CHAPTER 14

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HELLO, DAD!

"You're God? You?!" Dean asked in complete disbelief.

"I know. I know. You were expecting someone completely different. I don't exactly match up to the picture that's often painted of me I know," Chuck said.

"So you were right here under all of our noses? All of the time?" Dean said as he began to get angry.

"Yes, I was. I can understand why you're angry. I really can. You may not like what I did, but I had my reasons for it. I had to see how the angels would react if they thought that I had left. I wanted to see what they would do. Well, I got my answer alright. They didn't do so hot to put it in the politest terms possible, and that's why I had to put this new order in place in order to give them some new blood. They need a little humanity added to their ranks in order to give them a fresh new perspective on things. Besides that, I was never too far away. I was always here when you and your brother needed someone to talk to. You often confided in me about your problems without even knowing who I was, and I did help you on several occasions with valuable information that you needed. Would you have even talked with me at all if I had told you who I was?" Chuck asked.

"No, I probably wouldn't have. I'm still not sure whether to be grateful to get a chance to talk to you or to punch you," Dean said.

"Dean!" Jo said.

"It's okay. I understand. I really do. For what it's worth, I'm sorry for everything that you've had to go through, Dean. You and your brother. Jo is going to make things better though. I have complete faith in her," Chuck said.

"About that. What is it exactly that I'm supposed to do? Am I supposed to make paradise on Earth or something? If so, I have absolutely no idea how to do that," Jo said.

"No, Jo. You're not supposed to create paradise or interfere in mankind's development in any way, shape, or form. I made you the new head of the angels because you're a hunter, Jo. That's exactly what I need for the role that I have in mind for you. You're going to be doing exactly what you always did, Jo. You're going to lead the angels in battle against all of the unnatural forces that would destroy mankind that still lie in wait for them out there," Chuck explained.

"You mean I'm going to be hunting down monsters, demons, etc. just like when I was human? That's what you want me to do?" Jo asked with a smile of approval on her face. She could do that.

"Well, that's the majority of it. That and keeping things running smoothly in Heaven. That's the other half of your job. You have to keep the angels from fighting amongst themselves and get them to help mankind instead of abandoning them. You're doing a good job at that so far," Chuck said.

"Thank you. Gabriel said that I was just the first of many people who used to be human who would someday become angels. Is that so?" Jo asked.

"That's absolutely right. Of course I'm waiting on certain humans to live out their natural lifespans first before I make them into angels. You might know some of them as a matter of fact," Chuck said in a low voice that only Jo could hear as he looked in the direction of the Winchester brothers.

"Really?" Jo asked with a huge smile on her face.

"Really. Can you imagine Dean as an angel? He'll put the fear of me into all of the monsters out there for sure," Chuck whispered with a chuckle.

"I'd prefer to wait a good long while to see that if you don't mind. I haven't even gotten married to him yet," Jo said.

Chuck suddenly became serious as he said, "Jo, you're going to have to face up to a huge challenge soon. It's going to be your first major problem in your new job. I know that you'll be prepared for it though. I believe in you. I just wanted to give you a heads up about."

'You're not staying, are you?" Jo asked.

"No, I'm not coming back just yet. I need to see what you can do first without my help. Sorry," Chuck said.

"It's okay. I can rise to the challenge. I'm always good under pressure," Jo said with a grin.

"Oh, and congratulations on your baby, Jo. She's going to make you proud," Chuck said.

"So, it's true," Jo said with her eyes widened in shock.

"Yeah, Raphael didn't lie. You're pregnant. She's going to be a Nephilim by the way," Chuck said.

"A Nephilim. You mean half-angel and half-human. I never even thought about that. I still think of myself as human," Jo said.

Then she suddenly looked very worried as she said, "Wait a minute. Aren't they considered abominations? I remember reading something about that in one of Bobby's books. I'd never consider my child an abomination of course but the angels might. That could be trouble."

"I want to make this clear, Jo. Your child is not an abomination. She'll be far from it actually. Some of the angels will give you trouble over her heritage, Jo, but it's only because they have a prejudice against humans. One that you and your daughter are going to have to overcome. You can best do that though by proving them wrong. You will too. I have no doubts about that," Chuck said.

"Thanks, I think. Will I be seeing you again?" Jo asked as she sensed that he was about to leave.

"I'll be around. I'll always be listening too so don't hesitate to talk to me even if you can't see me. I'm always there," Chuck said.

Then he turned to the gathered angels and said, "Jo is going to be taking charge now with my blessing, and I want you to listen to her and do whatever she tells you. I'm not leaving for good though. One day I will be back so don't despair. Before I leave though, I want to appoint a new Archangel to take Raphael's place. Do you have any suggestions, Jo?"

Jo whispered something in Chuck's ear, and he smiled as he said, "Yeah, I think that's a very good idea."

He turned to look at Castiel and said, "Congratulations on your new job, Cas."

