Lara POV
I've never meet that man, well angel, before but he scares me. He's not like Cas. His aura is bright like an angel yes but there is something dark about him. It clings just to the edges of him. It's like his aura has been burnt. Dean stands up pulling me with him and throws me behind him but I know it won't do any good. This is an angel in front of us, not some man trying to rob us on the street. Dean said it was Raphael. He's the most powerful angel out there right now, and he's in our bedroom.
We have one bargaining chip. He needs us. Plain and simple, if he wants the apocalypse back on track he needs us. No wait that's not quite right either. He needs Sam and Dean not me. I feel myself start to shake and I cling on to Dean. I need to get a grip he needs me to be strong.
The angel in front of us is wearing some poor man's body. The man's soul is screaming out inside. He misses his family. He was a high school gym coach. He has a wife, three kids, and even a dog. He wants them back but Raphael has had him for so long that he is beginning to forget things about them. I feel bad for the man. He walks up to Dean. "I guess congratulations are in order. Marriage is still one of the few things that you humans celebrate that I can appreciate. It was a great gift my father gave you lower beings." He looks over Dean and makes eye contact with me. "Get dressed and come down stairs. If you're both not down there in 5 minutes I'm going to start to by killing Gabriella." Then he's gone.
Dean turns around and grabs me. "It's going to be ok Lara. He's not going to hurt us. He needs us." I want Dean to keep believing that. Maybe it will keep him calm. I shake my head yes pick up his t shirt I threw on the floor and hand it back to him. He puts it on. I fumble around for a minute and put my tank and shorts back on and look in the mirror. I'm pale and I'm shaking.
I turn around to see Dean staring at me. I put on a fake smile. "We have four more minutes till we have to be down there. I just wanted to tell you that I love you and I can't wait to marry you Dean." I can't let him hear my voice shake. I am pretty sure I am going to die and I want him to know that I wanted to marry him.
He smiles and walks over to me and kisses me softly on the lips and pulls me up into his arms. "I'm sorry Lara. By me asking you to marry me I've cursed you. All of our woman die. I am just so selfish. It's been a little over a week and they're already coming after you. If I was a stronger man I would have let you go a long time ago."
I laugh and pull back and look at him. "Dean this has nothing to do with you or some curse or whatever the hell you're talking about. Let's just get downstairs and see what he wants. If we're lucky we can get him out of our hair in a few minutes and we can go back to what we were doing when we were interrupted. Now no more talking about curses. I want you and I love you." I kiss him back and grab his hand and pull him behind me. I can't let him see my face right now. I did what I could to act brave and carefree but if he looks in my eyes he'll see I'm lying.
When we reach the first floor I see 10 other angels in the room. It's very crowded in here. Bobby is squished between two of them, Sam is being held back by two, Gabby is literally being held down on the floor by one, and Cas is surrounded by the other five. I can only be thankful that Jody must still be at work. This isn't going to end well. Raphael is standing in the middle of the room like nothing strange is happening around him. When he sees us he smiles. "I knew the happy couple would make it on time." He nods to the angel standing on Gabby and the angel helps her up and throws her into Sam. Sam grabs her and does a quick visual check to make sure she is alright and kisses her forehead. Bobby looks at me and tries to reassure me that everything will be alright with a nod.
Raphael looks at Dean and smirks. "I still can't believe that you two mud monkeys were able to derail all of my father's good work. But I have a way to fix all of that."
"Father is long gone Raphael and his plan was extinguished the day he left." Castiel yells at him. Raphael looks back at him and snarls. "Keep your mouth shut brother. The only reason I let you live is because I expect you to serve me faithfully once I give you your task." He focuses back on us.
He circles us like a wolf would circle his prey before attacking. I shiver and my legs start to feel weak and I fall into Dean. He puts his arms around me and pulls me close. I feel much better with his arms wrapped around me. "I don't have much time for chit chat. I plan on restarting my father's plan. Only now I have Lara back. I plan on her having the Christ child and then opening the cage when the child is old enough and restarting it. We will have a leg up this time around. Lucifer will just have Sam and no anti Christ. We will have Christ reborn and Michael's sword." Well I guess he needs me after all.
Sam starts to fight against the angels holding him. "I will never allow him to use me has a vessel again Raphael so your plan is already flawed." Raphael leaves us and walks over to him and reaches out to touch him but Sam pulls away. "Oh poor Sammy. By the time Lucifer rises you will be so tired and miserable you will beg him to take over your miserable body just so you have some peace and quiet." Then he touches his forehead and Sam collapse to the ground.
Bobby tries to pull away from the angels grabbing him. "What have you done to my boy?" He snarls at Raphael. He laughs and touches Bobby's forehead and he collapses to the ground.
