Episode 8

"The little mermaid."

Chapter 1

Drowning deaths were on the rise in Bayfield, Wisconsin and so were sightings of what people described as mermaids, which led to Dean commenting on a porn version of The Little Mermaid he'd seen and in turn led to an annoyed Sam.

The trio settled into their room at the Moat Inn, which was nicer than the name implied, and started doing research on water creatures.

"There's over a hundred that could be easily mistaken for a mermaid." Said Laney in frustration.

"Well does lore give us a common way to kill them all or are they all unique?" Dean said in a huff.

"We'd have to actually catch it first cause the lore says ALL of these suckers are REALLY fast.", "How's that for common?" Said Laney sounding annoyed.

"Wow, you two should get a room." Said Sam in a monotone voice.

"SHUT UP SAM!" Both Dean and Laney yelled in unison.

"First, you don't even know what that phrase means Sam." Said Laney with a blush.

"You just heard Dean use it at that couple back in Langford only three days ago."

"Second, we already have a room, so that comment makes no sense." Laney finished calmly, but she was giving Dean a scolding look for being a bad influence.

"Alright, whatever." Sam shrugged rolling his eyes "Just please stop bickering."

Dean shook out his frustration and asked in a purposely forced tone of calmness "Have you found any hints as to what we may be dealing with?"

"No, I'm still looking.", "I'll let you know if I find something." Laney said with a polite nod.

"We could go talk to people at the lake see what they've heard." Sam offered to Laney.

Laney nodded "Looks like we'll have to."

"All three of us should go." Said Dean not wanting to miss an opportunity at seeing bikini clad girls.

Chapter 2

The lakeshore was buzzing with activity. There were people, learning to windsurf, playing vollyball, scanning the shoreline with metal detecters and some just laying around reading or getting a tan.

Laney walked to a group of high school aged girls, said she was a journalist and started asking them about the recent creature sightings .

The girls went into what they'd been hearing around the beach. They said that there were rumors that the creature had been sighted mostly around the old abandoned water treatment facility, which was as good as place as any to start.

The area around the old treatment facility was surounded by a rusty chainlink fence and razor wire, with warning signs posted all around. Still rowdy local teenagers had snuck into the grounds to go to the seclusive fenced off area of the lake to party.

Dean posed as a State Police Officer and told them the area was dangerous and that they neede to leave because it was a crime scene. All of the youths grudgingly trecked out through the hole in the fence through which they'd snuck in.

The water treatment facility itself was locked up tight, so the trio had to go in through a window.

The thick musty smell was overwhelming and Sam made a sour face.

"Aw toughen up Sammy.", "You've definetly smelled worse." Dean said jokingly.

"Not in any of MY memories I haven't." Said Sam all to seriously.

"Can it you two.", "We need to spread out." Said Laney gesturing in three different directions as she said "I'll take the east side of the building, you guys divy up the rest."

Chapter 3

Dean hated that Laney thought she could give orders. But the building was huge and splitting up made sense, so he let it slide.

Dean scoured his part of the building and found a door to the sanitation area of the building.

Apparently the other parts of the building converged on this area because Sam and Laney soon came to join him.

"Looks like we're going in there." Said Laney.

"Looks like." Said Sam with a grin.

The room was huge. There were large square pools of water in the floor that were about five feet deep each. As they trio reached the back of the room the water in the pools went from stagnant to a amber colored gelatinous goop.

"Oh that's gross." Said Dean making a face.

"So you haven't seen worse than that." Said Sam in a smart assed tone.

"Stuff it." Said Dean.

Sam chukled "What do you think it is?" Sam asked Laney while pointing to the goop.

"Whatever it is it's alive." Said Laney as she realized the "goop" was moving.

Laney knelt down, dipped a pen into the goop and scooped some out with the tip. Upon a closer look the "goop" was revealed to be tiny individual creatures that looked like a cross between a jellyfish, a lobster and an eel.

"Aren't they just adorable." Said Dean sarcastically.

"I think this is a type of spawning chamber." Said Laney with a concerned look. "These are our mystery creature's offspring."

