Hey everyone! Thank you so much Leann Nickerson, carmengmtr and Blondie 20000 for the feedback and thank you to everyone who is following and have favorite this story.
Okay so I finally finished Destiny's Child. This was a tough one for me since really the only part of this episode I was excited to write was the alternate Dean and Sam and Jo having to deal with them.
We have more Lorna in this chapter and I hope people like her and Jo's budding friendship.
Author Note at the bottom.
Thank you again and I hope people enjoy!
Val
Chapter 35
Jack sat cross leg across from Jo on the mat in the training room. Both had their eyes closed and each took a deep breath, slowly releasing it at the same time.
Dean and Sam stood behind Jo as Gabriel stood behind Jack.
"That's it Jo," Gabriel encouraged, "nice even breaths. Now imagine the lamp before you. Imagine yourself walking up to the lamp. Imagine your arm reaching out, imagine your fingers tugging on the pull cord and the light turning on."
Dean and Sam smiled when the lamp from the library that they had placed in between Jo and Jack slowly flickered and then the light shone brightly.
"She's getting better...faster," Dean whispered to his brother in awe.
"Jo open your eyes," Gabriel encouraged.
Jack opened his eyes and smiled. "Jo you did on the first try," he said.
Jo opened her eyes and couldn't help laughing as she saw the light that her and Jack had just turned on using their minds. It had been a week since their confrontation with Billie and a week since Jo found out that her, Amelia and Jack were connected because of Michael's grace in a way that at first terrified her but now she was slowly embracing it as they have been practicing her control.
"We did it," Jo corrected him.
Jack smiled as he shook his head, "no Jo, you did it. I have a confession; I haven't been using my power to help you during these lessons...you've done everything yourself."
Jo blinked at Jack before turning her attention to the light in front of her and chewed on her lower lip. Had she been doing it the whole time? Has she been able to control the power that less than a week ago had terrified her when she had become enraged and began blowing the lightbulbs in the map room.
Swallowing she narrowed her eyes as she stared at the light in front of her and couldn't help giggling like a schoolgirl when the light flickered for a few seconds before clicking off. "Holy shit Batman," she said in awe.
"Maybe it's time to try something different," Gabriel said.
"Different," Jo repeated. "Like opening a door or something?"
Dean walked over and crouched down next to Jo. "Sweetheart, your control is getting stronger. It's time to up the ante," he said as he reached into his back pocket and pulled out his knife. Flicking it open, he held his hand out and sliced his palm, hissing in pain. "It's time you try healing a wound."
Jo looked at Dean's hand and before looking up into his eyes. "Are you insane," she cried before looking over at Gabriel and Jack. "One of you need to heal him, now!"
"Jo you can do this," Jack told her as he got up and stood next to Sam.
"I wouldn't have done this if I didn't believe you could heal me. Come on Jo, this is just a nick. You've got this." Dean encouraged her.
Gabriel crouched down on the other side of Jo and said, "place your hand over Dean's and closed your eyes. Imagine his skin knitting back together as the blood disappears. You can do this Jo."
Jo shook her head, "no I can't. I've barely taken my first steps and you expect me to run a marathon."
Gabriel sighed as he reached over to heal Dean to only stop when the hunter said, "no. Only one person is healing me...she can do this."
Jo stared at Dean in disbelief, "Dean...it's too much too soon." She argued.
Dean smiled at Jo and said softly, "place your hand over mine and close your eyes and focus...just like you've been doing. Come Jo...you can do this."
Sam watched in awe as Jo slowly lifted her hand over Dean's wound and closed her eyes, her breathing gradually evened out and he swallowed when the inch long slice in his brother's hand slowly began to close. He shot a look at Dean to see his reaction and saw his brother watching Jo's face before his eyes flicked up to him.
"Baby, look." Dean urged gently as Jo's eyes slowly opened and she stared in disbelief as she saw that his hand was completely intact.
Jo licked her lips before she stood up and glared at Dean. "You had no right to force that on me. I wasn't ready!" She snapped as she shot an accusatory look at the other men in the room before storming out.
Dean gulped at the look Jo gave him as she pushed passed him. He quickly turned to his brother, pulling out the puppy dog eyes only to have Sam shake his head quickly, "no way Dude. This was your idea."
"Fine," Dean huffed as he followed Jo. Sam snickered when he heard Dean's voice from down the hall. 'Jo, honey let me explain' floated back.
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Jo walked into the family room two doors down from the training room and went over to the pack and play in the corner that her daughter was currently occupying herself with her stuff animals. "Oh Ms. Ami, Mr. Bunny's ear isn't a chew toy. Here you go Baby Girl," Jo said as she handed the baby a teething ring from the fridge in the corner.
"She okay?" Dean asked as he joined her.
"Just chewing on Mr. Bunny's ear."
Dean stood behind Jo and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Jo, we needed to kick your training into high gear."
"Forcing me to do something I wasn't ready for was a crappy thing to do," she insisted as she squirmed out of his embrace.
Dean snorted, "ready for...Sweetheart you were ready for this on day one. I know this scares you but you need to realize how strong you are."
"You're wrong," Jo insisted as she began picking up the toys Ami threw across the room.
"Really," Dean said as he stood back and held his arms out. "Look around you Jo. What color is this room?"
"Yellow," she said distractively without looking up.
"Try again. Two days ago we were in here talking about what color to paint Ami's bedroom in the house and you had said you thought a nice shade of pale green would look good and next thing I know this room was green." He told her.
