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 90 Getting To Know Each Other Again Part 1
A couple of days have passed since Sam and Gwen became zapped inside her grandmother's painting that was in their living room and it all seemed surreal. Both Sam and Gwen still tried to process where they were and spent their first day there trying to find a way out by wandering around the countryside only to find themselves back in the exact same place with the bridge above the running brook and the cottage far off in the background. Then they wandered off in another direction and then another but no matter what they always ended up back at the same spot. It was as if they were just going around in circles, so they finally just gave up.
By this time, it truly dawned on them that they were trapped in this place at least until Dean, Ava, Madame Bess will figure out where they are and make Rowena get them back that is if the others got away from Rowena and if Castiel takes the time away from his army of angels to realize that they're missing which he'll do once he doesn't hear back from them. Right now, there isn't much for them to do except just explore the scenery some more. Gwen discovered not only is she not able to pick up the grass or flowers from the ground but she can't smell their scent either. Both she and Sam stepped into the running water and once again their legs just went through the water like it was a hologram, they couldn't feel the water nor did they get wet and the same thing happened when the tried to put their hands through the water and couldn't splash it. Even the trees didn't feel real when Sam touched them and when they tried to pick the leaves off a tree it they couldn't. The leaves also felt like paper.
This place was a total illusion nothing was real despite how beautiful it was. Another thing they noticed was that it never gets dark in this place it is always daylight with the blue clear sky and white clouds after spending the first day there. The other thing they discovered was that surprising was that neither of them ever got hungry or thirsty and never had to urinate or anything. Gwen was first worried that they would starve to death in this place if the others didn't find them in time, but Sam somehow wasn't so worried as he's been through for worse then this. Gwen on the other hand was trying take this all in stride as she felt a bit overwhelmed by it all. Sam spent the first day trapped inside the painting comforting her and reassuring her that it will be alright that they will overcome this obstacle as he and Dean had done plenty of times in the past.
After many hours, they soon both cuddled against one of the trees and fell asleep since despite not feeling hunger or thirst they still could feel tired. The next day, Gwen seemed to get over her fears a bit and even decided to make the best out of their situation rather than just moping about and worrying. Sam liked this about Gwen, that she could try to make the best even out of a bad situation like when they were zapped by Hannah to the parallel universe, rather than spent the whole time worrying about when they will get back to their own world, she just made the most out of it by enjoying herself and even admitted a part of her would miss it when it was all over.
Today, Gwen talked Sam into walking on the bridge and soon both of them were just sitting on the bridge, looking at the blue-colored running brook that looked quite beautiful.
"You know Sam, once you forget that we're trapped in my grandmom's painting, this place is quite beautiful and peaceful" she told him. Sam just sat beside her and kind of sighed.
"Well, it's good that you got over being worried so quickly" he told her.
"Yes, I figured there's no use dwelling on it, just make the best of out it while it last" she said.
Sam just gave her smile. "That's the one thing you I notice about you, your will to make the best of a situation even if it's under not the best circumstance. You choose to see the positive sides rather than focusing on the negative like when we stuck in that alternate reality, you just cared about enjoying yourself while we were there" he told her.
Gwen just smiled right back. "My grandmom says the same thing. It's just that I like to see brighter side on something and indulge in that. I always had a knack of looking at the best parts while others see the worst. You know I try to see something half full instead of just half empty. I just have a more optimistic outlook" she explained.
"I know, that's the one thing I like about you" Sam said.
Gwen just smiled back feeling like a lovesick schoolgirl sitting on the bridge next to Sam and she had forgotten about their worries at least at that moment as for right now, she just wanted to use this time to bond with Sam more.
"I know what we can do, to pass the time, let's just talk, really communicate like we did back in that world" Gwen suggested.
"Okay, but what do we talk about?" asked Sam.
"About ourselves, share details about each other, really put it out there about ourselves" said Gwen.
"I already know a quite few details about you already Gwen. I know your name is short for Gwendoline, your last name is Niles, your middle name is Wilhelmina, your 27 years old, your birthday is February 27th making you a Pisces. That you're still wearing your gold class ring with your birthstone, an amethyst. That you also wear the gold chain necklace with a Pisces pendant, and a charm bracelet your grandmother gave you on your sixteenth birthday. You lost your parents when you were nine in a bus accident and have lived with your grandmother ever since. That your psychic abilities runs in your family and you and your grandmother are very spiritual, you're into astrology and zodiac signs. You like to read books about the spiritual and the paranormal especially books by Marianne Williamson and your favorite fiction author is Madeleine L' Engle. Your favorite movie of all time is Titanic. Your favorite color is blue and favorite dessert is strawberry short cake with whip cream. That we both like to listen to Coldplay and Maroon 5 plus your other favorite singers are Celine Dion, Sarah McLachlan and Norah Jones, you don't like heavy metal or any very gory horror films" Sam said remembering all the details that Gwen told him when they were stuck in the parallel world.
