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 69 Trapped a Witch
They finally drove back to Madame Bess's house and parked in the driveway. Gwen who had been waiting anxious in the living room for their return or to get a call from them whether it was good or bad news heard them drive up and quickly leaped up from the couch, looked out the window to see the van in the driveway as the porch lights were on and had been since the blackness in the sky and she could see her grandmother, Ava and the Winchesters getting out of the van. Then she rushed towards the front door and opened it. Within moment, Madame Bess was heading for the door and she greeted her.
"Oh, grandma, you're all back, what happened, were you able to track down this witch Rowena or not?" she asked anxiously.
"Well you can say that the witch was indeed caught" said Madame Bess as Gwen opened the screen door for her who in turn took the door and held it for Ava carrying her duffle bag, Sam carrying Rowena's duffle bag and Dean carrying an unconscious Rowena over his shoulder like a sack of potato, her arms limp and dangling, as well as her long red hair as they left her black wig in the van.
The iron chains had since been removed as they felt it was safe since she was still out cold and no threat to them. Gwen just stood there with her mouth open looking quite stunned at what she had just seen, a real life evil witch and now unconscious in her house and being carried by Dean who just seemed calm and relaxed with the witch now limp over his shoulder.
"Hey, where is your basement?" he asked Madame Bess casually as if this was no big thing.
"Over here" she said as she led the way with Dean and Ava trailing behind while Gwen just stood silent and stared looking stunned still a taken back by all of this.
Sam remained behind with her.
"Don't worry Gwen, we caught Rowena and now that we have her trapped and it will be okay" Sam said.
"I hope so" said Gwen still a bit nervous. Sam could sense her concerns.
"Hey, we're sorry to put you all into this but once we have her chained in the basement we can get the answers we want from her" he said trying to reassure her.
"You didn't drag us into this we chose to get involved if you remember we are the ones that saw in her our visions and contacted you guys, besides we are always willing to help after everything we all been through together" said Gwen as both she and Sam just smiled at each other and Gwen was no longer worried.
"Fair enough, well the good news is that we got the Book of Damned back it's right here in this bag" said Sam who was still holding the bag which he quickly laid down on the floor.
"That's great, but what are you guys going to do now?" asked Gwen.
"Well right now we will try to get Rowena to use this book to help us stop this Darkness" he said.
Gwen looked a bit worried.
"I'm a bit worried about all of this I mean you said it yourselves that book is evil and me and grandma sensed it in our visions" she said.
But Sam just put his hand on her shoulder.
"Hey, don't worry Gwen, you just have to trust that we know what we're doing, we will take care of this okay" he said and a tender tone.
Gwen just glared up at Sam looking right into his puppy dog eyes and her concerns disappeared again, she always felt she could trust whatever Sam said.
"Alright Sam" she told him.
"Good" said Sam.
Meanwhile, Madame Bess led Dean and Ava to the basement and Dean entered first down the dark stairs holding on the rail with one hand as with his other arm he wrapped tightly on Rowena's legs as Ava and Madame Bess trailed behind. They soon found themselves in the dark basement as Madame Bess turned on the basement lights and Ava who dropped the duffle bag grabbed an old wooden chair laying in the room and pulled it out. Dean whose left shoulder was now getting a bit sore bent over and set Rowena slowly down on the chair and afterwards rubbed his sore shoulder.
"You okay?" asked Ava who went over to Dean.
"Yeah, just trying to get my shoulder back into circulation, I have to say she is heavier than she looks" he said still rubbing his shoulder.
Then Ava turned back to Rowena who was now sitting up in the chair with her head rolled back.
"I guess we should chain her up before she wakes up" she told Dean.
"Yes, I will feel quite safe if this witch was carefully subdued in my basement" said Madame Bess.
Dean unzipped the duffle bag on the floor and pulled out the chains then with Ava's assistance, they placed the chain shackles on both Rowena's wrists then wrapped the other ends around one of the nearby columns in the basement locked with a padded lock.
"What now?" asked Madame Bess after they were finished who had just stood there silent and observed.
