Forbidden Love
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Dean asked Sam as we stood in Bobby's kitchen
"Dean-"
"No, don't "Dean" me. I mean, you-you have had some stupid ideas in the past, but this-"
"Did you know about this?" I asked Bobby
"What?"
"About Sam's genius plan to jam the devil back in the box?" I asked him and he nodded
"Well, thanks for the heads up!" Dean tells him
"Hey, this ain't about me."
"You can't do this." I said to Sam
"That's the consensus."
"All right. Awesome. Then, end of discussion." Dean told him and my phone rang
"This isn't over." I said to Sam and answered my phone, "Hello?"
"Alexis." I heard Cas say on the other end
"Cas?" I asked
"Cas?"
"Is he okay?" Dean and Sam both asked
"We all thought you were dead. Where the hell are you?" I asked him
"A hospital."
"Are you okay?" I asked
"No."
"You want to elaborate?" I ask him
"I just woke up here. The doctors were fairly surprised. They thought I was brain-dead."
"S-so, a hospital?" I ask
"Apparently, after Van Nuys, I suddenly appeared, bloody and unconscious, on a shrimping boat off Delacroix. I'm told it upset the sailors."
"Uh, well, I got to tell you, you're just in time. We figured out a way to pop Satan's box." I tell him
"How?"
"It's a long story, but, look-we're going after Pestilence now. So if you want to zap over here..."
"I can't "zap" anywhere." Cas said cutting me off
"What do you mean?"
"You could say my batteries are - are drained." He says
"What do you mean? You're out of angel mojo?"
"I'm saying that I am thirsty and my head aches. I have a bug bite that itches no matter how much I scratch it, and I'm saying that I'm just incredibly..."
"Human." I finished for him and for some reason 2014 Cas popped into my head, "Wow. Sorry."
"Well, my point is - I can't go anywhere without money for...an airplane ride. And food. And more pain medication, ideally."
"All right. Well, look, no worries. Uh, Bobby's here. He'll wire you the cash." I said to him
"Alexis wait."
"I will?" Bobby asked me
"Dean said "no" to Michael. I owe him an apology." Cas told me and I handed Dean the phone.
"Cas, I-it's okay." Dean told him and there was a pause, "Thank you. I appreciate that." He said then looked at the phone and handed it back to me.
"You sure about this?" Dean asked me as I tossed my bag into the back seat of the spare car Bobby had.
"Yeah. I mean we can't just leave him there, I mean he's technically an angel and I don't think they carry health insurance."
"Alright then, as soon as you get him out you two join up with us." He said and I nodded.
"Don't have to much fun without me." I said giving him a pat on the arm then got into the car and drove off.
After a long drive to Louisiana, I pulled up to Meadowcrest Hospital and walked inside taking the elevator up a few levels then walked over to the nurses station, "Hi there." I said to the nurse and she looked at me, "I'm looking for someone, he was brought in here a few days ago."
"Name?"
Crap, what was the alias I told Cas to use? "Robert Poe." I said and she looked at her computer.
"Room 315, but only family members allowed."
"Oh I'm his fiance." I tell her, I'm not sure why that was the first thing that came to mind and it felt very weird saying it.
"Very well. Down the hall, first room on the left."
"Thank you." I said and walked away, should have just used my badge. I rounded the corner and saw Cas looking out the window so I knocked on the door.
"Alexis." He says looking at me and I walked in.
"Hey. How are you feeling?" I asked him walking over to the bed.
"My body hurts."
"Yeah that'll happen." I tell him
"How did you get in here? They informed me that only family members were allowed to visit."
"Oh I um...I told the nurse that I was um...your...your fiance." I said and he looked at me confused.
"Why?"
"I don't know, first thing that came to mind ok?" I tell him and the doctor walked in.
"Oh hi there." He said to me walking over to the other side of the bed, "You must be Mr. Poe's fiance."
"Yes I am. Is he gonna be okay?"
"He will be once he rests some more but I don't see why he can't leave tomorrow." The doctor said and I looked at Cas then back at him.
"What are the chances I can take him home now?" I asked him
"Your fiance has a mild concussion that we need to monitor for the next 24 hours miss?"
"Rhodes." I tell him
"Miss Rhodes. I'm sorry but he needs to stay the night." The doctor said then left the room.
"Screw that." I said and shut the curtain then walked over to the IV stand next to Cas
"What are you doing?" Cas asked me as I carefully took the needle out of his arm and he winced.
