Fading Angels [SPN Fanfic]

A Decade Of Trauma

"Cassidy?"

"Mom?"

I found my daughter chained to the wall. Seeing her beaten and torn body covered in blood and bruises brought me to tears. She was nine years and six months old. I kept track. I unchained her and pulled her into me.

We looked like we had been tortured for years. We had. She had been tortured for nearly three years. I had been tortured for ten.

How did I get to my daughter? Long story short. Demons love torturing. They will fight eachother to torture someone and sometime knock a tray with an angel blade to a particular angel. Me. A hybrid. That was the end of those two. My grace had ebbed away drastically and I still felt poisoned but I had more angel blood in me then before.

I could kick ass. I plowed through the demons. Rage giving me adrenaline. I pulled my daughter into the sunlight. We were on a lonely dusty road. Of course they kept us underground and had surrounded us in angel-proofing sigils. Jerks.

"Mom. I'm thirsty."

I turned to my daughter and stared at her in horror. She was thirsty for a special kind of drink.

"Cassidy. They were poisoning you. I will bring you home and you will feel much better."

She smiled up at me. "Can we all have a picnic when we get back?"

"Sure sweetie." I murmured and faked a smile. That wouldn't happen. We were being hunted. We were in danger. I found a car and hotwired it. Ten years of torture couldn't keep me from using my skills.

The ride was peaceful. No demons. Just Cassidy and myself. Secretly I was afraid of Cassidy. You didn't want her mad. She was staring out the window and blinking at the harsh sun. This was her first sunrise. Her first day of smelling the air.

I began to recognize my surroundings and smiled. I was almost at Bobby's. I didn't know what I would find. Ten years had passed. I pulled into the scrap yard and after several deep breaths, Cassidy and I, got out of the car. My cracked knuckles rapped on the door and I began to think about what Bobby would do when the door was opened.

The door opened but it was not Bobby. It was not Castiel. It was not Sam. It was Dean. He took one look at me. He saw the bruises, cuts, stab wounds, burn marks and scars and could barely contain the tears.

"Kaylee?"

I heard footsteps and Sam joined Dean at the door. By now Dean's eyes had traveled to Cassidy who was trying to hide behind me. I couldn't manage words but Cassidy could.

"Are you Castiel?"

Dean and Sam looked at eachother and shook their heads. More footsteps joined and this time it was a young boy. His hair was jet black and his eyes were brown. He didn't look much older than Cassidy. I choked on a sob.

"Liam?"

Liam looked shocked as I pulled him into me and sobbed uncontrollably. My son was alive. I held him arms length away and admired him before looking up at Sam and Dean.

"Where's Cass?"

I gulped down the water that Dean handed me. Sam was standing in the doorway and Liam was staring at me from across Bobby's study. I held a towel and wiped the blood from Cassidy's face.

"Who are you?" Liam asked.

"I'm your mother."

"Then what are you?"

I stared at Liam. Had he guessed. He approached me and pushed a pressure point in my arm. I groaned at the same time that Cassidy jumped up and shoved Liam against the wall using her abilities. She wasn't hurting him but it surely hurt his pride.

"I'm a hybrid."

Liam nodded acceptingly but glared at Cassidy. I do hope they get along.

"Who are you?"

"Cassidy...your sister."

Silence filled the room so I once again asked.

"Where is Castiel?"

"At work."

"Work?"

"Yes he's a tax accountant by the name of Castiel Novak."

I remembered that his vessel had been Jimmy Novak. A tax accountant. I didn't know much about Jimmy's life but I didn't know about my own either.

By now shadows stretched across the scrapyard. Sam was asleep and Dean was nodding off. Cassidy was curled up on the couch. I had been told that Apollo had disappeared in a fire some years ago. He was believed to be dead. Bobby's house had been rebuilt but it was not the same. Alot had happened since my kidnapping. The biggest? The angels had fallen and become human. That was why my powers wouldn't work well. But why was Cassidy's? Even Liam was limited.

I finished the symbol on the paper and walked out the door. My strength was ebbing and every move, every jostle, sent pain signals to my brain. I knocked on the door to my house and waited until Liam opened the door. I handed him the note and wished him goodnight.

I felt the darkness pull at me but this darkness was different. I struggled back into Bobby's. Cassidy was asleep. I felt a numbness in my body. I struggled up the flight of stairs to my bedroom. I fell into the covers glad I had taken a shower earlier. The sheets were clean, fresh and new. I fell asleep in their warmth as coldness ebbed through my body.