"...huge and extraordinary." Gabriel informed like a proud parent, well in his case, a parent-non-parent. "She is absolutely brilliant and I am certain she would have no trouble executing your duties if she were to replace any of you."

Sandalphon, Michael, Saraqael, and Uriel had a telling expression as if they had just smelled the worst kind of scent on earth. All angels had had quite enough of Gabriel's nonsensical babble about how great Cassi was. He was in no way the supreme archangel they once knew and followed. His brief stint on earth had turned him into a stranger but in all honesty, it was mostly love that had turned him somewhat human because, after all, wasn't love something humans did? Yes, angels loved but not like how Gabriel and Aziraphale loved, it was unlike how the angels of heaven were supposed to love.

"Enough of your brainless words." Uriel hissed.

"Huh," Gabriel smacked his lips together, "one thing I'm not clear on is why are you seeking her? She will not help you."

Sandalphon showed his silver tooth as he grinned. "That's for us to decide."

Beelzebub scoffed. "What?" They exchanged looks with Gabriel. "Not for her to decide?" They crossed their arms. "You have no experience with, what was that expression…teens?"

Violet gestured to the couple once more. "No, you prat," she huffed, "look. An angel and a demon." Luca nodded in agreement but quickly shook his head. "Angel-" she pointed at Aziraphale, "-demon,-" she then pointed at Crowley.

"Oh! Oh!"

Violet clicked her tongue. "Please excuse him, he is part human."

Crowley and Aziraphale remained rooted to their part of the shop all while the demon shielded his angel from the trespassing nephalems. "Angel, I'll distract them, and you go find Cassi." Crowley whispered.

Aziraphale entwined his hand with Crowley's. "I'm not leaving you on your own."

"Cassi is somewhere out there on her own and I'd rather she be with one of us and I'm volunteering you."

"Oi," Luca called out, "you're that mangy cat!"

Aziraphale and Crowley turned to look at Hex who seemed nonchalant about the situation at hand. The familiar was far too busy looking rather bored as he lounged on the sofa. "And you're the idiot who took me from my home. Fucking rude. Part human, huh? Trust me, it shows."

Violet restrained Luca from launching at the familiar and forced him back towards the door. "Prick."

"Mind him." Violet reminded Luca. "We just need those two." She turned to the pair and put on her best customer service smile. "Um, you there, the angel, mind I have a word with you?" She stepped forward.

Crowley clenched his jaw as a guttural sound came out of him, one which Aziraphale had never heard before. "I suggest you two go back to wherever it is you spawned from." He glared at the two intruders.

"Temping," Violet took another step, "but it sounds a bit boring. Come little angel-" she gestured with her finger as if Aziraphale was a pet, "-come." She clicked her tongue. "Come here."

Aziraphale raised a brow.

"Let's just get Elliot's pet like we planned." Luca suggested.

"What do you want with Cassi?" Aziraphale gently pushed Crowley out of his way.

Violet took yet another step. "Cassi? Hmm," she glanced at Luca and back to the parents, "we simply need an escort to heaven, is all. Afterwards," she shrugged, "if she wants to help us up there, stay down here, or leave…it's really up to her."

"And what makes you think she will do as you say?" Crowley questioned.

"She must as we are all in the same. No one else can dare know how it feels to be us."

"Bu-but she's not like you." Aziraphale calmly stated, "She's…"

"Are you saying she's better than us?" Luca took a deep breath. "She's not better!"

Aziraphale held his hands in front of him, and much to Crowley's dismay, took his own step forward, "No. Of course not. She's not better, she's different, like you." He glanced at Luca. "Both of you." He was cautious. "All of you were as much of an angel as you were a demon once and, I believe, if you make an effort, you can find that peace and love within you again."

Crowley was on high alert as he glanced between his partner and the nephalems. "Angel." The ever-diplomatic Aziraphale, who looked for the best in people, made Crowley want to lock him up in a box and never let him out for his own safety.

"There's no love left." Violet spoke. "Whatever you are doing, it won't work. We are too far gone."

"That is not true, my dear. If you were made by the same feelings Cassi was made from, then it's within you." He shook his head slowly, his voice soothing and reassuring. "Going to heaven will not help you find whatever it is you are searching for."

Elliot grabbed hold of Cassi's arm and pulled them both between an alleyway. "Fuck." Cassi tried to peer through, prompting Elliot to pull Cassi back towards the wall. "Luca and Violet are mental."

"Ar-are they with my parents?" Cassi's mind went a million miles an hour. "I should-" she tried to move forward.

Again, Elliot pulled her back. "Cassi, they are not as nice as I am." He peaked again finding six angels and a demon having a small discussion. "It seems they took advantage of the stopping time and all." He glanced back as Cassi shot him an apologetic smile. "Right." He sighed heavily. "I can distract them and you go get your parents and fly to whatever universe you feel is appropriate."

Confused, Cassi shot him a bewildered expression. "Are…why are you…" she left the question in the air. "It's very kind of you."

