Anna pulls her jacket closer as the rain fell. Ugh. Even in California, it was freezing here.
'Achoo!' She sneezed.
"Bless you." A passing man says.
"Thank you." Anna greets back. Usually she would have said nothing, but she needed to blend in. When Bartholomew started his rebellion, Anna snuck out of Heaven with another angel's help. She refused to join any of the angel's groups. Especially Bartholomew's.
There were other factions, but Bartholomew's was the most reckless. She refused to pick a side and choose to stay neutral along with the angels Rebecca and Elijah. It was getting dark. She hurriedly rushed back to her apartment and took off her jacket. She was starving. Ugh. She wished she had her grace, so she can stop being human. This was too hard. As she was opening her refrigerator, a hand went over her mouth.
"Don't move.''
Anna wasn't stupid, especially when she saw the angel blade being shoved in front of her face. She recognized the voice, it belonged to the angel Virgil. She started trembling. Virgil was Heaven's weapon guard. No angel had access to their weapon supplies, except Michael. She thought he was lost, what does he want with her?
"I thought I'll find you here. Anna, how's it been? Been eons since I seen you. Not since the war."
Anna says nothing. She didn't know Virgil very well, not many angels did. He kept to himself most of the time. He was the one that created most of Heaven's weapons. He was the one that made the archangel blades, as well as their weapons. Except the archangel's swords. Those were created by God Himself. But Michael's Lance, Gabriel's Horn, Raphael's Healing Kit and Lucifer's Spear were made and crafted by him.
"So Anna, where did you hide the weapons?"
Anna shook her head. "I don't have anything."
"Liar. Ever since you left Heaven, my stash has been cleaned out. Where is everything? Moses's Staff, Lot's Salt, Fate's Killer, c'mon Anna, tell me, and I promise you'll die a quick death."
"I physically cannot wield any of those things. No human being can while in Heaven. As you can see, I don't have my grace. I hadn't been an angel for years as you can see. Now will you let me go?"
"If it wasn't you, then where are they?"
"I don't know I swear."
Virgil holds her for a minute, then he let her go.
"Fine. But if I find out you have any involvement, I'll be back." Virgil then disappears in a flap of wings.
Anna breathes a sigh of relief. She heard rumors, that the angels were planning and go to war. They were afraid. God was going to be here eventually. It would be a matter of time. If he wasn't already here. Even as an angel, she felt a major magic spell. It was the same amount of magic she felt during the war.
Forgetting her appetite, she decided to watch TV. Surely there had to be something to distract her. Hopefully that show about breakups was on. She flipped the remote on. She was smiling and arguing with the TV on what the humans were doing.
The guy, Brian was accusing his girlfriend of hiding a secret. He was screaming at her for always hiding the truth from him. Anna wanted to punch him. He reminded her of Dean. Her ex from years ago. She wondered if he ever told Sam why he dumped her.
They met at her father's church. She was working as a volunteer for the annual church bake sale. She was selling many baked goods, especially pie. Those pies were their best sellers. Everyone believed it was Anna'a grandma that made them, but it was actually Anna that created the recipe. As an angel, she worked as a muse part time. That was before she became human.
As a former lieutenant, she felt worthless in Heaven. Yes she trained the younger angels to fight, but she was starting to get bored. She was walking back to her chambers in Heaven when she walked into the muse, Melody. Anna quickly apologized, the muses were usually overlooked by the other angels for being one of the lower classes.
Melody told Anna not to worry about it. She was busy trying to recruit new angels to come to Earth to become muses for the humans. Most angels said no. They thought Earth was smelly and wet, especially the humans. Anna was about to walk away when Melody called her name.
"Anna, right?"
"Ah, yes. I'm sorry, I can't remember your name." Anna was a higher tier angel and didn't bother to know any of the lower angel's names. As a lieutenant, she was in charge of garrisons, not of creativity. That was for the muses and cupids.
