It's dark and raining outside. Jamie is standing outside a dingy motel, with Castiel who looks unsteady on his feet. Jamie blinks several times and then half drags Castiel up to the door and knocks. Sam answers and Jamie pulls Castiel through the door.
"I got your message. It was long, your message. And I find the sound of your voice grating." Castiel comments as Jamie slams the door behind him.
"We have problems, Sam." She says to her twin, squeezing the water out of her hair.
"What's wrong with him?" Sam points to the angel. Jamie rolls her eyes. He looks at Castiel. "Wait. Are you…drunk?"
"No!…Yes."
Sam's eyes widen, he looks at his sister who scoffs and then back to Castiel. "What the hell happened to you?"
"I found a liquor store." He says gruffly.
"And?"
"And I drank it."
"What?"
Jamie rubs her eyes and turns to her brother. "Just…Don't ask."
Sam raises an eyebrow. "Well, where have you been?" He asks his sister.
She gestures to the angel. "Keeping his ass out of jail."
"Why'd you call me?" Castiel asks, interrupting their conversation. He sways a little. Sam steadies him against the wall.
"Whoa. There you go. Easy. Are you okay?"
Castiel gestures to Sam. He leans in. "Don't ask stupid questions. Tell me what you need."
Sam turns to Jamie yet again and the prophetess shrugs. "T-there have been these—these demon attacks. Massive, right on the edge of town. And we can't figure out why they're— "
Jamie crosses her arms and leans against the wall. Cas leans back. "Any sign of angels?"
"Sort of. They've been speaking to this…"
"Prophet." Jamie says, straightening up.
Cas looks at Jamie and then to Sam. "Who?"
"This girl, Leah Gideon."
"Leah?" Jamie gives Cas a look.
"She's not a prophet." Castiel answers.
"I'm pretty sure she is. Visions, headaches—the whole package."
Jamie shakes her head. "No. She isn't." She tells Sam firmly, dropping her bag on the floor and opening it.
Castiel nods. "The names of all the prophets, they're seared into my brain. Leah Gideon is not one of them."
"Then what is she?"
Jamie takes out an old leather bound book and opens it. She brings the book over to Sam. "She's my enemy." Sam pauses as he reads the entry. Jamie looks around. "Where is Dean?"
A little while later Dean walks into the motel room. Sam and Castiel are sitting on the couch. Jamie rushes to him. "Dean."
"Jamie." He wraps an arm around her, and leans against her. She sees that his shirt is all bloody and gasps softly. Sam looks over at them.
"We went out looking for—"He cuts off and notices the blood. Jamie is patting Dean down for a wound. Sam gets up. "You alright?"
"Yeah. It's—it's not my blood. Paul's dead."
"What?!" Sam exclaims in horror.
"Jane shot him."
Jamie looks at Dean and then over to Castiel. "Cas…"
"It's starting." The angel mutters.
"What's starting?" Dean looks up and then towards the angel. "Where the hell have you been?"
Castiel looks at Dean sarcastically. "On a bender."
Dean stares at his siblings. "Did he—did you say "on a bender?"
Jamie closes her eyes and sighs. "Don't ask."
Sam sighs. "Yeah. He's still pretty smashed."
Castiel holds up his hand in protest. "It is not of import. We need to talk about what's happening here."
"Well I'm all ears." Dean walks over to the sink to wash his hands. Sam sits back down on the couch. Jamie goes over and moves the book she brought. Cas picks up a smaller book.
Sam looks at Dean. "Well, for starters…Leah is not a real prophet."
"Well, what is she, exactly?"
"The whore." Castiel replies without missing a beat.
"Wow. Cas, tell us what you really think."
"Dean." Jamie picks up the book and brings it over to him. The title is "The Whore of Babylon." "She rises when Lucifer walks the earth. "And she shall come, bearing false prophecy." This creature has the power to take a human's form, read minds. Book of Revelation calls her "the Whore of Babylon."
"Well, that's catchy."
Sam nods. "The real Leah was probably killed months ago."
