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"That doesn't make any sense, Sam. I've never heard of an interaction between an archangel and a vampire, certainly not in this universe. And … why would Michael be killing them? I mean, they're not a threat to him. Yeah, okay. Well, just let me know what you find out."
Cas puts his phone down and sighs. He frowns at how stressed Nick looked pacing up and down the bunker.
"Nick are you..."
"Nothing. Nothing. There's nothing. There's no information. There's no mention of my wife and son past the year they were...when they died. There's ... there's nothing about the case being solved. Nothing!."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I ...I didn't know that."
"If I were around, I would have been on those cops every single day, Castiel. But I was out of my head with grief. I said yes to Lucifer. I was a coward, and now ..." Cas moves to put his hand on the former vessel's shoulder. Nick quickly turns and snaps his fingers "Don't."
Cas backs away with his hands in the air looking shocked. Nick looks down at his hand. His face screws up with confusion.
"Why did you do that?" Cas asks.
Nick frowns.
"Do what?"
Cas lowers his hands. He narrows his eyebrows.
"What went through your head just now?"
"Um, I don't know? Nothing? What are you trying to get at?
"Even though he's departed, there may be some of his influence still within you. Just... " Cas touches Nick's chest. Mixture of concentration and concern crosses the angel's face. He let's go. "Lucifer may have inflicted more damage on your psyche than we suspected."
Nick shakes his head.
" I don't have time for this. I'm not letting this go, Castiel. I'm gonna find out who killed my family."
Nick turns and storms out of the room.
"Nick!" Cas yelled. He shakes his head. "And then..."
Nick leaves before the angel could finish his question.
A young woman is lying on the bed. The door starts pounding. The woman raises her head off the bed and looks over at the door.
"Yes?"
" Lydia Crawford, this is the FBI. Open up."
Shit
Lydia gets off the bed and runs to the window. The pounding got louder.
"Open up." The same voice yells.
She was about to open the window when suddenly the door comes down. Sam, Mary and Bobby walk in all with their guns aimed.
" Hey! Stop!" Sam yells.
Lydia turns around.
"Get away from me!. " She squeaked fear in her eyes.
"Don't move. We know who you are. We know you went to the morgue." Sam says.
"We saw your license plate on the security cams and pulled your address. You should've ditched the car when you first got turned. Made this way too easy." Bobby says.
"You're not FBI. You're hunters." Lydia said her eyes widen.
"That's right. Sam says.
Bobby pulls out a knife.
"I haven't done anything wrong!" Lydia cries out.
" No, vampires never do." Bobby said sarcastically.
" My nest, we fed on animal blood. We lived quiet lives, until...until he came."
"He? He who?" Sam asks.
"I don't know his name, but..he was strong. He tied all of us up and one by one he'd take blood from us. I couldn't see what he was doing, exactly, but every time there would be this explosion, and my friends would be dead. When he was coming for me, a couple of the others tried to attack him. I was able to get away, but...they didn't make it."
"Why was he killing you? Did he say?"
"I don't think he meant to. It's just that ...things seemed to go wrong. He wasn't killing, it was like...it was like he was experimenting."
"Experimenting? What for?" Bobby asks.
"That's...that's all I know."
" Okay." The older hunter raises his knife "Nice chatting with ya."
"Wait! Wait!" The vampire yells. Bobby pauses and lowers the knife. "I..I don't know what he wanted, I...I don't know who he was, but I do know where he is. If...if you let me go."
"Should we trust her?" Bobby asks .
Sam nods.
"Yeah. I think she is telling the truth."
Mary nods agreeing with her son.
"Weapons away." Sam orders.
The hunters did. Sam walks up to the vampire standing inches away from her face.
"Where is he?"
AU Michael walks into a hotel room linking arms with a woman. The woman wore a long red dress with high heels to match. She was stunning. Quite a sight for the men.
The woman smiles as she looks round the room.
"Thank you. Oh, Very elegant." She looks at the archangel with a seductive grin. "But then, so are you."
AU Michael chuckles.
The third vessel is definitely a charmer.
After sending his other self and Dean to his world, AU Michael's vessel was decaying. He needed a new one. He found a man standing on the bridge close to death's door. The man was tired of life. He lost his job, getting a divorce, money issues. As AU Michael would call it as the typical human problems. It amazed him how problems like that would send humans to go and end their life because they can't handle it.
