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SCENE 1
Dean and Sam are fighting the Leviathan, Edgar in Bobby's Junkyard. Edgar knocks away Deans gun then grabs Dean and throws him against a car. Dean's leg instantly breaks and cries out in agony. Sam runs up and punches Edgar in the face. Sam turns to Dean.
SAM
Dean now!
Dean is on the ground, but operates the controls for a hoist that's holding a car suspended in the air. Edgar smashes Sam's head with a wrench seconds before the car drops onto Edgar. Sam falls backward and gets knockout cold onto the ground. Dean pulls himself over to Sam.
DEAN
Sam.
Dean reaches over to Sam and grabs a hold of his shirt and shakes it a little in a desperate attempt to wake him.
Sammy? Hey, come on now come on, I'm the one with the broken leg you gotta carry me. Sam!
Dean holds his hand flat against Sam's chest. Sam is still unconscious. Dean then takes out his phone and calls his an ambulance. An ambulance picks Sam and Dean up and is now rushing past traffic with the sirens blaring in the night. Sam and Dean are on stretchers inside and a paramedic is examining Sam.
Sam, stay with me you hear?
The paramedic talks into his walkie-talkie attached to his shirt.
PARAMEDIC
Male, late twenties, head trauma, signs of increasing intracranial pressure.
Sam opens his eyes to see a hallucination of Lucifer.
HALLUCIFER
Hey, so maybe I'm not real. Nobody's perfect. And I'm not going anywhere Sam.
Sam closes his eyes and begins seizing
DEAN
Sam? Sammy?
PARAMEDIC
Yeah, he's seizing. Copy that. We're just pulling into Sioux Falls.
DEAN
Sioux Falls? Sioux Falls General? No, no, no. No, you gotta take us somewhere else, anywhere please.
PARAMEDIC
Yeah, okay buddy.
Dean knocks his head against the gurney in distress.
SCENE 2
Dean is waking up on a hospital bed looking up at bright lights. He's groggy and disoriented.
DOCTOR
Hold him down.
DEAN
Hey.
DOCTOR
One, two, set!
The Doctor snaps Dean's leg back into place. Dean lifts his body screaming in pain.
DEAN
ARRRRGH!
DOCTOR
Nurse!
The Doctor looks to Dean.
Just relax.
DEAN
Where am I?
DOCTOR
You're at the hospital.
DEAN
Which one?
DOCTOR
Sioux Falls General.
A nurse gives Dean a shot in his arm.
DEAN
Where's my brother? We gotta go.
Dean goes to get up but a nurse forces him down.
DOCTOR
He bashed his head quite seriously. He's gone up for an MRI.
DEAN
Okay I gotta go.
Dean tries once again to get up but the nurse forces him down harder on the bed. Dean then blacks out due to the drugs. Hours later Dean groggily wakes up in a single patient room.
No, no, no.
Dean pulls a drip out of his arm and tries to get up, but falls to the floor with a yell. His right leg is in a cast.
What?
Bobby enters the room wearing a suit.
BOBBY
You okay?
Dean looks at him as if he's looking at a ghost.
DEAN
Bobby, you're alive.
BOBBY
Of course I am. Why are you on the floor?
DEAN
They gave me morphine. A lot.
Bobby helps Dean off the floor and on to the bed.
Hey look a monster broke my leg. Oh wait…the house we thought you were dead.
BOBBY
Well I aint. Not yet. Where's Sam?
DEAN
Head scan I think.
A doctor walks into the room with a clipboard in his hand.
DOCTOR
Dean Winchester?
DEAN
Yeah?
DOCTOR
Is your brother Sam Winchester?
DEAN
Yeah, what's wrong? Is he okay?
DOCTOR
You should come with me.
Bobby hands Dean crutches and they follow the doctor down the hall. The doctor opens a single patient room where Sam is unconscious and hooked up to a bunch of different machines. Dean and Bobby go further into the room.
He's just sleeping right now because of the painkillers but I do want to warn you of what we found in the MRI.
Dean straightens up his body
DEAN
Okay, what did you find?
DOCTOR
The blow to your brother's head has caused major swelling in his cerebellum, which could possibly lead to major memory loss. And with the seizure on top of that-
DEAN
How major are we talking?
