So, finally some familiar faces show up in chapter two, remember to review!
2. All Roads Meet Somewhere
Castiel sat on the park bench, watching children as they ran after one another, laughing without a care. He still marveled at his father's creations, even when heaven was now in chaos. He did not know how he would be able to do it on his own. It was civil war; angel versus angel. He was clear of Raphael for the moment, at least until he found another vessel.
What was he to do?
He felt alone in his efforts. Yes, there were those of his brothers and sisters who agreed that Raphael must be stopped, but in his heart, Castiel felt everything was against him. He had killed many of his brothers, none of them would listen to him.
"Castiel"
On his feet, Castiel turned to find himself no longer standing in the park, but in a garden. Turning around, he saw Joshua walking towards him, a pair of sheers in his hands. Curious, Castiel looked around him, "Why am I here?"
Joshua smiled as he reached him and set the sheers on a small table that was covered in pots and gardening tools. "It's been quite some time since I saw you, Castiel."
Cas watched as his fellow angel began potting a cluster of poppy flowers, his hands becoming covered in dark earth. "I'm sure you didn't bring me here to catch up, Joshua. Now,"
Cas reached out and forced the gardener to stop his planting and face him, "why have you brought me here?"
Joshua nodded, sighing as he did and motioned for him to follow him. Castiel stood there for a moment, contemplating if he should do as he was asked. Joshua stopped and turned to look at him, "Castiel, I am on your side; that is why you are here."
Joshua disappeared around a shrub, leaving Cas to follow. Joshua walked with his hands behind his back, admiring the garden as Cas caught up with him. Both were silent as they walked, until Cas became inpatient, "Well, what is it?"
Chuckling, Joshua stopped and laid his hands on Castiel's shoulders, "Castiel, you need to learn to slow down and enjoy the moment."
Castiel felt the urge to scoff but held it in, a scowl forming on his face, "Forgive me, but I don't have the luxury of slowing down and enjoying anything at the moment, Joshua."
The dark skinned angel nodded sadly, "Yes, it is always a pity to see brothers and sisters fighting amongst themselves, no matter what species they are."
Cas stopped Joshua from walking off again, "Again, brother, why am I here? You say you are on my side; what do you mean by that?"
Joshua caressed a petal of a tiger lily dangling near his face as he spoke to Castiel, "I am to deliver a message to you, to help in your…struggle…against Raphael and his followers."
Curious, Castiel asked, "Who's sending this message?"
Smiling, Joshua leaned closer, " Who do you think?"
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Chloe glared at the cop sitting safely behind the complaint desk, "What do you mean, no foul play? She's been missing for nearly a week, officer! I think something foul is going on!"
The chubby cop stood and leaned forward against the desk, "Ma'am, did you think that maybe she went on a trip? Wanted to get away for a bit?"
Chloe rolled her eyes, "Sir, I've known Hannah Mauser for nearly three years; I think I know her pretty well. She has never done anything like this before! Why aren't you helping us?"
The cop gave her a hopeless look, shrugging his shoulders, "There isn't any signs to indicate she's in danger. Her apartment is clean, no sign of forced entry, and no signs of blood."
Slamming her petite fist on the hard surface of the desk, she practically screamed at the police officer, "Look! There is a missing woman out there and she needs help! Do your damn job!"
Grabbing her purse, Chloe snarled as she passed another police officer as she stormed out of the police station. Outside, she fought back the tears that were beginning to emerge and walked down the steps towards Todd and Joey, "They don't believe me! Those assholes don't think she's in danger! What are they waiting for? For her body to be found in some dumpster?"
She was pulled into a hug by Joey, who hushed her as he ran his hand up and down her back in a soothing motion. Todd looked down at the hysterical woman crying into Joey's chest before sharing a look with the bar bouncer, shaking his head in despair.
As Joey led Chloe to the car, Todd stayed behind as he looked back a the police station. Joey started the car and looked at him curiously, "What's up?"
Todd gave a half-hearted smile and leaned against the roof of the car, looking into the driver side window, and patted his friend's shoulder, "Nothing Jo. Why don't you take Chloe home; she's pretty tired after all those flyer handouts."
Joey nodded, "Alright, I'll call you later."
Todd waved as the car pulled out and watched it disappear as it passed through a traffic light. Sighing, Todd pulled out his cell phone and dialed the familiar number of an old friend.
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"-don't swallow it!"
"…right, I'm swallowin' it Bobby!"
"Don't swallow it...damn it."
"oh hell….that is unnecessary force officer!"
Bobby Singer looked down at the phone in his hand with a look of hopelessness. There goes his soul, right down Rufus' throat. Breathing harshly, he tried to control his temper as his fingers tingled to throw the phone across the room. Then he remembered; Dean was on the other line.
"Still there Dean?"
"Bobby, what the hell?"
On the other side of the line, Dean had a look of disbelieve on his face as he rose from the table he been sitting on in the hotel he and Sam were currently occupying " You know, you are the one person that I can talk to about this stuff, about Sam, about leaving Lisa and Ben. I mean, I don't even know which way is up right now…"
Bobby's face was void as he listened to the confession that Dean was making to him, his own thoughts focusing on his own problems: his soul.
"Bobby? Hello?"
Blinking, Bobby came back to reality, "I-I hear ya son, it just ain't a good time."
Dean's temper came out and he sat down on the bed as he spoke into the phone, "Yeah, you know what, forget it. I mean, I bear my soul like a freaking girl here, and you got stuff to do. So that is, that's fine. Seriously though, a little selfish, not all about you."
