Writing prompt answers

And He Fell

I set the human on my shoulder and made sure it would stay there while I went to the drawer where all the animals were. I found the cats and kittens, all lazily wandering about or sleeping, and I felt the human jump up and down on my shoulder, reaching for the little cats in the box. I smiled and let the human walk onto my palm again, grabbing an awake kitten in the other hand. I put both in the same hand, and closed the box, making sure the other ones didn't get out. I walked back over to where my Father was, where I saw him back to working on making another human, I suppose.

I set the kitten and the human on the desk, just to see what the human would do. It instantly bonded with the kitten, petting it and having it sit on its lap, helping the kitten fall asleep. I knew I shouldn't talk to Father while he was working, but I was amazed.
"It's wonderful Father. The best thing you've created yet." He smiled while he worked. Pulling up another one of his test tubes, he showed me what was inside. Another human.
"I'm glad you like them. Now I need to discuss something with you and your brothers." Looking back to the human and cat, I placed the cat back in its box, the human residing on my shoulder again while I did so.

I frowned. It was never good when Father wanted to talk to all of us. Even when he came up with something new, he showed those of us he could find first, and he got our opinions in pairs or trios. Last time he called all of us together was when there were only six of us. He was telling us of our final brother. However, I had a feeling this meeting would be much less joyous.

"What was God going to tell them?" I looked to my right and saw a little boy named Daniel looking up at me with his questioning eyes. I smiled,
"I'll get to that. But, then, God called all seven of the Archangels to his office, telling them of his new creation, us humans." I leaned in a little more, trying to bring them further into the story I was spinning. "And, he told the Angels that these humans would be the future. They would inhabit Earth, not at first, but once they came, they would dominate. He told them of everything we were and everything we would become. Then, he told them, the seven Archangels, his seven sons, that he wanted them to love these humans, more than they had ever loved or would ever love him. And that's when Lucifer turned. He refused to love these things more than he loved his Father. That's when it started falling apart for him."

"No! I will not!" I turned on my heel, livid, stalking out of his office. I was almost there when I finally heard the anger in his voice bubbling up to the surface.
"Lucifer! Stop right there!" My feet stuck to the floor, almost without my permission, but I knew I couldn't deny him. I wasn't that far gone, not yet. "Look at me!" I begrudgingly turned, slowly, to face him. "I gave you an order. You will follow it. Understand?" The man I had spoken to earlier about his incredible creation was gone. The man that had smiled when I asked him to play with the cats. Not even the one, where even when annoyed, kept his tone. No. That man has vanished. The one standing in front of me, was a stone-cold, mirrored reflection of that man. The man standing before me, barking orders and threatening me for loving him too much was a mere copy of my Father. Yet, I addressed him like he was still the man I knew.
"Father. You gave me an order in which I cannot follow. So no, I'm afraid I don't understand." He swiftly strode up to me, and pushed me against the wall, his eyes more thoroughly piercing than that of the first stars he had thrown out into the black emptiness of the galaxy.
"If you do not follow my orders, of which I have made clear, you will be punished." His voice was even and slightly lowered, even though I'm positive my six other brothers could hear it still. Even being pushed against the wall, even being pinned and helpless, I would not give in.
"You're telling me, that I will be punished, for loving you too much?" I felt his strength against me slip. I started to push back against him. "You're telling me that I will be outcast, denied, thrown away because I refuse to give my loyalty to that of those- those things, you think deserve love?" His grip lightened more, until I was strong enough to push him back completely. "Father. You are an amazing creator and ruler. And I trust you with every bit of stardust in my being, but I cannot, will not, give the humans more love than you. I can't follow the order you've given me. Are you positive this is the right decision? Because I have my doubts." By this point, my brothers had gone. Whether or not my Father told them so, I couldn't tell you. But I did know that I wasn't giving those hairless apes anything more than they deserved. And they deserved nothing. Definitely not more love than my Father got from me.