AN: Surprise at the end!
I'm a little nervous on how this came out, but I tried. Enjoy!
"Dean?" Benny said quietly. Dean had been quiet long enough. Now Benny was just getting nervous. "Are you okay?"
Dean rose to his feet and turned his back on his friends. "I'm nowhere near okay." Dean sighed. "This is the end of the road for me."
Benny furrowed his brows. He walked around Dean to face him. What he saw actually scared him and he's never been afraid of Dean... never. He knew it was from the angle of the lighting, but from where he was standing, it looked as if Dean's eyes were black. He looked like a demon possessed.
"You don't mean that." Benny couldn't believe that he meant what he said. "We're going to finish the letters and then come up with a plan for what we're going to do."
Dean chuckled with no hint of humor. He shook his head. "No, I'm afraid we're not doing anything like that. I'm not reading any more letters."
"What are you talking about? You have to. Sam wanted you to-"
Dean pushed Benny back at the mention of Sam's name. "Don't you dare talk to me about what Sam wanted. You don't even know him."
Benny glared at his friend. "And you do? Look! I don't want to fight with you. We've been fighting more about these letters than anything else since we became friends. I know you're angry and hurt, but you have to keep reading. We need to know about everyone."
Dean tilt his head, "Why?" Before Benny could answer, he turned around to look at Castiel. "You read all the letters, right?" Castiel nodded. "Then tell me. Now."
All three boys stayed where they were. Dean was too angry to move. Benny was too scared that he would piss Dean off even more, and Castiel just didn't feel like moving in case he needed to stop his friends from fighting.
"Okay, but if I'm going to tell you-"
Dean smirked, "I'm sorry. If? No you are going to tell me."
Castiel rolled his eyes. "- you cannot interrupt me." Neither Dean nor Benny responded. Castiel took a deep breath. "The person after you is Harry Potter. What not a lot of people know is that Sam and Harry were actually friends on the train in their first year. Ron came in and saw the two and they all just became friends."
Benny was confused. "Then why is it just Harry, Ron and Hermione?"
"Well, if you would shut up and let me finish I'll tell you," Castiel snapped.
Benny pulled out his wand, and Castiel followed. Dean stepped in between them using his magic to keep both boys in place.
"Knock it off. Nothing will fucking go in our favor if you two can't be civil. Now, stop it!"
Both boys glared at each other, but obeyed Dean.
"Harry and Ron stopped being Sam's friend because he was put in Slytherin. Apparently Ron told Harry that there hasn't been a witch or wizard that hasn't gone bad who wasn't in Slytherin. Why be friends with Sam if he was just going to go bad in the future? Anyway, Sam still wanted to be Harry's friend, but he refused. After awhile, Sam gave up and moved on.
"Around the end of their second year, Sam went to Harry after he was raped by Malfoy. He felt that Harry would take him seriously and help him. Harry is our savior, so why wouldn't he help? Anyway, to make a long story short, Sam snuck away to ask Harry for help and when Harry agreed to help him after dinner, he never showed up. Turns out Harry went to go save Ron's sister. Malfoy caught him and hurt him again."
Dean stared off into the distance angry. He scoffed in disgust, "Golden Trio my ass."
Castiel went on to explain that after Harry, it was Meg Masters. In Sam's third year, they were being taught about Bogarts. Bogarts would turn into a person's worst fear when standing before them. It was Sam's turn, and everyone was shocked to see what it was. It was Dean. No one understood why, but Malfoy was angry with Sam.
Sam couldn't do anything, because at first he was confused and didn't know why Dean was his worst fear. Until it started speaking. According to Sam's letter, the Bogart Dean had said a few nasty things. Not everyone heard it, but Lupin did for sure. Apparently it said things like it would never love Sam. It said with so much disgust that he hates Sam. That nothing in the world will ever make him love Sam.
How do you turn that into something funny?
