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Part 16:
"No I'm fine - seriously!" Kae groaned in frustration and tightened her grip on the bloody t-shirt she had pressed to her calf. The Impala sped over a large pothole and she swore violently as she was nearly thrown out of her seat.
"Kae -"
"Mom I promise - we just got in a bad fight with a bunch of demons and I kind of have to go. I'm sorry, I love you and I'll call you in the morning!" she hit the end button on her cell and tossed it onto the empty seat next to her. "Sam you doin' okay?!"
"I'll live," Sam groaned. "Beats being shot, that's for sure."
"Don't go there." Kae snarled, wincing as she pulled the t-shirt tighter over her wound. "I was fucking scared out of my mind when I got back and saw you two were dead!"
"Well we came back, so drop it." Dean said flatly.
"What?" Kae stared at him in disbelief. "I'm sorry but that was a huge fucking deal!"
"We already talked about this!"
"And I'm not done!" she yelled.
"Um...guys?" Sam looked over at Dean nervously. Dean tore his eyes from the reflection of Kae's angry face in the rear view mirror to see what the problem was.
A huge, flaming barrier blocking the road. Dean slammed his foot on the break just in time.
"Turn around!" Kae screamed as three people began running around the barrier toward the car. Demons.
"The hell do you think I'm doin'?!" Dean yelled back as the Impala wheeled around to face the oposite direction, but it was too late - their attackers were on them. Kae was dragged from the back seat through the window, screaming.
"Kae!" Dean yelled as another grabbed him and did the same, yanking him out through the driver door window.
But she surprised him by getting the upper hand on her attacker, extended her hand forward, and the demon was blasted backwards.
Dean's eyes widened. He'd never seen Kae exhibit that kind of power.
It was hot as hell.
Focus, Dean. Damn it, come on!
"Dean!" Sam shouted, and he didn't understand why until he turned and the demon attempting to kill him was blasted back as well.
Kae exhaled and staggered toward him. "You okay?" she asked.
"I'm fine," she smiled wearily.
Suddenly, the demons began to scream. When Kae looked over at them, she saw that they had been hit full blast with water from a hose. They wouldn't be screaming if -
Holy water.
"Look," Sam gasped, tugging her sleeve until she turned to see a group of people emerging. One man read something in a foreign tongue, causing the demons to be exorcised.
"You guys alright?" one of the men approached them. Kae glared at him but he grinned back. "Quite a woman you got yourself there, boys."
"She's uh..." Sam shrugged, "She's something alright."
The man didn't take his eyes off of Kae. "Be careful. It's...dangerous around here."
"Noted." Kae attempted to smile, but couldn't. "Who are you guys anyway?"
"Sacrament Lutheran Militia." he responded.
"Wait...the what?" Dean said.
The man shrugged. "I hate to tell you guys this, but those were demons, and this is the Apocalypse. So...buckle up."
"...That's a police-issued shotgun. That truck is, uh...inspired. Where'd you guys pick up all this crap?"
Kae leaned against the side of the Impala, trying to keep her weight off of her injured leg; it had started bleeding again. She didn't pay too much attention to the conversation going on between the brothers and their rescuers.
"Leg looks painful." Another man had walked up to her.
"I'll live." she said shortly, pressing the t-shirt at the wound again, hissing at the pain the action elicited.
"I can give you a lift into town, get our doctor to take a look at it," he suggested. "I'm Paul by the way."
"Nice. Thanks though, I'm -"
"You ready to go, Kae?" Dean had walked back over and was giving Paul a dangerous look. Kae nearly laughed. "Who's your friend?"
Dean was jealous.
Kae caught Sam's eye over his brother's shoulder. Sam smirked.
"This is uh...Paul. I'm fine." she gave Dean's arm a soft pat and got back in the back seat of the Impala. "Well what are we waiting for? Let's go."
The town looked like a warzone - defenses wracked up on every corner. Paul and his friends led them up to a church. Kae tried to stifle her gasp of surprise at seeing the Devil's Trap. Dean's hand found hers and squeezed before tugging her across it quickly and into the building.
She felt a little weak, but it was nothing she couldn't handle.
They found a wedding taking place inside.
"Wedding?" Sam scoffed. "Seriously?"
