Chapter 10:
Name Camael pronounced: {Caw-may-el}
Name Lailah pronounced: {Lie-la}
Name Daniel pronounced: {Dan-yul}
"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be." ~ Denis Kearney
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Camael:
Camael is in a dark room that is damp and cold. She squats on the ground, shivering and scared. The little girl looks around, trying to get her bearings straight. She's not quite sure where she is but if she can find a weak point she just might be able to fight her way out, in the process taking out that Lailah guy.
She hears a creek as the door opens to her cage. A man walks in, another angel that she hasn't seen before, dressed in a nice black suit. "Hello Camael," the man greets her.
She stands up and makes herself look as tall as possible, standing her ground. "What do you want with me?"
The man smiles in genuine friendliness. "Nothing for now." He takes a step towards her and Camael weighs her options. She doesn't know if she will win if she attacks. "Are you hungry, child?"
Her stomach growls at the question and though he can hear it, she gives him no satisfaction. "Not really."
"Well, I told Lailah not to put you in this dreadful room." He looks around and wears a look of disgust. "Won't you follow me to a more… comfortable room?"
"Are you going to kill me?" she asks, not taking a step.
The angel shakes his head. "No, of course, not."
Camael takes a step back when the man takes a step forward. "Then why'd you take me?"
"Because sweet Camael," the angel kneels, "you're special and we have a very special job for you."
"I don't believe you," she says, fluttering her wings out from behind her to make her look bigger.
"I can prove it, you just need to follow me." He holds a hand out to her. "My name is Daniel, you can trust me." He speaks with a calm, soft voice.
"Okay." Camael takes his hand and Daniel smiles sweetly at her.
"Good girl." He stands, still clutching her hand. As soon as they are out of the room, Camael yanks her hand away from him and bolts. She hears Daniel say behind her, "You're stronger than I thought." She pictures the amused smile on his face.
She runs as fast as her little three year old legs will take her, reaching a closed door. She looks around to try and find a different route but there is none. She reaches up and stretches in order to grab the handle of the door and turn the knob. She yanks the door open and runs. She really wishes she wasn't bare foot but she'll have to deal with that fact.
Camael runs down this long hallway, listening as she hears Daniel coming after her along with a few demons. The sensation of the demons is enough to make her dizzy as she rounds a corner. She has to stop because she gets so dizzy plus she has to catch her breath.
Camael reaches up with her hand that is sweaty, dirt stuck to the moister, to wipe the tears away. She wants her fathers. Her breath hitches as she hears a noise.
Holding her breath, she stealthily gets up from her kneeling position. She tries to listen but the noise doesn't come back. Looking to her left she sees nothing. She then looks right and right there standing by her is a demon.
Camael screams in surprise and fright as she tries to run but the demon grabs her by her wing. It hurts and she screams again as the demon picks her up. "I've got you now you little twerp."
Without thinking, Camael reaches out and slams an open hand to the vessel's forehead. Light emanates from the eyes and mouth of the human as she kills the demon. Said demon drops her and she lands in a way that causes her ankle to twist. She stops herself from calling out in pain by slapping a hand to her mouth.
Camael hears more demons coming. She's shivering uncontrollably from the fear that is coursing through her veins, her ankle hurts, and worse of all, her wing is throbbing. She doesn't know what to do. She tries to pinpoint which direction the demons are coming from and finally decides on her left. She runs as best she can on her ankle to the right with sense of unease that there is no trace of Daniel anywhere within that commotion.
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Dean:
Dean is getting aggravated. They haven't left the warehouse yet due to "game planning". All he wants to do is charge in and get his daughter back, demons be damned.
He knows that is reckless, however, and listens quietly as his brother talks. "Dean and Cas, you'll go in first, Bobby and I will count to ten and follow." Dean looks to Castiel. He notices the angel is breathing heavily and seems to be exhausted. "We'll kill whatever demons we come in contact with, with Ruby's knife and Cas' angel blade sword. If there's rooms on either side of the hall, assuming we enter into a hall, Dean and I will check the right while Bobby and Cas check the left."
