I stood in front of Zachariah in an empty room. There was no one else there, and it was almost too quiet.
"So you've returned to the angels realm to what, beg for your position back." I looked over at him and kept a straight face.
"No, I came to hear the truth; why have you taken my garrison from me, what's your plan for Dean and Sam, why do I have to stay out of the picture? At least give me what I disserve." He smiled a wide grin.
"Oh, I'll give you what you disserve." I felt something grab a hold to my ankles and then my arms, I couldn't budge an inch.
"What is this?" I tried to wiggle free but nothing moved.
"This is your punishment; you have disobeyed your orders." I could still move my head and I tried to shake out of the hold but I couldn't get away. He reached out his hand and grabbed one of my wings and yanked it down pulling out a feather. I fell to my knees and couldn't get up from there. I was scared for the first time in my life and I reached out to Castiels mind. In my head I was hysterical and shaking in fear. He tried to comfort me but I made him focus on what Zachariah was saying.
"I have done no such thing." He shook his head in disappointment and twisted my feather in his fingers.
"You disobeyed when you helped Anna escape. You have been a pain in my rear, now that you've returned accusing me of disobedience, well; I can't let you get away with it."
"So what, you're going to do something to stop me." He smiled and turned away from me.
"I'm taking your place in the garrison. I must go and teach Dean the meaning of his life; if you excuse me?" he dropped my feather on the ground in front of me.
"You son of a bitch, I helped to get him out while you stayed up here in comfort. Then you deprive me of meeting him, then go meet him for yourself; you son of a bitch." I was trying to move free but couldn't even feel my fingers.
"Look what living with the humans has turned you into. I don't have time for your obscenities; I must go take care of business." He smiled and disappeared. I sat for a while before I cut the connection to Castiel telling him one thing. I need time to think.
Zachariah returned in a human form and crossed his arms.
"I thought you didn't like the humans, why are you wearing one." He laughed and pulled at the suit he was wearing.
"It won't be for long. And soon you'll receive your punishment." He leaned down and picked up my black feather from the floor. I reconnected to Castiel's mind and let the conversation flow between us.
"So, what are you going to do; kill me then explain my charges to God, what do you think he'll think of that; I'm pretty high on his favor list, I don't know, he might take offence." I smirked knowing someone else was listening and could relay my message to God if needed. "Please explain; what's your whole plan for the apocalypse." He turned to me and smiled.
"I plan to let it happen." The smile on my face turned to shock and fear.
"What! You can't possibility…" I could feel Castiel's reaction through me.
"Oh I do, and you'll thank me for it; that is, if you live long enough to see it." His smirk lit up his face and that stupid grin came back, only now it was on a humans face. "You see, I plan to let Sam free Lucifer; sure the apocalypse will bring terror to the people, but after the final horn is blown, all who lived through it will find peace. Everything will work out; Lucifer will be destroyed once and for all, the angels will never have to return to Earth, and humans will know peace and serenity for the first time in there barbaric lives. Don't you want that for them?" he leaned down to get to face level and got an inch away from my face. He pulled the feather across my face and down my neck.
"What about all the people that are going to get killed for the peace and serenity. Huh? How are you going to explain the countless murders of helpless citizens? What happens to the human race after a loss like that?" He laughed and then knelt down on the ground next to me to get more comfortable.
"You have to sacrifice for the things you love. Me, I love peace, and to never come near the humans ever again; so I'm choosing to sacrifice a few human lives. It's the price you have to pay." He tilted his head to the side like it was no big deal.
"No, it's the price you want to pay; what about the angels who will stand against you. You can't fight them all off. You'll have a full rebellion on your hands."
"No, but most of them volunteer to help me. You see, most of the angels are on my side; even the more powerful ones. You're on your own kiddo." I smiled and shook my head.
"Not entirely. There's Anna, and ..." I almost gave away Castiel and he caught my pause. His face changed expression to anger faster then I expected.
"Who are you talking to?" He placed a hand on my forehead. I tried to rip Castiel form my mind in time but he caught him at last minute. Castiel didn't even know that he had caught him; I just hoped he could get someone's help fast enough.
"So, Castiel; I'll get him later, when I'm done with you." He back handed my left cheek and I fell to the floor in a heap. I tried to move but my body wouldn't move anymore for me. I felt more of the angel's presences; I tried to look up at them but they were out of my sight.
"Find Castiel; bring him here, and make sure you get him before he gets to Dean." They disappeared and I felt Zachariah standing over me. "Up." He simply commanded and my body got up on its own accord. He wagged his finger at me. "You; you are more trouble then your worth, but you do provide persuasion for Castiel. Stay put." He pointed down and my body didn't move from that spot and I couldn't seem to control it anymore. He took the feather and put a pen top on the end; he had made a quill out of my feather; it was adding insult to injury; literally. I closed my eyes to gain some focus and clear my head, I couldn't even hear the angels talking anymore, Zachariah had blocked them out.
I stood still like I was part of the wall behind me, wait, there wasn't a wall there a second ago. I opened my eyes and I was in a small room, there were invisible chains on my ankles holding me in place; other then that I could move my arms again; everything was mine to control again. I sat down on the floor and crossed my legs to rest them from standing for so long.
"Ananchel, I think you've rested long enough. Its time to pay your due." I looked over to find an angel who was once in my garrison. "I'm sorry for this." I stood up and nodded to him.
