Authoress Note: I'm glad that you guys are enjoying this story guys. I'm hoping that you guys will like Azure more as this series goes on. She's growing slowly as a character and I'm hoping that she grows to someone that you really like. Without further ado Chapter 3 of Prophet's Daughter.
Chapter 3
Castiel's Vessel
Dean, Sam, and Azure slowly walked through the warehouse, carrying their lit flashlights shining them around the warehouse.
Azure nervously looked around, ever since she had joined the boys that her fear of being away from her father was slowly lowering, but she was still scared every time that she traveled with them because it was always dangerous for the brothers and she didn't want to get into trouble.
"Well, what did he say, Dean? What was so important?" Sam questioned as he looked around.
"If I knew, would I be here?" Dean snapped looking at his brother as they looked around.
"Boys… please." Azure said softly as they walked up a set of stairs.
"What the hell?"
"It looks like a bomb went off." Sam said looking around his brows furrowed with worry.
"There was a fight here."
"A fight?" Azure asked in concern.
"Between who?"
Dean's flashlight beam landed on a symbol painted in blood on the wall. "Check it out. Look familiar?"
"Yeah, it does."
"Not to me it doesn't." Azure said softly.
"Sorry we'll teach you about it." Dean said softly looking at her. "Anna used something like that to wish the angels back to the cornfield."
"So, what? Cas was fighting angels?"
"I don't know." Dean found Cas in the rubble. "Sam. Azure. Cas? Cas. Hey, Cas?"
"What's...? What's ...? What's going on?" Cas said softly, his voice not as gruff.
"Just take it easy. Take it easy." Dean said softly trying to calm him down.
"Oh. No."
"Cas, you okay?" Sam asked softly, hoping that the angel was alright.
"Ugh. Castiel. I'm not Castiel. It's me."
"Who's me?" Sam questioned in confusion.
"Jimmy. My name's Jimmy." He said looking at them his brows furrowing together in worry.
"Where the hell is Castiel?" Dean questioned his brows furrowed together in concern.
"He's gone."
Azure looked at the two brothers. "Well, this isn't good…" She said as her hand went to her forehead. She couldn't believe that something like this had happened.
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Jimmy sat at the table devouring a hamburger while Sam, Dean, and Azure watched on. Jimmy hummed in delight as he ate.
"You mind slowing down? You're gonna give me angina." Dean said as he went to move his eyes away from Jimmy.
"I'm hungry." Jimmy simply stated as he continued to eat.
"When's the last time you ate?" Sam asked looking at him concerned of how long it had been since Jimmy had eaten.
"I don't know. Months." He said as he took another bite of his hamburger and ate it ravenously. "Mmm. Mmm. Mmm!"
Azure wrinkled her nose as he continued to eat the way that he did.
"What the hell happened back there? It looked like an angel battle royale."
Jimmy swallowed the bite of burger he had taken. "All I remember is a flash of light and I, uh… I woke up and I was just, you know, like, me again."
"So, what? Cas just ditched out of your meat suit?" Dean questioned as he looked at Jimmy.
Jimmy shook his head. "I really don't know."
"You remember anything about being possessed? Anything at all?" Sam asked hoping that Jimmy remembered something, anything that would help them out.
"Yeah,bits and pieces. I mean, angel inside of you, it's kinda like being chained to a comet."
"Ah, that doesn't sound like fun." Dean said wrinkling his nose some.
"Understatement."
"Cas said he wanted to tell us something. Please tell me you remember that." Sam said hopeful, his brows furrowed in worry.
"Sorry."
"Come on, what do you know?" Dean snapped getting fairly agitated about the whole thing.
"My name is Jimmy Novak. I'm from Pontiac, Illinois. I have a family."
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Azure, Sam, and Dean stood outside of the motel that they were staying in.
Sam rubbed his mouth in frustration. "So, what do we do?"
Azure let out a breath.
"What do you mean? The guy's got a family. We buy him a bus ticket, send him home." Dean said looking over at his brother with a slightly sour look on his face.
"I don't know about that. Dean, he's the only lead we got."
"Sam… he doesn't know anything." Azure said looking at the taller brother.
