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Austin Daniels ║ Azazel ([info]dealwithyellow) wrote in [info]thereincarnates,
@ 2012-10-03 15:27:00

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Entry tags:austin daniels, cassie macmahon, elijah savage, justin anderson, lillie shipton, michelle kingston, rob strange

WHO: Austin Daniels, Rob Strange, Justin Anderson, Cassie MacMahon, Lillie Shipton, and later Michelle Kingston and Elijah Savage
WHERE: The Devil's Gate in Southern Wyoming
WHEN: Forward dated to late Monday night, October 8.
WHAT: Austin's getting a friend to open the gate, releasing hundreds of new demons into the world annnnnd taking his revenge.
WARNINGS: Language, violence, and character death. Typical Supernatural thread.



There wasn't a proper word to describe the anger boiling over inside Austin Daniels in the event of losing not only his family, but Azazel's family--his father and brethren--as well in a cheap trick perpetrated by those abominable hunters. He'd been playing light with them before; a few deaths here, a threatening note there. It was all in good fun, and all because he thought that they could never, ever be an actual threat to him and his. The Winchester boys were dimwitted and only survived as long as they did on their show due to luck and the sacrifice of others, and they barely succeeded even then. That was when faced with each higher-level demon separately. In this world, the Winchesters had been faced with Lucifer, Alastair, Azazel, and Lilith all at once.

And they'd trapped Lucifer and Alastair as if it were nothing.

So yes, to say he was fuming was putting it mildly, and the plan that had been developing in the back of his brain for months would now come into fruition. He wanted to hold nothing back from these hunters; he would destroy everything they cared about before turning on them so that they suffered for their atrocities. With a simple twist of a gun he could open hell itself to bring forth the worst demons the reincarnated hunters had ever faced, and hopefully enough to rip the world apart. He was aiming to burn the earth and bring them all down.

The night was brisk, and Austin stood with the Colt in his pocket just outside Samuel Colt's rather large trap, the center of which held the door he very much wanted to open. He couldn't enter himself; Colt had warded the place against demons to prevent this exact scenario from playing out. But Austin had friends in high places who wanted to destroy just as much as he did, and they could go through. The sound of a snapping twig behind him curled his lips into a cruel smile. It was time.

"I almost thought you'd stood me up, Strange." He said, turning to face the man. He pulled the gun out of his coat pocket and admired it briefly, the sleek design and power to kill anything admirable. He then handed it over. There was no sense in delaying any further. "I've texted you a picture of what the door should look like. It's dead center in the graveyard. The gun is the key. I can't enter until the door is open so you'll have to venture on alone, but for a man of your background I'm assuming that won't be a problem. Unless you have a fear of the dark you're hiding from me?"



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[info]backformore
2012-10-06 03:27 am UTC (link)
With a roll of his eyes that was obscured behind his shades, Rob followed Austin back into the cemetery, disappearing and reappearing but hanging back about five or ten feet. Rob was only mildly interested in the demon's little vendetta against these mortals, and really only up to the point that it was a vendetta at all. The reasons why were inconsequential and the people involved were just people, but vendettas, those were always fun. Personal and private, they were wars on a smaller scale, and therefore still very much his territory. Good thing Rob's presence was enough to make this fight savage – he didn't even have to get involved. He just had to watch.

It didn't take long for the God of War's influence to spread over the cemetery. The demons escaping Hades already had a lust for blood, but when they flew past the god, it became even more palpable, more urgent, and he knew as well as he knew his own name that the death toll would be high tonight. The thought made him smile, and as soon as he did, one of the mortal girls tried to attack Austin. She must have been angrier than the others for Rob's presence to affect her so quickly. He was almost intrigued, but even then he couldn't stop for letting out a sharp guffaw when Austin disappeared before she could grab him, getting herself a face full of cemetery dirt instead. She had sharp senses, though, and as she sputtered, she looked around wildly, searching for the hidden threat even though the obvious one was behind her.

She almost found him, but then Rob was saved by the bell. Or another girl flying through the air, rather, but Rob wasn't picky. He took his sunglasses off and hung them on his shirt to get a better look at them, unconcerned by the howling demons storming through the cemetery. Cursing under her breath, the first girl crawled over to the second one, who appeared to be wounded. Once she established she was still alive, she risked a worried glance over her shoulder, back at the boy Austin was currently taunting. Having spent eons with Aphrodite, Ares and Rob both knew love when they saw it, and that above anything else was what pushed him to reveal himself. Gods weren't supposed to interfere in the affairs of mortals, generally, but sometimes the temptation was just too great. Most of the time Rob just didn't care, though. Rules were made to be broken.

"I wouldn't do that, if I were you," Rob said clearly, appearing over the two girls just as the first one pulled a gun out of her jeans. He squatted heel to haunch and gave her a knowing look, nodding over at Austin and the boy. "Aim's off just a little, and you might hit your boyfriend instead. I don't think you want that." He glanced down at the other girl, the groaning one, and grinned wickedly. All the emotions the girl with the gun felt for this kid practically poured off of her – some positive (all that brotherly love, gods, it made him want to puke), but a lot negative, too. Fear. Mistrust. Resentment most of all. "Her, though. Aim for her, and from this distance, you can't miss."

