A bit earlier than usual, but here you are. Enjoy. Don't get too angry with chapter, and don't worry. Harry shall be getting his payback eventually. Tenfold. Cheers.

Harry put one hand to his pounding head. He'd spent far too many hours finding a way to increase the wards for Jesse's bracelet. They couldn't afford a repeat of last time and there was no telling how fast Jesse would be able to find a grip on his powers. Harry checked his watch. 1:00 pm. He needed to go to the station soon where the group would be waiting for him.

He eyed the nondescript brown bracelet in his hand wearily before slipping it into his pocket. With a blink he was standing in a completely different area. Around him a gentle breeze pushed at the fields several miles outside of La Crosse, Kansas. He was just outside of the building's wards, but something felt off.

Harry walked briskly toward the large 'abandoned' building that used to be a rather large granary which had then been converted into office space.

Quietly he slipped through a side door. He checked a few of the rooms he passed unsure where the group had decided to settle for the few days they were visiting. He'd just opened the door to the third room when he heard a shout from further in the building. Abandoning his search he darted as fast as he could in the direction he'd heard the shout issue from.

He slammed through the door at the end of the long hallway and found himself in the largest room of the place. He was now face to face with far more people than he had expected to be. His eyes darted around taking in everything in front of him in a matter of milliseconds. First they went to the precarious situation of those standing in front of him. Anna was being held to the ground, a knife raised high above her back obviously at ready to stab her, but her assailants had hesitated upon his entrance. Just a few feet away Jesse was being visibly restrained by two demons. How they had managed to restrain the kid Harry was unsure. Jesse's mother was being held by none other than Lucifer himself. And lastly the father seemed to be lying in a puddle of his own blood not far from where Harry had entered.

Harry flung out his hand and the three demons on top of Anna flew back. She pushed herself up slowly, obviously injured, but no longer in mortal peril. She nodded at him in thanks but had eyes only for Lucifer.

"How nice of you to join us Harry." Lucifer said cordial as ever.

Harry narrowed his eyes. "I'm sure." He said eyes darting between Jesse and Lucifer then back again. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm just offering this young cambion here a bit of an ultimatum. You see when I told him he was made to fight on my side in this war he said he didn't have to. I found that funny. Don't you?" Lucifer asked with a smile.

Harry said nothing edging his way further into the room, closer to the others. "How did you find them?"

"Oh, it's funny you should ask actually." Lucifer said smile still permanently in place. "Did you know that Mr. Turner here," Lucifer nodded to the corpse by the door. "had a contract. Your wards are good. I'll give you that, but they don't trump a hell hound's nose when a contract is up."

Harry cursed mentally. How had he not noticed the man had made a demon deal? Still, it told him that the demons probably had no idea about Jesse's occasional magic slips. Which meant if he could get the kid away from here a second relocation would probably work much better than the first had. He'd cautiously made his way between where Anna was still kneeling and Jesse.

"I must say," Lucifer spoke again "I am curious how you convinced Anna here not to kill him. Most angels kill a cambion on sight. They consider them abominations of the highest order. I can't say I blame them. A mix of demon and human. Disgusting-"

"Save your speeches Lucifer." Harry spat growing to irritated to listen the angels trash talking. "You know they don't do anything for me."

If anything Lucifer's grin grew a little bit larger.

'Jesse can you hear me?' Harry sent across a mental link to the boy. He was relieved when he got a mental confirmation but the boy didn't show any outward sign of it. 'Good. When I get rid of the demons I want you to teleport to my office. Third cabinet behind the desk, open it. Go in, shut the door and push the yellow button on the inside. Don't come out. Either I or someone I trust will come for you. DON'T open the door yourself not even if someone asks you to.'

Another hesitant mental confirmation. 'But my mom.'

Lucifer was eying Harry speculatively. "Despite your…background…I've always found you interesting."

"I'm flattered." Harry said shooting a glare. 'Let me worry about her.' He thought with mild irritation. It was a delicate situation and he hoped the boy would just follow his instructions lest it become even trickier to get everyone out alive. 'How are they blocking your powers?'

"You're referring to his human DNA." Anna spoke up.

