Author's Note: Sorry for the bit of a wait for this update. I just got super busy last week. I've decided to update this story every Monday, just to give myself a set schedule to get it done it time. :)
Chapter Three
~Kansas~
Sam left Castiel to translate the rest of the symbols since Cas was more familiar with the coded language. The angel would know how it all fit together to unwrap the mystery. And in the meantime, Sam called Amy. He wasn't too sure what he would say to her, but he would make sure nothing he said panicked her.
But, after everything she had already been through with Dark, the possibility of him returning might not even bother her. She had been the one to say Dark wouldn't ever come back to this world.
Because Dark had fallen in love with Amy. Sam didn't know how close she had gotten to feeling the same way, but he did know that she and Mark had had a lot of stuff to work out.
Amy answered the phone pretty quickly, not sounding surprised to hear from him. "Hey, Sam," she said. "It's been a while."
Sam couldn't help but smile. Over the time he had spent with Amy, he had grown to like her. She was like a sister. And even though she was also mixed up in this demon hunting world of theirs in a way, Sam always caught a glimpse of a normal life when he was around her. And even though he wouldn't trade his life now for anything, those occasional glimpses with Amy were nice.
"Too long," Sam said, wondering if he should fill her in on everything that had happened since he last saw her, but then decided against it. It pained him to think he shouldn't even be calling her now. She and Mark had gotten back into their normal lives. They hadn't wanted any more of the hunter life. But was it so wrong for Sam to want her as a friend? Something normal in his life? Dean would just tell him that being friends with her would put her in danger. That her life would cease to be normal after that. If Sam cared, really cared, he would leave her alone.
"I actually called because something came up," Sam said. He took her silence as her bracing herself for some bad news. "Nothing...weird has happened lately, has it?"
"As in Darkiplier weird?" Amy asked. "I'm gonna freak if I've spent any more time -"
"Mark is Mark, you don't have to worry about that."
"Then why ask if anything weird has happened?"
"I've been having dreams that might be linked to Dark," Sam said. "Symbols he used back at the hospital." He knew that that had been a hard time for her, but she had healed over time.
"So nothing to do with Celine?" Amy asked.
"Not yet at least," Sam said. Celine showing up was also a possibility, but she had supposedly locked herself up in the World Between Worlds. But if Dark was coming back, they needed to be prepared for Celine as well. "There's also something else."
Now Amy sounded worried. "What?"
"There might be new information on where Dark came from," Sam said. "Before Damien."
"I feel something bad coming, so I would rather not know," Amy said. "As for your question, nothing weird..." She trailed off.
"Amy?"
"Mark just came in," Amy said after a brief moment. "You're on speaker phone."
"You're wanting to know if anything weird has happened recently?" Mark asked, but apparently needed no answer. "Last night I had a dream. I didn't think anything about it, but since you're now calling to ask if anything weird has happened, it can't be coincidence."
"Did you see any strange symbols in your dream?" Sam asked then described the ones he had seen in his own dream.
"No symbols," Mark replied. "The dream kinda felt like old memories, but I didn't recognize anything."
Sam remembered what Celine had once told him. Of the possibility that Mark was the same Mark who Dark was after. The Mark that had stolen Damien's body and supposedly escaped into another world. But then Celine had been sure he wasn't that Mark.
But if Dark couldn't remember where it had come from, there was a possibility Mark had forgotten as well. Dark had forgotten because of merging with Damien, taking his memories and life and twisting it to his own desires. Mark could have forgotten while he became a part of this world.
"Sam?"
Sam hadn't realized he had been quiet for so long. "Keep me updated about your dreams," he said. "I just have a hunch that something big is about to happen." If what he thought about Mark was true, and if Dark remembered where he came from, would that open the floodgates of Mark's own memories?
Sam hung up and hurried back to Castiel.
~California~
Mark knew what was coming as soon as Sam hung up the phone. He knew it from the look on Amy's face when he mentioned his dream to Sam. "I was going to -" he started, but Amy cut him off.
"Don't even give me that," Amy said. "Even if you didn't think it was anything, you still should have told me."
"It was just a dream."
"Was Celine there?"
"No," Mark said with a shake of his head. "If she was, I would have told you."
"Oh, so I don't deserve to know unless she's involved," Amy said. She turned and walked across the room, sitting down at the desk. "Good to know."
Mark walked over to her, turning her chair until she was facing him. He knelt down in front of her, meeting her eyes. "I'm sorry for not telling you," he said. "But I honestly didn't think anything of it. The only weird thing about it was that I didn't recognize anything." He could guess what Sam had been thinking when he hung up. It was what Celine had been trying to push.
That he was the same Mark Dark was after.
"What was your dream?" Amy asked. She didn't sound upset with him anymore, which was good.
"It was just...flashes of images," Mark said. They all knew how dreams worked. That you ended up not remembering most of it once you were awake. "Most of it's blurry, but I remember seeing this figure, who seemed important. It felt like they were always there. I don't know if they were friend or enemy. They were just there."
"I'm sure Sam will come up with something," Amy said. She leaned forward, taking his hands in hers. "It also doesn't sound like nothing. If I had had a dream like that -"
"You know the kind of dreams I've had," Mark said, remembering the dreams he had while Dark was trying to take over his body and the dreams while he was in the World Between Worlds with Celine. "If it was a threat, I'd know."
"But you said you didn't know if the figure was friend or foe."
"It didn't feel dangerous," Mark said. "Sam will find something out. They've helped us before."
"I'm worried that they'll find something."
Mark didn't admit it, but he was a little worried as well.
