Episode 14
"Hunterground Railroad"
Chapter 1
Pulling into the Fern Inn the four hunters set up shop and got down to the "monster of the week" at hand.
"It says here a Kaukas is a nature spirit. I'm pretty sure that by the pattern we're seeing that's what we're dealing with." Sam said closing his laptop, pushing it away and rubbing his eyes.
Laney closed her laptop as well and bid the brothers goodnight as she headed to her room.
Sam and Dean started bickering over who'd take the floor as there wasn't a sofa.
Sam kept insisting he didn't mind letting Dean take the bed and Adam knew better than to jump in and offer to take the floor cause neither brother would have that.
Sam gave a frustrated groan as Dean wouldn't stop being a self sacrificing dumb-ass for even half a second. Then a pained groan as Dean frogged him in the arm for thinking he was a dumb-ass.
Sam knew he wasn't going to win with Dean so he let it go and went to grab some air.
When the knock wrapped on her door, Laney knew it that it was time to have yet another akward conversation with the other potential father of her child.
Sam was nonchalant at first making small talk and such because he wanted to be delicate with how he broached the subject.
"So I guess I should thank you for taking care of me..when I.. you know..was kinda helpless I guess is best word for it." Said Sam.
"Don't mention it... I was just trying to meet my quota for rescuing damsels in distress." Laney joked.
Sam gave her a nudge with his shoulder as he laughed softly.
"You know I'm not the same guy you took care of right?" He asked.
"I kinda guessed as much. HE would've already blurted out what was on his mind by now. HE didn't have near as many hang ups as you." Laney responded.
"WOW!" Sam said sounding exasperated. "Blunt and to the point!"
"I know you think you're not the same person I saved that I took care of now that you have your memories back. But trust me you ARE him you're just more. . .educated by the school of life than when I found you is all and I feel bad that it was all heaped back onto your plate at once. BUT at least you remember what modesty's about. So that's a plus!" Said Laney with a smile and..now Sam thought "Is she blushing?"
"I guess so." Sam grinned not realizing he was blushing to. "SO...About what's really on my mind... I don't know when I started thinking about it or why it didn't hit me sooner...even with a broken..I'd like to think I would have..."Sam stammered.
"Sam when you had a broken brain you KNEW you could trust me NO MATTER WHAT so you KNEW there were things you didn't have to ask or say. NOW you're just overthinking things because you have back your original reasoning system...Which is to put up all your defenses and not let someone slip in, besides DEAN, and not ever REALLY fully trust anyone else besides him...SO it means now you think you have to ask me for something that...broken brain you knew I'd give without a single word exchanged." Laney chidded.
"YOU ARE...ALWAYS...going to have a place in my child's life, even if you're not the father. Sam I think...you...Dean and I should sit down and talk about this together. . . because I don't think either of the two of you understand how I want..." Laney took pause and eyed Sam nervously. . . I think you should go get Dean."
Turns out Dean was already on the other side of the door when Sam opened it and he was looking at Sam with a wince pointing at his head and saying playfully "Dude wanna turn down the volume much...Your mind is like a freakin school intercom...with squelching and everything. . when you think about something in a panic. . .man. . . even your thoughts have some weird nerd thing about them. ANYWAY..." Now he looked around Sam to Laney saying "Heard you wanna talk about.."
"Just come in and have a seat." Laney said in mock frustration.
"Okay BOTH of you seem to have the misconception you need to ask me for. . what roles you'll have in this child's life... Honestly I don't even know if we'll ever find out who the father REALLY is. . . EVERTHIING else in our lives have been manipulated so why not a paternity test results to?
"SO I have this to offer and you can tell me if it's exeptable."
"The three of us raise the baby together and daddy duties, IF you guys want them, will be both of yours to share. So the baby will be OURS, all three of OURS, we'll all be in this parenting thing together."
"How's that sound to you guys?" Laney asked.
"Well the saying is "It takes a village" right?" Dean joked.
"You think we can make something like that work?" Sam asked.
"We can figure it out as we go along." Laney responded.
"Now I have something I need to tell you guys. After FEAR had me by the short and curlies I realized I never wanted to risk something getting that close to hurting the baby again. . . So I'm taking myself out of the field."
"We'll travel together... like always... I can do research and what not. . . I'll keep in practice just in case I'm needed and there's ABSOLUTLY no other choice but me for backup. . . Other than that I'm not gonna be trying to gank any more monsters for a while." She finished.
"Glad to hear that." Said Dean.
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Chapter 2
Sam, Dean and Adam split up to cover the large park. They were pretty sure what they were dealing with, what type of area to find it in and that they knew how to kill it.
They met up back at thde Impala neither of them having found anything and it was getting dark so they'd have to come back the next day.
But as they were leaving a group of six people imerged from the treeline and it would be normal that a place like this have a group of hikers muking about in the woods. BUT what was NOT normal was that both Sam and Dean knew all six of them. . . .
Harry Spangler, Ed Zeddmore, Detective Diana Ballard, Zach Warren, Lori Sorenson and Chuck Shurly got mostly surprised looks on their faces, other than Chuck who looked like he knew this was going to happen.