"What new job?" Castiel asked in confusion.

"You're the new Archangel, you idiot," Anna said with a sigh.

"Oh. Oh! Thank you! Thank you very much," Castiel said with a combination of shock and joy as his face broke out into a large grin.

Chuck then snapped his fingers, and Castiel began to glow with power for a moment as he gained his new promotion. As soon as Castiel became an Archangel and everyone's attention was drawn to him, Chuck quietly disappeared. Only Jo noticed him go because she was standing right next to him.

"Don't tell me. He's gone again just as quickly as he came," Dean said to Jo as he noticed Chuck's sudden absence.

"Dean, there's something that I have to tell you," Jo said as she took Dean aside for a private conversation.

"What?!" Dean suddenly screamed out loud drawing everyone's attention.

Dean started smiling then and couldn't stop. Part of him was terrified, and the other part was absolutely overjoyed. At the moment, that part was winning.

Everyone continued to stare at him as he said, "What? What's everyone looking at? Haven't you ever seen someone smile before? Go on about your business."

"Okay, Dean. What's going on? You don't smile like that. Ever. The only time that you have a smile that big on your face is when you're up to something," Sam said.

Jo wanted to keep her pregnancy a secret from the angels for the moment so she whispered about it into Sam's ear. Sam began to smile with joy now too as he said, "Dude, you've really got to move that wedding date up now."

"I know. When's a good time for you?" Dean asked Jo.

As soon as I can be sure that everything's okay up in Heaven now, and there won't be a revolt while I'm gone. When I'm sure of that, I'll come back to Earth and have the wedding right away. I promise. Like I said before, you're not getting out of this wedding, Dean," Jo said as she kissed him.

Dean looked disappointed as he said, "You have to go? Again? How long is it going to be this time?"

"Not long. I'll be back before you know it," Jo said with sadness as she saw the look on his face.

"I hope so," Dean said as he returned her kiss.

"It won't be long. I'll be back before the end of the week," Jo said firmly.

Then Jo and the rest of the angels all disappeared with nothing but the flapping of wings to mark their passing. Dean looked up to the sky with a forlorn expression on his face. He already wanted her to come back.

The war in Heaven was now over, but there was also a war in Hell that had been going on at the same time. A war that was now coming to its conclusion at last.

Ruby stared at the door to her inner chamber in fear as she heard the screams of her guards outside of it. She knew that it was over now. She only had moments to live.

The coup against her was now complete.

Ruby began to prepare for the battle of her life as her door was knocked down by a burst of power. She was immediately brought to her knees by a voice that chanted an ancient spell.

Ruby was fixed in place as the spell froze her in time. She could do nothing but watch helplessly as Azazel killed her with just a few words.

Azazel smiled as he said, "Those spells from that tablet have come in handy after all. I'll have to remember not to kill that prophet's mother in gratitude. Not yet anyway."

Azazel was now finally the King of Hell, and he was only just getting started. He had more planned then just taking over this stinkhole. He wanted the Earth too, and he was going to get it.

He had another spell that he had learned from another one of those tablets that he had discovered. Now he was going to use it against his greatest enemies.

As Azazel chanted the spell, the angels in Heaven could sense that something was very wrong. It felt as if a shockwave of power went through them all, and Jo immediately said, "What was that?"

"I think that someone cast a spell," Castiel said.

"I'll have to go down to Earth and see if someone down there knows something about it," Jo said.

Only nothing happened. She couldn't leave! She kept trying and trying, but she couldn't leave Heaven.

"Can you leave?" Jo asked Castiel in a panic.

Castiel tried and he had no more success than Jo had. None of the other angels could leave either.

"What's happening?" Jo asked.

"Someone's found at least one of the tablets," Castiel said.

"The tablets?" Jo asked.

"The tablets of the Word of God. They've obviously found a tablet that contains a spell that can keep the angels trapped in Heaven," Castiel explained.

"That's just great. Now humanity is all alone and defenseless against whoever this is," Jo said in anger.

"Not necessarily. One of us might just be able to break free and go down there to find out what's going on," Castiel said.

"Who?" Jo asked.

"The one of us who isn't fully an angel," Castiel said as he looked at Jo's stomach.

"Do the others know too?" Jo asked in fear.

"No, just me, Gabriel, and Anna. God told us about it before he left. He wanted us to protect the child from any angels who might try to destroy her when she was born," Castiel said.

"They'll have to go through me first," Jo said as her eyes glowed with power.

"That may not be necessary now. Like I said, your child is the only one of us who may be able to return to Earth since she is connected to it," Castiel said.

"Even if she could, what could she do? She's not even been born yet," Jo protested.

"I have an idea about that," Castiel said.

Jo listened and her eyes began to widen. She wasn't so sure about this. She would have to try it though. It was the only way that they might be able to get back out and save the Earth from whoever had trapped them all here.