"Why not me and Cas?" Dean asks.
"Because, we'll be ten seconds behind you which means we," Sam motions to himself and Bobby, "will be double checking." Dean rolls his eyes. "We're going to have to go in assuming there is at least one angel there, especially after what Lailah just told us."
"Yeah," Dean agrees, "he said he was working with someone. Any ideas of who that could be, Angel?"
Castiel shakes his head. "It could be a number of angels." He's still breathing heavily and Dean is starting to be concerned about it.
"We've got the angel blade but if there's more than one angel then…" His brother trails off, letting the rest of them fill in the blanks.
"We'll be highly outnumbered," Castiel voices his thoughts. "I should be in front of Dean then when we enter because I'll be the one with the angel sword."
Dean places his hand on his lover's shoulder. "We're sticking together Cas."
"I know," the angel agrees, "but I will be the one to lead, you follow."
Dean raises his eyebrows at that. "Cas has a point Dean."
"Are we looking at the same person?" Motioning to Castiel, Dean can't keep his concerns to himself anymore. "Do you see how exhausted he is? If anything he should be in the back."
"I'm fine Dean," Castiel tries to protest but Dean has none of it.
"You're not fine," He points out. "Have you seen you? You look like you're going to pass out."
Castiel looks sympathetic. "Dean-"
The hunter interrupts the fallen angel. "Cas, I'm not going to argue with you on this. You're following me and that's final, understand?"
Castiel looks down at his shoes. "Understood."
Sam chooses that moment to clear his throat. "Anyways, if we do end up being outnumbered from some angels, then we're going to be shit out of luck."
"Then we better be sure we can run fast," Bobby chimes in for the first time throughout the whole planning.
"Okay then," Dean looks at everyone, "what are we waiting for?"
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Camael:
Camael found an empty room to hide in. At the moment, she's sitting with her legs tightly pressed to her chest as she tries to calm herself down. She can hear a lot of noise coming from outside the dingy room and it scares her. However, so far no one has come in to see if she is there.
Camael wipes the sweat off her forehead as her breathing finally begins to calm down. She wishes she knew what they wanted with her but more importantly she wishes she knew the way out of the building. She tried praying to her Daddy but she's not sure if he heard since she doesn't know if this building is protected by it or not.
Most likely it is but what's the harm in trying. "Daddy, are you there? I don't know where I am and I'm scared. Please find me and help. I need you Daddy, I need your help."
Something rattles the door then and she looks up suddenly, seeing the door slowly open. Puffing her wings out, she stands, gearing up for a fight. In walks a demon, eyes black as charcoal and the face of contorted, rotting flesh. She knows it's how the demon really looks instead of the pretty blonde woman the demon is possessing.
The demon smiles and takes a step causing Camael to take a step back until her back hits the wet wall. She flinches when her bad wing is pressed between her and the wall.
"Awe," the demon mocks, "does your pretty blue wing hurt?" Side stepping when the demon lunges at her, Camael runs out of the room, however, she has to stop dead in her tracks when she sees three demons surrounding her. The demon in the blonde female walks up behind her. "Now why don't you be a good little girl and come with us?"
Camael, frightened, shuts her eyes tightly when the blonde vessel reaches for her. Her body heats up, feeling as if a light is engulfing her. When demons start screaming, she opens her eyes to see this bright, yellow light has surrounded them, killing off all the demons. When the light fades, she realizes that she did that. She's amazed at what has just happened but knows she can't dwell on it for too long. Daniel and Lailah could be coming after her any minute.
She starts to run again except a little slower now. Her ankle hurts really badly and she's exhausted. Camael runs for a good twenty minutes before she hears something. Looking around for a hiding spot, she sees a bunch of boxes stacked off to the side. Hobbling over to them, she kneels down to hide.
