The Beginning of An Apocalypse

“What should I tell her sir?” The guard asked. He waited for Gabriel’s response, but all Gabriel did was stand there with his head rested back. Cas could see that he was desperately trying to remain calm and let his temper settle.

Why was he trying so hard for her when he didn’t care when he was around everyone else?

Cas suspected there was some kind of relationship between the two. She couldn’t figure it out. Maybe they were in a relationship. They were old friends who ended up falling out. She wondered what, but she knew she probably wasn’t going to get the answer by asking.

“Keep her there, I’ll be right there,” Gabriel said after he let out a long exhale and turned to face him. “Go.”

The guard left halfway through the world ‘go’ leaving the two of them alone. Gabriel turned back to look at Cas. “I’ll be back when I deal with this.”

“Okay, sure.” Cas walked back to the bed and sat down. She smiled at him and waited for him to annoyingly turn around and walk out of the room. He walked out and closed the cell door behind him. Gabriel’s footsteps disappeared and Cas was left alone in this cell once again.

Gabriel made it to the elevator and pushed for the first technical floor. He waited in the elevator for less than a minute and the door opened. He walked out and he already saw Liza standing by the door talking to the guard he had sent up.

He walked over and was halfway there when Liza looked over and realized that he was there. She put on a big smile and loudly shouted his name.

He wished she had a filter. He also wished he had a remote for her so he could mute her. She could be so annoying.

Gabriel walked over and nodded his head to the guard so that he would leave. The guard nodded back and left to go back to his place. Gabriel turned back to look at Liza and he couldn’t stop it. She was right in front of him and her crutches lay against him.

“Oh, Gabriel! Hi!” She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him.

“Get off me, Liza,” Gabriel said. He didn’t want to push her knowing she would fall and end up in the hospital again. He didn’t even know she was released from the hospital. Gabriel helped Liza get off him and find her balance.

“What are you doing here?”

“Trying to visit you after you abandoned me in the hospital, duh,” Liza said. “Do you think that little of me?” Liza forced herself to swerve around him. She moved to start walking away from him. Where she was going, she didn’t know. She only knew that she had to stay there to get what she wanted.

“Yes,” Gabriel said. “What do you want?” Unlike Liza, he stayed put in his original stance. He turned his head only to make sure that she didn’t run off and he’d have to follow her. It wouldn’t be hard. They were both on crutches, but he’s had many broken bones before, and she’s never used crutches.

He’d beat her in a race with no effort whatsoever.

Liza stopped and turned around again. She didn’t know if her still hurting body could take all this movement. She was going to force herself to, she had a plan and she had to stick to it. She looked around the room and when she saw no one but the two of them in a ten feet circle around them, she walked herself back.

“You know what I want,” Liza said. “Where is she?”

“I have no idea who you are talking about,” Gabriel said. “You seem to have the wrong person Liza.”

Gabriel tapped Liza on the forehead two times. “Maybe your injuries gave you some head trauma. I will get someone to check you out, alright?”

“Don’t play stupid with me, Gabriel,” Liza said. She slapped his arm twice for good measure. She made sure not to hit him too hard though. “I know you have her.”

“And I will ask you again,” Gabriel said. He leaned a little bit forward and gave her an impatient smile. “Have who?”

“Cassidy Tyler. You tricked her, used her, destroyed her and her brother’s life just to fix all the other shit. You took her back and are probably somewhere in this building being experimented on. I want her back and I want you to back off.”

“And what are you going to do if I have her?” Gabriel asked. “Are you going to come to fight me? You’re useless with all these injuries. I’m having my casts taken off in two days.”

Gabriel stood back up straight and he smiled. “And you don’t have your surprise attack anymore..” He looked back at the door and Liza did too. She watched as two of the guards outside had Shane by both arms and were dragging him inside. He was fighting and acting like that would help him get free. Would help them do something now.

“Go after Marcus,” Liza said. “He’s already gone and there’s no way we’re getting him back. But Cas doesn’t deserve this.”

“Aww,” Gabriel faked his sympathy with his fake sympathetic face and tone. “Has Liza gone soft? Is Cassidy Tyler a friend of some kind?”

“We’re not friends but I know when someone doesn’t deserve shit,” Liza said. She didn’t give in to his teasing. Gabriel would get off on the fact that Liza couldn’t stand it and retaliate against him. Everything was a game to him and he sadly is the king.

“Of course,” Gabriel said with a nod.