"Melody. I'm sorry to bother you," Melody says bowing her head. "But I am desperately needing help. Our numbers were greatly reduced during the War, and I need to recruit new angels to be muses for the humans on Earth."
"I'm sorry. I don't know much about humans."
"Well I do. I been working on Earth since the days of Adam and Eve. I was Abel's muse. Our job is to help the humans create things. Like art, stories, homework, you get the picture."
"Homework?"
"Well, small children need help. They detest homework. Especially teenagers. But it is our job to guide them to create new things. As they get older, they need the skill and drive to create new things, just as God intended."
"What does that have to do with me?"
"Well, since our numbers are low, I was hoping to ask the angels for help. I only managed to get three angels so far, I was hoping to ask you if you can work part time to be a muse on Earth. I know you are a lieutenant, but since there are hunters and witches on Earth taking care of the evil, I was wondering if you can help."
Anna thinks. She admitted she was getting bored training everyday. She knew every trick inside and out. No angel can defeat her, especially Uriel, although he tried. The only other angels to kick her ass was Michael and Lucifer. Hmm. She wondered about Earth. How the humans lived.
Anael was in charge of the souls of Heaven getting in. Anna was walking by and seen Uriel welcoming the souls to Heaven. She was always curious on how they lived. Especially soulmates. She wondered about humans and how they enjoyed their lives.
She came down to Earth to ancient Egypt to assist Castiel during the seven plagues. Before Castiel performed his duties, Anna went and quietly observed the humans. She was watching the Israelites smearing lamb's blood on the doorways. While they were doing that, she went and saw the other townspeople. Many were shopping for the Pharaoh's birthday.
Even with everything that was going on, the people were expected to provide the royal family with gifts. One man caught Anna's eye. After purchasing myrrh, he then bought a jar of honey and some lotus blossoms. She knew the myrrh was for the Pharaoh, and the honey for his family, but she wondered what the flowers were for.
She followed him to his home, a lower class home. It was far from the palace and was in a poorer section of town. The lambs blood was already smeared on the doorways. Same with most of the homes in this neighborhood. She saw his wife greet her husband as well as his children. When she saw him give the flowers to his wife, Anna felt a warmness inside of her, especially when her face lit up at her gift.
She heard of love, love between lovers, family members, small animals, but passion was new to her. As an angel, she wasn't supposed to show emotion, but she felt herself getting jealous of the couple showing physical affection towards one another. The humans called it sex.
She stayed for awhile silently watching them. The wife used the honey to make dinner for her family, and put the flowers in a clay pot on the table. After the dinner was prepared she saw them holding hands to give grace to the Lord. Thanking Him for the gifts they were about to receive. After they finished, they ate.
The husband was raving about the food she cooked, especially the honey cakes she baked. Anna smiled at the children. She was a warrior, but the angels that were in charge of guarding them were ordered to return to Heaven for the time being, since the final night of Exodus was tonight.
She heard the voice of Naomi, ordering her to get ready to part The Red Sea. The Israelites were leaving Eygpt tomorrow, and many angels were there to assist the Israelites to escape. After all that was over and done with, Anna returned to Heaven. But her time on Earth made her think. What would happen if she became one of them.
She didn't return to Earth for centuries. Not until she agreed to assist Melody on becoming a muse. Many angels followed Anna's lead and became muses themselves. The angel Anael, was one of them. She helped create one of the greatest tragic love stories of all time, Romeo and Juliet.
Anna's projects were okay, but mostly forgotten. She usually helped generals on their battle plans, but one man wrote a poem with Anna's help. He was sitting in a war torn battlefield in despair. Many of his fellow soldiers were dead. Killed by enemy fire. She sympathized with him and whispered in his ear about his thoughts and emotions. He ended up creating a very famous poem.
The poem when he wrote it, reminded Anna about the Great War. Many of her friends were killed in the war, including her dear friend Ezekiel. After she got the news of his death, she felt responsible. It was her idea for Ezekiel and Balthazar to create a distraction so the other garrisons could sneak in and do a surprise attack.
