Eden’s Gate: Left Behind Chapter 18 - Carry On
Warnings: Swearing, Angst, Angels and Demons.
Word count: 3k
Summary: In the penultimate chapter Kate tells all of her friends that she has to leave Hope County due to a family emergency across the country. She has a hard time telling John because of how close they’ve gotten.
Guest OCs: Paige Winchester, Sarah Dunham, Alissa Connors, Layla Michaels, Becky Taylor, Ashley Saunders, Ivan and Isaiah Wren, Ryan Cho, Dylan Paulson and Kevin Baker.
Guest characters: Lilith, Archangel Gabriel, (Supernatural, in a dream), Sam, and Dean Winchester, Castiel [mentioned], Eli Palmer, Wheaty, Mary May, Nick Rye, Grace Armstrong, Pastor Jerome, Raphael, Michael and Lucifer [mentioned].
Note: This chapter is a clusterfuck. SMGDFH.
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Kate and Morgan are on their way to the Wolf’s Den. They’re planning on telling all of their friends, everyone they’ve come to know during their time living in Hope County.
They’re leaving, they don’t know for how long, not sure if they’ll ever come back especially with the Cult running around, and destroying shit.
They make it to the Wolf’s Den, parking the car by the grassy area, and they make their way up the small mountain.
“So what are you gonna tell Wheaty?!” Morgan asks, trying to keep herself from slipping down the grassy hill.
Kate sighs, “I don’t know. Probably “Hey I’m gonna be leaving Hope County, I’m not sure how long I’m gonna be gone, it’s a family emergency and they need me, and Morgan because she’s family as well”. I don’t know something like that, or along the lines”.
“Aww you see me as family?!?” Morgan says in a sarcastic but also heartful kind of way.
Kate rolls her eyes, “Well duh, I’ve known you for over 10 years. We’ve traveled together”.
They go down the stair of the Wolf’s Den, the Whitetails being the first on their list to say their goodbyes even though they still have two months to do so.
They get to the bottom of the steps, and Kate almost walks into Wheaty.
“Hey!!” he says loudly, startled by their unexpected visitors.
“Hey Wheaty” Kate greets him with a smile.
“Morgan, Kate. How are you two doing?” he asks, in an awkward tone.
“We're doing great, but we unfortunately have some bad news” Morgan says, walking past him, and sits down on a chair.
“What’s the bad news?” he asks, looking back and forth at them.
Morgan raises her eyebrows at Kate, telling her to explain to him why they have bad news.
Kate clears her throat, “We uh. Unfortunately, we have to leave Hope County”.
Eli walks in as she says this.
“Leave Hope County?!?!” the bearded man asks loudly.
“Yeah, I got a call from my uncle, and there’s a family emergency, and they need mine, and Morgan’s help” Kate explains to them.
“What kind of emergency?” Eli asks, “If you don’t mind me asking”.
“It’s just my great aunt, she got into some trouble with some sketchy people. She made a few deals, and we have to help her out of it” Kate further explains.
“We’re gonna be leaving in a few months. Because that’s when the “deadline” expires, and we have to help her hold off it” Morgan adds.
They’re both great liars. No one. Not a single soul can know of the evil monsters in this world.
Vampires, Demons, Werewolves, Ghosts, Ghouls. That shit will only freak people out, and only a small handful of people can know, and hunt these monsters.
The people in Hope County will never know, or understand what Kate and Morgan do for a living.
What their families have been doing for generations. Saving people, hunting things, the family business.
It was a close one with John getting possessed, Kate was glad Castiel worked his angel magic, and wiped his memory of the whole thing.
One of the perks on being besties with an Angel of the Lord.
Kate clears her throat again, “November 2nd. That’s when we’re leaving for Jackson, then we’re going to Pennsylvania because that’s where she lives”.
Eli, and Wheaty look back and forth at the two huntresses.
“As much as we don’t want to leave, especially with the Cult terrorizing everyone” Morgan says.
“A lot of shit going on” Kate adds.
