Adam hadn't moved from his spot on the couch for a good hour or so. Dean and Bobby were not to far away, he could hear what they were saying, but wasn't really paying attention. At some point Bobby had poured himself and Dean a shot of whisky each. "How longs this gonna go on for?" One of them said, Adam's shocked mind couldn't work out who. Maybe Dean?
"Here let me look it up in my demon-detox manual," the other, which Adam assumed was Bobby, even if his mind still hadn't separated the two. "Oh wait. No one ever wrote one. No telling how long it'll take. Hell, or if Sam'll even survive." They had spoken about Sam dying earlier, but they made it sound like it was continuing to drink the blood that would kill him then, not stopping drinking it. Adam shrank back into the threadbare cushions, older brothers were supposed to be strong. Older brothers were supposed to look after younger brothers. Adam knew that Sam had been used to being the younger brother, but when they first met Sam seemed so strong. Having stabbed a ghoul in the back with two massives gashes, one in each wrist, Adam had thought Sam could do anything.
But here Sam was, not all that long after Adam's initial impression, being detoxed off of demon blood. This wasn't fair. Adam had started to rely on, need, both of his older brothers. He couldn't lose one of them. If he felt like this, God knows how Dean was feeling.
Adam was wrenched from his thoughts by the phone ringing. Bobby sighed and answered it. "Hello," There was a pause as he listened to the person on the other end. "Suck dirt and die Rufus. You call me again, I'll kill ya." With that Bobby hung up.
"What's up with Rufus?" Dean asked. Adam was only barely listening, not really sure what they were talking about.
"He knows," Bobby said, not seeming to want to explain his actions. The phone rang again and Bobby answered. "I'm busy, you son of a bitch. This better be important."
After Bobby got off of the phone with Rufus, he started to explain what he had been told. "The news," Bobby said. "The news ain't good."
"This is what Rufus called about?" Dean asked, looking at the news. "'Key West sees ten species go extinct.'"
"Yep," Bobby said. Adam had actively been listening now, rather than just melting into the grotty couch. "Plus Alaska. Fifteen-man fishing crew all stricken blind, cause unknown. New York teacher goes postal, locks the door, kills exactly 66 kids." Bobby paused for a moment letting Dean and Adam take in what he said. "All this in a single day. I looked them up. There's no doubt about it. They're all seals. Breaking. Fast."
"Seals?" Adam asked.
"666 in total," Dean said. "Break 66, including the first and last, and you free the Devil."
"That's not good," Adam said.
"You could say that," Dean said. "You could also say it's pretty freaking disastrous."
"How many are left?" Adam asked, looking between the two of them.
"Who knows? Can't be many?" Bobby looked at Dean. "Where the hell are your angel pals?"
"You tell me," Dean said. Honestly having no idea where any of the angels are.
There was a brief moment where all three just kind of stared off solemnly. Before Bobby broke the silence. "I'm just wondering." He said.
"What?" Dean and Adam both said.
"The apocalypse being nigh and all..." Bobby trailed off before continuing. "Is now really the best time to be having this little domestic drama of ours?"
"What do you mean?" Dean asked, Adam had a confused frown on his face as he looked on.
"Well, I don't like this any more than you do," Bobby said, from that Dean got a fairly good idea of where he was going and he already disagreed. "But Sam can kill demons. He's got a shot at stopping armageddon."
"So what?" Dean asked. "Sacrifice Sam's life, his soul, for the greater good?" Dean asked. "Is that what you're saying? Times are bad so let's use Sam as a nuclear war head?" Adam suppressed a laugh at that mental image, there was a time and a place and whilst this may be the place, it definitely wasn't the time.
"Look," Bobby said. "i know you hate me for suggesting it. I hate me for suggesting it. I love that boy like a son." Bobby paused as if making sure the two boys in the room knew that extended to them two, especially Adam as the new addition to the family. "All I'm saying is maybe he's here right now instead of on the battlefield because we love him too much."
Not long after Bobby's - was it a speech? - talk, Dean disappeared outside. After a few minutes Adam and Bobby could hear Dean shouting Cas's name as loudly as he could. He probably thought that by being outside they wouldn't hear him, he was wrong. Every desperate cry and pleading shout was heard by both Adam and Bobby, Sam was too busy shouting himself to hear anything else. Bobby gave Adam a look, which the youngest of John's sons took to mean 'go found out what that idjit is doing out there' which, really, wasn't far off.
When Adam arrived, he stayed hidden. "Well it's about time," He heard Dean say. "I've been screaming myself hoarse out here for about two and a half hours." Yeah and Adam was really getting a headache from it.
"What do you want?" Castiel's voice said.
"You can start with what the hell happened in Illinois," Dean said. Adam felt like he was intruding on a domestic or something. It was really quite awkward. He also felt really bad about spying on Dean, so he decided that knowing Dean had got an answer out of Cas, he headed back inside.
Once he was inside, Adam was confronted by Bobby. "What happened then?" He said. "THe idjit ain't yellin' anymore."
"That'll be because his angel showed up," Adam said.
"'Bout damn time," Bobby said. "All the yellin' was giving me a headache. What did he say?"
"Not much, that I'm aware of," Adam confessed. "I left before they really got talking. It felt like I Was intruding on a private moment or something..."
"You goddamn idjit," Bobby said. "Now Dean's going to go do something goddamn stupid."
I have decided that rather than give you the beast of a chapter like the one before last I will split each Episode adaption into parts. These parts will coresponding-ish to where the add break would be in the actual episode... C:
