Iris POV

One minute I am in the forest, watching my new friend be slashed up, her screaming in pain, the next we are on a concrete floor in front of a flight of stairs, in front of three men.

""Cas… Iron… Guns… Knifes… Help…" Alice muttered out, just before she fell on the floor, with her blood pooling around her.

"Alice," the one in the trench coat rushed over to her. "Alice. You are going to be fine." He held his hand out over her head, but nothing happened. "Damn it. Gabriel, what happened?"

"It all happened so fast I thought that she, they, were right behind me. Then, I heard screaming. It was Alice, she was shot, and cut, I think it was iron."

"You think, how could you think?" the man lunged towards Gabe.

"Cas," one of the other men yelled as he pulled the trench coated one, Cas, back. "You need to relax."

"I can't heal her, Dean. Can you fix her?" The man, Dean, scooped her up and carried her to a table in the next room.

"We'll see what we can do. Sammy, grab the first aid kit from the back." The taller one ran off, while Dean set Alice down on the table. I walked in, staying in the doorway. The taller one, Sammy, rushed back in with a box. Alice's blood was running off the table on to the floor. Sammy opened up the box and Dean pulled out a bunch of shinny metal things and they rolled Alice over. Her whole back was a dark red, I wanted to scream to make it stop, and appently I did.

"Cas, take her out of here," Dean yelled. Next thing I know, I am being moved out of the room.

"What is your name? Who are you?" Cas asked me once I was away from Alice.

"I'm Iris, I'm, I mean was, a flower. Alice changed me." he gave me a confused face. "Is she going to be okay?" that seemed to snap him back into reality.

"I… I don't know. I wasn't able to heal her." He looked down. "I hope that Dean can fix her. I was her guardian angel, I am supposed to protect her from things like this, I'm supposed to know."

"They came out of no where, she told me to hide, but they found me. I tried to get her out of there, but the men were faster. I didn't want to leave her there with them. I watched them cut her, she screamed in pain. I couldn't stop it." I felt my eyes getting wet. Just like Alice while they were cutting her.

Sam popped his head down the hall that we were in. "Cas, Dean needs you." I slid down the wall behind me after Castiel left and just sat there, thinking. Why me? What did Alice see in me to be able to sacrifice herself for me? I heard voices coming down the hall; I stood up to get out of the way. All three of them came down the hall, with Alice wrapped up in a bloody blanket in Dean's arms. Sam stopped next to me, as Cas and Dean kept moving down the hall till they reached a room, and then closed the door behind them.

"Alice is going to be fine. After Dean and I got the iron out of her, Castiel was able to heal her. How are you feeling?"
"Scarred, those men, I was afraid that they were going to kill her, and maybe me. She was screaming, I didn't know what to do till she told me to pull on her necklace and then we ended up here."

"Cas told me what you were. Can I ask how she did it?"

"I don't know. She said that she had special powers, that she wasn't normal. Umm… I think she said that she was half demon? Does that make any sense to you?" Sam's expression dropped in that instant.

"I have to go now," he walked off towards the room where Alice was.

"Dean," I heard him say. "The three of us need to talk. You, me, and Cas." Sam stood outside of the room till Dean and Cas came out. Sam began walking off back towards me. "Tell them what you told me."

"All I said, was that she said that she had special powers…"

"No, Iris. The other thing."

"That she is half demon?" that's when Dean's expression dropped just like Sam's.

"Castiel, did you know about this?" Dean said, looking back at Cas.

"Yes, I did. I just never knew that it would get this bad. I was going to go back and get her, and I figured that I could get her set up some where safe."

"Great plan, Cas. How'd it work out for you?"

"Not very well," he looked down at the ground. "I should have been there sooner."

Alice's POV

It's not every day you have an out of body experience. I just saw two bullets get torn out of my body. Now I am standing in front of, well, me. I step through a closed door to see Cas, Iris, and the two others, Dean and Sam I think. "Castiel, did you know about this?" Dean said, looking back at Cas. He seemed sad

"I am right here! Please hear me," I screamed. I tried to let anything go, fire, just something for them to notice me, but nothing came out.

