A/N: Alright guys, I'm so excited for this chapter that I'm going to keep this note short. Quick shout out to all of the new favorites and followers, welcome to my madness. I love you all so much and I'm so thankful that you are all enjoying my story. Any who, who's ready for some more canon characters? Let's just say things are about to get wayward af! ;)

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It was difficult standing in a room full of witches that were thought to be trusted and having no idea if that trust should still be placed within them. Caoimhe had firmly believed that she could place the entirety of her trust within the witches of the Council, but after much thought it seemed that there was at least one witch that shouldn't be. The elder Good woman knew without a doubt that Niall was not the possible problem, the two had grown up together and she knew him almost as well as she knew herself. Connor and Ana were both too easy to read, as were most of the younger witches, so there were few that she had no fear of. Fenrick would be helpful in trying to find a lead on who was turning against them and though she hated to admit it, she was weary of speaking to him about the issue in fear that he was either the source or part of it. The fact that he was a very powerful empath made it easy for him to deceive others. She would talk to Connor once he returned, until then she and Niall would have to continue on as if they hadn't noticed the deceit that was happening among them. Hopefully by the time that Connor came back he would have Ana with him. The young Mohr witch had not been the same since Ana had disappeared.

"Shall we start the meeting?" Tiberius asked as he sat down in the chair at her side. They had been waiting as the rest of the Council families filed in and took their seats so they could begin to speak about contingency plans. In case Ana and Connor failed in either keeping the archangels locked in their cage or killing them once they were risen, they would need a course of action to keep themselves protected.

Valera was moving toward the table from where she had been talking with Iona, pausing to speak to Caoimhe before she took her seat. "I still don't feel right about this. I understand that it's a wise decision to have a 'backup plan', but I feel as if by planning this we're expecting our young witch friends to fail."

Caoimhe sighed, she couldn't say that part of her didn't feel the same, that she thought by even talking about their failure that the energy of that was being pushed into the universe and would only end in the two witches failing, but they couldn't just expect that they would succeed and then be scrambling for an idea if Michael and Lucifer were set free upon the earth. "We need to be prepared, either way." she pointed out, standing to call the attention of the room to the chair members. This was the first official meeting they had since they had lost the three witches during the battle with the rogues and it was going to be difficult without Jacey, Kari, or Gavin sitting among the witches in front of them. "We've brought you here to prepare for the possible arising of the archangels Michael and Lucifer." she began, knowing that talking about something like this would take the majority of the day. As she continued to speak she sent a silent prayer up to any god or goddess listening that Connor and Ana would succeed in taking out the two angels.


Logan had stayed with Ana until she began to yawn. He sent her to bed before going back downstairs and going to his own room to get some sleep, which was all too short because before he knew it there was a knock at his door. "We got the call from Crowley. Ana wants you out in the bar." A voice came through the door, one that Logan thought belonged to Sam, but honestly he barely paid attention to anyone in the room last night other than Ana, Gabriel, and Connor. He was aware that both of the hunters that had showed up last night were extremely deadly, but he was more worried about the three people who were obviously not human. Grumbling, Logan pushed himself out of bed and over to the duffle bag he had in the corner of the room. Quickly changing his shirt and putting on the same jeans he wore last night, he brushed a hand through his hair as he left the room and made his way toward the bar.

Not even bothering to stop at the group that was gathered around the end of the bar Logan went straight into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee, thankful that Ana had still made a pot even with everything going on. Taking a drink he decided that the source of caffeine in his hand would have to be enough to get him through the day, he made his way back out to the bar. The first thing he noticed was that Dean and Sam both sat on the customer side of the bar while Ana was standing behind it, a map laid out between them. The second thing he noticed was the way that Connor stood at the end of the bar top, where there was a space between the counter and the wall for the workers to move through. It seemed that neither half of the couple were ready to act as if things were okay between them, which with everything Ana had told him last night things wouldn't be okay between them until they had a serious heart to heart about what happened to their daughter. "Hey, thanks for making coffee." Logan spoke as he passed Ana to stand just off to her side.

"Like I've ever started the coffee in the mornings for you." She said with a scoff and a soft smile, glad to see that their friendship hadn't seemed to change after everything that had happened last night.

