Chapter 5:
Name Camael pronounced: {Caw-may-el}
Name Lailah pronounced: {Lie-la}
"Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling – it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious – that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of defiance." ~Charlotte Rampling
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Sam:
Castiel wakes up the next day. Dean comes up from the panic room to get him and now he's promptly following Dean down the steps and in the panic room that he himself has been locked in. Camael is already down playing with Castiel, who looks a little confused on what to do but goes along with it anyways.
"No Daddy," Camael's voice is laced with amusement, "I'm the angel in charge of you so you have to do what I say."
Castiel's head is tilted and eyebrows scrunched in confusion. "I don't understand."
Dean chuckles. "Don't strain yourself trying to figure little kids out Cas."
Castiel smiles at him and Camael giggles with amusement. "Dad is right Daddy."
"See Castiel, we're raising her right" Dean kneels down. "She agrees with everything I say." Camael giggles again and lets Dean pick her up, kiss her, then set her back down. She then walks away, passing Bobby.
Castiel is starring after her. "Cas what's wrong?" Sam asks.
"She's… stronger." He looks to Dean.
Dean sits down next to him. "That's actually what we want to talk to you about." Dean glances to Bobby then to Sam. He looks at Castiel again. "Well… actually… Bobby was the only one there so he should probably explain it."
Bobby rolls his eyes under his baseball cap then begins reciting what he told the two of them. Once done Castiel looks deep in thought. "I don't think there is anything to worry about. Nephilim are powerful beings, it's no surprise Camael is able to do all that."
"Yeah and," Dean states his own opinion, "this is probably just some stress thing that she's doing. She probably doesn't like the fact that her two fathers and uncle got kidnapped."
Sam wonders and hopes Dean is right. "Cas, how powerful are they normally?"
"It's hard to say but Camael shouldn't have all her powers yet or the ones that she does have shouldn't be at full capacity. They won't reach that stage until she is at least in her teens and up until that point we'll find her gaining more and more powers," Castiel explains then winces at the gash on his abdomen.
"That's great, more mojo we'll have to keep at bay," Dean complains.
"It can't be helped Dean," Castiel says looking down at his lap.
"I know and I'm not saying that I wish I never had her," He says, grabbing Castiel's hand. "There's something else Cas and I want to talk about," Dean mentions, seeming to want to change the subject. "Cas can't fly anymore… or at least for now. He says he'll be able to again but being injured so badly by an archangel sword has depleted him 'immensely'." Dean looks to Sam then to Bobby. "So if you need something you're going to have to get it yourself."
Both Sam and Bobby nod. Sam turns to Castiel , wanting to get down to business. "Castiel, do you know Lailah?"
Castiel looks down at his lap. "The angel of conception." He looks to Sam with a serious look. "Yes."
"He's the angel that captured us," Sam explains. "And Dean says he's the one that sent the demons here to snatch Camael."
"Did you demon proof the house? And angel proof?" Castiel asks urgently.
"Yeah of course," Dean answers.
"I better make sure you didn't do any of the angel proofing wrong." Castiel tries to get up but struggles.
Dean stands up and supports him by the arm. "Whoa whoa whoa, take it easy Cas, I'll help." Dean guides Castiel away and helps him up the stairs.
Sam turns to Bobby. "Do you think we're going to be able to protect Camael this time, Bobby?"
The older man hesitates. "Yeah," he says but you can tell he's just trying to reassure himself and is not so sure.
Sam watches as Bobby walks away and then follows. He goes to the library to search up as much information as possible of the angel Lailah and finds Camael in the room reading the Bible. "Hey kiddo."
The little girl looks up from the Bible. "Hello Uncle Sammy, how are you?"
He smiles sweetly. "I'm good actually."
She smiles that wide kid smile and walks up to Sam, placing the Bible down and picking up a different book. "Will you read to me please?"
"Sure thing." He lifts the small child onto his lap and opens the book. He begins to read and only a few pages in he realizes this is a book about angels. Bobby didn't have a book like this. "Hey, Camael," he looks at the girl snuggled up against his chest, "where'd you get this book?"
She looks up at him with wide, blue eyes. "I just found it." She starts to flip the pages and stops on a particular angel. "Can you read about him?" She looks expectantly at Sam.
Sam, however, is speechless because the page he is currently starring at is a page all about this angel named Lailah.
