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Background Knowledge
January 6th, 2003, Lucifer Novak was born to a young loving couple after several hours of a hard birth. He had beautiful sandy blond hair that paired well with his olive tan skin and green eyes that rivaled emeralds.
After a couple of years on his own, his younger brother, Gabriel, was born, July 16th, 2005. His baby brother had soft honey blond hair that curled slightly down at the ends and liquid amber eyes that shined gold in the sunlight. And instantly the two year old Lucifer was infatuated with his new baby brother. But as Lucifer watched his brother slowly start to grow, he watched as the parents who were so kind and loving, slowly start to become corrupted and harsh. Every little thing Lucifer did wrong was reprimanded with harsh punishments and what would qualify as torture for a child so young.
When Lucifer was 8, his parents decided to try to have one more baby to “save their marriage,” as Lucifer watched them blame Gabriel for their inadequacies.
So March 15, 2008, Castiel Novak was born. He was an adorably happy and quiet little baby with dark black hair that rivaled the unlit night sky and piercing blue eyes that seemed to change shades as the light changed around him.
But as he started to grow, his parents subconsciously blamed him for not saving their marriage as he was supposed to. Lucifer had been taking the brunt of their parents punishments for a good while at this point, the poor 5 year old littered with pale pink little scars and colorful bruises under his clothes. But when he stopped responding to the physical pain, their parents decided to switch tactics by targeting what Lucifer held the most dear. His brothers.
The first time they put hands on Gabriel, Lucifer lost his shit, screaming and pleading at them to stop. But all of his protesting just made it worse for the middle Novak.
From that night on, Gabriel was the main subject of their parents violence. Lucifer’s heart sank more every time his baby brother came to him, bloody and sobbing as he tried to seek comfort in his older brother.
As they started getting older, Gabriel’s punishments started getting worse until one day, someone finally noticed. Gabriel tried to explain it away, as he usually did, but he had a fresh cigarette burn on the side of his neck. Their parents normally weren’t this cocky with their punishments but they were drunk the night prior.
So when CPS was called and Gabriel and Lucifer revealed their scars, the three boys were taken from their parents in a heart beat.
When Chuck came to the orphanage, he noticed a lot of small things about the children he was observing, but the small black haired boy in the corner with his nose in a book intrigued him the most. And when Lucifer came over to check in with the noirette, Chuck was even more interested.
He went back that night to talk to his wife, Becky, and by the end of the week, the couple were new parents to a 14 year old, 12 year old, and a tiny 7 year old. The boys were obviously hesitant around their new family but they slowly started to open up, little by little.
What the couple didn’t account for was the amount of trauma the three boys had endured in their early developmental years. After convincing them to start therapy (with a fuck ton of compromises and begging) the boys started getting better, managing to grasp onto some coping mechanisms.
Lucifer continued to smoke cigarettes, but only when he was very stressed. Gabriel started to sink into Little space as a while of convincing and Castiel started to study and read tenfold, learning new things as often as he could.
Now for those who dont know what little space is, it’s a therapeutic and safe way to deal with early childhood trauma. Since most of Gabriel’s trauma was before the age of ten, he has trauma blocked most of his memories, which slowly come back to him when his brain deems him ready to remember. When he is in little space, he acts like a 3-5 year old would but on his more stressful days, he’s usually anywhere from 1-2 years old in his headspace.
Lucifer and Castiel happily support and interact with him in their own ways as do Chuck and Becky as they continue to try and watch as their adopted children grow around the other children that they have.
Have a wonderful day and i'll meet you in Chapter 1.