The sun rose over the horizon on an unusually bright Thursday morning in Kansas. Despite being unable to see the sunrise, Rowena ended up getting up right when it came up. Today was the day that part one of their strike against Lucifer would take place, and although she was dreading it, she was anxious to get it over with. Checking in the crib, she saw that Fergus was still sleeping peacefully, and decided to take a shower and get ready while he was still out. She tried to keep her shower as short as possible in case her son woke up, but she couldn't help taking a moment or two to just enjoy the feeling of the warm water cascading down her back. Reluctantly, she got out of the shower and got dressed in a long sleeved, tightly fitted green dress with no back. She put her hair up in a bun instead of letting it hang down as she preferred it to in case she had to fight. She didn't want it to be able to be used against her. She did her makeup in the bathroom, and just as she finished applying her lipstick, she felt Fergus wake up. She put everything away, and opened the door. Sure enough, Fergus was screaming. Her day had begun.
Rowena took her time to bathe her son and get him ready for the day ahead. Both the Winchesters and Castiel had protested the idea that she would bring him along to their little escapade, and in truth she didn't want to bring him anywhere near Lucifer. But the fact remained that she could not leave him alone, and there was no one she trusted to watch him, so she was forced to bring him with her into the fray. When he was cleaned up, she heated him up a bottle of milk, placed him on her hip, and brought him down into the kitchen.
It seemed the Winchesters shared her early morning waking, because they were already in the kitchen drinking coffee. They nodded their hellos to her, and she set Fergus on the floor before filling a tea kettle with water and setting it on the stove. Then she picked her son up and settled him into her arms to feed him a bottle. Just as she finished feeding him, the kettle began to whistle. She burped him quickly, wiped off his face, and set him down before pouring herself some water into a cup, and making herself some tea. When she sat down, the Winchesters and a newly arrived Castiel sat down at the table alongside her.
"Are we all ready for today?" Asked Dean. They each nodded their consent. "Alright. We leave after breakfast."
The four of them had breakfast at the table together, then they helped Rowena gather up her supplies, packed them in the trunk of the Impala, and hit the road. Rowena held her son in her lap the entire ride there. A feeling of nervous fear made her stomach twist into knots, but still she continued on with their plan. They arrived at the same house in Michigan that they came to the last time they got near the cage. Sam and Dean decided to be the ones to go inside the cage. Sam was a little nervous about going in, but he would not be deterred. Besides, whoever was left would have to hold Crowley while Rowena did her spell, and he was just to creeped out by him to do that. The two of them held two buckets full of the potion, and some paint brushes. They were going to coat every bar of the cage to make sure he could not escape. They had to be careful though, they couldn't get any of the potion on themselves or risk being immobilized themselves.
Rowena handed Castiel her son and smiled at him, before she cast the levitation spell.
"angelis, exaudi orationem meam, levate hunc in aere volitant suscitabis eum de terra usque dum dicam reverti!"
A blast of blue light came from her hands before it faded away. For a moment or two, nothing happened. Then, slowly, they lifted from the ground. She smiled, proud of herself, before she cast the second spell to zap them inside of the cage. When that was finished and she made sure they were safely inside, Rowena took her son from Castiel and kissed him on the forehead. They had made it this far. Now all they could do was wait.
Castiel felt nervous not being in there with the brothers, but he knew that he couldn't risk getting caught in the cage. His brother would show no mercy to him being in there, of that he was sure. It felt odd being with Rowena and Crowley, but not like it used to. He had watched Rowena grow and change as she fell in love with her child, and it had alleviated much of his animosity toward her. To know that she was capable of love and was now openly showing it was something he believed that she could do. It proved to him that she wasn't all bad.
The minutes that followed the brothers entrance into the cage were riddled with anxiety for those who were left behind. For a long while, nobody said anything, too panicked about being exposed to do anything else. For too many long and tense moments, there was nothing. Then, finally, there was sound.
"We got it! Get us out!" Yelled Sam. Rowena handed her son to Castiel once more and cast the spell to bring them back out. The second they hit the ground, the four of them were bolting back to the Impala. Dean put the keys in the ignition and sped away as fast as he could, not slowing down until they were several states over.
When they finally got back to the bunker, they all smiled. Phase one was complete. Now all they had to do was wait until tomorrow to finish their plan and take lucifer out for good.