"You want Anna?" Sam asked bewildered. "Why?"

"Out of the way!" Uriel said with disgust as he stepped forward. He paused momentarily and glared at Y/N, sensing his Angel Blade.

"Whoa whoa whoa I know she's wiretapping your angel chats or whatever but it's no reason to gank her." Y/N said trying to reason with the angels.

"Don't worry, I'll kill her gentle." Uriel smirked.

"You're some heartless sons of bitches you know that?" Y/N sneered.

"As a matter of fact we are. And?" Castiel said almost dismissively.

"And Anna's an innocent girl!" Sam yelled in outrage.

"She is far from innocent." Castiel said calmly.

Y/N and Sam looked at each other confused.

"And what's this supposed to mean?" Sam asked.

"It means she's worse than this abomination you're associating with. Now give us the girl!" Uriel snapped at him.

Y/N raised an eyebrow at Sam who looked back at him with a 'are we gonna do this?'

Y/N looked back at Sam and shot him a message.

Fuck it. Ride or Die.

Y/N smirked at Uriel.

"Sorry. Get yourself another one. I hear there's plenty of doggers on Blackhorse Lane."

"Whose gonna stop us? You two? Or this Knight whore?"

Uriel suddenly threw Y/N back faster than what seemed possible and grabbed Ruby, throwing her to the floor.

He held his hand over her head, ready to smite her as Y/N shakily got to his feet.

Sam backed towards the door of the room Anna was in and tried pleading with Castiel who walked towards him calmly.

Y/N rushed Uriel, unsheathing his Angel Blade and aiming for a headshot. In an instant Uriel had turned and grabbed Y/N's left fist, lifting it and squeezing. Y/N felt his hand be crushed.

"Fuck" he cried out in pain as he fell to a knee.

"Oh I've been waiting for this" Uriel sneered as he laid punch after punch into Y/N's face.

"Cass please don't do this" Sam said.

Cass approached him and pressed two fingers to his forehead. Sam instantly dropped. He reached for the doorknob as he and Uriel both suddenly stopped. They looked at each other and grunted in pain as they seemed to be thrown backwards out of existence.

Y/N hit the ground hard as Uriel disappeared.

"What the f-?" He asked rhetorically as he looked around stunned, blood pouring from his lip and nose. He forced himself up and limped to Ruby, gently helping her to her feet.

"Come on I've got you" he said gently, pushing through his pain.

They struggled over to Sam who slowly regained consciousness. Ruby dropped to her knees to help him as Y/N checked on Anna.

He opened the door to see her bleeding from the arm and a strange sigil drawn in blood on the mirror in front of her.

"Anna!" Y/N said in panic, ignoring his pain as he rushed over to her and cast Episkey. He was relieved when her wound closed.

"Thank god you didn't get yourself too deep."

"Wow. That's magic?" Anna said looking at her forearms.

"Wait- are they gone?" She quickly followed up as she was drawn back to the present moment.

"Yeah. Did you kill them?"

"No. I sent them far far away.... oh my god your hand!"

Anna looked at Y/N's broken and purple left hand.

"Yeah.... brackium emendo"

Anna jumped in fright as Y/N's hand popped and cracked back to normal. He shook it a few times.

"Did that... did that hurt?"

"Yeah but never mind that. You wanna tell me how you did... that?" Y/N said as he pointed at the blood sigil.

"That just popped into my head. I don't know how I did it."

Anna looked completely terrified.

"I just did."

—~—

Y/N was waiting in the main room of the cabin as Ruby finished healing Anna, Sam closed the door and looked over to him.

"So what do you think prof?" Y/N asked.

"I think Anna's getting more interesting by the second."

"Yeah I agree. And what did they mean by she's not innocent?"

Sam shrugged.

"Seems like they want her bad. And not just cause of the Angel radio thing. I mean that blood sigil- that's some serious arithmancy man."

"Something's definitely going on with her Sam. Go back to Birmingham, see what else you can find out."

"What are you gonna do?"

"Anna sent the angels to the outfield but they'll be back. We gotta get ourselves safe now. You apparate to the car, I'll apparate these two to Bobby's."

—~—

Anna was sat in Bobby's basement panic room, Y/N tapped on the wall next to her.

"Iron walls drenched in salt. Completely demon proof."

"Won't stop the angels though. This will. Here" Ruby said walking in and tossing two hex bags to Y/N.

"Hex bags?" He asked puzzled.

"Extra crunchy. They'll hide us from angels, demons, all comers."

Y/N stared at her for a moment and smirked, answering:

"Thanks, Ruby"

Ruby looked at him stunned before nodding. She looked down and smiled as he turned to Anna.