DOCTOR
It's honestly hard to say in a situation like this. He might not remember the last few days to maybe a couple of months. He honestly might not even remember his name, but those are all just possibilities. We won't know anything until he wakes up.
DEAN
But you're saying that he could be fine.
DOCTOR
Yes, but I sincerely doubt it.
DEAN
Well then you fix him!
DOCTOR
We're doing all we can.
DEAN
That's not acceptable.
Bobby could see that Dean was just going to get angrier so he intervenes.
BOBBY
Okay Dean that's enough.
Bobby sends an apologetic look towards the Doctor.
Could you give us a minute?
DOCTOR
Sure, I'll check up on him in a little bit.
The doctor leaves Sam's room.
DEAN
What the hell are we supposed to do?
BOBBY
What the doctor said, we wait until Sam wakes up and go from there.
SCENE 3
Sam remains unconscious on the bed. Dean is sitting next to him with his broken leg propped up on another chair, resting on a pillow. Bobby was out of the room fetching Dean and himself a cup of coffee from the cafeteria. Dean sees Sam beginning to wake up. Dean perks up and focuses his attention on Sam, nervous for what kind of state he'll be in. His worst fear is Sam not remembering whom his brother is.
DEAN
Sam? Sammy?
Sam slowly opens his eyes in confusion and looks around the room. He spots Dean next to him. He looks at him as well in confusion, which scares Dean.
SAM
Dean? What are you-
Sam grabs his head and grimaces. Dean sighs in relief. He knew who he was.
What the hell happened?
DEAN
You were hit pretty hard in the head.
SAM
What?
Bobby walks in the room with 2 cups of coffee. Sam's eyes widen when he see's Bobby come in.
B-Bobby? Bobby Singer?
DEAN
I know, I was shocked to see him too.
SAM
So if you and Bobby are here I guess Dad can't be too far behind.
Dean looks at Bobby in confusion.
BOBBY
Your Dad?
SAM
Well yeah, unless he just sent Bobby in his place, which no offense is random considering I haven't seen you in like 8 years.
Bobby looks at Dean concerned.
DEAN
Sam, what's the last thing you remember?
SAM
I was hanging out with Jessica in my dorm.
Sam notices the look of despair plastered on Dean and Bobby's face.
What?
DEAN
Umm Sam…
Dean searches for the right words. He clears his throat.
Sam I don't know how to tell you this but…Jessica died 7 years ago in a fire.
SAM
Dean that's a really sick joke.
BOBBY
He's not joking Sam.
SAM
No, that makes no sense. I was just with Jessica. She was helping me study for my LSAT exam tomorrow.
DEAN
No you weren't.
Bobby puts down the cups of coffee on a table and grabs the newspaper lying on the edge of the table. He hands the paper over to Sam.
BOBBY
Look at the date. It's October 2011 Sam.
Sam looks at the paper with panic.
DEAN
Last night you were hit in the head by a Leviathan, which is basically a shapeshifter that likes eating folks. You were knocked out cold.
SAM
That's impossible I told Dad I'd never hunt again.
DEAN
Yeah I remember that fight and then after Jessica died you came with me to help find Dad.
SAM
So then where is he now? Did you call him?
DEAN
No, because Dad died.
SAM
What? H-how?
DEAN
The demon that killed Mom got to him.
SAM
No-I never…never got to apologize for what I said to him. Wait what killed Jess?
DEAN
The same demon but your friend Brady did his handy work.
SAM
Brady? But he-he was the one to introduce me to Jess. How-
DEAN
Don't worry about it because we killed them both.
SAM
You defeated the thing that killed Mom?
DEAN
Yeah we did. Sam a lot has happened in the past 7 years.
SAM
But Jess and Dad.
Sam gets a lump in his throat.
DEAN
I know that it's a lot to take in but we need you buddy.
SAM
Need? For what?
DEAN
To take down the Leviathans.
Sam scoffs.
SAM
You've got to be kidding me. I just found out my girlfriend and father is dead and you want me to go on some stupid hunt with you?
DEAN
Sam this is not just your ordinary hunt. We're about to enter a war with these monsters.
SAM
I said no Dean!
Bobby speaks up.
BOBBY
Okay, Dean I think we should let Sam relax.
Bobby hands over Dean's crutches and they leave the room. They walk a few paces outside of Sam's room before Dean stops. Bobby leans his body against the wall.
