Sam and Dean had formulated a plan together to free Cassie from the demon's hold. They called Jess and informed her about what was going on and what her role would be in this plan. She was on her way home from work right now. Hopefully if everything went as planned Cassie would be freed quickly and easily. And the demon would be sent back from Hell.
Dean had called "Cassie" on his cell and acted like he was furious with her. He demanded that she come over right now so they could sort things out and so he could have talk with her. The thing possessing Cassie agreed and said it would be over.
Sam had fixed the devil's trap on the floor under the rug and had a couple bottles of holy water. Sam hadn't read Latin in a while so it was Dean's job to read the exorcism from the book.
"I should have realized." Dean mumbled from where he was sitting, prosthetic leg on just in case. "She's my girlfriend and I didn't even realize it wasn't her."
"Dean! God, will you quit it already! Stop blaming yourself for everything that goes wrong!" Sam yelled at his brother "It's not your fault. She hurt you Dean and when you're hurt like that you're focused on the pain and not anything else. You wouldn't be busy wandering if she's possessed or not, you'd be busy wandering why she hurt you."
"Yeah, I guess so." Dean whispered and Sam prayed that freeing Cassie would help Dean come out of his depression.
Then there was the knock on the door. Sam eyed Dean for a moment, seeing if he was ready, before opening the door.
"Cassie, I…"Sam started before he was interrupted
"You really think I'm that stupid?" The demon possessing Cassie asked before raising its hand and sending Sam crashing into the wall. Then it turned to a stunned Dean.
"Why hello there Dean. You know, I was going to have some more fun with Cassie here. I was going to have her apologize to you then cheat on you again. Then I was going to have her break up with you. But you just had to go and find out about me and ruin my fun!" It sighed
"Why….why are you doing this?" Dean asked, looked back at Sam who was struggling and pinned to the wall.
"First of all remember way back when….when your horrible little father and you went hunting in that town in Oklahoma….remember that demon that you sent back to Hell? When good ol' John made you be the bait and recite the exorcism? Yeah, that was me."
"If you want me then take me!" Dean bellowed "Just get the hell out of my girlfriend!"
"But there's more Dean. The demon that almost killed you in the fire, the one Sam shot with that magic gun. That was my daddy. He killed him. I want you both dead." She smirked and went to raise her hand to throw Dean as well.
"Jess!" Dean called out and at that moment Jess popped out from hiding and appeared behind the demon. She pushed the thing into the house which knocked the demon off balance. During this time it lost control of its powers and Sam was freed. He pulled out the bottle of holy water and slashed it onto its face, leaving it screaming in agony. Jess then quickly removed the rug from underneath it, trapping it inside the devil's trap.
"Dean! Read it now!" Sam called over to his brother and Dean began quickly chanting the exorcism.
"Nice one Sam." The demon chuckled through its pain. "But you could have stopped me so much easier with those demon powers of yours." At Sam's shocked expression it laughed. "What? You thought I didn't know? All the demons know Sam, and they are waiting for the moment when you lose it. When you give into your powers. Then you can take your rightful place as the demon leader. You're meant to be evil Sam."
Sam had known that the powers he had were from the demon blood but he never knew that they were supposed to help him become a demon leader. Sam stared dumbfounded at the demon, afraid of what this meant.
But then Sam realized that Dean had stopped reading the exorcism and was now hobbling on his crutches his way over to the demon.
"My brother might have some demon blood inside him but that does not decide who he has to be. Sam will make the choice of what he has to do in his life and a couple drops of demon blood are not going to turn him evil. So tell that to all your buddies down in Hell when I send you back there alright?" He told the demon
The demon just stared at Dean for a while, watching him hobble back to his seat and ease himself down gently. "But this is the plan, my daddy made it!"
"Well your daddy's dead now isn't he? Oh, that's too bad. Really looks like he knows what he's doing, got himself killed by Sammy himself. Now I don't know about you but I don't think future demon leaders kill fellow demons." Dean said with a smirk on his face before calmly going back to reading.
By listening to his brother's words it was like Sam could finally relax for once, clear this whole demon blood thing off of his mind. Dean was right; Sam was the one to choose his destiny, not the demon blood. The freak that made this plan was dead. If he didn't want to use his powers, he didn't have to. If he didn't want to go evil, he didn't have to either. Hell, they had their crazy psychotic father's blood running through their veins but neither Sam nor Dean turned out to be like him because they made a choice. Sam had a choice.
Dean had helped him out so much and he didn't even know it.
Finally Dean finished the exorcism and black smoke poured from Cassie's throat and sunk through the floor. Both Sam and Jess rushed over to help Cassie as Dean struggled to get over, his face full of fear.
Cassie started stirring and it was obvious that Dean wanted to comfort her so Jess helped Dean sit down on the floor gently. Once he was on the ground he pulled Cassie into his lap and held onto her tightly.
Feeling Dean holding her, Cassie began to open her eyes. She blinked a couple of times and then looked up to see Dean's face and quickly burst into tears. She obviously remembered everything that happened.
"Dean! I'm so sorry! It wasn't me Dean! I never would have done those things to you! I'm so sorry!" She cried and wrapped her arms around Dean, crying on his shoulder.
"Cassie, Cassie, it's alright." Dean soothed her while running a hand up and down her back. "It's okay. I know now that it wasn't you. You have nothing to be sorry about."
"That…that thing went inside of me! Oh god…it left some other girl's body and went into mine! I could see everything it was making me do but I couldn't feel it or control any of it! I could hear its thoughts…It…it was a demon, a real demon. She was thinking about how you and your brother kill these demons and other things like ghosts and vampires and stuff. Is…is that what you do Dean? They're all real??" She shuddered and held onto Dean tighter.
