Mid July. 2009.

Impala. Night.

Dean and Sam were heading to a case, hoping to get a fresh start together, putting everything that'd happened behind them. It'd been 4 days already since Dean met back up with Sam. They'd spent over a month apart, between Dean's mini vacation at Bela's to him going on 3 different hunts alone, as well as going with Cas to find Raphael, and another 3 days in the future.

"So, you think this is necessary? I mean, if the Colt's out there should we be going after it instead?"

"Yeah we've been looking Sam, hell Bobby and Bela's been on it for several weeks now, and if they are having a hard time finding it then we know it's well hidden. The apocalypse is still gonna be going on after this case is over, but for now we need to just go out and do a job. It's what we, you and me as a team, need right now."

Sam nodded. "Okay."

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Bar. Canton, Ohio.

"Dean sat at a bar downing a beer while Sam did research on what they thought was a haunted car, James Dean's car to be precise. Dean had to admit he was kind of excited about this one. He heard his cell phone go off and answered it.

"Hello."

"Dean." Came the female voice.

"Hiya Bela. Need somethin?"

"Call me later huh? It's been 5 days and no explanation of what made you change your mind about hunting with Sam."

"Right, sorry. Kinda a long story."

"Okay. I'm listening." she said.

He sighed. "Well let's just say that the dick of an angel Zachariah sent me 5 years into the future. I didn't like what I saw. His goal was to get me to change my mind about saying yes to Michael."

"You didn't did you? Change your mind I mean."

"What? No. I just uh...I didn't talk to Sam all those years, and Sam eventually gave up the fight and said yes to Lucifer. So this time I'm gonna do it right, we need to stick together and fight. It's not going to take me 5 years to find the Colt this time either."

"I'm still working on that by the way. All I do know is that it isn't in the same location as it was a month ago."

"Yeah, that's what future me said. They were moving it around."

"Naturally."

"I saw you too you know." Dean commented.

"In the future?"

"Yep. Your hair was shorter. It was kinda hot."

"Yeah I'm not cutting my hair if that's what you're getting at." She said, laughing a little.

"Nah I wasn't...just telling you what I saw." Dean replied. He felt a little empty though, like he was forgetting something. Dean's phone beeped to let him know he had another call. "Hey I gotta go, it's Sam, we're on a case right now."

"Right. Have fun then." she said.

"I will, it's a pretty awesome one I think."

"Should I worry if you think a hunt is awesome?"

"Nah. I'll see you soon hopefully."

Dean switched over to answer Sam's call.

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They continued working on the hunt, that turned out to be not what they expected, as usual. Another God this time. Dean and Sam hit a few roadblocks when trying to get back to normal and act like brothers again. Dean wasn't quite ready to forgive him all the way, but he wasn't hiding anything from Sam about it either. Sam wasn't thrilled at Dean bossing him around again, but he shrugged it off since he really was to blame for it.

At the end of the day though, Dean could admit that he was being too hard on Sam now, and even took some of the blame himself. They managed to work out their issues and understand that they couldn't just hunt together, couldn't just hunt Lucifer together. They had to be on the same page, as equals. And Dean was ready to let go of that anger as well.

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Champaigne, IL. & then Alliance NE. August.

The boys continued to hunt for another 3 weeks, getting things back on track while still keeping an ear out for the Colt. Bobby kept searching, as did Bela. She'd made her way to Illinois, trading a few items and looking for anything that might help find it faster.

Bela was leaving the upscale auction house when her phone rang.

"Dean." she asnwered.

"Hey. So got a case we think on cursed objects or something. Doesn't seem to be any witches involved. Figured this might be something you're good at."

"What kind of objects exactly?"

"Well...itching powder, and one of those joy buzzers...you know things that are supposed to shock people? Well it electrocuted a guy. And the itching power made a girl scratch her brains out."

"Dean sweetie did you hit your head?"

"What? No I'm totally serious. Ask Sam."

"Dean, this isn't a rabbit's foot or anything. That isn't even possible." she said.

"Really, with what we've seen you're gonna tell me something's impossible."

"Okay I'll humor you. Can you find where they all came from, maybe there's something in the store."

"Yeah okay. I'll look into it. Where are you anyways?"

"Illinois. Boring place."

"Doing what?"

"Girl's still got to make money you know."

"Bela." Dean warned.

"Oh relax it's legal. I just left an old auction house, they had a few things I needed and I traded in a few things. You really care what I do as long as we find the colt?"

"No, guess not. Besides it being legal isn't really my problem."