"Don't lose this." Y/N said as he handed her a hex bag. He leant on his hands at the table next to her and looked at his reflection in the mirror. The right side of his face was puffed and he had three distinct bruises forming.

"Man Hermione is gonna kick my arse."

He chuckled, as did Anna before she turned serious.

"So Anna what's playing on Angel radio anything useful?" Y/N asked turning to face her.

"It's quiet." She turned to him. "Dead silent."

"Good" Y/N said turning back to the mirror. "That's not troubling at all".

Anna looked at him again, fearfully.

"We're in trouble huh. You guys are scared?"

Y/N glanced at Ruby who looked terrified before he did what he did best. He put on his poker face and smiled.

"Nah. Just another Tuesday for us".

Anna looked like she didn't believe him.

"Hey Y/N!" Sam yelled from upstairs.

"I'll go see what he found out" Y/N tapped on Anna's leg. "Stay in here ok" he said in a caring tone. Y/N then looked at Ruby. "Keep an eye on her".

He exited the panic room and walked upstairs. He greeted Sam with one of their bro hugs.

"How's the car?"

"Baby. Not 'the car'. She's fine I got her". Sam said annoyed. Y/N rolled his eyes.

"Where's Bobby?"

Y/N chuckled. "Uh... The Algarve. He said we break anything we buy it."

Sam looked puzzled and asked: "He working a job?"

"God I hope so otherwise he's at hedonism in a banana hammock and a trucker cap" Y/N chuckled.

Sam pulled a face. "Now that's seared in my brain".

"What did you find on Anna?"

"Uh not much. Her Parents were uh, Rich and Amy Milton. An Anglican Reverend and a housewife"

"Riveting"

"But there is something here in the report. Turns out this latest psych episode wasn't her first."

"No?"

"When she was two and a half she'd get hysterical anytime her dad got close. She was convinced that he wasn't her real daddy."

"No so who was? The plumber? A little snake in the pipes?" Y/N chuckled at his own idiotic joke.

Sam looked at him like he was a moron.

"Dude you're confusing reality with porn"

"I don't watch that shit Sam."

"Anyway look, Anna didn't say who he was, she just kept repeating that this real father of hers was mad. Very mad, like wanting to kill her mad."

Y/N looked at Sam shocked.

"Kind of heavy for a two year old".

Sam gave him a look of 'yep' before continuing.

"Anyway she saw a kid's shrink, got better and grew up normal".

"Until now" Y/N sighed reading the report.

"What's she hiding?" Sam asked rhetorically.

"Why don't you just ask me to my face?" Anna snapped from the doorway, extremely pissed off. She stood with her arms crossed, Ruby leant against the wall next to her like she was over this shit.

"Nice job watching her" Y/N glared.

"I'm watching her" Ruby replied lethargically.

"No, you're right Anna" Sam said apologetically. "Is there anything you want to tell us?"

"About what?" She snapped.

"The angels said you were guilty of something. Why would they say that?" Sam asked with a hint of caution. Anna erupted.

"You tell me! Tell me why my life has been levelled. Why my parents are dead?"

She broke down and Sam moved towards her. She instantly hugged him for comfort and support.

"I don't know". She muttered between tears. "I swear. I would give anything to know."

"Okay." Sam said as he rubbed her back.
"Then let's find out. I know someone, a psychic. Pamela Barnes. Best psychic in the county. She's about an hour away from here."

"I'll go." Y/N said as Sam was still trying to calm Anna.

"Y/N no-" Sam started.

"Angel Blade trumps not having one Sam, besides Ruby gave me a hex bag so we should be golden."

Pamela was a psychic who was blinded a couple of years previously. She had tried to summon Castiel when he had initially made contact with Sam giving only a name. She spied his true visage and her eyes burnt out of her skull.

—~—

Y/N gained the memory of how to get
To Pamela's house from Sam's memory and set out, returning two hours later and helping her down to the basement.

"We're here" Y/N called out as they got to the bottom of the stairs.

"Pamela, hey" Sam said rushing towards her.

"Sam?" She asked puzzled.

"It's me Sam. Yeah!"

"Sam?" Sam is that you?"

"I'm right here"

She touched his face.

"Oh! Know how I can tell?

Whack!

"Hmmp" Sam slightly muttered.

"That perky little arse of yours. You could bounce a 10p piece off that thing." She chuckled suddenly more confident. Y/N was in hysterics behind her.

"Of course I know it's you grumpy. Same way I know she's got no soul and that poor girl is Anna."

She turned back to Sam with a chuckle.

"And that you've been eyeing my rack since I got here!"

