Forbidden Love
I say in the chair looking out at the lake and I smiled then sighed and closed my eyes leaning my head back listening to the ducks, the waves hit against the shore, the wind blow through the trees. It was peaceful, serene, amazing and just...
"We need to talk Alexis." I heard a familiar deep voice tell me and I opened my eyes seeing Cas standing there
"I'm dreaming, aren't I?"
"It's not safe here. Someplace more private." He says
"More private? We're inside my head."
"Exactly. Someone could be listening." He told me and I saw the look on his face
"Cas, what's wrong?"
"Meet me here." He said and handed me a piece of paper, "Go now." He says and I look at it then looked up to see he was gone. Next thing I knew I woke up with a start and Dean looked at me.
"What's up?"
Me, Dean and Sam walked through the warehouse with our flashlights on looking around, "Well, what did he say, Lexi? What was so important?"
"If I knew, would I be here?"
Dean and Sam ascend a set of stairs with me following and we came in on a room that looked like a disaster zone, "What the hell?" Dean asked as we looked around
"It looks like a bomb went off." Sam pointed out
"There was a fight here." Dean says
"Between who?" Sam asked and I shined my flashlight beam around until I saw something on the wall
"Guys. Check it out." I told them as I walked over to it and they followed, "Look familiar?"
"Yeah, it does." Sam says
"Anna used something like that to wish the angels back to the cornfield." Dean adds
"So, what? Cas was fighting angels?" Sam asked as I turned around and started to look around again and I see Cas in the rubble.
"Cas?" I asked and made my way over to him with Sam and Dean followed then I knelt down next to him, "Cas. Hey, Cas?" I asked lightly shaking him and he woke up with a jump and looked around
"What's . . . ? What's . . . ? What's going on?"
"Just take it easy. Take it easy." Dean told him
"Oh. No." Jimmy says and stands up then I do
"Cas, you okay?" Sam asked him
"Ugh. Castiel. I'm not Castiel. It's me."
"Who's 'me'?" I asked him
"Jimmy. My name's Jimmy."
"Where the hell is Castiel?" Dean asked
"He's gone." Jimmy told us and I looked at him shocked then looked at Dean and Sam
Back at the motel room Jimmy sat at the table and devours a hamburger while Dean and Sam sat with him and I leaned against the counter with my arms folded across my chest watching, "You mind slowing down? You're gonna give me angina." Dean tells him
"I'm hungry."
"When's the last time you ate?" I asked him
"I don't know. Months." Jimmy said and takes another bite of his hamburger and then continues to eat ravenously, "Mmm. Mmm. Mmm!"
"What the hell happened back there? It looked like an angel battle royale." Sam said
"All I remember is a flash of light and I, uh . . . I woke up and I was just, you know, like, me again."
"So, what? Cas just ditched out of your meat suit?" Dean asked him
"I really don't know."
"You remember anything about being possessed? Anything at all?" Sam asked
"Yeah, bits and pieces. I mean, angel inside of you, it's kinda like being chained to a comet."
"Ah, that doesn't sound like much fun." Dean pointed out
"Understatement."
"Cas said he wanted to tell us something. Please tell me you remember that." I tell him and he looked at me
"Sorry."
"Come on, what do you know?" Dean asked him
"My name is Jimmy Novak. I'm from Pontiac, Illinois. I have a family."
"So, what do we do?" Same asked as we stood outside the motel
"What do you mean? The guy's got a family. We buy him a bus ticket, send him home." Dean said
"I don't know about that." I said and Dean looked at me, "Dean, he's the only lead we got."
"He doesn't know anything."
"Are you 100 percent about that?" Sam asked
"You think he's lying? What, you wanna go Guantanamo on the guy?"
"Dean, maybe he doesn't even know what he knows." Sam pointed out
"Huh?"
"I say, at least we get him to Bobby's. Maybe all he needs is hypnosis or a psychic. Or hell, maybe Cas will just drop back into him." I mentioned
"I don't know you two."
"Dean, back there, that was angel-on-angel violence. Now, I don't know what's going on, but it's big. And we can't just let the only lead we got just skip out." Sam says to Dean who shook his head.
"What?" I asked him
"You two remember when our job was helping people? Like, getting them back to their families?"
