The first thing Michael saw after John said Yes was a face of a man in an old army jacket with short wavy hair smiling at him. It was just a quick flash, but Michael knew. He knew who it was. He knew that if this man appeared in John's life, it was a sign. A sign that things were happening just as they were supposed to. But more importantly it was a sign he was still out there. His father is still out there.
"Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?" Michael glared at his counterpart who was nervously twitching in his hands, scared out of his mind.
Michael wasn't known for his mercy. He was a powerful archangel, a soldier of Heaven and his wrath knew no boundaries.
But that was the old Michael. The Michael who would have killed his brother in an instant. The Michael who would have dragged his other brother back to Heaven if he found him.
This Michael was different. This Michael had his brothers back by his side, and even a sister he forgot existed. This Michael was again the solider of Heaven, but a protector of Earth as he was always meant to be.
And in a blink of an eye, they were gone.
"What the hell?!" Dean was enraged. He turned to Sam "What the hell were you thinking?"
"Dean, it ok. He's here to help us." Gabriel tried to reassure him.
"You can't know that! – Dean still glared at Sam - What were you thinking, Sam? Releasing him from the cage? And why... Why would dad say Yes?"
"I... I wanted to do it myself, but Michael..." Sam looked down.
"Michael says jump and you ask how high? What? Tell me, Sam. Explain to me why you would throw our father under the bus. For a slight chance you could save me?"
"You and the world." Sam looked back at him with slight spite in his eyes. "I was there, Dean. I saw how much Michael has changed."
Dean rolled his eyes and threw his hand in the air. "I can't believe how stupid you are! He could have faked it. Lucifer did." He says pointing at Lucifer. And then the realization hit him. He turned to Lucifer with slight fear in his eyes.
Lucifer smiled with what Dean thought was the weirdest smiles, kind of an apologetic one. "Hi, Dean." He waved at him, just like Jack does.
"You... He... Is he..." Dean's eyes went from Lucifer to Sam back and forward a couple of times.
"If you're asking if he is Lucifer, he is." Gabriel replies.
Dean didn't know if he was more shocked, scared or enraged. No...Definitely enraged.
"WHAT?!" he shouts at Sam.
"Stop yelling at him. Lucifer was my idea." Dean's attention turns to MJ. A sigh of relief escapes him, when he laid his eyes on her. She is fine. She is safe. For now.
"I can't believe you. I... I can't believe you would do something this stupid. Not after..." his head goes to memories of his stupid decisions. And there were a lot. The highlights were selling his soul, taking on the Mark of Cain and saying Yes to AWMichael.
"Nothing... Nothing good will come out of this!" By now Dean was pacing around Bobby's living room.
Then he snaps at Sam again. "You! I thought you out of all of them would know by now... God... We have been this road so many times...Things NEVER work out good for us. You know that!"
"Dean, I..."
"NO, Sam, don't give me those puppy dog eyes. It will not work. Not this time!"
"He does do the puppy dog eyes so good." Lucifer leaned to Gabriel and whispered, but Dean heard him.
He points his finger at Lucifer "And you... – he turns to Sam – is he still human?" Sam nods and Dean turns back to Lucifer. He sends a punch to his face, sending Lucifer down to the ground. Lucifer let out an OUCH and put his hand over his jaw. But he looked back at Dean "Ok, I probably deserved that."
"AND MORE!" Dean shouted as he looked at Gabriel who was standing next to where Lucifer was a second ago. Gabriel raised his hands in a surrender mode and Dean frowned.
He turned back around to say something more to Sam. He opened his mouth and then he was no longer there.
Michael dropped the shaking body of AWMichael in the dirt. AWMichael went face down into what appeared to be a grave. He looked up; the words on the tombstone were erased by time. Only a small cross stood alone in it corner.
"You have seen Dean's memories. Do you know where we are?" Michael asked his head high.
AWMichael spat the dirt out of his mouth and looked around. "Stull cemetery. Back in Lawrence, Kansas."
"That's right. The place where everything changed." Michael responded.
AWMichael smirked "You mean the place where you lost."
Michael smirked back. "I didn't lose. You lost. You lost everything. Your brothers, your world, your family,your father."
AWMichael snapped "You lost him too! Chuck... He... – AWMichael smiled a disappointed smile – he is just a writer. And this – he says pointing around – this is nothing more than a discarded draft. The one he didn't like and threw away, like everything else."
Castiel appeared a few feet away behind Michael. Michael grinned knowing he was there. Castiel walked over to him and without letting AWMichael out of his sight, dropped something in Michaels hand.
"A discarded draft, huh?" Michael asked, turning his attention to the small object in his hand, he played with it with his hand for a second and looked back at AWMichael. His lips curled up in a tight smiles as he nodded and then asked "Tell me. If this is just another thrown away mistake, why was he here?"
AWMichael frowned not understanding.
Michael points to his vessel. "John here saw him just over a week ago."
AWMichael gulped and started to twitch more. Father was here? When? Why? His thoughts were frantic.
Michael continued "You see, I think you are the one that got discarded. And why wouldn't you be? You killed his son's, destroyed his creation and now you want to destroy another."
AWMIchael was lost for words. "Well, I am sorry, but I can't let you do that. I think it is time you learned your lesson." Michael said grabbing him by his neck again and holding him high. He pulled out his hand and snapped his fingers.
What AWMichael was expecting was some serious smiting. Instead he heard a familiar voice.
"What the hell?" Dean said turning around, grasping he was back in Lawrence. He saw his father, or rather Michael holding AWMichael high in the air.
Michael shouted out. "Dean. Nice of you to join us... I didn't think you would want to miss this."
Dean looks back at Cass who was standing near them hand pointed at the ground, his head tilted backward as he was chanting in Enocian.
"BVTMON TABGES BABALON
(Beh voh tah mo en tah beh geh sah bah bah loh en)"
(which roughly translates to "Open the mouth of the cave of the evil/wicked one")
Wind starts picking up as the ground opens.
AWMichael almost starts crying when he sees what's coming.
Michael smiles at Dean and then at AWMichael. And then he drops him in the cage.
