The Dark Hour

--------Layla--------

We got Ridge back to him room, and I was heading to my place. Riker said that he had something to take care of. Which I kinda see I mean anymore he's quite busy. I sighed and fiddled with my keys, till I got the door unlocked. I went to the kitchen and checked on the pie. It was cooled off enough to wrap it up. I got it wrapped up and I put a bow on it. I smiled and picked it up and headed back to the medical bay. I hope that Gabriel lets me see Cas.

I walked out of my place and walked to the medical bay. I looked around and it wasn't to busy. I sighed and wandered around and finally found Gabriel.

"Hey Gabriel is it okay if I see Cas?" I asked shyly.

"Um can I ask why?"

"Well I had berries ready to be picked normally I give most of them to Cas and I know how much he likes berries I made him a pie. I was just wondering if I could give it to him." I said showing him the berry pie. Gabriel smiled.

"Yeah, he's been getting bored in his room and I think this might cheer him up." I smiled and nodded.

"Uh where's his room?"

"It's right but my room on the left side of the door." I nodded and walked off I got to the room and knocked on the door.

"Cas can I come in!" I called out.

"Yeah," He called out softly. I walked into the room and smiled.

"Um I brought you something." I said sitting it down on the table thingy, that was by his bed.

"What is it?" He asked sitting up.

"It's a berry pie. Around this time the berries are ready to be picked and I normally even it out between you and Riker. This time I decided to make you a pie." He smiled.

"That's really nice of you, thank you."

"You're welcome. How have you been doing?"

"I'm getting better, my ankle is healed and I can walk."

"That's good, uh thank you for taking me in a couple of months ago. I never really got to properly thank you for it."

"It was no problem kiddo, I'm just happy that I got to help you out." I smiled.

"Yeah, I hope you like the pie it was my mom's recipe."

"It smells good," He smiled softly.

"That's good."

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I talked to Cas for an hour, till Gabriel told me that he needed to rest some. I was heading to the garden when I was pinned to the wall. I looked up and it was Josh. I bit my bottom lip.

"W-What do you want?" I asked shakily.

"Thanks to you I got my magic sealed."

"Well you shouldn't be mean to people that didn't do anything to you!" I kinda snapped a little big mistake, my eyes grew wide as I saw his hand punched the wall. It was close to my face.

"Next time it won't be the wall. Better watch your back." He said walking away. I'm pretty sure he just threatened me. I sighed and went back to my room. I closed the door and locked it. I jumped when there was a knock.

"W-Who is it?"

"Um it's Riker, can I come in?"

"Yeah!" I unlocked the door and let him in and quickly shut it. "Uh did you get everything that you needed to do done?" He nodded.

"Yeah, I just needed to mail a letter." I nodded.

"That's good." I slowly back away from the door. I shook my head, I can't let Josh get to me. I sighed and leaned against the wall and slid down, and plopped on the ground. "So I gave Cas the pie."

"Did he like it?"

"Yeah he said that it smelt good. Which is good There are leftover berries in the fridge if you want to pig out."

"Ok, um are you ok?"

"I uh ran into Josh on my way back here."

"What did he do?" He asked worried.

"Uh I um believe he threatened me." I said looking down at my hands.

"I swear," He muttered. "I want to punch him in the face."

"Please don't everything will just get worse. If I go to Michael Josh is just going to find an excuse for it. Then he knows that it was me and come after me any ways. He already mad at me for his magic being sealed."

"Then I won't go to Michael, I'll talk to Cas."

"Cas can't really do anything. Either way he knows how to hurt me Riker. Nothing is going to work he's just going to keep coming after me."

"I don't understand why he's picking on you. Your magic is stronger than his, it's even stronger than mine! If anything he should be picking on me cause all I can do is move air around." I shrugged.

"Uh it's cause when I first got here we kinda sparred and I beat him since then he hasn't liked me. Plus he kinda scares me." I sighed, and looked up at Riker. "Please don't make this any worse than it already is."

"I won't, trust me." I nodded.

"Thank you." I stood up and sighed. "I'm going to get a shower."

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I dried my hair and walked out of the bathroom and Riker was sleeping on the couch. I should tell someone about Josh and what he said but if I do he's just going to keep coming at me. I sighed and went for a walk while Riker was sleeping. I'm sure I can leave him alone for an hour. I kept looking around to make sure that Josh wasn't going to sneak up on me. I quickly stopped when I ran into Mark and Louis.

"Training court now." Mark said pushing me that way. I yelped and my ankle popped.

"I-I uh..." I couldn't get anything out they just kept pushing me towards the training yard. They pushed me into the room and it was just Josh, his friends and I. "W-What do you want?"

"A rematch! I've got this place to myself for two hours and in that two hours I will beat you."

"I'm not suppose to be training for or fighting. I have a slight concussion and my ankle is twisted. Gabriel even told me not to do anything like that."

"I don't care, we are fighting and that's it get ready." I bit my bottom lip and looked around. There's no why I'm getting out of here without a fight.