The End | {BOOK 5}

15| Kaia is the Key

My breath hitched in my throat at Jack's revelation.

"She's alive," Jack continued, focusing on me.

"What?" I whispered.

"But she's in danger."

"W-what does that mean? What- what kind of danger?"

"It's easier if I show you."

Jack held his hands out, offering to show me using his powers. Dean grabbed my hand, pulling me back from Jack a little.

"Wh-" he started.

"Dean?" I looked over at him, pleading with my eyes.

"Together?"

I nodded, and Jack touched both his and my temples. We saw a vision of the Apocalypse World, and my mom groaning in pain.

"Help. Help. Help! Somebody help me!"

"Mom," I whimpered as Jack retracted his hands.

Dean gave me a sympathetic look, squeezing my hand comfortingly.

"I was so close to her. I could've touched her," Jack explained. "But, Derek wasn't strong enough to hold the connection."

"Wait!" Sam realized. "You didn't burn him out?"

"No, I stopped. Derek, he wasn't strong enough, but he knew someone who was. Kaia, she's the key."

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Thanks to angel radio, Jack found out that the angels took Kaia. When we arrived, Jack threw the female angel using his powers and then made the male angel kill himself with an angel blade.

"I got her," Dean told us, picking up a dropped angel blade and running after the female angel.

Sam, Jack and I hurried over to assist Kaia.

"Are you okay?" Jack asked her.

"No! What the hell was that?!"

"They were angels. Bad angels."

"Angels?"

"Yes, and we're hunters," I told her. "We kill things like them."

"Right," Kaia nodded. "And he's the Son of Satan?"

She gestured to Jack and Sam and I just shrugged.

"I am," Jack confirmed. "Yes."

"You're insane," Kaia shook her head.

"Yeah, the whole world's insane," Dean said, coming back into the room. "You get used to it. She took off. She might be back, she might not."

"Yeah, we should move," Sam said.

We exited the warehouse, a train whistle sounding in the distance.

"We'll protect you," Jack assured Kaia.

"I don't think so."

"Wait. Hey, hey. Kaia, look, I'm sure this is a lot. But..." I sighed. "Look, we need you. Okay? My... my mother is trapped in- in another world, and- and if you can tell Jack where it is, then he can open a door-"

"And we can save her," Dean finished for me.

I swallowed, looking over at him.

"So what's the play?"

"Derek said there are sacred sites, places where the walls between worlds are thin, where it's easy to cross over," Jack explained. "I was taking Kaia to the Wind Caves."