Fading Angels [SPN Fanfic]

Secrets In Oak

Liam had said that Kaylee was back.

Could it be true? Could she be back? Did she have a daughter? Our daughter? Had she been tortured for the ten years she had been gone?

I walked into Bobby's house. I walked through the study. I didn't see her. I walked up the stairs to her room. Each breath was painful from heartache and hope. I opened her door and saw her. I could tell that she was dying. I kissed her forehead and she woke up.

"Castiel?"

"I love you Kaylee."

Her smile broke on her lips and I kissed them. I had missed the feeling of her lips against mine and our bodies pressed together. I held her as the cold spread through her body.

"Cass? I kept a secret from you."

"You did?"

"Yes. I didn't tell you I was pregnant."

"What?!"

"I'm not anymore. I had our daughter Cassidy."

I kissed her again. Relieved that Cassidy was our daughter. I heard the last deep breath Kaylee took before the sigh escaped her body. No heart would beat warm blood through her limbs. No air would fill her lungs again. Her eyes would no longer sparkle in the sun when she smiled. No longer would her lips hold back a laugh before letting it escape. Her hand would no longer hold onto mine for comfort. Her hair would no longer fly in the wind. Her beautiful accented voice was dead to my ears. She had been gone for ten years. Now she was gone again.

I felt the mattress bend to Cassidy's weight. Her face was a blank mask. I heard sniffles from the doorway. Liam was crying. He would not have remembered Kaylee as a baby but Sam, Dean and I told enough stories that she could have still been with us. None of us knew about Cassidy. Kaylee had never told me, had never told anyone. But I could have been wrong. Kaylee and Balthazar had been close. Maybe she told him. He had guarded his mind alot more after she disappeared. When I killed him he had tried to tell me something. I should have let him. I shouldn't have killed him.

"She's dead?!" Dean screeched when I woke him and Sam up. The two of them rushed upstairs before coming down with tears in their eyes. Cassidy had the calmest face whereas Liam's was wet with tears. How did Cassidy keep such a straight face?

"Mom said she wanted a hunter's burial. What is that?"

Cassidy soon found out what it was. Tears were streaming down everyone's faces. Except Cassidy's. She had a sad smile. She must be remembering times with Kaylee. The fires dwindled down to nothing as we watched. I pulled Liam into me. I had become alot more human. I could tell that watching someone burn was too much for Liam. We walked away from the fire and sat down in an old car.

"Dad, she gave me a note."

I unfolded the paper and gazed at her beautiful writing.

"Liam, I am so glad to meet you again. I have missed everyone so much. I remembered that you had been so persistent on staying with me that last day. Maybe you had a bad feeling. I wish I had stayed with Dean, Lisa, Ben and you. Anyways, there is a tree out by our place and you must find your father's name. This is the last symbol of his name. I never wrote it. When he gets home show him the tree."

I looked over at Liam who was fingering a devil's trap necklace. "Time to find this tree?"

"You do it Dad. I don't feel so well."

I sighed but got up anyhow. I had failed to protect my family. I had failed Kaylee. At the very least I could oblige her last wish.

It took me nearly three hours to find the tree. The symbols of my name were scratched in deeply even though the tree was dead and wasn't able to heal the slashes. I couldn't see why the tree was dead but when I knocked on it I heard a hollow sound. I climbed onto the first branch and it surprisingly held my weight. I crawled higher into the tree until my foot went into the trunk. I was about seven feet up from the ground. Not too high at all.