Episode 16
"The thunder rolls."
Chapter 1
After Chuck finished telling everything he knew about all of the horrors that were being unleashed into the world Sarah insisted that Sam, Dean, Adam and Laney stay for a couple of days to recharge after all of the crap they'd been dealing with along with all of the crap that had just been heaped on them.
Dean smiled at Sarah...He'd seen the way she'd been looking at Sam and he could see Sam's poor little weary of the opposite sex mind going into overdrive every time he met Sarah's gaze.
Sam shot Dean a look that told his older brother "Dude...Not cool." when Dean agreed to Sarah's offer with a smirk, a slight raise of his eyebrows and the thought of "Give you and Sammy some time to catch up."
Laney grinned at Sam's tell, tell blush and she micheviously gave Sarah a suggestion to give Sam a personal tour around the camp. Now Sam was casting a pouty yet mutinous look at the people who were conspiriring against him. But he was out numbered and Sam had to conceed to letting himself be pulled away by Sarah.
"He looked nothing short of terrified." Said Adam with a grin.
"Women do happen to be some of the scariest of creatures." Dean said jokingly as he gave a sly smile.
"Sitting right here Dean." Said Laney as she fought to keep a smile off her face.
"What? It's not like you can beat me up any more." Said Dean with a smirk.
Laney laughed so hard at Dean's statement..Because it was true...She couldn't hurt anyone she cared about and they could never hurt or be used to hurt her or each other ever again.
But this part of the story was already known of... a long time ago in fact...and someone was already working on a loophole to the pact...Honestly it sucks when someone reads ahead.
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Sarah walked along showing Sam the expansive amount of land that she'd purchased for the comune...She showed him their clinic, their training grounds, where they grow the crops and keep the livestock, talking the whole time about how she was glad to know what was out there and how it made her feel useful to give all she could for this fight.
Sam smiled...as Sarah told him that... Basically HE was the one that made her feel like she had a REAL purpose in this life.
Sam had never really thought about, how the people, who's lives they saved during hunts, had been affected in all of the aftermath. It surprised Sam to know that just by interacting with the victims of the supernatural they had inspired the following of a loyal group of people who had come into the life of hunting just so they could help save people from the things that were out there. And he and Dean had never even known untill now just how far the inspiration, that was quite simply them just doing what they do, reached.
Sarah was never the wilting flower type and she knew she'd put off saying what she wanted to say long enough as she and Sam reached the edge of the cabins.
"So..Sam" Said Sarah as she tried to brace heself for what she was sure was going to be rejection "I was wondering..IF you're not already interested in someone...MAYBE...You MIGHT wanna try to pick up where we left off sometime."
"You know I'm not exactly the most stable of people to want a relationship with...Right?" Sam asked sounding apprehensive as he continued with "I mean...How much I move around alone...Then there's the dangers of the job...Oh yeah and I'm kind of a head case to boot."
"I'm not exactly stable either Sam...I think it comes with the territory of what we know, what we do with what we know and how we deal with what we know and do." Sarah stated.
"Well how would we work things out?" Sam asked.
"Well according to your brother...you guys will be here for a couple of days...I figured we could just hang out." Sarah replied.
"What about after we leave? Don't you think that'll put a damper on things?" Sam asked.
"Well living our lives as hunters actually makes us both perfectly suited for long distance relationships." Sarah answered. "Think about it...You can call me from the road time to time...Any hunts you get up this way...You stop by here to see me...If we find our selves in the same area while on a job, we hook up and hang out...When, IF, you get down time we figure out a place to meet...It wouldn't be as hard as you think...NOT if WE, REALLY want to make it work."
"There's other things to consider." Sam stated.
"Like what?" Sarah asked.
"Like Laney... I really want to be a father to her child...In fact..." Sam started to say.
"I already know about all of that. Laney and I talked as I helped her get the ceremony for the ritual together... She wants BOTH you AND Dean to share the role of fatherhood in her child's life...I think that, that's very brave of her...And I don't see how that would cause a problem between you and me." Sarah stated. "I don't mind there being bigger priorities than me. There's the baby first, the mother of your child, your brothers, then the job. I get those things come first and I'm okay with it."
"Yeah but will you always be okay with it?" Sam asked.
