"So that is the whole story…" I said lighting my cigarette. I couldn't believe what he was saying, Castiel looked sincere. But it was unusual that he told me everything without I even touch him or treat, usually my targets gives me a hard time; until I cut some skin. "I can't believe it"
"But it's true" He continued with his hand tied to a pipe behind him, I tied him while he fell asleep, Garth was probably out on the storage room "They plan to kill me or worse, I can't blame them"
"So Dean and Sam are helping you out, then?" I asked trying to warp my head around all of it, you know angels are real, they fell, and God's photo should be on the milk box, saying 'Missing God'
"Yes" He said and I could sense fear on him "What will you do to me?"
"I don't know" I said while sitting on the ground, Jerry's life was in my hands and I couldn't keep lying to Ariel, the little mermaid's angel would find out soon or later about my lies.
"So your friend Jerry…" Said Castiel in a low tone, telling him why I was doing this wasn't my best move, but I felt like I owed him this much "I could help you fight them"
"Are suicidal?" I laughed, Castiel was an angel, but now if he couldn't handle me; he had no chance against god knows how many angels. "Even with the Winchester's help we couldn't handle them"
"So what you are going to do?" He asked me looking into my eyes, I felt strange. "Are you going to tell them?"
My cellphone rings, it's Ariel "Hello" I answer making a silence signal to Castiel
"Did you found him?"
"Yes" I said swallowing dry a lump on my throat
"Great, where's is he?"
"He is in a place full of strange symbols; I'll send you the coordinates"
"Thank you, consider your friend Jerry healed" She said and paused "After we receive the coordinates"
"I'll send you" I said breathing deeply and looking at Castiel's relieved face
"Thank you"
"Don't thank me; I need your help now" I cut the rope off his wrists and dialed to Annie, now it was a perfect time for an ambush, maybe my last.
"We are on our way" Said Ariel and after a second she appeared in front of me with two others angels dressed in suits, they looked like the God's lawyers. "He is in this apartment, but it looks like those symbols are all over the place."
"Those symbols are hiding him from us and we can't get inside" She said looking at me, I crossed my arms and smiled
"If you have extra job, then you have to pay extra" I said smiling, Ariel looked with a scary face to me
"Fine, what is that you wish?"
"An angel's blade" I said smiling, by her face she didn't like it a bit. But she handled me anyway one, I scratched the symbols and they marched inside. I followed them. They walked in front of me and found Castiel in the middle of the room, he looked surprised.
"Castiel" Said Ariel smiling devilish "Now you will pay for what you did to us" I smiled and jumped backwards
"Not so fast, Ariel" I said while turning my lighter on "Surprise, surprise" I said while lighting the holy oil around them and trapping them inside
"What is the meaning of this?" Shouted Ariel confused
"I got you" I said while Castiel smiled
"I thought you would let them take me"
"It wouldn't solve my problems" I said while Castiel was drawing a sigil with his blood on the wall, I called Annie "Did you have him?"
"Yes, we are out of the hospital…" She said a little out breath "No angels here, but demons are after us"
"I know what they want… Actually who they want" I laughed "Tell them to come to this coordinates and they'll find what they are looking for"
"Should make a deal for this information?"
"Yes, take something off their hands for the information" I laughed, Annie would play them to get to my ambush.
"Jeremy, you are going against the heaven's will" Said Ariel "Join forces with this insane creature"
"Maybe" I said "But who cares about the angel's wills?" I turned my back and Castiel followed me, now I just needed to wait for my guests arrive and record 'Angels and Demons' in Dan Brown Style.
"I can stay by our side" Said Castiel shaking my hand
"Go, if they get you then what I did here today will be in vain" I said, Castiel smiled again and Garth got in the car with Garth. I had to explain Garth why I doped him, he got deeply upset; But he understood that a life's was at stake.
