Chapter Thirty- Six: I Believe the Children Are Our Future: Part Two
We sat around a table and Mrs. Wright told us everything. She was possessed and the demon possessing her conceived Jesse and remained in her body during the time of the pregnancy and until the day she/the demon gave birth. Julia said as soon as the demon left her body she was going to kill Jesse but she said she couldn't kill him so she just put him up for adoption and ran.
She asked us if we had seen him and I told her, "His name is Jesse and he lives in Alliance. He's a good kid, very smart." Dean said. She seemed relaxed by that and we decided to leave. I gave her my number and told her to call any time. We walked out the door and Sam asked, "What now?" Dean just looked at us and said, "We need help."
We went back to the motel and walked in. Cass was standing in the middle of the room, waiting for us. I smiled at him but he only nodded "It's lucky you found the boy." "What do we do with him?" I asked. Cass looked at me and said, "Kill him." I felt my stomach drop. "We can't kill him" I said Cass looked at me and said "this child is half demon and half human, but he's more powerful than either. Other cultures call this hybrid Cambion or Katako. You know him as the Anti-Christ." Cass sat down on one of the chairs and a farting noise went off. It kept going even as Cass shifted his position. Cass looked confused, "That wasn't me." he said as he pulled out a whoopee cushion from his seat and Dean asked, "Who put that there?"
"Anyway, I don't get it. Jesse is the devil's son?" Sam said, Cass sighed in annoyance and said "No, of course not. Your Bible gets more wrong than it does right. The antichrist is not Lucifer's child. It's just demon spawn. But it is one of the devil's greatest weapons in the war against heaven." Dean looked at Cass and asked "well, if Jesse's a demonic howitzer, then what the hell's he doing in Nebraska?" Cass replied with saying "The demons lost him. They can't find him. But they're looking", "how'd they lose him?" I asked.
"Because of the child's power. It hides him from both angels and demons. For now" Cass told us, "So he's got, like, a force field around him. Well, that's great. Problem solved" Dean said. "With Lucifer risen, this child grows strong. Soon, he will do more than just make a few toys come to life—something that will draw the demons to him" Cass said then continued with "the demons will find this child. Lucifer will twist this boy to his purpose. And then, with a word, this child will destroy the Host of Heaven"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait. You're saying that—that Jesse's gonna nuke the angels?" Dean said Cass looked at Dean and replied "we cannot allow that to happen". "Cass we can't do this" I said Sam stood up and said "we're the good guys, we don't just kill children". Cass looked upset and stood up too. "A year ago, you would have done whatever it took to win this war." Sam spoke and said, "Things change." Cass didn't say anything, but still looked upset.
Dean and I felt the tension and he put himself in-between Sam and Cass putting his hand on Sam's shoulder. "Okay, look, we are not going to kill him all right? But we can't leave Jesse here either, we know that. So, we take him to Bobby's, he'll know what to do." "You'll kidnap him?" Cass started, "What is going on in this town, it's what happens when this thing is happy. You cannot imagine what it will do when it's angry. Besides, how will you hold him? With a thought, he could be halfway around the world." Sam spoke up and said, "So we tell him the truth. You say Jesse's destined to go dark side, fine. But he hasn't yet. So if we lay it all out for him, what he is, the Apocalypse, everything, he might make the right choice." Cass moved closer to Sam and said, "You didn't. And I can't take that chance."
"Cass, we need to talk. Now," I said to him in an angry voice. I walked out of the room and left the door open. I heard Cass come out and shut the door, he was just staring at me "Emma-" he said but I cut him off "Cass he's just a kid we can't kill him" I said but Cass butted in and said "he's a demons child an abomination". I rolled my eyes at him "and I'm pregnant with your half-angel child" I said. He looked at me and said "that's different".
I was getting frustrated now "I don't think it is" I said Cass gave me a confused look but I can tell he was slightly angry and I said "because they way Lucifer talked about the baby makes me think they're the same thing" he twitched his lips and said "if Jesse makes the wrong choice-" "he's a little boy!" I cut in. He gave me a pained look and said "Emma all of the angels will die" I looked at him and said "if you kill Jesse, you better forget everything that happened between us". He gave me a grim expression and said "I'm sorry, but I can't risk it".
He left in a flutter of wings and I ran back into the room not bothering to shut the door and in a rush said "We need to get to Jesse's house, now. Cass is probably already there." Dean and Sam grabbed their coats and we left.
We drove over to the house as fast as we could and when we got there; I opened the door and began looking into different rooms for Jesse. I saw him standing in the corner of the living room with a terrified look and Dean asked, "Was there a guy here, in a trench coat?" Jesse swallowed and pointed to the floor in front of him. There was a figurine on the floor I got closer to it and it looked like Cass and it was holding a knife over his head. I picked it up "Cass you idiot" I whispered, Dean took it from me and placed it on the mantle. I walked over to Jesse and crouched in front of him. "Are you hurt?" I asked him. He looked really shaken up, but shook his head.
