We walk into Bobby's and I call out, "It's Lynn! I'm totally alive and Lucifer free!"
In a matter of seconds we're met by Dean and Sam; Bobby wheeled himself in followed lastly by Cas, and this is when my nervousness returned from before we walked in.
Tei narrowed his eyes hastily. "You." He mumbled at Cas.
"Lynn, who the hell is that?" Dean asked.
"This is Teivel," I introduced. "Cas told you guys he, uh... sheltered me."
"So that was you? You kept her hidden?" Sam tilted his head. Tei ignored him, putting his left hand over my right shoulder, and I could sense by the thoughts he sent to me this way were of straight anger. I can't blame him, it's been a long time since we've seen each other.
"It's okay," I reassure him. "I told you everyone here is my friend..." I looked around. "Where's Jo? Ellen?"
I was met with silence, so I widen my eyes. "Did they-?"
"They didn't make it," Sam admitted. "Hellhounds got Jo, and Ellen wouldn't leave her."
"Hellhounds," I repeated sadly. What are those? Tei was still making contact with me so he filled in the blanks. Through him, I suddenly saw large hellish mongrels in my mind. "Oh!" I gasped. "That's so awful. I'm so sorry that happened to them."
Bobby looked just as confused as the others. "You some kind of psychic?" He asked Tei.
"No he's not," Cas answered immediately. "I sense Grace in him."
"Angel?" Was Dean's obvious guess. "Explains the creepy uh... fire eyes."
Tei's eyes aren't creepy, I thought. The guy in question lets out a chuckle. "Thanks, angel bug."
Damn him for reading my mind.
All but Cas looked rather disgusted at Tei's name for me. "Did he just call you-" Dean started, and I knew he was gonna let out one of his jokes. I pointed a finger at him to warn him to stop.
"Guys, I've known Tei my entire time here on Earth. We're..." I can't believe I was going to say this. "We're very close."
"You guys aren't like a thing, right?" Dean let slip, and he knew I was going to kill him later by the look I gave him.
"No way," I remarked. "Besides, I'm just a kid, right?"
"You're wearing a kid," Sam rudely corrected.
"Dude?" Dean looked at his brother. "Ouch."
"And my father is supposed to be wearing you," I retorted back at Sam. "I've been with you guys for all these months... half a freaking year! And that's what you really think of me? I should have listened to Gabriel."
"Lynn-" Cas started.
I scowled, putting my left hand across myself to place it over Tei's on my shoulder. "Cas, you call me if you need me. No matter what it is."
"Lynn, don't do this, we need you." Cas pleaded.
I glared at Sam, who now looked a little remorseful from what he said. "Nah, you'll be fine," I looked at Tei now. "We can go back now."
We were gone before anyone could stop us. Back in the Germany mountains, I could see the safehouse he mentioned before. It was large and beige, with white shingles. A wrap around porch with dark brown wood. The front door was the same color. "It's beautiful, Tei. You built this you said?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"I prepared it in the event that you weren't able to continue staying with the humans." Tei admitted.
"You mean my family?" I realized. "Tei, what happened after I left? I called Alice after a while and she told me they were dead."
"I searched the whole planet for you," Tei answered. "I searched for any and every sign of angelic activity. When I returned to the humans, they were already gone."
I let out a whimper and look down, causing Tei to grab the sides of my face to pull me back up. "I know you miss them. I won't let anything happen to you."
"I know," I put both my hands over his. "You've always protected me, I know, but Tei... why? Why me? Did you always know who I was?"
"I knew what you were, but not who," he admitted. "I knew to make sure you never touched iron, and avoided salt, but that didn't stop you from developing a bacon addiction."
If he was trying to make me laugh, it worked. I giggled like a little girl, which reminded me of what Sam cruelly pointed out. "What happened to the person this body belonged to?"
He shook his head, lowering his hands from my face. "I do not sense a soul within you. She might be in Heaven."
"I see," I muttered. "Another person dead because of me."
"Don't think like that," Tei urged me. "Come on, see the house." He offered his hand and of course I took it. I might be wearing a kid; I grew up in this 'kid'. Does that really mean I'm not a kid? Do angels have ages, or are we just... here? Could I use this as an excuse for what I'm feeling right now?
