Chapter 4: The Angels

A very handsome, dark, rugged, twenty something year old male sits in the middle of an empty gentlemen's club. It is just him and a red headed stripper giving him a private show on the main stage. He sits in a big black velvet arm chair, just like the arm chair everything in this strip club is pretty tacky. Everything is dark and red illuminated by old lights with fake candles, even the bartender was tacky wearing all leather with long uncombed hair. The man who is having a good time watching the private show and drinking a scotch with two ice cubes, is extremely good looking. He is very well-put together wearing a very expensive black suit and Italian loafers. His dark-red hair gelled to perfection, piercing blue-green eyes and a sharp jaw line glistened in the light.

As the man was watching the stripper named Daisy grind up against a gold stripper pole, his phone rang. However after the first time he saw the caller ID he didn't pick up the phone. The stripper came down from the stage and gave the man a lap dance. Suddenly a man in a trench coat and blue suit appeared and was transfixed by the girl grinding up all over his old friend. The girl with gorgeous big green eyes and red hair began to stare at the strange man and not her client. He noticed that the stripper wasn't paying attention to him and turned around. He was extremely annoyed, and continued to ignore the man.

"You didn't answer my calls." Still the man didn't care and only paid attention to Daisy, the man in the trench coat looked into the stripper's eyes. "How could you just sit here and watch a seventeen year old girl lose all of her dignity to a low-life."

"If you think I am such a low-life Castiel, then why are you here?" He shushed the girl away, she headed to the back upset at them.

"Because Jacob I need your help." Jacob looked at his old ally and headed to the bar to refresh his cocktail.

"Why do you need my help specifically? You know I don't do any of that angel stuff anymore."

"Because Jacob it has to do with Stephanie." He looked at Castiel stunned.

"Stephanie… I know a lot of Stephanie's." He knew exactly which Stephanie Castiel was talking about, he just didn't want to let him know.

"Stephanie Cruz the seventeen year old girl from Santa Maria, CA. The girl who you used to protect without her even knowing it, the girl who you fell in love with." Jacob couldn't take it anymore and headed outside to get some fresh air. It was pouring rain in the middle of nowhere Folsom, CA.

"Since when have you started smoking?"

"I've started doing a lot of things since leaving the whole angel thing behind."

"You know you can't quit being an angel like you can quit a job, Jacob? Being an angel is who you are, you still have your grace."

"Yes but I chose to get away from that life, and Stephanie is the reason why."

"But what you don't know is that right now, Stephanie needs your help now more than ever."

Sam was sitting at the dining room table with his dad's journal, his laptop, and all the books he could find on Lucifer at the local library. He has been trying to find a way to kill Lucifer, who has been on a local killing spree, for the past week. Adam and Dean have been going around town to see if there has been any connection to the death's that have been going on lately with the Devil himself. The only connection seems to be of the way they are killed, which is having their necks being snapped. Sam heard a door close upstairs and wondered if it could've been Stephanie. He left his station and headed upstairs to Stephanie's room, he saw shadows moving in the crack of the door. Sam didn't know this but the ghost of Max was standing right behind him.

"Bacon, all you need is bacon, she can't resist the smell of bacon. Dammit why can't anybody hear me?" Max got frustrated and threw the vase, that was sitting on the hallway dresser, at the wall. Sam saw all of it, but still didn't see Max. "Wait, did you see that?" Max had an epiphany as he saw a notebook on the dresser. He started writing something, Sam noticed the pen moving.

"Hello? Who is there?" No one answered so Max continued writing on the paper. Sam picked up the notepad and saw that it had said Bacon, she likes bacon. Sincerely, Max. So, Sam went to the kitchen and started cooking up some bacon. Suddenly, he got a call from his brother. "Hey Dean? Did you guys find anything?"

"No, not much. All we know is that Lucifer is definitely the killer, we just don't know where he is or how to kill him for good."

"Yeah, well you know who can help us with that?"

"Yeah I know. I called him and he said he is on his way, with some help. Have you found anything?"

"I think I might've found a way to get Stephanie out of her room. Lucifer, not so much."