Meg and her friends obviously heard it. Sam didn't know it, but Meg had a huge crush on Malfoy. After Sam's Muggle Studies class, Meg told him that Malfoy wanted to meet him in a certain classroom. Sam didn't want to argue so he listened to her. When he arrive at the classroom, he was locked in. The only other exit was near a closet. A friend of Meg's opened the closet door and out came the Bogart. Sam couldn't get rid of it.
She had done that a few more times after that in different ways. None of those times did Sam ever turn it into something funny. How could he?
Bella Talbot wasn't as terrible. She simply just tormented him about what she and the other Slytherins saw Malfoy do to Sam. She would constantly tease and make fun of him. She even got others to do it, but never where anyone from another House or Professor could see.
The entire Slytherin House was made to believe that they had to keep up appearances in front of others. They had stick with each other outside of the common room. Anyone in Slytherin have come to realize that it didn't matter what you did to each other inside the common room, only what you did around others.
In the presence of someone else, Slytherins were to protect each other. Alone, it was every Slytherin for themselves.
Ruby Cortese was next. She was Sam's best friend. From reading the letter, Castiel found out that Sam went to her and told her everything because he was reaching his breaking point. He was getting very close to committing suicide, and he felt that Ruby would help him.
Since Ruby was in Slytherin, it was easy for Sam to go to her. Sam wasn't allowed friends that Malfoy didn't approve of. So Sam and Ruby agreed to be friends in secret.
On the train ride after their third, Sam told her what's been happening to him. It wasn't the first time Sam told her something like this. He had told her in the past certain things, but Ruby told him to not to report it. She told him that if he did say something, then with the Malfoys' power his life could get a lot worse.
As the years went on, Ruby said the same thing over and over. During the summer before their fourth year, Ruby had reached her limit. When Sam told her what Hermione did, Ruby yelled at him. She told him to either suck it up, or keep it to himself. She said that she was tired of constantly hearing Sam mope and cry. She told him that there were worse things that he could go through. Sam felt horrible because Ruby was supposed to be his best friend, but she didn't want a friend that was constantly in a depressing mood.
Sam apologized, and never spoke to her again.
After Ruby was Lilith. Lilith was Sam's other best friend. She was in Gryffindor that came from a Slytherin family. Despite her snarky attitude she was everything a Gryffindor was. She didn't care about what House Sam was in. She liked him.
When Sam told her what happened with Ruby, she was furious. She really cared about Sam and hated what had happened to him. She gave him advise, and hated it when Sam begged her not to say anything. Sam cared about her well being, and didn't want her to get hurt if something were to happen that they couldn't afford.
Dean was a little confused as to why Sam would include her if she was such a good friend. According to Castiel, just after Sam told her about Ruby, Malfoy found out about his friendship with Lilith, and confronted them both. Lilith had given him so much courage that he stood up to Malfoy, but he didn't like that.
Sam was about to break it off with him, and tell him that both him and Lilith were going to report him along with everyone else but when Malfoy threatened Lilith, she backed off. Sam begged her not to be afraid of him, but the threat was too much. Lilith told Sam that she hated him, and that she never wanted to see him again. She insulted Sam to the point that she even believed what she was saying.
Sam was hurt by what she was saying, but he didn't want to give up on her. When they were ordered to leave, Sam stayed. Lilith called her parents and lied to them saying that Sam was harassing her. Sam was thrown off their property. Malfoy was waiting for him and beat him really bad. Sam never talked back to Malfoy again.
Nick and Alastair were next. Their letters were basically the same because they hurt Sam together. Sam had explained in his letter that Nick and Alastair were horrible to him despite being friends with Malfoy. He was always groped by them, and when he begged Malfoy to tell them to stop he was slapped. He never did it again.
On the night they came back for their fourth year, Sam said that Malfoy was arguing with Nick and Alastair. Malfoy went back to their room and ordered Sam to go with him. When Sam did, Malfoy told him about a bet they made. Malfoy didn't explain what it was, but told Sam that he couldn't pay what he owed. They both showed up in a room that was for the Head Boy.