'The paper.' Harry allowed his eyes to dart to the demon on Jesse's left that was holding a paper talisman to the boy's arm. It was an odd little thing, but it didn't contain any spell Harry was aware of. It must be a diversion. He darted another glance to the second demon quickly mentally cataloging everything the man had on him.

Lucifer turned his icy stare to Anna. "Of course I am." He said dispassionately. "It's unfortunate he was born half angel, half of that pathetic unfortunate race our father favors so much." Lucifer's eyes turned back to him mournful in a way. "You'd have made a beautiful angel. Instead our father cursed you to be an abomination."

"Abomination." Harry scoffed. "You sure know how to worm your way into someone's heart. Besides, I think our definition of abominations might be a little different."

Lucifer smiled obviously not catching the sarcasm. "You should join me Harry. Together there is no one who could stop us. Not even God himself. You could have everything."

Harry smiled and then flicked out his finger shattering a ring the demon on Jesse's right wore. He waved his hand and the demons flew backwards. Instantly Jesse was gone.

Harry turned to the boy's mother and snapped his fingers. She was gone too leaving just Harry, Anna, and a corpse within Lucifer's reach.

Harry's movements slowed as some unseen force worked against him. It felt very similar to the force he'd felt in Carthage days ago. He fought it earning himself strained muscles and nothing more.

He heard the short cry from Anna signifying she'd been recaptured. The two demons who'd been holding her before had resumed their duty.

"You let him get away." Lucifer's voice was cold and then there were twin cries of pain as he doubtless killed the demons on the spot.

Footsteps echoed through the large room as the angel walked slowly around to Harry's front. His face was measured. Gone was the mirth he'd shown seconds earlier. "You seem awfully determined to keep the cambion boy from me."

Harry snorted but said nothing eyes glaring back at the devil.

"He's not the only one you've warned away though." Lucifer said crossing his arms. "I hear you paid a little visit to the Winchesters after our last meeting."

"Sorry, there was a mix up, your invitation was sent to hell."

"You've been telling Sam not to say yes to me Harry."

"Your point?"

"Sam is my vessel Harry. Don't you know what that means? He was destined for this."

"Destined?" Harry snarled. "Destined to be forced out of his own mind? I've been there before Lucifer. Can you really blame for wanting to stop it happening to someone else? You disgust me."

Lucifer frowned. It was the first time Harry had really openly displayed his distaste. Lucifer nodded and Harry saw one of the demons lift a knife high above Anna's head obviously intending to end her life. She closed her eyes resigned, and Harry felt a spark of something inside his chest. Rebellion against the odds? Perhaps. Love? Definitely not. Hate seemed an adequate description.

Still, whatever emotion it might have been it fuelled his power. "No!" he yelled and flung a spell in the direction of the demons. They flew backwards and hit the walls of the place not moving, but the spell rebounded and struck him as well. Breathless, he barely kept his feet, sliding back several feet.

Lucifer caught his collar as he teetered on the spot unable to right himself while he remained under the hold of whatever it was Lucifer had done. Lucifer held a small vial in his hands showing it to Harry. There was a viscous green liquid inside that rolled from side to side slowly whenever Lucifer tilted it. "Do you know what this is?" he asked Harry still holding his shirt.

Harry just glared in response. He didn't know what it was but he wasn't about to let Lucifer know that.

"It's something my demons and I have been working on for a very, very long time." He supplied eying the bottle with a small smile. "It has quite a few uses really. Trapping, warding, summoning…only over very short distances unfortunately…less than a mile. My personal favorite though, has to be the mind control."

Harry was eying the vial more warily now.

"All of it's linked to you of course." Lucifer said shaking the small piece of glass. "It took forever to work out how to do it. Just a few drops though and I'll be in your mind."

Harry watched as Lucifer pulled a syringe from his pocket and popped the protective cap from the top placing the needle into the liquid and drawing it up. "Say 'ah'." Lucifer joked moving the needle closer to him.

"Fuck you." Harry said through gritted teeth.

