AUTHOR'S NOTE :
THE BIBLE, BOOK OF REVELATIONS CHAPTER 12, VERSES1-6
1:And a great sign was seen in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, she sat upon the earth with the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
2:And she being with child crieth out, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And the earth trembled with her labor pains.
3:And there appeared another sign in heaven; and behold a great red dragon having seven heads (Lucifer 1st head, Crowley 2nd head, Leviathan (Dick Roman) 3rd head, LEGION 4th head, FEAR 5th head, Bad men like Walt and Roy 6th head, and last but not least angels 7th head at least in my story and I think it makes TONS of sense and no they don't all come at once and not always direct interaction with all the heads themselves and not always RIGHT as the child's being born..)(I was thinking of going with the seven princes of hell BUT... I didn't because they each represent their own deadly sin and I'm pretty sure the seven deadly sin dweebs didn't count as princes (Especially since Lucifer's "supposed to be" pride and Satan is wrath and all... AND everyone argues Satan and Lucifer are the same) so SORRY I didn't use the princes of hell all though I'm sure that's what Revelations is refering to and I may do a seperate fic on them later) and ten horns (followers) and seven crowns upon his heads (the head's themselves are rulers of their own groups).
4: And his tail draggeth the third part of the stars of heaven and he cast them to earth: (Meteor shower and the after math) and the dragon (Lucifer mainly) is standing before the woman which was ready to be delivered, in order to devour her child as soon as it was born (some want to kill the child some want to use it as weapon or a leader for their army)
5: And she brought forth a Male child, and that child was the Son of Man (Dean's son) (I'm adding a hidden twin a girl (Sam's daughter and yes that's medically possible it's called Heteropaternal Superfecundation) cause it's part of the story that: NOT EVERTHING that's written is ever truely known) who is about to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child (the boy only) was caught away unto GOD and to his throne. (The girl is a prophesized child as well but no one had known (well some did but I'll get to that later..) she was part of "the plan" She will be the bearer of the first properly bred Nephilim-demon hybrids 1 half and one fourth quarter angel, three fourths human and half a quarter demon but that comes WAY later...)
6: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of GOD, in order that they should provide for her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days (Which equals three years and thirty-six days) (And the placce prepared of GOD is something like the room of requirement from Harry Potter in the fact it will give what she and her daughter wants and needs except for a few obvious things they can't have, and it's invisible and moves from place to place ) (I'll explain in the story...)
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OH and for some FREAKY F.Y.I. Did you know Lebanon, Kansas is the geographical center of the United States? And that it's only a little less than 4 hours away from Lawrence Kansas? And that since when you're facing a map IF you think of America as a person Lawrence is on America's left side (your right is it's left because it's facing you)? So in the terms of a person's body just left of OUR centers are our hearts...Hmmm...(more on that later)
And there will be more AUTHOR'S NOTES LATER...
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Episode 17
"Destiny's Children"
Chapter 1
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MAY THIRD, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN, FOUR IN THE MORNING EASTERN STANDARD TIME . . . .
Roy listened to Malcom as the panicked hunter ranted about a demon amping up on power right before his eyes and how the evil black eyed thing had talked about a child that would be their's...
After weeks of no leads Roy knew this might be the break he and Walt needed to find the abominations they hunted once and for all... Roy had his connections and they were always ahead in the game and they had told him to be looking out for "signs" like this...
Now Roy got his and Walt's friends together and they spread out and worked non stop across the country like a bunch of fisherman's nets with these goal in life...Find Sam Winchester, Kill Sam Winchester and if the rumors were true about his mate then kill her and their offspring as well...
Walt had once argued for all of the possible shades of gray when it came to the things they hunted but now he knew Roy had been right all along...There WAS NO PLACE for shades of gray in the life of hunting...If it was a supernatural monster of any kind it had to die...PERIOD...
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MAY SIXTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...
Dean laughed under his breath as he watched Laney struggling to get the stretchiest of her sweat pants over her hips and he said "Looks like you need some new clothes."
"I think these shrunk in the wash or something...I swear these things fit day before yesterday." Laney sighed as she tossed the last pair of of stretchy pants to the ground in defeat.
Laney was wearing one of Sam's baggier shirts, which provided adequate coverage as she found she had practically hulked out of all of her own clothes over night.
"Well you can't wear just this." Said Dean as he grabbed the sleeve of her shirt and tugged playfully.
"I know, but I have nothing to wear to even go inside a store to get myself something that fits. Talk about pathetic...I haven't even thought about any of this kind of stuff and now it's to late." Laney sighed in frustration.
"Well let's see here...Oh yeah there was going against Crowley, getting a Behemoth for a pet, me being an ass, the blood pact, our marriage, us finding out things in the world are worse than we thought, you almost going into labor and us all having to go on the run... I missed the part where you actually had time to think about this kind of stuff...let alone do any shopping to prepare." Dean replied.
Laney gave a half hearted chuckle and nodded her head asking "So how am I gonna get stuff that fits?"
"I can go get you some things." Adam offered.
"Thanks. But I don't even know my size right now." Laney said.
Adam gave Laney a look up and down and said "I think I'll be able to find to find a few things that fit."
Laney smiled, reached into her duffle and handed Adam a wad of cash saying "Use what's left for supplies."
"It's nice to have a wife that's loaded." Dean joked with a raise of his eyebrows as he helped the now laughing Laney off the trunk of the Impala and over to some blankets he layed out for her in the grass.
Chuck was playing frisbee with Behemoth and Sam sat on a corner of the blanket with his nose stuck in a book while Cas just stood by the dirt road staring at the sky.
"Dude...Really?" Asked Dean as he saw Sam's mind picturing something called an Ammit.
"I have to stay sharp somehow." Said Sam with a laugh as he snapped the book shut.
Laney's face fell flat at his statement. "Oh crap..no...not what I meant." Said Sam apologetically as he realized how he had sounded.