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[info]averagejo
2012-10-06 05:24 am UTC (link)
If Justin had had time to yell at Lillie for that supremely reckless and stupid move, he would have. But he didn't. It was like a movie set to fast forward. A really horrible, really jarring movie where the people you care about are one step away from death and you're right behind them. Or in front of them? At this point it could go pretty much either way. As fast as Lillie had lunged and missed tackling Austin, before Justin knew it Cassie was flying through the air too and the demon reincarnate of Azazel was behind him. Had he been a lesser man, he might have screamed, but he did jump when he suddenly heard the demon's voice right next to his ear.

Panic surged through Justin and Jo like a lightning bolt. The last time Jo had come face to face with a demon, she'd died. Ripped apart by a hell hound and then slowly bled to death before her mother blew them both and a whole group of hell hounds to smithereens. It wasn't a happy memory for Jo or Justin, and suddenly that terrifying reality came down on Justin like a ton of bricks. It was easy to forget how dangerous the life of a hunter was if you were only half-living it, and Justin really had been. He'd been coasting, going along with the rest but even after icing two devils and a handful of supernaturals, it had never really hit Justin like it did right now. All he could think for those first few seconds after Austin spoke in his ear was, I could die today.

He couldn't say exactly why he did what he did next, since even in a situation where violence is expected, Justin had never been the type to shoot first and think later. He would probably say it was because seeing Cassie and Lillie thrown around like that and the thought of never seeing his dad and Stella again made him that angry, but it probably didn't help that there was the very influential presence of a war god in the cemetery making his blood boil all by itself. As soon as Justin jumped at the sound of Austin's voice and Cassie went flying, Justin wheeled around and backed up a few steps to put some distance between him and Yellow Eyes. He knew that wouldn't make much of a difference, but he wasn't just going to stand there and die either. If he was going to die tonight, he was going to do it fighting.

"Grown-up talk? No thanks. I'd rather eat ectoplasm." Because his back was now to Lillie and Cassie he didn't see what was going on behind him, the god of war actually making his presence known and Lillie and Cassie in some kind of weird stand off. All he saw was Austin and the shot gun full of rock salt that Justin pulled out from inside the back of his shirt in record speed. There was no hesitating. He pointed the gun and pulled the trigger.

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[info]lostmyshoe
2012-10-06 02:18 pm UTC (link)
The entire situation, in typical Winchester et al. fashion, was turning into chaos within a matter of seconds. As if it weren't terrible enough that hell was vomiting onto earth at the moment, now they were going to be distracted and heckled by a demon hell-bent on revenge who wanted them all to die. Probably slowly. And painfully. Cassie's brain went into double time the moment that Azazel made his presence known. She and Sam were trying desperately to come up with a scenario where the world didn't end and they didn't die--two things that rarely coincided with their versions of averting the Apocalypse. She didn't have much time to formulate much of anything before Lillie was moving into action. Action that could very much get her killed.

"LILLIE, NO!" She shouted too late. Her friend was already sailing through the air at the demon who could so easily just rip her apart. But Austin wasn't having it, and the sound of his voice nearby caused her to practically get whiplash with how fast she turned to look.

He was too close to Justin. As much as Cassie had accepted what they all had to do as hunters, she hadn't weaned out her careless loyalty to the two hunters she spent the majority of her time with. She barely twitched in Austin's direction, and then she was being thrown; her head connected painfully with stone. That hadn't gone according to plan at all.

"Son of a bitch!" She hissed, pushing herself onto her back. She leaned against the same headstone she'd hit as she tried to get herself back together and the world to stop tilting. She was vaguely aware of a new voice near them, some man speaking to Lillie about aim--great. But she was preoccupied for the moment with the fact that touching her temple brought back red fingers.

"Lil, we gotta--What in holy fuck are you doing?" The scene before her finally sharpened so that she could see the extent of what was happening. Austin was laughing after stumbling back slightly, his clothes peppered with holes from Justin's gun blast. There was a new man with them, sinister-looking and smiling. And there was Lillie with a gun, and Cassie was pretty sure it was aimed at her. "Are you fucking kidding me right now?!" Anger boiled over, her rage and Sam's rage multiplied and brought straight to the surface. She was always angry, there wasn't a surprise about that. But now really wasn't the time to hash into those feelings. "SHOOT THE BAD GUYS, LILLIE, JESUS!"

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[info]realboobs
2012-10-07 01:20 am UTC (link)
For one moment, Lillie knew what it meant to see red. All of the rage she worked so hard to keep buried suddenly erupted to the surface and locked on to the closest target. Cassie. Because she and Sam were probably the only person in the world (besides maybe Christian) who could trigger such a strong, irrational response from her without even trying, Lillie didn't even question it – she raised the gun and aimed it, dead center between Cassie's eyes. But only for a moment. The longest moment of her life.

It was the gunshot that snapped her out of it, made her blink and remember everything else that was going on around her. Behind her, Justin had pulled a trigger of his own, while Lillie's finger was still tense, half a twitch away from killing Dean's little brother and the sister she never had. Why? Because the dick to her right told her so. She narrowed her eyes, which, thanks to a thick curtain of disheveled hair shielding her face, only Cassie could see, and if the situation hadn't been so serious, she would've stuck her tongue out at the girl. Instead, after Cassie shouted at her, she just gave her a look that said, Oh, ye of little faith – even though Cassie's panicked yelling was totally justified, considering Lillie's gun was still leveled at her face. She had no intention of shooting, though. She just wanted the bossy stranger next to her to think she did.

