"No." Nick shakes his head. "No. We had a deal. I bring you back we become one again."

"One?" Lucifer scoffed.

"We were meant to be together."

"That's what you think." Lucifer pointed out. "It was always meant to be me and Sammy. He's my true vessel."

"I was willing to give my life to you. I was gonna let you in. Sam doesn't want you. How the Hell did you posses him he never gave his consent?" Lucifer did an uh oh face and grins when Nick's confusion increases. "What?"

"The spell required an anchor. " The archangel explained. "Something I can latch on to. I needed to form a connection to someone. I thought about that power I had back at the church. How strong I was. It made me miss the power I had all those years ago when I was in my true vessel. So I thought if Dean can have Michael why can't I have his brother. Why miss the opportunity to take back what was mine."

"He fought you. He took control."

"With the help of demon blood. Now he is in this alone. You did your part Nick, now you are free. You can go and start over. You should take that chance if I were you I am being generous."

"No." Nick drops down to his knees. "I can't...I don't wanna be alone. I want you."

"You want my power. You miss being strong." Lucifer nods. "I can read your thoughts."

Lucifer goes back when his former vessel grabs on to his jacket.

"Please!" Nick trembles and his face screws up. "Take me! Possess me. I am nothing without you. My family is dead. You are all that I have." Lucifer rolls his eyes. "I will do anything!" Nick begged.

Lucifer looks down at him.

"Wow!" He laughs. "You really thought I cared about you. You were only meant to be temporary then I ended up getting stuck with you. You don't know how relieved I am to be away from you."

"W...What?"

"You are not the chosen one Nicky. Yes Abraxas killed your family and that gave me a chance to manipulate you into saying yes but you never had a purpose you were not meant to fight in the Apocalypse. No matter how willing you are I choose Sam."

Nick is shocked. He couldn't believe it. He went into all that trouble bringing Lucifer back and this is how he repays him? Tosses him to the side like an unwanted item. Lucifer had no interest now that he had his perfect vessel. Nick was nothing to him. From Nick's perspective Lucifer was everything, his soul mate, the two of them together it felt right they had a bond that no one else would understand.

The Devil is throwing all that away for Sam. He is choosing power over their relationship?

Fury rose in the former vessel. He suddenly screams and lunges at the archangel. Lucifer grabs Nick by the throat.

"Oh Nick." His brown eyes flash red. "Poor little Nick. Poor broken, damaged Nick. I feel kinda sorry for you in a way but then I am the reason you became like this. I did give out the order for your whole family to be murdered. Abraxas did a damm good job of it. He made them suffer. It was a painful death."

"Shut up!"

"Oh so I can't talk about them? You basically cheated on your family. I mean you chose me over Sarah. She's stuck on Earth thanks to you. I thought I was the bad guy." He smirks at Nick's paled expression. "You killed people Nick. I didn't tempt you. The Devil never made you do it. I was dead. You chose to kill."

"I did it for you."

Nick gets thrown into the wall. Lucifer brushes his outfit down. His former vessel was getting on his nerves now.

"What's been happening Sammy?" Lucifer flicks through the memories. He was blocked at first by a wall Sam has put up. But the wall was weak. Lucifer laughs. "Oh Sammy seriously?" The Devil had to remind the hunter that he is not on demon blood. So he is not strong enough to fight him now. Lucifer breaks down the wall and scrolls through. His eyes go wide and his mouth drops open. "Well well well just when I thought my day couldn't get any better." He turns to Nick. "Did you know that I am now the older brother?" Nick frowns at that. "Guess not. I was gonna kill you but why bother I think I'll just leave you be. If I kill you I'll only put you out of your misery."

"Lucifer!" Nick stands up. "LUCIFER!"

The archangel vanishes.

Nick bit his lip. He looks at his hand and realizes he is holding a phone. It was Sam's phone. He assumed he grabbed it when he attacked Lucifer. The former vessel scrolls through the contacts. He knew he beat Cas up pretty bad so he is not an option. He presses on to Dean's number. The older hunter went straight to voicemail. Nick found it strange. When they took him to the bunker Dean wasn't there. When he asked them where Dean was they wouldn't tell him.

Nick sighs he is going to have to call the brat.

He presses the button and brings the phone to his ear.


"Castiel. You're not healing." Jack said with a worried expression.

"I will. I just need time." Cas assured him with a weak smile.

Jack places his hand on the angel's chest.

"Let me heal you."

"No!" Cas slaps Jack's hands away. "You are not burning off anymore of your soul."

"I want to do this."

"I will not let you!" Cas snaps.

Jack huffs. He knew the risks of burning his soul but he didn't care he would burn all of it for his family. Dean said yes to save his family why can't Jack use his soul to save his family? The former nephilim's phone rings. He gets it out and looks at the screen.

"Its Sam!"

"Answer it." Cas says.

Jack stands up and presses the button. He puts it to his ear.

"Sam!"

"Hey Jack."

Jack's face darkens.

"Nick."