"It's okay...I'm just being hormonal."Laney replied with a sad smile as she climbed onto the blanket beside Sam.
Dean took a seat at Laney's shoulders as she lay down. He started to rub her back soothingly as he could feel her sadness... It really was just hormones and Dean knew that but he still hated it when she got "really" upset...
Sam layed down in front of Laney facing her and took her hand and whispered "I'm really sorry." as he gave her the irresistable puppy dog eyes.
Laney laughed as Sam brushed away her tears saying "I told you it was okay goofbut...Stop apologizing."
Dean beamed a smile down at Laney and Sam...He could see how Sam felt about THEIR girl...Sam loved her...Not like a girlfriend or a sister...It was something MORE than that, but not the same as he himself felt either...It was hard to define how his "little" brother felt about her... The emotion was just to powerful, unbided and PURE...Dean remembered loving someone like that once and now it made sense... The way Laney had cared for Sam...The way Sam could be so childlike, earnest and unconditional with her... And it made Dean happy to know his Sammmy finally felt something he really only ever had just an idea of... His little Sammy was finding out how it FELT to have a mother...
The only person that had only ever been ABLE to be ANYTHING like that for Sam was Dean as Dean ACTED as BOTH Sam's mother and father and had been doing so since the second Sammy was placed in his arms to be carried forth from their firey home over thirty years ago.
Their father was more of an estranged uncle to Sam as he wasn't that big of a presence in his life...Yes Sam had loved their father but it was not for nothing that Sam's first word of "dada" was only for Dean as Dean was the ONLY FATHER Sam REALLY KNEW...Bobby had been more of a grandfather to Sam as he was like a father to Dean and as good as any brother to John... And their mother was just really only an idea to Sam as he had never known her or how it would feel to love and morn more than just the idea of her...
And know Sammy had found the only mother he KNEW as well... It was akward for Dean as he realized that was Laney's place in HIS Sammy's emotions but it wasn't because he minded her being that for him...But Laney was a whole ten years YOUNGER than Sam.. Dean just felt pretty sure that their family dynamics were kind of screwed up...
Sam could hear Dean's thoughts...And as he looked at Laney he realized, he would do just about anything for her, the way Dean would do just about anything for their REAL mother...And Sam lay there, not knowing for sure this was how a child felt for their mother and he cocked his head to look curiously at Dean with the projected bittersweet question of "Really?" as he REALLY did NOT know how it felt to love a mother as he really had never had more than an idea of what having a mother FELT like...
Dean smiled and projected back "Yes REALLY."
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As he shopped Adam found things he knew would fit Laney but he also knew that if he didn't find something else that he was going to be thankful she couldn't kick his ass...
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"Dresses." Said Laney with a mock pout.
"They were on sale and they're all I could find that looked like it would fit you I swear." Said Adam holding his hands out in symbolance of surrender.
They were all bright and summery colors and mostly what would be worn over a swimsuit more than for real clothing but Laney was forgiving because she knew most men weren't really that savy when it came to things like this anyway. Plus Adam had bought a couple pairs of comforable looking slip on shoes and sandles and Laney's swelling feet and ankles shouted for her to be thankful.
"They'll do." Said Laney with a stubborn sigh. But Dean could see that SHE didn't really mind the dresses so much it was just the side of her that was still a tough as nails hunter that was protesting..
Laney changed while the brothers, the angel and the prophet averted their eyes in respect for her privacy.
"It's safe to turn around now." She called.
"Yellow looks nice on you." Said Dean with a genuine smile as he took in the sight of Laney in a yellow ankle length spagetti strap dress.
"Yeah I have to admit this one's my favorite..." Said Laney sarcastically as she kept her arms wrapped around herself.
Dean knew she wanted something to cover her scars and he took off his jacket and wrappped it around her shoulders saying "It's to hot out here for me to wear it but you look like you're feeling chilly...So here."
Dean rumaged through the bags of supplies Adam had bought...There was a book in there on baby names...
"Umm...I think there was one more thing for you in these bags over here." Dean said, uncertain on how he felt about this book... It was just now hitting him how little time they really had...
Laney took the book looking stricken with fear...She felt exactly the same way Dean did...Like there just wasn't enough time.
Sam saw the book and smiled happily before his face fell almost flat at his brother's terrified emotion. "Uhh I was gonna ask what you guys thought about some of the names in there...But...I.." Sam stammered as he opened his mouth and inserted his foot anyway, because sometimes things are like train wrecks you know they're gonna happen you can see them coming but you can't look away and Sam had the worst habit of actually being on the tracks when the train came.
"It's okay." Both Laney and Dean said in unison. Both knowing it was better to think of these things now instead of being unprepared again...
Laney cracked open the book and thumbed through reading aloud some of the names and meanings...
"Who the heck would name their kid Nau-Ten..hea-N-Bout-er..Naut-hen-... Even I dunno how to pronouce some of these but I swear this one almost sounds like Nutenbutter!" Laney stammered as she tried to read out some of the names then hissed in laughter at the ones that sounded funny. "It sucks though cause it has a really cool meaning." Laney pouted. "How come all the names that have the COOL meanings all sound either disgusting or hilarious?" She asked.
"Hey are OUR names in there?" Dean asked perking up excitedly wanting to know what his name meant.
"Um...D. D. D. AH HAH! Dean...Um...Don't think you want to know..." Said Laney trepidatiously.
"Aw come on! What's my name mean?" Dean asked playfully.
"It means valley." Laney replied in monotone.
"What...Let me see that...Oh that's not cool! Valley? REALLY?.. MAN!" Dean whined frustratedly as he handed the book back to Laney in a huff muttering "I bet their names suck to." And he gestured to Sam, Adam and Chuck.
"Um... Adam means.."Man"...simply "Man", "Earth"..That's it. "
"It's still better than valley." Said Dean in mock pout.
