Okay first let me say how sorry I am that it's been like over a year since I updated! I'm pretty sure that those of you who story alerted this won't even remember what this was about but I promise I'll do my best to not go this long without posting again. The next chapter will be up sometime this week I swear.
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Dark-Supernatural-Angel: thank for the review firstly and yes because Alec fell into unconsciousness he did drop Dean. As for why Cass didn't zap them to TC, I've given him a weak excuse sort of, personally I think that after a year of watching over Ayden and fourteen years of trying to break into hell simultaneously BTW, he was just being annoying because he could you know, I mean Ayden is bound to get on everyone's nerves at some points, even an Angel's.
throwerpro: Thanks for the review, and no Ayden is not an Angel, because Alec's known her since Manticore, she's just a plain old Transgenic...if Transgenics can be plain...hmm
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Okay so reviewer thanks are done, so without further ado, on with the story!
Ayden shoved open the door to the infirmary heaving the dead weight of Dean Winchester onto a bed before collapsing in a chair. While Dean wasn't heavy for a transgenic by any standards, she could bench press a Buick for crying out loud! Angel transport had never sat well with her stomach and she was doing her very best not to chuck up her lunch on the floor. It seemed like it may have been a transgenic thing because Max and Phoenix were not feeling to hot either. In fact she was debating whether she should go to the roof of the space needle and give Cas a little piece of her mind. If he could transport them out of the building then the least he could have done was take them all the way to TC, she figured it was a sick joke of the Angel's, not that he'd had much of a sense of humour to start with, but being stuck watching over a band of transgenics and hanging out with her for the better part of year had to have had some sort of effect on him right? Thinking about it she wondered if he knew their van would break down on the way back and that the group would have to sneak their way through sector points dragging two dead weights and hiding Mole as they went along, to her it sounded more up Zachariah's alley than anything. Cas was a much nicer Angel than the others she'd had the 'privilege' of meeting, note her sarcasm.
Mole came in moments after her and dropped Alec onto a bed next to Dean, neither of the twins looked so good. They were pale, and shaking and sweat was pouring down their foreheads, had she known that Alec was going to get infected with the snake blood she never would have let him go to get Dean, she would have gone alone. But Cas had decided that she shouldn't even know that Alec had a clone, or rather that Alec was a clone. She was kind of pissed, she had put her trust in Castiel on more than one occasion, she had put her faith in Castiel and he couldn't trust her with something like this? Alec was her CO, he was her unit, her family, didn't Castiel realise just what that meant? Didn't he realise how much the people of TC depended on Alec? What would happen to them if Alec didn't get better? She'd seen her kind infected with the snake blood before, but not one of them had gotten as sick as Alec, he looked to be quite literally on death's door and there was nothing she could do for him.
'No,' she shook her head, 'There is something I can do for him, I will not let him die, I will not lose more family! I'm going to find Castiel and make him fix Alec!' she thought determinedly. She wasn't about to let the familiars take away anything she cared about, and she definitely cared about Alec. Standing up, she pushed all thoughts of sickness out of her mind and headed for the door, 'Cas you better answer my call.'
She needed to run, she needed to burn off some of her excess energy or else she'd end up beating the Angel's host half to death with no results. "Ayden!" Phoenix called, seeing her sister on her way out of the infirmary, "We need to talk."
"Not now, I'll be back later," she tried to push open the door but Phoenix stood in her way.
"No, you're not going anywhere, Alec's beyond sick and I think it's time you told me what's up with you, we never leave each other when a member of our unit's sick."
"Damn it Phoenix! I don't have time for this!" she clenched her fists, she didn't want to hurt her sister but if
Phoenix didn't move out of the way she'd end up in an infirmary bed next to Alec. "Move out of the way."
"No! This is exactly what I was talking about before you've changed, what's gotten into you? You're not acting like yourself at all, and I'm not letting you leave until you tell me what the hell is going on with you!"
Sighing Ayden unclenched her fists, "Fine I'll tell you, but first I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what?" Phoenix asked a little confused, it's not like Ayden had done something that made her angry, she was just worried about her sister.
"This," Ayden muttered before putting all of her strength into a punch that sent Phoenix flying across the room, before Mole could react Ayden had blurred out of the room and hopped over the fence of TC.
"Castiel! CASTIEL!" Ayden screamed from the top of the Space Needle, "Castiel if you don't get your ass down here right now so help me-"
"I'm right here Ayden," Castiel spoke from behind her.
Whirling to face him she growled, "Castiel you are going straight to TC and healing Alec."
"Ayden-"
"No I don't care why you did this, I just want this fixed, Alec's my family and I'm not letting him die just because you have some twisted notion that he's going to help save the world, in case you hadn't noticed, Lucifer's not free, and he's not going to be and so you are going to go and heal him before he dies!"
