Hi guys! Ugh we finally have a date for the beginning of the end...10th of October! Don't think my heart is going to be able to take it! Anyways here is chapter five, I hope you enjoy. If there is anything in particular you would like to see happen in this story or a scene you'd like to see play out, or more of a certain character let me know and I'll see if I can fit it in, love hearing your thoughts as always :) x
"Rise and shine sleeping beauty" Crowley spoke as Cas came to.
"Where am I?" He groaned still drowsy.
"How's that head of yours?" Crowley asked.
It was only when Cas went to feel his head did he realise he was strapped to a chair, "what's going on?!" He panicked looking over at Crowley who too was strapped to a chair.
"Your Winchester pals have finally turned on you!" Crowley told him mincingly.
"They wouldn't do that" Cas replied confidently as he looked around the room; he recognised it.
"Okay you got me" Crowley smirked, "we're at their little bunker, they weren't sure what state you'd be in when you came to so decided it's best to strap you down with me" he confessed. "Welcome to rock bottom" Crowley was loving every moment of this.
"Well I'm fine" Cas huffed as he struggled in the straps, "what's going on? Why are you here?" He asked confused, "I was going to kill you" Cas spoke slowly with a frown.
"Yeah, thanks for that by the way, very flattered" Crowley replied sarcastically, "I mean you were completely plastered, thought I'd help you sleep that off-" Crowley was cut off by the sound of the door to the room unlocking, "Oh, here come the cavalry" he announced.
"Thought we heard voices" Dean spoke as he pulled open the doors.
The brothers walked in and stood just before the angel and the demon.
"Cas, you good?" Sam asked as they examined him from afar.
"Yes" Cas huffed, "what's going on?" He urged.
"We have a plan to keep you down here, on Earth" Sam told him with a reassuring smile.
"Oi, it's my plan" Crowley yelled taking full credit.
Cas looked at Crowley and then back to the brothers, "To kill you? I've already heard it and there is no way-" Dean cut Cas off.
"Just hear us out" He told him, "if you can convince Laila to have you stay if you kill us-" Cas cut Dean off.
"No way Dean!" He protested angrily; he was sick of hearing this ridiculous idea.
"Will you let the squirrel talk!" Crowley butted in impatiently.
"Crowley has shifters that could take up our look, you kill them in front of Laila she thinks that we're dead, we move on with our lives" Dean explained.
"Shape shifters?" Cas frowned up at Dean.
"Yeah Cas" Sam nodded.
Cas thought for a second, wondering whether this was a joke or not, even though he had been on earth for a good few years now he still found it hard sometimes to figure when a human was joking. Seeing the seriousness on all three of their faces he replied honestly, "They can be dangerous, they are not trust worthy at all" Cas shook his head.
"They will abide by my rules, they seriously owe me one big time" Crowley explained shooting a snarl at Sam and Dean.
"Your rules?" Cas scoffed, "why would you want to help me anyway?" Cas questioned; that was what baffled him the most.
"As much as I don't want to admit it, you're no good to me in heaven." Crowley told him.
"What do you think?" Sam asked raising his eyebrows.
"It's worth giving it a shot, right?" Dean added as the pair looked at Cas awaiting his response.
"It's too dangerous, shifters are not to be trusted and I've worked with demons before and they've given me every reason under the sun not to trust them again" Cas disagreed shooting a snarl at Crowley.
"You're the one playing the dangerous game here Cassie, everyone knows if you get on the wrong side of a demon it won't be pretty, but get on the wrong side of an angel? That's straight up suicide" Crowley spoke out reminding him he was already in a bad situation with Laila, "If you have a better idea please, do, let us know" The demon announced smugly.
Cas looked back towards Sam and Dean, "Where will you be when the shifters are around?" He asked the brothers.
"Laying low". Sam told him.
Cas sighed deeply as he thought for a moment, "Theoretically it could work, but the risks are far too high, for one I feel like Laila would know the shape shifters aren't you" Cas shook his head.
"Well you didn't" Crowley spoke out amused.
"What?" Cas asked confused as the door behind Sam and Dean opened and in walked Sam and Dean, the real Sam and Dean. Cas looked at the four men in front of him completely baffled.
"Hey Cas" Dean who had just entered smiled.
"Dean?" Cas asked he looked like he'd just seen a ghost, "Wait..." he spoke as realisation shattered over him.
"Sorry Cas we just wanted to see if you could tell" real Sam explained as he began to unstrap Cas from the chair.
"We strapped you down in case you could tell and attacked them or something" Dean told him.
"You're real Sam?" Cas had to confirm before he stood himself up.
"Yeah Cas" Sam laughed, "it's freaky I know" he added.
"How can I tell?" Cas asked as he stood up but took a step back from Sam, he shot a glance at the other Sam and the two Deans.
"Because it's me Cas" Sam reassured him.
Dean walked over to him, "Come on man" he went to pat him on the back but Cas stepped back, "you good?" Dean asked as Cas looked at the two shifter Winchester's.
"What's wrong Feathers? Don't know who to trust?" Crowley watched on amused.
"Cas it's us, it's me" Dean told him with a friendly smile, but Cas still seemed uneasy, "Look" Dean took out a knife from his jacket and turned to the shifters, "hold out your wrists".
"No way!" Shifter Dean snapped.
"You do whatever they ask." Crowley threatened.
Shifter Sam and Dean exchanged glances before they rolled up their sleeves slightly and Dean sliced across their wrist, the silver knife caused them to call out in eminence pain as it burned their skin, smoke came from their wrists and disappeared into the atmosphere.
