Time and Blood

Chapter Two: Angelic Explanations

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WARNING: Religious views not covered in the Bible! If you are easily offended by the twisting of your faith please read no further and don't inundate me with flames on the subject!

Author's Note: Thanks to everyone who faved and alerted! Hope you guys enjoy the chapter!


Winter 2021- Church, Small Town, Montana - Night

Ben gaped for a long moment at Gabriel, and then he realized he looked like someone had hit him in the face with a dead fish and shut his mouth.

"I don't believe you," Ben finally managed, "You're just another sicko, that wants me to pull teeth,"

Gabriel raised an eyebrow.

"Pull teeth, where did that come from? That's one I can say I've never gotten before, usually its something along the lines of I'm going crazy! You're crazy! I'm dreaming! Please don't smite me, I didn't mean to!"

Ben's eyes went very round as his voice changed, not just getting deeper or higher or gaining an accent but actually went from female to male to Chinese to Indian.

"That's..."

"Not proof enough for you? Alright, I'm going to walk outside, when you can't see me anymore, call my name,"

Ben watched as the man walked out of the church and using his enhanced vision he tracked the man through the window until he thought he gone far enough.

"Gabriel!"

"Hiya!"

Ben yelped and in a very un-soldier-like display fell backwards with his arms pinwheeling comically. Gabriel had appeared right in front of his nose with the same wing flapping sound Ben had heard earlier.

Gabriel chuckled.

"Believe me yet or do I have to pull the whole thunder lightning show you my wings I am an Angel of the Lord fear my Wrath bit?"

Ben took a deep breath.

"I believe that you're powerful, and I don't want anything to do with you,"

"You may not have a choice," Gabriel told him.

Ben's eyes narrowed.

"What is that supposed to mean?" he demanded.

"Dean Winchester, the guy who looks just like you, he's important...special," Gabriel shrugged, "You're his blood, you can do what he can just as well, and get a little demon blood in you and you can even do his brother Sam's job,"

"I'm not doing anything else for you super-powered assholes! I spent ten years killing people, pulling teeth for her, and what have I got to show for it? Nothing except pain and guilt!" Ben snarled gesturing at the altar.

"Whoa, whoa, you're saying the Virgin Mary made you perform amateur dental surgery?" Gabriel said incredulously.

"The Blue Lady, she said she needed the teeth, that they made her strong, to protect us from the nomalies," Ben said through grit teeth, "She lied, she didn't protect Jack from Lydecker and the white coats when the shakes got him, Eva got shot during the Escape, she even let Maxie kill me! Everything I did for her was for nothing!"

"Cool it, boyo, let me set you straight on a few things. First off, ritual sacrifice is not the way to go about summoning holy beings, second, Mary was a human woman capable of being an Archangelic vessel and I was the one who impregnated her with Jesus, few drops of Grace and boom, instant baby, and while she was hot stuff while she was alive, she's got no powers to speak of and is content to chill out in her little corner of Heaven,"

"Her name isn't Mary, it's Lilith and..."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold up! Lilith! Lilith is the one that set you out on your little killing spree?"

"Yeah,"

"Are you sure, cause last I looked Lilith was a) dead and b) ready to spill Winchester blood," Gabriel said.

"Look I don't know what the hell you keep babbling on about these Winchest...ers..."

Ben flashed back to the night he met Lilith.

"That's right, Ben, strap a little of that famous Winchester steel to your spine,"

"You alright, boyo?"

"Yeah, it's just Lilith mentioned Winchester, I remember, who are they and why do people keep calling me Winchester and what the hell is going on!"

"Okay, hold your horses Benny; let's finish up our run down of who Lilith actually is first,"

"Fine, enlighten me, who is Lilith?"

"Do you know about Adam and Eve?" asked Gabriel.