"What are you feeling?" Tei asked with a grin, leading me onto the porch and snapping his fingers to unlock the front door.
"You quit reading my mind," I told him a little too quickly.
"Okay, fine," he lets go of my hand. In an instant I undo that, taking it again tightly. He smirks and changes the subject. "I even went to see your friend Megan, hoping you'd talked to her."
"Megan, really?" I was stunned. "You saw her? Talked to her?"
"Yes, why, are you jealous?" He asked me jokingly, revealing the living room area to me as we entered the house. It was vast and very open. White carpet. A long white couch with two love seats on either side of it in the middle. An extremely large flat screen TV on the wall to accompany the furniture.
"No," I said. "What happened when she saw you?"
"Let's sit, and I'll show you," he offered, leading me to the long couch. We each sat on our own cushion but he kept my hand close. "Ready?"
I nodded, welcoming the flood into my mind of the memory he was about to show me.
When this happens, it's always like I'm watching a movie. I see what appears to be a high school, and classes must be over for the day; students are emerging from the building. Some are walking home, some get into their parents vehicles, some get on the bus, some get in their own cars.
Among the students walking home, one stood out to me. It was Megan, I knew it. She wasn't the little girl with twin braids I remember. Now she was taller, maybe around my height, although I'm a staggering 5'3. She kept her blonde hair long. Her blue eyes reminded me of JD a little bit.
She looked pretty normal. Then again, I do too. She was walking home like I'm sure she does every day, only I knew something different would happen to her now.
Tei waited until she was alone, all other stragglers gone. Then he approached her, and I hoped it wouldn't be like Alice's encounter with him. "Megan Scott," he called out, making her freeze up where she stood.
"Who are you?" She asked, widening her eyes, cautiously looking around to see if anyone else was witness - sadly no. It reminded me of when I met Gabriel.
"Have you seen Lynn? Has she seen you or contacted you?" Tei drilled Megan with the questions.
"Who's Lynn?" Geez, why was Tei scaring her so bad? She was nearly shaking.
"Don't act stupid to me," Tei uttered. "Lynn Logan. You've been writing each other for years. I know what you are."
I watched Megan squeeze her backpack straps before her eyes started glowing, but not orange like Tei's. They remained blue, only adding a tint of silver. She really does have angelic power!
Thankfully, Tei doesn't attack. "Lynn was taken from me. I don't believe she's safe."
"I, I haven't seen her," Megan finally admitted, her eyes going back to normal. Tei seemed to believe her, so he simply nodded and flew away right in front of her. She blinked multiple times to process she just saw someone vanish before her, then she breathed heavily and ran fast like in our race, running the rest of the way home.
"You're a jerk!" I let out when the memory was over. "Did you see how scared you made her? Now she'll probably be afraid of me if I ever see her!"
"I'm sorry, angel bug," Tei said sincerely. "I was not myself when I was looking for you."
"I understand, I forgive you," I get up from the couch. "Okay, show me the rest of the house."
Sam called me the next day, apologizing. "It's okay," I tell him. "We're all in this together, you know?"
"About that," Sam trailed off. "Cas says he has a bad feeling about that Teivel guy you're with. Just be careful around him, okay?"
I laughed him off and ended the conversation casually. I hang up the phone shaking my head. Bad feelings about Tei? Nonsense. I stuck to my decision even as the time passed. Thanksgiving rolled around quick. The first one without my family, but the first one that Tei could be a part of. This would so screw with a human's mind.
Next thing I knew it was Christmas time, and we actually decorated the outside with lights. I've picked up a little German too; there's a small town below the mountain with a grocery mart, and nobody spoke English and nothing was written in English. Then it's like I blinked and I watched the ball drop on New Year's Eve, in person. Tei zapped us out to New York.
A week later, I get that phone call from Cas. "You said I could call you no matter what it is." He reminded me.
"Of course, Cas," I said, ignoring Tei rolling his eyes. "What's going on?"
"A rogue angel escaped Heaven's prison and she's going after Sam," Cas announced. "So Lucifer can't have his vessel."
I promised I wouldn't let Lucifer touch Sam, I certainly won't let some angry angel try to, either. "Where are you?"
After I hung up, Tei stared at me. "Don't you dare!" I tell him. "You know I'm helping them to fight the Apocalypse."