Paul shrugged. "Yeah. We've had eight so far this week." he jabbed Kae lightly in the side. "How 'bout you and your boyfriend be lucky number nine? End of the times and all."
"I -" Kae could feel her face growing hot and avoided looking at Dean.
"She's uh...we're not together." Dean said lamely.
Paul looked surprised.
"Really? Then maybe I've got a shot after all, huh?"
Kae forced a tight smile as she looked at him. In your fucking dreams, pal. When she didn't respond, he shifted his weight awkwardly and turned to look at the pastor who was finishing up the ceremony.
"I'll uh...I'll get the Pastor for you."
Before long they'd learned that demons had overtaken the town, and the Pastor - Pastor Gideon - had a daughter named Leah, who as it turned out, was a prophet. They got to see her in action and it was something that made Kae uneasy.
People were dying.
Sam ended up calling Cas in. A very drunk Cas.
"She rises when Lucifer walks the earth." he explained. "'And she shall come, bearing false prophecy.' This creature has the power to take a human's form, read minds. Book of Revelation calls her 'the Whore of Babylon.'"
Kae groaned. "So how do we stop her?"
Cas showed her a wooden stake. "It's a stake made from a cypress tree in Babylon."
"Well alright then," Kae looked from the angel to Sam and Dean. "Let's end this bitch."
Kae was sitting outside the church when her phone rang. She checked the caller ID - Mom. Damn it.
"Mom?"
"Hello, Kaelyn."
She nearly stopped breathing at the sound of the cool, feminine voice on the other end of the line.
"Anna."
She didn't understand - she'd thought Cas had killed Anna that first night - how could she have survived?
"If you want to see your mother again, you'll leave Sam, Cas, and Dean to whatever hunt you're on, and you'll come back to Virginia to see me."
"Don't hurt her," Kae begged, hating the way she sounded, but she was not going to lose her mother. Not like this. "I can be there in a couple of days."
"Excellent. I'll see you then."
"Wait, you're bailing? Why?!' Kae didn't answer. She shoved past Dean and began throwing her things back into her suitcase before going over the room twice to be sure she hadn't forgotten anything.
"Kae, talk to us," Sam tried, "You just can't bolt without -"
"I'm gonna fucking murder her," Kae muttered. "Angel blade...angel blade...Oh." she grabbed Sam's duffel and rooted around in it before finding a silver blade. She threw it in with her clothes and toiletries.
"Kae!" Dean strode forward and grabbed her wrist. "What's going on?!"
"What's going on?" She rounded on him and shoved him hard - not hard enough to seriously injure, but hard enough that he fell back, onto the floor. "Anna has my mother!"
She closed her suitcase, grabbed it and ran from the room.
Later, Dean found her throwing her suitcase into the trunk bed of a beat up, light gray Chevy.
"Kae?"
"I don't want to talk about it." she snapped. "You and Sam stay here, take care of the whore. I'll be fine."
He took a step closer to her, trying to think of something - anything he could that would make her stay. All he got out was,
"You know this is a trap, right?"
Kae slammed the trunk lid down so hard the latch broke. She didn't notice.
"I'm not talking about this, Dean! The angels are not going to win. Not this time." she breathed heavily through her nose and stormed past him, headed for the driver's side door. "They're not going to kill my mom."
The hand that clamped down on her wrist stopped her, and she turned to see Dean standing there.
"Let go of me."
He shook his head.
"I'm not letting you go face Anna alone, Kae!" Were there actual fucking tears in his eyes? This was too much.
She smiled sadly. "I'm a big girl, alright? I can handle Anna."
"Kae," he said softly, a pleading note in his voice. "Please..."
Before she knew what she was doing, she kissed his cheek.
"I'll call if I need you." she whispered, touching his arm gently with her free hand.
When she turned and tried to pull away again, she was met by a hard yank, and before she knew it she was being turned around and Dean's lips crashed into hers -
A tiny moan escaped her throat as she wrapped her arms around his neck and his hands settled on her hips.
"What was that for?" she asked breathlessly when they broke apart.
"Something to convince you to stay?" he tried as he reached over and tucked a bright red lock of hair behind her ear.
She smiled but shook her head.
"She's my mom, Dean...I'm not going to let that bitch hurt her."
He considered her for a moment, before kissing her again.
"Be careful."
She smiled.
"Noted."
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