"Wow, you remembered all of that?" asked Gwen kind of amazed.
Sam just nodded his head. "Every single detail" he told her.
"Well, this time we can tell each things about yourselves that we didn't mention while in that other place, I mean really open up about ourselves" she told him.
"Like what?" asked Sam.
"Like anything from our childhood our family anything" said Gwen. "
Alright" said Sam a bit awkward about all of this as he hasn't had anybody else other than Dean that he could really open up to about himself.
"Okay, I'll go first, you can ask me anything" said Gwen.
"Okay, I know you were raised by your grandmother in St. Paul, but were you born there?" Sam asked.
"No, I lived with my parents in Swansea, Illinois before living with me grandmother after they were killed" said Gwen.
"Swansea, Illinois, I recall working a case their with my dad and Dean when we were teenagers" Sam told her.
"Anyway, I said my parents were killed in a bus accident, but I didn't mention was before that, I would had these recurring dreams of my dad being killed in a car accident" said Gwen.
"You did?" asked Sam who expression turned serious.
"Yes, I even told my mom about it and she stopped my dad from going out of the house on the fateful day and I thought I had saved him. Then a week later they sent me to stay with my grandmom for the whole week that summer so they can go on a trip to Florida together just the two of them. It had been quite a long while since they got to do something like that together without me, although at the time I didn't really understand and really wanted to go with them but they insisted I stay with my grandmom and left the next day. Then they had taken a train to Atlanta and then took the greyhound to Florida when it happened. There was severe accident on the highway when the bus was hit by a truck, other cars also crashed too, and my parents along with several others were killed" said Gwen now with a sad look on her face.
Sam just glared at her sorrowfully. "Gee, I'm sorry Gwen" he said.
Gwen facial expression changed from a sad look to a little smile as she glared back at him. "Thanks" she replied.
"But I don't mean to pry but I thought you could predict these things didn't you have visions of your parents accident too?" Sam asked her.
Gwen just took another breath before she spoke up.
"Well, the thing is I don't always have visions of every tragedy that is about to happen especially after recently having visions of a future tragic event and I already had seen visions of my dad's death, I just don't know why it works that way but it does, my visions are just unpredictable like that" she said slightly shaking her head.
"Wow, that really does sound complicated" said Sam.
"It is, the thing is even though I stopped my dad's death that time I only ended up losing them both and my grandmom told me once that you can't stop fate altogether just delay the inevitable and as a result that can lead to even more deaths which in my case both my parent's death. Sometimes people are just fated to die according to her no matter what" she explained.
"Yeah but you changed Ava's fate when you had visions of her being shot and killed in a middle of mob riot when we were able to get to her in time" said Sam.
"I know, my grandmom explained that to me too, saying that it doesn't apply to everybody, for some you can truly change their fate while with others their fated no matter what, and your actions can just delay what is meant to be, it's so unpredictable I guess. The thing is I only saw Ava getting shot, I can't say 100 percent for sure if she was dead, who knows maybe she would have survived the gunshot" said Gwen.
"Well, no matter what you helped us save her" Sam said hoping to make her feel a bit better.
"I'm glad I did" said Gwen with a slight smile again even though she was clearly a bit sad right now.
There was pause for a brief moment than Sam spoke up again. "I hate to pry again but I'm just curious about one thing on your psychic ability, I mean both you and your grandmother have the gift what about anybody else if the family, I assume it's hereditary?" he asked her.
Gwen gave a slight sigh as she prepared to explain. "Okay, neither of my parents had the gift which runs deep on my mother's side of the family and as you can see my grandmother has it and she inherited it from her mother, my great-grandmother and I was told she got it from her mother my great-great grandmother and so on" she said.
"But not your mother?" asked Sam.
Gwen just slightly shook her head. "No, the thing is it is possible for an offspring of a psychic not to inherit it especially if the other parent wasn't a psychic. It can sometimes skip a generation at least that's what I've been told. I know my granddad didn't have the gift and neither did my great-grandfather. My grandmom also has a sister who doesn't have the family gift. I guess me and my grandmom were just the lucky ones, even though I didn't always feel that way" she said.
"Well, I think you are lucky to have such a special gift, it makes you special Gwen" said Sam.
