Forbidden Love
A/N: So instead of putting Dean in here I'm gonna make it Alexis so I hope you like it.
I pulled up to the hotel after finishing the case I worked without my brothers, it was still weighing on me the rift between Sam and Dean, but on the other hand Sam was right, he can't be out hunting, it's to risky. I sighed as I got out and walked towards the hotel seeing a preacher standing outside with a handful of pamphlets, "Excuse me, friend, but have you taken time out to think about God's plan for you?" He asked me and I looked at him
"There is no plan for me." I tell him and head inside
"We're talking about the Colt, right? I mean, as in the Colt?" I asked Cas over the phone as I sit on my bed.
"We are."
"Well, that doesn't make any sense. I mean, why would the demons keep a gun around that, uh, kills demons?" I asked
"What? What? Did-I didn't-I didn't get that." He told me and I chuckled
"You know, it's kind of funny. Talking to a messenger of God on a cellphone. It's like watching a Hell's Angel ride a moped."
"This isn't funny, Alexis. The voice says I'm almost out of minutes."
"Okay, all right. I'm-I'm telling you, Cas, the mooks have melted down the gun by now." I told him
"Well, I hear differently. And if it's true and if you are still set on the insane task of killing the devil, this is how we do it."
"Okay. Where do we start?" I asked him
"Where are you now?"
"Kansas City. Century Hotel, room 113." I said grabbing my room key off the night stand
"I'll be there immediately."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, come on. I just drove like sixteen hours straight, okay? I'm human. And there's stuff I got to do." I tell him
"What stuff?"
"Eat, or in this case, sleep. I just need like four hours once in a while, okay?" I asked
"Yes."
"Okay, so, you can pop in tomorrow morning."
"Yes. I'll just-" He started to say but I hung up
I get woken up from my sleep when I here my phone ring, I groaned then grabbed it, "Damn it, Cas, I need to sleep!"
"Lexi, it's me." I heard Sam say on the other end
"Sam? It's quarter past four." I tell him
"This is important."
"So. So, you're his vessel?" I asked him sitting at the table in my room after grabbing a water
"That's what he said."
"Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in, huh, Sam?" I asked him
"So, that's it? That's your response?"
"Well what else do you expect?" I asked
"I don't know. A-a little panic? Maybe?"
"I guess I'm a little numb to the earth-shattering revelations at this point." I said
"What are we gonna do about it?"
"What do you want to do about it?" I ask
"I want back in, for starters."
"Sam-" I started to say
"I mean it. I am sick of being a puppet to these sons of bitches. I'm gonna hunt him down, Lexi."
"Oh, so, we're back to revenge, then, are we? 'Cause that worked out so well last time." I point out
"Not revenge. Redemption."
"So, what, you're just gonna walk back in and we're gonna be the dynamic trio again?" I ask him and walk over to my window
"Look, Lexi, I can do this. I can. I'm gonna prove it to you and Dean."
"Look, Sam-it doesn't matter-whatever we do. I mean, it turns out that you and Dean, your the, uh, the fire and the oil of the Armageddon. You know, on that basis alone, and I hate to say it but you two should just pick a hemisphere. Stay away from each other for good."
"Lexi, it doesn't have to be like this. We can fight it."
"Yeah, you're right. We can. But not together. We're not stronger when the three of us are together, Sam. I think we're weaker. Because whatever we have between us-love, family, whatever it is-they are always gonna use it against us. And you know that. Yeah, you both are better off apart. You guys have a better chance of dodging Lucifer and Michael and this whole damn thing, if you just go your own ways and I think Dean would agree." I tell him, it sucked and it hurt but it was the truth.
"So then what about you?"
I sighed and closed my eyes, "I'll just do what I always do, keep on fighting, saving lives and if I ever need you guys then I'll call."
"Lexi, don't do this."
"Bye, Sam." I said and hung up putting my phone down.