Lillie knew she didn't have much time, but she stalled for mere seconds anyway, her mind racing as fast as it could go. She didn't dare look back at this new player in their game, but at least she didn't have to – the look she'd gotten before he nearly tricked her into shooting Cassie was more that enough to tell her that this guy was no demon. Nope, he was something a lot more than that, but apparently he was also something who had nothing to do with Supernatural. If he did, he'd already know the lengths to which the Winchester brothers went to keep each other alive, with little to no regard for their own self-preservation. That was probably the smallest advantage she could have over this guy, but at least it was something. If they all got out of this alive, then they could worry about who he was and the implications of Azazel going outside his comfort zone for allies. That was a pretty huge "if," but then, she and Dean always did like the long shots.

She was still angry – furious, in fact, and she didn't know it, but that was why he never saw what she did next coming. Azazel opening the Gate, this guy helping him and trying to manipulate her into kill her own blood, Shane being dead, Justin fighting for his life, and everything going so spectacularly to hell, it all made her burn, and at the very last second, she whipped the gun a sharp forty-five degrees from Cassie's face to Azazel's friend and pulled the trigger, without hesitation. It was only a salt bullet, and it didn't seem to do him the least bit of harm, but it took him by surprise, and that was enough. At least for now.

"Well, wouldja look at that," Lillie said coolly, cocking the gun again, just in case. "I didn't miss." Then, without looking away from the clearly infuriated god, she spoke to Cassie, hushed and urgent. "Run for the Gate, Cassie. Now."

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[info]ofangelstock
2012-10-07 05:16 am UTC (link)
Michelle and Elijah were late. Not exactly a phenomenon that was uncharacteristic of their reincarnates, in fact, they were only lucky they hadn't lost an antichrist on top of it. Considering just how potentially apocalyptic this situation was turning out to be, Aziraphale was almost wistful. Adam had made the Angel nervous as all get out and who in their right mind wouldn't be wary of a child who could change reality with just a wave of his hand? And yet it didn't go without notice that Adam had been particularly useful at the end of all things, which turned out to be the beginning more so than the end. Needles to say, they were late, and the hunters were in big trouble.

In the middle of all the chaos unfolding in the cemetery, an Angel and her demon appeared, the Angel herself seeming to glow off the flaming sword she held with a firm grip in her right hand. The bright, orange and blue flames licked around the blade and the hand that held it but it didn't burn her. A curious thing, but she didn't question it. She didn't have time to anyway, from the looks of it they had their work cut out for them. Michelle wouldn't even have known about this if it hadn't been for Elijah, her connections to Hell were unsurprisingly limited, so it paid to be friends with a demon. Especially a demon who was not only willing to pass along sensitive information straight from the pit but also come along for the ride.

She knew this was a suicide mission but she went anyway. She was a caretaker, and Cassie was her charge. But more importantly, she was an angel through and through. Aziraphale who once guarded the Eastern Gate in the Garden of Eden wasn't built to stand by when there was good work to be done, as much as he hated being torn away from his beloved bookshop. Well they weren't in Soho anymore, Toto. They were in a graveyard full of demons and a few of Michelle's friends fighting for their lives, and Michelle couldn't just walk away from that. As she materialized next to a tombstone and took in the chaotic scene around them, she sighed a little and threw Elijah a sidelong glance.

"So much for spending the night thwarting your every move. Looks like we'll have to stomach working together on the same side. Which is a shame, as I really enjoy thwarting you." The Angel smiled and raised her flaming sword in the direction of all the fighting. "Rain check?" Then without a moment's pause, she turned and made a bee-line for Cassie and Lillie, putting herself in between them and the large man with the very scary, flaming eyes that she could see behind his sunglasses. How appropriate given the current circumstances.

"Run!" Michelle barked, keeping her sword and gaze trained on Rob Strange but speaking directly behind her to Cassie and Lillie. Regretfully she was too far from Justin to give him immediate aid, but she had faith that Elijah would see to it. With an endless cloud of demons shooting out of Hell over their heads accompanied by a deafening roar, Michelle found it hard to concentrate on one thing, but she did her best. "Whoever you are, you're going to leave them alone now," she spoke plainly to Rob now, glaring at him with angelic contempt. "Or you'll have me to deal with."

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[info]lecheries
2012-10-07 02:13 pm UTC (link)
Elijah's sudden appearance in the graveyard was a little less mighty and glorious compared to Michelle's, considering all he had in hand was his trusty tire iron – not the most righteous of weapons, but it did the trick in a pinch. Situations like these were precisely why he still kept it in the boot of his car; considering his most prized possession never suffered from anything so uncouth as a flat tire, it was more a precaution than anything else. A lesson learned from a past life, wherein a tire iron had, momentarily, been the only thing between humanity and the Apocalypse. It only stood to reason that it would be again some day. Sometimes Elijah very much hated being right.

Word of the Hellish jailbreak had spread fast amongst demonic circles, and Elijah's first and only stop before coming to the source had been Michelle. His angel, the only being he trusted above Earth and below it to stand by his side and do what needed to be done. A quick survey around the cemetery told him they had their work cut out for them, but if he was worried, he didn't show it. Instead he only glanced back at her in kind, sly with undertones of eternal affection. If he'd been the hero of this story, this might have been the moment where he stole a kiss from her just before they threw themselves into the brawl, but he wasn't a hero. Just a very wayward demon. The worst one in the world, in fact.

