Forgotten Fate
Introduction: Chapter One
He wakes up just like he would any other morning but he knows something about this morning is different. Unique. Something good but odd. He also knows that he has been here before. The house…the room…his bedroom…No, wait... it was not just a bedroom, it's their bedroom. It's a little blurry but he remembers. The rush of her golden-brown hair cascading around her perfect face…her contagious rosy smile…her deep almond brown eyes captivating him as he looks into them.
It's future and Dean Winchester wakes up in a place closest to his heaven.
"Morning handsome…" She speaks up in a sleepy tone as he continues to stare in amazement.
"That bad of a night…what's wrong?" She asks sitting up in her bed while pacing her gentle hand on his left cheek as if assuring him of this reality. Her touch was real. He feels it…knows it…and considers falling deeply in love with it but then recalls that he already is.
"You're beautiful…" he manages to whisper the simplest compliment to her as if he is seeing her for the first time. She smiles while bushing…she knows his secret. His Escape. The reason why he is here. But she doesn't tell him…He doesn't ask…he simply leans in to close in on the distance between their lips.
Somewhere in Present…
"He'll be back…he always finds his way back." Bobby said looking at the youngest Winchester as he stood looking over his ever so peacefully sleeping older brother.
"I know. It's just… I am scared for him…he'll get hurt…the angels will soon know and they'll be after him…even her." He expresses his concern.
"Well then you better hope he remembers why he is gone there….he needs to tell her. Warn her." Bobby turns away from Sam trying to find enough reasoning behind the risk that Dean insisted on taking again.
"That's the thing…he can't. He is only able to find his way to her completely unaware of our time. He doesn't know why he is there." Sam said worried.
"Did he tell you that?" Bobby asked as Sam quietly moved about the room trying to come up with a way to break Dean's slumber that started 48 hours ago.
"Yeah, it's about the only thing he could mumble about…besides the blurry image of the "constant" girl." Sam contemplated upon his own theories as Bobby carried on his own inquiries about Dean.
"How long has he been…you know risking his life over her…?"
"I don't know exactly but he can't control it. No one can…ever since that mind control Dijin case we had he has no control over the time or place that he ends up at. He doesn't even remember being gone after he gets back…I am only able to put certain things together through the random things he says after coming back. The only thing I have figured out is that there is a girl…he never says her name…just "her" or "she"…the "constant girl" as I call it and somehow Dean seems to always find her when he is gone. It seems as if he sees her every time he goes." Sam gave his perspective on what he felt his brother was dealing with.
Dean was normal on most days but whenever he would slip though time while sleeping, Sam and Bobby could do nothing but wait for him to come back on his own. They tried to read up on Lore and all sorts of Folktale type stuff to try and cure Dean but nothing worked. He was never gone more than 2 days but the fact that he remembered nothing from the time he spent in another realm was starting to scare Sam and Bobby. He would sometimes say or do things that didn't make sense to him or anyone else. He was normal to the world but both Sam and Bobby knew he was changing. Angels or demons…heaven or hell…whatever that had Dean skipping through time and space was beyond Sam's comprehension and Bobby's intelligence.
"So were you able to remember the last time you were here…?" She asked as they sat under the Gazebo in their beautiful front yard.
"No…I..I can't…its weird when I go back I can't remember this…or us…but when I am here I know exactly where I came from…" Dean said holding on to her gaze as if trying to memorize her features in his head.
"That's okay…you're actually not suppose to…" She smiled back as he looked at her in confusion.
"Why?" he questioned sensing her secretive tone.
"You'll see why soon…we'll find each other…we always do…" she assured him by taking his hand in her own
"Last time I came you were different…I was… I think…" Dean tried recalling but Haley filled in the missing blanks before he strained himself.
"Eighteen…you were Eighteen I was Sixteen…you came to tell me about the shape shifter that was after my father…"
"I did?" he asked surprised.
"Yes you did…you saved him…you always save people Dean." She said whispering her last words and coming a bit closer to him.
"Come with me…" he pleaded with hopeful eyes as he felt her warm touch upon his cold skin.
