"Depending on you."
A/N: Sorry for taking so long to update. My youngest child was in the hospital for 5 days because he got the flu and since he's still doing Chemo for the Leukemia, him getting the flu was a really big deal due to the fact that his immune system is already compromised. Thankfully he is better now and we are finally, back home. But it sucked because he went into the hospital at 2:00 a.m., Christmas morning which meant that our family didn't get to celebrate Christmas until my son and I got home on the 30th …
SO…
I've been avidly watching Season 1 Episode 1 through to the promos for Season 9 Episode 10 over and over again and there's some things that have been creeping into my headspace for a while now and events in Season 9 are beginning to really cement those things as being Canon for me… Obviously I can't say for sure that I'm right but it's beginning to look more and more like I am right about certain things at least.
Now… I'm not going to go into the things that I think that I'm right about in my Author's Note (right now)… Because.. Well… That would make my Author's Note super long.
Just know that I do my research of both all of the Canonical Lore and all of the Real Lore (that I can find).. Then I piece together theories about stuff… Then I write stories along the lines of those theories.
ANYWAY… Don't blame or flame me for the theories that research leads me to build.. I'm willing to do healthy debates through PM's… But I will not tolerate being publicly flamed..
Okay?... Now that all that's out of the way…
Onto the story….
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"Depending on you."
Dean prayed to "Ezekiel" threating to track down every angel he possibly could and gladly tell them all that Sam Winchester was currently housing an angel that was considered an "Enemy of the State" for angels on all sides of the board… If "Ezekiel" didn't tell Dean where he was within the hour.
It was a good bluff. The angel possessing Sam had basically told Dean that Sam was gone for good, so that angel would have no reason to think that Dean wouldn't really hand him over to a hoard of angels out for his blood despite the fact that Dean's little brother was currently that angel's meat puppet.
It took only thirty minutes for "Ezekiel" to call.
The angel possessing Sam, was apparently really naïve. He agreed to meet Dean, to settle things like men. Of course Dean wasn't naïve and was prepared for the angel to try something underhanded. And of course Dean had a few underhanded things of his own planned.
The angel possessing Sam, had clearly underestimated Dean. A mistake made by many, a mistake that only a few lived to tell the tale about. A mistake that the angel possessing Sam wouldn't live to get a chance to regret making, let alone tell others about his folly.
Dean arrived at the place he and "Ezekiel" had agreed to meet, alone, just like "Ezekiel" had told him to.
Of course the angel possessing Sam had no idea that Dean had backup that was in the room next door, drawing sigils that would trap and paralyze the angel, so Dean could get close enough to bind him in newly made, specially designed chains that could conveniently hold an angel and keep that angel powerless.
Turns out… Getting the angel possessing Sam back to the bunker for Crowley to try to extract him was actually the easy part…
Getting that angel tied down in a chair and getting his (Sam's) head secured against the backrest as the angel declared how Sam was gone and how they could rip Sam's body apart but couldn't possibly extract him now that there was no one inside Sam's body to eject him, wasn't so easy…
Hearing the angel say that Sam was dead and gone, that was a crushing blow and things would have ended right then and there if Crowley hadn't held Dean back, claiming that Dean hadn't even given him a chance to try to fulfill his half of the bargain.
"You promised I'd walk out of here a free man if I got your brother back!" Crowley exclaimed "How the bloody hell can I hold up my end of the deal if you stab him with that thing?!"
Dean lowered the angel blade he was holding, if Crowley had reached out only a fraction of a nanosecond later, there would be no question of whether or not Sam was alive as the blade Dean was wielding had been mere inches from impaling Sam's heart.
"There is no getting him back!" The angel possessing Sam snapped. "He is gone!"
Dean looked wrathful, but he made no move to try to kill the angel again as Crowley began to survey the implements of torture that he was about to be putting to use.
That's when that little voice inside Castiel's mind decided that this seemed wrong.
"Dean.." Castiel stated tentatively "You can't be considering this. He's about to torture that angel and if Sam is indeed still in there, then he will feel every bit of pain that Crowley inflicts on his body."
"It's the only way to get Sam back." Dean replied tersely.
"You just cannot accept that he is truly gone. Can you?" The angel asked tauntingly. "You cannot accept that you have well and truly failed him. That there is absolutely no way to save him to this time."
"Do me a favor and shut him the hell up." Dean growled at Crowley. "I don't wanna hear another word outta that mouth unless it's Sam talkin."
The angel possessing Sam sneered at Dean "You should be glad he isn't in here. He would hate you for letting this happen to him."
"Shut 'im up right now, before I stab him in the face just on principal." Dean barked the order.
The angel turned Sam's head to avoid the piece of fabric that Crowley was trying to force inside Sam's mouth as he replied "You just do not wish for me to reveal all of the times you have abandoned your brother or just how many ways that you failed him, just how many ways you betrayed him.." Dean turned away from the angel and tried to keep his temper in check, he really did. But the angel kept talking and Crowley, the bastard, wasn't really trying very hard to shut him up.
"I think you fear that I will speak of the time when you left Sam in the clutches of two child raping murderers while you were too busy performing acts of Hedonism to take your thirteen year old brother's phone call. Or perhaps you are afraid that I will talk about the time when Sam was only four and you left him inside the cabin with the child molesting babysitter all so you could go play on a shoddy tree house that was covered in Poison Ivy."
Dean spun around and shouted "What the hell are you talkin about?! I wouldn't have ever let anyone touch Sam like that and you damn well know it you lying bastard!"
"Not lying, Dean." The angel stated callously "I have seen your brother's memories. All of them.. Even the ones that were buried by the wills of outside forces or repressed by Sam himself as a survival mechanism. You would be surprised to not only know just how many times Sam's memories, actions and state of mind have been manipulated by outside forces, but also who all has ever had a hand in manipulating what Sam would or wouldn't remember about things that either happened to him or things he was forced to do against his will."
"Right… Well unfortunately for you. No one's ever messed with my memories and I'm the one who was with Sam damn near twenty-four, seven when he was still a kid. There was never a moment where something like that could have happened to him. I made sure of it. So just shut your lying trap right now or so help me I will shut it for you."
"Never a moment where something like that could have happened?" The angel asked mockingly causing Dean to try to charge towards the bound angel, but Castiel restrained him.
"I told you to shut up!" Dean bellowed.
"Why? Afraid that I will point out how it did happen without you ever knowing about it? Afraid to know just how badly you failed your brother, how you betrayed his trust, right when he was depending on you the most?"
"Shut him up, get him out and get my brother back right now!" Dean roared at Crowley.
"You truly are afraid." The angel sneered. "Sam was afraid too, when I unlocked all of his memories and showed him what all was hidden in his mind, he was in too much pain to even try to keep living. The pain of the things you did to him and the things that you allowed to happen to him is what pushed your brother into the oblivion that I discarded him in. He is gone, he died because of all the times you failed to question just what the bigger picture might be. Your brother is dead Dean. And you are the reason he died."….
TBC….