p style="text-align: center;"strongI am so so so so so sorry you guys i let homework build up being the idiot that i am and Zoe has been staying over a lot and the internet stopped working although that's really no excuse because it's been working again for over a week or two so now i just feel bad sorry guys. Any way i just realised i left off halfway through an episode. Like i said it was a big one and the remainders of it ended up being a little over a thousand words so i'm posting the next two chapters now to make it up to you. No promises for any updates soon because the internet still glitches and i don't want to get hopes up. Then again when i post i tend to start posting a lot. Anyway, ill quit ranting now. enjoy!/strong/p
p style="text-align: center;"strong-Alix/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"It wasn't much longer until the boys got another call on the police scanner and were gone again. Allie stood up all of a sudden and Zoe looked over at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""What is it?" She asked, making Allie look over at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""The seals I was looking at, it's a horrible site. Half of them are actually missing" Zoe frowned at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""So…"/p
p class="MsoNormal""So I'm going to try a more reliable source" Allie answered, picking up a book off Sam's bed. She smiled to herself as she read the cover and showed it to her friend./p
p class="MsoNormal""The book of revelations?" Zoe frowned. "Are you sure?" Allie frowned back at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Are you doubting me?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No" Zoe responded immediately. She paused and thought about it for another moment. "Actually yeah I am" Allie rolled her eyes and walked back over to the table to sit down. She closed the laptop and opened the book. Zoe raised an eyebrow at her but left her to work through the pages. Zoe let her mind wander a bit with nothing else to do but after not too long it stopped on something. Their growing suspicion that Allie wasn't human, scratch that, their certainty. Plus the fact that the boys were already aware, or at least suspected. It was likely that the only reason they hadn't acted on their suspicion was because they didn't know what she was and they were smart enough to not act on an unknown./p
p class="MsoNormal"Zoe silently debated herself weather or not she should bring it up. Granted, Allie might not be too happy for this conversation but it had to come up at some point. She thought back to how many times Allie had mentioned something about her being like Dean, she believed her now. She suddenly realised how much she felt like Sam trying to start a chick-flick-moment. emHere goes nothing/em/p
p class="MsoNormal""So I've been thinking-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Oh my god are you okay?" Allie asked, looking up with fake urgency and a barely hidden smile. Zoe responded with nothing but a glare and Allie chuckled lightly to herself. "Sorry, go on" Zoe paused for a moment, trying to figure out how to word this. Allie was looking back down at her book but knowing her well enough she could tell she was listening./p
p class="MsoNormal""So now that they guys know, or think they know-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No" Allie cut her off. He gaze was set firmly on the table in front of her and she was suddenly serious. Zoe paused, knowing she couldn't just let it go. They had to discuss it at some point./p
p class="MsoNormal""What are we going to do? I mean-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No!" Allie basically shouted, standing. "I said no Zoe, I don't want to talk about this" She continued in a slightly lower voice. Zoe blinked, trying not to flinch at her friend's sudden outburst. Allie began studying the ground, her eyes darting from side to side as she thought. After a minute or so she sat down again and a moment after that met her eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""I don't want to talk about this" Allie said quietly. "I'll be fine okay? I'm gonna figure out what I am and how to deal with it but until then I just wanna pretend I'm human okay?" She sounded sad now, almost pleading. Zoe stared at her friend, saying nothing for a couple beats. She realised Allie wasn't going to drop it herself until she answered so she did so silently, nodding shallowly. Allie gave a short nod back and went back to reading but Zoe could tell she was in an obvious bad mood now, it was unclear if she was actually reading or just trying to look like she was./p
p class="MsoNormal"Zoe sighed quietly, well she tried, and without Allie wanting to talk about it that was the best she could do. Basically it was impossible to force her to do anything. After a moment or two of silence and Zoe pondering how she could help her friend, the door opened. The brothers walked in both looking equally as disappointed. Allie glanced up, seemingly completely normal but Zoe knew better. Her best friend was an amazing actress when she wanted to be./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nothing?" She asked. Both brothers shook their heads./p
p class="MsoNormal""Definitely a witch" Sam summed up, tossing something her way. Allie glanced at the hex bag she caught, frowned and untied the leather strap that held it together./p
p class="MsoNormal""Another one?" She muttered to herself./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah but no more leads" Sam added, sitting down beside her. Allie pushed her book aside and lay the contents of the hex bag on the table inside the piece of cloth. The two examined the contents together, talking quietly about it while Dean sat down beside Zoe on the arm of the couch./p
p class="MsoNormal""You okay?" He asked, looking closely at her. She looked up in surprise./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah, fine. Why wouldn't I be?" She frowned, watching him as he removed his leather jacket./p
p class="MsoNormal""No reason" He shrugged. "Just looked a little down" Zoe nodded in understanding./p
p class="MsoNormal""So do you" She added after a moment. Dean paused and the two sat in uncomfortable silence for a moment, not looking at each other./p
p class="MsoNormal""Find anything?" He asked suddenly, changing the subject. Zoe sighed quietly, reflecting how alike Dean and Allie were once again./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nothing" She answered, pushing a book towards him. He sighed, picking it up and flicking through the pages to find anything useful. Zoe picked up a book herself, an 'encyclopaedia of witchcraft'./p
p class="MsoNormal""Where do you even get these?" She scoffed, shaking her head. Dean shrugged./p
p class="MsoNormal""No idea, I'm not the one that collects them, that would be gigantor over there" He answered, glancing at her. Zoe smiled, looking between the brothers. Of course it was Sam, who else? She picked up the book again and scanned trough the contents page of 'The encyclopaedia of witchcraft'./p
p class="MsoNormal"The four sat in silence for a while, reading and looking over the hex bag contents then swapped. While Sam started on a book Allie came over with the hex bag and showed Zoe and Dean the ingredients, naming them./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nerd" Dean muttered. Allie glared at him but realised he wasn't looking at her. She grinned to herself, finding the hex bag from the day before and grabbing the small charred bone. She walked over, keeping it successfully hidden. She quickly noticed the way he sat on the edge of the couch arm, how easy it would be for him to fall./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey Dean" She called quietly. He made a small grunt in response, not looking up from the book in his lap. Allie promptly shoved the charred bone in his face, grinning to herself. He cried out in surprise and disgust as he fell back off the couch, trying to escape. Allie laughed, she couldn't help herself, it was just too funny. Zoe was laughing too and Sam looked up in surprise, not knowing what had happened. Dean glared at Allie, who was now sitting on the edge of the coffee table, laughing hysterically./p
p class="MsoNormal""Don't mess with me" Allie grinned, once she finally managed to stop laughing./p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay fine, you made your point" Dean grumbled, watching her carefully as she moved to replace the bone. "Nerd" He added quietly./p
p class="MsoNormal""I heard that" Allie called over her shoulder, returning to her books sitting beside Sam. Dean rolled his eyes and picked up his book again, flicking through the pages only a moment before picking up Sam's laptop off the table./p
p class="MsoNormal""What're you looking for?" Zoe asked, looking over his shoulder./p
p class="MsoNormal""Trying to find something on the vics" He responded, occupying himself by typing in the first name. "Find any reason for wicked witch payback, something that connects them preferably" Zoe nodded, scanning through the search results with him./p
p class="MsoNormal""You might not need to" Allie called from across the room. Zoe looked over. She had stood up with her book and was smiling proudly to herself./p
p class="MsoNormal""Why not?" Dean asked, frowning./p
p class="MsoNormal""Because it's not about revenge" She responded shortly, handing him the book./p
p class="MsoNormal""What like a spell?" He frowned, taking the book./p
p class="MsoNormal""Worse" Zoe glanced over Dean's shoulder, realising what Allie meant about worse. It was the book of revelations./p
p class="MsoNormal"She found the seal./p
p class="MsoNormal""Three blood sacrifices over three days" Allie quoted from the book. "The last before midnight on the final day of the final harvest, celtic calendar. And guess the final day of the final harvest"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Halloween?" Zoe guessed. Allie nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""Exactly"/p
p class="MsoNormal""So what exactly are the, um, blood sacrifices for?" Dean asked, looking mildly disturbed./p
p class="MsoNormal""If I'm right, which I'm confident that I am, this witch is trying to summon a demon. But not just any demon. Samhain"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Am I supposed to be impressed?" Dean raised an eyebrow. Allie nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""I would be if I didn't want to die, which I don't" Allie shrugged. Dean frowned at that./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean, Samhain is the origin of Halloween" Sam called across the room, standing up. He walked over, taking the book off his brother. "The Celts believe that October 31supst/sup was the one night of the year when the veil was the thinnest between the living and the dead, and it was Samhain's night. I mean masks were put on to hide from him, sweets left on doorsteps to appease him, faces carved into pumpkins to worship him. He was exorcised centuries ago" Allie froze momentarily. They were about to go up against one of the most powerful evil beings in the world before Lucifer. She wasn't exactly sure where he was in comparison to Azazel or Lilith, but he was pretty high up on the list, and it's not like the angels were planning to help them out./p
p class="MsoNormal""So even though Samhain took a trip downstairs, the tradition stuck" Dean summarized./p
p class="MsoNormal""Exactly" Sam nodded. "Only now instead of demons and blood orgies, Halloween is all about kids, candy and costumes."/p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah I don't see exactly how that happened" Allie added, looking between the brothers. "Miscommunication? Something obviously got lost in translation" She thought for a moment. "Then again demons to kids isn't that far of a stretch" The brothers raised an eyebrow at her and Zoe burst out laughing./p
p class="MsoNormal""What?" Allie shrugged. "Depends who you ask" Dean smiled slightly./p
p class="MsoNormal""So some witch wants to raised Samhain and take back the night?" Dean asked, getting back on topic./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean, this is serious" Sam scolded, also looking pointedly at Allie./p
p class="MsoNormal""I am serious" They responded in union./p
p class="MsoNormal""We're talking heavyweight witchcraft" Sam continued, obviously not satisfied that they understood. "This ritual can only be performed every six hundred years"/p
