Ok Readers: I'm saying this once. One more comment about my gramarical issues and I will stop writing this story. It's fanfiction, it's not supposed to be perfect. So if you have a comment on that, please hold your tongue because there are people reading this that are actually enjoying it. We don't want a few sour apples to spoil the whole tree do we? -RockyRed13

Chapter Ten

Castiel was looking at the amulet trying to figure out who he suspected could be God, but everything seemed to be blocked out. He knew that it was likely that God didn't want to be found, but he knew that no matter what he had to look. He had to make sure that he did everything that he possibly could to find a way to end this madness.

He put the amulet in his pocket and couldn't help but wonder how long Harry had actually been communicating with the angels. Even though he knew for sure that it couldn't be that long, he was now worried. He knew that if the angels chose now to start communicating with Harry they had to have a reason. He was definitely going to ask about that once he got the chance. When he sensed somebody teleport into the room he knew that the time to ask must have been just then.

He looked over and immediately realized that Harry looked unbelievably irritated. The first question that came into his mind was, what did Sam do now? He was about to ask when Harry looked up at him and said, "I don't know how Sam manages to know exactly how to piss me off. I mean, he talks about me like I'm some kind of alien. I mean, I make it so Bobby can walk again and then as soon as you leave he starts going on like I'm acting as a spy for Zachariah. I personally don't know why he would think that I would join forces with an angel who tried to kill me but now I'm thinking that maybe I should have killed him when I saw that his eyes were black".

"How would you have killed him?" Castiel asked. "I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't have wanted to deal with Dean if you were the one that killed his little brother. Besides, god purified Sam so Demon blood is no longer going through his system".

"That doesn't mean that it won't ever be again" Harry told him. "You know just as well as I do that Sam is Lucifer's true vessel. In the end, he'll end up saying yes to him and in order to hold Lucifer he'll have to drink demon blood again, and it's going to be a lot more than what he had to drink to kill Lilith. I would kill him, but Zachariah has everything in such Chaos up there that if he dies he'll bring him back to life. I'm telling you, he's going to be the death of me".

"Which one?" Castiel asked him, "Sam or Zachariah?"

"To tell you the truth, I'm not sure" Harry told him. "I mean, Zachariah is one pain in the ass, but Sam's human and for an adult he has such a childish temper".

"Odd as it sounds that reminds me of somebody" Castiel told him with a small chuckle. "I'll give you two guesses on who it is that I'm talking about".

Harry looked over at him and his glance didn't even look questionable before he shook his head and rolled his eyes. "I am not anything like that" Harry told him. "First of all I'm in the stage of teenage rebellion still, and truth be told my temper is a lot more in check now that it was a month ago. Second of all, he had no right accusing me of that, and then throwing a fit when he didn't get his way". He stopped and asked, "Is this anything how you felt when I practically blew up my bedroom the first night that you had me here?"

"Believe it or not, I somewhat expected you to act hostile toward me" Castiel told him. "I mean with what I got you from I might have started to worry if you were open about everything. In a way, the way Sam is reacting is somewhat like that. He knows what he did and I'm sure that he feels bad about it. I mean the guy brought on the apocalypse, anybody with an ounce of humanity in them would feel bad about that. You know how you were angry at him because you thought that he was responsible for my death?" Harry nodded and Castiel continued, "Would you ever think that maybe the way he's acting toward you is a lot like that. Maybe somewhere in his messed up mind he blames you for not getting there in time to stop him. I mean, you showed up right after he killed Lilith, and that might make him think that the angels sent you to make it look like you were trying to stop him".

"That's bullshit" Harry suddenly shouted. "I showed up there covered in blood and halfway to unconsciousness and he thinks that the angels actually sent me? I'm guessing that the next thing you're going to tell me is that he thinks that I made myself look like I just walked out of a horror movie to keep up appearances". All of a sudden Harry twitched in pain and he put his hand to his forehead. When the pain finally stopped he looked at Castiel who was watching him and said, "Angels really need to come up with a less painful way to communicate with one and other".

"It's because your still new to it" Castiel told him. "I'm sure that in time at all you won't feel anything when they speak to you. What did they want?"

"Somebody wants to meet with me" Harry told him. "It's not anybody who would put me in danger so I'm going to go talk to them". When Castiel stepped forward to stop him Harry looked over and said, "In my defense you said that I had until dark to get back. I promise you that I'll come back in one piece". Castiel finally took a step back and nodded, and Harry vanished.