Sam got embarrassed as Y/N laughed more.

"Your partner on the other hand, the perfect gentleman the whole way here."

"I have a girlfriend ma'am" Y/N smiled.

"And you love Hermione with everything you are don't you".

The smile faded from Y/N's face and was replaced with shock.

"Although you should still use a condom, even with oral. You've gotta be safe kid."

Y/N's eyes nearly bulged out of his head, Sam went pale. Anna blushed heavily and Ruby thought it was hilarious.

"You don't have anyone you can ask about that stuff, someone's gotta tell you."

Y/N was a stammering mess.

"Hahaha don't sweat it kiddo. I still got more senses than most."

She walked up to Anna smiling.

"Hey Anna, how are you I'm Pamela." She said as she took Anna's hands in hers.

"Hi"

"Y/N told me what's been going on. I'm excited to help."

"Oh that's nice of you."

"Well, not really. Any chance I can dick over an Angel I'm taking it."

"Why?" Anna asked confused.

"They took something from me" Pamela said as she removed her glasses.

Anna looked stunned and horrified at her pure white eyes.

"Demony I know. But they're just plastic. Good for business. Makes me look extra psychic don't you think?"

She smiled and laughed at Anna who smiled back. Pamela put her glasses back on and took Anna with an arm around the shoulder.

"Now, how about you tell me what your deal is? Hmm?"

They walked off as Anna wrapped one around her waist as they walked into the panic room.

—~—

"Don't you worry"

"Nice and relaxed"

Anna was in a state of hypnosis on the bunk in the panic room. Pamela sat next to her on a chair as the others watched."

"Now I'm going to count down from five to zero. When we are at zero you will be in a deep state of hypnosis. As I count down just go deeper and deeper ok.

Five

Four

Three

Two

One

Deep sleep. Deep Sleep."

She rubbed Anna's face.

"Every muscle calm and relaxed. Can you hear me?"

"I can hear you." Anna answered in a daze.

"Now Anna, tell me, how can you hear the angels? How did you work that spell?"

"I don't know. I just did"

"Your father. What's his name?"

"Rich Milton."

"Alright. But I want you to look further back. When you were very young, just a couple of years old."

Sam looked at Ruby apprehensively.

"I don't wanna"

"It will be ok."

Anna started twitching on the bed.

"Anna just one look. That's all we need."

Y/N looked between Anna and Pamela, suddenly concerned.

"No"

Anna's head started rocking back and forth as she got more distressed.

"What's your dad's name? Your real dad. Why is he angry at you?"

"No... no..."

She got more distressed and more agitated in her movements. Her voice raised.

"No... no... NO!"

Her upper half lifted off the bed as she screamed No in terror.

"Anna... Anna" Pamela tried to calm her as Y/N came over worried.

"Anna"

"Y/N no-"

It was too late. He placed a hand on her shoulder in concern and she backhanded him, sending his flying across the room and smashing into the wall behind them.

"Calm down!" Pamela tried to calm her.

"No he's gonna kill me" Anna screamed.

Ruby meanwhile rushed to over to Y/N and checked him, looking up to Sam in shock:

"Merlin's beard, she knocked him out cold." She leant down and magically revived him, Y/N waking disorientated and asked:

"What the fuck?" as he grabbed his head in pain. Anna continued to scream.

"Anna you're safe." Pam tried to reassure her.

"No" Anna screamed again. The solid cast iron door slammed shut behind Sam, causing him to jump, as the lightbulb exploded above them.

"Wake in one, two, three, four, five!"

Anna's body instantly calmed as Pamela placed a hand on her face. Sam helped Y/N to his feet. Anna gasped and opened her eyes wide as Pamela spoke soothingly to her.

"Anna, you Alright?"

She sat on the bed and looked at the psychic.

"Thank you Pamela. That helped a lot."

The psychic shook her head confused.

"I remember now" Anna smiled, her voice strangely calm.

"Remember what?" Sam asked as he still gripped onto Y/N.

"Who I am."

Y/N held his head in pain.

"Alright. I'll bite. Who are you?"

She looked at them calmly.

"I'm an angel."

Pamela backed off in fear. Y/N and Sam both looked stunned.

They all moved upstairs to the library. Y/N was sat on Bobby's desk with an ice pack on his head. Pamela was sat next to him with her arms crossed, Sam on the other side intrigued. Ruby was behind- near the kitchen- as Anna paced in the space between the four of them, hands in her back pockets.

"Don't be afraid. I'm not like the others."

Ruby had an angry and fearful expression on her face as she answered:

"I don't find that very reassuring".

