Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 1 of Prophet's Daughter. I hope that you guys will all enjoy this next part of Prophet's Daughter.
Chapter 1
No Longer A Story
Azure came into the living room seeing that her father's printer was spitting out several pages. "Dad… again?" She questioned as she noticed that her dad was in boxers, an undershirt, with a bathrobe over top and stuffing a slice of pizza in his mouth.
He pulled the papers from the printer and looked them over. "Sam and Dean approached the run-down…" He groaned and made a correction on the page. "...approached the ramshackled house with trepidation."
Azure simply shook her head as she slowly sat down. She looked up at her dad to listen to what he was reading.
"Did they really want to learn the secrets that lay beyond that door? Sam and Dean traded soulful looks. Then, with determination, Dean pushed the doorbell with forceful… determination." He tossed the pages down with frustration. "UGH!"
Azure looked at her father with a worried gaze. "Daddy?"
The doorbell rang causing him to look up. Nervously he went towards the door causing his daughter to quickly get up to see what was going on.
Azure stood behind her father as he opened the door.
"You Chuck Shurley?" The shorter of the two men questioned looking at her father.
"The Chuck Shurley who wrote the "Supernatural" books?" The taller one of the two asked.
"Maybe. Why?"
"I'm Dean. This is Sam. The Dean and Sam you've been writing about."
Chuck closed the door surprising his daughter.
"Daddy?" Azure asked her brows furrowing together as she watched her father with a worried gaze.
The bell rang again causing him to open the door.
"Look, uh, I appreciate your enthusiasm. Really, I do. It's, uh, it's always nice to hear from the fans. But, uh, for your own good, I strongly suggest you get a life." He said as he tried to shut the door but Dean stopped the door.
"See, here's the thing. We have a life. You've been using it to write your books." He shoved the door open causing Azure to jump.
Chuck backed up into the house trying to hide his daughter from sight. "Now, wait a minute. Now, this isn't funny."
"Damn straight, it's not funny." Dean said narrowing his eyes as he looked at Chuck.
"Look, we just want to know how you're doing it." Sam said as he looked at Chuck.
Azure slowly moved around her father with her brows furrowed together.
"I'm not doing anything." Chuck said as he looked at them bewildered that they had thought such of thing of him. They were just stories truly nothing more than that.
"Are you a hunter?" Dean questioned demanding an answer.
"What? No. I'm a writer and a father." Chuck said as he pulled his daughter behind him.
"Daddy… ooph." Azure groaned as she hit his back.
"Then how do you know so much about demons?" Dean questioned causing both Chuck and Azure to fall onto the couch. "And Tulpas, and changelings?"
"Is this some kind of "Misery" thing? Ah, it is, isn't it? It's a "Misery" thing!"
"No, it's not a "Misery" thing. Believe me, we are not fans!" Dean snapped at Chuck.
Azure latched onto her father afraid of what was going to happen.
"Well, then, what do you want?!"
"I'm Sam. And that's Dean."
"Sam and Dean are fictional characters. I made them up! They're not real!"
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Dean opened the trunk of the Impala displaying the arsenal that was in the trunk.
Chuck and Azure looked at the trunk in shock seeing all of the weapons.
"Are those real guns?" Chuck questioned as he slowly came to.
"Yup. This is real rock salt, these are real fake IDs."
"Well, I gotta hand it to you guys. You really are my number one fans." He cleared his throat nervously. "That's, that's awesome. So, I-I think I've got some posters in the house."
"Daddy…" Azure said finally thinking that this was very much real.
"Chuck, stop." Dean said holding up his hand silencing him for just a moment.
"Please. Wait. Please, don't hurt us."
Sam looked at Chuck. "How much do you know? Do you know about the angels? Or Lilith breaking the seals?"
"Wait a minute. How do you know about that?" Chuck questioned as he looked at Sam with wide eyes.
"The question is how do you know?" Dean questioned as he looked at Chuck.
"Because I wrote it?"
"You kept writing?" Sam questioned slightly surprised of the fact that he was still writing.
