I'm such a lazy updater! I apologize for being lazy and not posting this earlier

...Carry on my wayward son...

~Twist in the story~

Uriel ran towards the four people emerging from the warehouse and annoyed grabbed hold of his injured older brother. He glanced at Kim for a second before he walked over to Michael and put Gabriel down.

"Is he okay?" Michael asked and scrambled over to his brothers, immediately checking his little brother for any fatal injuries, but he didn't find any, only superficial wounds. "M' fine!" Gabriel mumbled as he awoke.

Dean lowered Kate to the ground and turned around quickly to the angels who were checking over their brother. He took a small look at Sam too, but he couldn't see any change in his brother.

"Uriel, Kate needs a hospital." he called out and found the angel behind him half carrying his older brother. "I know, so do you and Gabriel." the angel said and Dean frowned. "I don't need..."

Kim sighed loudly. "Stop arguing Dean, you've hit your head like a dozen times already, you're goin'." she stated and crossed her arms over her chest.

Dean closed his eyes. "Fine, but what about Sam?" he turned to look at his brother, all the others did too. "I can take him somewhere." Uriel suggested and Dean nodded. "Take him to Bobby's." he told the angel who let Michael take Gabriel and crouched down by Sam.

"Wait!" Kim suddenly exclaimed. "W-what about me?" she asked insecurely. After all she had done a lot of stuff that were bad, but were they going to want to be with her again, if so, she at least wanted to say goodbye to Sam.

Dean frowned. He didn't exactly want to have her near them, but he knew how Sam would take it if they were separated again. He glanced at Sam again and groaned quietly. "You and Michael can stay with Sam at Bobby's." he finally gave in, but Michael just scoffed. "There's no way I'm separating from my brothers." he stated.

Uriel sighed loudly. "Okay, I'll take You Dean, Kate, Gabe and Michael to a hospital near where Bobby lives and then take Sam and Kim to Bobby, all right?" Everyone nodded quietly.

Dean grabbed hold of Kim and made her look into his eyes. "Do anything funky with Sam, and I'll murder you and that's not gonna be pretty cause I'm pissed." he whispered fiercely to her and for the first time since he had known her he could see that she actually look afraid of him.

She nodded and grabbed hold of Sam and supported him against herself. "Wait here." Uriel said before he disappeared with the others.

As soon as they were gone she immediately planted a kiss in his hair. "I'm sorry you had to see it, but you're gonna be okay, I promise. As soon as I get my grace back..." she trailed off and looked into the crater and licked her lips with a look of need on her face.

"It'll still be here later," she reassured herself and tightened her grip on Sam and dried away some of the blood on his face. God she hated being a human! She sniffed loudly, sadness sweeping over her.

She had real feelings as a death angel too, but nothing strong. Every feeling had been dimmed down to a small level, almost not noticable, but now, she really felt the sadness and guilt eat at her. And something else too. She knew what it was but she had never felt it like this before.

Love. Her love for Sam.

"Are you ready?" she turned around sharply, slightly surprised, to see Uriel already back standing behind them with a hand stretched out to help her up. She nodded, but didn't take his hand, instead she started to lift Sam up, but failed miserably.

Uriel shook his head and sighed loudly. "You haven't got any superhuman abilities anymore, that kind of includes being able to lift very tall people." he told her and took one of Sam's arms and draped it across his own shoulder and lifted the man up from the ground.

"Plus, you look like you're gonna keel over any minute." he teased a little as he grabbed hold of her with his other hand and brought her close to his chest. "Close your eyes." he ordered her and she did as she was told.

As soon as she closed her eyes, Uriel told her to open them again, this time she was standing in the middle of Bobby's living room with and obviously stunned Bobby standing with his mouth hanging open.

She unhooked herself from Uriel's grip and helped him lay Sam down on the couch standing nearby. "I'm gonna get back to the hospital." The angel said and disappeared just as Bobby made a sound and was about to speak.

Kim slumped down by the couch and sighed loudly. "Kim...?" she hadn't thought about the fact that Bobby probably didn't know she was back again and the fact the she was beaten up. Well, to be honest he didn't know anything that had happened the past few days.

Crap, she sighed mentally, knowing she would have to explain everything to him.