In the second of Gabriel’s response, Shane was dragged over and now standing beside the both of them. Liza looked at him and saw the sweat bubbles dripping down his forehead. She watched as he panted and how he tries to escape the hold he was under but failed miserably.

“Give it a rest,” Liza ordered him and Shane rested him.

“You must be Shane Wilgate,” Gabriel said. “Cassidy Tyler’s manager at that terrible, terrible store.”

“You guessed right,” Shane huffed. “Where’s Cas?!” He was forcing the words out now. Shane was hiding on the left side of the building. Liza said there was a door there and she was going to open it up for him. He was standing there patiently and everything was fine.

“I don’t have her here, Mr. Wilgate,” Gabriel told him. “I’m sorry your search has been for nothing.”

He looked at the both of them and nodded his head. “I will pay for a car for the both of you and have you both brought back to your places.” He called someone and told them what he wanted and then hung up. “Have a good day and sorry you wasted your one-time be-a-spy coupon on a useless trip.”

Gabriel grabbed onto his crutches and walked off. He ignored Liza saying his name over and over again to get him to stop. He ignored Shaen who was shouting for other people to help him. For Gabriel to let Cas go.

All their shouting and questions and begging did nothing. They were dragged out and thrown into the car that Gabriel had called for them. The doors were locked. A driver and another man sitting in the front seat and he didn’t stop till he made his gun known.

They were screwed.

Shane tried to whisper messages to Liza. He asked for answers to the question, What are we going to do?

He asked, Do you still think Mr. Everett has Cas?

So many questions that Liza ignored. She knew her best way to find Cas was to have Gabriel take her straight to her. If that didn’t happen, they’d never find her. They may be able to get into the building, but he had an expensive security system and he took every precaution. There was no way someone was going to break into the lab and find Cas.

The underground levels is what they wanted. If Cas was anywhere, it was going to be underground.

The only question was if they should continue with this mission to save her. Yes, realistically she’s as good as dead. Gabriel had her and he wasn’t going to let her go without putting up a terrible fight. And trying to go after her may even kill her.

If they answered that they should continue to try and find her, they needed to start coming up with a plan. A good plan this time. Fullproof.

They needed to get some help.

Gabriel made sure Liza and Shane were gone for good before he left with the actual intent to get back to Cas in the underground levels. He didn’t want them being around at all. Even if they couldn’t get past this floor in any direction. He felt like they were watching him. Watching his every move.

He hated that feeling, but it was the feeling that kept him safe for so long.

He’d have to make sure his security was better. Maybe then this feeling would go away. Or he needed to distract himself with something else. Someone else.

He went through all the security checks before he got back to where he was before the interruption with Liza and that idiotic Shane Wilgate happened. Cas’s cell.

He had someone open the door for him. He didn’t have the want or energy to go through any more security codes and then push the door open himself. He’d have to set at least one crutch down and use his other hand to keep him up while he typed in a code. It was easier and wasted little time to have someone else that he knew was efficient do the job.

The door opened quickly and he was able to walk in.

By the time he got in, Cas was already standing. She must have heard him before he made it to her door.

“What’d Liza want?” Cas asked. She had her hand against the sleeve of her shirt and she waited for an answer. She was left down here not knowing whether Liza was here for good or bad. All the thoughts and ideas came swarming in and they tried to make her believe something she didn’t want to believe.

She was almost dying to know the answer.

“You’d like that wouldn’t you?” Gabriel asked. He shrugged his shoulders and sighed. “You’re never going to get out of here anyway so what’s the harm.” He never thought he’d say that sentence ever. He didn’t know why he said it.

He knew that she was never getting out of there and no one was getting in, but he never forgot possibilities and went straight to what he wanted. He felt like he could jinx himself and his chances and that was the last thing he needed.

He shook his head forgetting everything he just said. “She came to ask for your freedom. Strange don’t you think? I know you two were friendly in the hospital, but I know Liza doesn’t have… friendships. She doesn’t like anybody and she would never do anything like this without a reason.”

“Do you love her or something?” Cas asked.

“Excuse me?” Gabriel asked. He did not see how that question went with anything that he just said. He was talking about Liza and how she wouldn’t care to see someone die. The only reason she would try to save someone was if there was a reason. And usually, the reason was never friendship. It was always for personal gain.

“You guys talk about each other, talk to each other like you got this past with each other. Are you ex-lovers? Ex-friends?” Cas crossed her arms and tried to study his face. To study and find the answer in the creases on his forehead. In the look in his eyes and the twist in his lips. She tried to find the answer.