"Count on in, Angel," he shot back shortly, and then they were off. While Michelle rushed off to defend the Winchester girls from what appeared to be a god (of course, Crowley thought with a hysterical sort of cheer, Why not?), Elijah did the opposite, picking a fight with someone his own size. Justin appeared to be defending himself moderately well against Austin – he was still alive, after all, and standing there rebelliously with a smoking shotgun in hand. As Elijah ran past him, he threw a hurried command over his shoulder: "Reload now!" He raised the tire iron in both hands. "Quickly, please!"

Then, before Austin could recover from the bullets filled with salt – an embarrassing weakness he and Crowley were very glad they didn't share – Elijah swung down, the tire iron catching Austin across the shoulders and knocking him down, at least for a moment or two. Elijah took that moment to look back at Justin, deadly serious this time. His eyes were yellow and slitted like a snake's, something he was unable to control when things got especially dire. "Take the girls and go. The Angel and I can handle this."

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[info]dealwithyellow
2012-10-07 10:59 pm UTC (link)
Austin had to hand it to Justin; the kid had spunk. Admirable courage, even. It had always been something he enjoyed in the Winchesters and their company, even if they sometimes presented themselves like incessant flies that constantly needed batting away. Impossible to kill usually, but nothing more than a nuisance to him. The rock salt didn't even sting when it hit him, but it took him a moment to recover from the shock of the boy being so...reckless. How quaint.

Apparently it was a minute too long. He'd been focused on the hunter in front of him knowing fully well that Rob had the other two covered. He'd known there were three enemies there. When had a fourth and fifth shown up? Just in the nick of time it seemed, because a tire iron smacked him with strength that wasn't human, and knocked him to the ground from the sheer surprise of the blow. His eyes flashed yellow and remained that color as Azazel's anger peeked inside of him; the hunters were cheating. Austin was the only one allowed to cheat and get outside help.

While on the ground his head jerked to the side, witnessing as Cassie took Lillie's command of going to the gate and Michelle's order to run as one in the same. The petite girl hit the door and strained with all of her might against the flood of demons pouring out of it, shoving her shoulder against the stone door in vain. She would never be strong enough to close it on her own; Austin directed his attention elsewhere.

"Ah, yes," He said, pulling himself to his feet with a deep rumbling laugh. "The demon with an angel on his shoulder. Such a disgrace to our kind. Good luck handling this. I highly doubt any of you are getting that door closed tonight."

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[info]backformore
2012-10-08 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Well, well. With the sudden appearance of the cavalry, this fight suddenly got much more interesting. Messing with mere mortals was somewhat below Rob, not that he didn't do it anyway, but unless they were demigods they were hardly worth the trouble – at least, individually. War was a different matter, and since becoming the God of War, all of them were his business, even the small ones. Austin had forgot to mention this, however. A guardian angel watching over her charges, and a demon on the wrong side of the fight. Very interesting. Maybe these two would even be something of a challenge for him. Doubtful, but at least they were more promising than the mortals, who were about as challenging as a rabid cat.

Standing back up, Rob eyed the angel – her and the flaming sword. There wasn't a lot of anger in her, except that which she directed at anyone who dared hurt the reincarnates under her protection, which wasn't very helpful, but he honed in on it anyway. Even righteous anger affected judgment and made the angered sloppy when amped up to higher levels. The sword, however, was much more intriguing to him than the wielder. It wasn't celestial bronze, but it was holy – Rob couldn't say for sure, but out of everything in this cemetery, that was the only item that could even potentially do him any damage. Best he got it out of her hands, then. Post haste.

"Sweetheart," Rob smirked, slowly drawing his hunting knife from its sheath on his belt. "You really think you're the only one here with a flaming sword?" Holding the knife out, it transformed as he spoke into a fearsome broadsword, with a pommel in the shape of a skull's head with a deep red ruby embedded in its mouth. He made the sword blaze too, his flames a deep, unnatural red. For the most part, it was just for effect, but that was the brilliant thing about a god's weapon of power. His could change into any weapon he wanted, and it wouldn't be any less lethal. And if these flames touched her? Angel or not, they would burn.

Rob had long since stopped caring where the mortal girls ran off to, now that he'd found a real opponent. He didn't see Lillie's horrified glances back and forth between him and the angel, didn't see her set her mouth and running after Cassie, knowing this battle was out of her league, and if she stuck around, all she could do was make it harder for Michelle to win. Rob didn't even really care if they managed to shut the Gate while he was otherwise engaged. Right now, all he cared about was winning. He held out a challenging hand, beckoning Michelle toward him with his middle and ring finger, spinning the sword lazily in his other hand while he did so. "Come on, then. Deal with me." He stopped the sword in mid-air and grinned wickedly. "If you can."

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[info]averagejo
2012-10-09 12:01 am UTC (link)
Justin was sure he was a dead man. There were at least two seconds there where he was genuinely prepared to die, because even after he stupidly shot Austin square in the chest with the rock salt, the threat of Azazel wasn't gone. Far from it. Rock salt wouldn't kill a demon, only hurt them, which usually just pissed them off more. The fact that Austin was laughing didn't make that any less disturbing. Still not knowing what had come over him, Justin had almost resigned himself to his fate, closing his eyes and hoping that if he didn't get out of here tonight that at least Lillie would. Then, just as Justin was sure he was about to die, he was saved ... by another demon? That didn't seem right.