DEAN
What the hell are we supposed to do with him? We can't just sit around wringing our hands until he gets his memory back. We have a major monster problem on our hands. And with Cas gone…
Dean sighs. Bobby could see that Dean was getting worked up.
BOBBY
Look, we take him home and try our best to explain everything to him but if he doesn't want any part of it then we have to respect that.
DEAN
I just don't get it. Before, after Jessica died Sam was gun hoe about getting back into the hunting business.
BOBBY
Yeah but that was when he knew that Jessica's killer was still out there. Then when you found your dad you all went on the search for Azazel. After your daddy died you made a deal with a crossroad demon so then he spent the year trying to either find a cure or kill Lilith.
DEAN
What are you trying to say?
BOBBY
Sam always hated hunting. If it weren't for revenge or trying his best to save you he would've left a long time ago. After you went to hell, Sam was corrupted by the life and there was no going back.
DEAN
Now he has no motivation to get back in the life.
BOBBY
Exactly. Now he's just a college boy that lost his girlfriend and his father.
DEAN
Right…so I reiterate, what do we do?
BOBBY
Sam is no different than your leg people heal on a curve.
DEAN
Not diff-Bobby I get this thing off in 6 weeks I'm golden, Sam's not a curve he's a fricken time bomb.
BOBBY
Hey what you see is what you get. Maybe he'll even surprise you.
DEAN
Yeah we'll see.
SCENE 4
Two days later Bobby is wheeling Sam out to the impala in the parking lot. Dean is already sitting in the passenger seat with his crutches in the backseat. Bobby opens the backseat for Sam to slide in. Sam closes the car door.
SAM
I can't believe Dad let you keep the Impala. I always thought he's take this car down to his grave.
DEAN
I guess he wanted to let his legacy live on with the car.
SAM
Well I got you say you kept the car in pretty good shape. Dad would be proud.
DEAN
Thanks Sammy.
Bobby gets in the drivers seat.
SAM
Sammy? You know Sammy is a-
DEAN
Chubby twelve year old?
SAM
How did you know I was going to say that?
Dean smiles.
DEAN
Lucky guess.
Bobby drives out of the parking lot and to Rufus's Cabin.
SAM
So what's future or I mean present me like?
DEAN
Well for starters he doesn't mind it when I call him Sammy.
Bobby smirks.
No but you're pretty much the same accept maybe a little different.
SAM
Well that surely clears things up.
BOBBY
You're definitely wiser.
SAM
Am I happy?
Dean and Bobby don't answer.
I'll take that as a no. Great.
Sam sinks down in his seat.
DEAN
It's complicated. We've been through a lot in the past 7 years and there have been a lot of bumps in the road for us.
SAM
Such as?
DEAN
Well for one you were addicted to demon blood.
SAM
What!
DEAN
Don't worry your good now but that's just a small taste of what's happened in the past couple of years. If it makes you feel better I've been to Hell.
SAM
Not so much.
The rest of the car ride was silent. Bobby pulls up to the house and grabs Dean's crutches in the backseat and hands them to Dean. Sam has made his way into Rufus's Cabin.
DEAN
Smart of you to use Rufus's Cabin.
BOBBY
The old bastard would've hated it if he knew we were staying here.
DEAN
So what we're honoring the man?
BOBBY
Precisely.
He gives off a sly grin. Sam is standing in the middle of the foyer starting at a wall.
DEAN
Sam? Sammy?
Sam doesn't respond and is in a trance. Dean yells louder.
Sam!
Sam looks back at while simultaneously pressing on his hand scar. Dean notices.
Did you just have a hallucination?
SAM
What? Well I-He was standing right over there talking to me. Who was he?
DEAN
Lucifer.
SAM
As in the devil?!
DEAN
But when you touched your hand he disappeared right?
SAM
Yeah but how did I-
DEAN
Because some of your memory is coming back. This is good.
SAM
How is me seeing Lucifer good?
DEAN
Well that part isn't but we can deal with that. You just have to ignore him and remember that he's not real.
Sam nods.
BOBBY
Why don't we sit and talk about everything you've missed. Maybe something will jog your memory.