"We're meant to be Dean…we'll find each other soon… and the day you do I'll make you remember me…" she said placing a soft kiss on his cheek then looked up at him as she knew he'd have another question or something to say before he leaves…she already knew he was about to leave.
"What if I don't remember…? And the Demons…or worse the Angels…they… they'll hurt you" He said fearful of the reality that he was detached from momentarily.
"You won't let that happen…you'll be here just like you are now…" She said the last of what Dean could hear before everything turned dark and he felt a throbbing pain arising in the back of his head…he knew he was coming back. The pain reminded him that he was coming back without memories. He knew that the moment he opens his eyes it will all be gone. It will all be wiped away.
"Dean…?" Sam turned to his brother as soon as he sensed him moving, more like seizing.
"Bobby, he's…he's getting back…get in here…" Sam yelled out for Bobby who was in the room across from where Dean had fallen asleep.
"Dean…? You okay…can you hear me…?" Sam asked worriedly as Dean sat up holding his throbbing head in his hand. He was in pain and Sam knew he could do nothing to help his brother as he had tried everything else he and Bobby could think of to this point.
"Sammy…?" He spoke up hoarsely as he tried to get his brother's face in focus through his blurry vision.
"Yeah…It's me..You okay?" Sam asked once again as Dean stood up trying to feel his own feet.
"This needs to stop Dean…your headaches and pain is getting worse every time you do this." Bobby informed Dean as he finally felt his mind settle into the present.
"Do what?" He asked not remembering what Bobby was asking him to stop doing.
"Bobby he doesn't remember…" Sam reminded him in a hushed tone but Dean could tell something was up. Bobby realized his slip of tongue and looked away knowing Dean's questions will be an impossible task to escape. Sam knew from Dean's look that it was too late to cover up anything.
"Remember what?"
"Noth…"
"No Bobby, he needs to know…"
"Needs to know what?"
"Dean you've been asleep for the last 2 days"
"What?"
"I don't know how you do it…or where you go to…but you're able to somehow slip into another life when your mind allows you to…to us it seems like you're just sleeping but you're actually somewhere else…with someone else…" Sam said explaining Dean's condition.
"What do you mean..?"
"Headaches…seizures…the pain you feel before getting up…I think it makes you forget the time… it's some kind of a mind trick or something…Bobby and I tried everything…nothing seems to work…"
"Wait so you're saying I got the whole Butterfly Effect thing going on with me?"
"I don't know Dean…you don't seem to remember any of it…"
"Do you remember anything this time…" Bobby asked hoping Dean's memory would help him remember something of importance.
"I…I don't know… have you guys tried Cas?"
"Castiel? The angel… " Sam asked
"Yeah…where is he…?"
"He is long gone…You guys decided to part ways after he refuse to help us with the fight against Uriel and the other Angels. Don't you remember Dean?" Sam asked not believing Dean's concern for Castiel.
Before Dean could fully comprehend the whole situation Bobby's phone started to ring. As he left the room to answer the call Sam and Dean were left alone to contemplate on what to do about Dean's situation.
"Dean is there anything that you want to tell me…do you remember anything?" Sam tries to read Dean's mind as he tried to solve his own mystery in his head.
"No Sammy…I got nothing…"
"Boys…!" Bobby called out from the other room causing both Sam and Dean to rush towards him as they sensed panic in Bobby's tone.
"What happened?" Sam asked as he watched Bobby pacing worriedly in his room.
"Rufus called…Cas came to see him…he couldn't find you two because of the engraving he did on your ribs and he knew you'd be pissed if he came in front of you… something about a demon that's has some sort of a binding contract with the angels who have fallen from grace. It gives them a chance at a normal life in exchange for their soul to snack on. You guys need to go…whatever it is, it's on a friggin killing spree and you need to stop it." Bobby informed the brothers as they made mental notes about the plan of action they intended to take against this thing.
"Where is it?" Dean asked as he grabbed his jacket off the couch.
"North Carolina was the last place it killed…Angels seems to have a thing for this place, last four were fallen in the same state."
"Okay then…we'll head out…be there around noon…" Sam said grabbing the keys for the Impala as Dean headed for the door.
"You boys be careful out there…and Dean, worry about your situation later…focus on the case." Bobby advised the brothers as they turned to look at him before heading out.