"Yeah, even after the publisher went bankrupt, but those books never came out. Okay, wait a is some kind of joke, right? Did that… Did Phil put you up to this?"
"Well, nice to meet you. I'm Dean Winchester, and this is my brother, Sam."
Chuck's eyes went wide as he looked at Dean. "The last names were never in the books. I never told anybody about that other than Azure… I never even wrote that down."
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Azure watched her father pour a large whiskey drowning it down quickly. She watched him sit it down and turned towards where she stood with the two boys.
He let out a groan. "Oh! Oh, you're still there."
"Yup." Dean said as he stuck his hands in his pockets as he looked at Chuck.
"You're not a hallucination."
"Daddy." Azure said looking at her father with her hands on her hips. "If it were I wouldn't be seeing them too."
"Well, there's only one explanation. Obviously I'm a god."
Azure let out a soft groan rubbing her mouth as she looked at her father. She couldn't believe that he had thought that he was a god.
Sam shook his head. "You're not a god."
"How else do you explain it? I write things and then they come to life. Yeah, no, I'm definitely a god. A cruel, cruel, capricious god. The things I put you through… the physical beatings alone."
Azure swallowed the lump in her throat. She remembered the stores. She read them all over before he sent them to the publisher.
"Yeah, we're still in one piece."
"I killed your father. I burned your mother alive. And then you had to go through the whole horrific deal again with Jessica."
Azure had a soft spot for Sam since a lot of stuff had happened to him and her heart went out to him.
"Chuck…" Sam said softly, knowing that what was happening to them was not his fault. They just had a tendency of having bad luck on their side.
"All for what? All for the sake of literary symmetry. I toyed with your lives, your emotions, for… entertainment."
"You didn't toy with us, Chuck, okay? You didn't create us." Dean said letting out a breath trying to get Chuck to stop going on a tangent.
"Did you really have to live through the bugs?"
"Yeah."
"What about the ghost ship?"
"Yes, that too."
Chuck ran his hands through his hair nervously. "I am so sorry. I mean, horror is one thing, but to be forced to live bad writing… if I would have known it was real, I would have done another pass."
"Chuck, you're not a god!" Dean snapped as he looked over at the young woman that stood there. She was remaining awful quiet. He couldn't imagine what she was thinking.
"We think you're probably just psychic." Sam explaining it to Chuck like it was the only thing that could be possible.
"No. If I were psychic, you think I'd be writing? Writing is hard."
"It seems that somehow, you're just… focused on our lives." Sam said as he looked up at Chuck.
"Yeah, like laser-focused. Are you working on anything right now?"
"Holy crap."
"What?" Sam questioned wondering what was wrong that sent Chuck into a panic.
Azure quickly picked up the pages that her father had been just reading prior. She handed it to her father.
"The, uh, latest book? It's uh, it's kind of weird."
"Weird how?" Sam questioned his brows furrowing.
"It's very Vonnegut."
"Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut or Cat's Cradle Vonnegut?" Dean questioned intently.
Azure blinked a few times.
"What?" Sam asked surprised how his brother was talking.
"What?" Dean said defensively. He wasn't about to admit to his brother that he had liked reading at one point.
"It's uh, Kilgore Trout Vonnegut. I wrote myself into it. I wrote myself, at my house with my daughter… confronted by my characters." Chuck explained to them.
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That night Azure heard her father screaming awake causing Azure to fall off of her bed. She let out a grumble as she got up off of the floor. She yawned as she grabbed her night robe before slipping it on covering her nightgown. She slowly came out of her room and headed to the living room. She saw her father writing. "Daddy? It's like four n the morning…" Azure said rubbing her eyes tiredly.
Chuck looked over at his daughter worry was etched across his face.
"Daddy?" She questioned as she noticed that something was wrong. The look on his face concerned her a lot.
"I'm okay sweetheart." Chuck said softly swallowing the lump in his throat as he looked at his daughter. He didn't want to worry his daughter at least not yet.
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Chuck nervously paced in front of Sam and Dean as his daughter sat on the couch watching him. He held more pages from the latest book in his hands.
