Chapter 29

Put Me to Sleep, Evil Angel

Megan held her stomach as she tried to listen to Castiel's explanation of what was going to happen when Gabriel came to give her back the Grace. She was only able to catch pieces of it since she was being too distracted by a pain in her stomach. She heard the words 'Grace', 'transfer', and 'pain'. Great.

Her throat was burning again, no matter how much water she drank. Her head was piercing with pain to the point where every word that the Angel said hurt her like knives being stabbed into her brain. She felt her stomach turn and she knew what was coming.

"I'm going to be sick." She said and ran to the bathroom and threw up in the toilet. Once that was over she leaned against the bathroom wall, took deep breaths and tried to focus on the ceiling.

A few moments later everyone came in with worried looks on their faces.

"You okay?" Dean asked. Ugh, she was getting tired of being asked that.

Megan shook her head slightly. She definitely wasn't okay this time. Her head hurt with every movement and her stomach was screaming in pain.

Dean and Jinx crouched down next to her and Jinx started rubbing her back which didn't make anything much better.

"You think it was something she ate?" Sam asked from the doorway, standing next to Cas.

Dean shook his head. "No, if it was then we would be feeling like this too."

Megan heard Cas sigh, but it was getting harder to even hear things. "I was afraid this would happen." She was able to hear him say. She held her head in her hands and closer her eyes, trying to focus on what they were trying to say.

"What do you mean?" she heard Jinx ask.

"Her body isn't used to living without the Grace. It's reacting violently." The Angel explained. Megan clenched her hands into fists, trying to fight off the pain.

"Well, what do we do?" Dean asked. Megan was starting to break out into a sweat even though she was freezing.

"We need to get the Grace back in her. Though, the process with be even more painful now that she is in this state." Castiel said. Megan sighed. This was gonna suck.

No one said anything, or at least she thought that no one said anything. She still didn't have the best hearing at the moment. But she could tell that Dean had got up from her side and exited the room. She heard footsteps a few moments later and she forced herself to open her eyes. The light in the room was almost blinding but she was able to see a blurry Dean hand her something. She took it from him and realized it was a pill. She didn't even ask him what it was, she knew it was medicine. She quickly popped it in her mouth and took the water from Dean, quickly taking a sip and handing it back to him.

"I don't think that will do much." Castiel said.

"You never know, Cas." Dean said as Megan closer her eyes again, taking slow and deep breaths.

The medicine was starting to work a little. It was easier to hear thing now and the light wasn't as blinding as it had been before. But her head still had that piercing pain and she still felt like she was being stabbed in the stomach.

"Cas, get Gabriel. We'll bring Megan down to the panic room." Dean said. Megan felt arms around her as Dean scooped her up and started walking down to the panic room. Her head kept bouncing around, making pain shoot through her in every step that Dean took. She quickly held her head in her hands and closer her eyes as her stomach decided to so some summersaults.

She relaxed a little when she felt a mattress underneath her. Her eyes were still closed but she could see the bed in the panic room in her mind. It felt good to lie down and her stomach was starting to feel a little better now, thanks to the medicine.

Megan heard a flutter of wings and realized that Gabriel had arrived.

"Her body's reacting to not having the Grace, right?" she heard him asked and suspected that someone nodded in return because she didn't hear anyone answer.

"I need you guys to leave." The Archangel said. She heard the panic room door open and heard footsteps exit the room.

"Dean, you too." He said. After a few moments she heard Dean leave hesitantly. She heard the panic room door close as Dean left.

Megan's heard was still hurting but she decided to open her eyes anyways. The light was still brighter than usual but she got used to it quicker then she had before. She saw Gabriel sitting down on the bed next to her, looking at her with guilt in his eyes.

"Gabe, it's not your fault." She was managed to choke out. Megan was able to guess that was what he was thinking and why he looked so guilty.

"Yes it is. I should've-." He started but Megan interrupted him.

"Shut up. It's not your fault. End of story." She said and she felt her throat burn.

"Bossy pants." He grinned.

"He says he's proud out you." Megan said suddenly. She knew she had to tell him sometime and this seemed to be the only time she could.

Gabriel gave her a confused look. "Who?" he asked.

"Your Dad." She said and she saw him smile a little. "And you never told me that you saw him as Dumbledore. Nice choice, by the way." She said with a crackly voice.

"Hey, that wizard's got style." He said and Megan smiled.

"I'm gonna have to leave after this, but once you wake up give me a call. We will have to work out a plan to stop Raphael." Gabriel said and he looked down at the ground. He seemed upset that he had to stop yet another one of his brothers.

Megan nodded slightly then winced as pain shot through her again. "I still don't understand this whole Grace thing." She said. She wanted to at least get that clarified before he went off.

"Well, Grace's seem to have a personality of their own. When you had part of my Grace, the Grace wanted to go back to me. But it has also been with you since you were born so the Grace is…attached to you in a way. So, now that I have it back, it feels as if it should go back to you. But of course once it goes back to you it wants to go back to me because it belongs to me. Yeah, it's weird. Luckily now though, you're not dying as fast around me because I have some control over it." The Archangel explained.

"Okay." Megan said slowly, trying not to strain her voice anymore.

"This is gonna hurt. A lot." Gabriel said, his eyes still glued to the floor.

Megan didn't answer. Instead she just prepared herself for what was to come.

"Sorry, again." He said and put his palm to her head.

A gold light quickly flashed through her and it was all she could see. Her stomach and head were now in worse pain then before and it felt like she was going to explode. She screamed in agony and grabbed onto the bed sheets tightly as the pain grew worse. But to her relief, everything went black as she slipped into unconsciousness.