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AU Michael and Anael arrive at an old abandoned warehouse.
"We're here." The archangel says his smile wide.
Anael frowns at the place .
"Why are we here?"
"Because my start to building my new world is in there."
"What's in there?"
"It wouldn't be a surprise if I told you. Now come."
The archangel walks in. Anael groans in her mind but follows. Anael looks at the machinery that looked like they haven't been used in years.
Why am I here? She kept questioning herself .
"What do you think of him?" AU Michael asks.
Anael frowns .
"Who?"
"Michael. Your one. What's your opinion of him?"
"Why do you care?"
"Curiosity I guess. You know he failed to kill Lucifer in the apocalypse, he hasn't been there for Heaven because he has been in the cage. I thought him failing in leadership is one of the reasons why Heaven is falling apart. "
"Michael tried." Anael answers. She sighs. "I may have rebelled against Heaven but I know Michael tried. It didn't help because Dean Winchester was too stubborn to say yes."
"Yes I'm aware of that. Had a little peak inside Michael's fractured mind. I find my other me so disappointing. He got beaten by a human." He paused and looks at the angel. "Sam Winchester took control and was going to take Lucifer back to the cage and Michael..." He laughs . "He just grabs on to Sam's jacket thinking he can pull him back but he ends up falling in. The humans stopped Lucifer that day not Michael. So pathetic. I killed my Lucifer without any problems. I didn't let love stop me. I killed my Lucifer and I would do it again."
Anael cringed at AU Michael's psychotic smile. The angel had to admit AU Michael was scarier than Lucifer. She remains straight-faced.
"Michael did kill Lucifer. He eventually got his wish."
"Yes. He did .You didn't see his face after he killed Lucifer ."
"I assume he was relieved."
"Yes but there was something else. I sensed sadness from him. Grief. He was upset that his brother was dead."
"Lucifer was his brother. They used to be close."
"I was close with mine but was I upset when I killed my Lucifer...no I wasn't. I felt more powerful than ever. The feeling feels so good. I'm sorry Jo but your Michael, it's for the best that his gone. He is too messed up."
"He would have helped Heaven."
AU Michael chuckles .
"Make the problem worse I say. Heaven would have not been his priority, I would have been his priority. He wants me dead .He would have not stopped until I was. Heaven would have been ignored for a long...long time. Let's just say I'm not easy to kill. Heaven falls, it falls. Not my problem. Just down here is what I now care about."
The archangel points and starts walking again. Across the room was a man sitting on a chair. The man had his head down.
AU Michael smiles.
"Here we have a vampire." He looks at the vampire. "You...you know exactly what you want. You don't pretend to want to help people or save the world. Your want is pure and simple and clean. And that's why you are worth saving."
Anael stares at the archangel eye wide.
What is he thinking?
"That's why we are going to work so well together. Because you just want to eat."
The vampire slowly lifts his head. Fangs form followed by a grin.
"Work together? You are choosing monsters over us?" Anael says.
"Yes. They are honest. They simply state what they want. Unlike you who lied to my face."
"This is wrong? God wouldn't want this."
"MY father is not here. He left me ages ago. I didn't get nothing from him after killing my Lucifer. I had the world dumped on my shoulders because of him. I failed my world. Now I got second chance to make things right. This is only a glimpse of my plan, there is so much more to come."
"I can't wait." There vampire says.
AU Michael gets out a blood bag.
"Drink up. You need to keep your strength up. It's fresh. I bled the human dry. "
Hunger shows in the vampire's eyes. He snatches the bag and consumes the blood. He sucks on it enjoying every moment of it.
"Gotta keep my army strong for the new world." He looks at Anael. "Strong enough to overthrow every last human on this earth. Once they are gone. It will be a better world. A world that I been imagining since I got here. Are you gonna be part of it? Well...we will have to wait and see."
Anael clutches her bag as the archangel's eyes lock straight on to her. The last sentence caused her to flinch.
"I need to go outside. Umm excuse me."
The angel walks off. AU Michael didn't stop her. Instead he smirked at her reaction
Go ahead and tell everyone. I want everyone to know that this world will soon be mine.
The vampire drops the empty bag. AU Michael grins.
"We better get you some friends. Can't have a one man army. Tell me..." He leans into the vampire's face. "...where are your hideouts ?"
