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Angela was always about finding the best choice to execute, especially when someone's life was at stake. In this case, not only was a life at stake, but heart and souls of the people she held dear. She was all for stopping Chuck, but more that they went with Billie's plan, the more she began to have doubts about it. She voiced them but this latest with Dean withholding the fact that Jack would die…

She realized that she would have to start thinking like a tactician. That ended up with her in the bunker with a leashed Chuck and a desperate Amara. And things weren't going so well.

"Humans? They disappoint you every time. Break your heart."

Angela narrowed her eyes and said, "You manipulative bastard."

Chuck looked at her in anger, "And what about you? How many have you manipulated to your own ends?"

Angela stood there with a firm expression. Her eyes were narrowed as she looked at him. "I am not going to lie that I have done my fair share. The difference between you and me is that I don't do it for my own pleasure. Everything I do is for them."

Chuck shook his head, "You're just as selfish. Don't think you're going to try and convince Amara."

Angela didn't look at Amara. There wasn't a point to it. In the end, decisions would be made and they would go from there. And she prided on the fact that she gave people the choice. "I am selfish. I am selfish because I value life so much to the point that I look for the possibility of saving most if not all with the hope that I save all."

Chuck shook his head at her. "Why do you even bother? How many times have you been betrayed? By Dean himself?" He turned and gestured at her. "I mean you know better than anyone how well he can lie with a smile."

Angela stared at Chuck. She knew full well Dean's capabilities. The hurtful words and actions they dished out to each other over the years was proof of that. She knew he was a liar in most things, but he had a good heart. She knew that Amara was listening for her answer.

Chuck took the silence as something else and gestured at her, "See, Amara. Even she can't deny that Dean has lied to her too. This is the way that all humans are. Not to mention her since she is half a human." He said it meanly to emphasize the point.

"I am not denying but I'm not acknowledging either," Angela said, not looking in Amara's direction. She didn't have to look at anyone but she did look down at the ground. "Dean and humans do lie at times to get what they want. Dean though…" She looked and at Chuck with a narrowed look, "While intending to be deceiving, he has his reasons. Now being anger at you Chuck and when emotional it becomes misplaced."

"You must be desperate to play that," Chuck sneered. He folded his arms over his chest.

"Never desperate for truth." Angela looked at Chuck. She could feel her jaw quiver as she could feel the turmoil of emotions from Sam. She had a pretty good idea of what was going on right now. "You created me. You should know what I am capable of."

Chuck stared at her before scoffing at her. He looked at Amara and said, "What is the point? We can be together. We only look out for each other."

Angela watched as Amara had been pacing. No doubt she probably felt betrayed because of what Dean said. Celestial beings had little to no understanding of human duplicity or intentions and tended to see things in black and white. She watched as the darkness stared at Chuck.

"I know… not all of you are the same," Amara said. Her voice trembled as she addressed Angela. "But in the end, you will protect what matters the most to you."

"That is true. And everyone that I have no connection with," Angela said.

"And that is why I know everyone is safe in your hands." Amara gave a sad smile at Angela. It then sobered quickly and seemed to take on a cold expression. "But I cannot help you. Not anymore."

"Are you referring to me or to Dean?"

"Maybe both. You did know after all."

"I knew enough about a plan that would cost the life of the boy that was like a son to me. To be honest, I warned them not to poke the hornet's nest when they went to see you." Angela glanced back at Amara but never fully turning her back on Chuck.

"And you still let them." Amara looked at Angela before walking towards Chuck. She held out her hand to her brother. There was the slightest hint of tears in her eyes.

"Come on," Chuck beckoned.

Angela turned enough to look at the pair of them. "I have a principle and that is to never tell anyone what to do when faced with a choice. We all have choices." Angela blinked slowly, "Just know that this choice you make… Chuck is the goal to be destroyed. Make that choice… you become a part of that goal too. Seems counterproductive."

Angela stared at Amara. The woman had paused for a moment to listen. It seemed like an eternity before Amara took Chuck by the hand and the two became one. Angela didn't run away but merely looked on in sadness. She didn't want it to come to this. She could sense Dean's pain and anger and Sam's pleading, his heart on his sleeves. It was too little, too late.

Chuck was taking a moment to adjust to having absorb Amara before he turned to look at her. He smirked, "See? I'm going to get the story I want."

"Everyone gets what they deserve. It's the nature of karma."

Chuck growled in annoyance, "Must you always be so philosophical. None of the other yous from the other worlds were as annoying as you."

"I'm surprised at that. I knew I didn't exist at all in one except in a story." Angela looked blandly at Chuck.

"That is the point. They look like you and maybe on occasion act like you but they aren't YOU! They are a piss poor copy of you." Chuck looked at her in annoyance. "Couldn't even hold up as I was getting rid of other worlds." He paced angrily in front of her. "And do you know why?"

Angela watched him pace. She didn't answer. He didn't seem to expect one and it seemed to be an unusual turn of events after what just happened.

Unfortunately, that seemed to make Chuck angrier. He turned to look at her as he ranted, "I tried. I duplicated the process but it didn't happen. The soul didn't split. I can see them but not you. Not what you plan to do and it is pissing me off. You are a failure."

"If I am such a failure, why did you keep me around?"

"To see the story played out and yet time and time again, you don't play the story," Chuck said. He had gotten close enough to probably harm her though since he was God, he could do anything if he had the inclination. "You were supposed to fight both brothers and yet…" He sighed in exasperation. "Where did I go wrong?" He turned and walked away as he tried to puzzle it out.

Angela stood there. She replied, "You may have been perfect but you underestimated one thing."

"And what is that?"

"Free will. The ability to choose." Angela looked at Chuck hard in the eye. "True you set the boys on this path. A push here. A nudge there. They came close, but in the end, they decided and made the choice on what mattered the most. The same I would make."

"You, were never supposed to be like this. Your time in hell should have cured you of that." Chuck threw it out there, exasperated.

"Hell broke me," Angela said, "But it also made me. You forget I am part human. The human condition… determination grows and gets stronger in the face of adversity." She looked at Chuck as he turned away angrily again. "You may have set the pieces in motion and maybe Dean's rage will win out and a fight ensues, but they won't do what you say will happen."

"It will happen," Chuck turned as he pointed at her. "This story will be told the way I want it."

"No it won't.

At that moment, there seemed to be a change in the air. Angela sensed it. It was Dean relenting. Sam was pleading and telling the truth, the one truth he held onto. She knew that they would never go through with it now. She looked at Chuck and knew he could sense it. "I told you. You may find humans boring, but they can surprise you. Even when it seems like it is the only choice, they surprise you."

Chuck was clearly pissed. Angela knew that it would be a fight on their hands now. At least the baby was safe. She would have to let Sam know but Jess would be safe while they finished this. She looked at Chuck and added, "You should know the Winchesters by now."

"You're right."

Angela didn't see it as she was knocked backwards with an intense force. She shattered the door to the room as she flew through it into the hall. She hit the ground hard and skidded along the ground. She could barely make out the voices of Sam, Dean and Jack calling out to her. She winced from a stinging pain in her leg as she looked in the direction she had come from.

"You did it again."

A/N: Angela knows she is going to have to start thinking like a tactician and she faces down Chuck while Amara is holding him in the bunker. Tag to Unity.