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Pure Ones Supernatural

Supernatural Season...?

"DISC" 6

Episode 18

"Evolutionary scale."

Chapter 1

CLINTON LAKE, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. ..MAY TWENTY-NINTH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...ELEVEN FOURTY-EIGHT AT NIGHT CENTRAL STANDARD TIME...

It was all happening to fast to take in... He had come to his charges side just in time to see the burgening potential of HER power...And SHE was POWERFUL even in this weakened state.. As the damaging wave that she expeled from her rippled over the land sacking EVERYTHING including him and it took everything he had just to remain out of sight in the etherial.

His charge was there before him and he was RIGHT there and unable to do anything to help her as Michael swooped in and took her son while she was to weak from the attack to put any effort into stopping him...He watched as Dean delivered her SECOND child which quite honestly came as a surprise even to Gabriel...Dean put his hand on his charge's shoulder reasuring her that indeed her daughter was fine...Then the ruckus of the fight still going underway pulled even his attention away as in a flash Lucifer broke free from Sam by throwing him haphazardly to the ground with a sickening crunch...Gabriel was certain that a few of Sam's bones had just been shattered as the large mass of a man crumpled to the ground...

THEN in a blink literally a BLINK Lucifer was barriling towards the woman...

Gabriel watched in both horror and amazement as his charge's power, everything that she had been reserving to protect her child, but had just been to weak to expel as her life force ebbed away NOW...EXPLODED from her in a bright white light...And she was flying...FLYING as wings burst from her grace and carried her forth from this place transporting Dean and her child with her...And she was FAST...FASTER than even Lucifer could be on his best days...Faster than them ALL on ANY GIVEN DAY..

And the last thing Gabriel saw before he was finally strong enough to follow the fading life force of his charge that beckoned him was Lucifer screaming in his immense RAGE as he turned to Sam Winchester conceding to collect at least a consolation prize for his failed efforts of obtaining something as powerful as one of those children... ... . .. .. .. . .. .. ... .. .. .. .. . . .

When Gabriel appeared in a meadow next to his charge he had been only slightly surprised to see that she had found this place on her own...ALL angels have STRONG inner instincts to guide them just not ALL CHOOSE to follow them...And since his charge's grace had surged in power that grace's instinct had been what had brought her here...But now she was fading fast again as she had put all that she could've mustertered at the moment into harnising that grace in the attempts to protect her only remaining child.. And with her having already been weakened by pain and loss of blood it hadn't been exactly maintainable for someone that was still MOSTLY only a mere mortal...

Gabriel barely took the chance to give his charge a proper looking over as the place that had been prepared for her lay before him and he needed to haul her and her child through the door as quickly as possible for the sake of the premature infant that lay within the embrace of Dean Winchester's arms...

The second he got them through the door he was about to tell his charge the rules of things...And then he took in the sight of her and imediately felt pity as his poor charge stood before him...There wasn't a single inch of the girl that wasn't quaking in harsh bone rattling tremors... Her wrists were bruised from struggling against the roots that had bound her...She was pale and had blood streaking down her legs...And the grief and pain that ebbed through her...Gabriel could FEEL it, it was so intense ...But he had no grace to spare her for even healing her part way ...As he still hadn't got his grace fully back online yet...SO the only thing he could do was to speak more curtly than he intended and give the decree that his charge was to abide in this place that was prepared for her and her child even if it be against her wish...

Then he turned to Dean and knowing FULLWELL that his charge and her child COULD be alright on their own...Gabriel gave Dean the choice to stay or to leave...and then he left the side of his charge for finding out Dean's decision to either stay or go and the burden of that choice was something that she would have to bear alone... . . ... .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. ..

CLINTON LAKE, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. ..MAY THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...TEN MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT CENTRAL STANDARD TIME...

Adam reeled in the pain he was certain came from a fractured skull...The impact of his head on the ground had not exactly been soft...His vision was hazy but he could make out Sam fighting Lucifer...And Sam was actually holding his own pretty well...Then something in the atmosphere shifted and Lucifer's fist caught just right against Sam's face and even though the force of the blow was still no where near the strength that it could of been it still sent Sam up into the air to crash back down in a seemingly broken heap...

Lucifer turned from Sam and took flight after something that was up on the overhang just out of Adam's sight...There was a flash of light...A scream of rage...Then Lucifer was scooping the unconscious and probably nearly dead Sam off the ground...And then they were gone...