He glanced back and looked her over. "Shut up." He cleared his throat. "Right, now we ne-"

Cassi gripped his arm and stepped closer. There was a new tension in the air, one she had felt down in hell, only this time it seemed it was a hundred times that. "Elliot?"

"No eye contact and don't leave my side." He took her hand in his. "Ready?"

"For what?"

Sandalphon looked past Gabriel's shoulder. "What…what are those?"

Beelzebub grabbed hold of Gabriel and pulled him into the shop. "Fuck!"

Crowley took the distraction of the angel and the demon running into the shop to pull Aziraphale behind him and into the bookcase. "Hmph." Aziraphale huffed as he hit his head on a shelf.

"Oi!" Luca jumped and took a defensive posture towards the door, "We're a little busy in here."

"Lord Beelzebub." Violet curtsey. "I've heard many not so nice things about you. They say never meet your heroes but…" she grinned.

Gabriel took in the room "Nephalems? How did you- Cassi." He understood with displeasure in his tone. It was not at all easy help raise a rebel nephalem.

Beelzebub crossed their arms and, without fear, circled Violet. "Smells evil, this one."

"Thank you." Violet smiled.

Meanwhile, outside, a horde of federal nephalems surrounded the shop while some tried to get the elevator to go up instead of down. "Tricked a demon to curse you all?" Beelzebub questioned and knew for a fact, Shax had her name written all over it.

Gabriel glanced outside, noticing the angels had gone away. "What's your plan then?" He turned back to the nephalems. "No angels will take you where you need to go. You can trick demons, but angels…angels are a lot smarter than that."

Luca nodded in agreement and smirked. "Duh, we are aware." He turned to Aziraphale. "But angels are easily manipulated by their feelings."

Shax tried her very best not to bite her nail too much. Being ruler of hell had its advantages while sometimes, it was all too stressful. As she looked down onto the street below, she could not help but wonder if cursing the nephalems was a good idea after all. They had promised hell they would fight with them against heaven however, nephalems destroying heaven before hell could get a hold of them first would mean nephalems would be the true rulers in the end. They would have the advantage of saying it was they who defeated the angels and not the demons. She could already hear her superiors scolding and demoting her.

"Mental they look." Furfur spoke. "I don't think this was such a good idea."

"Quiet." Shax bit her nails some more. "They go into heaven, get rid of the angels…"

Hastur's grimace expression said it all, they fucked up. "I'm not following a bunch of halflings through war. I do not follow angels."

"W-well," Shax stammered, "they are not technically angels and they promised they would help us."

"Angels? Ha!" Hastur paced around the rooftop. "They are an abomination is what they are." He looked among his fellow demons. "Are we in agreement? We let those things do what they need to do, and we destroy them. I don't like working with angels."

"That's…not very nice." The demon council looked up as Cassi and Elliot descended from the sky, their massive wings tucking within them as their feet touched the rooftop. "Will you betray those who helped you?"

"And they are not angels," Elliot helped, "technically speaking."

Hastur smirked at the sight before him. "Crowley's thing."

Cassi raised her brow. "Again, not nice."

Shax stepped forward with an authoritarian stance. "Ah, I see you are helping us."

"Oh, yea." Cassi nodded. "I'll also be telling my parents to bugger off while we take over the universe."

Demons exchanged looks. "Sarcasm?" Shax questioned.

"Obviously." Cassi scoffed. "Is this the cursing you explained to me?"

Elliot nodded in response.

"Ah." Cassi pursed her lips. "You cursed nephalems because you thought they would help you and you thought to betray them afterwards? I see hell is as stupid as ever."

"Run home to your parents, little girl. This war has nothing to do with you." Hastur spat.

"Now that seems unlikely. Hm," Cassi pondered for a moment, "are you really going to betray them? After they help you with heaven? They do all the hard work seeing as you never could."

Hastur growled. "What?"

"No matter how you look at it, and I'm sorry to say, but angels will always be superior."

Elliot tugged on Cassi's sleeve. "Cassi." He warned as he noticed the demon council get riled up.

"For one thing, only an idiot would try to start a war when their numbers are not that vast."

Hastur huffed and launched towards the nephalems. Elliot tried to pull Cassi aside, but the ineffable daughter was determined and so, she used the second she knew she would gain to her advantage. "Bless you, Hastur." She placed her hand on Hastur's forehead and in one second, the demon turned to the once upon a time ethereal being he once was.

Hastur screeched when he realized why he felt odd and while the rest of the demon council gawked at his newly angelic presence, "Ciao." Cassi smiled as she kicked the demon hard enough for him to lose his balance and fall onto the nephalem engulfed street below. It took only one nephalem to notice him and soon Shax and the rest of the demon council bore witness to how a feral nephalem handled angels. "Ugh." Cassi commented as Hastur was torn apart. "Now then," she turned to the demon council, "I say you go back to your little hidey hole down below and don't bother coming back up for a while."

Horrified of what had become of Hastur and more importantly, shaken by what Crowley's daughter was capable of, the demons took not another second to do what they were told. "Oh," Cassi's voice was cheerful, "my parents are getting married soon so be dears and do send up a wedding gift."