Sorry it took so long for the update, a bit busier than i expected but, like i promised, i got it done by the weekend (barely). So, to lighten my load and to try and get back into writing this story, i've decided that i, instead of writing every week, that i am going to update every 2 weeks. Plus since the story is starting to come to an end, it should work out really well. I know this was a short chapter but it needed to be to get the plot of the story out of the way.
I love you guys and hope you enjoy the new chapter!
Vinny
That's a Negative Ghost Rider! (Chapter 14)
Dean woke up dizzy and disoriented, not really knowing where he was. He tried to look around but his dizziness quickly turned to nausea as he turned his head to move. He went back to his original position, trying to make his dizzy spell go away. He closed his eyes, letting his body catch up with the concussion he experienced when Balthazar hit him over the head.
"Dean?" Cas tried to say but wasn't able to say it very loud. Dean's eyes shot open at the sound of Cas' voice.
"Cas?" Dean answered.
"What are you doing here?" Cas asked to the best of his abilities.
"I came to come get you." Dean replied as he tried to look over at Cas. He turned his head in the direction that Cas' voice came from and felt the dizziness and the nausea return. Dean caught a glimpse of Cas before he had to turn back to his original position.
Cas was pale and sick looking, he looked like he hadn't eaten in a couple days. His skin was bruised and bloody. Dean saw a pool of blood from under Cas' back, not knowing what had happened to him. Dean closed his eyes to try and get the mental picture of his beaten and bloodied boyfriend out of his mind.
"Dean…" Cas called out.
"Yeah?" Dean replied, his eyes still closed.
"If we don't make it out of this..." Cas started.
"Don't say that. We are going to make it out of here." Dean interrupted.
"Will you two love birds please shut the hell up!?" Balthazar yelled from the top of the stairs to the mausoleum.
"Dean, please?" Cas mumbled. "If we don't make it out of here, I just wanted to let you know that I love you; no matter what." Cas stated, grunting as he twitched, causing his back to start hurting again.
"I love you too Cas. But, we are getting out of here." Dean whispered, trying not to gain Balthazar's attention.
"How?" Cas replied quietly.
"Sam and Bobby are coming this way. They will get us out of this." Dean stated, knowing that Bobby and Sam would come to get them soon.
Dean opened his eyes to look around and see if there was any way that he would be able to get out of this. He saw that the room was dimly lit, the only light coming from a candle. He could see the table where there were a lot of knifes and not so pleasant things. Dean cringed, seeing a power sander covered in blood. He closed his eyes again.
Please hurry up guys, Dean thought to himself.
Cas was still barely conscious when he heard Balthazar talking on the phone to someone.
"Yeah, I caught Dean trying to sneak in and rescue him." Balthazar said into the phone.
"Everything is under control on this end. No, no, no, I don't need backup. Dean is tied up and angel boy is hardly ever conscious anymore." Balthazar replied. Cas, still on the brink of passing out, stopped listening and turned his head to look at Dean. Dean's head was bleeding a bit from being hit by the shovel . Cas felt a tear roll down the side of his face, he couldn't stand to see Dean hurt.
"I'm sorry Dean." Cas whispered.
"For what?" Dean asked.
"For this. For everything." Cas answered, another tear rolling down his face.
"This isn't your fault Cas. Don't blame yourself; blame the fuckwads that are doing this to us." Dean stated.
Dean looked over at Cas, he could see the tears rolling down the side of his face.
Dean struggled against his bracers, trying to see if they would come loose. When he couldn't get them to budge at all he gave up.
Dean closed his eyes to try and get a bit of sleep, his head hurt like hell and made him extremely tired.
Cas looked over at Dean, who had his eyes closed. Cas was starting to get out of feeling like he was going to pass out. He looked around the room, trying to discern what time of the day it was. From what he could tell, it was night time. Cas found the strength to try and break out of his bindings. He pushed hard against them, they budges a little, enough so that he could move his wrists and hands around a little. Cas sat up a little too see if there was anything close to his hands.
He saw a knife that Balthazar left near him for their last "session" as Balthazar liked to call it. Cas reached his hand out, with the now freed wiggle room in his hands. He got close enough to the blade that he caught the tip of it and pulled it back so that the hilt rested in his hand. With his newly acquired knife he slid it under him just in case he needed to use it.
