They pulled up at an abandoned warehouse after saying goodbye to Charlie at the bus station (she'd only suffered a broken arm but was good to go, all things considered.). There was nothing else for miles around, so it seemed like the best place to crack open whatever the hell was in the case they stole from Dick Roman at the airport. Sam carried it inside the building, whilst Dean carried their duffel. Allegra followed with the flashlights. She didn't really want to be here, but she did want to get rid of the Leviathans. If this thing was the answer to that, she had to stay.
Sam put the case on the table. Dean took out some tools from the duffel before joining his brother. Allegra went to stand on the other side, shining the light on the case. Inside the case was a wrapped piece of clay. Something else was inside of it.

"That's a lot of fuss over a caveman Lego," said Dean.

"Yeah," said Sam. "Well, whatever Dick wants is bricked up inside that."

Dean grabbed hold of a mallet and passed a pair of safety glasses over to Sam and Allegra before putting a pair on himself. He swung the mallet, crashing it onto the clay. Allegra's hand trembled at the impact. She backed up a little, thinking she was just too close to the table. But when Dean hit the clay a second time, her hand trembled again, more violently now.

"Allegra, you okay?" asked Sam, concerned.

"I don't... I'm not sure."

"Here, I'll take the flashlight. Sit down for a sec."

Sam took her place on the other side of the table and nudged her gently. As Allegra sat on the floor, holding her hand, she saw Dean was looking at her with even more concern than Sam was. She lowered her eyes, not wanting him to know that she had noticed his gaze.
Dean swung again, and Allegra's hand shook uncontrollably. Thunder roared outside, and a lightning flash tore open the sky. The voices inside Allegra's head were screaming all at once. Angel radio was going wild. She shut her eyes, putting her non-shaking hand against her temple, trying to silence them, but it was too much. Every time the mallet hit the clay, it just got worse. White light blinded Allegra, and she screamed out in pain right when the clay cracked open.

"Allegra!"

She didn't know who yelled her name or who caught her before she hit the ground. The only thing Allegra saw was light. And in the light, the face of a boy in his late teens. The angels' voices grew faint as Allegra lost consciousness.

"The prophet has awoken. The prophet must be protected. The prophet is the key."

***

Neither Sam nor Dean dared to move Allegra, unsure of what had happened. She seemed fine physically, but if something had gone off inside her head, on the angel frequency, it was just a matter of waiting until she woke up. They spend the night at the warehouse, sleeping on the floor or at the table in shifts and listening to the news via Sam's laptop.
Hidden inside the clay was a stone tablet. They couldn't make anything of the markings on it. Just a bunch of gibberish, really. But whatever it was, if Dick Roman wanted it, they had to keep it away from him. The brothers had just discussed where they were going next (Rufus' cabin still being the safest option) when Sam's phone suddenly rang.

"It's Meg," he said, furrowing his brow.

Dean pulled a face at the mention of the demon's name

"You deal with her. I'll try to wake Allegra."

He walked over to where she was lying. He had put his jacket over her earlier and Sam his own underneath her head so that she would be a little more comfortable. Dean knelt beside her, eyes wandering over her face. She looked so fragile.

"Allegra? Allegra, wake up, we gotta go."

He glanced over to Sam, but his brother had his back turned on him. His fingers touched Allegra's cheek, caressing her gently. Her skin felt so cold.

"Alley, wake up," he whispered.

As if it was the counterspell to a curse, Allegra's eyes shot open. They met his.

"Dean? Wha-What happened?"

"Not a clue," answered Dean, managing to hide his relief as he pulled her up. "Everything around these parts went cuckoo after we pulled a tablet out of the clay. It's got this freaky ancient-lookin' scribbles on it. How you feeling?"

"Euhm, okay, I guess." Allegra held on for support. "Angel radio blew up. It just overloaded. There was something about a... a prophet? And I saw a boy. Teenager maybe. Kid called euhm... Kevin."

Dean's eyes widened in surprise at hearing that name.

'I heard Lucifer mention a prophet once. A boy named Kevin, I think.'

It was the kid Allegra's future self told him about. But Lucifer wasn't around, so he wasn't in Hell. Not yet, anyway. This was it. This was what they needed.