Adam couldn't move couldn't do anything to help...Even now he couldn't sit up and he realized he had probably refractured his rib along with the fractures and breaks of quite a few more bones than he realized... All he could do was just lay there in pain and listen to the sounds of the fighting around him... . .. .. .. . .

There were angels against angels, angels against demons, demons against demons, angels and demons against Leviathan and LEGION was warring against them all.. Castiel was outmatched as his grace had become more frayed apon being banished and the power that had sacked the creatures here had flited away and now Castiel found he stood no chance against the onslaught of EVERYTHING that came at him...He knew he had no choices in the matter other than to retreat or lose his life in this fight...And though Castiel mused with the idea of letting this be his final act amongst the living...BUT...It would not be proper penance to die this way...Castiel saw signs of life from Adam and knew he needed to get him from this place before any more harm could befall him...

So Castiel retreated from the line he held..There was no longer really a purpose to hold it anymore anyway as the woman and both of her children were gone...And he went to Adam's side attempting to spirit him as far away as his tattered grace could manage... .. .. .. . .. ... .. .. .. ... .. . . .. .. .. .. ..

CLINTON LAKE, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. ..MAY TWENTY-NINTH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...ELEVEN FIFTY-TWO AT NIGHT CENTRAL STANDARD TIME...

Sam saw the white light pulsing inside of Laney...He felt her power..And it was breathtaking as it amplified something inside him..Then he saw Lucifer and he was not going to allow him to touch her or the child she was bearing forth..So instinct took hold and he found himself tangled in a mass of the damned Archangel and his brothers as they had all aparently had the same instinct at the same time to charge and tackle Lucifer.. And Sam didn't stop even when he felt his heart sink at the sight of the form of his own father taking Chuck and Laney's son ...He couldn't stop fighting as Lucifer charged to kill Laney in the fury of his defeat..

Then Sam was alone in the fight against Lucifer as Adam was thrown to the ground and lay unconscious and as Dean held what demons and angels that slipped through Castiel's defenses at bay...He fought as HARD AS HE COULD just keeping Lucifer back...And things were a little more than personal for Sam so he enjoyed throttling the weakened Archangel while he could... And everything happened really faster than he could comprehend..Yet things things seemed to go into slow motion as Sam saw Dean charging to Laney's side and he saw that she was bearing forth ANOTHER child...He started fighting even harder as Lucifer struggled to get past him...Then he was hurdling to the ground as Lucifer actually got a good solid hit in and the lights went out...

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Dean stood there holding the tiny baby girl...The fact that Laney's medical knowledge was also his medical knowledge now.. made him he know exactly what he needed to do for the tiny premie...

"Dean give her to me... We'll be fine.. You need to go to your brothers."

Laney's seemingly automated words startled him out of his revelry as he was thinking of all the things he needed to do for the little girl that lay helpless in his arms...

He looked up at Laney who was reaching out desperately for her daughter...Now Dean took in the sight of the child's mother...She had dark circles around her sunken eyes...EVERY inch of her body was shaking violently...Her legs and clothes were covered in blood and she looked as if any moment she may just crumple to the floor..

Regretfully he pulled the child even closer to his chest and pushed Laney away with his free hand moving past her to lay the child in an incubator that sat in the middle of what would be the shack's livingroom floor..Oddly Dean had only just now noticed it...But then again he was almost certain that it hadn't been there before now..

He heard what sounded like a pleading whimper from the child's mother and looked back to see that Laney had turned to face him her arms still outsretched, her bottom lip was pouted out and she was choking back sobs as she begged to hold her daughter...

He hated to do this to the mother of his child... But he knew she wasn't exactly thinking with the part of her brain that knew what IMMEDIATE care the child needed... Right now all she was, was a desheveled wreck of a woman who had suffered SO MUCH and Dean knew how damaging this was for her right now... But the child needed to be placed into the incubator RIGHT NOW...Her mother was going to have to wait to hold her...

As soon as Dean lay the child in the safe confines of the incubator and hooked all of the tubes and wire that needed to be fixed onto and into the tiny girl.. He closed the hatch on the incubator and turned to give the child's mother the medical care she needed...

When he turned Dean took note of the deadened look in Laney's eyes... The defeat that shone from their hollowed depths was heart wrenching.. She just stood there mindlessly still holding out her arms.. Her mind finally starting to shut down from shock...