Back on Earth, Azazel was already starting his takeover of Earth as he decided to attack the two people who he knew would automatically pose the greatest threat to him now that the angels had been taken care of. Dean and Sam Winchester.

He appeared right in the middle of Bobby's yard and surprised both brothers while they still stood there after Jo and the angels had left them there. Dean was slammed against the side of Bobby's house and held there as Azazel grabbed Sam by the throat.

"Hello, Sam. It's been a long time. I think I'll kill you first. I really want Dean to see you die. That way he'll know that I'm behind the deaths of both his mother and his brother. I really want him to feel that pain and anguish in all of its glory in his last moments before I finally kill him too," Azazel said with a smug grin on his face.

"Get away from him!" Jessica said as she came running out of the house followed by Bobby and Ellen.

"Oh, it's the Phoenix. I've been waiting to see how I'd do against you," Azazel said.

"Well, now's your chance!" Jessica said as she set Azazel on fire with a single touch.

Azazel laughed as he said, "You're setting me on fire?! Is this a joke?"

"No, the only joke around here is you," Jessica said as she punched him in the mouth with all of her strength.

"Impressive. You know once that would have actually hurt me. Now though I didn't even feel it. Tell me if I do any better with you?" Azazel said as he punched Jessica in the jaw and sent her flying across the yard.

Bobby quickly pulled out the Colt and started to shoot Azazel with it when Azazel knocked out from his hand with a telekinetic shove. The Colt went flying several feet away as another demon appeared and grabbed Bobby. The two of them started struggling with each other while Ellen ran to get the gun.

She was beaten to it though by yet another demon who picked it up and pointed it at her. "Your daughter's trapped and unable to come help you this time. Who's going to save you now?" the demon said as he pointed it at Ellen.

He suddenly got his answer in the form of a fist to the face that knocked him out cold. A blonde teenage girl who Ellen had never seen before but who looked very familiar to her nevertheless smiled at her as she said, "Man, that felt good! That was the first time that I ever punched anyone before. It just felt so natural."

"Who are you?" Ellen asked.

Before the girl could answer, another demon appeared and ran for the Colt. The blonde girl said, "I'll have to tell you later. I'm a little busy right now."

The girl grabbed the Colt and shot the demon running towards her straight between the eyes with it. The demon fell to the ground dead, and the girl grinned.

"Pretty good, huh? I'm never shot a gun in my life, and that's a lot shorter than you'd think," the girl said as she turned to wink at Ellen.

For some reason Ellen felt an instant connection to this girl and knew that she could trust her. She wondered who she was to inspire such feelings in her so quickly.

The girl looked at Azazel getting ready to kill Sam and said, "Let him go or I'll shoot you down next."

Azazel turned to look at her in shock as he said, "How? I sealed all of you up. It's not possible."

"I guess you're just not as smart as you think you are, are you?" the girl said as she shot Azazel with the Colt.

Azazel quickly teleported away in order to evade the bullet. The girl teleported as well in order to follow him. As soon as Azazel appeared a few feet away from his previous location, the girl was suddenly standing right next to him waiting for him with a huge smile on her face.

"Bang," the girl said as she shot him at point blank range with the Colt before he could leave again.

Azazel died instantly and the demons with him all fled as the girl briefly showed her angel wings to them while her eyes glowed with light. She blew the smoke away from the tip of the Colt and quickly put it in a holster that suddenly appeared around her waist.

Dean came running up to her immediately as he asked, "Who are you? Whoever you are I'd like to shake your hand. Anyone who kills Azazel is alright in my book."

"I'm glad you think so. You honestly don't recognize me?" the girl asked in disappointment.

"Should I?" Dean asked in confusion.

"Oh, I don't know. I'd think that a man would recognize his own daughter. Maybe that's just me though," the girl said with a big grin on her face.

Ellen gasped as she realized now that the girl looked a lot like Jo. Dean, however, did more than gasp. His mouth shot open so wide that the girl was sure that his lower jaw was about to fall off.

"Hello, Dad! It's so nice to meet you. I'm Mary. Mom thought that I should be named after your mother. Is that okay with you?" Mary asked.

Dean said nothing. He just stood there gaping at her in total shock.

"Dean, when I said that I wanted you to hurry up and give me grandchildren I didn't mean that I wanted them this quick," Ellen said.

Mary laughed. She liked her family already.

Meanwhile down in Hell, a new King of Hell was now crowned as Crowley smiled while he held the two tablets that Azazel had found. He knew that Azazel would do something stupid like go after the Winchester boys and get himself killed his first day on the job. In fact, he was counting on it. Now he was the only game in town just as he had always hoped to be.

With no Jo around to humiliate him anymore, he would now be free to do whatever he wanted to. He was going to enjoy having humanity at his mercy. Oh, the deals that he would make!

Next: Mary leads the way as she and the Winchester brothers try to find a way to reverse the spell that has her mother and the other angels trapped in Heaven. She also gets to know her family a little better along the way.