A Turn for the Worse
"Well I'm sorry your feelings are hurt PRINCESS!" Bobby spat out at Gabriel as the defeated Archangel listened to the rant from the eldest hunter while the rest of the boys were scattered about the room in front of the two. Gabriel was the closest to the spitfire and storm, standing in front of Bobby next to the table with a pile of books on top of it. Castiel stood uncertainly over next to Sam who sat in a chair, laptop, open and forgotten, in his lap while Dean sat on the couch, beer bottle cradled in his hands as he watched Bobby rain hell on Gabriel. The eldest hunter was less than impressed with the scene that had just taken place outside and he was finally done with the shit hitting the fan at a constant rate of rapid fire. It was seriously just one thing after another and he had reached the end of his rope."Bobby listen-" Gabriel started in a placating voice before he was abruptly cut off by the gutsy human man.
"I couldn't give a rusty rats ass about what you want to say! Don't get me wrong, Emmy'll getta stern talkin to when she gets back but what you said to Pippin was worse than any shit storm Emmy's ever conjured up 'fore." He told him, anger dripping from his voice and into the air of the room.
"Gabriel..." Sam began hesitantly. "Bobby's right. Ever since Vela, Sirius, and Lupin showed up it's been nothing but fighting and tension. Someone is going to give eventually, whether it's Pippin or Emmy." Sam interjected quickly before he could be drowned out again. Dean snorted loudly in sarcasm and Gabriel turned an anger filled glare upon him.
"Something you'd like to say Dean-o?" He asked in the most falsely sweet voice he could come up with. Dean lifted his head to look at the others and sighed.
"Neither hunter is very stable anymore. Pippin can hardly fight at this point and doesn't get enough sleep." He started honestly while taking swigs of his beer in between certain words before continuing on with his explanation.
"And I know Emmy. She doesn't say anything because she doesn't want people worrying about her but she's slowly losing it. This is been the third or fourth time this week she's attacked one of us." He finished tiredly before downing the rest of his drink in heavy silence. Bobby took a seat and leaned back in exhaustion. Everybody was so stressed out and tired from the entirety of the situation and it didn't take much to realize why.
The salty tang of tears was lost a while ago, replaced with the numbness she had felt for the last hour and a half of her brutal training session. It was dusk at this point, a royal and rich purple seeping across the sky line as the light of the sun slowly slipped from her view. Eventually her body gave out and she collapsed to her hands and knees, scrapping the skin on both pairs on the dirt gravel. One thing she hated was when her body decided to give up and she collapsed onto her side slowly so she could finish watching the sky unveil the jewels that humans called stars. Blood covered her knuckles, elbows, and her injured side, both dried and fresh. Every word Gabriel and the others had ever said resonated within her soul and heart as she rolled over onto her back to look skywards. A shooting star danced across the bluish canvas and twinkled out of her sight. Her chapped lips let a heavy sigh escape as she closed her eyes, allowing the slight breeze play across her scorching body.
Castiel turned back from watching Pippin outside and zeroed in on the conversation once more as it picked back up.
"There's only one way to fix this and everybody knows it." Dean groaned as he looked up at the ceiling with his head tilted back onto the back of the couch. Yes they knew how to fix the problem but that required finding the damn Witch that had caused the problem in the first place. Castiel caught Gabriel's wings rustle uncomfortably out of the corner of his eye and as he turned his head to look fully at his older brother he caught the guilty expression he wore. Something deep within Castiel pulled and tugged at his mind at the suspicious sight. Gabriel knew more about the upcoming fight than he was letting on.
"Pippin is easy to predict because of how out of it she's become but what about Emmy?" Sam posed the difficult question and Cas watched as Dean shifted unhappily in his seat before he answered his younger brother.
"I don't know Sam. We can't just lock her up until we face Vela though." He stated before Bobby jumped back into the conversation.
"Dean you know damn well that we can't leave her unattended." He said firmly as Dean looked away, refusing to make eye contact with the others.
Emmy panted rapidly, chest constricting painfully as she heard the whispers of voices surround her in her darkened room. She couldn't hold the tears back anymore, not that she did to begin with anyways but now they just poured down her face as she managed to hide her face in her arms. She shivered and trembled as she struggled with herself to get her breathing under control but it was no use. She could feel the sensation of being watched crawl across her skin at an agonizing pace before she bit down on the inside of her cheek roughly to keep herself from screaming at the overwhelming sensations. She could literally feel her grip on reality slip before she fell into the black abyss below. As someone had once said..."If you stare at the abyss long enough the abyss will stare back."
Dean got to his feet as he opened his mouth to protest loudly.
"Bobby is correct. Emberlyn has swiftly been proving that it is as unwise to let her be around others as it is to leave her alone." Castiel finally said and Dean closed his mouth before shooting the Angel a betrayed look as he sat back down once more.
"We're at a stand still then." Sam huffed quietly as he leaned back and looked over at his brother and Bobby. The room fell into a lull of silence once more as the hunters and Angels mulled over their options and thought through the consequences. Castiel turned to look outside once more before his heart stopped in disbelief just as a scream of bloody murder ripped through the house. Everybody that had been sitting down immediately jumped to their feet, tense and ready to defend themselves before Dean started running towards the stairs that lead to the second stairs while Castiel raced for the front door.
"Dean!" Sam yelled as Gabriel yelled "Cassie!" and the two followed closely behind their respective brothers, leaving Bobby to fend for himself. Dean burst through the door to Emmy and Pippin's room to find Emmy cowering in the corner of the room, trembling heavily and rocking back and forth as she mumbled to herself. Sam stopped in the doorway as his brother crouched down beside the youngest hunter.
"Emmy?" Dean whispered gently in a lowered voice and she gasped as her head shot up and she pressed herself further into the wall in pure terror. Dean looked back at Sam with actual fear in his green eyes.
Castiel slid next to Pippin's body as she convulsed in pain and agony, her eyes glowing and flashing with her Grace on and off as she gasped for air. He rested his hands on either side of her face and coaxed her to look at him as Gabriel slid to a stop on the other side of Pippin.
"Hey! Pip!" Gabriel called to her in desperation while Cas fixed his eyes upon hers, refusing to let her or himself look away from each other. "Pippers stay with us!" He continued before Castiel broke off whatever he was going to say next with Enochian. His voice rose and fell in volume as he spoke to her with but as the Archangel switched his gaze from his younger brother to Pippin he realized with a sudden jolt that she had stopped convulsing and was looking at Castiel through half-lidded eyes, her lips moving and forming the shapes of the words he was saying but not actually able to vocalize anything at all. Castiel refused to look away from Pippin but once he was sure she wouldn't relapse he spoke normally again.
"We're running out of time."
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