Chapter 2

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"I was wondering when you will come out of hidings." Black suit smirked down at her.

"I won't let you kill her." Emma said through gritted teeth. "She is innocent okay. She didn't do anything wrong."

"Emmanuelle, you know that she is far from being innocent." Trench coat said to her.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Sam asked them.

"It means she's worse than this abomination you've been screwing." Black suit replied. "Now give us the girl." He said now towering Emma.

"Sorry. Get yourself another one. Try JDate." Dean replied to him.

"Who's gonna stop us? You two? This demon whore? Or this shadow?" Black suit said grabbing Emma's arm throwing her to the other side of the room.

The window broke as Emma brutally hit it. Black suit hissed her up, pinned her to the wall and punched her once, twice before Dean came to stop him. Sam was trying to stop Castiel from getting to Anna. Ruby, she stayed out of the crossfire because the touch of an angel could have ended her. Black suit started to punch Dean. Emma got up and blocked his fist with her right hand as he was about to land another hit on Dean's face. She kicked his leg forcing one of his knee on the ground. She was now towering him. He had released Dean, Emma didn't stop her assault and elbowed him in the face. And suddenly there was a blinding light in the room and Black suit and Trench coat disappeared in a flash.

Emma helped Dean to get up while Ruby rushed to Sam's side. Emma and Dean immediately went into the back room to check on Anna. Anna's hands were full of blood when they stepped in. She had cut herself and drew some symbols on the mirror.

"Anna!" Emma gasped as she rushed to the girl. "What did you do?"

Dean joined them and put a cloth on Anna's arm. "Are—Are they gone?"

"Did you kill them?" Dean asked her.

"No. I sent them away…Far away."

"With that?" Emma said pointed to the mirror.

"It just popped into my head." Anna replied. "I don't know how I did it. I just did it."

Emma was wrapping a bandage around Anna's arm. "Are you okay?" Anna asked her.

"Yes, I'll be fine." Emma replied without looking up. "Are you?"

"I don't know." Anna answered.

"Anna, did they say anything about the first one?" Emma questioned her.

"Only that she was here to help. Some of them didn't even believed that she exist." Anna told her. "Why?"

"I thought you could give me some answers."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be." Emma smiled at her. "You're all good to go."

Dean passed his head through the door. "Come on, we gotta go."

While Dean drove them to somewhere place, Emma was lost deep in her thought. Their short encounter with those two angels has left her with more questions. Apparently, they knew her. Black Suit had called her a shadow. And the way she fought him without hesitation as if she had done it before. She wondered if it was something that was locked somewhere in her brain? Some knowledge that she didn't know about which was quite ironic. Having a knowledge that you are not aware of. Questions that the Winchesters brothers must have too.

A few days ago she was still a simple and boring French teacher and now she was involved with Demons, Angels and Hunters. It was something bigger than she had ever thought she will be involved into. She was completely lost and didn't know what to think anymore.

"Iron walls drenched in salt. Demons can't even touch the joint." Dean said to them as he showed them the panic room as he called it. It was the place of a friend of his. They could stay there a bit, he said.

"Which I find racist by the way." Ruby said standing outside the room.

"Write your congressman." Dean countered.

"Here." Ruby threw three small bags to Dean.

"Hex bags?" Dean raised his eyebrows at her.

"Extra-crunchy. They'll hide us from angels, demons, all comers." She explained to him.

"Thanks Ruby." He said quietly. He gave one of the hex bags to Anna. "Don't lose this." And the other to Emma "So, Anna what's playing on Angel radio? Anything useful?"

"It's quiet. Dead silence." Anna replied.

"It doesn't mean anything good. Does it?" Emma asked him shoving the bag in her jacket. Dean remained quiet at that.

"We're in trouble, uh? You guys are scared?" Anna asked him.

Dean exchanged a look with Ruby before answering. "Nah."

"Hey, Dean!" They heard Sam calling from upstairs.

"Just stay here okay!" Dean told more to Anna than Emma and left the room.

The three women remained silent for a few minutes before Anna just decided to up and leave the room. Ruby and Emma exchanged a quick glance before following her up the stairs. Sam was giving to Dean all the information he got on Anna and the few he got on Emma.

"So, what's she hiding?" Dean asked to his brother referring to Anna only.

"Why don't you just ask me to my face?" Anna snapped at them.

"Good job watching them." Dean said to Ruby who was leaning on the wall.

"I'm watching them." Ruby replied.

"No, you're right, Anna. Is there anything you want to tell us?" Sam asked her.

