A Whole New World

Dean and Sam led a long, tragic life, one consisting mostly of two people just trying to survive; and they did. For a long time they fought the good fight and they fought it well. They won time and time again until they won more times than they themselves can count. But in the end everyone dies.

And no-one know this more than Death.

When the day of Sam and Dean Winchester's deaths finally come to pass for the last time Billie, the former Reaper turned new Death, is really. She has a plan, a plan that will make sure that the Winchester boys will not be able to rise again from the ashes. She knows that if they are sent to Heaven (or even Hell for that matter – though she is Death, not cruel) they could just be brought back to life like all the other times they both have died. So she chooses the third option that is at her disposal.

Dean is standing over his own dead body while he watches the events unfold without him. Sam stopped breathing a few minutes before him-self and now the two of them watch as both Castiel and Jack morn their passing.

Jack was taking it the hardest, and if Dean was going to be honest with him-self, he was not surprised. He knew that Jack looked up to them like Fathers and he was taking their deaths hard. He was just a kid after all. An innocent. Dean still kicked himself for not seeing it sooner. He really hoped that the kid would be okay.

"Cas will look after him"

Dean turned at the sound of Sam's voice, who had moved up next to him while he was distracted.

"I know"

At that moment time seemed to slow way down. Each second that passed started to feel like an hour, until the passage of time could not be distinguished.

"Hello Boys"

"Billie", Dean acknowledged as they turned around to face her. She was standing at the far side of the room and started slowing walk toward them.

"I hope that you boys are ready, because I am not taking no for an answer. As you both know well by now, 'what's dead should stay dead.'" Bill intoned to them.

"We understand", Sam said earnestly. "We really do, and we swear no tricks or gimmicks, or deals this time. We're okay with staying dead for good this time"

Billy gave them a long hard look before replying. "I believe you," she said, "but the question is will your friends? Would you be able to tell me with certainty that they will try not to bring you back again?" The mentioning of the rest of their family brought their attention back to the time frozen forms of Cas and Jack.

Jack was kneeling between both of their unmoving forms still holding Dean's hand and in the other clutching onto Castiel's trenchcoat. At the same time Cas was standing over Jack in a defensive manner with his hand resting on Jack's shoulder protectively. While the sight warmed their hearts, they also knew that Billie was right.

There was a good chance that even though Castiel had promise to not interfere in the event of their deaths he may or may not intend to keep that promise. There was also the kid. No one knew if he had the power to bring people back from the dead or not. But there was no doubt in their minds that after Jack recovered from his grief that he would try.

Now understanding Billy's dilemma, Dean asked her, "So what is your plan exactly? I assume that since you brought it up that in a match of wills Jack would be able to overpower you, or at the very least it's what you're worried about."

"I'm not so sure, Dean" Sam said, catching up on the former Reapers problem. "I don't think it's about whether Jack can overpower her or not. It's about whether he is strong enough to break us out of Heaven isn't it?" Sam asked.

"Sam is of course correct," Billie agreed, "It's not so much a question of who would overpower who at this point, but of would he break into what is left of Heaven to get the two of you back? Because I have no doubt that he has the power to do so if he so wished.

"But do not be fooled into a false sense of security." Billie warned. "There is a 3rd option that I can use at my disposal."

With a quick look at each other, Sam asked, "And what exactly would be option number 3?

After Billy explained her plan, they had to agree that it was a good idea. Instead of sending them to Heaven (or Hell to Dean's great relief) she was sending them to an alternate Earth in an alternate universe. There Billie explained that there was no way that any Angel or Nephilim, no matter how powerful, would be able to bring them back to their Earth.

But that didn't mean they still didn't have questions of their own.

Dean, "Wait, when you say you'll send us to an alternate universe, what do you mean exactly?"

"And how can you be certain that Jack would not be able to fine us and bring us back to this one?" Sam butted in.

"One, I never said that your Nephilim wouldn't be able to find you in your new reality, just that he would be powerless to bring you back. I myself will also be powerless to reveal myself to you or to change your situation until the two of die again in your next life. At which point I would then be able to take your souls to be reincarnated again if that is your wish."

"So you'll still be able to claim our souls from this other universe? But I thought you said that there are no supernatural creatures where you're sending us?" Sam asked a bit confused.

"Yes, you are right Sam, but there is still death, and wherever there is death there is me." Billie explained patiently.

"I just have one finally question before we agree," Dean said. "Will we still be together, Sam and I? Will we still be brothers?"

Billie took a second to look the brothers over before answering with a slight curve of her lips, "I just had a feeling that one of you would ask that question. And the answer is I don't know if you will still be brothers, or even related. But let me finish!" she said as she raised a finger at them to stay silent. "As I was saying, I don't know how the two of you will know each other in your next life, but I can promise that you will be together."