He knew he needed to work fast for her now that the child was safe and he swept her up off her shaking legs and lay her on a hospital bed that had literally materialized right before his eyes... As Dean checked Laney over he could see what visable wounds she bore were healing before his eyes, albeit very slowly...And he supposed that "whatever" supernatural mojo this place held was finally doing the work that actually IMMEDIATLY benefited those it was "SUPPOSED" to provide and care for...Yet it still seemed to be making her go through the healing process MOSTLY on her own...Dean hated process..

What was strange was he was just now realizing that possibly he really was NOT needed here...This place was "SUPPOSED" to provide for the little girl and her mother and he knew, trusted that, Laney WOULD HAVE been ABLE to come together enough to take care of both herself and the child... Yet choice or not... He wasn't just going to leave neither his wife nor THEIR child in the frail conditions they were in right now... Even if they COULD HAVE been FINE on their own... THAT was something Dean found he DIDN'T trust... The mojo of this place.. He couldn't just leave knowing that the fates he MIGHT be leaving his wife and THEIR child to IF this mojo JUST DECIDED to up and fail or hurt them when they needed it most... So no he WAS NOT going ANYWHERE...ANYTIME SOON... Not as long as they were both so vulnerable...

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CLINTON LAKE, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. ..MAY THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN... FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT CENTRAL STANDARD TIME...

Zachariah had vaulted in toward the beakon of a very STRONG pulse of power and he was counting himself lucky that he'd just missed the cusp of the damage that had rendered the angelic, demonic, or Purgatoric powers of the beings still trying to regather their strengths around him nearly useless... And there was Adam... He was alive...Barely and that infernal traitorous bastard Castiel was gathering HIS charge and taking flight with him on severly damaged wings...

Zachariah would have NONE of it and he knocked Castiel to the ground just outside of the battles radius...

Adam was knocked lose in the struggle and now even though the mere mortal man was almost certainly near death's door he still gathered everything he could muster to crawl towards the sanctuary the Impala could provide...

With every last bit of coherency he could manage he fought back nausea, dizziness, double vision and mind maddening PAIN.. To hotwire his big brother's car and drive himself as far from this place as he could get..

Knowing that if he didn't move now he would lose his charge again and possibly permanatly this time Zachariah was about to leave Castiel to live...to die..it mattered not to Zachariah as he was certain he would never see his little brother again...

Then just as he was distracted Castiel rallied back and tackled Zachariah and allowed Adam to get far enough away so that Zachariah couldn't follow him..

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As he peeled away her blood stained clothing she yelped actually yelped out, and struck out blindly from her semi-conscious state and then with a pant, shudder and a whimper she fell lax again.. With heavily hooded eyes that hadn't ever even opened more than a crack...since the moment she'd stopped being able to keep them from closing only minutes ago.. Dean knew then he'd made the right call in staying as she was weaker than even he had realized..

Dean paused to let her settle.. Laney had become delirous nearly the very second he'd gotten her to the bed...and though she'd fought it, it'd still claimed her Dean gave a shudder at the thought that Lucifer may have done something to her as right now Dean could not completely see her mind..

He did his duty in keeping vigil over both mother and child as "whatever" mojo this place held seemed to take it's sweet ass time in REALLY "caring for them"...

Dean monitored Laney's heartbeat..He didn't know for sure if what he knew was an irregular pattern for a "NORMAL" person was "NORMAL" or not for "whatever" she could be classified as now.. because as he looked at her what was inside her was different yet again.. Thankfully the child was doing well and Dean was pleased to hear the tiny girl's STRONG cries almost everytime he had to to check her vitals or give her the life sustaining medicines and nutrients she'd need to get stronger..

The little girl was as stubborn and willfull as BOTH of her fathers... As she had been a fighter even from just minutes old... And she kept trying to show Dean who was boss when it came to whether or not she would cooperate with the taking of the medicines she'd need to get stronger...Leave it to a Winchester to fight actually getting needed life saving and sustaining treatment...Just like her fathers she apparently did NOT like being doctored... She seemed smart like her mother..her eyes were bright with curiosity and she would look around and take in her surroundings when she was calm.. And she seemed to know Dean.. As already she would look him straight in the face, IN THE EYES, lift up her little hands to him and give a look that demanded he hold her.. And Dean being a sucker for those sweet pleading hazel eyes obeyed...

Dean smiled as he saw his Sammy in this little girl...He'd been spirited and willfull to as a child...Hell ALWAYS really...And Dean knew that this little girl already owned his heart and soul just like HIS Sammy ALWAYS would...

And from the moment Dean gave in to her she in turn began to give in to him... The little girl started to get stronger AND smarter with EVERY passing nano-second and with that came more patience and cooperation as she began to seem to understand that she needed to conceed to her father's will, at least for now...

