"Your grace is gone? What do you mean?" Sam was in disbelief. Castiel was human now? Why? How? His questions were answered a minute later.
"Jack is missing. I'm sorry about your friends, but I need to protect Jack from Michael. I ripped out my grace to hide from every angel in Creation, including the Archangels. Hannah here is also human."
Sam just stared at him. First Dean, then his friends, now Jack? What else could go wrong.
Piper was ready to use her magic when she noticed there was a gun pointed at them. Frank Devereaux was glaring at them both. Charlie was standing beside him with a sheepish expression. She mouthed 'Sorry' to them.
"No one move. Witch, try something, and your boyfriend dies. What the fuck do you want. Are you working with the government? No wonder your friends are missing."
Sam put up his hands along with Piper and Victor. "No sir. Charlie says you know about these people that kidnapped my brother and her sisters."
Frank still pointing the gun at them turned on a stereo filling the trailer with classical music.
"Men of Letters. People thought they were wiped out in the fifties. Bull. Governments around the world all work together, did you know that? The bunker that was in Lebanon, Kansas is gone. It was destroyed by your grandfather Henry. He didn't want anyone knowing its existence. The American chapter is gone, but the British chapter is still active. I been observing them for years. Assholes think they are invisible. Hah! You can't trust no one. They want something that is why your friends are missing. They want to take over. Bad enough we have a doofus for President, now we have the Brits breathing down our necks. Fuck them. Now, it's bad enough you are here, but I have two others here that claim to be former angels. You have phones, a laptop? I need to see them."
Sam, Piper and Victor hand him their phones. He proceeded to smash them on the ground.
"Hey!" Piper protested.
"Sorry sweetheart. These phones can be traced. Here are some burner phones." He hands them three flip phones.
"Ah, thanks?" Sam said. Who was this guy?
Frank just stood there with his hand out. "Laptop. Old man, do you have any other electronics?" Victor shook his head no. Sam dug out his bag and handed him his computer. He wasn't surprised when he destroyed it. But was mollified when he was given a new model.
"That will be $10000. Cash only, no e-transfers, no credit. No one can trace you. I also need to give you new ID's as well. Say goodbye to you old identities. These people are relentless."
Victor just stared at him. $10000? Between the three of them they only had $400.
"We don't have that much cash on us."
"Oh, too bad, say hello to the Brits for me. Now for you I need to see every document you have. Driver's license, etc."
A while later all three were given new identities. Frank had also given them instructions to hide their car. Sam sighed. He knew Dean would be pissed. Frank had told them that their car would be easily traced and it would be impossible for them to save their friends. Castiel and Hannah were also with them. They had declined to ride along with them, saying that they needed to find Jack and Claire. They were currently talking to Charlie and Piper, with them asking them questions about what being human was really like. Sam was wondering how to save Dean, Prue and Paige, when Castiel approached Sam.
"I'm sorry we can't you help you Sam. Hannah and I are on a important mission. We needed to hide too. Gabriel, Micheal and Raphael would want to know where Jack is. I voluntary took out my grace to hide from the angels and Heaven. When I told Hannah of my plans, she too, took out her grace. She wants to find our kids."
"Your..kids?" Sam asked.
"Jack and Claire, we raised them when they were teenagers. Maybe they are not our biologically, but they are our responsibility. We had Balthazar carve us sigils on our ribs so we can stay in hiding. We were looking for ways to change our identities since Caroline Johnson and Jimmy Novak are considered missing. We were looking online when we seen a ad on the internet to find new identities."
"So you went to the dark web?" Sam told Castiel.
Castiel looked confused. "The internet wasn't dark, it had a white screen."
"It's, nevermind. So you said you answered an ad. Was it Charlie or Frank that answered?"
"Neither. It was a young woman named Bela. She asked for payment upfront, then after I gave her my credit card information she gave us Charlie's email. Then after I emailed Charlie she told us to meet her at a coffee shop. She asked us some questions and after I told her what we were planning she told us to follow her. That is when we met you here."
