Part Twenty One.
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." ~ Hellen Keller
The next morning Addison got up and showered changing into a pair of sweatpants and a tank top. She had spent practically the whole night awake thinking about what her grandmother had told her.
"Morning." Addison said, as she walked into the kitchen.
"Good morning." Rose replied as she pulled the waffle iron out of a cabinet and started laying ingredients out.
"I'm not really hungry, Grandma." Addison admitted as she got the grape juice from the refrigerator and poured herself a glass.
"I'm going to make you some anyway." Rose said, with a stern look.
Addison nodded and walked through the doorway into the living room.
She sat her glass of grape juice on the coffee table and looked at the remote trying to decide if she even wanted to hear the morning news.
"Oh my god!" She heard her grandmother exclaim from the kitchen.
"What's wrong?" Addison asked, as she ran into the kitchen.
"Addison, stay back!" Rose yelled as she pointed a large knife at the stranger in her kitchen.
"Who are you?" Rose yelled, jabbing the knife at the air in front of her towards the man who had appeared out of nowhere.
"I'm Castiel." He responded, looking past Rose to Addison.
"Oh… you're Castiel? Oh my… I'm so sorry; you just appeared out of nowhere." Rose said, as she sat the knife down on the counter.
"I didn't mean to startle you, I was looking for Addison." He admitted.
"It's alright…" She said, looking him over before unplugging the waffle iron and saying, "I'll just leave you two to talk then…"
Addison stood in silence as her grandmother went into the living room and turned the morning news on.
"How did you find me?" Addison asked.
"I helped you set this house up to keep your grandmother safe." He reminded her.
"I forgot about that." Addison admitted.
"I guess the bigger question is what are you doing here?" Addison asked, as she returned the large knife to the cutlery block on the counter.
"I understand what you meant when you said you were in pain. Addison, when you left me at the hotel… I wasn't sure if you were ever going to come back; and the thought of that caused me intense pain." He explained what he had felt.
She raised an eyebrow at his words.
"I understand it all now. I love you, Addison." He said.
Her eyes stung with tears.
"Are you sure… because at this point I'm inclined to believe you… so if you're not sure you should just tell me now." She said.
He looked confused at her words.
"I have never felt anything more entirely consuming than the feelings I have for you." He said, his eyes serious as he spoke.
She nodded and looked at him.
"I love you." She said, her heart raced within her chest.
"And I love you." Castiel replied as he watched her.
"Okay." She said, nodding her head.
It took her a few more seconds to wrap her head around everything before she ran across the kitchen, pushing her body against his as she held onto the sides of his face and brought her lips to his.
Wrapping his arms around her, he held her tight in his embrace as he felt at ease for the first time since she had left him.
"I don't want you to leave me again." He said, his eyes sad as he looked at her.
"I won't." She said, before kissing him again.
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"You're sure this is what you want?" Rose asked, as she carried the folded pile of clothes into Addison's room.
"More than anything." Addison said, smiling as she tucked the clothes into one of her bags.
"I just worry about you Addy." Rose admitted, as she folded her hands in her lap.
"You don't need to be worried." Addison assured her.
"You're trying to take down Lucifer…" Rose reminded her.
"If we don't manage to either kill, or trap him back in his cage... there's going to be a lot more to worry about than my safety." Addison pointed out.
"You are what matters to me." Rose said.
"I worry about you being alone here in this house… but then again you did just pull a knife on an angel…"Addison said, smiling.
"I didn't know who or what he was! He just showed up out of nowhere!" Rose explained, laughing a little.
"I told you he probably felt the same as you." Rose went on to say.
"I gotta go, Grandma. Sam and Dean have a lead on the demon who has the only gun that might actually kill the devil." Addison explained.
"Oh Addy… please be careful." Rose said, as she stood and pulled her granddaughter in for a tight hug.
"You to." Addison said as she returned the tight embrace.
(((A few weeks later)))
Addison was driving back to the hotel where she had been staying; Sam and
Dean had successfully retrieved the Colt, but sadly it hadn't worked to kill the devil.
They were now back to the drawing board on how to take down Lucifer, the only highlight was Addison and Castiel were growing even closer.
"Dean. Hey, how are you doing?" Addison asked as she answered her phone.
She talked to him for a little while, he and Sam had been brought back to life by the angel Joshua after some hunters had shot and killed them.
"Cas is… more sad than I have ever seen him before. I mean, god… he's been around for like what thousands of years? And now he finds out that the one thing he has blindly followed all this time either doesn't exist or just doesn't give a shit." She answered when Dean asked how they were doing.
After her tires went off the side of the road again, she said, "Dean, I'm sorry I gotta go. Let me know if you guys find another way to take out Lucifer… Cas and I are still looking to."
She ended the call and tossed the phone into her passenger seat.
"There's a reason they say you shouldn't talk on the phone while driving… it's distracting." Crowley said.
Addison jumped and gasped as she looked over to her passenger seat.
Crowley looked around the inside of her car as he picked her cellphone up from his lap where it had landed.
"So which one are you after… the angel or Dean?" He questioned, an eyebrow raised.
"What happened to your vacation to all points nowhere?" She asked.
"It was rudely interrupted." He said.
"Shame." Addison sarcastically remarked.
"What does that have to do with me?" Addison asked.
"Have you forgotten out deal?" He asked.