"You guys are not gonna believe this." Sam came up behind Dean."Cas is awake."

"What?!" exclaimed Dean, taking the phone from his brother and hitting the speaker button. "When?"

"Last night, about eight," answered Meg.

"And you waited till now to call us?"

"I've been busy with Cas. He's just a tad different than when he dozed off, 'kay?"

"What do you mean, different?"

"Hey, Seacrest, guess what; not a nurse. Just playing one on TV. Want answers? Start driving."

Meg abruptly disconnected the call.

"So... Indiana?" asked Sam.

"Yeah. She said eight o'clock last night, right?"

"Same time we opened up that thing."

Dean met his brother's look. He knew Sammy was thinking the same thing. If revealing the tablet knocked out Allegra and woke up Cas from his Lucifer-induced frenzy, what kind of punch would it give the Leviathans?

***

Castiel was awake all right. He was Lucifer-free and remembered everything. He was also completely off his rockers. A moment of clarity one minute, and the next, he talked about damn honey bees and wanted to play family games with Dean. Plus, bastard managed to break the tablet containing something called the Word of God, whatever the heck that was supposed to be. But then, out of all the crazy, there was one good thing that had managed to literally come their way; Kevin.
The kid actually drove all the way from Michigan on his own to steal the tablet from the Winchesters. He couldn't explain how he knew where it was. Just got pulled towards it. Meg (who had indeed been taking care of Castiel this whole time), Allegra, and Sam managed to catch him. When they brought him back to Castiel's room, Kevin glued the broken pieces of the tablet together somehow.
Allegra tried to peek over his shoulders to look at the tablet, but when she did, she got black spots in front of her eyes. Like she wasn't supposed to see what was on it. The little that she saw, though, had seemed so familiar. Not the meaning; only Kevin could figure that out. But she was certain she had seen that same writing somewhere else.

Whilst Sam spoke to Kevin, Allegra took a moment to lock on to Dean's soul. He was down in the dayroom with Castiel. She furrowed her brow when she sensed Dean's feelings. Anger, anxiety, having enough of this crap... Nothing new there. But... deep concern too. Partly for Castiel but most of all for her. Dean's thoughts and feelings didn't come out through his subconsciousness as they did at first (well, most of the time, they didn't anyway), so Allegra was surprised to sense this in him. So surprised that she completely failed to notice the party crashers until it was too late.
The two angels took out Meg by throwing her against the wall and rounded on Sam next. He put himself between them and Kevin, but Allegra stepped in front of him, drawing the Archangelblade from the strap around her leg.

"Step away from the prophet!" hissed the female angel.

"Who, me?" Kevin squeaked faintly.

"Sole Keeper of the Word on Earth, we are here to take you."

"You're not taking anyone," said Allegra, raising her blade. "The prophet's staying with me."

The angels looked at each other for a moment.

"You really gonna make me pull rank on this one?" Allegra demanded at their hesitation. "Even if I'm only half an Archangel, I'm still higher on the food chain than the both of you, and you know it. The kid stays, you scram."

Kevin clutched the tablet tight against his chest. The female angel gave Allegra a menacing glare. She was definitely a friend of Naomi's. Same rotten bitchy attitude. Allegra was about to add a little more leverage to her words when all of a sudden, Castiel popped up. The angels drew back in surprise.

"Castiel... Y-You're alive?" stammered the male angel.

He was probably the most surprised of the two. His companion, however, turned her bitch mode back on once she got over the arrival of the surprise guest.

"You." She snarled at Castiel.

"Hello, Hester." He greeted her a little too casually.

"You smote thousands in Heaven. You gave a big, scary speech. Then you were gone. What the hell was that?!"

"Rude, for one thing. Hester, I... I know you want something. Answers. I... I wish it could be that... There are still many things I can teach you. I can offer... perspective. Here, pull my finger."

Hester didn't move but just stared at Castiel. Allegra couldn't really blame her for that. Stupid idiot...

"Euhm, Meg wi-will get another light, and I'll... I'll blow it out again," he said, a bit embarrassed. "And, this time, it'll be funny. We'll all look back and laugh."