"How do we kill them?" Dean asked.

"We're here to kill the murderous monster.", "Not the young helpless ones." Stated Laney in a stern tone.

"WE KILL THE MONSTERS, NO MATTER WHAT!", "END OF STORY!" Dean yelled angry that Laney was trying to make exception to that rule.

"No YOU kill monsters no matter what.", "I'm not that cold blooded." Said Laney giving Dean a pitiful stare.

"Look!.", "We've tried the whole let some of them off the hook thing.", "It almost always ends up bad for us!", "We just can't afford to let them live." Dean said.

"If you kill this thing's young just because of what they were born as, then you're a coward." Said Laney turning away because she wouldn't bare witness to his mistake.

"Well if we don't kill them.", "Then what do we do with them?" Asked Dean sounding hateful.

"We turn them over to science."

"Say they're a new species and they'll get their own protective reserve."

"We can of course set the perameters of the "special care" they're going to need."

"And if they grow up hostile we can gank them then.", "But at least we'll have given them a chance to grow up peaceful." Said Laney with a nod at Dean.

Dean rolled his eyes. He hated that Laney was to much like the way he and "his" Sam had once been.

"You've got a lot of growing up to do kid." Said Dean shooting Laney an annoyed look.

"Dude I'm almost twenty-two." Said Laney, then she let out a frustrated sigh saying "Look I know you think I'm naive..."

"No, I know you're naive." Dean interrupted.

Laney shook her head saying "But I have rules I DO NOT break for anything.", "One of those rules is I don't purposely hurt children." Then she looked at the goop as she continued with a shrug "No matter what form they're in."

"There'll be a day where you have no choice but to break that rule.", "Just so yo know." Said Dean with a sideways glance.

There was a dragging noise coming from the drainage tunnel in the side of the room.

In the tunnel was a large creature that had the head of an eel the body and claws of a lobster with jelly fish like tentacles coming out it's sides. In the beast's tentacle was a dead woman in a bathing suit.

Dean looked almost excited as he said "If that's not anime tentacle porn material I don't know what is."

Laney shot him a look and said "Kill the monster.", "Remember?"

"Right." Said Dean looking distracted. "How do we do that?"

"It's a water monster.", "So I say we burn it." Laney said.

"Funny how many things fire works on." Said Dean with sideways nod as he tossed a bottle of booze at the creature.", "Then he flicked his lighter and threw it into the puddle of alcohol.

The three of them stood there and watched as the monster burned.

The next Laney took the high school girls she'd talked to, to the treatment facility and instructed them on how to present "their" discovery to the press.

As Bayfield was put behind them Dean looked back at Sam and was happy he hadn't killed the monster's young. Because Sam was innocent now to and he didn't want his baby brother to think of him as a monster.

Episode 9

"Musical chairs"

Chapter 1

Regular healthy people were just literally dropping dead in droves in the town of Cornelia, Georgia. Even though Dean really hated being that close to Florida, Sam gave him the face he couldn't resist and he caved in, like always.

After getting checked in to the hotel the trio needed to eat so they settled on going to a resturaunt for a change.

They ended up in a cute little Aztec themed place called the Cacao Grill and Dean had no shame in hitting on the pretty waitress that was dressed in a scimpy "Aztec themed" costume.

Laney looked crossly at him and leaned in whispering in a scolding tone "You know all women do not want to be picked up or hit on."

Dean looked smug, Laney was annoyingly naive about how things worked in the world. "Dressed like that?", "She's probably been getting hit on all night.", "It's harmless fun, and it probably gives her an ego boost."

"You have no idea what it's like to be a woman." Laney retorted. "Yes I admit it's nice to have a guy take notice every once in a while.", "But to HAVE to dress like that for work, knowing your being displayed like a piece of meat only to be hit on every night by horn dogs like you because it's good for business, that has to get old. She fumed.

"I am not a horn dog!" Dean said irately. "You don't even know me!"

Sam looked annoyed as he asked. "Will you both just shut up?"

"Stay out of this Sam!" Both Dean and Laney exclaimed in unison.