p class="MsoNormal""And the six hundred year marker rolls around…?" Dean waited for his answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""Tomorrow night"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Naturally" Dean sighed. He looked down at the book in his hand and quickly found another page, frowning at the illustration that went with it./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well it sure is a lot of death and destruction for one demon" He commented./p
p class="MsoNormal""That's because he likes company" Sam jumped in. "Once he's raised, Samhain can do a little raising of his own"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Raising what exactly?" Dean asked, looking like he was afraid to hear the answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dark, evil crap" Sam responded shortly. "And lots of it. I mean they follow him around like the friggin' pied piper"/p
p class="MsoNormal""So we're talking ghosts"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Other demons" Allie added. Sam nodded/p
p class="MsoNormal""Zombies" Dean continued/p
p class="MsoNormal""Mm-Hm" Sam answered/p
p class="MsoNormal""Wendigos?" Zoe asked, frowning slightly./p
p class="MsoNormal""Probably" Sam shrugged./p
p class="MsoNormal""Clowns" Allie grinned, earning a glared from Sam./p
p class="MsoNormal""Leprechauns?" Dean added, ignoring Allie's comment./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean-" Sam sighed, obviously fed up./p
p class="MsoNormal""Those little dudes are scary" Dean insisted. "Small hands"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Look" Sam began, glancing around to make sure he had everyone's attention. "It just starts with ghosts and ghouls, this sucker keeps on going. By nights end we are talking every awful thing we have ever seen, everything we fight, all in one place" There was a moment of silence and the girls exchanged worried and frightened glances./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's gonna be a slaughterhouse" Dean summarized./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie's pride at having found the seal was short lived as she soon found herself sitting outside the first victim's house in the Impala./p
p class="MsoNormal""Come on Dean" She complained. "I wanna kill something already" Dean glanced at her with a raised an eyebrow. "What? I mean, how long have I been here now? I haven't gotten to kill anything yet"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You killed a ghost not too long ago" Dean pointed out. Allie frowned at him./p
p class="MsoNormal""That doesn't count, we all killed that ghost" She complained. Dean rolled his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""Patience young skywalker" He muttered. Allie glared./p
p class="MsoNormal""I hate star wars" She scowled, earning a confused glance from Dean. "I never watched it without getting bored" She insisted./p
p class="MsoNormal""Can't blame you with your short attention span" He muttered. Allie rolled her eyes, about to say something else when Dean's phone rang. He checked the caller ID before answering./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey" He paused, listening to the other end of the conversation. "Awesome yeah" Allie leaned in closer, trying to hear the whole conversation. Dean scowled and pushed her away. "I talked to Mrs razor blade again. I've been sitting out in front of her house for hours and I've got a big steamy pile of nothing." More silence while Sam said something back./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well I hope we find it soon cause-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean" Allie interrupted, pointing out the window. "Is that who I think it is?" Dean stopped as he realised what she was seeing./p
p class="MsoNormal""Son of a bitch" He muttered, watching Tracy heading into the house they had been watching for hours./p
p class="MsoNormal""Quit whining" Sam said over the phone. Allie glanced over, realising Dean had the phone away from his ear./p
p class="MsoNormal""No I mean son of a bitch" He corrected, no doubt just confusing Sam even more. The two watched as Tracy walked up to the door and knocked. The newly widowed wife of the house opened the door holding her baby. They talked for a moment and Tracy entered the house./p
p class="MsoNormal""I think we've got our witch" Allie muttered, glancing at Dean, who was still watching the house. He nodded in agreement./p
p class="MsoNormal""I'll be back soon" He said into the phone./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie and Dean walked into the hotel room and Allie headed right over to Zoe at the beds while Dean walked over to join Sam by the laptops. Allie let out a long sigh, falling down onto the bed next to Zoe. Zoe put down her book and looked up, crawling slightly closer./p
p class="MsoNormal""You okay?" She asked, twirling Allie hair around her fingers. Allie blinked up at her, sighing again./p
p class="MsoNormal""We were sitting in the damn emcar./em" She muttered unhappily. "The whole time. He didn't even let me kill anything" Zoe laughed at that./p
p class="MsoNormal""Poor Allie, must have been terrible" She joked, smiling. Allie shrugged./p
p class="MsoNormal""The boredom was, not so much the lack of death" She responded. Zoe nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""Thanks for clearing that up"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You're welcome"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Suspended?" Dean muttered in amazement, reading over Sam's laptop./p
p class="MsoNormal""Who got suspended?" Allie asked, shifting so her head hung off the bed facing the boys. Sam looked up./p
p class="MsoNormal""Tracy. Had a violent altercation with one of her teachers and had access to both houses" He summed up./p
p class="MsoNormal""Ha, told you" She muttered. Dean looked up raising an eyebrow./p
p class="MsoNormal""You didn't- wait what are you doing?" Dean frowned. Allie frowned right back./p
p class="MsoNormal""What so it's a crime to be upside-down?" She retorted. Dean opened his mouth to say something but stopped, apparently having nothing to say./p
p class="MsoNormal""Your head's gonna explode" Dean muttered, looking back down at the computer. Allie scoffed./p
p class="MsoNormal""If that were true I'd be dead a million times already" She responded in the same muttering tone./p
p class="MsoNormal""Old married couple much" Zoe muttered quietly so that Allie was the only one who heard her. She received an elbow to the stomach for the comment and the boys looked up at her shout. Allie smiled innocently at them and they exchanged a wary glance like they knew something had happened./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well let's go talk to this teacher she had a 'violent altercation' with, maybe find out more about her without drawing attention to ourselves" Dean suggested, looking over at his brother./p
p class="MsoNormal""So FBI?" Sam guessed./p
p class="MsoNormal""FBI sounds good" Dean nodded, getting up. He found his bag and took it with him into the bathroom. The room was silent for a moment while Sam continued to research on his laptop and Zoe had picked up her book again. Allie sighed loudly, getting up and falling onto the other bed. She settled herself onto the covers and closed her eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""You alright?" Sam asked. Allie looked up, checking that he was in fact talking to her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" She frowned. She suddenly wondered if the question had anything to do with him thinking she wasn't human. "A little tired" She shrugged, staring at the celling. "But what hunter isn't tired half the time?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""True" Sam responded, almost hesitantly. There was another long, awkward silence until Dean came out of the bathroom, tying his tie. Sam went to change and Dean went over his list of 'rules'./p
p class="MsoNormal""No leaving the hotel room, no calling us unless it's an emergency, no touching the mini bar drinks or my beer and no blanket tents" He listed, looking up as Sam exited the bathroom./p
p class="MsoNormal""You ready?" He asked. Dean nodded, turning to leave and stopping. He walked over to his bed and removed a gun from under his pillow and one from his bag next to the bed, looking pointedly at Allie who grinned innocently at him. And with that the boys left, leaving the girls alone with laptops being the only course of action. After around five minutes or so of laying around on the beds with their laptops Allie's tiredness got the better of her and she fell asleep on top of the covers of Dean's bed./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Zoe glanced over at her friend, expectation to see her playing a bad online game, considering she couldn't find any good ones. She frowned when she saw the laptop closed beside her as she slept. She could tell by the way she lay, curled up slightly but not fully, taking up half the bed and the way she breathed louder than usual. Zoe sighed slightly to herself shaking her head./p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie did that sometimes, got so tired she just curled up and fell asleep. No warning whatsoever. It was best to just leave her alone when she slept, she would never be happy no matter the circumstance if you woke her up. That plus the fact that if she didn't manage to wake her up she would practically beat Zoe up in her sleep by instinct. Zoe sighed, deciding to give up on her sad attempts at researching. They probably already knew everything by now. She opened up an online game, one Allie would normally choose, and started playing. Now it seemed all she could do was waste time until either Allie woke up or the boys came back./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie sighed, once again incredibly bored. It was quite often now they were left in the apartment with nothing to do. She sat on the bed, watching the door in anticipation. She heard Zoe exit the bathroom from behind her and sighed again./p
p class="MsoNormal""How long do you think they'll be?" She asked, not looking over at her. Zoe didn't respond. Allie frowned, turning her head slightly, but not so she could see her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Zoe?" She asked, waiting for a response. However the response she got was not what she had expected. Allie heard the unmistakeable cock of a gun behind her. Allie jumped up, spinning around in surprise to find her best friend pointing a gun at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Zoe?" She asked again, shocked. "What are you-?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You're not human" Zoe stated in a shockingly even voice. "This whole time. This whole time I trusted you and you weren't human the whole time" Allie stared, unable to believe that this was actually happening./p
p class="MsoNormal""Zoe" She tried evenly, attempting to reason. "Come on, we are friends okay? You can trust me, please"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No" She shook her head. "No, I can't" Allie stared at the gun uncertainly, still unbelieving that Zoe would shoot her but wary all the same. Zoe raised the gun and Allie turned, ready to run out the door but stopping at the sight of the Winchester brothers, blocking the door in full hunting mode, and she was the one they were hunting. She felt her heart beat faster as she recognised just about every monster killing weapon in their hands. Silver knife, salt, holy water, iron, machete. Just about all of it could kill humans too. Allie glanced between the brothers, noticing the way they looked at her, the way they stood. Ready to kill with no reluctance whatsoever, as if she was just another monster they faced every day./p
p class="MsoNormal"That wasn't what shocked her most though. What shocked Allie the most out of everything was the way they seemed perfectly fine with running in guns blazing without even knowing what she was. They looked just about ready to attack and Allie could feel her panic rising. So this was how she was going to die, killed off by her favourite characters only several episodes in. She closed her eyes, trying to will herself away, anywhere but here. Although she would have loved for it to work, nothing happened./p
p class="MsoNormal"And then Allie realised something, emnothing happened./em She slowly and uncertainly opened her eyes, glancing around and noticing they had all frozen in place./p
p class="MsoNormal""This is what you dream about?" Came a familiar voice. Allie turned quickly, finding a slightly confused Castiel standing where Zoe had been a second ago. Where she had been willing to kill her./p