With a triumphant grin Lucifer pushed the now full syringe into Harry's neck. Harry barely had the time to register the sharp burn of the liquid searing into his veins before something had struck Lucifer and sent him stumbling away.

The syringe, now unsupported fell from his skin and shattered on the floor. Even just laying there in front of him the liquid was repugnant to him. Anna was beside him wrapping her arms around him and shouting words, trying to get him to focus, but he couldn't. The world seemed to be moving too slow and too fast at the same time. Anna gripped him tight, shouted something else, and then they were no longer in the granary.

Sharp almost impossibly intense pain rocketed through his skull. He cried out arms lifting to cradle it. Anna swatted his hands away lifting his face towards her own. He blinked several times forcing himself to watch her lips as they moved. She was speaking to him and he needed to know what she was saying even though there was an overwhelming urge in his mind not to pay her any attention. In fact there was an alarming amount of his mind telling him to just go back to the granary. He fought the urge. He knew it wasn't himself thinking something so stupid.

"Focus!" Anna nearly screamed at him now. "Come on! I don't know the codes to get Jesse out, and I don't know where you sent his mother. Focus!"

Harry lifted his hands to meet hers with some difficultly. They seemed to be made of lead. He blinked trying to clear his mind, but it just kept screaming the same thing over and over 'go back to the granary'. "945…68…214 star." He got out between ragged breaths.

Anna bolted to the cabinet Jesse had gone into and entered the code. There were three loud beeps before the door released. To Anna's immense relief Jesse was indeed behind the door. His eyes swung around the room. "Where's my mom?"

Harry had the urge to rock back and forth gripping his head. "Safe." He got out biting his lip. "Anna, we have to…leave…now. We can't stay here."

Anna ran to his side to help him up. Jesse moved forward looking a bit wary. Harry sent him a mental image of a house. "Take us there." He told him grimacing.

Jesse nodded gripping both of their hands and whipping them to their destination. In front of them stood an unkempt lawn and a battered house. Harry fished through his pocket with two fingers still holding the other hand to his head. Eventually he found the key he always kept on him in case of emergencies. The same fingers held it out shakily to whoever would take it. He was losing focus on the external as he tried to fight the voice in his head.

He barely felt the guiding hands that led him into the house.

Anna sat Harry down on one of the over sized sofas that lined the living room walls. She was worried. She'd heard everything Lucifer had said about the strange liquid. There was a high chance that in a matter of seconds she'd be dealing with a Harry that was being controlled by Lucifer. Not only would she lose her only real ally in all of this, but she'd gain a powerful enemy. She wasn't sure she could beat him if it came down to a fight.

"My mom's not here." Jesse said having returned from searching upstairs. She was sure the kid had thought Harry was leading them to his mother.

Anna turned to him. She'd gotten to know him a bit better in the months since she'd started teaching him how to control his powers. He was a decent kid, if a bit mature for his age in an unnatural creepy sort of way. "I'm sure she's safe wherever Harry sent her."

"What's wrong with him?" Jesse said turning his gaze to the catatonic man on the sofa.

Anna shook her head. "I'm not really sure. Listen, I'm sure when he's better he'll be able to tell us where your mom is. Until then you'll have to be patient. We should be safe here."

"Anna…" Harry voice trailed off after a second.

Anna swung in his direction. She grabbed his shoulders trying to get his eyes on her face. "What is it?" she asked watching as his eyes travelled left then right focusing and un-focusing intermittently.

He closed his eyes for a second as if steeling himself. "Paper…and a pen."

He'd barely finished the thought before she was going after the required items. She found a notebook on the kitchen counter and a pen on the table near the door. She held both out when she returned to her starting position in front of him. His hands weakly scrambled for them before withdrawing and scribbling out a list as quickly as they could. When he'd completed the task he held it back out for Anna to take and as soon as the items were gone from him he returned his hands to their positions on his head.

The words on the paper made little sense to her. "What is-?"

"Bobby Singer." Harry bit out rubbing his temples less out of focus and more annoyed sounding now. "Take it to Singer."

She couldn't quite understand why, but she followed the instruction. She turned to Jesse. "I'll be back soon. Don't leave."