The Head Boy was none other than Nick. Sam had asked what they were doing, and Malfoy told him that they're paying what he owed them. Nick and Alastair entered the room, and attacked Sam. Malfoy stood by and watched. Sam didn't go into detail. He just ended the letter with '...never really gave it much thought, but now I know that threesomes will never be my thing.'
Dean's body was shaking with so much anger. He was pacing back and forth trying to get himself under control. He didn't care about his magic reacting. He didn't even care if it hit either Castiel or Benny. He just didn't care.
Castiel stopped talking. He looked tired, and Dean could tell that he hated having to say what Sam's letters said. He felt just as disgusted and angry as Dean did. When Castiel finished the letters before he sent them off, he couldn't understand how much bad luck could happen to one person. What did Sam ever do to deserve a life like the one he had to live?
Dean had been asking the same question ever since he started with these damn letters. What could sweet and gentle Sam have done to get this kind of life? What did he do? Was he the devil in a past life? Did he kill millions of people? Did he start the apocalypse? What?! Did he betray those he loved in a past life? What did he do? Because nothing he could ever do would justify hurting him to this degree or any!
He stopped pacing and looked back at Castiel who was still standing in the same position when he first started talking. Benny had moved to the couch hating what he was hearing.
"Who's number thirteen?" Dean asked.
Sam had said that the last person had made the most impact on him. Who was it? If it wasn't him or his best friends then who? After all the shit that Malfoy had done to Sam, he was surprised that he wasn't the last. He had done something to him in practically every letter. He made an appearance when it was someone else that Sam was talking to. So, if it's not the world's worst boyfriend and human being, then who?
Castiel rubbed his neck obviously not wanting to say, but the look on Dean's face convinced him to speak. He sighed. "It was Snape."
That... was not what either Benny or Dean was expecting. Another teacher? His Head of House was the last one? The teacher that hated everything he came into contact with? The teacher that no one liked? He was the last one? He was the one that made had the strongest impact on Sam?
"What did he do?" asked Benny.
"When I first realized it was Snape, I couldn't believe it, "Castiel said. "What could he do to Sam when he was horrible to everyone? I thought I read it wrong, because Snape favored his House."
"What did he do to Sam?" Dean asked louder.
"It was a few days before Sam killed himself. He had written every letter before him. He said that he was going to try to get help one more time. If Snape could help him then he would just throw the other letters away and no one would know about it, because there would be no point. Sam said that if this didn't work, he was going to stop trying."
Sam had gone to Snape's office one night and asked if he could speak to him because it was very important. No one outside of the Slytherin House knew, but Snape really did care about his House because no one else would take the time to listen to them. Snape knew that his House was filled with troubled students, and he wanted to help them. So when Sam went to him, Snape allowed it.
He really wanted help, because Sam didn't want to die. He wanted to be with Dean and possibly have a future with him. Being with Dean was the most important thing to him.
Just like with Lupin, Sam told him everything. Snape gave him his complete attention, and never once interrupted him. Sam was really hopeful that Snape was going to help him, because he was the Head of his House. He didn't think there was a possibility that Snape wouldn't help him.
By the end of it, Snape told him that he was going to help him. Sam was happy with this, and thought about going to Dean the next day and tell him exactly what he felt toward him. He was excited about it.
Snape told Sam that they were going to go straight to the Headmaster and tell him everything. Then the Headmaster would call for Aurors, and Sam would never be hurt again. Sam couldn't be more happy with this. He was about ready to go with him, when Snape got a fire call from the Headmaster.
The Headmaster needed Snape to do some business for him that was concerning the Tournament that they would host that year. Snape tried to interrupt Dumbledore to tell he couldn't, but the Headmaster didn't give him the chance. He ended the call right away expecting Snape to go to his office. He was conflicted on what he should do.