"Okay then, I'll make a new rule, no hunters or innocent people shall be harmed in my dealings. Does that satisfy you?"

"Yeah, much better." he said, laughing. "Alright Sam's here, maybe he found something. I'll call you later."

"Yeah, you do that." she said.

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Alliance NE. Hospital.

They were back to the hospital not long after checking out the shop where the two items came from. The weird just kept piling on.

"Seriously? Tooth fairy? Yeah that guy's obviously taken too many painkillers." Dean said, not believing it.

"Well if it wasn't the tooth fairy, then something broke in the house past locked doors and all, and pulled out all the guys teeth, leaving a quarter for each tooth under his pillow." Sam said.

"Come on man? Really?" Dean said. His life just kept getting stranger. "Okay you know what, what I learned was just as bad."

"What do you mean?"

"Well there's a kid in here that has stomach ulcers, he said he got them from mixing pop rocks and coke. Another kid's face froze that way."

"What way?"

Dean showed him.

"Okay...no I have nothing. I don't get it." Sam said.

Dean thought for a moment. "Wait...there were lies I believed when I was a kid. I mean now, I know they aren't true...but all this stuff, well it seems it's what kids believe in. You know, tooth fairies, pop rocks & coke. Everything."

"Great. So what, a trickster?"

"Maybe, one that acts like a 10 year old child."

Sam shrugged.

After a couple hours of research they found a location that might be where whatever or whomever was causing all this lived. The boys left their motel and went to check it out.

However, what they found wasn't what they expected...because it was in fact an 11 year old boy. An 11 year old with the power to bring to life whatever he believed in. The brothers were shocked. Dean had managed to talk to the boy, Jesse, and get him to realize that half of those things he believed in wasn't real. Thing is though, it wasn't over yet. They needed to figure out how Jesse was doing it.

Motel Room.

Dean's phone rang while they were researching the kid.

"Yeah."

"Cursed objects. You guys deal with them already?" Bela asked.

"Uh, no. It wasn't the objects."

"Oh wow really? Such a surprise." she teased.

"Worse. A kid."

"I don't follow."

"A kid who has the power to make things become real if he believes in it. Once I convinced him they weren't real, it stopped happening."

"You're serious?"

"Yep."

"What next? I mean, is he dangerous?"

"Yeah that's what were trying to find out." Dean said.

"Found something." Sam said from his spot at the desk.

Dean put Bela on speaker so he didn't have to hang up.

"What?" Dean asked.

"Okay, so the kid was adopted actually, and his mother lives in Elk Creek, at the other side of the state. There's no father listed, at all."

"So what is he, born out of some creature?" Bela asked them. "Witch parents or something?"

"Maybe. Don't know. We should head over and check it out." Sam said.

"That's 9 hours away Sam." Dean said. Sam shrugged.

"I'm bored." Bela said. "I'm only 7 hours away from there. I'll meet you."

"Really?"

"Yes really. What else am I going to do? I thought of heading to Bobby's, work on what I have so far in finding the Colt."

"Fine." Dean said. "See you soon."

They hung up.

Sam looked at him.

"What?" Dean asked.

"Maybe she just wants a hook up." Sam suggested. Dean rolled his eyes.

"Shut up Sam."

The boys gathered their things together and headed out.

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Jesse's Mothers Home. Elk Creek, NE.

Dean pulled up in the impala and noticed Bela's car as well. She stepped out of the small car, looking much more like the woman he'd first met nearly 2 years ago.

"Hey." She said to Dean, then looked at Sam. "Sam, nice to have you back." Bela was trying to be nice to him. She knew Sam was trying too. Bela knew how hard it was on Dean when Sam had betrayed him, but it seemed like things were getting better now.

"Yeah." Sam agreed. The three of them walked up to the house, Sam knocked a few times. They hrd a voice but the door didn't open.

"Not interested." The woman said.

"We're not here to sell you anything." Dean said. He looked back at Bela, then to Sam.

"We're FBI Ma'm."

Dean and Sam pulled out their badges so that the woman could see them through the very small window in the door.

"Slide them underneat the door. I need to check. Her's too."

Dean and Sam did as they were told, and Bela handed the boys her fake ID as well. They waited for a moment before the woman finally opened the door for them. The older woman gave them their ID's back.

"Listen, we just had a few questions Mrs. Wright. About your son." Sam said softly.

"I don't have a son." she said quickly.

"I think you do, or did. He was born March 29, 1998." Sam told her.

The woman gives him a strange look.

