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Chapter 17

Dean said" That's a lot of fuss over a caveman lego."
Sam said" Yeah. Well, whatever Dick wants is bricked up inside that."
I said" Imma be over there." I water-ported to the corner of the hideout we were in. Dean hit with the hammer and we heard thunder. Dean hit again, and more thunder crashes, we looked out the windows.
Dean said" That sound like somebody saying, no, wait- stop to you?"
Sam said" Uh... yeah. Yeah."
" Yeah. Oh, well." He kept hitting it, the thunder got worse, then he got the thing.

It's morning,
I heard Dean say" We start the storm heard 'round the world?"
Sam said" When we broke this thing open last night, every maternity ward within a hundred-mile radius got slammed. Looks like any woman in the last month of her pregnancy went into labor." I walked over to them, running my hand through my hair, that thing's making me uneasy.
" Hmm. This one goes out to all the ladies. So, heavyweight signs, omens- what do we got?"
" I assume it's writing. I've never seen anything like it, ever. And it doesn't match anything in a book or online."
" All right, so big daddy chomper lands here, he grabs himself some Dick..." I rolled my eyes," And then he starts secretly underwriting university departments, pouring money into digs- all for this. Why?"
" No clue. We do know that he will be tearing new ones until he gets it back, though. Look, we got to take a minute, hole up somewhere safe, find out what we got."
" Rufus' cabin, then?"
" Yeah."
" This time, I'm doing the shopping." Sam's phone rang, I walked to him, Dean walked back to us.
" It's Meg. What? What? Cas is awake."
Dean said" When?" Sam put it on speaker," When?"
Meg said" Last night about 8:00."
" 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." She hung up, I looked at them,
Sam said" Great. So, Indiana?"
Dean said" Yeah. 8:00 last night."
" Yeah. Same time we opened up that thing."
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We got to the hospital,
Dean said" We raced all the way here. Now I don't know. I can't say I'm fired up to see what's left of the guy."
Sam said" You think he remembers at all?"
" That, and I'm guessing whatever kind of hell baggage he lifted off of your plate. It's not gonna be pretty."
A guard said" Hey. Excuse me, gentlemen, but it's way past visiting hours."
Meg said" It's okay, Abel. I've been expecting them. Hello, boys." She nodded to follow her, and we followed her to Cas' room.
Once there, we saw Cas looking out the window,
Dean said" Hey, Cas." Cas turned to us,
Cas said" Hello, Dean. Sam. Keir."
Sam said" Hey, Castiel."
Dean said" Look at you, walkin' and talkin'. That's-That's great, right?" Cas held out his finger,
Cas said" Pull my finger."
" What?"
" My finger- pull it." Dean pulled his finger, and the lights exploded, Cas laughed.

Dean said" Just hang on, Cas, wait. Let us catch up to you for a second."
Sam said" So, you're saying you remember who you are, what you are."
Cas said" Yes, of course. Oh. Outside today, in the garden, I followed a honeybee. I saw the route of flowers. It's all right there, the whole plan. There's nothing to add."
" You might want to add a little thorazine."
Meg said" Right. He's been like the naked guy at the rave ever since he woke up. Totally useless."
Cas said" Will you look at her? My caretaker. All of that thorny pain. So beautiful."
" We've been over this. I don't like poetry. Put up or shut up."
Sam said" Okay. So, Cas, you said you woke up last night?"
Cas said" Yes. I heard a ping that pierced me, and, well, you wouldn't have heard it unless you were an angel at the time."
" That's also when we opened this." He showed him the thing,
" Oh. Of course. Now I understand."
" Understand what?"
" You were the ones. Well... I guess that makes sense."
Dean said" What makes sense?"
" If someone was going to free the word from the vault of the earth, it would end up being you three. I love you guys." I water-ported away as he hugged them,
" All right. All right. Okay."
Sam said" Yeah. Yeah. You said something about the word. Is that what's written on there?"
Cas said" Did you know that a cat's penis is sharply barbed along its shaft? I know for a fact the females were not consulted about that."
Dean said" Cas, please, we're losing ground out there, okay? We need your help. Can you not see that?"
" This is the handwriting of Metatron."
Sam said" Metatron? You saying a transformer wrote that?"
Dean and I said" No, that's Megatron."
" What?!"
" The transformer- it's Megatron."
" What?"
Cas said" Metatron. He's an angel. He's the scribe of god. He took down dictation when creation was being formed."
" And that's the word of god?"
" One of them, yes."
" Uh... well, what's it say, then?"
" Uh... tree? Horse? Fiddler crab? I can't read it. It wasn't meant for angels."
Meg said" Okay, this all sounds bad. What are you three jackasses doing with the word of god? Let me see that thing."
Dean said" Back off, Meg."
" Come on, it's my ass, too."
" Back off."
" Damn it! Enough of this demons are second-class citizens crap!"
Cas said" Don't like conflict." Then he was gone, the word of god fell to the ground and broke."
Sam said" Uh..."
Dean said" What the hell was that?"
Meg said" You heard him. He doesn't like conflict. He's down in the dayroom now. I guarantee it."
" All right, I'll go handle Cas. Sam, will you please pick up the word of god?"
Sam said" Yeah." Dean walked away, I sighed,
Meg said" What are you guys caught up in now? I deserve to know, Sam. Okay, fine. I'll hit the road, then. Let me just go get my angel." We ran after her,
" Meg, what are you talking about? Stop."
" We both call, who do you think Cas will come to? I'm guessing me. You heard him- thorny beauty, blah, blah. I'm the saint who stayed with him. He owes me. His words."
" Yeah, what about what he owes us?"
" Well, work on him a little. Maybe he'll start crushing in you, too, hot stuff."
" What are you gonna do with a broken angel? Don't be stupid."
" I'll take power where I can get it. I've got myself to look out for." We heard something, we walked back to the room and the bag was gone.
" What the hell?"