It's more demons and she watches as they walk right by her. She waits a little while, letting the two demons get far enough away so they won't hear her. Camael quietly removes herself from her hiding spot and sneaks away. She eventually meets up with another door that she can't avoid unless she turns around. Obviously not wanting to turn around and go back, she slowly opens the door. When she enters the room, she's shocked to see what is there.
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Dean:
They've breeched the building, making their way down a long hall. Castiel still seems to be really tired from using so much of his grace but he's hanging in there and trudging along a few feet in front of Dean because he made sure to go first before Dean could even protest. Sam and Bobby, even with the ten seconds head start, are right on their heels.
As planned, he and Sam check the rooms on the right while Castiel and Bobby check the rooms on the left. He's getting anxious, knowing that his daughter is somewhere here.
Distracted, he bumps into Castiel when the fallen angel suddenly stops. "Cas, what is it?"
"Demons," he motions with his head, "up ahead, I can sense them."
Sam comes up beside them. "How many?"
"Two or three, I can't really tell," Castiel answers.
They keep moving then, getting ready for a fight, Sam with Ruby's knife, Dean with the colt, and Castiel handing off his angel sword to Bobby. Dean dutifully steps in front of Castiel, who huffs in annoyance but doesn't complain, to lead the way. When they turn the corner that's when they see the demons. There are only two of them and Sam and Castiel take care of them easily.
"Do you think," Sam starts when they continue, "that the angel Lailah was talking about knows we're here?"
Bobby decides to answer this. "Probably, I wouldn't put it past any angel to know."
"Then where is this other angel?" Dean questions, looking around. No one answers, afraid of where it could be. Dean really hopes the soulless son of a bitch isn't with Camael.
"Wait." Castiel stops Dean from opening a door. "There's someone behind this door."
"Demons?" Dean asks.
Castiel shakes his head. "No," he opens it slowly to reveal who or what is behind the door, "an angel."
"Hello brother," the said angel greets them.
Dean enters the room first, followed by Castiel, Sam, then Bobby. He opens his mouth to answer with some retort but Castiel beats him to it. "Daniel."
"Daniel that dick's name?" Dean confirms and Castiel nods his head. Turning back to Daniel, Dean continues. "What do you want with our daughter?"
Daniel raises his hands in a surrendering manner. "I'm not going to hurt her." He sounds calm, too calm.
"Then what?" Dean demands.
Daniel smiles. "Nothing you need to be concerned about."
"Oh yeah?" He's getting angry with him. "That's not how I see it."
Daniel looks to the floor, sighs, then looks back up. "Castiel already read Lailah's mind before he killed him, why do you need me to answer a question you already know the answer to?" Daniel still sounds eerily calm.
Dean continues the conversation, deciding to ignore the nagging question of how this angel knew what they did. "I didn't like his answer."
Another step towards them, leaving him probably a good twenty feet away, and Dean stiffens. He can feel Castiel and Sam do the same beside him and he's sure Bobby has to from the other side of Castiel. "She's going to be a legend. I don't understand why you won't let me do this."
"Are you the one behind all this or do you have a boss to?" Bobby asks.
Daniel moves his gaze from Dean to Bobby. "It's all me."
"You're lying," Castiel points out.
"Am I?" Daniel looks to Castiel. "You seem… very warn out brother, are you sure you can trust your senses of whether I'm lying or not?" Castiel just glares at the angel possessing the poor bastard. "I didn't think so." An angel blade appears in his hand. "I won't let you take her, she's too important in my plans."
"Where is she?" Dean demands as they all hear a door opening. Turning to the sound, they see little Camael walk in. "Camael?" Dean's heart soars.
"Ah, there you are," he hears Daniel say at the same time he hears a whooshing sound.
"Daddy!" Camael screams and Dean turns to Castiel to see the angel blade plunged into his stomach. He catches the fallen angel before he collapses onto the ground.
