The grey landscape of Purgatory was getting to me. I'd fought monster after monster. And now I knew I was going to die here. Three vampires surrounded me. My back was against a fallen tree log. There was no way I was going to survive. Until I heard the yelling. Another monster jumped over the massive log burnishing two dagger like blades. With ease he killed the three vampires.
"Thanks," I say.
"You're not a monster soul are you?" He asks, collecting the vampires' weapons.
"No, I'm here looking for one," I tell him.
"What's his name?" The monster asked.
"Rick. Rick Tobias," I answer.
"And who would be looking for me?" He asks
"AJ Winchester," I say, chucking him AJ's ring. He catches it and studies it.
"It took her this long to send someone," He laughs "How's she paying you?"
"She's going to set my cousin, Sam, free," Rick shakes his head.
"Sounds just like her,"
"She used to trap people and force their love ones to do perilous jobs for her?"
"Nope. She just liked making people she hated do the hard work," He says "You should have seen all the things she asked Kira to do. And the fights they both got into,"
"Who's Kira?" I ask
"Just an old friend of ours. She's probably dead but you never know with kitsunes," He laughs "I think it was the whole AJ is a half angel whose father is an archangel and she won't die unless killed in a very specific way thing," I laugh. Rick starts walking.
"Come on kid – the portal's this way,"
I sat in the Impala, thinking about AJ and Rick. They were going to be happy again but it didn't solve the case. What had AJ said about how Sam and I got the case; Something about the Trickster and Gabriel. Her eyes had glowed when Cas threatened her and said that she was more powerful than him. I made a mental note to read the page about the trickster when I next pulled over for a coffee break. There was also the way she'd first described her relationship with Rick; A half angel dating a vampire. Did that mean that AJ was an actual half angel? Or was it just a metaphor? That, I had a feeling, would be answered to me when I set Rick free from my arm. I turn on the radio which starts playing classic rock.
"I like your boy's style Sammy," I tell my younger brother. Sam rolls his eyes.
"You just pre-set the car before he got in Dean,"
"You do release AJ didn't kill that sweetshop owner," I point out.
"And she won't kill anyone at the dinner she works at," Sam adds "AJ was a good person,"
"She is a good person Sammy. She's just angry at the moment. We took her happiness from her,"
"She'll soon be reunited with him,"
"Do you think we'll be able to stick around long enough to see the wedding?"
"Doubt it. But where would they have it? All of AJ's friends are dead and probably in Purgatory. And who would walk her down the Aisle? Gabriel can't – he's been dead and neither can her stepdad or us for that matter," Sam replied
"True but maybe Dean could, they are technically family even if it's two generations difference,"
"Or maybe Sam could. But how would they explain it?"
"They're cousins Sammy," I tell my brother.
"Still doesn't say where they would have it,"
"Probably in some church in New Zealand," Sam agrees with a 'hmm'
Have some Ghost Sam and Dean and a trip to purgatory