Project Reaper

31. I Pray the Lord my Soul to Take

"So...that's about what we have," Sam summed up for Jack. "Any questions?"

Jack was silent. "No, not really."

There was a loud crashing in another room. Sam, Dean, Castiel and Jack all looked at each other before standing and moving to investigate. "Stay here, Jack," Cas warned.

As Sam and Dean moved to find what made the crash, they heard a familiar voice say, "Wait, how the fuck did I get here?"

"Ash?"

"Guys? I might've broken a thing," She said. Sam and Dean walked into the room, finding Ash, sitting up by a broken cabinet. "I think I broke a thing." Blue energy began to dissipate around her. "Yeah, I broke a thing."

"How are you back?" Dean asked, hauling her to her feet.

"No clue. I got hit by a blue beam of power or some shit, and it hit me like a banishing sigil."

"Weren't you in space?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, I was-" Her eyes widened in realization. "Shit, I was. That was wild. There was some guy doing magic, there was a kid that made an 'Aliens' reference, no clue how old he was, there were aliens-"

"Aliens?" Sam asked, incredulous.

"Aliens. One had a load of tattoos, the other had antennae, she could feel what people were feeling when she touched them. That was fucking insane."

"Are we going to get the story?" Dean asked.

'Yeah, I just want to shower before we do."

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Post shower, Asterin was wearing a blue flannel and jeans and was pulling on her black leather jacket as she walked back into the room.

"So. Space?" Dean asked.

"Yeah, this guy Thanos-real douche of a guy- wants to get these six stones, I'm not sure on the exact thing, but he supposedly needs them to kill half the universe because people are running out of resources."

"Six stones?" Sam asked, taking notes.

"Yeah, uh, power, space, time, mind, and there's two others I don't remember. Uh, reality and...soul? I don't know, red and orange."

"So, he wants to collect those to kill half the universe because there's a lack of resources?" Dean asked, incredulous.

Ash shrugged. "He's a raisin lookin' dipshit."

Cas came in the room. "Jack is taking a nap. He had the beginnings of a migraine."

"That's probably not good," Ash stated.

"What was it you said about stones?"
Ash shrugged. "There's a guy that wants to kill half the universe because he thinks that will help resources or whatever. He got four of the stones last I checked. I know where the other two were, if he doesn't have those already."

"Where's the other two?" Sam asked.

"One of them is with that magic dude that I was with, come to think of it he looks like Sherlock-"

"The point?" Sam asked.

"Right. Sherlock the Sorcerer has one of them, it's in a necklace, think that's the time stone. The mind stone is with Vision, did you guys ever meet him? I'm not sure you guys did. He has it kinda embedded in his forehead."

Sam looked up from his notes. "What?"

"Right. Story. So back with Ultron, remember when Tony texted me, saying 'you can kill anything, right?' He wanted me there as a contingency if uploading JARVIS to Ultron's evolved body, it was a whole thing, we figured it out, mostly, but it ended up-"

Something like a shudder ran through the Earth. Cas and Ash looked around.

"What?" Dean asked.

"Did you guys feel that?"

"Feel what?"

"I felt that too," Cas said quietly.

Something felt wrong down to Asterin's bones. "Something's happened," Ash whispered. "I don't know what."

Castiel looked down to his hand. It began to turn grey. His mouth parted in shock. He pulled off his coat and rolled up his sleeve before looking up at Sam and Dean. "Sam? Dean?" He asked.

"Cas?" Dean asked.

Cas looked back down at his hand and back to Dean. Cas set his face in determination before striding forward and planting his lips on Dean's, holding him as he kissed Dean.

To say Dean was surprised was an understatement, but he kissed his friend back, wrapping his hands around him. Cas pulled back before looking at Dean, saying only, "I'm sorry." Cas bowed his head, eyes falling closed, his body disintegrating. The Winchesters looked at the spot where their friend was standing in horror.

"Uh, guys? I think I'm going too," Ash said quietly, looking at her hand. It was becoming gray and discolored.

"No, Ash," Sam started. "Please."

Ash forced her grace back to her hand, face twinging in pain as her hand began to reconstruct itself before changing back to grey.

"Guys?" Ash asked, eyes wide. "I'm sorry, I think I'm going."

"Ash, no," Dean said quietly, walking toward his sister. Dean reached out to hold his sister as Sam did the same.

"I'll be fine. Take care of yourselves, ok?" She murmured.

"Ash, don't-"

"I can't stop it, I tried. Take care of yourselves and Jack."

With that, Asterin turned to dust and floated away on the wind.

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I'm sorry.

Also if you like this, read my other fic Those Who Fall and its sequel They Who Survive.  The second one is a crossover with Avengers, again.

Shameless plug, I know.

But I'm starting to post for TWS again.