Do You Love Me?
Author Note: First off, I just want to apologise for the lack of Charlie in this chapter because I'm only on episode 10 of season 7 so at the moment I don't know who Charlie is. So, I'm really really sorry about that. I also wanted to say that this is set in season 5, hence the apocalypse stuff so she wouldn't be in it even if I did know who she was. Sorry. Special thanks to CastiellaWinchester94 (Really sorry about not fulfilling your prompt but there wasn't much I could do :(), RainyDays-and-DayDreams (I gave it a go and failed miserably... yeah...), doglady.1 and It's Steve Now (sorry again about Charlie and at this point Adam isn't in hell so I'll put him in at some point!) for the lovely reviews! I love you all so much for writing yet another review and I hope that you enjoy this chapter! xx
Day 9 - Hanging Out With Friends
After the pie incident, no one left the house for quite a long time which was both good and bad. It was good because it meant that, for now, there weren't any monsters roaming around killing people. But, to the Winchesters who never really had any free time, it didn't feel right.
Out of experience, something a hunter knew was that there was never nothing out there and this fact made the distinct lack of the supernatural all the more worrying. They hadn't had a case in months and they were all getting a little restless and generally sick of each others company.
"Wanna play Mario Kart?" Dean asked with a huge sigh as Sam slumped into the couch beside him.
"No Dean. Don't ask again," he replied with an equally huge sigh before taking a large swig of coke.
"I need some dickhead to hunt, what are they all playing at. Is there some sort of monster strike?" Dean exclaimed throwing his arms in the air wildly.
"I don't think mosters do that," Sam speculated, "Just be thankful that we have time to get a plan together for the coming apocalypse."
"I'm done with the damn apocalypse Sammy. I'm sick of saving the world's ass. Let it save itself for once!"
"I don't think we really have a choice Dean. No one else seems to want to do anything and if we don't people are going to die."
"That's not our fault!" Dean shot back.
"Shut it girls!" Bobby yelled as he strode into the living room, "Quit bitching and go out for a bit. Just find something to do, someone to do it with just anything to get you out of my house! Bugger off!"
As if cued, Castiel arrived and quickly disappeared having transported the two winchesters away with him.
"Well that worked out well," Bobby muttered to himself before turning and walking back through to his 'office'. Maybe he could finally get something done for himself for once.
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"Shit, Cass!" Dean yelled as he landed on a dry sandy track, "I told you not to do that!"
"I'm sorry but they called be here and told me to bring you with me," he informed them looking between the two of them then at the red barn in the distance.
They appeared to be in a desert or at least that's how it looked to Dean. Small sand tornado's whipped round their feet as they stood facing the barn that towered over them. It looked old but not ancient with dark, peeling paint crumbling at the edges where it had constantly been hit by storms of sand. The doors were not quite closed and they wobbled gently in the wind that ruffled through the men's hair.
"About time," a male voice called from around the door of the barn, "We thought you should check it out."
The group trundled into the barn and were met with Rufus stood beside a body.
"Nice to hang out with you again Rufus," Dean said gruffly as he gave him a pat on the back before squating down and looking at the body beside him.
"Wish it could have been in better circumstances but nothing's ever perfect. You must be Castiel I assume," Rufus said holding out a hand and shaking Castiel's.
"How did you know to get hold of Cass?" Sam asked looking at the body at his feet, "I didn't think you knew him."
"Oh I don't but Bobby said if I ever needed you boys that I could just pray to Castiel and you'd be with me momentarily," He explained looking at the boys, "I found her like this and I thought it would be good to get the real experts to take a look at it."
The girl was laid in the centre of the barn. A single injury was all that could be seen on her body not a single sign that she fought back but it wasn't the body that was confusing Rufus; it was what was around it.
"Raphael," Castiel whispered as he looked upon the broken wings of his fallen sister. The black outline that stretched either side was crumpled and torn. If she was still alive she would have been in great and pain and maybe unable to fly ever again. Her wings barely resembled their former glory.
"Did you know her?" Sam asked standing and looking at the blue eyed angel.
"Yes. Her name's Mary-Anne, we were trained together," he whispered looking at her torn and tattered wings sadly.
Dean stood up and gripped Castiel's shoulder comfortingly, "Do you have any idea why Raphael woud have done this?" he asked softly looking at the side of Castiel's face and rubbing his shoulder blade gently.