They stayed at the Wolf’s Den for another half an hour, and they moved on to all their other friends.
Luckily Nick Rye, Grace, Pastor Jerome and Mary May were all at the Spread Eagle.
You can cut the tension with a knife, after what happened several months early with the whole atonement bullshit, and Saleos.
Mary pretty much glared at Kate the whole time, Nick and Grace didn’t even look back to look at her, and Pastor Jerome just looked like he didn’t want to talk about what happened that day.
“Hey” Kate says, greeting the Holland Valley business owners, and residents.
“Hey” Mary says with a hint of anger in her voice.
Morgan takes the lead with this since none of them want to hear Kate out on this.
“Listen” she starts off, “Kate and I are leaving Hope County in a few months. Family emergency, we’re telling you guys because we don’t want you guys to think we just, up and left Montana out of selfishness”.
As Mary cleans glasses, “So after everything that has happened. You’re just gonna leave like the fucking Cult is gonna let you?!”.
Morgan and Kate both look at each other, then back at Mary.
“Oh wait. That’s right you can because you’re fucking dating John Seed” she yells angrily towards Kate.
Kate snaps back, “Okay first of all I didn’t even fucking know he was involved with that shit!!”.
“Bullshit!!!” Mary snaps, almost breaking a glass “You seriously didn’t even know about the Cult, or the atonements?. Or any of that shit?”.
“What John did to me was un-fucking-forgiveable” Nick says, “I’m surpised you defended him, and was still dating him after all that. Hell I don’t know why you even got with him in the first place”.
Nick doesn’t even look back at them when he says this, not even turning his head in the slightest.
“I broke things off with John shortly after that. I never spoke to him after all of that” she defends herself but it wasn’t good enough.
“That still doesn’t make things any better Kate!!” Mary adds, “I don’t know if you’re blind, or just stupid for defending that man. After what him and his family have done to all of us, and you still justify his actions”.
“I’m starting to think you two leaving is for your own selfishness” Grace says, not looking back at them.
Pastor Jerome turns to them, and says “Some of us can forgive you, but we won’t forget. We won’t forget the pain the Seeds have done to us all. The wrath, pain and sorrow they put on all of us will be justified”.
Kate and Morgan turn around, and are about to leave the bar. Kate’s surprised Jeorme didn’t bring up her citing an exorcism during her atonement.
Mary mutters as she’s cleaning glasses, “I thought you would be like your mother when I first met her. But turns out you're both the same”.
Kate stops, and turns to her, “What did you say?!?. My mother?!?”.
She walks up to the counter, “What do you mean “I would be like my mother?”.”
“Mandy, or should I say Mother Amanda. She was a part of the Cult, she was The Mother, Joseph picked her. They were the Mother and Father of Eden’s Gate” Mary says, “That was 6-7 years ago”.
“Bullshit!!” Kate yells, Morgan tries to hold her back, “My mother would never be a part of a fucking Cult. Be a goddamn peggie?!. Fuck no!!”.
Mary scoffs, “She betrayed us, she betrayed the Cult, and look what happened to her. Joseph had some of his followers kill her”.
Kate's voice starts to tremble, and takes a deep breath “Lies. all fucking lies!!!. She wouldn’t let a bunch of inbred hillbilly motherfuckers kill her”.
Morgan practically drags Kate out of the bar, and back to their car.
“Kate, you have to calm down!!!” Morgan tells her.
Pacing, aggressively scratching her head, “That’s all bullshit. My mom would never join the fucking Cult. I know she’s not dead, I know it. My uncle Brent said he needed her help as well with the whole thing with Aunt Flora”.
“Okay. Kate you need to relax. Let’s go home, and you can sleep for a bit. Then we can tell the others later”.
Morgan puts Kate in the passenger side, and drives them home.
Kate goes into her room, and tries to sleep for a bit.
1:30 in the afternoon, and she still has a lot more people to tell about her departure in a few months.
Tossing and turning in her midday nap. She had a very eerie about an old enemy demon that at one time needed to harvest her soul because she was, or she still is the true vessel to this particular demon.