But when he realized it was Elijah who'd come to his aid, Justin actually felt relieved. Elijah wasn't your typical demon, and the hunter had actually come to trust the guy a little since he'd become a weird sort of fixture in Michelle's life. Not to mention how he'd reacted to Shane's death, which seemed pretty genuine to him. Then again, maybe Justin was just too trusting. Either way, that didn't seem to matter currently since Elijah was hitting Austin with a tire iron (???) and ordering Justin to get out of there. Justin hesitated, momentarily frozen in place after he'd reloaded and his gaze switched from Elijah to Austin and then back to Elijah before deciding that he'd probably be more of a hindrance than a help to the wayward demon.

So, he did what he was told, and he bolted. Right past where Michelle had just started engaging Austin's equally scary partner in crime in an actual sword fight. If Justin wasn't so determined to reach Lillie and Cassie he might have stopped to stare at the vicious trade of blows with blades that were both on fire, and in another moment of misplaced anger Justin almost intervened. He was worried for Michelle, he didn't want to see the angel get hurt, and the closer he ran to them he just felt so angry. He couldn't explain it but Justin had never felt so furious in his whole life, the anger was in his bones. Luckily, a shout from Lillie and Cassie pulled him out of his temporary seeing red and he dodged the fiery sword fight, making a bee-line for the mausoleum.

He more or less collided with the doors like Cassie had, slamming his body into it with an extra bit of force on impact and let out a grown as the door hardly budged against his weight. Demons were still pouring out and despite his and the Winchesters best efforts, there was no way they were getting them to close. This was going to end badly for all of them. Justin tried again, digging his heels into the ground and putting both his palms against the door this time, pushing with his arms as he put the length of his body against the door and pushed hard. Still didn't budge, so Justin turned to Cassie and Lillie and shouted over the noise. "WHAT DO WE DO?!?!?!"

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[info]lostmyshoe
2012-10-09 12:43 am UTC (link)
Despite how angry she had felt--and really, what the shit was that?!--it was nothing compared to the fear Cassie'd felt in those few minutes where Lillie was pointing the gun straight at her forehead. Logic should have dictated that it was a trick to give them the upper hand, but it wasn't as if the Winchesters hadn't met supernatural creatures that had pitted them against each other before. Sam and Dean had almost killed each other under the siren's influence, and Sam had almost killed Dean while possessed by Meg. So to be worried that Lillie might actually shoot her was by far justified. And now that the moment had passed and she was running as fast as she could for the gate, she was worried about Michelle. The anxious feelings just weren't going to go away until the gate was closed and they were all out of there safely. Which didn't seem possible if she were to go by the nagging feeling in the back of her mind. This was too big. Somebody was going to die tonight.

"I DON'T KNOW!" Cassie yelled at the top of her lungs and her voice still barely registered over the roar of the gate's explosion. "WE NEED MORE FORCE! WE NEED..." She looked over her shoulder at the fighting going on. Michelle was holding her own well even though watching her fight was making Cassie incredibly nervous, and Elijah--well, Elijah was fine. It was a stalemate really between him and Austin without...

Her eyes snapped to the door the three of them were currently pushing against so that she was staring directly at the Colt, the key needed to open the door but not to keep it open. Probably to close it, sure, lock it for certain, but in order to get to that stage they needed Michelle and Elijah's strength, and to do that they needed to get rid of the distractions. She grabbed the gun and twisted it free of the door hoping to whatever deity didn't already hate the Winchesters that she was doing the right thing.

"WE NEED ELIJAH AND MICHELLE TO HELP US CLOSE THE DOOR. WE'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH."

Cassie pulled away from the door so that she could turn in Austin's direction, the Colt cocked and aimed. The demon had quick senses, and upon noticing her with his gun--even though he was currently in a battle with Elijah--he disappeared. Unlike before, however, he never rejoined them. It was an opportunity lost.

"GODDAMMIT!" Whatever the case, that was one enemy gone, and a demonic ally free to help them or Michelle--or ultimately both.

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[info]realboobs
2012-10-09 01:48 am UTC (link)
As relieved as Lillie was to see that Cassie and Justin were both in one piece, they still had a long way to go before this was over. For one, the door to the Gate wouldn't budge, not even with three of them pushing against it, not even when Cassie pulled the Colt from the lock and tried to use it on Azazel – who promptly disappeared. Over her shoulder, Lillie could see Elijah swing wide and only hitting a headstone, with some kind of poncey demon expression on his face like he was half relieved and half seriously aggravated by his foe's disappearance. But that only lasted for a second. He glanced first at the hunters, then back at Michelle, his brow furrowed. Loyalties divided.

Lillie's heart sunk. This is it, she thought, it never mattered that Shane was his blood, he was on their side the whole time, he's gonna –  but then, miraculously, he proved her wrong. Michelle and the stranger were still hacking away at each other with their flaming swords, but it was quickly becoming apparent who was the better swordsman. Elijah could see it too, and without waiting for an opening, he disappeared and reappeared behind the last remaining bad guy and hit him in the head with the tire iron. Which, unfortunately, didn't seem to do anything but make the guy mad.

"Ohhh, god, we're all gonna die," Lillie murmured to herself, still clinging to the door and watching the fight with wide, horrified eyes – but she was wrong there, too. The god was mad, alright, so mad that he let out an echoing growl and imploded in on himself or... something. Lillie couldn't really tell, because one second he was there and the next he wasn't, and finally, it was just them. Just the good guys. Plus all the demons still pouring out of hell. Mission half-accomplished?

"MICHELLE!" Lillie yelled, straining her voice to be heard over the dull roar of Hell. "ELIJAH! YOU HAVE TO CLOSE THE GATE!"