"It's a long story, Bobby and please... don't make me start explaining it now." she sighed loudly and looked up into his face with pleading eyes.

Bobby looked into those big brown eyes and felt like he was looking into Sam's pair of puppy-dog eyes. Damn, these kids are gonna be the death of me! He sighed, burrying the subject of her revival for the time being and focused on Sam.

"What happened to him?" he asked and stepped closer. He couldn't see any visible injuries on his face, so he scanned the rest and noticed the slight odd angle of his right arm

"I..." Kim started but then stopped and drew a shaky breath. Bobby turned away from Sam and sat down across from the girl. Her head was bowed and he actually saw a tear fall from her face.

Something was definitely off about her.

She sniffled and grumbled something before she looked up. "I ripped my grace out, in front of everyone. I even kidnapped Kate and gave her to Alastair." she sounded so helpless and heartbroken that Bobby actually felt like wrapping his arms around her and hug her.

She drew a hand across her face to try to dry away some tears but they wouldn't stop falling. "God, I hate being human, so many emotions and automatic responses." she sniffled and slammed her hand into the floor.

Bobby drew in a deep breath. "I ask again, what happened to Sam?" he kept his voice quiet. The last thing he needed was her pissed off. She looked up and Bobby once again felt his heartstrings being tugged when looking into those Sam like eyes.

"He looked while I ripped my grace out." she said and looked deeply into the older man's eyes, he clearly didn't know what it meant. "Great, big dangerous black light... POOF!" she threw out her arms and Bobby raised and eyebrow.

Someone's snapped.

She rolled her eyes, knowing what he was thinking. "No, I haven't snapped. Watching someone rip out their graze isn't exactly a good thing. Too bright light, even if it's black." Bobby finally understood it when she said it like that.

He glanced at Sam and so did Kim. "Can't tell how bad it is until he wakes up, though." she said while they both looked at him.

"We need to get him to a hospital. His arms broken." Bobby stated quietly but soon felt Kim shook her head. "No can do, too many questions." she insisted and turned to Bobby. "His eyes don't exactly look normal at the moment."

With that said she lifted one of Sam's eyelids and let Bobby see the eye underneath. The old man was taken by surprise. His normally hazel/ brown iris was a mix between brown and yellow. To be honest it looked disgusting. The whites of his eye was covered in black and red lines criss crossing each other.

He scrubbed a hand over his face and sighed. "You kids are gonna be the death of me." he grumbled and shook his head. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up at least and you can tell my why the hell Uriel was going to a hospital and where Dean is."

Kim let Bobby examine her and dry away some blood from cuts and look her over for broken bones. He found a broken rib and another badly bruised one. He had to shake his head at the fact that Dean had done this, she didn't leave out that as she told him everything that had happened.

"So Uriel took all the others to a hospital, everyone needed it, especially Kate and Gabriel." She hissed as Bobby wrapped her ribs. "Let me get this straight. Alastair let you out of hell to kill Dean? Then you kidnapped Kate and gave her to Alastair, who tortured her and by the way, how far along is she?"

Kim grimaced in pain. "Three months." she she sucked in a breath along with the reply. "And you're making it sound really bad on my behalf, I was under a curse." she added and sighed as he finished wrapping them.

She didn't wanna tell him that she had done some of it knowingly, but because she had been back in hell for 60 years her judgement had been a little off when she got back out again.

Bobby started packing together the medical equipment, but stopped after she said that. "Doesn't mean it's not your fault though. Spell or no spell, no matter how hard someone tries to be good, they always fall into the dark sooner or later."

She scoffed, but winced as it agitated her ribs. "Thanks for the wisdom, Yoda." she said sarcastically. Her face suddenly turned serious, though. "Do you think they'll ever forgive me?" she asked, her voice almost cracking at the end.

"I don't know, kid. That's up to them." he just told her truthfully and she nodded sadly. "I mean, from what Dean told me Sam was pretty damn changed after you...died." he glanced at Sam on the couch and then back at her again.

"Knowing Sam, he's not gonna blame you, he's just gonna be happy that you're you again."

Everyone who knew Sam also knew that he easily forgave people, it's was in his gentle nature. Though throughout the last years that part of him had diminished to some extent, but he still wanted to believe the best about people.