“I know you two are something so don’t even try to lie to me. I noticed it the first time you guys looked at each other.”

Gabriel gave a slight chuckle. A chuckle that turned into a cough that had him turn to the side and hold his mouth. He looked back and straightened himself up like that was something embarrassing. He didn’t look so good though.

“Yes,” Gabriel answered her. “We do have a history but it’s not anything to do with lovers or friends. She’s my cousin,” Gabriel told her. “On my dad’s side.” He didn’t know why he had to clarify that, but he did.

“Y-you’re cousin?” Cas asked. The shock was there embedded in her tone. She only slightly thought of family. She got rid of the idea with no more than a few thoughts. She looked at Gabriel and she saw someone who didn’t have a family. And if he did have a family he pushed them away because he believed they were holding him back. Or they hurt him and turned him into the monster that he is today.

“It’s not that much of a surprise, Miss Tyler,” Gabriel said. “She’s my cousin and she’s annoying. She’s getting your friend, Mr. Shane Wilgate involved and they came running up to save you. They didn’t make it past the first floor though, too bad.”

“Wait,” Cas said. Gabriel spoke so fast that it was hard to hear what he said. But she knew she heard Shane’s name so she had to recall what he said. She replayed and she heard it. “Shane’s here?”

“He was sneaking on the left side of my building,” Gabriel said. “Sad for him but the door he was hiding against has been welded in so he never would have been able to sneak in and sneak out with you.”

“No, no, no.” Cas held her hands in her hair and shook her head. Why was Shane here? What was he doing and why? He’s stupid if he thought he could get involved. Why was he even trying to get involved?

“You didn’t hurt him did you?!” Cas shouted. “Tell me you let him go. He doesn’t need to die.”

“Do you think that little of me?” Gabriel said. “I’d only kill him if he’d give me a real reason. I avoid something unless I can’t do it.”

Gabriel pushed himself further into the door. “But if he continues to try and push me I can not guarantee his safety. I’m not the most forgiving man on the planet.”

“If he’s with Liza would you kill her too?” Cas asked. She wanted to think that Shane had a shot to live. That his foolishness wasn’t going to ruin his life forever. He shouldn’t have done this and she wished she could go find him and slap the crap out of him.

But she couldn’t. She’s stuck in a cell and her future was uncertain. There was no locked plan, there was no way to see where she’d be in the future. But Shane had a future and she would never forgive him for messing it up.

Gabriel thought about Cas’s question for less than a minute before he answered. “I don’t think I would, but she’s never pushed me to fa before. And for most of our childhoods, she pushed me around, maybe some of my anger is still there. You never know.”

“Can you be any more of a monster?!” Cas asked. She couldn’t believe that he would even cross the line of harming his own family. He was a monster.

“Yes,” Gabriel said with a nod. He didn’t care what Cas thought of him. He didn’t care whether or not he was a monster. “I can do a lot worse than I am. You should be grateful for that.”

“I’m not going to be grateful for anything you’ve done. You’ve almost killed my brother how many times? Infected the world with this killing disease. You’re going to kill an innocent man and you’re keeping me in prison for God knows what!” She shouted. She wanted to make her every point known. She wanted to get him to possibly see what he was doing and how it was hurting and ruining everything.

But she looked at him and she didn’t see any remorse for what he had done. She didn’t think she saw any humanity in his eyes.

“How can I be grateful to you?!” She shouted. Gabriel didn’t reply to any of her points. He stood there and stared at her like he was sorry for her. And maybe he did pity her. At least he could still feel something.

“You really can’t,” Gabriel simply said. “But you will never be able to do anything until you accept the fact that it’s happened and it’s happening. Till then you’re stuck.”

Gabriel saw that the conversation was dead and he began to remember why he came down here originally. Before Liza interrupted him. Before he taunted Cas with Shane’s possible future. He came to get her with the intent to finish what he started. The 7230th time is the charm, right?

“We’re going to start working now so you’ll have to come with me,” Gabriel told her.

“Doing what? I won’t… I won’t work with you any longer,” Cas said. She wasn’t going to repeat her mistakes. She wasn’t going to suffer more and end up worse than she was. Even though she didn’t know how much worse she could get it. After all, she was trapped in a cell how many floors underground and in probably the most secure place in the world. If not first then second most securest.

“Then I will bring you by force,” Gabriel said. There was no hint of bluff in his voice. Cas could imagine herself being pulled out of her cell by her hair and forced to follow him to her death. She thought about it and the only better thing she could do was to go with him willingly. Putting up a fight would only kill her faster.