Anael goes outside. She turns to see if the archangel has followed her. She looks the other way to see if he has appeared behind her. There was no sign of him.
He's crazy. She thought.
He needed to be stopped. Heaven can't help because the angels are refusing to leave. They are in no state to help with Heaven at the risk of falling apart. Anael has an idea of someone who could help. She gets out her phone and types in the number.
She presses the phone to her ear and waits for an answer.
Jack stares at himself through the mirror. The ex nephilim felt angry with himself. He messed up. He got himself beaten by a demon.
If I had my powers that demon...all the demons would have been killed. No one would have got hurt. I can't do nothing right now. I'm...
His thoughts get interrupted by a knock. Cas comes in.
"Hey, Jack."
"I'm fine." Jack quickly says before the angel could ask.
"You did well." Cas says.
"All I did was get punched in the face."
"Well, to be fair, we all got punched in the face."
"That's not...Before, when I had my powers, I could have done something, and..."
"Jack. You don't... You...You don't have your powers. And you...Your grace should regenerate in time, but until then..."
"I'm useless. I can't kill demons, I can't find the other Michael, I can't fight the other Michael, Dean and our Michael are trapped in the apocalypse world. I can't do anything. I don't have anything."
Cas shakes his head.
"Oh, Jack, that's just not true. You've got me. You have all of us. You have your family. And...And we are going to find the other Michael, take his grace and bring Dean home."
"Our Michael?"
Jack looks at Cas concern in his eyes.
Cas nods.
"Michael to. We're going to do it together because that's what we do."
"Castiel."
"Yes Jack."
"You going to send Michael back to the cage?"
"I don't know. We don't know if the apocalypse world has changed Michael. He could be worse than he was before. The cage did affect him massively. I'm sure the other world hasn't done him any good either."
"He has Dean. Dean will help him. Keep them both going. Dean will want to get back to us and Michael..." Jack lowers his eyes. "I can't lose him Castiel."
Cas looks at the ex nephilim with a surprised expression.
"You mean Michael?"
"Yes. I don't why but I feel something when I'm near him. I feel a connection."
"Because he is your uncle."
"Yes. Although he may not like me very much, I can't seem to hate him. I wish I had the chance to get to know him. Prove to him I'm not like Lucifer."
"Jack. I think Michael knows you are not like him. He protected you that day. I saw the hatred he had towards you slowly fading away." Jack smiles a little hoping Cas was right. "Do you want anything?"
"No thanks."
"Okay. Jack. Get some rest. You need it."
Cas leaves. Jack glances at his bed. He sighs and looks back at the mirror. All Jack saw was a disappointment.
Sam sits down and puts his phone by his bed. The phone starts ringing. Sam answers.
"Hello?"
"Sam?"
Sam frowns.
"Jo?"
"Yeah"
What does she want? Sam thought.
Anael is the last person that Sam would think of who would call him. Anael is not exactly an ally of theirs.
"Sam." She said her voice showing a hint of panic. "We have a problem."
"Gabriel...is alive?" Dean says. "How? I saw him die?"
"I don't know." Michael thought back to when AU Michael stabbed Gabriel. His body glowed before falling into the alternative archangel's arms. "He should have not survived that. Archangels can't escape from the archangel blade. Once you get stabbed by another archangel your dead. "
AU Michael's proud expression spreads across his face after killing the archangel. The look made Michael clench his fists.
"Maybe Gabriel tricked him. Like he did with Lucifer."
"Surely the other me would know."
"He fooled you the first time right? "
"Uh yes."
"You got fooled so I'm sure the other you could get fooled to."
" Good point but...why is he locked up? Being treated like an animal. He has already been through years of torture by Asmodeus... " Michael stops when he realized what he said.
Gabriel is suffering again. His brother has just got out of his own version of Hell and now he has being thrown into another one. Seeing Gabriel crying in pain made Michael's heart-break.
"I never been a good brother to him. I rarely been there for him. He watched me and Lucifer fight constantly. That's why he ran. Left the family. Since then Gabriel has suffered. He has always been suffering. Even in another world, he is still suffering. I have failed to be there for him. "
Dean listens feeling the archangel's guilt. He is surprised that the archangel has broken down and started saying this.
"How were you suppose to save Gabriel, you were in the cage." Dean says.