"They can't see you," a voice came from behind me. "You're in between life and death right now."

"Who are you? What are you?"

"My name is Abbott, I am sort of like an angel to take you to the other side." He didn't dress much like Castiel; he is wearing a simple crisp suit with a black tie. He seemed a bit more human than Castiel too.

"What if I don't want to die?" I questioned. I need to figure out what he is.

"Then my friends and I will just have to take you to the other side," and out from all around me, other men appeared from the walls. I was surrounded from all around.

"No, I can't go," I yelled as they moved closer and closer to me. "No!"

Out came a bright light from my heart, all of whatever those things were disintegrated at my feet. I closed my eyes as I let it take over. "*Gasp*" I sat up out of the bed I was laying in.

"Whoa," Dean said rushing over to me. "Cas, get in here."

"Where am I?"

"Alice, right? I'm Dean, you're in a bunker, and you're safe here." Cas and Iris rushed through the door.

"Iris," I yelled. She ran over to hug me. "Ow, too much." She let go.

"I thought you were gone," she said with tear in her eyes. "You've been in and out for days."

"Days? How long was I out?"

"About six days," Sam piped in.

"That's impossible, just a few minutes ago, you all were standing outside of my room talking. And then all of those men came for me, but then they disappeared."

"Wait," Dean spoke up from the corner. "You saw reapers?"

"Yeah, I guess. They said they wanted to take me to the other side."

"And you fought them off?"

"Yeah, maybe, I don't know. One minute they are surrounding me, the next a bright light is blowing them away, like they were grains of sand." there were worried faces through out the three of them. "Where's Gabe?"

"He was somewhere around here," Castiel looked around the room, just as Gabe came rushing through the door.

"There is someone here, he is looking for Alice," Gabe looked as worried as a cat could look.

"Did he say who he was," Cas asked.

"The king of hell? I think that's what he said." Cas looked at Dean with a worried look. He leaned into Dean and whispered something in Dean's ear.

"Alice," Dean said as he helped me out of the bed. "You need to go with Sam. Take her and hide her somewhere safe." I was pushed out of the room and down the hall, past tons of doors.

"We're almost there," Sam was running as he pushed me farther and farther forward. We had reached a long hall with a door at the end. We ran for the end of the hall, and then Sam pulled out a key and unlocked the door.

"Here," he said, handing me his coat. "It's a little cold outside." I slipped on the coat, and we moved out the door, and began running for a car sitting just outside of a warehouse. Sam opened the door and shoved me in the car, then ran around to the driver's side, turned on the car and we drove away.

Iris' POV

I stood behind Cas, half hiding, half curious. I had never seen a full demon before, just Alice. He looked pretty average, older, he was wearing all black, had an accent.

"Hello Dean," the man said. "No moose?"

"How about we skip the small talk and tell us why you're here, Crowley."

"Fine, I'm here for the girl."

"Why would you want her?"

"She is a very powerful entity, something a king would want under his belt. Now where is she?"

"Not here anymore. Sam's got her now."

"Dammit," he calmed him self. "Tell moose to bring her back or I will be forced to find her myself, and it won't be pretty." Cas came out from behind Dean and started to whisper to him. They shared a distasteful look, and then Dean motioned Cas to Crowley.

"Tell him," Dean said.

"She can't go to hell," Castiel said.

"What do you mean 'she can't go to hell'," Crowley looked angry. "She is a demon, isn't she?"

"Yes, but…"

"Then what's the problem?"

"She's half demon, half human. The human half of her is protected by angels, more specifically, me. At least for now, until heaven can find her original guardian angel."

"Well, that's a game changer. Here's a thought, she stays here, but I can have full access to her at all hours of the day."

"Make a deal," Dean stepped forward. "Out of the many other deals we have made with you, don't you think that we would be a little weary of making this one with you."