The next morning I wake up and look around, the entire room is trashed. I get up and look out the window seeing that the city was trashed as well. I grabbed my coat and headed outside and started to look around, the area is devastated, everything broken or graffitied on or both. Just then I hear something, like glass smashing so I go to an alley and see a little girl with her head down holding a teddy bear and I approach her, "Little girl? Little girl? Are you hurt?" I asked her as I got closer but she stayed quiet, "You know the not-talking thing is kind of creepy, right?" Just then I see blood drip from her mouth and she shrieks and attacks me with a shard of glass. I jumped back and take her down then caught sight of a large piece of graffiti that read CROATOAN and my heart sank, "Oh shit." I said then several people, all most likely infected with the Croatoan virus come around the corner and I run.
They chase me onto a street that's blocked by a chain-link fence and I stop then turn back towards them when suddenly several soldiers on tanks arrive, shooting them and I take cover then I hear "Do You Love Me" by The Contours play.
I stay under cover and retreat to an alley as the music continued and I make it to another alley safely and broke through the fence. I see a sign it that reads CROATOAN VIRUS HOT ZONE NO ENTRY BY ORDER OF ACTING REGIONAL COMMAND AUGUST 1, 2014
"August 1st, 2014." I read under my breath The hell? I thought to myself and walked over to a car that looked to be in decent shape and I hot-wire it, get in and drove off
As I'm driving I hold up my phone but I can't get a signal and there's nothing but static on the radio, "That's never a good sign." I tell myself and put my phone down
"Croatoan pandemic reaches Australia." I heard and jumped when I saw Zachariah in the passenger seat reading a paper.
"I thought I smelled your stink on this Back to the Future crap." I told him
"President Palin defends bombing of Houston. Certainly a buyer's market in real estate. Let's see what's happening in sports. That's right-no more sports. Congress revoked the right to group assembly. What's left of Congress, that is. Hardly a quorum, if you ask me."
"How did you find me?" I asked him
"Afraid we had to tap some unorthodox resources of late-human informants. We've been making inspirational visits to the fringier Christian groups. They've been given yours and your brothers images, told to keep an eye out."
"The Bible freak outside the motel. He, what, dropped a dime on me?" I ask
"Onward, Christian soldiers."
"Okay, well, good, great. You have had your jollies. Now send me back, you son of a bitch." I tell him
"Oh, you'll get back-all in good time. We want you to marinate a bit."
"Marinate?" I ask
"Three days, Alexis. Three days to see where this course of action takes your brother."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I ask him
"It means that their choices have consequences. This is what happens to the world if Dean continues to say "no" to Michael. Have a little look-see." He says then vanishes
I open the door to Bobby's house and walked in, "Bobby? Bobby, I'm coming in!" I yelled and looked around. The place is pretty thoroughly trashed, and from the spiderwebs and dust, no one has been around in a while, "Oh, no." I said seeing Bobby's wheelchair is on its side. I set it upright and see the bullet holes through and dried blood on the back of the seat, "Where is everybody, Bobby?" I asked out loud and opened a hidden compartment pulling out my dad's journal. I find a photo of Bobby with Cas, three unidentified men, and a sign, "Camp Chitaqua."
I approach the sign from the photo seeing men with guns are just inside the fence, patrolling. I move careful to stay out of sight and I see Impala, smashed up and rusted to hell, "Oh, no." I said and walk over to the Impala for a better look at the damage, peering inside the driver's side door, "Oh, no, what did they do to you?" I asked then hear something, I barely had time to look when I got knocked out.
I wake up and looked around the room then saw Dean sitting on the table with a gun, "What the hell?" I asked
"I should be asking that question, don't you think? In fact, why don't you give me one good reason why I shouldn't gank you right here and now?" He asked me
"Because I'm your sister." I tell him
"Very funny."
"Look, I'm no shapeshifter or demon or anything, okay?" I said to him
"Yeah, I know. I did the drill while you were out. Silver, salt, holy water-nothing. But you know what was funny? Was that you had the same switch blade and necklace that Lexi had. Now, you want to explain that? Oh, and the, uh, resemblance, while you're at it?"
"Zachariah." I tell him flat out and he stands up
"Come again?"
