CHAPTER 10

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DEATH OF AN ANGEL

Bela had uncovered a juicy tidbit about Eve's location from one of her contacts. She wasn't a hundred percent sure that it was accurate, but she thought that she should probably pass it along to Jo anyway. She owed her that much for saving her soul or at least giving a temporary reprieve anyway.

"So how do I get in touch with her? Do I pray? I mean she's not really an angel so it would just feel ridiculous somehow. Maybe I should try it anyway," Bela said to herself.

"I agree it would be ridiculous to pray to me. I'm just an ordinary person. I'm certainly no angel," Jo said as she suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Bela gasped in terror and started to hyperventilate. Jo looked at her in concern as she said, "I'm so sorry. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine as soon as my heart rate goes back to normal. You scared the life out of me. Couldn't you just call ahead before you do that next time?" Bela said as she struggled to breathe.

"Sorry. I've gotten used to traveling that way. It's become second nature to me. Maybe I'm not as human as I think I am anymore," Jo said with a worried look on her face.

"You seem human to me. You saved me when you didn't have to. I'd say that was pretty human. Of course I'm a lousy excuse for a human being so maybe I'm not the best judge of what constitutes humanity," Bela said.

"You're not totally irredeemable. Somewhere deep inside you must know that. Why else do you think I helped you? I see so much potential for good in you. I just wish that you could see it for yourself," Jo said sadly.

"You talk just like one of them now," Bela said in surprise.

"I know. That scares me sometimes. I think it comes from having your mind expanded I think. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm slowly turning into one of them without even realizing it," Jo said.

"I don't think so. One of them wouldn't even care if they lost their humanity or not. Don't worry about it so much, Jo. If I know Dean, he won't let you go too far. At least not without a fight," Bela said.

"You're probably right. I can already hear him yelling about how he's not going to give up on me even now. I mean look what he's gone through to save Sam over and over again. Let's not talk about me anymore. Let's talk about what you found out," Jo said.

"I've heard that Eve is staying at an old abandoned factory in Detroit. I'm not one hundred percent sure that it's true or not so you might want to take it with a grain of salt. I just thought that I'd pass it along to you. I hope you find her," Bela said.

"Thanks. Take care of yourself, Bela. I mean that. Stay on the side of the angels, okay?" Jo said.

"You mean your side?" Bela asked with a grin.

"Alright if it helps you, then stay on my good side, okay?" Jo said.

"Okay," Bela said meaning it.

Jo smiled at her and then teleported away. She could feel that she had reached something inside of Bela. It was small, but it was a spark of decency that she hoped would grow. Dean would say that she was wasting her time on her, but Dean didn't know her whole story like she did. She knew that Bela could have been so much more if it hadn't been for her father destroying her life. Jo was determined that she was going to fix that.

After Jo returned to Bobby's house and told the others what Bela had told her, Dean automatically started to protest. He wouldn't be Dean if he didn't.

"So we're expected to just believe whatever Bela says and march off into a trap? I don't think so," Dean said.

"She was telling the truth, Dean. I know when someone's lying to me now," Jo said.

"Okay, let's just say that a miracle has happened, and Bela actually told the truth for once. That still doesn't mean that this isn't a trap. I mean it's in Detroit. Just like Lucifer's lair was. Doesn't that ring alarm bells for anyone?" Dean said.

"It's the best lead that we've gotten so far, Dean. We have to at least look into it. It could be our one chance to find and kill Eve once and for all," Sam argued.

"Agreed. We have to go there and confront her once and for all. She's too dangerous to be allowed to run loose on Earth," Castiel said.

"It sounds like a trap to me, but what do I know? I've only been a hunter for longer than some of you have been alive that's all," Bobby said sarcastically.

"Jo, Bobby's right. It's a trap, and you know it. Someone gave that location out in order to lure you there and kill you. You can't go there," Ellen warned.

"I have to at least check it out, Mom. Eve is up to something a lot worse than just wiping out humanity. I can feel that. I'm starting to get to know her now, and she never does anything small. She's up to something big. I think that she's the one who Joshua warned me about. I'm starting to think that she's an even worse threat than Raphael. Maybe she's the one that I really needed to worry about all along," Jo said.

"I never could tell you anything. You're too stubborn. You take care of yourself if you're going to go ahead and do something stupid like this, okay?" Ellen said.