The plan was supposed to be flawless, but she didn't count on the demon Bael infiltrating their camp. He carried the power of invisibility. He was so well cloaked, other angels couldn't sense him, not even Anna. He overheard her plans, and when it was carried out, he had his demons waiting in ambush for Ezekiel and Balthazar.
What he didn't count on his how well trained they were. As they were laying in waiting, both were severely injured from an earlier surprise attack. Both couldn't escape, because the other angels were busy fighting and couldn't assist them. It was Ezekiel that told Balthazar to run and get help. He knew his injuries were too serious to heal and he didn't want Balthazar getting killed for nothing. So he lied to Balthazar saying he was going to follow him in escaping. But he knew he wasn't getting out of there alive. Before he sent Balthazar away, he told him to tell Anael that he loved her and to follow her dreams.
Balthazar tried to protest, but Ezekiel was stubborn. He said he would be right behind him. But as Balthazar was running, he heard a scream, then a bright light. The Knight of Hell Abaddon killed Ezekiel in cold blood. It was Anna that told Anael the tragic news. She'll never forget Anael's wails of pain and heartbreak. She held Anael as she cried for her lost love.
Since that day, Anael withdrew into herself. She became depressed and quiet. She worked under the angel Joshua, but over time started shirking her duties. Since most angels needed permission to come to Earth, she often snuck down to explore Earth on her own.
She got careless one day and was caught by the archangel Raphael. He ordered her back to Heaven, and she was instantly demoted from her position. She took the job of button pusher from the angel, Samandriel. The job sucked and Anael hated it. Most of the lower tiered angels took turns doing that job, they often rotated every few hundred years, but as punishment Anael was stuck doing it for centuries.
Anna felt bad for her and often talked to her to pass the time. She and Anael became good friends. When she told Anael she was taking on the position of a muse, Anael begged Anna for Melody to give her a job. Anna was a respected lieutenant and knew her word would be taken into consideration. So Melody gave Anael the chance to work with a human named William Shakespeare. She wasn't the only one, there were other angels that worked with him, one of them being Hael.
Hael despite looking young, was one of the oldest angels of Heaven. She was there when she created the Grand Canyon. It took her millions of years to create it, but when it was completed, the other angels were impressed. Especially the humans. Every year, thousands of tourists came to see it.
Hael helped the human script writer create the masterpiece, Macbeth. When Anael came down to Earth to help Shakespeare, she found the location of a lost relic. The Occultum. Since she was on a limited time on Earth, she hid the treasure in a safe place. Then when WW2 happened years later, her treasure was destroyed by a bombing.
Anael left Heaven years later. She heard the prayers of a young woman who was crying for her dying husband who was in a coma from a brain aneurysm. The woman, Joanna was a religious woman. She was one of the few female pastors of her church, temporarily taking her husband's job as a Sunday Pastor. She was beside her husband's hospital bed in the Palliative Care Unit, praying to God for a miracle.
Anael knew God wasn't around, no angels seen Him since The War. Seeing the woman's vessel, Anael thought that she was perfect for Anael's new life on Earth. She answered her prayers. Her true voice would have hurt the hospital patients, so she asked a old nurse if she can use her for a temporary vessel. Approaching Joanna, she told her she can heal her husband, but only if she can take her as a vessel.
Joanna, understandably told her to fuck off. Anael had to prove that she was an angel, and not a crazy woman. She told Joanna to hold her vessel's hand. Then she proceeded to heal her husband while holding Joanna's hand. She didn't heal him all the way, she did enough so he can stop the damage to his brain. Joanna was in shock, but seeing her husband's vitals going up, she agreed to Anael's deal. Anael than healed her husband completely. Keeping her word.
