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Lydia grabs everything from the drawers and stuffs it into her suitcase. She had to run. Be far from here as possible.
There was a sound of wings followed by a Lydia.
Lydia's eyes widen as she turns and finds the archangel sitting at the table. He tilts his head and gives her the I know what you did look.
Lydia shakes her head.
" I didn't."
"Of course you did. The hunters." He stands up. "Why do you think I dumped your brothers and sisters in plain sight? Why do you think I let you escape?
"You let me escape?"
AU Michael leans into her face.
"Rule number one: you can't have a trap without bait." He goes back." That brings us to rule number two." He strolls past her with his head held high. "Which says once the trap has been sprung, you don't need the bait any more."
His eyes glow bright. Lydia screams as the flames engulfed her. There was a flash before the vampire drops to the ground her body burnt to the bone.
AU Michael looks over his shoulder at the body. He shrugs feeling no regret for what he did.
He flies off.
"Jack, what were you thinking taking that kind of risk?" Cas says.
" It wasn't a risk." Jack says.
"To go out there alone? Jack, you have been on the radar of every angel and demon and power broker in creation since the day you were born and I'm sorry, but you're not exactly yourself."
"Weak and defenseless you mean."
"I mean that the possibility of capture is real, yes."
"I heard what you were saying, Cas, about me finding out where I came from. I never knew my mother. I thought the next best thing might be for me to meet the only real family that I have left."
"That is not..." Cas closes his eyes and tries to hide his frustration. He sighs heavily. "Well, did it help?" Jack nods. "And you didn't tell them who you were, did you?
"Of course not. I...wanted to. I wanted to tell them I was their grandson. They thought I actually kinda looked like her? I...couldn't tell them that she died. They just love her so much. I know I should have."
"What you did you did from a place of kindness. I suppose there are worse ways to be human than to be kind."
"Have you heard from Sam? Did they find Michael?"
"Yeah, they think so.
"What are they gonna do?"
"The plan is subdue Michael using angel cuffs and spellwork. They will bring him back to the bunker and use his grace to open the rift. The rift will stay open until Dean..."
"And Michael."
"Until they are both found." Cas corrected himself
Dean is not the only one out there. Jack thought. My uncle is to. I wish they would think about him to and stop focusing on Dean.
From what Jack has seen from these last three weeks, it seemed no one gave a damm about his uncle Michael. It was Dean this and Dean that and Dean needs to be saved. Jack loves Dean but he wishes everyone would consider that there is another life in danger. Another life who got affected by AU Michael.
Jack hasn't known Michael for long, but the way the archangel looked at him, wanted to protect him, it gave Jack hope that their was one family member who can be there for him. Gabriel got killed, Lucifer turned on him, Raphael well Jack hasn't even met him so he can't say his thoughts about him.
Michael was the last surviving one. Jack prayed that he was still the last surviving one. Although Cas did explain that Michael might come back different, Jack clung on to the hope that Michael will still be the same. He hoped both Dean and Michael are the same.
Dean is Michael's sword. I'm sure they will survive.
"What happens to the other Michael?" Jack asks.
"We can't send him back to his world. He knows the spell now. He will eventually find his way back."
"We will kill him."
"Yes."
"Castiel, I fought the other Michael for months. I seen what he has done. The damage he has caused. I want him dead. When you kill him, I want to be there to see it."
Cas nods.
"Very well."
"Good. Another thing, I want to join in the search to find Dean and Michael."
"Jack."
"Please I want to show my Michael...and Dean that I am capable of doing things even though I don't have my powers."
"You want to impress your uncle."
"I want to impress them both."
Jack imagines the smile on Dean\Michael's face. The former nephilim has always wanted to impress Dean. Now he had two to impress. Jack wanted to prove that he is a worthy nephew to Michael and a good kid to Dean.
Cas sighs.
"We will ask San when he comes back."
He walks off leaving the former nephilim alone in the room.
Nick went off to search for answers. If the police wont going to help he was going to have to take matters into his own hands. Nick decided to talk to one of the neighbours who was a witness to the night his family was murdered.
The man who Nick refered to as Arty smiled as he poured hot boiling water into two cups of two.
"Well, it is so good to see you after all these years. I mean, after that night you just disappeared, and I never knew what happened."
Arty gives Nick his tea. Nick takes it and puts it down. He nods.