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[info]ofangelstock
2012-10-09 01:17 pm UTC (link)
Michelle was so surprised at first by Elijah’s sudden attack on her opponent that for a good few seconds all she could do was stand there and gawk with flaming sword in hand. Just enough time for Rob Strange to disappear and the Angel let out a breathless laugh, practically beaming at the demon despite how dire their current situation was. Elijah had been surprising her right from the start, and when she found she’d actually needed his terrible influence the most he still hadn’t disappointed her. Quite the opposite in fact. He’d clocked the God of War over the head with a tire iron for her. Now that the immediate threat was gone Michelle allowed her posture to relax, sword hand dropping to her side as she reflected on what had just transpired. If she’d kept fighting for even a few more minutes, she knew she would have been done for. Aziraphale was no warrior and neither was Michelle, but thanks to their old friend and sometimes enemy, they’d been spared a brutal death. If this were the appropriate time to do so, Michelle would have grabbed Elijah and kissed him. As it were, they had matters a tad more pressing to tend to.

"Whoever says you don’t have good timing clearly didn’t see what just happened," Michelle remarked wryly with a smile accompanied by a grimace, head snapping in the Winchesters direction when she heard Lillie shouting to them. The sight of all those hundreds of demons pouring out of Hell made the poor Angel shiver, but she steeled herself against the impulse and turned to arch an eyebrow at her demonic comrade. An entirely different situation, mind you, but it was still comforting to her to know that she could count on the likes of Crowley to be by their side in the face of a very probable apocalypse. It was ineffable. And demons be damned (literally), she was going to make sure the world didn’t end tonight.

And yet, with all the pushing that was being done, their situation was looking bleaker and bleaker as it continued. Michelle was at the hunters sides as soon as Lillie shouted for them, putting her own considerable weight into the door to help them push but to no avail. Michelle wasn’t exactly the strongest person you’d ever meet physically, but that hardly mattered. She knew why they wouldn’t be able to close it this way. With every strained push that only ended in tired groans from the group attempting to close the gates of Hell, it became clearer to the Caretaker as she silently made peace with the circumstances before turning to give Elijah a meaningful look. They had to pull it shut from the inside.

"Step back," she ordered gently, her voice soft over the constant roar but firm as she spoke to Cassie, Lillie and Justin, before leaning back herself and taking her palms off the doors. She should have been afraid, and maybe she was, but Michelle knew in her heart that this is what had to be done. She glanced apologetically at Cassie before looking only at Elijah as she spoke. “Elijah and I have to close it from the inside. Please, don't argue."

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[info]lecheries
2012-10-10 04:10 am UTC (link)
"Who says I have bad timing?" Elijah said, comically aghast, but only for the briefest moment. The other demon and the god were gone, thank Whatever, but he could see as well as Michelle that the battle was far from won. The Devil's Gate was designed to stay open until the very deepest pits of Hell were empty – the thing didn't have to be from Crowley's area of demonic expertise for Elijah to know that. It was just demon nature at its very core. Spiteful and destructive, and so very eager to please the Great Beast. A terrible combination if there ever was one, and Elijah felt vaguely sick to be affiliated with it, even formerly. Wholesale annihilation such as this had never been his cup of tea.

No, he'd always preferred smaller acts of evil – or mischief, rather, that led a human or two to the threshold of the wrong path and then gave them the choice whether or not to take it. That was always why Crowley and Aziraphale had gotten along so well – they understood the power of choice, probably even better than their superiors on high (and low) did. One's nature didn't dictate whether you were good or evil; it had always been and ever was choice. Because of that, Crowley was a good demon, and Aziraphale a bad angel. It wasn't something to be ashamed of, either. In the end, they balanced each other out, didn't they? It was ineffable. Always was.

Standing behind her, Elijah came to same conclusion Michelle did, returning her meaningful look with perfect understanding. He nodded and stepped around Lillie and next to Michelle, blocking the others in case they tried something foolish. He grabbed the angel's hand and gave her a reassuring squeeze as she told the hunters what they had to do. Probably he should have been more afraid than this, but holding Michelle's eyes, he wasn't. This was what they had to do – what they'd always had to do, really. Adam had saved them the trouble once, but there was no Antichrist to fix things this time. Just an angel and a demon who would've made better humans than they ever were agents of good and evil. If only they'd been so lucky.

"Hell of a way to end our Arrangement, love," Elijah murmured, knowing she would hear him even if nobody else could. These last moments were theirs and theirs along, so it barely even registered when Lillie balked and started screaming protests, shouting some nonsense about how she wasn't going to let anyone else die for them, not today and not ever. He merely sighed and gave his head a small shake. As if she had a choice, or could change theirs for them. They'd already made their decision. No stopping it now. "We're wasting time..."

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[info]averagejo
2012-10-10 06:09 am UTC (link)
The reality of the situation hit Justin like a freight train, but he knew better than to try and stop it. He wanted to, but he didn't. Somebody had to play the opposite role here, and with the way Lillie was screeching and how Justin knew Cassie was bound to react, he committed himself to the part. Things were bad enough, and somebody had to keep the girls from throwing themselves into the pit after them. Justin placed a firm hand on Lillie's arm, not necessarily holding her back but preparing himself for if he had to. Cassie was close enough that if she tried anything he could probably block her too. As much as he could hardly stomach it, he knew this had to be done.