"Neither do I" Pamela answered, her face just angry. Anna approached Y/N.

"So... Castiel, Uriel... They're the ones who came for me?"

"You know them?" Sam asked.

"We were kinda stationed in the same foxhole."

"What were they like your bosses?" Y/N asked.

Anna looked down bashfully and smiled.

"Try the other way round".

Y/N grew a very impressed smile.

"Well look at you!" Anna laughed.

"But now they want to kill you?" Pamela asked.

"Orders are orders. I'm sure I have a death sentence in my head."

"Why?" Pamela asked.

"I disobeyed. Which for us is about the worst thing you can do. I fell"

"Meaning?" Y/N asked trying to follow the conversation with a pounding headache.

"She fell to earth. Became human." Pamela answered.

"Wait a minute. I don't understand. So angels can just become human?" Sam asked intrigued.

Anna nodded and proceeded to explain the process:

"It kinda hurts. Try cutting out your kidney with a butter knife. That kind of hurts. I ripped out my grace."

Y/N raised an eyebrow.

"Is that like a hymen euphemism kind of thing?"

He quickly moaned as Pamela slapped him on the back of the head.

"No" Anna chuckled. "My grace. It's energy. I hacked it out and fell. My mother, Amy, couldn't get pregnant. Always called me her little miracle. She had no idea how right she was."

She smiled as she paced. Ruby's face was growing more and more panicked.

"So you just forgot that you were God's little Power Ranger?" Y/N asked, relieved not to get another slap.

"The older I got, the longer I was human, yeah."

Ruby finally spoke up.

"I don't think you appreciate how completely screwed we are".

"Ruby's right. Heaven wants me dead."

"And Hell just wants you. A flesh and blood angel you can question, torture, that bleeds. Sister you're the Quidditch cup. And sooner or later, heaven or hell, they're gonna find you."

"I know. And that's why I'm gonna get it back."

"What?" Sam asked perplexed.

"My grace."

"You can do that?" Y/N asked.

"If I can find it."

"So what you're just gonna take some divine bong hit and Shazam you're cherubim powered up?" Y/N asked again.

"Something like that." Anna answered slightly defensively.

"Alright, I like this plan" Y/N smirked. "So Where's this grace of yours?"

"Lost track. I was falling about 10,000 miles per hour at the time."

"Wait, you mean falling. Like literally?" Sam asked.

"Yes".

"Like the way a human eye can see? Like a comet or a meteor?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Alright Sam I'm with you." Y/N answered. "I'll take Pamela home, you hit the books"

"Good" Pamela said looking at Y/N. "We need to talk."

Y/N apparated them to Pamela's front door and they entered, she invited him to sit. He did and she sat across from him.

"So what's up Pammy?"

"I know you're a seer, not psychic, so I'll warn you never to call me that again."

Y/N chuckled. "Duly noted"

"Look I'm sorry if I embarrassed you before, I was only joking."

"It's fine, I'm thick skinned" Y/N smiled.

"That's what I want to talk to you about. This archon inside you Y/N. It taking more and more control over you".

"How did you-?"

"Psychic. Now look listen. Think of your soul as having a protective layer. Each time we do something bad it makes a little chip. So you lie, it's tiny, you cheat, a little bigger. You murder, much much bigger. You kill, not as much if it's for the right reasons. You bashing that scumbag's head in didn't do much because he was a truly evil soul. But... torturing. Maliciously causing pain and enjoying it... like you did in Azkaban. You can't do that again Y/N."

"How did you know.... right psychic. Look he-"

"I know. He murdered your father. Tortured you. But each time you torture Y/N you are actively seeking to hurt another, getting pleasure from it. It strips away your soul's protection. Now for a normal person that would just make them cold, heartless. But for you.... once more, twice tops, your protection is gone. If that happens before you subdue and absorb it and it takes control of your soul."

She shivered.

"It won't need you to say yes. It will possess you, own you. Through you it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine. You would burn this planet to a husk. No force on heaven or earth could stop you."

Y/N absorbed her words. He felt something he hadn't felt for a long time. Fear.

—~—

Sam was sat on Bobby's couch surrounded by books. Ruby was leaning next to him.

"Here in March '73 a meteorite vanished in the night sky over Birmingham. It was sighted nine months before Anna was born, and she was born in that part of Birmingham."

"Pretty buff for a nerd aren't you." She chuckled.

Sam continued engrossed in his research. "Look I think it was Anna. And here, same time, another meteor over Staffordshire".

"And that's her grace?"

"Might be".

"Alright that just narrows it down to an entire county."

"Look it's a start" Sam said frustrated.

"Sam. I-I'm sorry."