"I'll take what I can get...I guess that means I'll be whatever I can for you..whenever you need me." Sarah answered.
"Wow..Self sacrificing much?" Sam asked with a chuckle.
"I hear it's a common side effect to ineracting with you and your family." Said Sarah with a laugh. Then she asked "So what do you say?"
"Wouldn't hurt to try...I mean there is this rumor the world's ending and all." Sam joked.
Sarah gave Sam a flirty nudge as she and Sam went back into Chuck's cabin.
When Sarah and Sam reentered Chuck's living room they were greeted with the sight of Chuck, Sam's brothers and Laney all hanging out at the kitchen table and Behemoth sitting at Dean's side begging to be petted.
"What ya'll doin?" Sarah asked sweetly.
"Talkin about comic books." Chuck replied.
"I'm thinking about starting to write my own comic books, if the world DOESN'T end in the next year or two..."Warrior Saints"...Catchy..Huh?"
"No need to guess who the heroes'll be." Sarah muttered leaning towards Sam.
"Wow...That's cool. Sam replied with a grin as he leaned down and muttered to Sarah "As long as he doesn't give us stupid names. OR put us in tights."
Sarah laughed and replied "With you on that."
"Guys...I CAN hear you!" Chuck exclaimed sounding hurt.
"I don't mind the idea of having a stupid super hero name." Said Laney giving Chuck a supportive pat on the back. You can call me "The Sparrow"...Small...AND...Efficent..." She finished with a smile and a raise of her eyebrows.
"Lame!" Adam exclaimed "I want my name to be something COOL like "Red Candy Covered Choclate".
"You mean like an M and M?" Sarah asked.
"Well since some rapper stole my name I CAN'T exactly go by THAT now can I?" Said Adam with a grin.
Dean had almost done a spit take when Sarah walked right into Adam's "Eminem" bit.
"You guys wanna play some cards?" Chuck asked as everyone's laughter died down.
"Sounds cool." Both Sam and Sarah said in unison, they took seats around the table and soon the six hunters were telling jokes, reminising about good times and even sharing more horrible comic booky super hero names, but there was STILL absolutely NO budging on the "no tights" rule that Sam established no matter how much Chuck argued that it's the costumes that REALLY sells the heroes...
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As night fell on the commune Sarah led Sam and his family to the cabin that would be theirs while they stayed here and Behemoth bounded happily behind them.
As Laney went to go inside her face filled with shock as Dean scooped her up and carried her across the threshold.
Sam and Adam laughed at the truely stunned expression on Laney's face as she stood frozen to the spot where Dean had placed her down.
Sarah showed the brothers around, the cabin had two large bedrooms that had two full sized beds to each room, a well stocked kitchen and a really nice bathroom with a huge garden tub that had massage jets.
"It's perfect...Thanks Sarah." Said Sam as he gave Sarah a peck on the cheek.
"Just come get me or Chuck if ya'll need aything." Said Sarah as she excused herself for the night.
Dean looked at Laney and gave a small smile. The poor girl still had the same experession of a deer in a daze from being caught in the beam of a set of headlights.
"It's okay ...The rooms have two beds a piece." Dean said reasuringly as he went to Laney's side and reached for her hand.
"It's just... I didn't really think about sleeping arrangements till just now." Said Laney with an exausted sigh.
"You want me to take the couch?" Dean asked sincerly.
"No! Geez! I've never had a problem sharing a room with you before." Laney replied "I just kind of freaked when I thought about..."
"Sharing a bed?" Dean interupted. "I told you there's not going to be anything you don't feel ready for...No matter how big or how small you might think those things are..."
"There's just to many things I didn't really think all the way through." Laney replied looking scared.
"You're supposed to get cold feet BEFORE you get married." Dean joked.
"There wasn't really time for cold feet." Said Laney with a raise of her eybrows. "But that's not what's wrong...Dean I would never second guess my feelings for you...I just don't know if I'll be any good as a wife. I kind of have a lot of issues you know?"
"Yeah...There IS the anger management problems." Dean replied.
"Exactly." Laney stated.
"And emotionally you're a wreck." Said Dean keeping on.
"Precisely." Said Laney.
"You feel like you're gonna break under the next ton of crap that gets put on your sholders." Dean said, raising his eyebrows.