Hell of a way to end our Arrangement, love.. Michelle wasn't the only one who heard that, Justin had too, and a lump formed in his throat that he couldn't get rid of. This wasn't fair. Ares may have left the scene but Justin felt that same all-consuming anger boiling in him all over again, only this time it wasn't misplaced. Justin was just plain angry. Angry that they couldn't just live their lives and had to worry about things like this. Angry that Michelle and Elijah were so willing to give up their lives to help them, when they deserved to keep living just like the rest of them did. In that moment it was hard for Justin to keep himself from protesting too. More than anything, he didn't want to see anymore people die for them either.

Lillie looked like she was going to do something stupid (or maybe that was just Justin's instinct to preemptively prevent something so common with Dean Winchester), so he held onto her a little more firmly as he caught the demon and the Angel's eyes and nodded. As much as he didn't want to see them do this, he knew there was no other way. Demons were still pouring out of the pit by the dozens and it wouldn't be long before all of Hell itself was empty. They couldn't let that happen. None of them could, including Michelle and Elijah. If this was their decision? Justin had to respect that. It was a braver decision than he was sure he could ever make.

"Go," he mumbled, looking solemnly at the pair as they looked at each other with an intimacy that Justin was sure didn't exist outside the two of them. He nodded again and squeezed Lillie's arm gently, wanting to comfort her even though he knew there was no comforting to be had right now. There wouldn't be for some time, but he wasn't going anywhere. He belonged right here beside her, just like Michelle belonged beside Elijah and vice versa. This was how things had to be. Justin cleared his throat after a second and forced himself to ignore the still growing chaos around them, his gaze saying more than his words could ever express. "And thank you."

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[info]lostmyshoe
2012-10-10 06:51 am UTC (link)
It took a moment for everything to sink in for Cassie. She was still reeling over missing Austin with the Colt, for a moment convinced that they'd take out yet another enemy briefly. It wouldn't be permanent--it never was. The bad guys came back in different bodies, there was always evil to be fought, but there would be a reprieve. A moment where they could all breathe before evil reappeared. It would have been nice. But no, Austin fled like a coward leaving her with a gun that wouldn't help right then, and them all with hell's contents spilling onto earth.

"You what?" Cassie asked, eyes wide. She was sure she had misheard somehow. Maybe they had to pull it partially closed from the inside to give them the upper hand, and then come out, and then they could all push it closed and things would end happily for them. There could be pie for Lillie, and her lap top for her. Justin could have a beer. Michelle and Elijah could sit with them while they discussed what to do about the demons who had escaped. But she didn't need Sam's apology in her mind to know that that wouldn't be their luck. It was never their luck.

"No! That's not an option!" She said quickly, looking to Justin and Lillie for support. Lillie was quick to give it without needing Cassie's look, protesting herself without reserve. "Michelle, you can't. There's another way. We just have to push harder!"

She wanted to move forward and block the way. Part of her wanted to jump in there and sacrifice herself to close the door so that the two of them wouldn't be able to. That was the Winchester way, after all. Loyal to a fault, willing to let the world end to save each other--and in this case, their friends--first unless prevented from doing the stupid thing. There were already tears forming and spilling over her cheeks, and the deed wasn't even done yet. Michelle was still there, but she wouldn't be for much longer.

There's not other choice, Cassie. You've gotta let her go.

More than anything right then she wanted to punch Sam in his stupid face. Michelle was the first person she'd been able to talk to once she'd gotten the young Winchester, when she first became a reincarnate. She was the one who'd saved her from the first Alastair's torture table. And now she was supposed to just let her walk into hell?

If we don't close it, world's going to end.

Cassie's jaw set tight and she stared at the ground. If it was going to happen, it wasn't something she could watch.

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[info]realboobs
2012-10-10 11:09 pm UTC (link)
No. This can't be happening again.

At first, Lillie wasn't even aware that she was shouting. Shrieking, really, snapping at just the idea of someone else dying for them, hysterical at the reality of it. She didn't know what she was saying. Didn't know that she was crying, hopeless and angry and desperate and stubborn. Maybe stubborn most of all. Every fiber of her being was beyond unwilling to accept this, to watch Michelle and Elijah sacrifice themselves to shut the Gate. To let them die so she, Justin, and Cassie could live. So many people had already done this for them – too many, starting with Mary Winchester and ending with almost everyone they'd ever known, so this... It was just too much. She tried to scream sense into them, not knowing that she nonsensical. Far past her breaking point, Lillie well and truly lost it.

But then she felt a hand on her arm, and it was like a switch had been flipped. Her mouth hung open uselessly, her voice just gone, and if this had been any other time, her first instinct would have been to wrench her arm away and keep fighting, no matter how pointless it was, but then she looked back and saw the only reason not to. Justin. She'd never seen that look on his face before, so angry but so calmly accepting at the same time – but Dean had, on Jo's. The memory hit her like a knife to the stomach, and she had to look away from Justin, just for a second. Just to keep breathing. That memory was too painful. She looked where he looked instead.

Michelle and Elijah only had eyes for each other. They were about to die, they knew that, but they'd already made peace with it because they were going to die together. It was almost comforting. Wasn't fair, but it was right. Neither one of them could leave the other behind, and that was something Lillie understood, even if she still couldn't comprehend why they would do it for them. She could never leave Justin behind again. Not Cassie, either. Having been on both sides of that equation, Dean knew the alternatives were not an option – couldn't be, not ever. At least they'd be together. His angel, her demon. At least there was that.

Accepting it, Lillie also accepted the comfort Justin was trying to give her, practically falling back against him, hands reaching wildly for his. When she found them, she didn't stop falling back; she nodded, and gave their guardians they space they needed to shut the gate once and for all. "Cassie," she called out hoarsely. She didn't bother wishing things were different. They never had been before. It always came down to this. "Come on. They... they have to."