Jamie smirks. "She's also the mortal enemy of "the voice of one crying out in the desert."
Dean's head shoots up. "But that's…that's you."
"Yeah."
"Well then we gotta get you out of here." Jamie, Sam, and Castiel all shake their heads in response. "What about the demons attacking the town?"
"They work for her." Jamie tells him.
"They're under her control." Castiel echoes.
"And the Enochian exorcism?"
Jamie takes the book from Dean. "Is not an exorcism at all. It's a fake."
Castiel grins. "It actually means, "you, um, breed with the mouth of a goat." Dean, Sam, and Jamie are deadpan. Castiel stops smiling. "It's funnier in Enochian."
"So the demons smoking out—that's just a con? Why? What's the endgame?"
Jamie looks at Castiel, and Castiel looks at Dean. "What you just saw—innocent blood spilled in God's name."
Sam sighs. "You heard all that heaven talk. She manipulates people."
"To slaughter and kill and sing preppy little hymns. Awesome." Dean turns away.
Jamie nods. "Her goal is to condemn as many souls to hell as possible."
"And it's…just beginning. She's well on her way to dragging this whole town into the pit."
Sam gets up and goes over to his sister. "Jamie, why is she your enemy, though? I would think since you're supposed to…"
"Narrate the Apocalypse?" Jamie smirks. "It's not that simple." She glances at Dean who moves closer. "I'm neutral in this, yes, but remember that I'm also a prophet, which means I'm bound to Michael and his vessel. The whore is bound to Lucifer, if she kills me, she will become the Voice in my place."
"A demon prophet." Dean says with a scoff. "Alright. So, then, how do we go Pimp of Babylon all over this bitch?"
Jamie nods to Castiel. "Cas."
Castiel disappears and reappears almost as quickly. He puts down a wooden stake on the table in front of the Winchesters. "The whore can be killed with that. It's a stake made from a cypress tree in Babylon."
Sam looks at the stake.
"Great. Let's ventilate her."
Jamie shakes her head. "Not so fast, Dean."
"It's not that easy."
Dean turns to look at Castiel. "'Course not."
"The whore can only be killed by a true Servant of Heaven."
"Servant, like…"
"Not you. Or me. Sam, of course, is an abomination." The three of them turn to look at Jamie. Jamie's eyes widen and she puts her hands up, defensively. "You are bound to Michael."
"I'm in exile. You heard what Raphael said, and Zachariah. The angels don't watch over me anymore."
Dean picks up the stake and holds out it out to his sister. "When have you ever run from anything?"
Jamie stares at him for a moment and then reaches out to take the stake. The second her fingers touch the wood she draws back, images flashing before her eyes. She sees herself lunge at Leah, stake the ready. But when she goes to plunge it into the Whore's heart, Leah flings her back, impaling her on a broken table leg. Jamie blinks and gasps, holding her stomach.
"Jamie." Dean grabs unto her. She looks at him. "What happened?"
"She's gonna kill me." Jamie answered.
"We have to find someone else." Jamie is sitting on the couch between Sam and Dean. Castiel is standing in front of them.
"Dean, what if there is no one else?" Sam asks, looking at his brother. "We've got a town corrupted by Lucifer's bitch."
"I don't like this anymore then you do, Dean. But it has to be the prophetess." Castiel tells him.
"Besides, she dies and then Michael or Zach or whoever snaps her back to life in 2 seconds." Jamie, Dean, and Castiel all turn and stare at Sam. "What? It's true, isn't it?"
Jamie rolls her eyes. "Look, we have to kill the Whore. And if it has to be me, so be it. We've changed my visions before…haven't we?" Dean and Castiel both look away. Jamie gets up slowly. "I'm gonna." She points to the bathroom and goes inside.
Dean and Sam both turn to Castiel. "There has to be someone else." Dean says firmly. "Find someone else."
Castiel disappears.
"What the hell was that?"
Jamie walks back out of the bathroom and stops short seeing Pastor Gideon standing there beside Castiel. "What the hell is this?"
