhaps the stranger had brought food. She sat up on the altar and stretched, then stared hopefully.

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

Juli noticed the cat, and her amusment at a cat on an altar coaxed another smile out of her. She didn't have any food though. "Good day," she greeted the man, "your sign is quite interesting."

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"Oh?" Gabriel watched her cooly, not taking this as a compliment.

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

"Unexpected even," she continued, unperturbed, "since I'm sure that most churches have no such thing as a do-it-yourself service."

This was neither a compliment, or an insult. Merely an observation about what was a long-dead religion to her.

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

Gabriel just shrugged in reply to that, taking another bite of his donut. The Cat still stared.

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

"It leads me to wonder," Juli said, "if you are even a proper priest at all, or if, like most of the island, so far out of your element that it does not really matter if you are or not."

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

A chatty one, this. Gabriel sighed loudly, not even bothering to answer that.

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

She raised her eyebrows, still amused. "It is also proper," Juli informed him, "to actively respond when someone is talking to you."

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

She expected politeness? From him? Gabriel couldn't hold back his amusement. "Tell the Cat that," he replied.

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

"Cats," Juli said, "are not what I was talking about." Nonetheless, she smiled. "Most, I've heard, do not follow any sort of rule." It wasn't like she'd had much, if any, experience with a real pet.

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"You like rules then?" Gabriel asked, the contempt clear in his voice.

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

"Depends on the rule," Juli said, "and how many ways there are to break it."

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"You like breaking them? Or keeping others from breaking them?" He raised an eyebrow.

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

"Both," she told him, "I'm a scientist, so it's something I'm used to doing. There are rules you can break, and those you can't--and they can change daily and you must move quickly to keep up. Nothing is ever entirely for certain."

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

A scientist. Great. He rolled his eyes. "Thanks for the lecture."

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

Juli just looked amused. "You did ask."

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"Not for a lecture," he snapped. "Stop bothering me!"

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

She laughed softly, more amused than anything. "As you wish," Juli tilted her head, and turned to go, "though I would argue that several sentences was not a lecture."

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"Matter of definition," Gabriel muttered, glaring at Juli.

[last-mizrahi.livejournal.com]

"Isn't everything?" She asked lightly, before slipping out of the church.

Still amused.

She'd have to visit again.