The story takes place right after the season 10 finale, after Dean killed Death, the Mark of Cain was removed and Darkness was released into the world. I mentioned before, new characters will be added and thrown in the story and I will bring back several former characters from the show in the upcoming future.
Chapter 45 Goodbye Rebecca, Hello Becky Again.
It was the next day as Sam and Dean were now in Becky's apartment as they waited out in the living room while Becky was in her bedroom both changing her clothes and packing her bags. Although it had only been a day ago, it felt so much longer with all that happened with Sylvester and with Becky at the abandoned subway station.
After they smashed the ruby ring Becky was wearing with the obsidian rock and the spell was broken, gone was the tough, feisty out of control badass Becky or Rebecca and once again was the old geeky Becky they remembered the last time they saw her with the high-pitched voice in all. Once Becky was restored to her old self, she seemed disoriented and confused about what had happened and Sam took the time to comfort her and explain to her as much as he could while Dean went over to where an unconscious Howard laid. He then used the rock and smash down on the ring on his finger and the same thing happened with Becky's ring.
Not wanting to waste anymore time, Dean insisted they hightail it out of there already. So Sam helped a still dazed and confused Becky up from the ground and placing his arms gently around her shoulders, he started to walk her out of that station. Dean went over to where Sylvester laid just to check him one last time but he still laid there dead as a door nail. So he then went over to Howard and lifted him up and fireman carried him out of the station following behind Sam and Becky. Then they all got into the car with Howard's unconscious body sitting up in the backseat and Becky sitting next to him all silent for once in her life for she was just too dazed to think of what to say.
Once they're driving on the road, Howard finally woke up, not knowing where the hell he was as the Winchesters had to explain to him about the recent events and that they were hunters. Ironically, both Becky and Howard remembered everything that happened to them but it felt more like a dream or nightmare they had just woken up from in which they had totally no control.
The brothers dropped Howard off at Spider's tattoo parlor that was still opened and they threatened to report Spider's illegal activities unless he hides Howard for the night since he's now a wanted fugitive by the cops and that he is to provide Howard with a car, fake IDs and nice amount of money so he can get out the state. Spider agreed to their terms as he can always offer certain favors to these people he knows that can provide Howard with all that they ask.
They instructed Spider to wait the next day when they call him and told Howard just to stay there for the night and he agreed without question. Then they brought Becky back with them to the motel as she too was still wanted by the police for her recent crimes and being extra cautious they didn't want to take any chances. Becky was too dazed to argue with them and soon they had her at the motel where they let her relax and Dean got dinner for the night.
When it was time to go to bed, Sam let Becky use an extra long shirt he had which she changed into in the bathroom. The shirt was oversized and too big on her but it was useful for pajamas. Then Sam let her use his bed while he shared the other bed with Dean. While Becky slept comfortably, he and Dean spent the night awkwardly tossing about trying to get much space as their bodies would occasionally touch each other.
The next morning, they got up quite early and Becky managed to take a shower but she had to change back into the provocative clothes she had on before despite not being too comfortable in them. Sam did manage to let her use his jacket to make her more comfortable and it helped some. Dean went out to get breakfast while Sam tried to reassure Becky everything was going to alright. After breakfast, the guys first called Adam to let him know that their case is over and they are heading home and thanked him once again for his help as it had been quite useful which Adam so appreciated that he could be of some use.
Afterwards, the brothers called the police station insisting on talking to Lt. Blanco and told him that they got a lead on a man with Howard's description last seen stealing a car last night although they couldn't get a license plate and suspected that Howard was probably out of town or the state by now. They also informed him that they went back to Becky's place and found her luggage and some clothes gone and assumed she left town too. Lt. Blanco seemed convinced of their explanations and after their conversion was over they then phoned Spider to let him know it was okay to contact people he knows that can get Howard all those things he needed to leave town.
They talked to Howard too and told him once he gets what he needs, he better leave the state and start his life over again and Howard agreed and thanked them. Then it was time to take care of Becky who had two stacks against her. First, being still being wanted by the law even though the city is so overwhelmed with criminal cases that Becky may not be on their top priority right now but the fact remains she can't just resume her life like nothing as the law will catch up to her eventually.
Then there is her boss Ms. Van der Voort who still wants her head on a platter as revenge for what she had done although Ms. Van der Voort was safely in jail for attempted murder with no chance of being out of bail again due to violating her first bail which make things easier. However, she might be out someday and as long as she's affected by the Darkness she's a dangerous person and they don't know when the Darkness will be stopped it could take a year or more for all the know.