"Alright we're probably going to get back soon." Dean hung up and Sam continued cooking the bacon. Stephanie smelled the semi-burnt crackling bacon sizzling downstairs. Her mouth began to water and stomach began to growl. She hasn't eaten a lot in the past couple of weeks, the only thing she can really eat is whatever she can grab or cook when the boys aren't here. Mainly that has been cereal or Velveeta macaroni, her favorite food was bacon and possibly the only thing that could make her come out of her room. She tried gritting her teeth to not go down there but she decided it was probably time to come out. The only reason why the Winchesters were here is because they were trying to help figure out who killed her parents. She opened her door, but before she headed downstairs she saw something at the corner of her eye. It was the note from her brother that Sam saw, as well as the broken vase. She saw her brother's name and almost started crying, especially because he knew how much she loved bacon. She walked down the stairs and headed to the kitchen to see Sam Winchester cooking bacon.

"You must be Sam?" Sam turned around shocked to hear a female voice, one that he was hoping to hear soon. "I see somehow my brother told you my secret affection of bacon. I'm Stephanie by the way."

"Yes, I know who you are. So you saw the note?" She nodded her head and saw the bacon that was already made, walked over and grabbed some.

"I'm sorry I haven't been very social the past week. It's been a rough month for me losing both my mom and my best friend in a matter of days from each other."

"It's understandable." She took a bite of the bacon, closed her eyed, smiled, and licked her lips.

"This is really good. So how do you think my brother wrote that note?"

"How do you think he did?"

"Well I think that maybe, just maybe his ghost is haunting this place. Either that or he's watching me from here, and he knew the only way to get me out of my room was bacon." Suddenly they both heard the door open, it was Adam and Dean. Adam came around the corner and saw Stephanie talking to Sam and eating some bacon, he was thrilled to see her. He hugged her immediately, Stephanie was taken aback only because she didn't know him very well.

"Stephanie, you came out! How?" Dean walked over to Sam and whispered.

"Yeah, Sam how?" Adam was relieved to see her, Sam looked down at the bacon. "Bacon really? I could've come up with that."

"It wasn't just bacon, Dean." He was shocked that she knew his name. "It was the fact that my brother told him." Both Dean and Adam gave quizzical looks and turned their heads.

"How is that possible, he's…" Adam knew that the death of Max was still fresh in Stephanie's mind and didn't complete his sentence.

"He's dead… I know, but I still think that he is here. Protecting me, watching me, somehow." Sam and Dean knew how that was possible, so they all sat down and gave Stephanie the low down of ghosts and what they do for a living, it was that time. It was twilight, the fog rolling in, and another very damp day in Santa Maria. Jacob was admiring the house he once knew so well before, bringing up a multitude of memories.

Four Years Ago…

It was a busy Friday Night at the Cruz household; a bunch of drunken teenagers, crushed beer cans, and a toilet papered tree, but that was just the outside of the house. The inside was a mad-house; more drunken teenagers, girls making out with guys, girls making out with girls, football players doing keg-stands, and cheerleaders dancing in the living room to Usher's "Yeah." Max was a freshman on the football team and subbed, in the game they just played, for their star quarterback who got injured. In honor of his first winning game he threw a party at his house.

Even though Stephanie wasn't invited to the party her best friend, who happened to be a cheerleader was there, so she hung out at the party. Even though her friend Kylie was clearly intoxicated and having a good time with a senior football player. Stephanie went over to the kitchen to get some alcohol, all that was available was Jack Daniels whiskey. She took a swig of the alcohol and immediately squinted at the potent alcohol. She looked outside her kitchen window and saw a figure standing by the woods, she was freaked out and turned around. As soon as she turned around her face turned bright red because linebacker Alex Thatcher came stumbling in. He was the hottest guy in school and everybody loved him, just as much as they were all loving her brother. Stephanie had always had a crush on him, they were neighbors, but he was always four years older than her.

"Well, well, well. Little miss Stephanie came to join the party? I'm not so sure your brother you enjoy that very much." He was very intoxicated and got very close to her, putting his arms on the table so that she couldn't get away. His breath smelled really bad, but all she could do was stare into his dazzling blue eyes. She blushed, wondering how such a guy would ever be into her. "So Stephanie, how about you and me get out of here. To have some alone time?" She saw her brother at the corner of her eye, he was heading into the kitchen. She knew if she went with him something more than kissing in the woods would happen. But she also knew that Alex can be very forceful sometimes, but if she let Max see them he would get very protective. "You see I have been hearing little birds tell me, that you have always had a crush on me. You want to know a secret?" He whispered into her ears and said, "I have always had a crush on you two." She gave in being the naive freshman she was and they headed outside through the back door. He led her to the woods so that no one could see them.

