Ashes || Book 3 of 'I Caught Fire Series'

Chapter 4 - Rock Never Dies

My head is aching with annoyance, wishing that I could be back at the bunker. I haven't been there in a few weeks, not since I went with Cas and Crowley to search for Lucifer. I miss Sam, craving to be by him more than ever. But I can't, not till I find my brother and put an end to him once and for all. We still keep on regular contact, and so much has happened.

While I've been away, they've had numerous interesting and dangerous cases. They discovered a girl with psychic abilities, who accidentally killed her friends when she reached out for them to save her. Her family were deeply religious, and kept her locked away and made mutilate herself for repentance. Sam and Dean were able to get her out of there, sending her off to live as normal of a life as she can.

After that, they ran into the Nazi necromancers again, but this time it was much worse. There was a watch, holding the soul of Hitler, who they intended to bring back to life. And they did, but Dean killed him, which he has not stopped bragging about ever since.

And to top it off, one of America's most renowned hunters was murdered, where hunters all over the country came to pay their respects, including Mary. However, it all turned south when a demon by the name of Jael gate crashed the party, planning to murder them all. Dean was locked out of the house and struck a bargain with Billie that she let him in and her owes her one. She returned the next morning, trying to claim Mary's soul. But the mother refused, still resisting coming home to bunker.

So currently I am in a random bar with the king of hell on my left, and a fallen angel on my right. Cas pulls out his phone, dialling Dean. He is just as frustrated as I am. Through my angelic hearing, I hear the older brother answer, "Cas."

"Hello, Dean." Cas states and he answers, "You still living out an '80's buddy comedy with Crowley and Reynolds?"

Cas turns and gives an unenthusiastic smile at Crowley, who is eating loaded fries with garlic aioli beside me, "Unfortunately."

"Any news on Lucifer?" I hear my love ask and my heart skips a beat, missing my fiancé so damn much.

"Actually yes. Look at the news." Cas states, looking up at the screen the three of us are focused on.

"One sec." Sam calls out, and I hear him typing away at his laptop. Soon I hear him say, "No, way. So this is from today."

"Oh no friggen way." Dean growls and I look towards the TV screen where Vince Vincente addresses a crowd of reporters on the reunion of Ladyheart, "Haven't felt this fired up in ages."

"A lot of people are saying that your style of rock could never make a comeback in today's landscape. What do you say to them?" The report asks, pushing her microphone towards him and he grins widely, "Go to hell."

"Tell me that's not Lucifer." Dean states and I sigh, leaning closer to the phone as I take it from Cas, "We don't know."

"Aves, I thought you said Rowena got some licks in. Shouldn't he have burned through his vessel by now?" Sam questions and I begin to answer, "Yeah, but we don't-"

Crowley reaches over and snatches the phone off of me and puts it on speaker for all to hear, "Hello boys, long time. We team up to save the world, and then bupkis. You don't call, you don't write."

"Yeah, we don't care." Dean mutters and Sam groans, "Crowley - Lucifer."

"Lucifer. Think about it. Of all the extinct rock acts, Ladyheart are the most Palaeolithic. A major label sponsored comeback in 2016 for those dinosaurs? It doesn't feel like a wholly natural turn of events does it?" Crowley questions.