"I am sorry Ayden, I cannot get involved anymore than I am permitted, Alec and Dean have to heal on their own."
"But they're not going to! Alec may be a transgenic but he's not healing, even the worst reactions to the snake blood haven't been as bad as his! If you don't do something then he'll die and so will your little champion of heaven. And then where will you be huh? Up shit creek without a paddle."
"Ayden, to break the rules given to me, so severely would not be stood for, not only will I fall from grace but both men would probably be made sick again, even worse than they are at present."
Clenching her jaw she breathed heavily in an attempt to calm herself down, when she was sure she wasn't going to anything rash she looked into the angel's eyes, showing him just how serious she was, "Fine, don't heal Alec, but I swear to you Castiel, if he dies because of your stupid mission, nothing and no one will be able to stop me from tearing down the gates of heaven and killing every last angel up there, I'll set Lucifer free myself, I mean it."
Castiel looked at her, his stare unwavering, he knew she was telling the truth, he knew if one more member of her family was taken from her she would snap, and she would stop at nothing to destroy everyone and everything that had hurt her. "I understand Ayden but I cannot aid you any further in this, I already broke the rules by getting you out of the warehouse, you were supposed to do it yourselves. There is one thing you must do though," he pulled a set of keys out of his pocket, "Go to sector four, by the old apartment complex next to the hospital is a storage facility, most use it to sleep in nowadays but Dean found an empty one to put his car in, it's the fourth one down from the entrance, go find his car and take it back to Terminal City."
"You're kidding me right? The place is probably crawling with White's men and you want me to risk my ass for some car? For a guy I don't even know!"
"If you don't get it, when Dean wakes up he will, and is liable to be captured again, the car is to Dean like Alec is to you, family, do this for me."
Sighing Ayden snatched the keys from his hand and turned on her heel to leave, "You owe me for this Cas," she muttered sliding through the broken window in the Needle and heading down to the bottom of the building.
"One more thing," Cas called "There's a haunting in Sector One you might want to check out." The only response he received was a middle finger from Ayden as she left.
"I don't know what the hell's gotten into her!" Phoenix said to Mole nursing her jaw with an icepack. "She's in trouble, she's got to be, we'd split up a little while after Manticore. When we met up again six months ago I thought things would be great but she's different. Something's wrong."
"She knocked you clear across the room I'd say something's more than wrong!" Mole replied.
"When she comes back we're going to have to lock her down," Max pointed out.
"I know," Phoenix sighed, "Ayden needs to explain what the hell is going on with her."
Ayden walked through the storage area until she found the one that hid Dean's car, she jerked the door open and her eyes widened, "Hello beautiful," she murmured, walking up to it she ran a hand lovingly over the hood. "Well sweetheart, your daddy can't be here right now so I'm gonna take care of you." Unlocking the Impala she slid in and stroked the wheel, "I'll take you to Dean, just as soon as I deal with this haunting." Yes she was aware she was talking to a car but it wasn't just any car, it was a 1967 Chevy Impala. She may be Manticore but she knew classic cars and this one, was pure beauty.
She drove into Sector One and stopped in front of an old warehouse realising that Castiel never told her where the actual haunting was taking place, sighing she pulled out her cell and called Logan. "Ayden?" he asked.
"Yeah, listen Logan I figure Max has told you about what happened in the infirmary but I really don't have time to get yelled at right now. I need you to pull all the police reports for Sector One and give me the ones that involve unusual deaths."
"What's this for? What are you up to Ayden?"
"Logan I already told you I can't go into it right now, just do this for me please!" with that she hung up, hoping that she hadn't just made a mistake.
About half an hour later Logan had called her with what she needed, and now she was creeping into an abandoned warehouse with a shotgun in her hands hoping that whatever ghost was haunting this place wasn't seriously pissed off, she really couldn't deal with that right now.
"Max that's where she'll be, I'm sure of it," Logan spoke into the phone, "There's no other reason she would have asked me for the address."
Snapping the phone shut, Max looked over at Phoenix, she would have preferred to bring in Ayden on her own and blow off a little steam all at the same time, but Phoenix had insisted that she come along. "So how'd you want to do this?" she asked as Phoenix stared up at the building.
"A floor by floor sweep, we stick together, check if there is anyone else in the building, and if there is then we're gonna have to deal with Ayden when we get back to TC.
"You and me?" Max asked a little surprised that Phoenix would include her in any plans she made.
"You and I," Phoenix replied correcting Max, "And no, when I say we, I mean me and the boss man, when he wakes up that is."
Max scowled at the younger girl but didn't fail to notice the small tremor in her voice when she mentioned Alec. "He'll be fine you know, Alec's always alright."