Dean knew that he couldn't be handling the tiny little premie to much or to often no matter how demanding she could be... So for now he placed the little girl back into the safety of her cocoon and tried not to let it tug at his heart to much when she shot him down with a glance of Sam's pattened puppy dog eyes and gave a disatissfied mutinous whiny pout as he closed the hatch for Dean favored that she get healthy.. over her need to be held.. even if not holding her was probably the hardest thing to refuse either of them...

Dean looked on from his place at the side of his sweet baby girl's incubator at the child's mother who was randomly, feverishly flinching, starting and jumping groaning out with pain and fear as she writhe and twitched in her restless unconsciosness... Weakly crying out things like "Give me back my babies.. Please don't take my babies..Where are my babies?..Are my babies okay?..Please give me my babies." at random throughout her deliruim.. And it hit him like a bullet to the stomach that she was crying out for both of her children like she didn't either know that one was gone or that one was safe.. All Dean could do was hope that if this place was going to really provide for her then it do so already as he was tired of seeing her inflicted with so much suffering...

Laney croaked out weakly Where's my baby?..Please give me my baby." Her words were tearful, frightened and mourning..

"SHhh.. She's safe...You did So GOOD... She's perfect REALLY PERFECT in EVERY WAY"... Dean said soothingly for seemingly the hundreth time as he clasped his hand over Laney's...Her eyes were still closed...like they had been with all of her other pleas.. But right now even with her eyes still closed she sounded more lucid... Then Dean saw the tear streak down her face as she sobbed out hoarsely "Dean...Please...I need her."

"I know..Shh..I know... But you're to weak right now to hold her.. If you were thinking rationaly you'd know that." Dean said and silently he hated himself for denying her that simple act so much when he himself had held THEIR little girl several times already..

"Dean.. PLEASE!" Laney whined out desperatly.. "I never even got to hold our.."

Dean heard her desperation as she stopped herself before she could rasp out "son"..Instead where that last word would have been she let out a high pitched shuddering wail and Dean knew she NEEDED the reasurance of her child safe within her arms before she could truely trust that her daughter was indeed alright...

"Okay..Shhh... I'll go get her and bring her to you.. Just don't move you shouldn't be trying something stupid like standing up right now.." Dean whispered coaxingly...And just now Laney realized she was pressing Dean away from her and she was halfway out of the bed... She blinked up in her true confusion of not knowing that she'd gotten up at all and nodded with bewilderment as she slid back up into the bed but she remained sitting upright not knowing that she had been wearing a demanding impatience on her her face...

Dean cradled the precious little girl and carried her to her mother..

When he stopped in front of Laney she reached out to take her daughter and instead of outright handing her over he climbed into the bed to sit indian style and facing the girl's mother he slipped the sweet baby into her mother's embrace and placed his hands under Laney's still weakened arms to help support them as she cradled THEIR child...

Then Laney looked up at him and her face was horror stricken..

"What's wrong?" Asked Dean now he was freaking out..

"Dean you're glowing." Laney stated the same fearful expression on her face as she pointed towards his chest.

Dean looked where her the end of her finger ended.. And just like she said.. He was glowing.. There was a faint silvery light right in his core.

"I know you can't see it through my mind right now. . Your seeing me and your seeing this.." Her figer still pointed to his chest. "How are you seeing it to?" She asked worriedly as she found she was to weak to get a complete read on Dean's mind.

"What does this mean?" Was the only reply Dean could manage to stutter out.

"It means I was an IDIOT." Laney fumed.

"Wait..Why.. How does that make YOU an IDIOT?.. You didn't do this to me." Said Dean.

"Actually I think I did." Laney replied sounding hollow.

"How?" Dean retorted.

"It was my idea for the blood pact.. I was moronic enough to have two regular people share blood with two demon hybrids and an angel.. GOD HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID!" Laney hissed in anger.

"It's not like you've given us some disease.. The blood pact was a damn good idea I actually wish I had of thought of something like that up years ago.. AND..IF either Adam or I had the same things in our blood as you and Sam do in yours now.. It wouldn't matter to me because I'm not afraid of what's in your blood anymore.. But I'm sure that's not it anyway because the blood pact was a while back and YOU would have seen anything inside us by now.." Dean stated firmly.

"Dean something happened tonight that did this to you!.. And it's my fault!" Exclaimed Laney sounding scared.

The baby let out a disastisfied cry as she lay in her mother's embrace yet she did not have her mother's attention..

