As the fire grew hotter Jamie rolled off of his bed so he would catch on fire with his bed. "No!" He shouted, his eyes widened as his girlfriend burned on their bedroom ceiling. Just as he thought the ceiling would collapse on him two men barged into the room and dragged him outside onto the street in front of his apartment building. "Sydney!" He screamed as he tried to fight off the two men so he could try to save her.
"She's gone J-J." The smaller of the two said quietly as Jame collapsed onto the pavement in grief. As he mourned his loss a memory flashed in his eyes.
He was three and the other boy Jamie was playing with couldn't have been about five. Jamie sat on a table while the boy in the blue jacket that was way too big for him was fixing the engine of the car parked by the table. Jamie laughed when oil squirted in the five-year-old's face. "You think that's funny don't you J-J?" In response three year old Jamie clapped his hands together in excitment.
"De-de!" Jamie laughed as his older brother tickled him. A blonde woman wearing a pentagram-type symbol on her necklace gave Dean a surprise hug. She lifted him off the ground and spun him in a circle while Dean was laughing.
"That's right J-J, De-de is your older brother, and you're going to have to learn from the best for when Sammy joins the world." His mom patted her stomach then smiled as Jamie and Dean played with each other.
"I want Sammy now Mommy." Dean demaned as he presssed his ear upto his mother's stomach to hear his baby brother. In response she chuckled lightly then said,
"one more week baby, then your brother will be here."
"Dean." Jamie whispered as he focused on the smell of the jacket, it was exactly how he remembered it. The eldest Winchester looked almost ready to cry,
"you know who I am?" He asked, Jamie could tell Dean really wanted him to be telling the truth. Jamie nodded,
"how could I ever forget my big brother De-de?" Dean's tears hit the pavement as the long-lost siblings embraced in a long-awaited hug.
"Dean, who is this?" The moose-like person asked. The eldest released the hug first then Dean introduce Jamie to the man,
"Sammy, meet Jamie." Then Dean turned to Jamie and said,
"Jamie, meet Sammy, your little brother." The police sirens started to get closer so Jamie turned to Dean and asked,
"shouldn't we take this someplace else?" Dean looked hesitant,
"shouldn't you stay here?" Jamie shook his head then gestured to the burned down building in front of them,
"there's nothing left for me here Dean. I want to come with you guys." Dean glanced at Sammy who nodded. Sighing Dean gestured to the Impapa,
"get in."
The Winchesters pulled out of the crime scene before the first responder even got out of her squad car.
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By the time they were halfway though New York Jamie fell asleep on the bench of the impala, Dean slightly turned down the music so Team Free Will's newest member could sleep as peacefully as possible. The brothers rode in silence until Dean pulled the car into a motel parking lot and shifted the gear to park. "Alright, out with it." Dean said as he turned to his little brother. "I know something's been bugging you since we left." Jamie shifted in his sleep, both brothers took a few seconds to check to make sure he was still actually asleep. Sam sighed then spoke,
"It's just... You and dad have never mentioned Jamie before, ever. I mean, the kid's not even in dad's old journal I think I'd recognize it if I had a little brother." Dean shut the Impala off then turned to face Sam.
"Sammy listen to me, Dad and Mom, they wanted all three of us. After mom died though..." Dean trailed off, but Sam put two and two together,
"dad got rid of Jamie because he would've been in the way otherwise didn't he?" Dean gave him a quick nod then Jamie shot up from whatever nightmare chose to haunt him.
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After taking a few minutes to regain his senses Jamie realized he was still in the back of the Impala. He startes to loose control of his breathing. Everything was real, Sydney, his fight with Danny... Everything. "Deep breaths kid, work with me here. Sammy's ususally the one who helps me. I don't know what I'm doing." Jamie just focusued on the deep breaths Dean was making then he felt his own breathing calm down. "You good?" Dean asked, Jamie nodded then grabbed his outstretched hand accepting the help.
"Thanks." Jamie said, Dean nodded then the two walked from the car to the motel to meet up with their little brother.
Once the room was paied for, despite Jamie's protests he got one of the twin beds, Sammy took the other one, which meant Dean was on the couch for the night. "Drop it," Sammy advised Jamie after Dean left for a beer run, "Dean's overprotective, once he's got his mind set on something it happens." Jamie nodded then the two lapsed in silence until Jamie broke it a few minutes later after his first read-through of his father's journal.
"I'm not in here, but some kid named Adam is, whose that?" Sam sighed, judging by his expression bringing up Adam was going to make Sammy take a walk down memory lane. "Sorry, I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories." His little brother shrugged his apology off,
"you didn't know. Adam, he was well... He was out little brother, we mwt him when he was around eighteen years opd. His mother got killed by a ghoul and so we met up with hi., but he ended up dying after being killed off by the same ghoul family that killed his mom." Jamie winced in sympathy but didn't inturrupt Sam from explaining the story further. "A few years later we got pulled into the demon verses angel war and apparently our family is like chosen ones for Lucifer and Michael. I said yes to Lucifer so we could try and trap him, but Dean still refused to say yes to Michael. In the end Heaven brought back Adam and tricked him into saying yes so Adam and I got sent to Hell the hard way. I got out, but he still got trapped down there." Jamie looked down at the Adam pages of his father's journal then he asked,
"I'm going to die aren't I?" Sam chuckled then his expression went solom,
"probably more than once to be honest. Dean's died over a hundred times due to a Trickster's alternate reality. I haven't died nesrly as much though haven't even broke into double digits."
"And you never will." A voice said from behind them, both Winchesters turned around expecting a fight, but the voice ended up belonging to Dean. He held up the six-pack then smirked, "beer?" Jamie grabbed one first then popped the bottle open.
"So, monster hunting." Jamie said as the dug into the take out for the night. "You guys probably don't earn enough money for this do you?" Dean took a drink of his beer then nodded,
"yeah pretty boy, we get by through pool hustling and credit car scams. That won't be difficult will it?" Jamie shook his head then watched Sammy take a bite out of the leafy green salad he got.
"What even is that?" The middle Winchester asked his little brother. Sam shrugged,
"a cobb salad." Suddenly a man apparead in a cloud of black smoke. Jamie had no clue what was going on, but his brothers each pulled out a stranged silver blade.