"Or how this two angels seemed to know you personally, Emmanuelle?" Dean nodded to the girl standing next to Anna.

"They think I'm the First One." Emma answered truthfully after a few seconds of staring at Dean. "Of what? I have no idea. One of them came a few months ago trying to contact me. And then on September 18th, he appeared in my living room telling me that Dean Winchester is saved and it was my time to play." She paused to let the information sink in. "A few days ago, he popped into my car and told me that I have to find Anna." Emma turned briefly to Anna. "I'm sorry, I should have told you that sooner but he said that you were an angel and that you fell. And that you…lost your grace."

"Her grace?" Sam said at the same time Dean said. "Angel?"

"Look, I don't know. It's all the information I have." Emma raised her hands up.

"So, why do they want to kill her?" Dean asked me.

"I don't know." Emma shook her head.

"Okay. Then let's find out." Sam said.

Dean left a moment to go get someone that could help them verify all the information that Emma just gave them and find out more. Anna and Emma was led back into the panic room. Ruby and Sam kept an eye on them.

Things for Emma were getting more and more complicated. It's true she hasn't asked Camael about what a grace is but there wasn't any time. Camael was gone as fast as he came. And after that things were pretty etic, the subject never came in the conversation. She didn't mean to lie to Anna or to the Winchesters. It's just that there wasn't time.

She took the small file Sam had about her. There wasn't much in her file. Except maybe that Emmanuelle Williams has been existed for five years officially. Before that there was no information about her. But Emma already knew that. There was no information to be found about her. When she reached the age of eighteen, she wanted to put a face to her so called parent but the orphanage told her that her file has been lost years ago. Convenient. So, she resigned herself to be a nobody. Someone that no one cared about. It seemed that that was her fate. Being alone.

Dean came back a few moments later with a woman. She was a friend of theirs. Her name was Pamela Barnes. According to Dean and Sam if there was someone that could help them find out more about Anna, it would be her. They were going to hypnose Anna in order to help her remember what she couldn't. Pamela might have lost her sight but she could still see or perceive her environment. She knew that Ruby was a Demon, she knew who were Anna and Emma. Well, she only knew that they both needed help. But Dean only mentioned Anna when he went to get her. He never mentioned her and yet she was there more lost than anyone Pamela has ever met. She came to help Anna, so she help Anna first and then she'll try to give some answers to Emma.

It all started quiet and gently. Pamela asked the general questions to Anna that she answered truthfully. Until the moment Pamela asked her to go further back in her memory and asked her about her dad. That's when things got out of hand. Anna screamed that they were going to kill her. She kept repeating that her real dad were going to kill her. Dean tried to reach out to her, only to be thrown into the wall. Pamela was able to pull her back from her hypnotic state. And Anna told them what Emma has told them before. She is an angel.

Emma didn't attend Anna's explanation about how she fell or how she ripped out her grace. She didn't stay to hear that the reason why she was to be executed was because she disobeyed her father. No, Emma left the room and the house all at once and just wandered around the yard. She sat on the hood of a car and realized why she came to care for Anna so quickly. Because just like her Anna was lost. Just like her Anna wasn't sure of her origins. Anna was confused like she was. Anna got her memory back now and Emma was still confused and more lost than she was before. And felt alone again.

She had doubts about what she really was. With so many angels recognizing her, there's only one logical explanation. She was the First One of them. Probably the First One Angel God has created, the eldest of them all. What she didn't remember though is why would she have left heaven? Why would she have fell on Earth? Why wasn't she punished for her disobedience? Pamela's help in unravelling Anna's past has raised more questions for Emma. Questions that she still didn't have the answers to. And what differences there are between her and Anna? Did she have a grace waiting for her somewhere? Does she even want it back? Too many things to think about. Too many things that she wasn't sure she wanted to know.

"What's the deal with Emma? Why do they think she's the First One?" Dean asked Anna.

"Because she is." Anna told him. She then glanced at the door by which Emma has went through to leave the room. "She is the First One of us. The eldest of us all."

"She's an Angel too?" Pamela said tightly.

"Yes but she's different. She's not like us." Anna continued. "Not even like her brothers."

"What does that mean?" Sam asked her.

"Angels and Demons need vessels in order to interact with human. Our true form is pure energy." Anna explained to them. "Emma doesn't need a vessel. This is her true form."

"What you mean is that when God created her, he created her with this body?" Dean raised his eyebrows confused.

"Yes."

"Why?" Dean frowned.