"You put him up for adoption?" Bela asked her, hoping the lady would respond better to another woman.

"What about him?" she asked.

"We were just wondering, um, was it...was it a normal pregnancy Miss Wright?"

"Julia." she offered slowly. "Don't know what you mean."

"Was there anything strange?" Dean tried.

Julia slams the door in their faces.

"Stay away from me!" She yells.

Dean and Sam exchanged looks. Bela stepped closer to the door.

"Please wait, all we would like to do is talk." Bela said calmly.

The door opened again, but Dean, Sam, and Bela were greeted with a sprinkling of salt.

"Um..." Dean started, brushing himself off.

"You're not demons?" Julia asked them.

Bela looked at Dean. Demons? What'd that have to do with this?

"What? What do you know about demons?" Dean questioned her.

She let the three of them inside.

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Julia's Home. Kitchen.

The four of them sat around the table as Julia told them her story. She recalled being possessed for a long time, how she was awake inside her own body and could see herself hurting people.

"I'm sorry." Sam said.

"How long were you possessed?" Dean asked.

"9 months. The whole pregnancy, the birth. None of it was normal." Julia said.

Bela looked at the woman with a sad look on her face.

"How'd you survive?"

"The pregnancy took a lot out of me, but the demon seemed tired too somehow...I was in enough pain after the birth, somehow it pumped up my instincts...I took control of my body for a few minutes. So I downed a bunch of salt until the demon left my body."

"What'd you do then?" Dean asked her.

"A part of me wanted to kill the child, but I couldn't. So I gave him up for adoption and ran away. I guess the demons had no use for me, they didn't come back."

Bela nodded.

"Is he okay? My son. Is he human?"

"He lives in Alliance, he's a good kid." Dean told her. He left out the part about the making things real part. He didn't want to hurt the woman.

The three of them left, Bela followed them back to Alliance.

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Motel Room.

"So what now?" she asked.

"We need help. This is far bigger than we thought." Sam said.

"Bobby?" Bela questioned.

"No." Sam said.

They looked up suddenly when Castiel appeared.

"Got our message?" Dean asked.

"Yes. I'm glad you found him." Castiel said.

"Why?" Bela asked.

"Because the child must die."

"I'm sorry?" Dean asked.

"Dean the child is half demon and half human. He's what you might call the antichrist, a hybrid. He's a very powerful weapon that Lucifer could use. We must destroy him now."

"If Jesse is the demons prized possession why hasn't he been taken already?"

"They can't find him. The child is hidden, naturally, by both angels and demons."

"So why does he have to die then if he's protected from them?" Sam asked.

"If Lucifer gets a hold of him, he can twist him into viewing things his way. That child could destroy Heaven. We can't allow it to happen, Heaven and Earth would be destroyed within a short amount of time."

"Come on we can't just kill a kid." Sam said.

"I agree. Not happening." Dean said.

Bela looked to him. "Dean. What if..." She started.

"No."

Bela nodded then.

"Last year you would have done whatever it takes, what's changed?" Castiel asked them, mostly Sam though.

"Everything." Sam said. "We can take him to Bobby's. Tell him the truth. Maybe he'll make the right choices."

"You didn't." Castiel said. Sam frowned at him.

"Doesn't matter. We have to try."

Dean knew why Sam was fighting so hard for this.

Cas disappeared.

Sam headed for the impala.

"You want me to head out?" Bela asked. "I can head to Bobby's now."

"Just come with us. We still need to convince Jesse to leave quietly, last thing we need is to piss the kid off by kidnapping him."

Bela nodded.

Dean grabbed his things when he noticed the knife was missing.

"Uh...where's the knife?"

"The one that kills demons?"

Dean nodded. Bela shrugged.

"Castiel?" She suggested."He left far too quickly."

"Damn it."

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Jesse's House.

Dean and Sam marched in the door fast, only to find Jesse standing in the living room by himself. Bela was right behind them.

"You okay? Was there a man here?" Dean asked the boy.

Jesse nodded towards the mantle. The three of them noticed a mini version of Cas, he was turned into a toy.

"Oh dear God." Bela said, staring at Castiel.

"What happened?" Sam asked.

"I didn't mean to. He came at me, it just happened. Was he a friend of yours?"

"Him? Nope." Dean lied, not wanting the kid to not trust him.

Dean then came up with some lame story about how the kid was a superhero. Surprisingly, Jesse bought it for a while. Bela could only roll her eyes and laugh. Sometimes Dean was far to unbelievable.

