Castiel is watching television in the motel room. It's still daylight. Sam is using the laptop at the table, desperately searching for something, anything, to tip them off. Dean enters, carrying a six-pack of beer. "What's the latest?" He asks.
Sam looks up tiredly. "The latest is... nothing. It's like it all stopped. No freak disappearances linked to any freak natural events." Dean sets a beer down on the table for Sam and leans over Sam's shoulder to look at the laptop. Just then the door blows up, causing Dean to jump. Jamie walks in carrying Mark. "Jamie?"
"Jamie!" Dean yells in surprise.
"Hello, Jamie." Jamie stares at Castiel. He looks back at her. After a moment he gets up and walks over to her. He notices her stomach but doesn't say anything. Mark glances at Castiel, and starts fussing, reaching out to Dean.
"Daddy." Dean takes him. Castiel tries not to look hurt. Jamie looks at her brothers.
"You have problems." She tells them.
Dean sighs. "Why? What's going on now?"
Jamie stares at them for a moment. "How many names do you have?"
"Seven, right Sam?" Dean looks to their brother.
"Yeah, uh, Luigi, Just- "
Jamie interrupts. "Justin, Aaron, Maria –"
"Maria, Dennis, Krista, Sven." Cas finishes. Dean and Sam look at him, but he's looking at the TV. "I missed television."
Sam pauses for a moment and then turns to his sister. "Wait, Jamie, Cas. How did you know those are the names?"
Jamie sighs. "They're prophets."
Dean raises an eyebrow. "Prophets?"
Cas nods. "Yeah, angels instinctively know the names of every prophet – past, present, and future."
Dean points to the papers in front of Sam. "So this list is the name of every one of 'em that exists?"
"Yes, until the next generation is born." Jamie explains. She shrugs and points to herself. "Plus yours truly."
"And Kevin Tran, of course." Cas adds.
Jamie nods. "Right."
"The other seven are future prophets, since, uh, only one can exist at a time. Except for Jamie…" Cas smiles at her.
"Because I'm the Voice."
"She is the prophet among prophets, so to speak." They share a look. Dean and Sam look at each other.
"Okay, uh, how is Kevin a prophet if Chuck is a prophet?" Sam asks.
"I'm not sure what happened to Chuck, but, um... he must be dead." Cas tells them.
"So, the next one comes off the bench if Kevin goes down?" Dean reasons.
"Exactly."
Cas gets up. "And they have no idea who they are, of course."
Sam nods. "Crowley."
Jamie turns to Sam. "Has to be."
Dean scoffs. "Insurance. Boy, he's getting desperate."
Sam nods. "Explains all the weird phenomena. Lower-level demons nabbing heavy-duty cargo. The vessels of God's Word – boom."
Castiel looks up. "I get the feeling something's going on."
"Phone." Mark says suddenly. Jamie and Dean look at their son.
Sam's phone rings. Sam looks at his nephew and then answers his phone. "Hello. Mrs. Tran? Well, where the hell have you... What?" He stands up and takes the phone away from his ear. Dean, Jamie, and Castiel look at him.
Jamie gasps. "Crowley's got Kevin."
Dean, Sam, Jamie, Mark, and Castiel are sitting in the Impala, which is parked by the side of a road. Night has fallen. Dean groans. "Where the hell is she?"
"She'll be here." Sam assures him. "Uh, mile marker 96 was kind of the halfway point."
Dean frowns suddenly pulled into a flashback of purgatory. Jamie inhales sharply and closes her eyes. She sees the portal shimmers with moving blue light. Dean and Cas are fighting Leviathans. Dean swings at the first Leviathan, who ducks and hurls him to the ground. Dean rolls downhill. Castiel attempts to put a hand on the Leviathan's head, but the second Leviathan kicks the back of Cas's legs and punches him as he falls to his knees. The Leviathans continue to punch and kick the angel, who falls heavily to the ground. The second Leviathan drags Cas to his feet. He hits her, sending her reeling backwards. The first Leviathan grabs Cas and his mouth transforms. Dean appears behind the first and decapitates him. Cas pushes the remaining Leviathan forward so that she is bent over and Dean decapitates her. He pulls Cas, who is kneeling, to his feet.