I guess Garth will take Castiel to a safer place, if is there such a thing to be called safe place to run away from angels. I was about to get myself into a suicide attempt to kill three angels and God's knows how many demons. I re-did the symbols so that the angels couldn't be found by the others and drew some devil's trap around the room.
I guess it's time to tell you all what I've been hiding; I found a sealing spell, a Babylonian spell from Salomon's book of goetia. Every demon I kill after I cast this spell is sealed into hell and can't come back, period. I used Jerry as decoy to carry a simple biding spell on my clap-knife, the real spell was with Annie all the time, and she gave it to me at the Siren's Call.
I know, a clever and high risk plan. But it worked; now I have a room with tree angels about to be send to their corners and an apartment to trap demons. Let's put this show on the road.
"Ladies and gentleman" I shouted walking through the door "it's show time!"
"This is your last chance Jeremy" Said Ariel furious "Let us out and we can hunt Castiel"
"Why so much hate in your little angelic heart?" I mocked with a smile while I draw my angel's blade
"You must be idiot do think I'll let you stab me with this blade" She said, I jumped inside the holy flames circle and smiled "You are just like your suicidal Father"
"I know" I said smiling, in a blink of eyes the two angels held me by my arms and Ariel was in front of me, just the way I wanted, I smiled
"Smiling in face of death?!" She said surprised
"No" I said "I just need to say something" I laughed and continued "Pizin Noco Iad, bitches!"
The angels twisted in pain, I stabbed Ariel first and the other two after, it just took a second; perks of being fast and smart came in handy on this sort fight. Castiel told me this Enochian phase that could inflict pain to angels, an unbearable pain, I just need them close to me so that I could use the sort time I had to stab them.
"Bravo, Bravo… Bravo!" I heard a clap of hand and four demons just came into the room, the black and tall guy clapping hand looked like their leader "You just killed three angels! I should hire you"
"You can't pay my price" I said smiling "Besides, you'll die too"
"Is there a way to talk with your executor?"
"Hey! That's my line"
"ha ha ha ha ha!" It laughed "They told me you are a smart-ass hunter"
"Did they tell you about the spell too?" I smiled taking my smartphone out of my pocket
"You'll be dead before you press the play" He said running towards me, but he stopped and looked up. I almost trapped him on the devil's trap on the ceiling. He just opened a crack on it and walked towards me again; I jumped back to the big mat behind me. "Boys, get him"
I turned my back and ran like a crazy to the kitchen while playing the exorcism on my smart phone "Catch me if you can" I taunted the three big guys that got trapped on the devil's trap above the mat "Gotcha" I said while I left the exorcism be completed, after those guys smoke out; their leader didn't even seemed fazed by it. What was happening?
"Surprised?" He said passing thought the bodies on the ground and after he scratched part of my devil's trap; rendering it useless. "I'm just too cozy here to come back there"
"How is that possible?" I said drawing my angel's blade
"I'm no demon" He said smiling, it made sense, he didn't have black eyes or nothing, but what was he?
"So what are you?" I said with my back pressed against the wall, he came close to me and we were face to face
"I'm a fallen angel" My eyes were wide in surprise
"Working with demons?"
"No, they work for me"
"So, I guess this is the end" I said smiling, I wish I could avenge my mother's dead or my father's, but I was a poor hunter after all. I couldn't believe it, I was really going to die.
"I'll make you suffer first, for killing my sister" He said with a devilish smiled, with his blade in his hand he ran it slowly on my cheek and I could taste my own blood. I would move, but I was waiting the right time do it, the right time to strike him with my blade. "First I'll cut your eye balls off"
"Sorry" I said while drawing my blade, but when I tried to strike him he grabbed my throat pulling my back against the wall
"It didn't work, Jeremy" He laughed and I laughed too while wiping some blood off my cheek "What is so funny"
"I wonder… What… This… Sigil does" I said hitting the sigil on the wall where Castiel had drawn it, an explosion of light occurred and he was gone. I smiled, picked my blade, and lit a cigarette while walking out the door.