"Yeah, after I lost my family I couldn't stand being in that house one more minute."
"Nick, I completely understand."
"Do you?" Nick said not sounding convinced.
"I just hope these years have been healing and restful for you."
"My whole family was slaughtered, Arty. There's no restful for me anymore. Best thing I can hope for is that I catch the monster who did it."
"Well sure Nick, we all... we all want that."
"Do you though, Arty? Cause you said you got a good look at the man who left my house, and then you changed your story."
"I had to, Nick, because there was no man. I mean, I ... in the heat of the moment I guess I thought I saw something, I wanted so much to help, but I was wrong."
Nick stands up and walks to the window.
"Hmm. Is that the window you were looking out of?" He asked.
"Uh..."
"What made you look out, Arty? You hear someone scream?"
" I...I don't really remember." The man stammered starting to look anxious.
"The man you saw, was he rushing out, or was he casual?"
"Nick, I told you, I..."
"What, did he have a hammer? Cause that how the cops said he murdered my family, he smashed their skulls over and over with a hammer."
"Nick, there was no man."
"Oh, Arty. Who got to you?" Nick goes up to Arty's face looking straight into the man's eyes. "Somebody get to you?"
"N...no." Arty answered his voice shaking.
"They pay you off?"
"No!"
"Or were you just scared." Nick pulls the man off the sofa and pins him to the wall." He grabs Arty by the throat. "Tell me what you know."
" I just remembered wrong that's all there is to it."
"My family deserves justice." Nick says his voice starting to raise in volume. "Do you understand me? I deserve justice! I'm going to get justice! Do you understand me, Arty?!"
"I don't know anything!"
Nick's face darkens. He increases his grip around the man's throat.
"Oh, I think you do, Arty. I think you do."
The hunter and the archangel turn a corner. They get faced by a group of angels.
One of the angel's eyes widen.
"THE PRISONERS ARE OUT!"
"Yeah we are and cuff free." Gabriel says with a smirk.
All of the angels huddle together in a group their blades out and guns aimed. Gabriel notices Dean's oh crap expression.
"Dean. Do not worry. We're archangels remember."
Gabriel's eyes glow. He raises his hand blasts at them. The blast knocks the angels over like bowling pins. The angels panic and begin firing their weapons.
A bullet hits Gabriel in the stomach.
"Ow." The archangel rips the bullet out. "Angel bullets." He drops the bullet and rolls his shoulders. "That all you got guys."
One angel goes flying across the hallway. The angel hits the wall and tumbles to the ground.
"Can I do all that?" Dean questioned.
An angel shoves Dean to the wall. The angel pins Dean as they dug the cuffs out of their pocket.
Dean kicks the angel back and stabs him in the chest.
"Dean." The archangel's voice rumbled in his head.
"What?" Dean asked out loud as he stabs another angel.
"Don't be afraid to use them.
"Use what?"
"My powers. I sense your fear. All this is new to you. So you are sticking to what you know killing angels the hunter way."
"I don't know how to use them." Dean says.
But Michael is right, Dean was scared to use them. Power hasn't been his best friend in the past like the Mark of Cain for example. He feared he would hurt someone or worse kill them. Not only angels are in this building, there are also humans. He failed fighting against Lucifer even before Michael took control.
Michael sensed the hunter's anxiety. It made Michael worry. It made the archangel want to get back into the driving seat again. He stayed where he was.
You are doing this for Gabriel. He reminds himself.
Before Michael gave up control, Gabriel made him promise that Dean was going to keep control. Michael can take over only for emergency reasons. Gabriel wanted his brother to put trust into his sword. Show his sword off to the world. They seen the fearless archangel now its time they met his ultimate, heavenly weapon.
If you wanted every living monster including the angels dead, Gabriel knew Dean Winchester was just the man for the job.
"Dean." Michael's voice softens. "You are not going to mess up."
"Michael." Dean punches another angel and stabs him in the head. "Now is not a good time to talk."
Gabriel smites a couple of angels. He looks over when he hears his brother's name. He hears Dean talking. To others they would think he is talking to himself, Gabriel knew he was talking to Michael.
"I'm fine." Dean says.
I got your strength. I don't need to go deeper into it. Dean thought.
"You should." Michael says hearing the hunter's thoughts. Dean sighs forgetting Michael can hear and see every damm thing he does. "Dean. You are my sword. You are part of me. Embrace it."