p class="MsoNormal""I'm dreaming?" Allie asked, slightly confused herself now as she glanced around the room. The brothers were gone now, as well as most of the items in the room, leaving nothing but bare walls and the two of them inside./p
p class="MsoNormal""Why…" Allie began, not sure how she was saying her next sentence. "Why am I dreaming at all? I thought…" She trailed off, confused./p
p class="MsoNormal""I was busy" Castiel replied, looking almost regretful. "I apologise. But you have to wake up now" Allie frowned./p
p class="MsoNormal""Wake up? Why?" Castiel glanced around, like he was watching out for something. He eyes locked on hers suddenly and he looked urgent./p
p class="MsoNormal""We're coming Allie, you have to wake up" He repeated, walking forward. Before Allie could say anything he placed two fingers to her head and the world around her disappeared./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie woke quickly, her eyes opening and glancing around her frantically, searching for any signs of danger. Nothing, no one./p
p class="MsoNormal""Allie?" Her friend's voice suddenly called, coming out of the bathroom. Allie felt her eyes widen as she pushed herself as far away as she could, trying frantically to escape./p
p class="MsoNormal""Allie hey stop!" Zoe cried, coming closer, trying to calm her down but having the opposite effect. "Stop Allie it's me. You're safe it's me" She repeated, over and over. She came closer, to the edge of the bed. "Allie, it's only me. I'm not going to hurt you" Allie paused, realising something. It was true. Zoe would never hurt her, it was a dream after all. They'd only had each other for so long, even if Allie had a valid reason and asked her to kill her, she still wouldn't. She nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah I- I know" She stuttered slightly. "I know it's just…" She didn't finish, looking down at the covers of the bed she had messed up quite badly when she woke./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nightmares?" A horribly familiar voice asked. Allie looked up sharply, remembering something. em"We're coming Allie, you have to wake up". /emThe 'we' he had mentioned was not what Allie would have hoped for. Uriel turned to look at Zoe./p
p class="MsoNormal""I'd say nice to meet you, but I'm not too sure about that" He commented, glancing between the girls as if her thought they were identical copies. Allie glanced towards the angel beside him, seeing how Cas watched her with pleading eyes, the way he so obviously portrayed his thoughts in the small amount of emotion his eyes. emDon't mention the dream./em/p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey chuckles" Allie smirked, immediately turning to witty retort. "I'd say I missed you but I'm not too sure about that." That seemed to annoy Uriel easily but as he looked ready to step forward Cas quickly took a step forward himself, blocking him. He sent the other angel a quick warning glance. A silent emback off/em and he quickly obeyed, stepping backwards to turn to the window. While Allie could only see his back it was obvious to her the way he was seething and she grinned triumphantly to herself. No way was she going to let him scare her, not this time, not while Zoe was there. Castiel watched Uriel for a moment before turning to Allie, giving her the same warning glance he gave Uriel. Allie rolled her eyes silently and moved herself to the edge of the bed, sitting beside Zoe facing the other bed./p
p class="MsoNormal""What're you doing here?" Allie asked, watching Cas closely. He glanced back at Uriel once more, who hadn't moved, before sitting down on the opposite bed. Allie didn't miss the object he placed on the bedside table, recognising a particularly powerful hex bag./p
p class="MsoNormal""We're waiting for Dean" He responded simply. Glancing every now and then between Allie and the door./p
p class="MsoNormal""You guys know about the seal" Allie summarized, nodding to herself. "Then again, I'd be worried if you didn't. I mean it's not exactly the kind of thing you just skip over" Uriel glanced at her for a moment, obviously unimpressed at a part of what she had said, before returning his gaze out the window./p
p class="MsoNormal""Of course we noticed" Castiel replied evenly glancing around the room. Allie watched him carefully, finding herself wondering exactly what he was thinking. She frowned slightly, feeling some kind of slight inner tug, like she was being pulled towards something, but not physically. She suddenly found herself overflowing with a rush of memories and thoughts and wonderings both conscious and subconscious. There were too many to focus on any one thought until she actually found what she was looking for. A wondering, how much of the hotel in her dream had been in real life, because it looked basically the same./p
p class="MsoNormal"As soon as it had come it was gone and her mind suddenly felt empty. Castiel's eyes snapped to hers in surprise. Had every one of those thoughts been his? Had she just looked inside an angel's mind? It was beginning to become obvious even if she hadn't already known that she wasn't human./p
p class="MsoNormal"A small click was heard and the door opened, shortly followed by Sam's gun being brandished and a shout of "Who are you?" Dean rushed in after him, trying to push his gun downward./p
p class="MsoNormal""Sam! Sam wait!" He cried, trying to wrestle the gun off him. "It's Castiel. The angel" Sam was obviously stunned by this, watching closely as Cas stood, watching him the same way./p
p class="MsoNormal""Him I don't know" Dean continued, glancing at Uriel./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean meet heavens biggest doucebag" Allie muttered to herself, grunting slightly as Zoe elbowed her roughly./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hello Sam" Castiel greeted politely./p
p class="MsoNormal""Oh my god, um, I didn't mean to, sorry. It's an honour really, I- I've heard a lot about you" Sam stumbled. He stepped forward eagerly holding out his hand. Castiel stared for a moment and Allie could practically see the wheels turning in his head as he realised what was going on./p
p class="MsoNormal""And I, you. Sam Winchester" He replied, putting his hand in Sam's. After a moment he took Sam's hand in both of his, looking his straight in the eye. "The boy with the demon blood. Glad to see you've ceased your extracurricular activities" Sam took his hand back, seeming to be uncomfortable by the topic./p
p class="MsoNormal""Let's keep it that way" Uriel spoke without turning./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah, okay chuckles" Dean called, coming back from the door. Allie didn't miss the way Uriel tilted his head a fraction, obviously thinking back to the same nickname being used by her not minutes ago./p
p class="MsoNormal""Who's your friend?" Dean asked, looking over at Castiel./p
p class="MsoNormal""This, the raising of Samhain, have you stopped it?" He asked, effectively changing the topic./p
p class="MsoNormal""Why?" Dean frowned, but glancing at Allie as if she was going to give him the answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean, have you located the witch?" Cas asked, more forcefully this time./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yes, we've located the witch" Dean responded, almost mocking him./p
p class="MsoNormal""And is the witch dead?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No but-" Sam began./p
p class="MsoNormal""We know who it is" Dean cut him off, seeming to want this conversation over as soon as possible. Castiel looked mildly disappointed, walking back over to the bedside table and picking up the hex bag he had set down earlier./p
p class="MsoNormal""Apparently the witch knows who you are too" He held it up to them. "This was inside the wall of your room" He told them. "If we hadn't found it, surely one or all of you would be dead" He glanced over at the girls before returning his gaze to Dean./p
p class="MsoNormal""We're working on it" Dean responded, not sounding completely sure as he exchanged a glance with his brother./p
p class="MsoNormal""That's unfortunate" Castiel sighed, looking honestly disappointed, like he'd hoped otherwise./p
p class="MsoNormal""Why do you care?" Dean asked, almost becoming pissed off by now. Presumably from the lack of answers./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's a seal" Allie told him, realising no one had thought to tell him this yet. "One of the 66 seals, and it's being broken" She looked up at Dean from the bed, who looked back at her in almost disbelief before turning back to the angel in front of him./p
p class="MsoNormal""So this is about your buddy Lucifer" Dean summarized./p
p class="MsoNormal""Lucifer is no friend of ours" Uriel responded from the window. Allie couldn't help but jump at the voice, at this moment he was about her least favourite character./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's just an expression" Dean assured the angel with a roll of his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""Lucifer cannot rise" Castiel continued urgently. "The breaking of the seal must be prevented at all costs"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay great" Dean started, his obviously pissed off tone bordering on sarcasm. "Well now that you're here, why don't you tell us where the witch is, we'll gank her and everybody goes home."/p
p class="MsoNormal""We are not omniscient" Castiel protested. "This witch is very powerful, she's cloaked to even our methods"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay" Sam spoke up. "Well we already know who she is, so if we work together-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Enough of this" Uriel cut him off, still looking out the window. Allie flinched instinctively and noticed Zoe taking note of it. Damn, that was gonna be an uncomfortable question later./p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay, who are you and why should I care?" Dean called across the room. Uriel finally turned around, locking his eyes on Dean./p
p class="MsoNormal""This is Uriel" Castiel introduced, sparing a quick glance at Allie. "He's what you might call a… specialist" He looked slightly uncomfortable with the situation. Again something only Zoe and Allie would be able to tell./p
p class="MsoNormal""What kind of specialist?" Dean asked, watching Uriel warily. "What are you gonna do?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You, uh, all of you" Castiel fixed each of them with equal stares before returning his gaze to Dean. "You need to leave this town immediately"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Why" Dean asked, looking as scared as the rest for the answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""Because we're about to destroy it"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie stood up quickly, staring at him in surprise. Sure she'd heard it before, but it's not like she'd ever heard it once without the same reaction./p
p class="MsoNormal""You've got to be kidding me" She said, almost pleading. "Come on, seriously?" Castiel looked at her strangely, a slight frown on his face./p
p class="MsoNormal""Of course I'm serious" He replied, as stoic as ever. Allie turned to Dean, wordlessly asking him to help her out./p
p class="MsoNormal""So this is your plan" Dean began, totally fed up. "You're gonna smite the whole friggin town?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""We're out of time. The witch has to die, the seal must be saved" Castiel commented, like it was nothing to him. Allie knew better though, at least, hoped she did. Hoped that underneath all heavens orders he knew this was wrong. He had to./p
p class="MsoNormal""There are a thousand people here" Sam told the angels in disbelief, desperately./p
p class="MsoNormal""One thousand two hundred fourteen" Uriel corrected./p
p class="MsoNormal""And you're willing to kill them all?" Sam continued, looking between the angels as if he was waiting for them to say they were joking./p
p class="MsoNormal""This isn't the first time I've purified a city" Uriel said, a slight smile coming on. Allie couldn't help but shrink away slightly, her legs hitting the bed. Castiel glanced at her for a moment and Allie saw the veiled regret he held. Something no one else had ever been able to see, but she always had./p
p class="MsoNormal""Look, I understand this is regrettable" He began, looking down at the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal""Regrettable?" Dean asked incredulously./p
