In Another Life || demonprince!dean/angelslave!castiel with Sabriel included

Chapter XXIV

Disclaimer; there will be a hunger games reference in this chapter. Sorry I just love this movie and book

Cas (POV) *a few months later*

I had lost all hope that i would find my daughter, there was no way on this earth that i could get to her. I had both angels and demons looking for her but still not one hint of her has propped up in these past almost 6 years now. I was so overcome with grief and anger that my own people were terrified of me. No demons hunted me now and no angel contradicted me. I would kill, hack and burn everything that would come into view but i didn't care, i was void of all emotion.

Gabriel thought that me seeing Dean all those years ago would help me but as a matter of fact they only made things worse. Seeing him and then losing him again just made me realise that i had nothing left in this god forsaken world. I could fly but I didn't feel like it so instead I march out if my study and towards the stables where I ready my horse. Gabriel ran up to me but I ignored him, I've been ignoring him a lot more lately - not wanting to speak about the past as I wallow in self-pity towards the future. I saddle my horse and hop on without a word to Gabriel or anybody else and start riding towards the border where I knew I would find some demons and be able to revert my anger unto them.

I ride for days and days until I reach the edge of the woods in which I loved so much. Rather then riding in, I hopped off of my horse and walked steadily into the woods; admiring the trees and the flowers as I walked, the snow that had set on them looked perfect. I see the lake that I had seen oh so long ago and walk towards the bank, looking in. The water was not cold enough for it to have been freezed and I hoped for the mermaid, I forget her name now, to come up to the bank and greet me but all I get is silence back. I sigh and sit down, running my finger along the water which sends ripples along the surface. Suddenly I get this overwhelming sensation inside me, something that makes me want to keep moving further into the woods. I get up but my feet don't move, as if they are afraid of what is in these woods. I gasp as the feeling gets stronger, something or someone is drawing me towards them so I clutch to the hilt of my sword which is places firmly in it's sheaf and descend further into the woods carefully, looking around suspiciously in case anyone jumps out at me. I get closer to the border and look around, leaning against the stone wall that separates my kingdom from Dean's. My heart tugs again, telling me to walk along the border, towards something that I had no idea what. I run my hand along the cold wall as I walk slowly towards my destination, keeping one hand on the hilt of my sword at all times.

I suddenly stopped dead in my tracks when I heard somebody singing; a nursery rhyme that I sung for my little girl when she was still in Leliel's stomach.

Are you, are you, coming to the tree.

Where they strung up a man, they say who murdered three.

I walk towards the sound of the song and stop when I see a little girl in a red cloak sitting atop the border wall, playing with a toy happily. When she sees my approach she stops singing and gasps before hopping off the wall and backing away from me.

"Don't be afraid." I find myself saying to the little girl who was cowering away from me. "I won't hurt you." Her eyes are wide and bright, she doesn't look scared, just wary of me. She was probably a young demon child who was rebelling against her parents about coming to the edge of the border. She looks me up and down and her eyes slowly drift to the hilt of my sword. I look down at it and slowly unsheaf it and she backs away from me. I put an arm up in defeat and slowly lower the sword to the ground before approaching the little girl.

"See, i'm unarmed now." I tell her, smiling slightly and her shoulders seem to relax slightly. She looks up into my eyes and i see they are vivid blue, they are beautiful and contrast stupendously against the frosty snow that is lying on the ground and trees. "What is your name?" I ask her carefully but she just shakes her head and bites he lip before squeaking something out.