He never understood though how he had ever trusted this girl. The kid wasn't stupid, but trusting two demons in under a year? Granted both of them had actually been helpful it was still scary that Sam could trust demons.

A low moan shifted both their attention to the couch behind them. Sam shifted and his face pinched up in pain as he sucked in a breath. Bobby and Kim immediately came closer to him.

"Sam?" Bobby questioned and glanced quickly at Kim who was also looking at Sam. "Are you awake, boy?" he didn't get a response, only a small whimper before Sam brought his good hand up to his face and pressed his palm into his left eye.

It hurt so much! It felt like someone had poured acid into his eyes! Not like he knew how it felt though, but it must have felt like this. He pressed the only hand he could move into one of his eyes as an attempt to lessen the pain, it helped a little, but the dull throbbing in his head was still there and the thousand needles prickling his eyeballs.

"Sam? Can you hear me?" he had ignored the voices that nagged him, asked him things like 'open your eyes' or 'talk to me', but this time, it wasn't the same person. It was a female. Kim.

He removed the hand from his eye and laid it down by his side. "Kim?" he questioned and felt something grab the hand he had just laid down. "Yeah, it's me." she replied in a voice that sounded rough, like she had been crying.

The frown he tried to put on turned into a wince and he clenched his teeth together. "W-what happened?" he asked in a shaky voice. It was really quiet in the room now and he resisted the urge to open his aching eyes to see if it was just her.

Kim looked at Bobby with a worried expression, one that told him that she didn't want to tell Sam what had happened. At least not if his 'condition' was as bad as they suspected.

He nodded at her, signaling that she didn't have to tell him. He would do it for her.

"Sam, she ripped out her grace in front of you." he started and could see Sam jump a little, poor kid hadn't know the older man was even in the room. "You didn't turn away fast enough so it damaged your eyes."

Sam's heart sank at the revelation from Bobby. He felt tears press which only made the pain worse. "But really we don't know until you, well, open your eyes and tell us." Kim cut in. Sam knew she was trying to sound convincing, but he could hear the fear in her voice.

He bit his lip to keep a sob from escaping. He really should have gotten used to all the dangers with hunting and socializing with demons, werewolves and all the other monsters they faced. Truth be told, whenever he was hurt badly, maybe even dying, he could come to terms with it. But torture injuries as he and Dean had dubbed them, like being blinded, deaf or any kind of permanent injuries that they couldn't get rid of? He just couldn't deal with them.

She glanced at Bobby with a worried expression. Sam still hadn't opened his eyes and now he was being real quiet. The older man just gave her a look that told her to give him some time.

Kim leaned closer to Sam's head, dropped the hand she was holding and held her hands on either side of his face. "Sam, open your eyes and look at me." her voice was quiet, less panicked.

He shook his head gently. "I promise, no matter how bad it is now, we're gonna fix it." she promised him.

Sam drew in a breath before he nodded slowly to her and let the breath out. He slowly started to open his eyelids and dreaded what they were about to find out.


Someone was talking to him, that much he could figure out. What bothered him was that this person had been talking non-stop for half an hour. He hadn't been paying attention though. The only thing he cared about was his little brother and his girlfriend.

Ever since they had arrived at the hospital about two hours ago, no one had given him info in either Kate or Sam. The doctors had checked him out and taken Kate from him. Uriel was the only one who was with him, being banished from his own brothers' room because Gabriel was being checked and so was Michael.

Dean only had a bad concussion, a few bruises and scrapes here and there and a gash on the back if his head. The doctors had taken care of it and insisted on him resting, if they only knew the stress he was under they would have sedated him.

Someone bumped his arm and brought him back from his thinking. "Dean! You here?" he turned around and saw Uriel's annoyed face looking at him. "Are you even listening to what I'm saying?" the angel asked and Dean resisted the urge to yell at him.

"No, I'm not." he replied and the angel sighed in annoyance. "You've been talking non-stop for 20 friggin' minutes. My head hurts, I'm worried about Kate, I'm worried about Sam and I'm worried about my unborn kid!" his voice gradually became higher as he talked. "Do you really think I care about what you have to say?" Uriel swallowed hard and looked annoyed, but he didn't answer.

He raked a hand through his hair and relaxed it in his hands. This whole situation was screwed. He sighed and brought his head up from his hands. Immediately he noticed the doctor who had taken Kate away come into his room.