Sam looked puzzled.

"For what?"

"For bringing you this mess. If I had known I'd have kept my mouth shut."

"Yeah well, we'll muddle through. You've got the two best hunters in the country on it so..."

"Not this time, you do not want to get between these two armies. It's Godzilla and Mothra. If one side doesn't get us the other will."

"So what do you wanna do? Dump Anna and run?"

Ruby gave him a look.

"No. and for the love of God don't even suggest it to Y/N. He just starting to trust you. He'd never speak to you again. Look, I know angels freak you out."

"Forget the angels, it's Alastair I'm scared of. The King of Hell isn't a euphemism Sam. He's the grand inquisitor down there. Picasso with a razor."

"We need to get Y/N close enough to take the shot." Sam replied.

"I hope that's enough" Ruby said back fearfully.

—~—

Y/N was sitting outside looking at the stars when Anna came and sat next to him.

"You ok?" She asked.

"Yeah, just thinking".

"Pamela get home ok?"

"Yeah she said she was sorry, just after last time... this is just a little too rich for her blood."

"I don't blame her. You guys should do the same."

Y/N chuckled. "Well we're not that smart."

Anna shook her head and smiled.

"Can I ask you something?" Y/N asked.

"Sure"

"What is it about me? Why am I watched from heaven? Why am I the Prophesied One? Why me?"

"I'm sorry. The angels aren't talking about it. And it was after I fell".

Y/N nodded before looking puzzled.

"That's another question. Why would you fall? Why would you wanna be one of us?"

"You don't mean that."

"I don't? A bunch of miserable bastards. I mean, eating, shitting, confused, afraid."

"I don't know there's loyalty, forgiveness, love".

"Pain"

"Chocolate cake"

"Guilt"

"Sex... even if it's just oral" Anna teased in a tone imitating Pamela. Y/N was momentarily speechless before he chuckled: "Yeah alright you got me there."

Anna smiled.

"I mean it. Every emotion Y/N. Even the bad ones. It's why I fell. It why.... why I'd give anything not to have to go back. Anything."

"Feelings are overrated if you ask me"

"Beats being an angel".

Y/N was stunned. "How's that possible? You guys are powerful and perfect. You don't doubt yourselves or God or anything."

Anna shook her head hesitantly. "Perfect, like a marble statue. Cold, no choice, only obedience. Y/N do you know how many angels have actually seen God? Seen his face?"

He knew it would be a really high number or really low judging by how she asked.

"All of you?"

"Four angels. Four. And I'm not one of them." She answered sternly.

Y/N was stunned. "That's it? So how do you know there even is a God?"

"We have to take it on faith. Which we're killed if we don't have."

"Huh"

"I was stationed on earth for 2000 years. Just watching. Silent. Invisible. Out on the road. Sick for home. Waiting on orders from an unknowable father I can't begin to understand. So don't tell me-"

Y/N started chuckling.

"What could possibly be funny? What?" Anna asked not impressed.

"Nothing. Sorry, just... substitute father for brother and... I can relate".

They stared at each other smiling.

"Hey!" Sam called out. They turned.

"You find something? Y/N asked.

"I think so"

—~—

Sam tapped on a map. "So Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. In '73. There was an empty field. Six months later there was a fully grown oak. They say it looks a century old at least"

"Anna what do you think?" Y/N asked.

"The grace, where it hit. It could have done something like that. Easy."

"So grace ground zero, it's not destruction..."

"It's pure creation" Anna finished Y/N's thought.

—~—

The four of them were in the impala, Sam driving next to Y/N, the girls in the back.
Y/N looked at them in the rear view and chuckled.

"What?" Ruby asked.

"Nothing, just an angel and a servant of hell riding in the backseat. It's like the setup to a bad joke. Or a "Penthouse Forum" letter.

Ruby rolled her eyes.

"Dude" Sam said. "Reality... porn".

Y/N chuckled again. "You call this reality?"

The car kept going.

—~—

They arrived early the next morning. As they got out the car and walked towards the giant oak they were blown away.

"It's beautiful" Y/N said as they walked towards it.

"It's where the grace touched down. I can feel it" Anna smiled.

"You ready to do this?" Y/N asked Anna.

"Not really" She answered, walking towards the tree as the others followed.

"Anna what are we even looking for?" Sam asked.

Anna didn't answer but lifted her hand to the tree and gently touched it. She looked panicked.

"It doesn't matter. It's not here." She turned. "Not anymore. Someone took it".

—~—

The four were hiding in a barn as night came.

"Look we've still got the hex bags, we'll head back to the panic room" Y/N said.

"What forever?" Ruby snapped.

