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Title: Eternal
Author: Cindy Ryan
Notes: See part one
Summary: Desperate to save his brother Sam stumbles on a text that eventually propels them to another galaxy.

Dean stalked past a startled Elizabeth and was halfway down the interior hallway before Weir recovered.

"Ronon…."

"On him."Dex replied having already started to move.

"What the hell was that about?"Sheppard asked looking at Dean's retreating back.

"We've been through a lot."Sam apologized quietly.

"Sam,what were you talking about when you said your brother had given up?"Weir asked."Dean's not sick….our doctor didn't' pick up anything in his scans."

Sam sighed blinking hard to fight back the fresh wave of tears that threatened. It'd been extremely hard to deal with the fact that Dean gave up his life to save him. That he'd given up his future. That he thought so little of himself.

"Sam?"Elizabeth prompted gently seeing the turmoil on the younger man's face.

Sam met her gaze. "Two months ago my brother literally made a deal with a devil to save me."

John raised an eyebrow."Devil?"

"Is there somewhere we can sit?"Sam asked."I'll explain everything."

"Of course."Weir replied.


It took Dean awhile but he was able to loose his tail. Though part of him knew that with the advanced technology of this city Dex could find out where he was whenever he wanted to.

If his bearings were correct Dean figured he was on the west side of the city. A far less populated area.

Dean leaned against the wall of a building and looked out at the water. He didn't know what it was but his instincts were screaming at him. The longer they stayed here the worse his gut feeling got.

Dean was afraid that the demon might consider this little galaxy hop a break of the deal. He knew that fear might be irrational but Dean couldn't take the chance.


Sam had been sitting at the end of the round conference table. Pent up anxious,nervous energy caused him to stand and push the chair away. Two sets of eyes were watching his every move, waiting. Sam had no idea where to start. Explaining their lives to outsiders had never been easy.
Finally Sam decided to start with the beginning.

"To say the lives of my brother and I have never been normal would be an understatement."Sam began quietly. "When I was six months old my mother was killed in a fire that started in the nursery. She had come in that night to check on me. A demon in human form was waiting for her."

John blinked,he'd heard wrong,had to. There was no such thing as demons.

"Elizabeth, did Beckett do a psychiatric exam?"Sheppard asked quietly.

"No, but I'm beginning to think I should've ordered one."Weir replied her gaze locked on Sam.

Sam leaned against the table his hands flattened against the surface. "I'm not crazy. I know this sounds nuts, but I'm hoping that two people who traveled to another galaxy will hear me out."

"Go ahead."Weir replied as she leaned back in her chair.

Sam took a deep breath before continuing. "After my mother was killed we criss-crossed the country. My father constantly looking for the demon who turned our lives upside down. He'd leave us with friends until we were old enough to hunt."

John studied the youth in front of him. He'd spent a career reading people. Helped in poker games and knowing who to watch your back. This kid seemed to believe what he was saying. If you had told him five years ago there were things like the Wraith he'd have handed over a straight jacket. So who was to say if ghosts and demons weren't real.

"So you're from a family of ghostbusters?"John asked.

Sam nodded. "Minus the proton packs. It was a matter of necessity really. My father wanting to train us….to protect us. To have us be able to defend ourselves in case he wasn't there. Along the trail of finding this demon…..we helped people we came across. People who were haunted by spirits trapped. Or we'd investigate mysterious deaths. Eventually I earned a scholarship to Stanford and went to study pre-law."

"Why'd you leave a free ride at Ivy league?"John asked.

Sam paused as images and memories of Jessica flooded him."When I left for college my relationship with my family was strained. So when Dean showed up at my apartment one night I knew my normal college life was over. He said our father was missing and needed my help. I didn't want to go at first….but then the demon showed up and my girlfriend Jessica was killed…..the same as my mother. I couldn't let the demon get away with it."

"Sorry."Sheppard stated seeing the pain on the younger man's face.

Sam acknowledged Sheppard with a nod. "We tracked my father down and it was almost like old times. The three of us hunting again."

"You're father's not with you any more is he?"Elizabeth asked reading between the lines.

A shadow flickered across Sam's face. "No. He was killed last year……sacrificed himself to save my brother."

"I'm sorry."Weir replied softly as she leaned forward. She didn't know why but she believed him. What he had told them of their early lives fit into the pattern of their police files. "This demon…..did your father ever track it down?"

Sam nodded. "Yes and two months ago my brother and I finally ended it. Dean killed the demon but not before some nasty spirits were released from hell."

"And how exactly were they released?"John asked even though he didn't really want to know. Images of the Wraith waking after he had disturbed them flashed through his mind.

"There was a door in a cemetery……"

"Of course there was."John muttered.

"We couldn't get it closed quickly enough."Sam finished.

"But it is closed now?"Weir asked.

"Yes."

"So what were you doing in this cave?"Sheppard asked. "Sea monster? Pirate ghost?"

Sam shook his head as he took a seat. He couldn't tell if they fully believed him or not. But at least they weren't asking if he had spent any time in a mental ward.

"I have visions…..snatches of images of people in trouble."

"Supernatural trouble."Elizabeth surmised.

Sam nodded. "Yes."

"So this has to do with the cave, how?"John asked impatiently. The lack of sleep starting to take its toll.

"I have to go back in order to explain the cave."Sam replied. "I discovered there were other children like me with psychic powers. All powers had showed up within the last two years. The demon kidnapped a few of us and took us to this ghost town in South Dakota."

"Where else."John replied sarcastically earning a warning glare from Weir. "Sorry."

"The demon appeared to each of us separately and said only one was going to be strong enough to survive. In the end it was down to Jake and I. Just as Dean had found the town and figured out where I was…..Jake literally stabbed me in the back. Jake got away. As my brother caught me I remember the searing pain from the knife and then nothing but numbing cold. Dr. Weir, Colonel Sheppard…..you're looking at a dead man."