"I'm her from the tail end of 2009. Zach plucked me from my bed and threw me five years into the future." I said
"Where is he? I want to talk to him."
"I don't know." I say
"Oh, you don't know."
"No, I don't know. Look, I just want to get back to my own year, okay?" I asked him
"Okay. If you're Lexi, then tell me something only she would know." He says and I think about it then it clicked
"Daniel Jacobson, I was 15 me and him were in his car out in the woods making out and the next thing I knew you ripped open his door and pulled him out then yelled at me to get out and wait for you. No one knew where I was, not even dad. When you finished threatening him you walked over to me and said if I did anything like that again you were gonna make me a chastity belt." I tell him
"Touché. So, what, Zach zapped you up here to see how bad it gets?"
"Yeah I guess. Croatoan virus, right? That's their endgame?" I asked
"It's efficient, it's incurable, and it's scary as hell. Turns people into monsters. Started hitting the major cities about two years ago. World really went in the crapper after that."
"What about Sam and I? I mean...this me, you know what I mean." I said and I saw him stiffen.
"Heavyweight showdown in Detroit. From what I understand, Sam didn't make it, and Lexi she um..it's a long story." He tells me and I looked at him in shock
"Me? But...wait you weren't with us?" I asked
"No. No, me and Sam, we haven't talked in-hell, five years."
"We never tried to find him?" I asked a little hurt
"We had other people to worry about." He tells me and started to leave
"Where you going?"
"I got to run an errand." He says
"Whoa. You're just gonna leave me here?"
"Yes. I got a camp full of twitchy trauma survivors out there with an apocalypse hanging over their head. The last thing they need to see is a version of you walking around. So, yeah, you stay locked down." He told me
"Okay. All right. Fine. But you don't have to cuff me." I said and he looked at me, "Oh, come on. You don't trust your sister?"
"Well if your anything like her, no. Absolutely not." He said and left
"Yeah. I wouldn't either." I mumbled then looked around and saw a nail poking out of the floor. I shifted myself and reached my hand over to it and used what I had for fingernails to dig it out. Once it was out I used it to pick the lock on the cuffs then headed out of the cabin.
I saw people walking around the camp area then saw Chuck walking towards the cabin I was in so I moved away quickly keeping out of sight.
"So, in this way. We're each a fragment of total perception, one compartment in that dragonfly eye of group mind. Now, the key to this total, shared perception it's surprisingly physical." I heard a familiar say from the cabin I was next to and I walked up the steps and peaked into the window and saw a very different version of Cas sitting there with some women on a circle, "How about you all go get washed up for the orgy." He says to them and I opened my mouth kind of shocked then saw the girls start to walk out so I ducked. One they were gone I walked into the cabin
"Cas, we got to talk." I said after walking in and he faced me
"Lexi?" He asked me and I looked at him confused Lexi?
"What?"
"You...how are you..." He tried to ask but I saw the look on his face, like he had seen a ghost, which made sense.
"Oh, no I'm not...this Lexi, I'm...I'm from the past." I tell him and he focused
"What year are you from?"
"2009." I tell him
"Who did this to you? Is it Zachariah?"
"Yeah. He apparently thinks I can change Sam and Dean's minds." I said with a chuckle and he looked at me with a small smile
"Uh...Interesting."
"Oh, yeah, it's fascinating. Now. Why don't you do your angel thing and fly me back to my time." I tell him and he laughed
"I wish I could just, uh, do my angel thing, but I'm sorry, no dice."
I looked at him confused, "What, are you stoned?" I asked him
"Uh, generally, yeah."
"What happened to you?" I asked
"Life." He says looking at me and I looked around the room. Everything looked Hippie-ish, I saw a table that had a few things that were for a woman like a hair brush, hair ties, etc. I looked over to the bed and saw one side wasn't messed up but the other was and by the side that was messed up I saw a picture of me, or rather this Lexi standing there with Cas. We were looking at each other smiling. I looked back at Cas as he watched me, I was about to ask him something but then I heard vehicles pull up outside so I walked out, "Wait." Cas said but I ignored him and walked down the steps as a car and a jeep arrive. Dean and some soldiers climb out, Dean grabs two beers and tosses one to a soldier. They both open the beers and drink then as the soldier walks away Dean draws his gun and points it at that soldier.