"So, what do you say? Wanna come with us? You'll be the hero Jesse, even save lives. We just need to help you learn how to control what you can do." Dean said.

Jesse looked to him, and then to Bela. "Are you coming as well?" he asked her. Bela smiled.

"Yeah, I'll be there some." she said. Jesse smiled. He liked her. Dean grinned at the kids expression...boy had good taste.

Just then the door burst open again. "Don't listen to them."

It was Julia, excpet she was possessed again. She flings Dean and Bela into the wall, then Sam. She forced Sam to stay where he was, but knocked Dean into the wall further a couple of times.

"Stop it." Jesse yelled.

Julia turned to Jesse. She tried to talk to him, convince him that Dean and Sam were the bad guys, that they lied to him. What seemed like a long time later, Sam managed to convince Jesse to listen to them. He forced the demon to let Sam go and Sam told Jesse the truth.

Jesse eventually forces the demon from Julia's body with ease, and Dean and Bela were released as well.

"You're awesome" Dean told him. Jesse smiled.

"So, since we're being honest...that man you turned into a toy, could you turn him back?" Bela asked. "He actually is one of the good ones."

"But he tried to hurt me." Jesse said.

"He was confused." Dean said. "It's fine, we'll talk about it in a minute."

"So, I can't stay here can I?" Jesse stated more than asked. Bela gave the boy a sad look. Dean leaned down next to him.

"No, listen we'll take you somewhere safe, to a friends. We'll teach you whatever it is you need to know. If you stay here more demons will come after you, maybe hurt your parents too." Dean said.

Jesse looked hurt. Dean and Sam felt bad for him.

"We could really use your help Jesse." Sam said. "You're powerful, you have the chance to do something good."

Bela couldn't take it though. The kid deserved to choose.

"Jesse, it's your own choice you know. You don't have to come, but you can't stay here either. You have to do what you want." Bela said quietly.

She looked up to Dean. Sam looked as if he wanted to just tell Jesse to come along, but Dean agreed with Bela. So Dean nodded at the boy. "She's right." Dean wanted to thank Bela for being the nice one in all this. She did good with him.

"Can I say goodbye to them? My parents."

Sam nodded. Jesse went upstairs to get a few things and say goodbye. The remaining three stayed downstairs and waited. However, they waited for 20 minutes and the kid hadn't come back down yet.

"Um he's been up there a while." Dean said.

"That's because he is gone." came Castiel's voice from behind them. They turned around.

"Where'd he go?" Dean asked.

"I do not know. He fixed everyone in this town though, they're all fine."

Sam nodded. Dean ran upstairs and came back down with a note in his hand.

"What is it?" Bela asked.

"He said he left to keep his family safe, but he doesn't want to fight yet. He said sorry."

"How do we find him?" Sam asked. Bela and Dean gave him a look.

"We don't." Cas told him. "Not unless he wants to be found."

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Motel. Night.

Sam and Dean headed back to the motel to sleep before leaving. Dean felt bad, about Jesse. The kid's life was screwed up all because they'd intervened. Sam tried to convince Dean that it would've happened anyways, that the demons would have found him somehow. Dean wasn't sure though, he wished they didn't have to tell the kid everything. Hell Dean really wished he'd been hidden from the truth when he was a kid.

Dean packed up his stuff and washed up while Sam crashed on the bed. Dean then made his way to Bela's room.

"Hey you." He said, walking in.

She smiled. "I'm tired, don't get any ideas." she told him.

He held up his hands in surrender. "Sam's snoring. I want sleep." Dean said innocently.

She laughed, stripping down into her silk tank she wore under her shirt. She climbed into the bed and made room for him. Dean then made his way to the bed as well and slid in beside her.

"You okay?" She asked.

"Yeah, fine. I mean...I just feel bad, about the kid."

Bela nodded. "He's strong though. Maybe when all this is over he can go home."

"Like you?"

"Yeah, I wouldn't mind going home too."

"You don't have to stay in this fight."

"Maybe not, but I want to. As I said before, no point in waiting to die with the rest of the world."

"Guess not...thanks, for staying though. I don't mind the company. I mean I like it being me and Sam on the road again, but it's nice having you around too."

"You wouldn't be getting too attached to me would you?" she teased.

"Maybe. Don't pretend you aren't."

"I'll never tell." She whispered, kissing his cheek. Dean laughed.

"G'night Bel."

She resisted giving him a hard time about the shortening of her name. It was kind of sweet actually. Dean was fast asleep before she was.

End Chapter.

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