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Etiam cuncta. Bene tibi satis. Paulo tu auare nothus quod 'adepto mereris. Omnia secunda et factis. Ego ille ire in miserum odientes erunt.
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"How is he doing?" Eve asked once she walked into her room, where Dean, Bobby, and Castiel were there. The first one was still sick and unconscious, while the other two taking care of him, in case he needed something, or maybe woke up.
"Same as you left him; he didn't even move an inch." Bobby told her from his chair, where he was sitting across the room reading in an old book.
"Well Bobby, no offense, but you have a very bad taste in friends." Eve said taking off her jacket, while glaring at Bobby, referring to the witch they just had a confrontation with.
"She ain't my friend Eve," Bobby said glaring back at her. "She is nothing but a witch. I only get my herbs and stuff from." He trailed off.
"Well, anyway, I don't think she will sell you anything now." Eve told him, giving a small shrug before sitting down next to Dean on the bed.
"Or that she will be in this town for long either." Sam added as he walked into the room. Bobby looked back and forth between the two of them, before rolling his eyes looking back to the book he had in hand.
"Did you get the spell?" Castiel asked, speaking for the first time since Eve and Sam arrived.
"Wow, Cas, I was starting to think that I was hallucinating and you weren't there for real." Eve mocked. Castiel looked at her with a confused look on his face, leaning off the wall he was standing on.
"I did not have anything to say." He said calmly walking to her.
"Smart man, I guess." She muttered. "Anyway, Sam got the spell." Eve said, and Sam went straight to show the paper to Castiel, when Bobby stood up from his chair to see it as well.
For a few minutes everyone was silent, both Bobby and Castiel reading the spell, trying to figure out if they ever saw something like that before, while Sam and Eve waited impatiently for them to talk.
"What did the witch tell you?" Castiel asked, looking at Eve.
"She said that it takes seven days for the spell to work, and seven more hours to kill, once the person starts to get the fever, its only a matter of hours before they collapse and die, after suffering from the, well you know." Sam said glancing at his brother's lifeless body on the bed. "She didn't know a cure for the curse." He finished.
"Are you sure she doesn't?" Bobby asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh yeah Bobby," Eve started. "I made sure of that." She said with a tiny smirk.
"Yes, she did." Sam added, confirming it.
"What did you do?" Bobby asked Eve, looking at her suspiciously. Eve rolled her eyes at him.
"Bobby, I did what I had to do, that's all I have to say." She said with a huff. "Are we done now? Can Cas tell us if he knows anything about this shit, we have lost two fucking hours already." She said impatiently.
"Well," Castiel started looking down. "I don't know how to cure this spell. I didn't see it before, Arial is the one,"
"Well Arial is not here Castiel, if you didn't notice." Eve snapped cutting the angel off.
"Have you tried to call him?" Bobby asked her, not seeing Sam shaking his head no at the question.
"Really Bobby? How stupid you think I am?" Eve said with the same snappy tone, getting a little edgy. "I have called him a million times, he is not answering." She sighed getting out of the bed. "How awesome that is? Losing my boyfriend and my guardian angel at the same time, that's just peachy." She shouted yelling at herself, as she started to pace the room. "We have got to do something, and fast, we lost two hours, Dean is dying, we don't know anything." She said, freaking out, still pacing the room, throwing her hands in the air, and mostly talking to herself than the men in the room.
"Eve, just stop freaking out and let us all think of something, please." Sam asked her calmly. But she didn't seem to hear him.
"Eve!" Bobby called her firmly, making her turn glaring at him.
"I will," She muttered as she walked to the bathroom. "I need to use the bathroom." She said making both Sam and Bobby share a confused look.
"Don't do something stupid." Bobby told her, when she turned around with a sarcastic smile on her face.
"It's the bathroom Bobby, what possibly can happen?" She said with a raised eyebrow.
"You always manage to surprise us Eve." Bobby told her, sarcastically. Eve didn't answer him; she shot him another glare before walking into the bathroom closing the door behind her.
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Omnibus lacte suus dignitas. Planto certus vos adepto illic priorem. Pupillam oculi. Putris. Capti sumus. Quae quidem non potuit peius.