"Yeah and I really wanted to talk to you as well kiddo." Nick answered sarcastically.

"What have you done to Sam?"

"Nothing. I swear but...we got a bit of a problem. Your dad is back." Jack's fingers curl around the phone. He clenches it hard. "Its been done." The former vessel continued. "He uh...He kinda ditched me and took off."

"Where's Sam?" There was no response. "Nick. Where's Sam?"

"Lucifer has him...Lucifer is possessing him."

Jack's eyes widen. He almost dropped the phone in shock. Cas notices how pale the former nephilim has become.

"Jack what is it?"

Jack didn't respond. Sam and Dean two men who he looked up to as father figures have been taken away from him. He first lost Dean to Michael and now he has lost Sam to Lucifer. The archangels have taken everything away from him. Jack couldn't do anything about it. He is powerless against them. Jack hated it. He wished he had his powers back. He felt so useless right now.

Cas bleeding out on the ground made Jack feel worse.

"Jack, there is something else. Before I brought Lucifer back he told me he wanted to speak to you. So I may have um forwarded the message to his followers."

"Huh?"

A scream causes Jack to spring into action. Donatello is pinned to the ground. Jack looks at the boot pressing down on to the Prophet's face. Jack's eyes go up. The boot belonged to a woman. Her eyes turn black and a smirk forms on her lips.

"Demon!"

Jack is suddenly pulled back.

"JACK!"

Another demon punches Cas across the jaw. Cas coughs and crashes on to the ground. Jack tried to fight back but the demon puts a bag over his head and tightens it with a rope. Cas heard Jack's frantic breaths. He tried to stand up but the demons kept kicking him back down.

Jack suddenly goes limp in the demon's arms.

"He's out." The demon nodded.

The female demon nods and takes her boot off Donatello.

"Lets go. Lucifer is waiting."

The demons throw Jack in the trunk and they get in the car and drive off.

"JACK!"

Cas watched the car drive off.

Lucifer!

His wide eyes go on the phone that is facing down on the ground. The angel crawls over to it and scoops it up. The screen is cracked but it was still on. He can hear Nick's voice.

"Nick." Cas says.

There was a sigh from the other end.

" And they already got him."

Cas stands up. He stumbles but manages to not fall over.

"What did you do?" He growled.

"It doesn't matter what I did. Jack is screwed."

"You brought Lucifer back." The angel said anger rising in his voice. "We already had Michael to deal with and you had to bring Lucifer back." His voice trails off and his eyes go wide as saucers.

Oh no!

"I brought Lucifer back for me and he decided to choose his true vessel. You are pissed how the Hell do you think I feel? Huh?"

"Dean!" Cas the cuts the former vessel off and searches for the witch's number. He presses on to it and curses when it went to voicemail. He tries again but was met with the same results. "Damm it Rowena!" He wished he had the number to the He-witch now.

Cas needed a car. He is injured and stranded. Donatello wasn't going to be much help at this point.

Then an old pick up truck pulls up. The window rolls down. Nick pops his head out.

" You do know it's rude to hang up on someone. "

Cas looks at the phone then back at him. He only just spoke to the former vessel on the phone and now he's here?

"You getting in or not?" Nick frowned.

"Why should I trust you?"

"Do you want Sam back? Do you want Jack alive?"

"I do."

"Then get in. Unless you wanna be stranded out here with the teenage mutant ninja turtle."

Cas narrowed his eyes. He did not trust Nick but part of him felt Nick was his last hope on getting out of here. He had to get to Dean, he had to get to his alternative brother before Lucifer does.

"Donatello, get in." Cas ordered.

Donatello shakes his head.

"No way. Are you insane this guy is crazy."

"We have no choice."

"That's right you don't." Nick nodded.

The Prophet muttered "Why me?" before getting in the truck. Cas gets in the front.

"I drive."

Nick frowns.

"Its my truck."

"You stole it."

"This is not your truck." Nick raises his eyebrow. "I found it first so I drive."

Cas turns and punches Nick in the face. He grabs the former vessel by the jacket and shoves him out of the truck. Nick falls out and lands on his stomach. He winced and glares at the angel.

"Hey."

"That's for earlier." Cas says.

Cas slams the door shut and drives off.


Patrick opens the door.

"We're back."

He steps back and lets Michael enter. Michael paused at the doorway. His eyes widen.

"What's wrong?" Patrick frowned.

He follows the archangel's gaze. His eyes then widen.

Rowena is on the ground unconscious.

"ROWENA!"

Patrick runs. As he goes to touch her, he suddenly flies up and hits the ceiling. He drops down and crashes on the couch. A soft chuckle is heard.

Michael tensed up. He can feel it. The surge of grace. It was overwhelming. It was also familiar. He didn't need to turn around to see who it was.

"Lucifer."

He heard his brother again chuckle. Michael looks down at the shadow. It got bigger as Lucifer got closer. Michael turns round and looks up and up. The familiar red eyes shone bright with flames dancing inside.

Lucifer grins.

"Hey little brother."