p class="MsoNormal""We have to hold the line" Castiel insisted, his harsh gaze settling on Dean. "Too many seals have broken already"/p
p class="MsoNormal""So you screw the pooch on some seals and this town has to pay the price?" Dean summarized./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's the lives of one thousand against the lives of six billion. There's a bigger picture here" Castiel insisted, sounding frustrated now./p
p class="MsoNormal""Right, cause' you're bigger picture kind of guys" Dean muttered sarcastically./p
p class="MsoNormal""Lucifer cannot rise" Castiel tried to reason. He glanced over at Allie, trying to get her to agree with him. Probably considering she knows what happens and the others might listen to her. Allie shook her head slightly, watching him with a slightly hurt expression. He knew it was wrong, how could he let this happen?/p
p class="MsoNormal""He does and hell rises with him" He continued, looking at Dean. "Is that really something you're willing to risk?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""We'll stop this witch before she summons anyone" Sam tried "Your seal won't be broken and no one has to die"/p
p class="MsoNormal""We're wasting time with these mud monkeys" Uriel insisted. Castiel turned away from Dean, looking at Uriel./p
p class="MsoNormal""I'm sorry, but we have our orders"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No, you can't do this, your angels" Sam appealed. "I mean aren't you supposed to- you're supposed to show mercy"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Says who?" Uriel challenged. Sam looked utterly heartbroken and dejected at this. It seemed he didn't know angels as well as he thought he did./p
p class="MsoNormal""We have no choice" Castiel told them, succeeding at convincing even Allie that he didn't care. She blinked for a moment, taken aback by his completely stoic tone. Either he was a really, really good actor or just honestly didn't care./p
p class="MsoNormal""Of course you have a choice" Dean scoffed, looking at him like he'd just said the sky was purple. "I mean come on, what? You've never questioned a crap order, huh? What are you both just a couple of hammers?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Look, even if you can't understand it, have faith. The plan is just" Castiel sounded so certain, certainly he wasn't? Then again, he could be. Maybe he changed his mind about heaven later on./p
p class="MsoNormal""How can you even say that?" Sam stared in disbelief./p
p class="MsoNormal""Because it comes from heaven" Castiel said evenly, looking over at Sam. "That makes it just"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Oh it must be so nice, to be so sure of yourselves" Dean scoffed sarcastically./p
p class="MsoNormal""Tell me something Dean, when your father gave you an order, didn't you obey?" Castiel questioned, looking at him closely. Dean looked straight back at him, not replying, knowing it was true. It seemed Castiel knew where to aim to hit a nerve./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well sorry boys, looks like plans have changed" Dean said eventually, decicively./p
p class="MsoNormal""You think you can stop us?" Uriel challenged, making Dean glance back over at him. He walked over closer to him, coming clearly into his personal space. Allie moved quickly when she felt the tension in the room rise. If Dean had an angel blade it's likely he'd kill Uriel right now. She grabbed onto Zoe's sleeve and both of them ran across the room to join Sam for safety. They stood quickly behind him and he curled his arms backwards slightly, covering them and protecting them, although they all knew it would do little against an angel./p
p class="MsoNormal""-Go ahead, see how he digs that" Dean was saying. Allie frowned slightly, realising she had missed what Dean was saying completely. Weather it was the fear of the tension or of the particular angel he was talking to, or maybe it was just her internal monologue, the way she always repeated what was happening at the time in written form in her mind. Maybe it was due to her writing so much when she was younger, although she never became a professional or famous author she still wrote. That seemed to result in some kind of strange side effect in her life./p
p class="MsoNormal""I will drag you out of here myself" Uriel threatened, that voice making her flinch again./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah but you'll have to kill me, then we're back to the same problem. I mean, come on, you're gonna wipe out a whole town for one little witch. Sounds to me like you're compensating for something" Allie raised her eyebrows slightly, hearing this. How did he always do that? Joke like that to anything that was seconds away from killing him. Even an angel who, to him now, was immortal, completely unkillable. She glanced around Sam, watching as Dean turned, facing away from Uriel and looking over at Castiel./p
p class="MsoNormal""We can do this" He said confidently. "We will find that witch and we will stop the summoning"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Castiel!" Uriel exclaimed, noticing him considering. "I will not let these peop-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Enough!" Castiel shouted suddenly, holding out a hand and interrupting the other angel, effectively silencing him. He stared at Dean another minute and glanced at the other three in the corner. Sam, who had let his arms fall to his sides, but still remained tense. Zoe, who now peeked around the other side of Sam, watching the scene closely and intently, but also keeping a watch on Allie, which was unknown to her. Allie, who silently wondered if his glance in their direction was meant to be a glance towards her, asking for her advice. Allie nodded after just a moment, a short, small nod, one that only he could notice./p
p class="MsoNormal"He looked back to Dean, the whole thing happening so quickly that no one else would take note of the glance or the way his eyes settled mostly on her, or the way she looked at him the same, how he watched for her opinion and how she watched for his./p
p class="MsoNormal""I suggest you move quickly"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Relief didn't begin to describe Allie's felling right now. Under no circumstance was she going to leave and let angels kill off over a thousand people, but she wasn't ready to get angel bombed herself. She watched Dean hesitate slightly before moving quickly to the door. Sam followed just as fast, guiding the girls with him, who were more than happy to get out of there. Allie glanced back as Dean reached to close the door and her heart beat faster when she caught the gaze of both angels. Both stared at her as she left, Castiel looking as if he was still trying to figure her out, as always that slight questioning gaze that lingered, that one that no one else saw before he really showed any emotion. Uriel looked at her completely different however, mistrust and disapproval and emhatred./em And then Allie realised something else, emhe knew./em He knew she knew what was going to happen. That she knew what he was doing behind the curtain, that he would resort to killing angels, and no one would know it was him./p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie looked away as Dean closed the door, hiding how freaked out she was currently, making sure they thought she was fine. Because if she never got home, if she lived out all the seasons she knew it only got worse. Right now in comparison she was living a heaven. These were the golden years and it only got worse. She had to be fine./p
p class="MsoNormal""Astronaut!" Dean yelled out angrily, the sudden sound startling her and making her jump. She looked up from the crack in the pavement she had been staring at, noticing for the first time that Dean's car was covered in egg splatters. Had the Impala been egged by a trick-or-treater in broad daylight? Allie smiled at that, not precisely sure how much of it was real and how much was forced, because it was partially both./p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie glanced over at Zoe, the same moment that she had glanced over too. Both shrugged slightly, both wearing the same slightly freaked, slightly forced smile with a hint of real amusement hidden beneath. Sam climbed in the car, closely followed by Dean and the girls quickly copied, not wanting to be left behind, especially with the angels inside./p
p class="MsoNormal""What?" Dean asked, using the voice he uses when he knows something is wrong. Allie looked up, her heart almost skipping a beat until she noticed he was talking to Sam./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nothing" Sam sighed, keeping his eyes fixed on the hex bag. "I thought they'd be different" Allie had to agree with that one. Not now, but back when she was around eleven, watching season four for the first time, she was certainly surprised. She had always believed in angels, when she was little she had never really thought about it but looking back, she had believed without doubt. God was real angels were real, without a doubt or second thought, but they were certainly different than the small glass statue in her room. Different than the guardian angels she had heard about, they were soldiers, and acted like it. They only followed orders./p
p class="MsoNormal""Who, the angels?" Dean frowned./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah" Sam nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well, I tried to tell ya" He pointed out./p
p class="MsoNormal""I just…" Sam stopped with a sigh, trying to explain. "I mean, I thought they'd be righteous"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Well they are righteous" Dean shrugged. "I mean, that's kinda the problem. Of course there's nothing more dangerous than some a-hole who thinks he's on a holy mission"/p
p class="MsoNormal""But I mean, this is God? And heaven? This is what I've been praying to?" Dean sighed at Sam's sad expression. He really had been expecting something different. That something good was finally coming their way./p
p class="MsoNormal""Look man, I know you're into the whole God thing, you know. Jesus on a tortilla and stuff like that. But just because there's a couple of bad apples doesn't mean the whole barrels rotten. I mean, for all we know, God hates these jerks. Don't give up on this stuff, is all I'm saying." Dean stopped for a moment, searing for something else. "Babe Ruth was a dick but baseball's still a beautiful game" He added. Allie watched as Sam looked up, still looking immensely disappointed before he looked back down at the hex bag in his hands, opening it up. He picked up the bone and examined it closely like he had the other one. Dean smiled slightly, thinking of something./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well are you gonna figure out a way to find this witch or are you just gonna sit there fingering your bone?" He asked, grinning. He started the engine as Allie and Zoe traded a slightly disgusted glance./p
p class="MsoNormal""Do you know how much heat it would take to char a bone like this Dean?" He asked suddenly./p
p class="MsoNormal""No" Dean frowned, waiting for the answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""A lot" Sam answered curtly, before continuing. "More than a fire or some kitchen oven"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay Betty Crocker, what does that mean?" Dean asked, clearly frustrated by his cryptic answers./p
p class="MsoNormal""The kiln" Allie realised, watching Sam. He turned, nodding to her./p
p class="MsoNormal""It means we need to make a stop"/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie was actually surprised when Dean let them come inside. He parked outside the school, got them out of the car and of course began with telling them "Follow my lead, don't wander off, do what I tell you" Of course the two agreed quickly. Dean hesitated before opening the trunk and pulling open the hidden latch. He pulled something out and came over to the girls, carefully holding out two brand new hunting knives, both in leather sheaths. Allie's eyes widened as she carefully took the knife from him. Zoe did the same./p
p class="MsoNormal""These are ours?" Allie asked, looking up. Dean nodded, still looking hesitant./p
p class="MsoNormal""I was hoping to train you how to use these before you actually fought with them. I guess beggars can't be choosers because you are not staying in that hotel alone" He shrugged. "They're new, silver so they work on more than just humans. Let's just hope this witch dies like a human at least" He closed the weapons cache and handed Sam his gun, grabbing his before closing the trunk./p
