A/N: Sorry it took so long for this chapter. I could probably make a million excuses, but I'm not going too lol I hope you all enjoy, and please R&R! : )
I had hugged Castiel when I saw him for the first time in years, and I backed away in horror when I saw Lucifer. But seeing Gabriel was different. We had always been close, closer than Castiel and another one of my brothers would have liked.
"You're alive." I said, walking closer to him.
"Well, obviously." He said grinning. "Did you like the trick I did with the angel blade?"
I finally let myself smile, "What else could I expect from you, especially now that you're a trickster."
"So, I'm assuming Cas brought you up to speed about all of us?" He said, referring to 'us' as are other siblings.
I nodded, "Yeah, he did."
"I've been trying to find you for a long time now."
"Yeah and so has Lucifer and his minions." I said grimly.
"I know. I had hoped I would get to you first, but obviously I didn't." He frowned.
"Hey, it's alright." I shrugged. "But now that I'm working with the Winchesters, Lucifer and I aren't on the best foot."
"Oh don't tell me you're helping the three stooges now." Gabriel whined.
I assumed Cas counted as the third one.
"They're not that bad, and you know it." I said crossing my arms.
"Look you just have to be careful when you're with them, alright?"
"I know, I know, they could get me killed."
He just shook his head before becoming more serious.
"Why did you banish yourself, Lia?" He asked, using my nickname that I was called by my siblings.
See, if you take the name 'Crelius' and look at the 'liu' it somehow sounds like Lia.
"It's a long story."
"Well I have time." He smirked.
"Yeah, well I don't." I said looking towards our motel room. "They'll start getting worried if I'm not back soon."
"Just say the vending machine wouldn't work."
I sighed, "Fine. But I'm going to have to give you the extra short version.
"I'm all ears, kiddo."
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~Le Flashback~
"Castiel, you have to stop him!" I yelled angrily at my brother.
I had been fighting a war for over a month now between my brother Lucifer. Our father had presented his newest creation to us, which he called mankind. He told us to bow down and love mankind more than him. The rest of us did, but Lucifer being Lucifer refused to bow down to 'a broken, flawed, and murderous species'. Instead, he started a war in Heaven out of anger and pride. We each had to play our part in the war, but thankfully Castiel and I had been able to escape it for a little bit.
"Crelius, you know I can't. Lucifer's made his decision, and he will be badly punished for causing all this." Castiel tried to explain.
"Do you know what father will do to him?" I said locking eyes with my brother. "He'll banish him!"
"He's rebelled against Heaven and God. Have you ever thought he may deserve it?"
In my heart I knew he was right. He deserved to be punished for what he's done. But he was still my brother, and I still cared for him.
"But how could father do that? We both know Lucifer's always been his favorite, so how could he banish him? Doesn't he know it could kill him?" I said frantically.
Castiel just looked at me with pity in his eyes, "I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do."
But I knew what I could to do. I had heard of banishing sigil's before, and I had even learned how to draw one just in case worse came to worse in this war. If Lucifer got banished, then I would be waiting for him on what God called 'earth'.
"Don't you dare think of doing that." Castiel said sternly, probably knowing what I would do.
"I have too." I said, and I finally could feel myself getting worn down from this war. "You know it's the Mark that's making him this way."
"But you also know he's always been a little prideful."
I shook my head, "I'm not leaving him to die down there."
I slowly started to back away, so that Castiel wouldn't try to stop me.
"People can change, Castiel. And I'm going to make sure he doesn't hurt anyone or anything down there."
I started to walk off before I felt Castiel grab by arm. I turned to look at him, and saw a look of worry and pain on his face.
"Be careful, and know one day we'll meet again."
I hugged him for the last time, letting myself cry a little before pulling away. I weakly smiled, before he handed me something.
A knife.
"You're gonna need it."
I nodded and ran off towards a small patch of woods, hiding myself behind a tree. I pulled out the knife my brother had given me, my hands shaking in pure terror. I knew I would take the vessel of a newborn, because I couldn't take the life away from a child or a teenager. It was still wrong to take any sort of life from a person, but what choice did I have? I had to make sure Lucifer didn't hurt anyone else. I closed my eyes, and made myself remember what the symbol looked like. I slowly brought the knife to my left wrist, and felt the blade pierce my skin. I cried out in pain, but continued to finish the symbol. I saw it finished for an instance before everything went black.
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"And that's what happened." I said, finally coming to the end of my awful memories.
Gabriel just stood there in silence, probably taking it all in.
"So you really left us for him?" He finally said.
I glanced down at my feet, "I thought he'd change, or that I could at least stop him from doing any more harm. But as you can see, I've not don't much good."
"Hey, it's not your fault Luci became an as-" he started before shaking his head. "Never mind."
I half smiled, "Well I better get back, before the boys think I've been kidnapped or something."
"Well I could if you want." Gabriel said wiggling his eyebrows.
I laughed, "We may be the same age, but I think people would look at us strangely if they saw a sixteen year old with a how ever old you are together. Besides, Cas would kill us."
"Can't you just change vessels now that we have the chance to finally be something?" He whined, which I could tell he probably did a lot.
"I'm not leaving this vessel for anything, alright? If it wasn't for me, she'd be dead." I stated.
"Alright, fine." He rolled his eyes. "You should probably get back to that madhouse, anyways."
"Will I get to see you again?"
He smirked before disappearing, just like that. I smiled before picking up the candy bar I had dropped on the ground earlier. As soon as I did, I heard our motel door open.
"You okay, Jen?" Sam asked, poking his head out the door.
I put on a smile, "Yep, the machine just wasn't wanting to work."
"Alright then, come on." He chuckled. "Dean's starting to talk in rhymes."
I laughed and started back towards our room, before feeling my stomach drop. The wrapper on the snicker's bar had a message written on it. A message that made me want to run from the motel, and go into hiding again. I quickly acted like nothing was wrong, and popped the candy into my mouth, throwing the wrapper on the ground. But I wouldn't forget what it said.
'He's found you'
And I knew exactly what Gabriel meant by 'he'.