"Cas." Castiel is shivering in his arms. He looks up to see Camael running towards them but Daniel is going after her with Sam trying to reach her before he does. Luckily Sam has longer legs so he reaches his niece before Daniel does. Slinging one of Castiel's arms around his shoulder, Bobby doing the same, they rush to a small storage closet nearby, Sam following in seconds with Camael in his arms. They shut and lock the door.
Dean drags Castiel away from the door as Bobby quickly pours holy oil by the foot of the door, lighting it up to cause a short line of holy fire. Hopefully that keeps Daniel out. Sam sets Camael down who immediately runs up to him and Castiel. "Daddy?" She's crying.
"It'll be okay sweetie, I promise," Dean says though he can feel his heart beating a mile a minute, fighting back tears of his own.
He honestly has no idea what to do.
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Camael:
Camael watches as her Dad pulls the silver sword from her Daddy's belly. Uncle Sammy took her a little ways away, not letting her get in the way as Dad and Grandpa work on her Daddy. She's still crying and shaking but somewhere buried in the worry for her Daddy, she's happy they are with her.
"Camael." She turns to Uncle Sammy. "Hey, listen, you're daddy's going to be fine." Uncle Sammy hugs her, keeping her from watching what Dad and Grandpa are doing.
She can hear Dad talking though. "Cas, hey." He sounds worried yet relieved. "We're going to patch you up okay? You know Bobby, he's an expert at this stuff."
"Boys." Camael wiggles out of Uncle Sammy's grasp and turns to look at the door where Daniel's voice is coming from. "Now the holy oil is a little childish don't you think? Castiel is going to die," Camael bites her bottom lip to stop from crying more, "there's no stopping it. The only reason why he hasn't gone out in a blaze of light yet is because he's cut off from Heaven which means his grace is less than normal angels. This in turn, from where I stabbed him, makes him die like a human, a very slow and painful death."
"Why don't you shut your cakehole!" Dad yells.
"Dean," Grandpa reprimands him and makes Dad focus on Daddy once more.
"I can wait out here all day and night Dean," Daniel tells them. "Castiel cannot."
Camael turns and sees her Dad trying very hard not to cry. His hands are soaked in her Daddy's blood as he tries to stop the bleeding. She notices Grandpa is searching for something to help her Daddy.
Dad turns back to Daddy. "Cas, you're going to be okay."
Uncle Sammy pulls her in again so she can't see what is going on. She knows he just doesn't want a three year old seeing such a bloody mess, especially when it's one of her father's, but she wants to watch.
"Dean," her Daddy whispers and Camael gets a quick glance of her Daddy dragging two bloody fingers down Dad's cheek. "I guess we're not going to have that other child."
Dad shakes his head. "D-don't say that."
Camael buries her head in Uncle Sammy's shoulder. "I love you Dean, take good care of Camael."
"No, we're going to take care of her," Dad's voice is shaking, "and another girl or boy, you understand, because I love you too Cas." Camael can tell her Dad is crying now. She looks over again and sees Daddy smiling slightly before closing his eyes. "C-Cas? Cas?" Dad shakes him slightly. "Cas?"
"Daddy?" Camael pulls away from Uncle Sammy and runs up to her fathers. "Daddy?" She falls to her knees presses her face against her Daddy's neck. It's cold from all the blood loss. Camael feels Dad's hand and fingers running through her long, knotted hair. She hears him crying and it's strange. She's never heard or seen either of her father's cry before.
She continues to cry into her Daddy's neck as Uncle Sammy speaks. "Dean," he speaks softly. "We need to come up with a game plan here."
Her Dad takes a deep breath, sniffles, and then stands up. "Yeah I know. What do you suggest?"
She ignores them at this point, feeling alone next to Daddy. Her tears feel hot against her face and Daddy's cold neck. They get so warm that she has to lift up her face to wipe at her eyes. As she does so, something on her Daddy's neck catches her attention. There's a pulse, her Daddy hasn't died yet. Another tear drops onto the pulse in his neck and the little bumping in the skin speeds up. "Dad," she calls.