“Thank you,” Gabriel said when Cas walked over to him and nodded his head. He smiled when he gestured for her to walk out the door and she did.

She waited outside the cell for Gabriel to walk out and then lead the way. Gabriel turned back the way they came to get here. Looks like they were going to head to the elevator and get to another floor.

Cas looked back behind her. She looked further than that. She saw the hall that went down and lead to a barred door that locked in at least seven guards. It was like they were being held in.

“What’s down that way?” Cas asked. She never saw Gabriel go down the right hall. He only went to her cell and then back to the left.

Gabriel turned around to see what she was talking about. He looked to see her staring at the reinforced bars that you’d see in an actual jail cell. And behind those bars were the seven heavily armed guards. From the grenades that they had on their vest. To the chains of bullets that wrapped around their shoulders. To the guns that weren’t guns. They were too big and they had a glowing blue look to them. Like the gun that Gabriel had on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Kind of like the gun that put them all in the hospital and destroyed the bridge. They still haven’t fixed the bridge yet.

“What’s that?” Gabriel asked.

“Yeah, that’s what I asked,” Cas said.

“I’ll talk if you follow me,” Gabriel said. It wasn’t that important to him. If Cas knew or if she didn’t know. Hopefully, after today Cas wasn’t going to be behind those bars. But it was a possibility.

Cas followed him, not only because it was smart but because she wanted to know what was down there. What was so dangerous?

She saw Seventy, but he wasn’t that dangerous. Other cells beside hers didn’t seem to have anything dangerous in them. What else could be here?

“I told you I’ve done these experiments more than seven thousand times, right?” Gabriel said.

Cas nodded, “Right.”

“Well you’ve seen Seventy and he is… mundane and not that much of a consequence. He isn’t that deadly. But that is not what happened to others. They were given the experimental serum. Everyone reacts differently to it. Some looked normal but died on the spot within a few minutes. Some, like Seventy, get people sick, and a few die, and a few lives.”

Gabriel thought about it and recalled all the many failed attempts that he had done. He remembered every time it ended with idiotic scientists running and screaming for their lives. He remembered all the times when he thought it would work and when it almost did. He almost completed his mission and then he found some small thing that would cause an even worse problem.

“Behind that is the terrible cases. The ones that would destroy humanity. At a worse and faster rate than your Marcus could.”

There had been so many brought down to those last few floors. He never goes down there, but he keeps updated on it. Their wails and their constant fighting were sometimes able to be heard from the highest floor in this building.

“Some of them could kill a person by just looking at them. Another could not only destroy humans but destroy everything around it. Destroy the earth it’s in. And the only way we found to control it was by burying it.” Gabriel started going through the next level of security passes as he continued his story.

“It’s still under this building, breathing, fighting, falling further into the earth. But it can’t move by itself and it isn’t the strongest thing on earth. It can’t break free. It can’t move up, only down.”

“God,” Cas thought. She looked down like she could see this monster from under the ground. She imagined it breaking away from the concrete and pushing itself out like a zombie at the start of the apocalypse.

“But there’s one thing that they all have in common.” Gabriel didn’t tell her what it was though. He paused. It was like he was making a speech and he wanted to build suspense.

“What is it?” Cas asked. She gave in to what he wanted and he gave her the answer with too much pride. Too much enjoyment for a conversation about this.

“Eating,” Gabriel said. “They love to eat.”

“Like human flesh or something?” Cas asked. “Like zombies?”

“I guess,” Gabriel said. “If you want to simplify it. But they don’t eat the same thing. Some feed on human flesh and blood. I watched one crawl around and start eating a metal piece from a chair.”

Cas watched as Gabriel talked about all these things with such fascination. As if they were not talking about things that could ruin the entire human race. Things could be easily taken care of and not have to be locked up on the last floor under billions of security measures.

Gabriel liked all this.

“But since we locked them all up,” Gabriel said after ramblings of scientific things and experiments. “They have nothing to eat. Nothing to feed on. They’ve been feeding on each other for quite some time. Every day there are fewer and fewer in those rooms underneath us.”

He looked at her and saw her looking at the ground like she had x-ray vision.

“Yes, right now,” Gabriel right. “Right underneath us they are undergoing rituals of cannibalism. We can’t kill them, but maybe they can kill themselves.”