"Silver" Dean told Cas.
"It's us Cas" Sam told him.
"Okay" He nodded.
"Back in your chairs lads" Dean announced as they tied shapeshifter them up next to Crowley, "we'll be back for you when we need you" he told them.
"Get used to the feeling of being used guys, nothing new when working with the Winchester's" Crowley called as real Sam and Dean left with Cas following behind.
"You really want to work with shapeshifters? You usually hunt them down and now you want to work with them?" Cas spoke as soon as they were out of the room and followed the brothers through to the kitchen.
"Look Cas, sometimes you have to work with the bad guys in order to get to the worse guys" Dean explained.
"And Laila is one of 'the worse guys'?" Cas asked.
"Well right now she is yeah, she's trying to take you back to heaven" Sam told him as he leaned back against the table.
"It is her mission" Cas replied almost as if he were defending her.
"She threatened to kill Sammy Cas" Dean reminded him as to why she was currently one of the worse guys.
Cas looked up at Sam and remembered the blood pouring from his nose that Laila had caused. Crowley causing Cas to black out had his memory a bit shady but all was coming back to him pretty quickly.
"And you trust them?" Cas spat out raising his eyebrows, "these shape shifters?"
"Yeah" Dean shrugged causing Cas to scoff, "look they've cooperated so far" he added.
Castiel paused for a moment, taking in the effort his friends had already put in to helping him out without him even knowing, "If this is going to work Dean I never want to see you and them together again, it's far too dangerous" Cas told him protectively as he stepped towards him.
"Okay Cas calm down" Dean turned for the fridge and got himself a beer.
"Could you really not tell the difference?" Sam asked baffled.
"They're shape shifters Sam. Shape. Shifters. They take up the entirety of your form, how on earth am I supposed to tell difference?" Cas snapped, he really had been shaken up by seeing duplicate versions of his best friends.
"Well that's a good thing isn't it? Laila won't know, we didn't know if angels could see their true forms like you can see demons, we didn't mean to freak you out so much" Sam explained.
Cas shook his head, "Like I said I don't want you together all it takes is one mistake and-" Dean cut him off.
"What you're scared you might kill us by mistake?" Dean laughed taking a sip of his beer; Cas gave him daggers.
"Look, what do you think of the plan Cas?" Sam asked.
"Its very…" he trailed off as he thought of the right word, "elaborate" he concluded. He thought for a second before he spoke out, "I do think Laila would be more conditioned to the fact of me staying on earth if I wasn't with you, some angels are meant to walk the earth just to keep things in order; I could do that. But how would I kill those shifters without them looking like shifters?" Cas asked confused, "If we're doing this I don't want anyone dying, not the shifters, not Laila, no one" he told them.
"You'd shoot them with a gun with normal bullets, not silver ones. As for Laila, you're just gonna have to hope she stays out of this one" Sam told him and Cas nodded taking a mental note.
"Do you think Laila would believe it though?" Dean asked.
Cas took a deep breath, "If everything goes to plan then…yes, us angels, especially the ones new to earth can be very gullible. We see the very best in everyone and I highly doubt she'd think I'd go to this extent of a lie" Cas spoke out admittedly.
"So tell us more about Laila" Sam started, they had to figure out this plan.
Dean sighed deeply, "She was so hot until she turned psycho" he shook his head in disappointment taking a sip of his beer. Sam rolled his eyes.
"She is an Angel of love, so naturally she has an attractive ora. She is the one all the Cherubs report back to once they've been to work down here" Cas explained to them.
"What so she's in charge of the cupids?" Dean asked seeming interested.
"You could put it that way yes" Cas replied.
"Nice" Dean smirked as a compliment to Cas for being the one to get close to her.
Cas sighed deeply, "It seems very unlikely that this plan will go smoothly" he shook his head, he couldn't even bring himself to think about killing Dean even if it wasn't the real him.
"We'll plan everything, we'll have plan B's and C's Cas don't worry" Sam reassured him.
"I dont know…" Cas thought about it.
"You can pull it off, I'm sure there's many times you've felt like killing us" Dean teased as he walked over to his brother and handed him a beer.
"…Dean" Cas sighed, he couldn't be more wrong.
"Look man, you don't seem too into this. It's a tricky plan if you're not 100% on it we should leave it" Dean noticed leaning back against the table next to Sam, "If you just wanna go back upstairs, I don't blame you, heck I get it" he told Cas, Sam looked at his older brother confused.
"Dean, we've spoken about this-" Cas started but Dean cut him off with a sudden anger to his voice.
He stepped towards him, "Yeah we have, but you're gonna have to be on your own for this one Cas you said it yourself, we can't be around when these shifters are and if something goes wrong we won't be there to clean up your mess, not this time. If things don't go to plan you're either gonna end up going back upstairs or dead, or worse, you could lose you grace again Cas" Dean spoke out passionately pointing his beer towards the angel as he spoke.
"I don't see how that would be worse than dying Dean" Cas muttered with a harsh frown.
"Yeah, well, I do" Dean shrugged as he took another sip of his beer, "You may have forgotten what it's like to be human but like I've told you, its not worth staying down here for. If it comes down to it Cas I want you to chose to go back upstairs. You're not made to be human Cas, I don't want that for you, not again" He told him honestly.
"Yeah, well, for once Dean, this isn't about what you want" Cas spoke sternly shutting Dean down, "We're doing this" He told the brother's confidently.