Snape told Sam to wait in his office while he spoke to Dumbledore. He had to make sure that Dumbledore knew Sam was coming, and not to say anything that he shouldn't in the presence of a student. Sam was a little sad, but agreed to wait. Snape said that he wouldn't take that long. He would be back for him in a matter of a half an hour.
All Sam could think about was that Snape was going to help him, so he didn't mind waiting. Ten minutes turned to twenty. Twenty turned into fifty. Fifty turned into two hours. Sam had woken up to find that it was morning and Snape never came back.
Sam didn't want to jump to any conclusions, so he went to the Headmaster's office, but he didn't know the password. He found a passing teacher, and asked if they had seen Snape. The teacher told him that Snape had gone with the Headmaster somewhere and they would be back by dinner.
By dinner the Headmaster and Snape were there talking to each other. Sam had thought they were talking about him, and when Sam went up to Snape and asked what was going to be done, Snape didn't know what Sam was talking about. Snape was so busy with whatever he was doing with Dumbledore that he had forgotten about Sam.
Sam didn't bother reminding Snape...
Dean screamed when Castiel finished. "That's it! I'm going to fucking kill them all." Dean made his way to the door. Castiel rushed after him and pointed his wand at Dean. Dean stopped. "What are you doing? You said you were going to help me."
Castiel shook his head. "I never said I was going to help you kill anyone. I said I wasn't leaving and I'm not."
Dean looked him up and down in disgust. "Then get out of my way. I was fine with Benny helping. I don't need you." Dean walked around Castiel with Benny following.
"You don't want to do that."
Dean stopped and looked back at him. "Oh yeah? Why is that?"
"Because I'm about to make you an offer. An offer that you will not be able to refuse. You can either walk out that door and you kill everyone that hurt Sam or you can stop and listen to what I have to say. Your choice."
Dean growled. He looked at the door that he stood in front of. He has been wanting to kill everyone who hurt Sam since he finished Malfoy's. He's been wanting to torture them all for what they did. He's been so angry and hurt that people actually thought they could get away with what they did. Sam was his, and no one gets away with hurting what is his. Sam was dead, but that didn't mean that his killers were going to get away with what they did.
Dean touched the door ready to open it.
"Dean, wait." Benny touched his shoulder not caring if he was hot to the touch. "You know I'm with you until the end, but why don't we listen to what Cas has to say? What do we have to lose? If you don't like what he says, then we'll go and kill them all."
Dropping his hand, he turned around. "What are you offering?"
"How would you like to stay out of prison and be the happiest man alive?"
All three boys sat on the couch as Castiel began to explain that ever since he read the letters, he knew that Dean would want revenge. Castiel loved Dean enough not to let him throw his whole life away. In no way could he watch Dean murder people, no matter how much they deserved it, when there was something Castiel could do to stop it.
Dean didn't think Castiel really had anything useful to offer. He figured that Castiel really only wanted to stall him in his plan. He was only listening to the other boy only because they really did need to come up with a plan to get his revenge. They needed to wait until everyone was in the same room, since he couldn't get into the Slytherin and Ravenclaw common rooms. Breakfast would be the best opportunity. If that didn't work, then he and Benny would just seek them out individually.
"Just get to it, Cas. What are you offering?" Dean said interrupting the boy.
Castiel sighed. "I'm offering you a chance to be happy. To get what you want."
Dean scoffed and looked away. "My chance of being happy is gone. What I want is Sam."
Castiel chuckled. "Exactly."
Dean faced him in obvious confusion. Castiel was just smiling at him like he was the one with all the answers, and Dean didn't like that at all.
Benny slowly stood up not looking away from Castiel. "What are you talking about?"
Castiel pulled out a small book from his back waistband, and showed it to them. It looked like a small worn out journal. All that was on the cover was of a pentacle surrounded by flames. Dean had never seen it before, but it felt familiar.
"What is that?" he asked.
"It's an old family diary. It was my father's before he left my mom. She had said that he was into some weird shit that he learned from the States. I went through the book when I was younger, but I remember seeing a spell in here that would be able to help us." Castiel flipped from page to page.