I let out a shriek. "What have you done to them?" I ask while I run over to Sam who is now writhing on the floor in agony. Raphael lets out a cold chuckle. "He is just asleep. To him I took down the wall. His mind will be mince meat by the time Lucifer has risen and he will let him walk right in." I try to hold Sam down and keep him from shaking but it's just too violent. I look up and Gabby is trying to pull away and finally the angel lets her go and she collapses on the ground next to me and holds Sam. Raphael looks at her and sneers.
Dean walks over and picks me back up. "What do you want with us Raphael?" He asks nervously. Raphael nods to the angels that were holding Sam and Gabby and they flank us and pull Dean off of me. Raphael pulls out a syringe and gives us an evil smile. "This might hurt a bit Dean."
Castiel starts to fight the 5 angels holding him back. "You have no clue what you are doing Raphael! There is a reason why only Gabriel did this. He's the only one who knows how to do this successfully. That syringe is not going to work!"
Raphael looks at him and shrugs. "Luckily if I mess up I can bring him back and try again." He looks at Dean and smiles. "Hold still." He says and shoves the syringe into Dean's groin and pushes the fluid in. Dean crumbles over in pain. "Now let me inhabit your body Dean. We are going to make sure she conceives the Christ child."
Dean looks up at him and spits at his feet. "Never going to happen ass hole." Raphael raises his hand and slaps him across the face. He looks at me and laughs. He walks up to me and touches me head and I crumble at his feet in pain. "What have you done to her?" Dean croaks has he knells down next to me and brushes my cheeks.
Raphael laughs again. "Only what Cas took away. I believe she is at the last stages of AIDS right now. The pneumonia is getting really bad." The moment he says it I find it hard to breath and I feel myself start to wheeze. My throat feels like it's on fire and I look down at my arms and there are rashes forming all over them. I'm getting weaker and thinner, my body is caving in around me. My hands and feet begin to go numb and every movement I make with them it's like I'm touching pins and needles. I feel like I am withering and dying in front of him. "And I almost forgot. Didn't you cure her of HPV Cas? Oh yes but if he wouldn't have it would have let to cervical cancer. Too bad it's already at stage 4." I feel my insides start to rebel against me and the pain is almost too much to take. I feel blood start to trickle down my leg. I feel myself start to lose consciousness but something isn't letting me pass out.
Dean is still on the floor next to me and reaches out and grabs my hand. "You need her alive if you want her to carry a child ass hole." Raphael kneels next to us and touches me again and I start to cough up blood. It feels like my lungs are melting and they're coming up through my throat.
"I can keep her alive like this for centuries Dean. How long can you stand to see her in this much pain?" Then like that my legs start to contort in an unnatural position around me and they snap.
"I can handle it Dean." I say weakly. I know I can't but I don't want him to know that. I feel each rib slowly start to snap inside of me. It's slow and agonizing torture but I refuse to cry out. That's what he wants. I don't' mean to but I can't stop squeezing Dean's hand. It just hurts to so much. I look down and I see my ring. Stay strong for that Lara.
"ENOUGH!" Dean yells out! "You can do whatever you want with me. Just fix her and fix my brother." Raphael snaps his fingers and I feel myself slowly get put back together.
"I will fix her but your brother well, he is a lost cause Dean." I look over and I see Sam has stopped seizing and he is laying there motionless on the floor and Gabby is cradling his head crying.
I stand up and help Dean stand up next to me. I don't know what he shot him up with but it looks like Dean is in pain. "I can't house the Christ child Raphael. In the other path it is a virgin birth. The baby is conceived to a woman without sin. I am definitely not that woman anymore. My womb is no place for him."
Raphael starts to laugh, and it's spine tingling. He walks over to me and lifts his hands and I flinch again but he touches me anyways. "Your right but hey problem solved. You're a virgin again." I don't feel different per say but something has changed. It's like those other men and women never happened. I can remember them, all of them, but it feels like another lifetime. I look at him in shock. "You can thank me later." He says sarcastically. "Now Dean accept me in so we can impregnate her."
I don't' want that angel anywhere near me. "That won't work either Raphael. We're not married. It is a sin to have sex outside of wedlock is it not?" Raphael thinks about what I said and points to Cas.
"You, you are there friend. Join their hands in marriage and let this be done." I look at Dean and he looks at me wide eyed. "If you don't I will first kill Bobby, and Gabby and I will shove them so far in the recesses of hell you will never find them. Then I will torture Lara in front of your eyes for the rest of eternity until you agree Dean. And Lara don't think I won't torture Dean in front of you too. I can bring you both back to life over and over again until you see things my way. I can make torture last so long that you will need to invent a new word for it because the word torture will not even being to be able to describe what you are experiencing. Do you understand me?"
