A/N: I do not own the guys and gals and since I am not making anything from these stories please don't sue me Mr. Kripke. I do own the OC's that appear. For everyone out there reading and reviewing: You have all been super duper terrific!!!
Metallikirk-I hope that this installment does not disappoint ;)
Salvation and Deliverance Series Part 2: Saving Grace
He reached out taking her hand in his feeling her link her fingers within his own. He smiled down at her as she smiled back at him taking the sacrificial blade off the smooth stone altar. Together they approached the one bound tight against the inverted pentagram. His wide blue eyes pleading with her, begging her to let him go as she approached her sacrificial lamb.
"You're stronger than this! You can fight this, fight him!" The man fought the panic rising within him as he furiously fought to convince his soon to be murderer to free him.
"Your cries and beseeching are very unbecoming of you. Centuries ago young people lined up to be where you are now. It was considered a great honor to shed one's blood upon this altar," she swept her hand over the ancient marker as it glowed. Her companion merely grinned at their prey as she traced her fingers along the top of the silver bowl. She could feel its power surge within her filling her with the old powers as she leaned back closing her eyes.
As she opened her eyes the man saw the black deep pools staring straight back at him. Cold and calculating eyes plunging deep within his soul making him chilled and dead inside.
The knife pressed tight to his throat as she spoke, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, the blood of the prophet must be spilled."
Seth cried out but only the sound of his blood gurgling and bubbling in his throat could be heard as Brooklyn collected the precious elixir until it was full. His life force was flowing freely from the confines of his body and running down his chest and legs continuing until it pooled around his feet. Sam looked on as she sliced her palm open hearing her hiss as the dagger was dragged across her skin. Brooklyn turned her hand over watching as her blood mixed with that of the prophet's blood. She took Sam's hand repeating the steps and watching as his blood joined hers and Seth's.
"Care to have the honors?" Her grin sinister as Sam began reciting the summoning spell as the candles and statues around them wept human blood. Brooklyn looked around as the ground cracked and split as Lamashtu rose from the Earth.Brooklyn jolted upright feeling the beads of sweat trickling down her face and body. It had been so real, so vivid. She had killed Seth, Jason's brother and Sam was right there with her and together they summoned the demon Lamashtu from Perdition. Her ears echoed with the pounding thunder of her heart as she ran her hands over her face knowing this dream happened for a reason. Ever since Lucifer stole her grace and Cas brought her back from Hell, she felt so off, so cold inside. She had been suffering from moods so wide in range that Brady had avoided her for three days after she exploded at him. She couldn't sleep, refused to eat which resulted in her dropping of 10 pounds. Her face was gaunt and pale with dark circles ringing around her eyes. She looked over at the dark haired seraph seeing was still asleep. Reaching out in the dark, she found his hand and pressed it hard against her chest.
Castiel stirred and awakened looking over to see his beloved hunter sitting upright with his hand firmly pressed to her heart. He could feel the tension in her as the angel recognized she had another night terror. He sat up on the bed wrapping his arm around her waist and softly kissed her temple.
"It was another night terror," she whispered. Castiel nodded resting his head on her shoulder.
"Do you want to talk about it?" He slowly asked as his hand ran up and down her arm feeling the goosebumps along her warm skin. This was a bad one, the angel knew it. Knew it by the way she hesitated to speak and began shivering despite the warmth of the Arizona night. Brooklyn painstakingly took a deep slow breath unsure of how to tell him.
"I don't think you wanna know, Cas," the words slid slowly and sadly from her mouth. She felt her angel's hand reach up and gently turn her head so he could look into those sad slate depths.
"I do, Brook. I want to help you but how can I help if you won't let me in?" Brooklyn wrapped her arms around her angel weeping against him as she confessed, "I killed Seth and I liked it."
The angel only held her closer against him as she continued sobbing into his shoulder. Castiel stroked her reddish-brown hair telling his angel it was never going to happen. She wasn't going to harm Seth or anyone else. Her soul was strong and pure and if anything did happen it wasn't by choice. His soothing reassuring voice and words reached the hunter as he felt her sobs decrease.