Castiel stared at the spot that Harry had vanished from for a few minutes trying to figure out why an angel wanted to meet with Harry if he didn't have a spot in the upcoming war. He knew that questions like this would end up driving him mad, now that he knew no others would be able to give him an answer to this. He decided not to worry too much about it and finally went back to studying the amulet.

~RockyRed13~

Harry appeared in front of a house and looked around for whoever it was that he was supposed to meet there. He moved cautiously until the front door of the house opened and Chuck Shurley came out. He walked over to Harry and looked at him cautiously for a minute before finally saying, "Thank you for meeting me here, I need to have a very important conversation with you. Follow me". He directed Harry into the house, but as soon as he saw another person in there who he could tell was an angel in a vessel he stopped. "Sorry" Chuck told him, "He wanted to meet you and who am I to stop him".

Harry was about to tell Chuck exactly what he was but then he remembered Chuck was supposed to be a prophet. He shook his head and said, "You're letting your guard down way too easily. If you were a prophet, I'm pretty sure that your archangel would have attacked by now". He looked at the man at the table and couldn't mistake the energy that was coming off of him. "How are you doing Lucifer?" Harry asked.

Lucifer gave a look of shock at first but he finally cleared it away. "Well, my first creation woke me up from a very long nap" Lucifer told him. "Do you know what for? So I can get in a fight with my older brother. How would you be doing if you were put in my situation?"

"I wouldn't know" Harry told him, "Seeing as I don't have any brothers. Of course you have thousands of them so you wouldn't know what that's like".

Lucifer pointed at a chair and Harry sat down without argument. "Yes that is the case" he told him. "The problem is that none of them can do what I do. You see because of my devotion to God it's nearly impossible for him to hide from me. My older brother didn't like that so he pushed me out of heaven. Of course the sibling rivalry went way out of control with the rest of my siblings sided with him and decided to have me locked away in a dark hole. So I made a promise that my brother would pay for what he did to me. I mean it's only natural to want revenge on somebody. I mean, you know that better than anybody".

"Get to the reason why you called me here" Harry told him. "Right now it sounds like you're trying to get me on your side, which by the way isn't going to happen".

"If that was the case I would have never called you here" Chuck suddenly said walking over to an empty chair at the table. "I called you here because I thought it would be nice for you to meet somebody that you have one very big thing in common with".

"I have nothing in common with him" Harry told him. "You should know that, I mean he's the devil for crying out loud".

"Is that any way to talk about your uncle?" Lucifer asked him. "I mean I know you probably haven't heard the best things about me, but we are family".

"I don't have good experience with Uncles" Harry told him. "So yeah, if I talk about an uncle like that, I have my reasons". He looked over at Chuck and said, "You seem to be all seeing though, so tell me, what is it that you think I have in common with him?"

"He's the only other one here that knows who I am" Chuck told him. "I have to admit that I didn't expect this one bit. I have this illusion around me that makes even the best of my angels believe that I'm a prophet. Then you show up and that illusion seems to have no effect on you. I mean when you guessed I was a Prophet, I knew that you knew something was up".

"He's looking for you" Harry told him.

"Yes I heard that Castiel has decided to go on a god hunt" Chuck told him. "Unfortunately, he won't be able to find me even with that amulet. I have powers unlike most, and if I want to I can make sure than amulet doesn't burn hot around me. I'm not god for no reason at all".

"Are you just going to allow this whole end of the world thing to happen?" Harry asked him. "You're just going to sit back and watch two of your kids fight to the point that they destroy the world".

"Do you know how much destruction they could have already caused if I wouldn't have intercepted?" Chuck asked him. "Lucifer here was supposed to remain contained in that room alone after he was released, but you three boys managed to get yourself locked in there and I had to show up and intervene. Then of course Castiel, I did not expect him to show up and stand his ground against an apparent archangel. So I created an illusion to cover that up, I made everybody think that he had blown to pieces. In reality I transported him safe and sound to a field and took a little bit out of him so it would seem like his wings were clipped".

"Do you mind if I ask why you did that?" Harry asked.

