Guardian Angel

Chapter 14

"Come on Cas, where are you?" Dean and I are sat underneath the shadowed trees outside the depilated building where my brother had been praying for the last 10 minutes. I had woken up shortly after he collapsed on the ground as his shoulder throbbed with the pain of carrying me out into the sunlight. My whole body ached and I could feel new bruises forming as I was just laying here, my body unwilling to move after what had happened. Reaching my hand out I touched Dean on the leg and got him to look at me,

"He will be here." I said to him as tears sprang into his eyes, "He will always find us." Looking at me he stood up and started gathering leaves and branches to lay over me,

"I need to go back in there Lara..." he said rearranging the leaves to cover me, "...I need to find a phone otherwise we are going to be out of here for a long time and I don't think I can carry you anymore." Apologetically he shrugged his shoulders but winced as the pain increased, causing sweat to appear across his upper lip. "Keep quiet and don't make a noise." Walking off he looked back at me before once again he turned to enter the open door of the building.

My body hummed in pain and I felt myself drifting off into space as my body tried to block out the torture that my body had going through. My feelings were numb but my body protested every time I breathed or my muscles twitched involuntarily. I felt tears coming from my eyes and rolled down the side of my cheeks but still I laid there staring off into space until finally my eyes closed and I sunk into the black abyss of unconsciousness.

**

As he entered the building Dean picked up an iron bar which was laid on the floor by the swinging door. As he made sure he had a good grip on the bar he walked into the dusty hallway and wondered where the best place was to look for their phones.

Entering the first room he took note of the thick layer of dust along the floor and furniture. With a shake of his head he exited the room and made his way further towards the back of the house. Once he entered the dusty kitchen, he spotted a blinking light that shone from the kitchen counter. A beacon of light in the darkest part of the kitchen.

As he made his way to the light, he recognised both his and Lara's phone as they sat on the faded wood of the counter. As he picked them up, he slipped Lara's phone in his pocket before he unlocked his phone to see that the GPS was not on. Finding the right setting her turned the GPS on and made his way out of the house.

As he took two shaky steps into the sunlight his shoulder throbbed causing a gasp of pain to escape his lips before his face met the dirt on the ground.

**

"Cas can you sense them?" Sam asked his friend once they realised that Lara and Dean were no longer in the bunker. When they had gotten back from the case Cadi and Lacey were both waiting for them to tell them that Dean and Lara were missing.

"No. As Dean would say my angel mojo is whacked, I'm out of juice." Cas said as Sam strode towards his laptop, "Sam what are you doing?"

"Lara and Dean both have GPS on their phones. I'm going to see if I can track them." He said as he opened up the software to locate their phones. He waited until finally the laptop beeped with acknowledgment when Deans phone was located. Once he wrote down the address, he turned to Cas who had already grabbed the Impala keys from the table.

"Let's go Sam, we need to drive." As Sam picked up the paper, he took the keys from Cas as they made their way out of the bunker.

**

"This is the area." Sam said as they pulled up outside a depilated farmhouse, the porch sagged towards the ground. Once the engine was turned off Sam and Cas both left the car to search around the building.

As they turned the corner where the back of the house led to a wooded area Sam spotted something by the house. As he ran towards the object, he realised it was Dean.

"Dean" He yelled as he slid to a stop next to his brother. He grabbed him and turned him over before putting a finger against his neck to feel the strong beat of his pulse. "Dean." Shaking his brother, he realised that his shoulder was broken.

"Sam..." Dean's quiet voice caught his ears so he bent closer to his brother.

"Dean, where's Lara?" With a grimace Dean pointed towards the woods before he passed out again from the pain in his shoulder.

While Sam stayed with Dean to try and get him to the car, Cas ran towards the woods to look for Lara. He had noticed that the more time he had spent with her the more his "humanity" for lack of a better word showed. Of course, the boys had helped start him off by bringing him into their small family of two but now with Lara he had began to feel other emotions. Fear, love, anger, hurt, sorrow and passion.

Stumbling into the woods he spotted a raised part of the ground near a tree. Thinking it was a grave he felt his heart thump in his chest. If Lara was dead, he didn't think he would survive the pain of it, or the fact that her brothers would feel the loss like a cut to their souls.

Kneeling in the dirt he started to pull away the leaves and branches until he uncovered her hand. Grasping it he bought it up to his lips as tears started to fall thinking she was dead. As he pressed a kiss into her palm, he felt her fingers contract around his and grasped his hand in a gentle grip.

"Cas?" She asked as he removed the rest of the leaves from her body and pulled her towards him. She smiled once up at him before her eyes rolled into her head.

Cradling her body in his arms he picked her up and ran with her towards where Sam had put Dean on his shoulder to carry him to the car.

"Cas, is she ok?" Sam asked as he saw Cas running towards them.

"I don't know Sam, she passed out again." He said as both of them took their family towards the car.