Cousins a Couple Times Removed
Disclaimer:
I do not own Supernatural
Timeline:
Starts at the end of the Season 5 Finale
Inspired By:
My best friend got me into Supernatural just this year. I watched it before but never enough to really get any of the big picture storyline. After watching Season 6 I was sadly unable to view Season 7 on TV (and am therefore waiting for it to become available for rent) so I began mentally taking apart the plot of Season 6 and decided it could've been done better. My best friend agrees with me so I wrote this
Pairings:
Hints/Implied/Pre-Slash Dean/Castiel (not that the pre-slash isn't practically cannon anyway)
Implied Azul/Amara
Summary:
There were some things they couldn't just stand by and allow to happen: Dean spending the year with Lisa? Hell no. A soulless Sam walking around? Not happening. Allowing Dean to blow up a dragon sword? Yeah, sure, it shouldn't be high on the list of priorities but as long as they were there, why not save that too?
Chapter 4:
A Claim on the Soul
Ambriel collapsed face first on the bed. "Ugh," she groaned. "Plagues, really? I mean it's not even the apocalypse or anything!"
"Plagues? Aren't you overreacting? I mean it's not like there was a swarm of locusts and only one guy got boils," Dean pointed out.
"Oh trust us, its plague." Barkiel assured him as she sat down beside Amy who was now beating a pillow and still mumbling about how she hated plagues. "You should call Cas."
He frowned. "I'm sure we can figure it out on our own. I mean, he's gotta be busy being in the middle of a civil war and all."
The black-haired woman lifted her head off the bed to glare at him. "Plagues Dean, we're dealing with plagues and we're not exactly able to draw power from heaven ya know. Besides, the fact there is a war is just another reason to call him seeing as it might be a wrathful angel." She buried her face back into the pillow and muttered, "Though if it is he's doing a piss-ass job."
Dean sighed. "Cas? You there? We got a plague-like situation here so if you could-"
"I'm here."
Ambriel looked up, "Hm." [Am I the only one who thinks its funny he decided to appear on the other side of the room?]
Barky silently laughed. [Not by a long shot.]
Dean gave them a weird look as Castiel shifted uncomfortably. What inside joke did he miss? Shaking his head he turned back to Cas and explained the situation.
"There's only one thing that could have brought this into existence. You call it the Staff of Moses," Castiel said.
Amy sat up, "Wait a minute. The Staff?"
Barkiel and Ambriel exchanged looks before looking at Cas.
"I thought it was safely contained," Barky said.
He sighed as he picked up the jar of locusts, "When the first war ended there was chaos up there and in the confusion, a number of…powerful weapons were…stolen."
Dean had a look of disbelief. "Wait, you – you're saying your nukes are loose?"
Castiel turned the jar over, feeling too ashamed to look up. "Yeah, I'm afraid so." He looked up toward him, "But you've stumbled onto one of them. We must find the weapon that did this. I need your help."
"So does this mean this really is the work of some wrathful angel or something?" The hunter asked.
Cas tilted his head and stared at him. "No. Why would you think that?"
"Well, I don't know Cas. Weapons stolen from heaven suddenly being used on earth. Who else could it be?" He said, exasperated.
The angel frowned. "I cannot think of an angel who would be doing such little damage with it."
"I think we can rule out Moses as a suspect," Barky grinned, nudging Amy.
The black-haired angel laughed a little.
Dean snorted. "Okay. Well, if an angel didn't pull the trigger, then that brings us back to motive."
After a little research the four of them went to pay a little visit to Darryl Birch. To their surprise they found that Arron, Darryl's son, had sold his soul to an angel for a piece of the Staff so he could get revenge for his brother's death. Then Cas had put the boy to sleep and they'd all returned to the motel room in the blink of an eye.
"Cas, you realize you just kidnapped a kid?" Dean questioned.
He laid the sleeping boy on one of the beds. "If the angel we seek truly bought this boy's soul, when a claim is laid on a living soul, it leaves a mark, a brand."
Ambriel and Barkiel started snickering to themselves.
"Like a handprint?" Barky asked, smirking.
Dean's eyes widened in realization, looking between the two angels. "Cas?"
Castiel looked away at nothing in particular. "That was different." He looked at the hunter and said, "I assure you Dean, I do not own your soul."