"It's not your fault. Your just following orders." he gripped my arms and the binds around my ankles disappeared. He walked me outside the room to find Castiel standing still like I was. He was in angel form; he had gotten rid of his human host. They put me at least three feet from Castiel and pushed me to my knees where I felt the binds around my ankles return with ones around my cafes to keep me down. My hands had fallen in front of me and were attached to the ground too. I lowered my head and I could feel Castiel's gaze on me.
"I'm sorry, I tried..." I shook my head at him.
"No, I'm sorry; I should have never have brought you into this; this is my fight alone." I couldn't look up to see Castiel's face, I knew it would show sadness, and I needed strength. When I heard Zachariah step in to the room I looked up to see that stupid smug smile plastered on his face.
"I'm sorry for the both of you. You guys make me sick." I snarled and spat at his feet getting the top of his shoe. He clicked his tongue three times and then kicked me in the stomach. I fell sideways to the ground and gripped my mid section, coughing like an old smoker. He kicked me again lifting me an inch off the ground.
"Stop it." Castiel yelled.
"Why, she wanted what she disserved; so I'm just giving it to her." He kicked me again sending me back a foot.
"Please stop it." Castiel yelled again. I grabbed at the floor trying to claw the floor, but my pain didn't go away.
"Sorry, I can't do that; she disobeyed, and she knows the punishment for disobedience." He stepped on my arm and I screamed in pain as I felt it crunch under his weight.
"Get off me you fat fuck." I could only grunt out the words, but he heard them loud and clear. He twisted his foot and I felt the bone separate then crunch another way sending shocks of pain through my whole body. I couldn't contain the screams anymore.
When he lifted his foot I rolled on the ground to get away but his hand wrapped around my ankle. I kicked him in the face and crawled to get away but I was grabbed by two other angels. They picked me off the ground and I screamed as one twisted the bone in my arm. I kicked up in the air and pushed back against one of the angels falling to the ground. I grabbed my arm and stayed on the ground in pain. A young angel sat on top of me and pinned my legs under his, he pushed me face down on the ground flipping me over; before he could get my arms around to the back I kicked up from behind him and he fell over the top of me.
I scrambled to my feet only to be taken by four other angels from behind. I watched Zachariah's hand wave and my feet were still again. One by one the angels let me go putting trust in the restraints they had me in. He took two steps closer and punched me in the face; I fell to the ground and couldn't move from there.
"Stop!" Castiel yelled from across the room; I looked up to find him in a state of distress. "Don't hurt her anymore. I'll do anything." My expression was of complete horror.
"No, don't." Zachariah punched me again and I didn't get off the floor from that one.
"Castiel, you know I can't do that." Zachariah smiled and pulled me to my feet, I stumbled forward but he pushed me back up right. "Stay." My feet were still after that, I couldn't move again. He continued with the conversation from before. "She disobeyed; or do you want the same fate Castiel?" Castiel looked at me and my head swayed forward. Please say no. Don't take the beating. I waited to hear his reply but he just stood there with sadness written all over his face.
"No." He lowered his head and knew he had been beaten. I smiled and sighed in relief.
"I didn't think so; so I suggest you follow my orders or you'll end up like her." He pointed to me and pulled Castiel's hair for him to look at me too. "Don't be a disappointment; a failure." He smiled and turned to face me. He closed the distance and lifted my head up by my collar to get a good punch in, I closed my eyes and waited but he paused when we all heard it loud and clear. It was coming from Castiel's vessel back on Earth, he was yelling into the sky; for some reason it had been projected to where we could all hear it.
"Castiel, you son of a bitch; you promised me my family would be okay, you promised you were going to take care of them." He was flailing his arms around in hysterical motions. "I gave you everything you asked me to give; I gave you more." He paused and lifted his arms out.
"This is the thanks I get." He stepped back and continued to rant. "This is what you do? This is your Heaven?" his voice was breaking from the screaming. He swallowed hard and I could feel my own heart break at this poor man.
"Help me please." He stopped and I could feel his world breaking around him. "You promised Cas." He took a second and spoke again. "Help me." He waited for a response and when I looked to Castiel, he was silent but I could tell he felt the way I did. Zachariah didn't move and inch as we watched the last bit of it. His vessel shook his head in disappointment and turned to enter the building muttering one last word.
"Typical." I saw the image disappear and I came up with a plan to get Castiel out of here. I gripped his arms still holding onto my shirt and instantly changed my expression.
"Zachariah, you can't hold him here." Both Zachariah and Castiel looked down at me, still on the floor.
"And why not?" his smug face held that same stupid smile; only this time I returned the smile.
"Angel's keep promises. He promised that vessel that no harm would come to his family; he promised he'd be with him, to take care of them. He can't do that if he is stuck up here with you and me." I let the smile fade. "His vessel called for him, he has to go."
"Oh, I'll let him go; when I'm done with you." He punched me again and I pulled back up to face him, it was hard to see him through the blood running down my face into my eye.
"This is you and me. Let him go." He smiled and snapped his fingers. I opened my eyes to see that everyone was gone, all except an angel who I had never seen before. He had a knife in his hands. I looked up and realized my arms and legs were spread wide in all directions. I looked to the ground and saw the seal keeping me in place so the angels didn't have to worry about me using my powers.
"It time you learn the punishment for disobedience." He took his first cut into my broken arm, I screamed in pain while the blade sliced through tendon and vein. I gripped the restraints and bit my lip to hold it in. I felt weak by the third cut and my body was shaking.