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Chapter 7: This Isn't Control
Two and a half months later, Dean calls Alexis again with the same alarming sentence. "Lex, Sam's gone."
"Again?" she asks, worried nonetheless.
"Yeah, but this time is different. He wasn't pissed, he just disappeared. Have you heard from him?" Dean asks, hoping she'd say she had.
"No, I'm sorry Dean, I haven't. Do you need me?" Alexis asks, ready to meet Dean if he needed.
"No, no. I'll let you know if I find him. I've got your mom and Bobby looking for him too. Let me know if you hear from him though." Dean tells her.
"Ok. I will. Hope you find him soon, Dean." she says.
"Yeah, so do I, Lex."
Dean texted her a few days later saying he'd found Sam. So Alexis was incredibly shocked when Sam showed up at the bar Jo was working at. She'd been visiting her sister up in Minnesota and had gone out to grab some food. When she returns, her sister was tied up to a post and unconscious. "Sam?" she asks, voice riddled with shock, confusion, and concern.
"Alexis." he says in a voice that sounded nothing like his own.
"You're not Sam." Alexis says, hand reaching for her weapon.
But Sam, or whatever that was, was faster. He grabs her and knocks her out too.
Alexis wakes up, hands handcuffed behind a post, near her sister. Shit, handcuffs mean I can't use my telekinesis to escape. And I'm pretty sure Sam's possessed, so I can't physically harm him. "Jo?" she asks, "You okay?"
"I think so, you?"
"Yeah. Whatever that is, that's not Sam. Trust me. He's either possessed or a shifter or something. It's not Sam." Alexis tells her older sister.
"You're sure?" Jo asks.
"You even have to ask me that?" she says, mildly shocked her sister would believe that was purely Sam.
Just then, Sam, well not-Sam Sam, appears. "Ah, both of you are awake."
He walks closer to them and says, "So what exactly did your mom tell you about how your dad died?"
"You're not Sam." They both say.
"Don't be so sure of that. Answer the question." not-Sam says. He moves closer to Jo and pulls out a knife, "Answer the question."
"Fine." Jo says.
"Fine." not-Sam responds.
"Our dads were in California. Devil's Gate Reservoir. They were setting a trap for some kind of hell spawn. John was hiding and waiting, and my dad was bait." Jo recalls.
Not-Sam laughs, "That's just like John. Oh I bet he dangled Bill like meat on a hook. Then what?" not-Sam says, walking behind Jo.
"The thing showed up," Jo continues, "John got too eager, jumped out too soon, got my Dad exposed out in the open. The thing turned around and killed him." Jo finishes, tears beginning to well up.
"Hm, not quite." not-Sam says.
"What?" both Jo and Alexis ask.
"What?" not-Sam says, "Oh, see it hurt him, it didn't kill him. You really don't know the truth, do you? Neither of you?" not-Sam continues. He laughs again and says, "I bet your mom doesn't either."
"Know what?" the sisters question simultaneously.
"You see Bill," not-Sam begins, leaning closer towards Jo's head, "was all clawed up, was holding his insides in his hands, he was gurgling and praying to see his kids and Ellen one more time. So my dad killed him. Put him out of his misery like a sick dog."
"You're lying." Jo says, and Alexis just stares at not-Sam, not saying a word. She couldn't if she tried.
"I'm not. It's true. My daddy shot your daddy in the head." not-Sam sing-songs.
"How could you know that?" Jo asks.
"I hear things." not-Sam responds, then sticks the knife in the post above Jo's head.
"Why are you doing this to us?" Jo asks.
"Like daddy, like daughter." he begins, "You're bait. Open up." he gags Jo and moves over to Alexis.
Not-Sam whispers in her ear, "Now, you're not going to use your little super power, or your sister dies." He then gags her too.
Just then, Dean bursts through the door, gun in hand. "Sam!" Dean shouts.
Not-Sam pulls the knife out of the post, saying, "I begged you to stop me, Dean."
"Put the knife down dammit." Dean says, seeing as not-Sam had it at Jo's throat.
"I told you I can't fight it." not-Sam says. "My head feels like it's on fire, alright? Dean, kill me, or I'm gonna kill her, and then Alexis. Please, you'd be doing me a favor. Shoot me." he continues, then swings his arms out, removing the knife from Jo's throat, and says louder, "Shoot me!"
Gun still aimed at Sam, Dean says, "No Sammy, come on." and then lowers his gun and turns his back to not-Sam.
"What the hell is wrong with you, Dean?" not-Sam demands. He moves closer to Dean and says, "Are you that scared of being alone that you'd rather let Jo and Alexis die?"
Dean whips around and throws holy water on not-Sam, well actually possessed Sam. "That's holy water, you demonic son of a bitch."
Possessed-Sam jumps out the window and Dean moves to cut Jo loose and then Alexis. The key was on the table so he quickly let her go and hops out the window possessed-Sam had just exited. "Dean!" Jo shouts, but he just continues after possessed-Sam.