"No he's not, be he will be alright this time," Phoenix muttered before heading into the building.
Max followed her and watched as she pulled out a 9mm and swept it along the length of the first room, "We should split up," Max commented, she really wasn't a fan of either of Alec's girls.
"Well if you didn't freak out every time someone tried to hand you a gun we would," Phoenix replied, "but as it stands I'm the only one out of us that is armed and you're going to be with me while we're in unfamiliar surroundings."
The pair continued searching the floors before hearing a very familiar scream and a crash coming from above them, "Let's go!" Max said and blurred in the direction of the noise, Phoenix followed, quickly overtaking the other Transgenic and kicked open the door at the stairwell, she swept into the room like a hurricane looking for any sign of her sister.
Ayden groaned as she pushed herself out of the debris, it was just her luck that she got the pissed off murdered ghost, from the information Logan had given her the ghost in question was a girl who was violently raped and killed by the security guard of the building. The body in question was cremated a year before the Pulse but there'd been unexplained deaths in the area ever since the Pulse happened. Which meant that the spirit was angry enough to be woken even after it's body had been destroyed. She picked up the sawed off shotgun she'd found in Winchester's trunk and let her eyes run over the contents of the room, there was something in here that the spirit didn't want her getting a hold of, clearly whatever it was would destroy the angry dead girl once and for all.
Spinning around she pointed the gun at the stairwell when she heard the door fly open, "Ph-Phoenix? What the hell are you doing here?" as Max appeared behind her Ayden groaned again, "And why the fuck did you bring her?"
"Ayden put the gun down," Phoenix ordered pointing her weapon at her sister, "There is something clearly wrong with you and we're going to deal with it right now."
"C'mon Nix we both know you're not gonna shoot me, we can talk later, right now I'm busy and you two need to get out of here."
"I thought you'd never hit me, I'm your sister Ayden and you're lying to me, all the time, and I've had enough, you're going to tell me what the hell is wrong with you and you're going to tell me now!"
Ayden opened her mouth to reply but saw the ghost appear right behind Max, "Look out!" she yelled but it was too late, Max was thrown across the room into Ayden, this ghost was seriously pissed. Phoenix gasped and pointed her gun at the ghost before shooting at it, nothing happened and she flew into the wall behind her, moaning as her back hit the bricks. Ayden shoved Max off of her and shot the ghost it dissipated and the younger girl ran to check on her sister, "Phoenix? Phoenix! Are you ok?"
Phoenix moaned again as she sat up a little straighter, "What the hell was that?" she said staring up at Ayden.
"I second that question," Max stated brushing herself off.
Ayden looked at both of the girls for a moment, before she could feel the room get colder, "Shit," she muttered, "no time now," she handed Phoenix the shotgun, "your gun doesn't work," she stated before pulling out a knife, the blade was made out of pure iron and handed it over to Max, "it gets close to you, stab it, it'll disappear for a bit. Nix you need to cover me while I find a way to get rid of that bitch, let's go." They followed Ayden as she moved quickly through the room, whatever was keeping the spirit here had to be on this floor, the spirit was the most violent here, like it knew what Ayden was trying to do. The ghost appeared again this time behind the shortest girl and before Phoenix could shoot at it, it had Ayden up by the throat and was slamming her up against the wall, Ayden whimpered as she felt her head impact the mortar time and time again, and just before the ghost was shot again it span around with her in its grasp and threw her as hard as it could at the wall and this time Ayden went straight through it, causing it to collapse around her.
"Ayden!" Phoenix yelled as she saw the wall fall on her sister, "Max get her out of there now!" Max blurred to the wall and started picking through the bricks and cement as quick as she could while Phoenix stayed with her back to Max keeping an eye on the room. Meanwhile Ayden groaned and dragged herself out of the rubble and looked around in confusion, this room wasn't on any of the blueprints that Logan had sent her which meant that no one knew about it, she grabbed onto some material that hung from the wall and used it try and pull herself up, unfortunately it wasn't very secure and came down with her, covering her head to toe in dust.
"Ugh!" she coughed as she pushed the old material off of her and stared up at the ceiling. "Oh fuck my life!" she whined rolling over so she could get up, once she was stable on her feet she looked around the room and gasped, the material she'd been holding had been acting as a cover for a set of chains that had clearly been used to keep someone prisoner. Looking down at her hands she freaked as she realised that the material she was holding was actually tarp covered in dried blood, sure she was a soldier, but a security guard had taken an innocent girl, tied her up, raped and tortured her beyond what anything at Manticore could prepare them for. She knew without a doubt that the tarp was what the ghost was still attached to, she looked around the room for another exit but found that it had clearly been blocked off, and Transgenic strength aside, she didn't think that she could get out any other way than the way she came in. Heading back over to the rubble, Ayden started pulling out large chunks of cement when she heard a scream come from the other side of the wall.
