Hunter

Chapter 11

Harry was sound asleep, and thus didn't hear Anna arguing with Gabriel over telling him the truth.

"Why did you tell him he would end Lilith?" she demanded.

"The kid has had enough crap piled on his plate. I'm the only one who's ever given him the facts straight up before he was thrown into the deep end," said Gabriel.

That was one of the reasons Harry trusted him completely...Gabriel didn't lie, nor did he sugar coat bullshit. He told him what he needed to know, even if he knew Harry would hate it afterwards.

Anna was torn between calling him an idiot and the fact he was Gabriel, an archangel who outranked her so badly it wasn't even funny, didn't make it easier or backing off.

"Why him? Why would one human matter out of billions?"

"You know that old prophecy, the one that the prophet Nostradamus made about an innocent soul cast down into hell and bringing back something that the first fallen had lost?"

"You think it's him?" said Anna.

"He already has a prophecy on him. Now as far as I can tell, the fates have been resetting the world repeatedly because that prophecy was never fulfilled. Harry has been sent after Riddle again and again, yet for some reason every time he kills the man, his spirit has never touched Hell, and believe me I've checked most of the time. Both of us know that heaven would never accept a soul as dirty as Riddle's, no matter how repentant he was."

"Tearing a soul would destroy any chance of heaven," nodded Anna.

"So I think the prophecy means Harry has to literally drag Riddle into hell himself, thus completing part of that prophecy."

"An innocent saving the soul of the condemned, dragging the soul of the damned with him," Anna repeated.

"The condemned might be the Winchester brothers. Which would make the damned Riddle."

"And the innocent is Harry, who has angel blood even though he wasn't supposed to originally."

"It would make sense I suppose."

"Originally you stole back your grace from Uriel and broke the bottle," Gabriel added quietly.

"What about you?"

"I died distracting Lucifer from the Winchesters. You can see why I'm not so eager to repeat that particular experience more than once," said Gabriel.

Anna agreed, though she still wondered why Gabriel was teaching Harry things only an angel should actually know while he was still a mortal.

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Loki snickered when he realized what Harry was trying to do. Harry wanted to meet his parents, and like Loki said, he wouldn't do it unless he was 'buttered up and drunk'.

Finally after a week of Harry trying to get on his good side, Loki gave up trying not to laugh.

"Alright, alright! I'll send you to their sixth year. But, in exchange you have to lend me your wand for a few days first."

"Why?"

"It's a surprise," said Gabriel grinning.

Harry shrugged but handed over his wand. Since he couldn't use magic without it, he went to updating the HKC, or the 'Hunter Kill Count' and answered requests from his clients.

Gabriel waited until Harry was totally engrossed with his main job, which was that of a research monkey, before he looked at Anna.

"What are you planning?"