I guess that was my luck day, after all. I still a…Li…ve… I feel a stabbing pain on my stomach, there's blood, too much of it. I look in front of me, Is Jerry, his eyes growing blue like Ariel's eyes.
"Why?" I ask confused
"Because you betrayed Ariel" He said in a different tone of voice, and I knew that wasn't Jerry, it was one of Ariel's lackey.
"You sucker!" I said stumbling back and falling on the bottom of the wall, he smiled and got closer to finish me off with his blade. My hands went numb; the blood as running too fast, my lips couldn't hold even my cigarette that fell on the ground. He smiled and laughed.
"Look at you, a simple human; Did you thought you could go against heave's will?"
"Can you… just get…over it?" I struggled to say it, the pain was too big to bear "You… half-ass angel"
He laughed and turned his back on me "I'll let you die like a dog that you are"
"Come back here and finish what you started, you coward!" I shouted coughing blood; I guess I got him angry. Just what I wanted, that pain is killing me.
"So die, dog!" He said, I closed my eyes and smiled, at least I wouldn't hunt anymore. Death wasn't a bad thing for a hunter like me, it was… Release. I heard a big noise, and nothing, he didn't killed me. But what does it matter? I was almost a dead man, I opened my eyes and the giant and the green eyed guys were there, I guess they saved me.
"You J?" Said the green eyed one, I guess Dean, he asked me while pressing my abdomen to stanch the blood. I laughed and coughed some blood because of it.
"Yes, are you Sam and Dean?" I asked looking to their faces, both nodded, I smiled. Dean looked somewhat like John, I bet if John was alive he would've blame himself for not getting earlier. "You… look just like your dad" I continued.
"Don't speak, we'll patch you up good as new" Said Dean worried, but it was useless to try to save me, a poll of my blood was on the floor and I could feel a strange cold. I was almost gone. "Sam, get some bandages will you?" He shouted to the big one that when to their car I guess.
"I'm sorry" I heard myself saying, Dean looked at me confused
"About what?"
"Trying to… kidnap your friend… Castiel" I couldn't help, but to talk slowly.
"That's ok man, Cas told me everything" He said, but I could read his face, he was afraid for me. Why are you so afraid to let me die, Dean? I smiled
"Can you get my cigarette?" I said pointing with my chin to the ground where's it was there lit already "I need to keep the pain at bay" Dean place the cigarette on my lips and I swallowed some and let it fall "I guess I'm about done"
"No, man… Hang on ok?" He said after shouting Sam's name that came with a bandage, I smiled at them again. "Here, I'll do a dressing in your wound then I'll take you to the hospital"
"Dean" I said smiling "I'm done…" Their faces were sad, like if I was a good person. It makes me happy, for some reason.
"No, man you can't die on me!" Shouted Dean while doing a dressing on my wound "You'll be ok"
"Dean" I shouted while coughing blood on the floor, now my legs were numb too. He stopped and looked at me "It was…. Nice to… Meet… The Winchesters"
"You are not dying!" He shouted again, I smiled again. Why was I becoming so emotional? I guess it was the blood loss; I managed to move my hand and close the dressing on my stomach.
"Dean" Said Sam while resting his hand on Dean's shoulder "I think he won't make it"
"Sammy, don't!" He answered quickly and I laughed weakly.
"That's all… Right guys…" I said smiling, I was ready to go. I guess my mother would forgive me and my father too, I couldn't avenge them. I couldn't even get back on the demon that killed both of them "Thank… you… Dean, Sam… Good…Bye"
A black sleep took my vision and everything went blacker than anything I've seen. I could hear Dean shouting at me, but it was too far away and too weak now.
"Jeremy, is time to go" Said a man in a black suit to me. I guess that was my reaper.
"No yet" I said looking at him, It looked like time has stopped. Dean and Sam were there right in front of me, but everything was frozen.
