Chapter 2

After driving for almost a week trying to find a job, Sarah drove into Concrete, Washington to refuel and eat.

She had a quick lunch at Lucky Chin's Chinese restaurant, and couldn't help herself making a wish in the wishing well.

Dean & Sam were exiting the Chinese restaurant and parting ways when Dean noticed a girl walking across the street. He quickly crossed the street and walked toward her.

"Hey!" Dean said excitedly.

The girl gave him a playful, curious look before she said, "Hey", as she checked him out.

"What are you doing here?" Dean asked her.

"I'm sorry? Do I know you?" the girl asked moving away from Dean and his strange behavior.

"Quit playing. Are you on a case?" Dean asked getting serious.

"A case? I'm sorry. I think you have the wrong person." She said starting to walk away.

"What? Sarah? What's going on?" Dean said causing her to stop walking.

"How do you know my name?" She asked with a scared look on her face.

"What is this a joke? Sarah, it's me, Dean." He said grabbing her arm.

"I don't know anybody named, Dean. I really have to go. It was, uh, nice to meet you, Dean." Sarah said pulling her arm out of his grasp and trying to get away.

"Hey! Seriously, Sarah this isn't funny!" Dean said chasing after her. As he place his hand on her shoulder to stop her, she grabbed his wrist, twisted it and flipped him over. Once he was face down on the ground, his arm twisted behind his back. Sarah pushed her knee painfully into his back as she pressed a knife to his neck.

"Now, listen to me, buddy, I don't know who the hell you think you are but if you lay another hand on me, then this knife will find a new home in your throat. Do you understand me?" She said holding the knife tighter against his throat.

"Yeah." Dean managed to croak out.

Sarah released him and quickly ran to her car, leaving Dean on the ground.

After Dean picked himself up, he went back to his hotel room and tried to research the magical coin while trying to figure out what was going on with Sarah.

Sam entered the hotel room to hear Dean in the bathroom throwing up.

"Dean? You alright?" Sam asked.

"The wished turn bad, Sam. The wishes turn very bad." Dean answered with a strained voice.

"The sandwich, huh?" Sam asked amused.

"The coin was Babylonian. It's cursed. I found some fragments of a legend…" Dean said looking like he might hurl again, "I'm good. The, uh… the serpent is Tiamat, which is the, uh, Babylonian god of primordial chaos. I guess their, uh, priests were working some serious black magic."

"They made the coin?"

"Yeah, to sow the seeds of chaos. Whoever tosses a coin in the wishing well makes a wish, it turns on the well. Then it starts granting wishes to all comers." Dean explained.

"But the wishes get twisted. You ask for a talking teddy…" Sam started saying.

"You get a bipolar nut job." Dean finished.

"And you get E. Coli."

"Mmm. This thing has turned more than one town upside down over the centuries. It's even wiped a few off the map. I mean, one person get s their wish, it's trouble, but everyone gets their wish…"

"It's chaos." Sam finished for Dean.

"Mm-hmm."

"Any way to stop it?" Sam asked.

"Yeah. One way. We got to find the first wisher. Whoever dropped the coin in and made the first wish, they're the only one who can pull it back out and reverse the wishes. So for now, we've got a couple of nutso dreams come true, but once the word gets out about the well, things are just gonna get crazier and crazier." Dean said getting a weird look on his face.

"What?" Sam asked.

"I… uh… I ran into Sarah today… outside of Lucky Chin's."

"What? She's here?" Sam asked surprised.

"Yeah, but she ah…"

"What?"

"She didn't know who I was."

"How is that possible? She's known you half her life!" Sam yelled.

"I… uh… I think she made a wish." Dean said after a pause. "We have to fix this before her wish goes bad, Sammy. Who knows what could happen to her."

The next day Sam and Dean found the guy that activated the wishing well, and were taking him to the Chinese restaurant when they saw three boys being chased by a much smaller boy.

Dean stopped the impala and got out, leaving Sam to get the well deactivated.

"Hey, Kid! Can I talk to you for a second?" Dean said approaching the boy.

"Get out of my way!" the kid yelled.

"Okay. Hey, I can dig it, Todd. It's… It's Todd, right? Look, I.. I know the score. Okay? Look, I… I know the score. Okay? They're… They're bullying you." Dean tried reasoning.

"Each day. Every day! You don't know what that's like!" the kid yelled.

"No, no, I don't. But, you know, you're you and I'm me, so…"

"Couldn't stop them. I couldn't do anything. Then Audrey Elmer told me the wishing well worked."

"Okay, okay. Look… look, I get it. They're … they're mean little jerks, huh? But they're not super human like you. You see, with great power comes great respon…" Dean was cut off by Todd punching him, making him fly into some garbage cans.

Dean got up from the garbage and walked over to Todd. "Hey, Kid! I didn't want to have to do this." Dean said punching Todd, "Ohhh!" Dean yelled out, holding his hand in pain. Todd grabbed Dean by the throat and started to choke him.

Sarah was walking nearby and saw Dean struggling with the small boy and by some unknown instinct, ran over to try and stop the boy, but was then thrown back into a nearby car. After a moment, Dean and Todd noticed that the wish was reversed.

"Okay. Follow my lead and you won't have a problem. Come on!" Dean said trying to catch his breath. Dean backed up by the car with the bully's that were trying to escape and acted scared saying, "Okay, man, no more! No more, Okay?" He then turned to the bully's and added, "I wouldn't mess with this kid anymore if I were you." Dean then ran from them and back over to where Sarah had been tossed.

"Sarah? Are you okay?" Dean asked waking her up.

"Ah… What happened?... Dean?... Where are we?" She asked.

"We're in Concrete, Washington. And you were thrown into a car by a 10 year old." Dean explained.

"What? Were we on a case? When did we meet up for a case?" She asked confused.

"Here, let's get back to the hotel and get some ice on that bump on your head and see if we can fill in some blanks." Dean said helping her up.

Once back in the hotel room, Dean helped Sarah into a chair, trying not to notice how she shied away from his touch.

"Okay, tell me what you remember." Dean said handing her a towel filled with ice.

"Um… I remember driving into town, eating at the Chinese restaurant… then waking up next to that car." Sarah said placing the ice on the back of her head and wincing.

"Nothing else? Nothing at the Chinese restaurant?" Dean prodded.

Sarah thought for a moment before saying, "No, nothing else."

"Bull! You made a wish." Dean retorted.

Sarah looked startled and said, "How did you know?"

"What did you wish for?" Dean growled.

"None of your business." Sarah spat back.

"Oh, you made it my business when your wish made you forget who I was. Now what is going on?"

"Look, you died, and it messed me up. And you're alive now and I'm having a little bit of trouble dealing, okay?" Sarah shouted.

"Hey, I get that, but to wish you didn't know me. That's… that's… just tell me, what else happened. There has to be more to this than just me coming back."

Sarah stood up and walked toward the door. "Dean, I… I can't." She said through tears. "I'll, uh, call you once I work through some things."

"Sarah… Please… What are you keeping from me?" Dean pleaded.

"Please just let me go for now. I'll call you when I'm ready." She repeated before running from the room. And for the first time, Dean let her go.