"I'm sorry baby girl." Laney cooed as she now brought her daughter up to nuzzle her face "Mommy didn't mean to make you cry.. She was just scared for daddy."

The atmosphere lightened as now the woman basked in the revelry that was her child... And though her heart was heavy and aching with so much grief and worry Laney smiled and allowed herself to feel even just the barest minimums of contentment and happiness again for the sake of her child... And she just let her fears of all the unknowns slip away for now..

As more time passed.. Laney started to heal a little faster.. And apparently forgot her need for answers as she started to argue more and more fervently that Dean needed to go...That she'd be fine..That he still had a chance of getting to Adam and Sam... That the longer he stayed here... the less and less time he would have... And she begged for him to go as she couldn't bear if she were to blame for if something bad happened to either one of his brothers...

Dean heard her argument and he really took it to heart... But he'd known what he'd seen right before they'd "POPPED" into that meadow... And he found it odd how accepting he could really be with just letting the outside world and EVERYTHING in it just slip away for now... Maybe it was simply because he didn't know where they were or HOW he would get back to ANYWHERE.. Maybe it was because he didn't want to face the pain of what he was certain he'd find... Maybe it was because he wanted to be there to be a father to his daughter... But whatever the reason was he'd come to CHOSE that he wasn't going anywhere until Laney and THEIR child could leave as he still didn't fully trust this place..

Laney refused to go back sleep as she stubbornly insisted she was okay now... Dean didn't have to read her mind to know that she just didn't want to take her eyes off of her daughter for even a second now that she was able to keep them open..Now their little girl lay tucked safely back into her cocoon and the child's mother had the incubator placed right next to her bed and she kept her stare fixed firmly on their daughter as that was the only way Dean was able to get Laney to conceed to even letting her go..

But Dean wasn't so sure that she was truely as okay as she claimed and her actions earlier had stirred suspicions in him that he really needed her to deny...

He sat on the bed beside her and looked into her eyes wishing she'd let down the defenses around her mind so he wouldn't have to ask her... But she was always so guarded and whether on purpose or not, even if he knew it was for his benefit more than hers, it hurt his feelings that even now she wasn't letting him in... She gave a small sad smile and Dean knew she could probably see his mind just fine...

"As far as I know he did nothing to harm me.." Said Laney speaking suddenly.

"I was afraid he would hurt me at first.. REALLY afraid... But then when he told me that he wanted my child...THAT was just so much more terrifying and it numbed out everything else.. As far as I know all the flashes that have been hitting me is of him or that other angel or any other being for that matter taking our children it's been worse than envisioning a punch every time.. Worse than taking a real punch, really in the ways they jolted me.. And each time all I could feel was the need to fight them off.. to pry our children out of their filthy hands.. To just clutch our babies to me and keep them safe... To be able to to reach out and feel them both there..." Said Laney sounding shaky but forcebly calm.

Then she looked into Dean's eyes and said "I don't always try to keep you out.. I think I've just forgotten how to let you in." And now a tear escaped her and she gave a snifle as she cast her eyes down and gave a shudder as more sobs started to wrack her.

Dean knew that she really did forget how to let him in on her own as Sam was nearly always around and acting as interferance for the last few weeks.. And the fact that she hadn't been keeping him out on purpose made him feel kind of like a jack-ass again because he'd been the one to push for her to close her mind to his in the first place.. It wasn't ever her fault her that her mind was stronger than his..

Dean bit his bottom lip to keep it from pouting out and he reached out and caressed his thumb over cheek to wipe away her tears as he coaxed her to face him.. He brought his forehead to hers, placed his hand over her heart and said "As long as you never keep me out of here... I'm good." ...

"So now are you gonna tell me the answers I NEED to know?" She asked as she clutched the fabric of his shirt..

"It happened so fast.. There's not a lot I remember about everything but I can try." Dean replied.

"Just start with what was happening when you found me.." She said.

"Well as far as I know.. Sam, Adam Chuck and I were all able to see "things" it was like a veil had been lifted between our realm and all of theirs... There was a bright white flash when we found the place we'd tracked you to.. And it.. I think it radiated out from you like some kind of wave because you were at it's center.. As we neared all the creatures that had come for you were laying all over the place.. None of them were dead.. just dazed.. And there was a BRIGHT.. BRIGHT light surging inside you.. Chuck delivered our son as we were keeping Lucifer back.. And Michael came and took them both."

"So that was Michael?" Laney asked.

