Chapter Five

Hope leant against the wall of the angels' weird room and thought aloud.

"Okay, so, it's kinda starting to make sense now. The reason you guys got Dean out of Hell was something related to the Apocalypse, but that's all suspiciously vague. As is the actual reason you told him to take me with them, so I'm going to assume they're connected. I've been called important by a lot of people, and it usually just means different, which in my world means someone prophesised it at some point. So somebody at some point, God or whoever, decided that there should be a Hope Winchester. Here I am, so that one came true."

She started pacing. "What I don't know is why, and nobody's let that slip, so, moving on: Sam. Okay, what do I know? He's drinking demon blood, which is both wrong and unsanitary, and Ruby's encouraging him and probably also screwing him to get what she wants. I'm not even going to attempt to describe how gross that is. I mean, ew. Anyway, apparently you guys aren't bothered about that. Or… Oh, crap. You want this. You want Sam to kill Lilith with his creepy demon powers or whatever, but you could just do that yourselves, couldn't you? I mean, I can kill a demon. I do it all the time."

Hope stopped still. "That means it's predestined that Sam kills Lilith. Oh, I am so stupid! Damn it, I should have thought. And Ruby! You could kill her too, she's nowhere near as powerful as Lilith. The only reason not to kill her would be that she's doing exactly what you want, which is whipping my brother up into a demon blood frenzy and getting him to gank Lilith with the aforementioned demon powers. But why? Oh. Oh, no."

The conclusion she'd come to was bad. Very bad. Like, we're-all-gonna-die bad.

"It only really fits if you look at it from the other side. Lilith wants Lucifer out and about, and only she can break the final seal. Oh, I know an omitted truth when I see one, and this reeks. So, Dean breaks the first seal in Hell, right? Then eventually, you haul him out of there, and the dominoes fall, so to speak. He finds Bobby, then Sam, and then when the Witnesses show up you knew I'd stop them, because you planned all this, or someone did. The seal's broken, none of you precious pawns are dead, and one Hopie Winchester hops on the family wagon. Or Impala. Hell, I don't know what's so important about us, but pantheon hoppers are never, ever random. I do know that, at least."

She resumed pacing, walking around a table of her favourite food that she wouldn't eat because she had her pride, even if she was stuck in here.

"All those seals, and you haven't stopped any from breaking, because you want them to break. You also want Sam to kill Lilith, which suggests that killing her is the final seal, right? If she dies, Lucifer pops his box and your guy Michael and him have a bitch fight that destroys the entire planet, which is apparently your lifelong dreams."

A voice from behind her said "I had to spell it out to your brother, but apparently you're a little more perceptive."

She spun around, grabbing an angel statue that was heavy enough to definitely hurt, but sighed at the sight of the speaker. "Zachariah."

"How in the hell does a twelve-year-old girl work it out before a grown man?"

She smirked "I'm perceptive, and I trust most people about as far as I could throw a truck. So, you guys are after the Apocalypse, I'm stuck in this room, and everyone's going to die. Why?"

Of course, she knew why. God had said it would happen, the angels thought they were doing the right thing and she could have told Sam about Lilith, but she needed a distraction, and she could talk.

She leant against a wall and prayed to Zeus she remembered the sigil and that her demigod blood was human enough to work.

Fortunately for all concerned, Zachariah was banished by someone else before she even had the chance.

"Cas? Dean? What the hell?" Hope yelled.

"The angels want the Apocalypse to happen and Lilith's the final seal!" Dean answered.

"Yeah, I figured that out, thanks. We have to stop it."

Cas looked slightly impressed. "You worked out the plan?"

"Yeah. Zachariah was mostly just gloating. I'd have been fine. Anyway, we need to get out of here."

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"Hope." Chuck said. The ground was shaking, but she turned round. "I'm sorry."

"Not your fault."

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Hope had always been good at sport at school. Her legs were both long and well-used, and she was fast as all Hell.

Her boots thudded against the stone floor of the convent, her jacket flapping behind her as she sprinted towards the door.

Mr. Jones, her old gym teacher, had been the first person to admire Hope's running. She was better at sprinting, but cross-country was easy enough after her dad's brutal training. Her heart rate soared, adrenaline pounding through her veins, and she was just fast enough to dive through the door before Ruby slammed it shut.

Lilith was lying in front of the altar, still possessing the comely dental hygienist, but she was slammed against the wall before she could grab Sam.

Hope's adrenaline rush dissipated, and her head cleared.

Her chest heaved, but she took a breath.

She was fast, sure, but she wasn't fast enough to stop anything.

Lilith convulsed, her body flashing orange, revealing her ribs. Hope wasn't sure whether Sam even knew she was there. She tried to yell, but it was too late.

Lilith's blood trickled across the floor, forming a circle with little spikes pointing inwards.

Ruby released Hope, and she fell to the floor. She hauled herself up and Sam finally noticed her.

"Hope?" He asked, but she ignored him, choosing to spit at Ruby.

"Really, Hopie? That's it?"

In response, Hope released a torrent of her filthiest vocabulary, most of which arose from living in a house full of usually-drunk hunters for the majority of her life.

Dean, who had entered by then, looked mildly impressed for a second, but drew the demon knife. Ruby was talking to Sam, gloating about how "awesome" she was, and thus didn't notice him until Sam grabbed her, spun her around, and let Dean stab her in the stomach.

Hope ran over to the now-glowing circle thing, and prayed. There wasn't really anything else se could do. Hope's talents lay in ghosts, not in stopping archangels from rising.

"Hope! Hope, come on, we have to get out of here!" Dean had grabbed her, and she started moving, but the door was closed.

All she could think was How did I not see this sooner?

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AND IT'S THE APOCALYPSE! YAY!

Okay, so I know that literally three chapters for an entire season is really short, but that's because I basically stuck to canon the entire time and I've never seen the point in just basically recounting an entire episode with your OC slotted in. I think it's really boring and slightly pointless. Yes, we realise your lovely character was present. We don't really need to know that they made a snarky comment after the canon character did something.

Also, I've realised that now I'm going to be diverging from canon a little more, I am going to do episode chapters, just Hope will probably be separated from Sam and Dean. For instance, I am so doing Changing Channels and Hammer of the Gods. I mean, Hope-the-demigod + pagan gods will be frick awesome.

CHB will be featuring more prominently soon, what with Kronos attacking Manhattan at the same time as Luci being Luci and destroying crap. (I've decided the Second Titan War and the Apocalypse happen at the same time, so prepare for yelling and a lot of crying. And badassery.)

-threelittleclouds