In seconds she was in the Singer Salvage Yard standing at Bobby's front door and giving a tentative tap. Shuffling could be heard inside followed by a disbelieving huff near the door. Slowly the door creaked open to reveal a suspicious faced Bobby and a twelve gauge undoubtedly packed with rock salt rounds. "What're you doing here?"

"I have a list from Harry." She said waving the paper she'd torn from the notebook. "He said to bring it to you."

"Oh I'm sure he did." Bobby said obviously upset with the circumstances and still a little distrusting. He tossed her a flask. She eyed it with confusion. "Standard procedure."

"We haven't got time for-"

"Either drink or I take the shot goldilocks."

Scowling Anna undid the lid and took a swig. Lowering the flask she gave him a look that dared him to give her another test. Instead he snatched the list from Anna's hand and motioned for her to proceed into his house.

Ellen was at the doorway watching with confusion. "What's going on?" she asked, recognizing Anna from her appearance in Bobby's kitchen the other day.

"Devine mail delivery." Bobby said waving the paper before unfolding it and reading the first two lines. He nearly choked on his spit. "What the hell does he need this stuff for?"

"I don't know." Anna answered honestly.

"Well why couldn't the bastard come here and ask for it himself?"

"He's indisposed." Anna skirted.

Bobby huffed. "Fine. I've got this stuff here, but he owes me."

Anna nodded eagerly, desperate to get back to Harry and Jesse. After all, Harry could lose whatever mental fight he was putting up any second and Jesse would probably lose any fight the two had if Harry was determined to bring the kid to Lucifer. She watched as Bobby moved around throwing the listed items into a disposable grocery bag. When he'd gathered everything he held it out to her. With a nod of gratitude she was back at the house with Harry.

A quick glance told her Jesse was just where she'd left him and Harry was still an unmoving mass on the couch. She hustled over holding out the bag and nudging him gently. His hand darted for the bag even though he didn't lift his eyes to her.

He fumbled through the contents swiftly before extracting an obsidian black bowl. He grabbed a few other items throwing different amounts into the bowl and finally mixing them together. He dabbed shaking fingers into the mixture and drew a strange symbol on his forehead. Immediately the tense set of his shoulders relaxed some. Anna faintly recognized the symbol as runic, but she had no idea what it meant.

Harry pushed himself back against the couch with a sigh.

"Is it gone?" she asked tentatively. "Will you be alright now?"

"No." Harry answered bluntly. "I've stalled it, turned down the volume in a sense, but it is only going to buy time."

"What do we do? How do we get rid of it?" she asked worriedly.

"No idea." He said rubbing his temple. "But I should be able to think of something."

"My mom?" Jesse interrupted with a frown.

Harry glanced over tiredly. "She's in a small town in Idaho." He said reassuringly. "She'll have to stay there until I can find the time to set up new identities for you two."

Jesse looked a bit less anxious knowing that she was indeed okay.

Harry groaned a bit earning another concerned look from Anna.

"You said it was stalled."

"Yes, but it's still there." Harry snapped back. "I can feel it…hear it like background noise."

"What's it saying?"

"Right now? It…he wants me to find Sam. He thinks I'll be able to convince the giant to say yes. I don't know why he thinks I'll have any sway on the matter…Anna?"

Anna was glaring down at him. "The Winchesters again?" she said with venom. "It always comes back to them. They're the reason this whole thing started."

"True." Harry agreed with a shrug.

"The world would have been better off if the Winchesters never existed."

Harry glanced up sharply not liking the tone she'd taken. "Anna…" he said warningly.

She glanced down and gave him a small smile. "I think I know how to stop it." She said with a grin.

Harry narrowed his eyes. "Want to cue me in?"

"Keep the Winchesters from existing in the past and Lucifer never springs his cage. If Lucifer never gets free he can't use that stuff on you, but more importantly this whole apocalypse mess never happens."

"Anna…" Harry barely got out her name before she was gone, too carried away in her excitement to stop and listen to him. "Anna!" he shouted at the empty room in frustration.

He knew better than to think one's problems could be solved by trying to meddle in the past.

"What do we do?" Jesse asked face devoid of emotion as he watched Harry.