"You're insane." Hester's face twisted in disgust.

"Hey!"

Everyone turned at the sound of Dean's voice. He stood in the door opening of the room, blood dripping from his hand. 

"Heads up, sunshine."

White light flared as Dean slammed his hand on the banishing sigil he drew on the wall outside the room, and all the angels, including Castiel, were cast out. He took a quick survey of the room. Allegra did the same as she put her blade back in the strap. Meg was crawling back up, but she was a demon, so no interest there. Sam was okay. But the real mess was Kevin. The kid was freaking out. And really, who could blame him?
Allegra made him sit on the bed and held his hand. She extended her shield to him, surprisingly feeling some resistance. Eventually, she was able to wrap him up, and he started to calm down so Sam and Dean could give him the basic gist of things.

"I don't want to be a prophet," whimpered Kevin when they were done.

"No, you don't at all," said Dean.

Allegra shot him an admonishing look and pinched Kevin's hand encouragingly. She knew what it was like when you got thrown into something from one day to the other, with all kinds of bad chasing you. But if Hester put the word out that Allegra had Kevin, maybe the angels wouldn't come after them again. Or that's what Allegra hoped anyway.

"Gentlemen - and lady - we've got to start running and hiding," said Meg. "Or do you want to tangle with those wing nuts twice?"

"I'm sorry. Did you say 'we'?" Dean turned to her.

"I'm on the angels' radar now. You think I don't need a little safety in numbers?"

"All right, we'll go to Rufus' cabin. Kid can do his book report there."

"Actually... I may know somewhere better."

They all turned to Allegra. She drew a deep breath. She really, really did not want to go back to that house. But neither did she want the angels, the demons, nor the Leviathans to get their hands on the tablet or Kevin. Like she told the angels, she had him. He was her responsibility now. And he was just a kid. Allegra wasn't going to let his life go topsy turvy like her own. She refused to leave him hanging.

***

"Head to Lawrence. It's not that much further from there."

Sam glanced back. What kind of safe place did Allegra know near Lawrence? That's where his own family had lived before his mom died. He wanted to ask Allegra about it but decided not to. Too many people, for one thing. If Allegra hadn't told them up front where they were going before, she wouldn't now, either. He would just have to wait until they got there.
Kevin still had the tablet clutched against his chest. Allegra had managed to calm him down enough that he nodded off a couple of times, but he was so not okay. Poor kid was prepping for college one day, and then suddenly, lightning struck him, and boom, he was a prophet and had the whole supernatural world on his tail. Allegra was probably the best person to guide him out of everyone here. Her own story was similar, after all. Only with Kevin, they were gonna make damn sure no one took him away.

Allegra had her arm over the kid's shoulder. Sam caught her eye when she looked up and smiled at her. A faint blush appeared on her cheeks, and she quickly lowered her eyes again. She was one of the toughest people Sam knew, but she had the kindest heart too. Sam was certain Allegra had her shield up around Kevin as well, just to keep him calm. It came in pretty handy in situations like these. She had insisted on sitting in the middle to give Dean directions, but he suspected she wanted to keep Kevin away from Meg as well. He wouldn't trust the demon as far as he could throw her, but she had stayed with Cas all this time, and she seemed genuine in wanting to help out with Kevin (even if it was out of self-preservation). Meg looked out of her window, a serene but bored expression on her face. When her phone rang, she snapped out of her trance and answered.

"Yeah. Yeah, Castiel. It's me."

"Cas? Where?" asked Dean. "Where is he?"

"Shut up. No, Cas, you talk. You're in Perth?"

"Perth? As in Australia?"

"He says he's surrounded by unhappy dogs," said Meg, just adding to the confusion. "Oh...Okay, he's at a dog track in Perth. What? Yeah, they're unhappy 'cause the rabbit's fake. Listen, we're on Highway 70, past Kansas City, heading to Lawrence."

"No, wait!"

But Allegra's warning came too late. Castiel appeared in the back seat, lying awkwardly on all three of the other passengers. Kevin screamed out when he suddenly found himself in the angel's embrace. Allegra shot Castiel a glare, probably wanting to banish him right back to Perth, while Meg seemed to think the situation was funny and held Cas's legs like he was a big fluffy cat or something.