"C. C. C... Ah hum.. ppfft..Chuck means "Free man", L. L. Lllll... My name means "Noble", "Torch", "Bright light"... and...S. S. SSsss, tsk.. Sam means "Chosen of GOD", "Sign", "Symbol", "His name is GOD"... Laney trailed off and looked up at everyone else who all looked to Sam in awe.
"Wow Sammy!...You really lucked out!" Dean exclaimed.
Sam looked to the ground blushing...He toed the dirt shyly...That was a lot to take in...Even the meaning of his own name was a big responsibility.
"Do you see anything in there you like for the baby?" Dean asked peering over her shoulder..
Laney thumbed through the book reading out a few more names "UUHH...Maya...Means "Mother", "Great one", "Illusion"...I kind of like that that for a girl or maybe... pfft... Kaia it means "Pure" I REALLY like that for a girl,... Celia "Heaven", Callie "Most beautiful" Candria "Luminescent"... I could name her Kaia Celia and we could call her "K.C." for short cute..Huh?"
"What if it's a boy?" Sam asked sounding amused.
"Sorry...Guess I always wanted a daughter...Kinda got carried away." Said Laney rubbing the back of her neck looking slightly embaressed.
Dean could see that once she got used to the idea of choosing a name for the baby that she had actually gotten excited...He knew whether the baby was a boy or a girl... Laney was going to be happy to be a mom.
"I like Nicholas if it's a boy... It means "Victory of the people" Laney finally replied..."It's kind of the only name I really like for a boy...Funny huh?"...
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Chapter 2
MAY TWENTY-NINTH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN
Scott, Ohio...
Adam had to pull in for gas and Sam got out to stretch a bit... It made Dean wary as a whole bunch of military vehicles rolled past in a big convoy headed South. One thing Dean knew was...when you see something like that roll past and they're all loaded for bear...It does not bode well. .. .. .
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What most don't understand about an angel and their charge is that sometimes a charge comes as part of a packaged deal...meaning an angel may have to interact with certain people that are meant to be in their charge's life...For Gabriel that meant Sam, Dean, Adam, Chuck, Sarah and Laney's child...For Castiel that meant John, Adam, Chuck, Sarah, Laney and her child...And for Zachariah it meant Sam, Dean, Chuck, Laney and her child...As part of a packaged deal other mortals and even another angel's charge might have to be "coaxed" in the right direction so that all those in the package would hit certain pivotal moments that ensured desired interaction between each other...
And even though Zachariah knew, that certain things that happened had, had and served their purposes, it still didn't stop him from getting a chapped ass about all of it... And obviously he felt he had no blame to shoulder when it came to the matters of the things he himself had done except when it came to inflicting pain on his own charge that had bothered him...BUT orders are orders...
His trail had run cold and he knew his charge would soon be coming to a chasm that should not be crossed without his Watcher there. . . .But the only way he would find Adam now would be to wait untill the child started to try and come forth again...
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AUGUST TWENTY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN...
Zachariah was finaly allowed to retrieve his charge from perdition...why it was only just now he didn't know and he was a little fired up to say the least that out of all the people to be raised from perdition that Adam was one of the only ones that never deserved to go there in the first place and he had been left there longer than his brothers who did deserve at least SOME hell time for all the things they've pulled...
Of course Zachariah did take it a little to personally when Dean kept his promise and actuallly stabbed him in the face...Just because Michael brought him back and everything was put right again didn't make Zachariah any less pissed at both Sam and Dean...If they had just done as they were told...BUT NO!... They HAD to go about things the HARD way and now his charge had gone to hell and suffered for it and even suffered by his Watcher's own hand which made things worse...
Zachariah spirited Adam's body and soul from perdition and regretfully could not reveal himself out of shame for his past disgressions against his charge. . . .
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He followed his charge closely for months, protecting Adam like any good Watcher would do...And it was easy to do so long as he never left Adam's side because Castiel's infernal and infuriating rib branding would prevent him from finding his charge should Adam ever leave his sight..Then one day Adam just literally VANISHED, RIGHT from under Zachariah's nose and Zachariah hadn't been able to find him since . . . .
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Dean wanted to find a hotel to check into for just a couple of hours so they could all check out the news...He knew the odds of finding ANY kind of REAL news but the need to know what was going on in the world was just to strong. . .
Dick Roman had apparently lost some of his hold over the media or maybe he just no longer cared to control it as it was blatantly obvious now even to the "NORMAL" people that the world WAS NOT void of REAL monsters...
Images of people infected with the Croatoan Virus were streaming live out of Adalaj, Gujat, India,... Tianjin, China,... and Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, Africa...Apparently this was becoming common place world wide...It just hadn't been reported in the United States...YET
The infected acted like zombies straight out of a Romero flick...The chased down innocent uninfected civilians and tore into them with fingernails and teeth ripping them to shreds...
It was nauseating but Dean forced himself to watch anyway...THIS is what the world was coming to..And there was NOTHING he, his brothers or even all of the hunters in the world combined could do to stop it. . . .
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MAY TWENTY-NINTH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN
Scott, Ohio...
Malcolm's end of the trail on the newest "thing" he and his friends were hunting had gone cold a few states back and he called Walt and Roy for support...
"Look we've got no leads either, we're not far from where you are...Let's meet up someplace and put our heads together on this thing...Maybe we'll come up with something." Said Roy's voice on the other end of Malcolm's phone.
Malcolm sat in the cafe of the little town when he heard the rumbling of a massive vehicle passing...He turned as well did other patrons in the cafe and they watched as the ominous sight of a fully loaded military convoy passed... Malcolm and a few other patrons stepped to the door of the cafe to look on after the large trucks...And once the last of the trucks had passed Malcolm stood with his mouth hanging open as he seen a man who's picture had been passed amongst the groups of his friends...He pulled out his own copy just to be sure and it was him alright...