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Eve leaned against the door once she closed it behind her, taking a deep breath, she couldn't help but feel exhausted, drained, and weak, she didn't know what to do, she had no idea how to help Dean, and she knew deep down that Arial also was in trouble, as it was the first time he didn't answer her.
"Arial, please." She begged, calling for the angel, knowing he would hear her pleads. And she waited for a few minutes, expecting him to show up any second, but for her disappointment, he didn't. "Fucking Arial, you better answer me this time." She snapped kicking the door with her feet. "I don't know where the hell you are, but I need you, now." She said in a calmer tone, pleading for him to answer, he was the only option they had to save Dean.
But Eve was starting to have doubts about Arial. That he might be doing this on purpose because Dean was the one in danger, as she knew how he felt about him, and how they felt towards each other, thinking that Arial would be happy if Dean was out of the way.
Shaking her head, Eve tried to shake those black thoughts away. Knowing that Arial was a faithful angel, he would not betray her that way, blaming her lack of..., everything on having such thoughts, she didn't eat in days, she didn't get any rest, and using her powers was the cherry on the top. She let out a heavy sigh as she sat on the floor feeling the lump in her throat, and the sting of the light tears that started to fall down her cheeks, she didn't take herself for a weak person, but it was about Dean this time, and even though it wasn't technically her fault, she couldn't help but to blame herself, as usual. And for that, she was more determined to save Dean's life, whatever it cost, but she thought she would give it another shot calling for Arial, that she would be done with all this and go for extreme measures.
"Arial, please. At least give me a sign you're not dead yet, answer me, please." She sighed, in barely a whisper. "I need you." Eve muttered feeling like the walls were closing in on her, with all the pressure she felt, and how weak she was, she started to cry.
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Sinistra ut ante, amorem et fabula ut vitae. Oportebat autem experti, ego tota ardere mundi usque.
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"Is it normal that Eve takes all that time in the bathroom?" Castiel asked Sam and Bobby, pointing at the bathroom's door.
"That's a good question," Bobby replied. "That we don't know an answer to." He told Castiel, sharing a look with Sam. That was when Sam walked to the bathroom door to knock on it checking on Eve.
But once Sam reached for the door, it opened. "What? Did I take so long?" Eve asked as she walked out of the bathroom.
"Yes, we were starting to get worried." Bobby told her as he stared at her, she seemed calmer to him, and though it was supposed to make him feel better, it didn't, it made him suspicious, he knew that girl better. Freaking out was her thing, not being calmer.
"Nah, I'm fine." Eve said simply walking to Castiel.
"Sure about that?" Sam asked, she was acting normally, but he could have sworn that she seemed like she was crying. "Because you look like you were crying." He said making her glare at him for a second, before she got her calmer attitude back again.
"Yes Sam, I am." She told him, huffing, "You're the cry baby, not me." She teased him, but before Sam could answer her, she looked back at the angel. "I hope you don't know where Arial is, because if you do when he is not giving a damn about answering me, you two will get a special treatment tonight, or whenever he shows up." She told the angel, sounding a little angry.
"I do not know where Arial is." Castiel stated. "He is not answering my calls either."
"Well, when he shows up, if he showed up, I swear I'm gonna kick his feathery angelic ass." Eve snarled. "Now, I want to ask you about something." She said in a calmer tone.
"You're so not sounding right at the moment." Sam muttered sarcastically talking to Eve, pointing at her shifty tones of speech.
"I never do." She teased without looking at him, still talking to Castiel. "So," She started. "I heard that in dark times when all this mojo crap was alive and kicking, that when someone used to get a curse or something, they make someone else read it, so the curse would pass from someone to another. Is there any part of the truth in that?" She asked, looking at the angel with curious filled eyes.
"Eve," Sam called seeing where this was going.
"Sam, please, it's just a question." Eve told him tucking her hair behind her ear.
"And you're lying, not only the way you brushed your hair, but also, that with you, it's never just a question." Bobby told her firmly.
"Look, both of you, we have no idea how to cure this shit," Eve yelled. "And I'm not a teacher in Hogwarts, and since neither of us knows Harry Potter's phone number, we are doing this my way. Unless you have a better idea?" She mocked looking at Sam and Bobby, the two of them just glared at her silently. "Thought so." She huffed.
