Chapter 5: The Preparation
It was becoming more and more difficult to realize for Stephanie, that she was the one who needed to kill Lucifer. Not Sam or Dean, not Adam, not Jacob or Castiel, but her. The one who has lost everything because of him, the one who just over a year ago didn't think that any of this existed. She was beginning to doubt herself, wishing she never did that spell, because if she didn't none of this would be happening, her mother would still be alive. For the past month she had been learning the ropes of killing demons from vanquishing spells, fighting, to using a gun and a knife. She learned most of the contact stuff from Dean and the researching stuff from Sam. She didn't know how many demons would come her way from being let out of the earthquake. Castiel taught her healing spells if she ever got extremely injured and he couldn't come and help. Jacob stayed far away from her as possible and watched, just as he used to do. He was watching her beat up Dean in the backyard.
"You know she's going to need your help as well." He jumped and saw Adam standing behind him, throwing a knife at him. Luckily being in hell for so long Adam had gained a good sense of reflex.
"Dammit Adam, don't you know never to sneak up on a drunk man with a knife. I could've killed you!"
"Well good thing I have good reflexes." Jacob walked over to the alcohol cupboard and poured himself more whiskey. While Stephanie was beating Dean to a pulp she noticed Adam and Jacob talking to each other. "Castiel told me that you fell in love with Stephanie once."
"Yeah, well he's lying."
"Really, then why do you keep drinking that bottle of whiskey?" Jacob looked down at the almost empty bottle. "He told me of the time you first saved her life as well."
"Does Castiel ever keep his mouth shut?"
"No, not really. I just wanted to let you know that I'm going with her on this mission to kill Lucifer. But we can't do it alone, Sam and Dean are going to be working on other issues and Castiel can't be with us at all times. So I guess I'm trying to say is we need your help. Now you can stay here and be a drunk all day or you can actually put your grace to some good use." With that Adam went back into the living room, Jacob took one more look outside to see the girl that he loves.
Three Years Ago…
Stephanie came into her room all dressed up to go to a party with her best friend Kylie. They came barging in laughing at a joke Kylie heard from a fellow cheerleader. Stephanie turned on the music and Katy Parry's "E.T." came on.
"So are you excited for tonight?"
"I don't know I guess, it's just another football party."
"True I guess. So what's the story with you and Jordan? You two have been hanging out together a lot recently."
"Yeah because he's Max's best friend and I hang out with Max a lot."
"Well do you want to know what he's been saying about you?" She turned around after thinking she saw something outside.
"He's been talking about me?"
"Yeah, he talks about you all the time."
"Really." Kylie nodded her head. "Well I would never go out with him, I'm sure if we started dating Max would kill me. Who in fact has been talking about you a lot lately."
"What has he been saying?" Kylie was shocked that Max talked about them to his sister, even though she talks about Max a lot, more than Stephanie wants to know.
"Oh just that he's ready to make the next step, that tonight's going to be a special night."
"He told you that? Well then I better get in the mood for that." Kylie pulled out a bottle of Jack Daniels, it was her favorite drink. Jacob watched the girls pre-game for the bonfire and gossip about relationships and celebrities. "Hey who is that?"
"Who?" Stephanie looked out the window and saw nothing. "Kylie are you drunk already?"
"No, I swear I saw someone out there. Now let's really talk about Jordan please, if he wasn't your brother's best friend would you date him? Or better question would you fuck him?"
"Sure maybe if I didn't think of him as my brother's best friend I would date him. But I would never sleep with him. I probably wouldn't sleep with anyone unless I knew they were the one." Jacob was still watching and smiled when he heard that.
Present…
Stephanie was beating Dean to a pulp, Dean was getting tired and about to give up. Suddenly they were on the ground, Stephanie was on top choke holding him with his own rifle. He started to cough.
"Alright, alright I give up!" He gave up, so Stephanie got off of him and helped him up. "What were you thinking of just now?"
"How much I wanted to kill Lucifer." She grabbed two waters and threw one to Dean, he just stared at her.
"Well, Stephanie. I think you are ready." Stephanie gave him a smile, she has never been so happy until that moment. But the reason why she was happy made her wonder. She started packing clothes, grimoirs, CD's anything she needed for this long and intense roadtrip. She took one more look at her room, at her old posters, pictures of great memories, now all of that was in the back of her mind. The only thing she was thinking about was revenge, revenge for everyone she lost. Max was looking at the girl she was becoming, the girl she didn't want her to become. But one moment made him hope that she still had humanity in her left, that she was the same shy girl who always followed in his footsteps. She looked at her dresser and saw one picture that she knew she couldn't leave without. It was of photo at her and Max's middle school graduation with her mother, father, Jordan and Kylie all smiling and happy at the fact they are going to high school. She grabbed it and began to head outside where the boys were waiting.
Just before she went downstairs she saw something on the dresser in the hallway, it was another note from her brother. Stay Gold, Pony, Stay gold. Love Max. It was her favorite line from her favorite book and movie, The Outsiders. She took one last look behind her, grabbed the note and started walking down the stairs. Sam and Dean were making sure they had everything in Jacob's car that was needed.
"Alright, grimoir?" Dean asked.
"Check." Stephanie replied as they were looking in the trunk of the old 'stang.
"Guns?"
"Check."
"Ammo?"
"Check."
"Holy water, salt shells, demon knife?"
"Check, check, check?"
"Oh and the greatest collection of '80s rock bands." She looked up at Dean, he knew she hated that type of music and only liked the current rock of her generation. "Trust me, AC/DC will start to grow on you on those long roadtrips." She rolled her eyes and grabbed the CD collection, putting her bag and the CD's in shotgun. "Oh and one thing, I almost forgot." Dean grabbed out the old colt that killed the yellow-eyed demon almost ten years ago. "This was the gun that I used to kill my mother's demon. Maybe you'll put it'll be put to good use to kill that bitch devil." She smiled and gave Dean a long hug, even though they are completely different people they grew to like each other. She turned to Sam giving him a hug as well.
"Hey, good luck. But remember to be you and don't let anyone take control of you."
"Thanks Sam. I'm going to miss that bacon of yours the most." They laughed. "Cas?" She opened her arms and he gave in.
"I'm going to miss you." He said robotically, emotions weren't his strong suit. "Call my name if you ever need my help."
"Thanks, but I think Sam and Dean might need your help more than me."
"We ready to go?" Jacob yelled standing by the driver's seat with his arms out.
"Your coming?"
"I'd figure you might need some angel help after all. I mean we are trying to kill an angel." With that they closed the trunk gave another round of hugs and went inside the car. Jacob was in the driver's seat, Stephanie in the passenger seat, and Adam in the back. Jacob started the ignition and started to drive, Stephanie looked in the rearview mirror and saw Sam, Dean and Castiel waving. She waved back and so did Adam, Jacob was annoyed at the goodbye and turned on some music.
"They're going to be alright? Right Cas?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, I think so." They all headed into the Impala.
Back in the mustang Jacob was trying to find a good station to play, and found one of old school '90s hip hop which had "Jump Around" by House of Pain playing. Adam hated this type of music and switched the station to a country station playing one of Luke Bryan's latest hits. Jacob absolutely hated country and switched back to the other station, making Adam switch it back. This kept going for about ten seconds until Stephanie found a CD from Dean's old collection, a CD that wouldn't make her ears bleed. Suddenly they stopped switching the stations and AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" started playing. They all looked at each other and smiled, as they drove out onto the empty highway about to go on an adventure that can completely change their life.