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 79 A New Potential Threat
The day went by for Sam who as he continued to stay on at Madame Bess's house waiting for Dean and Ava to return from their mission. He still wished it was he that went instead of Ava but he figured Dean was right in needing someone to stay behind to watch over things with Rowena and that it makes sense that it is him since he is familiar with her and especially after she had escaped the last time when he left Castiel and Crowley alone with her. Sam had to admit he did enjoy spending time with Gwen at the beach and later at the café and the rest of the day with her.
The next day was nothing new. Sam ate breakfast with the two women, checked on Rowena occasionally who was her usual snarky self. He then called up Dean who was still on his way to the Portland and afterwards he called Adam who also got a call from Dean and he seemed to be doing just fine as he finally went out and visited that girl Darcy taking the bus and making plans to see her again. They talked for a few minutes and then he spend the rest of the day either checking on Rowena, helping with the chores and spending time with Gwen. He even let Gwen talked him to getting out of the house for while now that Madame Bess had closed her business ever since he, Dean and Ava had arrived and she was getting bored in the house just doing chores. So the two of them drove into town as they went to her favorite coffee shop for lunch and then strolled down the sidewalks into the city checking out other places and including an antique store that she and her grandmother like to go to and the book store since she and Sam both share an interest in reading. They even went to the pool hall to play a game of darts and later playing a game of pool and Gwen was getting the hang of it.
Later that evening, they all had their dinner cleaned up, watched some television although Sam and Gwen spent most the night talking. Sam got a call from Dean telling him that their was mission over as both he ad Ava retrieved the dragon's heart from the sewer and they will be driving back the next morning. Eventually it was time to go to bed and they all said their goodnights. Sometime late that night when Sam was in bed sleeping, he was quickly woken up by a shake.
"Sam, Sam wake up!" cried Gwen.
Sam looked up to see Gwen over him as she was shaking him by the shoulders. He quickly sat up anxiously.
"Gwen, what's wrong is it Rowena?" he asked her.
Gwen had stopped shaking him and had a real frantic look on her face.
"Oh, Sam I just had a dream, a premonition really and it was terrible" she cried out.
Sam's eyes just lit up, now he was really worried. "What, Gwen what did you see?" he cried out.
Gwen just cleared her throat and told before speaking up again.
"Sam, I saw what think was another witch and she storms in the house while Rowena is performing what looks like some kind of spell and when you run up the basement to check it out, she waves her hand and the next thing you're being thrown into the air and crash into a wall and knocked out" she said with the same scared look on her face.
Sam was in disbelief after everything they were doing that didn't need this obstacle.
"What, another witch?" he cried .
"Yes, I just woke up after you were thrown into a wall" cried out Gwen.
"And you didn't get anything else?" Sam asked.
"No, I tell you that was it" said Gwen still with a looking quite shaking up.
Sam just sprang out of bed. "Okay, let's take this to your grandmother" he told her.
"I already know dears" said Madame Bess who was now standing at the doorway.
"Grandma?" Gwen cried.
"I know all about your dream of a witch invading our home, you see I had the same dream" she said.
"Do any of you two know when exactly is this suppose to happen?" Sam asked.
"All I saw was that Dean and Ava were back and Rowena was performing her spell" said Gwen.
Sam paused for a moment as he tried to think, really wishing Dean was here right now but he'll just have to handle this on his own for now and he turned to the women.
"Dean and Ava will be heading back here tomorrow and it will take them at least another day to get here, so that's two days" he said.
"What do we do in the meantime?" cried Gwen who couldn't shake her nerves over her latest vision.
"Not to panic, dear I'm sure Sam will come up with a plan" said Madame Bess who was quite calm with no ounce of fear or she didn't show it and she came over to comfort her granddaughter placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Well, the first thing we can do is confront Rowena about this, get some answers out of her" said Sam and the two women agreed. Soon all of them headed downstairs and then into the basement.
Rowena was now lying down on the floor near the chair in a sleeping bag with a pillow as Madame Bess had showed some mercy and brought out an old sleeping bag lying around the basement and fetched an extra pillow for Rowena to use. Sam bent down and gave Rowena a little shake.
"Rowena, wake up!" he cried.
Rowena just opened her eyes squinting a bit. "Oh daft, you disturbed my beauty sleep, what possible be important that you wake me?" she asked her voice sounding quite sleepy.
Sam didn't have patience for Rowena at this moment.
"Get up Rowena we have some questions for you and we want answers" he said real sternly.
Rowena sat up rubbing her eyes. "Hey, you disturbed my beauty sleep" she said as she stopped rubbing her eyes and just looked up at the three of them with curiosity.
"Cut the jokes, Rowena this is urgent!" cried out Sam still looking impatient.
"Oh bloody hell, what is the matter now?" she asked getting impatient herself.
"Gwen and Madame Bess both had visions" said Sam.