"You think I don't want to help him?" I asked
"I think your judgement is being clouded." Dean says and I looked at him shocked then saw the confused look on Sam's face
"I'm being a realistic. I mean, hell, we're doing him a favor." I continued
"How?"
"Dean, if we want to question the guy, you can damn well bet the demons do, too." I point out and Dean sighs in defeat.
"The hell are you talking about, I can't go home?" Jimmy asked us
"There's a good chance you have a bull's-eye on your back." Dean told him
"What? From who?"
"Demons." I said to him
"Come on, that's crazy. What do they want with me?"
"I don't know, information, maybe?" Dean said
"I don't know anything."
"I know, but–" Dean started to say
"Look, I'm done, okay? With demons, angels, all of it. I just want to go home."
"We understand." I tell him
"I don't think that you do understand. I've been shot and stabbed and healed, and my body has been dragged all over the Earth. By some miracle, I'm out, and I am done. I've given enough, okay?"
"Look, all we're saying is that until we figure this out, the safest place is with us." Sam told him
"How long?"
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Sam said and I sighed as Jimmy shook his head and tried to move past Sam to get to the door.
"Where are you going?" Dean asked him
"To see my wife and daughter, okay?"
"No, you're not. You're just going to put those people in danger." I tell him
"So, what, now I'm a prisoner?"
"Harsh way to put it." I add and he sighed
Sam quickly packs his duffel bag while Dean brushes his teeth and I zipped up my boots, "Would you two hurry up?" Sam asked us and Dean laughs with the toothbrush still in his mouth and I chuckled, "Sorry, uh, this is funny to the both of you?"
"Mr. Big-Bad-Prison-Guard, Jimmy McMook give you the slip? Yeah, it's pretty funny. What were you doing, anyway?" Dean asked him
"I was getting a Coke."
"Was it a refreshing Coke?" I asked and Sam gave me a look
"Can we just go, please?"
Dean is driving while Sam sits beside him and I'm in the back looking out the window lost in thought when I feel a breeze next to me, "Hey, guys." Anna says and I jumped as Dean swerved
"Aah! Jeez."
"Smooth." She says to him
"You ever try calling ahead?" Dean asked her
"I like the element of surprise."
"Well, you look terrific." Dean told her and I rolled my eyes as my heart calmed down
"Um, yeah, not the most appropriate time, Dean. You let Jimmy get away?"
"Talk to ginormo here." Dean told her
"Sam. You seem different." She says to him and looked at her confused
"Me? I don't know. Heh. A haircut?"
"That's not what I'm talking about." Anna says and gives Sam a meaningful look and he looks away. Then she looks at Dean, "So, what'd Jimmy tell you? He remember anything?"
"Why? What's going on?" I asked her and she looked at me
"It's Cas. He got sent back home. Well, more like dragged back."
"To heaven? That's not a good thing?" Dean asked her
"No. That's a very bad thing. Painfully, awfully bad. He must have seriously pissed someone off."
"Cas said he had something to tell me. Something important." I tell her
"What?"
"I don't know." I said
"Does Jimmy know?"
"I don't think so." I say to her
"You don't think so? Whatever it is, it's huge. You gotta find out for sure."
"That's why we're going after Jimmy." Sam mentioned
"That's why you shouldn't have let him go in the first place. He's probably dead already."
I walked over to the car seeing Dean put gas in it and I looked, "Where's Sam?" I asked him and he motioned to the gas station, I walked over to it and stopped when I heard him on the phone, "Where the hell are you, Ruby? This isn't funny anymore. I'm all out. Stop whatever you're doing. Call me. I need more." I heard him say and I opened my mouth in shock then quickly moved away when he started to walk out and I looked at him as Dean finished up and Sam got in followed by Dean then I sighed and followed.
"No!" We heard a woman yell as we snuck in through the back of the house and I went behind the demon that was holding a little girl that I assumed was Claire and I slit his throat then pulled her to me. The female demon looked over at us and started to move towards me but I see her stop and I looked at Sam who had his hand up and I looked at Dean.
"Go. Get them out of here." Sam says as Jimmy stands up and Claire went to him
"Go, go." Dean tells them and they leave the house as Sam tries to exorcise the female demon but is unsuccessful.
"Aw. Can't get it up, can you, Sam?"