"So… You wrote another chapter?" Sam asked looking at the pages that were in his hands.
"This was all so much easier before you were real." Chuck said as he looked at the papers nervously that were in his hands. He was already scared enough that his daughter had read it.
"We can take it. Just spit it out." Dean said letting out a huff as he looked at Chuck.
"You especially are not going to like this."
Azure nodded her head in agreement knowing that it wouldn't go over well with Dean since he didn't like demons.
"I didn't like hell." Dean said looking at Chuck admitting the truth.
"It's Lilith. She's coming for Sam."
"Coming to kill him?"
"When?" Sam asked looking at Chuck his brows furrowed together.
"Tonight."
"She's just going to show up? Here?" Dean questioned exasperated of how things were going.
Azure handed her father his glasses as he sat down.
Chuck put the glasses on. "Uh… let's see, uh, Lilith patted the bed seductively. Unable to deny his desire, Sam succumbed, and they sank into throes of fiery demonic passion."
Sam let out a laugh at how strange it sounded. "You're kidding me, right?"
"You think this is funny?" Dean questioned as he looked at Sam with narrowed eyes.
"You don't? I mean, come on. "Fiery demonic passion"?"
"It's just a first draft." Chuck said looking at Sam.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. Lilith is a little girl." Dean said looking at Chuck.
"No, uh, this time she's a "comely dental hygienist from Bloomington, Indiana."
"Great." Dean rubbed his mouth. "Perfect. So what happens after the… "fiery demonic" whatever?"
"I don't know, it hasn't come to me yet." Chuck admitted softly.
"Dean, look, there's nothing to worry about. Lilith and me? In bed?" Sam shook his head not believing it.
"How does this whole psychic thing of yours work?" Dean askeChuck as he continued to glare at his brother.
"You mean my process?"
"Yes, your 'process'."
"Well, it usually starts with a headache. A really bad headache. Aspirin is useless, so… I drink. Until I fall asleep. The first time it happened, I thought it was just a crazy dream… scared my daughter half to death."
Azure pursed her lips together before nodding her head in confirmation of what her father was saying. Her arms crossed causing her sleeves to tighten against her arms.
"The first time you dreamt about us?" Dean questioned as he looked at Chuck crossing his arms. He had to admit that it was really hard to hear about this.
"It flowed. It just, it kept flowing. It still does. I-I can't stop it, really." Chuck admitted softly as he looked up. He was afraid of everything that was now going on and what harm it would come to his daughter.
"You can't seriously believe…" Sam began only to be cut off by Dean abruptly.
"Humor me." Dean stood up and walked over to where Chuck was.
Chuck held up the manuscript for him.
"Look, why don't we, we just…" Dean took the manuscript. "Take a look at these and see what's what." He looked at Chuck. "You…"
"...knew you were going to ask for that. Yeah."
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Chuck slowly walked up to the room that Sam and Dean were in. Azure was walking behind him. He didn't feel comfortable leaving her behind at home when something could go wrong with now knowing that the Winchesters were real people and not some characters in his book. He knocked on the door as he looked around nervously.
The door slowly opened revealing Sam.
"You wanted to see me?" Chuck questioned as he nervously looked around.
Sam nodded his head. "Yeah." Sam looked around shiftily before opening the door wider allowing the two of them to enter. He shut the door quickly. "Thanks for coming. But your daughter…"
Azure held her hands up. "I'm not going to say anything." Azure said as she looked around.
"Ah, sure." Chuck said as he looked around.
"Um… I was just wondering how much you know. About me." Sam said nervously as he looked at Chuck.
"What do you mean?" Chuck asked in confusion.
"Have you seen visions of me when I'm not with Dean?"
"Oh… you want to know if I know about the demon blood."
"You didn't tell Dean." Sam said as his shoulders sunk in relief.
"I didn't even write it into the books. I was afraid it would make you look unsympathetic. I only told my daughter and she helped me with the idea."
Azure nodded her head weakly.
