Beloved

The Mark of Cain

The next morning I woke up from a soundof wings flattering inside my bedroom. I opened up my eyes just tosee Cas standing in front of the bed. I got up and wrapped theblanket around my naked body before sitting back down. Jared noticedme moving and jumped slightly when he saw Castiel standing in ourroom. He covered his lower parts with the other blanket and wrappedhis arms around my waist. ''I really am apologising for disturbingyou but, Alice. We cannot wait any longer. Metatron went crazy. His'playing god' reached a whole new level. He is walking through thestreets, healing humans from their cancer.'' Cas explained, his voicefirm and his face cold as a stone. ''But, isn't it a good thing thathe saves people?'' Jared asked totally confused. I shook my head, myhand grabbing his. ''He's doing it to pull all humanity onto hisside. Metatron is manipulating people so they will look at him astheir new god. The result of that is...'' I paused, taking in a deepbreath. There was no chance this would end well. ''He is building anarmy out of wrong leaded humans, Jared. If he has humanity on hisside and pretends to be our father, he can start the greatest war inhistory.'' The angel finished my thoughts. I ran a hand through myhair and Jared swallowed hard. ''A world war?'' My man asked but Ishook my head. ''Bigger than a world war. A war between heaven, earthand hell.'' I pointed out, looking at my angel friend. His stolengrace was no longer strong and I saw him getting more and more weakeveryday. You have to get that little sidenote; When the Angels fellfrom heaven, shortly after I was trying to complete the trials, Caswas already back on earth as a human. He was forced to steal a gracefrom another fallen angel but stolen grace wasn't keeping an angelstrong forever. It faded slowly and I could see my feather gettingweaker every single time he came to see me. ''You need to look afteryourself for now. Your grace is fading way faster than we thought,Cas.'' I sighed and scooted over so he could sit with us on the bed.He was no longer my perfect angel. He had dark bags under his eyespearls of swat started forming on his forehead. His face was pale andhis blue gaze was no longer sparkling. He looked tired and exhaustedand even though angels didn't sleep, I knew if he would lay down hewould sleep. I walked over to dress myself with a shirt and somepanties. Turning around I saw Jared getting dressed aswell, the angelstill on the bed. I walked over to Cas and pushed him gently downonto the mattress. ''Try and get some sleep. You look exhaustedenough to fall asleep, angel or not.'' I told my feather. I helpedhim out of his trench coat and threw the blanket over him. ''I'llcheck on you later on. We will take care of Metatron tomorrow. Jared,Jensen and I will find a way. Sleep angel." I whispered andturned around. Jared was waiting in the doorway and when I turnedaround to look at my angel, he was already fast asleep. Jay and Iwent downstairs to check on the two little boys who were stillsleeping peacefully on the sofa. I went into the kitchen to get ussome coffee. We sat down onto my kitchen chairs and I put my head inmy hands. ''Jare...This is serious. Castiel is sick and he will onlyget back to himself again if we find Metatron and make him tell us ifhe still has Cas grace and if, then where. Until then, I'll have toget grace for him. As horrible as it sounds. Cas is getting closerand closer to dying and I will have find another angel and kill it tosave my best friend. As soon as he is back up again, I'll findMetatron and fight him. We can't wait any longer.'' I explained Jay.I was desperate to save my angel and kill the scribe of God and Ididn't have much time left until the greatest war in history wouldhappen and my angel died. I had to do something. Now.

''Are you sure about this?'' Jaredasked and I nodded when Shep walked in and crawled onto his dad'slap. I told Jare I would go upstairs and I did. I wanted to check onCas. I went upstairs and carefully opened the door to my bedroom,just to find my angel gone and the bed empty. Damn. He must haveheard our conversation. I ran downstairs again just to see Jaredstanding there. ''He's gone. Jare we don't have much time left.'' Itold my boyfriend. ''I'll bring the kids home and you call Jensen.''he demanded before taking his sons and put them into the car after wesaid our goodbyes. The only good idea was to get to the bunker sothat's exactly what Jensen, Jared and I did when we finally got backtogether. I had packed everything I needed to stay in the bunker fora few days and so did the boys, telling their families they wouldspend a fun hiking week with me. When we arrived at the bunker, Ishowed Jensen his own room and the rest of the under earth buildingsince he had never been there before. I could feel the first bladewas here. Anger was building inside of me and I could feel how I wasdrawn to the blade. Cas had hidden it in here somewhere. I made myway to where the power came from and found it just shortly after Istarted searching. It was hidden under a counter in the dungeon ofthe bunker. As soon as I had the blade in my hands, the mark wasconnecting itself to it's other half and I could feel great power andhuge anger running through my body. I was hiding the blade under myshirt, walking down into the library, just to find Cas at his fullstrength. Jared and Jensen were talking to the angel. More anger wasboiling up inside of me at the fact that Castiel had just disappearedwithout a word. ''YOU!'' I shouted, storming over to my angel just totackle him and pushing him to the ground. ''You freaking asshole! Doyou think it's fun to leave without a damn word?! And then comingback at your full damn strength, acting like nothing has everhappened?!'' I yelled and felt the huge urge to punch him in theface. Jensen and Jared both were shocked for a second, not expectingme to act like that. Castiel struggled, trying to get me off of him.''Alice, calm down, please. I am fine.'' The angel pointed out andthat was when my fist met his jaw. ''Calm down?! You're telling me tocalm down?! Who do you think I am, huh?!'' I screamed. Suddenly, twopair of arms were wrapped around me, way stronger than me. The ladspulled me off the angel. ''Leave me alone!'' I snapped at the twomen, ripping myself off of them. I stormed out of the room as fearcrept into my heart. Fear to hurt Cas again or anyone else around me.