Cas watched as Dean started to wake up, trying to shift to another position. Unable to move, Dean opened his eyes looking around , confused as to what was going on.
"Wha?" Dean asked, still half asleep.
"It's alright Dean." Cas said trying to calm him down.
"Mhmm." Dean mumbled tiredly. "Sorry about that, I thought I was having a bad dream."
"It's ok." Cas replied.
"Don't worry Cas we will…."Dean tried to say.
"I'm sorry, am I interrupting something?" Balthazar said as he walked down into the mausoleum.
Dean didn't say anything; he turned his head the other way to look at Cas.
"Now, let's get back to what we are supposed to be doing." Balthazar stated as he walked over to the table and grabbed a knife. He walked over to the slab where Dean was sitting.
"You will look at my pretty face when I'm talking to you!" Balthazar yelled as he drug the knife across Dean's forearm, blood sliding down Dean's arm. Dean grunted as the knife slid opens his skin.
Dean refused to look at Balthazar, still staring at Cas who was looking at him with a look of pain and sorrow. Dean shouldn't have to go through this, this is all my fault, Cas thought to himself.
"Fine, we will play it your way." Balthazar stated as he walked away from Dean and over towards Cas; he put the knife to Cas' skin. Dean could feel his temper flare.
"If you touch him I will fucking kill you!" Dean screamed.
"There was that so hard. Now that I have your attention, we can get started." Balthazar smiled. He walked back over to Dean, leaving Cas unscathed.
"What do you want?" Dean asked.
"What do I want? Absolutely nothing. What we want is for you to pay for what you did." Balthazar replied.
"I don't understand?" Cas asked, mustering all the strength he could to talk.
"Fine, do you remember last year when you were stabbed for messing with Garth?" Balthazar explained." Well, for what you did it ended up getting my associates brother and my cousin thrown in jail for the rest of their lives! So you see, this is your punishment."
"Are you fucking kidding?!" Dean exclaimed." You are doing this to Cas all because I got your dumb shit cousin thrown in Jail?!"
"Yep." Balthazar agreed, he drug the knife against Dean's forearm again.
Dean grunted, "You fucking son of a bitch!"
"And now you will know the pain you put my associates and I went through when Lucifer died in jail. " Balthazar explained.
Dean began panting as he started to lose more blood from the wounds Balthazar had done to him. Dean looked over at Cas, who had tears rolling down his eyes. Dean put on his stoic face, trying to stay strong for Cas. Dean looked up at Balthazar, who looked like he hadn't slept in days, his eyes were puffy and bloodshot. He had a crazy look in his eyes. Balthazar started pacing around the room. Dean could tell that Balthazar was getting shifty. Balthazar walked back over to Dean with a huge smile and a strange look on his face.
"Now, I think it's time to finish all of this." Balthazar stated as he raised the knife above his head. Dean looked over at Cas, if this was it, he wanted it to end with his last moment with Cas. Cas began to cry harder than before.
" Say goodbye to your boy toy Dea..BANG!" Balthazar tried to say, interrupted by the sound of something hitting his head, the next thing Dean heard was a thump. Dean looked over to see Sam standing behind where Balthazar was with a shovel in his hand. Balthazar was knocked out on the ground.
"Dean! Cas!" Sam yelled as Bobby came flying down the stairs of the mausoleum. Bobby ran over to Dean, untying Dean from his binds.
"You alright boy?" Bobby asked as Sam ran over to Cas and gently undid his bindings.
"Yeah, I'm alright, go check on Cas." Dean stated.
Bobby rushed over to Cas, who looked like he was dying. Sam and Bobby undid the bindings around Cas' legs and arms carefully. Bobby and Sam helped sit Cas up very slowly. Dean sat up on the slab, feeling woozy from the loss of blood; he ignored it and rushed over to help Cas. Sam got out from under Cas' armpit and let Dean take his place.
"It'll be alright Cas. We will get out of here." Dean cooed to Cas, who looked even worse than when he was on the slab. Cas was stumbling upon standing up. Sam ran over to the counter where the weapons were and grabbed the ran back over to the group and opened the water, slowly pouring in Cas' mouth.
"Thank you." Cas whispered to Sam. Bobby and Dean slowly walked forward and got to the steps, Sam behind them carrying the shovel he used to knock out Balthazar.
