Chapter 10

"How do you know my name?" Dean asks. Castiel is shocked beyond belief. He didn't know what to think. He just knew that this couldn't be Dean. Dean was still captured in the other universe.

"Let me out right now!" Castiel screams. He knew that this creature had just scorched the earth where his son lay and that it was absolutely not Dean.

Mad about being told what to do, the creature, with Dean's signature pissed off look, went to unlock the cage. Castiel ran forward to the charred remains, but was stopped by the sight of the other cage in the room with the other children. Curled up in a ball in the back of the cage was Mattie.

Almost crying in relief, Castiel went and unlocked the cage. The other children all backed away from him in fright. Castiel walked forward and pressed his hand on Mattie's back to get his attention. Mattie tensed his muscles and let out a high pitched cry. In the background Castiel heard Dean protest his action.

"Ssh. Mattie it's me, it's Daddy," Castiel reassured the still screaming child. "Come here." Mattie then immediately stopped screaming and fell forward into Castiel's arms. Castiel then crawled out of the cage with Mattie clutched in his arms and he slowly backed away from Dean.

"I don't know what a shapeshifter is doing killing a changling, or why it is wearing Dean Winchester's face," Castiel said to the creature. It had been taking the other children out of the cage. "but you stay the fuck away from me and my son."

Castiel then ran out of the changling's basement, and hoped the shifter wouldn't follow him.

It didn't.

The sun was shining when he ran out the door. Its bright beams shone in the afternoon air and at this moment in time it was reflected off a shiny black surface. A 1967 Chevy Impala sat in the road in front of the changling's house, and in it sat a snoozing Sam Winchester.

Realizing this was a bigger problem than he thought, Castiel ran back into the house and into the kitchen. He sat Mattie on the counter and searched through the counters, but also keeping an ear out for Dean and the children. He checked the label of the knife in the drawer and saw that it was made out of silver. He hoped it wasn't fake because he had no more time. He could hear thuds on the stairs coming up from the basement and he needed to hurry and take the Sam shapeshifter out before the Dean one came outside.

Castiel ran outside and went to the bushes to sit Mattie behind them, away from view. "I want you to stay here no matter what happens, okay?" He tells Mattie.

Mattie looks scared but nods anyway.

Castiel walks toward the Impala's open window where "Sam" resides and pulls the stolen silver knife out. He thrusts it forward and cuts a slice through "Sam's" jacket and slashes his forearm. He watches the cut start to be bleed, but not steam or sizzle as a shapeshifter's arm would do if cut with a true silver knife.

Naturally, the cut wakes the not-so-shapeshifter Sam and he jerks forward while simultaneously reaching for his gun. Castiel jerks back and brings his hands up which shows the knife that had just cut Whatever the thing was.

"Who are you?" It asks.

"I think the better question is, what are You," Castiel says, "You're the one walking around looking like you're Sam Winchester while you're friend in the house is acting like he's Dean."

It looks highly surprised and even more confused.

"How do you know our names?" It finally says. It is still holding the gun. Even though it's not cocked, it is still pointing the gun in Castiel's direction with a finger on the trigger.

"Because they aren't your real name's," Castiel says, "Now tell me what you are! You aren't a shapshifter the knife didn't burn you. To be an angel you'd have to be an archangel to change shape and the only I know who would do that is Gabriel, and I know he's…Fuck!" Realising it's another one of Gabriel's tricks, Castiel turns to walk away.

He hears the gun being cocked, but he keeps walking. "You aren't going to shoot me, Gabriel. I know you."

"I don't know who the fuck Gabriel is, or what you're talking about angels for, but you better stop walking right now before you're chest is full of holes." It says.

Castiel turns. He's right beside the bush where he see's Mattie staring at him with wide eyes. Right as he's about to answer the Trickster the front door opens and "Dean" walks through. This obviously startles Sam into action because the guns goes off and heat and pain pierces through Castiel's right shoulder. He hears "Dean" and Mattie scream. He clutches his shoulder with his left hand and gasps.

He looks up at what can't be Gabriel because he knows Gabriel would never go that far. Especially not in front of Mattie. "Dean" beats him into cussing Sam out.

"What the fuck Sam?! Shooting a civilian in front of his son? WHAT MADE YOU THINK THAT'D BE A GOOD IDEA?" Dean screams. Castiel is starting to think that either these things are really good actors or he's not in the universe he thinks he is.

Sam looks back and forth between Dean and Castiel, who is still clutching his shoulder, but is now crouching down in front of Mattie to keep him out of view of the trigger happy Sam.

"I… I didn't know he had a kid. He was hiding in the bushes! This dude just came out of nowhere and was stabbing me in the arm with a kitchen knife. And he was talking about angels and he knew our names! What else was I supposed to do when he turns his back on me?" Sam says, defending himself.

"How about NOT shooting him Sam!"

Sam looks as if to argue again. But Castiel was sick of their shit and his arm was hurting like a son-of-a-bitch. "BOTH of you shut the fuck up. I've just been shot and my son is screaming his head off!" They both look properly chastised, especially Sam. He actually looked if he was sorry for shooting him.

Dean takes control of the situation again by actually being productive. "Ok, why don't we call the cops to come pick up the traumatised children in the living room, and then we can go back to our hotel where I can patch you up, and you can calm your son down, and you can tell us how you know our names. Sound like a plan?"

Sam protests this by saying, "We still don't know if he's a monster, Dean!"

"I think getting shot by a silver bullet and surviving narrows most of it down."

"He could be the changling."

"Negative. I just torched it and it had changed to look like his son."

"Whatever Dean." Sam marches back to the Impala.

Dean grabs a flask out of his pocket and flicks it towards Castiel and Mattie. "Sorry but you can never be too careful. You obviously know about changlings and shapeshifters, so I'm sure you know how it is."

"No offense taken. Please let's just leave." Castiel picks up Mattie and goes to the Impala. Sam gets out and pulls the front seat forward so Castiel can climb into the backseat.

Dean is already on the phone as he gets in the driver's seat. "Oh, who am I?..." He hangs up and throws the phone out the window, starts the car, and drives away.

Did anyone get the supernatural quote at the end?

It didn't take me 10 years to update YAY!

Poor Mattie he's gonna need all the therapy.

Season 11 finale tonight... agh I'm scared!

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