Bobby and Dean spend the rest of the day going over every detail over the past 7 years. Sam is shocked to all that has changed, all the people they saved and all the people that have died. Sam is floored on the couch. Dean is next to him with his broken leg propped up on a chair. Bobby was sitting in a chair across from Sam.
DEAN
Well that's our skinny. How are you holding up?
SAM
I-I just can't believe it.
Sam runs his hands through his hair.
I just want to wake up with Jess and pretend this was all a dream.
BOBBY
Look I know that it sounds like a lot of bad but it wasn't all bad. You two boys have gotten closer than ever. You look out for each other.
SAM
Yeah I guess with Dad dead you have no one else to gang up on me with. If memory serves me right, you and Dad told me to leave and never come back.
DEAN
Sam that was a long time ago.
SAM
Yeah well not for me. Why do you think I left for school?
DEAN
To get away from Dad.
SAM
And you.
Dean's heart breaks.
Both of you dragged me in the hunting business for years and I couldn't wait to go to college to escape your obsession to find the thing that killed mom. And then you come and take me away from college for a stupid hunt and my girlfriend ends up burning on the ceiling because of your demons! I want no part of this.
Sam gets off the couch and walks towards the front door.
DEAN
Where are you going?
SAM
I'm getting out of here and going back to school.
DEAN
How?
Sam stops. Dean hobbles his way off the couch and over to Sam.
I am sorry for the past and for Jess and everything bad that has happened in your life. You can't make me feel worse than I already do, but you have to understand that things are different now. We are different. We're past all of this.
SAM
But I'm not Dean. This is all still very fresh to me and I hate you for it. Everyone I love is gone and to tope it all off I'm seeing Lucifer for Christ sakes. I'm surprised I haven't killed myself.
Bobby stands.
BOBBY
You're stronger than that boy.
SAM
I'm not so sure.
Sam walks out of Rufus's Cabin.
SCENE 5
Sam is sitting at a bar alone going on his 4th beer, needless to say he was a little tipsy. He glances away as a few rowdy men come into the bar. When he looks back in front of him he sees Jessica, alive, sitting in the seat across from him. Shocked he almost chokes on his own saliva.
JESSICA
Hey Sam.
SAM
Jess? They told me you were-
JESSICA
Dead? I am, but I came back for you.
Jessica touches Sam's hand. He feels her; she has to be real right?
What's the matter?
SAM
Nothing. Why are you here?
JESSICA
To warn you. To tell you how I really died.
SAM
Dean said the demon that killed my mom killed you.
Jessica laughs.
JESSICA
How does that make any sense? Why would the demon give a crap about me? Dean's lying to you Sam.
SAM
But why would he lie?
JESSICA
Because he was the one who killed me.
SAM
No, Dean wouldn't do that.
JESSICA
Have you forgotten that your brother has some serious codependency issues? He killed me so that you would get back into the life. He didn't need you on that hunt in Jericho; he just didn't want to be alone.
Sam doesn't respond. He's trying to think it over and make sense of everything Jessica has said.
You know that it all makes sense.
SAM
But wouldn't-
JESSICA
Seriously? Bobby's a drunk. Not exactly the poster child for a mild mannered person.
Sam speaks quietly.
SAM
So what do I do?
JESSICA
Come with me. We can be together forever.
SAM
But how?
Jessica reaches for a gun in her lap and places it on the table.
You want me to kill myself?
JESSICA
It'll be painless. We can spend eternity together.
SAM
Jess I-
JESSICA
What else do you have to live for? I'm gone, your Dad's gone and Dean is a whiny psychopath. Why would you want to stay here?
Sam leans back in his chair.
SAM
This can't be real.
JESSICA
You're not happy Sam, you never have been, except when you were with me. Don't you want that again? Away from all of this?
Sam looks at her with tears in his eyes. Sam can't help but to agree with everything Jessica is saying. She always made things so clear and simple to him. How could he deny her plea? Jessica gets p from the table and walks out to the parking lot and into the driver seat of the car Sam stole to get to the bar. Sam follows her and sits on the passenger side.
SCENE 6
Dean is leaning on the wall with his phone to his ear. Sam's number keeps going straight to voicemail.
DEAN
Dammit!
Bobby walks over to him.
BOBBY
Still no answer? Maybe he doesn't know how to use it. The technology is a different now.
DEAN
Oh please that kid lives for technology. I'm worried Bobby.