Jo slowly straighten up and lifted her eyes and looked around the room and swallowed when she saw he was telling the truth. "How did I not see this?"
"Because you've been trying to convince yourself that you need Jack to use your power but you don't. He told us after your first training session he didn't need to help you." He told her as he reached down to take the toy in her hand and gave it to his daughter.
"I thought what happened with Billie was a fluke…because I was so angry." She told him as she stared down at her hands.
"Gabriel, Cas and Jack have all said the same thing. Once you tapped into your powers they've been growing stronger." He explained.
"Stronger? How strong do they think I'll get? What about Ami?" She asked as she looked over at her daughter.
Dean looked Jo in the eyes, "the grace seemed to be dormant inside of you before but once you and Jack were together it's kicked in...especially after your confrontation with Billie. We have no clue what Ami is capable of and might not know for a while."
Jo nodded her head, "look Lorna is due here today. I told her I would tell her the truth and I think I need to tell her about this too...she has a right to know if we're going to be partners...not to mention she's bound to see things while she stays with us."
"I don't see why she can't move into the bunk house in the manager suite...it has a bathroom and everything," Dean said.
Jo sighed, "you agreed that Lorna and I need time to train and get to know each other better before we really start hunting cases and her staying with us makes the most sense."
"Yeah I guess," Dean mumbled as he reached down and lifted Ami up. "Still not sure about her knowing everything."
"Dean," Jo said as she placed her hand on his arm. "I can't start a partnership with Lorna on half truths and playing my cards close to the vest. We've seen how that works...numerous times actually. It's time to stop that particular cycle."
"You really believe in her that much?" He asked.
"I do...Dean she's meant to be here with us," Jo reassured him.
"Right, okay." He agreed as he lifted Ami a little higher and turned her to the side before sniffing her. "Oh somebody needs a fresh diaper," he said as he held her out towards Jo.
"You sniff it...you change it," Jo said with a laugh. "I'm going to hit the shower before Lorna gets here."
"Real nice," Dean called out to Jo's retreating back as he brought Ami over to the changing table.
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Lorna sat across from Jo, Dean and Sam in the map room. She stared at the trio before she stood up. "Look if you changed your mind...you should have just told me instead of making up this load of bull," she huffed, unable to keep the hurt out of her voice.
"Lorna, everything we've told you is the truth." Jo told her.
The brunette shook her head, "I don't think this is a good idea after all." She said as she grabbed her bag before turning and starting up the stairs.
Jo went to go after the other woman but Sam held his hand up, "let me talk to her." He suggested as he quickly followed the newcomer.
"Lorna, wait up," he called out as he jogged up to her. "Trust me we know how insane it all sounds but everything Jo told you is true." Sam reassured her.
She swallowed as she shook her head, "you just told me you all are in the middle of battling God. I'm just getting use to accepting that monsters are real and you, your brother and Jo just told me.." her breath hitched as she continued, "the three of you just told me that the deity I've been raise to believe loves me...loves all his children. That he really doesn't love us…that we mean nothing to him...that our Father doesn't love us." She cried.
Sam nodded his head slightly as he reached out and gently took Lorna's hand, "I get it...I wasn't raised to pray...to believe in God but I did. Every night I prayed to Him to keep my family safe only to find out that we were nothing more than props for his entertainment. So I get where you're coming from...the pain you're feeling...the betrayal," he told her before continuing. "I know this is a lot to take in but we never would have shared everything we have with you if that woman in there hadn't convinced us that you belong here...that you are meant to be part of this team."
"Why me?" Lorna asked softly.
Sam gave her a sad smile, "because she needs somebody that wasn't part of her old life...somebody that isn't mine or Dean's friend. She needs a partner she can build a fresh relationship with."
"Basically she needs a friend," Lorna said with a snort.
"Don't we all?" Sam asked her seriously before adding, "and you couldn't ask for a more devoted friend. Jo literally would lay her life down for the people she cares about...Hell she already has. Don't dismiss what it means to be Jo Harvelle's friend."
Lorna cocked her head slightly, "that sounds like Dean isn't the only Winchester brother who's in love with Ms. Harvelle." She said coyly.
Sam cleared his throat, "I love Jo. She's my sister and maybe back when we first met I thought about us getting together. Then I saw the way Dean and Jo looked at each other and knew she already made her choice and other than a bad encounter when I was possessed by a demon I always respected her choice."'
Lorna smirked at Sam, "well I can understand that." She told him before adding mischievously, "and seriously she has the tightest little caboose…you could bounce a quarter off it."
Sam stared at the woman in front of him for a brief second before he began to chuckle, "no wonder Dean likes you…if you have a stash of Asian Busty Beauties he might ask you to become Jo's sister wife."
Lorna laughed as she shook her head, "guess me and Jo will just have to settle on being friends and partners."
"Thank goodness because I know my brother likes a challenge but he's not getting any younger and I don't know if he has it in him to have two wives," Sam teased.
Lorna smiled up at Sam, "well we wouldn't want Dean to hurt himself would we."
Sam swallowed as he gazed into Lorna's eyes and murmured, "no we wouldn't."
The brunette blushed slightly as she ducked her head. "I should probably tell Jo I'm staying."
Sam licked his lips, "yeah, I guess you should." He said as he realized maybe the woman in front of him may be good for all of them…not just Jo.
