Hello ladies and gents, here is the next installment, I know it's awhile between posts of chapters and I apologies. Between working, children, and a husband I don't get a lot of time to write. On top of the fact I start getting other ideas for new stories and start jotting them down and then I end up working on those. I'm a mess I know but I have two other stories in the works on top of the other one I am working on. I promise however to not start putting the others up until this one and Bump in the Night are done. This story is almost over, I have thought of a sequel but that just isn't in the works right now. The next two are cross over's with Supernatural and X-files and one crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As always reviews are muchly appreciated! Please let me know what you love and hate about the story.
Chapter 12
"So let me get this straight" Morgan started staring at Cas. "You want one of us to shoot a bow at a god."
"Correct" Cas said watching the agent.
"But that person has to be worthy of using the bow or it won't work." Morgan went on ignoring him.
"Yes" Cas confirmed.
"And the person that fires the bow should be female."
"Also correct"
J.J. had watched the exchange with a smirk on her face. Morgan didn't like feeling useless and at the moment he felt useless because he couldn't use the bow to save their team mates and the Winchesters. That meant either she or Emily would be the one to save the day.
"And why can't we just shoot her with a gun?" Morgan was asking for the 20th time.
"As I told you before, a gun would not kill a god; we need the weapon of a god to kill a god. We have a weapon of a god now we just need someone to kill the god in question."
J.J. was impressed with the Angels patients. She knew her own was wearing thin with Morgan going around and around in circles on this.
"Okay so it has to be me or J.J. how hard could it be?" Emily picked the bow up and attempted to pull back on the string. She pulled harder and nothing happened. Frowning she held the bow out to J.J.
J.J. looked it over hesitant to touch it. If it didn't work for her they were stuck. She looked at the other three, they were watching eagerly. J.J. extended her hand and took the bow. A rush went through her and it felt right in her hand. She placed her other hand on the string and an arrow appeared. The others gasped in surprise as J.J. pulled back and let the arrow fly right into the wall. It took her a moment to register what she had just done. She looked up at the others and smiled. "Let us go kill a god" she said with a large smile on her face.
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"Kali" Dean called into the void. She thought she couldn't torture him but she was wrong. Alone in the void Dean's mind raced. There were plenty of things in his mind alone that tormented him. Usually he could squash it back into the back of his mind but here, alone, with nothing to distract him his thoughts where the only company he had. "Kali!" he yelled again. "Sam!" he called after a few minutes. "Rossi?... Hotch?... Spencer?" he called their names hoping they would hear him, hoping they would save him from the pain inside.
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Hotchner was trapped, he could hear their voices he would move toward them, they would get closer and louder but then they would move again. Try as he might he couldn't find his ex-wife and child. Looking down, tears streaked down his face hot. They felt like acid burning his skin. Suddenly his suit jacket was too hot for him but try as he might he couldn't get enough strength to take it off. Aaron Hotchner faced down fear and death almost every day but today he was terrified that he would never make it to them that Haley and Jack were being tortured and he couldn't reach them.
He glanced around taking everything in for the first time. As an FBI agent he should have done that, why hadn't he done that before? Aaron's mind started to clear a little he could still hear Jack and Haley but the voices where off. He was surrounded by walls but everything was out of focus. Darkness hung like a curtain around him and it didn't make sense.
Hotch tried to take a step but it felt like he was wading in thick mud. Each action and movement took so much more energy than it should have. Hotch frowned the fog around his brain was lifting and he seemed to be able to focus just a little bit. Haley was dead; he knew that so why when he heard her voice did he seem to forget that. Jack, he was safe, he was at home Aaron had called him not to long ago. Yet Jack's screams could be heard yet they weren't Jack. He knew Jack's voice. Aaron tried to shake his head the movement was slow and jerky. "This isn't real" Hotch said softly. He tried to move again, "This isn't real" he said a little louder. "This isn't real!" He yelled.
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Spencer thrashed around on the bed pulling at the restraints. He didn't understand it, he wasn't crazy. Spencer was smart; he was an FBI Agent so why did they not believe him? Why was he strapped to the bed, unless it was all in his mind. Had he created this delusional fantasy world as an FBI agent and now he was finally lucid? Was he living in his own world? He didn't think so, he was sure that he would remember going crazy. It couldn't be a delusion, perhaps this was the delusion. He couldn't remember how he had gotten here. None of this was making sense at all. He was crazy... he knew that the chances where high that he could turn out just like her, like his mother and it seemed that now it was true. Spencer stopped thrashing, he felt the will to fight leaving him. There was no use there was no way to fight what was happening, his mother had tried to fight it and lost.
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Rossi looked around the war zone and couldn't quiet wrap his head around what was going on. It looked real, it felt real but he knew for a fact it wasn't real. It took him a moment to realize what was happening. Kali... Rossi closed his eyes tuning out the noises around him; he listened instead to the sound of his own heart beat drumming in his ears. 'Slow deep breaths' he said to himself trying to quell the anxiety that was brought on by being back in this environment. She was a god at least that is what she said. Dean seemed to know her from their past travels had even tried to bargain with her to spare him and the other agents. She had constructed this fantasy world to torture Rossi. That meant that the others were probably in their own living hell since they were not here with him. He had to do something to break free of this hold and rescue the others. He had to get to Dean first; Dean would probably know how to kill the god, could you even kill a god he wondered. Yes Dean first then the others. Rossi tried to concentrate tried to break free of the hold that Kali had on his mind.
"Bravo David" Kali breathed in his ear, "I've never met a man who was as strong of mind as you."