"We got to move! The portal's closing!" They climb upwards towards the portal. Cas stumbles. "Cas! Damn it! Come on!" Dean reaches the portal and steps into it. He stretches out a hand to Castiel. "Come on!" He grabs Dean's hand. "I got you! Hold on!"
"Dean!"
"Hold on!"
Cas loses his grip on Dean's hand and slides down. "Dean!"
The portal closes, taking Dean with it.
Jamie opens her eyes, tears wielding up. Dean glances back at Cas. "Cas, can I talk to you outside?"
They get out of the Impala. Sam turns and looks at Jamie. Jamie looks at him and then reaches out for his hand. He grabs her hand and closes his eyes. Jamie puts her free hand against the window. She and Sam can hear the conversation.
"What?" Cas asks.
"Exactly. What? What the hell happened? Back there. Purgatory. I told you I would get you out. We were there! It was like you just gave up. It's like you didn't believe we could do it. I mean, you kept saying that you didn't think it would work. Did you not trust me?" Dean rages, broken and hurt.
"Dean..." Cas tries to say.
"I did everything I could to get you out – everything! I did not leave you."
Cas hones in on Dean's guilt. "So you think this was your fault?"
Sam opens his eyes and looks at Jamie. She sighs. "What are we gonna do?"
"I don't know, Sam. Dean truly thinks that it's his fault, and it's tearing him apart."
"You think Cas can fix him?"
"I don't know."
A car drives up. Sam and Jamie get out of the Impala. Mrs Tran parks next to the Impala and gets out of her car. "You can do this, can't you? You can get him back?"
Jamie reaches out and touches her arm comfortingly. "We're gonna try."
"How did Crowley find you?" Dean asks.
"Oh, I hired a witch, and she ratted us out."
"A witch?" Sam looks surprised. "Why'd you hire a witch?"
"To make demon bombs, of course! These are Kevin's notes." She gives Sam a notebook. Jamie takes it from him and scans it over.
Dean sighs. "You have any idea where Crowley took him?"
"No. But, uh..." She unlocks the trunk of her car. "...this guy might."
The Demon she blasted with the Super-Soaker is inside the trunk bound by a Devil's Trap on the trunk lid. Jamie looks impressed. "Woah." She looks back at Mrs. Tran.
"Oh." Dean takes out his demon-killing knife. "Let's talk."
The Impala and Mrs Tran's car drive along the fence outside the factory in Atlantic, Iowa. Dean, Jamie, and Castiel are in the Impala. As Kevin's mother goes to get out of her car, Sam handcuffs her to the steering wheel. "Sorry, Mrs. Tran."
"Wait! What?!"
Dean opens the trunk of Mrs Tran's car. Jamie stands next to him with Mark balanced on her hip. "This it?" Dean asks the demon.
"Yes."
"My son is in there!" Mrs Tran yells.
"Which means Crowley already has leverage. He doesn't need another hostage." Sam explains to her.
"Oh come on!"
Jamie stabs the demon with the demon-killing knife. The demon's eyes and mouth glow with bright orange light as he screams. Dean smirks at his sister and closes the trunk. Mark giggles. "Dad." Dean ruffles his hair. Sam gets out of the other car and joins his siblings.
The siblings and the angel walk down stairs and under pipes of the factory. Dean and Jamie lead. Castiel is holding Mark. They pass a sign that reads "Beware: Sharp Edges - Keep Fingers Clear." At a sign from Dean and Jamie, they all step back out of sight as a demon approaches. Dean stabs the demon in the back with his demon-killing knife. Its head glows with yellow light as it dies.