So they both agreed that Becky should leave New York as well. They decided to drive her where ever she wanted to go since Becky had gotten rid of her own car when she gave it to some kind of shady dealer for money who sells stolen cars and license plates while she was still Rebecca and was hiding from the cops. And now both Sam and Dean are waiting in her living room for Becky getting a little impatient as it seemed to be taking forever.
"Gee, you think she's packing up the entire apartment just how long does it take just to pack a few clothes and stuff?" said Dean impatiently.
"Just chill Dean" Sam told him both sitting down on the couch.
"Well, that's chicks for you, have to take forever to pack all their stuff, good thing we guys are more simple don't have a ton of clothes" said Dean trying to lighten the mood as was clearly bored, impatient and wanted to go already.
Just then the bedroom door opened and Becky came out carrying two big suitcases. The moment they saw her, they couldn't help notice the difference in her appearance as gone was the provocative clothing she wore recently as was the typical square clothes she wore in the past. Instead, she was now dressed in a red and navy blue striped long-sleeve T-shirt, navy blue jeans and sneakers with no makeup or any jewelry. Sam and Dean continued to stare at her as if seeing her for the first time as she wasn't dressed like a crazy bimbo nor like a ultra-geek girl but looked actually normal.
Both the brothers got up from the couch and Sam was the first to speak out.
"Wow, Becky you look, I mean you look" stumbling to find the right words to say.
"Normal?" Becky finished for him.
"Well, yeah, not that you didn't look normal before the last time we saw you, I mean" Sam still kept stumbling his words.
"I know what you mean" said Becky.
The guys were actually relieved Becky was back to her old self, which Dean had to admit to Sam out of Becky's earful that he never thought he would hear himself say that after having to deal with crazy Rebecca. Even hearing her original high-pitched voice was refreshing but they also noticed she had the same unhappy expression on the face that she had the last time they saw her after she signed the annulment papers. Sam walked over to her.
"Are you good Becky?" he asked.
Becky still had the same unhappy expression on her face turned to him.
"Yeah, well a little it just still too much to take in" she said.
"Yeah, I understand" Sam told her rather sympathetically.
"I mean it was like a totally different person who was saying and doing all those things" Becky told him.
"Well, in a way it was, that totally wasn't you Becky" Sam replied.
"But it was me, I did all those, I mean that was still me, I trashed my boss's office, nearly burned down her house and I actually enjoyed it" Becky said with a look of horror and remorse on her face. "Then I tried to hurt you, I mean I did hurt you guys, I knocked you both out I tied you up and I nearly tried to kill you and I didn't seem to care, I was just willing to do anything to stay as Rebecca, I mean anything" she continued on in her typical fast-talking way looking like sad little lost puppy.
Sam lightly put his hand on her shoulder.
"I understand Becky but you got to remember you were under the influence of that ring, it was twisting your soul making you into someone you're not" said Sam.
"But the thing is in a way I wanted to be that person. I mean even before that witch or Sylvester sold me that ring, I was tired of being just this weak, pathetic person, this geek who had no luck in life, who took abuse from my boss, had no love life, I was wishing I could be someone totally different from me" said Becky.
Sam removed his hand.
"I get it Becky" he replied and tried to continue but Becky cut him off.
"And this may some terrible but in a way there was so much to Rebecca that I liked. Don't get me wrong, I don't like what she or I did when I was her, she did some many awful things and there was so much about her that scared me but she was also bold, tough, cool, fearless did what she wanted without worrying about the consequences, didn't care what others thought about her and was total badass. She even had a better love life than I ever did, there wasn't anything weak or insecure about her and when I was her I felt liberated and never wanted go about to being the old me. Makes me wonder how much of some of me that was in there" Becky said finished in practically one sentence.
Sam and Dean listened and actually felt empathy for her as they had both been there Sam thinking about the time he had no soul and Dean thinking about recently when he was under the Mark of Cain's influence.
"Becky, we all kind of feel that way wanted to be someone else wishing our lives are different that's not only you. And as I said before, that ring kind of twisted your soul brought out the dark side of you that you didn't know you had trust us when we say we've been there both me and Dean" Sam told her.
Dean had been keeping silent listening to the conversation and finally decided to was time for him to add his two cents since his anger towards Becky's alter-ego Rebecca had faded now the only thing he felt for was pity. He walked up over to here next to Sam.
"Hey Becky, like Sam said, we've been there we know about what it's like to have dark side of yourself be brought out to the surface, corrupting your soul leading you to do things you are not be proud of. Things that you later regret, take it from me. But dwelling on it and feeling sorry for yourself won't help. The best thing is to learn to deal with it so you can move on. Won't be easy, it will take a while just go slow day by day knowing that part of you is buried now" Dean said with so much wisdom Sam was a bit impressed.