"I was told you're Kate's 'family'" he put pressure on family as he looked over Dean and Uriel. "Yes, I am. How's she doing?" he stood up from the bed he and Uriel had been sitting on and approached the doctor cautiously.

The tall doctor sighed. "Well, she lost a lot of blood, we're still giving her transfusions, but physically she should be okay. The cuts and bruises aren't too worrying, though painful, they're only superficial." he informed Dean who absorbed the information like a sponge.

He licked his lips and asked one of the most nagging questions. "What about the baby?" his green worried eyes locked with the doctors and for a moment everything was agonizingly silent as Dean awaited the answer of whether or not he was going to be a father.

After a long moment of silence, the doctor sighed. "The baby is fine. You can even see Kate for a moment if you want to, but only for a moment," the doctor pointed a finger at Dean as a warning. "she needs to rest."

Dean breathed a sigh of relief and smiled nervously. "Of course, I'll just pop by and talk to her for a moment." he told the doctor and scrubbed a shaky hand over his forehead. "Uh, what room is she in?" he asked with a frown.

The doctor smiled slightly. "She's in room 224." he told Dean and exited the room, but was stopped when Uriel grabbed his shoulder. "You don't know anything about my brothers?" he asked, he had never been to ha hospital before, much less been denied seeing his brothers before.

The doctor shook his head. "No, I'm not the one who treated them, but I'll see what I can find out." he reassured the angel and went off to do his duties.

He opened the door carefully and poked his head inside to check if she was awake. As soon as he did look inside, he was met with Kate looking up at him and she immediately started to smile. He went inside the room and closed the door, striding over to the bed.

"God, I was so scared!" he breathed as he cradled her face and put her head close to his. She gave him a little smile and kissed him gently before she looked up into his eyes. "I'm fine..." she whispered and brought her hands up to his neck and held his head.

Dean crouched down by the bed, both of them were still cradling each other's heads and looking into each others eyes. "Are you sure you're fine?" Dean asked her and she huffed. "I told you, I'm fine. The cuts and bruises hurt, but I'll live." her face turned serious as she looked closer at him.

"Are you okay, thought?" she asked and Dean just shrugged with a smile on his face. "I've had worse." she smiled too and kissed him. "I gotta go, the doc said you needed to rest." her face fell when he said that, but before she could say anything Dean beat her to it. "'sides, I need to find out how Sam's doing."

Kate frowned and grabbed his hand as he was about to leave. "What happened to him?" Dean's face hardened and he sat down on the bed. "He saw when Kim ripped out her grace. It's... well she emitted this strong, black light I guess and it did something to Sam's eyes." he saw how Kate closed her eyes and turned away.

Can't he ever catch a break? She questioned herself. Only bad things seemed to be happening to Sam lately. She felt really sorry for him and Dean too of course because he had to see his brother being tormented by God or whoever was doing this to Sam.

"Go, find out if he's okay." Kate told Dean and gave him a reassuring smile. "I'm sure everything will work out." Dean gave her a kiss on the cheek before he exited the room.


"Hello?" Bobby answered the phone and his face lit up a little. "Dean? Boy are you okay?" He glanced at Kim who had obviously caught that it was Dean calling, and was looking paler than she already was.

He turned his face away from her. "Sam?" Bobby looked into the living room and frowned. "Why don't you talk to him yourself." he said and walked into the room and handed the phone to Sam.

"Dean?" Sam questioned as he brought the phone to his ear. "Are you okay?" followed immediately after. Sam smiled as Dean said something. "I'm fine, Dean. Yes, I can see. Kind of." he informed his brother and Bobby could practically visualise Dean sighing in relief.

"Dude, kind of seeing is better than being blind." Sam pointed out, Dean was probably mad about Sam not being 100%. "Uhm, Bobby's gonna try some ritual to see if it can fix my arm." he told his brother skeptically.

Both Kim and Bobby had been nearly cloud 9 earlier when Sam had opened his eyes and told them he could see. Well, not good, but it was something. He told them he could see kind of shadows, but the colors and details were all jacked up. Probably from the fact that he was sporting three different eyecolors himself.

At least he could see, that was positive and meant that he wouldn't be walking around blind until it righted itself or someone fixed it.

