AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is episode 2 in the series "The Song Remains the Same". A summary of the story so far will be given at the beginning of this episode. For the full story to date, please read the pilot episode "I Can Never Go Home".
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The inspiration for this episode, much of the imagery of the opening scene, and also some of the mechanical details with respect to the golem, I owe to the X-Files episode "Kaddish". I, of course, do not own the X-Files or any parts thereof any more than I own Supernatural or any parts thereof (though I'm prepared to pay good money for any parts of Sam and Dean that I can get my hands on). As always, I offer my apologies to the writers and creators of both Supernatural and the X-Files for my use and abuse of their original material.
THE ROAD SO FAR:
Amanda Winchester is dead and John is possessed by the yellow-eyed demon. Their son Dean has dropped out of college, abandoned his old life, and taken to the road with the mysterious hunter, Sam Campbell. Sam is teaching Dean about the supernatural and, together, they have embarked on a quest to find and rescue John, and avenge the deaths of their mothers. But Sam is harbouring secrets: about his dark past, about his strange prophetic visions, and about his struggle against his powerful attraction to Dean.
NOW
Slough , Colorado
It had been raining earlier, but now the night was clear. The air was still and a heavy mist clung to the ground in the dark corners of the cemetery, while the grave itself was bathed in cold moonlight. It illuminated the dead leaves that lay sodden in the grass, and the newly dug earth was moist and glistening. It made it easy to work, shape, mould, and soon the rough clods began to take on form: first an oval the size of a human head, then an oblong barrel representing the torso; arms grew out from the trunk, legs, feet. Eventually a fully fashioned human figure lay stretched out over the grave, like the first lump of primordial clay, waiting to receive the spark of life.
The work done, the creator retreated into the shadows and was gone. Time passed. Clouds gathered once more and hid the face of the moon as the earthen chest began to rise and fall, and the creature took its first breath in darkness.