Part 2
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Word Count: 2,875
ten years later
Acacia looked up from her book that she was reading in front of her fireplace in her home and gasped at the surge of power that was just released into the world, as if someone was just killed… like an archangel!
Acacia jumped to her feet and flashed out of her house with a loud boom that shook the ground in the nearby towns and traveled to where she felt the power had escaped from.
She burst into the hotel that it came from and directly into the dining room, to see an imprint of a body with black wings burned on either side. As she crept closer, she felt the familiar essence of her brother, Gabriel in the middle of the two large burned wings.
"Oh, Gabriel." she cried out, landing beside where she felt his strongest of his Grace. She mourned him until she heard her father's voice in her mind.
"Acacia, use the ring." She almost smacked herself in the forehead for her stupidness.
"Gabriel, Messenger of God, Archangel of Heaven, come back. I, Acacia, Archangel of Death, call upon you to return to the living in your previous, undestroyed vessel." Acacia had begun to glow at her words as she spoke. With her eyes closed, she didn't notice the body that was beginning to form under her raised hands and she didn't notice that it was also glowing.
She only stopped using her power when she began to hear a groan coming from the body that had reforemd in front of her. She opened her eyes when she heard the familiar voice of her brother speak.
"Acacia?"
In front of her was a dark blonde-brown haired man with green eyes staring up at her with astonished eyes.
"Hello, brother."
"Acacia!" Gabriel exclaimed sitting up quickly and pulling his sister into his arms who returned his embrace immediately.
"Gabriel, who did this to you?" She asked, pulling back from her brother and cupping his face in her hands lovingly.
Gabriel clearly hesitated, not wanting to hurt his sister but knew he had no choice if he wanted to protect his sister. Gabriel didn't know if Lucifer would go so far as to harm their sister, Michael, Raphael, and himself were different stories, but Gabriel didn't know if even the love for his sister would still be inside of Lucifer, even after thousands of years of being in Hell.
He sighed. "It was Lucifer, Acacia, Lucifer stabbed me with my own archangel blade and killed me."
Acacia gasped, her eyes tearing up even more. She couldn't believe that her older brother would do this to another of her brothers'. "How… How could he do this to you, Gabe?"
"I don't know. The pit changed him, consuming him with darkness." He paused as the two siblings stood. "But, I think if you appear to him, before he and Michael fight, he might listen. And maybe Father, wherever he is, will return his Grace to him."
Acacia nodded in agreement. "I agree, now let's go. You need to rest and recuperate from being brought back from the dead. You can stay with me, because I doubt you will want to leave me alone."
Gabriel smirked, a Trickster smirk. "You've got that right, sis."
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Six months later:
Dean closesd the trunk of the Impala. Bobby and Castiel walk up to him.
Bobby spoke. "You goin' someplace? You're goin' to do somethin' stupid. You got that look."
"I'm gonna go talk to Sam."
"You just don't give up."
"It's Sam!"
"If you couldn't reach him here, you're certainly not gonna be able to on the battlefield." Castiel said.
"Well, if we've already lost, I guess I got nothing to lose, right?"
"I just want you to understand – the only thing that you're gonna see out there is Michael killing your brother."
"Well, then I ain't gonna let him die alone."
Dean gets into the Impala and starts the engine, driving away.
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Lucifer in Sam's body stands in the cemetery. There is the sound of wings and Michael in Adam's body appears.
Lucifer: "It's good to see you, Michael."
Michael: "You too. It's been too long. Can you believe it's finally here?"
Lucifer: "No. Not really."
Michael: "Are you ready?"
Lucifer: "As I'll ever be. A part of me wishes we didn't have to do this."
Michael: "Yeah. Me too."
Lucifer: "Then why are we?"
Michael: "Oh, you know why! I have no choice, after what you did."
Lucifer: "What I did? What if it's not my fault?"
Michael: What is that supposed to mean?
Lucifer: "Think about it. Dad made everything. Which means he made me who I am! God wanted the Devil."
Michael: "So?"
Lucifer: "So why? And why make us fight? I just can't figure out the point."
Michael: "What's your point?"
Lucifer: "We're going to kill each other. And for what? One of Dad's tests. And we don't even know the answer. We're brothers. Let's just walk off the chessboard."
Michael: "I'm sorry. I-I can't do that. I'm a good son, and I have my orders."
Lucifer: "But you don't have to follow them."
Michael: "What, you think I'm gonna rebel? Now? I'm not like you."
Lucifer: "Please, Michael —"
Michael: "You know, you haven't changed a bit, little brother. Always blaming everybody but yourself. We were together. We were happy. But you betrayed me – all of us – and you made our father leave."
Lucifer: "No one makes Dad do anything. He is doing this to us."