"Angel bug, you've been here with me for the last two months," Tei replied. "What exactly are you fighting?"
I pouted. "They're hunting all the time, and I would be too if I'd stayed with them. It's important this time, he wouldn't call me otherwise."
"Oh he wouldn't, would he?" Tei snarled.
"Yeah, Tei. I think you scare them. You scare everyone but me," I admitted. "Am I leaving you here?"
"Absolutely not," he hissed. "You are never leaving my sight again."
"Then let's go."
I sort of missed the constant motel rooms, being on the road often. Was it right to feel homesick? "Hey kid, you doing okay?" Dean asked me when we appeared. Uneasy glances were given to Tei, which made me sigh. He's not so bad, I wish they'd see that.
"I'm good," I answered Dean. "So who's this angel we're after?"
"Her name's Anna," Dean said. "But apparently she's gone all Glenn Close."
"Who's Glenn Close?" Cas wondered.
"Oh, this psycho bitch who likes to boil rabbits." Dean answered mockingly.
In consideration, Sam decided to ask if that would work: him dying to save the world. In total disagreement Cas said, "No. She's Glenn Close. Anna will keep trying; she won't give up until Sam is dead, so we kill her first."
Cas did a ritual to find her, using blood and strange ingredients, and to me it looked like it pained him a little. "Locator spell." Tei was actually amused. Cas figured out that Anna went back in time to 1978, to kill Sam and Dean's parents.
"Take us back right now." Dean ordered.
"And deliver you right to Anna? I should go alone," Cas argued. "I can stop her if I bring Lynn, and you two will be safe."
I wouldn't mind that. I look at Tei eagerly. "We can time travel?" I asked him.
"Yes but it's not fun," he admitted.
"They're our parents! Cas, we're going!" Dean assured.
"It's not that easy," Cas walked across the motel room.
"Why not?" Sam asked.
"Time travel was difficult even with the powers of Heaven at my disposal." He reminded him.
"Which got cut off?" Sam remembered.
"So you're like a DeLorean without enough plutonium?" Dean realized. Dean and his remarks. I snorted. I need to write everything Dean says and make a book. Shit Dean Winchester Says it will be called.
"I don't understand that reference," Cas said in annoyance, "But taking this trip with passengers will weaken me."
"Aren't I supposedly stronger than you?" I suddenly realized.
"Yes," Cas admitted.
"Tell me how to help and I will. You've got me and Tei." I decided.
That argument finished quickly. "Bend your knees." Dean advised Sam.
Cas put two fingers on Sam; Tei did the same to Dean, zapping them away, and then he took my arm and we were gone before I said anything.
Lawrence, Kansas
1978
We almost got hit by two cars when we arrived, and Cas was nearly out if it. His nose was bleeding, and he coughed up blood. Tei looked like he was gonna fall over so I held onto him to snap him back to reality. "Tei?" I said to him.
"Yes, angel b-" his nosebleed started too.
"You're scaring me," I admitted.
"I'll be fine, but I'm not so sure about..." He didn't finish because Cas fainted. Now he looked alarmed he would be next, and he started fidgeting, widening his eyes to stay awake.
"Tei?" I'm scared now.
Dean and I paid for a hotel room to dump the unconscious Castiel in, while Sam looked through a phone book. He found the address, and we made our way to 'The Winchester's' residence. Tei's nosebleed stopped, and he never passed out. I can relax.
Now everyone and everything fascinated me. The seventies!
We pulled up at the Winchester house, where the brothers were a little afraid. But they got over it and we followed them up the doorstep.
"What exactly are we gonna go up there and tell them?" Dean wondered.
"The truth?" I suggested.
"What, that their sons and the spawn of Satan and her bodyguard are here from the future to save them from an angel gone Terminator? Come on, those movies haven't even come out yet." Dean scoffed.
"We'll figure it out," I groaned, and knocked on the door. A pretty, curly blonde haired lady answered.
"Hi, Mary." Dean greeted her. That must be Mother Winchester.
She already looked freaked out, "You can't be here," she whispered. "I don't do that anymore. I have a normal life now." Wait, what? Did she already know Dean?
"I'm sorry, but this is important." Dean started. I heard an 'ahem' and a young man popped up behind Mary.