p class="MsoNormal""Let's go"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" strongA little too long? Sorry! i just really wanted to end a chapter here and i'm not patient enough to upload three tonight. Next one is shorter!/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"strong-Alix/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p style="text-align: center;"strong-Alix/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"It wasn't much longer until the boys got another call on the police scanner and were gone again. Allie stood up all of a sudden and Zoe looked over at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""What is it?" She asked, making Allie look over at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""The seals I was looking at, it's a horrible site. Half of them are actually missing" Zoe frowned at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""So…"/p
p class="MsoNormal""So I'm going to try a more reliable source" Allie answered, picking up a book off Sam's bed. She smiled to herself as she read the cover and showed it to her friend./p
p class="MsoNormal""The book of revelations?" Zoe frowned. "Are you sure?" Allie frowned back at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Are you doubting me?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No" Zoe responded immediately. She paused and thought about it for another moment. "Actually yeah I am" Allie rolled her eyes and walked back over to the table to sit down. She closed the laptop and opened the book. Zoe raised an eyebrow at her but left her to work through the pages. Zoe let her mind wander a bit with nothing else to do but after not too long it stopped on something. Their growing suspicion that Allie wasn't human, scratch that, their certainty. Plus the fact that the boys were already aware, or at least suspected. It was likely that the only reason they hadn't acted on their suspicion was because they didn't know what she was and they were smart enough to not act on an unknown./p
p class="MsoNormal"Zoe silently debated herself weather or not she should bring it up. Granted, Allie might not be too happy for this conversation but it had to come up at some point. She thought back to how many times Allie had mentioned something about her being like Dean, she believed her now. She suddenly realised how much she felt like Sam trying to start a chick-flick-moment. emHere goes nothing/em/p
p class="MsoNormal""So I've been thinking-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Oh my god are you okay?" Allie asked, looking up with fake urgency and a barely hidden smile. Zoe responded with nothing but a glare and Allie chuckled lightly to herself. "Sorry, go on" Zoe paused for a moment, trying to figure out how to word this. Allie was looking back down at her book but knowing her well enough she could tell she was listening./p
p class="MsoNormal""So now that they guys know, or think they know-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No" Allie cut her off. He gaze was set firmly on the table in front of her and she was suddenly serious. Zoe paused, knowing she couldn't just let it go. They had to discuss it at some point./p
p class="MsoNormal""What are we going to do? I mean-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No!" Allie basically shouted, standing. "I said no Zoe, I don't want to talk about this" She continued in a slightly lower voice. Zoe blinked, trying not to flinch at her friend's sudden outburst. Allie began studying the ground, her eyes darting from side to side as she thought. After a minute or so she sat down again and a moment after that met her eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""I don't want to talk about this" Allie said quietly. "I'll be fine okay? I'm gonna figure out what I am and how to deal with it but until then I just wanna pretend I'm human okay?" She sounded sad now, almost pleading. Zoe stared at her friend, saying nothing for a couple beats. She realised Allie wasn't going to drop it herself until she answered so she did so silently, nodding shallowly. Allie gave a short nod back and went back to reading but Zoe could tell she was in an obvious bad mood now, it was unclear if she was actually reading or just trying to look like she was./p
p class="MsoNormal"Zoe sighed quietly, well she tried, and without Allie wanting to talk about it that was the best she could do. Basically it was impossible to force her to do anything. After a moment or two of silence and Zoe pondering how she could help her friend, the door opened. The brothers walked in both looking equally as disappointed. Allie glanced up, seemingly completely normal but Zoe knew better. Her best friend was an amazing actress when she wanted to be./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nothing?" She asked. Both brothers shook their heads./p
p class="MsoNormal""Definitely a witch" Sam summed up, tossing something her way. Allie glanced at the hex bag she caught, frowned and untied the leather strap that held it together./p
p class="MsoNormal""Another one?" She muttered to herself./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah but no more leads" Sam added, sitting down beside her. Allie pushed her book aside and lay the contents of the hex bag on the table inside the piece of cloth. The two examined the contents together, talking quietly about it while Dean sat down beside Zoe on the arm of the couch./p
p class="MsoNormal""You okay?" He asked, looking closely at her. She looked up in surprise./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah, fine. Why wouldn't I be?" She frowned, watching him as he removed his leather jacket./p
p class="MsoNormal""No reason" He shrugged. "Just looked a little down" Zoe nodded in understanding./p
p class="MsoNormal""So do you" She added after a moment. Dean paused and the two sat in uncomfortable silence for a moment, not looking at each other./p
p class="MsoNormal""Find anything?" He asked suddenly, changing the subject. Zoe sighed quietly, reflecting how alike Dean and Allie were once again./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nothing" She answered, pushing a book towards him. He sighed, picking it up and flicking through the pages to find anything useful. Zoe picked up a book herself, an 'encyclopaedia of witchcraft'./p
p class="MsoNormal""Where do you even get these?" She scoffed, shaking her head. Dean shrugged./p
p class="MsoNormal""No idea, I'm not the one that collects them, that would be gigantor over there" He answered, glancing at her. Zoe smiled, looking between the brothers. Of course it was Sam, who else? She picked up the book again and scanned trough the contents page of 'The encyclopaedia of witchcraft'./p
p class="MsoNormal"The four sat in silence for a while, reading and looking over the hex bag contents then swapped. While Sam started on a book Allie came over with the hex bag and showed Zoe and Dean the ingredients, naming them./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nerd" Dean muttered. Allie glared at him but realised he wasn't looking at her. She grinned to herself, finding the hex bag from the day before and grabbing the small charred bone. She walked over, keeping it successfully hidden. She quickly noticed the way he sat on the edge of the couch arm, how easy it would be for him to fall./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey Dean" She called quietly. He made a small grunt in response, not looking up from the book in his lap. Allie promptly shoved the charred bone in his face, grinning to herself. He cried out in surprise and disgust as he fell back off the couch, trying to escape. Allie laughed, she couldn't help herself, it was just too funny. Zoe was laughing too and Sam looked up in surprise, not knowing what had happened. Dean glared at Allie, who was now sitting on the edge of the coffee table, laughing hysterically./p
p class="MsoNormal""Don't mess with me" Allie grinned, once she finally managed to stop laughing./p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay fine, you made your point" Dean grumbled, watching her carefully as she moved to replace the bone. "Nerd" He added quietly./p
p class="MsoNormal""I heard that" Allie called over her shoulder, returning to her books sitting beside Sam. Dean rolled his eyes and picked up his book again, flicking through the pages only a moment before picking up Sam's laptop off the table./p
p class="MsoNormal""What're you looking for?" Zoe asked, looking over his shoulder./p
p class="MsoNormal""Trying to find something on the vics" He responded, occupying himself by typing in the first name. "Find any reason for wicked witch payback, something that connects them preferably" Zoe nodded, scanning through the search results with him./p
p class="MsoNormal""You might not need to" Allie called from across the room. Zoe looked over. She had stood up with her book and was smiling proudly to herself./p
p class="MsoNormal""Why not?" Dean asked, frowning./p
p class="MsoNormal""Because it's not about revenge" She responded shortly, handing him the book./p
p class="MsoNormal""What like a spell?" He frowned, taking the book./p
p class="MsoNormal""Worse" Zoe glanced over Dean's shoulder, realising what Allie meant about worse. It was the book of revelations./p
p class="MsoNormal"She found the seal./p
p class="MsoNormal""Three blood sacrifices over three days" Allie quoted from the book. "The last before midnight on the final day of the final harvest, celtic calendar. And guess the final day of the final harvest"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Halloween?" Zoe guessed. Allie nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""Exactly"/p
p class="MsoNormal""So what exactly are the, um, blood sacrifices for?" Dean asked, looking mildly disturbed./p
p class="MsoNormal""If I'm right, which I'm confident that I am, this witch is trying to summon a demon. But not just any demon. Samhain"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Am I supposed to be impressed?" Dean raised an eyebrow. Allie nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""I would be if I didn't want to die, which I don't" Allie shrugged. Dean frowned at that./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean, Samhain is the origin of Halloween" Sam called across the room, standing up. He walked over, taking the book off his brother. "The Celts believe that October 31supst/sup was the one night of the year when the veil was the thinnest between the living and the dead, and it was Samhain's night. I mean masks were put on to hide from him, sweets left on doorsteps to appease him, faces carved into pumpkins to worship him. He was exorcised centuries ago" Allie froze momentarily. They were about to go up against one of the most powerful evil beings in the world before Lucifer. She wasn't exactly sure where he was in comparison to Azazel or Lilith, but he was pretty high up on the list, and it's not like the angels were planning to help them out./p
p class="MsoNormal""So even though Samhain took a trip downstairs, the tradition stuck" Dean summarized./p
p class="MsoNormal""Exactly" Sam nodded. "Only now instead of demons and blood orgies, Halloween is all about kids, candy and costumes."/p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah I don't see exactly how that happened" Allie added, looking between the brothers. "Miscommunication? Something obviously got lost in translation" She thought for a moment. "Then again demons to kids isn't that far of a stretch" The brothers raised an eyebrow at her and Zoe burst out laughing./p
p class="MsoNormal""What?" Allie shrugged. "Depends who you ask" Dean smiled slightly./p
p class="MsoNormal""So some witch wants to raised Samhain and take back the night?" Dean asked, getting back on topic./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean, this is serious" Sam scolded, also looking pointedly at Allie./p
p class="MsoNormal""I am serious" They responded in union./p
p class="MsoNormal""We're talking heavyweight witchcraft" Sam continued, obviously not satisfied that they understood. "This ritual can only be performed every six hundred years"/p
p class="MsoNormal""And the six hundred year marker rolls around…?" Dean waited for his answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""Tomorrow night"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Naturally" Dean sighed. He looked down at the book in his hand and quickly found another page, frowning at the illustration that went with it./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well it sure is a lot of death and destruction for one demon" He commented./p
