( BLIND FAITH )
Elena storms in as she sees Dean is covered in blood. Alastair holds him by his shirt collar and punches him repeatedly, then drops him and picks him up by the throat and shoves him up against the hexacle, lifting his feet off the floor. "Look who's joined the party! The Warrior Princess." Alastair turns back to Dean. "You got a lot to learn, boy. So I'll see you back in class bright and early Monday morning."
Alastair turns around. Castiel is behind him with Ruby's knife. He drops Dean, who doesn't move, to focus on Castiel, who stabs him in the heart. The injury sparks gold light, but not as much as when it kills. "Well, almost. Looks like God is on my side today." The Demon says.
Castiel lifts a hand as Elena runs over to help her friend. The knife twists itself. Alastair grunts in pain and pulls out the knife, then tosses it away and charges Castiel. They fight.
Alastair slams Castiel against the wall, choking him. "Well, like roaches, you celestials. Now, I really wish I knew how to kill you. But all I can do is send you back to heaven." He chants in Latin. Blue light appears in Castiel's eyes and mouth. Alastair stops abruptly, choking, and is slammed against the wall. Sam has arrived, one hand raised. Castiel slumps to the ground. "Stupid pet tricks."
"Who's murdering the angels? How are they doing it?" Sam asks as Elena looks at him angrily.
"You think I'm gonna tell you?"
"Yeah, I do." Sam twists his hand. Elena and Dean look at each other with worries looks on their faces. Alastair's eyes roll white and he chokes. "How are the demons killing angels?"
"I don't know." Alastair says.
"Right."
"It's not us. We're not doing it." He says.
"I don't believe you." Sam says.
"Lilith is not behind this. She wouldn't kill seven angels. Oh, she'd kill a hundred, a thousand." Alastair says as Sam stops. "Oh, go ahead. Send me back, if you can."
"I'm stronger than that now. Now I can kill." Sam holds out his hand. Gold light flares inside Alastair as he screams. Alastair's host collapses, dead.
HOSPITAL
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Dean is in bed, heavily bandaged with a breathing tube and an IV drip. Sam and Elena sit on either side of him. Castiel appears at the doorway, pauses, and continues down the hallway. Sam follows him out of the room. "Sam-" Cas starts.
"Get in there and heal him. Miracle. Now." Sam says.
"I can't."
"You and Uriel put him in there-" Sam starts:
"No." Says Castiel.
"-because you can't keep a simple devil's trap together."
"I don't know what happened. That trap...it shouldn't have broken. I am sorry." Cas says.
"This whole thing was pointless. You understand that? The demons aren't doing the hits. Something else is killing your soldiers." Sam says.
"Perhaps Alastair was lying."
"No, he wasn't." Sam goes back to Dean. Castiel looks as though he has been slugged in the face.
SNOWY PARK
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Uriel sits on a bench, eyes closed. Castiel appears. "Castiel, I received revelation from our superiors. Our brothers and sisters are dying and they...they want us to stop hunting the demon responsible." Uriel says. Castiel sits next to him. "Something is wrong up there. I mean, can you feel it?"
"The murders. Maybe they aren't demonic. Sam Winchester said the demons had nothing to do with it." Cas says.
"If not the demons, what could it be?" Uriel asks.
"The will of heaven. We are failing, Uriel. We are losing the war. Perhaps the garrison is being punished."
"You think our father would-" Uriel starts.
"I think maybe our father isn't giving the orders anymore. Maybe there is something wrong." Castiel says.
Uriel stands up. "Well, I won't wait to be gutted." He vanishes.
Castiel is walking alone. "Anna. Anna, please." He says. The streetlight above Castiel flickers. He looks up, then turns around.
"Decided to kill me after all?" Anna says.
"I'm alone."
"What do you want from me, Castiel?" She asks.
"I'm considering disobedience."
Anna nods. "Good." She says.
"No, it isn't. For the first time, I feel..." Castiel starts.
"It gets worse. Choosing your own course of action is confusing, terrifying." Anna puts her hand on Castiel's shoulder. He looks at it; she drops it. "That's right. You're too good for my help. I'm just trash. A walking blasphemy." Anna turns to walk away.
"Anna." Castiel says and Anna stops. "I don't know what to do. Please tell me what to do."
Anna turns back. "Like the old days? No. I'm sorry. It's time to think for yourself." She vanishes.
PRISON ROOM
[ ☼ ]
Castiel examines the devil's trap. He notices the dripping faucet and shuts it off without touching it. "You called?" Uriel says and enters. "What do you say, Castiel? Will you join me? Will you fight with me?"
"Strange. Strange how a leaky pipe can undo the work of angels when we ourselves are supposed to be the agents of fate."
"Alastair was much more powerful than we had imagined." Uriel says.
"No. No demon can overpower that trap. I made it myself. We've been friends for a long time, Uriel." Castiel says. "Fought by each other's sides, served together away from home, for what seems like forever. We're brothers, Uriel. Pay me that respect. Tell me the truth."
"The truth is, the only thing that can kill an angel..." Uriel starts. A sword slides out of his sleeve into his grasp. "...is another angel."
"You." Castiel says.
"I'm afraid so."
"And you broke the devil's trap, set Alastair on Dean." Cas realizes.