Michael: "You're a monster, Lucifer. And I have to kill you."
Lucifer: "If that's the way it's got to be... Then I'd like to see you try."
Lucifer and Michael slowly circle one another. Then they hear the sound of a car engine.
Dean drives up to Lucifer and Michael.
"Howdy, boys. Sorry. Am I interrupting something?" Dean asked, getting out of the Impala. "Hey. We need to talk." He said as he stopped a short distance away from the two power houses.
Lucifer: "Dean. Even for you, this is a whole new mountain of stupid."
Dean: "I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to Sam."
Michael: "You're no longer the vessel, Dean. You got no right to be here."
Dean: "Adam, if you're in there somewhere, I am so sorry."
Michael: "Adam isn't home right now."
Dean: "Well, then you're next on my list, buttercup. But right now, I need five minutes with him."
Michael: "You little maggot. You are no longer a part of this story!"
It looked like Michael was going to do something very bad to Dean, when they were again interrupted.
Castiel: "Hey, ass-butt!"
Castiel and Bobby had appeared. Castiel was holding a bottle from which a flame was burning – a Molotov cocktail. Castiel threw the bottle at Michael, who screamed as he went up in flames.
Dean: "'Ass-butt'?"
Castiel: "He'll be back – and upset – but you got your five minutes."
Lucifer: "Castiel. Did you just Molotov my brother with holy fire?" He asked, turning to look at the seraph. Who knew that something bad was going to happen… to himself.
Castiel: "Uh... no."
Lucifer: "No one dicks with Michael but me."
Lucifer snaps his fingers. Castiel explodes in a rain of blood and chunks of meat.
Dean: "Sammy, can you hear me?" Dean didn't want to think that Castiel was gone again, for forever this time, as he had just been smitted by the Devil himself.
Lucifer: "You know... I tried to be nice... for Sammy's sake. But you... are such a pain... in my ass."
Lucifer throws Dean onto the windshield of the Impala, which shatters. Bobby shoots Lucifer in the back. When Lucifer turns, Bobby shoots him again in the front. Lucifer makes a twisting hand motion and Bobby's neck snaps.
Dean shouts out, "N-o-o-o-o!"
Lucifer said with a tiny smirk. "Yes."
Lucifer grabs Dean's legs and pulled him off the hood of the Impala. He punched Dean hard. Dean fell back against the Impala, spitting blood.
Dean: "Sammy? Are you in there?"
Lucifer: "Oh, he's in here, all right." He punched Dean again. "And he's gonna feel the snap of your bones." Another punch. Dean fell to the ground. "Every single one." He hauls Dean to his feet. "We're gonna take our time."
Lucifer punched Dean a further ten times. Dean, his face now very swollen and bleeding, put out a hand to Lucifer's jacket.
Dean: "Sam, it's okay. It's okay. I'm here. I'm here. I'm not gonna leave you." Lucifer punched him twice more. "I'm not gonna leave you."
Lucifer draws back his fist for another punch.
But all of a sudden, he was thrown back by a strong force… A force that he hadn't felt in many millennium. Staggering to his feet, he was slightly blinded by two bright lights as they flashed into the cemetary.
"THAT IS ENOUGH, LUCIFER!" a female voice boomed as she and another figure, a male one, appeared between Dean and Lucifer. Dean watched as the female figure began to stalk towards Lucifer while the male one came over to him… Dean recognized him! It was Gabriel.
"Gabriel?"
"That's my name, Dean-o, don't wear it out."
"H-How are you alive? Kali said that you were killed by Lucifer at that hotel."
Gabriel grinned and leaned back against the Impala beside Dean, snapping his fingers and making a sucker appear at the same time that all of Dean's wounds were healed and that he was clean of blood. They both watched as Acacia threw Lucifer around the cemetery whenever Lucifer would try to counterattack with a blast of his own.
"Nope, my sister over there brought me back from the dead."
"That is your sister? I thought there was only four Archangels?"
"Nope. She is the youngest of the five of us. Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, me, and Acacia, our only sister and the one thing we all agreed upon. She was a close second to our Father, and we loved no two beings more than the two of them." Gabriel informed him, wincing when Lucifer let out a loud cry after a particularly hard blow. "Acacia! Don't forget that he is in Sam Winchester's body!"
At her name, both Lucifer and Acacia snapped their head towards their brother, before what Lucifer had heard registered in his mind.
"Acacia? Sister?" Lucifer whispered, feeling the love and peace that he had been suppressing for so many millennium begin to push the darkness of Hell away and Grace began to also fill his body. But it was done so slowly, that Lucifer didn't notice the Grace in his body until later that evening. Acacia turned her attention back to Lucifer, kneeling down in front of her older brother cautiously, waiting to see if this was a trap.