Sam Winchester stood next to a shining, black, beauty of a car stretching out his shoulders and cracking his neck before taking a seat in the back of the car...
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Roy couldn't believe his ears as Malcolm told him he had found their abomination and that it stood right across the street from him at a Gas-N-Sip...
"Stay on his tail..DON'T try to take him on alone...We'll be there shortly." Said Roy.
"You may want to bring backup..It looks like he has a few people with him...They could be trouble." Said Malcolm as he took note of the others in the car and of the driver that came out.
"How many people we talkin?" Asked Roy.
"Looks like five others and a mungrel to boot." Malcolm replied with a laugh as he thought it wouldn't be so hard to deal with just five people, one monster and a dog...
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Adam's mind was going a million miles a minute...The world was quite literally going to hell around them and he couldn't help the despair that welled up inside him...He looked to his brothers who looked just as scared as he felt..
Chuck looked on in horror...Like Dean he had to force himself to watch. And like Dean he had to come to grips with the fact that nothing could be done.
It felt like the last of days were truly upon the world.
Castiel just watched in curiousity... Humans were still creatures that confused him no matter how many interactions he had with them...Here most of these mortals sat looking like they felt all hope was lost...Looking like they might give up, stop fighting and just let their fates be what they were...
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Crowley was pleased...Humans were so easy to play...All he had to do was have a few of his minions infiltrate a group of hunters that were hell bent on destroying evrything that carried a supernatural label...Then he filtered in the manipulation via his underlings... And Crowley liked having his bases covered so he made sure to turn everyone he could against any of the Winchesters whenever possible...It wasn't personal he just liked knowing he had... backup plans for if he needed OR wanted them..
"Sir...The Winchesters are back on our radar." Said one of Crowley's minions.
"What'd they screw up this time." Crowley drawled boredly like whatever it was it wouldn't come as a surprise.
"Nothing I'm aware of Sir..But a call just came down the wire that they were spotted by some hunters. And you did order tha.." The menion said.
"Oiy bollocks I've completely forgotten about those militiaed red necks!" Crowley interupted frustratedly. "What was said?"
"They've found Sam Winchester and they're setting up a strike to take him and his party out." The minion replied.
"Those morons need to be stopped before they ruin everything!...Wait party?...Did they say how many people?" Crowley asked.
"Six Sir...And I believe a dog was also mentioned Sir." Said the minion.
"On second thought...Give me all the details of the strike..." Said Crowley with a delighted grin on his face...He was going to use this attack on the Winchesters as a diversion to get ALL the things he coveted.
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Dean finally turned off the television set...They had already stayed in this place to long as it was and they needed to get moving again.
He had strengthened his resolve again...Moments ago he felt ready to throw in the towel...But that convoy meant that not everyone on the higher parts of the chain of command were under Dick Roman's rule...
Something like that convoy and like what Sarah had done meant there were still people out there fighting even when they didn't always know what is was they were against, there were people still going to arms and they were still people, caring about and trying to protect the innocent...And he was not going to just give up on that.
That's what the Winchesters' specialties are saving people, hunting things and now that was Dean's soldier's creed...And he would not forget that again...
Sam knew all the color was probably gone from his face...Seeing that carnage put his already frayed mind in places he didn't think it could crawl out of but that was the part of him that was mere mortal man...The part of him that was a hunter told his mind to get it's act together because this was a war the world could not afford to lose...And he was a fighter that knew the majority of it's enemies...
Adam hadn't been in "this life" nearly as long as his brothers and he didn't know where to begin on trying to grasp the level things had gotten to...But he did know that if his brotheers stayed in this fight then so would he and they could just figure it all out as they went along.
Chuck's mind reeled from the horrors emblazoned in his mind long after the television screen went black...a world full of fear and devastation...All for what?...The apocolypse?...Destiny?Well the apocolypse could kiss his ass and Destiny could go screw itself...Because he was not going to just sit on the sidelines and watch this time...He was going to fight..
Humans were indeed complex beings and they never ceased to surprise and amaze Castiel with how quickly they could rebound from the most severe of desolations and rise up to be the warriors the world needed...
When the television had first clicked on Laney couldn't believe the shear chaos that was being endured world wide... The world was going to need all the help it could get...And it didn't matter if what inflicted itself upon the world COULD NOT BE BEATEN...She was still going to stand against it for as long as possible...
Dean could see Laney's mind. She didn't care if there was a hope to be had or not...She would stand and fight as long as she could no matter what. And he thought with a smile "That's my girl."
Everyone took their seats in the Impala and Adam pointed her West unaware that just out of sight there was someone tailing them...
Word came over the wire that an angel may be traveling with the group...And that didn't matter to either Walt, Roy or Malcolm...angels were just as much monsters as anything else they hunted, there really were NO exceptions...
It was a good thing Roy knew a thing or two about angels...He didn't know how to kill them...But he did know how to send them away and that would buy the needed time to end the abomination...
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Crowley had always known that Sam Winchester had an angel's grace it wasn't a secret to most beings what Azazel had been before he turned and he knew Gabriel had been foolish enough to activate Sam's and the mother of the prophesized child's graces...It had taken just one look at them to know because it's not exactly like they knew how to cloak themselves at the time...Crowley knew an angel banishing sigil would not dispell them BUT IT WOULD weaken them temporarily and that would give him the precious time he needed to get close to the girl. . .Her child was close enough in gestation to take safely from it's mother's womb and Crowley didn't want to waste the opportunity to get ahold of such a powerful weapon that could be raised to do his bidding. . . .
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Chapter 3
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MAY THIRD, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...
Michael knew he needed a vessel...But Castiel's infernal mark hid the only two LIVING beings that could contain him...It was a good thing he had someone dead on hand. . .