Sam and Dean were in equal shock to see so many faces from their past all at once and looking at his brothers and seeing their expressions made Adam feel like he was being left out of the loop again.
"Wow of all the hunts in all the world. . ." Chuck joked as he extended his hand in greeting to Sam and Dean.
The brothers pulled back with looks of apprehension on their faces.
"Oh forgot." Said Chuck as he pulled out a knife knicked below the bend of his elbow and proved his blood was red and the others in his company did the same.
Now Sam and Dean extended their hands and Harry piped up and said irritably "How come they don't have to prove they're human?"
"What about "I'm a prophet." don't you get? I'D KNOW..IF THEY WEREN'T THEM GENIUS!" Chuck yelled over his shoulder as he shook Sam, Dean's and Adam's hands.
"Been a long time." Said Dean.
"Trust me I wish it had been longer. .. but you know monsters... they never take a break." Chuck chidded.
"What got you into the field?" Sam asked, he knew Chuck hadn't wanted to be in this fight.
"Plucky little peppy thing named Sarah Blake.. I believe you remember who she is." Said Chuck with a wink.
Sam remembered all to well the raven haired girl from New York who Dean told him he should marry when she showed she had the guts to handle this life. But Sam never imagined that she'd turn to hunting.
"Wow akward thinking about an ex while another ex is standing right there." Dean jokingly projected into Sam's head.
Sam rolled his eyes and gave an exasperated sigh.
"Sarah's the one that brought us all together." Said Diana stepping away from the group to greet Sam and Dean.
"Detective." Dean said with a smirk.
"Actually it's Chief Of Operations at the F.B.I. headquarters now... How do you guys think the whole thing where monsters used your images to slaughter hundreds blew over without a lot of backlash? Seriously you two have been more regonized than any other two people I've ever even heard of luckily we have genuis hackers in the underground and any questions about your identities or identities of anyone we know is in our line of work winds up on my desk for me to take care of." She said holding out her hands and gesturing to herself as if to say "That's right I helped save your asses. Again"
"Thanks." Said Sam and Dean in unison.
"Underground?" Adam asked.
"Yeah Sarah tracked down almost everyone Sam and Dean ever interacted with and got most of them to take up hunting. She's pretty damn persuasive." Said Diana.
Dean leaned into Sam and jokingly said "Told you, you should've married that girl."
Sam rubbed the back of his neck shyly and nervously as he seen Lori was looking his way and to his surprise she leaned into Eric and pecked him on the cheek.
"Now that's akward." Dean whispered raising his eyebrows and giving Sam a nudge with his elbow as he gave a chuckle.
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Chuck and Diana gave the brothers a run down of all the things the underground was working on and told them they should drop by their base sometime.
It gave Dean chills to hear where their main base was located.
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CAMP CHAUTAUQUA, JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK. . . .
FOUR AND A HALF YEARS IN THE FUTURE. . .
The plague of the new strain of Croatoan had spread fast and the signs had been put up in warning of the areas where infection had been found. . . And when everything hit the fan all at once and the world officially went to hell in a hand basket, what few people that had survived fell into forming small societies and did their best to cling to what was left to live for. . . . And well no one was going back into the hotzones just to take down the damn signs. . . It's not like everbody didn't already know that it had been years since two thousand fourteen.
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Chuck gave Dean a sad knowing smile and patted Dean on the shoulder shaking his head.
Sam saw what Dean was thinking about and he remembered what Dean saw when Zachariah had shown him what was "supposedly" the future and right now he was just as worried as Dean about what just couldn't be coincedence but he still leaned over and whispered to his brother "We'll be okay, we'll figure something out. It'll all work out."
"Yeah I think we'll be fine," Dean lied, as he fought to swallow down the grapefruit sized lump that had formed itself in his throat thinking: "So it really was the real future after all."...
What could all of this mean?... SO MANY QUESTIONS...NO WHERE NEAR ENOUGH ANSWERS.. . .
Chapter 3
The brothers headed out and left the other hunters to their work and Dean was thinking: "Laney's gonna, freak when she hears what we just found out."
But now his mind was riddled with fear and questions. Not only in the future he saw was Lucifer riding Sam's body (Apparently again) but future him seemed to be convinced The Colt would kill Lucifer when past him had already proven that obviously it can't. And just as troubling when pondered upon now neither Laney nor her child was in that future and future him didn't mention either of them.
"What the hell!" Dean cursed through clenched teeth as he hit the steering wheel and wondered what details he was missing that could possibly make everything make sense.
It REALLY...SUCKS to know certain things HAVE to happen and that there is NO fighting those things and it REALLY...SUCKS to NOT know what ALL of those certain things are or HOW they'll play out. . .
"It's okay." Sam said giving Dean's shoulder a soothing pat. "We'll ALL figure it out TOGETHER."...
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THIS IS THE END OF "DISC" 4... I KNOW, I KNOW I'M BAD... PLEASE REVIEW! (hint, hint)...
