"Unforeseen Consequences."
A/N: FIRST OFF: See WARNINGS in the last Chapter, and now some new WARNINGS: definite SPOILERS for Season 9 Episode 12 and definitely some SPOILERS (for Episodes 12-16) that I've read online about some very hairy things that Dean's going to be doing…
So, jumping ahead, past events in Episode 12, Cass has already extracted as much as he could of that 'something angelic' that Sam had, had resonating inside of him, Dean's already taken on 'The Mark of Cain' (By the way… LOVED Cain, he is definitely a freaking AWESOME Character!), and so, basically, that brings us to present events, where Dean's going to come back and he and Sam are going to find Garth…
And.. Here we go…
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"Unforeseen Consequence."
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The bunker just hadn't been the same over the last few days..
It just wasn't the same without Kevin…
Without Dean…
And Cass, well, he hadn't been the best company seeing as how he had kept trying to talk him into calling Dean and asking him to come back…
According to what Cass had said, they needed all the help they could get and it would be 'More productive' if they all worked together.
Then three days ago something had changed, Castiel had been healing him when the expression in his eyes became angry, causing Sam to be confused, but Castiel wouldn't say why he was angry or why he was storming away with such haste and now… Things just weren't the same.
Weren't the same without Cass. Without anyone…
He was all alone. And with no explanation as to what the hell had caused Castiel to take off like he had, Sam had no idea what to do.
He could try to do more research, but there was only so many times he could re-read every single one of the books and files inside the bunker and there was only so far he could get with the ones that weren't even in English.
He could just take one of the cars in the bunker's garage and drive off like everybody else seemed to have the preference of doing. He wasn't a child they could just dump off here and take off on with the expectations that he would be a good boy and stay put right where they wanted him. There wasn't anything or anyone keeping him here. And no one could bitch him out if he just decided to go off on his own and leave hunting and everything else behind, because no one had stuck around for him, and he was sick and tired of putting his life on permanent hold while everyone else that he knew got to live their lives however THEY saw fit and when he tried to live his own life and make his own choices and tried to better himself, he got nothing but kicked in the teeth with guilt trip after guilt trip.
Damn right… There was nothing and no one keeping him here… So why in the hell was he still here, again?
It would serve them all right if Sam Winchester just packed up his crap, took one of the extra cars, locked up the bunker and fell off the grid once and for all. Hell, he could even leave the country, let Dean try to find him then with his fear of flying keeping him from stepping foot on a plane., Yeah there were boats, but there were six other Continents and he doubted that Dean would take the kind of time needed to conduct a search like that, not when there was always something that needed killing.
Sam had made his decision, he was going to leave, everything and everyone, for good and this time and he wasn't going to come back…
Grabbing the keys to a nice electric blue classic Dodge that had recently made its way into the bunker's garage, he tossed his duffle bag of meager belongings into the back seat and drove away into the night, heading West towards the biggest international airport closest to him, L.A.X…. After all if Dean or anyone else ever did decide to try to look for him, well L.A.X. was a damn big airport and even if Dean could track him there, he damn sure wouldn't be able to track him further, not if he was smart and used an alias that he had created himself, that Dean would never be able to guess, that and wear whatever disguise he could get away with just until he got to wherever he wanted to stop and settle down at.. Which he totally would go all Jason Bourne on Dean's ass and 'transform' into his new identity right inside the airport's restroom, even if it meant cutting and dying his hair and donning slacker clothes that he'd normally never be caught dead in.. Dean would be looking for a six foot four man with sleek, shoulder length brunette hair dressed in either a 'Fed suit' or jeans and flannel that had a poorly picked, easily guessable alias and an even more poorly thought out reason for leaving the country, he wouldn't be searching for a short haired, bleach blonde surfer boy heading for the warmer waters and bigger waves of Brazil, which just so happened to be the newest up and coming hot spot that surfers all over the world were flocking to, Sam had checked before choosing that as his first destination and once he got there, he'd spend two days evaluating where Dean would be the least likely to look for him, before deciding where he wanted to move on to.
His plan may have been made in haste, but it was foolproof… Wasn't it?
He thought that he had planned for any and every thing that could happen… But he was oh so wrong.
He hadn't planned on stopping for gas somewhere in New Mexico and 'accidently' glancing at a newspaper and catching details of a cattle mutilation where the suspect had fled the scene only to be hit by a car and taken to a hospital and oddly enough, the description of the 'suspect' was a bit too close to the scrawny, lanky, annoying at times, but loveable Garth who had been missing for more than six months and since Garth was a friend, well Sam was going to at least check and make sure that he was okay or if he needed help getting out of whatever predicament that he had managed to get himself into. Then he could head to L.A.X., after all Wisconsin isn't that far from California (only one thousand nine hundred seventy-four miles and a little more than a day's drive in the WRONG direction) and it's not like he had purchased the plane ticket, yet or anything…
Okay, so maybe his plan hadn't been exactly foolproof after all. But who was he kidding? He's Sam Winchester, there's no such thing as a 'foolproof' plan, especially since he was the 'fool' who had made it.
But it was only one distraction.
Just a small delay.
It's not like this one tiny detour was going to keep him from going through with his plan.
Right?
After the nurse at the front desk of the hospital told him where to find Garth's room Sam made his way down the hall and opened the door to room number one-one-three and honestly wasn't all that surprised to see that Dean was already there.
Well wasn't this going to be fun?
He couldn't believe it when Dean tried to send him away.
He wanted to yell and rant and rave that every single time he had tried to leave that he had been kicked down and kicked down over it until he couldn't take it anymore and here Dean was trying to send him away? Here Dean was trying to be the one to do the leaving?