Dean takes down the final angel before following Gabriel down to the cells.
Embrace it? He says this time in his head.
"Show everyone how fierce the sword can be. Prove to them you are the true and perfect weapon for me. Show them how dangerous we are together.Dean could have sworn he felt Michael smile. "Let it out."
"What"
"Let it out...Go and kick the son of a bitches asses."
Dean laughs a little at Michael picking up his mannerisms.
Guess that's what happens when an archangel sticks with me for weeks
"What did he say?" Gabriel asks immediately looking over his shoulder.
"Nothing. Michael making sure I'm doing as I'm told."
"Oh. Sounds like him." Gabriel says with a nod.
Jo comes forward.
"They are here." She yells.
The other prisoners come forward.
"Look who's come back." Rufus says.
"We are here to save you...again." Second time lucky." Gabriel says.
"You assholes made Eileen suffer." Rufus says anger raising in his voice. "Left with skin peeling off her back that will soon turn into scars."
"Where is Eileen?" Michael asks.
"Where is she?" Dean repeats.
Rufus looks at the hunter showing hatred towards him.
"I knew working with your kind would not end well. That poor girl had so much faith in you. I smelt trouble as soon as both entered the building. Look where it has got her. Michael, whatever version, you are still an evil bastard that deserves to rot in Hell."
Dean felt the archangel's anger ready to explode.
Michael. Don't let him get to you. I'll handle Rufus.
Gabriel gives the hunter a worried look. Dean nods to him to say I got this.
"Rufus. I am not Michael. My name is Dean Winchester. I'm a hunter just like you, Jo." Jo looks at him with curiosity. Dean lowers his head. He still couldn't bring himself to face her. "And Eileen." He finished his eyes going back on to the older hunter.
"Dean Winchester. What? Michael is gone?"
"He gave me control."
"Bull shit."
"Its true." Gabriel says. "This is the vessel you are talking to."
"Hang on? You said you're a hunter? Why the hell would a hunter say yes to an archangel?"
"For family." Dean answered. "To save my family."
"You trusted a winged dick to save your family."
"You would do anything to save your family."
"My mom sacrificed herself." Jo says her voice quiet.
Dean looks at her.
"Ellen is dead." He said his voice barely a whisper.
"To buy us time to escape. She...created a bomb. Contained holy oil. She set it off killing every last angel. My mom killed herself for her family to live. Yeah you would do anything to save your family." Jo looks at the hunter. "Even if you had to work with the enemy."
"Jo."
"Rufus you keep blaming the angels for her death. It's not their fault. It's no one's fault. Mom made the choice to die no one forced her."
"If it wasn't for them your mother would have not had to make a bomb. It is their fault."
"CAN YOU BOTH SHUT THE HELL UP." Another prisoner yells. "WE ARE SICK OF TIRED OF HEARING THE SAME ARGUMENT OVER AND OVER."
Jo sighs with frustration.
"Hey." Dean places his hand through the bars on to Jo's. He smiles. "What your mom did. I can imagine that. Definitely a thing Ellen would do."
"Did you know her?"
"I knew my world version of her and you. You were both brave, strong women."
Jo frowns.
"Were?" Dean sighs sadly and let's go. Jo lets out an oh realizing what the hunter meant. "Their dead." Dean sadly nods. Jo tilts her head. "Did my other me's mom sacrifice herself?"
"Your other self was dying, Hell hounds. Her mom stayed with her so she didn't die alone. Her mom set off a bomb killing the Hell hounds. Not only she sacrificed herself to save others, she wanted to be with her daughter."
"Oh..." Jo smiles a little. "It seems my mom was badass in any world."
"Yeah she was. She was a great hunter and an amazing mother. You and the other you were both lucky to have her."
Jo smiles wide.
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For telling me that story. Question?"
"Yeah."
"Did you save your family? Do you regret what you did?"
Dean shakes his head.
"Not one bit. My family did get saved. I...we killed our worst enemy. Although we got separated, I'm certain they are okay. I'm sure they are alive."
"I'm sure they be happy to see you."
"They will."
They both smile looking into each other's eyes. The moment breaks when Gabriel steps in and shoves the keys into Dean's hands.
"While you and blondie were having a heart to heart, I was getting the prisoners out. Even got the grumpy old man out." Rufus stares daggers at him. Gabriel leans into the hunter's ear. "He really doesn't like me."