"It's a simple, easy, free deal. No strings attached. Well, one tiny half demon string."

"fine, but she never steps within a mile of hell," Cas sighed.

"Cas," Dean turned.

"No, Dean, it's what's right. he is one of the only ones to teach her how to control her powers. It will be better for her. Tell Sam to bring her back." Dean pulled out his phone and dialed Sam.

"Make sure moose knows that they have to be back within the hour," Crowley piped in. "I am a very busy man."

Alice's POV

"Where are we going exactly?" I asked Sam. We have been driving for a while, out of the country, and into a small town.

"I thought you might need some clothes, since yours are"

"Covered in blood."

"Yeah. So do you want to explain this whole half demon thing to me?"

"Mom was human, dad was a demon, and here I am. Is there much else to explain?" we had just pulled up outside a small boutique painted pink with small flowerpots outside of it.

"Nope," he and I got out of the car and began walking into the store. Walking through the door, I could smell a floral perfume wafting out. I saw stuff that seemed like my kind of clothes, girly but tough. "Get as much as you want. Don't know where you're going next, but at lest you'll have clothes."

"Thanks," I walked over to one of the racks. There was a mix of clothing, but one thing that caught my eye was a tan leather jacket. It had a silk lining on the inside. It was the perfect fit, so I grabbed it. I grabbed other things, such as jeans, some plaid shirts, simple short-sleeved shirts, and other things. I had a mountain of clothing by the time that I was done. The lady at the counter was attempting to scan in the mountain of clothing, when Sam got a phone call.

"I'll be right back," he told both of us. He stood outside and talked with who ever was on the other end. He didn't look too happy.

"What a great dad for buying you all of this clothing," the lady at the counter said. She looked about seventy. "You're so lucky to have a dad like him."

"Oh, he's not my father. He's just a family friend," all I wanted to say was ' the truth is, is that I have never met this man in my life. He was there when I woke up from being half dead because I am a demon,' oh, what I could say if people would believe me. the lady was now trying to bag up everything while we waited for Sam to come back in. he kept running his hands through his hair in frustration, then he hung up and came back into the store.

"Alice, we need to go now. Something happened, and Cas and Dean need us back."

"Sir, are you going to pay?"

"Shit, yeah, sorry." We grabbed the clothes and drove back, at a very fast pace.

"Whoa, speedy, how about you tone down that gas pedal?"

"Sorry, it takes about an hour to get back, and we don't have that much time." I started to feel a little worried.

"Do you know what's waiting for me back at the bunker. I want to know what to expect," It was the truth.

"I don't know, but if Crowley's involved, it may not be good."

"thanks for calming my nerves," I clutched my necklace, which has since been fixed, as a nervous habit. I rubbed it between my fingers, feeling over each of the little gems and then the larger one. We arrived back at the bunker with about fifteen minutes to spare. Sam gestured towards the bunker entrance.

"I'll bring in the clothes later," This must be really important. I walked through the door and down the stairs with Sam in front of me. I saw Dean waiting at the bottom of the stairs for us. "what kind of deal did you make?"

"I can tell you that it wasn't me this time."

"Cas?"

"Yep," Dean and Sam were walking side by side, blocking my view of what lies before me. We moved through what looks like a control room, and into the library. The two men parted, and then I saw a man, a bit taller than me, in an all black business suit. "Here she is Crowley."

"This is the girl," the man, Crowley, said. "She doesn't look like how she was described. Not very all powerful at all. But at least she killed something right?"

"I'm pretty sure that's all of my own blood."

"Great, this," he said gesturing to me. "this is what I made a deal for?"

"She hasn't exactly reached her full potential yet, but with a little bit of instruction, maybe," Dean smirked. "You're the one who wanted her so badly."

"Fine," Crowley rolled his eyes then snapped and disappeared. I ran over to Iris, who had been standing in the doorway by Castiel.

"Iris," I ran over and hugged her. We both let go and I turned towards the three men behind us. "What kind of deal did you make?"