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"Come on Ami be a big girl for Daddy and eat the yummy squash I made you," Dean begged his daughter. He sighed when the eight month old clamped her mouth shut.
"No luck?" Sam asked as he walked into the bunker kitchen.
"No. Oh Jo called, her and Lorna will be back in a few days." Dean told him.
"How did their hunt go?" Sam asked.
"Good but they definitely don't like working wraith cases. According to Jo give her a regular old vampire or werewolf any day over a wraith." Dean told him.
Sam snorted in amusement, "yeah Lorna was complaining last night when she called to ask a question."
"And was that question when do you plan to finally admit you two crazy kids like each other and are gonna start having hot monkey sex?" Dean asked as he waggle his eyebrows suggestively.
"Dean we're just friends and she's helping me research the lore." He told his brother.
"Is that what the kids are calling it these days." He teased.
Sam went to tell his brother he was wrong but they both stood up when they heard rumblings coming from down the hall. Dean quickly lifted his daughter out of her high chair and placed her in her pack and play in the corner, "Daddy will be right back." He whispered to his daughter as he kissed her on her head before pulling his gun out and running down the hall to back his brother up.
Dean stopped short when he caught up with Sam and saw how he was staring in disbelief at a bright light shining underneath the armory's door. He nodded to his brother as Sam pulled out his gun too before reaching down and opening the door.
They both blinked in shock when they saw a car sitting in the middle of the room before the car doors opened and two familiar bodies climbed out of the car. They barely had time to register what they were seeing when as suddenly as they appeared they vanished in front of their eyes.
"Dude…did you see that?" Dean asked as they made their way inside.
"Umm yeah I did," Sam said as as he tucked his gun back.
"Okay," Dean said. "I just wanted to make sure I wasn't having a stroke."
Sam went to say something but snapped his mouth shut when they heard Ami crying. "Come on, seems we need to kick up the research."
Dean stare at his brother's retreating back. "Seriously…you think there's a book that covers this?" He called out as he began following his brother down the hall.
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"So, this rift is open in the middle of the armory, and these two guys climb out of a car, and they look just like us..." Sam explained to Cas.
Dean rolled his eyes as he finished changing Ami's diaper. "Except not, and don't even get me started about the car."
Cas frowned in confusion, "Okay, I am not understanding."
"Yeah, well, welcome to the club," Dean said as he lifted his daughter up and kissed her nose.
Sam smiled at his brother and niece before turning back to Cas, "it's like they were us, but I guess from another world?"
"But how did they get here?" Dean asked.
Dean swallowed when suddenly Billie was standing in front of him and Ami. He held his daughter a little tighter when he saw her focus on Ami.
Billie dragged her gaze for the infant in Dean's arms but her power didn't go unnoticed by her. She looked up at the brothers and explained.
"They were running. Because God was destroying their reality. He's almost done wrapping up those other worlds. And when he is..."
Sam swallowed as he finished Billie's sentence, "then it's our turn."
"Looks like. So we need to be prepared. I have the next step. For Jack." She told them as Jack joined them.
The young man stood before Billie and reassured her, "I'm ready. Feeling, um, good about it."
"The first quest was meant to strengthen Jack's body. Step two is more spiritual in nature." She explained."
Castiel frowned as he asked, "Can you be more specific?"
"Jack needs to find the Occultum," she told them.
"The Occultum? Occultum, that's, uh, Latin for "hidden." Where do we find it?" Sam asked.
Billie looked at the younger Winchester with barely hidden contempt. "I don't know, it's hidden. Missing for centuries. Sacred, potent."
Dean bounced Ami in his arms as he gave her a kiss on the top of her head and asked, "is it a weapon? Uh, how does it work?"
"Not a weapon per se. But it's powerful." She told him dismissively.
"Okay. Thanks. Big help," Dean hissed.
Billie chose to ignore Dean and turned to Jack, "so, are you ready? Truly?"
Jack nodded his head, "I am."
"Good to hear. Because we need to be ready and vigilant...and not stupid. God, if he catches on to what we're doing, everything comes crashing down." She said before disappearing in front of their eyes.
"Always a pleasure," Dean called out sarcastically.
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Sam was going through a stack of books while Dean was busy playing a spirited game of peek a boo with Ami.
"And what's this thing supposed to even do? It's 'spiritual'? What does that even mean? Dean?" Sam finally noticed his brother was ignoring the books before him.
Dean smiled at his daughter as she giggled happily, "Hmm?"
"What are you doing?" He asked, unable to hide his amusement."
"I'm just thinking. I mean, this whole thing is crazy, right? I mean, uh, Death is our Obi-Wan, and you and me, we're the 'messengers of God's destruction' whatever the Hell that mean and Jack is supposed to kill God. But if he does that still leaves you know who." Dean said.
Sam cocked his eyebrow in understanding, "Amara."
"So I'm thinking maybe he kills her, too." He told him as he chose to ignore his brother snort of amusement and continued. "Seriously. Because listen, if we just take Chuck off the board, that still leaves her, okay? That throws things out of balance, and if things are out of balance, then the world pretty much…" he turned back to Ami and blew a raspberry to her delight.
Sam blew out a breath as he nodded his head in agreement. "Yeah, ends. Right."
Dean reached over and wiped the drool from Ami's chin as he went on with his thought. "But if Jack kills her...kinda of a family plan. Then there's no God, there's no Darkness. Nothing out of balance. World saved."
Sam nodded his head again. "Okay, yeah, but then who takes over? Uh, Jack?"