"No,"

"Alright, well, Adam was the first of an evolutionary line to be classified as human; really he was just a smart monkey slightly less hairy than those monkeys before him, the first human, an animal gifted by God with the same potential for intelligence as his first children, the Angels. Now, Lilith was Adam's first wife and she was a good bit smarter than her husband, so when my brother Lucifer decided that he was gonna throw a temper tantrum and got himself cast out of Heaven he tempted Lilith and turned her to sin, he made her the very first demon, dragged her into the pit with him when he got locked up. Any way the gist of the story is this, demons are human souls trapped in Hell and twisted by Lucifer until they are powerful and cruel. Lilith is a demon, she made you do bad things because she was evil and she liked it,"

"Hell is the Bad Place and Heaven is the Good Place, right?"

"Yeah, in really simplified terms I suppose," shrugged Gabriel.

"Okay, well get to the part where you explain why me?"

"Well, it starts with another demon called Azazel; a loyal servant of Lucifer's who had been trying to get him out of his cage pretty much since he was tossed in there. He tried a bunch of different things but eventually Lucifer instructed him to start making his Special Children so Azazel went around making deals with mothers of children who could be angelic vessels,"

"Wait, hold up, that's like the second time you've said something like that, angelic vessels, what does that mean?" Ben asked.

"Wow, you really have been living under a rock religion-wise haven't you? Alright, well, Angels and Demons aren't corporeal on Earth we're too powerful, too much for most humans to perceive, to make it simple if you looked at me in my true form your head would explode,"

"So...that's not you?" guessed Ben gesturing at Gabriel's body.

"Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! When God decreed that Angels were to love and protect the humans a bit of grace from each garrison was given to a human so that their children and their bloodline could provide shells for Angels to where while we were slumming with the mud monkeys!"

"So it's genetic, you guys did something to a bunch of ancestors and it got passed down genetically,"

"Yep, and potential vessels are not too hard to spot either for Angels or Demons, so Azazel went around and said hey, if you let me come to your house in ten years I'll fix your hubby's health problems, I'll kill that nasty stalker you've got, I'll fix your leaky roof, whatever. Little did these idiots know that they were signing their unborn children up for officer school in the demon army. Anyway, Azazel made a deal with a Hunter from a family of Hunters, a woman named Mary Campbell, she would let him poke his nose into her house in ten years if he brought the boyfriend he'd just murdered back to life, a boyfriend whose name was John Winchester,"

"Huh," grunted Ben.

"Alright, I was hoping for a little more drama from you,"

"What's a Hunter, I've heard that now a couple of times too, and I'm guessing their not gun toting Bambi killers,"

"You're right about that, Hunters usually hunt and destroy things like ghosts, poltergeists, low level creatures that prey on the humans, if they live long enough they usually graduate to things like vampires, werewolves, wendigo, witches and after that if they're really unlucky they get caught up with demons,"

"That's a bad thing?"

"Well, you have to give the guys credit for trying but most of them get killed or possessed, a few manage successful exorcisms, but for a long time there wasn't any way of killing demons, that the Hunters knew of,"

"Okay," Ben nodded his understanding.

"Well, back to John and Mary, they were both potential vessels for my garrison, for the Archangels, and they were in love, a love carefully crafted by all the Cherubs in Heaven on God's or someone else's orders, that isn't all that clear nowadays. They had two adorable little tykes, Dean and Sam. Now Dean was born only a couple of years after John and Mary got together but little Sammy was exactly six months old when Azazel crept into his nursery ten years to the day after he made the deal with Mary and bled into Sam's mouth. Unfortunately or fortunately for the boys, Mary caught him red handed and she was murdered. John, Sam, and Dean got out of the house, and John was told that something evil had gotten to Mary. He became obsessed with finding the thing that killed her and he dragged Sam and Dean across the country and taught them to be Hunters,"

"Okay, that's sad and everything, but speaking from experience it could have been a hell of a lot worse," Ben said thinking of Manticore.

