Hunter

Chapter 14

"What in the hell?" shouted Bobby when he heard the crash. He sent Dean to check on it, as they hadn't heard from Sam in quite some time.

"Bobby...you aren't going to believe this..." said Dean from the panic room.

"What is it you idjit?"

"There's an angel in your panic room," said Dean, still in shock.

"There's a what?!"

Loki, as it turned out, heard the crash the same time as Bobby did. And Dean's answer to what had landed in Bobby's panic room. He snorted.

'It figures that his safe zone would be Bobby's panic room,' thought Loki. He had mostly come to a truce with Bobby and Dean, partly because he was able to drink holy water without flinching and hadn't used his tricks on them since he arrived.

The fact he hadn't really reacted to Bobby shooting at him didn't hurt either.

Loki came down in time to find Dean trying to remove the 'angel' from the panic room, only to discover how heavy the wings were.

"You might as well move him onto the bed. It'll be easier to get him up those stairs once he wakes up...and considering he just came out of hell he could probably use a break."

Dean flinched at that reminder, but managed to move the unconscious angel onto the bed. He got a good look at the guy's face, and he looked very familiar.

"So Loki, who is he?" asked Dean once they closed the door.

"He's a cambion who was lucky enough to inherit the wings of his dad's race. Most don't, or the angels kill them off before they even get a chance to find out."

"Why do I feel like I should know him? And aren't half-angels called Nephilim?" asked Dean.

"It's Harry. Apparently he got a makeover thanks to the grace he's been carrying around. And cambion is the proper term for half-breed of higher or lower beings," shrugged Loki.

"What grace?" demanded Dean.

"See those chains around his neck? I'm fairly sure he spent his time in hell picking them up. Not all demons were once human you know, and Lucy has been recruiting other angels. Their grace had to go somewhere, and I doubt that the angels retrieved them all," said Loki.

Dean took another look at the odd chains around the cambion's neck. Now that he was looking for it, he could see little glass things at the end.

"So what would breaking the glass do?" asked Dean.

"Whoever breaks the glass gets the power inside...unless the original owner is nearby and is still worthy of it. There's a reason demons would gladly kill for it. In his case the chances of him not receiving the power boost are next to nil, considering he got them out of hell."

"How do you know this stuff anyway?" asked Bobby.

"You'll find out when the idiot wakes up," said Loki with a shrug.

Which he did, only after Dean had a rather unpleasant visit from Zachariah. Though Dean refused to say what happened during that trip.

~

What happened during Dean's trip to the future...

He woke up at Bobby's and found the picture. He was quite upset about what happened to the Impala, but no where near as angry as when his alternate future self nailed him in the back of the head with the butt of his gun.

It took little convincing to prove he was the same Dean as the one sitting there, but there was something...off...about his future self.

It took him a minute to figure out what it was.