Forbidden Love
"You want Anna? Why?" I asked them
"Out of the way." The other angel said
"Whoa. Okay, I knew she's wiretapping your angel chats or whatever. But it's no reason to gank her." Dean tell them
"Don't worry. I'll kill her gentle." The angel said
"You're some heartless sons of bitches, you know that?" Dean says
"As a matter of fact, we are. And?" Castiel asked
"And Anna's an innocent girl." I point out
"She is far from innocent."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked
"It means she's worse than this abomination you've been screwing. Now, give us the girl." The angel said and we looked at each other
"Sorry. Get yourself another one. Try JDate." Dean tells them
"Who's gonna stop us? You three? Or this demon whore?" The angel asked and grabbed Ruby throwing her then Dean went over to help her as Cass walked towards me and Sam
"Cass, stop. Please." I begged but he put his fingers to my head and I blacked out
I regained consciousness feeling Dean shake me and I got up looking at Sam then me and Dean went to the back room, "Anna?" I asked and saw her wrist, "Anna!" I rushed over to her and took off my top shirt putting it on her wrist
"Are they gone?" She asked us
"Did you kill them?" Dean asked her
"No. I sent them away. Far away."
"You want to tell us how?" I asked
"That just popped in my head. I don't know how I did it. I just did it." She says and we looked at the symbol on the mirror
"What do you think?" Dean asked us
"I think Anna's getting more interesting by the second." Sam says
"Yeah, I agree. And what did they mean by she's not innocent?" I asked
"It seems they want her bad, not just because of the angel radio thing. I mean, that blood spell? It's some serious crap, man." Sam pointed out
"Something's going on with her. See what you can find." Dean tells him
"What are you gonna do?"
"Anna may have sent the angels to the outfield but they're gonna be back. We gotta get ourselves safe now." Dean says
"How's the car?" Dean asked me joining me and Sam upstairs
"I got her, she's fine. Where's Bobby?" I asked
"The Dominican. Said we break anything, we buy it."
"Is he working a job?" Sam asked
"Hope so. Otherwise, he's at Hedonism in a banana hammock and a trucker cap."
"Great that's seared in my brain now." I tell him
"What'd you find on Anna?" Dean asked
"Not much. Her parents were Rich and Amy Milton. A church deacon and a housewife." Sam says
"Riveting."
"There is something here in the report. Turns out this latest psych episode wasn't her first. When she was 2 and a half, she'd get hysterical anytime her dad got close. She was convinced that he wasn't her real daddy." Sam explained
"Who was? The plumber? Hmm? Little snaking the pipes?" Dean asked
"Dude, you're confusing reality with porn again." I tell him
"Anna didn't say. She just kept repeating that this real father of hers was mad. Very mad. Like wanted-to-kill-her mad."
"Kind of heavy for a 2-year-old." Dean pointed out
"Well, she saw a kid's shrink, got better and grew up normal."
"Until now. So, what's she hiding?" Dean asked
"Why don't you just ask me to my face?" We heard Anna ask and we faced her
"Nice job watching her." Dean says to Ruby
"I'm watching her."
"No, you're right, Anna. Is there anything you wanna tell us?" I asked her
"About what?"
"The angels said you were guilty of something. Why would they say that?" I asked
"You tell me. Tell me why my life has been leveled, why my parents are dead. I don't know. I swear, I would give anything to know."
"Okay. Then let's find out." Sam says
"How?"
"We're here." Dean hollered walking down the stairs and I walked over with Sam seeing Dean lead Pamela down
"Pamela. Hey. It's me, Sam."
"Sam, is that you?" She asked him
"I'm right here."
"Know how I can tell?" She asked and grabbed his butt, "That perky little ass of yours. Bounce a nickel off that thing."
"See you haven't changed." I point out
"Lexi." She says and I hugged her, "Hmm"
"What?" I asked pulling away and looking at her
"Something's different about you." She said and I looked at Sam and Dean confused
"What do you..."