"Boy I'd love for you both to get to see what it's like to be me having to put up with both of you!" Said Sam determined to chip in his two cents on the matter.

"Oh stuff it." Dean yapped.

"Well neither of you have no idea what it's like to be me.", "Do you?" Sam said bitterly. "It gets annoying to be only viewed as helpless and in need of protecting because of my broken brain by BOTH of you."

"Sam I apologize, I don't mean to make you feel that way." Laney said truly sorry.

"We can BOTH be annoying I get it." Said Dean with a frustrated sigh and thought to himself "But if you only knew what it was like to be me Sammy you would get it."

That night they settled down to sleep unaware that they were all about to get what they wanted.

The next morning Dean woke up and grogily drug himself to the bathroom. He undid his pants and started to piss only to have the urine pour down into his jeans instead of the toilet bowl.

"What the hell!" Dean thought as he stumbled backwards. He was dizzy and disoriented although he knew he hadn't drank last night.

Pulling off his soaked denim and taking off his shirt he stepped into the shower to wash himself off.

The water woke him up a little better and he started to soap up his body. Receiving the shock of his life Dean realized he had breasts. Like a woman's breasts!

Yelling out loud from the horror Dean crashed out of the shower still naked running full speed to the full length mirror in the room where he came face to face with Laney.

"No!", "No!", "No!" Dean babbled as he backed away from the mirror.

"Laney what's wrong?" Sam asked shooting out of bed with a concerned look on his face he ran to her side.

Dean's body stirred in the bed as it spoke saying "I'm fine Sam.", "Why?"

Then his body looked over to where Sam stood with "Laney". Dean's body bolted up shouting "WHAT THE HELL?"

This was all to surreal for Dean as he could only guess that Laney was stuck in his body like he was in hers.

Sam looked baffled as "Dean" faultered as he stood then began turnning in circles to examin "himself".

"Dean are you okay?" Sam asked with a look on his face that said he was sure Dean had lost his mind.

"I'm not Dean." Laney said freaking out then pointing at her body she choked out "And that's not me."

"I'm in a girl's body." Dean said looking disgusted.

"O.. KAY." Said Sam cocking his head sceptically.

"How do we fix it?" Laney asked looking mortified as the reality of the situation sunk in.

"You both are serious?" Sam said losing his scepticism.

Both "Laney" and "Dean" nodded.

"This is to weird." Dean said as he looked down at his new feminine packaging.

"For crying out loud please go put me some clothes on!" Laney exclaimed as she witnessed Dean gawking over her nudity.

"Sure thing sweetcheeks." Dean said smacking Laney's bare ass sarcastically. "But I need some clean clothes."

"And don't touch me like that again!" Laney yelled. As she tossed Dean a clean outfit.

Dean laughed saying "Okay princess don't get my underware in a bunch."

Sam had an udeniable smirk on his face. He thought the whole thing was comical. Both Laney and Dean noticed and Dean smacked him on the shoulder hissing "Help us figure out a way to switch back genuis!"

Chapter 2

The sun set with no leads on the job or on how to fix Laney and Dean's predicament.

Having no choice but to go at it again tommorrow Dean and Laney conceded to sleep.

That night the memories that swirled around in Dean and Laney's minds were not their own.

Dean saw Laney's ENTIRE life flash before his eyes. EVERYTHING she'd ever seen, felt, known, filled his mind.

Dean was surprised to discover that she had been able to see all of the creatures in their line of work from the day she was born. He saw her memories of Azazel bleeding into her mouth.

He saw her pure genius in school and training and was amazed that she had earned six doctorates before she was even ten.

How going through college so quickly at such a young had earned her ridicule from her peers. How Laney had felt as a young teen, that she thought she would never be attractive to a guy because she was a plain Jane. And how as a grown woman she felt she didn't need to be considered attractive.

How she knew that destiny supposedly said that she was going to have a child by some guy she didn't even know the name of.

That, that child was going to be an important piece in the real end game the angels and demons had planned. He saw that she refused to live that destiny.

Dean saw that Laney was practically wealthy and found himself slightly annoyed by the fact she was a rich girl.