Said Nephilim walked in blowing a bubblegum bubble. "I just learned how to do that." He said proudly.
Dean smiled politely and shook his head at his brother, "Probably not."
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"So Ash will be here in a few," Sam said to his brother.
"I can ask Ellen and Bill to take the baby," Dean said.
"Dean, Ash and I got this. You and Jo both agreed to take turns to be with Ami instead of constantly asking Ellen and Bill to take her." Sam reminded his brother.
"Okay fine but if you need backup just call and I'll bring Ami to Bill and Ellen."
"We'll be fine…this is just reconnaissance. We should be back by late afternoon tomorrow.
"Yeah well I don't trust that Anael bitch." Dean said.
"You don't like that she calls herself Sister Jo." Sam said knowingly.
"Maybe," Dean admitted.
Sam looked down at his phone. "Ash is outside. We'll be back soon."
"See you when you get back," Dean said as he followed Sam thru the map room and watched his brother jog up the stairs.
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"So we'll need to do the spell to get into Hell," Sam explained to his brother.
He had found Dean napping with Ami on one of the recliners in the family room and had wakened him so that he could fill him in on his and Ash's meeting with Anael.
"You sure you can swing this again?" Dean asked around a yawn.
"Well, we have Rowena's notes for the spell," he reminded his brother.
"Okay, Samwitch," he teased.
"So have you been hiding out in here the whole time I was gone?" Sam asked his brother.
"No, Ami and I went to the park earlier and out to lunch." Dean told his brother.
"What about Jack?" Sam asked his brother.
Dean sighed as Sam reached down and lifted Ami up and kissing her on her forehead as he stood up and they headed towards the map room. "Look I'm still not ready for one on one time with Jack yet."
Sam shook his head, "Dean he's been back three months."
"I know, Jo's been encouraging me to spend more time with him too." He admitted.
"I know it's hard…it's hard for me too." Sam told him before he continued. "But I do it. I trust him and I know Jo trusts him too...enough to let him babysit Ami while she's training with Lorna or practicing with her powers."
Dean looked at his brother, "I know and believe it or not I know he's good with Ami and in his own way she's become a baby sister to him. I just don't know how to talk to him...really talk to him. How do you do it? How can you stand it after what he did?"
Sam took a deep breath. He understood Dean's pain but as much as he loved and missed his Mom he loved Jack too.
"I have to tell myself it was an accident. He didn't intentionally hurt Mom." He explained and saw the way Dean was listening to him before continuing. "If they had been driving on an icy road and Jack had lost control of the car and Mom was killed could you forgive him?"
Dean thought about what his brother was saying and nodded his head slightly, "trying to control his powers is like driving a car that he has to focus to keep control on the machine in his hands and his emotions was the icy road."
"It's how I have to look at it," Sam told him. "After what happened with Nick…Jack was already hydroplaning out of control…then Mom…Dean she should have backed off." He finally said. It hurt to admit it but Jack had told them that Mary had kept coming at him.
Dean looked at his brother in shock, "what?"
Sam swallowed as he continued, "she had to be able to see he was in distress…that he wasn't in control. She should have stepped back and let him calm down but she didn't Dean. It was just an ugly accident waiting to happen."
"You blame Mom?" Dean asked in shock.
"Of course not," Sam said quickly. "I'm just saying Mom was an experience hunter. She should have read the situation better…Jack told us he asked her to leave him alone. He's a lot of things but he's not a liar."
Sam could tell Dean was considering what he was saying. He wasn't surprised when the older man took a deep breath and nodded his head slightly.
"Let's check that we have everything to do the spell," Dean said as they headed into the map room and ran into Castiel.
"Cas, hey, good news. We sorta know where the Occultum is. Sorta." Dean told him before he saw the look on the angel's face. "What? What's wrong?"
"Come with me," he told the brothers as he led them through the bunker until they reached room 28.
Dean and Sam shrugged their shoulders as they walked through and blinked when they saw the alternate versions of themselves. Dean was pulled out of his shock when Ami cooed happily and reached out for the other Dean. He looked over at Castiel, "what the Hell?"
He shrugged his shoulders, "they can't see us or hear us." He explained.
"What happened?" Sam asked.
Castiel told the brothers that he believed the other them were trapped when the rift closed when Chuck destroyed their world.
Dean reached over and ran his hand over Ami's hair and asked, "are they in pain?"
"I don't think so," he told them.
"Good," Dean said as he gently took Ami from Sam before turning to leave.
Sam and Castiel rushed after him and called out, "wait! Well, hold up, Dean. Will..."
Dean stopped and turned around. "We'll handle it, okay? We'll deal with them, but right now, you and me, we got to go to Hell."
"What? You do?" Cas asked in shock.
Sam quickly gave Castiel a rundown of his meetings with Anael and how him and Dean need to go to Hell. "Ummm Dean...did you forget something?" He said to his brother.
Dean looked down at his daughter and smiled when Jack came around the corner. "Hey Kid, think you and Cas can handle watching Ami for a little while?"
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"I knew we couldn't trust that bitch," Dean hissed as him and Sam walked into the library. He smiled when he saw Ami playing with the spinning wheel on her bouncy chair on the table. That smile quickly disappeared when he saw Cas unconscious in a chair behind her..
"Guys. You're back." Jack cried when he came rushing back into the room with a bottle.
"Jack? What the Hell?" Dean asked.
"He's dead. Kind of. For now." Jack explained.