"Unsympathetic?" Sam questioned his brows furrowed in confusion.
"Yeah, come on, Sam. I mean, sucking blood? You gotta know that's wrong."
"It scares the hell out of me. I mean, I feel it inside of me. I… I wish to god I could stop."
"But you keep going back." Chuck pointed out as he looked at Sam.
"What choice have I got? If it helps me kill Lilith and stop the apocalypse…"
"I thought that was Dean's job. That's what the angels say, right?" Chuck questioned as he looked at Sam.
"Dean's not… he's not Dean lately. Ever since he got out of hell. He needs some help." Sam admitted softly as he looked at the two Shurleys.
"So you got to carry the weight." Azure said softly finally speaking up after a short time of her father and Sam talking. She sounded so timid that it made the strings kind of pull in Sam's chest.
"Well, he's looked out for me my whole life. I can't return the favor?"
"Yeah, sure you can. I mean, if that's what it is." Chuck said softly as he rested his hand on his daughter's shoulder giving it a soft squeeze.
"What else would it be?" Sam asked as he looked at Chuck his brows furrowed.
"I don't know. Maybe the demon blood makes you feel stronger? More in control?"
"No. That's not true."
Azure wrapped her arms around herself as she listened to Sam talking to her dad. Her heart ached for him but she couldn't admit that outloud to him.
"I'm sorry, Sam. I know it's a terrible burden… feeling that it all rests on your shoulders." Chuck said softly as he looked at the younger brother.
"Does it? All rest on my shoulders?"
"That seems to be where the story's headed."
Azure looked down feeling ashamed of how things were going for Sam.
"Am I strong enough to stop Lilith tonight?"
"I don't know. I haven't seen that far yet." Chuck admitted softly to Sam. He didn't want to disappoint Sam, but he knew that he had due to the fact that Sam had no information to go on.
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Azure sat across from Dean as she looked him over. "I'm sorry about all this…" She said softly as she continued to look over for injuries. "My dad has been plagued with this for a while now… I guess…" She let out a soft breath as she pinched the bridge of her nose. "I've been living with it for so long… that it's just kind of normal for me to go through this."
Chuck walked slowly into the room not feeling none too surprised that his daughter was checking Dean over. "Dean."
"I take it you knew I'd be here." Dean said looking up at Chuck swatting Azure's hand away.
Azure slowly got up and moved away from him pursing her lips together into a thin line. She didn't like how Dean was acting, granted reading the stories her father wrote… she didn't expect anything less out of the crass hunter.
"You look terrible."
"That's cause I just got hit by a minivan, Chuck."
"Oh."
"That's it? Every damn thing you write about me comes true. That's all you have to say is oh?!" Dean said standing up clearly agitated with Chuck.
"Please don't yell at me."
"Why do I get the feeling there's something that you're not telling us?"
"What wouldn't I be telling you?" Chuck questioned as he looked at Dean his brows furrowing some.
"How you know what you know, for starters!"
"I don't know how I know, I just do!"
Azure moved quickly back as Dean stormed across the room.
"That's not good enough." Dean snarled as he shoved Chuck against the wall. "How the hell are you doing this?!"
Azure jumped when a man appeared out of nowhere.
"Dean, let him go!" The man said to Dean causing Dean to release Chuck and turned to face him. "This man is to be protected."
"Why?"
"He's a Prophet of the Lord."
Chuck blinked a few times as he looked at the man that was in the tan trench coat. "You… You're Castiel… aren't you?"
Azure looked at her father her brows furrowing some before turning her attention to the unknown man. She felt like he was someone much more than human and it scared her. She began to slowly move towards her father in a slow movement before getting to him.
"It's an honor to meet you, Chuck. I… admire your work." Castiel said as he picked up one of the books and began to page through it.
"Whoa, whoa, what? This guy, a prophet? Come on, he's… he's… he's practically a Penthouse Forum writer." Dean looked at Chuck. "Did you know about this?"
Chuck stumbled over to his arm chair and cracked open a new bottle of whiskey and poured himself some. "I, uh, I might have dreamt about it."