"You know what will happen if you insist in staying" He walked close to me, I could see he carried a book
"I know" I said smiling "I'll become a ghost"
"Aren't you afraid of that?"
"I'm not looking forward to it" I laughed, he opened his book and put his glasses on
"Then come with me" He said "You've already done enough"
"What will happen if I go?" I ask, maybe it was better to stay behind. I had a revenge to take, I just couldn't die yet.
"I don't know" He said closing the book "But I can't freeze the time for too much long, Jeremy"
"I don't know" I said, I was too tired to keep fighting and chasing revenge, but I was in doubt. I hope Sam and Dean would forgive me and Annie too; if I said yes. Larry was right, he told me to be careful; I guess he was right. But Larry knew me, it was better this way, I was having a hunter's death.
All became dark again and I was on a garden, swans swum on the lake. The leaves fell on the grass, it was autumn. It was one of my memories as a child, before I become a hunter, before my parents were murdered.
"Don't die on me!" I heard, was it Dean's voice? Can't he just let me go? What is wrong is with guy?
"I see the Winchester is calling you" He said with a cold look upon his face "They are always messing with the life's circle"
"I guess it pisses you off" I laughed, I would be pissed off if someone messes with my hunt.
"No, it's just makes my job harder" He said in the same cold way as before, I guess reapers don't have so many feelings as humans
"Come on! Breathe!" I hear again, but I was sitting with my back against a tree, the breeze was perfect. I was happy, complete, I felt like I didn't need to do anything else; just sit and watch the swans.
"Are you ready?" He asked again, I smiled and laughed
"Is that my memory?"
"Yes" He continued walking close to me "A beautiful memory"
"Why am I here?"
"Your body is fighting death now" He sat in front of me and rested his book on his side "My guess is that it's trying to give you a reason to live"
"Your guess?" I asked curious, "reapers aren't supposed to know everything about death?"
"Death is different for each one of us" He continued picking a red leaf from the ground "This memory is one of the few I've seen"
"How is that?" I ask, this reaper seems to not be in a hurry, neither am I. I'm dying, and I know it. Why not enjoy the ride?
"This garden is so full of life" He said looking at the skies where birds flew passing the sun "Swans, fishes, plants and birds…. Yet, is autumn"
"I see" I said smiling while my old cat jumped on my lap and slept there "I guess, I've always seem life as a circle, a never ending circle."
"You are one of the few that doesn't seems fazed by it" He continued taking his glasses off "Just like your father"
"Did he really kill himself?" I ask, I never wanted to believe that he did.
"Yes" He said "But it wasn't him, he was possessed… Don't you remember?"
"I was too young to remember the details"
"He killed himself to protect you and your mother" He continued padding the cat on my lap "Your cat is dead, too"
"That's why it feels natural to have him here" I smiled, I didn't know reapers could be nice with people "I picture you different"
"Different?" He said surprised, like it was the first time he heard that
"Yes, like a grim reaper… you know a skeleton" He laughed softly
"Do you think people would follow us if we looked that scary?" I smiled, he was right, reapers needed to look friendly or else there would be a lot of ghosts on this world.
"It makes sense" I laughed while watching the butterflies flying over my mother's white roses "I wish I could stay in this memory forever"
"Me too" He said smiling; I never expected a reaper to understand it. Maybe he was just being emphatic with me "But you wouldn't be at piece"
"I know, I'll become a monster… A raging crazy monster" I said putting my cat aside and standing up "Am I dead?"
"No, but you are almost there" The clouds become dark and the flowers began to die, my memory was fading
"If I say no" I said after a pause, the Winchesters were trying to save me…. Maybe they could save me "What will happen?"
"Maybe you'll live" He said padding my shoulder "But if you die, you'll become a ghost… And the Winchesters will kill you"
"I understand" I said, I couldn't expect less from other hunters. I wouldn't want to become a ghost and hurt anybody. "I need to do something first"