Dean unlocks the final cell letting the huntress out.
"Thank you." Jo says.
"Dean. Where is Eileen?" Michael asked. His voice frantic.
"Jo. Where is Eileen?" Dean asks.
"With Naomi" She answered.
Dean's eyes widen. He looks round at the other prisoners.
"ALRIGHT LISTEN UP!" The prisoners stop muttering and look at the hunter. "If you go up, there are a load of dead angels. There is more. We want you to go get their weapons and join us. Its time we stood up and showed these son of a bitches what we are made of."
A flash of blue goes through the hunter's eyes. Gabriel watched feeling amazed. It was like watching his brother leading an angel army. The resemblance between Dean and Michael creeped Gabriel out a bit.
"Gabriel."
Gabriel stands straight.
"Yes bro..." He realized this is Dean in front of them not Michael. Dean frowns at the archangel's sudden change of posture. Gabriel relaxed and cocked his head. "Uh...Blondie said Eileen is with Naomi?"
"Yeah."
"I know the room where she will be."
"So Eileen." AU Naomi leans forward. "I will speak nice and slow just for you."
Eileen look at the angel. Her face was bruised and she had a black eye. The angels did more after the whipping.
"So. Lets talk about your time with the archangel Michael. What did you do?" She raised her eyebrow. "What did you discuss?"
"None of your business" Eileen answered her voice weak.
AU Naomi shakes her head.
"Oh Eileen. You are in pain. You went through a lot. If I look into your head, it's going to add to the pain. I'm being nice to get answers through talking."
"I ain't talking to a cold hearted bitch." Eileen spat out.
AU Naomi's face darkens. She stands up and drags Eileen off the chair.
"Think you can talk to me like that." AU Naomi punches the huntress in the jaw. "You are nothing compared to me."
She kicks Eileen in the stomach. Eileen groans and clutches her body in pain. Naomi rolls the woman on to her front.
"Why don't you just kill me.' Eileen says.
AU Naomi cracks a smile. A sinister one.
"I like to break rather than kill."
She starts beating the woman up.
Dean and Gabriel take out the two angels who are on guard.
"Get back to the prisoners." Dean ordered.
Gabriel nods and runs off. Dean looks into the room. Rage boils inside him as he saw the young woman getting blows to the face. The grace pumped faster, adrenaline started to build up.
The green eyes turn blue and suddenly a blast of energy comes out of Dean's hand and heads straight for the door.
The door flies across the room and hits the wall. AU Naomi goes up. Her eyes go wide. Dean walks in, each step sending a tremor through the ground.
The alternative angel backs away. Fear in her eyes.
"M...Michael." She stammered.
"No." Dean raises his hands. "Not Michael. I am the person you should be afraid of." He smirks. "You could say I am more terrifying than the archangel himself."
He sends a another blast.
AU Naomi quickly vanishes before the blast hits her.
"Damm it."
"Dean."
Dean sighs.
What.
"You did it. You embraced it."
I...did. Dean thought feeling surprised.
Again Dean felt the archangel smiling.
"One criticism. The bragging. More terrifying than me hmm..."
Dean shrugs.
"Its true." He says out loud.
He hears a groan.
Shit Eileen.
"Eileen." Dean goes down next to the woman.
"Mic..." Her voice trails off. She coughs.
"Hey."
Dean brings her close. He wasn't sure how to heal. He thought to what Cas did. Placing fingers on to the head. That's what Dean did.
As soon as his fingers landed on to her head. The injures vanish including the ones she got from the whip.
Eileen gasps with shock.
"I'll be damm it worked." Dean says.
"Michael." Eileen said. Her voice strong again.
Dean helps the huntress up to her feet.
"I'm Dean." He says.
Eileen raises her eyebrows.
"The vessel?"
"Yeah."
"Where is Michael?"
"He is here. I am in control."
"Wait. How did you get out?"
"Long story but the others are out. We are gonna get out of here."
"What."
"Yeah. Come on."
Dean goes towards the door.
"Dean."
Dean stops and turns around.
"Yeah."
"It's great to finally meet you."
Dean smiles.
"Its good seeing you again Eileen."
The hunter and the huntress walk out and make their way towards the others.
AU Naomi appears in a room. She goes to the wall and starts removing bricks. Behind the wall was a wooden box. The angel takes it and removes the lid. The ingredients to opening the rift are in there.