"No, but I can." Dean says as he went for her but before Dean could stab her the demon flees its host body. Dean grabs Sam and we run out of the house seeing Jimmy and Claire standing there, "Where's your wife?" Dean asked him and I see her rush over to us holding coats.
"Here." She says handing Claire her jacket then we all piled into the Impala and Dean drove off.
"You were right." Jimmy says to us as we stand outside the car while Claire and Amelia sat in the back
"I'm sorry we were." I tell him
"I'm telling you, I don't know anything."
"I don't think they're inclined to believe you." Dean pointed out
"And even if they did, you're a vessel. They're still gonna wanna know what makes you tick." Sam added
"Which means vivisection, if they're feeling generous." I point out
"I'm gonna tell you once again, you're putting your family in danger. You have to come with us." Sam says
"How long? And don't give me that "cross that bridge when we get to it" crap."
"Don't you get it? Forever. The demons will never stop. You can never be with your family. So you either get as far away from them as possible or you put a bullet in your head." Sam says and I looked at him, "And that's how you keep your family safe. But there's no getting out and there's no going home."
"Well, don't sugarcoat it, Sam." Dean tells him
"I'm just telling him the truth, Dean. Someone has to."
I stood next to Dean while Sam hot wired a car for Amelia and Claire, "Okay, so, uh, here's your car." Sam told her getting out of the car and walked over to us.
"Hey. Take care of your mom, okay, bub?" Jimmy says to Claire and she nods then he says goodbye to his wife and I got into the front seat of the Impala followed by Dean, Sam then Jimmy and we drove off.
"What the hell happened back there?" Dean asked Sam as I faced the window pretending to be asleep.
"What?"
"You practically fainted trying to gank a demon." Dean told him
"Okay, I didn't faint. I got a little dizzy."
"Well, you can call it whatever you want. Point is, you used to be strong enough to kill Alastair. Now you can't even kill a stunt-demon number three?" Dean asked him
"What do you want me to say about it, Dean?"
"Well for starters, what's going on with your mojo? I mean, it's yo-yoing all over the place. I'm not trying to pick a fight here, okay? I just–you're scaring me, man." Dean tells him
"I'm scaring myself." Sam said then his cellphone rings, "Hello? . . . Who is this?" He asked and I opened my eyes looking at him as he wakes up Jimmy and hands him the phone, "Hey. It's your wife."
"Amelia?" Jimmy asked then paused, "Oh, my God."
Me, Jimmy, Dean, and Sam get out of the Impala at the warehouse, "Alright, they're expecting you to come alone. That's exactly what you're gonna do." Dean tells him as Jimmy put his coat on
"We'll work our way through the catwalks. We'll be right behind you." I add
"All you gotta do is stay calm and stall. Let us do our job." Dean says
"You want me to stay calm? This is my family we're talking about."
"Listen to me, this will work. You understand? Nobody's gonna get hurt." Dean reassured him
"Yeah, whatever. Give me a minute, okay?" Jimmy says and walked away from us
"There's no way they're expecting him to come alone. You know this is probably a trap." Sam pointed out
"Yeah. That's why I have a plan." I told them and they looked at me, "Come on." I told them and we made our way to the other side of the warehouse and saw 4 demons standing there so I snuck up behind one of them and stabbed him with the demon knife and the other 3 looked at me, "Evening gents."
"Oh, you're such a liar. Like I didn't think you'd bring Heckle, Jeckle, and Nancy Drew hmm?" I Heard The Demon inside Amelia say as the demons walked us into the room
"Nice plan, Lexi." Sam says to me
"Yeah, well, nobody bats 1,000."
"Got the knife?" Amelia asked the demon holding me and they held up the knife, "And you know what's funny?"
"You wearing a soccer mom?" Dean asked her sarcastically
"Is I was actually bummed to get this detail, picking up an empty vessel. Sort of like a milk run. Now look who landed in my lap."
"Yeah, well, you got us, okay? Let these people go." Sam told her
"Oh, Sam. It's easy to act chivalrous when your Wonder Girl powers aren't working, huh? Now for the punch line. Everybody dies." Amelia said and holds up a gun then shoots Jimmy in the gut and I jumped a little as he falls to his knees. Amelia turns to the demon holding me, "Waste Little Orphan Annie." Amelia leaves the room then the demon who had me threw me to the side and I hit the wall then saw the Demon walk around Jimmy and towards Claire, who is still tied to a chair and unconscious. The Demon picks up a pipe and swings it towards her, but she suddenly grabs the pipe in one hand and places the other hand on the Demon's forehead. We watched the Demon scream as he is exorcised in a bright light.