Lilith the first demon to be created by Lucifer himself.
That bitch demon that her cousin Sam had killed several years earlier, she was resurrected by Crowley, or Alister, or Asmodeus one of them demon fuckers brought her back, along with Abaddon.
-The dream-
Unable to sleep even her own dream, or should I say nightmare, Kate has a hard time sleeping.
“Hello Katella” a female voice says.
Kate wakes up, sitting up in her bed, and sees Lilith.
“What do you want?!?” she asks, angrily. Narrowing her eyes at the demon.
“You already know what I want” she says, walking towards her, and sitting at the edge of her bed.
“And you already know the answer” she replies, “It will always be no”.
“I will get you to say yes” she replies in a threatening tone.
Kate scoffs, rolling her eyes “I won’t let you harvest my soul, my body. I won’t let you. No matter what you do”.
Lilith stands up, walking in front of the bed, and says.
“I know how much you love your sister. Paige. Her and Abaddon are basically counterparts, just like how Sam and Lucifer, Dean and Michael. You and I”.
Kate stands up from her bed, “Paige will never let Abaddon harvest her soul, and I won’t let you. The whole thing with Sam, Dean, Lucifer and Michael was a different story”.
Lilith’s eyes turn white, “I will harvest your soul. No matter what. You’re my other half, my true vessel.”
“You need my consent to harvest my soul. You can stay in that meatsuit of yours”.
Lilith scoffs, walking towards her “I don’t need your consent. I can just harvest your soul. Just like any other demon”.
“Not while I’m around” a male voice says, “Stay away from my human”.
Lilith stops, and turns around. Sees Archangel Gabriel.
She groans in annoyance, rolling her eyes “Of course. One of Heaven’s feathery boys”.
Even though this is all a dream, Kate is relieved that her Trickster Archangel best friend is here.
He narrows his eyes at the demon, “As Kate’s guardian Angel. I won’t let you anywhere near her pure, good soul”.
Lilith laughs softly, “And what are you gonna do about it?!?. By the way how was being tortured by Asmodeus?”.
She smirks, and that was a huge mistake the first demon ever to be created has ever said.
“He fed off of my grace for years!!” he yells, his eyes turning purplish white.
He banishes Lilith away with a bright light. Kate covers her eyes from the blinding light of the Archangel.
Turning back to face the Archangel, he stares at her with those whiskey color eyes.
They stare at each other, “Gabriel?” she whispers.
He slowly approaches her, placing his hand on her cheek. Kate practically melts to his touch.
Sighing softly, closing her eyes. The heat radiating off this angel is very comforting.
Gabriel slowly pulls her closer to him, and-
-end of dream-
Kate wakes up from her very good dream, she’s been having it for a couple weeks now.
It always ends the same way. Gabriel banishing Lilith to Hell probably, caresses her cheek, and pulls her in closer to him.
Probably to kiss her, because Gabe is her guardian Angel, Michael being Paige’s and her mothers is unknown probably Raphael.
That dream is probably telling her something, a sign or some kind of foreshadowing.
Later that day, her and Morgan leave to hang out with their group of friends. 3:30pm.
They all go to the campsite they went to several months earlier when Kate first met Wheaty.
“You guys are leaving?!?” Sarah asks.
Kate and Morgan nod their heads, “Yeah, we are”.
“How are you guys gonna get out?!” Ivan asks.
“We’re not sure yet” Morgan answers.
“We’re driving out. Obviously” Kate says.
They all sit around an unlit bonfire, chatting. Going over their two friends that are leaving. As they're talking, a Cult truck stops near their campsite.
4 peggies come out, all male, rifles in hands. They approach the group of young adults.
“Kate Winchester!!” one of them calls out.
The group of friends turn to Kate, except Morgan her eyes are locked on the 4 peggies.
“What do you want?!?” she asks.
“John wants you to go by the church. Now” another peggie answers.
Kate and Morgan turn to each other.