Alexis and her sister were walking along the dock, flashlights in hand, trying to call Dean.
"He's not answering?" Alexis asks.
"No." Jo responds.
A few minutes later, Jo tries again. "Wait, I hear his phone." Alexis says.
They turn and see a body, Dean, and run towards him. "Dean! Dean!" Jo shouts, turning him over.
"Dean, take it easy." Alexis says, she and her sister maneuvering Dean to a sitting position.
"Where's Sam?" Dean asks.
"I don't know, we've been looking for you." Jo tells him.
"Come on, get up." she says as she and Alexis help pull Dean up.
They manage to get him back to the bar. While Jo patches the bullet wound in Dean's shoulder up, Alexis circles the place to see if Sam, well possessed-Sam, was still out there. As she's heading back, she sees Dean heading to his car.
"Dean! I'm coming with you!" Alexis shouts, catching up to him.
He turns to her and says, "No you're not. I told your sister the same thing. Stay here." Dean sternly tells her.
"Hell no, Dean. You just got shot and Sam's possessed. My guess is he's heading towards Bobby's, so I am coming with you, like it or not. You can't stop me from doing so."
"Oh, I can't? I can tie you up to that post back in there."
"And I can get out damn easily and you know it, Dean. You may be able to threaten Jo with that, but not me. I'm coming. You don't get to say no." Alexis tells him.
"Alexis-" Dean begins.
She cuts him off, "No Dean. I am coming. Now do you want to stand here arguing with me, an argument you won't win I might add, or do you want to get to Bobby's?"
Dean glares at her and finally relents, saying, "Fine."
"I'm driving." Alexis says.
"Hell no!" Dean exclaims.
"You just got shot in the shoulder. I'm driving. Hand me the keys, Dean."
He looks at her and sees there's no way she's letting him drive, so he hands her the key and says,
"You're scary, you know that right?"
"Oh, I know." she tells him, hopping into the driver's side of the Impala.
"Now, if you crash my baby, you're dead, got it?" Dean says.
"I won't, just relax Dean. Well, as much as you possibly can." Alexis says, taking off towards Bobby's.
She called her sister to tell her she was leaving as Dean tried calling Bobby to give him a heads up about Sam.
When she and Dean got to Bobby's he already had Sam tied to a chair under the key of Solomon that was on the ceiling.
"Dean, back from the dead. Getting to be a regular thing for you, isn't it?" the demon says, adding,
"Like a cockroach."
"How bout' I smack that smartass right out of your mouth." Dean retorts.
"Careful now, wouldn't want to bruise this fine packaging."
"Oh, don't worry. This isn't going to hurt Sam much." Dean says, pouring a bucket of holy water on him. "Feel like talking now?" They talk a little more and Bobby begins an exorcism. The demon starts cackling after Dean mentions the master plan.
He says, "You really think that's what this is about? The master plan? I don't give a rat's ass about the master plan."
Bobby continues the exorcism but the demon laughs, saying it won't work and that it'd picked up some new tricks. The demon then begins muttering some Latin chant. Quickly, Bobby realizes the demon was doing a binding link and had now locked itself inside of Sam. The key cracked on the ceiling and the demon was now free.
"There. That's better." the demon says, launching Bobby into a wall. He then does the same to Dean and turns to Alexis and tries to do the same, but he can't.
She smirks, hiding her surprise, and says, "Hm. Doesn't seem to work on me."
"Guess I'll just have to get my hands dirty then." the demon says, moving towards her.
She lures him towards her as she moves towards the fireplace, the iron fire poker behind her back while she simultaneously uses her telekinesis to open the bottle of holy water on the table.
"Moving towards the fire? How stupid are you?" the demon says.
He gets close enough that she can reach out and grab the arm with the mark on it and burn it with the poker, so she uses her telekinesis to pour the holy water on him as she does so. The mark is burned, thus ruining the lock, and the demon screams in agony and expels itself from Sam.
It was now just Sam, and he looked entirely confused. He asks, "Did I miss anything?" as he takes in Dean and Bobby on the ground and Alexis near the fireplace. Dean reaches over and connects his fist to Sam's face.
The three grab seats as Bobby asks, mostly to Alexis, "You mind telling me how the hell you did that?"
"Telekinesis." Both she and Dean say at the same time.
"Come again?" Bobby says.
Alexis explains the whole thing to Bobby and he just nods. Great, now Bobby knows too. Bobby walks into the kitchen, and when he returns, he has an odd look on his face.
"What is it Bobby?" Sam asks the older hunter.
"You three ever hear of a hunter named Steve Wandell?"
"Why do you ask?" Dean says.
"Just heard from a friend, Wandell's dead." Bobby says.
"Steve's dead?" Alexis asks.
"You knew him?" the older hunter questions.
"Yeah, met him once or twice. Good hunter."
"Well, he was murdered in his own house. You wouldn't know anything about that?" Bobby says, the last part only to the Winchesters.
"No sir. Never heard of the guy." Dean says and Sam starts, "Dean."
