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Chapter 10

Cas actually started to fidget as he looked at Bobby's angry face. Scary old man, Cas thought before Wait, I am an Angel of the Lord and the new Sheriff of Heaven, I'm not supposed to be afraid popped into his head along with Like sheriff Jodie, bet she's not afraid of Bobby; shaking his head as if to clear it of all the random thoughts he stated aloud, "I took it from her grave."

Sam looked down at the floor, he felt like he should feel sad. He liked spending time with her, but he felt nothing for the now dead young woman that he'd spent time with.

"Did you do a S an B?" Bobby asked, looking at Dean as he worried they might have an angry spirit to contend with on top of everything else.

"We didn't dig her up." Dean stated, giving a slight nod in Cas' direction.

"You can do that?" Bobby asked, shocked and then his thoughts skittered to, Why hasn't he done it before, it would have saved a lot of backbreaking digging. Then he thought rationally, because he'd have to take salt and crap, shut up and get back on track… he silently demanded of himself.

"I can do lots of things you don't know about." Cas said with a slight grin, which to Bobby sounded a lot like smugness.

"Huh." Was Bobby's response to that statement.

Cas tilted his head as his grin slid away while he listened to something only he could hear, "I am being called, I must go."

"What? Now?" Dean asked, shocked that he would leave now, "Cas, we just got Sam's soul back, just take a few minutes and slam him back together." Dean pleaded as he tensed up with sudden anxiety at the thought of Cas' leaving. They had come too far to risk something happening before this was done. It didn't escape Dean's notice that Sam suddenly seemed to perk up.

"I have to find out how to release Sammy's soul from the amulet. It is different from Anna or even you. I must go. I will find out what to do and I will return. I will finish this for you, I promise." Cas told Dean earnestly at the look of desperation on Dean's face.

Dean stuffed the amulet in his pocket. It needed cleaned but not until Sammy's soul was back in the Sambot. He didn't want to chance loosing any part of Sammy. No matter how small the chance might be.

Sam asked looking from Bobby to Dean as he sounded a little bit curious, "Are you going to untie me now?"

Bobby and Dean said together with a resounding, "No."

"Now what?" Bobby asked looking at Dean, and then quickly glanced at Sam.

"We wait for Cas." Dean said wearily, rubbing a hand over his face as he contemplated sitting down on the couch, glancing over at it.

Suddenly out of nowhere while Dean was distracted he was thrown across the room and slammed into a bookcase causing a cascade of books to fall on top of him. Dean was shaking his head as if to clear it, trying to stand a few seconds later.

"Dean!" Bobby yelled, searching the room for hidden threats. Not finding any, he looked once again at Sam.

Dean had finally struggled to his feet only to be lifted and thrown across the room into the desk causing Dean to grunt in pain, then lifted by an invisible force to slam into the fireplace mantel. The sound of Dean's head making contact with it caused a sickening thunk. He sank boneless to the ground and lay there, unconscious.

Bobby made a move towards him when Sam, snarled in a deep voice. "Stay there. Do not move. You do not know when to leave things be."

Bobby blinked as he stared down at Sam, "You're not Sam."

Sam threw back his head as he laughed with cold mirthless cheer. "It took you long enough. I wasn't going to tell you where the amulet was, but I had a little outside interference that is right this moment being dealt with. I gave the amulet to that dying girl for a reason."

"You can't be in him, he showed no…" Bobby was in the middle of stating when he was interrupted.

Sam bellowed as he snapped in an offended tone, "Stupid hairless ape, I am no demon!"

Bobby smirked, "Oh, then that would make you…"

"Angel. Raphael to be precise. I come and go as I please. A reward if you will for getting Sammy-boy out of the big bad pit."

"But you didn't leave him in one piece." Bobby glared, thinking about his angel killing knife Cas had given him, trying to gauge if he could reach it in time to... Shit, he couldn't do that with Rafael using Sam's body. Dean would kill him… if he survived Rafe.

"Didn't say I would and well, what would be the point in that? I want a rematch. This Sam… soulless as he is makes him perfect for my needs. So you see I can't have…" He looks Bobby up and down with disdain, "People interfering with that and putting humpty- dumpty back together again."

Bobby took a step again towards Dean as Bobby asked, "Why'd Sammy agree to this?"

"Don't." Rafael said, causing Bobby to be unable to move before Rafael continued, "He wanted the pain to stop, both sides ganged up on him. Not fair, really."

"I need to make sure he's ok." Bobby said as he looked Dean's direction, straining against the invisible bonds.

"That's not important." Sam/Rafael said indifferent.

Bobby snarled, "If you want a rematch it is. You need Dean."

"No, no I don't." Rafael said with a smile that made Sam's face appear distorted..

"How's that?" Bobby snarled with unsuppressed rage.

"I have this Sam for Lucifer and I have Adam for Michael." Rafael stated with a hint of superior smugness.

"Their in the pit." Bobby argued.

"Only until I need them, then I will release them." Rafael stated with full confidence of being able to do exactly what he claimed.

"So, you're telling me you're playing God? What gives you the right to decide that, since you all failed the first time, you get a rematch?" Bobby asked angrily.

"I have decided I have the right. We want our playground and right now you're on it." Rafael said as he stood, letting the cuffs fall away. Rubbing his wrists as he slowly circled Bobby. Leaning in he sniffed disdainfully, "You take up precious space with your useless presence."

Bobby stared Rafael down as he snapped, "You are not God, and you don't get to make that decision."

Rafael spread his arms wide before saying smugly, "Hum, looks like I do. Look around you, the great saviors of your world." He placed his hands on Sam's chest, "A soulless puppet and that." He nodded towards Dean. "Not much to look at. They aren't going to stop me this time."

"No, but we are." A new voice stated that Bobby immediately recognized. He was surprised by the instant relief he felt at the knowledge that Cas had returned.

Rafael swirled around just in time for Cas to slug him in the jaw. He staggered, but stared at Cas. Cut up and bloody, but in front of him. "You should be fighting… they should have killed you."

"You should have remembered. Father doesn't like disobedience. He has taken back heaven. The Battles are done. You have lost again." This time it was Cas' voice radiating with smugness.

Sam's face contorted in rage as Rafael lunged at Cas and they slammed into another bookcase, causing books to rain down on them as they struggled with each other. Cas head butted Rafael in the face as he shoved him away from himself and into the wall. Stepping back Cas held out his hand out, slamming Rafael with a blue light that sent him flying sideways along the wall before he sailed backwards out the doorway into the hallway. His flight ended when he slammed into the opposite wall as he screamed in pain and fury. Then Cas held him there. "I would destroy you right now, but I want Sam… so… Anna."

Rafael looked around frantically until he spotted her. Screaming at her, "Don't do it. I am your brother! You would betray me like this?"

"You are the betrayer, brother." She told him as he continued to scream at her.

His cry instantly cut off as he disappeared in a blinding white light as she slapped her hand into the middle of her blood drawn symbol sending Rafe on the fast track back to heaven.

Bobby was instantly released as he made a mad dash over to Dean as Sam hit the floor and slowly struggled to sit up. Anna went to help Sam.

"Cas over here now!" The panic was evident in Bobby's voice.

TBC