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Chapter 25 – asking for favors

As soon as Dean was gone I was on my way to set my plan in motion. I have to talk to Cas alone without him there. The two of them have a strained relationship since the fall of the angels and the whole Metatorn situation. I don't know why, but Dean doesn't trust him not as much as before. I tried to ask him, but he kept quiet about it. I only know that Dean has the feeling that Cas is hiding something from us. But I don't have time for holding grudges; I have to protect my family and that means to contact every possible help I can get.

I have to ask him for a favor and the implicated revelation with it probably will not sit right with Dean. Even if I have the need to do this I feel like a hypocrite, because I hate it when Dean does his solo gigs, like he is planning now. I know he is planning something, but he doesn't talk to me about it. He simply makes his errand runs and tells me nothing about them. I don't know where he is going, but my pregnancy hormones lead me in a direction I am not willing to go. But I have to get my priorities straight and that means going on with my plan for the moment.

My plan will have his consequences that's for sure, but at least it is not something reckless like he would do. Maybe strange or better unpredictable, but I know how to handle the situation, at least I hope so. But I know if I had told him what I am planning he would have stopped me and would be pissed. As soon as he hears about it, he still will be pissed, but at least I could do it without him interfering. The question is how he would react to what I have done, while he was gone, but more precisely in the past. Only time will tell.

I pace the living room up and down while I silently pray to Cas, but nothing happens. What is the angel doing now? It's been ten minutes and the angel is a no show that can't be good. Out of frustration I start to yell. "Come on Cas. I need your help. … Please."

As if that does the trick I hear flattering wings behind me. "What can I do for you, Izzy?"

"What took you so long?" I yell at him angry.

"I have things to do." Yeah that is meaningful.

"Such as?" I try to ask again.

"Nothing that concerns you." He says. Well keep your secrets. I have some of my own, but at least I know that they will come and haunt me. But I store it away for later use and try to concentrate on the task at hand.

"I need a favor."

"Ok?" he asks questionable.

"I need you to find someone?"

"Who?"

Here goes nothing. I silently apologize to him, before I tell his secret to Cas. "Gabriel."

"Gabriel, who?"

"Your brother." I say reluctantly.

"I am sorry to inform you but he is dead." he tells me with a sad expression on his face. Understandable he was his brother even if an absent one.

"That's the thing … he is not."

"What?" he exclaims and falls on to the couch. Nice, Izzy, you punched the kid angel and told him you know his brother is alive and he didn't tell him about it. I take a seat beside him and give him time to work it out. He looks at me and asks. "How do you know?" he doesn't quite believe it.

I take a deep breath. "Me and a witch, a good one, helped him to fake his death by Lucifer's hand." I say, but Cas didn't reacts to that instead constantly looks at me with his stoic expression that implicates that he needs more. Ok, I guess I have to tell him everything. Oh joy, so Dean will find out as well, because Cas and secret keeping isn't a good combination. "During the apocalypse he and I … had a thing, nothing serious. Nothing like what Dean and I have now, but we were an item. After Dean ripped him a new one, he started to think that he needed to do something so he started to plan. At that time I didn't know who the Winchesters were. He came to me and asked for help. Because he needed a good and powerful witch, who could project an astral version of him to a gathering of the gods which couldn't be detected by anyone. Sort of like to be in two places as once, but only one is really there. … It took the witch some time but she figured it out. But it had is cost. To make it possible Gabe had to sacrifice his archangel status as well as other parts of his angel self like that nobody can pray to him anymore and that he can't play tricks on anyone. … Not an easy decision for him, but he believed that his faked death would help Dean and Sam with their plan. We stored his self in a porno DVD and after they played he could exit it. After that he disappeared and I didn't hear from him since."

"Wow. That sounds like Gabriel. But what makes you think that I can find him."

Yeah all means all. "He has some of my blood in his system, because apparently only the blood of an immortal can make an astral-projection solid and believable."

"I see. … Ok I try to find him, but I don't make any promises." he says as he gets up. I know that he will up and vanish now, but I am not done.

"Stop!" I yell. He does it, looks at me and takes a seat beside me again. "That's not all."

"What else?"

"I need another favor?"

"Ok."

"Could you ask some of your angel friends to zap back in to the past to the moment, when the prophecy was made and get the whole version and not the PR version?" Because I believe time and human or supernatural interpretation has altered and changed the wording of the prophecy. But to have a good plan of action you need every detail you can get. Only that gives you an advantage in a fight. And I more than believe that a fight is coming to us, it's only a matter of time.

"Izzy … I don't know."

"Please Cas. That prophecy is about me and Dean and our baby and I feel like some big part is missing." I plead with him.

He thinks about it while he looks around in the room the first time. It looks like he is searching for something or someone. After his glance landed on me I think he has found what he was looking for, but his face was unreadable to me. Damn angels and their stoic expressions. That is why I like Gabe that much he was fun and you could read him like a book if you know him well and let's say I knew him pretty well. A point Dean won't like that much.

"Dean doesn't know that you ask me for this favors!" he brings me back from my thoughts. It was more a statement than a question.

"Yeah." I answer with a sigh

"So I can't tell him?" he asks me.

"If you are so kind."

"But you know that I don't can lie."

"Believe me I know, but I don't think that Dean will call you soon and second not telling is not lying." I say with a mischievous grin. I wasn't directly lying to Dean; I simply didn't tell him everything. A thing I learned from him, because he is doing the same to me. I know that the clash is going to happen. Maybe we learn a thing or two from it, before we do it again, but as far as I know us that's wishful thinking.

As if he is considering my statement he moves his head from one side to the other. Watching Cas is so funny at times and at other times his behavior drives you crazy. After some moments he answers. "Ok." and with that vanished. A typical Cas move.

"It was good to see you too." I yell after him with a hint of sarcasm.

The next thing I do before I can take some time for me. I write an email to Charlie and I ask her if she could come visit me in Mystic Falls. To have a computer geek at your hands can come in handy some times and as I said it is an all hands on deck situation. After I finished that I called the girls and invited them for a sleep over.

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