Castiel shook his head and looked down at Mary-Anne again, "She wasn't really on anyone's side and she certainly wasn't working with Lucifer. I can't think why Raphael would have killed her. There wouldn't be anything to gain."
"Maybe he thought that he could get to you through her if you were good friends," Sam suggested with a gentle tone to his voice.
"That doesn't make sense. He wouldn't go around killing our siblings just to get to me. It's not worth it."
"People change Cass," Dean said quietly.
Suddenly Castiel drew his angel blade and pushed Dean behind him, "Stay back. He's coming."
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Glass shattered and the flimsy wooden walls jittered in the wind as Raphael appeared and stood before them.
"Well, well, well, who have we got here. Baby brother Castiel and his little pets. I thought I'd killed you," Raphael smiled with his usual menace.
"You son of a bitch," Dean muttered with venom stepping forward but Castiel held him back, his blade at the ready for any attack.
"Temper temper."
"Why are you here brother and why did you kill Mary-Anne," Castiel said his voice dark and dangerous.
"I've come to see if my little trap had caught me a baby angel and evidently, it has," he said walking round them all looking at them each individually, "I was just going to kill you but I'm going to give you one last chance to accept my offer graciously."
"No," Castiel replied not taking his eyes off the circling angel.
"Such a shame. I really don't want to kill you Castiel but this apocalypse has to happen, one of them must win," Raphael spoke with a small hint of sadness in his eyes, "You can't carry on much longer like this Castiel, you can't last."
"What's he talking about Cass?"
"Nothing," Castiel replied sharply not looking at Dean for a second because he knew his eyes would betray him.
"Oh, that is a development. Castiel still hasn't told you," Raphael smirked at them.
"Cass, what haven't you told us?" Sam demanded looking between Castiel and the archangel currently to his right.
While all this was going on Rufus was a little confused. He had just wanted some advice on what the wings were from the Winchester boys but instead he seemed to have been pushed into the middle of some sort of angel death match. This sort of even more life threating situation seemed to follow with the Winchesters and whenever they met, things seemed to be get worse and worse. Rufus would have thought he'd have learnt by now but apparently not because he just kept calling them back to hang out and solve cases with them.
He couldn't change anything now though so he decided to do the thing that he did best and gank it.
"Come on little brother, what haven't you told them?" Raphael asked, clearly enjoying the show.
Dean turned to Castiel and looked at him in a way that showed he wanted an answer and he wanted one quickly.
"It's not relevant Dean," Castiel replied looking to Sam for help but Sam was just as equally pissed. He had kept plently of secrets and caused Dean pain through many of them and he wasn't about to let Castiel do that same.
"Shut up Cass and just tell us the fucking truth," Dean demanded sharply.
It was then that Rufus made his move. While Raphael had been so wrapped up in the scene of secrets before him he had had the time to draw out the symbol that Bobby had taught him.
The first time Bobby had informed him of the exsistance of angels he had shown him the banishing sigal in case any of them had attempted to go after him to get to the Winchesters. The conversation between Raphael and the other three men had supplied him with the oppourtunity to prick his finger and draw it on his hand.
So, as soon as Castiel was about to tell them the truth Rufus shouted, "Castiel leave!"
Castiel quickly caught on to the plan and flew off as soon as Rufus touched his hand to the sigal on his arm causing a bright light to errupt from it and drive away the archangel before them.
"Where did you learn to do that?" Sam asked as soon as the light died and revealed themselves to be alone once more.
"Our good friend Bobby has been teaching me all the party tricks. He figured I'd need them with the apocalypse drawing nearer and all."
Sam nodded and turned to Dean who wore an expression of anger towards both the angels who had currently vacated the barn one way or another.
"What had Cass been lying to us about?" Dean asked looking hard at Sam who just shrugged.
"Well boys, as much fun as I've had 'hanging out' with you I hope I don't see your new friends anytime soon," Rufus said, dropping his hands to his side and looking at the young hunters in front of him, "Until next time."
Rufus gave each of them a pat on the shoulder before leaving them in the barn and to their thoughts of what Castiel had yet to tell them.
Author Note: I hope you enjoyed that. The prompt of 'Hanging out with friends' was quite a vaugue one and I just thought that everything had been a little too cute for a while now and a dash of tension was required. So, now Dean and Sam know that Castiel is keeping something from them but they don't know what. Ooooooooooo!
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