"All right. I'll check that way." Sam says.
Jamie nods. "I'll go with Sam." She takes Mark from Cas. They go to the left. Dean nods to Castiel and they go to the right.
Sam and Jamie walk quietly down a flight of stairs. Jamie stops and puts her hand up to Sam. She points. He sees four demons in a room below them. He walks inside the factory with her just behind him. Four demons block their way.
"Winchesters." One of them sneers.
"In the flesh." Jamie replies, a cocky smirk on her face.
Sam holds his hands up. "Looks like you guys got us."
As the demons approach them, Jamie holds her hand out and fire sprays from her open palm, sending the demons backward. Sam takes out a bottle and throws it at the ground at the demons' feet. Jamie shields Mark and Sam covers his face as bright light flares and the demons burn up and disappear. The lights have no effect on Jamie. The demons' shadows are burnt into the wall behind them.
Sam gestures to his eyes. "Is that because you're a prophet or because you're weird?"
Jamie looks at him and then walks over to the door. Sam kicks it open. He enters the room and sees the bloodstained octagonal table. "Oh, no."
Jamie walks in behind him. "Don't be afraid." She says. The future prophets surface from underneath the table. A boy peers around a concrete block.
"Hey. Uh... we're here to help." Sam says.
Jamie stops short. "Sam…take Mark."
"Wha-" Sam takes his nephew and Jamie rushes out the door.
Dean tries to pick a lock on the other side of the factory, but he's having a hard time. "It's not working."
Cas stares at the door. "Dean, I'm going in."
Dean straightens up and turns to him. "Cas, no. You're not strong enough."
Jamie rushes towards them. "Cas, wait."
"There are more tablets? More than "Leviathan" and "Demon"?" Crowley realizes, staring at Kevin. Suddenly Castiel and Jamie appear in the room. Crowley looks up. "Jamie. How nice of the Voice to join us. And Castiel. Fresh from Purgatory. I wish you'd called first."
"Crowley." Cas sneers.
"Which Castiel is it this time? I'm never sure. Madman or megalomaniac?"
Jamie steps forward. "Kevin is coming with us."
Crowley chuckles. "I think not. The Prophet's playing on my team now."
Castiel's knife drops into his hand and he holds it up. Crowley holds up his hand and his own knife materializes in it. Jamie grabs Kevin and pulls him back a few paces away, shielding him. "So this is how it's gonna be?"
"It's all very West Side Story, but let's be logical. You look like hell, and I should know. You're not up for this."
Jamie scoffs. "I wouldn't tempt him, Crowley."
Light shines from Castiel. His eyes appear very blue and lit from within. "Maybe you can get it up, but you can't keep it up." Jamie shoves Kevin against the wall and holds him there. The light coming from Castiel intensifies. Shadows of his unfurling wings appear on the wall behind him.
Jamie turns to Crowley. "You sure you want to risk this?"
Crowley looks at her and then at Cas. "You're bluffing!"
"Do you want to take that chance?" Cas asks, seriously.
Castiel stretches out a hand to Crowley. Crowley reaches for the stone tablet on the table. Jamie holds her hand out for the tablet. Castiel smashes the tablet and the table. Crowley disappears while holding half the tablet, the other half flying into Jamie's hand. Dean bursts into the room and goes to Cas, who is lying on the floor. The light that was emanating from him is gone. Jamie hands Kevin the remaining half of the stone tablet.
Outside the factory Cas is standing next to Dean, who is putting things in the trunk of the Impala. Jamie is standing next to them holding Mark. "That was a bonehead move back there." Dean remarks. He glances at Jamie. "Both of you. You could have gotten yourselves killed. Why didn't you wait for me?"
"Well, we didn't get killed." Cas tells him.
Jamie nods. "And it worked."
"Mama?" Mark asks, looking up at her.
She kisses his head. "Yeah?"
She walks a few steps away.
"And if it didn't?" Dean asks.
