Chapter 37: Unglued

I stood outside the panic room watching Dean and Bobby place Sam's unconscious body down on the cot frowning with my arms crossed. None of us were sure when or even if he would wake up now that his wall was broken down. I honestly couldn't believe Castiel did it in the first place but he was changing and I didn't know if he would be the same person after all this.

Balthazar suddenly appeared beside me seeing Dean and Bobby notice his presence leaving the panic room walking towards him.

"You better have a damn good reason for being here." Dean said while he put his hands up saying, "I come on good terms, Castiel has lost his marbles I fear and I wish to give you Crowley's location."

I looked towards Dean and Bobby shrugging unsure if we should trust him or not but at this point, we had little left to lose. We got the location as I looked towards Sam knowing we wouldn't be able to bring him with us but I left him a note letting him know where we'd be.

We began driving to our destination as I sat uneasily in the back seat hoping we wouldn't be too late. Scoping out the outside of the building it seemed to be guarded by angels which was an advantage towards us.

"You would think Crowley would have demons surrounding this place." I said from the back seat as if on cue the car began to rumble.

Turning to my side I was just in time to see a large amount of demon smoke crashing into the car as we began flipping off the road into a ditch. I groaned thanking Bobby for making me put on my seatbelt as I unclipped it falling onto the roof of the car. I crawled up seeing Bobby and Dean all scratched up but I helped them both out of the car groaning as a piece of glass was stuck in my side.

"Here… this is gonna hurt like Hell." Dean said gripping it making me scoff saying, "Trust me Deano I've had worse."

He pulled it out suddenly making me grunt gripping my side knowing I would be fine once I had time to heal, we had more pressing matters to deal with. We all made our way through the compound hearing voices as demons and angels lied dead all over the ground from fighting.

Reaching a room I stepped forward saying, "Boss stop!"

I felt someone grab me from behind seeing it was Raphael in his lady meat suit feeling the angel blade against my neck while Bobby and Dean were flung into the wall. He finished an incantation but nothing happened as I looked around feeling the grip on my wrist tighten.

"Let her go Raphael." I heard Castiel's gravelly voice say seeing him standing in front of them as Crowley said, "You switched the blood…"

"You cannot imagine the power of millions upon millions of souls filling you." Castiel said staring at his hollow eyes watching Crowley teleport away.

"You let him go but not me?" Raphael said pushing the blade closer to my throat as he looked towards us saying, "I still have plans for him… you, however, have threatened her quite enough."

I watched Castiel snap his fingers effortlessly feeling the grip on me disappear as Raphael exploded into nothing but blood and bits just like Lucifer had done to Castiel once before. I shook lightly being covered in blood as he began walking towards me causing me to cower back feeling him place a finger on my arm healing my wound.

"I told you I'd save you… all of you." He said looking around at us while I said, "Alright Cassy you won, now you should really put those souls back."

He looked at me strangely saying, "I still have Raphael's followers to take care of they will be staying with me."

"Come on Cas this isn't you… we are family remember?" Dean said taking a cautious step forward seeing Castiel turn to him saying, "I have no family anymore, you have betrayed me by trying to take what is mine."

Dean stared at him confused but I knew what he was saying, he saw the kiss and with those souls twisting and changing him I was afraid. I took a step towards him placing a hand on his shoulder seeing him stare at it.

"This isn't you Cassy… please don't do this." I said as he looked up at me seeing all kinds of emotions stir in his eyes until they hardened again.

My eyes widened as Sam stabbed Castiel with the angel blade that Raphael had dropped but he just stared at it saying, "Hello Sam… that blade won't work on me anymore for I'm not an angel now."

Sam backed away fearfully as I took a step back feeling immense power flow through the air as Castiel said, "I am the new God now, a better one and you will all bow down to me or be destroyed."

Bobby was the first to go down to his knees while I did next mostly out of fear but I knew deep down he was in there somewhere. I watched Sam and Dean begrudgingly begin to lower themselves but Castiel stopped them.

"You are only doing this out of fear not love or devotion so stand." Castiel said while Sam said, "Cas you're still our friend, you know this isn't right."

"You literally stabbed me and now you're trying to tell me what to do?" Castiel said bewildered while I stepped forward saying softly, "Cassy you're better than this, you're a good man don't throw this all away… don't throw us away."

His eyes turned towards me saying harshly, "The Castiel you knew is long gone now I am a new and better one and if you wish for us to be anything you better come to terms with that."

"Don't be a dick Cas she clearly cares about you." Dean said while Castiel laughed sarcastically, "My, aren't you a brave little ant, yes I know she does but you didn't seem to care did you Dean?"

"It wasn't his fault he didn't know." I said feeling the anger bubble up inside me but I pushed it back down as Castiel ignored me looking at Sam saying, "Tell me, Sam, how are you feeling?"

"Fine…" Sam said but I heard the shakiness in his voice while Dean said, "You said when all this was over you'd help him, you promised."

"I would have if you guys had stood down which you hardly did so no I don't think I will… I have much work to do, and Evelyn." He said as my eyes turned to him seeing something new in his eyes something dangerous, "See you real soon."

Suddenly Castiel was gone seeing Sam collapse out of the corner of my eye watching his nose had begun to bleed and he stared at his bloody shaky hand. I held onto him tightly knowing he was seeing glimpses of Hell closing my eyes.

"Don't worry Sammy, it will be okay." I said trying to comfort him but despite the words leaving my lips, I didn't believe any of it.