A Little Big Surprise

Chapter 12 ~Part Two~

After Dean and Sam choked out what they could about Aria's whereabouts it took them twenty minutes to calm Castiel down in order to stop him from searching for her and possibly putting her into more danger. Dean had his hand placed firmly onto the Angel's shoulder, his eyes set but sympathetic as he watched Castiel struggle with the weight of guilt that befell him. It had been his job to watch her and to protect her and now she was trapped and probably terrified. The image of her little frame shaking like a leaf as Crowley loomed over her made them all cringe, but now they had to come up with a solution.

"He threatened to kill her if we even thought about trying to find her..but we all know not trying is out of the question." Sam mumbled to himself as he began to pack up the room.

Castiel, injured from his bouts with about three dozen demons once he was transported away, was made to sit down as Dean and Sam went around the room quietly, too upset to really say or do anything else. Once everything was packed away, Dean looked up at Sam and Castiel with recognition in his eyes,

"The demon tablet." he breathed, dropping the bag he was holding.

It was so obvious! The entire reason they had found Aria in the first place, was because they went there that night to find the demon tablet! All that searching around that maze of a house was to locate the demon tablet and execute the demon holding it, but when they found Aria all of that had went out of the window. 

Sam was dawning on the realization just as quickly as Dean, Castiel not far behind as they all looked to one an other to say something, "Do you really...do you think she knows where it is?" Sam asked looking much like a..well moose in headlights.

Castiel spoke up quickly "There is reason to believe she does. I found..a journal of sorts while we were moving her into the bunker. It was mostly scribbles, some art work, and then every so often an intelligible diary entry. In these entries I found the...the type of relationship they held. Out of her head space they were lovers, and if he would have told anyone where is was....it would be her."

Dean groaned and kicked over a chair, his hand set onto his hips as he began to pace back and forth, "Why didn't you tell us this in the first place? We could have-" "I didn't think it was relevant at the time." Castiel snapped at Dean. Sam stepped between the two, giving Dean a knowing look before turning his attention to Castiel.

"None of us could have ever seen this coming, but now we know what he wants. Let's go get our baby back, right now. If I know Crowley he is always up for a challenge." 

The three men nodded in agreement, their chests aching horribly at the thought of Aria, their baby, in any sort of pain or discomfort.

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Demon tablet...

Immediately Aria began to dry heave, spasming uncontrollably as her stomach rolled painfully in her abdomen. A flood of newer memories assaulted her, this time of Carlise and of an unimaginable pain.

"You're doing so well my good girl.."

Her hands were above her head, gripping onto Carlise so tightly that she was leaving blood marks on his skin. She was naked under a white sheet, stained with blood as she was turned onto her side, a white hot pain was applied somewhere on her rib cage, making it so hard to pinpoint the pain. When she screamed in agony Carlise took her face into his free hand and placed a chaste kiss on her lips, almost as if he was also in pain and wanted to soothe them both. Above her she could hear someone talking but couldn't bear to focus on anything other than Carlise's hand in hers.

"Are you sure this will work?"

"Do you have any better ideas?"

Crowley watch in annoyance as Aria twitched and moaned pitifully, as if something other than himself was causing her pain. Her eyes had shut just as this phenomenon began and he tapped at her chin to get her to look at him again, unsure of what had snapped this time. Maybe he had pushed her too soon, and he growled at the prospect of having to start again.

"Wake up kitten. We will have to start again now won't we-"

Aria opened her eyes quickly as a blood curdling scream clawed its way out of her throat, her eyes showing complete terror and pain as the volume of the scream picked up until Crowley could do nothing but cover his ears and stare at her in disbelief. Something in her scream seemed unnatural, almost as if there were ten Aria's all screaming at the exact same time. It reminded Crowley of a banshee but the scream wasn't as high pitched, however it did make him want to bash his head in. Angrily he attempted to silence her by back handing her across the face as hard as he could without killing her, blood seeming to shoot from her mouth as her bottom lip split open. It indeed stopped her for a split second, but when she turned her face to look at him again, her eyes flamed a vicious white and the scream tripled in volume and ferocity, now shaking the very foundation of Crowley's hide away.

Somewhere far away and yet oh so close, Castiel hissed in pain and doubled over while holding the side of his head. A scream not unlike the enochian language bounced around in his ears until he could take it no longer and he yelled for Sam and Dean to pull over.

"Cas what the hell?!" Dean yelled as both brother's turned toward the back seat to look at Castiel in worry, the angel grabbing both of their arms and teleporting them all to the source of the sound, like it was some type of homing beacon. The scream in which Castiel was drawn to became very apparent very quickly to Sam and Dean as they drew their respective weapons and examined the room. It was too familiar, and the same panic began to fill their chests as they immediately looked around for Aria, finding her in a millisecond. Once they saw her condition, rage boiled behind each of their hearts, all three of them taking respective action.

Crowley could barely react before Dean lunged at him, the demon blade glinting dangerously as he could do nothing but be pinned down underneath the male, the blade sticking to his throat not unlike his own collar.

"Don't move or I swear I'll send you to wherever the hell you're going, because it isn't hell." Dean snarled dangerously.

Castiel had sights only for Aria as he went toward her and held her face in his hands, alarm and desperation coating his features as he saw the white glow of her eyes and heard the pain in her echoing voice. Sam was beside him in an instant, cutting away the rope frantically as Castiel attempted to calm her, brushing her hair back and speaking calmly into her ears. Dean looked over at them while holding the blade a fraction closer against Crowley's throat and attempted to call to them, but the scream was too much and soon everything else was drowned out.  The shaking was becoming strong enough to cause concern, rubble spraying over them from the crumbling ceiling as Sam hacked frantically at the ropes and Castiel held her closer to his body, his own ears starting to bleed with the close proximity. It wasn't just the sound, but it was the force behind it that made everyone in the room begin to feel sick, blood pouring from all of their ears. The white glow of Aria's eyes began to encase everything, becoming as brighter and stronger as her voice raised into an atrocious roar of torment and violence until

It stopped. As if it had never been, it stopped.

Everything fell silent as all four men fought to catch their breaths, Dean being so disoriented that he fell away from Crowley and merely tried to control the spinning sensation in his head. Castiel swayed a bit on his feet before looking at Aria, his eyes widening as runes began to populate her skin starting from her neck and traveling down. It took him no time at all to understand what it was, and he wasn't the only one.

"How interesting." Crowley purred, his eyes glinting dangerously before he disappeared.

~End of part two~

~Edited~