"Is that all?" Rowena replied.
"In their visions, some witch storming in this place and attacks me in the middle of the spell your performing" he said.
"Oh really?" asked Rowena her eyes lit up and a grin on her face.
"Really, now tell us Rowena, who is she one of your witch pals coming up to break you out" cried out Sam.
"I honesty don't know what you're talking about" said Rowena so calmly and unphased by what she just heard.
"Oh, don't give us that, I'm going to ask you again who is coming for you and how did she know where to find you" Sam demanded getting real fed up now.
Rowena finally just slip out of her sleeping bag and stood up.
"I assure you I don't know" she said. Sam now quite mad wasn't any mood for Rowena's lies.
"Look, I'm not going to ask you again and if you don't answer me truthfully or else..." he said.
"You'll what?" Rowena interrupted. "We both know you're not going to kill me since you need me right now" she said smugly.
"I didn't say anything about killing you but I could torture you until you tell me what I want to know and trust me I won't hesitate and it won't be pretty" said Sam who was actually sounding scary that both Madame Bess and Gwen started to squirm upon hearing his threat.
Rowena also began to look a bit afraid of the thought of torture remembering her time being held as her son Crowley's prisoner in that dungeon. Then she suddenly looked up at Sam no longer seeming so smug.
"Alright, Sam there is no needs for threats I will tell you what you want know" she said.
"Good, now who is this woman who is coming?" he asked.
"Her name is Isadora and a fellow witch from my old coven and we go way back I mean centuries back" she said.
"Go on" Sam demanded.
"It so happens that after I grabbed the Book of Damned, I ran into her and showed her the book and offered to form a new coven and by using this book, we would be the most powerful witches. To make a long story short, I was planning on meeting her again and we made what you could say a pact that if I didn't show up within a day, she would perform a spell that will show her a vision of where I am simply by having a mark placed on me and come to rescue me.
"Oh my, so another witch is coming here and I could sense in my vision that this person is very powerful and dangerous" said Madame Bess who was no longer calmed but now as scared as Gwen.
"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to the two of you" Sam replied.
"But from our visions, it was your life that is in danger young man" said Madame Bess.
"I can protect all of us" Sam told her.
"But how Sam?' asked Gwen.
"I can make a witch killing bullets" Sam said.
"That's right you mention something like that when you first came up here even having me place that fresh chicken feet in the fringe and you have some other ingredients in the room" said Madame Bess.
"Yes, and I can make the bullets first thing tomorrow and I'll have to call up Dean" he said.
"Why such the hero you are there Samuel" said Rowena sarcastically.
Sam just ignored her and turned to the women. "Anyway, don't you two worry, as I said before I promise won't let you anything happen to any of you. Just feel bad that we dragged you into all of this" he told them.
"I admit this is getting quite big with another witch who is quite powerful coming here but we insisted on getting involved after everything we've all been through together so can't blame yourself okay dear" said Madame Bess.
"Yes, same here, we've all faced danger together before and we can face again, I more worried something is gonna happen to you from our visions your life is in more danger" said Gwen.
"Well, I can protect myself, I've been through worse than this" Sam reassured her.
"My, my a little overconfident are we" said Rowena with a sly.
"What about her?" asked Gwen pointing to Rowena.
"Yes, what about me" said Rowena smugly.
"There is nothing we can do about her right now but just go upstairs and I want you to tell me more about your visions" said Sam.
"Oh, is the party over already, darn and I thought we are going to have so much fun" said Rowena being her sarcastic self.
They just ignored her and headed upstairs.
"Well, goodnight darlings lets do this again" cried out Rowena who just couldn't resist another smart-alec remark.
After the three were upstairs again, they headed to the living room and Sam turned to the women to ask them more questions.
"Now I assume this takes place once Dean and Ava return and Rowena performs the spell, but can you give me a description of this witch?" asked Sam.
Gwen spoke up first. "From what I saw she is a black woman who's about Rowena's age with long curly black hair wearing this long brown dress with all these decorations it looks like the kind dress from the Caribbeans" said Gwen.
"Yes, I remember that too and we have both traveled to the Caribbeans and I remember those type of dresses that they wear, plus I know a fellow psychic who is from Haiti and she always wears these Caribbean dresses and this witch wears a dress that is similar" Madame Bess added.
"Yes, and she was also wearing these exotic jewelry, a long beaded necklace and ear rings and had all these bracelets on both wrists including a this strange ring on her right hand" said Gwen who just remembered.
"That's right, I recall all of these as well" said Madame Bess.
Sam thought for a moment and just looked up at the women again. "Anyway, the first thing tomorrow is I'm calling Dean like I said to and making those bullets, right now I think the best thing we can do is go back to bed" he told them.
"I don't think I can sleep at all after having those visions" said Gwen.
"Same here" said Madame Bess.