"Alastair should never have been taken alive. Really inconvenient, Cas. Yes, I did turn the screw a little." Uriel says. "Alastair should have killed Dean and escaped, and you should have gone on happily scapegoating the demons."
"For the murders of our kin?"
"Not murders, Castiel. No. My work is conversion. How long have we waited here? How long have we played this game by rules that make no sense?" Asks Uriel.
"It is our father's world, Uriel." Castiel says.
"Our father? He stopped being that, if he ever was, the moment he created them. Humanity, his favorites. This whining, puking larva."
"Are you trying to convert me?" Asks Cas.
"I wanted you to join me. And I still do. With you, we can be powerful enough to-" Uriel starts.
"To..."
"To raise our brother." Uriel finishes.
"Lucifer."
"You do remember him? How strong he was? How beautiful? And he didn't bow to humanity. He was punished for defending us." Uriel says. "Now, if you want to believe in something, Cas, believe in him."
"Lucifer is not God." Castiel says.
"God isn't God anymore. He doesn't care what we do. I am proof of that."
"But this? What were you gonna do, Uriel? Were you gonna kill the whole garrison?" Asks Cas.
"I only killed the ones who said no. Others have joined me, Cas. Now, please, brother, don't fight me. Help me. Help me spread the word." Uriel says. "Help me bring on the apocalypse. All you have to do is be unafraid."
"For the first time in a long time, I am." Castiel says and Uriel smiles. Castiel punches him through the wall several feet away. Uriel gets up. They fight.
Uriel clobbers Castiel with a metal bar; Castiel goes down. "You can't win, Uriel. I still serve God." Castiel says.
"You haven't even met the man. There is no will. No wrath. No God." Between each phrase, Uriel punches Castiel. The last time, he raises his fist and is stabbed through the neck from behind.
"Maybe. Or maybe not. But there's still me." Anna says and pulls out Uriel's sword. He collapses. Anna goes over to Castiel.
Uriel screams as white light flares in his eyes and mouth. The light explodes out of him and out of the building. Castiel stands up and looks down at Uriel's corpse. His wings are seared into the floor across the devil's trap.
HOSPITAL
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Dean is still in bed, though the breathing tube is gone. Castiel sits next to him. "Are you all right?" Castiel asks.
"No thanks to you." Dean says.
"You need to be more careful."
"You need to learn how to manage a damn devil's trap." Says Dean.
"That's not what I mean. Uriel is dead." Castiel says.
"Was it the demons?"
"It was disobedience. He was working against us." Says Cas.
"Is it true? Did I break the first seal? Did I start all this?" Dean asks.
"Yes. When we discovered Lilith's plan for you, we laid siege to hell and we fought our way to get to you before you-" Castiel starts.
"Jump-started the apocalypse."
"And we were too late." Cas says
"Why didn't you just leave me there, then?" Dean asks.
"It's not blame that falls on you, Dean, it's fate. The righteous man who begins it is the only one who can finish it. You have to stop it."
"Lucifer? The apocalypse? What does that mean? Hey! Don't you go disappearing on me, you son of a bitch. What does that mean!" Dean yells.
"I don't know." Cas says.
"Bull."
"I don't. Dean, they don't tell me much. I know our fate rests with you." Says Castiel.
"Well, then you guys are screwed. I can't do it, Cas. It's too big. Alastair was right. I'm not all here. I'm not-I'm not strong enough." Dean says. "Well, I guess I'm not the man either of our dads wanted me to be. Find someone else. It's not me." He begins to cry.
HOSPITAL
[ ☾]
Elena sleeps in a chair next to Dean's bed. Dean and Sam were both fast asleep also, but they weren't the ones having nightmares...
DREAM SEQUENCE
Elena runs in the woods again, rain wetting her hair. This time when she reaches the hill, there's a gigantic hole right in the middle of the grass. Not knowing what else to do, she goes closer.
Suddenly she's being dragged in and falls down in the hole. When she lands, she feels something crunch under her. In the corner there's a torch and she goes over to it and picks it up. When she moves it towards the ground, she sees thousands of skulls. She screams.
"Don't be scared," A voice says and we see a shadow move closer to her. "I'm not gonna hurt you..." A hand touches her and Elena jolts awake.
Frightened, Elena goes into the bathroom and turns on the faucet. She feels an odd sensation on her arm and pulls up her sleeve. There's a burnt red handprint on her arm. She winces in pain. Elena bends down to wash her face with water. When she gets up, she yelps. "Oh my god, you scared the hell out of me!"
"My apologies." Castiel says. "But you shouldn't use the Lord's name in vein."
Elena moves out of the bathroom and makes sure the boys are still asleep. When she sees that they are, she turns back to the Angel. "Why are you here?"
"These dreams aren't dreams." Castiel says.
"What?"
"They're memories, from your past existence." He says.
Elena rolls her eyes. "I know I'm some warrior reincarnated. Why should I care?" She asks.
"Because it's your roadmap."
"To what?" Elena asks.
"To Lucifer." Castiel says.
"Why would I know how to find Lucifer?"
Castiel looks around. "I can't tell you here. They could be listening."
"Who's they?"
"You and Dean are very complicated to talk to, you know." Castiel says.
"Even if I'm destined to be something greater, why should you care?" Elena asks.
"Because I'm your Guardian Angel."