"And you didn't tell us?!"
"It was too preposterous. Not to mention arrogant. I mean, writing yourself into the story is one thing, but as a prophet? That's like M. Night level douchiness." He said as desperately gulped down the whiskey.
Dean leaned over to Castiel. "This is the guy who decides our fate?"
"He isn't deciding anything. He's a mouthpiece… a conduit for the inspired word."
"The word? The word of god? What, like the new new testament?" Dean questioned baffled about the whole thing.
"One day, these books… they'll be known as the Winchester gospel."
"You gotta be kidding me." The three of them said looking at Castiel all slack jawed.
"I am not… kidding you."
"If you'd both please excuse me one minute." He said standing up and clutched the bottle in his hands before disappearing upstairs.
Azure let out a breath rubbing her forehead in thought. She never thought that her father would be in this type of trouble and this was the type of trouble that you couldn't get yourself out of.
"Him? Really?" Dean said pointing to where Azure's father had gone.
"You should've seen Luke." Castiel said looking at Dean.
"Why'd he get tapped?"
"I don't know how prophets are chosen. The order comes from high up on the celestial chain of command."
"How high?"
"With how Castiel is talking very high." Azure said, her voice fairly soft.
Castiel nodded his head as he looked at Azure.
"Well, whatever. How do we get around this?"
"Around what?"Castiel asked slightly confused of what Dean was trying to ask him.
"The Sam-Lilith love connection. How do we stop it from happening?" Dean questioned frustrated about the whole thing. He didn't want his brother to fall into the hands of the demons again.
"What the prophet has written can't be unwritten. As he has seen it, so it shall come to pass."
Azure looked up at Dean. "I'm…"
Dean turned his head sharply towards the young woman. "What are you trying to say?"
"I'm coming with you."
"Wait what?" He asked his eyes went wide.
"I'm his daughter. He told me everything. He can't really keep his visions from being hidden from me… I'm always told what to do… let me help."
Dean pointed at her. "You can't go."
Azure looked at him. "You don't want to let me or can't…"
Dean pursed his lips together.
"You don't trust me… that I can't protect myself…" Azure shook her head. "Why is it always men think I can't protect myself." She grumbled as she headed up the stairs agitation was written across her face as she went up the stairs.
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Azure sat on the floor reading one of the class books while her father lounged on the couch all sprawled out with his arm over his eyes. "I know you don't want me to go with them… but you saw it daddy."
Chuck moved his arm turning his head to look at her. "You've read the books Azure… it's dangerous."
"Daddy… you know that I'll be okay with them."
"Will I?"
Azure gave her father a soft worried look knowing that it wasn't easy for him to know that his daughter was going to go off with the Winchester boys.
Chuck looked over seeing Dean come in. "What are you doing here? I didn't write this."
Dean pulled him up off of the couch manhandling him. "Come on. I need you to come with me."
Azure quickly got up to her feet.
"What? Where?" Chuck asked clearly confusion about the whole thing.
"To the motel where Sam is."
"Are you crazy? Did your daddy drop you on your head?"
"That's where Lilith is."
"Yeah, exactly. I need you to stop her. And no my dad didn't do no such thing." Dean said looking at Azure with narrowed eyes.
"Are you insane? Lilith? I know what she's capable of, Dean. I wrote her." Chuck said as he struggled against Dean's hold.
"Alright, listen to me. You have an archangel tethered to you, okay? All you gotta do is show up and boom! Lilith gets smoked."
"But I… I haven't seen that yet. Th-the story…"
"Chuck, you're the only shot that I have left."
"But… I'm just a writer."
"This isn't a story anymore, man. This is real! And you're in it! Now, I need you to get off your ass and fight. Come on, Chuck."
"No friggin' way."
"Okay, well, then, how about this… I've got a gun in my pocket, and if you don't come with me, I'll blow your daughter's brains out and then yours."
The color drained from Azure's face as Dean threatened her father. She hadn't expected such a violet side of Dean, but the way her father had written him, it wasn't too far of a stretch.
