I References to season 2/ 3 finales, if you haven't seen them don't read on./I
We all walked into the house and took seats in the living room. Dean stood beside Sam looking very concerned and resting his hand on Sam's shoulder. Sam looked at Dean and said "Everything is OK; there is less pain than normal. The lesson appeared to have worked. I'm sure with more time and lessons the pain will go away completely. So stop worrying about me." Dean could tell from the look in Sam's eyes that something was really up and said "It's my job, I am never got stop worrying about you," and to lighten the mood threw in "Bitch." Sam replied in their normal banter "Jerk".
Sam started looking around the room at each one of us in turn, I suppose you want to know why I called you all inside. As one we turned back to Sam and said "If you are ready to tell us". Sam grabbed a six pack and a glass of juice from the fridge and handed them out and said "Ok then let's start. He looked at Dean with concern in his eyes and said "I know who holds the contract and I think that I know where they are." Dean looked at him with hope in his eyes; this suddenly disappeared as he realized that there had been a break in Sam's voice as he said this. "What is it Sam, this is good news isn't. If we know who holds the deal, then we can take them out and break the deal." Sam took a deep breath looked at Dean, then at everyone in turn around the room ending with me. "Sam" I said "what is it, you need to tell us everything you saw so that we can work out what we need to do." As Sam went to say something the breath he was holding caught in his throat, and his eyes started to fill with tears. I took his hands in mine and said "It's going to be alright, you need to let us help you."
Sam said in a low voice "If we go after this thing, then you all die, I saw it. One by one, you all die and I'm left alone with the twins. We don't get to the thing until it's too late for Dean and the hell hounds take him to hell and it's all my fault." At this Dean moved towards his brother took hold of his shoulders turned him to face and said "When will you get this into your head, this isn't your fault. I knew what I was doing when I made the deal and I will never regret it." Sam retorted "I know but if I had killed Jack when I had the chance he wouldn't have been able to kill me and you wouldn't have had to make the deal" Dean took a step back as Sam's words hit him; he hadn't realized that Sam had been thinking that. "Listen to me, you didn't kill Jake until there was no choice and other people lives were in danger. It's not in your nature to kill someone. You only took him out at the Devils Trap when was no longer human and had threatened Ellen after all, and then proceeded to let Hell lose. I don't blame you for being who you are, who do you think kept me in check all this time. Why do you think that the demons try and keep us apart we are two sides of the same coin. The Yin and Yang so to speak." At this point he clipped the back of Sam's head and said "Now look what you made me do, total chick flick moment and you know I don't do chick flick moments" A small laugh left Sam at this and the tension that had been building in the room dissipated.
"Right then" Bobby pitched in "Who holds Dean's contract and what did you see?" Sam took a long swig from his bottle of beer and started to tell us everything he had seen. "Bobby, Dean and I are camped out in a cabin somewhere in the woods. Dean is reading and Bobby tells us he has found a way to find Lilith." At the mention of Lilith's name I felt the blood drain from my face, Will grasped my hands and told me "It's going to be alright Toni. We always knew that she might be back and that we may need to deal with her. Between the four of us we will make sure that she doesn't get her hands on
the twins." I looked Will square in the eyes and said "You mean five of us don't you." Will said "No, I said four and meant four, you and the twins are sitting this one out. I will not let you put yourself in danger." "You won't let me! I am old enough to make those decisions for myself. These are my children too and if I need to do something to keep them away from her then I will."
As Will and I were having our heated conversation, Dean was tensing up and mumbling under his breath "What have I done? What have I brought down on the Winchesters?" I could hear the words clearly in my head, stood up and walked towards him, clasped his hands in mine looked him straight in the eyes and told him "You did the only thing that you could do with the information that you had at the time, you saved your brother. You didn't bring anything down on the Winchesters that wasn't already after us. With the family history we were always going to be a target. What we have to do now is work out how to get you out of this deal and take down Lilith."