"Yeah and I have no idea how that bastard was riding around in my dad but if I ever get my hands on that asshat he's gonna find out that he screwed with the wrong family when he used my father to take our son." Dean said with determination.

What's the last things you remember before we came here?" Laney asked.

"The light surging from inside you was dimming.. You were dying.. You were using everything you could just to give birth to our daughter.. Then the light that was inside you BRIGHTENED again BRIGHTER than even the first time and it erupted around us as Lucifer.. Came at us.. And I could swear that we were flying." Dean stated.

"I brought us to that meadow didn't I?" Laney's question was cool and dispondant as the pieces clicked together.

"I think so.. Yeah.. Gabriel didn't show up till a few seconds after we did." Dean responded getting worried as he realized where she was going with this.

"Dean.. I don't know.. What I am now.. I don't know if I'm even still human.. But I think whatever erupted from me to bring us here activated the grace that you got when you shared mine.. Sam's and Castiel's bloods." Said Laney numbly.

"So does that mean I'm like you and Sam now?" Asked Dean feeling awe struck.

"Looks like it." Was the only reply Laney could give...

"Why don't you know if you're even still human?.. You look still human.. Well.. MOSTLY to me... Only a little different now really." Said Dean trying to dispell her fears.

"I remember.. I used everything I could gather for the pulse of power that my grace sent out.. I don't know how I knew how to do it.. It was just instinctual.. But I weakened myself to much to do anything from stopping Michael from taking Chuck and our son... Then you were there telling me to push.. And at first I thought I was hallucinating because I never thought that twins was part of the plan and suddenly I was scared that, that our daughter would be taken the second she was born to.. Then I felt myself being pulled into darkness.. And just as I was about to die I saw Lucifer coming at us.. It was like something SNAPPED like a rubber band and all of the power that I had been trying to harness for a second attack just.. EXPLODED from me.. Then we were in that meadow... Hell I actually thought I was dead until Gabriel drug us in here.. And you know the rest." Laney responded as she wiped back more tears that tried to fall.

"So you've been sitting here thinking you're not human anymore because of whatever power got us here and because whatever power gave me this.. glowy thing whatever it is?" Asked Dean with a grin as he reached for her and said "Whatever power got us here.. Saved our daughter.. saved your life.. I'm glad you have it... And it doesn't make you any less human.. And whatever's in me.. So what if I've got mojo.. grace.. whatever.. like you and Sam now?.. I'm used to not being normal.. And honestly the glowy thing is just another thing that adds to my awesomeness.."

Laney grinned back at him and asked "Are you really gonna always be okay with that though?"

"Yeah.. You never know when having my own superpowers might come in handy." Dean joked with a raise of his eyebrows.. And with that he pulled Laney into a snug embrace and whispered soothingly.. "And it doesn't hurt anything that it gives us more in common."..

Laney wasn't sure if he meant with her or with Sam.. But either way she was glad that he wasn't angry for what she had feared to be her mistake when she realized she had accidently infected him with her disease... .. .. ... . . .. .. ... . .

As night fell over the snow capped mountains that now showed through the only window in the shack Dean tried to count how many times thatt sight had changed.. It was different every time he so much as glanced at it..

"So.. Are you gonna name our daughter?" Asked Dean as he brought the little girl back to her mother's arms.

"Kaia... Definately Kaia.. Because the world could use something pure right now.. And I like Camille for a middle name." Laney responded as she beamed a smile at her little girl.

"Still liking K.C. for short.. Huh?" Dean asked jokingly.

"Yeah... I think it suits her." Laney replied.

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Adam drove for as far as he could in his weakened state.. And he knew Dean would kill him if he wrecked his "BABY" so he fought the blackness that tried to claim him for as long as long as possible and just when he couldn't fight it anymore.. he pulled haphazardly to the side of the road and let himself to slump over the stearing wheel and pass out.. Not realizing his foot was still on the gas or that he was heading straight for a tree... ... ...

Sarah had been getting regular calls from Sam...He'd kept in touch just like he'd promised..And they'd even flirted and talked about the possibilities of a future (IF the world DIDN'T END) over the phone.. It was nice to have that kind of hope... Then he'd called her with the devastating news that the mother of his child had been taken... He'd ckoked out his sobs over the phone to her as he told her he needed for her to send every person she could spare to Clinton Lake in Lawerence, Kansas as he knew they were going to need as much backup as they could get...

She'd seen the set of headlights go off the side of the road as the convoy neared she called over the C.B. for them to slow to at least ensure the driver was alright...Then as they got closer she recogonized the car...