"Well skipping ahead a few years, the boys grew up, Dean became one of the best Hunters out there and Sam skipped out on his family and left for Stanford to go to college and live his Average Joe dream life. Azazel wanted his favourite candidate Hunting however and so he killed Sam's pretty little girlfriend Jessica the same way he killed his mom, and like father like son, Sammy hit the road with Dean to hunt down Azazel. Now, Azazel bit off a bit more than he could chew with the Winchester boys, John finally found a way to kill a demon, the Colt, a gun that could kill all but five beings,"

"Seriously?" said Ben raising his eyebrow sceptically, "A magic gun?"

"Yep, now this is where it gets really convoluted, to release Lucifer from his cage Azazel had to break 66 of the 666 seals any of the 66 would do except that he needed to break the first one and the last one specifically. The first seal can only be broken when a righteous man spills blood in hell, so when Dean was dying and John made a deal to save his life, his soul went straight to the Pit and the torture began, he was offered a deal he could get off the Rack if he started torturing souls, John of course being a righteous man, refused and refused and refused. Meanwhile back on Earth Sam and the other special kids are undergoing their final test, survive your fellows and you get to be the leader of a Demon Army. Well, Sam died, and you have to understand Sam and Dean are so co-dependent at this point that they make Edward and Bella look sane,"

"Who?"

"Never mind, the point is Dean made a deal, he sold his soul for Sam's life, and got a year in return. He and Sam went haring off to stop Azazel from opening the Devil's Gate and releasing the Demon Army, but didn't quite make it. In any case they killed Azazel, and only half the Demon Army got out and they killed the winner of the special kid Olympics. Now Sammy had issues with the idea that Dean was going to die so he set about trying to get Dean out of his Deal, and this is where Lilith comes in. With Azazel gone the way of the dodo bird she decided that she would have to do the job herself, so she took a vessel and decided to enjoy herself while she waited for Dean's time to be up. You see they couldn't crack John Winchester, and he was eventually rescued from Hell, so while Lucifer's little go to girl Ruby insinuated herself into Sam's life, Lilith waited patiently and had her version of fun on Earth,"

"And talked to me, right?"

"Got it in one, boyo, you were, I think, Lilith's answer to what if Sam and Dean don't crack? You see Dean when he went to Hell was stubborn and lasted a good forty years of torture you can't even conceive before he broke the first seal and spilled blood in hell, and Sam still didn't really trust Ruby,"

"What does that have to do with anything though? Okay yeah, I get that Dean needed to break the first seal but what about Sam and this Ruby bitch? What's the point?"

"Well, Dean needed to break the first seal but Sam needed to break the last one, by killing Lilith, and being the strongest demon in Hell he needed either the Colt or to drink a lot of demon blood and use the ability it gave him to crush Lilith psychically. Now, Sam didn't know what he was doing, and by then the Angels had gotten involved, Cas, rescued Dean from Hell and rebuilt his body and tasked the Winchesters with helping stop the seal breakage and blah blah blah. The Angels wanted to trigger the Apocalypse, free Lucifer, purify the Earth and go back to the good old days when Earth was a paradise and there was no such thing as free will. To do that they needed Sam and Dean, Dean to be a vessel for my big bro Michael and Sam to be a vessel for Lucifer, they wanted Michael to kill Lucifer and have done with the whole thing,"

"Holy shit,"

"No kidding, well Lucy's out of the cage, that would be what caused the Pulse not terrorists by the way, but in case you haven't noticed, the world's still here, if in a crappy war torn state of denial, come on ask me why...you know you want to..." sing-songed Gabriel.

Ben sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Okay, I'll bite, why?"

"Dean and Sam had to say yes, an Angel can't take a vessel without their permission, and Lucifer despite the fact that he is the Devil is still an Angel. So Dean and Sam told everyone, including me, to go screw themselves and destiny because they weren't saying yes under any circumstances. They were going to kill the Devil, stop the Apocalypse and do it all by themselves, you Winchesters are nothing if not stubborn idiots,"

"So...how's that going for them?"

