It had been three months since Lea's disappearance and everyone was beginning to worry. If she had been with Crowley that long who knows what he could have turned her into. It had been Castiel's goal to find her as soon as possible but he was still having no luck. Until one day when he was summoned to a vacant field.
"Hello Castiel, long time no see," he heard a voice but could not pin point where it was coming from.
"Lea is that you?" he said frantically looking around.
"It is Castiel, I wanted to apologize for leaving you so swiftly and not contact you until now. But I hope you understand that I had to leave. Crowley threatened to kill you, and I couldn't have that. And on to the issue of not contacting you, I haven't been strong enough until now," the voice continued.
"Where are you?" Cas asked, the desperation in his voice leaking out.
"I'm here," she said, standing by a large willow tree that had not been there two second ago.
"How are you doing all this?" he asked as he made his way over to her.
"I've put you into a deep sleep Castiel, and we are in a dream that I created, so I can do anything I wish here," she said softly.
"Oh, Lea how I've missed you and I'm sorry for failing you. It should have been me protecting you not the other way around," he said reaching out to her. She opened her arms to receive him. The two embraced in the warm summer air of the dream.
"It is fine Castiel, my dear sweet Castiel, because of all this I have learned to harness my power so that it can never be used against me, my only regret is that I have not gotten to see you," she said softly.
The two of them laid there basking in the summer sun of Lea's dream world until they heard a voice calling. "Cas! Speak to me Cas!" with the sound of the voice the clear sky began to cloud and it looked like a thunder storm was rolling in.
"Looks like it's time to wake up Castiel, but to not fret I will be with you again," Lea said as she placed a gentle kiss to his lips.
Castiel woke up to Dean shaking him awake, "Cas man what the hell I though you didn't sleep?" before Cas could register what had happened, the potion Lea had given him made his head all groggy.
"Judging by this I think he was poisoned," Sam said holding up a glass and sniffing it, "Pretty powerful one to."
"It was Lea, she needed me to sleep so she could speak to me without Crowley finding out. The only way she could do that was to reach me in a dream but since I don't sleep I guess she had to resort to other measures," Cas said rubbing his sore head.
"Lea? Is she okay what the hell happened?" Dean said, panic lacing his voice.
"Crowley has been teaching her to use her powers and she is almost strong enough to overpower him and leave I'm sure."
"Hello boys, talking about my little princess are you?" came voice from behind the men in the kitchen.
"Crowley," Dean growled.
"Down squirrel I'm here to talk to your little angel over there," he said locking eyes with Castiel. "I know what Lea did today, and I know what you may be thinking but she is mine and so I wanted to prove to you that no matter how strong the little runt gets she will never be able to best me." Castiel glared, he swears that Crowley loved to hear the sound of his own voice more than anything else. With a snap of his fingers Lea appeared beside Crowley, but Crowley had her on a leash and she looked like she had been attacked. "Funny thing about this little Archangel daughter of mine, none of the normal means you would think to kill her works," Crowley extracted and angel blade and stabbed it into Lea's chest, and while she screamed out in pain nothing happened. "But she can surely feel pain, even being a hell hound's chew toy doesn't seem to affect her," Crowley said grinning proudly.
"You bastard," Cas said lunging towards him but was stopped by Dean.
"Don't if you attack him who knows what he'll do Lea, Cas think about this." Castiel looked to Lea and saw her wink; he smiled and knew that this was all part of her plan, every second of it. He watched as Lea took the angel blade from her chest and pointed it at Crowley.
"Now listen here father," she spat the word from her mouth like it was poison, "You will leave here now, no questions or tricks or I shave this angel blade into your nonexistent heart, your choice." And just like that Crowley was gone for the moment. Lea collapsed onto her knees tearing at the collar around her neck.
"Lea are you alright?" Sam said kneeling down beside her.
"I'll be okay, ask your brother being a hell hound's chew toy is not very much fun, especially when you live through it," she said with a weak smile.
"Lea," Cas said kneeling in front of her. "Let me help," he placed his hand on her and all the pain disappeared.
"Thank you Castiel," she said standing. "Now if memory serves correctly we have an Archangel to defeat," she said with a grin. Cas smiled sadly, if only it were that easy. He knew that eventually they would all learn the truth about what he was doing to defeat Raphael, working with the king of hell, plotting to open purgatory but he couldn't turn back now. If only things could have stayed like they were in the dream Lea had created, everything would have been perfect but if Castiel had learned anything from his time on earth it was that perfection was something that could never happen and darkness would always consume the light.