The next chapter will be way more exciting, I promise. I have something planned:'] This chapter is named after the song by Lostprophets. The lyrics are always relevant:'] Please review.
Sam, Dean and Lorelai were at the hospital. Sam and Dean had called a truce and promised not to argue so much. Bobby's condition wasn't improving and he wasn't talking. He was now in a wheel chair. It was depressing. Dean turned to his sister.
"Hey, Lori come with me for a sec. We need to look at something." Lorelai nodded and they walked out leaving Sam and Bobby.
"So, what are we doing?" Lorelai asked Dean.
"We're gonna go give the x-ray a little visit. You're going to help me sneak in and work out how to use it."
"Wouldn't Sam have been better for this job?"
"Nah, we can't seem to do anything without fighting recently. And besides, you need to learn this stuff."
"Fair enough." They turned a corner and saw the x-ray room. There was nobody lined outside and it was the doctor's lunch break. Dean had kept an eye on that. Lorelai turned to Dean.
"Wait here." She said, and then went up to the nurse and put a panicked expression on her face. "Excuse me ma'am, I think someone is flat-lining down there!" She signaled down the corridor. "It was just one long beep!" The nurse went down the corridor to investigate with a quick pace. Lorelai looked at Dean and gave her his trademark grin.
"Nice one, kiddo." He said, pleased. "You're gonna be in the crime business before we know it."
"Yeah, yeah. Let's just move before she comes back." They moved on. Dean picked the lock of the door and they went in. The room held one complicated looking x-ray. Dean looked around.
"Okay, Lori you go to the computer and figure out how to use the x-ray. Try not to fry me or anything."
"Whatever. They can do that?" She asked sarcastically. Dean raised his eyebrows at her. "Okay, Dean. You stand over there." She gestured at a metal wall in the middle of the room.
"I know where to stand. This isn't my first."
"Yeah, you big tough guy, you." She teased. "Okay, I think I've figured it out." There was a loud noise and Lorelai smiled, satisfied that she had figured out how to use it and a picture of Dean's ribs was now printing. She picked it up.
"What the hell?" She said.
"What is it?" Dean came and looked at the picture. "Holy crap!" There were Enochian sigils carved into Dean's ribs.
They went back to Bobby's bed. Lorelai sat on it and attempted to get Bobby to talk whilst Dean show Sam the X-ray picture.
"How you doing, Bobby?" She asked him. He ignored her and kept staring out the window. Talking to him was a lost cause. Behind her, Sam's phone rang. She turned round, curious.
"Hello." He said. "Castiel?"
"Speak of the devil." Dean butted in.
"Err, Saint Marks hospital, why? Cas?" Sam sighed and hung up. The next thing they knew, Castiel came walking down the corridor.
"Cell phone?" Dean asked, amused. Lorelai snorted.
"You're hidden from all angels." Castiel replied simply. "I wouldn't have been-"
"Enough foreplay." Bobby said loudly. "Come lay your hands on." Castiel looked at him confused. Bobby elaborated rudely.
"Get healing! Now!" He said angrily.
"I can't." Castiel replied. Bobby wheeled round.
"Say again?" He said. Castiel explained.
"I'm cut off from Heaven. Much of Heaven's power. Certain things I can do, certain things I can't."
"Are you telling me that you lost your mojo just in time to get me stuck in this trap the rest of my life?"
"Sorry."
"Shove it up your ass." Bobby wheeled back to the window. Dean raised his eyebrows at Sam and Lorelai.
"At least he's talking now." He said quietly.
"I heard that." Bobby told him loudly.
Cas went to Dean and got to the point.
"I don't have much time, we need to talk."
"Okay."
"Your plan, to kill Lucifer."
"Yeah, you wanna help?"
"No. It's foolish. It can't be done."
"Oh, well, thanks for the support."
"But I do have a solution. There is someone besides Michael strong enough to take him on."
"Okay, who's that?"
"The one who resurrected me and put you on that airplane. The one who began everything. God. I'm gonna find God." Lorelai snorted and Sam nudged her. She cleared her throat and kept a straight face. Dean looked outside in the corridor. It was busy. A nurse came in and asked them all to leave so that Bobby could rest. They went back to the motel and carried on the conversation.
"You want to find God?" Dean asked the angel.
"Yes." Castiel replied.
"Hey, try New Mexico. Apparently he was on a tortilla there." Lorelai cut in. Dean smirked. Castiel didn't get the joke.
"No, he isn't on any flat-bread."
"Listen chuckles." Dean said to him. "Even If there is a God, he's either dead, or doesn't give a rat's ass."
"With God's help we can win."
"It's a pipe dream, Cas." Castiel began to get angry.
"I've killed two of my brothers this week. I'm hunted. I rebelled and I did it all for you. And you failed. You and your brother destroyed the world. I lost everything. For nothing. So keep your opinions to yourself." Sam was all sulky in the corner and Dean was just keeping a straight face. Lorelai decided to keep it moving.
