The Bad Place Part 2

The Impala sped down the dark road and Grace slept in the back seat with Jack.

"Yep, all right." Sam said on the phone. "Thank you." He hung up. "Cops are looking for Kaia, too. We gotta find her fast."

"You and Angie were right," Dean muttered. "About Mom and Robert. You guys were right. This whole time, we should've been looking for them."

"Dean, we were just hoping." Sam replied. "We didn't know. Anyways, it doesn't matter. Now that we do know—

"We find them, no matter what it takes." Dean stressed.

"Yep." Sam and Angela nodded.

"Kid, you okay?" Dean glanced back at Jack, who remained silent.

"Jack? Honey?" Angela asked.

"You thought… You all thought that I could do that, that I could kill Derek." He whispered.

"Jack, we, um… We didn't know what happened." Sam admitted. "We figured, m-maybe it was an accident or—or…"

"Like the security guard."

"Yes. Exactly. Like that." Sam nodded. "Jack, we were worried, okay? You know, when you disappeared, you were in a dark place. And we didn't know where you were going and…"

"Thought you were looking for your dad." Dean finished bluntly.

Jack's brows furrowed in confusion. "You mean Lucifer?"

"Mm."

"Yeah." Angela nodded.

"I was scared. I was upset. But… why would I look for him?" Jack asked. "He's no one to me. You, Castiel—you're my family."

"Yes, we are." Dean agreed. "Finding Mom and Robert, you… You did a good thing, kid. You did a real good thing."

Suddenly, a high-pitched ringing left Jack groaning his pain and clutching his head. Dean slammed on the breaks and the Impala screeched to a halt.

"Ah!"

"Jack? Are you okay?" Angela asked worriedly.

"That… it was angel radio." Jack muttered. "They've got Kaia."

~/~\~

Inside of an abandoned warehouse, a female angel had Kaia restrained to a chair.

"Your plan? It sucks." Kaia scoffed. "They won't come for me."

"What do you mean?" the angel questioned.

"I mean, you picked the wrong bait. I'm not the kind of girl folks come for. In this world, I don't even rank a milk carton." Kaia explained. "No one is gonna come for me. I'm not white, rich, blonde. No one's gonna fight for me. I don't matter."

"Of course you don't matter," the angel agreed. "But they think you do. They'll show. And when they do, we'll kill them and take the boy."

"That so?" Dean asked suddenly.

He entered the warehouse, shoving a male angel in front of him while holding an angel blade to his throat. Sam, Angela, and Jack followed behind while Grace stayed in the car asleep.

"You know, the girl's right. Your plan does kind of suck." Dean commented.

"Give us the girl." Angela demanded firmly.

"She's not what we want," the female angel replied. "Jack, I don't wanna hurt you. I wanna help you. You should be among your own kind."

"My kind?" Jack asked incredulously. "The kind that kills people? That kidnaps people?"

"You don't belong with them. Come with us. Come home."

Jack glanced around at Sam, Dean, and Angela. "I am home."

The male angel grabbed Dean's wrist and headbutted him. The female angel dropped her blade into her hand, but Jack's eyes glowed yellow and he held the angel with his power, levitating her and throwing her across the warehouse, through a window and a wall as Kaia watched on, stunned. Sam clambered to retrieve Dean's dropped angel blade, but the male angel reached it first and punched Sam backward across the floor. The male angel was inches away from stabbing Dean in the chest when Jack froze him with his power, forcing the angel's hand to turn do he was pointing his blade at his own chest. The moment Jack released him, the angel stabbed himself and fell to the ground. Angela helped Sam and Dean to their feet.

"I got her." Dean picked up his angel blade and ran after the female angel.

Meanwhile, Sam, Angela, and Jack rushed to assist Kaia.

"Are you okay?" Jack asked in concern.

"No! What the hell was that?!" she exclaimed.

"They were angels. Bad angels."

"Angels?" Kaia's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Yes, and we're hunters." Angela replied. "We kill things like them."

"Right. And he's the Son of Satan?" Kaia nodded to Jack.

"I am. Yes."

"You're insane."

"Yeah, the whole world's insane. You get used to it." Dean replied as he returned. "She took off. She might be back, she might not."