Harry put one hand to his head rubbing his temple. "We stop her from killing the Winchesters." He said with a frown. "The universe doesn't work like she thinks it does."

"What about you?"

"Winchesters first." Harry said with a grimace. "She isn't connected to heaven so she'll try to take them out in the present first if my assumptions are correct."

"And me?"

Harry shook his head. "I'm afraid you'll have to stay here. If Lucifer knows you're out in the open he won't stop trying to find you. I'll send someone over to make sure you get everything you need."

Jesse looked like he wanted to argue the point, but stopped himself and hesitantly nodded.

Harry stumbled a bit as he landed in Bobby's Salvage Yard. He tried following the card he'd placed on Dean all those months ago, but the Winchester had apparently tossed it, or lost it, at some point as Harry found the tracking spell leading him to a random river in Louisiana. Chances were Dean had probably fallen in the river at some point, knowing the Winchester record for getting tossed around on hunts.

He knocked swiftly on the door and placed one hand against the frame while he waited for Bobby to answer. The door creaked open and Bobby's suspicious eyes peered around its edge. "She said you were indisposed."

"She was right." Harry said pushing the door the rest of the way open and ignoring the shotgun in the old man's hands. His eyes flicked around the hallway then back outside. "Where are the Winchesters?"

"Why do you want to know?" Bobby's voice was laced with suspicion even after their truce. "And what the hell is on your head?"

Jo's head peeked around the corner obviously curious about who had been knocking at the door.

"They're in danger." Harry said turning to Bobby, ignoring the last question.

"They're always in danger. What's different this time?"

"Anna." Harry said simply. "Anna wants them gone. She doesn't just want them dead. The dead can be brought back. She wants them eradicated."

Bobby was already pulling a phone off the nearby shelf, dialing a number. The device rang several times before a gruff voice answered. Harry could barely make out Dean's voice on the other end as he snatched the phone from Bobby's hands and pressed it to his ear. "-really don't have time to talk right now Bobby."

"It's not Bobby, Dean. It's Harry." Harry amended.

"Harry? Where's Bobby?" Dean's voice turned harsh. "You better not have-"

"I take it if you're having that reaction you've already had a run in with Anna." Harry said rubbing his forehead.

"Yeah, you could say that. There a reason she's suddenly gunning for us?"

"She blames you two for the start of the apocalypse. Can't really fault her on that one, but she thinks with Sam gone it will stop."

"Well, we stopped her." Dean said sounding a bit too smug.

"No…you didn't." Harry said with a frown. Were the Winchesters really so full of themselves?...Yeah, they were. "She's gone back in time. She intends to wipe you out before you were born."

"How do you know that?"

"…it's what I would do." In actuality it was quite similar to something Harry had tried to do upon learning he was able to manipulate time to an extent. Of course he hadn't been trying to kill anyone. He'd been trying to save his friends, and he'd failed.

Harry listened as Dean drew the phone away from his ear and talked to someone for a few moments. He heard the name 'Cas', and knew Castiel was with them. Then the phone went dead and Harry stared at it in confusion. He couldn't figure out why Dean had hung up. He ended the connection and hit the redial button. The phone rang once before going to voice mail.

"Damn it." He said rubbing his temples and trying to coax back the headache that had been threatening to form for the longest time.

"Are you okay?"

Harry opened his eyes to find the concerned face of Jo staring back. "Not particularly, no." he said with a frown.

"What's going on with Sam and Dean? Can I help?"

"My best guess is that they just convinced their buddy Castiel to give them a lift to the past to head off Anna. There's no way that little trip isn't going to have serious repercussions for Castiel."

"What do you mean?" Bobby asked with a frown.

"Castiel isn't running at full capacity right now. If he expends a large amount of energy in a small amount of time his vessel won't be able to keep up. It probably won't kill him, but he could put himself in a coma if he's not careful. Anyways, time travel isn't easy. It takes a lot of energy. There's a reason you don't see people hopping around decades at will. Castiel could probably pull himself through mostly alright, but I doubt the Winchesters will let him go alone, which means he's bringing passengers. That's a lot more difficult. I doubt you could even comprehend the complex algorithms and theory behind time travel so let's not get into that."