"But how can you be so sure?"

"Well Sam, I'll be tying your souls to one another. That way wherever one of you goes the other can follow." Billy reassured. "That said, it does not mean that when one of you dies in your new life that the other will automatically die as well. The surviving brother will live out the remainder of their life, while the other has the option to either move on or to wait for the other with myself." Then with all that said and done the brothers gave her twin nods of understanding and agreement.

4

Dean Colt woke up much like he did every morning since he started his new life; warm, comfortable, and excided to start a new day. Man he could get use to this, and if Dean was being honest, he was. Though for some reason he had the vague impression that life was not always so good, but he had no idea why. This house was the only place he and his small family have ever lived in, so why does he remember another house and a fire? Why does he remember a stranger as his father? And why is this "Daddy" handing him his brother Samuel as a baby and telling him to run? 'None of this can be right', Dean thought, 'Sam is my twin brother and we are not babies. It must have just been a dream'.

A slight noise of dishes clacking together and the fragrant smell of meat cooking from the kitchen then got his attention.

'Mom's up early', he thought with a smile, 'that's good. That means she must be feeling better.'

In all honestly he was glade their mother was feeling better. It had seemed for a little while that she was having trouble sleeping lately and would take to the grow-up juice, which would then make her really unhappy and sometimes sick in the mornings. She wasn't Mary Winchester by any stretch, but she was their mother and Dean knew that she loved them.

As far as Mary Winchester goes, neither of the twins knew where they got the idea for her. She was just there daydream 'Mommy' when their real Mommy was too busy to play with them. Sam being the smarty-pants he is said that she must be the mom version of Mary Poppins.

7

Dean woke-up early on a lazy Saturday morning looking over to the other side of the room where Sam rolled over to face him. "Good Morning", Sam grumbled as he too woke-up. "Good Morning Sam", Dean replied more coherently.

"Are you really for today?" Sam asked.

"Hmf, no.. Ugh, it's going to be a long day."

Today after all is what was known in the Colt Family as "Inspection Day". "Inspection Day" only came around once every few months, but without fail it always seemed to give their mother anxiety. Dean and Sam really didn't understand why; it's not like it was CPS at the door. Not that they really would know first-hand but they did watch a lot of TV and seemed to have really good imaginations because they have both dreamed of another life in which they had to pack-up and run from CPS on occasion.

Instead it was a regular lawyer type man, in his early 30's that came to spend time with them for the day, and ask them a bunch of silly questions.

"How is school going?

What is your favorite class?

How is [insert latest of Mom's boyfriends] treating you?"

One time after one of his visits when they were 5, Sam asked if he was their Father. It turned out that his wasn't. In the end they weren't that surprised, but a strange feeling of disappointment came over them as a suppressed fantasy that their Father was watching over them was crushed.

Dean signed and decided to get up and help with the morning preparations, after all Mr. Wolfe would be arriving around lunch time and there was a lot cleaning that needed to get done before he arrived. The house was a mess as it was and he hated to see the pitying looks that Mr. Wolfe gave their Mother at the state of the house.

Katherine "Kate" Colt

Age: 24

Mother of: Dean and Samuel Colt

Ages: 7 years

Mr. Andrew Wolfe reviewed the file that he and his employer had on the young Colt family before his appointed visit with them. He always like to keep up with the family's wellbeing to better assess how the boys have being growing and maturing. And if he was being honest he was looking forward to seeing them again. The boys had just turned 7 and he was curious to see what topics in and out of school interested them these days.

He was also there to see how Ms. Colt has been doing and to make sure that she was still a component guardian to her children; which was of course the main reason his employer sends him on these trips to Kansas. After all, Mr. Wolfe rationalized, that was the main reason she was getting paid the money she was getting. The second reason was to buy her silence so she would not be tempted to tell the boys' father of their existence. Because the moment the father finds out about his children the money will stop coming. At that moment Ms. Colt would have bigger problems on her hands seeing as all this time she has been unemployed, living off of his employer's money.

He was not at all that surprised. His employer was giving them charitable amount, enough for the three of them to live on. Mr. Wolfe just wished that Ms. Colt made better choices in boyfriends and drank less. But alas, it was not his place to judge.. just to inform.

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Author's Note:

I updated this chapter to mend some grammar errors that were noted by some readers, as well as clean up the story plot a little.

I also would like to relieve some worries about the "Last name change" I decided to make in this story. I figured that it would be a little too convenient for the brother to have the same last name as their first life. But have no fear, I have a plan.

At this time I would like to give special Thanks to Clamityjane and their series "Puddle Jumping" for the inspiration for this fic.