"Are we 100 percent sure about that?"
Dean looked at his brother. "You think he's lying? What, you wanna go Guantanamo on the guy?" Dean questioned as his brows raised looking at his younger brother like he had gone insane.
"Dean, maybe he doesn't even know what he knows."
"Huh?"
Azure rubbed her temples softly.
"I say, at least we get him to Bobby's. Maybe all he needs is hypnosis or a psychic. Or hell, maybe Cas will just drop back into him." Sam said rambling on about what could happen.
"I don't know man." Dean said rubbing his mouth.
"Sam we can't know if Cas will come back." Azure said softly as she looked at the younger Winchester brother seeing the look on his face. She could tell that he was desperate to know what was going on.
"Back there, that was angel-on-angel violence. Now, I don't know what's going on, but it's big. And we can't just let the only lead we got just skip out."
Azure and Dean both shook their heads at what Sam had said. It was something that no one would want to hear. Jimmy was human… he needed to go back home where he belonged with his family.
"What?" Sam questioned looking at the two of them.
"You remember when our job was helping people? Like, getting them back to their families?" Dean said as he looked at his younger brother.
"You think I don't want to help him? I'm just being realistic. I mean, hell, we're doing him a favor."
"How Sam? How the hell are we doing him a favor." Azure said looking at him. She couldn't believe that he was thinking this way. "I've read your lives remember. And this is something that you wouldn't do."
Sam gave her a sour look. He knew that she had a point in what she was saying.
"She has a point Sammy."
"Dean, if we want to question the guy, you can damn well bet the demons do, too."
Azure let out a breath. Of course the demons would be looking for him too. It was dangerous to have him out on his own without anyone watching over him. The demons would eat him alive.
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Jimmy looked at the three of them slack jawed. He couldn't believe what had come out of their mouths. "The hell are you talking about, I can't go home?"
Dean crosse his arms as he looked at Jimmy. "There's a good chance you have a bull's-eye on your back."
"What? From who?"
"Demons." Azure said, as she sat down on the bed clasping her hands together, her lips going into a thin line as she looked at Jimmy.
"Come on, that's crazy. What do they want with me?" Jimmy questioned as he looked at the three of them confusion was well written across his face.
"I don't know, information, maybe." Dean said looking over at Jimmy. He wanted Jimmy to know the truth since Castiel had used him as a vessel.
"I don't know anything." Jimmy said looking at Dean, his eyes wide with fear.
"I know, but…"
"Look, I'm done okay?" Jimmy said cutting Dean off before he could finish what he was saying. "With demons, angels, all of it. I just want to go home."
"We understand." Azure said softly as she stood up looking at Jimmy.
"I don't think that you do understand. I've been shot and stabbed and healed, and my body has been dragged all over the Earth. By some miracle, I'm out, and I am done. I've given enough, okay?" Jimmy said looking over at Azure.
"Look, all we're saying is that until we figure this out, the safest place is with us." Sam said looking at Jimmy not liking how he had just talked to Azure.
Azure let out a soft breath looking down at her hands. She knew that Jimmy was having a hard time with being away from his family. It was hard for her to be away from her father. He had been ignoring her calls and it scared her of why he hadn't been answering.
"How long?"
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."
Jimmy shook his head and tried to move past the younger Winchester brother to get to the door.
"Where are you going?" Dean questioned looking at Jimmy.
"To see my wife and daughter, okay?"
"No, you're not. You're just going to put those people in danger." Sam said shaking his head. He wouldn't allow Jimmy to put his family in danger.
"So, what, now I'm a prisoner?"
"Harsh way to put it." Sam said looking at Jimmy.
"No, Jimmy not a prisoner." Azure said softly. "We need to keep you safe and your family safe."
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Sam quickly packed his duffel bag up while Dean brushed his teeth and Azure packed her bag sleepily. "Dean. Would you hurry up?"
Dean laughed the toothbrush was still in his mouth.
"Sorry, uh, this is funny to you?"
"Mr. Big-Bad-Prison-Guard, Jimmy McMook give you the slip? Yeah, it's pretty funny. What were you doing, anyway?"
"I was getting a Coke."
