Graceland, Part 5

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Hours Earlier

"I need you guys to do something for me," the nameless boy said as he looked at Ben and Mike. "I want you two to find a way to stop Dawn the second you leave here. Then I want you both to forget it, until it's time to take her down so she can't read your minds beforehand. I hope my powers work that way because... I don't want you to die."

"Well, that's... sweet, I guess," Mike said. "Why are you doing this?"

"'Cause I don't wanna be evil anymore," the boy told them as he stared down at the ground. "I wanna be good, then maybe... maybe my daddy will want to meet me."

"Kid, I guarantee you that if we get through this in one piece, you'll get to meet your dad," Ben promised as he looked down at his boxer shorts. Connor, who'd lost his clothes due to Jesse's powers malfunctioning, had 'borrowed' Ben's before escaping.. "Uh... can I get some clothes first?"

"After," the boy said. "We don't have time, I don't want anyone else getting hurt because of me."

*

Now

"These are the clothes that I died in," Samandriel said as he looked at his Wiener Hut outfit. "They must have fused with my grace when Castiel killed me."

"That's a nice look for you," Todreel said as he tossed Samandriel his angel blade. "Shall we continue this fight?"

"First tell me why there's a lake of angel grace here,"

"Raphael ordered me to collect all of the lost grace on Earth, but after the Fall, there was too much to store inside of a tree, so I had to... improvise. I used a glamour to hide the location and I've been standing guard to keep everyone away," Todreel told him. "Now I really do have to kill you to keep the location secret."

"This can restore all of our fallen brothers and sisters," Samandriel said. "This can restore the Host of Heaven."

"So they can strike Lucifer down if he ever returns?" Todreel asked. "Once the Cage opens, he's going to come to find me and--"

Samandriel just tilted his head in confusion. "The Cage has been opened several times over the last few years. Lucifer's been released twice, he's been walking the Earth for the last two years. Or at least he was until he disappeared again."

"No, the Apocalypse, Micheal was supposed to-- Lucifer was going to seek me out after the fight, I was to be at his side as he cleansed the world..."

"Todreel, has no one been telling you what's been going on?"

"I knew of the Fall, I witnessed it, but Raphael had me under orders to not communicate with any angels and stay off of angel radar--"

"Raphael is dead, and Michael is in the Cage," Samandriel told him. "Lucifer had all the time in the world, yet he has never attempted to contact you, has he? You have been kept in the dark all of this time, Todreel. You have been cast aside and forgotten by Lucifer, like you were nothing, just like everyone else that he's used."

"No, you lie!" Todreel said, his voice cracking as he fell to his knees. "This can't be."

"I have no reason to lie to you," Samandriel said. "And I have no reason to fight with you. I am sorry for what I did to you, but I did everything out of love. You can continue to attack me if you wish, but for right now, I must rescue my friends. If you still continue to bear hatred towards me, then after my friends are safe, we will finish this."

Samandriel disappeared quickly, leaving Todreel to stare into the lake of grace.

*

The townspeople were hauling a chained Connor to the town square, where they were planning to execute him on the order of Dawn.

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