Sam and Dean used the distraction and started to fight against the demons as I got up and went over to Jimmy taking my coat off and put it on his gut, "Hang in there." I told him and he grunted then squeezed his eyes shut. I looked over at Claire was still in the chair and saw the ropes burn off from around her body.
"Castiel." Jimmy said and I looked at him then back at Claire in shock while Sam and Dean continue to fight the demons. Sam gets Ruby's knife back from the female Demon and holds her down, staring at her neck. Dean is being pummeled by the male Demon, I saw Claire approach them place her hand on his head, exorcising him. I looked over at Sam and see him cut the neck of the female Demon and drink her blood while I stared at him in horror then he turns, mouth still bloody, to see us looking at him. Sam turns back and stabs the demon through the heart with Ruby's knife, killing her, and then turns towards Dean and Claire again. He stands and holds out his hand, just in time to catch Amelia and exorcise her with his recharged psychic powers. Dean holds Amelia up and Claire walks over to me and Jimmy who is dying from his gunshot wound.
"Of course we keep our promises. Of course you have our gratitude." Claire says to Jimmy, "You served us well. Your work is done. It's time to go home now. Your real home. You'll rest forever in the fields of the Lord. Rest now, Jimmy."
"No. Claire?" Jimmy asked
"She's with me now. She's chosen. It's in her blood, as it was in yours."
"Please, Castiel. Me, just take me. Take me, please." Jimmy begged then Dean, Sam, and Amelia walk over to us, but hold back
"I wanna make sure you understand. You won't die or age. If this last year was painful for you, picture a hundred, a thousand more like it."
"It doesn't matter. You take me. Just take me." Jimmy begged again
"Cas," I said and Claire looked at me, "She's just a kid." I told him and Claire nodded
"As you wish. Alexis, step back." He told me and I got up just as Claire touches Jimmy's face and a bright light emanates from his eyes and mouth. Claire drops to her hands and knees and I rushed over to her helping her up and Castiel, now in back in Jimmy's body, stands up. He walks past Amelia and stands next to Sam and Dean. Amelia runs to Claire and I and she embraces her daughter as I moved over to my brothers.
Amelia and Castiel's eyes meet, and then he turns to go then I followed him, "Cas, hold up. What were you gonna tell me?" I asked him
"I learned my lesson while I was away, Alexis. I serve heaven, I don't serve humans, and I certainly don't serve you." He tells us and I looked at him shocked and a little hurt as he walks away from us
Dean drives through the rain in silence while I sat in the back seat behind my brothers, "All right, let's hear it."
"What?" Dean asked him
"Drop the bomb, man. You saw what I did. Come on, stop the car, take a swing."
"I'm not gonna take a swing." Dean says
"Lexi? Come on I know you want to take a hit."
"No. I don't." I said to him
"Then scream, chew me out."
"I'm not mad, Sam." Dean tells him
"Come on. You're not mad? Both of you?"
"Nope." I said and caught Deans eye in the review mirror
"Right. Look, at least let me explain myself."
"Don't. I don't care." Dean tells him
"You don't care?"
"What do you want us to say, that we're disappointed? Yeah, we are. But, mostly, I'm just tired, man. I'm done. I am just done." Dean says and Sam's cellphone rings.
"Hey, Bobby." He answered and I looked at Dean again, "What's going on?" Sam asked then paused and hung up the phone
"What'd he say?" I asked him
Bobby, me, Sam, and Dean approach the door to the panic room, "Well, thanks for shaking a tail."
"Yeah, you got it." Dean says as Sam opens the door.
"Go on inside. I wanna show you something." Bobby told him and Sam walks into the panic room while we hang back.
"All right. So, uh, what's the big demon problem?" Sam asked us
"You are. This is for your own good." Bobby told him and he shuts the door and Dean locked it
"Guys? Hey, hey. What?" Sam asked and Bobby closes and latches the window, "This isn't funny. Guys! Hey! Guys?"