Chapter 10: Information

[2006]

Sam could not believe it. He always had his suspicions about Dean and Castiel but this was just icing on the cake. Oh, Sam was just thinking about all the jokes he could make about the two once he got back to his time. He smiled brightly toward Dean and Cas... Jimmy.

After Dean introduced Jimmy to Sam, they quietly made their way back into the house. Jimmy was a little hesitant to go because he was afraid that John would wake up and a fight would occur if John ever saw him. But Dean told Jimmy that he would protect him and that seemed enough for Jimmy as he walked inside the house with relief.

After having a nice long chat with Jimmy and getting to know him better, Sam soon fell 'asleep' on one of the two beds in the room. Dean and Jimmy sat on the other bed.

Jimmy noticed Dean's sadden face when he looked over to Sam's sleeping body. "What's the matter?" Jimmy asked concerned.

"Nothing." Dean said.

"It's not nothing, it's something. Come on, Dean, you know you can tell me anything."

"It's just that today has been a long day for me."

"Did John give you another hard time about us?" Dean nodded his head. "Don't take what John says to heart, Dean. You know that whatever he says is not true."

"I know." Dean said.

"And I don't want to lose you, Dean." Jimmy continued. "You know I love you, right?"

Dean nodded his head. Curious, he questioned, "Why are you telling me this?"

"Because there's someone who can take us to a better place. A place where we won't be judged. A place where we can be together and just be us. Don't you want that, Dean?"

"I do. But where will this place be?"

Jimmy seemed to be deep in thought. As he shook his head, Jimmy admitted, "I'm not sure but I know he speaks the truth."

"Who's he?"

"He said his name is Castiel." Jimmy said. Sam, who had been pretending to be asleep (because he didn't trust this universe enough to fall asleep in), perked up when Jimmy mentioned Castiel.

"Castiel?" Dean repeated. He briefly remembered Sam mentioning a Castiel in his other world, but why would Jimmy bring him up?

"He said he's an angel of the Lord." Jimmy said.

Sam shot up in his bed. Dean looked over to Sam. "Sam, what's he talking about?" Dean asked.

Sam ignored Dean's question. "You've talked with Castiel?" Jimmy nodded his head. "What did he say?"

"He promised to give me what Dean and I have always wanted. Peace on paradise."

"In exchange for what?"

Jimmy didn't answer until Dean called out to him. "What did this Castiel say?"

"Well, he said that I had to do one thing for him."

"And what would that be?" Dean said.

"Let him use my body while he is on earth."

"He asked you to be his vessel?" asked Sam.

"Yes." Jimmy responded.

"What did you tell him?"

"He gave me some time to think about it. He told me I'd have until the end of the month to answer him."

"Til the end of the month?" Dean nervously repeated.

Sam then said, "Then we need to start making a plan."

[2014]

Dean looked over to Sam whose been flashing him smiles every now and then. It had all started when he got out of the shower.

"What's with the smiles? They're creeping me out."

Sam shrugged his shoulders. "No reason. I can't just smile at you?"

Dean looked at Sam weirdly. "No." Sam shrugged his shoulders again, mumbling something to himself. Dean shook his head. He focused his attention back to the books. Dean was trying to read this book about time traveling, but was distracted every time Sam would look his way.

Cas had appeared inside the room carrying four huge, old-looking books with him. "Find anything?" Cas asked Dean.

"No. Where did you get those?" Dean watched as Cas set the books down.

"Library." Cas said as he took a seat next to Dean.

"You check those out?" Sam said as he came over to the table and sat across from Dean and Castiel.

"No." Cas answered.

"Oh, so you stole some ancient books from the library. Great." Sam said. He watched as Cas and Dean flipped through the books. He noticed that Dean and Cas would sneak glances at each other when the other wasn't looking. Sam smiled at them. They were totally in love.

Dean kept on rubbing at his eyes. Cas noticed his exhaustion. "You've been looking at books these books for hours, Dean. Why don't you go get some rest?" Cas suggested.

"We have to find out what happened." Dean answered.

"And we will. Just take a nap, Dean." Cas pressed. Dean looked over to Cas. They stared at each other; to Sam, it looked like they were having a conversation just by staring into one other's eyes.

Yeah, Sam thought, there's something going on between them.

Dean finally agreed with Cas and went off to one of the beds.

Sam waited half an hour to make sure that Dean was fully asleep before he could talk to Cas about anything. "Hey," Cas looked up to Sam. They both were still going through the books. "So, uh, what's going on between you two?"

"Who?"

Sam rolled his eyes. "You and Dean?"

"Oh, um," Sam saw Cas' face turned in interesting shade of red. "There's nothing going on." Cas said. He knew that he couldn't tell Sam this because he wasn't entirely sure if Dean would want Cas to talk about what's going on between them openly.

"Sure, okay." Sam said as he continued to flip through pages. He stopped at one page. "Hey, I think I found something." Cas got up and went around the table to Sam. "What about this?"

Castiel read the passage. The page talked about a god, Chronos. "Mmm, I don't think so." Cas said. He remembered Dean and Sam briefly telling him about bringing down Chronos two years back. "It can't be Chronos."

"Why not?" Sam questioned.

"He's dead. Sam staked him."

"Oh," was all Sam said.

Castiel felt sorry for this Sam. "How are you doing in this world?"

"I think I'm getting by alright." Sam answered.

"You're lying." Cas flat out said.

Sam took a deep breath. "Honestly, I was thrown into a world where monsters are real and Dean and I hunt them down, and how can anyone just get used to that and continue on as if nothing was wrong? I'm scared as hell but I'm not going to show that in front of Dean. I don't want him to worry about keeping a close eye on me when he - and all of us - need to start focusing on what happened to Sam and me."

Cas just stared at Sam, like if he was looking deep into his soul. Sam shifted a little in his seat, feeling uncomfortable. Now he knew how Dean felt when he was giving him smiles every now and then. "Something happened to you back in your world."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Sam said casually.

"Oh, really? I can sense it, Sam."

Sam looked over to Dean's sleeping body then back to Cas. "Okay, yes, a couple things did happen to me."

"What happened?" Cas asked.

Sam was about to explain to Castiel about his life when the door to the motel suddenly burst opened and three demons walked in.

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