We turned back to Sam apologized for the interruption and asked him to continue what he could remember from his vision. Bobby starts to scry for Lilith and the pointer of the device comes to rest on top of the name of a town. I can't see the name of the town. Dean starts to say that we aren't going to go after Lilith as we have no proof that she holds the contract. The vision then jumps to the basement and me calling Ruby and Dean and Ruby getting into a fight and he grabs her knife from her. Then we are outside houses in a suburb, Bobby drops up a rosary into the sprinkler system and sets it off. This holds back groups of what I can only assume are demons as they start screaming when the water hits them. Dean, Ruby and I enter one of the houses and try to find Lilith, we walked through the house and found the residents and placed them in the basement. We discovered that the daughter of the family was no longer being possessed by Lilith but we did not know where she had gone. As we wandered around the house, the clock started to strike midnight and Dean saw the hell hounds. We moved into the dining room blocked the entrances with goofer dust to keep the hell hounds at bay. Too late Dean realizes that we in the room with Lilith and not Ruby, as she has me pinned to the wall she opens the doors and lets the hell hounds in and they tear Dean to pieces. As Sam finishes his vision, he has tears streaming down his face and Dean fully understood why he had appeared so shocked after the vision had ended. He knew what it felt like to watch your brother die and he walked up to Sam looked him square in the eyes and said "We are going to make sure that is not going to happen."
I turned to Sam and said "I know that this is tough but can you recall where this happened, the town on the map?" Sam replied "I can't see it clearly enough to tell which town she is in, I wish that I could remember as it mean that maybe I could save everyone and myself." I said "OK, let's take this slowly and I'll walk you through the vision and we can see if we can jump back into it before everything hit the fan. Sam we need to go sit outside on the porch away from everyone and where it is quiet, Sam and I walked outside leaving Bobby, Dean and Will instead reeling from the information that had been landed on their laps. OK Sam I said let's get started, close your eyes and breath slowly in and out. I need you to put your feelings of guilty to one side for the moment and focus on the scrying device that Bobby is using. Can you see it? Sam nodded and said "I can see it, it's moving backwards and forwards over the map." Focus on the top right hand corner of the map, is it a map of the whole US or just a section of the US. Sam replied "It's the whole US." Great, Sam whereabouts on the map is the scrying device. "It's in the middle of the map" OK a couple of more questions and we should be able to find the location. "We
are in the middle of the US, are we in the north or south of the mid part of the US."It's the north". Ok can you see any major land marks like lakes, mountains, or rivers? "I can see a Lake, it looks like Lake Michigan" That's great Sam; it means that we need to focus on Indiana or Illinois. Do you think that as it is narrowed down to two states that you can actually focus in on where she is? "I should be able to" Sam replied. Sam started to breathe in and out slowly following the lesson that I had shown him earlier in the day. As he was doing this I noticed the expression on his face was changing from one of peace to one of pain I reached out to him, laid my hand on his arm and said "Sam you need to stop pushing, let the information come of its own accord." Sam replied that he would try, it was just important that he find Lilith as so much was hanging on him tracking her down. I said "I know Sam but pushing yourself is not going to make the answer appear and it will only hurt you." Sam let go and started to breath more slowly and his expression relaxed and I could tell that something was happening, all of a sudden he jumped up and rushed inside and I followed along behind him.
Whilst Sam and I had been working on the porch, inside Bobby had declared "its research time. We need to find out who this Lilith is and why she is after the Winchester clan. Dean take Binsfield Classification of Demons and see what that says, Will take the net and I'll take the Key of Solomon." As everyone had been deep in thought researching Sam bursting through the door had shocked everyone. Sam then exclaimed "I know where she is, or where she is going to be. She's in New Harmony, Indiana. We can go stop the bitch before she hurts anyone in our family or in that little girls family" Bobby caught hold of Sam as he attempted to leave and said we need to know who and what we are up against before we go after her. Dean, Will and I have been researching and we can discuss what we have found and develop our battle plan.