"No one really knows." Anna shook her head. "Only our father knows the real reason behind her creation. The thing is that many of us thinks that she is a failed experiment. That she has no reason to be." At this point Emma was hiding behind the wall listening in on the conversation.

"Like Uriel? He didn't seem to like her very much." Dean remembered.

"Yes. He always thought that she was an abomination but he never dared to say it to our father or to her brothers." Anna scoffed softly. "He knows better than that."

"So why doesn't she remember anything?" Sam asked Anna. Emma held her breath waiting for her answer.

"What happened between Lucifer and Michael has wounded her badly both physically and emotionally. So, she chose to forget." Anna answered.

"That's not really something you can do just like that." Dean remarked.

"She locked her memories away." Anna replied. "She used a sigils that is only known to her or that's what we think she did. Because the message was wrong, the First One has not been awoken yet. She's about to be."

"Okay. Let's just say she was able to do that. Why aren't they looking for her? Why aren't they trying to kill her?" Sam questioned.

"Unlike me or Lucifer, she never disobeyed." Anna revealed. "She didn't ripped out her grace, she didn't try to overthrow our father. She only tried to keep her family together. So, my father saw no need into punishing her. And Michael still loves her that's why he let her be…"

Emma didn't stay to hear the end of the conversation. At least she knows now, she thought. That's what she wanted to know the truth and yet, she didn't accept it. She knew somehow that she was an angel, well, she has her doubts. And now it's a reality. When she walked back into the house she had every intention to ask Pamela to help her find out the truth and she heard the conversation. They were talking about her, her past, her origins and her differences. She was a freak even among the angels. She thought she was a freak because she couldn't feel a thing for anyone. Having sex was more a way to fulfill a need. She didn't do it because she felt anything for the man she was with or because she was actually turned on. No, she did it because her body asked for it. She didn't get any pleasure from sex. It was more like an itch that needed to be scratch away. That really all it was.

It wasn't true though. She had felt emotions before all this. It was short lived but it was there. She had cried in front of movies, the tearjerker ones. Especially the ones that were about family or loyalty. She had felt peace when admiring the beautiful hills or just listening to the sound of the sea. She had smiled when witnessing a mother kissing her child's forehead. Again it was short lived but it was there. She knew she had felt. But coming to care for someone or to love someone was something she simply couldn't do. Until Anna. Until Camael. Maybe she was remembering somehow.

"I never cared for anyone before helping you out of this medical center." Emma said as Anna reached her side. "Never had a family, never had friends. Never cared about anyone but myself. It was easier this way."

"But it wasn't a life." Anna said sadly.

"Maybe but after what happened with Michael and Lucifer, it was." Emma replied turning to Anna. "I heard."

"I'm sorry." Anna apologized.

"Don't be. It's not your fault." Emma went back at staring at her laps. "You're going to look for your grace, aren't you?"

"I have to." Anna replied. "If I want to save you. If I want to survive."

"And then you'll be gone." Emma finished sadly.

"I'll be back." Anna smiled softly at the woman who has saved her life.

She has looked confident while helping Anna, knowing exactly what to do and now she seemed lost and vulnerable. That's exactly why she was different from the rest of them. That's why their Father loves her more than he loves the rest of them. She embodies Mankind more than the angels do. She understood them more than any of them. The complexity of feeling for someone, to love and hate, forgiveness and grudge. Emma didn't need to lose her grace to know of all of these feelings. She had always been familiar to them. Emma was unique.

Anna remembered that she had always admired her big sister. Yes, Emma is her sister and she admires her. Her courage, her unwavering love for her family. And knowing what happened to her, she couldn't help but feel deeply for her. Emma has lost everything that was dear to her. Her father, her brothers, her home, her family. That's probably why she chose to forget. So, she won't hurt. That's why it was easier not to feel. The thing is that even if it's painful to love someone sometimes, it's worth it. Because you have loved and you were loved. The saddest part was that Emma didn't remember any of this. And Anna was determined to help her remember like Emma helped her before.

"Union, Kentucky found some accounts of a local miracle." Sam told them pointing to a map. He has found what seemed to be the location of Anna's grace.

"Yeah?" Dean said.

"Yeah. In '85, there was an empty field out of town. Six months later, there was a full grown oak. They say it looks a century old at least."

"Anna, what do you think?" Dean asked the angel.

"The grace. Where it hit, it could have done something like that, easy." Anna replied to him.

"So, grace ground-zero—it's not destruction. It's…"

"Pure creation." Anna finished for Dean.