Yet I had humans in my world who have been through wars, seen things that have surely traumatized them, and been tortured. Yet they were still standing. They didn't kill themselves.
Humans in this new world have so far been weak. They breakdown easily. That's why AU Michael wanted them gone. They didn't deserve to live.
AU Michael remembered offering the man a deal. A better life. A way to get out of all these problems without having to die. The man was so desperate he said yes without thinking what he was actually getting himself into.
The archangel smiles as he admired his new vessel with a suit he brought from the store. He achieved in getting another vessel without effort. He was a smooth talker after all. Most of the time he gets what he want.
He is Michael after all. The most powerful archangel in history.
AU Michael pours the wine into two glasses. He gives one to the woman who took it and smiled wide at him.
"Thanks for showing me around. I didn't realize there was so much going on in...where are we again?"
"Duluth." She answered.
"Of course. Nothing like where I'm from."
" What's it like in your hometown?"
"Hmm. Empty. Windswept. Dead bodies lying around."
The woman chuckles.
"You're so funny. What a nice surprise, meeting you. I bet you were wondering what I was doing, all by myself in that bar tonight."
" I'm pretty sure I know exactly what you were doing in that bar tonight."
The woman puts the glass down. She puts her hands on her hips.
"Oh, Michael. I am so not that girl."
"But you really are, aren't you?"
The woman laughs and wraps her arms around the archangel's neck.
" You're terrible."
AU Michael grins mischief in his eyes.
"You have no idea."
The woman lowers her head and giggles. She looks up and her face starts to change. Big sharp teeth form. Her eyes become big and green. She raises her claws to attack. AU Michael grabs the monster by her throat. His eyes glow blue.
" Did you honestly think I didn't know what you are?" He lifts the woman off the ground. The woman puts her hands on his and tries to break free but the archangel is strong. It wasn't easy to get out of his grip. "You think you picked me?" He shakes his head. "No. I picked you."
He suddenly tosses her across the room like a rag doll. The woman hits the wall and tumbles down to the ground. The woman sits up too lost for words as the archangel sips his wine.
He puts the glass down and goes down into front of the scared woman.
" Now, summon your master."
"I checked the area. No angels." Eileen says. She looks at the unconscious Anna. "How is she?"
"Still out cold. " Michael answers. "From what I can tell she has ran for a while."
Eileen frowns.
"You look uncomfortable."
"Hmm." Michael raises his eyebrow. "Uncomfortable?"
"Yeah. Did you know her from your world."
"Yes I did."
"Yeah and you killed her." Dean says.
"Dean."
"Anna just wanted a normal human life. That's why she stripped her grace. You were all after her."
"She turned on Heaven. Turned on father. Chose the humans over us. She had to be punished for her betrayal. If I didn't kill her Dean, your parents would have died and you and your brother would have not been born."
"I know. I understand why she wanted to kill my parents. To stop the apocalypse and save lives."
Michael sighs.
"I feared the apocalypse would have stopped. This world still had the apocalypse even thought you and Sam were never born. If Anna did kill your parents and I failed to stop her, me and Lucifer would have looked for alternative vessels and still fought. Our world could have ended up like this. I could have turned into...him. A monster. It really shows how important you and Sam are to the world. Not only you have saved the world many times, you have also saved some of us."
Dean goes silent processing every word the archangel has said. When Dean was raised out of Hell, he felt he had no purpose. He felt he didn't deserve to be saved. Looking back at the years the things he and Sam have done to save the world, Dean has now started to see his purpose. He didn't mean his importance of being the Michael sword, he means the purpose of existing, being alive to save humanity from big bads that wanted to destroy the world.
Stopping an archangel from going dark side is an achievement.
Anna starts to stir in her sleep.
"She's waking up." Eileen says.
Anna's eyes flutter open. She looks round dazed.
"Where am I?"
"Anna."
Anna looks at the archangel. She frowns.
"You..." She rubs her head as the angel radio starts buzzing in her head. "You are him. The other Michael."
"Yes."
Anna groans and shakes her head.
"I just want them to stop."
"Who?" Eileen asks.
"The angels. They wont shut up."
Michael frowned. Why couldn't he hear what was going on.
Unless because I'm not an archangel of this world. He thought.
"They won't stop talking about you and the other one."
"Other one?" Eileen says.
"Gabriel."