"Like I said issues." Laney replied.
"In short...You're like me...BUT...Just a little more perfect than I am." Said Dean with a grin as he raised his free hand to show his index finger a hair's breath away from his thumb in the symbolance of how much that "little" was.
"Wow...You are smooth." Said Laney with a laugh.
"So I've been told." Dean replied, with that he kissed the back of Laney's hand again, pulled her gently to the door of their room and finished with "As long as I ALWAYS get the bed closest to the door and the dog's the only one that sleeps on the floor from now on I'm good."
Behemoth looked up wagging his tail and Laney commanded the dog to go lay down on the living room sofa thinking "I suppose the dog can have the couch from now on." as she knew neither she, Dean or his brothers would ever be without a bed ever again.
Laney grinned back at Dean and gladly took the bed furthest from the door and she must have been more exausted than she relized as she was out in seconds...
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Chapter 2
A flash of pain hit her...
A flash of a shadowy figure above her.
The dull thud of fists hammering into her back, sides and chest.
A flash of the eyes of LEGION...
Then cramping, searing, sawing pain of IT'S forced entry wratcheted through her groin and abdomen.
She cried out in a pleading whimper as the pain ebbed away for the briefest of moments only to return with even more fierce intensity as IT increased the power of IT'S cruel thrusts.
Then something made contact against her shoulder, she flinched away, bolting upright and scrambling from the surface from which she lay.
What outside light that poured into the otherwise dark room caught glinting just right in a set of eyes and it made her cower from the shadowy figure to which those eyes belonged as it neared her.
"Please..." Was all she could sobbingly choke out as the pain hit her again and fear flooded her as she realized her nightmare had followed her into the waking world.
A voice broke through her subconscious saying "It's okay...It's just me." Then the light in the room came on and Dean extended his hands for Laney to see saying "See?...Really me."
The haze of fear rolled from her sight and Laney nodded her understanding then she tried to come to a stand only to have the pain hit her abdomen again and it was so agonizing she doubled in on herself and slumped back to the floor...
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Ever since Sam had become interferance to the defenses and powers of Laney's mind...Dean had found that Laney was still having horrific nightmares EVERY night as now he had been feeling her fear and pain when they came to plague her. He hated to know how much she suffered nightly only to put on a brave face each new day to selflessly pretend she was fine. But on THOSE NIGHTS she had always been locked away in her own room. Now Dean lay within a little more than a couple of steps away from her and he WAS NOT going to let her suffer tonight..nor any other...EVER AGAIN if he could help it.
At first he was wary to touch her as he knew it could set her off. So he called to her and tried to project into her mind that it was just a dream...But she didn't wake.
Knowing it would jolt her, but deciding that, that was the lesser evil, for at least she would wake, Dean reached out and touched her shoulder. He saw how the way his eyes looked to her as she scrambled away from him and he cursed himself for not having the sense to turn on the light first. But now she knew reality from dream and she was still in pain and the pain was getting harder to bear and now it was sending Dean to the floor in agony as well.
When the pain subsided this time Dean crawled to Laney's side and sounding worried he asked "What's happening?"
"I need you to go get Adam." Laney panted.
Sam and Adam were already in the door because Sam saw the second Dean needed them.
Adam came to Laney's other side and knelt to her level saying "Tell me what I'm dealing with."
"I'm having contractions. My body's trying to throw itself into labor." Laney cried.
"You're only seventeen and a half weeks along!" Adam exclaimed worriedly.
"My water hasn't broke, that's a really good thing so I need you to check and see if I'm dialated. Then we'll go from there." Said Laney with a shudder.
"I...I...Can't do... that..." Said Adam sounding scared.
"It's okay...You've been through enough medical school to know the basics...You just have to calm down and remember what you know...Adam..It HAS to be done." Said Laney in a calm reasuring tone.
Adam nodded and Laney slid down to lay flat on her back. She put her heels together and let her knees fall apart so that Adam could reach her cervix. She was shaking terribly as her own nerves started to get to her and it took everything she had to fight against writhing away from Adam's touch.
As Adam's finger touched the spongy cartilage of the cervix he was relieved to tell Laney that she was not dialated.
"Okay that means we can stop the contractions all together." Said Laney with a relieved sigh.