"I wouldn't be so sure, Cas. Lucifer ripped my Grace from me and now I'm vulnerable to his and Samael's manipulations. I don't think I'll be able to fight back." The despair and hopelessness in her voice was like a knife to the angel's heart. Brooklyn had to fight it, had to fight the darkness threatening to swallow her whole. Castiel couldn't lose her! They had experienced so many close calls and always made their way back to one another. This time it would be the same he told himself.
"Keep telling yourself that enough times and you'll eventually believe it to be truth," Castiel looked down with troubled and sad blue eyes as Brooklyn shifted her body. It was like she was ready to give up and let the shadows overtake her. The angel sighed sadly as he thought of how ill she had been the last several weeks.
"It is true, Brook, it is true. I have enough faith for the both of us to make it happen. I'll be strong for both of us until you are well again. We will get your Grace back, I promise."
Brooklyn remained silent letting her angel hold and rock her gently in his arms as he softly sang an ancient hymn in Aramaic. The gentle touch of silk brushed her skin as the angel's wings wrapped around them both as the angel's voice lulled her back to sleep. Castiel lowered her back down on the bed then lay down beside her carefully adjusting his sharp wings around her causing Brooklyn to snuggle in closer to her angel as Castiel slid his arms around her wanting to feel her warm body against his. The angel gently kissed her goodnight before he let sleep overtake him.
Several hundred miles away in Dallas, Dean tossed and turned in his sleep as he was plagued by the same dream night after night.
He ran his hand across the bluestem grass realizing where he was. He was in Kansas, more precisely the Flint Hills. The sun was beaming down overhead as she continued strolling through the native prairie. He realized he wasn't alone spinning around to find Brooklyn before him.
"Hello, Dean," she calmly said stepping closer towards the hunter. Her slate depths full of life and vibrant before she got sick as they remained trained on Dean.
"Brook, what are you doing here?" he asked but she cut him off crashing her mouth onto his. He resisted, at first, but found his body rather receptive to the feel of his ex-lover's lips pressed firmly upon his as he intensified it. A part of him screamed this was wrong but Dean blocked out that tiny whiny voice letting that part of his heart be freed. They could sense one another's needs rising in sync with their own as Brooklyn felt her body being lowered down upon the soft ground.
Their hands roamed, caresses and groped as clothes were ripped apart scattered across the grass leaving two naked bodies grinding against one another. Dean moaned as their bodies slammed together giving in to old desires and needs.
"I've missed you," he whispered in her ear licking and nipping at the sensitive lobe grinning as she shivered with pleasure. The former lovers continued their illicit dance not caring if their screams and cries were carried upon the wind. Dean gently kissed her face and neck before finishing with her soft full lips.
"And I've missed you too, Dean," she sighed kissing him again.
Dean's eyes jerked wide open turning to see Tariel still asleep beside him. The hunter shuddered as he rested his head on her shoulder kissing the soft light copper skin. Ever since that day in the warehouse when Brooklyn had hastily kissed him the old feelings had resurfaced. The love and loss had flooded back in his mind and heart. Despite his best efforts to lock those old sensations back up a little lingered behind in his soul haunting and tormenting him.
That night he and Tariel had left Phoenix heading to Dallas with Sam in tow. His angel had sensed the turmoil raging within him but didn't question it attributing it to the mental angst and trauma he endured during his time in the Alcatraz of Hell. Sam too seemed off ever since being brought back. He seemed rather quiet and withdrawn spending hours on end doing research on things that weren't relevant to the cases they worked. She decided to keep a close eye on the younger brother following her angelic instincts.
Now she was fast asleep wrapped around her hunter as if trying to guard him from an unseen evil or entity waiting to strike. Dean looked down at her knowing if Tariel found out about the kiss he shared with Brooklyn and the rather illicit dream it would kill her. She knew he would always love her and she love him but she had moved on with Cas and he with Tariel. And Dean wasn't about to lose the wild spirited seraph with the rich hazel eyes and heart so full of love and fierce devotion. Dean leaned over kissing her before getting comfortable and falling back into the troubled sleep he was getting accustomed to.