"I will. Besides I have Anna to protect me. Don't I, Anna? You were supposed to have been brought back to help me, right?" Jo said.

Anna looked worried and distracted, but she quickly smiled with reassurance as she said, "Yes, of course. I'd never let anything happen to you, Jo. I'll watch out for you."

"See? I have an angel watching over me. I have two of them as a matter of fact. I'll be fine," Jo said as she continued to stare at Anna.

"Jo, I . . . ," Anna said.

"Yes?" Jo asked.

Anna looked like she was at war with herself for a moment, and Dean was sure that she must be thinking about whether she should tell Jo not to go or not. He hoped that she gather up the courage to tell Jo how she really felt.

"Nothing," Anna finally said.

"Thanks a lot," Dean said under his breath.

Jo noticed the look of anger and concern on his face, and she gave him a tender kiss to try to reassure him. She knew what she was doing despite what everyone else might think.

"Let's go then," Jo said to Castiel and Anna.

"Wait a minute! Sam and I are coming too," Dean said.

"So am I," Jessica said.

"Are you sure? I mean it probably is a trap. I know that despite how stupid everyone else seems to think I am," Jo asked.

"I'm not letting you out of my sight again," Dean said firmly.

"I'm going along in case she is there so that I can stop her," Jessica insisted.

"If she's going then I am too," Sam said.

"Thanks. I really appreciate it. I know that I can always count on all of you," Jo said.

Dean noticed that Anna looked away from her in guilt once again, and he angrily thought that she should have said something to her about not going when she still had the chance. He wondered if it really would have helped anyway though. Dean knew that Jo was just as stubborn as Ellen had said she was and even Anna probably wouldn't have been able to change her mind about this.

They all teleported to Detroit together, and it was only then that Dean realized that he had forgotten about how much he hated traveling with angels. He had been so concerned about Jo going that he hadn't taken the time to worry about himself.

More specifically, he hadn't taken the time to worry about his stomach. Sure enough as soon as he got there, he emptied its contents out onto the floor of the old abandoned warehouse.

"Sorry, Dean. I can't understand why you're the only one affected every time. Everyone else is fine," Jo said.

"It's because he's afraid of flying. It's his phobia doing this to him not anything to do with you," Sam insisted.

"I never would have thought that you were such a wuss, Dean," Jessica teased him.

"You didn't get to know him long enough before, Jess, or you would know just how big a wuss that he can be sometimes," Sam said with a grin.

"Shut up," Dean said as he threw up again.

"Hitting a man when he's in the middle of throwing up is low even for me, but I'm willing to make an exception in this case. I just want to kill the rest of you too badly to stand on sentimentality," Eve suddenly said with a grin as she appeared out of the darkness in front of them.

Several of her children appeared with her; and they were soon surrounded by hundreds of vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, and at least one of every kind of monster that Sam and Dean had ever hunted.

"I hate to say that I told you so, but I told you so!" Dean shouted.

"I'm so sorry," Anna said.

"I know. It wasn't your fault, Anna," Jo said.

"You knew and you still came anyway?" Anna said in shock.

"It was the only way to get close enough to her to finally kill her once and for all," Jo said.

"Wait a minute! You mean that Anna led us into a trap? Anna is the one who put the tip about the warehouse out there?" Dean asked in anger.

"Yes but it wasn't her fault, Dean. Anna is under Eve's control once again just like she was before when she tried to kill your family. Eve took her over long ago. Gabriel obviously thought that he had cleansed her of Eve's influence when he brought her back to life, but he was wrong," Jo said.

"And you knew this?" Dean asked.

"Yes," Jo admitted.

"Well, thanks a lot for telling us, Jo. I thought that I could count on you," Dean said hurt.

"You always can, Dean. I knew what was likely to be waiting for us here when we arrived. I can take her, Dean. She's the one who's been lured into my trap. I've gotten stronger than I was before. Trust me," Jo said.

"Are you sure? You can't even take me across the country without making me puke," Dean said.

"Watch me," Jo said as she winked at him.

"I can't believe that you came in here willingly. How stupid are you?" Eve said.

"Not as stupid as I wanted you to think. You see I've been developing quite a following upstairs thanks to a friend of mine spreading the word about me. I just happened to tell some of them that I was coming here today, and they've been watching," Jo said with a grin.

The room was suddenly filled with hundreds of angels. They all looked at Jo as they waited for her to give the signal to attack.

