«Holy crap!» I exclaimed as I ran into the lobby before my brothers, who were still taking their bags.
«Nice digs, for once", Dean commented when they entered.
I nodded and eyed the motel relieved, it almost looked norr like a hotel than a motel.
«Busy night», I said to the guy working there.
But it was something that felt weird with this place, something I couldn't put my finger on.
«Any port in a storm, I guess. If you could just fill this out, please», he said and handed me the document.
«Sir, I think... Shaving nick there», the dude named Chad told Dean while he was looking around.
I turned back at him, since when had he shaved? Anyway, Chad pulled up a tissue from nowhere and handed that and the key to us.
«Oh. Thanks. Hey, you wouldn't happen to have a coffee shop, would you?»
«Buffet. All you can eat. Best pie in the tri-state area», he informed and smiled.
I nodded, everything just started to get better and better. Almost too good.
Pies, corn, cake, hell, they had freaking everything. Which kind of made me suspicious, until I saw the pile of fries and ratatouille. Then everything was fine.
«Heaven, right?» a man told Dean while staring at all the desserts.
«Trust me, pal... better», Dean replied and stole the berry on the top from a pie.
I snorted amused at him while I was taking a glass.
«How you doing?» I could hear Dean say to a woman behind me.
I rolled my eyes but smirked when she said no. Ditched.
«But—»
«No.»
«Oh, lady, I'm just, you know—» Dean began.
«I understand. And no», she replied and eyed him.
It was then I decided I would save my brother from embarrassment. Probably the best for all of us.
«Excuse my brother. He's quite bad at flirting, really. He won't bother you any more", I told and smiled at her.
The woman returned it and glanced at something on the side of me, which would be— my wings. I frowned confused, but dragged Dean away from her.
«Our brother got turned down, if you're wondering, Sam,» I informed and began to eat my delicious French fries.
Even after my little frenzy, I still loved them.
«Sam, unpucker, man. Eat something», Dean told him while Sam was still working on his phone.
«We should hit the road», he said concerned.
«In this storm? I-it's—»
«Biblical?» I said.
«Exactly. I-it's friggin' Noah's ark out there, and we're eating pie», Sam stated.
«How many hours of sleep did you get this week? What? Three? Four? Bobby's got his feelers out, okay? We have talked with every hoodoo man and root woman in 12 states», Dean reminded him.
«Yeah, well, I'm not giving up», Sam protested.
«Nobody's giving up. Especially me. We're gonna find a way to beat the Devil, okay? Soon. I can feel it. And we will find Cas, we'll find Adam. But you are no good to me burnt out», Dean said seriously.
«Yeah. Yeah, okay.»
I stole a piece of Dean's pie before continuing eating my food.
«By the way, Dean, the pie rocks.»
«Oh my goodness", I groaned lowly as Dean began to snicker while watching a couple make out while the woman was giggling like hell.
«How old are you, dude?»
«I'm young at heart» Dean responded and smirked while opening the door to our room.
Which was awesome. And this time, there were three huge beds too. None of us had had this luxury in years.
«Wow. Look at this. We're like Rockefellers. Chocolates! You want yours?» Dean wondered and held up the chocolates.
«That thing is mine» I smirked and snatched my chocolate from the bed.
«Whoa. 'Casa Erotica 13' on demand», Dean said happily and held up the porno he pretty much loved.
Sam scoffed behind us, like he was unpleased with something.
«Something's wrong?»
«Isn't this place... in the middle of nowhere?»
I wrinkled my forehead thoughtfully while Dean looked at Sam like 'whatever'.
«A bit. Why?»
«So what's a four-star hotel doing on a no-star highway?»
I shrugged and rolled my eyes at Dean, who was grinning over the fact the couple was having sex the room beside ours.
«Really, Dean? You're such a—»
And all of sudden, the wall cracked, which I was very sure that couldn't happen by any natural means.
We later informed it to Chad, who said that they just had checked out. Which made all of us quite weary of him, and decided to split up to find any strange stuff. I walked around in the corridors, searching for demonic or angelic energy, when I noticed the same woman whom had turned to Dean and a quite handsome man kissing each other passionately outside a room. Had Dean just hit on a woman who was in a relationship? Talking about awkward. Which it became for me, when they noticed me.
«Oh… Uh, eh. Sorry. I-I was just, eh… Sorry», I said and smiled awkwardly, my wings curling up into themselves, something they often did when I felt uncomfortable.