"Never-mind that, I missed you and I know that's a demon and that poor girl's Anna. And that you've been eyeing my rack." She says to Sam and he stuttered, "Don't sweat it, kiddo. I still got more senses than most. Anna. How are you? I'm Pamela." She tells her walking over, "Dean told me what's been going on. I'm excited to help."
"That's nice of you."
"Well, not really. Any chance I can dick over an angel, I'm taking it." Pamela tells her
"Why?"
"They stole something from me." She said and took off her sunglasses, "Demony, I know. But they're just plastic. Good for business. Makes me look extra-psychic, don't you think? Now, how about you tell me what your deal is? Hmm?"
"Don't you worry. Nice and relaxed. Now, I'm going to count down from five to zero. When we're at zero, you'll be in a deep state of hypnosis." Pamela says to her as we Anna laid on the bed in the panic room, "As I count down, just go deeper and deeper, okay? Five, four, three two, one. Deep sleep. Deep sleep. Every muscle, calm and relaxed. Can you hear me?" Pamela asked her
"I can hear you."
"Now, Anna, tell me how can you hear the angels? How did you work that spell?"
"I don't know. I just did."
"Your father, what's his name?" Pamela asked
"Rich Milton."
"All right. But I want you to look further back when you were very young. Just a couple of years old." Pamela tells her
"I don't wanna."
"It'll be okay, Anna. Just one look, that's all we need." Pamela says
"No."
"What's your dad's name? Your real dad. Why is he angry at you?" Pamela asked
"No. No. No! No!" Anna screamed and the light start flickering then the door to the room shut on Ruby.
"Calm down." Pamela tells her
"No, he's gonna kill me!" Anna screamed and the lights exploded
"Anna? You're safe."
"No! He's gonna kill me!" Anna screams
"Calm down. It's all right, Anna." Pamela says and Dean moved over to Anna, "Dean, don't." She warned and Anna hit dean throwing him into a chair, "Wake in one, two, three, four, five." Pamela says and Anna stopped screaming, "Anna? Anna? You all right?"
"Thank you, Pamela. That helped a lot. I remember now."
"Remember what?" Sam asked her
"Who I am."
"I'll bite. Who are you?" Dean asked
"I'm an angel." She tells us we looked at her
"Don't be afraid. I'm not like the others." Anna tells us while we sat in the study
"I don't find that very reassuring." Ruby says to her
"Neither do I." Pamela adds
"So, Castiel, Uriel, they're the ones that came for me?" Anna asked
"You know them?" I asked her
"We were kind of in the same foxhole."
"So, what were they, like, your bosses or something?" Dean asked
"Try the other way around."
"Look at you." Dean says
"But now they wanna kill you?" Pamela asked
"Orders are orders. I'm sure I have a death sentence on my head."
"Why?" I asked
"I disobeyed which, for us, is about the worst thing you can do. I fell."
"Meaning?" Dean asked
"She fell to Earth. Became human." Pamela answered
"Wait a minute, I don't understand. Angels can just become human?" I asked
"Kind of hurts." Try cutting your kidney out with a butter knife. That kind of hurt. I ripped out my grace."
"Come again?" Dean asked
"My grace. It's energy. Hacked it out and fell. My mother, Amy, couldn't get pregnant. Always called me her little miracle. She had no idea how right she was."
"So you just forgot that you were God's little Power Ranger?" Dean asks
"The older I got, the longer I was human, yeah."
"I don't think you appreciate how completely screwed we are." Ruby says
"Ruby's right. Heaven wants me dead." Anna points out
"And hell just wants her. A flesh and blood angel that you can question, torture, that bleeds. Sister, you're the Stanley Cup. And sooner or later heaven or hell, they're gonna find you." Ruby tells her
"I know. And that's why I'm gonna get it back."
"What?" I asked
"My grace."
"You can do that?" Dean asked her
"If I can find it.
"So what? You're just gonna take some divine bong hit. And shazam, you're Roma Downey?" He asked
"Something like that."