"Yeah, we should move." Sam muttered.

~/~\~

A train whistled blew in the distance as they exited the warehouse.

"We'll protect you." Jack promised.

"I don't think so." Kaia scoffed.

"Wait. Hey, hey." Sam stopped. "Kaia, look, I'm sure this is a lot. But…" he sighed. "Look, we need you. Okay? My brother and I, our—mother and my wife's father, they're trapped in—in another world, and—and if you can tell Jack where it is, then he can open a door—

"And we can save them," Dean finished. "So, what's the play?"

"Derek said there are sacred sites, places where the walls between worlds are thin, where it's easy to cross over." Jack explained. "I was taking Kaia to the Wind Caves."

"The Wind Caves?" Kaia frowned.

"Let's roll." Dean nodded.

"No." Kaia replied firmly.

"We just saved your life in there." Dean reminded.

"Thanks, but they only wanted me because of you." Kaia retorted.

"Kaia, we need you to dream walk for us, to use your gift." Jack pleaded.

"It's not a gift. It's a curse. When Derek walked, he was free. He could go see beautiful things, to worlds that were paradises. I wish it was like that for me, but it's not. I could only go to one place—the Bad Place. It's just… blood and death and monsters."

"Well, it sounds like a lifetime of bad dreams, but—

"Bad dreams?" Kaia pulled up her sleeve to reveal several long scars. "When I get hurt over there, I don't wake up sweaty. I wake up bloody. This scar, it's not the only one. I'm sorry about your parents, but I can't help you."

"All right, fine." Angela nodded. "Um… we can find another way. We, um…"

Dean pulled out his gun and cocked it, frightening Kaia. "Get in the car."

"Dean." Sam frowned at his brother. "Dean."

"Get in the car." He repeated firmly before he raised his gun, advancing on Kaia. "Get in the damn car!" he boomed. "We're going to South Dakota."

~/~\~

The Impala sped down the dark road, and Kaia remained withdrawn and terrified in the back seat beside Jack and Grace.

"So now what?" Angela asked in a hushed tone. "We get Kaia to the Wing Caves, and then what? Force her to dream walk at gunpoint?"

"We get Mom and Robert back, no matter what." Dean reminded firmly. "Remember?"

Meanwhile, in the back seat, Jack was attempting to comfort Kaia.

"I'm sorry… about all of this." He apologized sincerely. "I was like you, Kaia, afraid of my powers. But it doesn't have to be like that. You said that you wished that things could have been different, and that's why you reached out to Derek. Derek thought that you could help me, and I could help you."

"Why do you keep saying his name?" Kaia asked venomously. "Derek's dead because of you."

"Five seconds." Jack replied.

Kaia's brows creased together. "What?"

"Give me five seconds to show you what Derek saw, what I saw with him. It wasn't just the Bad Place. It was… everything. It's… amazing."

"Five seconds." Kaia echoed.

Jack touched his fingers to Kaia's temple and her eyes glowed gold as a look of wonder crossed her face at the vision Jack implanted in her mind.

"Our powers can be good," he stressed. "We can do good in this world."

Suddenly, a car without headlights approached head on, on the wrong side of the road. Dean squinted into the dark to see it when the headlights came on, blinding them. Dean swerved to avoid a collision, and ended up turned around on the road. The other car turned back toward them.

"Oh, crap." Dean muttered.

Dean steered the Impala down the side road into the Larsen Bros Shipyard. They pulled to a stop beside a huge rusted out ship and got out of the Impala. Dean grabbed a bag of gear and weapons from the trunk and tossed it to Sam while Angela took Grace out of her car seat.

"Okay, let's go." Sam ordered. "Let's go! Out, out, out, out. Jack, come on."

"Hey! Get 'em in the boat." Dean commanded.

"Aah!" Jack hunched over in pain at the assault of angel radio.

"Come on!" Angela exclaimed. "Go, go, go! Come on! Go!"

Sam, Angela, Grace, Jack, and Kaia raced up the gangway and into the ship, while Dean readied himself by the Impala to face down the female angel, who pulled up a moment later and get out of her car.

"Need that boy, Dean Winchester." She glared. "Heaven's running out of angels. Only he can save us."

"As far as I'm concerned, you dicks can fry." Dean retorted.