He saw her valiant rescue of Sam and felt the test of her strength as she caried him to safety.

Dean felt the compashion Laney honestly felt for his brother despite what she had seen inside of him.

It came as a shock to Dean to see that Laney had been kind to him and protective of him personally out of her own nature. That only recently did Laney have any truly annoyed feelings toward him and only for the reason of him acting like a pig towards the waitress, because in her mind it was really uncalled for behavior for anyone to ogle another person so shamelessly.

That's when Dean realized that Laney had such naive notions of honor and chivalry and that she had abstained from pleasures of the flesh because she wanted her first time making love to be with the man with whom she would spend the rest of her life.

"God she's just a kid." Dean thought as he discovered how Laney really was exactly that innocent to the workings of the world despite her life as a hunter. How she clung to that inocence was beyond him but he had to accept that she had indeed done so because of her nature and that it had nothing to do with trying to screw with his or Sam's minds.

Laney was witness to Dean's ENTIRE life as well. She saw his instant love for Sammy, the night his mother was killed and that Dean had carried Sam out of the fire at only four years old.

She saw Dean's concern for his brother as Sam's psychic abilities began to manifest.

Laney heard Dean's father whisper that if he couldn't save Sam he would have to kill him.

She felt his guilt as he found out his father had sold his soul to save his life, making it twice that Dean's life had been spared only to cost the life of someone else. She felt how it ate at him inside to keep what his father had said a secret from Sam.

She watched as Sam fell and felt Dean's fear and grief as his baby brother died in his arms. She saw how that moment of rage from the loss of his only reason to live compelled him to sell his soul.

She felt the fear and pain as the hellhounds ripped him to shreds and she saw the tortures he endured in hell.

She shared his disbelief when he found an angel had retrieved him from hell and she shared his "No way" moment when he discovered his mom had been a hunter.

She felt the fear and disapointment he felt when he found that Sam was drinking demon blood and then the helplessnes of finding out that the angels had allowed all of these things to happen because they wanted their version of the apocolypse.

She knew his hoplessness as the Archangel Michael told him that free will was an illusion and how badly that resinated when the angel Joshua said GOD didn't care and wouldn't intervine to help them.

Laney saw Sam's fall into the cage and how a year later he'd returned to Dean but had no soul and how Dean had made a deal with Death to get his brother's soul back.

She felt Dean's horror as Sam's wall broke and his anger as Castiel had claimed himself GOD.

She felt equally sad and angry as Dean, as she watched Bobby die because she thought he would have been cool to know from just what she had seen about him through Dean's eyes.

Neither Dean nor Laney were able to wake untill they had fully absorbed the knowledge, emotions, and entire life experiences of the other.

It was almost noon when they found themselves able to open their eyes.

They were still in eachother's bodies and they still had no ideas on what had even made this happen.

Dean dressed himself in something he thought looked nice on Laney but when he came out of the bathroom he recieved "What am I wearing?" from Laney.

Dean looked down at belly shirt and daisy duke shorts he'd made "You look alright." He replied.

"To a guy maybe." Laney fumed. "But that's not something a girl really wants to wear."

"I see plenty of chicks wear stuff exactly like this." Said Dean .

"Yes I know, but that's because they're willing to sacrifice comfort and modesty for trend and vanity.", "But I am NOT that kind of girl." Laney stated.

"So please go change me into something a little more suitable." Laney pleaded.

Dean rebeled, mostly to get a rise out of Laney , looking down he said "Well I guess the shorts could be shorter."

Laney rolled Dean's eyes which was weird for Dean to see himself give himself that annoyed face.

Dean didn't get it. Laney was pretty at five foot six, with dark brown eyes and matching brown hair that fell just past her shoulders and she had a nice body that just screamed it's need to be shown off. He was dressing her like this only to show her that what she had going on and that she could be attractive if she dressed herself right.

And attractive it was as Dean strutted on the sidewalk in front of Laney to show her the kind of attention she could attract if she tried. Men nearly fell over themselves to get a look at Laney's body as it passed and seeing this Laney took off Dean's jacket and ran to catch up with him.