Dean was at least glad to hear that Cassie didn't feel what that thing made her do…especially in bed with that man. But she had to witness it. "It was a demon. And me and Sam used to have to hunt them and other supernatural things with our father. God Cassie I'm so sorry."
"You…you…why are you apologizing? You had nothing to do with this Dean!" She said and allowed herself to pull back from Dean a bit. She seemed to forget about her own troubles at once and focus on Dean's.
"We used to hunt these things! It was after me! If I never got involved with you it never would have attacked you. I'm endangering you Cassie and I understand if you don't want to be with me anymore." He told her sadly.
"Dean, but you don't hunt them anymore. Just because one thing came doesn't mean more will." She told him
"But…but what if they do?"
"Then I'll have protection from you guys because you know about these things. I'm going to stay with you Dean. I've never felt so strongly about someone as I do for you and I'm not ending us for something as stupid as this." She told him sternly.
"But Cassie…" Dean started
"No 'buts' Dean. You should know by know that I'm a stubborn girl. When I make up my mind there's no changing it." She told him and gave him a gentle kiss. "Now I want to know everything that I missed. I want to see you walk; I want to help you walk. I want to be there for it all Dean. I don't want to miss another minute."
Dean stared at her for a minute. "You don't care about all this stuff about demons and crap?"
"I want to know more. No matter how crazy and unrealistic it sounds I believe it, because I know that there was something inside of me. It said it was a demon, and you guys say it's a demon so it must be. I'm with you guys."
"You're crazy you know that?" Dean shook his head at her and smiled a little. He didn't understand why girls like Jess and Cassie would want to get involved with this stuff or even believe them for that matter.
"I'm just crazy for you." She smirked and kissed him once again.
That night Cassie was lying next to Dean in his bed, gently massaging his stump like the doctors told him to do every day and night. Cassie was going to stay at their apartment until she found a new apartment to move into. She wanted nothing to do with her last one and besides, she wanted to be closer to Dean. She was going to check out a couple apartments in their building.
"You don't have to do this you know." Dean told her as he watched her massage the straining muscles in what was left of his leg.
"I know I don't have to. But I want to." She said to him and winked. "You did so well today walking, Dean. I'm so proud of how far you've come."
"I can barely walk at all. It's more like I'm dragging the leg." Dean mumbled
"Dean, just being able to move on the leg is such an accomplishment! The more you do those exercises that we did today the quicker you'll be able to walk." She smiled and finished with his leg. "How's your other knee doing?"
"It's good. I did therapy for it while I was in the hospital so it's fine now. I just got to bed it a couple times and massage it too when I get up in the morning because it's stiff." He explained
"I can help with that." Cassie told him sweetly as she cuddled next to him. Dean went to take off his shirt and put a t-shirt on when Cassie saw the bandages on his arms, a little bit of blood showing through.
Cassie had learned a lot about Dean when that freak was inside her. It would talk out loud about how Dean's father beat him his whole life and how self-conscious Dean was, because for some reason the demon wanted Cassie to know and torture her with this information. It also talked about how Dean had been suicidal before by cutting himself. How the demon knew this Cassie had no clue.
"Dean…did you…did you do that to yourself when you thought the demon was me??" She asked him quietly and she knew the answer was yes when Dean froze, his hands shaking.
"Dean, it's okay." She whispered to him and gently coaxed him so that he was lying back on the bed. She softly ran a hand over his bandages. "That thing was saying a lot of stuff Dean. I knew your father was a horrible man and tried to kill you guys back in California but I never knew that he beat you your whole life." She said with tears in his eyes. The whole getting beat thing explained why Dean was so low on himself and so shy and unwilling to trust other people easily.
"It…it told you that?" Dean gasped, clearly panicking. "I didn't want you to know yet…you must think I'm a freak…"
Cassie scooted even closer to Dean and wrapped both of her arms around his stomach. "Just because someone hurt you doesn't make you a freak Dean. I want to know everything that happened to you so I can help you. But I want to know from your point-of-view, not that bitch's."
Dean just lay there, still shaking.
"I don't see you any different Dean. What you went gone through must have been so hard on you. I'm not going to judge you, just help you. I don't want you to cut anymore Dean. Please let me be there for you."
And after a moment Dean slowly nodded and went on to explain to Cassie the story of his life.
He was finally letting someone else in, and you know what? It felt good.
Over the next week Dean and Cassie were able to help each other out and confine in each other like never before. They had grown even closer and Cassie was in way too deep for this man and she loved every second of it.
Cassie had some of her own trauma. Having a demon inside you and having it make you have sex with another man would most certainly do that. But Dean was helping her, and just by having Dean there to focus on made it so much better. She knew Dean didn't blame her for anything that happened and she was almost ready to put that event behind her.
But then about ten days after the event the unthinkable happened. Cassie came running into Dean's room crying, with some sort of stick in her hand.
"Cassie…what's wrong?" Dean asked. Only as he slowly made his way over to her on his crutches did he finally understand.
"Dean…I'm pregnant."
Ohhh so what do you think of this twist here? This is what I was so excited in putting up! Are you glad that I brought Meg out of Cassie and had her reunite with Dean and help him? Oh and I finally had Sam realized that just because he has demon blood in him doesn't make him evil! There will be more Sam and Jess in the next chapter, but this one mainly focused on Dean and Cassie.
Lastly, do you like the last little twist part? I'd love to hear your thoughts on what should happen and what you would like to see! I might have a couple time-skips in the next few chapters. Thanks for reading and reviewing!!
