A/N: as the Winchesters and Ruby race off to stop Lucifer from rising, Zachariah has a heart to heart with Castiel. The Goddess finds gives Castiel a choice that he didn't have before. What will happen when the Winchesters fond the last seal and what will Castiel decide? How does the prophesy really turn out? Read and review.
"You can't help them Castiel. Their fate is already decided; you helped to decide it when you walked away from your human woman." Zachariah said, looking jovially at Castiel.
"She has a name Zachariah. Why do you not call her by name like you do Dean or Sam? She is a good person." Castiel stated, not buying into Zack's happiness.
"Because, she should not be able to converse with the Goddess; the hierarchy is there for a reason. No mortal should be able to talk to the divine without an angel to translate." Zack replied, slight annoyance flitting across his face for a glimmer of a second.
"So, she is the only one who can do what she does?"
"Yes, apparently it runs in her family. Her mother could do it too." Zachariah's voice was tinged with distaste at the idea.
"If it shouldn't be; why does the Goddess allow it?" Castiel asked.
"Because they need me my son." The Goddess answered for the senior angel as she appeared before them.
"How is she?" Castiel asked, looking toward his mother.
"Going into battle; she will need your assistance soon, where is Anna? She must help." The Goddess said, placing a hand on Castiel's shoulder.
"Zachariah says that there is nothing that I can do to help them." Castiel said, uncertainty reigning.
"You must decide whether to go to her aid, but there is always something that you can do. But you have to decide for yourself. Does she mean enough to you for you to save her." The Goddess stated with finality.
The cemetery turned up a lot sooner than I expected and we found the grave pretty easily. It was housed in a mausoleum with his family but there was no sign of EMF, the demons had yet to make an appearance. Dean salted the door and we divided the watch into shifts to wait for Lilith and Meg to show. Everyone was lulled into a sense of security, a false sense of security.
At three twelve that morning, the battle began. But it wasn't much of a battle. One minute it was just the four of us and the next minute Dean, Sam and I were thrown against marble walls and the door to the crypt slammed shut. Light from the few candles that we had lit and the full moon that filtered through the windows of the mausoleum revealed Lilith in her dental hygienist meat suit dressed in a flowing white silk gown and what I could only assume was Meg , a tall redhead in a similar dress as Lilith's only it was black.
"Hello all. So glad that you could make it," Meg said walking up to Sam and halting in front of him where Lilith had him suspended.
Fighting against the hold I tried to reach the demon knife in my duster pocket. "You know, even if you could move, that wouldn't work on me Peaches." Lilith said, turning to look at me.
"It's been a while Sammy. You look good, strong." Meg said, running a hand across Sam's cheek before she turned to Dean. "You know Dean; it was so great to see you in the Pit. It was even better to hear your screams while Alistair tortured you. But I have to say, the day that you became the very thing that you sent to Hell makes me smile every time I think about it."
"Meg after all that time in torture, you're still a bitch. What do you get out of Lucifer rising?" Dean said, cockiness winning out over discretion.
"Shut up Winchester." Lilith said tilting her head a bit and Dean clenched his teeth as the pain assailed him.
Meg finally turned to me. "Kailyn Ophelia Winchester, the holy grail of angelic hosts. Did your Goddess ever tell you that not only could you serve as host to an angel, but a God or Goddess could occupy you as well? But don't worry; we won't use you for that. We only want to kill you to open the seal; I really don't think that Lucifer would want his host to be a woman."
"For all your talk about bring Lucifer from damnation, you don't do a very good job. The only way Lucifer rises is if Sammy kills me. As long as you have us up here, nothing is gonna happen." I said, Dean Winchester-esque bravado taking hold.
"We're getting to that." Ruby said, stepping out of the shadows. "Meg, just do it so he can be free."
"You take all the fun out of everything Rube." Meg said, pouting a bit before her head tilted back and a sulfuric black loud of demon filled the small place.
