Hope you enjoy this one! It's one of my favourite episodes.

Chapter 16 - Faith

The scene started with Sam and Dean getting ready to hunt a Rugaru with stun guns.

'100,000 volts?' Mary questioned when they mentioned how powerful they were. She had never heard of stun guns with that power before.

Sam and Dean soon found two kids in a closet. Everyone laughed when they jumped. They were then attacked by the creature they were hunting. Sam left with the kids leaving Dean to hunt the creature. Dean was hit into the water and shot the creature but was unfortunately hit by the electricity as well. Sam then ran down the stairs to find him unconscious. Mary and John both tensed up.

'Please tell me you were ok?' Mary asked. Dean's face worried her.

The scene cut to the hospital and a Doctor told Sam that Dean would die within a couple of weeks or a month.

'Oh my god…' Mary said, almost to herself. She knew that they were both still alive but she could not help but grimace when she saw Dean lying on the hospital bed.

'Really not funny Dean.' Mary said when Dean joked that he would haunt Sam if he messed with his car.

'How many times have you two died or been close to death?' Bobby questioned, not noticing the looks John and Mary gave him.

'What!' Mary questioned.

'We…might have died and come back to life a couple times.' Sam attempted to explain.

'More than a couple.' Dean said.

Mary shook her head, closed her eyes and leaned back.

'Look, Mary I…' John began but he was interrupted.

'Forget it.' Mary said and John fell silent.

Sam then promised to help Dean which made Mary smile until she saw how easily Dean accepted the fact that he was going to die. John shifted uncomfortably in his seat. The scene then cut to Sam calling John and he told him what happened over voicemail.

'Please tell me you came.' Mary implored John as she paused the television, 'Please tell me you came when you found out that our son was dying.'

The look on John's face told her everything she needed to know.

'I would only have put them in more danger…' John began but he was interrupted.

'More danger than a damaged heart that is weeks from giving out? I can't believe that you thought hunting some demon was more important than your own son!' Mary shouted.

'It was the demon that killed you.' John reminded her.

'I don't care! I was dead! Killing the demon wasn't going to bring me back! Our son was dying and you didn't do anything.' Mary argued, 'I still can't believe you even brought them up to be hunters. It was the main thing I didn't want for my children. To be brought into this life as I had.'

John was speechless. He hadn't thought about that. He'd only just found out that Mary was a hunter and that was weird enough for him. He'd forgotten how much she'd wanted to get away from her family. He'd never stopped to think about why.

'He was there when we needed him the most.' Dean said quietly, decreasing the tension in the room slightly, 'He saved my life when it mattered.'

'John may not have been perfect. But he was trying to protect them. Revenge just tipped him over the edge.' Bobby said, softly.

'I suppose so…' Mary said, quietly.

Slowly, Mary sat down and pressed play on the remote. There was silence for the next few minutes.

Dean then arrived at the motel, saying that he checked himself out. Sam told him that he found a specialist that would help him. They arrived to find that the specialist was a faith healer who worked in a tent in a field. Dean was skeptical about whether he could save him.

'Really?' Mary asked, 'a faith healer?'

Dean was then interrupted by a young woman who he flirted shamelessly with.

'You're dying and you still have time to flirt?' Mary asked with a small smile.

'Life is for living.' Dean replied, 'Might as well make the most of it.'

Dean was then chosen and healed by the preacher but he saw a strange man and later he said that it felt wrong. Despite that, Mary relaxed once she knew Dean was alright.

'It worked?' John said, surprised, as the doctor at the hospital said that there was no sign there was anything wrong with his heart. She then mentioned that another guy died of the same thing on the same day. They decided to check it out.

'That doesn't sound good.' John said, 'But I'm glad that you were healed.'.

Dean went to talk to the healer, Roy whilst Sam looked into the guy who died.

'Do you reckon it was the angels who made Roy choose Dean?' Sam asked Cas.

