Unfinished Gems

Rifles and Ravens - 6

It was official. Someone noticed Karen's soul leaving heaven and Ruby's soul suddenly going missing...and it wasn't Lilith.

Because Castiel had taken himself out of the reach of heaven...he could legitimately claim it was under orders of an angel higher than Zachariah if and when they discovered where he went missing...they had had to scramble to find another angel to watch the Winchesters.

Personally Gabriel was restless, as he wanted to deal with the traitorous Zachariah and be done with it. He was hopeful that Raven could help him talk some sense into Michael. At least enough to drop the whole 'bring Lucifer out of the cage early' bit.

Coward that he was, Gabriel hated the idea of being forced to kill any of his siblings...well, except Zachariah but he had dug his own grave there.

Why they chose Uriel out of all angels to act as the go-between, he would never understand. Uriel clearly hated Sam, which put him in Dean's bad books. If not for the sigils on Karen's bones, the older angel would have realized that there was a major fly in the ointment for the 'start the apocalypse' plan.

Anyone who could remotely wield even a fraction of the powers required to bring someone dead for well over twenty years back to life successfully with no drawbacks was someone that could easily derail the plan without a second thought.

As it was, Zachariah wouldn't hesitate to end Raven if he left the bunker for more than an hour.

Then again, that's why he mostly used Castiel to get the groceries and never bothered with magical wards outside of ones to trap anyone stupid to teleport or appear in the bunkers in a holding cell where magic suddenly entered a dead zone.

Only Raven could freely travel between bunkers using magic. Everyone else had to use a specially made pass key like the one he gave Loki, and those were generally temporary.

Still, after properly meeting Raven for the first time, Dean now had unlimited ammo tease his brother with. Sam had finally met his match and could properly get his 'geek on' as Dean lovingly called it.

It didn't help that Raven was able to seamlessly join the 'verbal quipping' as he called it in his smooth British accent.

The first time he did that, Loki literally fell off his chair laughing his ass off.

Dean and Sam had gotten into one of their half-hearted arguments when Raven smoothly interjected, "Girls, you're both pretty but we all know that the ladies go more wild for the hot foreigner than they would for the bad boy or oversized moose."

Bobby's chuckling as they both turned to give him a scandalized look hadn't helped.

At least Raven had effectively proven he could hold his own against the Winchester brothers in a verbal fight...but they had yet to see him fully cut loose.

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Dean wasn't the only one cursing when he realized that all the ghosts had one thing in common. They were all people they couldn't save.

Karen was firmly left behind in the panic room, as she had zero experience with hunting, save for her brief stint as a meat suit for a demon. Considering how pale she became when faced with something as easy as a pissed off ghost, it was probably a good thing she didn't argue.

Either way, none of them were in a mood to deal with Uriel or his condescending attitude problem when the spell was broken.

If Dean happened to have a few bullets Raven had spelled to do damage even to an angel that he shot at Uriel, well, none of the others said a thing about it.

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It had barely been a week...but Dean was already sick and bloody tired (he blamed Raven for picking up that new use of the word 'bloody') of being jerked around by the damn angels.