"Hey. Hey! Watch out!" I yell starting to move towards them but Cas grabbed my arm stopping me and I looked at him then Dean shoots the soldier. The others look between me and Dean.
"I'm not gonna lie to you. Me and her-It's a pretty messed-up situation we got going. But believe me, when you need to know something, you will know it. Until then, we all have work to do."
We get back to the cabin and Dean lightly pushed me into the room and shuts the door behind us, "What the hell was that?" Dean asked me
"What the hell was that? You just shot a guy in cold blood." I told him
"We were in an open quarantine zone. Got ambushed by some Croats on the way out. One of them infected Yeager."
"How do you know?" I asked him
"'Cause after a few years of this, I know. I started seeing symptoms about a half an hour ago. Wasn't gonna be long before he flipped. I didn't see the point in troubling a good man with bad news."
"Troubling a good man? You just blew him away in front of your own people. Don't you think that freaked them out a little bit?" I asked
"It's 2014. Plugging some Croat, it's called commonplace. Trading words with my friggin' dead sister might have freaked them out a little."
"All right, look-" I started to say
"No, you look. This isn't your time. It's mine. You don't make the decisions. I do. So, when I say stay in, you stay in."
"All right. I'm sorry. Look, I-I'm not trying to mess you up here."
"I know." Dean says and pours two glasses of alcohol.
"It's just been a really wacky weekend."
"Tell me about it." He tells me and we both take a drink
"What was the mission, anyway?" I asked him and he pulls out a gun, the Colt.
"The Colt?" I asked him
"The Colt."
"Where was it?" I asked
"Everywhere. They've been moving it around. Took me five years, but...I finally got it. And tonight-tonight, I'm gonna kill the devil." He told me and I looked back at the gun
"Dean. What um...what happened to me...er I mean, the..this."
"I got it." He says cutting me off and sighed, "3 months ago on a run, Lexi, Cas and a couple other soldiers got a lead on the devil." He told me and walked around the table, "Turned out to be an ambush and Lexi...well he killed her." He says and I set my drink down.
"Well how 'bout that." I said and leaned on the table, "I um...when I was in Cas's cabin, I saw.."
"The photo of you and him?" He asked and I nodded my head
"Were me and him...were we..."
"Yes." He answered knowing what I was trying to ask, "For 3 years."
"3..." I repeated in shock, "Wow." I said and sat down
"Yeah, caught me by surprise too." Dean tells me and sat down in the chair next to me.
"Is that why he's all Hippie like?"
"Well, sort of. After Lucifer killed you, Cas he...he didn't have an easy time after. So that's why he is the way he is." He says and finished his drink, "Look I know that;s a lot to take in, but we got a job to do here, ok?" He asked me and I nodded my head.
"So, that's it? That's the Colt?" Risa asked Dean
"If anything can kill Lucifer, this is it."
"Have we got anything that can find Lucifer?" She asked
"We don't have to find Lucifer. We know where he is. The demon that we caught last week, he was one of the big guy's entourage. He knew."
"So, a demon tells you where Satan's gonna be, and you just believe it?" Risa asked him
"Oh, trust me, he wasn't lying."
"And you know this how?" She asked
"Our fearless leader, I'm afraid, is all too well schooled in the art of getting to the truth." Cas says and I looked at Dean.
"Torture? Oh, so, you're torturing again?" I asked him and he looks at me, "No, that's-that's good. Classy." I said and Cas chuckled causing Dean to look at him
"What?" Cas asked him then looked back at me with a smile but I looked away
"Lucifer is here." Dean says pointing at a spot on the map, "Now. I know the block and I know the building."
"Oh, good-it's right in the middle of a hot zone." Cas pointed out
"Crawling with Croats, yeah. You saying my plan is reckless?"
