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Chapter 36: Team
"Hello?" Alexis answers, not even checking to see who was calling.
"Lex?"
"Sam? What's wrong?" she asks, heading to pack up her stuff upon hearing the panic in his voice.
She'd spent the past week with her family, Arizona, and Ellie while the boys picked up a hunt or two. Right now, she was in Iowa City with Jo, having just finished a simple spirit hunt. She'd planned on staying a bit longer and going back to the roadhouse with Jo, but from the sound of Sam's voice, she was needed back with them.
"We uh, we just finished up a pretty rough hunt and Dean took off. Left me here. I'm afraid he's going to say yes. And now I'm stuck here." Sam explains.
"Fuck. Okay, where are you?"
"Blue Earth, Minnesota. I'll see if someone here can give me a ride to a bus station and I can meet you somewhere. It would take you forever to get up here."
"I'm actually not in Broken Bow." she tells him.
"What? Why not? Are you okay? Where are you?" Sam asks, rapidly firing questions at her.
"Slow down. Jo found a spirit hunt in Iowa City and I went with her. I was going to head back to the roadhouse, but I'll head towards you."
"Iowa City? What motel? I'll just have Cas bring me there, as long as he's sober enough."
"Sober enough? What do you mean?" she asks curiously.
"He uh, went on a bender and showed up drunk. But he should be okay enough to zap me to you."
"Cas drunk? Huh. Well I'm at the Red Robin motel. Room 24. I guess I'll see you soon?"
"Yeah. See you soon." Sam says and hangs up.
She hadn't moved more than a few feet before Sam was standing in the room. She barely saw Cas. He was there but before she could even blink he was gone.
"Sam?" Jo asks, just walking back through the door with dinner. "How did you get here?"
"Castiel. Look, Dean is really freaking me out here. We gotta find him." Sam says, starting to pace.
Sam was definitely a pacer. That was something she'd quickly learned. When he was worried, he'd run his fingers through his hair or pace, most of the time both. "Alright, sit down. Take a breath. You called me just after he left, right? He can't be more than fifteen minutes away from where you were in Minnesota. You're hours away, so calm down, stop pacing, and just talk." she says, putting her hands on his shoulders to get him to stop moving.
Sam nods and takes a seat on the bed.
"What's going on?" Jo asks, having set the food down and now walking over to Alexis.
"We had a bad hunt. Someone Cas called the Whore of Babylon. Dean took off, I think he's planning on saying yes, giving up." Sam explains.
"Okay. If that's what he's doing, where would he head first?" Alexis asks, doing her best to remain calm.
Sam stays silent for a minute, clearly thinking things through. "Lisa's."
"Who's Lisa?" Alexis asks.
"Lisa? The one who has a son? Dean and I saw her on that changeling hunt that one time." Jo says.
"Yeah, her. If Dean was going to give up, Lisa would be the first stop. Trust me." Sam replies.
"Okay. Where does Lisa live?"
"Cicero, Indiana." Jo says.
"Okay. Let's go. Jo, do you want to come?" Alexis asks, realizing her sister had no car.
"No, you two go. Call me when you find him. I'll catch a bus back to the roadhouse." her sister responds.
"Alright. Let me at least drop you off at the bus station then."
"Okay. If that's where Dean's headed from Minnesota, it'll take him a while. We're closer to Cicero by a few hours. I got dinner, enough for Sam too I think so let's all eat, and then head out." Jo says.
Alexis opens her mouth to say something but Jo cuts her off, "Lex, I swear to God if you say you're not hungry…"
With the look Jo was giving her and the one Sam shoots her, Alexis sighs and says, "Fine. What'd you get?"
"Some chicken tenders and fries. But I've heard you complain about fried food enough this week to know to get you something else."
Truthfully she wasn't that hungry, but knowing that not eating wasn't an option right now, not with her sister and Sam both in the room, she sits down at the table and pulls out the salad Jo had gotten her. At least she got me this.
When she finishes half the salad, she decides to be done, earning an eyebrow raise from both Sam and Jo. Jo had caught on pretty quickly to her lack of interest in eating and she was pretty sure Sam had said something anyway. Neither of them says anything, though she was sure she'd hear about it from Sam later. He'd no doubt ask her if she'd been eating, if she wanted to stop, stuff like that.
Forty-five minutes later, they'd packed up and had dropped Jo off at the bus station.
"Jo was right, we'll get to Indiana before Dean. Do you want to stop for something else to eat?" Sam asks her.