Bobby sat strait up in his chair, leaning forward on his knees as he listened to Dean call him selfish. Him! Bobby Singer, who had always, always helped those boys! "Where's your brother?"
Dean turned his head, "Outside, why?"
"Get him."
Dean looked down at the phone but did as Bobby asked and walked to the door and stuck his head out, "Hey, Bobby want's to talk to us."
Sam followed, albeit, confused, "What is it?"
Dean just shrugged as he sat down on one of the queen beds, Sam doing the same across from him. Dean held the phone up and said, "Okay Bobby, you're one speaker."
The sound of pouring liquid was all they heard until Bobby's voice came back on, " Sam, Dean, I love you like my own, I do. But sometimes,"
Pausing to take a drink, Bobby gulped down the alcohol before continuing, "sometimes, you two are the whiniest, most self-absorbed sons-a-bitches I ever met! I'm selfish? Me? I do everything for you. Everything!"
Dean and Sam looked down at the ground, guilty as Bobby continued to rant. They couldn't see it, but Bobby was walking around his study in anger and waved his arm around, "You need your asses pulled out of the fire, you need someone to bitch to about each other!"
Sam looked up and at Dean curiously.
"And I come through .time! And what do I get for it? Jack with a side of squat!"
"Bobby-"
"Do I sound like I'm done?
Dean reeled his head away from the phone at the sound of anger in Bobby's voice.
"Now look, I know you got issues, God knows I know!" Bobby raised his fist to the sky and clinched his teeth, "But I got a newsflash for ya; you ain't the center of the universe! Now it may have escaped your mind, but Crowley owns my soul, and the meter is running!"
Sam and Dean looked uncomfortable as the memory seeing Crowley entering Bobby's house and telling them he owned Bobby's soul.
"And I'll be damned, if I'm gonna sit around and, and be damned! So how about you two sack up, and help me for once?"
The line was silent for a moment before Sam's voice came on, "Bobby, all you have to do is ask."
Dean's voice followed, "Anything you need, we're there."
Bobby sighed and shook his head, "Yeah…."
Closing his eyes, Bobby took a calming breath, "Yeah, thanks"
Hanging up, Bobby fell back into his chair, pouring another glass of the brown liquid. Raising it to his lips, he was interrupted by the ringing of one of the many phones that resided in his house Groaning, he dropped the glass to the desk and stood.
Venturing into the kitchen, he picked up the black house phone, "Yeah?"
"….Bobby?"
Bobby's eyebrows shot up as the voice on the other line belonged to a man he thought to be dead, "Todd?"
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Walking down the sidewalk, Todd Ramey chuckled as he spoke into the phone, "Yeah, long time Bobby Singer, how you doing?"
"How am I doing? How am I doing? I thought you were dead, you sorry son of a bitch!"
Todd winced, "Yeah, sorry 'bout that."
Stopping at the corner of the street, Todd looked both ways before jogging across the road, "Listen, I'll explain everything to you, but I need your help, real bad man."
Bobby rubbed between his eyes and leaned back against the kitchen sink, " What happened to you? You fell of the face of the earth or something?"
Todd laughed hollowly, "Something like that. I quit hunting, something better came along."
Bobby raised his eyebrows, "Something better? A woman?"
He peered into the frig and took out a beer. He already was drinking, what's a beer to add to the alcoholic mix? He heard Todd chuckle again, "Not…quite…Bobby, I haven't seen so much as a ghost since I left the business, but something's happened, and I need some help. I trust you Bobby, please…please help me. "
He couldn't believe he was doing this, but, "You owe me an explanation for this, but, Whatcha need Todd?"
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It was dark and smelled horribly like rotten eggs, like sulfur. She had been in this room for days without so much as a word from the other side of the door. Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were ripped, and she reeked something horrible!
That…thing…had taken her and she found herself being dragged forcibly by the hair into this room and thrown on to the mattress on the ground. Food appeared every morning for the past four days, so she was able to keep track of how long she had been there, but the only thing she saw of her capture was those pitch black eyes and evil smirk.
Hannah curled up against the wall and looked up at the ceiling, sunlight filtering through the roof; evidently she was in some kind of warehouse. She closed her eyes and began to wonder if she should pray.
She hadn't prayed in so long, not since she was nine years old. Shivering, she rubbed her left side and rose to her feet, beginning to pace. The sound of metal scrapping against the floor accompanied her footsteps and she looked down. She rolled her eyes at the sight of her ankle being chained to the ground; where was she going to go? She couldn't even get out of this room. She had tried.
Hannah had tried numerous times to get Tommy to come to her, but he hadn't shown up. She looked around the room and saw the strange looking symbols that surrounded the walls and wondered if those had something to do with her inability to talk to Tommy.
Rubbing her neck, Hannah tried to calm herself, but that attempt was interrupted when the sound of the door being unlocked caused her heart to race.
Hannah pressed her body against the wall in the corner and slid down to the ground. Two of the black-eyed beings entered the room, a third coming in behind them. He gave her a smile and opened his arms, "Hannah!"
She tensed as he grew closer and knelled down to the balls of his feet as he reached out and lifted her chin, "We have very special plans for our very special girl. But first, let's have some fun."
Screaming in pain, her head was forced back as the man yanked it back by her hair and dragged her to her feet. Hannah, wide-eyed, tried to pull his hands away from her, but he was too strong.
"Now, now sweetheart, struggling only makes it more fun for me."
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