"Was it a refreshing Coke?" Dean teased looking at his brother.
"Can we just go, please?"
Azure let out a breath shaking her head. "Can you two stop fighting for a least a few moments?" She questioned tiredly looking at the brothers.
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Dean drove down the road with Sam beside him and Azure behind them.
Anna suddenly appeared in the backseat causing Azure to jump smacking against the door. "Hey, guys."
"Aah! Jeez." Dean jerked the steering wheel of the Impala swerving before he gets it back under control.
"Smooth." Anna said looking at Dean.
"You ever try calling ahead?" Dean questioned snapping in anger.
"I like the element of surprise."
"Well, you look terrific."
"Um, yeah, not the most appropriate time, Dean. You let Jimmy get away?"
"Talk to ginormo here."
"Sam. You seem different." Anna said looking at him.
Azure bit her lower lip looking at Sam. Her brows furrowed together in worry. Sam was acting a lot different. More different than he normally did.
"Me? I don't know. Heh. A haircut?" Sam questioned trying to keep things hidden.
"That's not what I'm talking about." Anna said giving Sam a meaningful look which caused him to look away. She then looked at Dean. "So, what'd Jimmy tell you? He remember anything?"
"Why? What's going on?" Dean questioned looking back at Anna.
"It's Cas. He got sent back home. Well, more like dragged back." Anna admitted softly.
"To heaven? That's not a good thing?"
"No. That's a very bad thing. Painfully, awfully bad. He must have seriously pissed someone off."
"Cas said he had something to tell me. Something important."
"What?"
"I don't know."
"Does Jimmy know?"
"I don't think so."
"You don't think so? Whatever it is, it's huge. You gotta find out for sure."
"That's why we're going after Jimmy." Sam said looking back at Anna.
"That's why you shouldn't have let him go in the first place. He's probably dead already."
"Oh come off of it." Azure said looking over at the red haired angel. "It's not like it was our fault for what happened."
Anna looked over at Azure with narrowed eyes.
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Azure shifted some on the backseat while Dean filled the Impala and Sam was on his phone.
"Where the hell are you, Ruby? This isn't funny anymore. I'm all out. Stop whatever you're doing. Call me. I need more."
Azure shifted some more causing Sam to quickly hang up his phone. She slowly cracked her eye open to look at the younger brother. "You know you can't keep trying to hide it."
Sam looked over his shoulder at Azure with wide eyes.
"I'm not dumb Sam. I've read my father's books remember. So I know what you're doing. Dean's going to find out…"
"He won't."
Azure shook her head softly.
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Dean quickly appeared behind Roger and cut his throat with Ruby's knife killing him.
Mrs. Roger got up but was quickly stopped by Sam who used his psychic abilities to exorcise her.
Dean looked back at Sam.
Azure quickly moved to get them out of there.
"Go. Help her get them out of here." Sam barked at his brother.
Azure ushered them out of the home.
"Go, go." Dean called as he ushered Jimmy and Claire out of the house.
Sam tried to exorcise Mrs. Roger, but was unsuccessful.
Mrs. Rogers approached him with a sickening smile on her lips. "Aw. Can't get it up, can you, Sam?"
"No, but I can." Dean said, but before he could stab her with Ruby's knife, the demon fled it's host's body. Dean grabbed Sam and they ran to the Impala where Azure was waiting. "Come on, come on, come on, come on."
They ran to the Impala where Jimmy and Claire waited with Azure.
"Thank god." Jimmy said looking the boys over.
"Where's your wife?" Dean questioned looking at Jimmy.
"Right here." Amelia said moving towards them.
"Let's go."
They all quickly got into the Impala and Dean quickly peeled away from the house.
Azure shifted nervously between Sam and Dean in the front seat since the back was filled with Jimmy, Amelia, and Claire.
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Jimmy, Dean, Sam, and Azure stood outside of the car while Amelia and Claire sat together in the backseat of the car.
Azure clasped her hands together as she looked down. This was bad knowing that a demon was there and Sam showed Dean that he hadn't stopped using his gifts which was bad.
"You were right." Jimmy said softly taking a soft breath.