"We will…thanks Bobby." Sam replied with an assuring smile while Dean simply nodded in Bobby's direction.
Arriving in the small town of Tree Hill, Sam and Dean started to look for signs for any unusual casualties that might have the locals worried. Sam decided to start off his research by paying Tree Hill Police Department a visit while Dean decided to read up the town's history at the nearest library. It was his least favorite thing to do but he knew he had to and so he pulled up the old articles and periodicals and started reading.
"Hey Gracie…I got these old periodicals from my Dad's basement, I thought I'd bring it by here. Someone might need these..." She told the librarian placing the huge box on the table which Dean was sitting on. But he was completely unaware of her presence as his mind was already preoccupied with historical readings.
"Thanks Haley…the periodicals go on the back shelf, would you mind placing them there, I'll put them in a chronological order later." The librarian made a polite request which Haley nervously agreed to. As she turned to pick up the huge cardboard box she realized that her strength might not be enough to carry the load as she felt her balance deceiving her posture completely and before she knew it the box fell out of her grip with a loud thud on the floor.
He heard a loud thud and without really looking up he started to pick up the papers that fell out from the box. She on the other hand was still trying to recover from her imbalance but once she saw him picking up the papers she immediately bent down to clean up her mess without causing the stranger much trouble. As he took a moment to glance up at this stranger, the papers she had had collected with such care fell out of her hands. It was him.
"Hey, you are suppose to be putting the papers in the box." Dean complained looking up for the first time as more papers fell around him.
"It's you…" She said standing up as Dean looked at her confused, she was beautiful and the thoughts in Dean's head were rummaging all sorts of crazy things but the fact that she said "it's you" confused him even more.
"You know me…?" He said putting the last of the papers back in the box.
"Dean…it's…wow…It's just crazy…but you're real." She was either really screwed up in the head or Dean was just hearing things that were not making any sense to him. She came a bit closer to him smiling a little and Dean Winchester was spell bounded by it.
" I…I am..sorry…but do I know you?"
"I already know that this was gonna happen…and I…I am suppose to act…act normal but I am not acting normal… am I?" she laughed nervously not knowing how to approach him without confusing him further.
"No..umm…your name..?" Dean stuttered not knowing what to say to her.
"Haley, I am Haley…umm…look I know how odd this must be for you…it'..it's odd for me too…but would you like to have dinner with me and I can explain clearly…"
" I uh…Dinner…Um…I am actually not…"
"Dean…I've been looking forward to this dinner for a long time." She pleaded through her eyes.
"You have?" he questioned titling his head a little.
"Yes…ummm so is it a Yes…to Dinner then?"
"Okay…" Dean agreed finally not knowing why exactly but something inside him told him to trust her.
"Great…there is a diner right around the corner…Karen's…I'll see you there tonight…?" she smiled up at him this time a bit more openly then before.
"Yeah…okay…" He nodded with a slight sparkle in his eyes. Dean Winchester was usually the one to make offers when it comes to dealing with the opposite sex but this time it was different. It was an actual dinner thing. Not a beer in some trucker's bar but an actual dinner. Haley James had asked out Dean Winchester and with that said and done, Dean was all set to meet her again to figure out exactly how she knew him. As he watched her disappear through the library doors he was brought back to reality by his cell phone ringing loudly in the quiet library.
"Yeah Sammy did you find anything?" He asked placing his phone to his ear.
"Believe it or not but this town is pretty close to perfection…no robberies…no murders…not even a shoplifting case in last 3 months…" Sam informed his older brothers as he drove away from Tree Hill's police department.
"Last three months….why is that so weird..?"
"It's right around the time we parted ways with Cas and Angel s vs. Angels got a whole lot uglier than we had expected." Sam said reminding Dean about the significance about "three months".
"Yeah tell me about it…they cover up well too with their whole memory erasing mojo." Dean said a bit unexpectedly as he had no clue how he knew that he just said.
"What?...what did you just say?" Sam asked shocked upon Dean new revelation about Angel mojo.
"Memory erasing…? damn…how did I know that?" He asked himself out loud.
"We'll figure that out as soon as you get back to the motel…you about done with the research?"