"Getting you out of here."
"Alexis, the doctor just said..." He began to say
"He said a mild concussion, I've had a few of those Cas, trust me, you'll be fine." I said and helped him sit up, "Plus Sam and Dean need us so we gotta go." I tell him and handed him a robe then grabbed a wheelchair helping him into it.
"How will this..."
"Just trust me." I tell him and wheeled him to the door seeing one nurse at the station and other people walking down the hall so I quickly pushed him into the hall and made my way to the elevator. After waiting what felt like forever it finally arrived and I pushed him inside then hit the button for the ground floor, "Okay, that was to easy." I pointed out.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, I've never gotten someone out that easily. Not even when I snuck Sam out of the hospital after he had his appendix removed." I said and we reached the floor, when the doors opened there was a couple security guards standing there, "Yep, called it." I mentioned.
"Excuse me miss, where do you think you're go..." The one guard began to say but I swung my foot up kicking him across the face then punched the other one and elbowed him in the back of the head knocking him out then knocked the other one out.
"Okay then," I said and went back behind Cas's wheelchair pushing him out of the elevator, "Let's go." I walked over to the car and helped him in then got in the drivers side and drove off.
We arrive at the hospital where Sam and Dean were at to get Pestilence and we saw bodies laying all around, "What the..." I began to ask but we continued moving making our way up a few levels and heard someone groan from behind a door and Cas opened the door.
"Sam! Dean!" I yell seeing them laying on the floor and I knelt down to them.
"Lexi" Dean groaned
"How did you two get here?" Pestilence asked us and my body started to feel weird.
"By breaking several road laws." Cas said and I hunched over in pain, "Alexis." Cas says but then I notice him do the same thing.
"Well, look at that. An occupied vessel, but powerless. Oh, that's fascinating. There's not a speck of angel in you, is there?" Pestilence asked Cas who grabbed Sam's knife and cuts off Pestilence's ring finger and pinky finger.
"Maybe just a speck." Cas told him.
"Oh!" Pestilence screamed and a female nurse ran at Cas tackling him to the ground but he killed her. Suddenly I feel better and I get up followed by Sam and Dean then pulled the dead nurse off of Cas helping him up while Dean grabbed the ring.
"It doesn't matter. It's too late." Pestilence says to us then disappeared.
"Well, it's nice to actually score a home run for once, ain't it?" Bobby asked and we stayed quiet, "What?"
"Last thing Pestilence said. It's too late." Sam mentioned
"He get specific?" Bobby asked
"No."
"We're just a little freaked out that he might have left a bomb somewhere. So please tell us you have actual good news." I said to Bobby
"Chicago's about to be wiped off the map. Storm of the millennium. Sets off a daisy chain of natural disasters. Three million people are gonna die."
"Huh." Dean says
"I don't understand your definition of good news." Cas told him sitting on the desk next to me.
"Well...Death, the horseman - he's gonna be there. And if we can stop him before he kick-starts this storm, get his ring back-"
"Yeah, you make it sound so easy." Dean says
"Hell, I'm just trying to put a spin on it."
"Well...Bobby, h-how'd you put all this together, anyways?" Sam asked him
"I had, you know...help."
"Don't be so modest." I heard someone say and I looked to see Crowley standing in the kitchen pouring himself a glass of scotch, "I barely helped at all. Hello, children." He said to me and my brothers, "Pleasure, et cetera. Go ahead. Tell them. There's no shame in it." He tells Bobby.
"Bobby? Tell us what?" I asked him
"World's gonna end. Seems stupid to get all precious over one little...soul."
"You sold your soul?" Dean asked him
"Oh, more like pawned it. I fully intend to give it back." Crowley tells us
"Well, then give it back!" I said to him
"I will."
"Now!" I tell him
"Did you kiss him?" Sam asked Bobby
"Sam!" Dean said
"Just wondering." Sam says and we look at Bobby.
"No!" Bobby exclaimed then Crowley cleared his throst and I looked to see him holding up his phone with a picture of him and Bobby kissing on it, "Why'd you take a picture?" Bobby asked him
"Why do you have to use tongue?"
"All right. You know what? I'm sick of this. Give him his soul back now." Dean told him
"I'm sorry. I can't."
"Can't or won't?" Dean asked him
"I won't, all right? It's insurance."