“How long have you been doing this?” Cas asked. “How long has this been going on?” Gabriel was young, he wasn’t that young, but he was young. She didn’t know how he could have done all this and been this smart. She didn’t see how the things he has done didn’t take his entire life.

“I started working on this right after high school. I graduated when I was fourteen and then went to college while I was doing that I was experimenting with things and then when I was twenty-one I found what I needed to start these things. So… fifteen years.” He was proud of himself for that number.

Cas guessed that sometimes it took scientists more than the years they had to make an “accomplishment” like this. Most of the scientists you saw were old and they still haven’t changed the world. But here he was, thirty-six years old and probably the smartest man of all time. Doing all the things that most people only dreamed of.

“But seven years ago was when everything pulled off. I didn’t start my experiments on people and create the disease we call Flux-G823-2015, not what they are calling it now. Our disease from Project Life.”

“I don’t think that’s the best name for it,” Cas said when she answered. Gabriel looked at her after finishing his rant as if he was waiting for her to review his work. He sounded like he wanted congratulations, but his face stayed neutral.

“It doesn’t have to be,” Gabriel replied. “Seven years ago I found what I’ve been looking for. It cost lives of… so many people but it was worth it.”

“What did you find,” Cas asked. She blinked one time and when she looked again Gabriel was holding the elevator door open for her.

“That’s another story for another time,” Gabriel said. “And at that time, showing is better than telling.”

Cas stepped into the elevator and stepped beside him.

“Did you get the answers you wanted?” Gabriel asked after the doors closed and the elevator started to move.

“I don’t know,” Cas said. “I have more questions and more fear of the answers. Is fame really that important to you?”

“I never thought you to be stupid, Miss Tyler,” Gabriel said. “If you are thinking that I’m doing this for fame.”

“Am I wrong? You show off every chance you get,” Cas said. She wasn’t lying. She watched it happen with everyone. Every minute she spent with Gabriel he was trying one-up everyone. He had to insert his dominance and show he was smarter than everyone else. He had to show that he was not just as good as everyone else, but better. A trillion times better. “You’re the stupid one if you think even a small part of this…” She gestured her hands around to everything she could. “…Isn’t for fame.”

“Fine,” Gabriel said. “I do admit that the headline side of this is quite dazzling and pushes me further. But it’s only a piece of the puzzle. A piece I already have. Even if I don’t accomplish what I’m trying to, I will go down as the most famous person to push our country, our world further.”

“Good for you,” Cas said. Now hearing all the horrible things that Gabriel has done and continues to do, she didn’t know what else to do. Her mind wandered to other questions that she already knew the answers to.

Like what would happen if those cabalistic man-eaters underneath them escaped? The entire human race would die. That’s an easy question and answer.

Her mind wandered to other questions like What would happen if Marcus was caught? Would Gabriel bring him down with the cannibals and he slowly be torn apart and eaten while he fought for freedom? Was Marcus even considered dangerous to be put in there?

And then there was the other question. What was going to happen to her?

Was Gabriel going to use her as another one of his lab rats? Was he going to see her as nothing more than a means to an end? To go through with it and if it was a fail and she ended up just like all the other lab rats. Would she be the dangerous kind and also be eaten alive and eat others alive? Would she cause families to grieve?

What type of monster would she be?

Cas only had little time to think about this. The elevator dinged and the doors slowly opened. They weren’t on the technical first floor with the front doors that they walked out of to get to the outside world.

They were in some dark-colored hall that led to only one door.

“What is this place?” She asked with a little bit of a quiver in her tone. She felt like this was the end of the road.

The end of the road for her at least.

If she was going to fight, she was going to have to do it now. If she was going to do anything it was going to have to be now.

With every step they made closer to that room, Cas’s steps got slower. The closer they got the more Cas’s heart started to beat and sink at the same time. Her legs and arms cramped up and she wanted to run.

Gabriel looked back and saw everything she was thinking as it was written on her face. Shown in every movement she made and every breath she took.

Cas had only one more second to do something before it was too late.

“Let’s go,” Gabriel told her. He wasn’t going to let her get away and he had the feeling she knew she was never going to escape. But three was still that human emotion in the way. That human feeling of fear blocked everyone from doing something. She feared what was going to happen and she was scared of it.

Even if it was their actions and their own will that brought them here. To this moment. To their fate.

“Tell me honestly,” Cas said. “What are you going to do to me in there? What are you going to do?!” She shouted. She forced her crippling body to move backward. She didn’t know where she was going to go or what she was going to do, but she wasn’t going to sit there and rollover. She wasn’t ready to leave. Ready to give up.