Bobby interrupts Sam, "Good. Keep it that way. Wandell's buddies are looking for someone or something to string up. They're not going to slow down to listen to reason. You understand what I'm saying?"
Alexis is totally lost but Dean just nods and says, "We better hit the road."
Bobby hands them anti-possession charms and tells him the demon is still out there and they'll stop it from getting back in them.
Alexis decides to chime in, "You should just get them tattooed on you. Like I did."
"That's probably a good idea, Lex." Bobby says and the boys nod.
They turn for the door and Dean says, "You coming, Lex? You don't have your car."
"Actually, I think I'll stay here with Bobby, if he doesn't mind." Alexis says, looking at Bobby.
"You know you're always welcome here Lexi, besides, you never finished that old car you were working on." Bobby tells her.
"Oh yeah! I can work on that." Alexis says, then turns to the boys and says, "I'll see you guys later. Knowing you two, you'll get into some trouble soon enough and be calling me for help."
Sam laughs and says, "Yeah, probably."
"Be careful." Alexis tells them.
"You too, Lex." they both say and then head out the door.
Alexis had been at Bobby's for two weeks. She liked staying there and the old hunter liked having her around. She'd cook for them and helped around the house with research along with working on the car she had there. Bobby had gotten a call from Sam and Dean who were struggling with a case in Springfield, Ohio. Bobby was going to meet them and Alexis had said she'd go with.
Once they get there, they listened to everything that's happened and observed how much Sam and Dean were bickering, so Bobby easily deducted that it's a Trickster, saying the boys were the biggest clue. After Bobby tells them about what tricksters are, the Winchesters figure out it's more than likely the janitor.
The next morning, Sam and Dean go to see the janitor and Alexis tags along.
As soon as Alexis lays eyes on him, she does a double take. She sees a man in a janitor uniform, but also sees giant wings spanning from his back. She's positive the boys don't see them, because he'd have been long dead. I must be losing my mind, I mean, wings? What, he's an angel? Yeah right, she thinks to herself and tries to concentrate on the conversation.
"Sorry I'm dragging a little ass today, boys. I had quite the night last night. So, who's the pretty lady?" he asks.
"Not interested." Dean and Sam say, both stepping slightly in front of her.
"Can't she decide that for herself?"
"Yeah, guys. Head up to 3, I'll meet you up there." Alexis tells them and they turn to stare at her incredulously while the janitor smirks.
"Seriously?" Dean questions.
"Yeah, go on. I'll be up in a minute." Alexis says firmly.
"Fine." Dean says, heading up the stairs. Sam says he forgot something and heads back out.
Once both boys are out of earshot, Alexis turns to the janitor and demands, "What are you? You're not a Trickster. You have wings." The janitor gapes and then grabs her arm. Suddenly, they aren't standing in the stairwell anymore.
"Ok, what the fuck was that? Where the hell are we? And what the hell are you?" she practically screams.
"How do you know I have wings? You can see them?" he asks her, ignoring her questions.
"They're kind of hard to miss!" she says, voice still raised and on high alert. "Now, answer my questions!"
"Alright, alright, calm down. Have a seat. Do you want anything to drink?" he tells her, unsure of how to deal with this. No one could see his wings, no human that is. Not that he'd ever encountered.
"I don't want to sit down, and I sure as hell don't want a drink! Tell me what you are and why the hell you have wings!" Alexis yells, pacing.
"I'm an angel. They call me Gabriel. Okay?" the janitor, no, Gabriel, says.
"Angels aren't real." she says.
"Oh but they are Alexis. Most of them are a bunch of dicks too, that's why I left."
"Okay... wait, how do you know my name?" Alexis demands.
"Hello? Angel? You're Alexis Harvelle. Youngest daughter of Bill and Ellen Harvelle." Gabe says.
"Creepy. Ok, so if you're an angel, why are you posing as a Trickster?" she asks.
"It's fun. And it keeps me hidden from my siblings."
"Ok. Look, you probably can't be killed like a Trickster, am I right?" she asks and he nods.
"So, just let Sam and Dean kill you," she begins, with air quotes around the word kill, "and they'll think you're dead and leave. Then you can go be a Trickster somewhere else, just stop killing people."
"Fine. You don't breathe a word about me being an angel or that we even exist, got it? You're special, you can see our wings. Most people can't." Gabe tells her.
"Got it. Only if you promise to do one thing for me if I need you." Alexis says.
Gabe looks at her and reluctantly says, "Fine. Pray to me, the angel Gabriel, when you decide what that is, and I'll show up. I'll take you back now, the Winchesters will only think a minute or so has passed." Gabriel reaches out to touch her and they're suddenly back in the stairwell.
Both Dean and Sam immediately pounce on her for making them leave her with the Trickster alone and demanding she tell them what happened. She just says nothing and walks out of the building. That night they go to 'kill the Trickster' and eventually succeed. Gabriel convincingly dies and the four hightail it out of the city.
To Sam and Dean it was just another hunt. It was much more to Alexis. She was left with so many questions and no one around to answer them.