"Are you saying we, uh, walk in straight up the driveway, past all the demons and the Croats, and we shoot the devil?" Cas asked him
"Yes."
"Okay, if you don't like, uh, 'reckless', I could use 'insouciant', maybe." Cas says
"Are you coming?"
Cas sighs, "Of course. But why is she? I mean, she's Lexi five years ago. If something happens to her.."
"She's coming." Dean said cutting him off
"Okay. Well, uh. I'll get the grunts moving." Cas said and stood up heading out of the cabin with Risa
"We're loaded and on the road by midnight." Dean called after him
"All righty."
"Why are you taking me? You said it yourself, Lucifer killed me...other me."
"Relax. You'll be fine. Zach's looking after you, right? To bring you back to try and change our minds." Dean tells me
"No, that's not what I mean. I want to know what's going on."
"Yeah, okay. You're coming because I want you to see something. I want you to see our brother." He told me and I stared at him
"Sam? I thought he was dead."
"Sam didn't die in Detroit. He said 'yes'." He said
"Yes?" I asked him and then thought about it, "Wait. You mean-"
"That's right. The big 'yes'. To the devil. Lucifer's wearing him to the prom."
"Why would he do that?" I asked
"Wish I knew. But now we don't have a choice. It's in him, and it's not getting out. And we've got to kill him, Alexis. And you need to see it-the whole damn thing, how bad it gets-so you can convince me to do different."
"What do you mean?" I ask him
"Zach said he was gonna bring you back, right? To '09?"
"Yeah." I answered
"Well, when you get back home-you tell me to say 'yes'. You hear me? Make me say 'yes' to Michael."
"That's crazy. You and I both know that I can't ever do anything to change your mind. Besides if I do that the battle's gonna torch half the planet."
"Look around you, Lexi. Half the planet's better than no planet, which is what we have now. If I could do it over again, I'd say 'yes' in a heartbeat." He says to me
"So why don't you?"
"I've tried! I've shouted 'yes' till I was blue in the face! The angels aren't listening! They just-left-gave up! It's too late for me, but for your Dean-"
"Oh, no. There's got to be another way." I tell him
"Yeah, that's what I thought. I was cocky. Never actually thought I'd lose. But I was wrong. Lexi. I was wrong. I'm begging you. Convince me to say yes." He begged and there was a pause, "But you won't, cause that's not you is it?" He asked and I sighed
"So, you're really from '09?" Chuck asked me as we walked to the vehicles
"Yeah, afraid so."
"Some free advice? You ever get back there, you hoard toilet paper. You understand me? Hoard it. Hoard it like it's made of gold. 'Cause it is." He tells me and I chuckled
"Thank you, Chuck."
"Oh, you'll thank me, all right. Mark my words." He says and I nodded
"I'll see you around." I told him and he walked in another direction then Cas walked up to me
"Ready?" He asked me
"Just like any other day at the office, except for the whole croatoan thing." I said with a small smile and he stared at me, "Look, Dean told me about...well us...I mean you and the other me."
"I see."
"I'm not...I'm not her." I tell him
"I know your not, but it's...it's nice to look at her face again instead of a picture." He says and I see the hurt in his eyes, "Can I ask one favor and feel free to say no if you want to."
"What is it?"
"We may not make it out of this...or at least I won't. Can I kiss you? Just one more time?" He asked and I was taken back a bit. I didn't even think about it cause I moved closer to him and I put my hand on his cheek looking into his eyes then we leaned towards each other and connected our lips. I know it wasn't my version of Cas but I still felt electricity shoot through my body and it got even more intense when he deepened the kiss pulling me towards him. I felt weightless, this kiss was...indescribable, but yet amazing. When he pulled away I suddenly missed the contact, I kept my eyes close a little longer then opened them and saw him looking at me, "I take it we aren't together in 2009."
"Uh no..we're-we're not."
"I wish I would have done something to save you." He tells me
"Cas don't...don't blame yourself. Whatever happened, it's not your fault."
