I know that many enjoyed the first episode of the new season, and I'm sure that there will be many twists and turns to come in the future, but this is the road I would have taken.
However as I don't own Sam, Dean, the Impala or anything else, I wrote this just to satisfy myself.
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A big thank you to all who have read and reviewed my other stories.
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Sam Winchester, Brother.
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Quote from "Dead In The Water. episode 1.03
SAM:- "Closure? What closure? People don't just disappear, Dean. Other people just stop looking for them!"
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Sam made a three-hundred and eighty degree turn.
The laboratory was empty. He was the last man standing.
His brother had disappeared and for the third time in his life Sam found himself alone.
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He vividly remembered the other times; the Pit of Despair that he had fallen into; its black walls closing in on him, inching nearer and nearer day by day until all that remained in his mind was the search for Dean, his more-than-brother, his soul-mate, or so it had been intimated by Ash, in his road-house heaven.
Sam allowed the roaring tide of feeling to wash over him; his strong emotions were an integral part of his essence, so he gave them free rein, not bothering to halt the tears that welled up in his eyes.
He had felt and shed tears for so many of the victims of evil; many of them had been frightened children, each with heart-breaking stories of their own, miserably trying to remain near to loved ones in their ghostly form; afraid to move on into the light.
He had brought death down on many just by existing; his Mom, Jess, Dean too, for that matter, even although he would never have wanted Dean to sell his soul for him.
He couldn't fault his brother however, for he knew he would have done the same for him. He thought back to the words he had spoken after Cold Oak:-"You're my big brother. There's NOTHING I wouldn't do for you."
Those words were as true today as they had been then, perhaps even truer because of the obstacles they'd had to overcome..
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Sam remained immobile until the tears had dried on his face and his emotions had run full course.
The crying was over; now it was time to go get his brother back from wherever he had been magicked to.
Sam was "freaky smart" as Dean always called him, even if it didn't take a genius to imagine where Dean had been spirited off to. The most probable place was Purgatory itself.
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He was on his own, it was true, but then hadn't it always been that way, except for Dean.
It had always come down to him and Dean; the others had never really understood what he and his brother shared. Hell, at times they didn't even understand it themselves but it was there, as real as anything else around them.
He was thirty years of age now and twenty seven of them had been spent in symbiosis with Dean; although he honestly wasn't sure how to calculate his age any more. Did the hundred and eighty years in the cage get counted or not?
Did it really matter?
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Sam took one last look around him, walked out of the room and pushed through the main doors into the open air.
He had let his emotions exhaust themselves back in that room and that's where they would remain!
Now he was Sam Winchester- Hunter and his latest hunt was his most important one. The hunt for his brother!
First stop, the Campbell library; the place where they had deposited most of the books they had salvaged from Bobby's.
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Sam remembered how obsessed John had been, and how he had hated that obsession with all his being, wanting nothing more than to be normal, like his ever-changing school-mates.
If he ever met up with John again he would be more forgiving with what his father's choices had been.
Sam certainly wasn't in the same situation. He didn't have two sons to worry about, but as to the obsession part; he could understand that very well indeed.
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The Impala stood there waiting for him, his home; no their home, his and Dean's.
Dean had put her away when Sam had been in the Cage, but for him she would be his constant companion until he got back the other half of his soul; and make no mistake, he would!
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Rufus' cabin would be his base.
No more motel rooms for him. He would need to reunite all his information in one place.
First thing off he would have to verify his theory of Dean being in Purgatory, and for that he would have to to find someone who could get that information for him.
He would start with the Alpha vampire. He had killed an amped up Gordon Walker with nothing else but a length of wire; after that vamps had held no terror for him, neither would the Alpha!
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He was on the search for his brother and God help any who stood in his way.
He'd had enough of being used as a chew-ball for the supernatural fuglies out there. They had made him who he was; Sam Winchester, the demon-blood kid. But maybe, just maybe they had made a big mistake.
He hadn't thought about his demon powers since he had jumped into the Cage with Lucifer.
Heck, he didn't even know if he still had them; if they had disappeared or were only lying dormant inside him. He would have to investigate, for he was ready to put them back on-line if need be, to get his brother back.
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One month later Sam Winchester stood on the brink of the dark deep pit that had just opened in the forest floor.
He had researched, cajoled, threatened even tortured to get information about Purgatory, and his one track mind-search had paid off.
Dean was there. He had gotten his confirmation.
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The mouth of Purgatory had opened to the words of his spell.
He let himself fall in, much as he had when he had cast his body down into the Cage, but that was the only similarity.
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"Dean, I'm coming!" were the words torn from his throat as he fell, the adrenaline pumping through his veins.
When he found his brother they would again stand side by side and fight their way out of Purgatory, or not, but whatever happened they would go down together.
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The opening closed behind him, the leaf-carpeted ground returning to its previous appearance.
The trees themselves seemed to rustle a sigh of relief. Things were as they should be!
Sam Winchester had gone to Purgatory to search for his brother!
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