INT. HOSPITAL
Bobby, wearing a bathrobe and ball cap, sat in a wheelchair and stared out the window. Sam watched him from the doorway.
Dean arrived with a manila envelope in hand. "It's been like three days now?" Sam sighed. "We got to cheer him up. Maybe I'll give him a back rub."
"Dean," Sam called.
"Well, what, then?"
"Look... we might have to wrap our heads around the idea that Bobby might not just bounce back this time."
They paused and Sam looked at the envelope, which said X-RAY.
"What's in the envelope?" Sam wondered.
"Went to radiology," Dean replied, opening the envelope and pulling out the contents. "Got some glamour shots."
Dean handed Sam the contents of the envelope, a chest x-ray with strange writing on the ribs. "Let's just say the doctors are baffled."
Sam examined the writing, which was in Enochian. "Holy crap."
Dean looked at his brother. "Yeah, well, Cas carved you one, too."
Sam's phone rang and he answered. "Hello? ...Castiel?"
"Speak of the devil."
"Ah, St. Martin's Hospital. Why? What are you - Cas?" He hung up.
A woman in scrubs and a man in a white lab coat rushed past with a piece of equipment on a cart.
A voice of the PA said, "Dr. Cohen to the ER, stat. Dr. Cohen to the ER, stat."
Castiel and Ariel walked past them and the other passerby and stopped at Dean and Sam.
"Cell phone, Cas?" Dean asked. "Really? Since when do angels need to reach out and touch someone?"
"You're hidden from angels now - all angels," Castiel exclaimed. "Ariel and I won't be able to simply-"
"Enough foreplay," Bobby interrupted, causing Dean, Sam, Castiel and Ariel to look at him. "Get over here and lay your damn hands on."
No one moved.
Bobby looked over his shoulder. "Get healing. Now."
"I can't," Castiel and Ariel admitted.
Bobby turned to face the angels. "Say again?"
Castiel walked up to Bobby. "Ariel and I are cut off from Heaven and much of Heaven's power. Certain things we can do. Certain things we can't."
"You're telling me you two lost your mojo just in time to get me stuck in this trap the rest of my life?"
"I'm sorry," the angels apologized.
"Shove it up your ass." He turned back to the window.
Dean turned to Sam before saying, "At least he's talking now."
"I heard that."
Castiel returned to the hunters and said, "Ariel and I don't have much time. We need to talk."
"Okay," Dean agreed.
"Your plan to stop Lucifer."
"Yeah. You two want to help?"
"No," Ariel replied. "It's foolish. It can't be done."
"Oh. Thanks for the support."
"But Castiel and I believe we have the solution. There was someone besides Michael strong enough to take on Lucifer. Strong enough to stop the apocalypse."
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Lioness
FanfictionTwo angels lead the siege to Hell to rescue one man. Little does she know how important the man will become to her. Dean teaches Ariel to the concept of free will, and Ariel teaches Dean that he is worth it; even if he doesn't always believe it. [...