"Sam, no. Let's just get on the road." she states, starting to really grow tired of being asked and reminded to eat. It wasn't like she wasn't eating at all, she was. She'd started carrying around a box of breakfast bars that she liked for when they were in motels, and would head to a grocery store and get some fruit and stuff when they'd be anywhere for more than a night. She didn't eat much just now because she hates eating a lot right before a long drive.
"Lex, you didn't eat much. And I have no idea how much or how little you've been eating since we've been apart for a week and a half." Sam says, his eyebrows creased in concern.
"I'm fine, Sam. You don't have to keep worrying about me. Jo made sure I ate enough, and I did. I just am trying to avoid fried, greasy stuff. You should get that, seeing as you typically get salads or grilled food at diners. And I don't like to eat a lot before long car rides. I know you're only bugging me about this because you care, but please lay off."
"Okay." Sam responds, raising his hands in surrender.
"Just fill me in on what happened, why you think Dean is going to say yes."
Sam tells her about the hunt with the Whore of Babylon, how innocent people were tricked into killing, how other innocent people died, how Dean was losing faith.
"Damn. Alright, we'll find him, okay? But uh, maybe we'll want to have Cas with us, just in case." she says once Sam had finished.
"In case of?"
"Well, if he doesn't want to come with us, it'll be pretty difficult to get him to. Cas can easily get Dean anywhere."
"Yeah, guess you're right."
The two drive in silence until they stop at a twenty-four hour McDonalds sometime after two in the morning. They were just outside of Cicero, Indiana and knew there was no way Dean was there yet.
Once they get their food, they slide into a booth across from each other.
"So Dean will probably get here in another three or four hours and stop at a motel for a bit before heading to Lisa's. I say we stop at a hotel and then either later in the morning or earlier afternoon, head to the motel he should be at and go from there." Alexis says.
"Yeah, okay."
She reaches out and places her hand on his arm, squeezing slightly, and says, "Hey, we're going to get to him and we'll figure everything out, alright? He's not going to say yes."
Sam nods and goes back to eating.
Around noon, they head to the motel that Sam was pretty sure Dean was at, Mike's Travel Inn. Once they see the Impala in the lot, they call for Castiel and the three walk in. Sam, wanting to talk to Dean first, stands in the doorway while Alexis and Cas stand a bit further down the hall, out of Dean's sight but not out of earshot.
She tried to drown it out, but she couldn't. She felt bad for them both. Sam, after dealing with her not really caring if she lived or died, now had Dean practically killing himself. Dean, after everything that's gone down, wanted to save anyone that he could and just end it. They were both hurting and she had no idea how to help one without hurting or crossing the other. As soon as they hear Sam say he brought help, Cas zaps in behind Dean and Alexis walks over to Sam. Cas then zaps them all, her car included, to Bobby's.
Not wanting to hear arguing between Dean, Bobby, Sam, and Cas, Alexis grabs some books and heads down to her room in the basement. Except she knew she wasn't going to find anything. There was nothing in any book that could tell them how to stop the apocalypse or kill the devil. There just wasn't. Sometime later, Dean walks in.
"Look, if you're going to yell or complain, I don't want to hear it." she says, barely glancing up at him.
"Too bad. I thought you, of all people, would understand this." Dean responds, taking a seat across from her on the bed.
"Never said I didn't."
"Then why the hell did you let them stop me?"
"I may understand it, Dean, but I don't agree with it. You can't just give up. You can't." Alexis says, now making eye contact with him.
"Watch me." Dean responds bitterly, standing up.
"Dean-"
"No. I can save you, Lex. I can make sure that you, Sam, Ellen, Jo, Bobby, Arizona, Ellie, Lisa, and Ben are all safe and make it out of this. You and Sam could be done, get out of the life and get married, have kids, and be happy." Dean says, his voice loud.
"No, we couldn't. You don't think people would come after us, Dean? By saying yes to Michael, people are going to die. Hunters are going to know why and the blame is going to fall on you. But you won't be here, meaning they'll come after Sam, potentially me too. You can't save us, you just can't." she says firmly, also standing up now.
Dean shakes his head, not wanting to listen.
"You know I'm right, Dean."
"No." he says defiantly and walks out.
Shortly after that, Sam walks in.
"What did you say to him?" he asks, taking a seat next to her.
"Why?" she asks, looking at him curiously.
"Now he's up there pacing and muttering to himself."