p class="MsoNormal""That's because he likes company" Sam jumped in. "Once he's raised, Samhain can do a little raising of his own"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Raising what exactly?" Dean asked, looking like he was afraid to hear the answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dark, evil crap" Sam responded shortly. "And lots of it. I mean they follow him around like the friggin' pied piper"/p
p class="MsoNormal""So we're talking ghosts"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Other demons" Allie added. Sam nodded/p
p class="MsoNormal""Zombies" Dean continued/p
p class="MsoNormal""Mm-Hm" Sam answered/p
p class="MsoNormal""Wendigos?" Zoe asked, frowning slightly./p
p class="MsoNormal""Probably" Sam shrugged./p
p class="MsoNormal""Clowns" Allie grinned, earning a glared from Sam./p
p class="MsoNormal""Leprechauns?" Dean added, ignoring Allie's comment./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean-" Sam sighed, obviously fed up./p
p class="MsoNormal""Those little dudes are scary" Dean insisted. "Small hands"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Look" Sam began, glancing around to make sure he had everyone's attention. "It just starts with ghosts and ghouls, this sucker keeps on going. By nights end we are talking every awful thing we have ever seen, everything we fight, all in one place" There was a moment of silence and the girls exchanged worried and frightened glances./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's gonna be a slaughterhouse" Dean summarized./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie's pride at having found the seal was short lived as she soon found herself sitting outside the first victim's house in the Impala./p
p class="MsoNormal""Come on Dean" She complained. "I wanna kill something already" Dean glanced at her with a raised an eyebrow. "What? I mean, how long have I been here now? I haven't gotten to kill anything yet"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You killed a ghost not too long ago" Dean pointed out. Allie frowned at him./p
p class="MsoNormal""That doesn't count, we all killed that ghost" She complained. Dean rolled his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""Patience young skywalker" He muttered. Allie glared./p
p class="MsoNormal""I hate star wars" She scowled, earning a confused glance from Dean. "I never watched it without getting bored" She insisted./p
p class="MsoNormal""Can't blame you with your short attention span" He muttered. Allie rolled her eyes, about to say something else when Dean's phone rang. He checked the caller ID before answering./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey" He paused, listening to the other end of the conversation. "Awesome yeah" Allie leaned in closer, trying to hear the whole conversation. Dean scowled and pushed her away. "I talked to Mrs razor blade again. I've been sitting out in front of her house for hours and I've got a big steamy pile of nothing." More silence while Sam said something back./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well I hope we find it soon cause-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean" Allie interrupted, pointing out the window. "Is that who I think it is?" Dean stopped as he realised what she was seeing./p
p class="MsoNormal""Son of a bitch" He muttered, watching Tracy heading into the house they had been watching for hours./p
p class="MsoNormal""Quit whining" Sam said over the phone. Allie glanced over, realising Dean had the phone away from his ear./p
p class="MsoNormal""No I mean son of a bitch" He corrected, no doubt just confusing Sam even more. The two watched as Tracy walked up to the door and knocked. The newly widowed wife of the house opened the door holding her baby. They talked for a moment and Tracy entered the house./p
p class="MsoNormal""I think we've got our witch" Allie muttered, glancing at Dean, who was still watching the house. He nodded in agreement./p
p class="MsoNormal""I'll be back soon" He said into the phone./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie and Dean walked into the hotel room and Allie headed right over to Zoe at the beds while Dean walked over to join Sam by the laptops. Allie let out a long sigh, falling down onto the bed next to Zoe. Zoe put down her book and looked up, crawling slightly closer./p
p class="MsoNormal""You okay?" She asked, twirling Allie hair around her fingers. Allie blinked up at her, sighing again./p
p class="MsoNormal""We were sitting in the damn emcar./em" She muttered unhappily. "The whole time. He didn't even let me kill anything" Zoe laughed at that./p
p class="MsoNormal""Poor Allie, must have been terrible" She joked, smiling. Allie shrugged./p
p class="MsoNormal""The boredom was, not so much the lack of death" She responded. Zoe nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""Thanks for clearing that up"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You're welcome"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Suspended?" Dean muttered in amazement, reading over Sam's laptop./p
p class="MsoNormal""Who got suspended?" Allie asked, shifting so her head hung off the bed facing the boys. Sam looked up./p
p class="MsoNormal""Tracy. Had a violent altercation with one of her teachers and had access to both houses" He summed up./p
p class="MsoNormal""Ha, told you" She muttered. Dean looked up raising an eyebrow./p
p class="MsoNormal""You didn't- wait what are you doing?" Dean frowned. Allie frowned right back./p
p class="MsoNormal""What so it's a crime to be upside-down?" She retorted. Dean opened his mouth to say something but stopped, apparently having nothing to say./p
p class="MsoNormal""Your head's gonna explode" Dean muttered, looking back down at the computer. Allie scoffed./p
p class="MsoNormal""If that were true I'd be dead a million times already" She responded in the same muttering tone./p
p class="MsoNormal""Old married couple much" Zoe muttered quietly so that Allie was the only one who heard her. She received an elbow to the stomach for the comment and the boys looked up at her shout. Allie smiled innocently at them and they exchanged a wary glance like they knew something had happened./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well let's go talk to this teacher she had a 'violent altercation' with, maybe find out more about her without drawing attention to ourselves" Dean suggested, looking over at his brother./p
p class="MsoNormal""So FBI?" Sam guessed./p
p class="MsoNormal""FBI sounds good" Dean nodded, getting up. He found his bag and took it with him into the bathroom. The room was silent for a moment while Sam continued to research on his laptop and Zoe had picked up her book again. Allie sighed loudly, getting up and falling onto the other bed. She settled herself onto the covers and closed her eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""You alright?" Sam asked. Allie looked up, checking that he was in fact talking to her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" She frowned. She suddenly wondered if the question had anything to do with him thinking she wasn't human. "A little tired" She shrugged, staring at the celling. "But what hunter isn't tired half the time?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""True" Sam responded, almost hesitantly. There was another long, awkward silence until Dean came out of the bathroom, tying his tie. Sam went to change and Dean went over his list of 'rules'./p
p class="MsoNormal""No leaving the hotel room, no calling us unless it's an emergency, no touching the mini bar drinks or my beer and no blanket tents" He listed, looking up as Sam exited the bathroom./p
p class="MsoNormal""You ready?" He asked. Dean nodded, turning to leave and stopping. He walked over to his bed and removed a gun from under his pillow and one from his bag next to the bed, looking pointedly at Allie who grinned innocently at him. And with that the boys left, leaving the girls alone with laptops being the only course of action. After around five minutes or so of laying around on the beds with their laptops Allie's tiredness got the better of her and she fell asleep on top of the covers of Dean's bed./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Zoe glanced over at her friend, expectation to see her playing a bad online game, considering she couldn't find any good ones. She frowned when she saw the laptop closed beside her as she slept. She could tell by the way she lay, curled up slightly but not fully, taking up half the bed and the way she breathed louder than usual. Zoe sighed slightly to herself shaking her head./p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie did that sometimes, got so tired she just curled up and fell asleep. No warning whatsoever. It was best to just leave her alone when she slept, she would never be happy no matter the circumstance if you woke her up. That plus the fact that if she didn't manage to wake her up she would practically beat Zoe up in her sleep by instinct. Zoe sighed, deciding to give up on her sad attempts at researching. They probably already knew everything by now. She opened up an online game, one Allie would normally choose, and started playing. Now it seemed all she could do was waste time until either Allie woke up or the boys came back./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie sighed, once again incredibly bored. It was quite often now they were left in the apartment with nothing to do. She sat on the bed, watching the door in anticipation. She heard Zoe exit the bathroom from behind her and sighed again./p
p class="MsoNormal""How long do you think they'll be?" She asked, not looking over at her. Zoe didn't respond. Allie frowned, turning her head slightly, but not so she could see her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Zoe?" She asked, waiting for a response. However the response she got was not what she had expected. Allie heard the unmistakeable cock of a gun behind her. Allie jumped up, spinning around in surprise to find her best friend pointing a gun at her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Zoe?" She asked again, shocked. "What are you-?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You're not human" Zoe stated in a shockingly even voice. "This whole time. This whole time I trusted you and you weren't human the whole time" Allie stared, unable to believe that this was actually happening./p
p class="MsoNormal""Zoe" She tried evenly, attempting to reason. "Come on, we are friends okay? You can trust me, please"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No" She shook her head. "No, I can't" Allie stared at the gun uncertainly, still unbelieving that Zoe would shoot her but wary all the same. Zoe raised the gun and Allie turned, ready to run out the door but stopping at the sight of the Winchester brothers, blocking the door in full hunting mode, and she was the one they were hunting. She felt her heart beat faster as she recognised just about every monster killing weapon in their hands. Silver knife, salt, holy water, iron, machete. Just about all of it could kill humans too. Allie glanced between the brothers, noticing the way they looked at her, the way they stood. Ready to kill with no reluctance whatsoever, as if she was just another monster they faced every day./p
p class="MsoNormal"That wasn't what shocked her most though. What shocked Allie the most out of everything was the way they seemed perfectly fine with running in guns blazing without even knowing what she was. They looked just about ready to attack and Allie could feel her panic rising. So this was how she was going to die, killed off by her favourite characters only several episodes in. She closed her eyes, trying to will herself away, anywhere but here. Although she would have loved for it to work, nothing happened./p
p class="MsoNormal"And then Allie realised something, emnothing happened./em She slowly and uncertainly opened her eyes, glancing around and noticing they had all frozen in place./p
p class="MsoNormal""This is what you dream about?" Came a familiar voice. Allie turned quickly, finding a slightly confused Castiel standing where Zoe had been a second ago. Where she had been willing to kill her./p
p class="MsoNormal""I'm dreaming?" Allie asked, slightly confused herself now as she glanced around the room. The brothers were gone now, as well as most of the items in the room, leaving nothing but bare walls and the two of them inside./p