" I'm not in the cage now. I been in this world for three weeks and I have failed to notice that my brother is alive. I sensed other angels but not him. I'm starting to question if I am the perfect son. I couldn't be the perfect brother to my siblings. They needed me and I shut them down. "
"That was Lucifer. You said so yourself he caused the family to fall apart. "
"I was more obsessed in proving to my father that I'm his perfect son and soldier. Raphael followed but Gabriel, he wanted to have fun he wasn't the serious type."
"He did become the trickster."
" Yes. Then I would have been disgusted but now I get it why he joined the Pagan Gods, he was able to do something he enjoys. Pranks, games. "
Michael laughs a little remembering the times his little brother would try to drive him crazy. Annoy the hell out of him. Now thinking about it. Gabriel did those things to get Michael's attention. Wanting his big brother to spend time with him. This made Michael frown again.
How stupid was I to miss them signs. He thought angrily.
"Did you say Gabriel?" Eileen asks who was over the worst of her headache.
Michael looks at her.
"Where is he?"
"I..."
"Where is he?" The archangel snaps.
"Michael." Dean says his voice stern.
"I need to save him Dean. He has suffered enough. Its my job to get him out of there. Now be quiet and let me get answers out of this woman."
"I don't know where he is." Eileen answers. "The angels kept a sack over my head during the whole journey. He could be at any angel post."
"Any angel post?"
"The angels, they are everywhere. They got posts scattered across the land. Michael has some sort of magical barrier around each one."
"Did you say barrier?"
"Yes."
Michael sighs.
"That's why I can't sense him. I'm blocked. He probably can't sense me either. How many posts are there?"
"Oh umm a lot got ambushed by a nephilim."
"Nephilim? Was his name Jack?"
"Yes. That name rings a bell. I never met him but the news of him spread round quick. He rescued people and defeated the angels. He stood up to our Michael. Jack gave hunters the courage to fight back. The nephilim made such a difference. He gave people hope. I wish I was part of it."
A small smile appears on Michael's face. A proud smile.
"Jack is my nephew."
Eileen's eyes widen.
"Really?"
"Yes. But..." He sighs. "I judged him too quickly. I didn't want to know him. I saw him as an abomination. That was wrong of me to do that. I should have given the boy a chance. I only realized he was good when it was too late." The archangel frowns. "I never got to know him. "
"Oh..."
"Yeah. Family hasn't been great. That's why I need to rescue my brother. Do something right for a change. What if I give you an offer."
Eileen furrows her eyebrows.
"What offer?"
"We find the post where my brother is. I rescue him. We find a way to open the rift, you can come back with us."
"Me? In paradise."
"Eileen come back with us?"
Dean did want Eileen to be safe but he didn't think Michael would offer her a place in their world.
Michael nods. "Yes. My vessel wants you alive so I think this is the best way. A lot of the hunters have gone to my world."
Eileen thinks for a few moments. Trusting an archangel is a big deal. Anything could happen once Michael gets reunited with Gabriel, he may break his promise and leave her behind.
"How do I know you are not lying."
"I'm not. You have my word."
"One condition."
"What?"
"I was with a group. We all got taken to the same post. You want to rescue your brother I want to rescue my people. We help each other. And they come with us to paradise."
Michael grits his teeth. Dean and Sam have already taken back lots of people, they couldn't possibly take anymore. Mixing the worlds up again may cause consequences. The wrong people may get into the world. Such as the angels. If they team up with AU Michael, everyone is in trouble.
"I did not plan on keeping the rift open for long. I'm low in grace and my brother may not have much either."
"We will be quick. We won't mess about."
"I know its just...anyone could go through there."
"You mean the angels."
"Yes and the monsters. Your Michael is in my world. If his army come through, my world will not be paradise anymore. There will be a war."
"We will help you defeat the angels. Stop them from coming through. My group are strong they been through a lot. They deserve to have a break."
"Yes." Dean says agreeing with her. "Let them come. What they are doing to Gabriel, they are doing it to men, women, families, children...you can't leave them here. Please Michael."
Michael nods.
"Okay. They come to. Although my father didn't create them or you, you are still a creation that should be protected and this world's God I assume would want his humans to be safe. Taking you to my world, it's not the safest place but its better than here. Eileen, Do you accept the offer?"
The archangel reaches his hand out. Eileen looks down at the hand. She nods.
"I accept."
She reaches her hand out and they shake hands.