"Tell me what you need me to do." Adam said.
Laney looked at the clock on the bedside table..It read four seventeen..."We monitor the contractions."
"I need just about any medication with Nifedipine as a main ingredient." It'll help stop the contractions if they don't stop on there own. "
"Then I'm going to need to start on a weekly regiment of Alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone and as long as I stay off my feet as much as possible, we can get my body to stop from trying to go in to labor again at least until I can safely start a Antenatal Corticostreoid like Dexamethasone for the baby's lung development." Laney replied as she groaned through yet another strong and painful contraction that rendered Dean nearly unconscious.
"Oh no...Dean...I'm So sorry." Laney sobbed as the contraction ended "I thought the blood pact would keep stuff like this from happening."
"It's okay.." Said the pale, lethargic and sweaty Dean. "I don't think me feeling your pain actually counts as YOU hurting ME."
"Talk about sympathy pains." Laney tried to say jokingly but now another contraction hit and it sent both Laney and Dean to writhe on the floor.
"I'll get Sarah and tell her we need someone to help us get the meds together." Said Sam as he bolted away to go get help.
"Dean are you gonna be alright?" Adam asked.
"It's a lot less fun than getting kicked in the junk...But I'll live." Dean groaned as he pulled himself to a sitting position, placed Laney's head in his lap and reached for her hand so he could help her through this.
Another contraction came, this time wherever Sam was he was out of range and now Laney could block her pain from Dean's mind again...But it wasn't easy as it felt like the middle of her spine would be pulled through her navel any minute. Then came the feeling of being sawed in half long ways up from the bottom of her pelvic muscles up to her rib cage.
Laney wailed out in pain and fear of the intensity of the contractions. She was terrified that if Sam didn't get back soon then it would be to late to save her child.
"As soon as this contraction ends I need you to get her in one of the beds. I have to go see if I can find some medical equipment." Adam told Dean.
Dean nodded. As Laney's body relaxed Dean did as he was told and got her off the floor and back to her bed.
Laney gave a weak whine as her body's uncontolable tremors shook her and made every inch of all her bones feel like shattering porcelein.
She was pale, beads of sweat formed on her forehead though she was cool to the touch. Dean's heart frantically beat with worry. He cluched Laney's hand as another contraction hit hard and made her bawl out her agony.
When Adam came back Sarah was with him and they had brought an I.V. pole, a few bags of I.V. fluids along with some other medical equipment.
"I'm gonna hook you up to an I.V., get you started on some saline and some light I.V. pain meds to take the edge off those contractions till Sam can get back." Adam stated as he set to work hooking Laney up to some oxygen, the I.V. and a heart monitor.
A nice warm feeling flooded Laney as the I.V. pain meds hit her system and now when the next contraction hit it still hurt but at least the pain was not as intense.
"You need to check to see if there are any changes." Laney said to Adam. "The contractions have been getting closer together."
"Alright..Just lay back like before, I'll see if you've dialated any." Adam said feeling a little more confident than before as he found he COULD do this if he didn't lose focus. But now he definitely knew why doctors aren't supposed to treat their friends and family.
"Still okay." Adam replied "We'll get this under control don't worry."
Sarah took a seat at Laney's side and asked "How you doin sweetie?" as she brushed Laney's hair off her sweaty brow.
"Better now...Actually I feel kinda...GOOD." Laney replied.
"That would be the pain meds talkin." Said Adam as he monitored yet another strong contraction, but this time all it caused was for Laney to tense and wince only slightly until it ebbed.
Laney looked at Dean's hand clasped inside hers, she smiled up at Dean saying in a sleepy slur "Stay with me. Kay?" then she drifted off to a blissfully dreamless sleep.
Dean nodded and kissed her forhead. He knew what she meant when she asked him to stay with her. She didn't want to be here for what might possibly be weeks of bedrest, without him. Laney was scared and he knew that it had taken her to be drugged to make her let go of her stubborn selflessness enough to even be able to ask. But the thing was, she didn't have to ask because there was no way Dean was going to leave her side.
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Sam came running back into the cabin, he handed Adam a paper bag full of medicine and rushed to Laney's side asking breathlessly "Is she okay?"
"She's doin better than earlier." Sarah replied from Laney's other side.