"I'm sorry we were." Dean said looking over at Jimmy knowing that it was hard on him.
"I'm telling you, I don't know anything."
"I don't think they're inclined to believe you." Dean said shaking his head softly.
"And even if they did, you're a vessel. They're still gonna wanna know what makes you tick." Sam said crossing his arms.
"Which means vivisection, if they're feeling generous."
"I'm gonna tell you once again, you're putting your family in danger. You have to come with us."
"How long? And don't give me that "cross that bridge when we get to it" crap." Jimmy questioned looking at the three of them. He hated the fact that they weren't really giving him much to go on.
"Don't you get it? Forever. The demons will never stop. You can never be with your family. So you either get as far away from them as possible or you put a bullet in your head. And that's how you keep your family safe. But there's no getting out and there's no going home."
"Well, don't sugarcoat it, Sam." Dean said looking at his brother with a sour look on his face.
"I'm just telling him the truth, Dean. Someone has to."
"You could've been a bit nicer than being a jerk." Azure said looking at the younger Winchester brother. "He's scared enough ass and you have to be a jerk about it."
Jimmy opened the back door of the Impala to speak to his wife. A soft look came to his face seeing his daughter sound asleep next to her.
"Hey. So I pretty much owe you the biggest apology ever." Amelia said softly looking up at him.
"No, you don't." Jimmy said shaking his head softly.
"Yes, I do. I'm so sorry, Jimmy. And I will never, ever forgive myself for letting you walk out that door."
"Well, you did what any rational person would have done. I mean, hell, I thought I was crazy half the time."
"So demons, huh?"
"Yeah."
"Can we . . . ? Can we even go home, or . . . ? What are we gonna do?"
"These guys are gonna get you a car, don't ask me how, and you're gonna take Claire to Carl and Sally's as fast as you can." Jimmy explained to her softly.
"Wait. What about you? . . . No, I'm not going anywhere without you, Jimmy." Amelia pleaded with her husband. She wasn't about to lose him again.
"Listen to me. Every moment that I'm with you, you and Claire are in danger." Jimmy said trying to calm his wife down. He didn't want them to be in danger because of him and he trusted, Sam, Dean, and Azure with his life.
"I don't care. We are not splitting up again."
"We don't have a choice."
"For how long?"
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."
"We're a family." Amelia said as she wiped the tears that began to fall from her eyes.
"They will kill you, Amelia, and they'll kill Claire. You just have to get as far away from me as you can." Jimmy hugged his wife.
Dean and Azure watched with sad looks on their faces knowing that it was hard for them.
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Sam was busy hotwiring a car for Amelia.
Jimmy and Claire stood next to each other while Dean and Azure watched on.
"Okay, so, uh, here's your car." Sam explained to Amelia.
"Hey. Take care of your mom, okay, bub?" Jimmy questioned is daughter.
"Okay." Claire said softly.
Jimmy slowly got into the back with Azure while Sam and Dean got into the front seat of the car.
Dean slowly drove them away from Amelia and Claire.
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It began to rain as Dean drove down the road. Jimmy had fallen asleep in the back while Azure looked out the window with her lips pursed together. She could feel that the tension was thick that it could easily be cut with a knife.
"What the hell happened back there?" Dean questioned as he gripped the wheel tightly in his hands.
"What?" Sam questioned looking over at Dean.
"You practically fainted trying to gank a demon."
"Okay, I didn't faint. I got a little dizzy."
"Well, you can call it whatever you want. Point is, you used to be strong enough to kill Alastair. Now you can't even kill a stunt-demon number three?" Dean questioned looking at his brother huffing a little bit in agitation.
"What do you want me to say about it, Dean?"
Azure bit her lower lip softly ringing her hands together knowing that there was a lot going on that Dean didn't know about.
"Well for starters, what's going on with your mojo? I mean, it's yo-yoing all over the place. I'm not trying to pick a fight here, okay? I just – you're scaring me, man."
"I'm scaring myself." Sam's phone began to ring and he answered it. "Hello? . . . Who is this?" Sam turned and held the phone out to Jimmy. "Hey. It's your wife."