John Winchester had been cremated and there was no body left to inhabit...But what most do not know about angels is they have the power to create...not out of nothing, like their father and no where near their father's level of power but they COULD create... All they needed was a memory and a thought along with a little D.N.A. which from John Winchester was really easy to obtain as there was hardly a place in this country the man hadn't shed blood. . .
Michael had no challenge getting John's vessel formed...It was empty...But John had already said "YES" once so he did NOT need further consent..The only downfall an empty vessel was not as strong corpially as one with a human soul within it...But the upside was physically it would hold up better than Adam's vessel would have over the long period of time he would probably have to ride in it.
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Lucifer needed a vessel and luckily the one he'd used before Sam was buried so it wasn't hard to raise. .
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The idea was to follow the abomination and wait for backup...But the vehicle in which the abomination rode never stopped moving...Malcolm called Roy as he was growing impatient with the waiting...He could take them on his own.
"I said to stand down." Roy growled. "We have a few groups setting up to head them off...They're backtracking towards you. We're about fourty minutes from your position..Bringing up the rear.. Just don't lose them."
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"Dean...We've got trouble." Said Adam as he pointed at three vehicles taking up the road ahead, they were barrling right towards them without signs of slowing down...And while it could be just a group of rowdy youths drag racing down this strip of otherwise deserted road it was still trouble because it seemed they were in the playing chicken mood. .And both sides of the road was bordered by steep drop offs so there was no safe place to get off at...
"Try honking the horn...Show 'em were not in the mood to play." Said Dean as he took inn the sight of the cars headed towards them.
But soon it was clear that this was not just a group of rowdy kids as Dean looked back and seen three more vehicles barrling down on them from that end as well...
A man climbed halfway out of the passanger side window of the middle car behind them placed his hand on that car's door, Castiel disapeared and both Sam and Laney went limp... The man that sat hanging out of that car's window now started shooting at the Impala's tires...And he was a good shot. . .
Adam started to fishtail out of control as the front passanger's side tire exploded. ..Thankfully he managed to stear into the skids and that was enough to keep them away from the dangerous edges. . .Adam managed to bring the Impala to a stop...And the six vehicles that bore down on them slowed to a hault and most of their occupants flashed guns from the cover the now open doors provided. . .
Thirteen men seven from one side six from the other walked towards the Impala some of them brandishing shotguns and others small machine guns, they tored open the doors of the Impala and pulled everyone out... Dean, Sam and Laney all recognized Walt and Roy the second they layed eyes on them... All the human occupants of the Impala gave there captors hell only to have the but of a shotgun smacked into the back of their heads...
Now the still struggling and angrily shouting Dean, Adam and Chuck were being forced one direction and the still stuggling and angrily shouting Laney and Sam were being forced in another. . .Laney tried to fight back with her mind the way she had with Crowley's demons but whatever had caused her that momentary power then was not happening for her now, so she fought her captors with her combat skills only to have a bullet planted squarely in her left shoulder, which oddly barely tickled, by one of the men that was out of her reach and perched behind the safety of cover, so getting to him without getting shot again by him or the others would be a problem... Chuck and the brothers all stilled their struggling at the sound of the shot and they all screamed in rage to see blood pouring freely from the wound in Laney's shoulder.
Behemoth growled menacingly and one of the men shot the dog only to find the beast lunging at him knocking him to the ground unconscious...Now a few others opened fire on the dog as well... None of the men learning their lesson as NONE of their bullets didn't even phase it. . .
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?" One of the men shouted.
Another man threw an incediary grenade at the dog and when it exploded the dog errupted into flames and that man called out "Doesn't matter it's dead now!" As the yelping dog turned to smoldering remains.
Sam was being pulled towards one of the cars at the front of the Impala and Laney was being pulled towards another while Dean was pulled to a vehicle to the back of the Impala while Chuck and Adam were pulled seperatley to the others...
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The stress of things threw Laney into having contractions and they were STRONG...they sent both Laney and Dean to their knees as they were both within Sam's range. . .
Dean was sure just this pain would kill him as he had NEVER felt ANYTHING even close to this level of pain before . . .
The men pulling Laney had no mercy as they drug her...shreading the fabric of her yellow dress along with her skin against the rough texture of the asphalt...
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The ground quaked and lights flashed in the sky as chunks of rock passed burning into the atmosphere...The earth split open in places including right there in the road...
Sam used the distraction to get a gun from one of his captors and he got a few hits in for good measure. Adam and Chuck used the distraction as well and though they didn't turn the tables in their favor they did at least get the momentary illusion that they were gaining the upper hand. . . .
Laney's contractions hit again and both she and Dean went writhing in the pain they caused...
And the ground gave a tremendous rumble as bright white lights streaked across the sky and clouds of black smoke manifested around Laney...
There was a thunderous crash in the sky as the white lights hurdled towards the black smoke and knocked them away from the girl...
Crowley went tumbling end over end as he was knocked away by Lucifer.. .
Walt, Roy, Malcolm and all of their men started opening fire at all of the newcomers that neared them...
This was not going the way the King Of Hell had planned...
The angel banishing ward had worked to disable the girl's grace but he hadn't got here in enough time to make that any use to him and now Lucifer was taking advantage as he pulled the pained girl from the ground and with a resounding "WHOOSH!" of wings he had taken her. . .
What angels and demons that followed Lucifer went round and round with Crowley's minions and his group was on the ropes as they snarled, growled and hissed with all the fury of hell...
Crowley could not spare time to cease the slaughter of his followers...There was always more where they came from anyway...He instead gave chase after the power's source and he wasn't the only one as Michael zipped passed him hurdling after the beacon the child emmited. . .
Both angels had foregone the fact their vessels had been right there in favor of obtaining the girl and Crowley had been counting on Sam and Adam providing a momentary distraction should they show for her...Apparently her child was more important than even he realized...
