Mary stood up but the handcuffs prevented her from getting closer to him. Instead Sam walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her.

Mary closed her eyes and did the same, as best as she could, holding onto her son and knowing that at least Sam was safe.

"Do we know where Dean is?" Mary asked quietly, terrified of the answer.

"He's at the bunker." Sam told her much to her surprise, as he tucked her under his chin. "He's fine."

Mary moved away enough to look up at him. "Hes okay?" she repeated, relief slowing going through her. "But...Michael..."

Sam sighed and sat her down onto the bed, sitting beside her. His fingers curled around her handcuffs slightly.

"I did something...as Dean said, majorly stupid, reckless, and who knows if it'll even work." Sam said softly, wrapping the chains around his fingers. "Its...I found a spell that I was planning to use on Dean when Michael had him. I didn't the first time because I thought Dean came back to us, the second time we had the way to go into his mind."

Sam took a deep breath, glancing at Jack who was sitting at the side staring at them. "Its...a spell. It's a separation spell that works to rip one whole into two halves. Its old, it's dangerous, and I might've taken a few years off of my life to do it."

Worry immediately shot through her and she tried to lean down to meet his eyes. "You took off a few years off of your life?" she asked, wanting to make sure she heard the right thing.

"Maybe, the texts were really vague about that." Sam said dismissively and oh she hated that, hated how little he thought about himself and how easily he threw literal years of his life away.

"Sam-" Mary started to say only for her son to continue as if she didn't say anything.

"The halves are not specified and nothing really said about it being used on an angel, let alone an archangel." he said sighing softly. "But...Michael was threatening you, threatening Dean, threatening...threatening the baby." his eyes went to her stomach. "So...I got desperate and used it, using my soul as a battery for it to work."

Sam took a deep breath, reaching out to grip at her hands. "The spell forced Michael into two halves, himself as a separate being and mind. And the part of him that makes him an archangel, every last bit of his grace was ripped from him effectively making him just a soul"

Sam held onto her tightly. "The spell worked just as Dean said yes, he was going to say yes to save you and I knew that he was going to." his thumb rubbed over the enochian on the metal. "Because of the timing and everything else that had happened...Michael still went into Deans head but this time, he's just an annoying voice in Deans mind with no power, no grace, nothing more than words."

Mary glanced at the handcuffs as well. "So the angel containing cuffs..."

"The archangel grace remained inside of you." Sam said softly. "And because you're not an archangel, and Michael isn't there to act as a buffer, left alone, the grace would burn you from the inside out."

Mary swallowed hard, her hand going to her stomach and trying not to shake. "How do we...get it out of me?"

From the look on Sam's face whatever he was going to say next, she wasn't going to like either.

"Mom..." Sam said, looking a bit lost for words at the moment. "The archangel grace is still inside of you, it might not kill you because of this but...its still there and...it might do something to the baby."

Mary felt her breathing quicken slightly and she tried not to shake, her hand still pressed to her stomach. "Like what?"

"There's not a lot of lore on this, or what archangel grace might do." Sam said. "Deans still looking for things in the library but Michael...Michael's been taunting him and we don't know if he's telling the truth but..."

Sam breathed out slowly through his nose and grabbed at her once more. "He said that the grace is going to eventually do one of two things, either completely burn you out in its attempt to escape, the handcuffs are only a momentary hold."

"Or...it'll form into something similar enough to a soul that it will instead go into the baby." Sam continued. "And it's going to change it and morph it into an angelic's offspring."

"Like me." Jack said quietly from his corner. "Like I was."

Mary swallowed hard. "It's going to become a nephilim?" she asked, her voice shaking slightly, she was proud that it wasn't breaking at the very least. "But nephilims..."

"Kill their mother when they're born." Sam finished.

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