"Sorry, sweetie, these are-" Mary stuttered.
"Mary's cousins," Dean finished. "Yeah, we couldn't stop through town without swinging by, and saying 'hey', now, could we? I'm Dean."
"Dean. You look familiar." The man noticed.
"Really? ...you do too actually." Dean said very nervously.
He smiled warmly. "I'm John." He held out his hand to Sam, but he looked in deep shock.
"This is Sam." Dean introduced.
"Sam? Mary's father was a Sam..." John realized. Then he noticed that Sam hadn't let go of his hand. "You okay?"
"I'm Lynn," I said next, forcibly smiling.
A very disturbed Mary watched John invite us in for dinner. Sam kept staring at her. "You sure you're okay?" John asked.
"Yeah, yeah. She's just... so beautiful." Sam said quietly.
"He means that in a non-weird, wholesome, family kind of a way," Dean explained. "We haven't seen Mary in quite some time, and she's the spitting image of our mom. I mean, it's-"
"Eerie..." Sam finished.
A phone rang from another room. John went to answer the phone, and Mary gave us stern glares. "You have to leave, now."
"Just listen-" Dean started.
"You and John are in danger," I spurted out. "Something's coming."
"Demon?" She guessed.
"Not exactly, it's-" Dean hesitated.
"An angel!" Sam finished.
"...what? There's no such thing." Mary scoffed.
"I wish, " Dean admitted, already receiving instant glares from myself.
Mary seemed to believe us, slightly. To make the situation worse, John suddenly took off; said he would be back in a few in a note he left. "He went to the shop he works at," Mary realized. "I need to go after him."
On the ride there, Tei didn't look too good. He massaged his temple, prompting me to ask him what was wrong. "I have a pain in my head." He admitted quietly.
"You mean a headache?" I corrected him. Angels don't get headaches, right?
"I suppose," Tei leaned back as far as he could, which wasn't very far in the backseat of the car. Mary sat on the other side of me, looking at us cautiously. "Mawmaw always called them pains in the head."
Mawmaw? Is that what he called his mother? I smile to myself but then frown when Tei said next, "Then she started saying I was the pain in her head."
I hushed him, putting my hand over his head, and closing my eyes, hoping I could ease his headache. I could feel the powerful glow under my palms so I was doing it right for once. I must have a done a wonderful job because when I opened my eyes again, he was fast asleep.
Mary was startled. "Angels, huh?"
If Tei was an angel like Cas and I believe, why did he have a mother? Did he grow up with humans too? Did they die or get taken away? Then she started saying I was the pain in her head. To me it seems maybe his human family turned on him. But why? Why don't I know anything about Tei? The more I think I about it, I know little to nothing about him, and he knows me more than I know myself, I'm pretty sure.
We made it to the garage car shop and darted in. Tei remained asleep so I left him in the car. Oh I know he'll be angry if he wakes up soon. Dean was the first one in, wielding an angel blade - it could kill demons, angels, hell I'm pretty sure I was afraid of that thing, even though I've seen Cas use them. He attacked a red headed lady, and I assumed it was the angel Anna. She looked fierce as hell, definitely not happy. She stopped Dean immediately and blasted him back; he dropped the blade before hand. I had to make sure Anna didn't take it, so I attacked her next.
She looked at me in confusion, but that quickly changed when I blasted her back. Holy shit, I did it! I was surprised at myself so she only managed to land on top of a car. Mary took this chance to grab the angel blade, and she went after Anna. She swung that blade like a professional - Mother Winchester was a hunter, huh? John was just as surprised as I was, only he looked more angry than in shock.
Anna sent Mary onto a car; the blade dropped once again. Mary climbed away and grabbed a crowbar, nearly putting the whole thing in Anna's shoulder. She spit up blood, but easily yanked the weapon right back out. "It's not that easy to kill an angel." She warned Mary.
"No," I heard Sam say, and that was my queue to get out of there. I zapped myself back out to the car, knowing Sam was about to use an angel-banishing sigil on Anna to forcibly send her away for a while. I'd be victim to that too if I stayed in there. I climb back into the car to check on Tei - still asleep. Within a few moments I watched a distraught Winchester family emerge from the garage shop.
"Monsters?!" John was yelling. "And you all fight them?"
Oh boy.