«I'm going now.»
I quickly backed away from them and suddenly felt something sharp, bite into my neck. With my finger touching the bloody cut, I felt that same weird presence again. I hated this shit.
«Found something?» Sam asked Dean and I when we met each other again.
"Nope. By the way, Dean. You hit on a woman who wasn't single», I told.
Dean raised his eyebrows surprised, but dropped it quickly.
«I saw an elephant», he said and looked like he still was stunned over it.
Sam and I stared at him confused.
«Wait, what?» I said with wide eyes.
«An elephant?»
«Yeah», Dean replied.
«Like, an elephant?» Sam began.
«Like, full-on Babar», Dean told.
I frowned at it but dropped my jaw when I was that the lobby was completely empty, not a soul was there.
«Nobody's here. And the door's locked too», I informed and tried to open it.
«So what— the roaches check in, they don't check out?» Dean wondered.
«Think about how we got here. That detour on I-90? The friggin' hurricane?» Sam said to us, making me look around in the lobby.
«So we're led here, with a hundred other people?»
«Like rats in a maze», Sam stated.
I nodded slowly and went away to the kitchen, there was always something off with the kitchen in horror movies.
«Please be tomato soup. Please be tomato soup», Dean pleaded with he stirred in a pot full with dark red liquid.
Slowly, an eye floated up to the surface and sank down again, making me wrinkle my nose.
«That's not tomato soup», I muttered and watched the freezer.
It looked quite empty. At least until the man I had seen back in the buffet slammed his hand on the glass.
«Help us! Get us out!» he screamed in panic while people around him started to yell from the inside.
My hand closed around the lock pick as I tried to pick up the lock, something my telekinesis couldn't fix, sadly.
«Hurry up!» Sam and Dean yelled at me.
«I'm trying to do it… Shit», I swore and glanced at the three men behind them.
«There's somebody behind us, isn't there?» Dean stated.
I nodded before the two first grabbed my brothers while the third grabbed me arms with more strength than a man should or could have. They began to forcefully drag us to a big room with people (some having monstrous forms flickering over them) in name tags. As I read some of them, my heart sank down in my chest. Kali, Baldur, Odin, and a lot freaking more. Crap, crap and more crap. And guess what? Pagans did not like angels. At all.
«Something tells me this isn't a Shriner convention», Dean muttered as 'Chad' who actually was Mercury rolled in with a big cart and plate.
«Dinner is served», he said and lifted away the cover, which revealed the meat and head of a human lying on the plate.
Pagans applauded pleased as a unknown light hit me and my brothers like a spotlight.
«Ladies and Gentleman, our guests of honor have arrived», the man in suit who was Baldur presented us.
We were screwed.
After a while, Baldur began to clink his fork on the champagne glass, getting everyone's attention.
«Ladies and gentleman, thank you for coming. Although in all my centuries, I never thought I'd see this. This many gods under one roof—»
«Gods?» Sam whispered confused.
«Pagans», I replied and watched them with surprise.
As an angel, I hadn't met the pagans a lot, and definitely wasn't used with their kind of power radiating from them.
«Now, before we get down to brass tacks, some ground rules. No slaughtering each other. Curb your wrath. Oh, and uh, keep your hands off the local virgins. We're, trying to keep a low profile here. Now we all know why we're here. The Judeo-Christian apocalypse looms over us. I know we've all had our little disagreements in the past. The time has come to put those aside and look toward the future. Because if we don't, we won't have one. Now we do have three very valuable bargaining chips. Michael, and Lucifer's vessels, and the very Archangel herself, Jophiel in human form. The question is, what do we do now? Anybody have any bright ideas? Speak up. This is a safe room», Baldur told them calmly.
The Chinese god rose and glared at us.
«What do we do? We kill them! Rip off the thing's wings!» he almost yelled in Chinese.
Because of me getting my memories back, I could understand any human language. And animals'.
«Oh, I don't like his tone», Dean muttered while I stared at the pagan horrified.
«You shouldn't», was my only reply.
«Kill 'em? What, so the angels can bring them back again?» the god Ganesh said and laughed unamused.
«I don't know what everybody's getting so worked up about! 'Cause it's just a couple of angels having a slap fight! There's no Armageddon. Everybody knows, when the world comes to an end, the Great Serpent Jormungandr rises up, and I myself will be eaten by a big wolf!» Odin told and laughed, directing some of that laughter towards me.