"I thought you said I was protected by an archangel." Chuck questioned as he swallowed the lump in his throat as he looked at Dean with wide eyes afraid for his life, but not only his life, his daughter's life as well.
"Well, interesting exercise. Let's see who the quicker draw is."
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Dean, Chuck and Azure entered the motel room that Sam was in, and low and behold Lilith was there fighting with Sam.
"I am the prophet Chuck!" Chuck yelled causing Lilith to stop.
Lilith huffed looking at Chuck. "You've got to be joking." She pulled herself off of Sam and moved towards Chuck.
"Oh, this is no joke." Dean said with a smug smile on his lips.
The room began to tremble and a great white light poured through the windows.
"You see, Chuck here's got an archangel on his shoulder. You've got about 10 seconds before this room is full of wrath and you're a piece of charcoal. You sure you want to tangle with that?"
Lilith gave Sam one last look before pouring out of the vessel's mouth screaming disappearing in smoke.
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Azure sat in the backseat of the Impala that was currently going down the road with Dean behind the wheel. She held her jacket close to her body since the rear window had been busted and was clumsily covered with a tarp.
Dean gripped the wheel tightly in his hands as he drove down the road. He looked at Sam out of the corner of his eyes. "So a deal, huh?"
"That's what she said." Sam said softly as he shifted around in his seat.
"To call the whole thing off… angels, seals, Lucifer rising, the whole nine?"
Azure pursed her lips together as she listened to the brothers that were talking. She knew that it wasn't going to happen.
"That was the gist of it."
"Huh."
"What?"
"You don't think once about taking it?" Dean questioned wondering why Sam hadn't taken the deal.
"You kidding me? Dude you spent all day trying to talk me off the Lilith track." Sam said looking at his brother with a sour look on his face.
"I'm just saying…"
"She would have found some way to weasel out of it. And all it would have cost us was our lives."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Dean looked at Azure. "You knew about that didn't you."
Azure jumped hearing the bite that was in his tone. She knew that he was pissed off and he had every right to be.
"Anyway," Sam said getting Dean's attention off the young woman that sat in the backseat. "That's not the point."
"What's the point?"
"The point is, she's scared. I could see it. Lilith is running."
"Running from what?"
"Don't know. But she was telling me the truth about one thing."
"What's that?"
"She's not gonna survive the apocalypse. I'll make sure of that."
Azure bit her lower lip softly. She wasn't sure if it was a smart idea of her now joining the brothers on this, but her father had dreamed it and it scared her a lot.
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Chuck was sound asleep on his couch, having another dream about the Winchesters. He suddenly woke up violently looking around with wide eyes. His heart pounded in his chest, his anxiety rose as he thought about his daughter.
"Did you see it?" A man questioned coming out of the shadows to look at Chuck.
"Who are you?" Chuck asked cowering some on his couch. He didn't know who this guy was and he was getting tired of people showing up out of nowhere in his home.
"I'm Zachariah. You may know me from your work." Zachariah said with a smile as he looked at Chuck.
Chuck swallowed the lump in his throat. "What do you want?"
"Did you see it?" Zachariah questioned again as he put his hands in his pockets.
Chuck got up off of his couch and began to make his way towards the door. "I've got to warn Sam and Dean."
"I wouldn't advise it. People shouldn't know too much about their own destiny. You try… and I'll stop you."
Chuck stopped and started to go off in another direction. If he couldn't warn them this was another thing that he needed to do so it wouldn't happen.
"Where are you going?"
"To go kill myself." Chuck said as he continued to walk.
"Don't be melodramatic, Chuck. We'd only bring you back to life."
"What am I supposed to do?"
"What you always do. Write."
Chuck's blood ran cold. He knew that there was truly no way out of what he was dealing with and now his daughter was out running around with the two boys and she's in danger.
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This is the end of the first Chapter of Prophet's Daughter. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. Reviews are my fuel to keep writing. So please leave a kind review of what you thought of this chapter. I'm trying to give Azure a path that is so much different. So I hope that you guys like her. Until next time.
