Dean Winchester tiptoed around the crappy hotel room his brother and him were sleeping in before moving onto another job. He glanced over at his sleeping brother, the brother he had known so well and watched over when they were kids, but the same brother that had changed and kept secrets from him. A part of Dean wanted to know what those secrets were, but he didn't even bother trying to learn the truth about Sam anymore. Sam had closed himself off to Dean and in the process caused Dean to close himself off to Sam. The brothers were far from being the brothers they once used to be.
As Dean put on his jacket to go and grab some breakfast, he heard a familiar sound behind him: the sound of an angel entering the room. Dean sighed since he knew this would mean another mission for him, another mission that involved the so called "righteous man" that did not want anything to do with stopping the apocalypse. Ever since Dean learned his fate, he hadn't been the same. No man in the world deserved such a burden, even if he was responsible for the start of the problem in the first place.
Knowing that he couldn't avoid Castiel, Dean turned around and faced the angel. "Let me guess. The world is in utter turmoil again?" He asked sarcastically, not meaning for it to even be a question but to be a joke since the world was always in turmoil when Castiel came to visit. Most of Castiel's visits all had one thing in common: a seal about to be broken.
Castiel looked at Dean with his usual blank stare, eyes showing no emotion as he spoke to him. "Another seal is in danger and your help has been requested."
"I already told you to find someone else." Dean stated before he walked out the door, only to have Castiel reappear in front of him once he was outside.
Castiel looked down for a moment. "Someone's life is at stake." He looked up and stared right into Dean's eyes as if he were penetrating Dean's soul. "A girl's life is at stake."
"Someone's life is always at stake, Cas. It's not always my problem either." He kept his composure as he held Castiel's serious stare. "You can't make me do anything after-" Dean's word ended as he remembered what Castiel had told him about being responsible for the start of the apocalypse. At this point he looked away from Castiel, sadness overcoming his face. He never meant to be responsible for any of this.
"I think you will feel differently once you have seen this girl." Castiel stated as if he somehow knew how Dean would react.
"What about Sam?"
"You can call him later." Castiel said before grabbing Dean's shoulder and relocating the both of them behind some bushes in front of a big white house.
Dean peaked through the bushes to see a teenager and a woman planting flowers in the front yard around their house. They were both wearing yellow sundresses with matching sunhats and their hair was long and brown. If it weren't for their age difference, they could have passed off as being twins.
As Dean examined the two of them, he couldn't find anything out of the ordinary, except that he couldn't take his eyes off of the younger one. There was just something about her that drew his attention to her but he managed to look away and glance at Castiel. "I don't see anything out of the ordinary about them. Are you sure you have the right people?" He asked, questioning a soldier of God.
"Yes, and you know it too. You are drawn to her and so am I," he answered. "She is what you might call clean or pure. She is untouched and untainted."
"So she's a virgin?"
Castiel stared at Dean for a moment, clearly not amused by his comment.
"What?" Dean asked, trying to play all innocent.
Castiel just turned his gaze back to the girl. "Yes she is what you say she is, but she is much more than that," he explained before turning back to Dean. "She was created without a father. There is a rare occurrence where a woman can conceive without a man contributing and that is how this girl was created. Her mother prayed for a child and my Father blessed her with one even though she had never consummated with a man prior to conception."
"So the mother is a virgin and the daughter is a virgin," Dean said with a look of confusion. "This isn't like some Virgin Mary, Jesus resurrection thing is it?"
Castiel decided to not even acknowledge Dean's comment. "No. This is about a seal. 'When the purest of blood is shed under the full moon at midnight of the eighteenth birthday, then so shall the seal shed'."
"The full moon isn't for a week, but let me guess, her birthday is the same day as the full moon?" Dean asked as he watched the girl and her mother plant some more flowers.
"Yes." Castiel replied simply.
"So how do we go about introducing ourselves and telling them that they are in great danger?"
"We tell them the truth. Both have great faith, especially Margaret after she found out she had conceived. They will believe us."
"Alright then." Dean said before stepping out from behind the bushes and heading right towards the girl and her mother who were planting flowers. Somehow Dean didn't exactly think that they would believe the truth they were about to be told, and even a part of Dean didn't believe what Castiel had told him. In Dean's life, he had never heard of someone being created without a mother and a father. Then again, the world he lived in was already messed up so anything was possible. Regardless of his doubt, Dean stepped up to the two of them with Castiel right behind him.