"Yes, well, you first."

Two additional cars full of angels pulled up, and Dean took off running towards the boat.

~/~\~

Inside the rusting hull of the old ship, Kaia stood at a loss while Sam and Angela painted warding sigils on the walls.

"What's happening?" Kaia questioned.

"Don't worry," Jack assured. "We'll be fine."

"We're screwed," Dean entered the room. "There's too damn many of 'em! We gotta go up. Let's go!"

Dean led them all up a flight of stairs, while outside, six angels calmly walked down the gangplank toward the ship. Inside, Sam stopped to spray paint additional warding sigils.

"How long will this warding hold?" Dean asked.

"I don't know," Sam admitted.

Sam finished the sigil and they ran up another flight of stairs. Sam, Angela, Dean, Grace, Kaia, and Jack reached the end of the line and Sam painted more warding on the doors.

"Hey, maybe if we let 'em in and then we blast them all away," Sam suggested.

"No," Dean shook his head. "They get in here, we're dead. Jack, can you do anything?"

"I can try," he answered. "But they'll hit me with angel radio again."

Outside, the angels coordinated their power, slamming their hands to the ground and releasing a shock wave that blasted away at the warding sigils, shaking the entire ship.

"Okay, all right, so then we go out guns blazing." Dean muttered. "We take out as many as we can. Kid," he looked at Kaia. "Sorry to drag you into this. This was not your fight."

Outside, the angels repeated their assault on the sigils, and the boat shook again.

"If they get up here, they'll kill you all and take me." Jack commented.

"No, they won't." Kaia replied. "You said I could help you find the door to another world, right?"

"Yes." Jack nodded as they angels attacked again.

"Let's do it. Let's get out of here."

"Hey, can you take us to our parents?" Angela asked as the boat shook and she held Grace tighter.

"Mommy, I'm scared." Grace whimpered.

"I know, baby. I got you." Angela whispered.

"Can you do it?!" Dean demanded.

"I don't know. I think so." Jack replied.

"What if something goes wrong?" Sam asked.

"Something already is going wrong!" Dean yelled. "Jack, do it!"

Jack stood behind Kaia as the boat shook again. "Are you ready?"

"No," she breathed deeply. "Let's go."

The angels continued to attack and the ship rattled and shook continuously. Jack placed his fingertips on Kaia's temples and her eyes glowed.

"Okay, I'm there. I'm in the Bad Place."

The forest floor was littered with bones, and a huge monstrous skull. The angels continued to attack outside, but Jack and Kaia tried to remain focused.

"Let's go." Jack pushed.

"I can't." she replied.

"Yes. You can."

Kaia was able to let go and Jack zoomed out of the Bad Place to reveal a veritable galaxy of alternate universes. He looked through them and managed to find the Apocalypse World.

"There."

"Dean, you gotta see this," Sam called out as the warding was almost breached. "Come here!"

"Jack, now!" Dean yelled.

"I see them." Jack breathed out when he saw Mary and Robert trapped.

"All right, they're almost through." Angela warned.

Thunder clapped in Kaia's vision and it snapped her back to the Bad Place.

"No!" Jack gasped. "Focus."

Her vision switched back to Mary and Robert, then to the monstrous skull, where someone carrying a spear crossed in front of it.

"I'm losing it!" Kaia cried.

"Almost. Almost!"

Kaia's vision switched from the Apocalypse World and the Bad Place several times before she screamed, amplified by Jack's power flowing through her. Outside, the six angels were blown to dust and the room was filled with a blinding light, tearing open a glowing portal. Aside from the portal, the room was now empty and silent.

~/~\~

In the Bad Place, Dean groggily work up and got to his feet, his angel blade clutched in his hand.

"Guys?" Sam asked.

"Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah." Sam grunted.

"Hey."

"We're good." Angela assured. "Gracie, honey, come here."

"Mommy where are we?" Grace looked around.

"That's a good question." Angela muttered as she picked Grace up.

"Come on." Dean urged.

The hunters walked through the forest, then jumped down into a ditch.

"Where the hell are we?" Dean muttered.

As the Winchesters looked around, they climbed out the other side of the ditch and walked away. In the distance, a creature roared and heavy footsteps approached.