Castiel gave a small smile to the paramedic as they handed him a blanket. He took a deep breath as he watched everyone from his seat on the ambulance. The police were questioning the neighbours, the forensic team were going through his apartment and the paramedics were currently wheeling out the bodies.

4 hours earlier…

"Decide"

"I'm not going to pick one person to live"

"Then everyone dies"

"No! No-one has to die"

"Oh but they really do. In fact why don't we play a round of twister! You have a board in your room don't you?"

"It's in the top of my closet"

"Great. Dean, get up and come with me" Balthazar kept his gun trained on Dean as he pushed himself of the floor. Balthazar pushed Dean out of the room and Castiel turned to look at everyone.

"I am so sorry to have brought you…" Castiel's words were cut off as a gunshot resounded through the apartment. Mary started screaming as she saw Balthazar come back in to the room with the twister board, Sam struggled more and more but Balthazar paid him no attention.

"What did you do?" Balthazar rushed Castiel and shoved the gun under his chin.

"I fucking protected myself! He attacked me Castiel"

"I am going to fucking kill you!"

"I did you a favour Castiel now you don't have to worry about who gets picked" Balthazar pushed back from Castiel and moved back over to the twister board. He spun the needle and bounced a little as the needle passed each person on the table. The needle slowed and finally stopped, Balthazar smiled over at Mary and moved over to her.

"Any last words?"

Mary looked up at Castiel and gave him a small smile "This is not your fault and Sam you be strong baby" Balthazar put the gun to Mary's temple and winked at Cas before pulling the trigger. Sam tried to struggle but the bullet wound in his leg was making him weaker. He turned his head away as Mary's body slumped forward.

"Well that's two down and three to go"

"What?"

"Oh Cassie you didn't think that I was going to kill you, this games all in darling"

"Even you?"

"Of course but the house always wins. So let's spin again, shall we?" Balthazar was about to spin the needle again when his phone buzzed against his leg. He sighed before reaching in to his pocket and reading his text.

"Well look at that looks like we have another player" Balthazar put his gun on the table and then left the room. Sam, Cas and Gabe could hear chatter coming from the hallway. Castiel could swear that he knew the voice but he was having some difficulty placing it. Gabriel's eyes went wide and Castiel was about to turn when someone placed a kiss to his cheek.

"Hey Cas"

"Anna?"

"How you didn't guess it was me I will never know"

"I obviously gave you too much credit"

"Credit for what?"

"Being a part of this family"

"Oh baby I haven't been a part of this family since you were born, first it was Michael then it was you and the only hope I really had was that Gabe here would fail but then he went a bagged little Sammy and now my parents want to know where my good looking boyfriend is"

"Don't you think it's a little pathetic to want to ruin my life because Gabe has a better boyfriend than you, or Michael is more successful than you, or even that you were just a cheap fuck to Dean"

"I'd watch your mouth Castiel or you will end up just like your little boyfriend"

"Well this is always fun to watch Anna but can we please get on with it" Balthazar picked up his gun and waved it a little as he spoke. Anna turned to Balthazar and smiled as she walked over to him. She wrapped her arm around his shoulders and pushed herself on her toes to whisper in his ear.

"Of course we can" Anna quickly pulled out a long silver blade and pushed it up in to Balthazar's stomach "I told you not to kill Dean" She pulled the blade out and plunged it back in 3 times before she let his body drop to the floor "I don't really need you, but you were fun while you lasted"

"You really need to be admitted Anna"

"You sound just like my last boyfriend"

"I don't understand, how the hell did you do all this?"

"Believe it or not Cassie but pure luck. Balthazar was your boyfriend so yes that one was on purpose, but then I slept with Dean before I knew he was your other boyfriend, then about 2 or 3 weeks after sleeping with him I saw Balthazar in a bar. He told me that Dean Winchester had taken you from him and he would do anything to get you back, so after feeding him some bullshit about Dean being my boyfriend he just wanted to protect you Cassie. Convincing him to do all this wasn't actually that hard, I just wasn't expecting him to kill Dean or Mary."

"You're a fucking psycho Anna"

"Now Gabriel darling is there really any need for name calling? Never mind. Here's what's gonna happen I'm going to kill you all, and then pretend that I just got here too late and I had to stab Balthazar with his own knife when he came at me"

"No-one would believe that!"