Dean and Benny exchanged a few looks. When Castiel was still their friend, Dean learned that Castiel's father had left his mother when he was a small child. His father had told Castiel that he would come back, but never did. It left a huge impact on Castiel even though he always brushed it off as if it was nothing, but both Dean and Benny believed otherwise.
"What kind of spell?" Dean asked.
Castiel didn't answer right away. He just kept flipping from page to page. Dean was about to repeat himself, until Castiel announced that he found it. He turned the book where both Dean and Benny could see. Dean's eyes widened. It couldn't be.
"Will it work?" There was no way Dean could get his hopes up only for it to be crushed. He needed this more than anything, and he'll give up anything to make it work.
Castiel smirked. "Only one way to find out."
All three boys sprung into action. They looked over what they were going to need, and they set out to get exactly what was needed. None of the boys were completely sure that it would work, but they had to try. They couldn't just not do anything when there was a small possibility that something could be done about it.
The spell required it to be done before dawn but after midnight. Dean checked his watch and they had an hour before they would have to wait another night. Castiel had suggested that they should wait so they can study the spell, but Dean refused. He was not going to pass this up. He was afraid that if he waited until the next night, he was not going to be able to stop himself from going with his plan to kill everyone that hurt Sam.
Other than the time limit, the spell only needed five things. Two of which they already had, and two the Room could provide. The fifth was going to be tricky. Only because a certain teacher had it, and they didn't know how they were going to do it; all they knew was that they had to no matter what.
Benny carried the bag (the Room provided it) with the tools they needed along with the book. Castiel had the map that he had stolen from Harry Potter. The one that Sam gave with the letters didn't show where everyone was. Dean didn't even bother asking how he even managed to get into the Gryffindor Common Room or how he even knew where it was in Harry's possessions. Dean led them all throughout the hallways since he was more powerful than the other two.
It took some time, because they had to hide from passing teachers who were walking the halls. Dean had to jinx Peaves to keep him quiet. Castiel had to guide them through the fastest route. Dean checked his watch again and saw that they had thirty-five minutes left. They had to hurry.
They finally arrived at where they needed to go. Dean peaked inside the room, but didn't see anyone. He looked back at Castiel. "Where is she?"
Castiel scanned the map. His eyes landed on a name. "McGonagall's at the courtyard, but it seems she's making her way back. We have to hurry."
Dean pointed his wand at the lock and with an enhanced Alohamora, the door opened. They quietly went inside.
"Are you sure she even has it?"
Castiel nodded. "She doesn't use it, but she has it. She gave it to Hermione last year, but apparently she gave it back."
Castiel went into McGonagall's office since he was the only one who knew where to look. Dean watched the map as the Professor was walking back inside the castle. With the way she was walking, they had maybe a good twenty-five minutes before she came back.
"Cas, hurry!" Benny yelled.
Minutes went by when finally Castiel came back looking pleased. He opened his hand and showed them what they came for. He set it down next to a bowl and a knife. He looked over the directions, and began to follow them.
As Castiel went through the steps, Dean kept thinking about a particular item. He kept going back and forth from leaving it to getting it. He went through the pros and cons, and when the cons outweighed the pros, he knew it didn't matter. He had to go back and get it. Coming to this decision, he spoke up. "Cas, how long will this take?"
Castiel was busy cutting Benny's hand after he had cut his. He looked down at the book, "About a couple more minutes. Why?"
But Dean didn't answer. He went through his head determining the right time. After a minute of debating with himself, he decided when. Castiel went to grab Dean's hand to cut his as well, but Dean pulled back.
"What are you doing?" Castiel asked. "I thought you wanted to do this?"
"I do, but I have to go to the library for something." Dean said making his way to the door.
Both Castiel and Benny's jaw dropped. "What the-. The library? Now? You can't wait until this is over? Get back here and let's do this!"
Dean shook his head. "If we do this, it won't be there. I can't leave it behind. I'll be back soon."