"Phoenix!" Max yelled as the gun was ripped from the younger girl's hands and she was tossed aside, leaving rubble where it was, Max ran after the ghost but was stopped by an invisible hand and slammed up against the wall, the spirit twisted Max's arm so that she dropped the iron knife and grinned at the girl.
Ayden sped up trying to get out of the room, she needed to set the tarp on fire but she couldn't until she was out of the room, when there was a small hole she pushed through it roughly bringing the tarp with her, "Hey!" she yelled to the spirit, "I think it's time for you to go!" The spirit dropped Max and appeared in front of Ayden but it was too late, the tarp had alright been set alight and the ghost screamed as she was engulfed in flames before disappearing.
Phoenix pushed herself up against the wall and looked over at her sister, "Ayden, you've got a lot of explaining to do!"
The former leader of TC had been in Alec's office for about four hours with Ayden, Phoenix, Logan and Mole as the youngest...and smallest Transgenic explained the world of the Supernatural to them, if it wasn't for the fact that Max and Phoenix had seen and felt a ghost first hand they would have been calling serious bullshit.
"So let me get this straight, you knew about Alec's clone and him getting him hurt and you let it happen!" Phoenix yelled.
"What? No I had no idea Alec had a clone, or DNA donor until we saw his picture on that hoverdrone, and I sure as hell didn't know that Alec was going to get hurt, if I'd known I'd have gone and got him out on my own, Alec's family, I'd never hurt him like that Nix."
Sighing Phoenix nodded and sat back down, "I know, I'm sorry, it's just, it's Alec, you know?"
"I get it," Ayden nodded, "But I did know who Castiel was, I figure out who gave us the information when Max and Boss Man told us about his message and gave us his description, it's why I didn't oppose us going in before we even had proof. Cas would never lie about anything, but trust me, the first thing I did after getting Alec and Dean here was rip Cas a new hole, I mean I know he doesn't trust you guys yet, but he's been with me for the past six months, I thought he would have trusted me enough to at least give me full disclosure about his plans. But you have to believe me, if it wasn't Cas that sent us I never would have let any of you go."
"I still don't believe this crap," Mole snarled, "Ghosts and demons, they're not real, and clearly you've all been doing some really bad weed." Before anyone could reply the lights in the room flickered and a few bulbs burst before Castiel appeared before them, "What the fuck!" Mole stood and pointed his signature shotgun at the Angel and Ayden pushed it down.
"Forget it Mole, all that'll do is piss him off, and no one wants a pissed off Angel on their tail, you get me." Ayden said before turning to Castiel, "What are you doing here Cas? Oh and BTW, that means by the way, you didn't tell me that the spirit I had to get rid of was majorly pissed off, I cracked two ribs!"
Ayden got the distinct impression from the look that the Angel shot her, that he was amused, "My apologies, I thought it would have been easy for someone with your abilities."
Ayden's eyes widened as she stared at him, "Are you...mocking me? Wh-Ho- I didn't know you could even do that, I didn't know you knew how to do that!"
"I've spent nearly a year watching over you Ayden, I think I picked up a few things, as for why I'm here, there is clear doubt in this room and I'm here to clear it up." He turned to look at Mole, "Supernatural beings exist, in every form, we have existed long before man walked the earth and you have faced them already."
"Wait what?" Phoenix asked, "I know Ayden's kicked some supernatural ass before but I know for a fact that none of us have ever seen let alone fought a supernatural being, not including yourself."
"How do you think that Ames White and the Familiars are so strong? What do you think makes it so they can't feel pain?" Cas turned to Max, "You yourself have seen a high priestess of the Familiars, didn't you notice her eyes?"
"Of course I noticed them, they were yellow-"
"Wait they were yellow?" Ayden asked Max, "Why didn't you let any of us know?"
"Alec and I knew," Logan cut in, "I didn't think that it was all that important."
"The only creatures I know of with yellow eyes, that aren't snakes, are demons, stronger than your average demons, so I'd say it was pretty damn important! Do you not understand how much danger you were in, it's a miracle that you survived! Right Cas?" Ayden looked up at the Angel but found that he had disappeared, "I hate it when he does that."
Before anyone else could say anything Luke came rushing in to the office, "Winchester's awake," the first one out of the room was Ayden, she was off like a shot, knowing that the first thought that would come to Dean's mind when confronted with an unconscious slightly younger version of himself would be shapeshifter, and she knew he'd try to kill Alec.
The next chapter will be up this week but please review I know I suck at posting things frequently but I promise I'll be better honest!
Quick side note, how much does it suck that we in the UK don't get to see new Supernatural until June! It's a freaking tragedy!