A/N: Happy Friday! I am hoping to have more of this story from my beta by next week. For now this is the last edited chapter, I'm sorry there have been so few! Enjoy!
Chapter 14: The Brothers Way
When Dean had finished at the long term care facility he made his way back to the library and found Sam sitting on the steps waiting. Flanked on either side by the famous stone Lions, he looked like he belonged there, and yet, there was impatience in his movements as he spotted his brother and moved toward the Impala.
"Finished already? I'd figured you'd be all about exploring a library like this. I was sure I'd have to come in there and drag you out kicking and screaming," Dean said as his brother fell into the seat next to him.
"Another time," Sam said. "Lucas and I found a pretty decent map of a pretty old station that is a perfect place for a djinn to hide out. We're going to go down there tonight to check it out. He got six calls while we were in the library so he's gone back to the medical examiners officer. Oh, and he said he'd sneak us in to check out the bodies tonight," Sam explained as Dean pulled away from the curb, getting his beautiful Impala trapped in a slow moving current of yellow cabs.
"So I'm taking you to the medical examiners officer then?" Dean asked and sighed. "This is another reason, on the long list of reasons, why we don't come to the big cities. This traffic is insane and so help me Chuck, I will murder anyone if they scratch my Baby. She doesn't deserve this. She wasn't made for this kind of driving! Sammy, I've gotta get out of this city!" He added anxiously and leaned on his horn as the car behind him inched perilously close to rear ending Baby.
"I'd like to see the bodies if it's all the same to you, and with time on our hands we might mix up some of Samuel's cure in case we actually run into the djinn down in the subway," Sam spoke with a roll of his eyes.
"Good idea, but where in a city like this are we going to find the ingredients we need?" Dean asked, leaning on the horn again.
"If anyone can tell us that, I'm sure it's the oldest man among us," Sam answered seriously.
"You're probably right," Dean said sighing again as he resigned himself to the pace of the traffic.
"What is up with you?" Sam asked cautiously.
"I don't like this case, Sammy. Not the djinn one, that's business as usual for us, but the thought of not ever being able to kill a monster has me concerned. And hell, I can't shake this anxiety about what it all means for Henry," Dean confessed. "I mean, he's not a monster, but imagine his life. What all that time alone could do to him. He may not be one now but some day, down the line, he could become one."
"Oh my god, Dean Winchester is a real boy!" Sam teased.
"Jerk," Dean huffed gruffly.
"Bitch" Sam replied out of habit.
"I met Adam, I went to the hospital and I met him." Dean continued without pausing for his brothers retort. "I'm not worried about Henry in the same way, I feel for what he must be going through, but there was something about Adam even with my bias having only Henry's side of the story. There was just something triggering about the other one and as much as I wanted to just shoot him to prove him right, I saw him in that bed incapacitated, a prisoner in his own body, and a part of me knew that was the worst hell an immortal could ever know. Problem was, he had a young girl with him, who I also believe is immortal. I think they are plotting to free him from his current imprisoned state. I think it's so that they can keep being monsters together. Henry and Adam, they may be two very different creatures, but every instinct I've got tells me that Adam is a monster."
"Wow, that's dark, even for you," Sam said.
"Right?" Dean asked as traffic started moving again. "There is a desperation for freedom, like a caged animal, but he needs to remained locked up for the safety of others. He's a murderer, I saw it in his eyes and it's not a survival kind of murder. He does it just to see death. He does it because he's fascinated by it. He does it because he knows, that no matter what, they can't hold him forever."
"And are you sure about the other immortal?"
"Yes, Adam, confirmed it and told her to flee but I don't think she'll stay away. I didn't see her again while I interviewed the staff, but that doesn't mean she won't come back."
"True, good thing we have the colt," Sam said. "If we have to, we can always try that on him."
"Do you think that will work against an immortal?" Dean asked skeptically. "Do we chance it?"
"It's supposed to be able to kill anything. When in doubt, use the colt."
"Wasteful if all it does is kill them just to have them come back to life again," Dean commented as the medical examiners office came into view. "And if we test the theory and it fails we've released Adam onto the world. If we test it and it works then we kill Henry."
"I see the dilemma, I like him too, but what else can we do?" Sam asked and sighed.
"Maybe we should open the gates to purgatory and drop Adam in to be with Eve and all her other beasties," Dean offered.
"Or cage him in hell with Lucifer?" Sam asked.
"Or the celestial prisons of heaven?"
"Since when is our solution just lock them up?" Sam asked with a laugh as he texted Lucas, getting a reply to head in. "We can go, the detectives have moved on to other things. Henry and Lucas are alone."
"Should I bring the colt with me just in case? Just to talk it through with Henry?" Dean asked.
"No, it's too public a place for that. Let's focus on the djinn for now," Sam said as they exited the vehicle.
"Good call, one job at a time," Dean said following his little brother through the front doors, which in itself was, out of character.