Connor watched the interaction, part of him wondering if he should be worried like Dean, but logic and the connection between himself and Ana told him otherwise. He tried to push the jealousy down at the smile that his soulmate had given another man that wasn't considered family. Before he could think much further a set of green eyes were glaring at him and pulling him out of his mind.

"Don't even start." Ana warned him, being able to feel the up and down of his emotions. First he was just angry and hurt, which was all that she had gotten from him since he had shown up mere hours ago, but the jealousy that popped up hadn't gone unnoticed by her. The sound of ruffling wings filled the almost silent bar, as Ana turned to look in the direction the sound had originated from a bright smile lit up her face. "Charlie!" Once the name was out of her mouth she was moving quickly around the bar to give her redheaded friend a hug.

Dean scoffed, "She didn't give us hugs when we showed up." he grumbled, turning his attention from the group of three that had just appeared to the map on the bartop.

"Maybe if you hadn't have been such an ass I would have." Ana retorted, turning from Charlie to Cas, ignoring Gabe as he glared at her. She gave Cas a quick, awkward hug before taking a step back. "These two didn't start yelling at me the first chance that got."

"Doesn't mean I'm not considering it." Charlie stated with a shrug as if it wasn't that big of a deal. "But I figure that you're getting enough of the angry rants out of Dean and Gabe, so I'm just going to tell you how extremely happy I am that you're okay and then I'll reprimand you later for not telling me anything."

Sam could feel the grumpiness radiating off of his brother and he knew that if he didn't change the subject soon there would be another yelling match between Dean and Ana. "Alright, well now that everyone is here we can start planning on what to do with the information Crowley has given us." After the adrenaline of the fight that had happened early in the morning had worn off, Sam could tell that Dean's rage was filtering away, he just hoped that it would be completely gone before they started whatever plan they concocted. The last thing they needed was Dean and Ana both too angry at one another to think straight enough during a fight.

"Which is what exactly?" Logan asked, moving to look at the map himself. He ignored Dean's glare as he glanced around until he found the spot that someone had marked with a red marker, but as he continued to look around at the map he noticed that there were four more markings other than the first one he spotted. "I thought he was going to be giving us 'an exact location'?" he questioned, repeating Crowley's words.

"He did." Sam answered, waiting to see if anyone else was going to step up and explain or if he was going to have to do all of the talking. Honestly, he'd rather not have to play catch up with those who had just gotten there and spend this time trying to think of anything that could help them.

Ana could see the gears working in both Sam and Dean's heads, though she knew that they were both considering different aspects of what lied ahead for them. "Crowley was able to get information out of one of the two demons who are closest to Gadreel. According to that demon they're going to be opening the five remaining Devil's Gates in North America, sending a group of demons into each who will then recite a spell they were given by a witch. Supposedly the spell is meant to weaken the cage enough that the mere power of the angels within it will destroy it. After that they're pretty much free, no one is going to be able to keep Michael or Lucifer in Hell."

"That sounds pleasant." Charlie chimed in, her tone just a higher above normal and filled with sarcasm. "So what can we do to stop them? There's not enough of us to cover each of the five gates."

Dean stood up from the stool he had been sitting on and turned to walk away from the bar. "We're going to need hunters, groups of them to be set at each location. We do our damnedest to keep the demons and angels from opening the gates." He explained, not exactly liking that they would have to work with other hunters. There were few he trusted that were still living and working against something like this with people you don't know could be dangerous.

"And if we can't keep them closed?" Logan asked, looking around the room at each person there. "What happens then? They raise Michael and Lucifer, what's plan B?"

"Us." Ana answered, moving toward where Connor stood. "The prophecy says that if they're freed Connor and I are supposed to be able to defeat them. So that's plan B. We have an angel who's fighting on our side at each gate and once there's a sign of either angel coming out of a gate they notify Gabe or Cas, who we will be with. The moment we know where they are we'll teleport and do everything we can to end them."

A silence fell over the room as everyone considered the two witches going up against both Michael and Lucifer on their own. There was much fear that they would not succeed. "So, we need more bodies. Hunters and angels?" Charlie asked, deciding to work on the plan of keeping the gates shut so she didn't feel the need to worry about Ana and Connor.