"You've been through this before Sammy, you know what's coming." Ruby said smiling as the Meg demon smoke floated slowly, teasingly toward him.
"You can't possess him, he has the amulet and the symbol tattooed on his chest." I objected, fighting against Lilith's hold, feeling helpless despite all my firepower.
"We can with all that demon blood he has in him. It voids that little amulet and symbol. I told you we'd see who would die tonight." Ruby said, black eyes finally appearing.
"No, Sammy can fight her! You are stronger than this!" I shouted hysterically as Sam fought against the black cloud as it forced itself into my brother. The force dropped me and I fell to my knees. I pulled the katana from its sheath in a paltry attempt to stop Meg/Sam's approach. I didn't want to hurt my brother, but I didn't want to free Lucifer either.
I flourished the blade and danced back, right into the wall that I had been previously been pinned to. Dean's shouts and his pleading with Sam to fight it were interrupted by screams of agony as Lilith tightened her hold on him as she watched the scene that unfolded before her.
Sam advanced and with a wave of his hand the blade flew from my grasp and he caught it, stopping a few scant feet before me.
"Sammy, if you can hear me; please, do not let her kill me." I said, reaching for the Henry. It had hardly cleared leather when the silver blade sliced into my stomach. Instead of pain, the calm descended over me again and I felt numb. Sam's face was a few inches from mine, Meg released part of her hold on him and his brown eyes flickered out of the blackness. Recognition crossed them and then frenzy as he pulled the blade from my stomach. I fell to the floor, not feeling anything when my head crashed against the marble wall. As the darkness of death threatened to overtake me, I smiled at Sammy and whispered, "It wasn't you." And the blindness took him from my sight.
I was floating, the brightness of the light would have been blinding but my eyes could see clearly. I stopped floating and a figure appeared before me. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. The Goddess extended her hand, beckoning me to come with her. Taking it I found myself in a beautiful garden. But it wasn't empty, my mother sat at what looked like a pond, and my father stood off to the side.
"This is the Summerland Kailyn, but you won't be here for very long. I only brought you here so you could say your goodbyes. You didn't get the chance when they were taken." The Goddess said, gesturing to John and my mother.
I gave her a questioning look and when she nodded I ran to them. I flung my arms around my father's neck, holding him tight.
"Daddy, you aren't Wiccan How are you in the Summerland?" I asked, pulling back but not releasing my father.
"The Goddess brought me to see you. She told me what was going to happen. I came so I could tell you that the woman you have become has me so proud. You've kept Sam and Dean from the warpath and you've saved so many people. But I don't want to see you again for a good long while Do you understand young Raven?" he answered, not letting go of me either.
"Yes sir. And I'm glad. Want me to tell Sam and Dean anything for you?" I asked, loosening my grip and stepping back.
"Tell Dean that I believe in him, and tell Sam the it wasn't his fault." He answered releasing me and looking over my shoulder at my mother.
"I will." I answered, hugging him tightly one last time and then walking to the pond to sit next to my mother.
"My heart, I'm so sorry that you would have to lose your life for me to see you again but I am so glad to see you." She said, pulling me into her arms, the familiar hug soothing.
"Uncle Bobby gave me the rosary Mamma. But it didn't work." I said, leaning into her like I used to do when I was a girl.
"It can't save you from those that you don't perceive as a threat. I probably should have told you about it or told Bobby but I overlooked it. I'll try to relay it to you quickly, you've read the book Wizard's First Rule have you not?" she said, continuing when I answered in the affirmative, "It works the same way as the Sword of Truth only in reverse. The Sword of Truth will only take down what the wielder perceives as an enemy, the rosary only protects you from anything that you perceive as an enemy."
"I understand Mamma. I love you very much. Daddy you too." I said, looking up from my mother to my father again. The Goddess appeared beside me and smiled at me
"It's time Kailyn; you are needed back with those that love you." She said, touching my forehead and I was floating in the white light again.