Joanna said yes. She knew her husband would be in safe hands. Anael left her temporary host and went inside Joanna. As soon as she saw Joanna's husband waking up, she allowed her to say goodbye. Then they both left the hospital. Anael went back to her vessel's home to pack a bag so she can leave. Joanna begged for Anael to let her husband down gently, that she wanted a divorce. Not that she didn't love him anymore, but she had an important mission from Heaven. Her husband, deeply religious, understood, especially when he heard Anael's whispers, while in a coma.
She knew Anael healed her husband, and she also knew that she wanted to keep her vessel. She had some doubts about her decision but knew she had to keep her promise. Joanna and her husband went their separate ways. He was now living his life, returning to work as a pastor, and Anael in her new vessel decided to take over Joanna's life.
Anael now living in Earth was unsure what to do. She's been to Earth several times, but this was the first time she was in a human body. The first night she completely took over her vessel, she went shopping at the mall. She was walking around admiring the clothing and jewelry that the stores were selling. Curious, she went inside and tried them on.
The moment she put on that necklace, she knew she wanted to have nice things. She was tempted to brainwash the jeweler on giving her that necklace, but Joanna begged for her she had to earn it honestly. The people that owned these shops needed to make a living, so she suggested Anael get a job.
Anael reluctantly put the necklace back, so she decided to follow Joanna's advice. But as a angel, she has no prior experience on working. So Joanna suggested she do something she's good at. Anael worked with Joshua and was a button pusher, but she knew no company would hire her for that experience alone. So she went home to a vacant apartment she was living in with the tenant out of town at the moment. While looking at his computer, she saw a article about a healer named Pastor Roy in Nebraska. There was several comments that he healed people in miraculous ways, even those that were dying in incurable diseases.
So she flew over to Nebraska to see Roy for herself. No human possessed incredible healing powers like that, except one man. He was famous in the bible and his name was often mentioned in worship. But other than him, she herself was curious to see if this Pastor Roy was the real deal.
She took a seat near the back. She wanted to sit closer to the front, but the tent was packed with believers. The service began with a prayer and Anael prayed too, even knowing God was most likely not listening. But she often prayed to Him to watch over Ezekiel and her friends that were lost during the war. After he said Amen, Anael put her head up.
The service began with a hymn, then a sermon, than the healing began. Anael was really curious to see it for herself, but when she saw the reaper, she quickly left. Pastor Roy was a fraud. He was no healer. Disappointed she went home. But that gave her an idea. She can heal people, but for money.
Since then, Sister Jo was a household name in the town she was living in. The only thing she asked for is that no cameras or cell phones be allowed in. She was afraid that if other angels found out, she would be thrown in jail, like the angel Gadreel.
Anna sighs shutting the TV off. She was really hungry now. She decided to order take out. After her food arrived, she sat down to eat thinking about her fall. Most angels did their duties, like they were programmed too, other than the archangels, not many thought for themselves. Except a select few. Metatron, Gadreel, Anael, Balthazar, and herself. She heard stories about Metatron, he left immediately after the war. He took his Tablets and went deep into hiding. Other than a few sightings, no one seen him since.
Gadreel wasn't very well known by angels, not many knew of his existence since he was in prison since the beginning of time. But Anna knew. She occasionally escorted him to Earth whenever he was was on parole. He delighted being on Earth. He was the first angel to live full time on Earth, at least till he let the serpent in. Michael finally released him from jail, saying Gadreel needed to be ready to fight. He was dating a human, with most angels confused on why. Anna knew. He was the first angel that fell in love with the human Eve.
Nowadays he seemed happy, he and that witch were dating. Metatron was rumored to be married, Castiel and Hannah were together, and Anna fell in love when she was still in college.
After she fell, willingly, she was born to a infertile couple, a church decon and his wife. She was born during a rainstorm. Her human parents called her their little miracle, they often teased her that Heaven was crying on losing their little angel. How right they were. Except Heaven wanted her dead. Thank goodness times changed.
Before she got her memories back, she was working at that bake sale when she met Dean Winchester. She rarely dated, her human parents were strict and they were afraid she will be hurt. Plus, they were afraid she will be knocked up before she was married, even though Anna kept saying she rather adopt or foster children. Her angelic side remembered Heaven's strict rules. No offspring will be born from any angels.