"Nobody knows because they've been missing for eleven years and no one can find them, not even Castiel, and trust me he's looked everywhere and tried everything," Gabriel explained with a shrug, "Now hold still,"

Ben froze as Gabriel placed his hand in the centre of his chest. His eyes widened as pain suddenly ripped through him.

"Shit! What was that?" Ben panted as the pain receded.

"I took a leaf out of Cas' book and carved enochian sigils on your ribs to hide you from Angels,"

"Why?" Ben demanded.

"Haven't you been paying attention? Dean and Sam and their half-brother, the last resort, are all gone, the Angels and Demons have been scouring the whole planet cause Michael and Lucifer need their vessels,"

"And being a vessel is genetic, so you think I could be a vessel?"

"No, I know you could be a vessel, I can see it, I think that you could be a vessel for Lucifer or Michael because I'm pretty damn sure you're Dean Winchester's kid," Gabriel said.

"It's not possible," Ben said.

"Why not? Your mom could have had an affair and kept it a secret, Dean could charm anyone out of their pants," Gabriel said with a lewd eyebrow waggle.

"Yeah, okay, except I wasn't conceived the normal way, I was cooked up in a test tube and implanted into a surrogate; I'm not even fully human!" Ben exclaimed throwing his hands up and stalking away from the Archangel.

"Doesn't matter how you came to be, the fact is you've got Dean Winchester in you, a lot of him unless I'm off my rocker, that makes you the single most valuable person on the planet right about now,"

"So what am I supposed to do now, huh?" Ben demanded running a hand through his shaggy dirty-blond hair.

Gabriel shrugged.

"Lay low, avoid churches, and praying, and hope the Angels and Demons don't find you,"

"So hide," scoffed Ben.

"And run," Gabriel added helpfully.

"I'm a trained killer, and quite frankly I'm sick of my life being one big game of Escape and Evade, I've got Manticore on my ass, probably my whole unit if they ever figure out I'm alive and now you're saying I've also got Angels and Demons to worry about, well screw that, give me the magic gun, I'll go kill the Devil myself!"

Gabriel smirked.

"It's not that simple, boyo,"

"Why the hell not?"

"Well one, cause Dean tried that, Lucifer's one of the five things the Colt can't kill, and two, wherever the Winchester's are they have the Colt," Gabriel said nonchalantly rummaging around in his pockets until he came up with a candy bar.

"So how the hell do we kill the Devil?"

"Don't look at me like that, I'll tell you the same thing I told Dean, I am not going to kill my brother, I'm not even sure that I can," Gabriel said annoyed.

"Fine, whatever, there's got to be some other way," Ben snapped.

"Well if you're set on killing Lucifer, your best bet would be Death's Scythe, but the demons have that, and you'd have to walk into the Pit to get it, which is a bad idea, and a suicide run besides. You can however, put Lucifer back in his box," Gabriel hedged.

"How?"

"Find the keys to the cage,"

"Alright, where are they?"

Gabriel smirked.

"The more important question is what are they. They're the rings worn by each of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, they give them corporeal form,"

"Okay so who are these horsemen guys?"

"War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death,"

"Alright, so I just have to find these...guys, take their rings and then what?"

"Again, it's not that simple, Sam and Dean managed to bump off War and Famine before they disappeared, but as far as anyone knows they've got their rings, and on top of that, you can't go up against Pestilence with no training and no weapons, and I'm not too eager to tangle with Death at all, and this is all provided of course we can even find them,"

"So what, we just kick back, relax and hope someone finds the Winchesters?"

"Nope, I'm bored with that plan, it's taking too long, I vote we go steal the rings from Sam and Dean,"

"I thought you just said no one could find them?" sighed Ben annoyed.

"No one can find them since they've disappeared, we're going to steal the rings before they disappear," Gabriel explained catching Ben by the arm mid-pace and spinning him around to face him touching two fingers to the centre of the startled transgenic's forehead.

In a flash of blue white light the Angel and the Transgenic were gone.


AN: Whew! Long chapter! As always reviews make me smile and jack up the creative flow!