Amy grinned. "No, I don't suspect you do but I have a feeling you do have another type of claim on it."
Dean looked at them, a little freaked out. "What type of claim is that?"
The blonde opened her mouth to speak, only to close it when Castiel glared at her. She laughed instead. "You know what? Well, come back to this topic later. Why don't we focus on finding the angel who bought some kid's soul?"
Well, after some arguing Cas read the kid's soul and wasn't all that surprised to find out Balthazar was alive.
"Did you know he was on Earth too?" He asked.
"Who?" Ambriel blinked.
"Balthazar."
An angel in a black suit appeared. "Balthazar. Thanks, Castiel. We'll make good use of the name," he said before attacking Castiel which eventually led to the two crashing through the window and falling several stories onto a car parked on the street. The angel then disappeared.
Castiel appeared back up in the apartment. "He's gone."
"Alright Cas, who was that guy?" Dean asked him.
"A soldier of Raphael. He must have followed me when I answered your call." He frowned slightly.
"Raphael? You mean the dick that wants to jump-start the apocalypse?"
Ambriel grimaced. "That'd be the one," she answered for the other angel as he started gathering the stuff required to determine Balthazar's location. "So definitely not of the good if he gets the weapons before we do."
"I need myrrh," Cas muttered, disappearing.
"Why does Raphael want to bring back all this crap anyway?" Dean questioned.
"He's a traditionalist," Barky answered.
Castiel reappeared behind Dean and began drawing on the kitchen table with chalk. After a moment he said, "I need your blood." Then he grabbed Dean's wrist and sliced his palm.
"Whoa, whoa! Hey! Ahh! Why don't you use your own?" He asked.
"It wouldn't work. I'm not human."
The hunter squeezed his hand shut, allowing some of his blood to drip into the bowl.
Cas then added myrrh and holy water before he intoned just as a siren could be heard from outside. The siren was significantly louder when he opened his eyes. "Got him. Let's go."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What about him?" Dean indicated to the boy still lying on the bed, unconscious.
"Don't you think the police will take him home?" Castiel cluelessly asked while the other two angels shared another grin.
That night
"What do you mean you aren't coming?" Dean almost shouted.
Castiel was also looking at them in wonderment.
"Well, we'll help out here if you need it but there's no way we're going inside that mansion." Ambriel told them.
The angel tilted his head with a frown of confusion. "You wish to keep your existence hidden."
Barky looked at him. "We can not be part of this civil war Castiel. Our paths allow us to aid Dean and so we will do so but for now we are not meant to join you in your fight. Should Raziel inform us otherwise though we will not hesitate to fight by your side."
Dean frowned. "You mean you're just going to do whatever this Raziel guy tells you to?"
Amy turned to him. "No, we follow his advice because of his sound logic. While we cannot enlighten you as to the knowledge gained from him know that while we help you there are times we cannot without causing a chain reaction of consequences no one would want. Regardless, should you be in need we will be watching Dean but Castiel, you must go in alone."
The blonde added confidentially, "Besides, I'm sure you'll both be fine."
Dean and Castiel had been fine although unable to acquire the weapons and of course Ambriel complained about having to cut herself to draw the angel-banishing sigil to get rid of the angels that attacked Dean but everyone had come out unscathed. Well, on their side, that was.
Raphael had lost his vessel when Balthazar had used one of the weapons to turn it into a pillar of salt, something Barky couldn't resist cracking a joke or two about when she heard about it later.
Barkiel and Amy had waited outside as Dean had forced Balthazar to release Aaron Birch's soul and the importance of souls had been introduced before Cas released him from the holy fire and disappeared.
Wow, so as of now I got 8 side stories written up for this and 2 stories that are like an AU of this. If you haven't already read it I've posted
A Rush of Endorphins: Between Season 5 & 6, Azul has been fidgeting constantly since they've gotten back from taking care of a witch and of course Dean has to question why.
Fairy is Fairly Inaccurate: Between Season 5 & 6, Gay guys, fairies and extraterrestrials…I think you know where this is going but really, Dean brought this on himself the moment he decided to open his mouth
Next time
Chapter 5: Saving a Soul and Defanging a Vamp
If Dean hadn't been agonizing over the fact that his life was over he may have laughed when the brick actually hit the bloodsucker in the back of the head.