Sam nodded, "Yeah. Dean and I don't really know many hunters anymore." he paused, leaving out the part that most of the ones they had known were dead. "We could call Garth."

"Or you could give me a few minutes to make some phone calls." Ana scoffed, moving toward the phone that sat on the back wall of the bar by the cash register. She dialed a number from memory and listened as the phone began to ring, her eyes moving to Logan. "Hey," she kicked a foot out toward him, "You could help you know. Jackie, Rick, and Jerry. Oh! And Xavier."

Logan had been pulling his phone out of his back pocket, but froze when Ana mentioned the last name. "Seriously, you call X." he almost whined, already pulling up Jackie's contact information in his phone.

Ana glared at him as the ringing on the other end of the line ended, being replaced a deep, Boston accented voice that was swearing at her. "Jesus, Zack, calm the hell down." she grumbled, pausing as he spoke. "The one and only. Look, there's something big going down and we need some help dealing with it." She sighed, "Don't even start, you owe me after that Rawhead in Denver. How long will it take you to get to the Roadhouse?" Looking up she watched as her dad and uncle began to bounce battle strategies off of each other while it looked like Charlie, Cas, and Gabe were discussing how many angels they should have at each gate. "Great, see you then."

Logan had finished his call before Ana had and waited until she was done before he spoke. "Jerry and Rick were already on their way here it seems. They picked up on the omens and were hoping that someone here would know what was going on. They'll be here about noon."

Ana nodded, turning to Connor as a thought struck her. "Any chance we'll be able to get a few Council witches to come help with this?"

"No." Connor shook his head at her, wondering how he was going to tell her what was happening with their coven. "But I can see if Diane and the others will help." He offered, knowing that the Council members would be stronger, but there was just no way he would bring one of them in on this while he wasn't sure who all he could trust.

"Okay?" She drew out the word and raised an eyebrow at her soulmate, dampening her curiosity when he gave her a look that said they could talk about it later. Turning her attention back to Logan, she gave him a wide grin as he stared down at his phone, "Oh, come on! Just call him, Logan! Just because he's your ex doesn't mean he's not a good hunter."

All eyes turned to the two behind the counter, "So you do swing that way." Dean spoke up, not in an offensive way, just stating a fact as he turned to give his little brother a teasing look.

"He swings all of the ways. One of the reasons he's so much fun to keep around." Ana joked, beginning to dial Khloe's number but stopped once Logan turned to look at Dean and Sam.

Logan raised an eyebrow at the eldest Winchester, "What gave it away? Most people don't realize it unless I'm literally all over another guy."

"Connor caught you checking out Sammy last night." Dean answered with a grin, his eyes still focused on his brother as the younger Winchester man blushed.

Ana burst out in laughter at that, wondering how she could have missed that, but glad that Connor had been able to witness it for her. Logan shrugged and glanced at Sam, "Kind of hard not to check out something that fine." he commented before placing his phone to his ear, another phone call already in progress.

Sam's eyes went wide and Dean joined in on Ana's laughter. Things were going to get serious very fast, they needed to enjoy the little fun moments while they could. Once they had enough hunters and angels there, they would be splitting up into groups and making plans to fight off those who would try to open the Devil's Gates.


"I know you boys were reluctant in calling us in on this one, but I'm sure glad you did. Looks like Ana and Charlie were outnumbered women." Jody spoke up as she, Donna, Alex, Claire, and Krissy all came through the door of the Roadhouse. The sun was just beginning to set, but considering they had left South Dakota that morning they had made great time.

The three younger girls had bags in their hands and they moved as a group to put everything down on the nearest table. Claire and Alex both turned to look at the others in the room with wary eyes, but Krissy walked right over to Dean and bumped him with her shoulder. "Knew you'd be calling for my help someday, Winchester."

"Yeah, yeah." He muttered, returning her shoulder check with one of his own. Before he could ask how she had been doing he was distracted by the blonde sheriff who was walking over to him, arms wide and ready for a hug. "Donna." Dean smiled a little awkwardly as he returned her hug.

Donna smiled as she stepped back, but then poked him in the chest. "It seems you have a lot of explaining to do, mister."

Sam and Jody moved over to the group, "Which we will explain now that everyone we've called is here." Sam offered, turning to Ana since this was her place.