I rolled my eyes at him calling Armageddon for an angel slap fight. Because it was kind of like that, except that we'd more of family issues than just a slap fight.
«Here we go…» Zao Shen muttered.
«Oh yeah? And why is that? Because your beliefs are so much more realistic? The whole world's getting carried around on the back of a giant turtle? Ha! Give me a break!» Odin replied.
«Don't mock my world turtle», Zao Shen said insulted.
I was pretty sure that the world had been carried around in a century or two by one. Until something happened with it. I was pretty sure it had been one of my brothers.
«What are you gonna do about it?» Odin threatened and rose, only to be stopped by some other pagans.
«I'm gonna send you packing to Valhalla!»
«You watch your mouth when you talk to me, boy!»
«Boy? I'm older than you!»
«No one's ever proved that!»
I rolled my eyes but silently, along with Sam and Dean, began to slowly leave the room, when a chandelier fell just in front of us.
«Stay», Kali ordered and rose.
«We have to fight. The Archangels— the only thing they understand is violence. This ends in blood. There is no other way, it's them, or us», she said clearly.
I looked at her with an offended look. I sure as hell did know a lot of other things besides violence. And I definitely didn't wanted it to end in blood.
«With all due respect, ma'am, we haven't even tried talking to them», Mercury protested.
Kali glared at him amused. The second her eyes laid on him, the Roman god began to choke on his blood. Pagans, I swear, always trying to kill each other, I thought as Mercury looked like he was about to die.
«Kali!» Baldur said and stopped her immediately.
«Who asked you?» she replied bitch-ly to Mercury.
The door burst open and a very familiar person came in— my brother.
«Can't we all just get along!» Gabriel exclaimed.
As Sam tried to say his name, he cut him off by making him choke on the word. Right, witness protection whatever.
«Sam! Dean… Abby. It's always wrong place, worst time with you muttonheads, huh?» he said and smirked at me, making me roll my eyes.
«Loki», Baldur greeted Gabriel annoyed.
Wait, so he was Loki? The whole freaking time? Could explain a lot of things, though, like the Trickster title.
«Baldur. Good seeing you too. I guess my invitation got lost in the mail", he joked.
«Why are you here?» he asked him coldly.
«To talk about the elephant in the room— Not you», Gabriel added to Ganesh, who was rising from his chair, while looking pissed off.
«The Apocalypse. We can't stop it, gang. But first things first. The adults need to have a little conversation. Check you later», Gabriel said and winked.
I lifted my eyebrow offended.
«Adults? I'm older than you, you little shi—» I exclaimed, before we were back in the room.
«By the way, he's older than me», I added.
«Okay, good to know. But did that— Holy crap!» Dean stuttered.
«Yeah, tell me about it. By the way, next time I say let's keep driving, uh, let's keep driving», Sam suggested, making me roll my eyes.
«Next time», I echoed.
«Anyway, so what's our next move?»
«I-I-I... I don't know. Grab those poor saps outta the freezer, I guess? Bust 'em out? Gank a few freaks along the way if we're lucky?»
«And when are you ever lucky?» Gabriel questioned, sitting in the couch.
«Well you know what, bite me, Gabriel» Dean snapped.
«Maybe later, big boy» Gabriel replied, earning a disgusted look from me.
He was my brother, and he was my brother too. Wasn't that incest? At least for me. But, on the other hand, Cas and I were technically related so… I shouldn't think much about that.
«I should've known. I mean this had your stink all over it from the jump», Dean stated.
«You think I'm behind this? Please. I'm the Costner to your Houston. I'm here to save your ass», Gabriel admitted.
«You wanna pull us outta the fire?» Dean asked confused.
«Bingo! Those guys are either gonna dust you, or use you as bait. Either way, you're uber boned», Gabriel said.
«Wow, 'cause a couple of months ago you were telling us that we need to "play our roles". You're uber boning us!»
I nodded in agreement.
«He's got a point there, Gabe», I remarked.
Gabriel snorted annoyed.
«Ohh... The end is still nigh. Michael, you and Lucifer are gonna dance the lambada, but not tonight. Not here», he said.
I shook my head.
«I'm not», I protested.
«That's what you think, sis», he replied.
I shot him a glare but did say anything. He hadn't been there in the beautiful room, he wouldn't be able to know.
«And why do you care?» Dean questioned.