Pastor Gideon turns around and looks at her. "Who are you?" He stares her up and down and then looks at Dean and then back to her. "Are you-"
"I am the voice of one crying out in the desert." She says before realizing. "What the…"
Dean cringes. "Okay. Yeah." He turns to Gideon. "Yeah, they weren't lying about the angel-slash-voice thing. Have a seat, Padre. We got to have a chat." He motions towards his sister. "Jamie."
The pastor is sitting in a chair by the couch where Dean and Sam are seated. Jamie is standing behind them with Castiel. Dean finishes explaining and gestures to the cypress stake. Gideon looks at the cypress stake and shakes his head. "No. She's my daughter."
"I'm sorry, but she's not. She's the thing that killed your daughter."
"That's impossible."
Sam gives him a sympathetic look. "But it's true. And deep down, you know it."
Jamie shakes her head. "This is ridiculous." She mutters. "I'm not sending someone else to die for me." Castiel wraps his arm around her shoulders.
Dean gives her a look. "Look, we get it—it's too much. But if you don't do this, she's going to kill a lot of people. And damn the rest to hell." Dean picks up the stake and holds it out to him.
"It's just…Why does it have to be me?"
"Because otherwise she's going to kill my sister." Dean answers.
"And, you're a Servant of Heaven." He turns and looks at Castiel whose leaning against the wall. Jamie has her arms around him.
"And you're an angel."
"Poor example of one."
He stares at Castiel and then looks at Jamie. Jamie stares back at him.
Castiel is sitting hunched over outside. Jamie is curled up next to him. He puts his hand over his face. She rubs his shoulder. Dean closes the trunk of the impala, walks around the driver's side, and reaches in an open window. He grabs a bottle of aspirin. "Heads up."
He tosses the bottle to Cas. Cas looks at the bottle. "How many should I take?"
"You? You should probably just down the whole bottle."
Jamie scoffs at Dean's remark.
"Thanks."
"Yeah, don't mention it. Yeah, I've been there." He gestures to Jamie. "We've been there. I'm a big expert on deadbeat dads. So…Yeah, I get it. I know how you feel."
"How do you manage it?"
"On a good day, you get to kill a whore."
Cas looks up at Dean. He raises an eyebrow. Jamie buries her face in Castiel's shoulder. "Well so instead of just me being screwed now we're all screwed."
Dean raises an eyebrow. "Just stay behind me, Jamie."
Castiel nods. "One look and she'll try to kill you."
"Right." She looks up at Dean. "Good thing I have Michael's vessel to protect me."
Dean looks away.
Last that night at the church Leah is looking into a mirror in the wardrobe and shows her true face. She shuts the door revealing Castiel. The angel grabs Leah and holds her for Gideon who is behind her. "Daddy! Don't hurt me!"
Dean, Sam, and Jamie rush in. "Shut up, bitch!" Jamie remarks, standing in front of her brothers. "Gideon, now!"
Gideon hesitates, Leah takes advantage and chants in Enochian, putting a spell on Castiel. "Pizin noco iad."
"No!" Jamie yells.
"Aah!" Castiel cries out in pain and lets go. Leah raises both hands and uses telekinesis to push away Gideon. She turns to Sam, Dean, and Jamie. She raises her hands again and pushes Sam and Dean back but Jamie stands put. Jamie holds her own hands out.
"Praecipio vobis per ira caelitum…" Leah cries out in pain. Jamie walks towards her, picking up the stake. "Timebis me, ego vox de caelo."
Castiel cries out in pain again, breaking Jamie's concentration. Leah shoves Jamie backward and she falls into Sam and Dean. Leah runs off while they get up. Gideon grabs the stake and follows her.
"Gideon! Wait! No!" Sam yells. He, Dean and Jamie get up to follow him. Dean shoves Jamie back.
"Jamie, stay with Cas!"
