Chapter 1
Charlie may have been in heaven, but it didn't feel like it. The only thing on her mind was something she saw before she died. It was a photograph that she'd found. It had fallen from Sam's wallet when he'd left the abandoned warehouse. When he left her with Castiel and Rowena. The photo featured a woman, maybe in her early twenties with long blonde hair and dark eyes. Her smile was more of a smug grin and her stance signified she was ready for anything. Her face was tired although she was young. The name was written on the back of the photo: Jo Harvelle. She knew the name from the Supernatural books. She'd just never had a face to put the name to. Charlie knew Jo to be a tough hunter, a girl who had lost her father young. She had helped Sam and Dean several times, and had even sacrificed her life to save them. A true hero. The image of Jo was burned into Charlie's mind, she couldn't get rid of it, as if it were something more than just an old photo. As if it meant something.
Charlie looked around in an attempt to distract herself from her own thoughts. This new heaven wasn't the one she'd been to after the wicked witch killed her and before Gadreel brought her back. This was different. There was no family Christmas. She was in a room that looked like it could be in the Men of Letters bunker that Sam and Dean stayed in, except the walls and ceiling were covered in posters of everything from Harry Potter to Star Trek to Doctor Who. Everything Charlie loved. But right now, she was distracted. Distracted by her own thoughts. There were also computers. Three to be exact. A Microsoft tablet like her own from when she was alive, as well as a laptop and some larger device made out of chrome that looked extremely futuristic, like it wouldn't be invented on Earth for years, decades even. She paid no attention to the wizards, dragons, spacecrafts and Daleks that covered the room. She only cared to find out why she was here and what the purpose of this heaven was. She walked over to the computers, wondering if this truly was what she desired most. That's what your heaven was supposed to be after all.
She ran her hand over the sleek chrome of the large, flat device, which she assumed would be called a supercomputer. It had buttons and a keyboard with keys she didn't know the use for. She found it to be copyrighted with the year 2086, which explained the stereotypically futuristic vibe she got from it. She turned it on. It booted up nearly instantly, a pleasant change from the several minute startup of the devices she was used to. Her eyes flew over all the detail and fantastic graphics of the screen. She was in awe at each program she opened, as it was far more updated and complex than the ones she was used to. Charlie attempted to figure out the complexity of this new machine for a few minutes before switching to the laptop in search of some explanation as to why this was her heaven. In the conversation she'd had with Cas when they'd first met, he'd gotten into some brief details about heaven that Charlie found rather interesting. Since your personal heaven is what you truly desire, those desires may come from your subconcious mind. Because, as he'd put it, "Some people simply don't know what they truly want before they die."
Finding that heaven had surprisingly good wifi, Charlie began searching things. She looked up information on heaven and learned some things that Castiel hadn't explained. She even found a database of everyone in heaven. She looked up her parents, who she found rather easily, along with a few characters from the Supernatural books she wanted to see in real life, like Bobby Singer and Sam and Dean's parents John and Mary. This gave Charlie some closure on what had happened to John's soul after it escaped from hell in the book "All Hell Breaks Loose". Then Charlie decided to search the name of the person that hadn't left her mind in a few days. Jo Harvelle. There were lots of results, as this was the main database for everyone who'd ever died and gone to heaven, but not one of the results matched the profile of Jo. She tried other search terms. Joanna Harvelle and Joanna Beth Harvelle. Nothing. Charlie was utterly confused. She knew Jo had died in the book "Abandon All Hope". She searched for Ellen Harvelle, Jo's mother. Ellen's file surfaced immediately. Charlie clicked on it, in hope to find Jo's. Ellen's heaven profile had all sorts of information, birth date, death date, age at death, time of death. It even included a photo of Ellen and the location of her personal heaven. Charlie ignored all this. Under the heading 'Relations', was a list of all of Ellen's family, dating back to, well, the beginning of time. It took a long time to get to the name Charlie was looking for. She found it: Joanna Beth Harvelle (Daughter). Charlie clicked on Jo's name, but instead of bringing her to another page of the heaven database, a small popup window appeared. Charlie gasped at what she read.
"Joanna Beth Harvelle:
Status: Deceased
Residence of Soul: Hell"