Dad looks over. "What is it Camael?" She looks over at him and something in her eyes causes him to come over. "What the-" He cuts himself off as Daddy takes a sharp breath. "Cas?" Uncle Sammy and Grandpa come rushing over as Daddy sits up abruptly. "Cas." Dad lunges at him, wrapping his arms around his neck. Seeming to snap back to where they are and who they are around, Dad clears his throat and let's go of Daddy. "How…" He trails off. Daddy looks at Camael. "Are you human?"
Daddy looks back at Dad. "No, I'm still the way I was before."
"Th-then God?" Dad asks next.
"I'm not sure," Daddy answers.
"Wow man," Uncle Sammy joins in. "Glad you're okay."
"You are okay, right?" Dad asks for confirmation.
Daddy nods. "Yes." He looks at Camael again and then to Dad. "We need to figure out how to get out of here."
"Right, well, while you three idjits were busy dying and pining over the dead, I found us a secret door; even big enough for you Sam," Grandpa points out.
"Good." Dad helps Daddy stand up and stabilize him, allowing the fallen angel to lean on him. Uncle Sammy picks Camael up. "Where is it?"
"Over here." Grandpa leads them over to a small, hidden door. He kneels down and opens it slowly, angel sword in hand. Peering out, he turns back to them. "All clear."
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Dean:
That was way too much of a close call for Dean's comfort. He still doesn't know how exactly Castiel got healed all of a sudden, and since God brought him back once before, Dean's bet is on the big man upstairs or wherever He is.
He's got Castiel's arm slung over his shoulders, helping the man to walk because he is still very weak. Sam has got Camael in his arms, the child looking tired and grungy, and Bobby is leading the way.
They're almost outside when Daniel appears in front of them, ten feet away. "I see you are alive brother." Castiel doesn't say anything. Daniel looks to Camael. "I wonder how that happened."
"Get out of our way feather wings," Bobby retorts.
"Oh Bobby," Daniel smiles, "always the father figure and the wisest. How do you think dear old Castiel came back from the dead?"
"Shut up," Dean yells at him.
Daniel sighs and rolls his eyes. "You know if you leave with her, I will never stop hunting her."
"Then we'll just have to kill you." Camael, out of nowhere, suddenly appears in front of Daniel, angel sword tightly gripped in her hand that used to be in Bobby's. She plunges the sword into his chest, falling or more like landing, onto the floor.
"She knows how to fly," Castiel whispers in total amazement and shock. Dean's not sure if he meant for him to hear but with the angel leaning on him, it makes it hard to miss.
Daniel smiles down at her. "You're going to be perfect someday." With that, light emanates from his eyes and mouth and Dean has to cover his own eyes to keep from going blind.
To say the least, he's shocked too. Camael collapses onto the floor and Sam rushes up to her. "Camael?"
"She's okay Dean, just tired." Sam picks her up.
Bobby looks at all of them. "Let's get out of here now."
They leave the building and drive back to Bobby's in silence. When they get there it's late but they have to check Camael out. She's awake again and wished to go to bed but they wouldn't let her.
Dean wraps up her ankle while Castiel works on her sprained wing. Dean's not sure how she was able to fly on a sprained wing but he doesn't question it out loud yet. "There you go sweetie, you're going to want to rest your ankle for a few days okay?"
"Okay Dad," she says with a sweet smile.
"How's her wing looking Cas?" Dean asks as he watches the exhausted fallen angel work. To him it looks like he is just touching nothing but air but he knows there are beautiful wings there.
"She'll be fine," Castiel answers.
Once done they say goodnight to her, angel warding and demon warding up on her windows and pink walls for safe keeping. Dean would rather be extra careful then not at all. Dean kisses her forehead as the little nephilim falls asleep. They skip reading a passage out of the Bible for tonight.
When he and Castiel are out in the hall, Dean turns to him. "Cas, how strong is she getting?"
