Prologue - 1929

Dean didn't know how he always got himself roped into situations like this.

No, that's a lie. Of course he did. It was treasure. Treasure always got him into situations like this.

He tried to move his hands around in a vain attempt to loosen the rope. The tent was empty save for him, the chair he was tied to and the kerosene lamp on the table…too far away for him to knock over so as to burn the tent to the ground. Not the best escape plan but he's thought of worse.

'Son of a bitch, Sammy, where are you?', he cursed silently. He didn't dare say anything out loud. No telling who or what could be outside listening. Dean only knew that his brother needed to come up with a better, non-pyrotechnic, way of getting Dean out of here. They had been so close, until he was nabbed.

He let his head hang back over the chair, exhaling. He was embarrassed to have been caught by a couple of knucklehead goons but found satisfaction that while they were preoccupied in restraining him, the archaeologist managed to get away.

'Thank God Cas got away', He thought sarcastically. If it wasn't for that book loving twit comin' round and telling us about this damned place why I never would have-" Dean tensed, staring at his breath leaving his mouth with each exhale. He could see it. They were back.

He tugged at his hand restraints again to no avail.

"Hey. HEY! Someone! One of you mother lickin saps get in here and untie me!" He kept struggling until he become conscious of the fact that no one had yelled at him to pipe down. A guard hadn't come in to give him a matching shiner on his right eye. Everything outside of the tent was silent.

Silent as the grave. They were back.

"oh fu-"

A/N: so this is the first fanfic I've written in quite some time. It's just a little idea I came up with on a whim of a an explorer au searching for a lost city. I may or may not have been playing a lot of uncharted and got really inspired. This is just a taste, I'd love to hear some thoughts, and hopefully I'll get to writing. Yes, it will be destiel. adventurous destiel.