~Chapter 3~

"There! All done" Castiel smiled as he withdrew his paintbrush from his newest creation, it was a painting of the lights that appear on his birthday each year, he painted himself sitting on a tree, his golden wing was the same color as the lights, every year he paints a new orb of light in the painting, Gabriel squeaked in approval, his father had left a few hours ago and the angel was preparing to bake himself a birthday cake until he and his reptilian friend heard a faint noise, it sounded like multiple scraping sounds against stone, it got louder and louder and Castiel could have sworn he heard a man grunt, it seemed to come from the very large window in the main room, Gabriel looked over the edge and squeaked loudly in fear.
"What is it Gabriel?" Castiel whispered urgently, Gabriel knocked over a book and flipped the pages, he pointed to a dark hooded figure brandishing a knife in the book and the word "Ruffian" written under it, Castiel gasped, fear struck across his face, father Lucifer has always warned him of ruffians and thieves trying to steal the power of his golden wing and would torture him for it, he looked around the tower, and there, sitting on top of the stove, was a cast iron pan.

"C'mon Sammy, look, it's just an abandoned tower out in the middle of freaking nowhere!" Dean started walking towards the old tower, "But Dean, it looks like someone lives there."
"How can you tell if someone lives there or not?" Dean argued
"Because, who would build a nice big tower and not live in it and who would have built that contraption on the front of it, if it wasn't meant to be used?" Sam challenged,Dean waved him off and approached anyway, Sam rolled his eyes and followed.
"So uh, do you know how it works?" Dean poked the rope
"Well, it looks like we have to use the weights up there to pull us up and down" Sam pointed to the very top of the tower
"What kinda idiot built this?" Dean scoffed, "Ah well, looks like we are just gonna climb then" Dean said, slightly nervous
"Just don't look down" Sam teased
"Shut up clown boy!" Dean shoved Sam, Dean has always suffered from a fear of heights since he almost fell to his death while training with Kubrick and Gordon.
"Just one foot after the other, don't even think about it" Dean thought to himself as he climbed higher and higher up the side of the stone bricked tower, he focused on the bricks in front of him and didn't even dare think about how high up he was right now, his heart felt about ready to beat out of his chest until he reached a wooden ledge, he sighed in relief and pulled himself up into the tower, he turned around and helped his brother up, "See, told you nobody was home" Dean said smugly
"Oh really? Is that why this room looks cleaner than your room has ever been?" Sam teased
Dean sighed and gave up, "Well, when whoever may or may not live here comes home, we will just-"Dean paused, he squinted his eyes at something in the shadow
"what's that?" he pointed towards where he was focused on, Sam walked over to where his brother pointed, something trembled, it was some sort of creature, Sam extended a hand
"Hey buddy, I'm not going to hurt y- OW" Whatever it was, bit Sam's finger and held on to it, Sam flailed around the room yelling, Dean started to laugh "I think it likes you"
"Help me!" Sam yelled
"Alright alright, come here you little-" the room was filled with a loud CLANG as a frying pan connected with his head, Dean fell to the ground unconscious, Sam's eyes widened as he saw the figure with big wings on its back, he was only dazed for a second before a second CLANG filled the room.
"Are you alright Gabriel? Did he hurt you?" Castiel rushed to Gabriel, who was still biting on to the larger fiend's finger, Gabriel let go and climbed up to Castiel's shoulder
"W-what do we do now? They aren't going to stay that way forever!" Castiel panicked, Gabriel pointed to a closet that had some rope, Castiel tied the brothers up back to back, he couldn't help but notice these intruders were far better looking than his books and his father had always described, especially the shorter one.
Castiel stepped back and a reflection of light caught his eye, it came from the satchel the shorter one was carrying, he picked it up out of the bag, it was a beautifully crafted crown with large diamonds encrusted into it, he couldn't help but smile widely and curiosity prompted him to try it on.
"How do I look?" he asked his little reptilian friend, Gabriel just stared back in wonder, there was a long silence as Castiel stared back at himself with the crown on, then came a grumble from one of the ruffians, reminding the angel that he wasn't alone, he hid the crown behind his back and turned to face them.

Dean woke up and his head was throbbing worse than any hangover could have cursed him with, he tried to reach up and touch his head to make sure it wasn't bleeding, but he couldn't, as he grew more aware of his surroundings he realized he was tied up and a large body, who could only be his brother, was tied up behind him, he looked up and saw what had caused this, it was a man, looked to be around the same age as himself except he had two very large wings attached to his back, though one looked different from the other, but what was most noticeable about the stranger, were his bright and almost piercing blue eyes, they looked nervous but stubborn.
"I-I know why you're here, ruffian" The man spoke
"oh really?" Dean raising an eyebrow.
"You want to use my wing for your own personal greedy use" The man spoke defensively
"What the hell would I need your wings for?" Dean rolled his eyes, the man faltered
"Wait…you don't want to use my wing?" he said with genuine shock.
Dean struggled against the ropes and shook his brother, he woke up
"…What happened?" he asked, coming out of his daze
"This idiot thinks we want to use his wings" Dean replied, the man shifted uncomfortably
" I-I'm not an idiot…" He tried to defend himself
"Wings? But I thought only royal family has wings?" Sam wondered aloud.
"Doesn't matter, he won't let us leave because he thinks we want to hurt him" Dean scoffed
" I know your kind, you are trying to trick me into feeling guilty and letting you go! Well I'm not falling for it" the winged man tried to sound tough
Dean just chuckled, "Whatever, as long as you keep us tied up here for a couple days, we won't mind" Dean said smugly, then it hit him, he remembered why he needed a safe haven in the first place.
"Where's my satchel?!" Dean scanned the room, the strange man smiled
"Oh, you mean this?" he showed them the crown he hid behind his back, the face the smaller ruffian pulled on him made him look more like a murderer
"Give… That… Back." He hissed menacingly
"Please?" asked the bigger one desperately, Castiel looked at it, they really wanted this thing huh? The winged man started forming a plan in his head, one that would surely make his father angry if he found out and it was definitely dangerous, but it would definitely make his birthday so much better, he was forming a plan to see the lights, in person, for the first time ever and this crown is his one way ticket.
"Ok, you want this crown right? Well you will have to do me a few favors first." Castiel said with much more confidence, Dean only stared back with pure anger and desperation in his face
"What are they?" Sam asked because Dean was to stubborn and proud to do it himself
"I want you to take me to see the lights." Castiel smiled, Dean rolled his eyes
"The lights, are you kidding me? That's your big favor?"
Castiel straightened up "and you are not to harm me or Gabriel." A small reptilian head poked out from the man's shoulder
"You have got to be kidding me…" Dean sighed
"We'll do it." Sam agreed
"We will?!" Dean yelled
"Look Dean, it's the only way and it's not like he is asking for much, we just need to take him to see some lights that are going to be lit tomorrow, sounds like a pretty easy deal to me." Dean hated it when his brother was right, almost as much as he hated babysitting some weird guy with a frog fetish,"Fine." He sighed, the winged mans blue eyes lit up
"So we have a deal! great, my name is Castiel."