Castiel was the one to spot the group coming in via dragon. As such he was the first one out the door to hug the massive head in relief. He had been worried when Dean's presence vanished, and Gabriel had taken little convincing when, after Sam went to look for his brother, he had failed to return within a few weeks.
Relax Cas. Sorry it took me so long to clean up the mess we found, said Dean. Castiel leaned into the wing Dean put around his body.
"Where were they?"
"An alternate Earth where Potter didn't ask Death for a second chance to live and Lucifer broke Sam into acting as his vessel. That Micheal and Lucifer are learning a pointed lesson on family," said Gabriel.
Castiel finally noticed Dean had more than just Sam and Bear on his back.
There was a second Sam, someone who looked like Harry Potter when he completed the Hallows, and a cat. It was the cat that drew his attention the most. It ran along Dean's spine and jumped onto Castiel's shoulders. The intense blue eyes that met his and he nearly yelped as memories not his own flooded his brain.
Cas? You alright? Dean asked.
"You could have told me they brought my alternate with you!" he hissed at Gabriel. Very much like an angry cat.
"Wasn't expecting that. Wonder what would happen if I came face to face with mine," said Gabriel. Sam glared at his boyfriend.
"Don't. You weren't there when I found him and there's no way I'm letting you feel those memories when it was enough to cripple Micheal and Lucifer," said Sam flatly.
"Anyway, I'm going to drop Harry here with someone who can insure he actually gets better and give them a chance to go on dates. Be back love~!" said Gabriel, grabbing the green-eyed teen.
"Bet Sirius and Hel will be thrilled to have him," snorted Sam.
Castiel turned to Sam's alternate.
"So what should we call you?"
"Don't call me Winchester. After seeing what the Harvelles have I've lost any desire to be called by that name," said Sam Winchester flatly.
"I think you might as well go by Singer instead. You can change your first name too if you want," said Dean, stretching. Cas the cat jumped onto his shoulders almost protectively.
"Boy, what the hell did you get... Why am I seeing double?" asked Bobby, having heard Dean's voice.
"Dad, meet Sam Winchester. Some asshole angel dumped me in an alternate Earth, so I dragged a few strays back. We're trying to figure out what to call Sammy's double," said Dean.
Bobby looked at Sam Winchester.
"I take it you were raised by John?" he asked carefully. Sam Winchester nodded miserably.
"How about Henry? It was the name of Ellen's husband," said Bobby.
"Better than Sam...and there's no way he can turn it into a girl's name," said the newly named Henry Singer.
"How about Henrietta?" said Dean innocently. Henry kicked Dean hard in the shin. Dean started hopping on one foot.
"Bitch."
"Jerk," said Henry without hesitation.
"Boys, knock it off...at least until after we've eaten some of Dean's cooking," said Sam tiredly. He wanted to sleep for a week.
"Damn straight," said Bobby. Gabriel appeared behind Bobby, nearly giving the man a heart attack in the process, and made a show of dusting himself off.
"Dropped him off with Sirius. Should have seen the waterworks, but I told him the basic gist of what happened. Fortunately it seems that timeline synced up enough with the one we took him from, so they didn't need any help reconnecting. He's now the official babysitter for the kids so Siri and Hel can go out on dates and the cook of the Roadhouse," said Gabriel.
"Mom will be happy. Orders for food went down when I quit acting as the official cook," said Dean snorting.
"Which means you'll be the one to tell them about the double and the new cook," said Bobby.
"Considering I recently told Jo where I got that scrambled egg recipe everyone loves so much and the first thing she demanded was details, I think they won't care," said Dean flippantly.
Sam paled.
"She actually asked for details?"
"Sammy, this is a girl who owns a lot of vampire and leopard-shifter smut that is actually decent to read. She also happens to be a yaoi fan girl who hasn't had a date in over a year. So yes, she demanded details," said Dean calmly.
Henry snorted.
"I bet you twenty bucks the first thing she does upon seeing Harry is flirt with him," said Henry.
"Hell, I bet a hundred they end up dating! They're not that far apart in age and I know he wouldn't leave her for another girl!" said Dean confidently.
The second Harry Potter ran into Joanna 'Jo' Harvelle, he would definitely fall for the bossy girl. The fact she had accepted Dean and Sam as her brothers meant she was as loyal to family as they were. In short, she wouldn't cheat on him like Ginny had.
"Food first, then talk! Luc is driving us all batty!" said Bobby.
Henry stiffened when he saw Lucifer in the library reading one of Bobby's reference tomes. Lucifer took one look at him and then at Dean.
"You had to drag back strays?"
"So long as you don't take him over like your alternate did, we're good. Had to give your other self a pointed lesson on family."
"How bad?"
"He ripped Gabriel's wings to shreds, and when Gabriel went home Micheal tore up his grace but good. Sam barely got to him in time."
Lucifer's eyes flashed.
"Micheal and my alternate hurt Gabriel? The most beloved of the arch angels?" he hissed.
Sam didn't try to run when Lucifer sent his grace towards the angel hiding inside him. It took a full five minutes for Gabriel to realize this wasn't the same Lucifer.
He left the connection open to the arch angel so Lucifer could help him heal the broken Gabriel. Sam vaguely heard the same crooning he had been humming for Gabriel each night to ease the nightmares away.