"Holy hell Sam!...How did you get all this?" Asked Adam as he opened the bag to see about twenty bottles of pills.
Sam took long winded breaths as he replied "I found a few more people willing to help than I realized...What I couldn't get here a whole bunch of people spread out to different drug stores counties away just to obtain."
"Like I said common side effect of interacting with you and your family." Sarah said with a smile.
"No one knew which meds would be the best...There were so many with the same main ingredients..so everyone gathered as much as they could without raising suspicion." Said Sam as he finally caught his breath.
"You did good Sammy." Said Dean with a grin as he patted his "little" brother on the back.
Adam sorted through the bag and found the best of the picks in all three medicines that Laney was going to be needing.
Dean woke Laney and gave her the tablets of Nifedipine that Adam passed him.
Now all they could do was wait.
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Laney drifted in and out as Adam kept her on the pain medication untill after her contaction had completely ceased.
She would let out vulnerable cries of fear as Adam handled her while she lay unconscious. Dean could see that her mind was pretty much checked out and that most of her reactions were just the defense mechanisms of what was left of her subconscious as the drugs dulled her senses.
"How long is she gonna be this way?" Dean asked sounding worried.
"The pain medications will linger in her system for a while after I take her off them...So she'll be loopy but no longer than a couple of hours. Then the medicine that's stopping the contractions has some side effects we might be seeing but she's only going to have to be on it for two days. So she should be fully coherent again by the end of the week." Adam replied.
"What about the other stuff she'll have to take?" Sam asked.
"The weekly Alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone shouldn't cause any adverse reactions. And she'll only have to take the Dexametasone after she hits twenty-one weeks and she'll only have to take it for two days also and it shouldn't have any side effects either."
"How does all this stuff effect the baby?" Dean asked.
"Laney was pretty smart to think of the Nifedipine right off the top of her head like that." Adam replied. "Out of all the medications she could have picked that could have stopped her contractions she picked not only the easiest to get ahold of but also the one that has the least side effects for her and no known side effects for the baby."
"Well she IS a friggin genuis!" Said Dean with a proud grin.
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The earth quaked and the sky turned blood red...
JUST LIKE THAT!..."SNAP!"...OF THE FINGERS FAST!...The ground had SPLIT OPEN!...Causing heat and steam to vent out from the very core of the earth...And one could peer into the chasm formed if not for the skin melting heat that poured up out of it...And if anyone in the immediate vicinity of the incidents weren't already dead...
And it was happening ALL OVER THE WORLD... Yogyakarta and Java, Indonesia, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico City, Mexico,... Kyushu, Japan,... Kamchatka, Russia,... Siciliy and Naples, Italy, ... Teide, Spain,... Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa and on a MUCH smaller scale only in just a small radius around Stull, Cemetary in Stull, Kansas...
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An ear piercing high pitched ring echoed in the night...There were bright flashes of white light...
Chuck bolted awake sweating profusely. He looked over to his alarm clock on his bed side table it was three thirty in the morning.
Sitting up Chuck wiped the sweat from his brow and reached into his nightstand for the asprin he kept on hand for nights like this...
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This couldn't be happening, he should have seen it coming sooner...But lately Chuck hadn't been getting much of anything until it was almost or already to late... Heaven, hell, or "whatever", controled WHEN he saw, WHAT he saw, was probably trying to keep him from seeing again because Chuck had that same muted...hazey type of dream, or vision when "whatever" didn't want him picking up something...But sometimes he picked "it" up, or enough of "it" up anyway. He knew he had to warn Sam and Dean even though he didn't know what he saw meant...But the second he started to get up from his bed he fell to the floor cradiling his head in agony as another vision hit him...
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The second he was able to move again Chuck scrambled for Sam and Dean's cabin...It was probably close to mid-day now and Chuck hated how the stronger visions imobilized him as this one had sacked him out for hours that COULD NOT be spared right now...
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There was a VERY loud pounding knock at the door and Dean was going to KILL whoever was on the other side if they woke Laney.
Behemoth went to barking. Which didn't help Dean's temper.
Sarah rushed to answer the door and quite the dog so the brothers could stay at the sleeping Laney's side...
"Chuck.." Sarah hissed "Keep it down! Do you have any idea what's happened?" She scolded as she ushered Chuck inside.