We're trapped. This is going to happen one way or another. He pushes us towards Cas. Dean stops and looks back at him. "Please this isn't right. Let her have an actual wedding. At least give her that. I will agree to whatever it is you want us to do. You know I will not be able to see her hurt but please give her that. Out of respect for your father who picked her just give her that one thing."
Raphael thinks for a moment and snaps his fingers. When I look down I am in a white satin dress and I look over and Dean is in a tux. It's oddly probably the one I would have picked. It's off the shoulder and the arms go down to my elbows. It's fitted down my stomach then flares down to the floor. "There that is the most I will do. You guys can do whatever you want when we're done but that's all I'm willing to give." I look at Dean and I try to smile but Raphael scares me.
"Can I please get something out of my room Raphael?" He nods at me and follows me up the stairs. I dig through my drawer and find the wedding bands and run back downstairs and stand next to Dean. I give him the small white gold band that was my mother's and show him my father's. "They were my parents I was going to surprise you at the wedding." Dean smiles and kisses me.
Raphael pushes us up to Cas and he waves his hands. Castiel looks at us pleading with us to forgive him with his eyes. "I don't know what else to do." He says quietly. He looks sick to stomach with remorse for what he's about to do. I reach out and grab his hand. "It's fine Cas. I wanted you to marry us anyways." He frowns and looks up at us.
"Dean repeat after me. I Dean take you Lara, to be my wedded wife. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness." Dean looks down at me and he actually smiles.
He leans down and whispers into my ear. "He may be forcing us to do this but I mean it." And he kisses me cheek. "I Dean take you Lara, to be my wedded wife. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness. I will love you forever Lara." He says calmly.
Cas looks at me. "Lara repeat after me. I Lara take you Dean, to be my wedded husband. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness." I look up in Dean's green eyes and all I see is love. To my surprise I am actually smiling to.
"I Lara take you Dean, to be my wedded husband. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness." I can't believe I just said those vows.
Cas looks back at Dean. "Dean do you take this woman to be your wife?" Dean kisses my forehead and grabs my hand. He looks me in the eyes and says confidently. "I do."He slides the band on till it meets my engagement ring.
Cas looks back at me and he actually doesn't look has miserable has he did when he started this process. "Lara do you take this man to be your husband?" I have never been surer about anything in my life than saying these two words. "I do." Then I slide on my father's wedding band and to be surprise it fits.
Cas gives Raphael a dirty look. "Well than the by the power vested in me by God my father I pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss your bride."
Dean slowly leans down and kisses me slowly and softly. He pulls back and smiles and then leans back down and kisses me passionately. Everything about this is wrong but it's still right. When he lets go of my lips Raphael reaches forward and pulls him back. "Now agree to let me use you as my vessel."
Before Dean can respond Cas leans forward and grabs Raphael. "This is not the way it is done Raphael. This will not work." Raphael nods to his cronies who pull Castiel back. "It will work. It may not be the way Gabriel did it but it will work. Now stay here and wait for my instructions." He sets his sights back on Dean.
Dean looks at me. "I am sorry Lara. I can't watch him hurt you again." I give him a sad smile and grab his hand. "I understand I can't watch him hurt you either. This way we at least get John."
He smiles and kisses me again. "That's true. You always find the silver lining." I smile and shrug my shoulders. "I try." I say with a smile.
Dean looks at Raphael. "Will I get my body back?" He asks. Raphael grimaces. "Once she is pregnant I will leave you two alone until I need the boy. And he will be in charge of protecting you and the child." He said pointing towards Cas.
"Will you hurt her?" Dean asks nodding towards me. Raphael looks at me and snickers. "If you both are good I will make myself scarce during. I just want to make sure you do the deed while the essence is still in you. I could care less about the process to get it done. If you are not good I will take over and it will not be pleasant for her. I can assure you that."
Dean looks at me one last time and frowns "I'll be good" and looks at Raphael. "You are welcome in Raphael." I watch Raphael's aura leave the poor man he inhabits. The man's body slumps to the floor and I can tell his mind can't take it. I watch has the man I love, the man I just married, becomes taken over by Raphael. I know what it is like to have a foreign entity take over your body and it's not something I wish on my worst enemy let alone the person I care most about in this world. Dean's eyes open and focus back on me only they aren't his eyes anymore.
"Dean?" I ask hesitantly knowing he's gone. Dean starts to laugh but it's not quite his voice. "No it's Raphael. Now come with me or I won't be nice." He extends his hand and I take it and he pulls me upstairs.