Jimmy woke up rubbing his eyes tiredly and took the phone from Sam. "Amelia? . . . Oh, my God."
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Jimmy, Dean, Sam, and Azure got out of the Impala.
Azure gripped her hands at her sides biting her lower lip nervously.
"Alright, they're expecting you to come alone. That's exactly what you're gonna do." Dean
"We'll work our way through the catwalks. We'll be right behind you." Sam said looking at Jimmy.
"All you gotta do is stay calm and stall. Let us do our job."
"You want me to stay calm? This is my family we're talking about."
"Listen to me, this will work. You understand? Nobody's gonna get hurt."
"Yeah, whatever. Give me a minute, okay?" Jimmy said as he walked away from Dean, Azure, and Sam going towards the warehouse.
Azure let out a soft breath wringing her hands together nervously.
"There's no way they're expecting him to come alone, Dean. You know this is probably a trap." Sam said looking over at his brother, his brows furrowed in worry.
"Yeah, I know. That's why I have a plan."
"A plan." Azure said looking over. "What kind of plan?"
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Jimmy walked towards the warehouse, alone looking up at the sky. "Castiel, you son of a bitch! You promised me my family would be okay. You promised you were gonna take care of them. I gave you everything you asked me to give. I gave you more. This is the thanks I get? This is what you do? This is your heaven? Help me, please. You promised, Cas. Just help me." Jimmy shook his head when there was no reply. "Typical." Jimmy walked into the warehouse and saw Amelia standing next to Clarie who had been tied up and unconscious.
"Hi, honey. You're home." Amelia said as a smirk came to her lip causing Jimmy to shudder in dislike.
"Listen, I'm – I'm begging you here. You do whatever you want with me, but my wife and daughter, they're just – they're not a part of this."
"Oh, they're a big part of this, Jimmy. And P.S. You should've come alone."
"I am alone." Jimmy said confused of why the demon was saying this.
"Oh, you're such a liar. Like I didn't think you'd bring Heckle and Jeckle and their little whore, hmm?"
Sam, Dean, and Azure was led into the room by three demons who held them prisoner.
Azure wrapped her arms around herself as she walked next to the brothers.
"Nice plan, Dean." Sam snapped at his older brother.
"Yeah, well, nobody bats 1,000." Dean said looking at his younger brother.
"Got the knife?" Amelia asked.
One of the demons holding Sam held up Ruby's knife to show her.
"And you know what's funny?" Amelia said looking at the three prisoners.
"You wearing a soccer mom?" Dean said looking at Amelia.
"Is I was actually bummed to get this detail, picking up an empty vessel. Sort of like a milk run. Now look who landed in my lap."
"Yeah, well, you got us, okay? Let these people go." Sam said looking up at her his eyes narrowed.
"Oh, Sam. It's easy to act chivalrous when your Wonder Girl powers aren't working, huh? Now for the punchline. Everybody dies." Amelia held up a gun and shot Jimmy right in the gun causing him to fall to his knees. She then turned to Sam. "Waste Little Orphan Annie." Amelia said leaving the room while the demon walked around Jimmy towards Claire.
The demon picks up a pipe and swings it towards Claire, but she suddenly grabbed the pipe in one hand and placed her other on the demon's forehead. The demon screamed as he was exorcised in a bright light.
Using the distraction Sam, Dean, and Azure turned to the demons that held them. While they struggled.
Clarie burned through the ropes that held her.
Jimmy laid on the ground bleeding looking at his daughter in horror. "Castiel."
Sam, Dean and Azure fought the demons trying to get the knife back.
Sam was able to get Ruby's knife back from the female demon and held her down staring at her neck.
Dean was being pummeled by the male demon.
Castiel came over and touched that demon killing it saving Dean from it's wrath.
Sam cut into the neck of the female demon causing Azure to scream in shock as Sam began to drink the blood. He turned mouth still bloody to see Dean, Castiel who possessed Claire's body and Azure watching him in horror. Sam turns back and stabbed the demon through the heart with Ruby's knife, killing her, and then turned back towards Dean, Castiel and Azure again. E stands and held out his hand just in time to catch Amelia and exorcise the demon out of her with his recharged psychic powers.
