Chapter Twelve
"How did you find me, Cas?" Diana asked as she drew him into another hug. Don't get her wrong, the Mikaelsons are great and there is definitely something between her and Klaus… but sometimes a girl just needs her brothers.
"Diana, bring him inside. We don't want Marcel or the witches seeing you." Kol urged. Cas looked at him puzzled.
"Diana, why is there two Original vampires here? And why am I sensing a forced bond on you? And what about the two-" Diana covered Cas's mouth with her hand.
"Not out here. Kol's right. Let's talk inside." Diana took his hand and led him into the plantation just as Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah came home.
"What were you doing outside of the house, little love?" Klaus growled out, his hybrid face almost coming out at the sight of the stranger standing close to her.
Diana sniffled. "Klaus, this is one of my brothers: Castiel. Cas, this is Klaus, Rebekah, Elijah, Finn, and Kol. I've been staying with them for awhile." Cas didn't even spare them a glance which rubbed the five siblings the wrong way. Clearly he didn't see any of them as much of a threat towards him.
"What is going on? Why haven't you been answering any of our calls? And why am I sensing two extra beings?" Cas asked sternly. Diana took a deep breath and led Cas into the living room and sat him down as the Mikaelson siblings followed.
None of them knew how to react to this new man who is clearly supernatural himself but most of them decided to wait and see if this 'Cas' proved to be a threat.
"Cas, I knew that you were all busy with trying to find your Dad and hunts for those that actually needed your help."
"That's no excuse, Diana. We would have all dropped what we were doing to come help you."
"But that's the point! I didn't want you all dropping everything to help me. I'm the one that got me in this situation, I'm going to get myself out of it!" Diana exclaimed.
"Just, tell me what's going on. I'm here now, Diana, and if you think that I'm going to just leave when you basically admitted that you needed our help, you really don't know me or the others that well." He took a hold of her hand as their gazes locked. "Now, tell me what has happened."
"I'm pregnant… with Klaus's babies and the witches of the French Quarter coven bound my life to one of their's and essentially also have me trapped in New Orleans so that I can't leave. Klaus and his siblings have been doing what they can to try and unbind me but it hasn't been an easy task with having to watch out for witches and vampires."
Cas's eyes widened as Diana continued talking. Once she stopped, his blue eyes sharpened. "Did you know that your bonds to Michael and the others have been blocked? Most likely because of this forced one?"
Diana's eyes widened in surprise. "No, I didn't know that it was! Oh, all four of them must be going crazy!"
"Uh, excuse me?" Klaus interrupted, causing the two to look over at the Mikaelsons whom were regarding both of them with suspicion. "What are you? And what are these 'bonds' you are talking about? And who are Michael and the others? What are their connections to Diana?"
Cas's eyes narrowed at them. "No need for you to know at this time. Diana, call Dean or Sam. Let them know where you are. I'll get in contact with Michael and the others. These witches are about to get a rude awakening. No one messes with our family and gets away with it."
Diana sniffled and threw her arms around him, hugging him tightly.
"Oh, how I've missed you, Cas."
"I have missed you, too. Don't ever go no contact with us again. I don't like the worry that appears as my role as a big brother."
"Get used to it. It won't ever go away." Finn piped up as he looked at his siblings and especially Rebekah.
Cas sighed. "Yeah, so I've been told. Diana, phone calls."
"Alright, I'll call them… can you hold off on getting in contact with Michael and the others though?"
"Why?"
"Because I would rather hold off on the bloodshed as much as possible."
"Bloodshed?" Kol asked. But a light dawned on Elijah.
"They are who you threatened Sophie with that first night."
Recognition dawned on the brothers. "That's right! How scary are these newcomers?"
Diana shrugged. "They aren't that scary to me." She said at the time Cas said: "They are terrifying, especially about any harm that comes to her."
Cas stood. "I'll wait for you to get off the phone with Dean and Sam but then after that, I'm getting the others."
Diana nodded in agreement. That was the best that she could get.
"So, is Michael a former lover?" Rebekah asked, trying to see if Nik would be jealous over Diana's 'ex' coming. And she saw a flash of jealousy cross his face. Diana snorted as she took out her phone and began to dial her oldest brother's phone number.
"No way would I date him or any of his brothers. It is hard to explain to others what they are to me and what I am to them so I just claim them as family, just not as brothers. They are like guardian angels." Diana smirked as she said the last sentence for some reason and both the more mischievous siblings of the Mikaelsons felt as if Diana was pulling a giant prank on them.
Diana raised the phone to her ear as the phone rang.
"Diana, is it you?"
Diana felt the prick of tears beginning to gather. She wasn't even three months along yet but still the little bundles of joy were messing her up emotionally constantly.
"Its me, Dean."
Sighs of relief came through. "Where are you? We're coming to get you."
"No, Cas will come get you and Sam. There is somethings I need to tell the two of you in person."
Cas nodded at Diana's look and left the room, disappearing out the front door quickly. By the time that one of the Mikaelson siblings got to the door, Cas was gone.
"What have you gotten yourself into?"
Diana hesitated. "A mess that technically is going to be around for quite sometime."
"What, are you pregnant or something?" Dean asked jokingly even as he motioned for Sam to pack his bags. Both jumped as Cas appeared in the motel one with them.
The silence from Diana lasted a bit too long for Dean's liking.
"Please don't tell me that you're pregnant, Diana."
"I'll tell you everything when you get here, Dean," Diana said firmly. "Love you." And hung up. She groaned putting her head into her hands as her head ached something fierce and then something felt like it pierced the back of her neck. "Ouch!" She reached back and when she pulled her hand away, blood was on her fingers.