Sam, Adam and Chuck watched in anger as Dean and Laney pitched and wailed on the ground in pain and as their captors having no mercy continued to drag their loved ones sparing no thought to the grating of the road against their skins...Anger turned to horror as the vibrations in the earth increased and a battle between angels and demons erupted around them...
They witnessed the terrible sight of Laney being spirited away by Lucifer. . .
The second Laney was taken Dean was released by the excruciating pain her contractions caused. . .
Dean reeled from a strong nausea, lightheadedness and lethargy with the pain's aftermath and as he came up shakingly from the ground he took in the terrors before him...
Castiel charged into the fight now and he made a straight line for Sam, Dean, Adam and Chuck gathering them to him and wisking them to someplace safe from the thick of the battle... ... ... ... ... .. .. .. .. .. . . . ... . .. .. ...
Laney had been so paralyzed by the pain she couldn't move, couldn't fight back or pull away as her captors drug her across the harsh ground...She could only scream with the next contraction to rip through her body...She could only tremble in fear as a bright silvery figure that was inside a vessel that she recognized from Dean's life to be the vessel Lucifer had used before he'd taken Sam...Reached for her and took flight with her.
She watched as the ground sped under her, She watched the rapid beating of the beings silvery wings as he clutched her pained body to him and with a resounding crack they were shot through space and time and the warping nature of the act caused Laney to pass out.
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She was gone the mother of their child was gone...taken by Lucifer...Sam and Dean raged in their devastation...
Castiel had set them safely out of the range of the fight and all he could do was watch helplessly as his charges screamed to the heavens until they were hoarse then they wrapped their arms tightly around each other and went to the ground on their knees in grief together just holding one another for the support they both needed...Adam went to his brothers' sides, collapsed beside them and shared the burden of their despair as he wrapped his arms around them both.
Chuck could do nothing but clutch his head in the shame that he didn't see this part of things coming...It was supposed to happen diferently...EVERTHING was supposed to be okay...
Gabriel had been banished along with Castiel and now as was able to return he found that he was to late to do anything, his charge had been taken by Lucifer of all beings and Gabriel was furious as he had been ordered to stand down until further notice...
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He felt the power again felt it surge through him just like before only it was even stronger this time and Zachariah was certain that if he could make it to the source on time he would find his charge...
Leviathan aren't like angels or demons they can't "WHOOSH", "FLASH", "POP", or smoke to anyplace they want to go they have to actually travel by "NORMAL" methods, except when they're in their fluid forms, then they can use any methods by which water moves, but that requires a lot of coordination and losing the forms which they used and Dick Roman liked the form he used right now...So he traveled by the same means a lowly mortal would use... But that didn't mean he didn't have some of his underlings out there using the waterways...
Dick had, had the best of his followers work on a way to track the powere he'd felt's source and now he'd felt the surge again...This time he would find the source and take the power for himself...
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Laney thought she was literally in the vastness of space as she came out of her dazed state...There were stars above her and stars below her and it was quiet...
Her arms were bound by her wrists down close to her hips...Then she realized she sat upon the ground...The stars below her were reflections on the surface of a body of water. She looked down to her wrists on each side trying to see what she was tied to...Roots of had sprung from the ground to wrap themselves around her wrists and the roots had climbed up her back forcing her to sit up and effectively keeping her from pulling away from her perch...There was no way to escape...
She was bound on a small ledge over hanging a lake. Her rump rested right on the edge with her legs dangling over, her toes nearly touching the water and she could see her reflection in the water as the light of an unseasonably full moon hung shining brightly in the sky...The constelations were also out of place as Virgo was almost directly above her...
"I see you've finally come to." Said a patient gentle voice and now Lucifer came into her view.
Laney recoiled apprehensively.
"I promise you have no reason to fear me." Said Lucifer soothingly as he saw the girl's apprehension...
"Right no reason to fear you...It's not like you have me tied down or anything." Laney retorted.
"Only a precation my dear...I can't have you trying to do something foolhearty... Now can I?" Said Lucifer.
"What exactly do you want with me?" Laney hissed through chattering teeth...
"Aww precious, sweet sweet precious girl." Said Lucifer as he came to sit beside Laney. "I can sense your innocence and really it's irresistable to not try to corupt such a virtuous thing like you."
Now Lucifer ran a finger over Laney's jaw. "I wouldn't mind to have a strong spirited thing like you as my evil minxy little concubine...But this is not the time nor place for such business... We'll have plenty of time for that later.. Once your child is mine"...
"You're not touching my child." Laney growled.
"I don't believe you'll get a choice in that matter." Lucifer crooned as he placed his fingers under Laney's jaw and forced her to face him "I won't bring any harm to you or your child... You'll come to see in time I'm really not such a bad guy and you may actually come to like me."
"Doubtful." Laney said with a pained shudder as a contraction hit her hard...
She tried not to cry out, she didn't want to give Lucifer the satisfaction of knowing she was helpless.
"You, me and baby makes three... What do ya say?" Asked Lucifer as he placed his hand on Laney's stomach.
"I will make you my queen and your child will be the ruler of ALL Mankind... When I take my rightful place as ruler of heaven." Said Lucifer as he felt the rush of power that radiated from the child when it's mother had another contraction during his touch...
"Not intrested!" Laney shrieked through the pain.
"When I take my father's throne I can give you ANYTHING...EVERYTHING you would never want or need for anything ever again!" Lucifer sighed longily offering her everything in creation with the gesture of his hand...
"Your selling a pipe dream and I'm not exactly in the plumbing business...There isn't anything you can offer me that I'd take!" Laney groaned from the delirium the contractions were starting to cause...Her mind wasn't going to be able to hold up to this onslaught of pain much longer.
She screamed to the sky as the moon shifted to reflect in the water beneath her feet and the constalation Vigo moved directly over her head...
She could feel the child slip into the birth canal, her body was working against her...