"So, what now. Why are you hiding from the angels, and Michael?"
"Jack is on a mission. I don't know what. But all I know is that the Archangels are looking for Jack. They want to take him to Heaven, and every angel is under orders to inform Michael or his brothers if he is spotted. Jack will run if he senses my grace. I have to protect Jack and Claire."
Sam just nods. He knew how much Castiel loved Jack. He always made sure Jack was doing alright, and called and texted him often. Claire was more independent, but she emailed Sam and Dean occasionally to tell them what hunts she was doing, just so she can report her whereabouts just in case something went wrong. Sam was glad Claire was with Jack, but was scared the Men of Letters would be after her. Claire was a good hunter, but she tended to trust the wrong people, same with Jack.
"Sam, I am truly sorry I can't help you, but tell Dean and your friends I'm sorry. Good luck." He then gave Sam a awkward hug. Sam smiles and hugs him back. He then went to Hannah and asked permission to hug her too. She smiled and hugged Sam. Both Castiel and Hannah went to a run down looking truck and drove away. They both waved goodbye. Sam and Piper waved back.
Charlie watched the truck pulling away. She then looked away and smiled at Victor who was talking to his daughter. Angels, a witch and a hunter. Wow. She was a college dropout. Despite that, she managed to snag a cool job, shame it was for the Men of Letters, but she didn't know that, not until she opened up a encrypted email from a unknown sender. That was weeks ago. Usually she deleted those, but after she got a text begging her to do a background check on the company she was working for she did. What she found disturbed her.
The company she was working for was called Zodiac Inc, it was a front for computer models, but it was actually a spying tool for hunters all over North America. What she saw, it made her question her morals. Every profile she seen had many private details about their lives, including their hobbies, where they shopped at and who they are related to. They wanted to know how frequently they hunted and who they talked to. There was even phone logs from cell phone and text conversations. But that wasn't the worst part. There was birth records, school records and even sealed records of people across the country. They were especially interested in those so called "special children." The ones born or was given special gifts, like magic for example. The organization was obsessed with obtaining those children for their own selfish gains. There was even a separate folder for the Halliwells and for the Winchester and Campbell family. There was even one folder for a Paige Matthews. That car accident that killed her parents wasn't a accident, it was murder. They knew of Paige's Whitelighter side and wanted to see if she can orb out subconsciously. They were pleased with the results, but if Paige died, no big deal.
Charlie felt sick. She was at home when she encrypted those records. When she opened that email, there was instructions to destroy her hard drive and take any personal possessions and leave town ASAP. The people she was working for was watching her and knew Charlie was a computer genius. They were hoping to have her as a agent for the United States for the Men of Letters. They weren't interested in reviving the American chapter, but wanted an insider for their plans for Operation E-Exterminate the American Hunters and bringing their own agents from across the world. If this operation was a success, they wanted to expand to other countries as well. The email also gave her a riddle, which Charlie figured out in less than five minutes. It was a map. This person wanted to meet her in the middle of nowhere in the next state over. The email also said if Charlie was reading this, to leave in less than 10 minutes to leave, she was being watched. So Charlie took a hammer and destroyed her computer and tablet. Took her phone and threw it out the window inside a passing garbage truck and packed whatever she took and drove away.
As she drove away she thought she seen a black SUV pull up to her apartment building and could have sworn she saw a man with a motorbike following her. So she drove a few miles to the freeway and drove like a maniac trying to avoid him. Bastard was clever. He dove in-between cars with ease. She screamed when the guy pulled out a silencer and shot her side mirror. He was trying to scare her, but Charlie knew he wouldn't hesitate to kill her. It was a very tense race with Charlie getting more frightened. But she got lucky. There was a major car accident and even though there was emergency vehicles present, she had no choice but to drive through the car scene. There was a police car that was dispatched to chase her, but she knew if she was arrested, she was a dead woman. So she did the unthinkable. She took her car and sped up knowing there was a small cliff ahead. She prayed to God that she survived. She put the petal to the metal and at the last minute dove out of the car right before her car went over the cliff. Her car went down and exploded on impact. Charlie wasn't killed, but was injured. She managed to land a few feet away down the ravine and crawled away before the police and her would-be murderer finding her. It was hard, her left arm was broken when she jumped out. Going to a hospital was not a option, no doubt the Men of Letters would be watching for someone with her description. So she made a makeshift sling out of garbage bags and wood she found lying around. She had no choice but to hide in the surrounding wilderness.
