Saved (Part 2)

Saved (Four)

Saved (Four)

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"Dammit, Cas! Just let it go!" Markus snapped, throwing down the bloodied knife onto the floor after another failed attempt at converting Castiel, but Cas merely spat at him, blood splattering on the older vampire's cheek as his blue eyes flashed to black.

"No freaking way, Elsa," he sneered and Markus seethed, flashing forward and wrapping his hands around the younger vampire's neck.

"You're really going to regret that," He growled but Cas merely kept his steely gaze locked onto Markus', because honestly, how much worse could it get?

The darkness was already calling out to him. Temptation at its worst, and Cas was so damn close to saying 'Yes. I'll give up my humanity. My soul. Anything you want. Just make the pain stop!' But every time he opened his mouth to say so a flash of those emerald green eyes went through his mind and begged him to hold out a little longer, to endure just a little more pain before he let his humanity drift away.

And so Cas did, because he could never say no to those beautiful green eyes.

"The only way my humanity is going is when I'm dead and gone," Cas croaked out and his master seethed in rage.

"We'll see about that," He said darkly, then picked up his knife and resumed his work.

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He looked different, older than the last time I saw him and honestly, it made me feel pretty damn guilty for ignoring his calls for the last two months.

Bobby had bags under his eyes, his clothes barely even passable for clean and the hat on his head was the slightest bit crooked. He smelled of cheap beer and whiskey. And God... He looked almost as bad as when Dean 'died', but I had the strongest feeling that this time...it wasn't about Dean.

And so I told him everything, going from my weird visions to what Alistar planned on doing, to how Trevor was helping me track him down, and how we lost another vampire hunter (aka Cas) to Markus and how we needed him back and bad, until I was finally finished and Bobby was staring at me with wide impressed eyes.

"I'll... I'll go make some calls," he told us, and I sighed in relief as he waved us in.

Finally... we're getting somewhere.

I took out my phone and gestured for Bobby to give me a second, turning my back to him as I tried to call Dean to tell him the good news, but the call went straight to voice mail.

So much for keeping tabs, I thought with a frown, but hung up and stuffed my phone in my pocket. I mean, I'm sure his phone probably just died...Dean usually forgets to charge it. I bit my lip and nodded, knowing that if I didn't hear back from Dean by tonight, then I could worry about him.

For now though, I had Alistar to worry about.

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"He needs your help," Meg said after she settled herself on the edge of the bed inside the hotel room. I hated how she was covering up Sammy's scent with her own, but I couldn't take the risk of talking at the bar and at least now, if she was lying to me, I wouldn't have to hold myself back.

Because woman or not, I'd still punch this chick for lying to me.

"Yeah, you keep saying that. Wanna tell me why?" I grunted out, annoyed at her stupid cryptic sentences. Maybe I'd be able to help him if you just got to the damn point!

"Sure. While you're here playing husband with lover #2, lover #1 is having the shit beat out of him."

"What do you mean? I thought that the vampires liked Castiel?"

"They did, until they found out that he changed the one of the best hunters around-their words, not mine-" she said dryly, making me roll my eyes. "But now that they have him back, Markus is trying to turn him to the dark side; trying to force him into giving up his humanity and inevitably kill you."

My eyes widened and I glanced down at my arms, feeling them tingle in pain. "So that's what these are," I muttered and at her curious stare I rolled up my sleeve, her flickering down to the cuts scattered across my arms.

"Yes, well...you're only experiencing half of what Cas is going through." She said quietly and I flinched. Just what exactly were the doing to him? I swallowed at the thought and cleared my throat.

"How'd you know even about me?" I frowned and she rolled her eyes, placing her hands behind her on the bed and leaning back on them.

"Cas says it in his sleep," she shrugged, averting her eyes. "I was put in charge of giving him his meals. Markus was usually too pissed to do it himself, but every time I went in he'd be passed out on the floor crying out your name." I flinched and her eyes snapped back to mine. "Look, I don't care if you don't love him. I don't even care if you hate him. You can toss him away after this, but if you don't come with me now, he won't make it. I promise you. Cas needs you, Dean. The question is, are you gonna be there for him?"

Of course I would.

The problem wasn't Cas, or Markus, or even Alistar; the problem was that I would be breaking my promise to Sam.

He made me promise to stay safe before he left; made me promise that we'd do this together, which meant that I would have to lie to him and I absolutely hated lying to him, but Cas...

Cas saved me. That first day we encountered Markus, he got the vampire off of me and protected me- against the very man who created him. He gave up everything for me.

So why shouldn't I do the same for him?

"Okay...where to?" I sighed and her eyes sparkled in joy.

"Pack up your bags, Winchester, 'cause it's gonna be a looong drive!"

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(I'm just gonna see this through. After months of not posting anything up, I feel like the least I could do is finish the book. So here's chapter four and hopefully it was good enough to be called a chapter! (: - Cooki)