"Levi, I'm telling you, there's something going on in Kansas City." Madison shoved the journal she had stolen from Alex into her brother's face. "It says here that storms like that happened when Mommy opened something called a Leviathan tablet."
Levi looked over the top of his book and glared at his sister. "I think you've been watching too many cartoons. Besides, even if it was true what can we do about it? We're 5."
"Mommy always said we were special. Maybe this is how we're special." Madison said, once again studying the pages. "Besides, her and Cas were always talking about a tablet."
"I always thought it was like an iPad or something." Levi said.
"No." Madison rolled her eyes. "We should go check on it."
"Aunt Ellen and Uncle Bobby won't let us go. Not without an adult and no way will they believe you." Levi said.
Madison slumped on the bed and pouted. Levi exchanged a look with Seraphina and sighed then closed his book. "How exactly would we find this tablet thingy?"
Madison squealed happily and showed Levi and Seraphina in the journal. They made their plans and waited until Ellen and Bobby fell asleep before sneaking out of the house, clicking the door closed behind them. When Castiel came to explain about Sam, he told Seraphina that she was half angel and half cambion, which meant she was very special and very powerful. He also explained to the twins what they are. While the twins were also half cambion, Seraphina's grace gave her extra power. He taught the dark angel toddler enough to keep her and her siblings safe and how to fly. It took a few attempts but the trio eventually made it to where the signs said to go.
"Maddie, I'm scared." Seraphina clung to her sister's hand. The alley they were in lead to a run down house.
"It's okay, Sera." Madison squeezed her sister's hand and held out what she knew to be the angel blade in front of her. Levi had a knife that Madison had smuggled out with the angel blade. When they opened the door, the tablet lay on the floor and was surrounded by several bodies.
"Maybe we shouldn't touch it." Levi said, taking in the dead bodies on the floor.
"We need to take it to Mom." Madison said. "She'll keep it safe."
Madison took a deep breath as she approached the tablet and slipped her backpack off. She hesitated but snatched up the tablet and placed it carefully in her backpack. "Okay guys. We can go."
"Well, well, well." A man's British accent said behind them, causing them to turn around. "Hello, lovelies."
"Who are you?" Levi asked, pushing Seraphina behind himself and Madison and holding the knife in front of him.
"Name's Crowley." The demon said. "You have something that belongs to me."
"It doesn't have your name on it." Madison said.
"If I'm correct, it doesn't have yours on it either." Crowley countered with a smile. "What do you say that you give it to me and I let you all live?"
"No." Levi said, his big brother instincts kicking into overdrive at the demon's threat. "We're taking this some place safe."
"You have a unique definition of the word 'safe'." Crowley sauntered forward. "This house is hardly safe. I wonder what your parents would say if they knew you were here."
Seraphina grabbed the back of her sibling's shirts and flew them to a motel in Wyoming. She wasn't sure why she thought of that but it was safe, at least temporarily.
"We should call Mom." Levi peeked out the window.
"I think Levi's right, Maddie." Seraphina said, clearly scared.
Madison shoved the backpack under the bed and nodded. She dialed her mother's number from the motel phone. The trio waited nervously for their mother to arrive, leaving only to get snacks from the vending machine.
"What the hell are you doing in Wyoming?" Alex said through gritted teeth when she got there. Sam and Dean stood behind her quietly. The children kept their gaze locked on the ground. "Do Bobby and Ellen know you're here?"
"No." Madison said softly. "We were only trying to help."
"Help with what?" Alex said, taking deep breaths.
Madison pulled out the journal and handed it to Alex. "I found this when Levi and Sera were sick. I've been reading it. I read about the tablets and wanted to help."
Alex knelt in front of her daughter. "This is too dangerous for you guys."
"But—but I killed the shtriga!" Madison said quickly. She looked at Sam and Dean. "Tell her."
"What?" Alex turned to Sam and Dean, who looked a little frightened. "You didn't think to tell me my 5 year old killed a monster?!"
"She wasn't hurt." Sam said. "Besides, she's my daughter too and to be honest...I'm proud of her."
"We're sorry, Mom." Levi said, with nods from his sisters.
"Where's the tablet?" Dean asked.
"Under the bed." Seraphina slid off the bed and retrieved the backpack, giving it to Dean. He rifled through the backpack and found nothing.
"The tablet isn't in here." Dean said.
"But—but we had it." Madison slid off the bed and snatched the backpack from his hands, searching it. "It was in here."
"Ah yes. The Word of God." A man in a gray suit with white stripes said. "I'm afraid that's no longer in your possession."
"So then where is it, Mr. Peanut?" Dean said sarcastically.
"Beau." He introduced himself to Alex and extended an envelope to her. "I've got something for you."
"What is it?" Dean asked warily.
"It's an invitation." Alex said, opening the envelope. "To an auction? You're selling the tablet?!"
"It's part of the matching set." Beau said. "There's a prophet included."
"You have Kevin?" Dean asked while Sam examined the invitation over Alex's shoulder.
"You're not going alone." Sam told her.
"Apparently I am." Alex said as she turned to meet his gaze.
"Are you serious?" Sam's voice was louder than he expected and he lowered it after glancing at Beau. "I just got you back. I'm not about to let you go to a monster auction alone."
