Sam, Dean, John and Bobby belong to Eric Kripke and the CW all other characters are figments of my wild and vivid imagination.
As I finished my little tirade, I saw a bright light out of the corner of my eye and someone walking out of it towards me. I shouted at them "I'm not going with you, you can't make me. I need to stay here and protect my family."
The figure moved towards me steadily, from a distance I couldn't quite tell who it was, the height was throwing me. The possibility of it being my father or my Uncle Sam, as well as my mother or my grandmother crossed my mind. All the members in my family had been tall. My mother was 5'11 and my grandmother was 5'10. So from a distance I couldn't tell who was headed towards me. However, when they stood in front of me I realised that it was not a family member that I recognised. They turned to me and said "You really shouldn't worry so much Samantha I'm not here to take you home, but I wanted to help you and the only way to do that was to bring you here. First things first, let me introduce myself, my name is Ramiel and I am for want of a better word on of your 'sire'. I am the angel of hope, and I'm credited with two tasks: I'm responsible for divine visions, and guiding the souls of the faithful into heaven.
Let me explain, I know John has told you some of the story, but I can fill in some more of the story. I saw your foremother Sarah around 4000 years ago in a small village on the banks of the River Jordan. I feel deeply in love with her; however she was married to Luke, the village doctor and I kept my distance out of respect for that relationship. A year after their marriage they had a son, John. I watched her and her family and although they tried for another child, Sarah did not become pregnant again. I could tell that this was causing her a great deal of heartache as she wanted to give Luke a family and she spent a lot of time at prayer asking for another child, wondering why God would do this to her.
I stood by and watched this pain for 4 years until I could bear it no longer. I'm able to travel around as you see me now but I can't interact with anyone in this form unless they are at my fathers' gates. As you know demons have the ability to possess people, they inherited this ability from our father and are therefore not the only beings that can do this. I did something in order to relieve her pain. I possessed Luke and spent the night with Sarah, approximately nine months after that night she gave birth to a boy who she named Samuel, 'God has heard'. As Samuel grew up he started to show some of my abilities and I realised that this would lead him to be a target for heaven and hell, so I protected him and watched over the family as closely as I could.
Over 4000 years the family grew, Samuel married and had his family and so on down the line until we reach the current day. I had hoped that as the line got further away from me, then the powers would get weaker however as I followed the family line I realised that these abilities did not get dimmer. As soon as I realised this, I also knew that this would put the family on the 'fallen one's' radar and that would put them into potential danger. All this time there has been someone watching over the Winchesters. When I wasn't around I asked one of my fellow angels to watch over them. That little voice in your head is real and has been pointing you in the right direction. The choices that you have made; learning how to manage your powers from your Uncle Sam, joining the FBI and becoming a behavioural analyst, which ultimately allowed you to use your powers for good.
What I didn't foresee was you marrying Will and joining two nihilim families. As you can imagine that the children of arch angels are not discussed around 'the water cooler'. I can tell you a little of Will's 'sire' but I don't know the whole story and that will be revealed to him separately. Will's sire is named Raguel, he is the archangel of justice, fairness and harmony and all of his descendents have been linked to the justice profession in some way. Will as you know is an NCIS agent, his father was a lawyer, his grandfather was a law professor and his great grandfather was a sheriff in Lawrence, Kansas.
I looked at Ramiel and for the first time I spoke "Ok, that explains the powers but it doesn't explain why it skips the oldest member of your bloodline, why I was selected and not John and why Sam was selected and not Dean."
Ramiel responded "It's not that they haven't been selected but their powers are dormant, they have never been triggered. I'm not sure what causes a power to trigger. I'm not sure why yours triggered at the age they did or Sam's to trigger at age 23. I know what Azazel told him in Cold Oak but he told him that to play with his mind. He was trying to get him to use his powers for evil. As soon as powers are used for the wrong reason they turn the person 'to the dark side' so to speak. George hit the nail on the head with that idea. It's possible that powers are like a recessive gene, and that only a percentage of the family have it as dominant gene and that the powers come to the forefront whenever there is a threat to the family. I'm not sure yet why it is appearing more dominant in the youngest member of each generation, I just know that throughout the generations this is what has happened."
I looked at Ramiel again and everything that I was feeling came out in a sudden rush, "Ok, so you've explained about the family history and you said that you are not here to take me home so can you send me back to my family. I really need to get back to them! They will be so worried about me; this is the second time that they've nearly lost me and this time, I'm not there to let them know that I'm alright. "
Ramiel looked at me and said "That's not the only reason I needed to speak to you, I needed to warn you about another attack on the family. I know that John told you about Samael. He was incredibly dangerous and even more so now that his reason for being has been killed. You did what you had to do protecting the family from Lilith calling on your powers the way that you did. I wouldn't recommend doing that again because with your health issues it will possibly result in you ending up in a coma or your death. There's nothing I can do to stop this, as much as I would love to protect you in the same way that you want to protect Aidan and Cole (great names by the way). I'm not sure if you knew their meanings when you picked them, but for the boys' destinies that are fitting, Aidan means 'Little Fire' and Cole means 'Victory of the People'. I can't step in and solve your medical problems, what I can do is to tell you that you are not alone. In order to defeat Samael, then you, Will, Sam, Aidan and Cole need to work together. Samael is not likely to attack yet, he is waiting for his 'special day, June 2nd. This is the day that God took away his ability to father anymore children and put the wedge between him and Lilith. This gives you six months to research, prepare and protect the family. I know that you want to protect the twins but without their powers you want to be able to stop him and he will rain terror down on earth.
I went to say something, ask more questions but was interrupted with a hand on my forehead and coming to in the back of an ambulance with a mask covering my mouth. I reached up and attempted to take it off, to have a hand reach down and say "You need to keep that on for a little while longer Mrs Talbot. We're almost at the hospital and we need to get the doctor to check you out." Again I reached for the mask moved it to one side and said "Where's Will? I need to talk to my husband." As I finished speaking i saw the paramedic slide down the seat to be replaced by Will. I could see the fear in his eyes and in his speech as he said "Toni, please don't talk, don't worry everything is going to be fine. Please can you keep the mask on just for a little while longer? We can talk about what happened when you get the clean bill of health and your home again." I looked at him and went to ask about Aidan and Cole and he pre-empted me and said "The twins are fine; Sam, Dean and Bobby are staying with them until we get home again." He leant down and kissed me on the forehead, slowly stroking my hair away from my face and held onto my hand. He whispered "I love you so much, can you please stop scaring me like that. I don't know what I would do if I lost you." I looked back at him and with the hand that he was holding spelt out "I love you 2. I'm sorry."
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