All right, I'm currently rewatching Supernatural in anticipation of season 11, and I am now mostly through season 5 (I'm gonna skip a lot of episodes during my rewatch, 'cause they're filler, though). I'm gonna be posting three chapters today and three tomorrow, so, enjoy!
A few days later, Sam and Dean managed to track down the Colt. Everyone, Blaine and Castiel included, gathered at Bobby's. The town of Carthage, Missouri was lighting up with omens. Lucifer is going to be there. It was the Winchesters' chance to kill the devil before he has a chance to start the apocalypse. The only reason Dean brought Blaine along was so that he could spend just a little more time with him.
Ellen and Castiel were having a drinking contest, Sam and Dean were at Bobby's desk, talking and drinking beer; Jo was in the kitchen, and Bobby and Blaine were getting the camera ready to take a picture. Blaine was a little worried and depressed about the next day. There's a chance that everyone will come out of this alive…. but there's also the chance that none of them will.
"You know, if you're worried about your dads and uncle, don't." Bobby said to Blaine, who turned to him. "They're the toughest sons of bitches I know. They'll make it out of this."
Blaine nodded and smiled slightly. "Thanks."
"All right, I think it's ready." Bobby said, adjusting the camera. "Everybody get in here! It's time for the lineup. Usual suspects in the corner."
Sam comes in, then Ellen and Blaine.
"Oh come on, Bobby. Nobody wants their picture taken." Ellen complained.
"Hear, hear." Sam nodded.
"Shut up. You're drinking my beer." Castiel enters while Bobby finishes fiddling with a camera on a tripod. Bobby rolls his wheelchair back. "Anyway, I'm gonna need something to remember your sorry asses by."
Everyone is in the room now, getting in position for the picture, smiling.
"Ha! Always good to have an optimist around." Ellen cracked.
"Bobby's right. Tomorrow we hunt the devil. This is our last night on earth." Castiel said dramatically.
The smiles disappear. The camera flashes.
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The next morning, Dean, Castiel, Sam, Jo, and Ellen all hugged Blaine good-bye and said good-bye to Bobby. Blaine sighed and silently went to work on his homework. Surprisingly, he kept focus and finished in record time. He played on his phone for a little bit, ate lunch, and then decided to read some of the lore books in Bobby's library.
"Well, well. So the rumors were true." Blaine jumped and turned around to see a female demon. He stood.
"Bobby!" Blaine called.
The demon laughed. "Really, Junior? Crying for the baby-sitter?"
Blaine blushed and glared at her. "No. I need backup. That's why-"
"Oh, well, that was the best excuse I heard in a while." The demon chuckled. "I'm Meg, by the way. Nice to meet you, Blaine."
"How did you know…?"
"Demons can read minds, remember?" Meg answered. "We're…kind of at war with your dad and your aunts and uncles in case you didn't know. We needed to know everything about the enemy. Clearly, your aunts and uncles don't care about you enough to protect you. Enough to be careful not to think of you when around a demon."
Blaine swallowed. "You do know I have powers, then, right?"
"Oh, of course." Meg looked down at her hellhound. Blaine swallowed and started backing away.
"Nice doggy." Blaine said, trying to keep the fear from his voice.
Meg chuckled. "Oh, don't worry. He won't bite unless I tell him to, Junior."
"What do you want?" Blaine asked.
"Insurance." Meg said simply. She grabbed Blaine's arm and teleported him to the middle of an empty street. "Welcome to Carthage, Missouri. I think someone really unpopular and religious died here or something almost two centuries ago. Or was that in Illinois? Anyway…" She lit up a circle made from holy fire around Blaine. "Excuse me, while I do some bargaining." She walked off. A few minutes later, she spotted the Winchesters and the Harvelles. "There you are.'
Everyone turns to face Meg.
"Meg." Sam greeted with distaste.
"Shouldn't have come here, boys."
"Hell, I could say the same thing for you." Dean aims the Colt at Meg.
"Didn't come here alone, Deano." Meg smirked, stepped aside, and jerked her head towards Blaine surrounded by holy fire. "Just a little insurance for my father's and my survival."
"You little bitch." Dean glared at her.
"Hmm. Speaking of bitches…" Something splashes in a puddle near Meg's feet; the sounds of dogs growling and barking. Sam, Ellen, and Jo glance around for the source of the noise; so does Dean, but he is obviously pretending he's not afraid.
"Hellhounds." Dean said simply.
"Yeah, Dean. Your favorite. Come on, boys. My father wants to see you." Meg replied, smirking.
"I think we'll pass, thanks." Sam nodded.
Meg shrugged. "Your call. You can make this easy or you can make it really, really hard."
Dean looks back at Ellen, who nodded. Then Dean turned back to Meg. "When have you known us to ever make anything easy?"
Meg shakes her head. Dean shifts his aim and fires; blood spurts from the hellhound next to Meg's feet.