"I'm just thinking out loud" Y/N snapped back.

"Oh you call that thinking?"

"Hey. Hey. Hey. Stop it!" Sam stood between them.

"Anna's grace is gone. You understand. She can't angel up. She can't protect us. We can't fight heaven and hell. One side maybe, but not both. Not at once." Ruby said as she panicked.

Anna meanwhile had been sitting looking off in a daze before she finally spoke up.

"Hey guys... the angels are talking again."

"What are they saying?" Sam asked.

"It's weird. Like a recording. A loop. It says... Y/N L/N gives us Anna by midnight or..."

She paused.

"Or what?" Y/N asked. A tinge of concern in his voice.

Anna looked at him panicked.

"Or we hurl him back to damnation."

Y/N's eyes widened.

"Anna. Y/N has an Angel Blade. Do you know where we can get another one?" Sam asked terrified for his young friend.

"For what... to kill them? Not one that we can get to" She answered.

"Okay wait. I say we call Bobby. We get him back from Hedonism...."

Sam turned round furious and yelled at Y/N.

"Y/N what's he gonna tell us that we don't already know?"

Y/N yelled back. "I don't know but we got to think of something."

They stared at each other angrily.

—~—

Sam was outside leaning on the Impala, reading in the moonlight by torch, as Anna approached him.

"Hey, holding up ok?" He smiled.

"Trying. A little scared I guess. So um, Sam. I just wanted to thank you."

"For what?"

"Everything. You guys didn't have to help me".

Sam chuckled.

"Hey let's can the thanks-for-trying speech ok. Participation trophy's suck."

Anna looked down. "I don't know. Maybe I don't deserve to be saved".

"Hey, don't talk like that."

She looked up at him.

"I disobeyed. Lucifer disobeyed. It's our murder one and I knew it. Maybe I gotta pay."

"That's too high a price Anna".

Anna moved forward and rubbed her hand on his face. Sam looked down at her surprised.

"What are you doing?"

"Might be my last night on earth."

She leaned forward and kissed him. Sam smiled and replied:

"You're stealing my best line"

He leaned down and kissed her again. They continued to kiss, building in passion as they moved towards the backseat of the car. Anna got in and laid down as Sam leaned in over her and kissed her again.

—~—

Ruby stood at the door of the barn, smiling at she looked at the impala. Y/N came and stood next to her. Looking at the car.

"Why are the windows so fogged up? It's not that cold."

Ruby smirked but didn't say anything.

"Wait... is the impala rocking?"

A hand suddenly shot up inside the fogged window before sliding down.

"Oh for.... I ride in that car Sammy. Gonna have to disinfect it and shit. Are you just gonna stand there and watch?"

Ruby smirked at him. "Unless you wanna...?" she raised an eyebrow.

"No. No I don't. I haven't slept in like 48 hours so I'm going for a power nap in the barn. Wake me in 30?"

Ruby chuckled and nodded. It was so easy to stir the kid up. She sighed at the plan she had discussed with Sam and walked off, away from the barn and the car.

She had walked for about 20 minutes when she arrived at a crossroads. She set fire to the hex bag she was carrying and it burnt quickly in green flames. She felt a presence behind her and turned quickly.

Alastair was standing there.

"Hello Ruby" he smiled creepily.

"Alastair"

"King Alastair to you. I have to say, I'm surprised to find you out in the open like this"

"Yeah. Desperate times"

Alastair nodded. "That they are".

He took a step forward.

"I just came to talk".

"About what? About how a Knight is protecting an Angel? We really must revoke your membership."

"I get I'm not employee of the month but this... I never wanted to get in the middle of this."

"Why are you here Ruby?"

"I'll give you the angel"

"Will you? And in return?"

"I walk away, me and the two boys. Both of them. This angel business, it's none of our business."

"Hmmm..." Alastair hummed while he smirked. He turned to face Ruby:

"You know I'd always heard you were a devious cowardly little slut. You don't disappoint."

"So what do you say?"

"It's interesting. Prudent"

Ruby was suddenly seized from behind by two demons. Alastair grinned.

"But let me make you a counter offer".

—~—

Y/N was standing in the barn. He remembered going for a nap but couldn't remember waking up or how he got to his feet. Suddenly there was a voice in front of him.

"Look at that. It's so cute when the monkeys wear clothes."

Y/N looked around as Uriel suddenly appeared in front of him. He asked: "I'm dreaming aren't I?"

"It's the only way we could chat. Since you're hiding like cowards."

Y/N eyes narrowed. "Don't normally see you off your leash. Where's your boss?"