Jo Harvelle went into the kitchen, expecting Dean to be there with all the delicious smells inside. It had been months since she came home, and Ellen was enjoying some quality time with the pagan kids and one half-werewolf. Instead she froze at the sight of the absolutely handsome British man cooking for a relatively small army outside. The man turned, green eyes so hauntingly reminiscent of Dean staring back.
Unlike Dean, this man didn't have the playful look of overprotective big brother in his eyes. He actually looked more tired in spirit than anything.
"Did you need anything?" he asked with a slight Scottish lilt.
"Actually I was expecting my brother back here. Usually when the kitchen smells this good he's the one cooking," she admitted.
Recognition came into his eyes.
"You're Joanna," he said.
"Call me Jo," she said. God, she felt like a teenaged girl with her first crush! He was way hotter than her first boyfriend!
"My name's Harry."
Realization hit her like a ton of bricks. Dean had explained about the whole double soul thing and how his past life hadn't been so great...which was why he asked Death to reincarnate him.
"Harry Potter?" she asked tentatively.
From the look on his face, he clearly expected her to demand and autograph or gush about what a hero he was. He wasn't expecting her to sweep him into a rather strong hug.
"Okay, now I see why Dean refuses to talk about his past life if someone recognizing you causes that reaction," she said. She noticed him tensing when she hugged him, something she was determined to remedy.
Sensing his confusion, Jo grinned at him.
"Dean didn't tell you? The Harry Potter of this world asked Death if reincarnation was possible and Death decided to put him in the one body no one expected. It's why he ran away and became Dean Harvelle," said Jo.
"Dean Harvelle was originally me. That explains quite a bit actually."
Ellen had come in and was observing this little exchange. If her daughter fell for the man Dean was before he became her son, she had no problem with it. If this Harry Potter was anything like Dean, he would go to hell and back for those he cared about.
Raphael was sweating. The angel had sensed Dean's return and knew the man was pissed. He only hoped Winchester never found out who had thrown him into that alternate Earth.
His luck ran out when he felt something latch onto his grace, followed by dragon fire breaking the 'ground' beneath him. He fell, hard, onto the Earth. Standing before him was a very pissed off dragon the angels had begun to call Godzilla for reasons he never understood.
Consider this payback for hurting Castiel and trying to kill me in an Earth not my own, asshole, it growled in his mind.
Dragon fire consumed his grace, destroying nearly every bit of his being. He barely escaped with his life, though four of his six wings were completely destroyed. He would be lucky if they ever grew back, considering the flames cauterized the wounds. Raphael did his best and barely managed to fly back into heaven, where he collapsed from the strain. It would be weeks before Micheal would get the full story from him.
Annadriel was running for her life. She had thought that Harvelle wouldn't remember her. Would never know she had helped torture Castiel for choosing a human over heaven. That hope was crushed when she felt something latch onto her grace and yank her down, vessel and all, back to Earth.
She barely noted the black unicorn that ran alongside her. All she cared about was the massive black behemoth flying above her, waiting for the vessel to tire before it burned her essence into nothing.
A great black panther with deep blue eyes ran ahead, it's lope eating the distance in front of her with ease. The eyes condemned her as it judged her soul unworthy. If she didn't know any better, she would swear that cat was Castiel.
The dragon landed gracefully, tucking wings behind it. It growled, acid dripping from it's fangs as it stared into Annadriel's soul.
She screamed into the night as acid ate away her wings, her grace being sealed inside the human form. When it was over she reached behind her back, only to feel blinding pain of where her four wings had been. She was well and truly human now. She wept for the loss of her wings.
Uriel sneered at the Winchester. He didn't know how the human had tracked him down, or why he thought he had a chance against a seraph, but he would kill the man if he tried anything.
That arrogance lasted for all of two seconds when he felt Lucifer and Gabriel behind him. They were pretty angry.
"Going somewhere...brother?" purred Lucifer.
"I think it's time we retaught you to respect your superiors," agreed Gabriel, glaring.
"But you were dead!"
"No, I went into hiding. See I don't exactly appreciate the blatant disrespect you showed me while we went to stop Samhain from rising...at least Castiel had the sense to keep his mouth shut," said Gabriel glaring.
Uriel was really sweating now.
"You guys good or do we recreate the Hunt again?" asked Dean.
"We'll handle this one. Killing an angel is more than enough for your resume Dean-o," said Gabriel.
Dean made sure to chuckle evilly as he said loudly for Uriel's benefit "Raphael and Zachariah screamed real good when I got my claws into them. And Annadriel won't be flying any century soon."
The seraph looked at Dean wide eyed in horror. He was the one who nearly killed the arch angel?!
"Have fun you two~!" Dean said as he left. Lucifer and Gabriel descended upon the seraph with evil looks in their eyes.
Chuck winced as he felt the fourth angel being attacked. To be fair, they had brought it upon themselves when they harmed Castiel. Dean didn't suffer that sort of thing lightly, and his dragon would demand some sort of vengeance. At least he only killed one and left the other three permanently traumatized. Then again Zachariah had brought Dean's wrath upon himself. Raphael was just lucky he was able to salvage even one set of wings.
Uriel? Well he was lucky Lucifer and Gabriel weren't in the mood to kill him, since Dean left that punishment up to them.