«I don't care. But, me and Kali we, uh, had a thing. Chick was all hands. What can I say? I'm sentimental», Gabriel defended himself.
I wrinkled my nose and gagged by the thought of my brother and Kali doing the nasty.
«Do they have a chance? Against Satan?» Sam demanded.
«Really, Sam?» Dean said incredulously.
«You got a better idea, Dean?»
I widened my eyes and shook my head hardly.
«No way. It's an extremely bad idea. Lucifer's going mush them into goo», I told them.
« So let's get going while the going's good, hmm? » Gabriel suggested.
«Okay. Great, why don't you just zap us outta here then? Or why hasn't Abster tried to fly away?» Dean wondered.
I frowned at my stupidity and tried to fly. But my wings didn't work, they were kind of useless, like those fluffy wings you saw on baby angels.
«Don't even try, Abster, you're just gonna exhaust yourself for nothing. Kali's got you by the short and curlies», he said, making me groan in annoyance.
Great, the blood, I was such an idiot for an angel. Sam and Dean looked at me puzzled while I groaned at how my wings couldn't do anything but look pretty.
«It's a blood spell. You guys are on a leash», Gabriel added for the boys' sake.
«What does that mean?» Dean asked.
«It means it's time for a bit of the old black magic», he replied and used a breath spray.
I rolled my eyes and then remembered the people in the fridge. We couldn't just leave them there.
«We can't forget the main course, either», I added.
«Forget it. It's gonna be hard enough sneaking you mooks outta here», Gabriel stated.
«Well, I can fly!»
«With dozens people. Please.»
«Seriously, Gabe, you're such a di—»
«They called you Loki, right? Which means they don't really know who you are?» Dean interrupted.
«Told you. I'm in witness protection», Gabriel told.
«Okay, well then how about you do what we say, or we tell the, uh, legion of doom about your secret identity. They don't seem like a real pro-angel kinda crowd», Dean suggested.
«I'll take your voices away» Gabriel threatened.
«We'll write it down.»
«I'll cut off your hands.»
«No, you won't!»
«Well then, people are gonna be asking, 'Why are you guys running around with no hands?'» Dean said and smirked.
Gabriel glared at us all annoyed but defeated.
«Fine.»
The plan was to get to the kitchen without getting seen. Which worked. After watching a guy lose his head. Sam then tried to pick up the lock as Zao Shen threw me and Dean away from him before starting to choke Sam.
«Give me that!» I said and pointed at the stake.
Dean nodded and threw it to me, who ran for all that's worth to the pagan, and stabbed him in the back. Zao Shen lost his grip of Sam as he slumped down on the floor while being stone dead.
«Where the hell is Gabriel?» Dean demanded.
He couldn't say more than that, because some other pagans came and dragged us back to the ballroom, where Gabriel sat on a chair while the other gods eyed him in shock. What the hell had happened?
«How long have you known? » Gabriel questioned.
That happened.
«Long enough», was her reply.
«How's the rescue going?» Dean said sarcastically after they'd put us in chairs.
«Well, surprise, surprise. The Trickster has tricked us», Kali announced to the others.
«Kali, don't», Gabriel begged her.
«You're mine now. And you have something I want», she said and sat down in his lap before digging in his jacket, revealing his Archangel blade.
«An Archangel's blade. From the Archangel… Gabriel», she said, her voice breaking slightly.
There was silence, glares or shocked looks at Gabriel. Talk about uncomfortable.
«Okay, okay! So I got wings, like Kotex», Gabriel admitted, making me look at him in bafflement.
Had he just compared us with pads? Wow.
«But that doesn't make me any less right about Lucifer » Gabriel stated.
«He's lying. He's a spy. »
«I'm not a spy.»
«He's not a spy.»
«I'm a runaway.»
«He's a runaway.»
«I'm trying to save you.»
«He's trying to save you.»
«Lucifer will kill you and turn you into snot if you ever try to do anything», I finished.
«We know our brother, Kali. He should scare the living crap out of you. You can't beat him. I've skipped ahead, seen how this story ends—»
«Your story. Not ours. Westerners, I swear. The sheer arrogance. You think you're the only ones on earth? You pillage and you butcher in your God's name. But you're not the only religion, and he's not the only God. And now you think you can just rip the planet apart? You're wrong. There are billions of us. An we were here first. If anyone gets to end this world, it's me. I'm sorry», she whispered before she stabbed him.
