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Once Team Free Will touch down on earth they’re met with Angel radio blowing out in their heads with panic, but that wasn’t just it, Sam felt something else.
“I think there was downside to all this,” Sam cringes at the enochian speech that he can understand now, it’s excessive and Angels are talking over one another, it’s hard to concentrate.
“Yeah,” Dean agrees. “They just noticed Michael isn’t home.”
“No Dean that’s no it. When I touched down on earth I felt it, I released the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”
Memories and plans slide onto their heads, this Apocalypse was thought out very well. Lucifer didn’t have to do anything, he just had to get a vessel and tada! Apocalypse time.
Man did Team Free Will have a mess to clean up.
“What do you mean you released the Horsemen?” Castiel demands.
Castiel then gets info dumbed on him, telepathically, and it makes him angry. To anyone else, Cas looks stoic, but Dean and Sam can see Cas’s wings now, and Castiel is very expressive.
“Cas I’m sorry,” Sam tries to soothe but he stopped to see Cas’s anger not directed at him, but directed at Dean. Dean wonders why would Cas be angry at him? Sure Dean just shared how Heaven and Hell had manipulated them from the very start for the Apocalypse, but they already knew that. Why? Oh… and then Dean gets it. Cas is not mad at him he’s mad at Michael, mad at Michael’s orders. He’s mad at the Dick he’s possessing, and now Dean doesn’t feel that bad that he is actually possessing someone, but then again said someone wanted to possess him with no regard of the human casualties he could have left behind.
“Michael!”
Dean cringes at the scream, which he recognizes as Raphael. Dean brings up the mental walls to keep Raphael’s voice away, even if the call was tempting. It was a cry for help, Raphael needed help, sympathy swoops in, but then Dean remembers, he killed Cas, your not in the same side.
“Dean?” asks Sam, concerned as he notices the mental walls.
“Raphael,” Dean answers. “We should get moving.”
Dean flies and Sam and Cas follow as they land next to the Impala at Bobby’s place.
Bobby had been asleep, but he’s a light sleeper and heard the knock. They wait for Bobby to meet up with them at the door. Dean could feel Bobby’s weariness, he knows he’s going to have a spectacle Bobby on his hands and he’s trying to come off human, and he hates that he’s trying to be human, stupid Michael instincts. But he knows he has to lay this on Bobby gently.
“Dean, you’re okay,” he said relived. “What happened? You just disappeared, are you okay?” Bobby asks.
“We’re fine Bobby,” Dean assures him and then Bobby flings Dean some holy water.
“Really Bobby?” Dean asks.
“You can never be too careful,” Bobby shrugs while he finishes testing Dean and lets him in.
“I’m sorry Bobby,” Sam comes next.
“Demon blood?” Bobby asks.
“It’s gone,” Dean says as Bobby tests Sam with a silver coin dipped in holy water.
“Are you sure?” Bobby asks.
“I’m sure,” Dean says as he looks Sam over with Michael’s fourth dimensional eye, Sam’s clean, Lucifer’s wings are a little gritty at the tips, but Dean assumes it’s just a side effect for Lucifer being in Hell for so long.
Bobby looks uneasily at Cas as he walks up to him.
“Hello Bobby,” Cas tries to be polite and gives an awkward smile, while wondering did he do it right.
“So you’re helping us now,” Bobby asks.
“Yes,” Cas nods, and keeps his words short, he doesn’t know how much Dean wants Bobby to know.
‘The truth,’ Dean answers Cas, and then turns to Sam who just looks resigned to look guilty, because they were going to tell Bobby the truth.
“So what happened?” Bobby asks.
“Bobby were going to need you to listen to the very end, some of things were going to tell you may be impossible,” Dean pauses.
“Look Dean if your trying to spare my feelings, don’t. It doesn’t matter son. Tell me whats happening so I can help you, start at the beginning where did you go,” Bobby gestures for everyone to sit down, but Cas would rather stand for this. He was weary.
“Cas sit down,” Dean orders, Cas’s weariness is starting to ruffle his feathers.
Cas sits down on the floor, and Sam gives Dean his bitch face.
“Dean,” Sam warns Dean about using Michael’s voice to order Cas around.
“Sorry Cas,” Dean apologies walking up to him and offering up his hand. Castiel gives him a confused look but takes the offered hand to help him up. Cas and Dean have a short discussion in their heads about why Dean was sorry. To anyone else it’s like they’re eye fucking, but that is not what’s happening. Dean just explained that he can’t control Castiel using Michael’s tone of obedience, that it’s wrong, that he’s sorry. Dean lacks control, he apologizes deeply to him, but this was also an uptake that Castiel has to learn not to listen to Dean’s orders, he’s not Michael, Castiel rebelled this is one of the perks. Castiel has the right to say no. This was important. Free Will.
Dean and Castiel sit down and Bobby looks between them like what hell was all that, but it seemed that everyone was settled and Bobby was going to get his answers.
Bobby sure didn’t like them. It stared off well, so Dean got kidnapped by the angels, they were keeping Dean away for a reason. Sam had gone to Ruby had drunk her blood and they went off to kill Lilith before she can break the last seal. Dean gets Cas to help him escape the angels, because as it turns out Lilith is the last seal, Lilith the first demon had to die. Dean and Cas head to Chuck’s house to find out where Sam is, Chuck gives out some spoilers, answers that they need like where the hell Sam is, but the Archangel Raphael appears and Dean gets teleported to Maryland Ilchester to stop Sam while Castiel dies trying to keep Dean away from the Heavenly Host. Bobby had frowned at that, Castiel dies? But he decides not to interrupt and let them continue, Dean did warn it would be hard to believe. So, Sam heads into St. Mary’s Convent with Ruby to kill Lilith, he doesn’t know that Ruby was double crossing him, he didn’t know, he was being played. So, Sam kills Lilith and Lucifer is set free.
Now Bobby thought that would be it, they’re fucked but that’s when the story turns weird, because what the fuck! Bobby couldn’t comprehend what they were telling him. Like, ‘ Are you pulling my leg! Are you guys being fucking serious with me now?’
Dean and Sam Winchester are fucking Archangels!