March 9, 2032

Weeks After Conception: 28 (About 7 months)

Castiel raced out of the doctor's office and back to the car where Emily was sitting. When he lowered himself inside he twisted to look her over.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine," reassured Emily. "Did you kill Jud?"

"No," Castiel replied. "He escaped with the knife."

"We'd better get back to the house," said Emily as she buckled her seatbelt.

Castiel agreed and started the car. He pulled out of the parking lot and sped back to Bobby's house where the Winchesters were searching for another hunt of theirs.

There was about to be a change of plans.

As expected Castiel and Emily found Dean and Sam in the library and they explained to them their encounter with Jud and what he had threatened.

"That son of a bitch is sicker than I thought," Dean growled when they were done. "We can't wait around any longer for him to attack here. He's made his move, now we have to make ours."

Sam nodded in agreement.

"What are we going to do?" Castiel questioned.

Dean contemplated for a moment before answering. "We'll have to summon him here."

"Wait, I thought you said that was too dangerous." Emily starred at him.

"Desperate times call for desperate measures," shrugged Dean. "It's a better idea now that we have the panic room if necessary."

Sam stood and pulled out a book on summoning rituals from one of the bookshelves behind him.

"We should be able to use one of the spells in here."

"Come Emily." Castiel grabbed her arm. "You need to go to the panic room while we do this."

"No," protested Emily.

Castiel looked at her with pleading eyes.

Sam shook his head. "She needs to stay."

"Why?" Castiel turned to face him.

"Jud's not going to risk himself in less Emily is with us," explained Sam.

Castiel glanced at Emily's face and then her rounded stomach.

"We won't let him get to either one of them Cas," Sam promised.

"That's right," nodded Dean. "Jud will barely be able to move and he'll be on the ground dead. We have the Colt remember?"

Castiel didn't believe it. Things were never as simple as his friend wanted it to be.

"Cas, we need to do this," Emily said under her breath. "I can't keep going on like this."

Castiel chewed his lip; he still didn't like the idea. "Fine," he decided finally.

He wished they didn't need Emily to be there but if she had to be, if she wanted to be, he had to except it. Castiel didn't want to have to constantly be looking over his shoulder either.

"Let's get to it then." Dean clapped his hands together than jumped up from his seat on the study desk.

Castiel kissed Emily's forehead then joined him and Sam to gather what they needed for the ritual.

After gathering candles, a lighter, and fetching the placemat among other odds and ends the Winchesters, Castiel, and Emily went back in the library, placed the mat in the center, and sat around it.

Dean volunteered to give the blood needed to do the ritual and he and Sam spoke the Latin words needed to bring Jud to the house after lighting the candles. Castiel meanwhile watched on with Emily, holding her close.

The candles blew out by a sudden, unnatural gust of wind, and Sam and Dean stood quickly, back to back, weary.

The demon didn't appear to them immediately, but they all knew Jud had to be near.

It was intense. Castiel could feel his muscles stiffen in anticipation and pulled out a knife from his pocket. It wouldn't kill Jud like the Colt which Dean had on him or the demon knife Jud now held, but it would distract Jud from Emily if he got too close.

Six minutes passed.

"He has to show up sometime," muttered Dean.

"Yes, you're right about that," a voice sounded.

Sam, Dean, Castiel, and Emily all craned their necks in the voice's direction to see Dr. Thomas in the kitchen.

Or rather Jud.

He wasn't alone. Jud had brought along three other demons, two males and one female that was possessing an orangey red head.

"Can't expect me to come alone," Jud told them. "I'm not stupid. No matter how powerful I am I'm not about to take on three of you."

"Especially when you can't defeat me huh?" smirked Castiel.

Sam could see Dean in that expression.

"Seems to me you're remembering wrong," snickered Jud. "I wasn't the one pinned to the wall. I let you go but after my buddies kill Dean and Sam here who by the way, disappointed my community so, and I kill Emily, you'll be after as promised."

Castiel glared at him. "Never."

"We'll see about that."

Jud nodded at his followers and they charged.

The female and one of the males attacked Dean and he grabbed the female's jacket and flung her into the wall before punching the male.

Sam who was attacked by the other male got knocked to the ground, but quickly rose back onto his feet and kicked the demon. The demon wrapped his arms around Sam's right leg and pulled him down off his feet again before jumping up to stand above him.

"The tall ones always fall the hardest," laughed the demon.

Jud nodded his approval at the comment, though the other demon wasn't paying attention then turned back to Castiel.

"What do you say Castiel," Jud sneered. "You up for round two? Or are you still a little sore?"

Castiel tightened his grip on his knife so that his knuckles went white and Jud pulled out the demon knife.

"Let's get to it then," he smiled.

Jud took several steps forward, closing the distance enough to be able to swing at Castiel with the knife but Castiel caught his hand and jutted out his knee to jab him in the stomach.

Jud didn't flinch, not even when Castiel proceeded to stab him in the chest.

"Sucks not having this one huh?" Jud chuckled after pulling the knife out of his chest and playing with the magic knife he held.

Castiel punched Jud in the nose and the demon back-stepped from the power behind it with blood dripping from Dr. Thomas's nose.

"I'm surprised by the force you still have behind that," smirked Jud. "I guess you might have some left over grace stuff from your past life maybe?"

Castiel tripped him so he fell to his knees, and dropped the demon knife. "No, you just really infuriate me."

Jud grabbed Castiel's shirt by the collar and stood up before punching him over and over until Castiel was a bloody mess.

He let Castiel fall to the ground. All Castiel could think about was the pain.

Jud turned around to find Emily holding the demon knife, her eyes intense.

"Nice to have you join the fight." Sarcasm filled Jud's words.

Emily narrowed her eyes but didn't speak.

Jud picked up the knife Castiel had carried. "Emily, Emily. In your condition do you really think you can beat me?"

"Anything's possible."

Emily flipped the demon knife in her hands, standing her ground.

Castiel, who overheard the conversation groaned and mumbled a "no".

He then spotted the Colt lying on the ground next to Dean. The Winchester had been able to shoot the red head and one of the males after him and Sam but the third had knocked the Colt out of his hands. Both brothers were fighting the demon who apparently knew some karate.

Knowing Sam and Dean would understand Castiel scooped up the gun.

When he turned he saw that Jud had caught Emily by the throat and was pointing his knife at her belly.

Emily struggled to get out of his grasp as he cut off her air supply.

Castiel didn't hesitant in his fury. "Hey!"

Jud twisted his head to look at him and Castiel fired the Colt at the same time as Sam pushed the final follower into the Devil's Trap in the room.

Jud lit up in yellow light as the special bullet lodged into his meat suit's brain and his eyes went wide before he fell to the floor, his forehead oozing blood.

Emily coughed, gasping to suck flesh air into her lungs.

Castiel bolted to her side. "Are you hurt?"

Emily shook her head. "I'm okay, I'm okay."

She starred down at Jud. She was shaky when she whispered "You did it."

Castiel pulled her in close and she rested her head against his chest.

When she raised it back up it was at the sound of Sam's voice. He was exorcising the demon in the Devil's Trap.

When the demon's smoke left through the flooring heading back to Hell, Emily smiled.

It was finally over.