There was white light, screaming, then he was dead. Every nerve in my body froze at once. I couldn't move, I couldn't do anything. My big brother was dead because of that puny little thing who called herself a god.
Oh, I just wanted to rip that pagan in half.
"MONSTER!" I roared and threw myself at her while trying to hit, kick or bite her everywhere.
"AND YOU WONDER WHY ANGELS DON'T LIKE YOU! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, I'M GOING TO RIP YOU APART, PIECE BY PIECE!"
"Abby, stop!" Sam yelled at me before he grabbed me firmly and tried to get me off her, making me glare at him furiously.
"She killed my brother", I hissed and pulled him off me with ease before suddenly four pagans attacked me and hauled me up on my feet with a iron grip on me, making me only be able to glare at the monster that called herself goddess.
And all of sudden, Dean rose up.
«All right you primitive screwheads, listen up», he began, making Sam look at him like he was crazy.
«Are you crazy?» he hissed.
«I'm outta options. Now on any other given day, I'd be doing my damnedest to, uh, kill you. You filthy murdering chimps. But, uh, hey, desperate times. So even though I'd love nothing better than to slit your throats, you dicks, I'm gonna help you. I'm going to help you ice the Devil. And then we can all get back to ganking each other, like normal. You want Lucifer, well, dude's not in the Yellow Pages. But me, Abster and Sam, we can get him here», he explained and made himself a glass.
«How?» she asked him interested.
«First you let those main courses go. Then we talk. We can either take on the devil together, or you lame-ass bitches can eat me. Literally», he said and took a sip.
«Fine.»
As Dean and some pagan went away to the kitchen to release the people, I looked around ragingly at the rest of them as the pagans let me go, but I didn't attack Kali. No, Lucifer would get to kill her, I was going to watch him up off her head and I was gonna laugh as he did it. They had killed Gabriel, they deserve to be ripped in half by Lucifer. I eyed a small knife lying on the table and began to lift it up with my telekinesis, aiming it for Kali's head, when she turned and walked to us, with Baldur on her side. Even if they weren't stronger than an Archangel, I wasn't fully one, I would prefer to keep my head connected to my neck, so I let the knife drop down on the table again.
«So you're going to summon Lucifer», she stated and referred that to Sam, who looked uncomfortable.
«Sort of. I just need you to squeegee some stuff from my ribs and he'll come running», he explained.
«Breaking then would be easier», she suggested.
«We're not gonna break my brother's ribs. You wanna break some ribs? Break mine instead. It's not like you have something against hurting Archangels anyway», I said hotly and threw her the darkest look I could manage.
Kali looked away while balling her hand into a fist. For a second, I thought she'd punch me. Which she didn't. Suddenly, the door opened and Dean stepped inside.
«Show's over. Sword's a fake, and Gabriel, he's still kicking. I hate to break it to you, sister, but you've been tricked», he told.
I widened my eyes shocked but could feel the tight knot in my stomach loosen up and Baldur or Kali could reply, lights started to flicker, screams were heard, and a tsunami of celestial power hit me in the face, again.
«What's happening?» Baldur questioned.
«It's him», Sam and I said on the same time.
«It's my brother.»
«How?» Kali demanded.
«Does it matter? Shazzam us outta here, would ya?» Dean suggested.
«We can't», Baldur told.
I glanced at the opening and saw Lucifer stand there, covered in the blood of the pagans.
«Of course you can't. You didn't say 'mother, may I?' Jophiel, Sam, Dean, good to see you again», he greeted us while the Norse god was trembling with rage.
«Baldur, don't», Kali warned him.
«You think you own the planet? What gives you the right?» he growled and almost ran at him.
Lucifer looked at him bored, before he shoved his hand into his chest, which came out through his back.
«No one gives us the right, we take it», he whispered and ripped it out, leaving Baldur dead on the floor.
Anger and sadness flickered in Kali's eyes as her arms began to burn before she lashed it on him. Sam, Dean and I, preferring to not have our faces burned off, jumped over the table and hid behind it as the flames hit in our direction. There was a sound of pain and skin against fist, and then a thump.
«You okay?» Sam asked us.
«Not really», Gabriel— who had popped in— said beside us, and he shoved a DVD into Dean's hands.
«Guard this with your life», he said sternly before turned away and went toward the goddess and the angel.
There was a new sound, the sound of crashing and groaning. We all looked up and found Lucifer lying on the floor, groaning in slight pain or just surprise. And of course, Gabriel, standing in front of Kali.