There was just over twenty people in the bar, which was sadly more than the new place had seen since the workers had left. Ana looked around at all of them a moment before speaking. "So, I'm just going to jump right into this. Some of you know me and some of you don't… and some of you know me by a different name." She sent an apologetic look to the hunters she had met since opening the bar. "My name is Anastasia Winchester, I'm Dean's daughter and I'm a witch." Her last words instantly had the hunters on edge and they were beginning to fidget, sending her confused glances.

"Would you all just shut the hell up and listen?" Dean yelled over the noise, moving so that he was standing by Ana's side in support.

The noise slowly died down, "Unlike what a lot of you may think, there's more than just the witches who are given their powers by demons. I'm a natural witch, I know as hunters you probably haven't encountered any, but it's true. Myself and my fiance Connor were born with our powers, we use them for good and part of that is why you're all here." She paused, looking around at everyone. "The archangels Michael and Lucifer have followers who are working to release them from their cage in Hell."

"Another apocalypse?" Jody raised an eyebrow, glancing back and forth between the three Winchesters. Why was it always them and the end of the world?

"Not exactly, but similar." Ana answered, "These angels and demons working to release them have been trying for months, but they're just now getting close enough for it to really worry us."

Alex sighed, "That explains all the weird stuff that's been happening with the weather." She really wanted nothing to do with hunting, but Jody had said it was really important so she had packed a bag and climbed in Donna's car with Krissy without complaint.

Khloe, a hunter who Ana had met while she was supposed to be in college moved toward the front of the group. "What are we supposed to do about that? I'm a good hunter, you know that as well as I do Ana, but none of us are strong enough to stand up against the Devil, let alone him and his brother."

"You're right, none of you are, but Connor and I are." She answered, taking a moment to judge everyone's reactions before continuing. "There's a prophecy that explains that if this happens that witches from our bloodlines will be able to end it. Since it's happening now, that means it's up to us."

Jerry scoffed from the back of the group, he had respect for Ana for saving his friend, but he wasn't okay with anything that had been said since they got there. "A prophecy? And where did you hear that from?"

Connor slowly turned to look at the older hunter, frowning before he spoke. "The archangel Gabriel." he answered, turning to look at the angel who stood near the bar giving everyone a wave.

A majority of the hunters in the room turned to look at Gabriel in shock, but Jody and Claire just shrugged. They had both had enough interaction with Castiel that knowing there was another angel in the room felt like no big deal. "Wait," Claire looked at Gabe with a confused expression, "I thought you were dead."

"Long story short, Gabriel never actually died." Ana explained, earning a hard look from the younger girl. She wondered if Claire would ever really warm up to anyone, maybe after this Ana could try and get her to talk, it probably wouldn't work, but she could still try. "So I was saying, there is a prophecy that says Connor and I will be the only ones strong enough to go up against Michael and Lucifer with the chance of winning. What we need from you is to fight against the demons and angels who will be working to free them."

Krissy raised an eyebrow, "And how exactly are we supposed to take down these angels and demons?" she crossed her arms over her chest. After the last time that she and the Winchester men had seen each other, she had stayed with Aidan and Josephine for a while before going off on her own. She stuck mostly with smaller hunts, simple things like ghosts or vampires, so going up against an angel or a demon would be a whole new experience for her.

"Angel blades." Gabriel offered, making his appear and holding it up so everyone could see it. "We have a small stash in Heaven that are no longer being used. You'll each have one, they can kill both angels and demons."

"Look, going up against angels and demons sucks. They're powerful in a way that most of the other creatures we go up against aren't, but thankfully we have a little time to train everyone. At least the basics." Dean explained, looking around at everyone slowly, "Our source of information is keeping an eye on the movements of the groups, so far they're just gathering enough bodies to stand guard at each Devil's Gate, but once they're ready to make their move we need to be too."

Zack was sitting at a table near the wall, his large build looking even larger in the chair he was seated in. "Okay, so you're going to help us learn how to go up against angels and demons. We have real angels to learn with, you gonna bring in a couple real demons too?"

Ana glared at him, "Of course not. Connor and I can do similar things with our magic that a demon would do during a battle. We'll be playing the bad guys."