"Are you going to watch the kids?" Alex nudged her head in their direction.
"Why don't I add a plus 5 to your invitation?" Beau offered. "There's a strict policy enforced and I assure you its the safest place your children will ever be."
Then he was gone, leaving the Winchesters to argue amongst themselves about attendance of this auction. Dean wasn't going to let Sam go without him and Sam wouldn't let Alex go without him. It was settled that they would all go.
Alex gathered her children together and knelt in front of them and gave them anti possession necklaces. "While we're in here, all of you will stay close to me or Sam. Wear these necklaces. They'll keep you from getting possessed."
The children nodded and held hands with each other before the adults lead them inside. They passed through a metal detector one by one and Alex wasn't surprised when Dean caused it to go off. He emptied his weapons into a box, assuring the guard that he would be back for them. Kevin was nowhere to be seen but the tablet was on display with two boards covering the words.
"Well, well, well." Crowley's voice said, causing them to turn. "I was hoping I'd run into you, Lexi dear."
"What do you want Crowley?" Alex said with a verbal eye roll.
"After your Alpha's little...experiment into demonic anatomy, I've made it my own personal mission to take it out of your ass."
"You said a bad word." Seraphina told the demon.
"It won't be the last, darling." Crowley didn't draw his gaze from Alex. "Trust me. I'll get retribution."
"Come along folks. Bidding's about to start." Beau said, walking past everybody.
Sam and Dean followed Beau, as did Levi and Madison, while Seraphina took Alex's hand. They were stopped by a man in a Weiner Hut uniform.
"Alex Winchester?" He asked.
"Who are you?" Alex replied cautiously.
"My name is Samandriel. I knew Castiel." The angel said.
"Is he okay?" Alex asked.
"I don't know." Samandriel admitted. "I was hoping you could tell me his whereabouts."
"He told me he had to go to Heaven." Alex said. "I haven't heard from him for a few days."
"Right, well, no one has seen Castiel. He was supposed to come here but..."
"You couldn't find him." Alex finished for him. Seraphina squeezed her mother's hand and Alex smiled comfortingly at her before turning her attention to Samandriel. "Why are you here?"
"We protect the Word of God." Samandriel said.
"Hey." Sam said, coming to look for Alex. "You comin?"
Beau was going on and on about the price and the objects they had obtained but the Winchesters were interested in one thing: the tablet and Kevin. Luckily, Alex still had access to the money made by Dick Roman's company since she was named the beneficiary in his will. She assumed that happened before he got eaten by a Leviathan. Either way, she should have more than enough money to purchase the tablet.
"3 billion dollars." Crowley offered when the tablet came up.
"4 billion." Alex countered, earning wide eyed looks from Sam and Dean.
"The Mona Lisa." Samandriel said loudly.
"The real Mona Lisa." Crowley smirked. "Where she's topless."
"Vatican City." Samandriel said.
"You gonna jump in here, Alex?" Dean whispered to her.
"They're not bidding money anymore." Alex whispered back. "What do you want me to do?"
"I don't know. We gotta do something though." Dean said.
"Alaska." Crowley said.
"Palin and a bridge to nowhere?" Beau snickered. "No thanks."
"The moon." Crowley offered instead.
"You have the moon?" Levi asked, his jaw dropping open.
"Did you really think a man named Buzz could go into space without making a deal?" Crowley quipped.
"What does he mean?" Levi asked Alex, who shushed him gently.
"I'm sorry gentlemen, but it seems our reserve price has not been met." Beau said. Kevin started to look worried.
Dean, in an effort to get the tablet, stood and did something stupid. "My soul."
"Dean, no." Sam said, loudly. "That's a big move."
"If it's souls you want, I can give you souls." Crowley said.
"Aren't you going to help?" Seraphina turned around in her chair to ask Samandriel.
"We guard the souls in Heaven." Samandriel said. "We don't horse trade them."
Seraphina sat back down in her chair and thought to herself. Kevin had a soul, didn't he? Doesn't he need to be protected?
"My grace." Seraphina's voice was barely loud enough to be heard over the bidding. Alex felt her heart stop as she stared at the youngest sibling. "I bid my grace."
"Interesting." Beau said. "The grace of a dark angel."
"She doesn't get to bid. She's a child." Alex said quickly. "She doesn't know what she's doing."
"I'm afraid she does." Beau smiled. "Sold to Miss Seraphina Winchester for her grace."
Samandriel pulled the angel toddler to the side after the auction. "You can't give up your grace. Do you know what they would do with any angel's grace? Yours is especially valuable."
"But Kevin needed to be safe." Seraphina said. "You said angels protect souls and I'm an angel. Right?"
Samandriel sighed. This child had inherited the trait that had cost Castiel the most: too much heart. Seraphina gulped and joined her family as they were lead to the merchandise room to claim the tablet.
"Come here, sweetheart." Beau's boss, Plutus, extended his hands to the child.
Alex could see that she was shaking as Seraphina reached toward him. "Sam, we can't let her do this."
"We'll figure a way to get it back." Dean promised, his voice low. "But we need this tablet and Kevin."
When Plutus put his hand on Seraphina's head to pull out her grace, a bright light shone through the room, almost blinding everyone.
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