Chapter 17

Amazing grace

Mia got dressed as quickly as she could, she certainly didn't want to be half naked in front of a stranger. The archangel was still staring at her, he looked shocked. His stare made her confused and uncomfortable to say the least.

"You…How…" he murmured.

"What?" Dean asked. "You know what she is?"

"Let me out," Gabriel demanded without turning his eyes away from Mia. "Right now."

"Not before you'll…"

"Let me out! You idiots have no idea what you're playing with!"

His yelling made Mia flinch, she wrapped her arms around her. For some reason his anger or perhaps even desperation was making her very nervous, but not fearful. She wasn't afraid of him. No, there was something familiar about him, something she recognized.

"Hey!" Sam snapped.

Mia turned to look at him and smiled at him calmingly.

"It's okay, Sam."

Gabriel was struggling to calm down; his eyes were still on Mia.

"Look, sweetie pie, I'm sorry if I scared you, but I need you to break this circle right now. I can't help you if I'm trapped in here."

Mia looked at him cautiously.

"Help me?"

"Yes," he replied, his tone was much calmer now. "You must come with me; I can keep you safe…"

"Woah, woah," Dean cut in. "She's not coming anywhere with you before you explain what the hell is going on."

Gabriel sighed and looked at Castiel.

"We don't have time for this, little bro, she can't stay here. Release me."

"You're not taking her anywhere," Sam snapped and marched over to Mia. Gabriel stared at him when he put his arm around her.

"Oh dear…"

"What?" Dean snapped. "You better start talking or you'll rot in that circle for a long time."

Gabriel's eyebrows furrowed.

"Fine by me, but don't come asking for my help when my brother finds her. And believe me, he will find her if you won't let me hide her."

"Gabriel," Castiel said calmly. "Please tell us what she is. Why does Lucifer want her?"

Mia swallowed and instinctively snuggled closer to Sam. Gabriel looked at them for a brief moment before replying.

"Well… First of all, when I said that you boys should accept your roles in this little play called the apocalypse… It seems that at least Sam followed my advice."

"What?" Sam and Dean snapped simultaneously.

Gabriel rolled his eyes.

"The girl. You really want to have a taste of her, don't you, Sammy? And my guess is that she wants you too. Am I right, sweetheart?"

Mia's cheeks were turning red, she certainly didn't like where this was going.

"Watch it," Sam snarled and tightened his embrace.

Gabriel smiled.

"Well bravo, I have to hand it to Lucy. Very smart."

"Okay, you're really testing my patience here…" Dean started.

"Do I have to draw you a picture?" Gabriel snorted. "Your brother is attracted to this girl because her human body was made especially for him. For Lucifer's vessel."

Mia's eyes widened in shock, she gasped and stepped away from Sam.

"What?"

"Oh, she didn't know about you and Lucy?" Gabriel said. "Oops, my bad."

"Mia…" Sam started and tried to touch her, but she didn't let him.

"Don't," she murmured. "Just don't."

This was definitely more than she could take. She had trusted him and he had kept something like this from her.

"You… You knew this the whole time and you didn't…"

"I'm sorry; I was going to tell you, I swear…"

Mia turned around and ran towards the door; she couldn't handle this right now. She needed a moment to calm down.

"Mia!" Sam pleaded.

"Castiel, stop her," Gabriel demanded. "And you two yahoos let me out of this freaking circle!"

Mia didn't reach the door when someone appeared in front of her, a dark-haired man wearing a black suit.

"Hello, love," he said with a Scottish accent and grabbed her.

"NO!" someone shouted.

Mia gasped in shock; she was suddenly feeling very nauseous. Everything was spinning; she had to close her eyes in order to stay conscious.

"Stop…" she gasped weakly, but the spinning didn't stop. She would have collapsed if the man's arms wouldn't have been around her.

"Sorry about this," he said. "I'm afraid we have to take a little detour to make sure we're not followed."

Mia felt that she was going to throw up; she was too nauseous to even care about being kidnapped.

"I'm going to be sick…"

"No, no, no, don't even think about that," the man warned. "I'm wearing my favorite suit. Well, my only suit at the moment since my tailor was eaten. Honestly, what kinds of savages eat a man's tailor?"

Mia didn't respond to that, she could barely comprehend his words. Finally the spinning stopped, the man's arms were still around her.

"How are you feeling, sweetheart?"

Slowly Mia managed to open her eyes; she wasn't in the warehouse anymore.

"What…"

"There, there," the man huffed and tapped her back. "No need to worry about anything, I just want to have a little chat with you and… bloody hell!"

Mia didn't hesitate, she kicked the man between the legs as hard as she could and ran. Unfortunately her body didn't quite cooperate, she felt more than disoriented.

"Help me!" she shouted at the top of her lungs when the man caught her. They were in some kind of ramshackle house; the place looked like a real rathole. "Let me go!"

The man turned her around and glared at her.

"You didn't just do that," he snarled.

"Oh, it seemed to me that she did," an amused male voice said from behind the man who froze. For a moment Mia was sure that he looked nervous.

"Sir…" he murmured before turning around. "I was just about to bring her to you…"

"Yes, Crowley, I'm sure you were," the second man cut in absentmindedly, he was staring at Mia. Slowly his lips curved into a smile. "Hello, my dear."

"No, no, no!" Gabriel shouted. "You idiots! Do you have any idea what you've done?"

"Sammy?" Dean said, ignoring Gabriel. "Hey…"

"He's dead," Sam snarled, he was clenching his fists. "I swear I'll kill him!"

"It's okay, we'll find them…"

Dean didn't have time to finish his sentence when Castiel returned, he had gone after Crowley.

"I lost him."

"Great," Gabriel snorted. "Just perfect. Apparently freeing Lucifer wasn't enough for you, no; you just had to find some way to make this all even worse…"

"Alright, enough," Dean snapped. "Tell us what she is."

Gabriel crossed his arms.

"Why, so you can make even bigger mess? If you would have done as I said right away I would have been able to help you and her. But now…"

"Is Lucifer going to hurt her?" Sam asked, his voice held no emotion.

Gabriel let out a humorless laugh.

"Hurt her? I doubt that. Why would he hurt his most valuable possession? She's going to make him even stronger than he's now, so great job, idiots, you just did my big bro a huge favor."

"Stronger?" Castiel repeated. "How? Is she some kind of weapon?"

Gabriel rolled his eyes.

"No, she's not. She's Lucifer's grace."