Sudenly Lucifer was not the only force present as an angel riding the vessel of a man that Laney recognized as Sam and Dean's father chased after the now fleeing Lucifer...
There was the sound of movement from all around her and Laney turned her head side to side frantically as a whole town's worth of people were closing in on her and they ALL had the eyes of LEGION...
There were columns of black smoke writhing together like a nest of snakes as they streaked across the sky to face of against LEGION... White streaks of light soared through the sky at Mach speeds breaking the sound barrier and creating a thunderous earth shattering racket as they split into two groups and zoomed in towards both the columns of smoke AND towards LEGION...
The water at Laney's feet turned tar black and she pulled her feet up hastily and as far as she could as the water boiled up as if trying to grab her...
Lucifer came bolting across the sky and he fought the water back as the head of Laney's child started to crown...
She tried not to push..She really did...But her body had a mind of it's own and she felt torn in two as the pain wratcheted through her... Laney couldn't keep her head together any more, her body was loosing strength fast and her soul was weeping as Lucifer stood ready to deliver her child...
She couldn't stop fighting she wouldn't let any of these monsters get their claws in her child...
Something in her soul stirred...It was like what grace that lay within her kicked back online and bright white flames erupted around her and surged forth like a ripple going out on all sides with her in the center...Whatever the force was it was explosive and it knocked all the "things" warring around her to the ground...It made her skull feel like it had split in half but it was worth it and she used what coherency she had left to muster everything she could find within herself to rally inside her in attempt to make it stronger...She was putting her entire life force into saving her child... ... ... ... . . . . .
Chapter 4
Sam and Dean were NOT going to give up on the mother of their child...And Adam wasn't going to give up on his brothers OR his sister...
Castiel knelt at the place where Behemoth had burned...The beast had sacrificed itself for the protection of his charges' child and he was not going to let Behemoth's death be in vain...So he took what reminants of the creature that still lay smoldering on the ground and wrapped them in a cloth from the trunk of the Impala...
The area was desimated. Small impact craters scorched and pot marked the ground, the bodies of the fallen littered the road and the fields, and whatever beings that survived the fight whether they be angel, demon or human had long since fled...
Dean worked, changing the punctured tire and patching a hole in the Impala's gas tank that one of Walt and Roy's men had probably put there with their stupidity of firing at all of the angels and demons with regular bullets...
Adam worked a tracking spell as Castiel was cut off and could not sense the child's power like all of his brethren and all of the other supernatural creatures...And Chuck was not picking up ANYTHING in terms of visions. . .
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A beacon of power sprung forth from Americas's heartland and it called to every being in creation...It's powers tore usunder the fabrics that veiled the world of the supernatural from mere mortals' sights and now EVERYONE EVERYWHERE could see a "monster" for it's true form. . . .
Some people rose against those creatures going after "people" that had once been their neighbors, friends or even kin... not caring that SOME of those "things" had always lived a peaceful life...
Some people fell to their knees offering servitude for the sparring of their lives even to SOME of the "things" that had never threatned them before...
Others fled from the horrors around them...The entire planet had just officially become a madhouse. . . ..
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Adam's tracking spell had led to Clinton Lake,... Lawrence, Kansas and Dean remembered Chuck's words from when he had been searching for where the fight for the apocolypse would take place "It has to end where it began I guess." . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . ... ...
Dean was wondering if Laney was in Sam's range as he could see what lay inside of Sam.
"Dean..." Adam choked out "What are those things?" Dean followed Adam's outstretched finger...He was pointing out of the back passanger's side window to what looked like from what Dean could remember from Laney's life like a family of shifters... They could of passed for "NORMAL" if Dean couldn't see what lay underneath and suddenly Dean realized Adam could see them to and by the looks of things so could Chuck and Sam who looked down at himself... Sam had known ths is it what Laney saw EVERY TIME she looked at him and he knew Dean had seen the same thing from Laney's mind as he could see what he looked like to Laney through Dean's mind...But seeing it for himself with his own eyes...There are no words to describe the dread it caused in him...
They all took in the sight of the streets full of creatures and people fighting or fleeing for their lives ...
CLINTON LAKE, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. ..MAY TWENTY-NINTH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...ELEVEN FIFTY AT NIGHT CENTRAL STANDARD TIME...
Dean had just pulled into the area of the lake Adam's tracking spell had had pinpointed when he saw a wave of white light and it was so bright just like an angel's grace and Dean had to shield his eyes as did Sam, Adam and Chuck... The force of the current rocked the Impala ...The second the light abated Dean and the others began to move...They had what weapons that might prove useful already at hand and they charged to the point the light had radiated from...
All around them lay fallen angels, demons and two types of other creatures that Dean had never seen through Laney's life or eyes... And there was Laney bound to the earth by roots...There was a BRIGHT WHITE pulsing light inside her core and Dean could feel her power as he he watched both the silvery veil that rested over the being inside her grow thicker and the being it rested over mutate into something difrent and become seemingly stronger right before his eyes..
He charged towards her as did Sam, Adam, Cas and Chuck...
Her body was pitching forward as she cried out in agony...Somehow Dean managed to keep forward momentum even through the groin splitting pain.
Lucifer came up from where the power of the child's mother had knocked him out...Her power had completely sacked him and he could feel her recharging for another attack...The child's head was just coming fully forth alll Lucifer had to do was reach out and catch it as it was born..
Seemingly out of nowhere Adam, Sam and Dean tackled Lucifer to the ground as Castiel started to fight the other angels and demons that had woken up and started to regroup their efforts at getting the girl's child for themselves or their masters. And Chuck stood there not knowing what to do as he saw the baby's shoulders passing from the womb...He couldn't just let the baby fall so he reached out and grasped the child as it slid out...