And that was the end of it. Dean ran out of the classroom leaving Castiel and Benny behind. Castiel and Benny looked at each other in worry.
Castiel checked the time, and saw that they had fourteen minutes left until sunrise. They needed every one of those minutes if they wanted this to work. None of them could afford waiting until that night. Castiel had watched the map closely making every attempt he could to stop McGonagall from coming back before Dean did. He used every spell that he could think of that would work without actually being in the same room as her.
But Castiel couldn't do it anymore. He tried everything he could. Her magic was far more better and experienced than his. She was right down the hall and Dean still wasn't back. His name showed that he was coming back, but he wouldn't be here before she came. They had eight minutes. They were going to get busted. Both he and Benny watched the door waiting for her to come.
Dean was practically out of breath. He got what he wanted, but he was running out time. He was down the hall very close to McGonagall's office. He stopped in his tracks when he saw her standing just ten feet away and three feet by the door to her office.
She crossed her arms glaring at him. "Mr. Winchester, what are you doing? You should be in your bed."
Dean opened his mouth to respond, but then closed it. Not because he was scared or didn't know what to say, but in anger. She was the one who punished Sam after Granger stood him up. She didn't even bother asking if he was alright when it was clear that he wasn't. He slowly took out his wand. She stepped back in alarm.
"What are you doing?"
Dean didn't waste his time saying anything to her. He pointed his wand at her and before she could pull out hers, he screamed, "EXPELLIAMUS!" The spell hit her, and she went flying back crashing into the wall at the far back.
Castiel's heart skipped a beat at what he just heard. Did Dean really just attack a teacher? He watched as Dean came rushing into the office. He didn't have time to say anything, because Dean cut his hand and let his blood drip onto the Time Turner.
"Cas?"
Castiel shook his head not having heard Dean. "What?"
"We have five minutes. What now?"
"I already laid out the salt around us. The spell requires a sacrifice for everyone that is going back. Not a blood sacrifice, but a personal one. We have to give up something that represents something from our lives that has value."
Dean looked between the two boys before him. "You guys don't have to do this. I can do it on my own from here."
Castiel smiled. "I'm going with you."
"I didn't do all this just to back away now." Benny knew they were running out of time, so he went first. "My girlfriend gave me this necklace when we first started dating. She knew I had found vampires fascinating. So, I sacrifice my love for her." He took off the necklace of a vampire fang he's been wearing for four years, and he dropped it into the bowl. As soon as he did, blue smoke appeared covering the bowl's contents.
Castiel followed suit. He unclipped a necklace from around his neck. "This is the only thing I really have of my dad before he left us. He gave this to me promising that he would come back to me. I sacrifice my faith in him." The necklace was a pair of angel wings, and he dropped the necklace into the bowl. The blue smoke became bigger and lighter.
Dean sighed. He took off a ring that he's been wearing for as long as he could remember. He doesn't remember there ever being a day where he wasn't wearing it. "This is a wedding ring that belonged to my real mother before she died when I was four. I remember she told me that angels were watching over me. When my dad remarried, he gave this to me. I sacrifice my loyalty to her." He dropped it into the bowl.
Castiel picked up the time turner. "It can take us back a maximum of three years. Do you want to go back just before Sam died?"
Dean shook his head. "No. Go back a year and a half."
Castiel looked up at him confused. "Why?" It took a moment for him to figure out why that certain amount. "If we go that far, we can't come back."
Dean shrugged his shoulders. "There's nothing to come back to."
Castiel turned the time turner and dropped it into the bowl. The blue smoke turned red and began to spread out around them. They watched as it became thicker and thicker. Castiel informed them as long as they stayed inside the circle of salt, they would be fine. But as soon as the red smoke turned white, that would be it. No second thoughts. No going back.
Then again, why would they want to?
AN: Thoughts? Did you guys see that coming? Why would I send them back a year a half instead of before Sam died? Or why not the whole three years? Why a sacrifice? Things to think about. Until next time. -Kauri510