'Probably not, they would have wanted a reason for Dean to go to hell for later.' Cas replied.

'WHAT?' Mary asked, 'I guessing there is something you haven't told me.'

Why did John have to bring them into this life? How much has my deal put my sons through? Mary remembered Dean telling her what her deal had cost Sam, and that was bad enough, but what had it cost Dean?

Sam found out that the guy who died of a heart attack died at the same time as Dean. Dean looked down guiltily.

'You didn't know.' Mary said, quietly.

'Doesn't make me feel any better.' Dean said quietly.

Dean then ran into Layla, the woman he'd spoken to earlier, and her mom, who was angry that Dean was healed and her daughter was not. Dean shifted position in his chair.

'That's not fair. It wasn't Dean's fault!' Mary muttered.

Sam then told Dean what he had found out and the screen showed Roy healing someone whilst an old creepy man killed another woman. Dean said that it was not Roy who was doing it but that he was making a reaper do it.

'A reaper? Do they even exist?' John asked.

Sam suggested that Roy was using black magic to bind it. Dean suggested killing him but Sam was against it. Sam then suggested breaking the spell binding him.

'That's a better idea. You should avoid killing if at all possible.' Mary said.

Dean went to stall the ceremony whilst Sam looked for what Roy was using to bind the Reaper. Sam found that the reaper was after a man protesting against what Roy was doing. Layla was the one who was chosen to be healed and Dean tried to stop her but she wouldn't listen.

'You should have told her what you know.' Mary said, 'Obviously not completely but if you told her that people died at the exact same time Roy healed them she might have listened, especially if you had proof.'

'That wouldn't have been a bad idea. Shame I hadn't thought of it.' Dean said.

Dean then shouted that there was a fire and everyone left the tent. Despite that, the reaper was still coming after the protestor.

'Why didn't that stop it?' Bobby asked.

'Because it wasn't Roy who was doing it.' Sam said.

Dean noticed that it was Roy's wife Sue Ann who was summoning the reaper. He managed to stop her but was arrested. Fortunately, Sue Ann didn't press charges and Dean was let go.

'She is awful.' John said.

'Not to excuse what she did but she was doing it to try and save her husband at first.' Bobby said, 'It's not so different to what any of us have done.'

Mary looked at John. Dean had told her about his deal to save him when she came back from the dead.

'Yeah, more than once.' Cas commented.

That made Mary look around at her sons who both looked slightly guilty. What had they done to save each other? She thought.

Back at the motel, Sam and Dean discussed what they should do next, and looked at what was needed to bind a reaper.

'Oh my god.' Mary said as the items were revealed.

Sam and Dean went to Roy's house and Dean said that he felt guilty about stopping Layla being healed.

'I know it doesn't seem fair but you can't mess with the natural order.' Cas said.

They found that Layla was there to be healed in a private session.

'You were right to do so. It isn't fair but someone would die either way.' Cas reminded him.

Dean led the police away whilst Sam looked for Sue Ann's black alter, which she used to summon and control the reaper. Sam got trapped by Sue Ann in the room with the alter and Sam destroyed it but it made no difference. She sent the reaper after Dean.

'How the hell did you get out of this one?' Mary asked, incredulously.

Sam broke out just in time to stop the reaper killing Dean by breaking its binding. In revenge for binding him, the reaper then killed Sue Ann.

'I know I should but I don't feel sorry for her at all.' Cas said.

Back at the motel, Dean still felt guilty about Layla. Layla then arrived at their room. She told Dean that Sam had called her. She said that she was ok with death. She said that you can't just have faith when the miracles happen, you have to have them when they don't. She then left and Dean said that he would pray for her.

'What a brave young woman.' Mary said, smiling, 'There was nothing you could've done.'

'I know. Doesn't mean I have to like it.' Dean said.

'You're way too hard on yourself Dean.' Cas said.

'Save it. I don't need a sermon. I'm fine.' Dean replied.