Gwen just smiled back at Sam touched by his remark. Sam smiled back at Gwen but wanted Gwen to continue her story about her family so he spoke up again.
"Anyway, you said that it was just you and your grandmother after your parents died, I mean don't you have any other relatives, uncles, aunts or cousins?" he asked.
Gwen stopped smiling and looked serious again. "Well, my mom was an only child like me. As for my dad's side of the family, I have an uncle who is a recovering alcoholic, twice divorced and now lives in New Mexico in Santa Fe" she said.
"Were you ever close with him?" Sam asked.
Gwen shook her head. "No, I didn't see him too much growing up and my grandmom didn't want me around him very much as a kid because of his drinking problem even though he's now been sober for years. We may talk on the phone occasionally on holidays or send each other a birthday cards or cards for the holidays but that's mostly it. As for my cousins, I have two and I never saw them very often either growing up and don't have a close relationship with either of them and I do have some other distant relatives that I hardly know" Gwen finished.
She paused for a moment than spoke up again. "Okay, enough talking about my family, what else would you like to know about me, just asked me anything" she told him.
Sam paused for a moment too trying to think off something and then his eyes lit up. "Okay, what about friends, I mean did you share your gift to any friends growing up?" he asked her.
"I didn't have many friends growing up, I was rather a shy introverted girl, I just didn't fit in the in crowd, especially in high school where a lot of the kids cared about drinking, partying, hanging out, I guess I didn't really hang with those crowd I was basically a geek" said Gwen.
"I can't picture you a geek" said Sam.
"Well, I was, and I had only two friends growing up who I was close enough to confide in my gifts and made them vow to secrecy, as I didn't want anybody else knowing about it and exploiting me and they proved trustworthy, of course they were more like me geeks and not part of the popular crowd so there really wasn't anybody they could tell" she finished.
"Well, at least you had them even if it doesn't sound like a lot" said Sam.
"I know, anyway, after graduation, my best friend Rachel went to art school in New York, it was her dream and I was hurt that I was left behind but I respected her choice, just wanted her to do was best for herself. My other friend Janine, she went to University of California in Berkeley to follow her boyfriend who was attending there, she was so crazy about him that she would follow him anywhere, she wanted me to predict if they ended getting married or something but I couldn't predict that far, they could still be together as far as I know since they were quite inseparable in high school" Gwen said.
"Did you ever date, I mean is there a list past boyfriends?" Sam said with a smirk showing his curiosity.
"I didn't really dated in high school" said Gwen.
"Why not, you mean I find it hard to believe none of the guys made a play for you" he said.
Gwen just have a bashful look finished her story. "Like I said, I was kind of introverted, not part of any crowd and didn't talk to a lot of people and I guess the guys just ignored me for the more popular hot girls who were far more outgoing than me, I even went to my senior prom with a sophomore who Janine's boyfriend help fix me up with since I didn't have a date as they both took woodwork classes together, his name was Ricky something, I can't even remember his last name" she told him.
"So, there was never a guy in your life at all?" asked Sam with a sly look on his face as he wanted more details.
"I didn't have my first real boyfriend until I want to college" said Gwen.
Sam's eyes lit up a bit out of curiosity again. "You went to college?" he asked her.
"Yes, I attended the University of Minnesota and at the time I wanted to become a teacher" she said.
"Really?" Sam asked looking quite impressed.
"Yes, really, anyway, his name was Darrill Osborne and I remember that he was tall, dark and handsome, great kisser and lover" she said with sly.
"Oh, is that so" said Sam giving her mock jealous look.
"Yes, and we both shared an interest in astrology, zodiac signs and the paranormal, he believed spirits could exist as well as other supernatural events. In fact, he also had books on telepathy, telekinesis and teleportation and studied research on them" Gwen said.
"Wow, did you ever tell him about your psychic abilities?" asked Sam.
Gwen nodded gleefully. "Yes, he was the first guy I felt I could confide in since he was already a believer himself and he was quite impressed by it, he met my grandmother and was impressed wit her being a medium, in a way it may me feel more bonded to him that I could share that part of myself with him and trust his secrecy which he didn't break" she replied.
"So, what happened between the two of you?" asked Sam.
"After graduation, Darrill decided to take postgraduate courses in Europe, it gave him a chance to travel abroad but that wasn't the right thing for me so I just remained behind and we just drifted part because of the long distance" said Gwen.
"Well, that's rough" replied Sam.
"It was, he was my very first love hopefully not my last" said Gwen with a bit of a melancholy look, on her face.