"Oh god.." Sarah whispered as he realized that the vehicle before her was Sam and Dean's Impala and there were no signs of life... She skidded her truck to a hault.. The voices of the other drivers in the convoy calling over the airway in unison "WHAT THE HELL SARAH?" As the vehicles behind her nearly piled into her.. They were only supposed to be slowing down NOT STOPPING.. And half the convoy that hadn't been behind her throttled past.

Sarah grabbed the mike and said "Sorry but that's Sam's car!" And then she was bolting from her truck calling out hoping for an answer..

She pulled open the driver's side door to find only two of her friends in the car..

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Chapter 2

Zacharaih was furious that Castiel had once again gotten in the way of his duties as Adam's Watcher.. And he was about to beat his little brother to a bloody pulp when Castiel just looked up at him gave a grin and with a golden glow he vanished...

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Adam stirred and Sarah reached to sooth him.. His eyes popped open and he was crawling back and away defensively "It's okay." Said Sarah. "We've brought you back to the camp so that you could heal. You've been banged up pretty bad."

He looked around and realized he was in the same clinic he'd gotten all the equipment for Laney from...

"How'd... You find me." Adam stamered as he fought to stop from colapsing.

"Sam told me he needed some people down where ya'll were headed.. When we got there I saw a car drive off the road.. Then I recognized it was the Impala..." Sarah was starting to tell him everything she knew.

"How long have I been here?" Adam asked interupting her.

"It's been three days since I found you and Cas.." Sarah replied and she was about to tell him that Castiel had explained everything when Adam interupted again with:

"Cas is here?.. The last thing I remember was him fighting Zachariah.. Is he okay?"

"Yeah he was able to keep you from totalling the Impala.. He's the one who drove her back for us." Sarah replied.

"How'd he?.. He wasn't even in the car with me.." Said Adam as he reeled in his confusion.

"I drew a sigil onto a very inconspicuous part of the Impala that would beckon my grace to it should it leave to far outside of a certain radius from me.." Said Castiel as he came into Adam's view. "Let's just say I had a feeling Dean might decide to just leave me on the side of the road somewhere should he get frustrated with having me around and I knew with the brands on yours and your brothers' ribs the only way I'd be able to find Sam or Dean was by the others.. And I didn't exactly have the same connection with them that I do with Sam or Dean so I doubted I'd find find them the same as I would be able to your brothers had I not branded them.. So I marked the one thing I knew they'd always have with them with a beakon of sorts."

"So you were just beemed to the car?" Asked Adam as he clutched his aching head.

"That is how it could be described for a mortal's understanding I suppose.. And if I hadn't been pulled to the beakon in time both of us could have been killed.. Zachariah was probably about to kill me when I the beakon pulled me away and I appeared next to you just in time to keep you from driving into a tree.. Iwas to weak from the fighting and I couldn't get us out of there.. We're both lucky Sarah found us." Castiel replied.

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Three days had passed since coming to this place and Laney now lay holding Kaia and both mother and child were soundly sleeping.. It was the only way Dean had been able to get the girl's mother to even rest.. As she was simply terrified their daughter might disapear should she or Dean not have actual physical contact with her... And Dean had to admit.. He was suddenly afraid of that himself.. Winchesters hardly ever get anything good.. without losing it at some point.

He lay in bed on the other side of their little girl and watched as she and her mother slept.. Just to afraid to take his eyes off of either of them.

Laney opened her eyes and gave Dean a small smile because now that her mind was stronger she could see his thoughts clearly again.. "You need to sleep." She said firmly.

"I'm just afraid you two won't be here when I wake up." Said Dean.

"I'm not going anywhere.. Neither is she.." Said Laney clearly determined to keep her daughter safe.. Although there was a little terror evident in her voice because she feared the exact same things as he did.. The little girl quite litterally just vanishing right out of her arms at any moment..

"I'll make a deal with you.. We'll take turns at napping when she sleeps so one can watch the other and make sure no one just disapears." Dean said jokingly.. But he was actually very serious.. As he knew it was a real fear for them both. "And when she's awake we can take turns doing the things we need to do to take care of ourselves... We'll just keep each other in sight when we're all awake as much as possible.. And one of us will always have our hands on the kid so hopefully that'll keep her from going any where."

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AUGUST TENTH TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...

It had been a little over two months since everyone everywhere started to see what sorts of "things" had been living amongst them right under their noses.. And while for some it was a death sentance.. It was just plain leverage and power for others..