"You didn't just drop by to tell us your holiday plans, did you?" She asked the angel.
"No. I need something. An amulet."
"An amulet?" Sam asked. "What kind?"
"It's very rare and very powerful. It burns hot in God's presence."
"Like God EMF?" Sam asked. Castiel nodded. "We don't have anything like that."
"You do." Castiel looked at Dean's amulet. Dean followed his gaze.
"What, this?" He asked.
"May I borrow it?"
"No." Dean replied stubbornly. He still remembered the day Sam gave to him for Christmas.
"Give it to me." Castiel ordered. Dean held it and begun to take it off.
"Alright, I guess." He said. "Don't. Lose it." He said sternly as he put it in Castiel's hands. "Great, now I feel naked." Lorelai completely understood how he felt. She had never gone a day without wearing her mum's necklace. She smiled at him sympathetically.
"I'll be in touch." Castiel said, then left.
As soon as Castiel left Dean's phone rang.
"Yepp? What? Is he okay? Okay, so River Pass, Colorado. Yeah, we'll get there as soon as possible."
"What's going on?" Lorelai asked him.
"Lori, you got that exorcism memorized, right?"
"Yeah."
"And you have been getting great at shooting and attacking with a knife. I think we might have to take you on your first hunt."
"What?" Sam and Lorelai said together.
"Just stay close, you'll be fine." All of a sudden, Lorelai felt sick. She ignored it and got in the car with Sam and Dean.
Dean drove fast. It was a five hour drive but he managed to do it in two and a half. They got up to the bridge into town but it was wreck. It had fallen down.
"This is the only bridge in or out." Dean pointed out. Sam was checking his phone.
"No signal." He said.
"Looks like the demons are locking this place down."
"We'll have to hike in."
"And the hits just keep on coming." Dean said. Lorelai knew something big was going on here. She promised herself to hide behind Sam and Dean. Trouble had a way of finding her and she knew it will find her on this hunt. Her first hunt. Oh, how she missed being normal.
They took their guns and climbed over the rubble. They got to town after 15 minutes of walking. The place was wrecked and deserted. There were cars crashed and building smashed up. Every time they walked passed something, Lorelai expected something to jump out. She kept her gun at the ready. Sam and Dean kept Lorelai in the middle of them as they checked nobody was in deserted cars when they walked that way. Lorelai knew that Sam and Dean wouldn't let anything happen to her. That thought made her feel better about it. They all turned around. A gun had clicked behind them. Dean quickly raised his hand to stop Lorelai from shooting.
"Ellen?" Sam asked, surprised.
"Hello, boys. And girl. Who's this?" The motherly figure of Ellen Harvelle put down her gun but maintained a suspicious expression.
"She's our sister. Lorelai meet Ellen, Ellen meet Lorelai. Ellen, what the heck is going on-" Dean asked but got cut off as Ellen threw holy water over all of them. Dean gave her an unamused look and tried again.
"Ellen, what the heck is going on here?" Ellen examined them. "We're us." Dean said, slightly annoyed. She walked off and signaled for them to follow. She led them to a room with a line of salt at the door and a devils' trap spray painted on the floor. Her cold expression loosened up and she turned back into the motherly figure.
"Am I glad to see you." She said and pulled Sam and Dean into a hug. She broke the hug and abruptly slapped Dean round the face. "The can of whoop-ass I ought to open on you! You can't pick up a phone, what are you allergic to giving me piece of mind? What, I've got to find out you're alive from Rufus?"
"Sorry Ellen." Dean said with remorse in his voice.
"Yeah, you should be. You'd better put me on speed-dial kid!"
"Yes Ma'am." Ellen turned to Lorelai, her facial expression completely changed from angry mother to curiosity. "You're John's too?" She asked her.
"Yes, ma'am." Ellen pulled her into a hug too. She broke away.
"How come I've never heard of you?" Ellen asked the young Winchester.
"John never knew he had a daughter. My mom kept it from him for some reason. She was a hunter too."
"Oh yeah? What was her name?"
"Selena Adams." Ellen's happy face turned into one of sadness.
"I knew Selena." She said. "I don't know how I didn't guess you were hers actually. You look an awful lot like her."
"How did you know her?"
"She used to come to my roadhouse often. She helped me a lot after the death of my husband." Dean looked impatient and broke the conversation.
"What's going on Ellen?" They all went down a block of stairs.
"More than I can handle alone."
"How many demons are there?"
"Pretty much the whole town. You'd better keep her close. The only ones who aren't demons are us and these guys." She gestured at the door they were at. "End times?" She asked.
"Seems like it." Sam replied. Ellen knocked at the door and someone looked through the peep-hole.
"It's me." She said. They opened the door. There were around 20 people in the room including a pregnant woman. This many people out of a whole town? Something big was definitely going on here.