"Little love? Are you okay?" Klaus asked moving to crouch in front of her. He reached up and felt her forehead. "Your burning up."
"She was fine all day," Kol said as he moved forward as well.
"I…" Diana swallowed her suddenly dry mouth. "I think this has something to do with the witch."
The siblings exchanged glances, all thinking that she was right.
Klaus hesitated between going to hunt down the witch himself and staying with little love.
"Finn, Rebekah, and I will hunt down Sophie. Klaus and Kol, the two of you stay here and try to get her temperature down." Elijah instructed.
"What do you think this is?" Klaus asked as he pulled Diana into his arms and began to head up to her room where hopefully with rest and cold rags they can get it under control.
"I saw this years ago when we were last here," Kol said grimly finally remembering what this was looking like. "One of the witch dark objects was used when the coven wanted to force a miscarriage on someone." Exchanging dark glances, the three Mikaelson siblings headed out to go hunt down the witch. "Cold rags won't help. She needs to be pretty much submerged in cold water to keep her temperature manageable. Get her in the pool, I'll see if I can scrounge up any herbs that might help."
The two flashed in separate ways in the house as Klaus carefully walked down the steps into the pool and felt Diana sigh in relief as the cold water touched her feverish skin. Klaus kept going until everything but her face was submerged and already he could feel her temperature going back down to normal.
A short time later Kol whooshed into the backyard with Elijah and Finn following with Sophie being dragged behind them.
"What is she doing here?!" Klaus growled out.
"She is here to help." Elijah tried to soothe.
"She is the reason I'm in this mess to begin with!" Diana screamed out as she began to feel her temperature rise again.
"Let me help!" Sophie practically begged.
"No! I'm not letting you or any of your coven near me or my babies again! MICHAEL! LUCIFER! RAPHAEL! GABRIEL!" She cried out, her voice raised to the heavens as she called for the help of her guardian angels.
Between one blink and another, her guardian angels were there.
"Diana!" They exclaimed as they took in the situation and appeared by her side.
"Diana, what's wrong? Did the mutt do something?" Lucifer asked as his charge sobbed and he practically yanked her into his arms, ignoring the snarl Klaus shot at him.
"No, the witches are trying to make me have a miscarriage. I'm bound to the witch they used the object on so whatever happens to her, happens to me. Please, save them. You know I can't go through it again." She begged them.
Michael soothed her hair back from her face as their eyes met. "Don't worry, Di, we'll take care of it. Neither you or your children are going to perish while we are here. We are your guardians, remember?"
Diana cried still but nodded to show she did. Michael turned his blue eyes onto the sole witch.
"You! You are the reason she is in this state?"
Sophie hesitated. "I mean, I'm the reason she is bound to me but I'm not the reason she is being cursed with a miscarriage. Agnes is the one that did it."
"Stacey, Sasha, Agnes, or Sophie, it doesn't matter. All of you Wiccan witches are a pain in the *ss. At least the demon powered ones know to respect those that are under the protection of beings stronger than them." Gabriel snarked even as he grabbed Sophie and dragged her over to Raphael.
"Raph, break their bond," Lucifer ordered from where Michael and him were still around Diana.
"Gladly. I'm not sorry to say, witch, that this will hurt you." With a snap, the bond between Sophie and Diana was broken and the backlash was so great that Sophie fell onto her back with a cry as pain wracked her body.
Diana took in her first deep breath as she felt the forced bond removed from her. She clutched to Michael and Lucifer as she slumped in relief still in the water. Then her eyes met Klaus's and seeing the same relief mirrored in his eyes she pushed herself out of Lucifer and Michael's arms and into Klaus's. He clutched her to him, holding her as close as he could and kissed her forehead.
"You're alright. All three of you are alright." He murmured as their breathing got back under control. "Let's get out of this cold water, okay, little love?"
Diana sniffled but allowed Finn and Elijah to grasp her hands and help her out of the water. Kol was there with a warm towel that she happily wrapped around herself. By the time she turned back to her guardians, the four were as dry as when they got there but eyeing Diana and the Mikaelson siblings, trying to gauge the situation.
Right about that time, Cas, Dean, and Sam arrived.
"What the h*ll? Why is my sister and that guy soaked?" Dean snarked out.
"Give me a minute and I'll tell you all. But first, Kol?" Diana asked, the Original appeared at her side.
"Little D?"
"I think Sophie has booked herself a nice little tour of our dungeon courtesy of you."
Kol smiled gleefully. "Oh, little D, you give me the best presents!" Kol said as he reached down and grabbed the slightly twitching Sophie and began to drag her away.
"Make sure you get answers out of her when you do 'question' her, Kol." Diana called after him. Klaus appeared at her side almost pouting.
"I wanted to torture that upstart witch."
"You can torture Agnes. She is the reason for the past few hours, after all." Klaus and Diana shared a look between he leaned down and kissed her forehead.
"Okay, enough. We all would like to know what the h*ll is going on," Dean said.
Diana took a deep breath and ripped the news off like a bandage. "Well you just came on the coattails of an attempted spell that causes miscarriage. Sophie had bound herself to me so that whatever happened to her, would happen to me so when the spell was cast on Sophie for miscarriages, it transferred automatically to me."
"But that would mean that you-" Sam was cut off by Diana.
"Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Gabriel, thank you for saving the twins."
Silence as the four guardians and two Winchesters digested this.
"Oh, and the French Quarter coven was trying to use my life and my unborn children to blackmail Klaus and his siblings to do their biding."
"And why would you and the little angels be used against the mutt?" Raphael asked, crossing his arms as he and his brothers glared at the man that had his arm wrapped around their charge.
"Because he's the baby daddy." Castiel blurted out.
"Cas." Diana sighed out.