"Gabriel." Michael becomes alarmed. "Where is he?" Anna again shakes her head feeling like her head was going to explode. Michael grabs her by the jacket and lifts her off the ground. "I said where is he?"
"I don't know. I can't think straight." Anna cried out. Tears pouring down her face.
"Michael."
Michael looks at Eileen.
"Put her down." She ordered.
Michael abruptly lets her go. Anna drops to the ground. She shuffles back feeling shaken up.
"It's not going to stop." The archangel says. "You stripped your grace hoping to escape your angel life. Here's the thing Anna, you can't. You can't run from what you are." He glares at her. "You betrayed us."
"I wanted to feel something." Anna said her lips trembling. "I wanted to feel love, hate, happiness, sadness. I wanted to feel it all. I didn't want to be emotionless, a soldier. I had enough. Stripping my grace was the best thing I ever did. I do not regret it."
"Its made you into a mess." The archangel says "Look at you."
Both Dean and Eileen were shocked by the hatred Michael was showing towards the former angel.
"At least I didn't become a cold-hearted killer." Anna snaps. "I do not know what you are like but my Michael, he has a lot of blood on his hands. Tortured and killed innocent lives. Heaven is not like how I remembered it. Its changed. Its become the new Hell. I am glad I am not part of it. Yes I made enemies. I'm Heavens most wanted criminal but at least I'm still me. The angels I once knew, they are not the same."
"Were you running from the angels?" Eileen asks.
Anna nods.
"I been on the run since escaping from their post. I started getting hungry, thirsty, my head has been pounding non-stop. I couldn't run much longer. When I saw you two, I thought I was finally going to get help." She frowns at Michael. "Seems I got the opposite."
"This is the first time I ever seen an angel choose us." Eileen says. "I thought you were all bad."
Anna smiles.
"Not all of us are like Michael. When I stripped my grace, I forgot about my life as angel. I was raised by the Milton family. I had a human life. A sweet human life. I enjoyed every bit of it. It all changed when the seals broke and Lucifer was set free. I started hearing voices. The first words I heard was the Lucifer has rose and the apocalypse has begun. Everything went crazy after that. I was admitted to a hospital . I started getting visions, more voices. I was confused I didn't know what was going on. I really thought I was going crazy. Castiel and Uriel appeared in my room and took me to this room. They strapped me to this machine and um..."
The former angel puts her hands on her lap to stop herself from shaking.
"Naomi came in and said I needed to remember who I was. I needed to be fixed. Since that day, I been getting tortured. Naomi was digging into my head causing extreme pain. She wanted to erase my human memories but I clung on to them for dear life. I didn't want to forget. I refused to forget. One day, I remembered falling. Falling to earth. I remembered my wings burning away. More memories started coming to me. Then the wall cracked and memories came flooding through. There was so much going on I'm surprised my head didn't go bang. That's when I realized I was an angel. I remembered my old life again. Naomi announced to Heaven I was fixed. I got given an offer. To have my grace back and join them or die."
Anna grins.
" Naomi didn't fix everything, although I remembered being an angel, I still remembered my human life. I didn't want to take my grace and lose all those wonderful emotions. So I said no. They threw me in a cell and sentenced me to death. In my cell I counted down the days to my execution. Naomi still tried to tempt me but I still refused. One day, they came to give me my last meal. I attacked them and ran. I didn't stop running. I escaped. It wasn't easy but I did it. I got away. I been running ever since."
Michael goes quiet. Even Dean goes quiet. Eileen looks at the former angel amazed by her story.
"You got guts." Eileen says.
"We ladies are tough." Anna says with a smile. "We don't give up that easily. The guys..." The two of them both glance at Michael before giggling.
Michael raises his eyebrow not understanding what they are laughing about.
"I think Anna is saying men moan and women are the stronger gender" Dean says.
"That so Anna." Anna looks at the archangel. Michael frowns. "You saying that I'm weak?"
Dean face palms.
"I didn't mean she was saying you are weak."
Anna laughs.
"Oh Michael." She stands up. "See that's another thing I would miss if I became an angel again. Laughter. Humour. You angels take things way too seriously."
"Really."
"Yes." Anna suddenly drops down to her knees with her hands on her head. "Argh."
"What are they saying?" Michael asks.
"G...Gabriel...Oh."
"What!"
Anna looks up at the archangel.
"I know where he is."
I made a few changes to Anna's story. Don't forget this version of Anna has never met Sam and Dean. Next chapter coming soon. :)