“It’s best if you do not know,” Gabriel said. “It’ll be over soon.”

“What’ll be?!” Cas said. “My life?! My control? You’ve already taken that! All I have left is my life!”

Before she could stop it, tears welled in her eyes. They welled until she felt like they were going to win over her will and fall off her cheeks. She held them in her sockets and she didn’t care that they burned. The lump in her throat made her feel like her throat was being closed in and she was no longer breathing.

“Acting like this will not help you, Cassidy,” Gabriel said. “It will only make things harder for you.”

“How do you expect me to act?! You’re going to kill me!”

Cas turned around. She wasn’t going to listen to his form of reasoning. She isn’t going to look at that unmoved face. His expressionless look. With the thought, Pathetic, being the only thought swirling in his mind.

She ran to the door and banged herself against it till she remembered it was an elevator. She pressed the downward arrow and waited for the elevator to show up and get her out of there. The elevators did not have any security numbers. At least this one didn’t.

“Cassidy, stop,” Gabriel said. He loosely moved his crutches and in a second he was moving and going after her. She was doing so well, he thought. They could have gotten through this one hallway before she regained her reasoning and tried to get out of there. If she had just shut up and complied, then he wouldn’t have to waste the time, energy, and tools to get her back and to get this over with.

“Things will be better once we get this over with,” Gabriel called to her.

“For who?! You?”

“I know you are not ready for your life to end,” Gabriel said. “Especially because it hasn’t even started yet. You’re twenty years old and live with your little brother and work at a crappy store. What life are you trying to save?”

“Mine!” Cas shouted. “My brother’s! My friends!”

“Your friends?” Gabriel asked. “You don’t have any friends. You have one person who has a slight interest in you but will soon let go. You have a person who is trying to save you because she can’t let me win. You don’t have friends.”

Cas turned back from facing him and hit the button a few more times. “Come on, come on, come on!” What was taking the elevator so long? How far did it go? Who was in it?!

While she waited she only realized that Gabriel was up close behind her when it was too late. It wouldn’t matter if the elevator came and opened for her to escape. He was there and he could catch her without much trying.

She wasn’t going to let that happen. She wanted to live.

Cas clenched her fist and swung her fist around. The punch connected with Gabriel’s stomach. Gabriel tried to block the punch and for his try, he almost dropped his right crutch. “Stop fighting, Cassidy!” Gabriel grabbed her arm and turned it until she let go of the wall and was forced to look at him. She raised her other arm and brought it down on Gabriel’s arm. The arm that held her.

Gabriel held onto her even with all her painful protests. He didn’t make eye contact with his arm or even try to help it. He looked Cas straight in the eyes with all the fierceness he had. Her gaze connected with this and the fight became more of a battle of wills. A competition of who could look into the other person’s soul better.

Cas saw what he was trying to do. He thought that keeping her here and not letting her go would make her stop fighting. Well, he guessed wrong. She went with him from her cell because she wanted to be awake. If she fought, he’d inject her with something to pass her out.

And if she was passed out, she wouldn’t be able to fight until it was too late.

It may already be too late.

“Stop it,” Gabriel said like he was talking to a child who was in the middle of a tantrum. “Stop it.”

Cas raised her arm above Gabriel’s forearm once again. This time she held it up and when she brought it down, she didn’t hit his forearm. That was going to be bruised enough and it was proven that she wasn’t going to escape if she kept trying to break his arm again.

Cas moved her wrist just in the second that it would have been brought down on his arm and she did the best she could to punch Gabriel in the jaw. Her fist connected, and she felt what felt like to be a bone-crushing, hand-shattering experience. She didn’t see what she had done until she felt Gabriel’s grasp slip from hers. He fought to keep their arms connected, but with the pain, he was feeling he had no choice but to stagger back.

He held onto the upper part of his chest, just underneath the throat. He held onto the crutch while he was bent over and holding onto his throat.

Cas ran over and she kicked his crutch. The crutch was kicked too far away for Gabriel to reach and Gabriel fell. Gabriel caught himself on one hand and both his knees. “Idiot!” Gabriel shouted.

Cas wanted to run over and beat everything out of him. She wanted to scream at him and spit on him and do everything that she felt he had done to her. She looked at him and there was only one more thought besides the torture: Murder.

She could have killed Marcus. He may be dead already.

He killed so many other people. He gave people this serum of his experiment and they are in a locked room eating themselves alive right now.

He’s horrible. A horrible person.