"It would have been my problem."
"Well, that's not the way I see it."
"Hey, everything isn't your responsibility. Getting me out of Purgatory wasn't your responsibility."
Jamie glances towards them and then looks down. She can feel the emotions radiating off of both of them. Dean's anger at himself and despair at Cas's fate. His feelings of failure, the strongest of any of them. And buried deep in the very darkest corners of his soul, the love that he holds for Cas. And Cas's love for Dean, hidden away, shielded by his sense of duty and his desire for forgiveness and penance. Jamie sighs deeply. Noone can hurt Dean like Cas can, and no one can destroy Cas like Dean can. But their love is real and Sam and Jamie both know it, just as they know neither will ever admit it.
"You didn't get out. So whose fault was it?" Dean asks, his voice laced with emotion as he stares at Cas.
"It's not about fault. It's about will. Dean, do you really not remember?"
Dean laughs. "I lived it, Cas. Okay, I know what happened."
"No. No, you think you know. You remembered it the way you needed to."
"Look, I don't need to feel like hell for failing you, okay? For failing you like I've failed every other godforsaken thing that I care about! I don't need it!"
"Just look at it. Really look at it." He touches Dean on the forehead. Jamie closes her eyes.
Back in Purgatory Dean and Cas are running uphill towards the portal. Cas stumbles.
"Cas! Damn it! Come on!" Dean reaches the portal and steps into it. He stretches out a hand to Castiel. "Come on!" Cas grabs Dean's hand. "I got you! Hold on!"
"Dean!"
"Hold on!"
"Dean!" He breaks Dean's grip. "Go!" The portal closes, taking Dean with it.
Castiel removes his fingers from Dean's forehead. Jamie opens her eyes. "See, it wasn't that I was weak. I was stronger than you. I pulled away. Nothing you could have done would have saved me, because I didn't want to be saved."
Dean looks hurt, confused, and a little angry. "What the hell are you talking about?"
Cas tries to smile. "It's where I belonged. I needed to do penance. After the things I did on earth and in heaven, I didn't deserve to be out. And I saw that clearly when I was there. I... I planned to stay all along. I just didn't know how to tell you. You can't save everyone, my friend... though, you try."
He looks at Dean and then to Jamie. Jamie moves back over to him. They stare at each other and then Castiel puts a hand on Jamie's stomach.
Dean sees the gesture. "Cas…"
He smiles. "I know it's your baby, Dean."
"And you're okay with it?" He asks cautiously. Jamie inwardly sighs at Dean's ignorance.
"Why wouldn't I be?"
Dean shrugs. "I mean you two…are sort of together, right? Or will be, now that you're back."
Jamie looks at Castiel. Castiel looks at her. "No. We're not together." Jamie says definitively. They will never be together again. She won't let it happen again. It's not meant to be. She is not the Winchester Castiel loves.
Sam joins them. "Hey. Everything okay?"
"Yeah. Just, uh... setting a few things straight." Cas tells him.
"Good. Garth is gonna lay low with the Trans while he tries to track down the other piece. You're with us on this one, right, Cas?"
Cas has a faraway look on his face. Jamie gives him a look. "Cas, you okay?" There is something going on that she can't sense, and that worries her. She can't place it.
"I'm – I'm fine. And, yes, I'm with you – if that's all right." He looks specifically at Dean. Dean nods.
Jamie looks at Mark. "Guess you better take us home, if you're gonna join them." She glances at Cas.
"Of course."
Jamie walks away with Mark and Castiel follows her. Sam and Dean watch them leave. He turns to Dean. "Are they finally back together?" He tries to sound sincere, though he already knows the answer.
Dean shakes his head. "No, Jamie isn't taking him back."
Sam tries to look surprised. "Is it because of the baby?"
"No, it's other stuff. But they're good. They're okay." He nods to himself.
Sam smirks. "And you two, you two are good?"
Dean looks down. "Yeah."
