The Supernatural World of Vladimir and Viktor, Chapter 11

The Winchesters slept in the day after their Montana adventure. The sun was long up when Sam finally padded into the kitchen and started the coffee.

Sipping a cup of the freshly brewed stuff, Sam walked into Dean's room and jabbed a sleeping Dean in the shoulder.

"Wha..."

"Just making sure you're still alive." Sam knew Professor Wogglebug, Eddie Timms and the angel Castiel were an odd surgery team. But they got the spider-like symbiotic out of Dean's body with no unpleasant side-effects, other then coming out of the procedure sober. The bottle of Jim Beam by Dean's bed suggested that he had probably solved that last night.

Sam sat down at the computer to do some research. Whatever infected Dean was still out there, either at Concordia or traveling with the carnival that had just pulled up stakes in the town.

He checked the monitors and saw Castiel outside Eddie's Kansas barn nearby. Castiel was planting stakes in the fallow field behind the barn and posting signs. Sam decided he had might as well walk the shortcut to the barn to see what he was up to.

At the barn Sam saw that a city block's worth of field had been marked off. Castiel had run a yellow-and-black tape marked with 'DO NOT CROSS' from stake to stake. The angel looked over his work and, with a satisfied nod, walked over to join Sam.

"What's going on?" Sam asked Castiel.

"My first mission with Eddie's past incarnation Shebbeth. We searched the Hall of Records in Heaven and found a case of two sisters destined to die by tornado tonight. One was to be crushed and other would simply disappear, never to be found. Circumstances allow for their early-life deaths to be prevented. I need to be there when a severe storm system crosses near Dothan, Alabama and change the outcome."

"Can't you just jump in now and tell them 'don't stay here tonight?'"

"No," said Castiel. "Since the souls agreed before their births that their deaths would be of benefit, it has to register with the souls that the agreed upon event happened. So, I have to be there at the event of their deaths to change the environment to make another outcome. If I don't, the girls will soon meet with another catastrophe to fulfill their souls' agreement."

"Oh," said Sam. "So, if you prevented someone from meeting their destined event, their destiny would just get them later. It sounds awfully complicated."

"Right. That's why Eddie only does rescues assigned to him. His core soul researches them through the Hall of Records and with contact with the souls in question."

Castiel disappeared and Sam strolled back to the bunker. Castiel appeared in the Alabama town of Ashford and walked around it before jumping to the surrounding peanut fields. Sam got back to the bunker to find Dean on his phone with Sandra, making arrangements to meet in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee in two weeks.

It was a busy day at the Vam San. Furniture came in vans, now parked out front, the same time the first arrivals from New Jersey arrived in shuttles from the St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

The smell of stew wafted through the open doors below a banner reading 'Welcome New Jersey.' Rooms were already assigned and a resident matched the newcomers with their rooms and pointed out the furniture they were to carry in to their rooms. Hank and Joseph were available to help assemble the beds and tables. All arrivals were single adult men and women and Hank and Joseph discussed which of the women might be desirable to date in the future.

Anica Tomesku received a call from her husband. Beryx told her he had another meeting scheduled with Chris Griswald and would be home afterwards, depending on how it went.

With his boys reunited since the Tomesku trip to New Jersey, Eddie had Castiel drop them off in his home in Indiana. Wogglebug was due this day for their education. He had to be sure Viktor did some writing to satisfy the professor. Wogglebug's pills might have given Viktor the ability to write, but he needed to practice to actually write legibly. Not to be left out, Vladimir labored on his own writing pad.

In the early evening, Castiel was outside the Andrews family's country home, where sisters Megan and Janice lived. He settled in among a grove of live oaks to await the incoming storm front.

The family came home in the family van about the time the tall dark clouds appeared in the distance. They hustled grocery bags into the house just as the hail started and lights popped on in room after room. Sand began to blow about and swept up into the air, and the sky developed an eerie green cast as Castiel walked through the peanut plants towards the house to be in position at the critical time.

He was in the back yard and heard the tornado warning inside the house and the parents calling the children downstairs. The dark clouds lowered and a funnel dropped. A large funnel. It hit the field across the road and churned debris headed in Castiel's direction, leading to more shouting from inside the house.

The tornado pressed squarely into the farmhouse and planks began to fly. The roof lifted and blew completely off of the house and a playhouse in back joined it, being pulled up into the air.

Castiel heard the scream as one of the daughters flew directly out of the house with debris all around her. This the one that was to simply disappear. Castiel popped her body into the marked-off field in Kansas and concentrated on the house.

The other daughter was in the lower back room and once the house began to collapse back onto that room, Castiel took action. He moved the house corner to Kansas and followed it there.

Sam Winchester was at the Kansas barn and saw it all: First, a young girl suddenly appeared standing in the field and wobbled a bit, confused by suddenly being back on the ground, safe and upright. Then the corner of a house appeared in the far corner of the taped-off area, only to disappear and suddenly reappear nearby without parts of the upper story. This disappeared and immediately reappeared, now minus the walls. And again just a pile of boards that had a moment before been the rest of the back room.

Finally, one more transformation. Some of the boards disappeared from the pile and Castiel, standing nearby, began making debris disappear until a badly mangled body showed in the pile. He picked it up and caused the girl's body to repair itself until she moved and looked around.

Castiel pointed to the other girl and all three disappeared. Sam assumed Castiel and the girls were back at the house in Alabama to find the other family members, and Castiel affirmed that minutes later when he popped into view right beside Sam.

"That's it?" asked Sam.

"That's it." Castiel moved both of them into the bunker, where Sam pulled out his phone and called Eddie and Anica and Jody to tell them to watch the evening news.

Hank answered Anica's phone, saying she was not available. She had just gotten a package in the mail and in it was Beryx's battered head in a plastic bag. Hank called Joseph and Monica to attend to Anica, and took the box with him into his bedroom. Right now he was sitting there with it and did not know what to do.

"Cas and I are coming," Sam told him.

In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Claire Novak answered a knock at the door. Outside stood an extremely nervous scrawny gray-eyed man with an armload of papers and a briefcase.

"Sheriff Jody Mills?" the little guy asked.

"I'm Sheriff Mills," said Jody, coming up behind her ward.

"I am Andros Pesti," he said. "I was told that, at the demise of Beryx Tomesku, I was to deliver my records to you, and that you would give me protection."