"I told him that he can't save us by saying yes. He said he could, that we could be done, get married, have kids, be happy. But he can't, we can't."
Sam nods and then after a minute says, "Would you want to?"
"What?"
"Would you want to get married, have kids, if we could?"
"Sam…" she trails off, not at all sure what she should say. After thinking for a minute and staring at Sam, she says, "Someday. Yes, I would. I don't know about the kids part, but most definitely the married part."
Thinking about having kids wasn't something she did much, she was pretty sure she'd be an awful mother. And in the world they lived in, it was incredibly dangerous, even if they got out of the life. But she knew, just by looking at Sam, that if he said he wanted to have a baby with her, she'd agree in a heartbeat. Sam would be an excellent father.
Sam gives her a small smile and says, "Well, then when this whole apocalypse thing is over, I'm going to buy a ring and am going to ask you to marry me."
She smiles in response and leans forward to press a small kiss to his lips. "I look forward to that then." she whispers softly.
"Now, let's go see about getting this apocalypse behind us." she adds a minute later, pulling Sam up with her.
The two head upstairs and meet Bobby and Dean in the library. Seconds later, Cas appears with a body, simply saying, "Help."
"Who is it?" Bobby asks.
Alexis didn't recognize him, but judging by the looks on Sam and Dean's faces, they did.
"That's our brother." Sam says.
"Wait a minute, your brother?" Bobby questions.
"Adam?" Alexis adds in.
Dean turns to Castiel and asks, "Cas, what the Hell?"
"Angels." the angel replies.
"Angels?" Sam repeats questioningly.
"Why?" Alexis asks.
"I know one thing for sure. We need to hide him now." Castiel says, walking over and placing his hand over Adam's rib cage.
Adam wakes up with a start, heavily breathing and his eyes jumping around in confusion. "Where am I?"
"It's okay, just relax. You're safe." Sam says.
"Who the hell are you?" Adam asks.
"Well you're going to find this a little- a lot crazy, but we're actually your brothers." Dean explains.
"It's the truth. John Winchester is our father too. I'm Sam-" Sam begins but gets cut off.
"Yeah, and I'm sure that's Dean. I know who you are." Adam says.
"How?" Sam questions.
"They warned me about you."
"Who did?" Dean interjects.
"The angels. Now where the hell is Zachariah?" Adam asks.
"I'm gonna kill him. I'm going to kill him." Alexis mutters, wishing she'd have stabbed Zachariah already.
Sam reaches back and grabs her arm, silently telling her to calm down.
They get Adam cleaned up and then all grab seats around the room. Bobby was in his wheelchair just to the side of the bed that Adam was on. Dean was sitting backwards on a chair a few feet in front of Adam. Castiel was leaning on a desk behind Dean, and both Sam and Alexis were leaning on a desk to the side of Bobby.
"So, why don't you just tell us everything. Start from the beginning." Dean says.
Adam explains that he was in Heaven when some angels popped out of nowhere and told him that he was chosen to save the world. That he and some archangel are going to kill the devil. They'd apparently told him he was Michael's sword.
Cas speaks up and says that maybe the angels are moving on from Dean, using Adam. It's not perfect but is possible.
Beginning to feel crowded in the library and getting a headache, Alexis walks into the kitchen and grabs a beer, tuning out the rest of the conversation in the library, only registering the shouts.
Later on, Adam was sitting eating a sandwich at the table and Alexis decides to talk to him.
"What do you want?" Adam asks as she takes a seat across from him.
"Look, you don't know me, you have no idea who I even am, and I know you don't know Sam and Dean, but we're the good ones here. The angels, they're just using you. Trust me, I know." Alexis begins.
"Why? You said it yourself. I have no idea who you are. I don't even know your name." Adam interjects.
"I'm Alexis, Sam's girlfriend. But that doesn't matter. I heard you say earlier that if you do this right, you get to see your mom again. Your mom is dead, Adam. They won't bring her back, and when they're done with you, you'll be dead again too. You won't see her, not really. I lost my dad when I was 6 and my brother when I was 8. Seeing them again, having them back, would be amazing. But I wouldn't say yes to Michael, destroy half the world, to get that. So think about it, okay? Give us some time. There's another way, a better one, we just have to find it."
"Fine." Adam says.
She goes to stand up but Adam stops her, saying, "I'm sorry."
She turns back to him, a questioning look on her face.
"About your dad, and your brother. I'm sorry."
