Cursed To Fall
A Destiel FanFic by The Broken Castiel and FlyHighDandelion
Chapter two: The Staff of Chamuel
Suggested Playlist for this chapter:
Oh Life by Dads
Oh Sweet Nuthin The Velvet Underground
I Don't Have Anything by VAST
The Twist by Frightened Rabbit
Castiel put his hand on Dean's shoulder then zapped them to Bobby's place. Once there he walked over to Sam, frowning. It was his fault Sam was like this to begin with. "How long has he been like this?" Castiel asked.
Dean looked over at Sam, his throat suddenly feeling heavy. "You know since..." Dean began but realized there was no need to finish it, Castiel already knew. While observing Sam's state he couldn't help but imagine what Sam was going through. Sure yeah, Dean had been to Hell before but he wasn't in the cage. He also surely was not in there for an entire year. While he thought about Sam he couldn't help but tear up a little. Dean glanced at Castiel begging him silently to help Sam before forcing himself to stop thinking about it and looking towards Bobby. "Bobby, there's been a change of plans. We need to find some of Heaven's weapons."
"Alright." Bobby said looking at Castiel with distrust before leaving the room to go do some research on Heavenly weapons.
Once Bobby left the room Castiel walked over to Sam and placed his hand on Sam's head. He could feel the mess inside that was created due to the wall breaking. Energy surged through Castiel's hand as he tried to fix it but could not succeed. After a moment he pulled his hand away with a sigh. "I'm afraid that there's nothing I can do."
"What do you mean there's nothing you can do?" Dean asked him suddenly alarmed.
"I'm unable to replace the wall. Sam will have to get through this on his own." Castiel explained.
Dean turned around in a flash then slammed his fist into the wall leaving a bloody imprint of his knuckles on Bobby's walls. 'First things first.' He told himself, if he didn't help Castiel stop Raphael then Sam would be dead anyway. Once they defeated Raphael he could focus on helping Sam. He then left the room to speak with Bobby. "So Bobby... about those weapons."
"I just started looking idijit, nothing yet." Bobby said.
"I can provide a list of Heaven's weapons and their last known locations." Castiel offered knowing the information would help Bobby with finding the weapons.
"Good... Bobby why don't you work on the list while Cass and I gain some time checking out the last known location of one of the weapons", he looked at Castiel with a half-smile "Looks like you'll be driving Miss Daisy today".
"Miss Daisy?" Castiel asked with confusion. "Who is Miss Daisy?"
Dean rolled his eyes at his strangely literal friend "Never mind", he said, and waited to be zapped.
Castiel once more placed his hand on Dean's shoulder then zapped them to an abandoned town warehouse in Alaska. "Right." Castiel said then zapped them to Valdez, Alaska. "The Staff of Chamuel was last seen here."
Dean felt dizzy for a moment, he hated the feeling of being zapped. He glanced
around, the place looked like it had been broken into and ransacked a very long time ago. He
didn't think it was likely they found anything there, but it wouldn't hurt to check, so he
started running his palms over the wall, looking for hidden compartments.
"I can sense its power here." Castiel informed Dean then started to look around
wondering where it could be hidden. After a little while Castiel found a closet that had angel
warding on the door. "Dean." He called to get his attention, "This closet has angel warding
over the door. It has to be in here."
Dean approached the door and muttered "Okay..." while cleaning off some of the dust
and spider webs with his hand. He looked back at his friend as he pushed the door, slowly.
"Well look at this!" he said, carefully taking the staff that was lying on a stone shrine in the
center of the room, the shrine itself was covered in carved angel warding symbols. "Looks
like we got ourselves the Staff of Chamuel", he smiled at Castiel's serious face, "Now what
can we do with this?"
"The Staff of Chamuel has the ability to bind people together, sort of like cupids can
but at a higher level than just 'love'. Since Chamuel is the angel of divine love his staff can
actually bind two souls and create soulmates. Not as what humans refer to though. For
instance, if you were to bind two people together and one of them died, the other would as
well. It's very powerful, all we have to do is bind Raphael with someone else. Then when that
other angel is taken out Raphael will fall."
"Sounds too good to be true, what's the catch? how do we bind them together", said
Dean, thinking it couldn't be that easy, it never was, there was always some hidden
drawback. "What are you not telling me?" he asked Castiel. He wanted to trust Castiel more
than anything but he had recently betrayed them by working with Crowley and he felt unsure
with handing the staff over.
"That's not of importance right now Dean" Castiel said reaching his hand out waiting
for Dean to hand the staff over. He didn't want to have to tell Dean what was needed but he
would if he had to. After all, the last thing he wanted to do was to lose the hunters trust again.
Dean grabbed him by the wrist and looked at him in the eyes "Not again with the
secrets, pal... I swear if this smells like self sacrifice again I..." He came closer, "If you want
me to trust you, like you said before, then you gotta tell me what's going on".
"In order to use the staff the user has to sacrifice something of deep value and
importance." Castiel admitted after a little of staring into Dean's eyes. He wanted Dean to
trust him again, the last thing he wanted was to be thought of as 'superman gone bad' as he
had been previously.
Dean looked at him in the eyes for a moment in silence, letting go of his wrist, then
nodded and took off his necklace. "Sam gave me this when we were kids, for xmas... I've
worn it ever since", he looked at the necklace, then back at Castiel and added "this should do
the trick."
Castiel's eyes widened as Dean took off the necklace and held it near the staff. "Dean
wait no!" Castiel pleaded but it was too late. Soon enough the necklace and the staff started
emitting a bright white light, which was getting brighter by the second. A few moments later
it shot off a beam of light strong enough to throw both Castiel and Dean backwards. As soon
as the light faded the staff and the necklace were both gone.