"Umm..yeah…not much here expect a couple of disappearing and house fires…nothing supernatural really…" Dean summed his hours of research in a sentence.
"Okay then I guess we just need to look around ourselves… I don't think these townspeople could see the supernatural around them…"
" Yeah…I'll see you back at the motel…"
"I am pulling in to parking just now…" Sam informed Dean before hanging up the phone as he had reached his destination.
Dean walked in the motel room shortly after Sam's return as the library was a short walk from where they were staying. He had contemplated about telling Sam about Haley as he walked back to the motel. He didn't know why but he wasn't completely sure if Sam should know about her and the strange fact that she had known him from before. Nonetheless, Dean decided to tell Sam about Haley but exempting him from the strangeness that Dean picked up upon her vague details about their previous acquaintance.
"So you plan on going out tonight with the girl who asked you out?" Sam questioned after Dean revealed him about his dinner plans.
"Yeah… that's the plan…" Dean said without making things look suspicious.
"She just asked you out…like randomly.."
"No..we met at the library…I told you that."
"Wait… You're going out with a girl you met at a library?" Sam titled his head in confusion as he knew the type of girls Dean was usually accustom to hit on and Haley-the library chic didn't fit the profile.
"Dude am I speaking some language that you're not getting…? It's just a dinner…" He looked away trying not to make any eye contact with his curious younger brother.
"Dinner?...you sure you didn't agree on beer…?"
"Sammy you have got to raise you're standards…especially about me." Dean smirked before heading towards bathroom to get cleaned up. It was almost dinner time.
Hayley was waiting for him at Karen's diner patiently. Dressed in her favorite dress she had the most beautiful smile on her face as she tracked her memories back to time when she met Dean for the first time. She could still remember how he approached her from the sidewalk as if he'd known her forever. They were never strangers…at least not to her…he always found a way to her. She knew all about demons and angels…Michael and Lucifer…even Cas. How could she not know all that, she was raised knowing all about the supernatural world. Her own mother was a fallen angel who married a human. They had a great life together. Haley knew their secrets and they knew hers. They even knew about Dean. It was around her 13th birthday she started to have these visions or dreams…entirely based upon future. It wasn't always hers but she had foreseen destinies. She was always the silent observer in dreams that were about other people or creatures but with Dean it was different. He was the first and the only one who could actually see, hear, and feel her. For her that meant something and as time went on she realized she had been lucky enough to see her own future. A peek in her own life down the road. The only downside was the fact that Dean was unable to remember her. He had somehow managed to travel through time to get to her but the time they shared was only limited to Haley's memory. That made her sad but she'd been faithful to him all her life. She'd been waiting in Tree Hill all her life for him to show up and now he was here. She couldn't ask for anything more.
"Hey…" Dean said as he finally found her in the crowded diner even at this hour.
"Hi…you made it…" She stood up smiling with excitement as she found him in front of her eyes, in reality this time.
"Yeah...I said I would…" He said casually taking a seat across from her while admiring how beautiful she really was in his head.
"So I kinda already ordered for us….cheeseburgers and with a side of fries and pie for later… they have the best cheeseburgers in town." She smiled as Dean looked at her with a titled head and a confused look.
"How..how'd you…"
"Know all that?" She finished his sentence and looked up at a confused Dean who was eager to find all about Haley's mysterious ways of just knowing things.
"Well, let's just say I know things…We have actually met before…more than once…actually a lot more than once…" She smiled leaning forward; he could clearly see the sparkle in her eyes. He wondered about the reasoning behind… was it his presence? He wished silently.
"So are you like a psychic…mind reader sort of…?"
"No…I am more of a person who could see through time…I want to say a time traveler but that would make it confusing…I just have this ability to see what people know as fate or destiny…."she paused to read Dean's expression but was surprise to find him foolishly smiling at her.
"Something funny…?"
"No…I just…I think I believe you…"
"Believe me…? But you don't or can't to remember anything from the future…"
"I know….and to be honest I was totally thinking of getting my head checked after Sam and Bobby told me about my comatose situation…but I am good now…"
"Sam…you mean Sammy… your younger brother?" She asked widely smiling at him as if he'd mention a long lost friend of hers.