"Put this on now!" Laney snarled and now Dean was getting to see what it felt like to be on the receiving end of his angry face. "Oooh I'm scary." Dean thought with a laugh.

"Look Laney.", "I'm just trying to help boost your self esteem, it doesn't hurt for you to see how you could make guys react to you if you tried." Dean said backing away from his own menacing stare.

Suddenly it wasn't so funny because he really was a reaally scary bastard if he got pissed enough and apparently Laney was pissed enough because Dean was actually afraid of just the look that was on his own face.

"I don't want or need that kind of boost in my self esteem because I am fine the way I am.", "If anyone needs to change it's the people who tell women they can't be beautiful if they don't meet certain standards." Laney growled.

"Wow.", "Never thought of it that way before." Dean said looking ashamed. Then as he looked around at all of the gawking men and he suddenly felt uncomfortably exposed.

"Crap." Dean thought as he had to admit that women shouldn't need to dress like bimbos to be considered attractive and that if they did dress to conform they didn't deserve to have to be ogled like a delicous looking slice of cake.

"I get it now." Dean said pulling his jacket tightly around Laney's shoulders so that he could feel securely hidden from the prying eyes.

"I want to go change." Said Dean grudgingly, finally feeling respectful of Laney's body.

"Alright you go back to the hotel.", "I can handle things till you get back." Laney said with a little less hostility.

Dean really had only tried to help because he didn't exactly hate Laney anymore. He had thought he was doing something nice for her by showing her she could be considered attractive.

It made Dean feel bad to find out he had screwed up royally. Because his views of of attractive had only been focused on the outside of women so often for so long that he had tried to force his concept onto Laney and now he had only proved himself the pig that Laney thought him to be.

Dean didn't know that his little show had drawn the attention of a few men that thought a body like Laney's should be put to good use and he didn't know he was being followed untill he was thrown roughly to his back. Then he was pinned under the massive body of some guy who thought he could use this body to get his rocks off.

Dean stuggled against the man and found that Laney packed a decent punch for a girl. The man's friends grabbed Laney's wrists and ankles. They pulled her wrists above her head and pinned her ankles and knees so that her legs were spread apart. The man on top of Laney's body pulled out a pocket knife and started cutting open the shirt that Dean was regretting he had insisted on wearing.

Dean fought and screamed but he couldn't get free and no one was coming to help.

Suddenly he got the same weird, dizzy feeling that he had woke up with yesterday and his vision blurred and swirled as he looked around and realized that he was suddenly in the hotel room. His mouth went dry as he scrambled for the bathroom because he was definetly going to hurl.

"What..." Dean mummbled as he tried to get back his senses he splashed cool water onto his face to chase away the fevered feeling and when he looked up he saw Sam's reflection staring back at him.

Remembering exactly what had been happening right before the switch Dean panicked "Laney" He thought as he bolted for the door.

He was still off kilter and he struggled to keep his balance as he ran. Sam's giraffe legs carried him quickly to the place where he last remembered being.

Laney had somehow managed to fight the men off of her and although she had taken a few hits she had managed to stand and keep them back as they attempted to advance on her. She fought well putting the men repetively on their asses and yet they were still stupid enough to keep at her. Dean came flying in and started delivering a few hits of his own.

"SAM!" He heard Laney scream and Dean dodged out of the way of the coward holding the knife as he tried to stab Sam's body from behind.

After Dean broke someone's arm the men finally got the message and they retreated with their tails tucked between their legs.

Laney looked weak but she still managed to stay on her feet as she came over to "Sam".

"Sam are you alright?" Laney asked as she checked him over for injuries.

"I'm not Sam." Dean stated akwardly as he was still reeling from what had happened.

Laney looked slightly shocked as she gasped "Dean?", "Oh we got to go find Sam!", "Now!", He's probably freaking out!" She exclaimed as she clambered into a run not even taking into account that she was half naked, with scrapes and bruises all over.

"No." Dean said grabbing Laney's arm. "You need to go back to the room, you're in no shape..."

"We don't have time!", "He's alone and needs us!" Laney shouted pulling from Dean's grasp.