"Run!" Sam shouted. They take off. A hellhound tackles Dean, Jo looks back.
"Dean!"
"Jo, stay back!"
Blaine watched helplessly as family ran for the hardware store. His heart nearly stopped when he saw a hellhound attack Jo. Dean carried Jo into the store. The hellhounds pawed at the door, trying to get in.
"What about Blaine?" Ellen asked.
"As long as he's in the holy fire circle, he'll be fine." Dean said, half-convincing himself.
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Blaine took a few deep breaths to calm himself. He had left his cell phone at Bobby's, so, he had no way to contact anyone. He sat down, hugging his knees and just waited. Darkness eventually fell, and Blaine was beginning to feel uncomfortable. Hmm. Would peeing on the holy fire disintegrate it? He stood up, unzipped his pants, and let loose. It worked, but a couple of hellhounds growled and slowly advanced towards him. Blaine used his telekinesis to throw the hellhounds through the hardware store window just as the store exploded. He shielded himself from the flames and looked on in horror.
"Dean! Sam!" Blaine called frantically. "Ellen!"
"Blaine?" Blaine turned to see Dean and Sam running towards him and sighed in relief. He hugged Dean. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Blaine replied.
"How did you escape that holy fire?" Sam asked, astonished.
Blaine was a little embarrassed. "By peeing on it."
Dean made a face, then nodded. "Effective."
"Where are Ellen and Jo?" Blaine was almost too afraid to ask.
Sam glanced at Dean and sighed sadly. "They didn't make it."
That hit Blaine hard. He blinked away tears, and swallowed. "What about Cas?"
"We don't know." Dean shook his head. "We're thinking Meg might have him somewhere."
"I did see her head off in that direction." He pointed west of the still burning hardware store.
"That's the opposite of where we need to go." Sam mentioned.
"I'll find him." Blaine offered.
"Blaine…" Dean started.
"Dean, think about it for a minute." Blaine interrupted. "You and Uncle Sam need to go find Lucifer and kill him. That and finding Castiel needs to happen at the same time."
Dean exhaled sharply. He had a point. And they were running out of time. Dean gave in and gave Blaine a gun. "Be very careful."
Blaine took the gun and nodded. "I will." He ran off.
In a small, abandoned barn; a bolt on the pipe in the wall is spinning. Castiel is in a fire ring, Meg is watching.
"You seem pleased." Castiel noted.
Meg smirked at him. "We're gonna win. Can you feel it? You cloud-hopping pansies lost the whole damn universe. Lucifer's gonna take over heaven. We're going to heaven, Clarence."
"Strange, because I heard a different theory from a demon named Crowley."
"You don't know Crowley." Meg said offhandishly.
"He believes Lucifer is just using demons to achieve an end, and that, once he does, he'll destroy you all." Castiel stated simply.
"You're wrong. Lucifer is the father of our race. Our creator. Your god may be a deadbeat. Mine—mine walks the earth." Meg was about to cackle, when suddenly, she found herself face-down across the fire ring. She screamed in pain.
Castiel looked in surprise at Blaine, who had his hand extended. Castiel walked over Meg, out of the ring. Blaine moved Meg towards him and grabbed her hair. "That was for kidnapping me and killing two of my friends."
Castiel walked over and tried to smite Meg, who chuckled. "You can't gank demons, can you? You're cut off from heaven, you impotent sap."
"He can't, but I can." Blaine lied.
Meg looked in horror as Blaine brought his hand to her face. She gasped. "NO!"
Blaine merely knocked her out, and let her fall to the ground. He looked at Castiel. "Are you okay?"
"Yes." Castiel replied. "Where is your father and uncle?"
"Lucifer's camp." Blaine replied. He swallowed. "Cas…Ellen and Jo are dead. They exploded a bomb in a store to kill hellhounds."
Castiel looked downwards. "I'm sorry." Blaine sniffed and nodded. Castiel teleported Blaine back to Bobby's house. "I'll see about your dad and uncle." He vanished.
"So, what happened?" Bobby asked.
Blaine swallowed and sighed. "Ellen and Jo died in an explosion. They killed some hellhounds in the process."
Bobby sighed and shook his head. "Balls."
Blaine collapsed into a chair, crying. Bobby wheeled over and put a hand on Blaine's shoulder. "I should have done something, Bobby. I should have…"
Bobby pulled him into a hug. "There, there. There's nothing you could have done."
"I should have peed on the fire sooner." Blaine lamented. Bobby made a confused and grossed-out face.
XXX
Sam, Dean, and Castiel made it back safely. To add to their loss of the Harvelles, the Colt didn't work on Lucifer.
Sam, Dean, Blaine, and Bobby gathered around the fireplace. The TV was going, but no one paid any attention. Bobby holds a copy of the photograph taken earlier in the episode. He leans forward and drops the picture into the flames. They all watch it burn.
Dialogue from this chapter is taken from the season five episode "Abandon All Hope…"