"It is though, Lucifer he..I was pinned against the wall when he snapped your neck with his fingers. I couldn't stop it, I-" He says and I see tears form in his eyes
"Cas." I said putting my hand back on his face, "Do not blame yourself for what happened. There is nothing you could have done, hell there probably wasn't anything I could have done. So please, don't blame yourself." I tell him and he looked at me
"Your just like her." He says with a smile which I returned
"I get that a lot." I said and he chuckled, "We should load up." I tell him and he nodded. We loaded everything up and got into the vehicles and drove off.
"So don't get me wrong, Cas. I, uh. I'm happy that the stick is out of your ass, but-what's going on-w-with the drugs and the orgies and the love-guru stuff?" I asked him and he laughs, "What?"
"Lexi, I'm not an angel anymore."
"What?" I asked him
"Yeah, I went mortal."
"What do you mean? How?" I asked
"I chose to, so that I could be with you." He says and I looked at him
"You did?"
"Mmhm, you were against it at first telling me it's a part of who I am but after the angels took of we decided that me being human was a way for us to be together for as long as we could." He tells me and I look forward shocked beyond belief, "I am all but useless though. Last year, broke my foot, laid up for two months."
"Wow. I honestly don't know what to say."
"You don't have to say anything," He tells me and grabbed my hand, "The time I had with you...her...was...the best thing to ever happen to me." He said and I smiled at him
Me, Dean, Risa, Cas and a few other soldiers walk through the street carrying guns and scanning the area. I looked over at Dean and he gave me a glance then we continued.
"There. Second-floor window. We go in there." Dean tells us as we look at the building
"You sure about this?" Risa asked him
"They'll never see us coming. Trust me. Now, weapons check. We're on the move in five."
"Hey, uh can I talk to you for a sec?" I asked him and we walked away from the others, "Tell me what's going on."
"What?"
"I know you. You're lying to these people and to me." I point out
"Is that so."
"Yeah. See, I know your lying expressions, hell I grew up with them. Now, there's something you're not telling us." I said to him
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Oh, really? Well, I don't seem to be the only member of your posse with some questions, so, uh, maybe I'll just take my doubts over to them." I tell him and started to walk away
"Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait." Dean said stopping me
"What?"
"Take a look around you. This place should be white-hot with Croats. Where are they?" He asked me and I looked around
"They cleared a path for us. Which means that this is-"
"A trap. Exactly." Dean said finishing for me
"Well, then we can't go through the front."
"Oh, we're not. They are. They're the decoys. You and me, we're going in through the back." He tells me and I looked at Cas and the others then back at him
"You mean you're gonna feed your friends into a meat grinder? Cas, too? You want to use their deaths as a diversion?" I asked him and he looked away,"Oh something is broken in you. You're making decisions that Dean would never make. He wouldn't sacrifice our friends."
"You're right. He wouldn't. It's one of the main reasons we're in this mess, actually."
"These people count on you. They trust you." I told him
"They trust me to kill the devil and to save the world and that's exactly what I'm gonna do."
"No. Not like this, you're not. I'm not gonna let you." I said
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah." I told him and started to walk away but then I got knocked out from behind
I wake up on the ground hearing gunfire in the building, I slowly got up touching the back of my head then and ran towards the building. Thunder crashes, lightning flashes, and I see Dean on the ground, neck held down by someone wearing a white shoe. Dean opens his eyes and sees me, the someone shifts his weight and Dean's neck audibly breaks. The person turns around and my heart sinks when I see it's Sam, but at the same time it's not him, "Oh. Hello, Alexis."
I stand there and stare at Lucifer, "Aren't you a surprise." He says to me then the next thing I knew he was behind me, "You've come a long way to see this, haven't you?"
"Well, go ahead. Kill me. Just like you did the other one."
"Kill you? Don't you think that would be a little...redundant?" He asked then sighed, "I'm sorry. It must be painful, speaking to me in this-shape. But it had to be your brother. It had to be." Lucifer reaches for my shoulder but I moved back, "You don't have to be afraid of me, Alexis. What do you think I'm going to do?"