"Well right now we wait for the wicked witch here to wake up" said Dean.
Rowena was out for quite some time, so both Dean and Ava and Madame Bess had gone back upstairs for while to get a snack and something to drink since their escapade in tracking down Rowena, capturing her and bringing her back to the house made them a bit hungry and thirsty not to mention a bit uneasy for Madame Bess and Gwen who still was dealing with the fact that they had a real live powerful and evil witch chained in their basement while the three hunters all not phased at all tried to reassure them. Then Dean, Sam and Ava headed back into the basement to check up on Rowena and when they arrived they noticed that Rowena was waking up. Rowena jerked her head back in forth and then slowly opened her eyes raising her head up a bit still feeling a bit groggy liked she had just woken up from a deep long sleep.
"Well, looks like Sleeping Beauty here is finally awake" said Dean a snarky tone.
Rowena continued to blink her eyes trying and then lifted one her arms to rub her eyes.
"What the hell happened?" she asked in her usually Scottish accent.
"Well, you were sure hard to catch but we finally did it but we had to put you to sleep for while so you wouldn't be any trouble, hope you had a nice nap" said Dean in his usual sarcastic tone.
Rowena was still a bit groggy but she began noticing shackles on her wrists and iron chains and looked around her surroundings finally able to figure out where she was and then turned to look at the three hunters before her.
"I remember you drugged me with something" she cried out looking right at Ava.
"Oh you mean the tranquilizer, well I say it came in quite handy" said Ava with a smirk.
"Yeah, you and that old bag in the ladies restroom at the airport!" she cried out in anger now quite alert.
"Oh she was a friend of ours more than willing to help us out, she was able to located where you were in her visions being a psychic in all' said Dean grinning.
Rowena just glared and smirked back at Dean then at Sam as if she was acknowledging their presence for the first time since waking up.
"Oh so hello again Winchester boys, it's so great seeing you again especially you Dean after having that mark removed, I know Sammy here must be thrilled and you're welcome by the way as you might was well know now that it was because of me you lost the Mark" she replied.
Dean didn't look too impressed or grateful for being reminded by that fact.
"Yes, I know if it wasn't for you the Darkness wouldn't be released and the sky wouldn't have turned into nighttime everywhere" he fired back.
Rowena just smirked again.
"Yeah, about that, well who knew there could be a side effect of that little spell I did to remove that Mark, I mean Sam here sure didn't when he imprisoned me in order to force me to find a spell in that book to remove the curse, but hey look it worked didn't it, the curse is removed and accept for the sky all well that ends well huh?" she replied in a snarky tone.
Dean was still annoyed being reminded how Sam went behind his back to use that damned book and involving Rowena of all people to help.
"Well you won't be using that book to cause any more damage as we now have possession of it as well as the codex sister" he fired back as Rowena just rolled her eyes.
"Well that's gratitude for you see what happens when you try to help the Winchesters" she said.
"Hey, you lucky we ain't ganking you right now as we know for a fact you planned on using that book for carry out whatever evil deeds you had in store" cried out Dean.
Rowena looked at him curiously.
"How could you know that?" she asked.
"Lets' say our dear friend the psychic, the one who helped us catch you saw it in one of her visions of you using the book to create some kind of zombie slaves" Dean said.
"Oh did she?" said Rowena unphased.
"Yes, what were you planning some kind of human slave army for witches or something" replied Dean.
Rowena grinned again.
"Well wouldn't you like to know" she replied.
Sam who had been quiet this whole time decided to join in this discussion.
"Yes, like the slave at the hotel you sent to attack Ava" he remarked.
"Oh her, yes although I'm not too surprised you escape from my little assassin, but oh well I figured I'd be long gone by then and then I nearly was until you caught me" she said.
"Anyway, how did you know that we would show up or about Ava for that matter?" Sam asked although he had an idea he just wanted to hear it from Rowena.