Sam ended the call and gave the phone to Bobby. At least now he could stop worrying about Dean and Kate being critically injured. He leaned back on the couch and looked at Kim. He could see it was her easily. Because some of his yellow eyes was mixed into his current eyes he could still see supernatural being for what they really were.

Kim had ripped out her grace, but it wasn't that long ago so Sam could still see the almost transparent wings from behind her. It was weird really, the idea of Kim being human now. He wasn't sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Since he had woken up she had at least had a crying fit three times where she cried and kept apologizing for doing this to him. It didn't quite feel like her anymore. The Kim he fell in love with didn't cry, didn't show that much emotions. To be honest, he really hoped she got her grace back. He couldn't describe it, but he loved being with her, even if she wasn't human.


Uriel walked down the halls looking for the room he had been referred to when the doctor had told him he could now see his brothers. The doctor had said that both of them were okay, Gabriel would be sore for a while but other than that he was okay. Michael he knew was okay, he only had a few scrapes.

He finally found the room and burst inside it, clearly catching his brothers off guard since the practically jumped off their beds.

"ever heard of knocking?" Gabriel breathed as he stared annoyed at his brother while Michael held a hand on his chest and looked at Uriel like he was their father. "I think you gave me a heart attack." he whispered shocked.

Both of his younger brothers glanced at him but then just shook their heads. "You're just being over dramatic." Uriel brushed him off and earned a pillow to his head from his older brother, who pointed a finger at him. "Just wait 'til I'm an angel again, I'll kick your ass." he warned.

Uriel scoffed and sat down on Gabriel's bed. "You wish." he taunted which resulted in pissing Michael off even more, but it didn't last for long since he had some questions for his brother.

"How are the others?" he asked. His brother sighed and leaned back against Gabriel's legs, putting his hands behind his head. "Dean's fine, got a bad concussion, Kate is about the same as Gabriel, maybe a little worse, but she'll be fine."

Michael sighed in relief. "And Dean is going to be a father." Uriel shuddered as he said it which earned him glares from both of his brothers. "Whaat?" he whined. "Have you met him on his most 'normal' days?"

Gabriel rolled his eyes and lifted one of his feet to gain Uriel's attention. "What about Sam? Mike told me about what happened."

"Dean talked to him a moment ago, he can see, but not too well." Both of his brothers seemed sad at this and he sat up on the bed. "Come on, it could be worse. At least you'll be able to fix it when you're Angel again."

They had to admit, he was right, even if it was six months from now.


Somehow, Kate had managed to talk the doctor into letting Dean be in her room with her after visiting hours. They lay curled up in her bed together. Dean twirled a stray hair that had fallen into her face with a look of intense concentration on his face.

"Kate?" she moaned in response and only dug her head deeper into his chest. Dean rolled his eyes and got out from underneath her much to her annoyance, and knelt on the floor by the bed. She opened her eyes and propped herself up on and elbow, glaring at him.

He bit his lip nervously and looked into her eyes. She seemed to feel that something was up, but she had promised never to use her psychic powers to invade his thoughts or anything so she would just have to wait until he told her what was wrong.

Dean watched as her eyes softened a little and he could see worry seep into those green orbs. Damn, your worrying her, that's not the point! He screamed at himself.

He took one of her hands, the one she wasn't propping herself up with, and took it in his own. He drew in a deep breath and looked her directly in her eyes.

"Kate, I know the timing probably sucks, considering what we've been through not long ago, but I don't know any other way to do this." he started and kept the eye contact throughout what he said and he could see that she was starting to understand.

"Despite all the crazy shit we've been through, and all the crazy stuff that's probably to come I still want to have you by my side through all of it.." he continued and by this point Kate was looking shocked at him.

He drew in a breath and smiled at her. "Kate Elkins, will you marry me?" he finally asked.

oh... my... God! Did he just ask me to marry him? She couldn't help but just stare at him. He was still smiling and awaiting an answer from her.

"Dean... I..." she stuttered and his face fell and he looked down. She grabbed hold of his chin and lifted his face up again so it was parallel to hers. "Of course I'll marry you, Dean." she smiled at him and his smile returned as well and he grabbed hold of her, hugging her tightly.

Okay, so I'm still kicking myself for being slow on this one, but I hope it was likeable.