She wanted to hide among the homeless, but those people would be expecting her and would sent agents to hide among them. She was pondering what to do when she got incredibility lucky. A Whitelighter came to her. His name was Kyle Brody. He was sent to protect Charlie. Usually Whitelighters protected good witches, but the Elders commanded he protect Charlie Bradbury. They told Kyle Charlie was needed, she was important for a future mission. He had healed her arm and told her to be careful. Then he disappeared. 'Thanks a lot.' Charlie thought. He could have flown her to where she needed to be. It took her a few days to reach the coordinates to the place she was instructed to go to, only because she took a lot of back roads and switched clothes and cars often. She even shaved off her hair, just to be safe.
That is when she met Frank Devereaux. Not right away, not until she solved another clue. The clue was written on a bark of a tree, guy was clever. But as much as she was a genius, this one took awhile to figure out. The new coordinates instructed her to head to a abandoned farmhouse. When she got there, there was a red line that was aimed for her heart. She walked right into a trap. The sniper there was Frank. He had asked her a lot of personal questions, including where she was the last forty eight hours and if she was still a employee of the Men of Letters. When she denied it and shouted she was hunted by a mysterious man of a bike that tried to kill her and had no choice but to fake her death, the guy put the gun down. But he told her to walk in a Devil's Trap. Then after she walked into it, she was splashed with cold holy water and salt. Then a silver blade came out of nowhere and cut her arm. She screamed. Then the guy came out of the shadows. It was a older middle aged man. After he felt he was satisfied she passed all of his tests, he introduced himself. After that Charlie started working for him. He helped her get a new name, since "Charlie Bradbury" was dead. He broke into her state's records and put her as a drunk driver that drove off a cliff that died on impact. Charlie had protested, but Frank told her she needed to disappear. The Men of Letters wouldn't want a drunk driver working for them. She changed identities often, usually generic names and jobs, such as a waitress or a stripper. She laughed at her choice. A stripper would NEVER be a employee of the Men of Letters, they were too snobby.
Right now she was under orders to help Piper Halliwell and Sam Winchester. Their angelic or ex-angelic friends, had come by a few hours before Sam and Piper arrived. They had paid Frank in cash to help them hide. They were lucky, Frank almost stabbed them with a angel blade, but both had to beg him that they were no longer angels. They wanted their old human identities to no longer exist. So Frank gave them new names, but he told them they were free to revert back to their old names in the future. They said they wanted to find their children. They had to protect them from Heaven. Whatever that meant. As for Sam and Piper, Frank wants them to take down the British Men of Letters, he said they were the only ones to do it. He had gave them instructions to go contact their hunting buddies and storm their base, but not until they rescue their friends, no doubt they would assassinate them first if they see either close by the base. He also told them not to return home, there may be spying devices in their homes. He had asked Charlie to help them retrieve their friends. Charlie had readily agreed, she knew Frank wanted to take that organization down for years, since they want to take over all the world's governments.
Sam just looked at his burner phone. Man the last time he had a phone like this, he was hunting with his dad. God, his life at Stanford felt like a lifetime ago. He looked at Piper, he knew she was worried about her sisters. Especially Phoebe. According to Charlie, Phoebe was never a patient at Sacred Meadows. Either she escaped, or the Men of Letters got to her. He knew they didn't have much time. He went up to Piper and Victor to discuss what they needed to do. Charlie had walked up to them and told them of Frank's plan to destroy the Men of Letters. But first they needed to strategize and plan.
The figure in the woods was watching them with a binocular. He was wondering why they were avoiding him, he was part of their plan. Even though they didn't know it yet.