"It depends on the spell." Castiel burst saying, catching their attention. "Not all the spells are the same, but yes, that is a method that sometimes works. But you don't want to risk it; we do not have enough information about that spell to begin with." He finished.
"Well, I don't have a choice." Eve told him, as she took the paper that the spell was written on from him.
"I can do it." Sam said. "I mean,"
"Are you two freaking nuts?" Bobby shouted. "We didn't get around Dean's case yet, and you two want to throw yourselves into this?"
"Bobby," Eve sighed. "At least this time we will have more than four hours to think, we will have a whole week. Plus, I'm the one who will do this; not only that Dean is my boyfriend, but because I have powers that will protect me." She said, and turned around to look at Sam. "Sorry Sam, next time your brother makes a mess, I'll let you clean it." She said giving him a weak smile that he returned with a nod.
"Just be careful." Sam said making Eve give him a sarcastic look, that was followed by an eye roll.
"It's too late for that boy." Bobby said in his usual grumpy tone, as he took a seat back at his chair. "When I thought two were enough of an idjits." He mocked referring to Eve.
"Thanks Bob means a lot." She said sarcastically. "Its not that I have a choice here, when Dean wakes up, you get to kick his ass, 'cause I'll be busy kicking Arial's." Eve sighed. "Blonde bastard is not answering; hope he will after I do this." She muttered to herself, before she looked at the rest in the room, and down at the paper in her hand. "Ready?"
"Not really." Sam replied both him and Eve looked at Bobby who just gave them a grunt looking mad.
"That's all I need." Eve mocked, and then she looked at Castiel. "Cas?" She called. The angel gave her a light nod. "Let's do this." She said as she started to read. "Omnibus lacte suus dignitas. Planto certus vos adepto illic priorem. Pupillam oculi. Putris. Capti sumus. Quae quidem non potuit peius. Unde ego usque ad huc noveris adpropinquavit finis." Eve read the first part of the spell, and even though she ignored the feeling, she was starting to feel a little bit dizzy.
"Etiam cuncta. Bene tibi satis. Paulo tu auare nothus quod 'adepto mereris. Omnia secunda et factis. Ego ille ire in miserum odientes erunt." She kept reading, and she knew, she knew that this was not going to go well, she wasn't done reading yet, and she was already feeling bad, sick, and getting dizzier by the second. She felt a wave of energy rushing through her veins, and she had to grab Sam's hand making him help her to stay on her feet. "Sinistra ut ante, amorem et fabula ut vitae. Oportebat autem experti, ego tota ardere mundi usque. Egeo frustum animi timor quid sequaris. Credis hoc vicimus pugnam inops modo animum. Adiuvabimus caeli." She finished.
"Are you alright?" Sam asked Eve once she was done reading. She shook her head.
"No, I'm not." She answered him weakly. "Okay Bob, you can yell at me now." Eve said sarcastically sitting on the bed with Sam's help.
"First, don't call me Bob." Bobby said, making Eve let out a small chuckle. "And second, I won't yell, not now anyway, when both you and Dean are better, we will talk about this."
"Well, thanks, I guess." She teased. "Castiel, please check on Dean, maybe he is better now."
Castiel stood next to Dean, leaning down to touch his forehead; he stood like this for almost three minutes, when he took his hand off Dean. "He is resting now." Castiel told them, hearing their sighs of relief.
"Thank God." Sam sighed.
"Why it took you so long?" Eve asked Castiel, curious.
"I was healing his internal injuries. The spell is cured, but not what it left." He answered her.
"Tricky sons of bitches." Bobby growled. "Now, its time to hit the books, we can't afford another spell reader in the house," He said looking at Eve, who was now sweaty and pale. "Are you okay kiddo?" he asked worryingly.
"Nope, I feel like shit, like a truck just ran over me." Eve answered before she started to cough. "A tissue please." She asked between her coughs, Sam ran giving her a handful of paper tissues that she used to cover her mouth while coughing.
"Are you bleeding?" Bobby asked her, standing up from his chair.
"Yes, I'm bleeding," Eve nodded, and then gave him a weak smirk. "But not the colors of the evening stars," she teased, seeing the confused look on Bobby and Castiel's faces, while Sam just rolled his eyes at her. "I take that you two aren't an Owl City fans." She said with the same tone, still smirking.