«Lucy, I'm home», he said.
Lucifer looked at him stunned and took a step forward, looking like he was about to hug him.
«Not this time», Gabriel mumbled as he helped Kali up, his eyes never leaving Lucifer.
«Guys! Get her outta here», he ordered us.
I rose up and went to push her away gently from them, while worrying over my brother.
«Gabriel—» I began.
«Go, Jophiel. This isn't your fight, not now», he said softly.
I nodded reluctantly but followed my brothers and Kali to the car, who looked at it in disdain.
«I'm not getting in that thing», she snorted.
«Just get in the car, princess», Dean snapped while I got inside.
The trip from the motel was quite awkward, which gave me time to think. If Gabriel had killed Lucifer, we'd have known it by know. If he hadn't, then he probably was… A sob came out while a tear rolled down my cheek.
«Abby, you're okay?» Dean asked concerned.
«It's Gabriel. I think… I think he's dead», I whispered and wiped away the tears.
Raw agony clawed in my chest like a knife, over and over again, every second hurting more than the one before, the feeling never stopping. My body felt like it was burning up and freezing to the lowest point. Beside me, I could see in the blurry corners of my eyes, Kali was weeping quietly. The only thing we'd in common: We loved Gabriel.
I must have fallen asleep after awhile, because I didn't sit in the car anymore. Instead, I was surrounded by trees and plants from every corner of the world. And some didn't even exist on Earth, only Heaven. Could it be… The Garden?
«Jophiel», a voice called.
I turned around and found Lucifer stand behind me, but this time with no damages on his vessel. A big lump began to grow in my throat.
«Lucifer. Gabriel? Is he…?» I began and choked on the last word.
A painful look and a tear worked itself up in my brother's face as he looked away.
I bit my lip and tasted blood as I tried to prevent myself from sobbing. But the tears fell freely from my eyes, running like rivers and then falling like raindrops down to the ground. But it wasn't only the raging agony I felt in my chest. No, it was more than that. A burning sensation, making me see red as I looked at my brother. He'd had killed Gabriel… Our brother.
"HOW COULD YOU?" I screamed and lunged at him.
But before I could claw his eyes out or worse for what he'd done to Gabriel, he got me on the ground, my arms pinned down towards the crusty dirt.
"Jophiel—" he began slowly.
"HE WAS OUR BROTHER, YOU MONSTER! AND YOU KILLED HIM! YOU SICK, CRUEL—"
"You shouldn't say anything!" Lucifer yelled at me angrily, his eyes glowing like fire.
"If you haven't forgotten, both of you, Michael and you have tried to kill me since I was freed! What a hypocrite you are, sister!"
Hypocrite.
The second he called me that, I froze under his grip. That's what Michael had called me and what I believed Raphael would say to me too if he had the chance. I was a hypocrite, I already knew that. But hearing Lucifer say it, hurt a lot.
"I know."
"I know I am a hypocrite, don't worry, our dear big brother has already told me that", I muttered bitterly.
Lucifer widened his eyes surprised and let go of me, which made me able to roll away from him and stand up.
"When did you meet Michael?" he asked.
"A couple of months ago. It doesn't matter, since I know none of you will stop this. And believe me, I don't want any of you dead. I've lost too much already… But I can't let Earth get destroyed because you, either", I added.
"Why do you have to do it?"
Lucifer sighed and took a step closer, his face much softer than it had been some seconds ago. Same with me, I had gotten out all that fire, but that dark feeling inside me lingered, accompanied with the rest of the darkness from my bitterness and grief.
"You know why, sister. The humans, it's their fault everything happened. Because of them, I fell, Father left, his last perfect creation getting polluted. Everything, because of those scums. If I erase them, the world will be pure from its former virus. Isn't that what anyone would want? Having a peaceful world?"
I shook my head sadly. He really couldn't see it, the beauty of humanity.
«Not the way you see it, Lucifer. Even if humans have done many things wrong, they still have done a lot of good. And that's why I fight for them. I told you before, they forgive, unlike us."
Lucifer raised his eyebrow confused before I took a step closer and cupped my hand around his face, watching him wistfully. I wished I could erase it all, his Fall, the Revelation, all the deaths, everything. But most of all, I wanted to get rid of that lingering darkness in me.
"I'm sorry, my brother. I'm sorry for everything."