"Kevin, this is Castiel," she said.

"Y-you're one of the a-angels?" stammered Kevin.

"Relax, kid, he's one of the good guys." Meg chuckled at his apprehension.

"Debatable." Allegra scoffed under her breath.

Castiel booped Kevin's nose like he was a toddler. Sam saw Allegra clench her jaw and cleared his throat, signaling to Dean that they better distract her before she released one of the plagues in the car.

"Cas, what happened back there?" Dean asked the angel when he picked up on Sam's hint. "Who were those guys?"

"They're from the garrison," explained Castiel. "My old garrison. Looks like Hester's taken over. We were assigned to watch the Earth. Often, it was boring. The wars were very boring, and the sex...you know, the repetition. Anyway, I was, euhm... I was their captain. Isn't that strange? Hey, you know, those racing dogs were absolutely miserable. They can only think in ovals."

"Cas, don't make me pull this car over! Focus! Why are angels after us?!"

"Are you angry?" Castiel gave him an awkward look. "Why are you angry?"

"What? No, I-I'm... Please, can we just stay on target?"

"There is no reason for anger. They're only following protocol. If the Word of God is revealed, a keeper of the Word will awaken, like this hot potato right here."

Castiel booped Kevin's nose again.

"Please stop that," said the disgruntled teen.

"Anyway, garrison code dictates you take the keeper to the desert to learn the Word away from men," continued Castiel, unperturbed.

"I can't live in the desert! I-I'm applying to Princeton!"

"Oh, good for you, you little munchkin."

The angel was about to boop Kevin's nose a third time, but Allegra quickly grabbed his wrist.

"Do that again, and you pull back a bloody stump," she hissed threateningly.

Sam couldn't help but snort at Castiel's pouting duck face when he pulled back both hands, thus releasing Kevin, and tucked them away under his armpits, crossing his arms over his chest. Meg had the biggest grin on her face, which was just disturbing, whilst Kevin looked really relieved he had the hybrid Archangel on his side.

"Okay, pipe down, everyone." Dean threw everyone in the back seat a reprimanding look through the rearview mirror. "We're nearly there, so play nice. You can go back to hating each other when we're not in this sardine can. God, I miss Baby."

Sam furrowed his brow at his brother. How did he know they were nearly there? Did Dean know where they were going? Had Allegra told him something she hadn't told Sam? Why would she? She hated him. Or she should, after what he'd done. When would she have even told him where they were going? They hadn't been alone together since... Sam couldn't recall when. Maybe she told Dean when they were still a couple. Yeah... Yeah, that was it.

They drove on in silence. Once they passed Lawrence, Allegra directed Dean to take a right at a T-crossing just before entering the town of Linwood. Sam's suspicion grew once again when Dean pulled the car over even before Allegra said they had arrived at their destination. He looked out the window. Big house, shed (or small barn, he couldn't tell) out back, picket fence all around the property. And absolutely nothing for miles around.
Dean was the first to step out of the car. He walked around to the back of the passenger side and told Sam to help him. Together, they pulled Castiel out, liberating the others from their constricted positions. The angel started to twirl around like a ballerina, making a really annoying buzzing sound, whilst Kevin gratefully stretched his sore limbs.

"Sorry, but am I missing something?" asked Meg when she got out. "There's nothing here."

Sam frowned as the demon looked left and right.

"You mean you can't see the house there?" He pointed to it.

"Obviously not. Great..." She threw her hands in the air.

"You're right, Meg; this is great." Castiel wrapped his arms around her, taking the demon in for a big hug. "The two of us can camp under the stars whilst Dean, Sam and Kevin hide in the house Gabriel made for Allegra."

Sam's head jerked up at Castiel the moment he said that. The house Gabriel made? He looked over at Dean, who gave his full attention to the only person still left in the car. Allegra sat silently with her fists clenched and her lips pressed together. Dean reached in for her, whispering something inaudibly. Sam drew closer, but then Allegra got out of the car, holding Dean's hand. They walked around the car together. As Sam watched them, one inexplicable yet all-consuming thought invaded his mind.

I have to get rid of him.