Cas was being led up the steps of the mausoleum, still feeling like hell. He was disoriented from standing up, and feeling sick. As they started going up the steps, Cas began to feel his wounds again, the burning and pain almost too much for him to stand. Cas began to collapse, his knees giving out from under him. Luckily Dean and Bobby were there to hold him up, helping him up the stairs slowly. Sam was walking slowly in front of them, to make sure that they didn't get ambushed.
When they reached the top of the steps, Cas was pretty much being dragged up the stairs. Dean was feeling woozy but he could handle it. Sam looked around to make sure no one was in sight, when he didn't see anyone he pulled out his phone.
"Sam, we don't have time for this!" Dean yelled. Dean and Bobby walked Cas past Sam, who began to walk with them. They slowly made their way to the car, Sam talking on the phone.
"Yeah, we are at Saint John's Cemetery, they are in the big mausoleum in the south corner."Sam said into the phone.
Dean lightly set Cas into the seat of the Impala; Sam still on the phone.
"Thanks." Sam said as he hung up.
"The police are on their way." Sam stated.
"Come'on ya idjits, we need to get going!" Bobby yelled from the driver seat .
Dean hopped into the back seat with Cas, grabbing onto his arm lightly, trying to keep him comfortable. Sam hopped into the passenger seat and Bobby screeched off the cemetery.
"We need to go to the hospital." Sam kept repeating to Bobby.
"Everything will be alright Cas. I promise." Dean cooed to Cas. Cas was shacking against Dean, feeling extremely cold. Dean wrapped his arm around Cas, trying to keep him warm.
"Dean…" Cas whispered, the impala turning against a corner, making Cas lean against Dean.
"Yeah Cas?" Dean answered.
"If something happens…" Cas whispered again.
"Cas… I promise you, nothing is going to happen." Dean stated for him.
" I know, but if it does. I want you to move on. Find someone you love." Cas said as a tear rolled down his face. Dean sat there for a minute, not able to comprehend what Cas just asked him to do.
"Never." Dean replied, Dean felt a tear roll down his eye.
Cas looked up at Dean, seeing that he was totally committed to Cas. A smile grew across his face, Dean looked down and smiled back. Cas rested his head against Dean's chest, he was so tired, all he wanted to do was sleep.
"Cas.." Dean jostled him to keep him awake.
"Dean… I'm so tired." Cas replied, closing his eyes again.
"No Cas, you've got to stay awake." Dean stated, lightly jostling Cas again.
"Hold on Cas, we are almost there." Sam said from the front seat as the Impala made another turn.
Dean gripped Cas tighter, bringing him into a hug, trying to keep him awake. Dean leaned down and kissed Cas' forehead.
"I love you Cas, don't you dare leave me." Dean whispered to Cas.
Bobby pulled into the emergency section of Saint Mary's hospital. Bobby and Sam got out of the car and opened the door for Dean, who had tears running down his face.
Dean looked out to see a woman running toward the Impala.
"What happened?" She yelled at Bobby and Sam.
"My brother and his boyfriend are really hurt we need help." Sam replied.
The woman ran closer to the hospital and yelled." I need two gurneys and a doctor out her, NOW!"
She ran to the car to see Dean holding on to Cas, who was barely conscious. She let Dean get out and examined his arm wounds, She moved onto Cas looking at his wounds. Dean refused to leave the side of the car until the doctors and gurneys showed up.
They loaded Dean and Cas onto the gurneys and pushed them into the hospital. Dean looked over at Cas, refusing to break eye contact with him. Bobby was walking behind them, Sam keeping up with Dean's gurney.
"We need to get this one to the O.R now." One of the doctors stated. They slowed his cart down and turned him the other way.
"No." Dean said as he tried to sit up from the gurney. The doctors lowered him back down onto the gurney.
"Get off me! I need to be with him!" Dean yelled as he struggled back.
"You need to relax, your friend will be fine." The nurse said to him.
"He is my boyfriend, now get off me!" Dean yelled again." I'm not even that bad."
"We need to get you a blood transfusion and wrap up your wound." The doctor answered.
"Dean, relax I'll keep an eye on Cas. Let them help you." Sam asked of Dean.
Dean looked over to his brother with anger in his eyes. His brother looked at him with a look of Just do it you idiot, everything will be fine. Dean finally relaxed against the bed and let the doctors take him. Dean looked back to see Sam running after Cas' gurney.