"What are you talking about?" Dean asked
"You and Nancy Drew kill demons. Gigantor over there has a temper issue about it. But you won't kill me...as long as I have that soul in the deposit box."
"You son of a bitch." Bobby says
"I'll return it. After all this is over, and I can walk safely away. Do we all understand each other?" Crowley asked and I sighed.
Me and Dean were out by the Impala when Sam walked over and sighed, "Let me guess. We're about to have a talk." Dean tells him and we stand over by him
"Look, you two, um...For the record...I agree with you. About me. You think I'm too weak to take on Lucifer. Well, so do I. Believe me, I know exactly how screwed up I am. Both of you, Bobby, Cass...I'm the least of any of you."
"Oh, Sam..." I began to say
"No, it's true. It is. But...I'm also all we got. If there was another way...but I don't think there is. There's just me." Sam said
"There is another way." I tell him
"No, no way. I won't let you do it Lexi," He says to me, "So I don't know what else to do. Except just try t-to do what's got to be done."
"And...Scene." We heard Crowley say and I rolled my eyes.
"Do you ever quit?" I asked him and he smirked
"Calm down Nancy Drew there's something you need to see." He said and hands a newspaper to Sam
"Niveus pharmaceuticals is rushing delivery of its new swine-flu vaccine to "stem the tide of the unprecedented outbreak." Uh, shipments leave Wednesday." Sam read
"Niveus pharmaceuticals. Get it?" Crowley asked and we looked at him, "You three are lucky you have your looks. Your demon lover, Brady? V.P. of distribution, Niveus." Crowley says and the realization hits us, "Ah, yes, that the sound of the abacus clacking? We all caught up?"
"So, Pestilence.." I began to say
"...was spreading swine flu." Sam finished
"Yeah, but not just for giggles. That was step one. Step two is the vaccine. And you think-" Dean said looking at Crowley
"I know. I'll stake my reputation-that vaccine is chock-full of grade-a, farm-fresh croatoan virus."
"Simultaneous, countrywide distribution. It's quite a plan." I point out
"They don't get to be horsemen for nothing. So, you three better stock up on...Well, everything. This time next Thursday, we'll all be living in zombieland."
"All right, well...Good luck stopping the whole zombie apocalypse." Dean says to me and Sam as he shut the trunk to the Impala.
"Yeah. Good luck killing Death." Sam told him
"Yeah."
"Remember when we used to just...hunt wendigos? How simple things were?" I asked both of them
"Not really." Dean said and I chuckled a little
"Well, um..." Sam pulls out Ruby's knife, "...You might need this."
"Keep it." Crowley says appearing next to Dean and Sam then hands Dean a small scythe, "Dean's covered. Death's own. Kills, golly, demons and angels and reapers and, rumor has it, the very thing itself."
"How did you get that?" Cas asked him
"Hello -king of the crossroads. So, shall we? Bobby, you just gonna sit there?" Crowley asked him and we looked at Bobby
"No, I'm gonna river dance."
"I suppose if you want to impress the ladies." He says and we look at him, "Bobby, Bobby, Bobby. Really wasted that crossroads deal. Fact-you get more if you phrase it properly. So, I took the liberty of adding a teeny little sub-a clause on your behalf. What can I say? I'm an altruist. Just gonna sit there?" Crowley asked him again and Bobby gets out of his wheelchair
"Son of a bitch." Bobby said as we look at him in shock
"Yes, I know. Completely worth your soul. I'm a hell of a guy."
"Thanks." Bobby told him
"This is getting maudlin. Can we go?" Crowley asked
"Yes to Lucifer. Then jump in the hole. It's an interesting plan." Cas says as we sit behind Sam and Bobby in the van as Bobby drove.
"That's a word for it." I mentioned
"So? Go ahead and tell me it's the worst plan you ever heard." Sam told him
"Of course. I am happy to say that if that's what you want to hear. But it's not what I think." Cas told him and I looked at him
"Really?" Sam asked him
"You and Dean have a habit of exceeding my expectations. He resisted Michael. Maybe you could resist Lucifer but there are things that you would need to know."
"Like?" I asked him
"Michael has found another vessel."
"What?" Sam asked
"It's your brother Adam. You must have considered it."
"We were trying not to." Sam told him
"Sam...If you say yes to Lucifer and then fail...this fight will happen. And the collateral... It'll be immense. There's also the demon blood."
"What? What are you talking about?" I asked
"To take in Lucifer, it would be more than he's ever drank."