"Yeah, but I'm still sorry for all the things I did especially to you guys, you were tying to help and I made it hard for you" said Becky remorsefully.
"Hey, that's okay we don't hold anything against you Becky, like I said before you weren't in control" Sam told her.
"Yeah, same here and Baby forgives you too" Dean said sarcastically.
"Oh yeah, your car, I'm sorry about all that, I will pay for any damages just send me the bill" Becky said with an embarrassed look on her face.
"That's not necessary at all Becky just forget about it" said Sam as Dean just turned to Sam giving him a look as if to say "Say what" but Sam exchanged a look back to him as if to say "Chill Dean".
Then Becky spoke up again, "Oh I almost forgot about Bruno, I wonder what happened to him?" she asked.
"Don't worry about Bruno from what we heard from Spider, he just took off and he hasn't heard from him since and I doubt he'll go to cops and implicate himself he's not the type anyway" said Sam.
"Yeah, I don't think he'll wanting anything more do you with me or Rebecca after everything, you guys probably scared him off" Becky said with light smile.
But her smile faded as she spoke up again.
"But you know I do feel sorry for Sylvester" she told them.
"Sylvester, after everything he did?" asked Dean.
"Yeah I mean I don't condone what he did, but in a way he was a lot like me, lonely, he must have always felt like a failure, a loser and didn't have anyone. I would see him in the hallway and say hello because he always seemed kind of lonely yet he was so distant but maybe I should have done more and befriended him knowing what it's like and all, maybe things would have been different" she told them.
"Hey you are no way responsible for Sylvester's choices" Sam reminded her.
"Yeah, Sam's right Sylvester was a lost cause, it wasn't on you to fix him" Dean chimed in.
"Still I kind of get why he did what he did, feeling like nobody maybe he felt his witchcraft was the only thing he had that was meaningful and with all the power that came with it he wouldn't be a nobody anymore. Besides, it's not like I didn't cross the line once to have something worthwhile so I would stop feeling like a loser" said Becky.
Both Sam and Dean had the same awkward expressions on their faces as they knew what Becky was talking about but neither of them wanted to bring up ancient history of that unfortunate incident of Sam and Becky's fake marriage as they felt it was better to move on from that so Sam just tried to reassure her again.
"Becky, you are nothing like Sylvester, Dean is right, he was just a lost cause and you are not, remember you have good in you, you proved that before in the past, I haven't forgotten how you helped us and even saved my life. And you need to stop feeling like such a loser, you're more worthy than you give yourself credit for, all you need is a little self-confidence" he told her.
"Yeah, I mean isn't there something in one of your self-help books that mentions confidence and all that sort of mushy things?" Dean asked.
"Yeah, those, I guess I need to start reading that again, and my yoga that really helps too" Becky said.
Becky still had a slight frown on her face.
"Becky is there something else wrong?" asked Sam.
"Well I know if have to get out town or the state for that matter, since I'm basically wanted by the police, plus I'm sure my boss Ms. Van der Voort will still wanted to come after me when she gets out of jail someday, but I will miss Rosie and Simon. I mean there were my only friends I had since moving to New York. In fact, that's why I was taking so long, I kind of called them on my cell phone while I was packing" Becky admitted.
"What, Becky!" cried out Sam anxious.
"Now don't worry, I didn't tell them where I was, just wanted to say I was sorry and that I wasn't myself when I did all those things and to tell them goodbye since the cops are after me and not to worry. I told them to look out for each other as I know Rosie doesn't have anyone other than me and Simon. You know it never easy for me to make real friends" Becky explained.
The guys once again felt empathetic to her and could relate knowing what she meant by her last comment remembering all the friends they'd lost over the years.
"Well we better get you out of here, as we have to get going to, Becky is there anyplace you can drop you off at, we're wiling to drive you anyplace out town that you need to go" Sam said.
"Well I thought about going back to Pike Creek, I could stay at my parent's cabin and lay low there" said Becky.
"By yourself, what about your folks?" Sam asked.
"My folks are not around anymore" said Becky and the look in her face told them all that they needed to know.
"Becky you shouldn't be alone, is there any other family that you can go to?" Sam asked.
Becky thought for a while and her sister popped in her head even though she hadn't thought about her in a long while and hadn't any idea where she was and didn't really care to anyway. Her grandmother who was residing at a nursing home in New Jersey had died just before she moved to New York. Then there was an uncle and aunt who live in Miami but she didn't want to travel all the way down there, plus her aunt was known to be quite difficult to get along with. Then she finally she spoke up.