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Dean:
The both of them finished checking out the house and confirmed that they have all the sigils correct. Castiel then wants to take a walk outside. Dean is against it at first but soon gives into those blue, puppy dog eyes. That's how they end up walking side by side in the dark, around Bobby's car yard. They're in complete silence until Castiel stops dead in his tracks and turns to Dean. Dean stops too and waits for the fallen angel to speak. Whatever it is it must be hard.
"Dean…" He begins but doesn't continue. Dean steps closer to him and still waits patiently. "I…" Castiel doesn't make eye contact and now Dean knows it's bad. "I lost the baby."
Dean stands there in shock. He knew Castiel and him were expecting another child, because they don't learn the first time, but no one else knows. Castiel wasn't showing yet and all the trouble that they have to go through with Camael, though he loves her very much of course, they both figured they should wait on the news. He takes a deep breath feeling this heavy weight on his chest.
"I'm sorry Dean," Castiel says as if he thinks Dean is angry.
Being able to read Castiel like a book, he says, "I'm not mad Cas, not at you, it's not your fault."
"I should have been stronger." He's still not making eye contact.
"Did Lailah do this?"Dean asks though he already knows the answer. Castiel nods. Dean takes a deep breath through his nose to keep calm and rubs a hand down his face. "That son of a bitch. Could he tell?" Castiel nods again. Dean sighs. "It's okay Cas. We'll kill the bastard, promise."
"I want him dead too, Dean," Castiel says in his low gravelly voice and finally looks up at Dean with strong determination.
Dean pulls him into a reassuring and loving hug but let's go when they hear Sam calling them from the front door. "Come on we better get going. Let's just keep this to ourselves for now, okay. They didn't know about the baby anyways." Castiel nods and follows Dean inside the house.
"I sent Camael to bed so you can say goodnight to her later but I need to speak to you guys," Sam says immediately and then Bobby walks in. "I think Camael made this book appear."
"How?" Dean asks.
Sam shrugs but looks excited. "I don't know but it's a book all about angels. Castiel you're even in here." Castiel furrows his brows and tilts his head. "But better yet, Lailah is in here."
Dean perks up and takes the book from Sam. "Let me see." Castiel looks over Dean's shoulder.
"All this information is highly accurate." Castiel says.
"Yeah I know and guess who flipped to the page and wanted me to read it to her?" Sam asks as if the way he asked wasn't obvious.
Dean glances up from the book. "Camael."
"Camael," Sam confirms with a slight head nod.
Castiel looks to Sam with urgency. "You didn't read it to her did you?"
Sam looks confused. "No, why?"
"We have to get to her, now," Castiel says.
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Camael:
Camael is currently writing a note to her family. She knows what she is about to do is stupid and reckless but no one messes with her family. Once she's done writing the note she places it on her pillow that is lying neatly on her bed.
She wanted Uncle Sammy to read Lailah's page to her but he refused so she glanced it over instead. What Uncle Sammy also doesn't know is that she's the one that made the book appear. Why she didn't just read it on her own in the first place is beyond her but it's too late now.
She gets ready to leave when she hears rushed footsteps coming her way. She quickly zaps the letter in the nightstand drawer and zaps her pajamas on. She then quickly goes and lies in the bed, pretending to be asleep.
She hears her door open and four pairs of feet walk into her room. "She's still here," she hears Uncle Sammy whisper.
"Would she have been gone?" Next is Grandpa Bobby's voice.
"Maybe, if she got the chance to read the page." Her Daddy's deep voice.
"What would she have done?" Dad's voice is deep, too, but not as deep as Daddy's.
She hears Daddy sigh. "She might have gone off to hunt down Lailah.
"Why would she do such a thing?" Dad asks.
There's a long pause but she knows they're still there, she can sense it. "For revenge, justice… protecting her family," Daddy's voice says.
She hears her Dad's footsteps come by the bed and he sits down. He pats her head and gently says her name. She whines as if she was asleep and rubs her eyes, peaking up at her Dad. "Honey, you want to come sleep in our bed tonight?" It's to keep an eye on her, she knows it. Camael nods to not be suspicious. "Okay come on." Dad picks her up and she curls into his chest and rests her cheek on his shoulder. All of a sudden she's feeling drowsy. Maybe it was a good thing she didn't go today.
So the Singer residence goes to bed and sleeps with thoughts of angels and demons on their minds, with one in particular racing in their dreams, Lailah.