"Seriously? You're joking now?" Sam exclaimed.
"What do you want me to do? I freaked out already, but Dean is fine now, I'm fine." Eve said seriously. "I took the risk, and," She couldn't finish her sentence as she started to cough harder.
"Castiel?" Bobby growled looking at the angel.
"I don't know. The spell must have gone wrong." Castiel told him.
"Ya think?" Bobby mocked angrily.
"Bobby, get off his back, I knew that might happen." Eve said, seeing the angry look on Bobby's face, she pointed at him to give her a second, as she rested her back against the bed board. "It's a spell Bobby, it's probably 'cause of my powers." She said wiping her nose, when she saw the blood. "Oh peachy."
"Your powers?" Sam exclaimed in confusion.
"It is because of her powers."Arial said, as he appeared suddenly in the middle of the room.
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Egeo frustum animi timor quid sequaris. Credis hoc vicimus pugnam inops modo animum.
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"You son of a bitch!" Eve snapped once she saw Arial in the room, she was about to stand up from the bed but Sam stopped her.
"Where were you Arial?" Castiel demanded firmly. But Arial ignored him walking towards Eve.
"I take a day off and all this happens." Arial joked as he sat on the best next to Eve, when she kicked him with her feet.
"A day off? Dude, I didn't sleep all night, didn't eat and now I'm freaking cursed, days off aren't an option." She snapped looking at the angel. "And you look like shit." she added seeing the sarcastic smirk he gave her.
"Thank you!" He said with an eye roll, "So, what did I miss?" He asked looking at the three men in the room.
Sam and Bobby told Arial a summery of what happened, since Dean got sick, till the moment he showed up. While Castiel was stood there in silence, observing, which Eve noticed, she knew something was wrong, as she also noticed when Arial didn't answer Castiel, pretending he didn't hear his question. But Eve was too weak to think about it, knowing that she was going to have a serious talk with Arial later, about everything that happened.
"Can I see the spell?" Arial asked as Sam handed him the piece of paper that had the spell. The angel looked at it, before he glanced up at Eve looking angry. "And you read it?"
"You have no right to question my acts Arial, not after leaving me all day like that," Eve said finishing her sentence with a nasty cough, coughing more blood into her tissue. "I did what I had to do and now Dean is alright, so, help me, or fuck off and let me die." She snapped with her now hoarse shaky voice.
Arial glared at her for a minute before he took a deep breath. "All you had to do is to read it backwards. Well, Dean, not you." He told Eve.
"That was it?" Sam exclaimed. Arial nodded simply at him. "And why didn't you know that?" He asked Castiel.
"Castiel doesn't have such expertise." Arial answered Sam, but not without glancing at his fellow angel.
"Okay, enough with the sexual tension here. I want to stop this crap, now." Eve burst saying, giving Arial another kick.
"Knock yourself out." Arial told her, giving her the spell to read.
"And I did the right thing when I read it Arial." Eve said softly. "Dean was in a semi coma, he wasn't going to be able to read this."
"Whatever, just read the spell backwards, and be fast Eve." Arial said firmly. "Because your powers didn't help you this time, it collided with the spell against you." He explained.
"Son of a bitch." Bobby and Sam said at the same time.
"It made it act faster than it usually does. Seven minutes, not seven days." Arial added. "That's why you were stupid to read it." He told Eve.
"Screw you." She said as she started to read the spell, backwards.
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Oportebat autem experti, ego tota ardere mundi usque. Egeo frustum animi timor quid sequaris. Credis hoc vicimus pugnam inops modo animum.
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Thirty minutes later, Eve was much better, the coughing and the bleeding have stopped, while her body was healing itself from the internal injuries. Bobby and Castiel had already left the room, she was in the company of Sam and Arial.
"You gonna need anything from me Eve?" Sam asked sounding tired; Eve smiled at him walking to give him a hug.
"Thanks Sammy," She said. "And sorry for the craziness, I was only so worried about Dean."
Sam smiled as he hugged her back. "Don't worry, as long as both of you are fine now, it's all good." He said pulling back seeing the weak smile on her face. "Just let me know when Dean wakes up."
"I will, if I'm awake." She said with a chuckle. Sam smiled at her, nodding at Arial, before he walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. And once Sam was out of the room, Eve glanced down at the sleeping Dean checking out that he was alright.
