Never Alone
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Dean was gone!
It wasn't the first time and probably wouldn't be the last; but every time it happened a little bit of my heart and soul was pulled away with him to whatever god-forsaken place he found himself.
However, I had gotten him back before and I would again, despite Crowley's self-satisfied smirk and his half-assed comment about me being all alone.
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Poor little King of Hell, he didn't know what he was talking about; didn't know that Dean and I were never alone even when we were physically apart. My brother was always with me and I with him.
Maybe we were the apotheosis of co-dependency but I didn't give a shit, and even although at times it seemed that Dean was more needy of family than I, none of that was true; I needed him as much as he needed me.
I was his brother and he was mine; our lives entwined with strands of darkness and light, of good and evil; of reciprocal love and caring; of hardships and good times even when they only consisted of a bump to the shoulder or a childish prank. We were Dean and Sam; we were Winchesters, we were special, even although Dean didn't want to hear it; had never wanted to accept it, always wanting to tone down our differences from other humans, especially when it came to me.
He had hated that I had been infected with the demon blood but it hadn't made him love me any less.
Yeah, we had punched each other out a few times, a good few times but that was because we cared. Perhaps the caring bordered on obsessive; maybe we cared for each other too much, but if taking and giving a few punches got it out of our systems then I was game for sparring twenty-four seven.
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My brain went through its options as I stood, seemingly distraught, while Crowley continued to look me over smugly, but I was already near certain where Dean had been carried off to; Purgatory was the only logical option.
My brother had killed Dick Roman; Leviathan souls went to Purgatory, therefore I was ready to bet my beloved lap-top that Eve's kingdom was where Dean had ended up.
Well, he wouldn't be there long, 'cos modesty apart, research is my best girl and she'll get me a way into Purgatory to rescue him.
He'd better be still alive and unhurt, because my brother might have the reputation of being the most feared hunter on the planet but I'm no slouch myself, and when it comes to Dean, nothing and nobody will stand in my way to get him back.
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I barely registered the abrupt disappearance of Crowley, occupied as I was with how to get to Dean.
There was no doubt in my mind that I would, and god help Purgatory when the Winchester brothers came calling. I would find my brother and we would fight, back to back, through the meanders of the monster-soul dimension.
Getting in would be the easy part, I mused; getting out more difficult, but I didn't care; all I wanted was to be with my brother, if we were condemned to Purgatory for eternity, then okay, that was fine by me.
A quotation from the Bible came unbidden to my mind: "Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried."
It might not have been written for me and Dean but it expressed our situation perfectly.
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I set a batch of explosives around the laboratory, to obliterate the virus created by Roman, and hurried out to the Impala.
Soon Dean would be back behind the wheel of his beloved baby.
I didn't want the car's destiny to be that of rusting to scrap metal through the coming years if Dean and I didn't make it back, so I had to be optimistic.
He and I were soul-mates, although those words were tacitly never spoken between us, but the Impala was a part of our family too. She was our home. She loved us and we loved her.
Impala's engine roared with enthusiasm when I put her into drive, as if she understood and was as eager as me to get Dean back.
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We sped away like a bat out of Hell as the building behind us erupted into snarling red and yellow flames.
"I'm coming big brother. Hang on!"
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