«Abby, you okay?» Sam asked me as I opened my slightly stingy eyes.
I rubbed them slightly, before opening them completely. It was around noon, it seemed like.
«Yeah, I'm good», I lied and yawned.
«Why're you asking?»
Dean looked at me skeptically.
«Abster, your eyes are puffy, and you kept muttering Lucifer and your other bros in your sleep. I'm pretty sure it wasn't something 'good', then», he said.
«Spit it out.»
I huffed while pulling my hair up in a ponytail, staring at my brothers tiredly.
«It was Lucifer. He visited my dream. And… he told that Gabriel, he's… He killed him » I said and felt my tears rise up again, but I quickly forced them down.
«We then fought about some, uh, family stuff. You know, the Apocalypse. I then woke up», I told them.
«Anyway, what are we going to do now?»
«Yeah, well… We could start with watching your bro's DVD he left. It is a good one, after all», Dean said and chuckled.
I smiled a little at that.
"I hope that, that's what he'd have wanted, too."
The porno began with some text about everyone was 18 or older, just like any porno.
After the title card, a girl in just underwear and high heels lied on the bed, looking in some paper while there was some monologue. And then, a man knocked on the door, saying something about room service.
«Come in!»
I shook my head and rolled my eyes. Any second, the dude would come in and they would fuck each other, maybe with a few toys. Got to say, my brother had… Had had a very weird taste of movies, according to me.
«Gabriel wanted you to guard this with your life?» Sam questioned incredulously.
«Maybe he's a fan», Dean replied and shrugged, when the door in the porno opened.
Instead of some stranger in mustache, Gabriel with a mustache came in with a plate. Took a really weird turn here.
«I've got the kielbasa you ordered», he told her with an accent.
«Ooh. Polish?»
«Hungarian», he replied and tossed the plate away… only to kiss the woman extremely erotically, which disturbed me a lot.
Dead or not, you really didn't want to see a sex tape with your brother in it.
«I'm gonna puke», I said disgusted while trying to keep watching.
Gabriel suddenly turned and looked at us, like he was breaking the fourth wall.
«Sam, Dean, Abigail. You're probably wondering what the hell is going on, and Abby is probably sick right now», he said and removed the mustache.
«Well, if you're watching this, I'm dead. Oh please! Stop sobbing, it's embarrassing for all of us», he said, making me smile sadly.
«Without me, you've got kind of zero shot at killing Lucifer. Sorry! But, can trap him», he informed, making us look at each other in surprise and shock.
«The Cage you sprung Lucifer from? It's still down there. And maybe, just maybe, you can shove his ass back in. Not that it'll be easy. You gotta get the Cage open, trick our bro back into it. And uh, oh yeah, avoid Michael and the God Squad. But hey, details, right? And here's the big secret, Lucifer himself doesn't even know— the key to the Cage? It's out there. Actually it's keys, plural. Four keys, well, four rings. From the Horsemen. You get 'em all, you got the Cage.»
I widened my eyes and stared at the screen, since when had he known about this? I hadn't known a shit about the keys to the Cage, and even less that they were the rings of the Horsemen.
«Can't say I'm betting on you guys. But, uh, hey! I've been wrong before. Abby, I love you, sis. Find your lover boy and kick our bros' asses for me, okay?» he said and smirked, making me smile at the computer.
I really would miss him, a lot.
«And Dean, you were right. I was afraid to stand up to my brother, not any more. So this is me, standing up», he said and rose, while the woman began to take off her bra, behind him, of course.
«And this is, me, lying down», he said and winked, before he grabbed her and pushed her into the bed.
It was then I got scarred mentally for the rest of my life.
«Please, just turn it off!» I exclaimed in terror as Gabriel removed his underwear.
«My eyes!»
When Sam and Dean just stared at my brother and the woman doing the nasty, I closed the computer hastily.
After watching some of the act, I felt extremely sick and just wanted to erase that from my head.
«Horsemen, huh? Well we got War's. We nicked Famine's. That's two down. Collect all four? All we need is Pestilence and Death», Dean announced, making me roll my eyes slightly.
«Yeah, that's all», I said and rolled my eyes again.
«It's a plan», Dean reminded me.
I nodded and climbed into the car. So, one way or another, I would meet my brothers again.
A/N: Sorry for the previous chapter being messy and just bad written by a messed up author (me.) I hope you like this chapter (or at least that it's better written than the first one)