iris, supernatural [ 2 ]

066. archangel grace

"Fruit from the tree of life. Blood of a most holy man." Rowena says, getting the ingredients for the spell to open the rift out.

"Dean." Sam calls getting his brother's attention and Sam tosses him a pack of glow sticks.

Rowena pulls a hair out of Dean's head.

"Ow." He whines.

"Something from the other side." Rowena puts his hair into the bowl.

"Hey. How's Gabriel?" Sam asks Cas when he walks in.

"He said he needed a minute alone. He wanted to extract his grace by himself. "In private."" Cas says. "So I left him alone in Dean's room."

"You what? No." Dean complains. Sam and Larissa share amused looks.

"I hate to interrupt, but I can't be the only one to notice the rather glaring hole in our plan." Rowena says. "We open up the rift, it gives us a day to find and save your mom and the boy. And it's a very big world over there and you're not even sure where they are, so..."

"She's right. The clock may run out on us." Cas says.

"Yeah. It might." Sam agrees.

"Yeah, well, we don't have any better ideas." Dean says.

"Mm, that's inspirational." Rowena remarks.

"Here it is!" Gabriel walks in. "The final ingredient -- a fresh serving of archangel grace." He puts a vial on the table. Rowena picks it up, the group looking at the small amount of grace in there that doesn't even fill up half of the vial.

"This is what you call a serving?" Rowena asks.

"That is the jet fuel of divine emissions. It'll be more than enough to get the job done." Gabriel says.

~ ~ ~

Rowena prepares the spell, everybody getting ready to go through the rift when she opens it. She recites the spell and the rift appears.

"Okay, everyone ready?" Cas asks.

"Yeah, all right." Sam says.

"Let's do this." Dean says.

They move towards the rift, but stop when it flickers. It slowly starts to fall sideways, everybody's heads falling with it until it completely disappears.

"Okay." Dean mutters.

"Wow." Larissa mumbles.

"Well, that was... fast." Cas says.

"Very, very fast." Sam says.

"One could even say premature." Rowena comments.

"Um... I thought it would be enough." Gabriel defends.

"All right, great. What do we do now?" Sam asks.

"The hell if I know." Dean says.

"You do know. We all do." Cas says.

"We need archangel grace. Gabriel's obviously running a little low and we don't know how long it'll take him to recover. So that leaves exactly one source on earth."

"No." Sam objects, shaking his head.

"I don't like it either, but there is no other way." Cas says. "We need Lucifer."

~ ~ ~

Sam, Larissa, Dean, and Cas are in the kitchen. Dean is leaning against the counter, Cas is leaning against the table, Larissa is sitting on the table, and Sam is sitting on the steps.