"Castiel? Oh he's uh.... he's not here. See he has this weakness. He likes you."

Y/N smirked.

"Times up boy. We want the girl."

"Wouldn't try that if I was you. See, she got her grace back. A full-blown Angel now"

Uriel chuckled. "Well that would be a neat trick considering..." he reached into his shirt and pulled out a vial on a necklace..."I have her grace right here".

Y/N kept his stoic look but inside he started to panic.

"We can't let hell get their hooks into her."

"Well then....Why don't you just give her back her angel juice?"

"She committed a serious crime!"

"What? Thinking for herself?" Y/N snapped angrily pointing to his head.

"This is our business not yours. She's not even human, not technically".

"Yeah well I guess I just like being a pain in the arse!"

"No... there's more to it isn't there. We felt something before in the Angel... echoes... did you cut yourself a slice of Angel pie?"

He walked up to Y/N and sniffed him. Y/N moved his head back disgusted.

"No. Must've been your partner. Damn it. I so wanted to tell that little girlfriend of yours you had been unfaithful."

"You're a sadistic son of a bitch aren't you" Y/N snapped.

"That's a bit rich coming from you". The angel chuckled. "Well. This is your last chance, give us the girl or-"

"Or what? You're gonna throw me down to hell? You're bluffing."

"Try me"

They stared at each other. Neither blinking-neither giving an inch.

"This is a whole lot bigger than the plans we got for you Y/N. You can be replaced."

Y/N nodded and chuckled: "Fuck it."

He put his hands out to the side.

"Go ahead and do it. I'll fight my way out of there in a week."

Uriel snarled and walked towards him reaching out. His hand stopped about an inch from Y/N's face and curled into a fist.

"You're just crazy enough to go aren't you." He started walking around behind Y/N.

"What can I say? I don't break easy."

Uriel suddenly stopped behind him and chuckled.

"Oh yes... you do. You've just gotta know where to apply the right pressure."

Y/N's head suddenly turned, a look of concern on his face.

—~—

The bright morning sun shone through the windows of the Impala. Sam and Anna woke up still embracing each other. They smiled nervously as they got dressed and exited the car. They walked into the barn to see Y/N sitting there, looking nervous, and drunk, sipping on a bottle of scotch Sam recognised from the boot.

"Where's Ruby?" Sam asked.

Y/N shrugged his shoulders. "Hey she's your Knight-buddy" He answered, slurring his words.

"It's a bit early for that isn't it?" Anna asked Y/N concerned.

"Not if you're still going from the night before" he answered, unable to look her in the eyes.

"You ok?" She asked, able to tell immediately he wasn't.

"Yeah... course" Y/N answered quickly.

The wind started howling around the barn as the doors on one side shot open, Uriel and Castiel walking in. Sam and Y/N stood facing them, Sam protectively moving in front of Anna.

"Hello Anna" Castiel said with a tinge of sadness. "It's good to see you".

"How?" Sam asked shocked. "How did you find us?"

This wasn't the plan he had discussed with Ruby. It hinged on getting the Angels after the demons turned up. This was bad.

Uriel looked at Y/N and smirked. Y/N looked down with a tremendous look of guilt. Sam turned to him panicked- it was too early- damn it why didn't he and Ruby tell Y/N the plan? Sam suddenly realised what had happened as he looked at Y/N and asked:

"No... Y/N....WHY?"

Why did you sell Anna out?

Y/N meanwhile looked towards Anna with a look of guilt, only able to mutter:

"I'm sorry."

"WHY?" Sam yelled again. Anna spoke up calmly. "Because they gave him a choice. They kill me or they kill Hermione. I know how their minds work."

She rubbed Y/N's face. "You tried your best. I forgive you."

Sam looked stunned. Castiel turned to Uriel outraged.

"You... we were never authorised to target an innocent. Especially not her."

In an instant he punched Uriel, sending him crashing through a wall.

He turned to face the three again.

"Anna. Y/N. I'm sorry"

"No you're not. You don't know the meaning of the word." Anna snapped as Uriel stumbled back to the open area.

"We had to find the girl, Castiel. He wouldn't break- he was ready to go to hell."

"We will discuss this back in heaven." Castiel said menacingly, his eyes illuminating brilliantly.

"It doesn't matter. Do it. I'm ready." Anna said closing her eyes.

The doors behind them suddenly shot open, Alastair appearing with the two demons and Ruby, who could barely stand and was bleeding heavily from the stomach.

"Don't you touch a hair on that poor girls head" Alastair sneered.

Sam grabbed Anna and pulled her to the side and Y/N moved to the other side. The demons threw Ruby to the floor and moved towards the angels, who likewise moved to them.

