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Part 24:
"This is insane - why would anyone lead us to a hotel?" Kae hissed as she followed Dean and Sam back through the kitchen.
"Who knows? Whoever it is, we probably pissed 'em off." Dean glanced down at a pot full of boiling red liquid. "Please be tomato soup...please be tomato soup." he reached for the ladle and stirred it through the liquid. Two eyeballs bobbed to the surface, making Kae gag. "Motel hell."
Sam, meanwhile, had walked over to the freezer, which had a padlock secured to it. He was trying to get a look inside of it when a hand suddenly slammed against the glass from the other side, and suddenly a man was screaming for them to get him and others (well that solves the mystery of where the other guests went. Kae thought) out of there.
He scrambled for his lock pick kit and began trying to unlock it.
"Hurry up!" Dean hissed at him.
Sam looked back at him, annoyed. "I'm going as fast as I..." he trailed off, his eyes flicking to something behind Dean. "...as I can."
Dean was silent for a moment. "There's somebody behind us isn't there?"
Kae turned abruptly, only to be grabbed roughly by a man in a dark suit.
Fuck.
Kae fought to keep herself calm as she, Sam and Dean were dragged into the hotel ball room. She saw a bunch of people seated around a set of tables, and let out a tiny gasp as she noted the names scrawled on nametags plastered to their chests.
Odin...Kali...Zao Shen...Ganesh...
One of the gods, a man who didn't have a nametag so Kae wasn't sure which god he was, stood up.
"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming. Although in all my centuries, I never thought I'd see this. This many gods under one roof -"
Gods? Kae swore silently and looked over at Sam and Dean.
"We are so, so screwed." she whispered.
Dean nodded silently. These were pagan gods they were dealing with. Only way out was...well Kae wasn't sure if there was an option other than on someone's dinner platter.
"-Now before we get down to brass tacks, some ground rules," the man continued. "No slaughtering each other. Curb your wrath. Oh, and uh, keep your hands off of the local virgins. We're, trying to keep a low profile here -"
"What the hell do we do now?" Kae asked Dean softly.
He didn't answer. She turned her attention back to the god that was speaking.
" - 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." he told his companions. "The time has come to put those aside and look to the future. Because if we don't, we won't have one." he gestured to Kae, Sam and Dean. "Now we do have three very valuable bargaining chips: Michael and Lucifer's vessels. The prophecied mother of the Antichrist. The question is, what do we do now? Anybody have any bright ideas? Speak up. This is a safe room."
Kae felt Dean's arm wrap securely around hers and when she looked at him, he gave a tiny jerk of his head toward the exit.
"Let's get out of here," he told Sam quietly, and the three moved toward the door.
Just as Kae's hand curled around the door handle, there was a loud crash behind them: a chandelier had fallen.
They turned to see Kali staring coldly at them. "Stay." she commanded before turning her attention to the others. "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."
"With all due respect ma'am, we haven't even tried talking to them," Kae's eyes nearly popped out of her head at the sight of Chad the concierge sitting among the gods. How had she not realized he had to have been one of them? She watched as Kali turned her gaze to him and he began to choke up blood.
"Kali!" the male god who seemed to be the leader said with a warning voice, and Chad's choking stopped.
Kali stared at Chad, her gaze impassive. "Who asked you?"
"Can't we all just get along?" a new voice interjected, and Kae didn't know whether to be relieved or pissed off; it was Gabriel.
"Sam! Dean...It's always wrong place, worst time with you two muttonheads, isn't it?" he grinned at Kae. "How's it goin', Kae?"
"Loki." Gabriel turned away from her and looked at the god standing next to Kali.
"Baldur." he responded coolly. "Good seeing you too. I guess my invitation got lost in the mail."
"What are you doing here?" Baldur asked impatiently.
"To talk about the elephant in the room. Not you," Gabriel added as Ganesh started to rise from his chair. "The apocalypse. We can't stop it, gang. But," he held up a finger. "First things first," he turned to Kae, Dean and Sam. "The adults need to have a little conversation. Check you later."
And with a snap of his fingers, they vanished.
They reappeared in another hotel room. Kae exhaled and looked from Sam to Dean.
"Holy crap." she said
"Yeah." Sam agreed. "So the next time you find a four star hotel in the middle of nowhere, what do you think about just driving by it next time?"
She nodded. "Next time."
Dean sighed. "Okay so what's our next move?"
"Free the people they've got in the freezer?" Kae suggested. "Kill a few bastards and book it if we're lucky?"
"And when have you ever been lucky?"
"Fuck you, Gabriel," Kae snapped, barely flinching as the archangel appeared in the room.
He smirked at that. "Maybe later, hot stuff."
Kae lunged at him, only for Sam to grab her around the waist to restrain her. "I should've known - this had your stink all over it from the jump."
He arched an eyebrow. "You think I'm behind this? Please. I'm the Costner to your Houston. I'm here to save your ass."
"You wanna pull us out of the fire?" Dean asked incredulously.
"Bingo." Gabriel responded. "Those guys are either gonna dust you, or use you as bait. Either way, you guys are uber-boned."
"Why do you care?" Kae asked, shoving Sam's arms off of her.
"I don't."
"Bull." she spit out.
"Kae -" started Dean, but she held up a hand to silence him.
"Me and Kali...we had a thing." Gabriel admitted after a moment. "Chick was all hands."
Sam stared at him. "Do they have a chance? Against Satan?"
"Really?" Dean asked exasperatedly.
"You got a better idea?" Sam challenged. Dean didn't answer.
Kae already knew the answer when Gabriel shook his head - nobody stood a chance against Lucifer.
"He's gonna turn them into finger paint," he told Sam. "So let's get going while the going's good."
"Okay great, well then why don't you just zap us out of here?"
"Would if I could." Gabriel shrugged. "Kali. Blood spell. Y'all are on a leash."
Kae groaned quietly.
"What do we do now?"
Gabriel grinned.
"It's time for some ol' black magic," he told her.
He vanished.
Kae looked at Dean. "We're screwed."
"Okay so we get them out of the freezer...but what then?" Kae asked in a low voice as they hurried into the lobby. The sound of screaming made them turn back, and hide behind one of the wall fixtures.
"No!" they heard the man screaming, and Kae could see Odin and Zao Shen throw their victim on the front desk before Zao Shen took a cleaver and brought it down, silencing him.
Kae looked up at Dean, her eyes wide.
"We gotta get to the freezer - now." she whispered.
He nodded. The three waited for the pagans to take the body with them back to the ball room before hurrying back toward the kitchen. Sam had his lock pick kit back out in a flash and began trying to pick it while Dean and Kae watched.
Suddenly Kae felt something grab her by the shoulders and throw her backward, sending her crashing into metal carts holding pots and pans before she hit the wall and crumpled to the ground.
"Kae!" Dean yelled, but she was on her feet in a flash, throwing him a knife just as Zao Shen, the one who'd thrown her, grabbed Sam by the throat and proceeded to try strangling him. Dean thrust the blade into his back and he crumpled, freeing Sam.
Three men in suits charged into the room. One grabbed Kae, pinning her arms behind her back as the others grabbed Sam and Dean. The brothers were dragged back toward the ballroom, whereas the man holding Kae dragged her back toward the lobby, where Chad was waiting for them.
"Excellent." he said, a small smile forming on his lips as he watched them shove her onto one of the couches and tie her hands behind her back. "Now if you two will excuse me, I have a call to make."
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