"Yes, Luci, it's me. I wish I could say that I am glad to see you, but I am not. You are trying to destroy the Earth. And for what? Because Father told us to love them more than we did him. You didn't like that, I get it, not very many of us did. But we all did what we were told, except you. Father knew what would happen, Lucifer. He knew you would be cast into the pit. He needed the story of the Devil, the place of the Devil to go to the one that he most treasured and trusted: you. Father wanted the human race to have freewill, and to teach us, his older children, that it is okay for us to have emotions, to have freewill…" Here, she paused as she sensed Gabriel come closer, leaving Dean to lean against the imapala as well as her other two brothers enter the cemetery not too far from where she and Lucifer were.
She knew that all four of her brothers had heard her words, and even though Gabriel had heard his Father's reasoning, all four of them stared at their sister, enraptured by her. She then extended her power forward, and it began to form three human vessels, free of souls, and with the approval of her Father humming through her as he helped her shape vessels for them like the one that Father had created for her in this lifetime. (The two brown haired ones are Michael and Raphael and the blonde haired one is Lucifer. acd1/th/pre/f/2011/316/3/e/designs_for_michael_raphael_and_gabriel_by_ I had to add spaces to the hyperlink so it would show)
"My brothers, release the two Winchester brothers. Cease this fight. You are family, we are family! We should not be fighting. And I doubt Father wants you two to fight and destroy the world." Acacia said standing and drawing the still inhabited Sam up to his feet as well. Her other brothers drew closer as well, Raphael immediately leaving the vessel that he was occupying in a flash and entering the one that he could tell his sister had meant for him. After entering the vessel, Raphael waved his hand, vanishing his vessel that would appear at his home without any memory of what had happened. He stepped forward and embraced his sister, letting his large wings wrap around her at the same time his human arms did so, with Gabriel joining the two of them while their older brothers watched them.
"My sister, I have missed you so much." Raphael murmmured.
"And I have missed you, Raph." There were two bright flashes of light then, causing Acacia to smile, knowing what had happened. The three siblings in the embrace pulled back and turned to their other two brothers whom had vacated the Winchester brothers and entered the created vessels for themselves. Absentmindedly, Acacia waved her hand at Sam and Adam and healed any damage done to them because of the Archangels.
After long, tearful hugs between the sister and the older brothers, Acacia wondered away towards the old man's body that was surrounded by the Winchesters.
Hearing her footsteps, the oldest brother - Dean - looked up and immediately stepped between her and his family. Acacia smiled at him, even when he spoke rudely.
"You and your brothers have caused me and my family enough grief so why don't you all leave us in peace to mourn?"
"I would, but there is no reason for the three of you to mourn for Bobby Singer. Isn't that right, Bobby?" Sam and Adam, whom had been watching the confrontation between their brother and the female Archangel, about jumped out of their skin when they heard Bobby's gruff, familiar voice.
"Yea, ya idjits. I'm alrigh'. I needa beer." He groaned. Dean met her eyes with faint gratitude in his eyes. But also suspicion.
"Why did you do that?"
Acacia smiled and looked back at her brothers whom were waiting for her, joking around with each other, past grievances forgotten. And a new path formed for the five of them, as they were together again.
"My brothers, I think, have caused you and your family enough trouble and pain. I figured I could repay you with returning Bobby and the seraph Castiel back to the land of the living. And, if you should need my help, all you have to do is call me, either through prayer or by my phone number, which Bobby should have laying around his house somewhere." Acacia had turned as if to walk away but paused, turning back. "Winchesters, Bobby, I think you and your family will find everything supernatural to be quiet for the next year at least. Enjoy it. You all deserve a vacation."
Dean scoffed with Sam as he came to stand beside him and both of them watched Acacia join her brothers. They began to laugh at something Gabriel said as Lucifer looped a brotherly arm around her shoulders, bringing her to stand between himself and Michael, as if to protect her.
"You know, they almost seem normal." Sam said thoughtfully. But he spoke too soon as Acacia and her brothers looked straight at Sam with smiles on their faces and then vanished in a flash, leaving no sign that they had been there in the first place.
As soon as they had vanished, Castiel appeared in their midst, alive and whole again, and more lively than ever.
The Winchesters then realized that the end of the world, wasn't happening. That they had actually stopped the Apocalypse! Sam and Dean hugged each other and cheered for joy. Glad that they and their small family were alive and together.
And as the next years went by in the mortal realm, as Dean, Sam, and Adam grew closer as well oiled fighting machine, fighting supernatural creatures that dared to harm humans, never had Dean thought that he would call upon Acacia and the favor she owed him… Until he accidentally released the Darkness, that is.
When Acacia heard this, all she could do was sigh and shake her head. Why is it always the Winchesters?
The End