Dean held up Amelia close to him.
Castiel went over to Jimmy, who is dying from his gunshot wound. "Of course we keep our promises. Of course you have our gratitude. You served us well. Your work is done. It's time to go home now. Your real home. You'll rest forever in the fields of the Lord. Rest now, Jimmy."
"No. Claire?" Jimmy said softly holding onto his wounded abdomen.
"She's with me now. She's chosen. It's in her blood, as it was in yours."
"Please, Castiel. Me, just take me. Take me, please."
Dean, Sam, Azure, and Amelia approached slowly, but held back when they saw Castiel talking to Jimmy.
"I wanna make sure you understand. You won't die or age. If this last year was painful for you, picture a hundred, a thousand more like it."
"It doesn't matter. You take me. Just take me."
"As you wish." Castiel touched Jimmy's face and a bright light emanates from his eyes and mouth.
Claire dropped to her hands and knees.
Castiel slowly got up to his feet. He walked past Amelia and stood next to Sam, Dean, and Azure.
Amelia ran to her daughter and embraced her in a tight hug.
Castiel's eyes met with Amelia's before he turned to leave.
"Cas, hold up. What were you gonna tell me?" Dean questioned stopping the angel.
"I learned my lesson while I was away, Dean. I serve heaven, I don't serve man, and I certainly don't serve you." Castiel said walking away.
The three of them watched befuddled of how Castiel was acting.
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Dean drove the car through the rain in silence.
"All right, let's hear it." Sam said looking over at his brother.
"What?" Dean questioned gripping the wheel in his hand.
"Drop the bomb, man. You saw what I did. Come on, stop the car, take a swing."
"I'm not gonna take a swing."
"Then scream, chew me out."
"I'm not mad, Sam." Dean said looking over at his brother out of the corner of his eye.
"Come on. You're not mad?"
"Nope."
"Right. Look, at least let me explain myself."
"Don't. I don't care."
"You don't care?"
Azure bit her lower lip as she watched the brothers go back and forth with one another. She wondered if it was even right for her to be there.
"What do you want me to say, that I'm disappointed? Yeah, I am. But, mostly, I'm just tired, man. I'm done. I am just done."
Sam's cell phone began to ring and he quickly answered it. "Hey, Bobby."
"Hey, you and your brother better shag ass to my place ASAP."
"What's going on?"
"The apocalypse, genius. Now get your asses over here."
Sam hung up his phone letting out a soft breath.
"What'd he say?" Dean questioned looking over at Sam.
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Bobby, Sam, Azure, and Dean approached the door to the panic room.
"Well, thanks for shaking a tail." Bobby said looking over at them.
"Yeah, you got it." Dean said with a nod of his head.
Sam opened the door to the panic room.
"Go on inside. I want to show you something." Bobby told Sam.
Sam walked into the panic room while Bobby, Azure, and Dean stayed back. "All right. So, uh, what's the big demon problem?"
"You are. This is for your own good." Bobby said to Sam.
Dean and Bobby closed and locked the door.
Sam walked up to the barred window. "Guys? Hey, hey. What?"
Bobby closed and latched the window.
"This isn't funny. Guys! Hey! Guys?"
Azure looked down feeling rather ashamed that this was happening, but perhaps it was for Sam's own good. She didn't know if it was fully 100% true.
Dean wrapped his arm around her. "Come on."
Azure let out a soft breath and slowly followed Dean and Bobby up the stairs.
Bobby looked over at the girl that the brothers brought in. "So what's your name girly?"
"Azure." She said softly pursing her lips together as she looked at the gruff old man.
"How did these two idgits drag you into this life. You don't look like a hunter."
Dean looked over at Azure knowing that this story would have to be told later.
"I'll explain it later." She said softly tucking some of her brown hair behind her ear shyly.
Bobby nodded his head in understanding.
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This is the end of Chapter 3 of Prophet's Daughter. Please let me know what you guys think of this chapter. I know that there was a lot going on in this chapter. Please let me know what you guys would like to see next if anything at all. I'm going to try to write more away from the script. I just hope that I'm going to be able to do so, but I'm not 100% guaranteeing anything. Until next time.