Linking Lives / Book 12 / The Life Series / Supernatural Season 13

Good Intentions

In the bunker, Sam, Dean, Aiden, Amara and I were having breakfast.

"Dean, Aiden, you think you should, uh, take it a little easy on the nitrates?" I asked.

Aiden shrugged. "Hey, if bacon's what kills me, then I win."

Castiel and Brandon walked in.

"Cas, Brandon, hey," Amara told them. "How's Donatello?"

"He says he's making progress," Castiel answered.

"But we still need archangel grace," Brandon told us. "We should be out looking for Lucifer."

"We are," Sam told them.

"Look, we got word out to every hunter we know, okay?" I asked. "If they see something Satan-y, they'll drop a dime."

"And Michael?" Castiel asked. "If he succeeds in getting to our world first?"

"Cas, look," Sam told him. "Right now, our best defense is a good offense."

"We'll give Donatello everything he needs to open that gate," Dean told us. "Then we stealth in, we get Mom, we get Jack, boom. Family reunion. It's just gonna take some time."

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Donatello ran into the room. "Eureka! Eureka! Eureka, eureka, eureka, eureka!"

Donatello slapped his papers down on the table.

"You stroking out?" Dean asked.

"No, I--I cracked it," Donatello told us.

"What?" Castiel asked.

"The spell, I--I finished the translation," Donatello told us.

"What?" Aiden asked. "No way."

Donatello was out of breath. "Here's the ingredients. Whew. Running is hard."

"Okay, what are we looking at?" Amara asked.

"Besides archangel grace?" Brandon asked.

I looked at the ingredients. "Actually, that's not even in here. Maybe the spell on the angel tablet's different because of this. Oil of Abramelin, Angelica root. We have most of this stuff. Oh. Other than the--the hearts of Gog and Magog."

"Sorry," Sam told us. "What?"

"Um, they're--they're people," Donatello told us. "Kind of. Uh, sometimes referred to as brothers, other times lands. Uh, you know how bilbes are. Too damn many translations."

"Wait," Castiel told us. "Gog and Magog. I'd--I'd heard rumors, but I didn't think they were human."

Donatello nodded. "Oh, yes. According to the tablet, they were ancient warriors who enslaved half the fertile crescent, until some priests cast a spell to bind them away in a 'place without a place and a time without a time'."

"Okay, so we're supposed to find these guys and cut out their hearts?" Dean asked. "How?"

"The--the demon tablet has very specific instructions on how to free them," Donatello told us. "These men are very dangerous."

"Then I'll do it," Castiel told us.

"Aiden and I can help," Amara told us.

"Yeah, Amara and I need a release because it's been a while and we're getting too restless again," Aiden told us.

"Then Ness and I are going with you," Dean told them.

I nodded in agreement.

"So you can keep an eye on us?" Amara asked. "Because of the monsters or because of us?"