"Yeah...tall, dark hair, kinda dorky…"He added as she simply rolled her eyes at his familiar sense of humor that she'd grown to love and adore.
"Yup, that's the one…and watch it, we're supposed to be super close…in the future…" Haley warned as the waitress served them the food she had ordered earlier.
" So you and Sammy…like together, together…?" He asked abruptly causing Haley to choke on the big bite of her cheeseburger she took only a moment a go.
"No…no…I meant as friends…Geez no…!"
"Wow…Sammy really has no luck scoring chicks…"
"No it's not that…I can't really you know…fall for my future brother-in-law." She revealed with comfortable ease while Dean gulped down the bite of this amazing cheeseburger he was enjoying until she used the words "future" and "brother-in-law" in the same sentence.
"Wait…what?..I mean…we. No ways."
"Oh…wow…so you don't think I…"
"No..no that's not what I…I mean married me…That's just crazy…"
"We don't have to get to that right away cowboy….you can take all your sweet time…" She smiled reaching for his hand and somehow her soothing touch made everything crazy sound not so crazy. Ghawd! she was stunning he thought once again trying to keep his cool. She knew why he looked so stunned at her touch; she knew exactly why he was trying so hard to keep it cool and so without keeping him frozen for another minute she took her hand away getting back to her fries.
"So you know this case you're working on here…Angels dying here in tree hill, I think my mom can help you out…she'd fallen from grace a long time back…when it was a choice rather than a desperate decision." Haley advised as Dean once again looked up at her in surprise
"You already know about…"
"Supernatural stuff…yeah…most of it anyways…"
"and the surprises just keeping on commin…what else do you know woman?"
Dean's question led Haley in to explaining every little detail from her childhood and supernatural stuff. She didn't want to reveal what she knew of him in future. As a matter of fact she almost forgot that she had already seen them married and in love. Something kept her from revealing everything that was related to their future together. She wanted to keep the spontaneity and happiness saved for Dean's and her reality's sake. She was already feeling bad for revealing the "brother-in-law" bit which was not something she planned on telling him on their very first date. Well sort of a date..at least to her.
"Walk you home?" Dean asked getting as they stepped out the diner.
"Sure…if you'd like" She smiled back agreeing to his adorable gesture.
"Not a problem…" He smiled back at her.
"So is there anything else you want to know about me…I mean you already kinda
know everything…I rambled on over dinner…"
"Well I wouldn't call that rambling…it was actually nice to know the details…it makes a lot more sense now…Sammy already has you figured out and I now think I might be able catch on too. He calls you the "constant girl"…" Dean revealed as they walked down the quite streets of Tree Hill with few only a people around in sight.
"Really…why would he call me that?" she questioned.
"He has this theory about my whole situation…apparently I have been rambling about some girl every time I dose off in future…I could never remember your name but the random things I would say always had some girl's details…So Sam says you're the "constant girl" Dean explained the nickname to Haley without sounding as cheesy as Sam, but as he watched Haley laugh out loud he didn't really care if the nickname was cheesy. She looked absolutely beautiful and for a moment he just stared at her. Was he really that lucky?
"You have to let me see Sam…I never saw our first meeting in my visions..." She requested excitedly looking up in Dean's emerald eyes she knew too well already.
"So there are things even you don't know…" Dean questioned Haley's intelligence as they came to a stop in front of Haley's house.
"Of course…It's not always a good thing to know everything before it actually happens you know…" She said complying with Dean's inquisitive nature as Dean took a step towards her.
"You bet…you know usually I don't do the whole dinner and walk the girl home thing…not my style" Dean smirked gazing at Haley's pretty face that was only inches away from his own.
"Usually huh? I thought I had already warned you about my very unusual self earlier today?" She teased, inching closer towards him. Dean smiled instantly at her comment and without playing anymore games; he closed in on the distance that kept them apart. Their lips crashed for the first time in reality. Haley had kissed him before but something about this kiss made her stomach churn while her heart skipped a beat on its own. The sweetest thing on this earth expect 10 times sweeter. She now knew why this reality rocked so much more than her visions. He was real and he was here…she couldn't ask for more.