Bobby seemed to be trying to process what Harry had just said. Jo was simply staring at him determinedly, waiting for him to continue.

"I need you to tell me everything you know about the Winchesters." Harry trying to ignore the goading voice in the back of his head telling him simply to find Sam. Strangely enough he was trying to find Sam, but not for the reasons Lucifer wanted. "I'm going to try to find an approximate year and follow their energy signatures so I end up around the same time they do."

"Let me come with you." Jo interrupted. "You could probably use the back up right?"

Harry considered her for a moment. He didn't really need the back up, but he knew next to nothing about the girl or her mother, and they were now part of the same side in a war of sorts. He shrugged. Why not? "As long as you agree to do as I say." He countered. "Some things will require delicate handling. Screwing with the past can be dangerous business."

She hesitated for only a moment, glad that her mother was taking a nap on Bobby's couch, before nodding.

Harry turned to Bobby. "As many specifics as you can give would be nice, particularly birth dates and places. My guess is that Anna will attempt to off them in their early childhood…possibly before then." Harry pulled out a notepad as Bobby began to list what he knew.

"So let me get this straight." Gabriel said pacing as Harry pulled spare things from his closet. "Lucy drugged you with some secret mind control potion, Anna's on a rampage to destroy the Winchesters, the entire world is on the verge of tearing itself apart, and you want me to babysit."

Harry paused to throw a glare over his shoulder at the petulant angel. "I don't need you to babysit Gabriel. I need you to make sure Lucifer doesn't find him while I'm gone keeping the world from imploding."

"I don't really understand why you think the Winchesters dying is a bad thing. Personally I find them rather self involved."

"Says the most self involved person I know." Harry retorted.

Gabriel had the humor to look offended for half a second before grinning. "Touché. So how are you going to find Anna?"

"I just need to find…" Harry stopped grabbing a small metal device. "This actually."

"What's that?" Gabriel asked plucking the thing from Harry's hand and turning it over in his hands curiously.

"It's an amplifier of sorts. It'll amplify Anna's energy so I can focus on where she landed. Of course with Castiel and the Winchesters going back as well I'll have more points to lock on to so I should get a more accurate reading. Unfortunately there's already one me running around that time period I'll have to make sure we don't bump into each other. I have no idea where I was in the seventies. Years tend to blur together when you're as old as I am…and when you've live trough the seventies several times. I doubt it'll be an issue though."

"I got the water!" Jo said bursting into the room with a manic grin. She'd made it perfectly clear to Harry that she thought time travel was the coolest thing ever. She'd also thanked him again for healing her now that she had the energy to move.

"Good." Harry said watching as she held up the satchel full of water bottles. "We're almost set then."

"Why can't she watch the kid?" Gabriel whined.

"Because she can't teleport Gabriel." Harry said with annoyance they'd been over this already when Gabriel had first learned of his task and had seen Jo. "She'd also make a poor defense against Lucifer. No offense Ms. Harvelle."

Jo certainly looked offended. "Why because I'm a girl?" her tone was calm but icy.

"No, because you're human, and he's the devil." Harry replied with the same amount of venom. "Shall we?"

Anger forgotten Jo stepped forward to grab Harry's proffered arm. "Allons-y!" she said with excitement earning a curious side glance from Harry.

Allons-y! Yes, a Doctor Who reference for those of you reading. Fantastic show Doctor Who. Could've gone with Geronimo but Tennant wins in my book any day. I think it's his presence in the Harry Potterverse that sells it for me.

So, Lucifer's a dick. Nothing new there, but he does have some cool tricks.

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~Kanathia

EDIT: I went back through and corrected all the 'Gabrielle' autocorrects. That happened once last chapter too. Weird huh?

EDIT EDIT: I'm doing a read through of the whole story to fix continuity errors and small mistakes that are inevitably littered throughout since this is a WIP. There may be small changes if you re-read but all major things will remain the same. (PS anyone unhappy with Ruby's death scene should go back and see how I changed that. Harry got a little payback XD)