BOBBY
Yea, I'm-I'm worried too but humor me for a second. How are you?
DEAN
Who cares? Don't you think our mailbox is a little full right now? I'm fine.
BOBBY
Of course. Yeah. You just lost one of the best friends you ever had, your brother's in the bell jar, and purgatory's most wanted are surfing the sewer lines, but yeah, I get it. You're-You're fine.
DEAN
Good.
BOBBY
Course, if at any time you want to decide that's utter horse crap, I'll be where I always am. Right here.
DEAN
What, you want to do couples yoga or do you want to get back to finding Sam?
BOBBY
Shut up. Idgit.
Dean hides a quick smile from Bobby.
DEAN
Wait, I put a GPS in his phone.
Dean hobbles over to his computer and checks the tracking website monitoring Sam's phone.
He's on the move let's go.
BOBBY
And where the hell are you going?
DEAN
I'm going to find my brother.
BOBBY
With a broken leg?
Dean actually forgot for a second. He looks around and see's a power saw lying in the corner and grins at it slyly. Before he knew it he had it plugged in and roaring. Dean holds it over his cast.
DEAN
You're going down.
Dean saws off his cast. He gets together his things, limping in the process.
You stay here in case Sam comes back here.
BOBBY
Got it. Be careful.
Dean nods and then heads out to the car. He followed Sam's trail going 90mph the whole way, only about 10 minutes away from him. Dean notices that Sam's tracker marker stopped. He speeds up imagining what he could be doing. Jessica steps out of the stolen car and into Sam's old apartment where he lived with Jessica before she died. Sam follows and enters the apartment.
SAM
Why did you take me here?
JESSICA
Because this is the only place you were truly happy
Sam walks around the apartment and feels off.
SAM
Something's not right.
JESSICA
Or maybe for the first time everything is.
Jessica hands Sam the gun.
And it can be better.
Jessica places her hand on Sam's cheek. Sam leans on it with tears flowing down his face. He feels her lips touch his and for the first time since he woke up in that hospital everything seemed okay. Jessica pulls away,
Do it for me now, Sam.
Sam stares at the gun and then looks over at Jessica who is smiling at him. He smiles back at her Sam cocks the gun and points it at his heart and Sam closes his eyes. Dean bursts in the room almost falling over.
DEAN
Sam Stop!
Sam opens his eyes to see Dean breathing heavily looking scared. Then Sam notices that he's no longer in his old apartment, but an old abandoned factory. He looks over to where Jessica is who is just as shocked to see Dean as he is.
Sam, what are you doing?
Sam points the gun at Dean.
SAM
I know what you really did.
DEAN
What are you talking about?
SAM
You killed Jessica!
DEAN
No I didn't. Sam you're hallucinating. Whoever told you that is lying.
SAM
Jessica would never lie to me, but you have all my life.
DEAN
Jessica? Jess is dead Sam, she was burned alive. There's no way you're talking to her.
SAM
No she's right-
Sam turns to where she was standing and she's no longer there. He hears a male voice snickering and whips his head around to see Lucifer standing next to Dean, smiling at him. Sam looks horrified.
HALLUCIFER
You want to know the truth? You want to skip to the last page of the book. You know where to aim.
Lucifer makes a gun with his hands and aims it at his head making gunshot noises. Sam shoots him which does nothing. Dean jumps and puts his hands in front of him.
DEAN
Whoa! Whoa! This conversation doesn't require a weapons discharge!
Sam begins to breathe heavily and lowers his gun.
Look at me come on. You don't know what's real? Look man, I've been to Hell. Okay I know a thing about torture. Enough to know that it feels different. Than the pain of this-regular, stupid crappy this.
SAM
No, No. How can you know that for sure?
DEAN
Let me see your hand.
Dean reaches out his hand. Sam lifts his right hand.
No, no. The—the gimp hand! Let me see it.
HALLUCIFER
Smell you, Florence Nightingale.
Sam looks around at Lucifer. Dean grabs Sam's bandaged hand.
DEAN
Hey.
Dean shakes Sam's hand.
This is real. Not 7 years ago, not when we were kids; now I was with you when you cut it, I sewed it up! Look!
Dean squeezes Sam's bandaged left hand and grabs the barrel of the gun Sam is holding. Lucifer appears next to Dean and flickers.