Rossi's eyes snapped open and he was back in the warehouse. He was suspended in the air; he would have guessed about three feet off the ground; his arms and legs stretched out between two poles. His clothing had been stripped and his body was starting to ache from its own weight and gravity pulling it down. He was at a slight angle so that he was more so looking down at the ground.
"Then again I never let them live long enough to show me that they are" she stood beneath him and let her hand reach out and caress his stomach slowly letting her finger tips take in the feel of his skin. She touched him the way you would touch a lover. "Alas, you can't help them." she purred "But you can help me"
"Go to hell" Rossi growled.
Kali stepped back and glared at him "Suit yourself" she said stalking away to the shadows.
Rossi looked over at the bonds, and then over at the others, they too were stripped and suspended off the ground. Spencer and Hotch looked untouched in the sense that there was no new damage to their bodies but even from here Rossi could make out the scars on Hotch's body where he had a run in with a sadistic serial killer. Dean on the other hand looked like he had been worked over. There was fresh blood dripping from cuts along his chest, stomach, arms and legs. Kali had been hurting him while the rest of them where in their own worlds. Dean was the target of her aggression. Dean's head fell forward and he could barely make out his face under all the blood. Rossi struggled at the ropes that held him to no avail.
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Angel's drove... J.J. wasn't sure what to make of that but in the back seat of the Tahoe she watched as Cas drove. She found it odd to be holding The Bow of Artemis, more so that it felt right in her hand. "Where exactly are we going?" she asked.
"To find the others" Cas said not taking his eyes from the road.
"Right but where are they do you know?" J.J. asked.
"Yes" Cas replied.
Realizing that she wasn't going to get much out of the Angel she sat back and bit her lip. She was nervous, what if she missed? What if she wasn't good enough to kill a god? Her whole belief system had been dismantled by this case. There were Angel's, god was real, but there were demons, and other gods. Now when she looked at an unsub part of her would wonder is this person possessed, were these deeds done by a supernatural being? They road in silence J.J peered out the window watching as the town passed by and faded into trees. She had no idea where they were going or how this being knew where they were.
The car turned off on to a dirt road and J.J. straightened up in her seat as Cas cut the lights. Finally they came to a stop and quietly exited the vehicle.
"You will need a vantage point" Cas said to her then pointed to a ladder on the side of a rundown wear house.
"Right" she nodded
"I will accompany you, you two should remain here" Cas told Morgan and Prentiss.
"Come on man our people are in there" Morgan said a little distressed.
"You will remain here" Cas said again then ushered J.J. forward.
Morgan sighed and leaned against the car as he watched them go. "This is bull shit"
"I know Morgan but J.J. has this." Emily said not liking it one bit.
"Well I guess we will see" Morgan pushed off the car as something darted behind Emily. "What was..." he started to say as he was tackled from the side. Morgan hit the ground hard on his right side. His attacker flipped off of him and came up ready to fight. Morgan quickly got to his feet and went for the gun on his hip only to find it was missing his attacker lunged but Morgan was ready this time side stepping he let his attackers momentum throw him off balance and land face first in the dirt. Morgan put a knee in the man's back Emily knelt and helped Morgan cuff the man. They rolled him over, "You must be George." Morgan said hauling the man to his feet. "Where are our people?"
"You'll never get to them she's too powerful, she is my goddess, I am her servant, I never realized a god could love me but now I do as she asks and you will never save your friends."
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J.J. and Cas finished climbing to the top of the building; she unslung the bow from her back and moved towards the raised part of the roof that held windows. Peering down she had to bite back a cry at the scene below. They were naked, all four of them had been stripped Dean looked like he had been put through a meat grinder. They looked like they were sleeping suspended above the ground that was all of them except Rossi, he was moving and fighting against his bonds. J.J. didn't see this god anywhere.
"Steady" Cas breathed in her ear quietly. "We have to wait for her."
"Right" J.J. nodded took a deep breath and tried to center herself. She concentrated on breathing, the feeling of the roof under her feet. She concentrated on the sound of Cas breathing evenly and silently wondered if he needed to breathe. 'Focus J.J.' she said to herself trying to erase the random thoughts from her head. Looking down below, she watched and waited.
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"It seems your friends are here David" Kali said from the shadows. "Though they are good at hiding themselves I can sense them. Little do they know they are walking into a trap." Kali laughed. "Mmmm I'm getting board with this and hungry" she appeared to his right her nails raking over his skin.
"You don't stand a chance against my team Kali; the Winchester brothers have taught us a thing or two." Rossi said trying to tune out the pain as her nails dug harder drawing blood from his leg.
"Ha, the Winchester boys get lucky. They ended up in the right place and the right time and they get lucky. Lucifer was set free, which was their fault, unleashing the devil on the unsuspecting world thank you Winchester Brothers. They brought the four horsemen back up and then had to clean up their damn mess. Those boys start as much trouble as they stop. They are nothing." Kali snapped.
Dean's head snapped up, "Your hell can't hold me" He raged, "I am Dean Winchester, I have The Mark of Cain." he threw his head back and caught a glint of something above him in the window. His head came back down and he was face to face with Kali. Her grin was wicked as she spoke "I hear you can't die but you turn into a demon, which could be useful to me." She leaned in and stabbed Dean through the stomach.
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"There" Cas said pointing
J.J. nodded she brought the bow up taking aim at Kali, her fingers touched the string and an arrow appeared. She drew back on the bow and took a deep breath steadying her hands trying not to shake, she took one last deep breath aimed a little higher and let the arrow fly.