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[info]ofangelstock
2012-10-11 01:00 am UTC (link)
Michelle understood why they were upset, and she didn't fault them for it. If she'd been in their place, she wouldn't be any happier about this. And to say that she was happy about this in her position would have been a lie, but she was more than willing to do this. Not just for them, either. She was still an Angel, albeit a very bad one, and she couldn't just stand by and let the whole world go to Hell if she could actually do something to help. This was what she and Elijah had to do in order to insure the Earth kept on spinning, and it was no easy thing to come to terms with, but she did it with all the grace she could muster. Truth be told, she was terrified, but knowing Elijah was taking the leap with her was all she needed to do what had to be done.

"Cassie," Michelle shook her head, knowing Elijah was right and they were wasting time, but she stopped long enough to briefly tear her eyes away from Elijah's and bring Cassie into a fierce hug. Michelle wasn't one to openly play favorites with her charges, but it was no secret that the Caretaker and her charge had been bonded together with something thicker than water since the beginning. Michelle couldn't say why, but Cassie had always felt to her like something more, like her blood. There was nothing she wouldn't do to make sure Cassie remained alive and well, and had done, so this was no different. This was Michelle's job, to guard those in her care and always keep them safe from harm.

"Don't blame yourself for this," the Angel whispered softly into the girl's ear as she pulled regretfully away. "People are going to want to give their lives up for you and the greater good because it gives their lives more meaning. Don't resent that."

She glanced at Lillie, observing the caring way Justin was holding onto her and nodded. They would be all right, the three of them. She knew that, even as she wondered how fast trouble would find them again once she and Elijah were gone. It was almost enough to make her balk and stay, but she didn't. Instead she wiped away a single tear that escaped the corner of her eye as she briefly remembered just a couple years ago a Michelle Kingston who was still panicking at the idea of living forever, with no idea of just what life actually had in store for her. It was almost funny to her now. "Take care of each other."

Michelle gripped Elijah's hand so tightly her knuckles turned white, and then they disappeared, reappearing on the other side of the doors with the sounds and the heat of Hell practically bearing down on them. In a way, it was almost right. She didn't belong in Hell and he didn't belong in Heaven, but if they were going to do the stupid thing and rebel against both, it should be hand in hand. Who knows, maybe they'd go somewhere else, the both of them. She liked that thought. Michelle screwed her eyes against the blaze and the smoke, blonde hair flying every which way in all the commotion as she placed her free hand on the door and her wrist strained, ready to pull. Hell of a way to end their Arrangement indeed. It only took her looking at him again to know she didn't regret it. Any of it. Not for one, ineffable second.

"I'd do it all again, you know," she shouted over the noise, laughing a little despite herself and looking younger than she'd felt in years. They were close enough still that she could have reached for him, but she hesitated, genuine fear of what they were about to do finally creeping into her and she realized she was trembling. Smiling and trembling while on the brink of going up in a blazing Hellfire of glory. Could anyone blame her for being a little nervous? The tight grip she had on his hand didn't lessen. "Every bit of it."

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[info]lecheries
2012-10-11 02:47 am UTC (link)
Elijah gave Cassie and Michelle their moment, a part of and apart from it all at once. That had always been the case with him and these hunters; they'd never fully trusted him, and rightfully so. If it hadn't been for Shane, they wouldn't have trusted him at all. Even a demon with a heart was still a demon, and Elijah was only as good as the company he kept. Shane and Michelle – they had changed him for the better. Too late, in Shane's case, but her death had been a turning point in his life. The first fork in the road where he'd taken the right path instead of the easy one. And Michelle. He never could have done it without Michelle.

Silently, he watched her say goodbye to her friends. Even for him, it was difficult, as though he was seeing something that wasn't meant for him, but he couldn't bear to look away from her, not when he was so close to the end. In the back of his mind, it occurred to him that if he'd made the other choice, if he'd stayed true to his demonic nature, then maybe he wouldn't be here. Maybe that path would have taken him elsewhere, and he would've lived another thousand years. The corner of his mouth curled up in a small, wry smile at that thought. He'd lived long enough, and he'd lived alone. Even now, when he should have been desperate, a thousand more years of that wasn't very appealing. Not without Michelle.

She took his hand again, and they reappeared behind the doors, and suddenly their task wasn't just ineffable, it was inevitable. Elijah had never thought much about the difference between the two words, but now, when he could hear, smell, and feel their fate – now he was afraid. Michelle didn't know what was waiting for them in Hell. He did. And it wasn't in his nature to put his faith in a miracle, one that would spare them from the pit and send them somewhere else. No, they weren't that lucky, and the only faith he'd ever had was in her. Squeezing her hand, he kept his fears to himself. He knew she was afraid, too. Adding to it would just be cruel, when they were both so close to doing the one thing that was right for both Heaven and Hell – and, in a way, rebelling against both. Fitting. Elijah liked that.

"So would I," Elijah shouted back, smiling in spite of himself. Laughing like that, she'd never looked more angelic, and he'd never loved her more. He wished this moment could last a little longer, but it couldn't. Every second counted. He gripped her hand tighter. "When I give you the signal, pull, Angel! As hard as you can!" He didn't say what the signal was. He didn't have to. She'd know.

Leaning in, he kissed her, one last time, and he pulled.

The Gate closed.

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