Sam looked at Jack in shock, "What?"
Jack went over and lifted Ami up before he sat down and began feeding her. "Cas went to the Empty. Hopefully. To find Ruby, hopefully, to find out where this Occultum thing is located. Hopefully." He told them.
Sam shook his head as he said, "that's way too many hopefully."
Dean looked over at Cas in anger before turning back to Jack and demanding, "bring him back now!"
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Dean and Sam both glared at Cas for going behind their back yet again as he slowly sat up and caught his breath. He looked at the brothers and said softly, "oh, you made it back."
Dean snorted, "yeah and so did you. You're an idiot, by the way."
Sam put his hand on Dean's shoulder in hopes of getting him to calm down before saying to Castiel, "what if this hadn't worked?"
"But it did," he argued. "The Occultum was never in Hell."
Sam gave him a half-hearted smile, "yeah, we get that."
Castiel watched as Jack gently lifted Ami and began patting her back and smiled at him before he explained. "The Occultum is apparently the safest place in the world. Jo was never gonna give that up."
Dean frowned as at that nugget of information, "Okay A...never refer to that bitch as Jo ever again and 2 it's a place? So you saw Ruby?"
"And I got the location. Am I still an idiot?" The angel asked smugly.
"Well, yeah." Dean said as he rolled his eyes.
Sam sighed in frustration before stating, "let's go, then."
Jack smiled when he heard Ami burp and kissed her temple before saying, "wait. What if Chuck checks in on us and sees what we're doing. Isn't it pretty much over?"
"Yeah, it would be," Sam admitted.
Dean smirked at the other men as he said, "uh... I have a dumb idea."
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"Dean no way is Chuck going to buy those two are us. I mean look at them." Sam huffed.
Dean pulled Sam out of the room leaving the alternate versions of themselves sitting at the map table. "Okay, I admit it they're douches but we don't have a choice."
Sam peeked around the corner and rolled his eyes. "I'm tempted to get a pair of scissors and cutting that damn manbun off."
Dean snorted, "preaching to the choir. Okay look Jo and Lorna should be back soon and then..."
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"I can't wait to see my baby," Jo said as her and Lorna pulled into the bunker garage. This hunt was the longest she had been away from Amelia and decided no more cross country hunts that take almost two days each way for travel.
Her and Lorna had discussed it while they drove back to the bunker and she wasn't necessarily happy about it but she understood where Jo was coming from and she had to accept she made the decision to partner up with Jo that her lifestyle would be altered to accommodate the infant.
Lorna snorted, "please you can't wait to pull Dean into some room and jump his bones. Man the two of you are made for each other...both horny as sailors after a six month deployment."
"Well don't blame me because you and Sammy are doing your weird mating ritual dance and my itch it getting scratched." Jo teased.
"Oh my itch gets scratched...I just got to remember to stock up on batteries," she told her with a grin.
"Thank goodness for vibrators," Jo agreed as they got out of the car and grabbed their stuff.
"And Idris Elba" Lorna sighed happily.
"Yum," Jo purred. "That man definitely gets the job done."
"Oh please like you need to fantasize about someone else other than Dean, Plus I don't know why you need a vibrator...Dean seems like he's usually ready, willing and able." Lorna huffed.
Jo smirked at the other woman, "oh he is...but he's not always around and a girl got needs. Plus you try getting in the mood after you watch him clipping his toenails, picking food out of his teeth or my personal favorite farting in bed...really gets me in the mood. Trust me…the man is good but there is no overcoming that and Idris Elba definitely moves somethings along."
"Bitch...bitch...bitch," Lorna said with a snort of amusement.
Jo opened the door and the two began walking down the stairs. She stopped short on the steps when she saw Dean and Sam sitting at the table and couldn't help laughing. "Oh Dean, Mr. Roger called and he wants his sweater back," she teased as she finished coming down the stairs to the clearly surprised hunters and quickly walked over and straddled him. The other Dean barely had time to react as she pulled him in for a long overdue kiss with some serious tongue action to let him know just how much she missed him.
"JoJo," Sam called out in shock.
"Nice man-bun Sam. What you lose a bet," Lorna said as she bumped the younger Winchester with her hip as he stared at the couple next to him.
"JoJo," Dean purred as they pulled apart. His smile quickly faded when he felt the tip of a knife against his throat. "JoJo?"
"Who are you? Where's my daughter?!" She demanded.
"Jo?" Lorna said as she pulled her gun out and trained it on the men at the table.
"These aren't our Dean and Sam," she hissed as she jabbed the knife a little more. "WHERE'S MY DAUGHTER?!"
"We don't have the kid JoJo...honest." Sam said. "She's with the other kid that smiles weirdly people."
"Whoa...Sweetheart, stand down," Dean called as him and Sam came rushing back into the room.
"Holy shit," Lorna said as she stared in disbelief at what she was seeing. "Ummm what the Hell is going on Haley Mills?"
Both Deans grinned at Lorna, "nice classic reference." they said at the same time.
Jo quickly put her knife away as she climbed off the alternate version Dean and went over to the other Dean. She studied him for a second before she looked over her shoulder at Lorna and smiled. "These are our Dean and Sam," she reassured her. She turned her attention back to her Dean and asked, "now somebody want to tell us what's the Hell has been happening since we left?"
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Jo sank down into one of the chairs by the table as her Dean and Sam filled her and Lorna in. She took a deep breath when they got to the part about Chuck destroying the other worlds and killing those Sams and Deans. "I think I'm going to be sick," she cried as she hopped out of the chair and rushed out of the room.