p class="MsoNormal""Why…" Allie began, not sure how she was saying her next sentence. "Why am I dreaming at all? I thought…" She trailed off, confused./p
p class="MsoNormal""I was busy" Castiel replied, looking almost regretful. "I apologise. But you have to wake up now" Allie frowned./p
p class="MsoNormal""Wake up? Why?" Castiel glanced around, like he was watching out for something. He eyes locked on hers suddenly and he looked urgent./p
p class="MsoNormal""We're coming Allie, you have to wake up" He repeated, walking forward. Before Allie could say anything he placed two fingers to her head and the world around her disappeared./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie woke quickly, her eyes opening and glancing around her frantically, searching for any signs of danger. Nothing, no one./p
p class="MsoNormal""Allie?" Her friend's voice suddenly called, coming out of the bathroom. Allie felt her eyes widen as she pushed herself as far away as she could, trying frantically to escape./p
p class="MsoNormal""Allie hey stop!" Zoe cried, coming closer, trying to calm her down but having the opposite effect. "Stop Allie it's me. You're safe it's me" She repeated, over and over. She came closer, to the edge of the bed. "Allie, it's only me. I'm not going to hurt you" Allie paused, realising something. It was true. Zoe would never hurt her, it was a dream after all. They'd only had each other for so long, even if Allie had a valid reason and asked her to kill her, she still wouldn't. She nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah I- I know" She stuttered slightly. "I know it's just…" She didn't finish, looking down at the covers of the bed she had messed up quite badly when she woke./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nightmares?" A horribly familiar voice asked. Allie looked up sharply, remembering something. em"We're coming Allie, you have to wake up". /emThe 'we' he had mentioned was not what Allie would have hoped for. Uriel turned to look at Zoe./p
p class="MsoNormal""I'd say nice to meet you, but I'm not too sure about that" He commented, glancing between the girls as if her thought they were identical copies. Allie glanced towards the angel beside him, seeing how Cas watched her with pleading eyes, the way he so obviously portrayed his thoughts in the small amount of emotion his eyes. emDon't mention the dream./em/p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey chuckles" Allie smirked, immediately turning to witty retort. "I'd say I missed you but I'm not too sure about that." That seemed to annoy Uriel easily but as he looked ready to step forward Cas quickly took a step forward himself, blocking him. He sent the other angel a quick warning glance. A silent emback off/em and he quickly obeyed, stepping backwards to turn to the window. While Allie could only see his back it was obvious to her the way he was seething and she grinned triumphantly to herself. No way was she going to let him scare her, not this time, not while Zoe was there. Castiel watched Uriel for a moment before turning to Allie, giving her the same warning glance he gave Uriel. Allie rolled her eyes silently and moved herself to the edge of the bed, sitting beside Zoe facing the other bed./p
p class="MsoNormal""What're you doing here?" Allie asked, watching Cas closely. He glanced back at Uriel once more, who hadn't moved, before sitting down on the opposite bed. Allie didn't miss the object he placed on the bedside table, recognising a particularly powerful hex bag./p
p class="MsoNormal""We're waiting for Dean" He responded simply. Glancing every now and then between Allie and the door./p
p class="MsoNormal""You guys know about the seal" Allie summarized, nodding to herself. "Then again, I'd be worried if you didn't. I mean it's not exactly the kind of thing you just skip over" Uriel glanced at her for a moment, obviously unimpressed at a part of what she had said, before returning his gaze out the window./p
p class="MsoNormal""Of course we noticed" Castiel replied evenly glancing around the room. Allie watched him carefully, finding herself wondering exactly what he was thinking. She frowned slightly, feeling some kind of slight inner tug, like she was being pulled towards something, but not physically. She suddenly found herself overflowing with a rush of memories and thoughts and wonderings both conscious and subconscious. There were too many to focus on any one thought until she actually found what she was looking for. A wondering, how much of the hotel in her dream had been in real life, because it looked basically the same./p
p class="MsoNormal"As soon as it had come it was gone and her mind suddenly felt empty. Castiel's eyes snapped to hers in surprise. Had every one of those thoughts been his? Had she just looked inside an angel's mind? It was beginning to become obvious even if she hadn't already known that she wasn't human./p
p class="MsoNormal"A small click was heard and the door opened, shortly followed by Sam's gun being brandished and a shout of "Who are you?" Dean rushed in after him, trying to push his gun downward./p
p class="MsoNormal""Sam! Sam wait!" He cried, trying to wrestle the gun off him. "It's Castiel. The angel" Sam was obviously stunned by this, watching closely as Cas stood, watching him the same way./p
p class="MsoNormal""Him I don't know" Dean continued, glancing at Uriel./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean meet heavens biggest doucebag" Allie muttered to herself, grunting slightly as Zoe elbowed her roughly./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hello Sam" Castiel greeted politely./p
p class="MsoNormal""Oh my god, um, I didn't mean to, sorry. It's an honour really, I- I've heard a lot about you" Sam stumbled. He stepped forward eagerly holding out his hand. Castiel stared for a moment and Allie could practically see the wheels turning in his head as he realised what was going on./p
p class="MsoNormal""And I, you. Sam Winchester" He replied, putting his hand in Sam's. After a moment he took Sam's hand in both of his, looking his straight in the eye. "The boy with the demon blood. Glad to see you've ceased your extracurricular activities" Sam took his hand back, seeming to be uncomfortable by the topic./p
p class="MsoNormal""Let's keep it that way" Uriel spoke without turning./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah, okay chuckles" Dean called, coming back from the door. Allie didn't miss the way Uriel tilted his head a fraction, obviously thinking back to the same nickname being used by her not minutes ago./p
p class="MsoNormal""Who's your friend?" Dean asked, looking over at Castiel./p
p class="MsoNormal""This, the raising of Samhain, have you stopped it?" He asked, effectively changing the topic./p
p class="MsoNormal""Why?" Dean frowned, but glancing at Allie as if she was going to give him the answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""Dean, have you located the witch?" Cas asked, more forcefully this time./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yes, we've located the witch" Dean responded, almost mocking him./p
p class="MsoNormal""And is the witch dead?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No but-" Sam began./p
p class="MsoNormal""We know who it is" Dean cut him off, seeming to want this conversation over as soon as possible. Castiel looked mildly disappointed, walking back over to the bedside table and picking up the hex bag he had set down earlier./p
p class="MsoNormal""Apparently the witch knows who you are too" He held it up to them. "This was inside the wall of your room" He told them. "If we hadn't found it, surely one or all of you would be dead" He glanced over at the girls before returning his gaze to Dean./p
p class="MsoNormal""We're working on it" Dean responded, not sounding completely sure as he exchanged a glance with his brother./p
p class="MsoNormal""That's unfortunate" Castiel sighed, looking honestly disappointed, like he'd hoped otherwise./p
p class="MsoNormal""Why do you care?" Dean asked, almost becoming pissed off by now. Presumably from the lack of answers./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's a seal" Allie told him, realising no one had thought to tell him this yet. "One of the 66 seals, and it's being broken" She looked up at Dean from the bed, who looked back at her in almost disbelief before turning back to the angel in front of him./p
p class="MsoNormal""So this is about your buddy Lucifer" Dean summarized./p
p class="MsoNormal""Lucifer is no friend of ours" Uriel responded from the window. Allie couldn't help but jump at the voice, at this moment he was about her least favourite character./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's just an expression" Dean assured the angel with a roll of his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""Lucifer cannot rise" Castiel continued urgently. "The breaking of the seal must be prevented at all costs"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay great" Dean started, his obviously pissed off tone bordering on sarcasm. "Well now that you're here, why don't you tell us where the witch is, we'll gank her and everybody goes home."/p
p class="MsoNormal""We are not omniscient" Castiel protested. "This witch is very powerful, she's cloaked to even our methods"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay" Sam spoke up. "Well we already know who she is, so if we work together-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Enough of this" Uriel cut him off, still looking out the window. Allie flinched instinctively and noticed Zoe taking note of it. Damn, that was gonna be an uncomfortable question later./p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay, who are you and why should I care?" Dean called across the room. Uriel finally turned around, locking his eyes on Dean./p
p class="MsoNormal""This is Uriel" Castiel introduced, sparing a quick glance at Allie. "He's what you might call a… specialist" He looked slightly uncomfortable with the situation. Again something only Zoe and Allie would be able to tell./p
p class="MsoNormal""What kind of specialist?" Dean asked, watching Uriel warily. "What are you gonna do?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You, uh, all of you" Castiel fixed each of them with equal stares before returning his gaze to Dean. "You need to leave this town immediately"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Why" Dean asked, looking as scared as the rest for the answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""Because we're about to destroy it"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie stood up quickly, staring at him in surprise. Sure she'd heard it before, but it's not like she'd ever heard it once without the same reaction./p
p class="MsoNormal""You've got to be kidding me" She said, almost pleading. "Come on, seriously?" Castiel looked at her strangely, a slight frown on his face./p
p class="MsoNormal""Of course I'm serious" He replied, as stoic as ever. Allie turned to Dean, wordlessly asking him to help her out./p
p class="MsoNormal""So this is your plan" Dean began, totally fed up. "You're gonna smite the whole friggin town?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""We're out of time. The witch has to die, the seal must be saved" Castiel commented, like it was nothing to him. Allie knew better though, at least, hoped she did. Hoped that underneath all heavens orders he knew this was wrong. He had to./p
p class="MsoNormal""There are a thousand people here" Sam told the angels in disbelief, desperately./p
p class="MsoNormal""One thousand two hundred fourteen" Uriel corrected./p
p class="MsoNormal""And you're willing to kill them all?" Sam continued, looking between the angels as if he was waiting for them to say they were joking./p
p class="MsoNormal""This isn't the first time I've purified a city" Uriel said, a slight smile coming on. Allie couldn't help but shrink away slightly, her legs hitting the bed. Castiel glanced at her for a moment and Allie saw the veiled regret he held. Something no one else had ever been able to see, but she always had./p
p class="MsoNormal""Look, I understand this is regrettable" He began, looking down at the ground./p
p class="MsoNormal""Regrettable?" Dean asked incredulously./p
p class="MsoNormal""We have to hold the line" Castiel insisted, his harsh gaze settling on Dean. "Too many seals have broken already"/p
p class="MsoNormal""So you screw the pooch on some seals and this town has to pay the price?" Dean summarized./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's the lives of one thousand against the lives of six billion. There's a bigger picture here" Castiel insisted, sounding frustrated now./p