"It's time, Samael," Lucifer commanded as the demon bowed slightly before vanishing from the depths of Hell. He appeared at the barrier looking up in the dark adobe style home. With black depths focused on one certain window, he began chanting in a deep hollow tone. Brooklyn's eyes shot wide open as the dull grey orbs clouded over until slick black pools were in control. Rising from the angel's embrace, she touched Castiel's forehead tilting her head as the angel stirred slightly before going still again. She treaded softly down the hall and towards the room that Seth was staying in. She saw the blanket rising up and down in a deep steady rhythm as she lowered her body down beside him.
Seth woke up and turned seeing Brooklyn sitting on the edge of his bed. He sat up fumbling for the light switch finding and turning it on. A soft glow filled the room as he saw Brooklyn looking back. Her soft grey eyes were emotionless and dull as they stared back at him.
"Brooklyn, is everything alright?" Seth softly asked with half lidded eyes. Brooklyn remained seated just looking back with unblinking eyes. His heart stopped as the eyes turned hard and cold as black swirled among grey until only black remained. With supernatural strength her hands shot out clamping down on his wrists. Seth hissed in pain as her fingers curled tightly around burning into his flesh. Her eyes narrowed as she thrusted her face within inches of his frightened expression as they vanished in a black mass. Seth tried to scream but found the thick mass filling his mouth and nose choking him as he slid into unconsciousness.
Brooklyn woke up the next morning feeling the silky-smooth tickle of Castiel's wings against her skin. She realized she was naked as was her angel. What the Hell happened last night? She checked her breath eliminating alcohol as the culprit. She looked around seeing her clothes strewn upon the carpet mixed with the angel's clothing. Movement coming from behind her alerted the hunter that Cas was awake. She froze feeling the hard hot body of her guardian nuzzling her shoulder with his head as the rest of his body spooned next to hers.
"Brook?" Castiel's voice gently called out sluggishly. Swallowing hard, she turned to face the sleepy blue eyes that were glazed with a hint of sexual satisfaction. She forced a small smile up the corners of her mouth as her angel lazily smiled back. It must've been some damn hot sex for him to have this type of effect on him. He reached out lightly tracing her jaw and neck kissing where his fingers had touched her. She felt something stirring, something she hadn't felt in what seemed like an eternity.
Brooklyn leaned in the angel's touch missing the intimate contact that they shared on so many occasions. She felt something taking over as she crashed her mouth hard against his forcing her tongue deep within the recesses of the wet warm caverns of his mouth. Castiel felt his hunger for the hunter rising along with other parts of his body. He gripped her waist flipping on top of him sinking himself deep inside her. The angel took his hunter over and over thrusting hard and fast inside her. Thoughts of last night raced through his head feeding his insatiable hunger for her body and soul. Brooklyn rocked and slammed her hips hard against his burying her head in Castiel's shoulder as she came hard and fast on him. The angel pulled her mouth against his as he cried in her mouth and exploded deep within her. Brooklyn cried out again as the blending of hot sticky release against her body sent her over a second time. As she began to roll off, her angel's arms secured her firmly on top of him.
"Cas, are you okay?" Brooklyn asked as she observed him close his eyes and take a deep breath.
"I am wonderful, my Brook," he looked up at her as Brooklyn saw a bit of his true form spilling from his vessel before it vanished back inside. The hunter curled up next to her angel reveling in the afterglow of some of the best damn sex she had ever had.
Seth opened his eyes unable to move his hands. He tilted his head up to find his wrists tightly bound in chains. He was still dressed in his sleep pants and shirt. His vision was still blurry as he blinked his eyes and his surroundings came into view. The prophet realized it all looked familiar to him. Then hit him like a stunning blow to the chest. This was where he had died, died at the hands of Sam and Brooklyn.
This was the first chapter in the second installment of the series. Please note I will be out of town tomorrow and Friday for a conference but I will work on the next chapter or two!!
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