Chuck marveled at the tiniest little wonder he'd ever seen. It was possibly by instinct alone that Chuck moved almost automated cleaning the child's airway and ensuring it could breath and as the tiny little premature baby mewled out it's cries Chuck beamed a radiant smile COMPLETLY forgetting ALL of the chaos around him and he shouted happily "It's a boy!" as he cut the umbilical cord with a pocket knife.
John Winchester "WHOOSHED" in at Chuck's side placed a hand on his shoulder and with a flash of wings...John Winchester, Chuck Shurly and Laney's son Nicholas Winchester were gone. . . . She screamed in grief and rage as the strength of her grace ebbed away with her life force...
Lucifer screamed his rage as he tore from the ground, the woman's attack had weakened him more than he knew as three mere mortals had held him at bay and now Michael had the child...
In his rage his power grew, but even by a mortal's standards he was still not quite fully up to par and he had to catch Adam off guard before throwing him to the ground and knocking him unconscious then he tore towards the woman, she would pay the price for costing him the weapon that would have guaranteed him his throne... But Lucifer froze as he saw the head of ANOTHER child crowning at the exit of the woman's womb... He didn't know how this could be he didn't care...But he did know this child was equally, if not MORE, powerful than it's twin and he was going to obtain it if it was the last thing he did... Sam lunged onto Lucifer's back...Dragging him back from Laney...
Castiel was fighting against hoardes of demons and angels.
Dean was in IMMENSE PAIN...But he couldn't stop fighting... Dean came up from the struggle with Lucifer and started fighting demon after demon laying waste to them with Ruby's knife and angel after angel killing them with an angel's blade as they broke over the line that Castiel held. He watched as Sam tackled Lucifer effectively keeping him from going after Laney.
Adam lay unconscious, and Chuck had disapeared along with Laney's son and of all things Dean had seen that it had been the form of his own father that had taken them... And Laney lay in agony as contractions still kept coming and then Dean saw the crowning of ANOTHER child's head and he rushed to her... He could not bear to witness as this child was lost as well...
Dean knelt beside his laboring wife...The world was crashing down around them...It felt like this was kind of it...The End the Big Finale...And Dean grabbed Laney's hand...HE could feel her pain, her grief, her anger...her worst FEAR had just come to pass one of her children was gone...probably forever.. and Dean could feel her life force was truely fading.. Dean shed his tears openly...He couldn't free her from the roots that bind her and he hated himself when he looked to her and told her "I need you to push."
Laney nodded sobbing hard wailing "Dean...I'm sorry!...OOAAGGHH! GOD I'M SO SORRY! OUR SON'S GONE...I FAILED! I'M SO SORRY!" As she pushed on the contraction the baby slid a little more and now it's head was free... Laney couldn't push anymore and she fell back exausted...
"It's okay... It's not your fault.. You COULDN'T stop it from happening.." Dean groaned as her pain left him... His heart was as broken as hers but he knew neither of them were to blame and he couldn't let her do that to herself. "You have to focus...On...On what you CAN DO...AND YOU CAN HAVE THIS BABY...I'm here now, I won't let anything bad happen to either of you I SWEAR!"
Laney cried even harder her body trembled with pain and terror but she bravely nodded her head and Dean knowing that she was putting the ultimate trust in him in this moment took position to deliver THEIR child...
Dean knew what to do...He'd figured out some time back that EVERYTHING Laney knew was something HE, KNEW as well as he had seen EVERYTHING she had EVER learned...He had just never applied any of it...
Now Laney pushed with everything she had left..Dean could feel her fading fast... The shoulders of the child were finaly coming free... A loud scream behind him told him Sam still had Lucifer on the ropes...And screams, hisses and howls all around them told him the battle still raged around them as he pulled the tiny child free from it's mother's womb...
Dean cleared the infant's airway and it was the sweetest sound he'd ever heard when the tiny little premature girl whimpered with her very first breath... He placed his free hand reasuringly on Laney's shoulder and gave her a small smile.. There was a commotion behind him that commanded his attention he turned to see that Lucifer had gotten the upper hand and now Sam was in danger...
But before Dean could think or do ANYTHING a bright white light encased him, Laney and her daughter and with a "FLASH!" everything disapeared and Dean found himself, Laney and her little girl in a meadow seemingly in the middle of nowhere just outside of a small rugged shack... ... .. .. ... ... ... .. . . . .
Gabriel "WHOOSHED" in next to Laney saying absolutely nothing as he grabbed her and Dean and drug them towards the shack...Dean clutched the little girl within his arms tighter as he just knew this ASSHAT had finally betrayed them and he would die before he let the child be pried from his arms by anyone other than her mother or his brothers...
Gabriel kicked open the door to the shack, shoved Dean inside with Laney right behind him...
Now Gabriel looked in on them from the doorway and addressed Laney saying "This place will give you what you need and SOMETIMES what you want as well...You will be provided for here for a thousand two hundred and threescore days...You and your child CAN NOT leave until then and you will NOT be able to stay any longer than THAT exact amount of time. " Said Gabriel commandingly pointing at Laney then he turned to Dean pointing towards him and said "As for you...It is your choice whether you stay or go...BUT KNOW THIS...IF you leave you will never be able to find this place again... and she and her child will have to seek YOU out if it is their choice to find you after it is time for them to leave this place."...
"SO CHOOSE WISELY!" Commanded Gabriel and with a flash of wings he was gone...
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THIS IS THE END OF "DISC" 5 ...OKAY! OKAY! I know I'm EVIL... (PLEEASSE DON'T HATE ME!) BUT that was supposed to be the "Season Finale" Cliffhanger...I AM going to post one more "DISC" as this story IS NOT OVER BY ANY MEANS... And there's totally gonna be a SWEET make you bawl your friggin eyes OUT Epilouge at the REAL end so stick with me people!...
OH AND REVIEWS ENCOURAGE ME TO WORK FASTER! (hint hint!)