She closes it and turns around.
"Naomi."
Anna walks in frowning at the distressed angel.
"What you got there?"
"The ingredients." AU Naomi answers. "The archangels have escaped. We must flee. Start over somewhere else."
Anna was now standing in front of the other angel.
"They will come after us." She says.
"There are others in other posts. Once we get everyone together, we will capture the archangels. This time they will not get out."
"I'm not sure about that. "
"Stop being negative Anna. Didn't scramble your brain to make you doubt everything."
"No. Instead you took something away that I cherished so much. Being human. Now I'm back to being the thing that I ran from in the first place. I suffered, others because of you. I say enough is enough."
AU Naomi scoffs.
"You hearing yourself Anna. I didn't force you into anything. You chose to come back to us."
"That's what you thought. Guess what, I was never on your side."
Anna swings her hidden blade and stabs the angel in the chest. AU Naomi lets out a scream and drops to the ground.
Dean arrives into the room. He stops when his eyes set on the now dead angel.
"She's dead." Anna says.
Dean looks at Anna's blade.
"You killed her."
"She got what she deserved." Anna picks up the box. "Take this." Dean steps back looking at her suspiciously. "It's the ingredients." Anna lifts the lid to show him. Dean peers in. From what he can see the angel was telling the truth. Anna shuts the box and gives it to him."This is your ticket home. Take it and get everyone out of here."
Dean takes it.
"What about you?" He asked.
Anna flips the blade in her hand.
"I'm getting payback." She smirks. "I hope you haven't killed them all...Dean."
Dean's eyebrow raised.
"You knew I was in control."
"If it was Michael I would have been toast by now."
The hunter had to agree with her. The archangel would have killed her no questions asked. He killed their world Anna without hesitation.
"Good luck handsome." Anna says.
She smirks and goes past him before vanishing in his sight.
"So Anna was on our side all this time?" The archangel says sounding puzzled.
Seems she double crossed or triple crossed whatever it is. Dean replied.
"Everything is there apart from the archangel grace?"
Yeah.
"Good. Hopefully Gabriel has got everyone outside."
What about Anna?
Michael sighs.
"Leave her. She looked like she wanted to stay."
Dean saw the desire for revenge in her eyes. If she wanted to go she would have followed him. The angel went off. That showed she made the decision to stay.
"Your right."Dean said with a nod.
He keeps the box close to his chest. He felt Michael's wings curl around him.
"Extra security for the box Dean." Michael sounded impressed. "Wise."
I thought the wings can do more than just flying. Hides the box from the other angels right.
Dean steps out with the massive wings curled around him. He walks down. An angel appears out of nowhere with a gun. Dean panicked. He couldn't put the box down.
"Smite him." Michael ordered.
Dean reaches out and touches the angel on the head. Flames rise and spread across the angel. The angel screams as he burned. What was left of the angel falls on the ground.
"Good work." The archangel praised.
Seeing Dean using his powers correctly, Michael's anxiety levels lowered. He didn't feel the need to jump forward and pull Dean out of the driving seat like he did back at the church against Lucifer.
The entrance doors burst open. Dean steps out. Gabriel was outside with the hunters. Gabriel looked over and smiled as he saw his brother's wings spread out and go in wards behind Dean's back. He sees the box in Dean's hands.
"Is that what I think it is." The archangel asked.
Dean nods.
"Sure is."
"Naomi?"
"Dead."
Gabriel let out a yes.
"Ding dong the wicked witch is dead." He slaps Dean on the back. "You did good brother." Dean frowns at him. Gabriel rolls his eyes "I'm talking to both of you."
"Oh."
Gabriel sighs.
"Right so the bit I been dreading to do for weeks."
"Gabriel. You know I can do it."
The archangel shakes his head.
"Nope I got this. Gotta get over this grace taking thing ." Gabriel looks into the green eyes. "I'm fine. No need to worry your feathers off. Is there a vial.
Dean opens the box. He nods.
"Yeah."
"May I have it." Dean gives the vial. Gabriel gives his blade. "Deano. You gotta make a small cut using this blade. The grace will go into this vial. Once it is full, you will heal me. It's not hard all you gotta do is fingers to cut and I will immediately heal."
"You sure about this?"
"Just do it Dean."
Dean raises the blade.
Gabriel smiles wide.
"Michael, we are finally going home."