Angel Killer

1. don't bless me father for i have sinned

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This story takes place a very long time ago, in a world where monsters ran rampant and demons were thought to be good. It was a time of war, of deceit, of danger, and secrets.

Hunters protected the people from monsters and angels, and the best hunters were Sam and Dean Winchester.

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"Sammy, c'mon! I don't have all day!" Dean growled as he struggled to hold the ghoul off of him.

"Here, sorry, the other two gave me some trouble," Sam said as he came into the room.

"Sam!" Dean snapped, throwing the ghoul off of himself and rolling away.

"Right," Sam said, then fixed his eyes on the ghoul. She got up on her hands and knees and started to scrabble towards Dean again, but Sam snapped his fingers and her head exploded.

Dean took a breath and sat up, leaning his head against the dusty dresser he was next to. He glared at his little brother, who grinned cheekily back.

"Took you long enough," Dean grumbled as he took the hand that Sam extended toward him.

"Sorry," Sam replied. "Told you, the other two - "

"Gave you some trouble, yeah," Dean finished. "Well I had some trouble with the other four in here!"

"I thought you said you had it covered?" Sam teased.

"Yeah, that was before I won the Daily Double with the other two hiding in the closet."

"Come on, let's get back," Sam said, clapping his brother on the back. "With this paycheck we might have enough money saved to buy you a pie."

Dean licked his lips. "Well then, why aren't we already on the road?"

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In this world people weren't trained as hunters until the age of eighteen, when they were old enough to make the choice and live the life of kill or be killed. But in the case of the Winchester boys, they'd been hunters their entire lives.

Their mother, Mary Winchester, was killed by an angel when Dean was four and Sam was only a baby. Their father, a former hunter himself, raised them as hunters. He turned them into his weapons for revenge, his personal soldiers in his war against Heaven, and it had resulted in the best hunters the world had ever seen.

The younger brother, Sam, was one of Azazel's Children - those who drank demon blood daily to fuel their psychic powers.

Dean was the older brother, and with a Superman complex and a boundless thirst for the blood of angels he'd earned himself the name Angel Killer.

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"We're a couple hours out from the apartment," Dean said as they walked toward the car. "Do you wanna huff it home or hit a motel?"

Sam didn't answer. He was listening to a voicemail. He frowned and hit the end button.

"What's up?" Dean asked.

"Alastair wants to see us ASAP," he said, sliding his phone back into his pocket.

"Guess we're huffing it," Dean said. "Why does he want to see us?"

"Didn't say."

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The war between angels and demons was in its ninety-ninth year now, and every day it looked like the Lucifer and his demons were going to win as the war approached its climax.

But then something very simple yet very important happened.

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"A new assignment already?" Dean asked, raising his eyebrows. "We just killed six ghouls a couple hours ago."

Their boss, a demon named Alastair, one of the higher-ups in Lucifer's army, smiled and ran his tongue along the bottom edge of his top teeth. "And we appreciate you for that. But if you're tired of hunting, I can always get you started on the torturing track, Angel Killer."

Dean frowned. He didn't care for the nickname, even though it certainly fit him. And he also didn't care for Alastair's continuing insistence that he become a torturer.

"No. Just give us the assignment," he said.

Alastair shrugged. "If you wish." He smiled. "You're going to like this one."

"Oh yeah?" Dean said, folding his arms.

"It's an angel."

The blood in Dean's veins went cold and Sam straightened up.

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This is a story about right versus wrong. Good versus evil. Duty versus justice. It's a story about family, about brothers, about fathers and mothers and sons and daughters. It's about men and angels and demons. It's about sacrifice. It's about war. It's about an angel who was afraid to fall and a man who was afraid to fly and how they somehow met in the middle. But most of all, it's a love story.

Some call it the greatest love story ever told.

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"Its name is Castiel," Alastair told them.

"Angel of Solitude," Dean said.

"Think you can handle him?"

Dean turned to Sam, whose face had gone stony. Sam nodded wordlessly. He knew just as well as Dean: each angel they were assigned could very well be the one that had killed their mother.

"He'll be toast before he knows what hit him," Dean replied.

Alastair smiled again. "Wonderful."

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Now, how to begin...

Once upon a time?

Cliché.

Two hunters and an angel walk into an empty barn?

No, that sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth?

Oops, wrong story.

Oh, how about we just get on with it?

Next chapter.

So I've got a new story! I'm actually really excited about this one and very excited that it's my first really long multi-chap fic since Burnt and Broken (which was actually my first SPN fic). I am really proud of this fic and I hope you guys like it as much as I do =)

I'd like to just say off the bat that I am non-religious, so if I offend anyone in this story with any unintended blasphemy or something I'm very sorry and that was not my intention. I did intend to tear apart the way God and angels are usually seen, though I don't think I did this any more than is usual in the canon universe

Updates every Monday and Thursday!

Please review along the way and tell me what you think!

~Ki

About Castiel:
- I know that in the SPN universe he is the Angel of Thursday, but I read somewhere that his character in SPN was inspired by the angel Cassiel and according to an angel website I found that lists all the angels and their dominions (see next bullet), Cassiel is the Angel of Solitude. So in this story Cas is the Angel of Solitude (this will come up later in the story and you'll see how well it fits)
- The website that lists all the angels is ( archangels-and-angels dot com ). Just click the link "Archangels" and then the link under "Angels - General - A Growing List"

About the chapter titles:
- All chapter titles are going to be lyrics from songs by the band The Pretty Reckless, who I listened to during the entirety of writing this fic. I do not own these lyrics