"Oh, little miss Ana." Zack stood from his seat, he was taller than Sam, which was hard to come by, and looked like he belonged on one of those fake wrestling shows with all of his muscles. "You are a good hunter, I'll give you that, but I doubt that your witch powers are very strong since you're so small."

"Did he really just say that?" Connor questioned looking at Sam, who was standing right next to him.

"Dude's going to regret that." Gabe spoke up with a mischievous grin as a candybar appeared in his hand. He moved toward the bar and took a seat, "This is going to be good."

Ana slowly raised an eyebrow at the tall man who stood just in front of her, she had already proved that she was a good hunter, she didn't know why he always felt the need to challenge her. Without moving a muscle, she sent a force of power out at Zack, pushing him back just a small ways. It was more of a warning than an actual attack.

"Is that all you've got?" He asked, with a chuckle, wondering how the little redhead was supposed to take on both Michael and Lucifer with such little power."

"Ana, don't." Connor warned, knowing very well that she was ready to show the hunter just how powerful she really was.

Holding out a hand to focus her power, she pushed Zack back until he was pressed up against a wall. She watched as he struggled, unable to break free of the hold she had on him. "Do you know what demons like to do, Zack? They like to press you up against walls," she pressed her power against him a little harder, "they make it completely impossible for you to move, then they start to get creative. Sometimes they'll fill your body with so much pain that you can't even focus." she told him, letting her magic attack all of his nerve endings and filling them with pain. "Or they'll make it impossible for you to breath." She began to slowly put pressure on his windpipe, waiting until he looked genuinely frightened before letting go completely. "But they aren't going to let you go. They will keep you wherever they have you until you're dead. That's why we're training, because being faster than they are and catching them off guard is going to be the way we all get out alive."

The burly hunter paused a moment, using the wall to regain his balance. Zack looked at Ana for a long minute before giving her a slight nod, "So how long do we have before their plan to open the doors to Hell takes place?" he held no grudge against the small woman for what she had done, it was much like when he had questioned her hunting skills and she had almost dropped him to the ground. He now knew that the little redhead was more deadly than most of the creatures he hunted.

"Not long. These demon omens started about three days ago, which is more than enough time to round up the necessary demon power they're going to need." Sam answered, moving over to grab the map that was still sitting on the bar. Turning back around, he placed it on a round table that almost everyone could gather around. "Our contact will notify us the moment he sees any movement toward the five gates."

"So what are we doing until then?" Claire asked, the tone of her voice making it clear that she wanted to waste no time. If they were going to be heading straight into a fight this big, she wanted to do nothing with waiting.

Dean walked over to her, looking into her eyes much the way he did with Ana when he was about to get stern with her. "We're going to train together." He turned to address the whole room, "We'll all be split into five groups and those will be the groups that each go to a separate Devil's Gate. There will be roughly five of us at each, Cas and Gabe are having a couple of each angels come and help. Each group will have at least one witch and one angel in the group, so if you're not comfortable with that idea you better get comfortable with it fast." Turning back to Claire, "You got a problem with any of that?"

"Only that your numbers are off." She spoke with her normal smirk. "I only see two witches in this room, how are we going to have a witch in each group if there are only two."

William moved from where he had been leaning against the back wall, "Might want to count again. There are five of us present." he spoke up. They had agreed to only take three from their remaining coven to the battle and leave the others back in New Orleans. Diane, Gregory, and himself had been the three who it had been decided on should go. Diane since she was a natural witch, then himself and Greg because they had been doing it the longest out of the students.

"Problem solved." Dean pointed out with a smug smile before turning away from the young blonde and looking around the room. "We don't know how much time we'll have before we need to leave. We're going to be breaking off into our five separate groups to begin to become familiar with each other. Ana is going to place everyone in their groups since she knows everyone and actually made lists." he teased, earning a soft chuckle from a few of the people around the bar.

Everything took off quickly as Ana began to place everyone in their groups. Herself, Connor, Charlie, Dean, and Sam would be the people to be in charge at each gate. They had decided that having one of them in each place would be best, even if they didn't like the idea of being separated from one another. Once the room was divided into fifths, each of the leaders began to inform their group of how they planned on things happening and began giving tips on taking out a demon or an angel. It wouldn't be long before they were in the midst of battle and they all wanted the hunters working with them to be prepared. They wanted as many of them to survive this as possible.