p class="MsoNormal""Right, cause' you're bigger picture kind of guys" Dean muttered sarcastically./p
p class="MsoNormal""Lucifer cannot rise" Castiel tried to reason. He glanced over at Allie, trying to get her to agree with him. Probably considering she knows what happens and the others might listen to her. Allie shook her head slightly, watching him with a slightly hurt expression. He knew it was wrong, how could he let this happen?/p
p class="MsoNormal""He does and hell rises with him" He continued, looking at Dean. "Is that really something you're willing to risk?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""We'll stop this witch before she summons anyone" Sam tried "Your seal won't be broken and no one has to die"/p
p class="MsoNormal""We're wasting time with these mud monkeys" Uriel insisted. Castiel turned away from Dean, looking at Uriel./p
p class="MsoNormal""I'm sorry, but we have our orders"/p
p class="MsoNormal""No, you can't do this, your angels" Sam appealed. "I mean aren't you supposed to- you're supposed to show mercy"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Says who?" Uriel challenged. Sam looked utterly heartbroken and dejected at this. It seemed he didn't know angels as well as he thought he did./p
p class="MsoNormal""We have no choice" Castiel told them, succeeding at convincing even Allie that he didn't care. She blinked for a moment, taken aback by his completely stoic tone. Either he was a really, really good actor or just honestly didn't care./p
p class="MsoNormal""Of course you have a choice" Dean scoffed, looking at him like he'd just said the sky was purple. "I mean come on, what? You've never questioned a crap order, huh? What are you both just a couple of hammers?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Look, even if you can't understand it, have faith. The plan is just" Castiel sounded so certain, certainly he wasn't? Then again, he could be. Maybe he changed his mind about heaven later on./p
p class="MsoNormal""How can you even say that?" Sam stared in disbelief./p
p class="MsoNormal""Because it comes from heaven" Castiel said evenly, looking over at Sam. "That makes it just"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Oh it must be so nice, to be so sure of yourselves" Dean scoffed sarcastically./p
p class="MsoNormal""Tell me something Dean, when your father gave you an order, didn't you obey?" Castiel questioned, looking at him closely. Dean looked straight back at him, not replying, knowing it was true. It seemed Castiel knew where to aim to hit a nerve./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well sorry boys, looks like plans have changed" Dean said eventually, decicively./p
p class="MsoNormal""You think you can stop us?" Uriel challenged, making Dean glance back over at him. He walked over closer to him, coming clearly into his personal space. Allie moved quickly when she felt the tension in the room rise. If Dean had an angel blade it's likely he'd kill Uriel right now. She grabbed onto Zoe's sleeve and both of them ran across the room to join Sam for safety. They stood quickly behind him and he curled his arms backwards slightly, covering them and protecting them, although they all knew it would do little against an angel./p
p class="MsoNormal""-Go ahead, see how he digs that" Dean was saying. Allie frowned slightly, realising she had missed what Dean was saying completely. Weather it was the fear of the tension or of the particular angel he was talking to, or maybe it was just her internal monologue, the way she always repeated what was happening at the time in written form in her mind. Maybe it was due to her writing so much when she was younger, although she never became a professional or famous author she still wrote. That seemed to result in some kind of strange side effect in her life./p
p class="MsoNormal""I will drag you out of here myself" Uriel threatened, that voice making her flinch again./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah but you'll have to kill me, then we're back to the same problem. I mean, come on, you're gonna wipe out a whole town for one little witch. Sounds to me like you're compensating for something" Allie raised her eyebrows slightly, hearing this. How did he always do that? Joke like that to anything that was seconds away from killing him. Even an angel who, to him now, was immortal, completely unkillable. She glanced around Sam, watching as Dean turned, facing away from Uriel and looking over at Castiel./p
p class="MsoNormal""We can do this" He said confidently. "We will find that witch and we will stop the summoning"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Castiel!" Uriel exclaimed, noticing him considering. "I will not let these peop-"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Enough!" Castiel shouted suddenly, holding out a hand and interrupting the other angel, effectively silencing him. He stared at Dean another minute and glanced at the other three in the corner. Sam, who had let his arms fall to his sides, but still remained tense. Zoe, who now peeked around the other side of Sam, watching the scene closely and intently, but also keeping a watch on Allie, which was unknown to her. Allie, who silently wondered if his glance in their direction was meant to be a glance towards her, asking for her advice. Allie nodded after just a moment, a short, small nod, one that only he could notice./p
p class="MsoNormal"He looked back to Dean, the whole thing happening so quickly that no one else would take note of the glance or the way his eyes settled mostly on her, or the way she looked at him the same, how he watched for her opinion and how she watched for his./p
p class="MsoNormal""I suggest you move quickly"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Relief didn't begin to describe Allie's felling right now. Under no circumstance was she going to leave and let angels kill off over a thousand people, but she wasn't ready to get angel bombed herself. She watched Dean hesitate slightly before moving quickly to the door. Sam followed just as fast, guiding the girls with him, who were more than happy to get out of there. Allie glanced back as Dean reached to close the door and her heart beat faster when she caught the gaze of both angels. Both stared at her as she left, Castiel looking as if he was still trying to figure her out, as always that slight questioning gaze that lingered, that one that no one else saw before he really showed any emotion. Uriel looked at her completely different however, mistrust and disapproval and emhatred./em And then Allie realised something else, emhe knew./em He knew she knew what was going to happen. That she knew what he was doing behind the curtain, that he would resort to killing angels, and no one would know it was him./p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie looked away as Dean closed the door, hiding how freaked out she was currently, making sure they thought she was fine. Because if she never got home, if she lived out all the seasons she knew it only got worse. Right now in comparison she was living a heaven. These were the golden years and it only got worse. She had to be fine./p
p class="MsoNormal""Astronaut!" Dean yelled out angrily, the sudden sound startling her and making her jump. She looked up from the crack in the pavement she had been staring at, noticing for the first time that Dean's car was covered in egg splatters. Had the Impala been egged by a trick-or-treater in broad daylight? Allie smiled at that, not precisely sure how much of it was real and how much was forced, because it was partially both./p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie glanced over at Zoe, the same moment that she had glanced over too. Both shrugged slightly, both wearing the same slightly freaked, slightly forced smile with a hint of real amusement hidden beneath. Sam climbed in the car, closely followed by Dean and the girls quickly copied, not wanting to be left behind, especially with the angels inside./p
p class="MsoNormal""What?" Dean asked, using the voice he uses when he knows something is wrong. Allie looked up, her heart almost skipping a beat until she noticed he was talking to Sam./p
p class="MsoNormal""Nothing" Sam sighed, keeping his eyes fixed on the hex bag. "I thought they'd be different" Allie had to agree with that one. Not now, but back when she was around eleven, watching season four for the first time, she was certainly surprised. She had always believed in angels, when she was little she had never really thought about it but looking back, she had believed without doubt. God was real angels were real, without a doubt or second thought, but they were certainly different than the small glass statue in her room. Different than the guardian angels she had heard about, they were soldiers, and acted like it. They only followed orders./p
p class="MsoNormal""Who, the angels?" Dean frowned./p
p class="MsoNormal""Yeah" Sam nodded./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well, I tried to tell ya" He pointed out./p
p class="MsoNormal""I just…" Sam stopped with a sigh, trying to explain. "I mean, I thought they'd be righteous"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Well they are righteous" Dean shrugged. "I mean, that's kinda the problem. Of course there's nothing more dangerous than some a-hole who thinks he's on a holy mission"/p
p class="MsoNormal""But I mean, this is God? And heaven? This is what I've been praying to?" Dean sighed at Sam's sad expression. He really had been expecting something different. That something good was finally coming their way./p
p class="MsoNormal""Look man, I know you're into the whole God thing, you know. Jesus on a tortilla and stuff like that. But just because there's a couple of bad apples doesn't mean the whole barrels rotten. I mean, for all we know, God hates these jerks. Don't give up on this stuff, is all I'm saying." Dean stopped for a moment, searing for something else. "Babe Ruth was a dick but baseball's still a beautiful game" He added. Allie watched as Sam looked up, still looking immensely disappointed before he looked back down at the hex bag in his hands, opening it up. He picked up the bone and examined it closely like he had the other one. Dean smiled slightly, thinking of something./p
p class="MsoNormal""Well are you gonna figure out a way to find this witch or are you just gonna sit there fingering your bone?" He asked, grinning. He started the engine as Allie and Zoe traded a slightly disgusted glance./p
p class="MsoNormal""Do you know how much heat it would take to char a bone like this Dean?" He asked suddenly./p
p class="MsoNormal""No" Dean frowned, waiting for the answer./p
p class="MsoNormal""A lot" Sam answered curtly, before continuing. "More than a fire or some kitchen oven"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Okay Betty Crocker, what does that mean?" Dean asked, clearly frustrated by his cryptic answers./p
p class="MsoNormal""The kiln" Allie realised, watching Sam. He turned, nodding to her./p
p class="MsoNormal""It means we need to make a stop"/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Allie was actually surprised when Dean let them come inside. He parked outside the school, got them out of the car and of course began with telling them "Follow my lead, don't wander off, do what I tell you" Of course the two agreed quickly. Dean hesitated before opening the trunk and pulling open the hidden latch. He pulled something out and came over to the girls, carefully holding out two brand new hunting knives, both in leather sheaths. Allie's eyes widened as she carefully took the knife from him. Zoe did the same./p
p class="MsoNormal""These are ours?" Allie asked, looking up. Dean nodded, still looking hesitant./p
p class="MsoNormal""I was hoping to train you how to use these before you actually fought with them. I guess beggars can't be choosers because you are not staying in that hotel alone" He shrugged. "They're new, silver so they work on more than just humans. Let's just hope this witch dies like a human at least" He closed the weapons cache and handed Sam his gun, grabbing his before closing the trunk./p
p class="MsoNormal""Let's go"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" strongA little too long? Sorry! i just really wanted to end a chapter here and i'm not patient enough to upload three tonight. Next one is shorter!/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"strong-Alix/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p