"All right. I like this plan. So where's this grace of yours?" Dean asks
"Lost track. I was falling about..."
"Wait, you mean falling, like, literally?" I asked her
"Yes."
"Like the way a human eye can see? Like a comet, maybe, or a meteor?" Sam asked her
"Why do you ask?"
"Union, Kentucky. Found some accounts of a local miracle. In '85, there was an empty field outside of town. Six months later, there was a full grown oak. They say it looks a century old, at least." Sam says to us
"Anna, what do you think?" Dean asked her
"The grace. Where it hit, it could have done something like that. Easy."
"So grace ground zero. It's not destruction. It's.." I started to say
"Pure creation."
As we headed to Kentucky I was sitting in the front seat between Anna and Ruby in the back seat and heard Dean chuckle, "What?" Ruby asked him
"Nothing. It's just an angel, a hunter and a demon, riding in the back seat. It's like the setup to a bad joke. Or a Penthouse forum letter." Dean says and I smacked the back of his head
"Dude, reality. Porn." Sam says to him
"You call this reality?"
"It's beautiful." Dean mentioned as we approached the tree
"It's where the grace touched down. I can feel it." Anna says
"You ready to do this?" I asked her
"Not really."
"Anna, what are we even looking for?" Sam asked her
"It doesn't matter. It's not here. Not anymore. Someone took it."
"We still got the hex bags. I say we head back to the panic room." Dean brought up as we sat in an old barn
"What, forever?" Ruby asked him
"I'm just thinking out loud."
"You call that thinking?" She asked
"Hey, hey. Stop it." I told them
"Anna's grace is gone, you understand? She can't angel up and protect us. We can't fight heaven and hell. One side, maybe, but not both. Not at once." Ruby mentioned
"Guys, the angels are talking again." Anna says to us
"What're they saying?" I asked her
"It's weird. Like a recording. A loop. It says: "Dean Winchester gives us Anna by midnight, or "
"Or what?" Dean asked her
"Or we hurl him back to damnation."
"Anna, do you know of any weapon that works on an angel?" Sam asked her
"To what? To kill them? Nothing we could get to. Not right now."
"Okay, wait. I say we call Bobby, we get him back from Hedonism..."
"Dean, what's he gonna tell us?" I asked cutting him off
"I don't know. But we gotta think of something."
"Alexis. Right?" I heard a familiar voice ask and I turned around to see Castiel standing there.
"That's right." I answered and looked around, "I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this is a dream."
"You would be right."
"And that you're hear to try and get me to hand Anna over to you, correct?" I asked and he nodded, "I'm sorry but it's not gonna happen."
"I knew you would say that, but if we don't get Anna they will..."
"What? Throw my big brother back into hell? Yeah, I know, but I won't let that happen." I tell him
"There isn't anything you can do."
"Wrong. There is something I can do," I said and he looked at me confused, "I can take his place."
"What do you mean?"
"Dean, he's my big brother, always looked out for me and Sam even though I'm only 2 years younger then him. He's always been there, and the reason he went to hell in the first place is because he wouldn't let me make the deal with the demon, so now, I'm doing something for him. It's time someone took care of him for a change, and that's me." I said and walked closer to him, "So if there needs to be punishment for us not handing Anna over to you guys, then...I'll take it."
"I don't have the...authority to make that decision."
"Well whoever does, that's my offer." I say and we just looked at each other.
"Why would you do it?"
"Because. That's what family does, we take care of each other and fight like hell to make sure we keep the ones we love safe." I tell him. Even for a stick in the mud angel I will admit, he is easy on the eyes. I think to myself then the next thing I know he disappears and I wake up.
"I don't know man. Where's Ruby?" Sam asked as we stood in the barn
"Hey, she's your hell buddy." Dean tells him
"It's a little early for that, isn't it?" Anna asked him
"It's 2 a.m. somewhere."
"You okay?" She asked
"Yeah, of course." He told her and the doors to the barn blew open then Castiel and Uriel walked in.
