Shot through the heart

Chapter 5

It's been a while since I've seen Castiel and it worries me. Suddenly we hear shouting from Amara's office and I hurry down the hallway. "What's going on?" I ask and open the door. Immediately I've got to duck to evade a phone that's being thrown in my direction. "John Winchester has kidnapped Castiel, he needs information and he told me if I didn't give it to him, he would use Castiel. I don't know what he meant but he will without a doubt torture Castiel." Amara tells me and I growl. "I'm getting my weapons." I say pissed off and I start to walk away. "No, you're not. Gabriel you are still wounded, I'll send Balthazar, Anna and Raphael to retrieve him." Amara tells me and I growl. "I can still fight." I say and Amara shakes her head. "No and this is final." Amara tells me and I storm out. "Anna, Balthy and Raphael!" I shout through the house and they quickly run in. "Amara is going to send you into Winchester territory, deep into Winchester territory. Cassie has been kidnapped by John and Amara wants you to free him, be careful though, the Winchesters are not crazy." I tell them and Anna nods. She is excited I see, not a surprise because she is rarely send on missions because she always cries after. "Anna, I'm serious...be careful." I tell her while looking her in the eyes, hopefully she'll see how serious I am. "Don't worry baby brother, me and Balthazar will keep an eye on her." Raphael tells me and I nod. Amara's voice sounds over the intercom and my three siblings walk towards her office. I grab my phone and send Sam a tekst, warning him for the oncoming storm. Not long after I get a response saying the security has been extremely tightened up. I sigh and look out the window only to see a car leaving with Michael in it. I'm a curious bastard so I decide to follow him.

After a while we arrive at an abandoned warehouse and Michael gets out. I follow him inside and he doesn't notice it. A few people are sitting at a table and Michael joins them, while I stay hidden in the shadows. "So you're saying you didn't set this up?" Lucifer asks Rowena and she shakes her head. "Then who's party is this?" Lucifer asks pissed off. "I thought it was you when you said you rolled over for the Winchesters and I thought you were going to ask us in." Rowena says and she points accusingly at Baldur. "Rolled over? The Winchesters killed six of my crew in a month. Six! Some of my best people." Baldur says. "So did you set up this meeting?" Lucifer asks Baldur. "No, I thought it was Kali." Baldur answers. "It isn't my idea of a meeting." Kali answers. Rowena stands up and puts her hands on the table. "Go to hell with this, I'm gone. You brain donors want to hang around..." she says before she gets interrupted. "Sit down mother." a voice says. I look up and see a shadowy figure standing on the walkway in the air. "It's my meeting." The same person says. "It's him, John Winchester." I hear somebody say and I want to face palm, that's not John. "We didn't do nothing." Mercury says. "Well, we all know that's a lie." The shadowy figure says, walking into the light and revealing a short, chubby man holding an AK-47. "Who the hell are you?" Mercury asks and everybody pulls a gun from somewhere on their body. "Shoot him!" Lucifer shouts, but before anyone can shoot, the short guy fires his AK-47 at the table and everybody has to get down. "I said sit down." The guy says pissed off. I try to push myself further against the wall to avoid being seen. "You wanna die?! There's easier ways to kill yourself!" Michael shouts at the guy, I know Michael is beyond pissed because he never shouts. "Yeah, like yelling at the guy who's holding the AK-47." The guy says and scoffs. "Listen to me you drug peddling scumbags, I will be running the drug trade from now on. You're eight of the most prosperous street dealers in Alabama City. I'm offering you morons a deal, you go about your business as usual but kick up forty percent to me; that's a much sweeter deal than the scraps John Winchester or Amara Novak is leaving you. In return you will have total protection from both John Winchester and Amara Novak, but you stay away from kids in school yards. No dealing to children, got it? If you do, you're dead." The guy continues when nobody says something. "Okay crazy man, this is all very generous but why the hell should we be listening to you?" Lucifer asks. The man throws a duffel bag on the table and one of the men step forward to open it. I'm real curious to what's in it until I see Mercury throwing up. "Damn." Odin says and he looks horrified. "Those are the heads of all your lieutenants. That took me two hours, you wanna see what I can get done in a whole evening?" the man says and he cocks his AK-47. "Make no mistake, I'm not asking you to kick in with me, I'm telling you." The man says and he starts shooting again. The people on the ground quickly disperse to avoid getting hit. I shield my eyes and when I look up again after the shooting stops, the man is gone. "Forty percent works for me." Rowena says. Suddenly Kali walks over to me and she grabs me by my throat, dragging me in front of everyone. "Looks like somebody followed you, Michael." she says and she looks at him. "Let him go." Michael says and I start to see black spots on the edge of my vision. "Kali, I said let him go." Michael says pissed off and he reaches for his gun. Kali glares at him and pushes me towards Michael. I stumble but catch my footing before I fall. "Thanks Mikey." I say grinning. "What are you doing here Gabriel?" Michael asks and he still has his hand on his gun. "I saw you leave and was curious because you didn't have anything scheduled." I say. "This is a secret meeting, well was." Michael explains and he looks around. Everybody starts leaving so Michael pulls me along to the car waiting for us. "How did you get here?" Michael asks me and I look at him. "My bike, it's actually here in the bushes." I tell him. "Is it locked?" Michael asks and I nod. "We'll let somebody pick it up, I don't want you driving when you were almost strangled to death." Michael says and he looks at me. He reaches out and carefully touches the bruises on my throat. I let him take a look and when he pulls away I grin. "So you do care about me." I teasingly say. "You're my little brother, of course I care about you." Michael says matter of factly and I smile. "But why did you beat me up so bad at the Winchesters?" I ask confused. "I was playing Matt and you deserved a beating for being so incredibly stupid." Michael says. "Huh, sure." I say and I teasingly hit his arm. Michael laughs and playfully punches me back. We goof like that for a bit before we arrive back at home. "What are we going to tell Amara about your bruises?" Michael asks me as we walk in. "No idea." I answer. "Gabe! Get over here!" Amelia calls me over and I quickly join her. "What?" I ask and she gets her make-up from her bathroom. "What bruises?" she asks and winks at me. I smile and let her work on my throat. Michael watches from the doorway with a smile on his face. "You know what we should tell her? About Francis' death." I tell Michael and he nods. "Yeah, you're right." he says. "I'll go tell her." he continues and he walks away.