Chapter Twenty-Four
Ty laid facedown on the motel room bed. Her body still ached and burned from the fight with Alastair. She looked up when the door opened. She had been half-expecting to see Lily or Dean. She was surprised when it was just Lily. She buried her face back in the bed as she heard Lily move to the other bed.
"How are you feeling?" Lily asked.
"Like a bug that hit a really big windshield, really hard," Ty mumbled.
"I think Dean is staying with Sam tonight."
Ty only nodded. She had figured that out a long time ago. She thought of rolling over, but the pain was almost too much.
"So I was a seal?" Lily asked suddenly.
Ty moved her head where she was no longer sucking in sheets. She knew that Lily had already figured all this out, so she wasn't going to lie to her. She nodded a little. Lily quickly turned away from her.
"I'll give you another good one," Ty said. "Uriel is still alive."
Lily shot up and stared at Ty. "You are kidding right?"
"No," Ty said crisply. "He is very much a live, and I guess as well as can be expected."
Lily sat back on the bed. This could not be a good thing. Where had Uriel been hiding all this time? She thought about David. Perhaps, Uriel's return had to do with that. She glanced over at Ty, who was almost asleep.
"So now what?" Lily asked.
"I'm sleeping."
"Ty," Lily said, showing a little annoyance. "We have to find out what is going."
Ty looked up. "What is going on is that you being killed along with some other who do breaks a seal. We stopped the that. Now, the angels have Alastair. Why? I don't know nor do I really care."
Lily huffed as she sat down. Her being a seal was no big deal, but she wanted to know why the angels wanted Alastair. Did he know more about what was going than he let on? She had wondered since he was the first to show up at David's death if he had something to do with it. She watched as Ty painfully rolled over. She understood why Ty was in no hurry to be in another scuffle.
"Where's Dean?" Ty asked suddenly.
Lily shrugged. "Was he supposed to come over here?"
Ty nodded. She had not really thought about where Dean might be. She thought that he would most likely want to talk to Sam about what happened in the church, so she wasn't expecting him right away. However, it wasn't like him to just leave here lying on the bed in pain without a little delivery of whiskey and maybe something else.
Lily took a deep breath and looked at Ty. She knew where Dean actually was, and she knew Ty was not going to be happy about it, but it would work out better if she just told her.
"Ty, Dean and Sam are burning David's body," Lily said softly.
Ty shot up with her whole body screaming in agony. She pulled on her boots and started for the door. Her muscles protested and ached as she moved. She had wanted to be there when they took David's body to be burned. She reached for the door as it opened. Ty jumped back surprised to see Sam and Dean standing there.
"Where are you going?" Sam asked.
Ty looked past him and at Dean. He looked ruffled. There must have been a verbal scuffle in the car. She could see Dean's eyes were tired. He was sick of what was going on around him. Ty could see that. She reached for him as Sam shoved past her. Dean rolled his eyes a little as walked past Ty.
"You feeling ok?" he asked.
"Right now every muscle in my body is cussing me," Ty said with a faint smile.
Dean leaned in and looked like he was going to kiss her. Ty waited for a moment, feeling the atmosphere of the room change. She looked over at Lily as Sam got closer to her. She could see that both of them were fighting the tension that surrounded them. Sometimes, Ty wondered if Lily really hated him as much as she acted like she did. Sam glanced at Lily, quickly avoiding her eyes.
"I wanted to be there when you burned David's body," Ty said softly so that only Dean could hear.
Dean nodded. He knew that Ty would have wanted to be there, but they had to move fast. He had left Ty's hotel room only hours earlier. She was sound asleep from all the pain pills. He couldn't just wake her up to take her to burn the man that was pretty much her father.
"I'm sorry," Dean said.
Ty started to say something when there was a loud flap of wings. Ty fell back against Dean as Lily almost jumped into Sam's arm. The spacious motel room had suddenly become quite crowded as Castiel and Uriel stood between the beds.