"Wasn't there any others after him?" asked Sam.
"I did date a few after college but there wasn't anyone else that compared to him and none them lasted long" said Gwen.
"Well, who was the last person you were in a relationship with?" asked Sam.
"Oh, the last guy I was with was just a year ago, his name was Nathan Winkler" said Gwen.
"Okay" replied Sam waiting for her to go on with story.
"I met him two years ago when at that time I was living on my own in an apartment" said Gwen.
"Wait, you lived on your own at one time?" asked Sam a bit confused.
"Yes" replied Gwen.
"I'm sorry I just assumed you always lived with your grandmother and never moved out" said Sam.
"My grandmother may be all I've got but I do value my independence too, around that time, I had wanted to strike out on my own and have life that doesn't revolve around her and the family gift which was our business. In fact, at the time I was working as school teacher teaching first grade" she said.
Sam just sort of nodded his head. "Yeah, I can relate to that' he told her.
Gwen just continued on with her story. "Anyway, Nathan lived on my floor and we bumped into each other one day and the rest is history. He was a journalist, he was cute, smart, charming and quite ambitious and was quite immaculate in his clothes, especially those suits he like to wear, he always had nice clothes to wear, I guess he was a bit metro like that and he drove a nice car, a ford and would take me out to nice places and treated me like a princess" she said.
"Well, you deserve to be treated like one" said Sam in a flirty tone.
Gwen just slightly smiled at his compliment.
"The thing about Nathan is he wasn't a believer in the psychic abilities, even after meeting my grandmother he didn't take the whole thing too seriously" she said.
"Didn't you ever tell him about your abilities?" asked Sam.
"I tried to at first but since he didn't take the whole psychic thing seriously and was never convinced by the whole thing so I sort of chickened out, besides I was worried that I would scare him away if he knew the truth since I didn't think he would understand" said Gwen.
"So why isn't he still in the picture?" asked Sam.
"Well, a little less than a year into our relationship, Nathan got an offer to work for the New York Times which meant him locating to New York. To him it was an once in a lifetime offer he couldn't refuse so he accepted the position. He did want me to go with him, but I just couldn't leave behind the place I grew up in and leave my grandmom behind, my job, everything that was so familiar to me" said Gwen.
"So, you stayed behind while he left" Sam finished knowing how the story ended.
Gwen nodded. "Yes, and it felt so sad at the time but now that I looked back on it all, I realized maybe it was just for the best, it just wasn't meant to be with us, we just didn't truly belong together to begin with" she said.
"Why do you say that?" asked Sam.
"Our hearts weren't really in it to let the relationship continue since neither of us were willing to make big sacrifices for the other, I mean he wouldn't stay for me and I wouldn't leave for him and I don't think I could be in a lasting relationship with someone that I couldn't reveal almost all parts of myself including my psychic abilities. He would have to accept that side to me" Gwen finished.
"I understand, you deserve someone who accepts all of you" said Sam and for a moment the two just locked glares at each other as if they were fully drawn together.
Then Sam broke the silence. So, is that when you moved back in with your grandmother?" he asked her.
Gwen nodded her head again. "Yes, I was a bit sad when Nathan left and realized how lonely I felt living on my own as I didn't have anyone else to talk to, no real friends and I could tell grandmom was lonely too without me there even though she tried to hide it for my sake. So I decided to just move back in the house and I helped her run her business and even left my teaching job to help her full time" she explained.
"Well, it looks like it worked out good for you" Sam told her.
"Okay, you know, I told you my life story now it's your turn, I want you to tell me more details of your life and don't leave anything out" she said with a grin.
Sam just gave a brief sigh.
"Okay, okay, I guess fair is fair, what would you like to know?" he asked her.
"Start with your family and childhood" she said.
"Alright" said Sam.
Sam was usually uncomfortable telling his life story to others, he never told any of the few friends and girlfriends he had about his life. But with Gwen it was very different. She was the first person he was truly comfortable talking about his unusual complicated life, maybe it's because she already knew about him being a hunter and all they things they already went through together. Besides, her unusual life as a physic which made him be able to relate to her more than he could with any of the other women in his life. He felt so at ease with her especially after she told him her life, with her family, childhood, past relationships she was really someone he could confide in with all his problems next to Dean. Sam just sat there and took a breathe as he began his story about his long unconventional life.
I know it's been a while but I'm finally posting new chapters for the new year. I hope to post at least once or twice monthly and continue to make some corrections on errors on previous chapters. I want to hear more reviews and feel free to give me suggestions on how to improve the storylines. Thank you.