"Uh I need to talk to Sam and Dean NOW!" Chuck exclaimed as he set to pacing.
"We're kinda in the middle of a personal crisis." Adam said from the doorway.
"Why what happened?" Chuck asked as it was just now registering that something was wrong in the "here" and "now".
"Laney started trying to go into labor early this morning." Sarah said with a weary sigh.
"Oh...no...I...REALLY..HAVE to talk to Sam and Dean...NOW!" Chuck exclaimed as he realized at least what some of his vision had meant...
Sam was still fuming at Chuck at the moment...He'd hammered on the jackass's door for a good ten minutes last night trying to get him out of bed so he could help...
And Dean wasn't exactly happy with Chuck either with the way he had nearly beaten down their front door.
"Tell him to come in here." Laney croaked weakly.
Neither Sarah nor Sam and his brothers had realized she had indeed woken to the disturbance and it was a surprise to every one but Dean that she sounded coherent...
"You need to be resting." Sam said in gentle reprimand.
"I AM resting...Tell Chuck to get in here...It sounds like he's freaking out about something." Laney replied.
Chuck was pushed into the room by a mutinous looking Adam, Sarah entered the room behind them and she was shooting Chuck an "if looks could kill" glare.
"I don't know how to tell you all this..." Said Chuck as he brought a hand to his temple."I had a vision...A couple of visions actually...And they WEREN'T good..."
"About us or the end of the world?" Dean asked.
"BOTH." Chuck replied now tears streamed down his face as he looked at Sam then to Adam and wept saying "Sam, Adam I'm SO SORRY, I know how much you suffered...And...I'm just sorry..that this is happening again."
"What do you mean again?" Dean asked in an apprehensive snarl.
"I don't know how but...Michael and Lucifer are free from the cage." Chuck replied wearily.
Sam looked devastated.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Dean yelled as he raged to a stand and stormed at Chuck. "IF THOSE BASTARDS SO MUCH AS LOOK CROSSEYED AT MY BROTHERS I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL GANK THEIR SORRY ASSES!"
"Sam and Adam aren't what they're after...Not at the moment anyway." Said Chuck as he looked around Dean to Laney.
"HER!...THEY WANT HER!" Sam cried out in horror. "HOW DO THEY EVEN KNOW ABOUT HER?"
"They know about her child...And I'm guessing the second it started trying to be born it sent a signal to every supernatural being both good and evil. Including Michael and Lucifer. Just about EVERYTHING is going to be coming for you now." Chuck said flatly as now he had just gone numb with the terror of what he knew his friends would soon be suffering.
"WHY OUR CHILD?" Dean fumed as he gestured to himself, Sam and Laney. "WHY CAN'T THIS DESTINY... "DOUCHBAG! "...GET THE MESSAGE THAT WE JUST WANT TO BE FREE FROM IT?"
Laney sat sobbing silently and reached out needing Dean and Sam. This wasn't fair...It wasn't right...Not for any of them...
Both Sam and Dean cradled Laney between them and the three of them just bawled mournfully. How could they stop an ENTIRE world of both good and evil from coming after their child?
Adam watched as his brothers held the frightened girl...He didn't know or care where his place was in all of this anymore...ALL he had cared about from the second he had found them again was having his brothers back... Now their family...HIS family, all that mattered to him in this world was in danger from something that could not be stoppped and it made his blood boil with fury. . .
Chapter 3
Now all the time that could be afforded to stay in the camp had been spent...Especially since Chuck's theory was Laney's contractions had practically sent a homing beacon to EVERY SINGLE supernatural creature out there and that MOST of those "things" would be coming for her and her child. . . . .
Dean packed up the Impala with everything that he could get his hands on...Because he didn't plan to stop moving any time soon. . . .
Both Adam and Laney assured Sam and Dean that as long as Laney stayed off her feet as much as possible, stayed within reasonably maintained levels of stress and she took her medicines when they were needed that she and the baby would be fine...barring the obvious fact that, that would only be true if nothing found them of course.
Sarah gave Laney a supportive squeeze around her shoulders before Dean scooped her off the bed and carried her out to the Impala.