"You are needed," Uriel said with no salutations to anyone.
Dean gritted his teeth. Ty quickly touched his arm before he blew up. Dean stopped, but she could still felt his anger.
"We just got back from burying a friend, think you could cut us some frickin' slack," Dean yelled.
"Yeah, it was a man who worked for you too," Sam threw in.
Uriel glared around the room. When his eyes fell on her, Ty felt heat hit her face. She still hated him. She quickly looked down and gripped Dean's arm tighter.
"We raised you out of Hell for our purposes," Uriel said lowly.
"What were those again?" Dean snapped.
The room was suddenly filled with yelling. No one was listening as everyone was speaking. Ty held Dean's arm tighter. She knew he would fly off the handle if she didn't hold him back.
"That's enough!" Lily suddenly yelled.
There was sudden silence in the room. Everyone looked around, waiting for the next gauntlet to be thrown. Castiel looked at Lily for a long moment and took a step behind Uriel. Ty watched and felt something in her twinge. No one put Castiel as a second. Not even Uriel.
"Seven angels are dead," Uriel said suddenly. "David was the most recent."
Ty looked at the floor. She suddenly felt Dean's hand on her back. She looked up at him. There was so much more than a connection between them. Strength, faith, hope and love flowed through touches. She knew that he had the same connection with Sam, and it was powerful. But between them it was a lot stronger.
"Do you think it's demons?" Lily asked, brining Ty back to the present.
"That's what we need to find out," Castiel said. "We have Alastair."
"Well, he should be able to name your triggerman," Ty said, leaning against the wall.
"He won't talk. His will is very strong," Castiel replied.
"He's a black belt in torture," Dean said. "You guys are out of your league."
Uriel looked Dean square in the eye. "That's why we have come to his student."
Ty suddenly felt every part of her body tighten in anger. "Don't call him that."
Dean's face blanched. His eyes quickly found the floor. Ty started to reach for him, but Uriel's piercing glance stopped her. Dean looked up with unyielding eyes. His expression was sit and determined.
"No," he said with no room for discussion.
"Dean, I know this is hard," Castiel started.
"And we don't care," Uriel shot at him.
"You can't ask him to do this," Ty hissed.
Ty watched as Uriel moved closer. Her hand instinctively reached for Dean's arm. She knew that even if Dean didn't want to do what they asked, they could make him. She wasn't about to let him handle this alone.
"Who said anything about asking?" Uriel said inching closer.
Ty looked at Castiel, pleading for help. She knew that Castiel would never deliberately hurt her or Dean. Castiel looked at Dean for a moment and quickly looked away. Ty felt her heart shift a little. She could see that they were starting to lose their one ally in all of this. She gripped Dean's arm as Uriel suddenly raised his hand. Ty closed her eyes tightly and held on to Dean.
Sam looked around the room as he saw that the angels along with Ty and Dean disappeared. He cursed loudly and glanced over. Lily had fallen in the floor during the whole scuffle. He helped to her feet, careful to avoid her eyes. Lily got to her feet and let go of him before they touched each other long enough to matter. She was mad. She couldn't believe that Castiel had just up and vanished, taking Dean and Ty with him.
"Well that was just a pointless conversation," Sam said angry.
Lily looked at him. She understood his anger, but at the same time, she trusted Castiel more than she did Sam. She quickly gathered her things. She wouldn't stay in the room with Sam. He watched her but didn't care. He would find Dean in his own way. Lily reached for the door when Sam grabbed her arm.
"Why do you trust them?" Sam asked.
Lily gave him a funny look. "The angels?"
Sam nodded.
Lily thought long and hard about what she wanted to say. She didn't really trust them now. Their planned was flawed. Dean was a strong, Lily would not dispute that, but he was not strong enough to handle this. She looked back at Sam. She knew many things that he had done with his little demon on his shoulder. She shook her head.
"The same reason you trust Ruby," Lily said as she walked out of the room.