"Oh really? Let's find out" Anna pulled her phone from her back pocket and put it to her ear as the phone rang.

"Hello"

"Michael! Oh my god Michael"

"Anna? What's going on?"

"Oh god…please…I didn't mean to Michael…I'm sorry…"

"Anna! Tell me what's happened?"

"I just came to Castiel's to apologise and…I think…oh god there dead Michael"

"What...Anna…tell me who's dead"

"Castiel, Gabriel, Sam and Dean…oh god even their mother…I had to kill him Michael"

"Anna did you hurt them?"

"What…no…not me…it was Balthazar he was here when I came over and he tried to kill me and I had to…I had to"

"Okay Anna I'm coming over now! I'm on my way" Anna smirks over at the others as the line goes dead.

"Well isn't this exciting"

"They'll figure it out Anna, you can't kill 4 people and get away with it"

"Oh but I can because Balthazar killed Dean and Mary, so why would they suspect anyone else to be in on it, I'm just an innocent victim in all of this"

"They're gonna see that your crazy"

"Maybe. But they can write that off as the trauma from seeing my cousins and my lover dead"

"Anna…"

"Shut up! God Castiel, I don't want to hear you talk! I am so sick of listening to you all the time. You know I was gonna kill you last but I can't listen to you talk anymore, so Gabriel or Sam can die last! Well done Cas now the last thing they see is each other die, Gabriel how would you feel about seeing your brother then Sam die!" Anna walked over to Castiel and laid her hands on his shoulders. She smoothed out his wrinkled shirt and pulled her knife from pocket. She put the blade to his neck and dug it in till a small amount of blood rolled down Castiel's neck. Anna was about to sweep the knife across Castiel's neck but she crumpled to the floor as something went in to her back. Dean fell forward slightly as he panted.

"Dean?"

"Hey Cas" Dean unwrapped the tape from Castiel's wrist and leaned against the table as he tried to steady himself. Castiel released himself and moved Dean to the chair before going over to Gabriel and Sam. He untied Gabriel, and went back to Dean as Gabriel pushed him away from Sam. Anna was laid on the floor with a small knife sticking in her back.

"What is that?"

"It's a scalpel, I had my bag with me and I needed something sharp"

"What did you do to her?"

"Severed her spinal cord, I'm a paramedic remember" Dean coughed as he tried to keep talking. His shoulder was still bleeding pretty bad and he was bleeding from the back of his head.

"I thought you were dead"

"I fought with Balthazar but he pushed me and I hit my head on the side of the drawers, I'm surprised he didn't kill me while I was out"

"Dean…your mom…"

"Yeah Cas I know but I'll think about that later, right now we need to get out of here" Dean wrapped his arms around Castiel as they heard the front door slam open.

"Anna?!"

"In here Michael" A red faced Michael came running in to the dining-room and looked horrified as he took everything in.

"What happened…"

Present

"And that's everything?"

Castiel stared up at the police officer before nodding his head "Okay well if we need anything else we'll be in touch"

"Thank you"

Castiel closed his eyes as he tried to take in the night, Sam and Gabriel had both been rushed to the hospital for blood loss. Sam's name was likely to be permanently etched in to Gabriel's skin and Sam would no doubt have a scar from his bullet wound but there both alive, so that has to count for something. Anna hadn't been so lucky, it hadn't taken long for her to bleed out, apparently Dean's aim had been a little off due to the blood loss, and Castiel doesn't know whether to believe that or not. Balthazar and Mary had both been taken away from the scene in body bags, Castiel wonders if Mary has reunited with John.

"You look like you're thinking too much"

"Dean you have to go to hospital"

"I will, as soon as you get in this damn ambulance with me" Castiel picked himself up off the step of the ambulance and sat on the bench near the stretcher. He made an exaggerated wave to Dean to get in and he closed his eyes as he put his head on the wall of the ambulance. A lot happened tonight that Castiel didn't want to ever think about again but he knew he would every time he walked in to his apartment or saw the scar on Gabriel, but for now all he thought about was the heat from Dean's hand on his thigh.