Castiel doesn't meet his eyes. "It's a mystery even to me Dean, she's not suppose to gain power this quickly."
"Do you think," he dreads asking this question, "that if we have another child, he or she will be hunted too because I don't want to put another child through this."
Castiel looks him in the eyes then. "I don't know Dean but with how fast Camael is gaining in power and how powerful she is, I would say she… I would say it's only her but I can't be sure. If we do have another child then they could or could not end up just as powerful as her which in turn will make him or her just as valuable." Dean sighs. "Dean, are you saying you don't want another child?"
Dean looks him straight in the eyes and answers honestly. "No, I'm not saying that Cas. I want another one, I really do, but I think we should just wait a little bit, at least until Camael is old enough to go through some basic training, as bad as that sounds."
"It's necessary, Dean, if we want her to be able to protect herself," Castiel mentions.
"Yeah I know it's just…" He trails off before continuing. "My Dad put me and Sammy through training and I never wanted that for my child."
"I know Dean." Castiel pulls him into a hug. Dean cherishes the feel and then pulls away. "Dean, I don't think Daniel was going at this on his own. I think he, too, is getting orders from somewhere, someone."
That makes Dean uneasy. Maybe putting the wards up was a good idea after all. "Why do you think that?" Dean questions.
"I don't care what Daniel said," Castiel begins. "I still had enough 'mojo' in me to tell whether or not he was lying."
"Yeah but how could you tell?" Dean asks for confirmation.
Castiel fidgets in his stance, looking down at his feet and then back up at Dean. "The way he was acting and also the way he spoke after I said he was lying."
"Plus," Dean remembers, "just before he died, he said to Camael that she'll be perfect someday. That must mean something."
"Exactly," Castiel agrees.
"That doesn't put me at ease Cas," Dean tells him.
Castiel looks at him softly. "After all this, I doubt they will send anyone after her again for quite awhile. They know we can fight back and they know how powerful Camael is getting. They will need to rethink up a plan and possibly let things die down so they can take us by surprise."
"Then let's not let them take us by surprise," Dean comments with a smirk. "Why don't you go to bed, I'll be right there." Castiel nods and walks away. As soon as he's out of sight, Dean walks downstairs and into Bobby's study. He finds the man sitting at his desk, whiskey in one hand, book in the other. "Hey Bobby."
Bobby looks up. "I thought you would be in bed by now."
"Yeah, I'm going to be going soon," Dean says. "What about you?"
Bobby sighs. "Rufus called, needs me to look something up for him."
Dean chuckles as he pulls a chair up to the front of the desk, straddling it and facing his father figure. "Never get a break do you?" Bobby grimaces at this. "Hey Bobby?" The man looks up again. "About that evil look that you said Camael had when she killed that waitress demon."
"Yeah go on," Bobby encourages suspiciously.
Dean swallows. "Was that the same look Camael had when she killed Daniel?"
Bobby looks at him in suspicion, eyes narrowed and eyebrows scrunched together slightly. "Why do you want to know Son?"
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A/N: "Daniel: Eloquence. Meaning: "God the merciful judge". Qualities: Positive vibrations, gifts that can be received after invocation. Eloquence; expresses things beautifully and pleasantly; speaks well so as to hurt no one; speech that attenuates the Power of a Truth; Beauty, harmony, goodness; helps to see clearly; helps to see events as they are and to make the most appropriate decisions; allows detachment from matter so as to perceive essential truth; capacity to materialize thoughts through deeds; speeches, singing. Distortions: Low vibrations that came after abusing the qualities. Eloquence for personal gain; flatterer, deceiver; speaks artfully to fool the gullible, the naïve; elocution difficulties; deterioration of language; egoism; shady deals, trickery; lives from illicit means; manipulates by ensuring the support of influential people."
The End! It's kind of a cliffy ending because there is going to be a sequel. Not sure when I'll start it but I'm sure it'll be soon. It's going to be called, Baby of Power so keep an eye out for it if you liked this story.
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