"You seem to have forgotten something. I can pull the plug on angels. Their batteries run dry around me, and their powers don't work anymore," Eve boasted.

"That used to be true. Not anymore though. As long as I'm here, that's not going to happen," Jo said.

"What?" Eve said in disbelief.

"There's a new sheriff in town, and that means that there's new rules. I say that you can no longer pull the plug on my boys so you can no longer take their powers away if I don't want you to. I'm in charge now, Eve. This is my universe, and you're just living in it," Jo said.

"It sounds like someone's just gained their self-confidence back. Too bad it's not going to do you any good. I have some 'boys' of my own courtesy of Raphael," Eve said with an evil grin.

Hundreds of Raphael's angels now appeared in the warehouse standing behind Eve. Then several demons appeared as well.

"Oh, and since I found out how to reproduce the Colt I gave one to Ruby as well in exchange for some help from her. It seems that she's still a little mad at you for trapping her in Hell," Eve said.

"I have a demon of my own to help me, Eve. Crowley's kind of become my man on the inside down there. Not that he's too happy about it, but he knows which way the wind's blowing. He knows that I'm going to be the one to wind up on top, and he always likes to back a winning horse," Jo said as she snapped her fingers.

Several demons appeared on her side as well now. So did several rogue Reapers who had decided to help Jo after the way that she and her friends had taken in Tessa after Raphael had her fired. They had decided to throw in their lot with her against Raphael.

Dean looked around him in shock as he realized that Jo had been planning for this for a long time. She had been gathering her troops together from all over just for this moment.

"See? I'm not so stupid after all," Jo said as she saw Dean coming to this sudden realization.

"I have to admit that you are much better than I thought. That's good. I like a worthy opponent. It gets boring winning all of the time," Eve said with a malicious grin.

"Get ready for a cure to your boredom then. Permanently," Jo said.

"Anna, Jessica, kill her! Now!" Eve commanded.

Suddenly Anna pulled out an Archangel blade and held it to Jo's chest as tears ran down her face. At the same time, Jessica grabbed her and held her arms behind her back.

"Jess, what are you doing?" Sam said in shock.

"It isn't me. It's her! She's controlling me," Jessica said with sadness.

"I'm sorry, Jo. I don't want to do this," Anna said as she started to stick the blade into Jo's chest causing her to scream.

"Anna, stop this now or I'll have to . . . ," Castiel said but stopped before he could finish.

"Do it, Cas. Kill me before I kill her. Please!" Anna begged him.

"If you don't, I will," Dean promised as he pulled out an angel blade of his own.

"No!" Castiel cried out as he grabbed Dean's arm.

The angels and the others on Jo's side all looked at each other in uncertainty as they weren't sure what to do next. Anna was one of their own after all.

Eve just smiled. Her plan was working perfectly. Soon Jo would be killed by her own friend, and then her side would become completely leaderless.

Jo knew that there was only one way to end this. She had to take away this stalemate so that her side could have a chance to kill Eve without worrying about her. This was going to hurt.

"Anna, give me the blade," Jo said as she jerked it out of her hand.

"Jo, what are you doing?" Dean cried out in fear.

"Good bye, Dean," Jo said with a mournful look on her face as she plunged the blade into her chest.

Jo screamed in agony and then fell to the ground. Everyone looked at her in shock, and Dean felt his heart breaking in two as she lay there unmoving.

"Jo!" Dean said in an emotion-filled voice.

Eve started to laugh, and Anna snarled as she shouted, "You won't get the chance to celebrate. You're mine!"

Anna's anger and heartache helped her to overcome Eve's control for the moment as she started to attack her. Jessica just collapsed on the floor as she broke down in front of everyone. Her intense grief at losing Jo, who had become a close friend to her, was overwhelming, and it had caused Eve to lose her hold over her as well.

As soon as Anna started to attack Eve, the war was on. Both sides started to clash as Dean held Jo's lifeless body with tears falling down his face. He no longer cared about any of this. All of his hopes and dreams had just died in front of him.

"Dean, there's a chance that she could come back. Castiel was dead once. Remember? Plus we've been dead more times than anyone and returned," Sam said as he tried to revive his spirits.

"I wish I could believe that, Sammy. I really wish that I could," Dean said as he continued to hold Jo close to him.

Next: Is Jo really dead? Will Eve win the day now?