Heaven's Child ≫ SPN

27.1

He was still watching Maya.

"You," his head snapped to me. "Don't mistake this," I hissed. "This isn't me threatening to kill you. This is me promising to kill you. I am telling you this, right now. I did not survive through this much to watch you win. I will not allow you to spread your evil anywhere past the hellpit you belong to. I'll make sure you have nowhere to hide your repulsive self, no one standing next to you, nothing protecting you from me. From today forward, it's my personal mission to ensure you have nowhere to slink but back where you came from. Now go."

He stood still, his expression unreadable. His shoulders were tense, his eyes lowered, somehow looking at me from below even though we were standing on the same level. Suddenly, he drew his hands to his sides, and clutched them both, then pulled, bringing the walls on either side of us down.

"No," I gasped, but Maya was above me in a second, throwing me to the floor and hunching her enormous body on top of me protectively. I could feel hard rock falling on her, making her figure tremble slightly, but she didn't seem to mind. Bits of the ceiling fell too, but soon, the crashing noises finally stopped. Maya removed herself off of me and fell to the floor on her stomach.

I immediately checked to see where Alec was standing. "He's gone," I breathed, but Maya wasn't listening.

Her figure morphed until she was back to her small self but she did nothing to sit straight.

Instead, she was sprawled face first on the floor, sobbing into the dirty carpet moaning her older brother's name. It was more than crying, it was the kind of desolate sobbing that comes from a person that lost everything.

I slowly pulled myself off the floor, swallowing the lump that formed in my throat. I ran to the room next to us and checked every room, and under the largest rocks, but it seemed like no one was there. I jogged to the other room, but it didn't even have any furniture, so definitely no one was there either when Alec pulled the walls down.

I peeked at Maya but she was still on the floor. I dared not to look at Max as I side stepped him and the rest of the debris left on the floor until I reached the bathroom to where I was safekeeping Sullivan.

He was under a tile where I drew a warding sigil and created a small ring of holy fire around the necklace. I was surprised it worked and that Sullivan hadn't made any more surprise appearances ever since I left him there. When I undid the fire, however, Sullivan immediately produced himself out of the bottle.

I watched him, wide-eyed. "Sullivan, no. Please, no, no, no, no—" But it was too late. He took off.

I jumped to my feet and ran out of the bathroom, but he was nowhere in sight. I looked to the rooms left and right of me but he wasn't there. I stared at the woods behind the motel through the hole Max left, dread washing over me.

I closed my eyes and tried getting him back. Nothing happened.

Why the hell would Gabriel give me something like this if I couldn't control it?!

"What the f—"

"Oh crap." It was the motel manager. He was throwing the garbage out when he caught the huge hole in his motel.

"You stay right there," he pointed an angry finger at me. "I'm calling the cops, you're paying for this."

"I will, but not in the way you think," I mumbled to myself as he marched away.

Maya didn't realize we were caught, I don't even think she even noticed Sullivan running out. She was still wrapped up in grief, and I knew she would be for a very long time. I put a hand on her shaking shoulders, but I couldn't do much else. I finally turned to see Max and I felt like I was going to vomit. He was just a burnt lump now, with bits of sizzled flesh peeking out from under the black just enough to make it obvious that he used to be a person.