"uh no… I didn't try to kill you when we showed up to get the Colt. Deal over." Addison said.
He scoffed.
"You think you're off the hook that easy?" He asked her.
"Yeah, deal was I wouldn't try to kill you and you won't send me back into the pit." Addison recalled.
"I believe there was an element of your agreeing to provide me with protection if needed." Crowley reminded her as he scrolled through her phone.
"Big bad king of the crossroads needs my protection?" Addison asked as if it were a school yard taunt.
"You're insufferable, you know that?" Crowley asked her, his voice showed every bit of annoyance he was feeling.
"So I've been told. And seriously you can't take out some demons on your own?" Addison asked.
"Demons aren't my only problem. Seems some of Lucifer's brothers and sisters have caught wind of my extracurricular activities." Crowley explained.
"Angels?" Addison questioned.
Crowley nodded.
"Fine, what do you need me to do?" Addison asked.
"Pack your bags and come with me." Crowley told her.
"You're joking? Go on the run with you, in case some angels happen to find you? I have better things to do than babysit you." Addison snapped.
"Have you forgotten what hell was like?" Crowley asked her.
"Besides, you seem to have your angel proofing down… it kept Cas out of your house." Addison reminded him.
"And in the process of fleeing from one safe house to another… I was ambushed." He explained.
"If angels ambushed you, there's no way you'd be sitting here with me right now." Addison argued.
"Not just angels, demons. Luckily, they started fighting each other and I made my escape." He explained.
"I'm sorry, I can't help you." Addison said.
"You can and will." Crowley ordered.
"I said I can't. I just got things back on track with Cas and Sam and Dean need my help with taking down the devil. That is still you're endgame isn't it? So wouldn't it serve your purpose better to have me on the front lines fighting then with you?" She asked.
"I couldn't care less about you getting things back on track with anyone. Until Sam and Dean get closer to our endgame, as you put it, I need to keep my ass safe." Crowley told her.
"I think you severely overestimate my powers. I can kill demons, no problem… but angels, takes too much out of me. I do good to kill about 5 before I pass out and start bleeding from every hole on my head." Addison told him.
"5 more angels than what I can kill with my mind. That gives me the time it takes you to kill 5 angels to flee." Crowley told her.
"Wait, if that happens… it will kill me." Addison said, looking over at him as she pulled to a stop at a red light.
"Not my problem." Crowley told her.
"Well, then it's not my problem either. I'm not going with you." She told him.
"You'd rather be strung up in hell, tortured relentlessly… eternal torment; than to just come with me?" He asked her, watching her face closely as she looked over at him.
"Yes." She lied, but hoped her voice would fool him.
"I think you overestimate my ability to care. I'm not kidding; I saved you from hell because you are useful. But none of that will matter to me if I'm dead. I will kill and send you straight back to hell Addison." Crowley said his voice almost in a growl, angered at her not going along with what he was saying.
She swallowed hard at his words; she knew he was telling the truth.
"My patience is wearing thin." He warned.
"Fine." She breathed out, shaking her head.
"Good." He responded.
"Tell me where to meet you, I'll get my stuff from my hotel and meet you there." She offered.
"Do you think I'm that dense? If I let you out of my sight you are going to run." He said.
"No I won't." She answered.
"Let's go collect your things." He said.
She sighed, letting her irritation show as she continued her drive to her hotel room.
Crowley looked around the inside of her hotel room as she grabbed her bags.
"I can't go with you until Castiel gets back." Addison said as she sat down on the side of her bed.
"Nice try." He said.
"I'm serious… I can't just take off and not let anyone know that I'm okay. They'll be worried about me." She argued.
"Again, I don't know why you think that I actually care." Crowley said.
"Sam and Dean are my friends, if they find out I'm missing and no one knows where I am they are going to try to find me. Don't you want 100% of their focus on killing Lucifer?" Addison pointed out.
He was silent as he gave her a hard stare.
"The minute you call your angel, he's going to be here." Crowley pointed out.
"So, let me leave a message with Dean." Addison offered.
"Hurry." Crowley told her.
Addison took out her phone and called Dean.
"Everything alright?" Dean answered seeing it was her number.
"I need you to tell Cas something for me." Addison said.
"Why can't you tell him yourself?" Dean asked confused.
"I have to leave with Crowley." Addison explained.
"I'm not even going to pretend that –that makes any sense at all. What the hell are you talking about?" Dean asked.
"I don't have a lot of time, so I need you to listen to me. It was part of the deal I made, he's got angels coming after him and he needs my protection. If I don't go, he's going to send me back to hell. I need you to tell Cas about it, and tell him that I'm okay. And don't come looking for me, you won't be able to find me and it will take up valuable time you need to find a way to kill the devil." Addison quickly explained.
"Addison, if you go with him he's going to kill you. Tell me where you are." Dean said, his voice showed his concern.
Looking at Crowley, she said into the phone, "He needs my help he's not going to kill me."
"Addison, don't trust…" Dean started to say.
But Crowley waved his hand and her phone flew from her hand into his. He looked at it for a moment before dropping it the ground and crushing it with his foot.
"Oh come on!" Addison yelled.
"You can buy another, can't have anyone tracking you… now can I?" He questioned as he held the door open for her.
"When this is all over and my debt is paid… it's going to be me you're going to have to hide from." Addison threatened as she walked through the open door and towards her car.
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