"Was he your friend?" Jesse asked "he was more than that to me" I mumbled Jesse looked at me but turned his attention to Dean when he said "him? No," Jesse's breathing was a little off and he said, "I did that. But how did I do that?" Dean shrugged and said, "You're a superhero" Jesse looked at him like he heard wrong "I am?" me asked "I mean, who else could turn someone into a toy?" Dean said, and then he added "you're Superman, minus the cape and go-go boots. See, my partners and I work for a secret government agency. It's our job to find kids with special powers. In fact, we're here to take you to a hidden base in South Dakota, where you'll be trained to fight evil." Jesse raised his eyebrows and asked, "Like the X-Men?" I leaned closer and said, "Exactly like the X-Men."
Dean chuckled a bit and said "In fact, the, uh, guy we're taking you to—he's even in a wheelchair. You'll be a hero. You'll save lives. You'll get the girl. Sounds like fun right?" suddenly he was thrown against the wall and Julia walked in and said "they're lying to you" she flashed her eyes black and reveled that she was a demon then changed them back to her human eyes.
Sam got up from his chair, but he was thrown next to Dean. "Stay right there, dreamboat. Can't hurt you. Orders." She said to Sam then looked at Dean and said "you, on the other hand? Hurting you is encouraged" she flung Dean against the other wall. "Leave him alone" Jesse yelled.
Julia came closer and I put Jesse behind me and, the demon smirked and said "aw look at the mommy to be" she walked closer and said "there's special orders for you". I was waiting for her to fling me across the room but I felt my air supply being cut off. I fell to the floor gasping "leave her alone" I heard Jesse say. My air supply was still being cut off. Jesse said in a more demanding tone "leave her alone". I looked up at the demon and saw that she was ticked off but she listened anyway, I was trying to get air back in my lungs now. The demon leaned toward Jesse and said "Jesse. You're beautiful. You have your father's eyes". "Who are you?" Jesse asked, the demon smiled and said "I'm your mother" Jesse looked confused and said "No, you're not". "Mm-hm. You're half human...half one of us" she tried to assure him
"She means demons, Jesse!" Dean screamed she flicked her wrist and he started to groan in pain. She talked to Jesse and said his parents lied to him, that he wasn't really theirs, how they and everyone else lied to him. Sam started telling Jesse who we really are and what we do. Julia made a snide remark, but Jesse told her to sit down and shut up.
A chair came closer and made her sit down, and she couldn't speak. Sam continued to tell Jesse that there was a war between angels and demons and that he was a part of it. "I'm just a kid," Jesse said in a slightly strained voice. Sam nodded and continued, "You can go with her if you want. I can't stop you. No one can. But if you do, millions of people will die." Jesse spoke up, "She said I was half demon, is that true?" "Yes, but you're half human too. You can do the right thing. You've got choices, Jesse. But if you make the wrong ones, it'll haunt you for the rest of your life."
"Why are you telling me this?!" he asked, Sam looked slightly grim and said "Because I have to believe someone can make the right choice, even if I couldn't" Jesse stared at Sam for a minute and then turned to me. "Jesse, no one can make you do anything. This is your choice" he nodded, looked at his possessed mother. "Get out of her" he said in a demanding tone. The chair that Julia was sitting in flew back and hit the wall. The demon left her body and went out the fireplace. Dean hit the floor and he took in as much air as he could.
Jesse looked at Julia slumped in the chair and asked if she will be alright we told him that she would be, eventually. The screen in front of the fireplace fell over when the demon left and Dean set it up right. Cass was still a figurine and he had fallen on the floor. Dean picked him up and asked Jesse if he could turn him back. Jesse said, "He tried to kill me." Dean went over to him and said "he's really important to my friend over there" Dean pointed to me, Jesse looked at me with an unsure look I crouched down next to him and said, "He's a good guy. He just gets confused easily".
Jesse asked what we were going to do now. We told him that we needed to get him someplace safe and get him trained to fight. Jesse didn't want to fight though. Sam told him that he was in this and he needed to make a choice. The boys told them about John and that he was killed by a demon and I told him how a demon killed my mother when I was little. "Can I go see my parents? To say goodbye?" Jesse asked after we were done. I nodded and he headed for the stairs.
I looked at Cass who was now back on the mantle. Sam came over to me and gave me a hug, "he's been up there for a while." I stated we went upstairs and looked around but Jesse wasn't there. I opened the door to his room, but it was empty. "He's gone," I heard a voice say. We all turned and saw Cass in his normal form standing in the doorway; I felt relief rush over me. Cass said that Jesse put everyone back to normal that was still alive and then he vanished.
I looked at his bed and saw a note I picked it up and unfolded it. "He said that he had to leave to keep his parents safe, that he loves them and he's sorry." I told the boys and folded the paper back up and set it on the bed. Dean looked at Cass and asked "how do we find him?" "We can't, not with his power. Not unless he wants to be found."
We left the house and the boys got in the car, ready to go.
The boys drove off since my car was still at the motel. Castiel was standing stiffly next to me "I'm sorry" he said. I turned to him and kissed his cheek, "I'm sorry too. I didn't mean what I said. You just made me mad" I told him he nodded his head and said "your maternal instincts flared. Again I'm sorry". He touched my head and we we're back at the motel. We got in my car "did the demon hurt you?" he asked I told him what happened and he touched my belly and said the baby was alright I felt relieved again. Then I started my car up and we drove off.
Note: I only own Emma