Y/N edged towards Ruby and started non verbally healing her, the best he could.

"How dare you come in this room. You pussing sore!" Uriel sneered at Alastair with disgust.

"Name calling. That hurt my feelings..." Alastair said to Uriel as he stepped closer... "You sanctimonious fanatical prick!"

"Turn around and walk away now" Castiel said.

"Sure. Just give us the girl. "We'll make sure she gets punished good and proper" Alastair chuckled.

"You know who we are and what we will do. I won't say it again. Leave now or we lay you to waste" Castiel reiterated.

"Think I'll take my chances" Alastair sneered.

They all stared briefly before Uriel charged at one of the lessor demons, smashing him through a beam and backhanding the other one. Castiel approached Alastair and punched him twice before uppercutting him and placing a hand on his forehead. Nothing happened. Castiel looked at his hand puzzled as Alastair chuckled:

"Sorry kiddo. Why don't you run along to Daddy?"

He punched Castiel with an uppercut, sending him flying.

Uriel roared as he smote one of the demons with his hand on its forehead, destroying it with bright light as he grabbed the other one.

Alastair grabbed Castiel by the throat.

"Potestus inferna me confirma"

"Potestus inferna me confirma"

Castiel's eyes rolled up in his head.

"Potestus inferna me confirma"

They started to glow brightly. Y/N took the opportunity and swung for Alastair unsheathing his Angel Blade. Alastair dropped Castiel and dodged at the last moment, punching Y/N into a wall. He got up and walked towards the teen slowly.

"It's gonna be so much worse for you now. I had such high hopes. You had so much potential as a torturer."

Uriel meanwhile smote the second demon, his shirt coming open slightly and the Grace vial hanging down. Anna rushed and grabbed it.

"No" he cried, but it was too late. Anna threw it to the ground and a translucent blue substance escaped before rising into her mouth. She fell to the floor hard and her body started to spasm.

"Shut your eyes. Shut your eyes. Shut your eyes" she screamed as her body exploded with luminescent light. Alastair turned and reached out to her before being evaporated as well.

The angels looked at each other, Castiel looked furious as Sam helped Y/N to his feet.

"What are you waiting for? Go get Anna. Unless you're scared" Y/N roared.

"This isn't over" Uriel said as he walked towards Y/N.

Castiel grabbed Uriel as Y/N unsheathed his blade.

"I'm gonna fucking gut you" Y/N snapped as he spat out blood.

"No, Y/N. He will be disciplined in Heaven" Castiel replied and with that they were gone.

"Well the plan worked in the end Ruby. Get them both here and let them fight?" Sam asked her.

"It worked" she said still holding her stomach.

"Get her medical treatment Sam. I've gotta go." Y/N said, not quizzing over the plan and being kept in the dark. Instead he apparated to a Hogwarts bathroom and entered a stall.

Y/N checked his watch before turning to the right time. He walked towards the Great Hall as quickly as he could.

Hermione was still sat there with their friends as she saw him enter. He looked terrible. She got up and rushed towards him. She wanted to check him but he wrapped her in a giant hug. They just stood there, embracing, for what seemed like an eternity.

"You ok baby? Are you drunk?" She asked shocked as she smelt alcohol on his breath. She took in his face and could see the swelling, bruising and bleeding.

"Cmon infirmary, now" she said firmly. Y/N didn't argue.

—~—

"I don't know what happened but you've been through the ringer, L/N. Multiple breaks, contusions- it's going to take a few hours to heal you and you need to spend the night." Poppy said with concern.

"Ok. As long as Hermione stays with me."

Poppy nodded and left to get some supplies.

"What happened baby?"

Before he could answer Dumbledore approached them.

"Y/N I heard- are you alright?"

"Not really Albus" Y/N said without looking up. There was suddenly a rustling of wind as Castiel appeared about ten feet from the trio.

"I am sorry, Y/N. He had no right to do that. He is being given guidance as we speak. Let me heal you."

Y/N got up off the bed and walked towards the angel without saying a word. Hermione and Dumbledore watched in shock as Y/N got to Castiel and punched him, in the jaw, as hard as he could.

It turned the angels head.

"You stay the hell away from me. Fuck You, Fuck heaven, Fuck God!"

Hermione covered her mouth in shock as Dumbledore's eyes widened.

"The next angel I see..." Y/N's Blade unsheathed. "...I'm killing. Fuck off!"

The angel disappeared as Poppy returned.

"What are you doing over there? You're in no condition to be walking around. Get back here."

"I think I've got a broken hand as well Madam Pomfrey" Y/N said calmly as he sat back on the bed.