"I don't know. Maybe deep-fry the planet?" I tell him and Lucifer examines a Rose
"Why? Why would I want to destroy this stunning thing? Beautiful in a trillion different ways. The last perfect handiwork of God." He says but I didn't answer, "You ever hear the story of how I fell from grace?" He asked me
"Oh, good God, you're not gonna tell me a bedtime story, are you? My stomach's almost out of bile."
"You know why God cast me down? Because I loved him. More than anything. And then God created...You. The little...hairless apes. And then he asked all of us to bow down before you-to love you, more than him. And I said, "Father, I can't." I said, "These human beings are flawed, murderous." And for that, God had Michael cast me into hell. Now, tell me, does the punishment fit the crime? Especially, when I was right? Look at what six billion of you have done to this thing, and how many of you blame me for it."
"You're not fooling me, you know that? With this sympathy-for-the-devil crap. I know what you are." I told him
"What am I?"
"You're the same thing, only bigger. The same brand of cockroach I've been squashing my whole life. An ugly, evil, belly-to-the-ground, supernatural piece of crap. The only difference between them and you is the size of your ego." I said and Lucifer smiles
"I like you, Alexis. I get what the other angels see in you. What a certain other angel sees in you." He said to me and I clenched my jaw, "Goodbye. We'll meet again soon." Lucifer turns to walk away.
"You better kill me now!" I yelled at him and he turns back
"Pardon?"
"You better kill me now. Or I swear, I will find a way to kill you. And I won't stop." I tell him
"I know you won't. I know your brother won't say yes to Michael, either. And I know you won't kill Sam. Whatever you do, whatever the 3 of you do, you will always end up here. Whatever choices you make, whatever details you alter, we will always end up-here. I win. So, I win."
"You're wrong." I said to him
"See you in five years, Alexis." He says then leaves. I turn around and see Zachariah behind me and he touches my forehead bringing me back to my room in 2009
"Oh, well, if it isn't the ghost of Christmas screw you." I said to him
"Enough. Alexis, enough. You saw it, right? You saw what happens. You're the only person who can prove the devil wrong. Just convince Dean to say yes."
"How do I know that this whole thing isn't one of your tricks? Huh? Some angel hocus-pocus?" I asked him
"The time for tricks is over. If Dean gives himself to Michael we can strike. Before Lucifer gets to Sam. Before billions die." He says and I think about it for a moment then turn away from him
"Nah."
"'Nah'? You telling me that you won't change your brothers mind?"
"Well you see I grew up with Dean, and once his mind is set on something, there is no way in hell anyone can change it."
"Well, I'll just have to teach it again! Because I got you now, missy, and I'm never letting you-" He started to say but the next thing I knew I was outside and I turned around to see Cas standing there.
"That's pretty nice timing, Cas." I said to him
"We had an appointment." He says and I put my hand on his arm
"Don't ever change."
"How did Zachariah find you?" He asked
"Long story. Let's just stay away from Jehovah's Witnesses from now on, okay?" I said and took out my phone
"What are you doing?" He asked
"Saving my family."
Me and Dean wait by the Impala as another car pulls up and Sam gets out. Dean, Sam and I approach each other, "Sam." Dean says and pulls out Ruby's knife. Sam looks at it nervously then Dean holds it out to him, handle first, "If you're serious and you want back in...you should hang on to this. I'm sure you're rusty." Dean tells him and Sam takes the knife but he can't meet Dean's eyes, "Look, man, I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm...whatever I need to be. But I was, uh-wrong."
"What made you change your mind?" Sam asked him and Dean looked at me then back at him
"Long story. The point is...maybe all three of us are each other's Achilles heel. Maybe they'll find a way to use us against each other, I don't know. I just know we're all we've got. More than that. We keep each other human." I told him
"Thank you. Really. Thank you. I won't let you down."
"Oh, I know it. I mean, you are the second-best hunter on the planet." Dean tells him and I smacked his arm, "Ouch" He said and Sam chuckled
"So, what do we do now?" Sam asked
"We make our own future." I tell him
"Guess we have no choice." Dean adds and I pulled both of them into a hug.