Castiel is groaning on the ground, bloody at the mouth. Jamie stares at Dean and then hurries over and kneels down beside him. She puts her hands on either side of his head. "Vocem meam audi redeunt in lumen." Cas coughs. Jamie holds him still.
"Go!" He yells, pushing her away from him. He passes out. Jamie gets up and hurries out of the room.
Sam tackles one of the men before he can light the kerosene, and then throws the lighter across the room. Dean punches out another one of the men. Leah knocks Dean down with her telekinesis just as Jamie rushes in. Leah is on top of Dean with her hands on his throat. Jamie throws her hand out and flings Leah back. Leah falls unto the ground and looks up. "Prophetess."
"Whore."
"We're both whores, Jamie. I just got the better brother."
Jamie flings her backward into the wall and holds her there. "Dean! Get the stake, hurry."
Dean reaches for the cypress stake. Leah struggles against Jamie's hold. "Please. Like you're a servant of Heaven."
Sam has ahold of Jane. "Let me go!"
Dean grabs the stake and walks forward. Jamie grits her teeth, putting more force into her hold.
"You can't hold me, can you prophetess?" Leah taunts.
"Dean," She gasps out. "I can't stake her and hold her at the same time."
Dean looks at her. "Jamie…"
"You're the righteous man, Dean. The righteous man who begins it is the one who must end it. Do it, now."
Dean hesitates. Leah snickers. "This is why my team's gonna win. You're the great vessel? You're pathetic, self-hating, and faithless. It's the end of the world. And you're just gonna sit back and watch it happen." Dean punches her, and then stakes her.
"Don't be so sure, whore."
"And it shall be written, the whore shall be slain by the righteous man who shed blood in hell. And as his strength returns, so shall hers wane." Jamie drops her arms and Leah collapses unto the floor. Her body shakes and the stake catches on fire. It explodes, leaving a burning hole where it entered her body.
Sam lets go of Jane. She walks over to stand beside Dean. "But…I don't understand. How are we supposed to get to paradise now? "
Dean glances over at her. "I'm sorry. Pretty sure you're headed in a different direction."
Gideon attempts to stand. Sam grabs him and helps him up. "Gotcha."
Jamie looks up. "Cas…" She turns towards Dean.
"Come on."
Dean and Jamie have Castiel and Sam has Gideon, they're helping them walk up the stairs. "Dean, how did you do that?" Sam asks.
"What?"
"He wants to know how you killed her." Jamie tells him.
"Long run of luck held out, I guess."
"Last I checked, she could only be ganked by a servant of Heaven."
"Well, what do you want me to tell you? I saw a shot. I went for it." They get the pastor and the angel into the backseat of the Impala. "Alright. Here we go."
"I got you, Cas, I got you." Jamie mutters.
"Watch your head, now." Sam looks at Dean. "Jamie is he gonna- are you gonna do something stupid?"
Jamie looks up. "Sam."
"Like what?" Dean asks.
"Like Michael stupid."
"Come on, Sam. Give me a break."
Sam looks down towards Jamie, but she's preoccupied with Castiel.
Dean walks into the motel. Jamie is on the bed beside Cas who is staring straight ahead. She has her eyes closed and is muttering something. "Jamie? Is he gonna be okay?"
Jamie opens her eyes and looks at him. "I'm pulling him out of it."
Dean pats her shoulder and walks across the room. "How's the head?"
Sam is wrapping Pastor Gideon's wrist. "I'm seeing double. But that may be the painkillers."
"You'll be okay."
"No."
Dean looks away and walks towards the door. Sam calls out to him. "Where you going?"
"I'm just gonna grab some clean bandages out of the trunk. Relax." Dean leaves. Sam looks across the room to Jamie. She has her eyes closed again. Sam looks back down at the dressing.
"There. How's that?"
"Sam." Jamie says from across the room. Her eyes are still closed. "If you want to stop him, you better go now."
Dean starts the impala and revs the engine. Sam runs out after him while Dean speeds away. "Damn it! Dean! DEAN!"
Jamie comes out. Sam looks at her. Jamie nods. "Yes."