"Dean, let me." Lorna said as she placed a hand on her friend's arm. "Where's Ami?"
"Family room with Jack," Sam told her as Dean nodded his head and watched as the other woman went to comfort Jo.
"I should..." Dean said as he watched Lorna leave.
"Let Lorna take care of Jo. I don't think she would feel comfortable talking about him with you," his brother told him.
"Right," he agreed before they walked over to the alternate universe them and Dean told them coldly. "Okay this is how it's gonna play out if you want to live another day to drink you douchbag specialty beer."
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"Hey," Lorna said as Jo came out of her bathroom, drying her face.
"Oh Baby Girl," Jo gushed as she took her daughter and sprinkled kisses across he cheeks and nose causing the infant to giggle.
"You can tell me or we can just sit here. Whatever you need. Just know I'm not going to judge you." She told the other woman. Jo had given her the highlights about the other dimension and it didn't take a genius to know she loved that Dean too. It was weird but she could understand how it happened, it didn't mean she loved this Dean any less.
"Thanks, I think I just want to sit for a few minutes before I go back out there."
"You don't have to go back out there," Lorna told her.
"I do," Jo told her. "Chuck's not going to believe anything if I'm not with Dean and Sam."
"Okay," she agreed. "Then we join them when you're ready."
"Thanks," Jo said as she kissed Ami one more time.
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Jo put Ami down in her crib and grabbed the baby monitor before her and Lorna went and joined the others again. They had been barely gone fifteen minutes but she could see her Dean was already losing his patients and was getting his doppelgänger face as he sat down across from him.
Dean got up and walked up to Jo, "are you okay?" He asked as he hugged her finally.
Lorna smiled as she went over to the table, eying the other dimension Dean and Sam wearily before joining Sam who was looking up something on his laptop. "Hey," she said as he looked up and smiled at her.
"Hey, how is she?" He asked as he watched the way Dean was speaking to Jo softly.
"She'll be okay," she reassured him.
They both turned when Dean and Jo made their way over to the table. "Looks like we're ready," he said as he indicated they should join the other couple.
"Right, Jo's in charge. She says jump you two ask 'how high'." Dean told the alternative versions of him and his brother.
Alternate Sam snorted, "just like home."
"I'm sorry what?" Jo said as she frowned at this man-bun wearing Sam.
"Oh JoJo loves to boss everyone around," he clarified.
The alternate Dean snorted in amusement, "she likes to make sure everyone knows she's the 'lady' of the manor."
Alternate Sam snickered, "lady…good one Bro."
"Excuse me. What that's supposed to mean?" Jo asked in annoyance.
"Mommy Dearest...our JoJo loves to boss us and the servants around...she forgets that she use to work for us too since she married Dad." Sam explained with an exaggerated eye roll.
Jo, Dean and Sam all stared at them with their mouths hanging open. Lorna leaned over and staged whispered to her three friends, "ummm guys…jaws hanging open."
"Wait a minute," Dean said as he snapped his mouth shut and spoke to his double. "You're telling us that you aren't with your Jo? That your Jo is married to your John?"
Sam and Jo both winced as the alternate Dean and Sam laughed, "oh no," alternate Dean said with a chuckle before continuing, "our JoJo is like friggin Goldilocks."
"What the Hell does that mean?" Dean demanded.
"I was too soft," alternate Sam quipped.
"I was too hard," alternate Dean teased.
"But Big John was justttttt rightttttt," they finished together before fist bumping at their own joke.
Jo shuddered at the image that went through her head. "Ewww," she cried as she backed away from the alternate versions of Dean and Sam.
Lorna leaned over to her friend and whispered, "I bet that Jo would try scissoring."
Jo whipped her head around at her friend and had to giggle when the other woman waggled her eyebrows comically at her. "You're an asshat...but thanks." Jo said as she realized Lorna was trying to ease some of the tension she was feeling.
Sam leaned over at his gob smacked brother, pulling him back from the other two and said quietly, "I don't know about you but I just threw up a little in my mouth."
Dean cocked his head slightly, "and I thought it couldn't have gotten any weirder after finding out about us and Bobby all you know," Dean said as he closed his eyes and shuddered, "with Annie."
"Hey," Sam said as he stuck his finger and Dean's chest. "We swore never to discuss that ever again."
Jo's eyes widened, "you two and Bobby all...you know...with Annie? Please tell me it wasn't at the same time."
"WHAT? NO!" Dean and Sam cried together.
"As entertaining as this is, aren't we pushing it by having Dean and Sam spending so much time together with Tweedledee and Tweedledum," Lorna said as she shot a glance over at the other two and rolled her eyes when they high five each other over some stupid joke they made.
"Lorna's right," Jo agreed. "The sooner you leave, the sooner you can get the Occultem."
"They're right Dean. Cas and Jack are waiting for us." Sam said as Dean glared at the alternate version of them.
"Fine," he agreed as he stormed over to the other two. "Don't make us regret this," he warned them.
"Dean, we should go," Sam said.
"Right," he agreed before he turned and pulled Jo in for a hug and kissed her. "Love you," he murmured as they pulled apart.
"I love you too. Be careful," she told him as she reached up and ran her fingers through his hair. She smiled when she saw Sam envelop Lorna in a hug before heading towards the door.
"Kiss Ami for me," Dean told Jo as he gave Lorna a quick hug and joined his brother.