For Dick Roman it was the latter as MOST mortals didn't even know of a way to hurt him and there was NO ONE that had ANYTHING that could kill him .. So he found himself and his kind happy and secure as people and even other supernatural beings began to subjegate themselves for the sparring of their lives or the lives of their loved ones...

He kicked his feet onto his desk and lazily leaned back in his ofice chair.. Life on top was good..

"Hello brother." Said a cool calculating yet familiar voice from a corner of his office.

Dick sat up and took in the sight of Sam Winchester standing there staring him down.

"Honestly Lucifer you would pick one of my least favorite mortals to wear.. Have you no fashion sense." Said Dick sarcastically as he leaned back again.

"You're lecturing me about fashion sense.. Have you seen the pansy whose form you're taking.. At least I'm riding around in someone that has value." Stated Lucifer.

"What are you doing here Lucifer?.. " Asked Dick sounding bored.

"I've only come to chat.. See how my other favorite Prince Of Hell is doing." Said Lucifer with a grin.

"Chat?.. About what?" Dick asked sounding suspicious.

"About my vision for our future." Lucifer replied.

"Sorry Lucifer.. We're not exactly thick as thieves any more.." Said Dick as he turned to face away from Lucifer.

Now Lucifer smiled and walked over to join his younger brother by the window and they stared out together at the rioting masses below and then he let out a hauty laugh and said: "Yes I realize that whole Job thing sort of split us apart.. But.. Brother that was in the past."

"Well I might not hold a grudge for the past.. But I still know better than to trust you.. Plus I have my own vision of the fututre." Dick stated.

"So there's nothing I can say to convince you to humor me?" Lucifer asked.

"Say what you want Lucifer but I'm not siding with anyone in this war.. I'm in things for myself from now on." Dick replied.

"Well then I guess there's nothing more that can be said between us.. Which is regretable because I will honestly hate having to kill you." Said Lucifer in a cold menacing tone and with a flash of wings he was gone.

"Bring it on big brother." Dick Roman retorted to the empty space Lucifer had been standing in... .. .. ... .. .. ... .. .. ... .. .. .. .. ... .. .. ... .. .. ... .. ..

SEPTEMBER SIXTEENTH TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...

It had been months since the world had been swallowed by the chaos of EVERY supernatural being in the world being revealed.. Adam wasn'nt like other hunters he knew that not all "things" were threats to humans and he made his case to Sarah that they should take in refuges no matter what their race or creed.

And even though she knew the risk she made the decision to allow even creatures to come into the camp.. As long as they behaved themselves and she put Adam in charge of policing all things supernatural that came in through the camp's gates..

It became forbdden in Sarah's camp to harm anyone or any"thing" unless it was in self defense.

The only exceptions to this rule were demons.. which were immediately excercised.. Werewolves, which were sent away with the knowledge what would happen to them once the moon was in the right cycle if they were caught out in the open.. a few other creatures that wouldn't let go of hostility to humans.. And the infected... Which were easy to spot because what was inside them could be seen..

The infected were the only exception to the killing rule as it was more merciful to kill someone the second the infection was seen inside them..Rather than just let the infection grow and turn them into uncontrolable and unstopable monsters that no longer had anything human left within them.

The goverment had colapsed and what was left of the military was beginning to act as if there was martial law.. They kept what uninfected civilians there were under tight rule.. They wouldn't allow the use of gasoline to anyone who didn't join up with them and soon even what food was left was cordined off for military use only.. The military had even taken to ransacking and stealing from the small camps that had been formed all over the place including Sarah's.. Now they had even other humans to worry about as well..

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AS Gasoline became harder and harder to come by those in the camp had to use it sparingly meaning only in vehicles that would be used..

Soon The Impala was drained of all it's precious fluid in favor that it go to four wheel drive vehicles that could better handle the rough terrain that had to be traveled when the people of the camp went on scouting missions. And with passing time Dean's "BABY" was eventaully stripped down to her shell as parts to fix other vehicles became scarce and regretfully she was left to the elements..

Adam knew if Dean ever saw his car like this he'd be pissed.. But at some point he lost hope that he'd see Dean again and in some strange way that car became like both of his brothers' bodies, coffins and graves.. It became the place he went to think and to talk to the empty air like he was talking to them.. He'd ask advice.. He'd tell them what life was like now.. No matter what he said or what he asked he never got much more reply than the sound of howling winds...

Castiel began to see how lost Adam was without his brothers and knew that the youngest Winchester brother needed someone to guide him and Castiel could think of only one person that could fill those kind of shoes...

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