She nods and gives him a small, sad smile, saying, "I'm sorry about your mom."
He nods back in response.
"Alright, I'm going to promise you something, and I don't make promises easily, ask any one of them out there. You got caught up in this simply because you have John Winchester's DNA, and that's unfair to you. So, if this goes wrong, and you end up dead again, in Heaven or in Hell, I'm going to get you back, as long as I'm not dead too, okay? You deserve to live. You didn't deserve to die in the first place." Alexis says, not entirely sure what propelled her to do so. There was something about Adam, something she connected to, something that made her really feel for him.
Adam, a small tear or two in his eyes, asks, "Why? You don't even know me? And how could you even get me back?"
"I know I don't, but I'd like to. And uh, I know a guy." she replies, giving him a small smile. She knew that no matter how this went, Heaven was going to be chaos, allowing Gabriel to easily slip in and get Adam out if need be. And well, Hell, Gabe could get into no matter what if need be also.
Sam walks over a minute later and Alexis walks away, joining Bobby in the library since they had Dean in the panic room. This was a time she felt like she didn't belong, didn't quite fit in. Sam and Dean were Adam's brothers and they were the two that Heaven and Hell wanted. Bobby was practically their father and he had all the resources they needed. And Cas, well Cas was their angel. She was just Alexis, she couldn't help, she couldn't fix anything, and she couldn't do anything for them, which is why she spent most of the night out on the porch, alone.
Some time later, Sam walks out in a hurry.
"Sam! Where are you going?" she says, quickly on her feet.
"Dean got out. I gotta go find him. Just stay here, help Bobby keep an eye on Adam. Please." Sam says.
The look on his face and his tone of voice kept her from protesting. "Alright. Be careful, okay?" she says and then places a kiss on his cheek.
"You too." he responds and then walks away.
Alexis walks back inside and continues to sit in silence with Bobby while Adam was asleep on the bed in the library. A little later, with Adam still asleep, Alexis gets up to go to the bathroom. When she gets back, Adam is gone. When Sam gets back, he's pissed. Shortly after that, Castiel appears with a beaten up and unconscious Dean.
Castiel explains that the angels took Adam because Adam must have tipped them off, through a dream or something. Then he goes to check and reports back that they have Adam in the fancy room they'd taken Dean to before.
Before Dean wakes up, they get him to the panic room and handcuff him to the bed. Sam, not wanting to leave him, stays, asking to be left alone with Dean.
When morning rolls around, Castiel takes Sam, Dean, and Alexis to the place where Adam was being held. Once they get there, Castiel explains that there are at least five angels in there.
Cas takes off his tie and says, "I'll clear them out. You three grab the boy. This is our only chance."
"Whoa, wait, you're going to take on five angels?" Dean questions.
"Yes." the angel responds.
"Isn't that suicide?" Dean says.
"Maybe it is, but then I won't have to watch you fail. I'm sorry, Dean, I don't have the same faith in you that Sam does." Castiel replies.
Truthfully, Alexis wasn't sure she did either.
Cas then pulls out a box cutter, prompting Sam to ask what it was for. Without another word, Cas walks away, leaving the three hunters alone with the task of getting Adam.
After they hear shouts followed by silence, Dean heads in. After a few minutes, Sam and Alexis follow.
Once in the 'beautiful room', Sam charges Zach, angel blade in hand, but gets thrown back into Alexis, knocking them both over. With the force and weight of Sam and how hard she hit the wall, Alexis was knocked out cold.
The next thing she knows, the room is shaking, her ears are ringing, and she's being pulled into someone's arms. She cracks her eyes open enough to see that it was Dean's arms she was being lifted up in. She feels herself being transferred into Sam's lap a few minutes later and then she feels him bring two fingers to her neck, checking for a pulse.
"Come on, Lex, wake up." he mutters, holding her tightly against his chest.
She cracks her eyes open again, struggling to keep them open this time, and mumbles, "Sam…"
"Shh, it's okay. We're going to get out of here." Sam says, trying to comfort her.
With that, she lets her head rest against Sam's chest and focuses on not falling asleep, since she was almost positive she had a concussion. From there, Sam carries her to the car and after making sure she wasn't bleeding, tells her to get some sleep, that he'd wake her up in a few hours. Her brain was telling her to stay awake but her body was screaming at her to just close her eyes, and that's what she did. She falls asleep in between Sam and Dean, her head on Sam's shoulder. At the end of the day, the three of them were still together, still a team.