"Hey what happened with Alex?" Max asked Jordan.

"I don't know, he's probably outside making out with some girl." What Max didn't know was that that girl was his twin sister. Stephanie was being pushed up against a tree, Alex was forcefully making out with her. He was groping her, trying to take off her clothes, but she wasn't allowing it.

"Come on Stephanie! This isn't going to happen, if you keep doing that. You can trust me, I won't hurt you." All she wanted was to make out with him, but she knew if she said that he would stop. Because just like every horny 18 year old, he wanted something more, he wanted sex. So she loosened up, but then he started to hurt her and she didn't like it.

"Wait, Alex your hurting me! Alex please stop!"

"I thought this is what you wanted!" He didn't listen and forced himself on her even more.

"Please, Alex!" She tried pulling herself away but he was too strong.

"Just shut up you little bitch!" Without even realizing it he pushed her head hard on the tree, she stopped breathing and fell to the ground with her head bleeding. "No, no, no! Stephanie wake up, Stephanie please wake up!" He didn't know what to do and ran back into the house, wiping off any blood on her. Max was talking to Kylie and Jordan, seeing Alex rush in looking as if he had seen a ghost.

"Alex, what happened? Are you alright?" Alex just stared at Max and ran out of the house, causing everybody to stare at him. Back in the woods the figure that Stephanie saw earlier came down to her body. It was Jacob, he looked at the dead gorgeous girl and knew what he had to do. He put his hand on her head and closed his eyes, a ball of gold light came glowing from her forehead. She gasped and sat right up, but as soon as she woke up Jacob was gone. She ran back into the house, scared and cold. "Stephanie? What happened to you?" He was referring to the blood stains in her hair.

"I don't know." She grabbed her head because it started to pound and looked outside the window. Jacob was back in front of the woods looking at the girls whose life he just saved.

Present…

Jacob continued to stare at the house scared to go in, Castiel was staring at his prodigy wondering what he was thinking so intently on.

"Jacob, are you ready to go?" Jacob looked at the no longer angel and opened his car, which was a blue 1964 mustang convertible. He slammed it shut and walked right up the broken old brick steps. Castiel waited for him to ring the doorbell, but he didn't and did it himself. Sam, Dean, Adam, and Stephanie were all sitting in the kitchen eating dinner and talking about Lucifer.

"Were you guys expecting anybody?" Stephanie asked while in mid-sentence and scarfing down her steak.

"Actually yes, but we didn't think he'd show up." Adam and Stephanie looked at each other confused and followed Sam and Dean to the front door. Dean opened it and saw his old buddy Castiel standing with a stranger, who had good taste in cars. "Cas!" They hugged each other, and then Sam. Jacob ignored them and stared at Stephanie, it has been a long time since he last saw her. The only thing was, she had no clue who he was, but when she looked at him she had a feeling she did. "Who the hell is this?"

"Oh right! Sam, Dean, Adam, Stephanie, this is Jacob. He's an angel and he's here to help."

"How do you know my name?" Stephanie asked Castiel.

"Oh I know a lot more about you then just your name Stephanie."

"This Jacob guy, sure doesn't look like an angel and I have been around a lot of them to know how they dress. I am also certain not a lot of angels have '64 mustangs as cars."

"Well I'm not your normal angel. Also is that '67 Impala yours?" Dean nodded his head. "Nice car." Jacob was getting cold and let himself in.

"Cas who the hell is this guy?" Jacob was being his rude self and helped himself to some dinner.

"Look I know he's not the nicest guy, but he knows things and can be of great help to us."

"How?" Castiel walked into the living room to get as far away from Stephanie as possible. Stephanie and Adam were watching Jacob scarf down steak and potatoes. He started to get thirsty and went to see what was in the cupboard.