"You know I don't think that, that was what she and Adam meant by keeping her off her feet as much as possible." Sarah joked as she wrapped her arm around Sam's waist.
"Well if Dean gets his way Laney's feet probably won't touch the ground again till after she has the baby." Sam laughed as they walked out to the car together...
Adam called Behemoth to the car as Chuck came up with a duffle slung over his shoulder.
"What do you think you're doing?" Dean asked looking up from the trunk as he packed the last few things.
"I'm going with you." Chuck replied pointing to his head. "I want to be with you guys if I get any visions. Maybe I'll actually pick up something in time for a change."
"Where are you gonna sit?" Dean asked with an annoyed roll of his eyes.
"Up front with me, Adam and that thing.." Said Castiel pointing to Behemoth as he came up behind Chuck.
Dean stood up apprehensively...He might have been able to forgive Cas but he wasn't gonna be crazy enough to trust him again.
"Not happening..." Said Dean in an agitated tone.
"Dean you'll need someone with you that can at least stand a fighting chance against half of the things that are going to be after her." Said Cas as he pointed to Laney. "You can not run the risk of not having a way to defend her if something you can't fight finds you."
Dean pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head. The security the blood pact provided meant that Castiel couldn't do anything to endanger them.
Dean couldn't believe he was going to have to agree with Cas.
"Fine..." Said Dean angrily then he realized the other things Cas had said and asked "Wait just who do you think is driving MY car?"
"Adam...can drive so you and Sam can sit in the back with the mother of your child." Said Castiel, as if it could be as simple as that.
Dean looked at Laney who just looked up at Castiel from the back seat with an angry look on her face. He could see her mind. She wanted to tell Cas off.
Dean was bemused as he shook his head with a grin and the thought "That's my girl."
"Actually I think I can be cool with letting Adam drive for a while." Said Dean as he slid into the back driver's side seat.
Now Laney looked shocked because she had been certain Dean wouldn't have stood for being told what to do. But Sam was just a few feet away so she couldn't see that Dean was doing it because he actually wanted to be close to her.
Sam kissed Sarah goodbye, promised to keep in touch and to stop by if they could, then he took his place in the back passenger's side seat.
Chuck slid into the middle of the front seat and Cas took his seat and allowed Behemoth to climb up into his lap...
As Adam got in and started the Impala's engine Laney took in the sight of the packed car and joked "Now it's official...We DEFINITELY..WON'T be picking up any more strays."
Dean laughed and kissed her on the top of the head as they drove away. . . . .
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They would wander aimessly...There really were no safe enough places to risk stopping in for more than two hours at a time...So they would just drive cross country taking all the scenic and rural routes so as to bide their time away from civilization as much as possible.
As the sun set on their first day away from the camp Laney looked sleepily up at Dean and asked "Can I lean on you?"
"Always." Dean replied and wrapped his arm around her so that she could nestle her head in the crook of his neck... Dean looked at his watch...It had been four hours since her last dose of the medicine that would stop the contractions...Once again it took her being drugged to get her to actually ask for something for herself outloud. . . . . . .. . . . . . .
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MAY THIRD, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN, THREE THIRTY IN THE MORNING EASTERN STANDARD TIME . . . .
TIFFIN, OHIO...
Malcolm was on a hunt alone when the demon he was exercising went all suped up mojo on him, it was like it had gotten an extra surge of power from somewher, as it broke the devil's trap that held it in place, flung Malcolm across the room and laughed as it said "The child that will rule you all will be ours. It's the end for all of you pathetic little hunters." And with that the demon ripped apart the building and just strolled right out leaving Malcolm barely alive in the rubble. . .
As Malcolm came to the demons words echoed in his ears...What child was it talking about?
Malcolm grabbed his backup cell phone from his glove compartment and dialed Roy...This was definitely something he and Walt would want to know about...
BURLINGTON, ILLINOIS...
Crowley felt the surge of power hit him...The child was going to be very powerful indeed... It was already strong enough to effect the whole planet...But Crowley was going to be smart...Bide his time until AFTER the child was born, only THEN would he stake his claim, because there were things that even he was not fool enough to attempt to mess with until the time was right. . .
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK...
Dick Roman was on business, one of his archaeological digs had gone well, VERY well...And he was just about to claim his prize when a surge of power radiated through him...Just the graze of the power was addictive and Dick knew he just had to have the power's source...