Apparently Dean's over protective nature concerning Sam had rubbed off on Laney.

"He'll be fine." Said Dean and he easily tossed the arguing Laney over Sam's shoulder.

"Put me down!" She screamed .

Dean didn't put Laney down until he reached the hotel room. Once there he closed the door and sat the yelling, struggling, angry Laney down on his bed.

He used Sam's undeniable strength to hold her down as he evaluated her injuries. "I'm trying to help you here!" Dean said forcing the still struggling Laney to look at him.

"I don't need your help!", "WE need to find Sam!" Laney yelled.

"Calm down." Dean said soothingly. "He's smart enough to put two and two together.", "He'll figure out what happened and make his way back here."

"In the mean time you need to let me take care of you." Dean commanded.

"I can't BELIEVE you're just going to leave him out there while YOUtake care of my little scrapes!", "He IS your BROTHER!", "How could you!" Laney ranted angrily.

"These SCRAPES are MY fault." Said Dean feeling responsible as he cleaned gravel out of Laney's skinned knee.

"And my brother IS actually capable of taking care of himself when the need arises." He finished.

Laney looked shocked beyond words as Dean admited that Sam could handle being on his own.

"Are you going to be okay?" He asked her gently and Laney was actually touched by his concern.

"I stopped them before they could..", "I'll be alright." She said giving a brave smile.

The door to the room opened and a cofused look spread over Dean's face as Sam saw Laney's bruised face and torn clothing. "What..." Sam asked sounding worried.

"Long story." Both Dean and Laney said in unison.

The day was at a close again and now Dean and Sam were stuck in eachother's bodies and there were still no leads as to what had caused this.

Chapter 3

Dean's sleep was fitful as Sam's ENTIRE life flooded into him.

Sam's birth. How Sam instantly knew Dean by just the sound of his voice even though he was being introduced to him for the first time as he was placed into Dean's arms and their mother said "This is your big brother Dean.".

How Sam's first word had been "dada" and the way he'd only say that to Dean. Dean saw how he'd been the one holding his hand as Sam finally let go and took his first steps.

Sam learned to say "Dad" and then he still only said that to Dean till he was almost three years old despite John's insistance that HE was Dad.

It wasn't until Sam was twenty-six months that he learned to say "Dean" and confused about Dean's role he would word play saying things like "De-Dad" or "Da-Dean". John would correct Sam going "Dad" Then he'd point to himself, then at Dean saying "Dean" and Sam would smile and run to Dean happily yelling "DADDY!" and each time John would just shake his head like it was useless to even try.

Dean saw how Sam had learned things by mimicking him and how Sam had idolized him and him alone.

He felt how elated Sam was as Dean said he loved the Amulet Sam had given him for Christmas and how Sam had thought Dean was more his dad anyway and he deserved it more than John had.

He saw how Sam felt safe always having Dean there to protect him and he was proud to have the best big brother in the world.

He felt Sam's anger as the life of hunting wasn't one he wanted to live forever and how he had hated John for not understanding. How the night Sam left for Stanford all he could think was he wished Dean would come to.

Dean felt Sam's excitement to have Dean suddenly show up out of the blue and really he had been all to eager to spend time with his brother even if it was while searching for their dad.

Dean felt Sam's guilt and grief over Jessica and how he'd been the only thing that had kept Sam going the first months after her death.

He saw Sam's fear of the unknown when his psychic powers began to manifest. How Sam had feared that Dean may start to think of him as a freak.

He felt Sam's pain as the knife bottomed out between his vertabrate and how Sam died with the thought of "You haven't held me like this since we were little" on his mind because he was to weak to say it out loud to Dean. Dean saw how HE was Sam's REAL heaven. That ALL of Sam's best memories had ALWAYS been of him and Dean together.

Dean felt Sam's anguish as Sam watched him die over a hundred Tuesdays in a row and how he had tried to protect him. He saw how Sam had filled with rage and went full tilt after the trickster when Dean was killed on a Wednesday and Sam thought he would never get his brother back. He felt Sam's relief as he woke up and saw Dean standing there and felt how good it had felt for Sam to wrap his arms around him.