They drove all the way to Kentucky through the night until morning. The three women sitting on the back seat. Emma let her head rest on the cool glass, watching the dark trees disappeared as they drove past them. She closed her eyes, thinking that she could rest them for a few minutes. Trying to forget what she heard back in the house about herself. Camael was right, she wasn't ready to hear the truth. Why did she have to be her? Why couldn't it be someone else? She let out a deep sigh.

Emma had slept during half of the drive. It was dusk when she woke up. They drove a bit further away and two hours later they entered a small clearing. A tall oak tree was standing in the middle of it. It was beautiful, it was almost surreal as they watched at it. The light was seeping through the branches, like a halo was surrounding it.

Anna had been sure that her grace had touched the earth at this place. She felt it and so did Emma. This pure energy was seeping through the ground they were walking on. Emma never felt something like that before it was terrifying and beautiful. Anna advanced slowly towards the tree and touched its trunk but nothing happened. The grace was gone, taken by someone else. This plan has failed.

"We still got the hex bags." Dean started. They have stopped in a barn in Kentucky. "I say we head back to the panic room."

"What, forever?" Ruby asked him.

"I'm just thinking out loud." Dean snapped at her.

"Oh, you call that thinking?" Ruby challenged him.

"Hey! Hey, hey, hey, stop it." Sam interrupted them.

"Anna's grace is gone. You understand? She can't angel up. As for Emma, she's of no use without her memories. None of them can't protect us." Ruby pointed out. "We can't fight Heaven and Hell. One side maybe, but not both. Not at once."

"Um…guys?" Anna interrupted them. "The angels are talking again."

"What are they saying?" Sam asked her.

"It's weird…like a recording…A loop. It says, 'Dean Winchester gives us Anna by midnight or…'"

"Or what?" Dean questioned her.

"Or we'll hurl him back to damnation." Anna told him.

"Anna…do you know of any weapon that works on an angel?" Sam asked her.

Before Anna could answer Emma spoke. "The only weapon we need is our brain."

"Meaning?" Dean asked her.

"Play it smart." Emma crossed her arms above her chest. "I might not have my memory but I know an angel that can help us."

"Camael?" Anna looked at her. Emma nodded.

"You're sure we can trust him?" Sam asked her.

"He's the one who told me about Anna and he helped us back at the hospital." Emma retorted throwing her hex bag to Sam.

"Hey! Where you're going?" Dean called after her.

"Give a quick call." Emma answered shortly.

The fresh air hit her face. She hugged herself as she walked away from the barn. She tried to find a spot as far away from the barn as she could. She hoped that Camael will answer to her calls but she didn't trust him enough to call him close to the barn. When she judged that she was far enough she called Camael.

"Camael, I need your help." Was all she said and she waited one hour, two hours, three hours. All the while, trying everything she could. She yelled, she screamed, she even prayed. But nothing worked. She felt disappointed that he didn't answer. She was made at herself for even caring for him. She walked back to the barn with bad news for the people there. Maybe they found something, she thought.

She stepped in the barn, it was empty, except for Sam. He walked up to her as soon as she came in.

"So?" He asked her.

"I'm sorry. He didn't answer my calls." Emma shook her head. "I tried everything but nothing worked. Tell me you found something."

"I'm still working on it." Sam replied walking back to the table where several books were spread on it and opened.

"Want any help?"

"Sure." Sam smiled at her.

"Where's Ruby?" Sam asked worriedly. Emma and he have been through all the books. Through the entire night and they found nothing that could help them against the angels.

"Hey, she's your hell buddy." Dean replied drinking from his flask.

"Little early for that, isn't it?" Anna asked him.

"It's 2:00 am somewhere." Dean replied.

"You're okay?" Anna asked him her voice laced with worries.

"Yeah, of course." Dean retorted. Emma who was sitting in the stairs next to him doubted it. He didn't look okay.

She was about to comment on that when the door opened violently. Castiel and Uriel walked in. Emma got off the stairs and stood next to Dean.

"Hello Anna." Castiel greeted her. "It's good to see you."

"How? How did you find us?" Sam asked them. Castiel didn't answer, he just looked at Dean. "Dean?"

"I'm sorry." Dean said to Anna.

"Why?" Emma asked him feeling betrayed.

"Because they gave him a choice." Anna replied for him. "They either kill me or…kill you. I know how their minds work." She turned to Dean and kissed him softly. "You did the best you could. I forgive you." She then stepped up to the angels. "Okay. No more tricks. No more running. I'm ready."

"No!" Emma protested.

"Emma, stay where you are." Anna ordered softly. "This isn't your fight."

"I'm sorry." Castiel apologized to Anna.

"No. You're not. Not really. You don't know the feeling." Anna shook her head at him dismissing his apologies.

"Still we have a history. It's just…"

"Orders are orders. I know. Just make it quick." Anna finished for him.

"Don't you touch a hair on that poor girl's head." The Demon that attacked them in the church said. It seemed to Emma that it was years ago. There were two demons behind him holding a wounded Ruby.

Dean pulled Emma with him as they got out of the way.

"How dare you come in this room…you pussing sore?" Uriel snarled.

"Name-calling." The Demon leader retorted. "That hurt my feelings…You sanctimonious, fanatical prick."

"Turn around and walk away now." Castiel warned them.

"Sure. Just give us the girl. We'll make sure she gets punished good and proper." Demon leader promised him.

"You know who we are and what we will do." Castiel got closer to them. "I won't say it again. Leave now…Or we lay you to waste."

"Think I'll take my chances."

There was a tensed moment where Demons and Angels just stared at each other before fighting each other. Uriel jumped on the demons right away while Castiel took on the Demon leader. Castiel punched him three times before resting his hand on his forehead but nothing happened. Demon leader threw Castiel on the floor. He straddled Castiel's waist and strangled the angel. He started to speak in a foreign language repeating it like a mantra. Dean grabbed a crowbar and hit him.

Demon Leader stopped his incantations and directed his attack on Dean. Emma didn't really listened more focused on what Anna was doing. The fallen angel has abandoned her and the brothers to get her grace back. Uriel was the one who has taken it and she was getting it back.

Emma stopped following her with her eyes when she saw that Dean and Sam were struggling to breathe. Emma bent down and grabbed the crow bar that Dean has dropped a few seconds ago. Emma hit him on the side. Demon Leader stopped whatever he was doing to Sam and Dean. The brothers were able to breather again. But the Demon turned to her. Emma walked back as the Demon stepped forward. He had on his face a smile that didn't sit well with Emma. A smile that scared her.

"Shut your eyes!" Emma heard Anna said. "Shut your eyes! Shut your eyes!" Emma placed her arm over her eyes as instructed.

She heard screamed while a blinding light shone in the room. And then she just stopped screaming, the light toned down. Finally there was a flash, a gust of wind and then nothing.

Anna was gone. Emma knew it but it didn't make it hurt any less. Emma stared at the spot where Anna has been minutes before. And realized bitterly that she was alone again. Anna has promised to be back but Emma knew better than to hope for this to happen. She turned her eyes away, forcing herself to look at Dean, Sam and Ruby.

"Hey, if it's not too much trouble, can you drive me back to my place?" Emma asked the two brothers shoving her hands in her back pocket. "I kinda lost my car."

Dean and Sam glanced at each other before nodding at her. They both could see it. The hurt in her eyes, the sadness. They heard the tightness in her throat. Anna's leaving has hurt the girl and she was doing her best to hide it.

She took her keys out of her pocket and slid it in the lock. "I guess it was a pleasure to meet you guys." Emma said putting on a smile turning to the two brothers. "If we forgot about the demons and the angels that tried to kill us."

The two brothers snorted. "Emma, you're sure you're gonna be okay?" Sam questioned her.

"No." She smiled. "I'm not sure I'm gonna be okay and I'm not okay." She sighed. "But you know what they say. Fake it 'til you make it." Dean and Sam gave her a small smile. "See you around, then."

"Call if you need anything." Dean told her before they left.

"I will."

She stepped in her flat and looked around her small place. She could have said 'Home sweet home,' then. Something that made her feel like she was home. But nothing came to mind. She dropped her keys in her couch as she made her way to her kitchen. In search of a strong drink. She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw a shadow standing in the middle of the room.

"That's where you live." The shadow said walking up to her. "Had I know you were with the Winchesters, I wouldn't have wasted my time trying to get that poor girl." She had recognized the voice. She turned around, her body, her legs seemed to recognize that she had to get out of this place as far from this man as possible. A demon blocked her path, she kneed him and he dropped on the floor. She ran again but the demon on the ground grabbed her ankle and she fell face first on the floor. She rolled on her back struggling to get away from the demon but it was too late as the Demon Leader straddled her. "Let me introduce myself." He wrapped his hand around her neck and brought her face to his. "My name is Alastair. It's a pleasure to finally meet you, First One."

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