"Castiel has a purpose, he just doesn't know it yet" Chuck told him. "I have been living among my creations for years. In time, Castiel is going to see what it's like to be a human. You don't have to worry because I do plan on giving him his powers back, I might actually improve them a bit too if he does well. I want him to go up and calm down heaven once Michael isn't able to do it anymore. That's actually the reason he was sent to Sam and Dean, if he can handle what those two do he could definitely handle putting heaven back together. I mean, look at how well he did with you. Even I am sometimes surprised by what you do, but somehow he managed to know exactly what he had to do to fix you".

"Are you telling me that I'm just another one of his tests?" Harry demanded.

"That's not what he means" Lucifer suddenly intercepted. Harry looked over in disbelief and Lucifer continued, "You were not created to be a test. As you might know, things like you don't come around very often, mainly because of how dangerous they are. It is a very difficult decision when an angel asks if they can have a child with a human. God hasn't approved of that since B.C as you may know. To make matters worse, he decided to have a child with a human, and what happens? The humans killed him. After that the fear that humans would start doing that to the spawns of angels is what made them stop considering it. That was until Castiel gave the request".

"If you were locked in a pit, how do you know all this?" Harry asked.

"I've been filling him in" Chuck told him. "I approved of the request after I considered who your mother would be. She was so pure hearted, and I knew that she would have been a great mother for the first Nephil in over 5,000 years. Part of her soul would be in you and I hoped that would be good enough. Then I remembered that fate had other plans for her. Then your life just spun out of control, I could hardly predict anything about you. I didn't even know where you were until Castiel found you at your Aunt and Uncle's house, then Dumbledore managed to mess everything up and got Sirius thrown in prison. Your life literally went out of control. When I finally found you, you were exactly what I feared you would be, and it made me fear ever more what you could turn into. You're half angel and you had such dark energy surrounding you. Though after I saw how you were treated I could actually understand why you acted the way you did. So I intervened again, I gave Sirius the idea to escape, with a little bit of help from Fate putting that picture of Pettigrew in the paper. I knew he had the letter your parents wrote to you and that he would get it to you once he got out. It wasn't until Castiel got you to the safe house that I realized why the dark energy was around you. I made Uriel accept to fix you, but that stupid soul fragment messed everything up and I ended up having to get rid of Castiel for a short amount of time. I knew that he wanted to tell Sam and Dean anyway, but then Zachariah got out of control again and kidnapped him. I managed to fix you, imagine how shocked I was when I realized that your angel abilities decided to jump start without that soul fragment. I thought Castiel would turn back up and kill me because I lost you, but of course you showed up with him. I started doing tests, I spoke to Joshua, and he had found out that Anna had telepathically communicated with you. I told him that he should get together a group of angels that were completely loyal to me and have them try and talk to you. Of course I couldn't let them until I knew Castiel wouldn't be able to here and that's why I cut his connection. I have to admit you started hearing them a lot faster than I thought you would, and you're a pretty quick study too. It was then that it was actually confirmed that you knew who I was".

"I didn't say that to anybody" Harry told him.

"You didn't have to" Lucifer told him. "You went to help your father get that amulet knowing that it very likely wouldn't work even if he found the real god. Which when Chuck got the message that you said that he knew that you knew and he decided that if you were smart enough to know what he was, then you had the right to know the whole truth".

"Alright" Harry finally said looking at Lucifer. "So why are you here?"

"As I said I can sense him no matter where he is and I decided I would stop in and say hello to him before I made my way around the world" Lucifer told him. "I'm going to have to find a way to get those four horsemen up and running. Death is always such a pain in the ass though, I mean I pretty sure that he's older than this guy". He pointed at Chuck. "I hope I can get him to see some sense in this entire thing. I mean, what good is the apocalypse if Death refuses to clean up your mess?" He leaned back over the chair and said, "He told me that somebody else could sense his power and I had to see it for myself".

"Speaking of that" Harry finally said looking over at Chuck, "I won't tell anybody what you really are. In the end, I don't really see much of an excuse in ruining somebody's life".

"I know" Chuck told him. "Just like you won't tell anybody that Balthazar is the angel that has been helping you when you're injured?" Harry gave him a curious look and said, "He and Castiel were very good friends, and fought side by side in the war. Then Balthazar pulled a fast one, took a few weapons and went down to earth. I'm not sure how exactly he's been able to keep such a good eye on you though".

"Once I figure it out I'll let you know" Harry told him.

All of a sudden Lucifer stood up and said, "I must be going. I have to check over hell before I make any plans. Besides there is somebody who just rolled in that I would like to torture personally", with that he turned and vanished.