Dean saw Sam's pain as he witnessed the hellhounds rip him apart and he felt the sobs wrack Sam's core as he held Dean's lifeless body.

Dean felt Sam's genuine happiness as he wrapped his arms around him again and how Sam had thought his prayers had actually been answered.

He saw how Sam poured out to Chuck that he wished to GOD that he could stop the demon blood thing but he felt he needed to do it because it was the only way Lilith would be stopped.

Dean felt Sam's pain and anger as he called him a monster. He listened as Sam heard the tampered with voicemail. He saw how Sam still hated having to go against him only to find out he had been tricked into opening the final seal.

He felt Sam's angst as he was certain that Dean was more than just his boss at Sandover Industries and how Sam was hurt that Dean didn't believe him.

He saw the masked men with the guns and heard Sam silently pray that they wouldn't hurt Dean.

Dean saw that in the extra five minutes that Sam had been dead had been plenty of time for Zachariah to tamper with Sam's REAL heaven because the angels had needed to drive a wedge between them. How Sam hadn't been aware that something wasn't right until he and Dean popped into the night he left for Stanford.

Dean felt Sam's pain as he watched Dean throw away the Amulet, like it and Sam's love had never meant anything to him. And he saw how Sam fished the necklace out of the trash in hopes that someday Dean may think Sam's love was worth wearing it again.

How no matter what that Sam had believed GOD did care and he had STILL continued to pray EVERY night for redemsion, for Dean's love. He prayed even after everything right up untill the time he said "yes" to Lucifer.

How Sam had fought, begged and pleaded with Lucifer to stop hurting Dean.

How Sam heard Dean say "It's okay, it's okay Sammy I'm here, I'm not gonna leave you." And when Sam saw the army man in the ashtray he remembered how it got there and all of the flashes of memory that flooded into Sam that followed as his heart gave a jolt giving Sam the strength to get control to stop Lucifer from dealing the killing blow with his love for Dean.

How Sam hoped Dean could be proud of him as he pulled Adam and Michael into the cage with him.

Dean saw all the tortures of Sam's hell and how the million years that his body was in the cage had shattered him into pieces. How all of the pieces of Sam had desperatly pleaded for Castiel to save them only to be lost in dispair as Castiel seemingly ignored them and took only Sam's body.

Dean saw that no matter how bad the torture in hell was after that, that Sam would remember that his wrong choices were why he deserved to be there and suddenly the rightousness of his knowledge would cause him to feel no more pain.

So Michael and Lucifer would have to continuously change up the torture and the same thing never worked twice on any piece of Sam. So after another million years in the cage there was nothing more that could be done to further how Sam was suffering just of his own accord.

Although the damage had already been done before Sam's body had been pulled out. When Death came to collect Sam the only pain he still felt was the despair of never being able to see Dean again.

Dean saw as the terrifying hallucinations started to plague Sam's fractured mind.

Dean felt the chaos as Sam had warred against his other selves because he didn't want to be a monster.

He saw the chimera's flames and how Sam had REAL memories of hell and how the sting of a slap to the face had sent him into an automated defensive response.

Dean saw as Sam had wondered aimlessly until he was picked up by demons and how he had woken up safe. He witnessed as Laney took extremely good care of Sam.

And why Sam was afraid of Dean, was because in hell the one thing that had hurt him the most had been the use of Dean's image to inflict torture on him and it was that one experience of hell that still plagued Sam's nightmares.

Sam saw Dean's love, devotion and heartbreak as Dean's whole life flashed before his eyes.

He saw how Dean hated telling him monsters were real because he'd thought he was ruining his Sammy's innocence.

He saw as Dean desperatly tried to call him from what the angels called "The Green Room" only to be told that it had all been a trick to get him out of the way so that Sam could break the seal.

How upset Dean had felt when he saw Sam's heaven and how he felt that Sam's love for him was conditional. How Dean's hardened heart had barely made it possible for him to release the Amulet into the trash can.