She gets up, and they guide her to their truck, climbing into the backseat, and they drive out of the Whitetails, and back to Holland Valley.
Dropping her off in front of Falls End church.
Unsure what John wants, or what he wants to talk about.
She walks inside, and sees John with his back to her, standing in front of the panel.
Having flashbacks to 5 in half months ago, when all that shit happened.
“Hey John” she says, her voice echoing.
He turns around, a huge smile on his face.
“Hello Katie” he says, with enthusiasm, and excitement in his voice.
She walks towards him, swinging her hands at her sides, clapping them.
“Soo” she says, “Why did you call me here?”.
He sighs loudly, echoing throughout the church.
“It’s a surprise” he says with a hint of malice in his voice.
Kate raises her eyebrows at him, “Really?. Am I gonna like it?!?”.
John chuckles at her cuteness, the innocence in her voice. How cute, naive and innocent she sounds.
“You’re gonna love it” he says with emphasis on the word love.
“Well I look forward to seeing it” she replies, stepping closer to him.
He stares at her with a smirk, “Well to give you a few hints, it might ring a bell, and it’s gonna be very engaging”.
Kate awkwardly chuckles at him, and John notices something is off about her.
“Darlin’. What’s wrong?” he asks, moving her hair away from her face.
Stammering over her words, trying to hold back tears.
“Its-It’s nothing” she lies, John catches on.
“Don’t lie to me sweetheart. What’s wrong?” he places his hand on the back of her head.
She looks down at the ground, and before she could tell him. Her phone rings, she pulls it out, and sees her sister's name.
Her eyes widened at her phone screen, she looks up at John.
“I’m sorry I really need to take this” she tells him. He nods his head.
She steps away, standing near the front door of the Falls End church, and answers her phone.
“Hey!” she says into her phone.
Paige on the other end, sounding like she just woke up.
“You called, and gave me a very lecural voicemail” she says in a groggily voice, “What’s so important?”.
“Uncle Brent called me. Him, aunt Laura, our cousins, and Barbara need our help” she explains to her older sister.
“For what?!” she asks, voice still groggily.
“Our great aunt Flora made a deal with a demon, and she needs our help” she whispers, so that John can’t hear her.
“Okay. So we head back to Jackson, and leave when?” she asks.
“November 2nd. That’s when we leave to Philly” she whispers to her.
Paige sighs, “Okay. I’ll call Brent, and get more details. But we’re gonna talk out our issues, and you’re gonna have to leave school”.
“Well I graduated, and have my Master of Science degree in Psychology” she tells her, “So me leaving school won’t be necessary”.
They hang up, and Kate turns back to John who is leaning against the panel. His head tilted to the side. Smirk on his face.
“Sorry that was my sister” she tells him.
He can still see the sadness, and worried in her eyes.
“Katie, darlin’. Answer my questions, what’s wrong?.
She sighs, looking down at the floor, “I have to leave Hope County”.
The expression on his face changes from happy to sadness mixed with anger.
“No. No you can’t leave me” he tells her, his voice getting upset, “Why are you leaving me?!?”.
“I don’t want to. My family needs me” she further explains to him, “They need my help. A family member is in deep trouble with some sketchy people”.
John shakes his head, tears starting to form in his eyes, “You can’t leave. I love you, I need you” his voice going hoarse.
“You mean a lot to me. You changed me Kate. I love you, I need you here with me”.
Kate starts to cry, her eyes going red. “I love you too. I can’t leave my family hanging. I’ll come back when we return from Pennsylvania. I have never loved, or cared for anyone before. You’re my first real boyfriend, you took my virginity. Everything we’ve done and been through was all real”.
John tries to smile through his tears. He loves Kate, he really does love her.
He never wanted her to go through any pain. He wants her to stay in Hope County with him.
But he knows how family oriented she is, and that’s why he loves her. He wants to have a family with her. Grow old together in the ranch house, or maybe move to the West Coast, and start their family.
The possibilities are endless for them, but he unfortunately has to accept that she has to leave in a few months, and he wants to spend every moment with her.
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