She saw the tall man first. But it was the guy in the leather jacket that caught her attention. He was looking around with some weird meter and when he saw Anna staring at him, he quickly put his machine away, which happened to be a EMF, she found out later. When he looked at her eyes, Anna was smitten.
Seeing the pies on the table, he quickly introduces himself, right after almost buying every pie she had, pissing off the other patrons who were waiting in line for the pies.
"Mmm. These pies look good. I'll buy the whole table. Oh, by the way, names Dean."
"Anna." She blushed when he winked. When he pulled out a bunch of twenties to pay for the pies, the people behind him started swearing.
"Hey! What about the rest of us? Stop being a greedy fuck!" The woman that was behind Dean swore.
Anna had to stiffle her laughter. The woman that was swearing was the church pianist.
"Um, we have a lot of customers, maybe I suggest the apple pie instead? I made that one myself."
Dean smiles making her blush.
"Sounds like a sale. Sold."
Later that night, both Anna and Dean were in the Impala kissing. At first, after the bake sale was over, they went out for ice cream, then went to the movies, then after the movie ended, neither Dean or Anna wanted to go home. So Dean and her went out for a drive. That was the night Anna lost her virginity.
She didn't mean to do it, but at the time, it felt natural. Dean was gentle and caring, and they used protection. The next few weeks were magical. Anna felt herself falling hard. Even though Dean was always busy with his top secret job, even though at the time Anna had no idea he was a hunter, he always made time to see her.
They dated for three months. It was a few days before Dean and his brother Sam moved away. Dean started dreaming about his brother Sam getting hurt. That was the beginning of the end before their inevitable breakup. Dean and Anna started fighting. He accused Anna for conspiring for hurting Sam, even though Anna kept denying it. She admitted she wasn't Sam's biggest fan, although she couldn't understand why she distrusted him so much, despite Sam being kind and polite.
The night of their breakup, Dean went storming in Anna's apartment and started accusing Anna of trying to murder his brother. Anna was hurt and confused. She swore she'll never hurt Sam, murder went against everything she ever believed in. Dean didn't believe her. He looked in her eyes and coldly told her to stay away from Sam, or Dean will be forced to do something he'll regret. Then he stormed out slamming the door.
Anna stood in the living room shaking. She heard a rumble of a car engine and she knew that Dean was driving away. She went to her bedroom and cried hard all night. She didn't understand why Dean hated her so much. Luckily her roommates weren't home. Afterwards seeing Anna, they took her out for ice cream and took her out to the bars to cheer her up. Anna swore to never date again.
Neither one saw each other again for a couple of years. Not until the night of her parents murder. Anna knew both souls were in Heaven, Anna swore when she got her grace back, she was going to see them. Seeing Dean after all that time, made Anna angry. She felt the pain of their break up, and despite seeing her dead parents earlier, she felt angry and pissed Dean was going to see her weak and sad. So she took the initiative, she slapped him hard. It felt satisfying, but it felt hallow.
Then afterwards, the demon Ruby came to "protect" her, then Dean and Sam saved her from possibly getting kidnapped by the evil Alistair. That night is when she heard a familiar name. Michael. She got her memories back. Her true identity as an angel. She remembered everything. Unfortunately she was still human, her grace was lost.
Anna was dying to be an angel again, she missed her old life. But she knew if she got her grace back, her human body will be destroyed. Same with her soul. She was the only angel in existence, other than the half-angel Jack Kline, to be born with a soul. She wondered if God planned it. Her desire to become human. Only God created souls. She knew if she died, she'll return to Heaven. But as an ordinary soul, not an angel. She can live happily with her human parents. But being an angel meant returning to her old life. She will be expected to lead some of the armies against the fight against God.
She wondered if it was worth it. She decided to do something she didn't do for a long time, she read the Bible.