HALLUCIFER
We've done more with pain.
Sam takes in a drawn breath and closes his eyes. He remembers getting woozy and falling in front of Castiel, cutting his hand on a piece of glass.
DEAN
This is different. Right? Then the crap that's tearing into your walnut? I'm different. Right?
Sam remembers Dean picking him up from Stanford. Painfully he see's Jessica burn on the ceiling. Then he see's Dean get dragged to hell by hellhounds. He then see's all of the great times in the impala Sam and Dean had. All of his memories come flooding back. Sam takes his hand away and Dean keeps Sam's gun.
SAM
Yeah I think so.
HALLUCIFER
You sure about that bunk buddy?
Sam is looking straight at Lucifer.
DEAN
Sam? Sam.
Sam presses his right thumb against his wound, drawing blood through his bandage. Lucifer flickers again.
HALLUCIFER
Doesn't mean anything.
DEAN
Hey I am your flesh and blood brother, okay? I'm the only one who can legitimately kick your ass in real time. You go away, we go you out Sammy.
HALLUCIFER
Sammy. Sammy.
Sam continues to pus his thumb against his wound.
Sammy, I'm the only one who can-
Lucifer flickers and then disappears.
DEAN
Believe in that! Believe me, okay? You gotta believe me. You gotta make it stone number one and build on it. You understand?
Sam nods.
SAM
Yeah. Yeah okay.
Sam nods again.
Dean, I remember. I remember everything.
DEAN
You do?
SAM
Yeah.
Dean grabs his brother and embraces him.
DEAN
Thank God.
Sam hugs back
SCENE 7
Dean and Sam are back at Rufus's Cabin. Dean and Sam are sitting on the couch and Bobby is sitting in a chair across from them.
BOBBY
So you remember everything?
SAM
Yeah it's weird. It's like one moment I couldn't remember past college and then all of a sudden it's like my brain opened the flood gates.
DEAN
What about Lucifer? Are you still seeing him?
SAM
Not for now, but I don't think he's gone for god. Don't worry Dean, I have him under control.
Sam presses his fingers on his wound in his palm. Sam winces at the pain.
BOBBY
Just making sure, Sam who killed Jessica?
Sam scoffs.
BOBBY
Just humor me,
SAM
Azazel put the hit out on Jess but Brady did the job.
Bobby signs in relief.
BOBBY
Good I'll get some aspirin for that head.
Bobby gets up to get Sam some medication. Dean turns to Sam.
DEAN
You sure you're okay?
SAM
Yeah, put my socks and shoes on the whole nine.
DEAN
Good.
Dean goes to get up from the couch but Sam places a hand on his knee gently forcing him back on the couch.
SAM
We need to talk. I remember everything from the past few days and I want you to know, that's not how I feel.
DEAN
Maybe not now but it was 7 years ago.
SAM
But it wasn't. sure I was mad at you and Dad when I left for college but I don't blame you for Jess's death.
DEAN
Was I really the reason you left for Stanford?
Sam sighs.
Wow.
SAM
You didn't let me speak.
DEAN
Save it Sam.
Dean gets up and walks outside. Sam follows.
SAM
Wait! Dean stop.
Dean stops at the porch and Sam is just outside the doorframe.
I did blame you that is at first. Both of you. Sometimes when I was a kid I couldn't see the difference between you and Dad.
Dean scoffs.
But it wasn't because you and Dad were so alike; it was because I didn't want to see the difference.
DEAN
What?
SAM
Going off to college meant leaving my big brother, which was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
Dean's face softens.
I didn't mean to hurt you or maybe I did. I want you to know that I appreciate everything you've done for me.
Dean nods and stares at the ground.
DEAN
What about the whole suicide thought process?
SAM
I was in a bad place. Lucifer was posing as Jess and made it seem as if that was my only option. It's not. Like you said we'll figure this whole Lucifer thing out. I'm not going anywhere Dean.
Dean slowly walks to Dean with his finger pointed at him firmly.
DEAN
You're not allowed to leave me. Cas is gone, Leviathans are everywhere, I can't loose you too. Understand me?
Sam nods.
Good.
Dean puts his hands in his pocket.
You hungry? I don't know about you but I'm craving some pie.
Sam smiles.
SAM
Starving.
THE END