"Oh that wouldn't have anything in there, that you would want to drink." He pulled out the same bottle of whiskey that Stephanie drank four years ago. The only reason why that was in there was because somebody that night at the party left it there. No one else in the household likes the stuff, occasionally Stephanie's mother would drink some of it wondering how it was there in the first place.

"I think this would do just fine." Stephanie began to think of that night she was almost killed. It had slipped her mind because it was so long ago and a lot more has happened since then.

"I have never heard of an angel who drinks alcohol before."

"Like I said I have been away from the angel business a long time now." He continued to eat. Castiel was still in the living room with the boys.

"Jacob is not a normal angel. He's not an angel of the lord, he's of a different breed. He is from the Order."

"What, there are different breeds of angels, what the hell is the Order?"

"Yes well the Order is a different section of angels, one whose job is simply to protect people. That is what Jacob is, he protected Stephanie. The only thing is, they couldn't come into contact with their protectee's. So Stephanie has no clue who Jacob is." Dean was extremely confused, but knew Castiel more than anyone and knows that he wouldn't put his trust into just anyone.

"Alright I'm confused as hell, but if you trust him." So they all agreed that Jacob could stay, Stephanie was still confused as to why all of this was happening but she went along for the ride. Her only goal now was to find out why everybody she ever loved had died.

It's Me

For the past week the only thing on everybody's mind was to find out how to kill Lucifer. Sam, Dean, Adam, Stephanie, Castiel and even Jacob had been researching numerous texts, the web, and even bibles to see if it was possible to kill the devil. Adam was in the library growing tirelessly looking at old testaments to find any clues that could help him. He was running low on energy and was almost about to give up, considering it had been a month since he first came out of the hole. He still hasn't even found a reason as to how he was even there. But everything he has found has been stuff he already knows about Lucifer. Being trapped in a cage with him for five years, you get to know the guy pretty well. He started having flashbacks of demons taunting him, Lucifer getting inside his head, and a beautiful girl wincing at every lash.

Lucifer was circling around the defeated Adam, there was fire all around them, demons flying around, making deals of who would win the days battle. Adam was tired, thirsty and hungry but everybody was against his side except for one girl. She had big dark curly hair, tan glowing skin, and mysterious dark brown eyes. She was the most beautiful girl Adam has ever seen, she was the only one who turned away when Lucifer was attacking him, she was the reason that kept Adam going.

"What are you doing? You coward! Get up and fight!" The fight had been going on for hours, Adam was just about ready to give up and call it a day. He looked into the girl's eyes and stood up ramming the fallen angel into the cage. "Ha ha ha ha ha." Lucifer laughed sinisterly. "You actually think you can kill me? If it is so easy then, why haven't you done it already? Why didn't the Winchesters?" Lucifer pushed Adam back to the ground, his head hitting the freezing cold bar. The girl got up from her seat and left the scene within a flash, not wanting to watch anymore.

Adam woke up from his dream and started looking at specific pages in the bible that he marked earlier. All of them battles with Lucifer, all of them reasons as to why he always one. He started putting the pieces together, suddenly he knew what they had to do. He put everything away and rushed back to the house. He got out of the car and ran into the house noticing Stephanie was fast asleep on the couch. She woke up as soon as she heard the door shut.

"Adam? Is everything ok?"

"Where is everybody?"

"Out back, I think." She was confused as to why he was in such a rush and followed him to the backyard. "Adam can you please tell me what is going on?"

"I think I know how we can kill Lucifer!" Adam yelled as everyone else was in the middle of a discussion. He explained to them why Lucifer had always defeated battles. It was because he picked his battles, he picked battles he knew he could win. All of his defeats were against people who didn't have siblings or a love worth fighting for. He told them how when he was in Hell he was never able to defeat Lucifer because of something he didn't have. "Think about it when you guys tried to defeat Lucifer you couldn't kill him. It wasn't Sam and Dean fighting against Lucifer. It was Lucifer and Michael fighting each other. Two brothers who didn't love each other." They still didn't get what he was trying to get at. "Love is what we need to defeat Lucifer, something he doesn't have. Something Stephanie does… the love from her father, mother, brother, and friends . The people who died because of him." Stephanie was starting to realize what needed to happen.

"It's me. I have to kill him." Everybody turned to look at the scared teenager, finally understanding what needed to be done.