I am on a roll tonight! Probably going to be the last one of the night and it's going to be really short, just a couple of conversations, but I'll get more handwritten for y'all tomorrow! Think of this one as kind of a little wrap up from the last one.
CHAPTER 9
Sam could see his breath as he leaned against the wall of an old gas station just down the road from Bobby's house. It was night, and the shining of the moon down onto the ground and around him made each puff of breath illuminate as he breathed in and out. It wasn't like her to be late.
"Hey Sam," Ruby's voice came from behind the Impala, and Sam turned around to look at her.
"Ruby. I thought you weren't talking to me."
"I came to warn you about something." Ruby stepped to the other side of the car, looking Sam up and down before standing in front of him. Sam stood up a little straighter, but looked Ruby in the eye.
"What is it? Is it Lilith?" Sam asked, concerned. Ruby shook her head.
"It's that slut you two keep talking to. Emma."
Sam frowned. "What about her?" He shivered in the cold. Ruby wore a tank top and jeans, and she was not phased. Sam didn't wonder why. "Why do you need to warn me about her?"
"She's dangerous, Sam. Dangerous to everything we're trying to do. Dangerous to you, me... and especially dangerous to Dean."
Emma was sitting in a diner, stirring her coffee absentmindedly as she stared out the window when an Angel showed up at her table.
"Hello Emma," Emma gave a start and turned toward the man sitting across the booth from her. She immediately reached for the knife in her belt and stared at the man with hostility.
"Who the hell are you?"
"I'm Castiel. I'm an angel of the Lord."
There was a long moment before Emma laughed and looked back down at her coffee. "Yeah, okay, sure." Castiel nodded his head and looked across the table at Emma. She felt the burning of his eyes on her forehead and looked back up.
"It is good that you believe me." He said, obviously not understanding sarcasm. "Dean and Bobby were not so accepting." Emma frowned skeptically.
"You know Dean and Bobby?"
"I was the one who brought Dean out of Hell." Now that got Emma's attention. The hunter dropped the spoon into her coffee, and ran one gloved hand over her other arm. She was taken aback for a moment.
"I'm sorry, what?"
"I was the one -"
"No I heard you."
"Then why did you ask..."
"Forget it." Emma said, shaking her head and waving one of her hands. "What do you want with me?"
"The witnesses, you survived it." Castiel got right to the point. Emma nodded her head, taking a moment to glance to the side as the image of her mother came to her mind. "You are very important to our cause."
Emma looked up, startled. "What cause?"
"Do you know anything about the seals? The 66?" Castiel asked. Emma shook her head. "Lilith is trying to break all the seals. The Rising of the Witnesses was the first one."
"Lilith did that?" Emma asked as she took a sip of her coffee. It tasted like ash in her mouth. "Yeah she's real nice."
"No, she isn't." Emma rolled her eyes.
"So what about these seals? Why does the witnesses matter? Dean and Bobby and Sam took care of it."
"The seal was broken. It doesn't matter if you fixed the problem, it was still broken in the first place. Dean asked me why break them anyways, and the answer is that you should think of them as locks on a door. And behind the door... is Lucifer." Emma stared at him for a moment before laughing a short, bark-like laugh that earned a few stares. "I still do not understand why this is so funny to you."
"Lucifer?" Emma asked skeptically, "Like the devil? Please."
"It's true." Castiel nodded in earnest. Emma leaned back in her seat.
"Okay, so say I believe you. Are you telling all the hunters this?"
Castiel looked away for a moment. "No." he admitted.
"Okay so why Dean and Sam? More importantly, why me?" Castiel looked her dead in the eyes. Emma blinked.
"Dean was pulled out of Hell because God willed it to be. He has work to do. And so do you. All three of you have big parts to play if you want to save this world." Emma stared at him for a long time, before flinging some money down onto the table and standing up, nearly knocking over a waitress in the process. She started walking toward the door at a brisk pace, out the door, and into the parking lot. Castiel appeared in front of her. "Where are you going?"
"As far away from this crazy shit as possible." she said and walked around him. "I don't want anything to do with this. I don't want some fake God to be telling me what to do. You think I'm buying this for even a second? I'm not." Castiel appeared to look saddened as he stood beside Emma's car. Emma pulled the door open and climbed in, looking out her window at the Angel. She turned around to look around before opening her mouth. "And I-"
He was gone. Emma started her truck, mumbling under her breath. This was all insane. God didn't exist. Lucifer didn't exist. Whatever sick joke this man was trying to pull her into, it wasn't going to work. No sir. Some kind of holy work with the Winchesters? Emma wasn't an idiot.
Emma was determined not to see the Winchesters for a very long time.
More tomorrow! Please review!~