The alternate versions of the brothers watched the scene before them and Jo rolled her eyes when she heard man-bun wearing Sam say to his brother, "dude…the other you is like in love with their JoJo."
Jo watched the others leave when Lorna leaned over and asked her how she was set for batteries. She chuckled as she shook her head in amusement before she spun around and looked at the other two.
"Listen up either one of you call me JoJo again I will shove something sharp and painful where the sun don't shine. I'm going to get you both something more appropriate to wear and I swear I will hack that stupid bun off your head with my machete if it's not gone when I come back." She snapped as she pointed at the other Sam before storming out of the room.
"Wow," the men said at the same time as alternate Sam quickly reached up and undid the bun on top of his head.
"I know," Lorna said with a smirk. "I get all warm and tingly when she takes charge like that." She told them before giving them a saucy wink and followed after Jo.
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"Seriously why would you say that to them?" Jo said with a chuckle when Lorna told her friend about the lasting impression she made on the men in the other room who were currently sitting at the table pretending to be researching while drinking their beers.
"Figured I toss them a bone," she said with a shrug of her shoulders. "So, how you doing?"
Jo sighed as she finished changing Ami's diaper before sitting her down on the Baby Einstein play mat Lorna had picked up for the child. "I don't know. We don't know if Chuck has even attacked that dimension."
"Couldn't Gabriel open a rift…use his mojo or something to see?"
Jo chewed on her lower lip as she took a sip of the coffee she had just made. "I'm afraid to reach out and ask him. What if it's gone. What do I tell Ellen, Bill and Ash? That was their home."
"They chose to come back with you and start a life here," she told her friend.
"I don't think I want to know if they're gone," Jo confessed. "Do you think that makes me horrible?"
"No," Lorna told her. "Look I know how much you love Dean but a part of you loves the other one too. You can't help having those feelings."
"I love all three of them. That John treated me like a daughter. They were all willing to help me raise Ami." She explained.
"They sounded like good people," Lorna said.
Jo took a deep breath and nodded her head, "they are good people."
Lorna smiled, "they are good people." She agreed.
Jo rolled her eyes when she saw the fake Dean had come across her Dean's internet link to Busty Asian Beauties. She nodded her head towards the table as her and Lorna listen to them in amusement.
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"Whoa!" alternate Dean said as his eyes grew bigger at the babe on the screen. He snickered when the computer spoke to him, 'Hey, there, big boy' and quickly spun the computer around to show his brother, "Check this out. And there's like a ton of these files in here." He told alternate Sam and blushed slightly when the voice on the computer said, 'press my button to enter me.'
"Can you imagine if Dad caught us with that kind of stuff? Goodbye, trust funds," Alternate Sam said, blushing slightly when the woman on the screen began to undress.
"Wow," alternate Dean said as he looked at the woman on the screen, ignoring the way his brother cleared his throat and giggle when the voice on the computer asked, 'wanna chat?'. He looked over at his brother. "I got to tell you, Sammy, this Sam and Dean, you know, sure they're simple, but they've got this place of their own. There's no quarterly reports, there's no investor calls, there's just...there's nothing to do but hunt monsters, drink beer, and watch porn."
"Are you forgetting this dimension you is like married to their Jo or something and has a kid...like a real live baby. Dude, he changes diapers." Sam said.
"Yeah but I don't know...this Jo isn't anything like our JoJo. She's scary but I don't know...I doubt she would fuck me and then hook up with you in a board room before then going out to dinner with Dad. This Jo seems to have more class than that." Dean reasoned as he leered at the naked woman on his screen.
"Hey, do you think their Sam is tapping that Lorna chick?" The younger Winchester asked.
"I'm not even sure what team she plays for." The older man said before his attention was brought back to the screen in front of him when he heard the voice call out 'hey, there, big boy' before saying with a grin, "they've definitely got it made."
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Jo and Lorna spent the rest of the evening cleaning their weapons, restocking their to go bags and making some calls. Finally Jo picked Ami up and bid Lorna goodnight. Stopping long enough to threaten bodily harm if the wannabes in the war room pulled any stunts before heading to bed.
She was just getting ready to go into the bathroom to wash up before crawling into bed for some well earned sleep when the bedroom door opened and douche Dean stood in the doorway. "What are you doing in here?"
He was going to kill Sam for insisting that if Chuck is watching he would think it weird if he slept in another room instead of with Jo. So he had a shot (okay three shots) of tequila and made his way to the room his doppelgänger shared with the woman currently glaring at him.
"Umm I figured that Chuck would find it strange if we slept in separate beds." He said as he gulped as she narrowed her eyes at him.
Jo sighed in defeat because she knew he was right and swore her Dean was going to have to make this up to her big time. "Fine but no funny business or I'll Lorena Bobbitt your dick so fast you won't know what hit you."
Dean gave her a sickly smile as she walked past him and went into the bathroom. He waited until the door closed before pulling out his phone and looking up the name Jo just said and gulped when he saw Lorena Bobbitt was famous for.
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Sam, Jo and Lorna insisted that Dean be the one to see the alternate Dean and Sam off. Or as Jo announced, 'they're your problem now' before heading down to the family room.
"Alright, fellas. Well, thanks for your help. Now it's, uh, time to go." He said as they stood at the bottom of the stairs to the bunker.
The alternate versions of himself smiled as he looked around and suggested, "you know…we…uh…we could just all live here together."
