Rose was the first to make it to the door when the TARDIS landed. She opened the doors with excited anticipation. What met her outside was not what she expected.
"Uh…Doctor, this isn't Rome"
Sam and Dean both peaked over her head to see outside.
"She's right, Doc," Dean began. "This is defiantly not Italy."
"It looks like the back woods of some state in America" Sam interrupted.
"Right you are, Sammy!" Gabriel chimed. "Nebraska to be exact. Present time too actually," he added as an after thought.
Dean walked away from the door and up the ramp to sit on the railing where he was before. "Looks like you put in the wrong coordinates then. Try again."
The Doctor met eyes with Jack and then Rose, a concerned look on his face.
"See," Jack said as he made his way over to Gabriel only to have the archangel give him a nasty look before giving in and giving him a sucker. Jack popped it in his mouth before he continued, "the TARDIS goes where you want her to unless she knows the Doctor is needed somewhere else. This is somewhere the Doctor needs to be."
Sam eyes flickered to Jack then to the Doctor then to the TARDIS console, the wheels in his head spinning trying to figure out what could be wrong in the middle of the woods in Nebraska. His eyes grew wide with fear when the last piece of information clicked. "Alice" he breathed.
The room was dead silent; all eyes on Sam. The Doctor was the first to act. He took off in a dead run from the console grabbing his coat as he ran past Sam and Rose and out the door. "Well, come on now!" He yelled. Rose, Jack, and Sam were out of the door next.
Before Dean could follow Cas grabbed his wrist to stop him. "Cas, what the hell?" he blurted out in clear annoyance. The angel had been quiet this entire time, and now was not the time to be making chitchat.
The hunter's anger cooled a bit when he saw the desperation and sorrow in his angel's eyes. "Cas, what's wrong?"
"I'm sorry."
"Sorry, for wh-"
"Dean, come on!" Sam yelled form the doorway. "We don't have time for this!"
Dean spared a look at the angel before giving Cas a nod promising they'd talk later and running out the door with his little brother.
Castiel stood just watching the empty doorway the hunters just ran through. He was going to kill Sam's daughter and there's no way they'd forgive him for that. He'd loose the only family he had left.
He jumped when Gabriel put a hand on his shoulder. "It's okay, little bro. It's okay."
After all these years Gabriel was still bad at comforting.
Alice was done screaming. The pain was so intense she screamed herself into silence. The pain was unimaginable. It felt like someone was using every single torture method on her at once only worse. People die from this kind of pain. At least they should pass out. She knew that, but she also knew that Lucifer was keeping her awake and alive for his entertainment and to use her as bait for Sam. She knew God was gone -even the angels could not find him- but she prayed to something, anything that her father would not come, that Dean would leave her be, and that this pain would stop. All she knew would not come true.
Sam had passed Rose and Jack quite easily. He had even passed the Doctor, which was something very hard to do. His adrenaline kicked in and was immediately in hyper drive when he made the connection that Alice was in trouble. The only thing he could think about is why is Alice back in present time and who the hell had her and what he was going to do to the bastard who took her. Although, in all of this chaos everything suddenly made sense, the hard feelings he had for the girl for leaving him and Jess when they needed her most were gone. She didn't leave them; she was taken from them, and he was not going to let it happen again. Not after having her back.
He was the fist one to make it to the edge of the woods and see the cabin. The Doctor and Dean close on his tail with Rose and Jack just behind them. Gabriel had appeared beside him in a flutter of wings, but Castiel was still nowhere to be seen. He couldn't think about that right now, though. He had to find his baby girl. He needed something of Jess back. Even if it was a different dimension Sam and Jess that had her. He was her father now, and he needed to make sure she was safe.
Lucifer looked out the window and smirked. "Daddy dearest is here, Alice!"
The only reaction he got from the girl was a small, pathetic whimper of what could have been pain or disappointment, which only made his malicious smile wider. All those years trapped in Hell he'd thought of every situation, every back-up plan, every escape route; he was not going to loose now. This was going to work. He was going to get Sam Winchester to say yes… or at least break him that much more.
Dean grabbed his brother's arm just as he started to move out of the woods and to the cabin. "Sammy, what the hell are you doing? Think, man. We don't know what's in there or how to kill it. It could be some friggin' alien that only the Doctor knows how to kill. You can't just go running in there guns a blazing."
"Dean" Sam choked out. "She's in there. We-"
"I know" was Dean's short answer. "But we treat this like any other hunt. Let's just do our thing and we'll all be okay."
"We don't even know what's in there!"
"It's Lucifer" Gabriel interjected with a grimace on his face.
Before either brother could say anything Jack pointed over Dean's shoulder at the window. "Weeping Angels too."
Sam's face fell at that. They were screwed. They all couldn't get out without getting hurt or killed. His shoulders fell in defeat. He was done with this life. He was done of everyone around him getting hurt or killed. He was done not being able to protect the ones he loved. He just couldn't do it anymore.
"Hey" Rose's voice was soft and her hand on his shoulder was reassuring. "I kicked Satan's ass once before. We can do it again. Weeping Angels aren't hard to take care of if there isn't that many. We'll be okay."
The two brothers' faces were ones of confusion all aimed at her when she finished.
"You 'kicked Satan's ass'"? Dean asked a bit doubtful.
"Yeah, I-"
"THAT WAS YOU?" Gabriel just about screamed. "You were the one's that let him out of that planet?"
"Yeah" Rose began a bit wearily. It's a long story. Alice never told you?"
Before she knew it Rose was lifted off the ground by Gabriel and swung around in a tight hug. "Rose Tyler, you're a freaking badass!"
A loud scream broke the moment and reminded them all of the danger ahead.
"So how do we go about this?" Jack asked looking between the Doctor, Gabriel, and Sam.
"My way first." Gabriel smirked. "Get him distracted, you guys swoop in, grab the girl, and fly the TARDIS the hell away from here."
"Okay, so who wants to be the distraction for Lucifer?" the Doctor asked, a skeptical look on his face.
The archangel grabbed Rose's arm and pulled her towards him. "How 'bout we show him two people I'm sure he's dying to see again. Me and Rose." He smirked at the girl and she smiled right back.
"If she get's hurt" the Doctor growled "archangel or not…"
"She's not going to get hurt, Time Lord. I may be an archangel, but I've been a trickster for a very long time. Lucifer taught me a lot of my tricks, but I've been hanging out with the pagan gods for centuries. I've picked up a few things."
A/N: I AM SO FREAKING SORRY, GUYS! I KNOW I NEED TO POST MORE OFTEN! I JUST... I'M SO SORRY!
There should be one or two more chapters. Plus a little sequel that will only be one chapter long. Please R&R. Reviews make me smile!