Quite frankly Sam was fed up with the hypocrisy… Yeah, he got it, he had left for Stanford and his family had considered it as him abandoning them.. Well, he had a news flash for Dean, they had abandoned HIM first!
All the times they took off to parts unknown for days on end, leaving him alone for anything or anyone to take advantage of the vulnerability of his solitude, like lions picking of the lone zebra that had gotten isolated from its herd.. THEY, took off, left him alone and left him at the mercy of the worst sorts of predators…. What was that if not abandonment?
Where did Dean get off thinking that he could still pull this crap?!... He wasn't some little boy that Dean could just ditch at "Plucky's" 'Pedophile Filled House of Horrors' (or whatever it was that they wanted to call that place, to him those places would always represent everything that had been taken from him and so would anything and everything having to do with clowns), while Dean went and took care of 'the grown up stuff', anymore… Oh. Hell. No…
So, Sam made sure he stayed in the loop, despite how Dean tried to lie to him and send him away.
And at some point he found himself asking "Why am I here when I could be in Brazil?", of course that came after Martha Kent's psychotic Lycanthrope doppleganger had him tied to a tractor wheel and went on an obligatory evil monologue of how she was going to kill Garth and Bess and blame their murders on Sam.
After Dean put a bullet through the psycho bitch's chest and iced the bitch's cousins, everyone was released from their chains, sure Garth and Bess were a little worse for wear, but at least they were still breathing and could tell the tale of exactly what had gone down in the barn, thus avoiding the start of Ragnarok.
And then… Then he and Dean were going to go their separate ways. Again. This time with a promise to 'send postcards', as if Sam was really going to send a postcard from wherever he decided to finally settle down when the last thing he wanted was for Dean to have a way of tracking him down.
But frickin Dean just had to go on about how at the very least when they rode together it 'Split the crappiness.' and damn it, he did have a point, it just seemed that the majority of the 'crappiness' just so happened to slide in Sam's direction, it would have been so simple if Dean had just left it at that… Of course he hadn't though, he had gone and try to pave everything over with 'We're family.' And Sam wanted to go off, it had taken everything he had not to punch Dean in the face and keep going until Dean finally got it….
Why, after everything they've been through is it that when Dean does something he thinks he can get off without any repercussions simply by pointing out that they're family, even though when it was Sam that had made mistakes, being family had meant nothing to Dean?, Hell, right up to the Last Trial Dean had still had to lay it on him about how he had 'continuously tried to leave hunting', 'drank demon blood', 'trusted a demon', let Lucifer out of The Cage', came back from The Cage without a soul, let his own big brother get turned by a vampire, didn't look for him while he was in Purgatory. Being family, seemed to not really mean anything to Dean unless it was something he could use to either gain forgiveness or cut to the bone with how he was the Saint who was too good to forgive his own brother even the slightest of his transgressions. Even when Dean had said words like "Clean slate.' forgiveness, was not something that Dean had ever really given him.
So why didn't he just tell Dean off? Tell him where he could shove the words 'we're family'? After all Dean had made it clear several times in the past just what he thought of him and here recently he's done nothing to show that he no longer thinks of one Sam Winchester as a 'Monster' as a 'blood sucking vampire' that's been a worse brother through Dean's whole life than an actual vampire that Dean knew for only a year and had no blood relation to… It's like the words Dean had said almost six months ago were just that, WORDS, said to keep him from leaving Dean…
Why the hell wasn't he on a plane to Brazil, again?
But, no… Sam hadn't ranted or raved or tore into Dean the ways he wanted to, no he had just simply stated the obvious, that something was broken between them, and then damn it all to Hell and back he had told Dean that they could work together, that they could be partners, but that it would take a lot of work for them to ever really be brothers again. He wanted to hit himself upside the head… There wasn't anything really obligating him to even give Dean a chance this time around… Except for maybe the fact that Dean doesn't even really know how many chances that he's already been given, because no one had ever really told him just where he was going wrong and as far as Dean actually knew, this was only his first 'second chance'… So, there was that. All because Sam had never wanted to be the kind of person to lord his brother's mistakes over his head like Dean did to him.
And oh, there were so many.. He sometimes wonders what would happen if he just went off on Dean and just started ranting about how when Dean made that Crossroads Deal, all that had done was serve to rip his soul out of Heaven all so he could watch as Dean was being ripped apart and dragged to Hell, only because Dean hadn't been able to live with him dead.. Well, it was nice to know how much Dean cared that he had made him suffer having to live without Dean, knowing that Dean was in HELL, because of him. Or what would happen if he repeatedly threw it in Dean's face that he was the one to break the First Seal, without which, none of the mess that had happened more than four years ago would have even came about? Or how about how Dean trusted Cass who had betrayed ALL OF THEM, yeah Cass had been trying to do the right thing and had thought that he actually was doing the right thing, but it was still no different than.. Say, trusting a demon and accidently setting Lucifer free?, Yet Dean had forgiven Cass after giving the ANGEL not much more than a slap on the wrist, while Dean was still making his own brother, pay for not only all of the mistakes he had made, but he had also made him to suffer the consequences of everybody else's bad choices as well, while Dean repeatedly kicked him down over and over again because of how those prices had come as an inconvenience to HIM? How about if he just threw how unfair all of that was to him in Dean's face for once?
No, he hadn't done that, he wasn't going to do that... For whatever reason he was going to give Dean this second chance and he was just going to let the past stay in the past… Because what good would it do to rehash all of that crap?
TBC…
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A/N: remember no flaming…
