Defying Gravity (Book One: Supernatural fanfic)

Let It Bleed

I was summoned yet again to the Singer Salvage Yard after dark.

I stood on the hood of a car, drink in hand, looking at Sam and Dean in annoyance. "I'm sorry, boys. Do I look like a maid to you? No? Then quit summoning me, please. You should know by now all you have to do is pray and ask, not bring me here."

"This is important, Octavia," Dean told me. "And we couldn't risk being overheard."

"Overheard?" I repeated. "By who?"

"By Cas," Dean answered.

I looked at them in confusion. "Why?"

"Crowley's alive," Sam told me. 

"He's Crowley's butt-buddy," Dean told me.

"Excuse me?" I asked.

"Handshake deal," Dean told me. "Go halfsies on all the souls of Purgatory."

"How did you figure this out?" I asked.

"We... trapped Cas and asked him to give it to us straight, and he did," Sam answered.

"And you didn't come to me?" I asked.

Sam hesitated. "We didn't know if you knew or not."

I took this in, chuckling without humor. "You thought that I would be working with Cas and Crowley and risk hurting people over all of this."

"Look, I'm sorry, Ava," Sam told me. "You should've known better. We should've trusted you more. It's just..."

"If Castiel of all people was doing this, then it wouldn't come as too much of a stretch that I would, too," I told them.

"Ava, I'm sorry," Sam told me.

I sighed, shaking my head. "Don't be. I wouldn't trust me, either."

I took a drink, jumping down from the car, walking closer.

"Even though you obviously didn't know about half of this, you still don't seem that surprised," Dean told me. I took a drink. "You knew something was up. You just didn't know what it was. Why didn't you come to us?"

I didn't answer, looking down.

Sam looked at me in confusion. "You're scared."

I looked up. "I know Cas better than anyone, and the things I've seen him do lately... I have no idea how far he's willing to go. I don't even know if he's still the Cas that we know."

"Yeah, well, I think you're right," Dean told me. "Crowley and Cas took two people who are very important to me. Lisa and Ben."

"You want me to find out where they are," I realized.

"Yeah," Dean answered.

I sighed, nodded barely. "I'll do what I can."

"Thank you," Sam told me.

I disappeared, leaving.

*

The next day, I summoned Castiel to the middle of the woods. "Cas. Good of you to come."

"Octavia," Castiel told me in confusion. "Why'd you summon me here?"

"Can I ask you a direct question?" I asked.

"Of course," Castiel answered.

"Are you in flagrant with the King of Hades?" I asked.

Castiel hesitated. "Of course not."

I chuckled without humor. "Always were such a terrible liar. So it's true. All right, then. Why?"