Chapter 2: The Death of Another

It has been an interesting week in small beach town Santa Maria, CA. The weather hasn't let up as it is still raining and snowing in the hills. Not only that, but the opening of Lucifer's cage catapulted a huge earthquake making historical numbers. Creating other crazy weather patterns around the United States and the west coast. But nothing could compare to the glooming dark cloud over Santa Maria. Lucifer's cage opened and brought back Adam Mulligan, the infamous Winchester hunter's half brother. He didn't realize this until today, but he is about to find out that he was stuck in that cage for 5 years. The only reason why he found that out is because Stephanie's mother's grave had the years 1973-2015, he was sent in the depths of hell in 2010.

It was a beautiful, but very depressing state of affairs at Santa Maria Public Cemetery. Stephanie was all too familiar with this place, losing her brother just a over a year ago. She barely held it together as her mother's grave went six feet under. Now all that stood before her was a tombstone reading Sarah Cruz; a beloved mother and wife, April 15th, 1973- June 3, 2014. The beautiful, young Stephanie was overwhelmed with all of this and headed out before the ceremony was over. Jordan threw a bright red rose in the hole where Sarah's body now lays and followed Stephanie. Adam hasn't known Stephanie for that long, but in just a few short days he already knows everything about her.

Since the funeral Stephanie has only been thinking about who could've possibly killed her mother. School has started and she is already falling behind, trying to figure out the mystery. Before her brother died Stephanie was exceptional at school, never late, never missed a day, and always did her homework. Not to mention she was in the party planning committee with her friend Kylie, but after her brother died she stopped going to the meetings and started hanging out with the wrong kind of people. She is falling into that groove all over again; hanging out with the stoners, coming into class hung-over, and failing a lot of her tests. Jordan has tried to help her, but she doesn't listen to him, she doesn't even talk to him anymore.

What Stephanie doesn't know is that Jordan has been having trouble with all of this as well. He seems to think that he might've written down the wrong spell, causing Lucifer's cage to crack open. So to not have his research consume his life, like how it has done to Stephanie he has gone back into basketball. He figures since Stephanie isn't listening to him anyways, he might as well do something to keep him distracted. However, he still wants to try and find this mystery out as much as Stephanie does, which is why he gave her the crossroads spell in the first place.

Jordan walks to limps to his locker, his legs are tense and sore, he is sweating profusely and out of breath. He had just finished one of his hardest workouts in a very long time. He opens his locker and sees that his phone is ringing, it was Adam. Since Stephanie wasn't talking to him he kept close tabs with Adam to see how she was doing. Even though he didn't trust Adam for one second, only because he was still confused on the whole Lucifer cage situation.

"Hey Adam, what's up?"

"Well I think I know how the cage opened up…." He was immediately intrigued.

"Really, how?" Before Adam could reply somebody knocked the phone out of Jordan's hands and turned him around. He started choking Jordan and picked him up, having his feet dangle. Jordan looked straight into the figures eyes and knew right then and there, that his life was about to end. He tried to chant something, with what little breath he had left.

"Oh, no, no, no, no… We don't want that do we?" The older man had a very sinister voice and creepy smile. Without second thoughts he cracked Jordan's neck and dropped him to the ground. "Oh well isn't that a shame, he was such a handsome boy."

"Jordan… Jordan? Where did you go?" The man held up the phone.

"Hello, Adam. If you want your friends to stop dying one-by-one, I'd suggest you stop researching and start searching. Because you never know, you could be next." Adam recognized that voice right away and suddenly knew all the answers. He started piecing the puzzles in his head; of stabbing Lucifer in the chest with the pitchfork, jumping out of the cage not looking to see if Lucifer came out or not, to Lucifer snapping Sarah's neck, and to Lucifer now snapping Jordan's neck. It was all him, it was the devil himself, Lucifer was the reason for all of Stephanie's pain.

Stephanie left the football bleachers from smoking weed and drinking alcohol. A fellow stoner was being very handsy, grabbing her butt and trying to kiss her. She tried to get away and noticed the entire basketball team looking very depressed, but she didn't see Jordan. There was also an ambulance and police just outside the gym which was now a crime scene. Stephanie was so confused and started to freak out, because she had no clue what was going on.

"Jeremy, what's going on?" One of Jordan's teammates looked completely stunned at her and didn't answer. "Scott, Alex, Tim… Please somebody, somebody tell me what is wrong." Her heart started beating real fast and she got really hot. She was getting very annoyed that no one was answering her. "Coach Smith, please tell me… Tell me what is going on?" He just looked at her and started crying. She turned around as she heard people coming out of the gym, and saw coroners pushing a cart with a stiff in a body bag. She ran up to them and started yelling asking who was in that bag. "Please, just let me see who it is!" She pushed the man trying to push her back and unzipped the bag. "No, no! Jordan, why? No…" She started crying and tried taking her breath, but everything around her was spinning and becoming too much for her to handle. Kylie came from the sea of saddened cheerleaders to make sure that her once very close friend was ok.

"Shhhh, shhh, Stephanie it is going to be alright."

"No, it's not Kylie! They're all dead; Max, my mom, and now Jordan! All because of me! It's all my fault." She continued to cry in her arms. Adam had just pulled up in the parking lot and saw what was going on. At the corner of his eye he saw Jordan's body being covered up by a body bag.