How Dean had meant it as he directed towards Sam that he didn't want apologies for anything that had been done that there was a "clean slate" between them now.

Chapter 4

It was already two in the afternoon by the time they were able to open their eyes and Laney was staring at them looking worried.

"It took longer than yesterday." Laney whispered.

"We had a lot of stuff in our lives that apparently we didn't know about eachother." Dean said beaming effectionatly at Sam.

Laney still looked worried saying "I don't think that's it."

She handed Dean the laptop and showed him what she had found out.

"Tezcatlipoca was an ancient shapeshifting aztec god of sorcery associated with the notion of destiny." She stated.

"What does that have to do with us?" Dean asked.

"Well according to lore if a group people in his pressence or the pressence of his totem had a disagreement he would think it was funny to switch their places so that they could all see what it was like to be one another." Laney explained.

"And the other day we were kind of bickering about how we don't know what it's like to be in eachothers shoes, got it." Dean said.

"How do we fix it?" Sam asked.

Laney looked pale now as she said "I don't know but I do know we don't have a lot of time to figure it out."

"Why?" Dean asked suspiciously.

"We will go through all the variations of the switches and then whoever gets left out in the last variation has two hours to live.", "Just think of it as the most stressful game of musical chairs you've ever played." Laney said with a gulp.

"Wait there's only one variation left!" Dean exclaimed.

"Yes Sam and I switch and then your odd man out in the most literal sense." Said Laney solemly.

"Well is there any clues as to how to stop me from dying?" Dean asked.

"The only thing I can think to do is go back to that resturaunt and figure out were Tezcatlipoca or his totem is hiding." Laney suggested.

"We should all go in case another switch happens." Said Dean .

The trio waited until the resturaunt closed for the day then they snuck inside.

They scoured every inch of that resturaunt coming accros several totems that could be the one they needed.

"What do we do now?" Sam asked.

"I say we destroy them all before one of the damn things kills me!" Dean shouted.

"How do we do that?" Asked Sam.

"The lore says he's the god of night.", "So maybe daylight?" Laney suggested.

"The resturaunts hours are after sunset." Sam noted.

"Daylight it is." Said Dean opening the blinds.

One of the totems started to screech and smoke as the evil god inside desinigrated.

The second the screeching stopped both Sam and Dean fell to their knees simultainiously as they switched back into their own bodies.

Laney could do nothing but wait until the brothers regained their senses.

As Sam and Dean came around Laney helped them to their feet asking how they felt.

Sam looked at Dean and said in an apologetic tone "Well now I know what I am to him but I still don't have any memories of my own."

"It's okay Sammy I have enough memories for both of us." Said Dean giving his brother a pat on the back.

Sam nodded "I guess that's a start." he said.

"What about the deaths?" Dean asked not really wanting to deal with an actual hunt right now.

"The good news is, is that all of our vics were seen in this resturaunt only days before their deaths." Laney said taking a bow.

"Talk about massive oversight." Dean said with a laugh.

"Well it's not like they died IN the resturaunt or told anyone that they swapped bodies with someone else."

"If it hadn't been for the luck of needing the servailance cameras to try and see if I could see our god I'd have never known that our vics had come in here." Laney said with her hands on her hips.

"Wait.", "When did you view the servailance footage?" Dean asked.

"After finding out what we were up against I couldn't afford to just sit around till you guys woke up. "Because I was pretty sure that the vics were probably locked in eachother's lives for longer and longer periods of time."

"So I did what I could to help get us out of this mess because there was no telling when you two would come out of it.", Replied Laney.

"Well that means we can kiss Cornelia goodbye!" Said Dean raising his eyebrows at the pun.

Both Sam and Laney let out annoyed groans in unison at Dean's bad joke.

Dean smiled and touched his chest. Something was missing.

He'd seen from Sam's life that the souless version of him had moved it from his Sammy's original hiding place into storage and Dean wouldn't work another job till it was back in it's rightful place. ... ...

This is the end of "DISC" 2 (I KNOW, I KNOW, I'm BAD) Hopefully "DISC" 3 won't take as long to get up as this did. PPLLEEAASSEE REVIEW!