CUMBERLAND GAP, TENESSEE...
He had lost his charge after raising him from perdition...And he cursed Castiel for branding Adam's ribs when he was not his Watcher and it was not his place... But now as he felt power surge through him, Zachariah had a pretty good idea of how he could find his charge...
STULL, KANSAS...
The earth trembled as the power of the prophesized child extended from it's mother's womb and swept across the face of the earth...The ground split open and let lose the fires of hell itself...The cage burst open and Lucifer fled Michael's pressence so that he could live to fight another day.. . . .
Michael gave chase, going as fast as his wings could carry him, but his little brother had always been the fastest flyer and Lucifer escaped...Now Michael knew his only hope in this war would be to obtain the prophesized child before his brother and before anyting else...
CAMP CHAUTAUQUA, JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK...
Gabriel stood in silence and watched as his charge's body began to have trouble containing not only her child's power but her own...He knew Laney would come out of this alright as he had to believe his faith was not for nothing...He felt the power of his charge reverberate through him and the power of her child brought the second wave that carried both powers out to cover the globe, calling out to all creation on some level. . . He put up what barriers he could to keep the source of the power hidden so that nothing could track it right away. . .
Gabriel stayed invisible and silent as he followed at his charge's side and he had to admit he was proud of Dean, Sam and Adam as he watched them care for her...He was proud of his own little brother to...Castiel would be okay again Gabriel just knew it. . . . And it was convienant to say the least that Gabriel was not only the Watcher of the mother of the prophesized child but also the Archangel tethered to the prophet Chuck...Now he could keep an eye on all of his responsibilities at once. . .He just had a few kinks to work out so that he could multi-tasks his "other projects" AND be able to manage keeping "everything" "on track". . . . . . . .. ... . .. . . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. ...
MAY EIGHTH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN, SIX THIRTY IN THE EVENING...
JUST OUTSIDE MUNICH, NORTH DAKOTA...
Adam pulled in to a station to get gas...it was another random stop in their zigzag back and forth, up and down, trail across the country... Dean figures "It's harder to hit a target when it moves in a serpantine pattern...RIGHT?"
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Laney lay against Dean resting peacefully...Dean realized that when he held her while she slept she didn't have so many nightmares..So he had taken to pulling her into him every time she drifted off... Knowing now that she was lucid she would be to stubborn to ask to be held... And HE, LIKED feeling her contentment as he held her close so he wasn't going to give up the comfort he knew he gave her...
The only times he had ever seen Dean treat someone with so much gentleness and love it had always been Sam who was Dean's focus and now over the last couple of days Castiel had been getting treated to the rare sight of the REAL Dean Winchester, the one who could LOVE so deep, so pure and so unconditionally and who CRAVED to share that part of himself with ALL of those whom he cared for. . .Sam had just always seemingly been the only one who had needed that part of Dean until now...
Now the way Dean could love was shared with his whole family and Castiel had never seen Dean happier. During the days Dean would goof off, tease and annoy his brothers and his wife, and honestly they gave as good as they got, and during the evenings he would become gentle and quiet with his brothers and his wife. And whether day or night he ALWAYS kept protective vigil over those he loved.
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Sam beamed a radiant smile at his big brother as he witnessed the way Dean had been transforming all throughout their lives...Somehow beeing what everyone Dean loved needed WAS what Dean needed. And sometimes it had Sam tied up in knots to know his big brother didn't know how to need anything else but that...
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AUTHOR'S NOTE 1: Okay I know I might be complicating things a bit for people with this (I promise EVERYTHING WILL make sense in the end..) but these NEXT "Episodes" They are the whole enchilada IT'S, THESE next upcoming "Episodes" I've written this whole Season for... I hope you like them... (And no it's not going to be over...Yet.. KEEP READING DOWN AS THERE IS ONE MORE "EPISODE" on THIS "DISC" AND ONE MORE "DISC" TO BE PUBLISHED (Maybe more as I may do another "Season") (and I really hope you guys read through cause your gonna need all the stuff COMING UP to understand what's going on next...)(and for all the peed off fangirls who'll be steamed about Dean marrying Laney...I could not have a Saint be an unwed mother... So sorry.)
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