"A mother thinks about her children day and night, even if they are not with her and will love them in a way they will never understand."
— Unknown.
Beth's heart was pounding in her chest as Meg and three other demons appeared in the kitchen. She raised her head and met Meg's gaze head on.
"Hello Meg," Beth greeted dryly.
"Bethany, it's wonderful to see you again!" Meg exclaimed, over-enthusiastically. "I would say we're here to play, but unfortunately, this is purely business."
"I don't care what it is. I'm not gonna let any of you touch my baby." Beth moved her head from side to side, barely wincing as her neck cracked. Her eyes glowed even brighter as Meg took a threatening step forward.
"Father may have put out an order to try and get your little, wriggling sack of bones, but if we were told if we couldn't get to your spawn, we were to get you instead. You're a Nephilim too, aren't ya?"
The weight in Beth's chest lightened the slightest bit at Meg's words. If Beth went with them, they'd leave Kat alone and that was the only thing Beth wanted most in the world. But even so, she was a Winchester and everyone knew that the Winchester's never made anything easy for anyone.
"Okay. I'll go with you, if you promise to never go after my child again," Beth said firmly, the heavenly fire fading from her eyes.
"Yeah, yeah. Little Katharine won't have to worry about any more demons going after her," Meg replied, waving her hand dismissively. "Let's go."
Beth held her hand up and the demons immediately froze on the spot. "I never said I was gonna come quietly. When have you ever known a Winchester to do things easily?"
When Meg went to attack her, Beth's eyes lit up and she abruptly unleashed her angelic side in a ferocious burst of grace that blinded that the demons and tore through the house with ease, sending an explosion of wood and glass and debris in every direction. The last thing Beth heard before she passed out, was the pained screams of the demons and a very familiar, very chilling laugh that chased her into unconsciousness.
(3 days later)
Beth's eyelids fluttered open and she found herself staring up at a plain white ceiling through blurry eyes. It took a few seconds for her vision to clear but when it did, she turned her head to the side and met the cold stare of a very familiar man.
Beth shot into a sitting position, her head throbbing in protest at the sudden move. She roughly pushed her tangled hair behind her ears and glared up at him.
"Where am I?"
The angel was silent for a few seconds. "I would've thought you recognised this place. After all, you did spend a bit of time here not that long ago."
It suddenly hit Beth why the room was strangely familiar and she blinked in surprise. "The mansion."
"I must say, that little trick of yours was quite impressing. I've never seen a Nephilim survive using so much of their grace like that in one go. But then again, you Winchesters have always proved to be unusually resilient."
"I'm gonna take that as a compliment," Beth snarked, raising a challenging eyebrow at him.
"You can take it however you wish," he replied smoothly as he took a step forward that brought him closer to her and sat down beside her. "I assume you know that now you're here, I cannot allow you to see your brother again… or your ex-angelic partner and your offspring."
Beth looked down, her heart clenching painfully. She turned her head to the left and met his surprisingly gentle eyes. "I know I can't. I gave myself over to your little minions so Kat can be free."
"If it's any consolation, I never would've hurt her if I had gotten hold of her," Lucifer stated. "I have no reason to, she's my niece, and she's Sam's niece too. She's family and whether you believe me or not, I take care of my family. And now, you're part of my family."
October 2014
Four years had passed since Beth had been taken by Lucifer. She'd spent the last four years training with him and a few of his other brothers and sisters before she'd been deemed capable enough to help Jonah train the new half-human and half-angel recruits Beth had helped lure out of hiding.
When she wasn't training the new recruits, or picking fights with some of the demons, she was sneaking away to watch her other family from afar. She liked just sitting up in a tree where they couldn't see her and watching Dean as he went about, giving out orders and showing the other humans how to handle their weapons or giving them some basic self-defence classes. She would watch Castiel, feeling saddened at the fact that he'd turned to drugs and alcohol to try and bury the pain of losing her.
Beth was there, hidden in the shadows, when Claire Novak was brought to the camp. It was late 2012 when Claire had been found by Dean on one of his supply runs, when the Winchester male figured out who she was and that she wasn't infected with the croatoan virus, he'd herded the blonde into the car and drove her back to the camp with him and the others.
It was actually Claire who had taken over the role of maternal figure in Kat's life. At first, Beth was furious—she was Kat's mother, and she should be the one cuddling Kat when she'd had a nightmare, or helping Kat learn to read. Then Beth had remembered that she gave that right up 4 years ago when she faked her death and willingly stayed with Lucifer even when she'd had to the chance to run. And Claire was great with Kat, she took care of Beth's only child without any fuss or hesitation, and it was clear she loved the little girl as much as everyone else did. There was no one else Beth would've trust to raise her daughter more than Claire.
Beth knew that Dean and Castiel loved Kat, but it was obvious that it hurt them to look at the little girl because she was the spitting image of Beth.
It was a couple of months after Kat's fourth birthday that Beth found herself following her older brother and daughter as Dean carried Kat through the camp to a garden hidden out of sight by a couple of cabins. She'd watched as Dean sat down and Kat clambered up onto his lap and talked to Beth's headstone briefly before watching eagerly as her uncle pulled a couple of photos out to show her.
Beth watched on with a sad smile, wishing she could just hug her daughter, at least once. Dean eventually climbed to his feet and picked Kat up, walking back towards the camp.
Seconds before Beth disappeared, Kat suddenly turned her head and looked right at her mom. The little girl smiled widely and raised a hand to wave. Beth panicked and quickly thought of Lucifer's mansion, disappearing from sight.