"Hello, Anna. It's good to see you." Castiel tells her
"How? How did you find us?" Sam asked and I looked over at Dean
"Dean?" I asked him
"I'm sorry." He says to Anna
"Why?" Sam asked
"Because they gave him a choice. They either kill me or kill you." Anna says and I shared a look with Castiel, "I know how their minds work. You did the best you could. I forgive you." She tells Dean, "Okay, no more tricks. No more running. I'm ready."
"I'm sorry." Castiel tells her
"No. You're not. Not really. You don't know the feeling."
"Still, we have a history. It's just..." He starts to say
"Orders are orders. I know. Just make it quick."
"Don't you touch a hair on that poor girl's head." We heard someone say and turned around seeing Alastair standing there with two other demons who were holding Ruby.
"How dare you come in this room you pussing sore?" Uriel asked him as we moved out of the way
"Name-calling? That hurt my feelings. You sanctimonious, fanatical prick."
"Turn around and walk away now." Castiel warned him
"Sure. Just give us the girl. We'll make sure she gets punished good and proper."
"You know who we are and what we will do." Castiel says moving towards him, "I won't say it again. Leave now or we lay you to waste."
"Think I'll take my chances." Alistair tells him then there was a pause before Uriel started attacking the two demons as Castiel punched Alastair then put his hand on Alastair's head, "Sorry, kiddo. Why don't you go run to Daddy?" He says to him and knocked Castiel down then held his throat and started chanting. I looked over and grabbed a metal pipe then moved over and hit Alastair in the face and he stood up, "Alexis, Alexis, Alexis. You should try to pick on someone your own size." He tells me then put his hand up and I felt a sharp, agonizing pain shoot through my body bringing me to my knees as well as my brothers.
I saw Anna run over to Uriel and take his necklace then smash it and a bright light flew up and went into her, "Shut your eyes. Shut your eyes. Shut your eyes!" She tells us and I covered my eyes then heard her scream. When I opened them she was gone, so was Alastair. I stood up with Sam and Dean and we looked at Castiel and Uriel.
"What are you waiting for? Aren't you gonna go get Anna? Unless, of course, you're scared." I tell them
"This isn't over." Uriel says and went to move towards me but Castiel held him back
"It looks over to me, junk-less." Dean said and I shared one more look with Castiel then they disappeared and Ruby walked over
"You okay?" Sam asked her
"Not so much."
"What took you so long to get here?" I asked her
"Sorry I'm late with the demon delivery. I was only being tortured."
"Well, I gotta hand it to you, Sammy. Bringing them all together, all at once angels and demons? It's a damn good plan." Dean tells him
"Yeah, well, when you got Godzilla and Mothra on your ass best to let them fight."
"Now you're just bragging." I said
"So I guess she's some big-time angel now, huh? She must be happy wherever she is."
"I doubt it." Dean says
"Can't believe we made it out of there." Dean pointed out as we stood by the Impala
"Again." Sam adds and we clinked ours beer bottles together
"I know you heard him." Dean tells us
"Who?" I asked him
"Alastair. What he said. About how I had promise."
"We heard him." Sam says
"You're not curious?"
"Dean, we're damn curious. But you're not talking about hell and we're not pushing." I told him
"It wasn't four months, you know."
"What?" Sam asked
"It was four months up here, but down there I don't know, time's different. It was more like 40 years."
"My God." I said
"They...they sliced and carved and tore at me in ways that you...until there was nothing left. And then suddenly I would be whole again. Like magic. Just so they could start it all over. And Alastair, at the end of every day every one he would come over and he would make me an offer. To take me off the rack if I put souls on. If I started the torture. And everyday, I told him to stick it where the sun shines. For 30 years, I told him. But then I couldn't do it anymore you two. I couldn't. Then I got off that rack. God help me, I got right off it and I started ripping them apart. I lost count of how many souls. The things that I did to them."
"Dean, you held out for 30 years. That's longer than anyone would have." Sam tells him
"How I feel...this Inside me. I wish I couldn't feel anything. I wish I couldn't feel a damn thing."