"He is alright Eve," Arial told her, leaning off the wall he was leaning against. "Only resting, not all people have powers to heal their bodies like you." He joked giving her a smile that faded once he saw the angry look on her face.
"Do you have any idea what I went through tonight, how much I needed you?" Eve snapped at him. "Did you hear my calls? Did you hear me beg you to show up? Or you just didn't care because it was Dean, not me?" She yelled, her voice getting louder and her tone angrier.
"Eve, I would never do that." Arial said in a defensive tone.
"Really? Because you didn't show up all day, Castiel didn't know where you were, and Dean was dying Arial, I called for your help, a million times. But guess when did you show up? Oh, when I read the spell." Eve yelled at him, still mad.
"I'm sorry, I came as soon as I could, I swear." Arial said calmly. "Yes I don't mind Dean out of the way, but,"
"HEY!" Eve said angrily cutting him off as she walked towards her angel. He laughed shaking his head.
"Joking," He said still laughing.
"Not funny." Eve said backing off, taking her boots off. "What's up with you and Cas? Broke up already?" She asked as she threw the shoe across the room.
"Nothing, I only didn't inform him where I was tonight." Arial said simply.
"I don't buy it Arial, I don't buy any of the crap you told me, I know something is wrong and you just don't want to tell me what is going on." Eve sighed.
"Its nothing you need to know about, not now anyway." He told her softly.
"Yeah, because I better wait till it gets personal, as usual, and then it comes to bite me in the ass, right?" Eve said sarcastically, yet sounding mad.
"Don't worry; I won't let anything happen to you." Arial told her with a small smile. She raised an eyebrow at him, sarcastically. "Well, nothing from that end, I wasn't here when you read this shit." He teased, with the same smile on his face.
"Right!" She mocked. "Like that wasn't the problem in the first place." She muttered to herself.
"I heard that!" Arial told her.
"I know you did." Eve said with a smirk. "So, you won't tell me, right?" She asked, trying for the last time.
Arial shook his head walking to her. "No."
"You're a jerk." Eve said with a huff.
"And you need to rest; it's been a long, week." He said smiling at her.
"And from the way you look, I'd say you too." Eve teased looking up at him. "I'm here, if you want to talk, or you want help, I'll be here." She said softly.
"I know." He said, leaning down to press a soft kiss to her forehead.
When Eve looked up at him, he was already gone.
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Omnibus lacte suus dignitas. Planto certus vos adepto illic priorem. Pupillam oculi. Putris. Capti sumus. Quae quidem non potuit peius.
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Not far from Bobby's house, in a large open field, the two angels stood facing each other. Castiel and Arial.
They stood there for over ten minutes, just glaring at each other. They looked strange and for someone who didn't know what they were, or what they were doing there, they would have looked scary too, with the clouds starting to gather in the dark sky, while the thunder lightened up the whole field.
"Really Cas? All that drama and you didn't even bother talking for ten minutes," Arial said in a sarcastic tone. "So, what is it, brother?"
"You know what is it Arial, I know where were you and who you were with." Castiel told him firmly. Arial just smirked at his fellow angel before he started to walk in a circle around him.
"Why are you asking then? You want me to tell you what was going on? And what we said. Or you already know that too, brother?" Arial said, spitting the word brother, as he was starting to get angry.
"Arial," Castiel said calmly, with his always even, emotionless tone. "I just want to make sure she didn't hurt you."
"Really?" Arial mocked standing right behind Castiel, making the other angel turn around and face him. "Not that you want to know how much she told me?"
"What do you mean Arial?" Castiel asked, his tone shifting, no longer the calm even tone.
"You of all people know what I mean Castiel." Arial said bitterly. "I remember now, I remember." He snapped. "I remember what happened to me, what you did to me?"
"Arial, that, that was a long time ago." Castiel stuttered, "I had orders, it wasn't like,"
"I don't care. And whatever you're going to tell me now, I will not believe you." Arial yelled at Castiel, looking hurt and betrayed. "And I will not trust you again either."
"Arial!" Castiel called, but it was too late, as Arial vanished into thin air, leaving Castiel standing alone, under the rain that started to pour heavily.
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Adiuvabimus caeli.
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