Last Breath
Epilogue
The sun shined through the window, and across his face. Dean's eyes fluttered, as he turned his head away from the brightness. Opening his eyes, he saw Bobby standing next to the bed, Sam in a wheelchair beside him. As soon as Sam saw his brother awake, a big smile spread across his face. "Hey! How you feeling?" Sam tried to get up to stand next to the bed. Bobby clapped a hand down on Sam's shoulder, keeping him in place.
Stretching Dean grinned at them. "I'm good. How about you? You both doing okay?"
Bobby shook his head in wonder. "We're fine. I'm free to go anytime, but Sam here is going to stay on awhile and torment the nurses." He winked at Dean. "I think Sam is a little sweet on one of them."
Sam rolled his eyes. "Hey, you're the one that keeps going to the nurse's station." Looking at Dean Sam winked. "I think Bobby is tired of bachelor life."
Dean smiled back at them; it felt good to hear them razzing each other. "So what did I miss anyway?"
"How about we wait until later to talk about it. Bobby wants full details, so I figure we'll do it together when you feel up to it."
"I feel great. I'm not even tired…" Dean pulled himself up to a sitting position.
"I told the doctors you'd be fine." Sam said. "They were doing the whole IF he wakes up again."
"Huh…." Dean muttered, "I feel great…Was I really that bad?"
"Yeah, but I guess you showed them." Sam was just relieved to see his brother doing so well. The night before when he had talked to the doctors, they had said Dean was not likely to wake up. And here he was, awake and coherent.
Dean's face became serious, "Where's Cori? Is she here? What happened with Ashlyn?"
Sam cleared his throat, "Well, Ashlyn is ….She didn't make it. I wanted to see Cori after I saw you. When I asked the nurse if she was able to have visitors, she said Cori was gone…"
"Gone?! What do you mean gone." Dean interrupted his brother. "Do mean like dead gone?"
"No Dean. Apparently sometime during the night she got up and left."
"Well, obviously she wasn't too badly hurt. That's good." Dean felt a faint prick of uneasiness, then it was gone.
"Yeah…"Sam looked at his brother. "I guess she looked worse than she was." The youngest hunter averted his gaze; he couldn't tell Dean about Cori, he'd wait until Dean was stronger. Besides, things might be okay.
How could he tell Dean that they might have to hunt Cori, that she might be becoming what Ashlyn was. A killer, something evil. He had to make sure, have proof, before he told Dean his concerns. He had already asked Bobby to bring him his laptop, hoping to be able to do a little research on Cori. Maybe nothing will come out of it, maybe Cori wouldn't turn, then he wouldn't say anything to his brother.
The biggest question was why Cori and Ashlyn both had abilities. Ashlyn was the same age as him, which followed pattern. But Cori, she was a good eight years older. How did she come to have the abilities, and how many more were out there? Ashlyn became evil….and if Cori becomes evil…what does that mean for him? Was he seeing what his future, his destiny, truly was?
"Sam?!" Dean snapped his fingers, "Hello?"
"Hmm? Wha?" Sam realized that Dean had been talking to him.
"What's going on? You ok?" Dean questioned.
"I was just thinking…I'm glad this job is over. And we all got out with our lives." Sam smiled at his big brother. Seeing Dean's grin, he was able to believe, if just for a second, that everything would be okay.
~THE END~