They wheeled Dean into a white room where they moved him onto a table. They began wrapping his wounds on his forearms, wrapping them a bit too tight for comfort. Dean groaned as they finished wrapping his arm. One of the doctors walked over to Dean and asked "Do you know your blood type?"
"A + I think." Dean replied.
The doctor left, leaving Dean with the nurses, who were coddling Dean a bit too much for comfort.
"Everything will be fine." The nurse said to Dean.
"I know that, how is Cas doing?" Dean asked.
"I'm sure he is fine. I can go check if you want?" She asked Dean.
"Ok." Dean replied, the nurse nodded her head and walked away, leaving Dean with the nurse that had helped him the first time he was in the hospital.
"I thought I told you never to come here again?" she asked.
"Yeah." Dean replied.
"So what happened this time?" She questioned.
"They kidnapped Cas, I went to save him." Dean answered sternly.
"Who's they?" she asked again.
"They were related to the people who put me in here the first time." Dean answered.
The nurse was about to ask something when the other nurse who went to check on Cas came back.
"How is he?" Dean asked worriedly.
"He's doing better, his wounds are sealed up and they are treating his infections." She replied.
Dean was about to say something when the doctor walked in carrying a bag of blood.
"Here we are. I checked your file and you were right about the A+." The doctor stated." Nurse will you get this started for me."
"Of course." The nurse stated as they both got started on setting up an I.V to get the blood transfusion going.
After they finished the blood transfusion, they had Dean sit for half an hour before they let him go see Cas. He found his way over to the OR where they had taken Cas. Bobby and Sam were waiting outside the room.
"How's he doing?" Dean asked.
"Better, he is in recovery now. They got all of his wounds closed and they are trying to get rid of the infections." Sam answered.
"Dean!" Ellen yelled as she approached with Jo. She walked up to Dean and slapped him. Dean recoiling from being slapped by Ellen wasn't expecting her to grab hold of him and hug him.
"Don't you ever do that to me again." Ellen whispered as she hugged him. She finally let go of him and let Jo get her turn.
"I'm not gonna get slapped again am I?" Dean asked.
"No of course not." Jo stated as she hugged him. Dean felt like their embrace lasted forever.
"What happened?" Ellen asked Bobby.
"Someone kidnapped Cas and tortured him, he barely survived." Bobby replied.
"Why would someone do this to him?" Sam asked.
"It's all my fault." Dean piped up.
"What?" Ellen asked.
"The…people who did this were related to the guys who stabbed me." Dean stuttered, questioning if those people were actually human.
"Dean… It isn't your fault. What happened happened. It isn't your fault that those people went nuts and did this to you and Cas." Ellen replied. Ellen walked over and hugged Dean again, a tear rolling down his face for still blaming himself for all of this.
"Excuse me?" A nurse said from inside the recovery room.
"Yeah?" Dean answered, wiping a tear from his face.
"Castiel is awake if you want to visit him." The nurse replied.
Dean looked to Ellen, who nodded at him. Dean let go of Ellen and walked toward where the nurse was. She opened the door for him and led him into the room where Cas was. Cas turned to look at Dean, a tired smile grew across his face.
"Dean." He whispered weakly.
"Hey Cas." Dean replied, a tear rolling down his face, he hated seeing Cas like this. Dean wiped a tear from his face and walked over to the chair next to the bed.
"I'm glad you're here." Cas said.
"Me too…" Dean started." Cas, I just wanted to let you know that I love you."
"I love you too Dean." Cas replied. Dean leaned in and kissed Cas' parched lips lightly.
"Try and get some sleep Cas, I'll be here when you wake up." Dean stated.
"O.k." Cas replied tiredly and closed his eyes. Dean could tell that Cas was asleep. He decided that it was time for him to get some sleep too. He closed his eyes and rested his head against Cas' bed, quickly falling asleep to the sound of Cas' breathing.
So, like i said, the next chapter will be longer and a bit more fluffy and less angsty. I love you guys and hope you enjoyed it. Also, i'd like to hear you're guys feed back on the story so far, just to know if you guys like it or not, soooo... feel free to P.M me or review the story! I love you guys and hoped you enjoyed it. Expect the next one in 2 weeks so, around valentines day will be the next update. Maybe i will make it around valentines day in the story!
Vinny