"Well Sammy there, you guys aren't the only ones that can see into the future. You see I used that precious book to cast a spell and see you guys into the future just to keep a track of you guys in case you manage to tack me down and I saw a vision of the two you with this red-headed babe" she said glaring briefly at Ava who just stood there looking uncomfortable. "Anyway, in the vision your third party was at my suite disguised as a maid. I couldn't have you guys find me out not when I was so close, so I just put a little spell on the young maid who came in to clean up my room to attack at the right moment when she showed up, but as I see you're alright" Rowena finished staring at Ava again.
"Bye the way hun, who are you, are you the new sidekick, well I got to warn you dear, being teamed up with these two fellows will only end with your head on a platter just like their last red-headed sidekick what was her name Charlie I think" she said sarcastically.
This angered Dean and Sam a bit, her smugly mentioning Charlie. Before Ava was able to respond to Rowena's remark Dean cut her off.
"Hey look let's get down to business, the only reason your still breathing sister, is because we need your help in getting rid of the Darkness" Dean replied now with an annoyed look on his face.
Rowena's face expression suddenly went from smug to curious.
"Oh, I see so you boys need my help again, I say I feel so privilege but you see even I don't have the powers to stop this new big bad that is going around the world, I'm afraid you're out of luck" she said.
This time Sam is the one who spoke up.
"We know that's why we want you to use the Book of Damned again to defeat Darkness" he told her.
"But, there is no guarantee that there is any spell in the book to destroy this Darkness, I sure haven't found any such spell" she replied.
"But there could be another spell to bring back the Mark, since there was a spell to remove it" Dean added.
Rowena's eyes lit up as this idea was even too big for her.
"You mean after everything me and Sam went through to remove the curse that was on you, you want me to find a spell to put it back on, Dean Winchester?" she asked.
Dean slightly shook her head. "No, we hope you can find spell to place the Mark back on Lucifer" he answered.
Rowena's eyes lit up again taken aback as this was even bigger. "Lucifer!" she cried out.
"Yes, you may not know this but Lucifer has been released from his cage in Hell by the angels in their mission to get all the angels together to defeat Darkness but now Lucifer is disappeared again and nobody knows where he is" said Sam.
"Oh my you mean Lucifer himself, the Prince of Darkness is on earth right now?" she asked quite shocked.
"Yes and since he was the original bearer of the Mark, maybe there can be a spell to put the Mark back on him and get rid of this Darkness once and for all" said Dean.
"Lucifer bore the Mark first but how?" asked Rowena now really curious about what she just learned.
"We don't have time to explain all that we just want you to see if you can find that spell in the book already" replied Dean.
Rowena just sat there and thought for a couple of seconds.
"Well, I don't know boys, I mean what if there isn't any spell to bring back the Mark, I haven't find any, then again I haven't look" she said.
Dean just got up close to her face.
"Well, you better hope there is such a spell in the book, or else there is no need to keep you alive" he said.
Rowena looked a bit nervous by Dean's stern remark but then the fear faded and she looked straight at Dean with a fearless look.
"It's funny that from what Sam here said, you wanted that book destroyed claiming it was evil and all now you want me to use it again" she replied. Dean stood up again.
"Desperate times means desperate measures, we just don't know any other way to get stop this Darkness before it destroys the world as we know it. So what is it going to be Rowena you help us or else we can just gank you right here right now or better yet deliver you to Crowley himself and he can do whatever he wants to you" said Dean.
Rowena tried to hide the fear of that thought of the Winchesters killing her or handing her over to her son who would surely kill her for revenge as she valued her life having lived thousands of years and wanted to live thousands more.
"Okay luv, I'll see what I can do but you have to promise me something as well" she told me.
"What is it?" asked Dean.
"You have to promise to spare my life and not summon my son the King of Hell" she said.
"Got it you help us your life will be spared and we won't hand you over to Crowley" said Sam.
"How do I know you two follow through with your end of the bargain?" asked Rowena.
"You don't you just have to trust us as we are holding the cards here sweetie, we give your our word and that's the best we can do but you don't help us we your toast" Dean said.
Rowena just sighed realizing she as no choice in the matter being powerless.
"Okay you have yourself a deal" she answered.