"Well, I have an aunt who lives alone in Ohio" Becky said.
"Perfect, me and Dean are heading back to Kansas anyway, so we can drive you to Ohio along the way" Sam said as Dean just gave Sam that look again.
"Are you sure, I mean could just take a train" said Becky.
"It's safer if we drive you to keep you out of sight, besides from what he heard, these trains have been overcrowded" Sam told her.
"Okay, thanks again guys, but I have one last thing to ask you" she said.
"What about?" asked Sam.
"Well you told me about this Darkness that's this evil entity that's affecting some people and that's probably the dark energy Sylvester used for his rings, well how much could it affect me now that I'm not under the influence of that ring?" she wondered.
"Becky don't worry, you can overcome the influence of Darkness, remember that's why Sylvester chose you in the first place because you weren't affected by the Darkness. All you have to do continue what you were doing, yoga, mediating you can also try praying do this everyday and going to church" said Sam.
"Well, for me it would be a synagogue" Becky reminded him.
"Oh okay gotcha" Sam said.
"Okay, I guess I better go get the rest of my things then" said Becky.
"The rest of your things, how much more do you need, are you planning to take the whole apartment with you?" cried out Dean.
"Hey, I'm only getting my backpack for my books and my laptop, plus I need to get my toothbrush and stuff out of the bathroom, I'll be back" cried Becky and she headed back into the bedroom.
"Well that's just perfect, the way she's going the end of the world will be here by the time she gets through" said Dean impatiently again.
"Chill Dean" cried out Sam.
"Anyway, why did you say we would drive her all the way to Ohio, can you imagine driving for hours stuck with superfan motormouth Becky Rosen" Dean cried out trying not to talk out so loud.
"Hey, Becky has been through a lot and I think that's the least we could do, give her break Dean" said Sam.
"Okay, okay, I'll give her break, we'll drop her off once we get to Ohio and that's it, just hope she doesn't make us loopy with her yapping the whole drive there, but like I said before that I'm kind of relieved to have her as Becky again rather than Rebecca" said Dean.
"Yeah, I know, couldn't believe you said that you actually prefer Becky, the crazy superfan, obsessive groupie?" Sam teased.
"Shut up" Dean replied back.
Sam just smirked.
"Yeah, I kind of feel bad for her now after everything she's been through, I mean we can kind of relate right" said Dean.
Sam just nodded his head in agreement thinking the same thing.
"But I will say although it's good to have the old Becky again and I never thought I would actually feel that way, Rebecca was way hotter that's for sure" said Dean with sly grin.
"Oh up yours!" cried out Becky as she was coming out of the room with her backpack and laptop case.
The brothers both turned around at the same time and just stared at her with a "wtf" look on their faces. Becky quickly looked awkward and embarrassed as to what she just said.
"Oh, I don't know where that came from, I mean it just slipped out" she explained while they continued to stare at her with the same expressions on their faces.
Becky continued to look embarrassed and didn't know what to say. "Okay, I just get my jacket and purse" was all she could say as she dropped her backpack and laptop case and quickly headed right back into her bedroom as if to avoid another conversation with the Winchesters.
Sam and Dean just turned and faced each other as they gave the other that same expression of a déjà vu.
"Okay that was awkward" Sam finally said.
"Totally" Dean replied.
They all finally exited the apartment complex with Sam and Dean each carrying her suitcase as Becky came down now wearing her jean jacket with her purse dangling on her shoulder and carrying her backpack on her back and her laptop case in one hand. The sky was still as dark as night despite it being morning but they were all used to that. They were heading towards the Impala and just as Dean opened the car trunk to put her luggage in, they suddenly heard a loud noise.
Then they turned to see a row of motorcycle riders swirling by all of them look pretty mean and rough looking and Becky recognized one of them from the Cockroach bar. That biker then turned to look at Becky and gave her a look of recognition too and just nodded at her. Becky smiled back with a slick grin while Sam and Dean just stared on in confusion.
"What the hell?" asked Dean.
However, Becky continued to grin and finally said, "Now that is so awesome" in a tone that sounded like Rebecca's.
Sam and Dean just looked at her as the biker gang continued to roll on by with that same "wtf" look as before.
Becky just looked at them once again embarrassingly and just said, "Oh, well I'll just get in the car right now" and quickly headed over to the car door of the back seat as Sam opened the door for her and she scurried right in with her things.
After closing the door Sam and Dean just stared at each other again with that same déjà vu look and finally Dean said, "Oh snap".