"Well, there isn't much we can do about that right now I don't want you two just to stay up and fret about it, just please try to get some rest okay" said Sam.
"I'll try but I know I won't get much sleep tonight'" said Gwen.
"Well, I think going back to bed will calm my nerves but and hopefully I will fall back to sleep but I still can't get the images out of my head, anyway we're both more than ever glad you're hear Sam it makes us feel a bit safer" said Madame Bess.
"Me too" said Gwen.
Sam felt good about that although he was still harboring some guilt about dragging them into all of this and now this witch is coming to their house for Rowena and can't help feeling responsible but he doesn't want to keep fretting about to them.
"That's good to know you two and like I said before me, Dean and Ava here we won't let anything happen to you no matter what" he said.
"Well we'll take your word on that" said Madame Bess.
After everything was said there was nothing much to do but go back to bed. Once Sam was back in his room lying on his bed he just couldn't get any sleep. Then he an hour later he briefly fell asleep only to wake up from a nightmare he had. Not able to go back to sleep, Sam just got out of bed then grabbed his shoes from under the bed and put them on. He then left his room and headed downstairs to get something to drink from the kitchen. He thought about Rowena in that basement remembering what she told him but he didn't want to bother dealing with her again, he'll grill her more about this witch Isadora tomorrow. As he entered the kitchen, he was at first spooked by a figure he saw in the dark until he realized it was Gwen who was standing near the kitchen.
"Oh Gwen I didn't know you were down here" he said in relief.
Then he turned on the light switch so he could see Gwen more clearly who was now draped in her light blue bathrobe and inside her robe he could see she was wearing a pink nightgown. He just looked at her awkwardly.
"So I see you couldn't sleep either and came down to get snack" she said.
"Oh know I just thought I get something to drink maybe a glass of water or something" Sam explained.
Gwen then turned to the refrigerator opened it and pulled out a large container of lemonade.
"Well, I have some lemonade here instead if you like" she said.
"Sure" said Sam.
Gwen then placed the container on the kitchen table then she turned to the cabinets and opened on getting out two glasses and shut the cabinet and placed them on the table too. Then she began pouring the lemonade into the glasses and she handed one glass to Sam while she grabbed the other glass and started drinking it.
"I always like to get up and grab a snack and drink when I can't sleep but there is nothing to snack on except for some peanuts in one of the cabinets" she said.
Sam who had sipped his drink stopped for a moment to respond.
"Well, I'm not really hungry anyway" he told her.
"Okay" said Gwen as she was sipping her lemonade.
After they finished their drinks Gwen asked Sam if he wanted seconds and he said no so she put the container back into the refrigerator.
"You know, I'm still thinking about my visions and I'm sure that is the same reason while you can't sleep" she said.
"Hey, Gwen it will be okay" Sam tried to reassure her although he was a bit nervous himself.
"I know grandma said that we can handle this but the truth be told this is shaking me up a bit, I mean I'm not really worried for myself I'm scared for you Sam, if your life might be in danger" said Gwen.
Sam walked up close to Gwen until he was just a few inches from her.
"Hey, Gwen I can take care of my self and the both you and now that we know what the visions are and who is coming, we can be better prepared. I have no intention of letting that witch hurt any of us, and like I said tomorrow the first thing I'll do is phone up Dean and give him the heads up and then make those witch killing bullets just trust me on this" said Sam as he reached out to touch her hand.
For a while they were both just glaring at each other now feeling more relaxed.
"I always trust you Sam" said Gwen with smile.
Then they continued glaring at each other and for a brief moment Sam's head leaned forward closer to Gwen's as he was appeared was about to give her a kiss and Gwen seemed to be prepared for it but then Sam suddenly pulled back really quick and had this awkward embarrassed look on his face like a lovesick schoolboy.
"You know, we better head back upstairs any moment, your grandmother might be down for light night snack and she may not be happy finding both of us down here together" he said.
"You don't need to worry about her, unlike me she can sleep through the night even after that disturbing dream and vision, she's quite a heavy sleeper that hardly anything wakes her up" Gwen told him.
Sam just swallowed still feeling awkward now not knowing what else to do or say.
"Well, I think I might head back upstairs anyway, I had my drink and I think I can get some sleep now" he told her.
"Okay, come to think of it so can I" Gwen told him.
Then they both headed out of the kitchen as Sam turned off the light switch and letting Gwen exit first they both soon headed upstairs together walking quietly into the dark hall and went straight to their bedroom doors and faced each other again.
"Well goodnight Sam" said Gwen.
"Goodnight Gwen" Sam told her and both of them entered their bedrooms.
Soon Sam was back into his bed but now instead of thinking about Madame Bess and Gwen's visions of the witch he was thinking about Gwen and that almost kiss he nearly gave her. He also thought about their time at the beach wading in the ocean and other things they did together until he finally fell asleep.