He gaped when the man-bun wearing Sam nodded his head and added, "like a club."
"That would just be weird." Dean argued.
"It wouldn't be so weird," his doppelgänger said.
Dean shook his head vehemently. Jo had called during the ride home to complain about their doubles. "Trust me, where you want to be is Brazil, okay? It's far away, and there's nothing but beaches, babes, carnival."
Alternate Dean shrugged his shoulders, "Oh, you think we could keep the flannel shirts?" He asked hopefully.
"No. Okay." He told him as he shushed them along.
His double stood on the first step and smiled, "Oh…uh, when we were looking around, we…I'm…we saw it."
Dean frowned, "it?"
"The car," the other Dean told him with a dreamy look on his face.
He narrowed his eyes and glowered at his double. "You didn't touch it," he hissed.
The douchbag version of his brother giggled and told him, "we drove in it."
"I'm sorry, you what?" Dean shrieked.
The smiles on their faces vanished as they each took a step back. His double gave him a a weak smile as he grabbed his brother's arm and said, "we're leaving."
"Have fun in Rio!" He snapped as his double propelled his brother through the door. Dean watched as the other Dean started to follow his brother out before he stopped and spun back around. "Now what?" He asked in annoyance.
The other man smiled at him. "You know… we may have a private jet, houses, expensive cars…anything that money could buy but you know what…having your Jo love you the way she does…having that little girl grin at you every time you come in the room. Dude you're richer than I'll ever be."
Dean swallowed, shocked at the candor of the other him statement. Licking his lips he cleared his throat and said, "you can keep the flannel shirts."
The other man laughed. "Tell JoJo bye for me," he said before he turned and walked out of the bunker to join his brother.
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"He ate it? What is it with that boy eating things?" Jo exclaimed as the four hunters were finally sitting down as Sam and Dean caught Jo and Lorna up while relaxing in the family room.
"Sorry I'm still wrapping my head around that Jack went to Garden of Eden." Lorna said as she accepted the beer Sam passed to her.
"Yeah well I'm still wrapping my head around Jo letting those wannabes not only touch but drive Baby," Dean said as he shot Jo a dirty look.
"You think I would let those two anywhere near her. They waited until Lorna and I went to the house to see how Sam's apartment over the garage is coming along," she said before turning to her partner and added, "I told you we should have locked them in a room."
"Right because Chuck wouldn't find that weird at all," Lorna argued.
Jo turned back at Dean. "I'm glad you're so worried about Baby. Thankfully, she didn't have to share her bed with one of them like somebody else you love had to." She told him.
Dean eyes widened a bit at that but shook his head at her attempt to distract him. "You can defend yourself…Baby was violated."
"Dean let it go," Sam huffed. "You already checked and she's fine."
"Fine! She's gonna need a good detailing…a wax job and probably an oil change too!"
Lorna leaned over and mock whispered, "now I get what you mean about needing Idris Elba sometimes."
Jo snickered at the face Dean made but turned to Sam before Dean could call her out and asked the other man, "so what do you think that thing is doing to him?"
Sam opened his mouth to reply but stopped when Castiel joined them. "Hey man, how is he?" Sam asked the angel.
"He seems alright but something is different." Castiel explained.
Dean frowned, "different…good different or bad different?"
The angel sighed, "well, he's been to the Garden. That's the crossroads of divinity and humanity. No one's been there since the exile till now. Till Jack."
"Maybe we should see if he's alright?" Jo suggested.
The others all nodded their heads as they made their way into the kitchen and saw Jack sitting at the table staring down at his hands.
Sam smiled slightly as he called out to the boy, "Hey, Jack. How you doing?"
Jack just shook his his head as he said, "I... I'm so sorry."
"What?" Dean asked in confusion.
The boy looked up, his eyes brimming with tears. "Why didn't I get it? I mean, my mother died, too. Why didn't I understand? It was my fault."
Jo gasped as she looked into his eyes, "how?"
Dean shot a look at Jo before turning his head back towards the young man at the table. "How what?" He repeated before asking. "Jack what is Jo talking about?"
Jack swallowed and looked down at his hands again. Dean and Sam watched as Jo went over to the Nephilim, standing behind him before leaning forward and wrapping her arms around him, kissing the top of his head.
Sam, Dean and Lorna all turned and looked over at Castiel for an explanation and the angel swallowed as he said, "his soul is back."
"Please. Just please forgive me." Jack cried as Jo held him, shushing him.
Lorna gasped at this revelation as the brothers each realized what the younger man was going through. Sighing Sam went and knelt down in front of Jack, placing his hands over Jack's and squeezing them gently.
Jo looked up at Dean and he nodded his head slightly. He looked down at the baby monitor in his hand when he heard Ami's high pitch wail.
"I'll go," Lorna volunteered.
Dean handed her the monitor before he walked over and stood before Jack and placed a hand on his shoulder.
Jack looked up at Dean, the misery the boy was feeling was palatable and the elder Winchester did the only thing that felt right.
"Come here," he said as Jo and Sam pulled away from Jack slightly so that Dean could pull him up and wrapped his arms around him, whispering that all was forgiven.
TBC
A/N: okay so I needed Sam to talk to Dean here about Jack and what happened with Mary to help Dean move a long a bit and also to make the scene when he finds out that Jack has his soul back. I don't know why but I thought a car accident analogy seemed fitting.
Anywho, I hope people enjoyed this chapter.
Thank you again,
Val