"But...Why?" Sam asked him
"It strengthens the vessel. Keeps it from exploding."
"But the guy he's in now-" I started to ask
"He's drinking gallons."
"And how is that not the worst plan you ever heard?" Bobby asked him.
"Yup, they're loading up hotshots of Croatoan in the trucks." Bobby pointed out as we sat in the parking lot of the factory looking at the trucks, "Okay. First truck don't leave for an hour. We get in, we plant the c-4 every 25 feet, then we pull the fire alarm..."
"That truck is leaving." Cas pointed out and we see a truck start to pull away
"Balls! Okay, new plan." Bobby said
As Cas took care of the truck driver, me, Sam and Bobby ran to the warehouse as the metal door shut, "Side door." Bobby said and we hear people yelling for help inside.
"Get back!" Sam yelled and shoots the door handle then opened the door
"Go. Come on. Go." I tell the people who ran out then we walked in with our guns raised looking around. We hear grunting near us and walked around some pallets seeing people who are infected attacking someone and they stood up and looked at us.
The infected workers came at us and we started shooting at them until they were all dead, "Help me! Please! Help!" We hear someone yell
"There's still people here." Sam says and starts to move further into the warehouse.
"Sam, no!" I tell him
"Wait here." He said and hands me his knife then took off
"Damn." Bobby says as we watch him go then Bobby faced me, "Look out!" He yelled and I turned to see a demon come towards me and I stabbed him.
Me and Bobby raised our guns up as we see a couple people come towards us but then we saw Sam with them, "Go! Go!" Bobby told them and they went out the door. Sam cocked his shot gun then walked back the way he came and I looked at Bobby.
"Go! Go!" I said to a few more people Sam lead over to us
"All clear." Sam told us and I seen someone come at him
"Sam!" I yelled but the person attacked him, I pointed my gun up but I was out of bullets as well as Bobby, next thing I knew Cas shoots the infected person with his shotgun
"Actually, these things can be useful." He pointed out
"Can we commit our act of domestic terrorism already? Let's go." Bobby said and I helped Sam up.
Dean POV...
I sat at the work table in Bobby's shop holding Death's ring then set it down and moved it towards the others and they moved to the middle one as well forming them together then Bobby walked over as I pulled them apart, "Well, how'd it go at the Rockettes audition?" I asked him
"Well, high kicks-fair. Boobs need work. I walked up and down stairs all night for no damn reason. I'm sore." He said laughing, "Feels so good, I'm scared it's a dream. But then I remember that the world's dying bloody, so, drink?" He asked me and handed me a beer.
"Check it out." I tell him and showed Bobby how the rings link together
"Hmm. Oh. So death told you how to operate those? The whole deal?" He asked me
"Yeah. It's nuts. Of course, I got bigger problems now."
"Really? Like?" He asked
"What do you think Death does to people who lie to his face?"
"Nothing good." He says
"Yeah."
"What'd you say?" He asked me
"That I was cool with Sam driving the bus on the whole Lucifer plan."
"So Death thinks Sam ought to say yes, huh?" He asked
"I don't know. Yeah."
"Hmm." He said
"But, I mean, of course he'd say that. He works for Lucifer."
"Against his will, I thought he said." Bobby pointed out
"Well, I'd say, take his sob story with a fat grain of salt. I mean, he is Death."
"Exactly. He's Death. Think of the kind of bird's-eye view." He says
"Seriously?" I asked him
"I'm just saying-"
"Well, don't." I said cutting him off, "I mean, what happened to you being against this?" I asked him
"Look, I'm not saying Sam ain't an ass-full of character defects. But..."
"But what?" I asked
"Back at Niveus? I watched that kid pull one civilian out after another. Must have saved 10 people. Never stopped. Never slowed down. We're hard on him, Dean. We've always been. But in the meantime...He's been running into burning buildings since he was, what, 12?"
"Pretty much." I said
"Look, Sam's got a...darkness in him. I'm not saying he don't. But he's got a hell of a lot of good in him, too." He tells me
"I know."
"Then you know Sam will beat the devil...Or die trying. That's the best we could ask for. So I got to ask, Dean. What exactly are you afraid of? Losing? Or losing your brother?" He asked me and I looked back down at the rings. Truth is I didn't want to lose, or lose Sam, or Lexi for that matter. My job is to protect them, even if they say they can handle themselves.