Harry looked over at Chuck asked, "Why did you want me to know you were god?"

"You already knew" Chuck reminded him. He looked at the spot Lucifer had vanished from and said, "You know he was my favorite child. I know it's not good for parents to choose favorites, but he was perfect. Then when humans finally evolved I told my angels to love them more than they loved me and he refused to".

"Why would you want your children to love humans more than you?" Harry asked.

"I figured that it would open their eyes to what was really out there" Chuck told him. "I said that I made them in my image, and he wouldn't stand for it because of how flawed they were. What they don't know is that all of my creations are flawed, nobody's perfect and that includes me".

"It's weird" Harry finally said, "I just met the devil and he didn't seem like that bad of a guy".

"In my opinion he wasn't that bad for refusing" Chuck told him. "When he was pushed out of heaven he took Lilith when she was a human and stripped her of her humanity. Turned her into the first demon, and then Michael decided that he had to put him in a cage. I would have rather not locked my favorite child up for all eternity, but after what he did to that poor woman I couldn't defend what he did. I was fine up there, and then Michael decided that he was in charge of everybody. He started using humans like they were pawns in a chess game. I'm not sure how he did, but he managed to turn quite a few humans against my kind. It was a complete bloodbath down on earth. I decided to create witches and wizards right under his nose and told him that they were not to be harmed. Of course the idea of putting a witch with an angel was preposterous, but when Castiel came I was already planning on leaving. Michael was against the request, but I told him to let it happen, and apparently it finally turned out right". He looked at his watch and said, "Castiel wants you back before dark, you better get going". Harry stood up and was about to teleport away when Chuck said, "I find it strange that you're the first grandchild I've had that I didn't have to kill but save the first time that I met them. I am one to keep my promises though, I told Castiel you would be alright and I did what I could to make sure of it. Please make sure I don't regret that decision".

"Well if you haven't yet, I don't think you ever will" Harry told him. When Chuck nodded Harry turned and teleported back to the safe house.

~RockyRed13~

Castiel was teleporting around the earth to different holy locations, not finding much luck at any of them. He really wished that revelations would be able to tell him what God was doing during this whole thing, but of course it couldn't be that easy. The amulet stayed completely cold the entire time that he was moving around. He seemed to be playing hide and seek with god and god seemed to be winning with too much of an upper hand. When he noticed the sky was pitch black he teleported back to the safe house and was relieved to find Harry's energy in it.

He went upstairs and looked in Harry's room to find the teenager sitting at the desk looking at a book. He could see the depressed expression on his son's face but when he tried to read further than that he found that he couldn't. At last knowing that he wasn't going to get answers by just standing there he asked, "Are you alright?"

Harry jumped up out of the chair and looked over at him in shock for a minute before he finally nodded. "I'm fine" Harry practically yelled. Harry's voices quieted down and he said, "I guess I was lost in my own little world. How long have you been standing there?"

"Not that long" Castiel told him. "You looked like you were upset about something".

"Well I guess I just have a lot on my mind" Harry told him. "Any luck with the Amulet?"

Castiel had to question how Harry had asked that. It was almost like he didn't expect to get an affirmative answer. When Harry looked up at him he quickly shook his head and said, "I just need to look harder that's all. What's on your mind?"

Harry picked up a book that was standing in front of him and handed it to Castiel who cautiously opened it and realized that it was a photo album. He gave Harry a questioning look. "I just can't help but wonder what would have happened if you would have never answered a prayer and got my mom pregnant" Harry finally told him, "I'm sure that James and Lily would have been able to adopt or something. They would have never died".

"You don't know that" Castiel told him. "If you would have never been born Voldemort would still be out there at full power, you never know exactly what will happen if one thing changes. James and Lily Potter were fighting in that war, and they could have easily become a target without you being there".

Harry shook his head and said, "Somebody would have been able to stop him now. Now all I can do is wait for him to return and hope he doesn't kill me when he does".

"Now you sound like Michael waiting for Lucifer" Castiel told him. "It's pretty much the same thing. The wizarding world believes that you're the one that's going to kill Voldemort. I really think that the wizarding world should get somebody who isn't a child to do their dirty work".

"Well I think that the angels should stop being so blinded by Michael and then maybe they would be able to find their missing god" Harry told him. "See the similarities here. Neither of those things are going to happen".

That was when Castiel started to consider that there was definitely something up with Harry that he wasn't telling.