Chapter 9
They were back on the road not long after that. All of them refusing to talk. They spent the whole day barely talking and when they stopped for the night Dean looked at Sarah like she'd sprouted another head when she insisted on the three of them sharing a room.
And when he tried to get her alone to talk, she avoided him and pretended to sleep on the couch.
A couple of hours later, Dean woke Sarah and Sam after Cas appeared to him in a dream.
Well, what did he say, Dean? What was so important?" Sam asked as the three of them walked through a dark warehouse using their flashlights.
"If I knew, would I be here?" Dean retorted.
"Something doesn't feel right about this, guys." Sarah said pulling out her gun. They walked up a set of stairs and saw nothing but destruction.
"What the hell?" Dean asked.
"It looks like a bomb went off." Sam stated.
"More like a nuke." Sarah mumbled.
"There was a fight here." Dean said.
"Between who?" Sam asked as Deans flashlight beam landed on a symbol painted in blood on the wall.
"Check it out. Look familiar?" Dean asked Sam.
"Yeah, it does." Sam answered.
Sarah gave them a confused look, "What is it?"
"Anna used something like that to send the angels back to the cornfield." Dean explained.
"So, what? Cas was fighting angels?" Sarah asked. That peaked Sarah's interest.
"I don't know." Dean said searching around until he spotted something nearby in the rubble. "Cas? Cas. Hey, Cas?" He said while trying to rouse Cas.
"What's… What's… What's going on?"
"Just take it easy. Take it easy." Dean said.
"Oh. No!" Cas said.
"Cas, you okay?" Sam asked.
"Ugh, Cas. I'm not Cas. It's me." He said confused.
"Who's me?" Sam asked.
"Jimmy. My name's Jimmy." He said.
"Where the hell is Cas?" Dean asked.
Jimmy shook his head then said, "He's gone."
Dean looked over at Sam before ushering everyone outside and back to the motel.
Dean, Sam & Sarah all watched as Jimmy devoured the hamburger they had gotten him.
"You mind slowing down? You're gonna give me angina." Dean said with a disgusted look on his face.
"I'm hungry." Jimmy stated.
"When's the last time you ate?" Sam asked.
"I don't know. Months." Jimmy said before continuing to devour his food.
"I think I'm gonna be sick." Sarah muttered walking away from the men.
"What the hell happened back there? It looked like an angel battle royale." Sam asked.
"All I remember is a flash of light and I, uh… I woke up and I was just, you know, like me again."
"So what? Cas just ditched out of your meatsuit?" Dean questioned.
"I really don't know."
After finding out that Jimmy didn't have any useful information, Sam and Dean excused themselves to have a private chat outside. Once the boys were gone, Sarah asked Jimmy, "I know you don't remember much about being possessed, but I was wondering if you knew anything about angel sigils."
Jimmy sighed then said, "No. Cas was very protective of what I could see. It would be nice if I did know. I'd tattoo them everywhere to keep those jerks away."
"Okay." Sarah said a little defeated. "Just one more question. Do you know if they are watching us all the time?"
"No…" Jim answered with his brow pushed together in thought.
Sarah let out the breath she'd been holding, "Okay…"
"Wait, no… I'm mean not they aren't always watching." Jimmy said looking up at her.
Just then Dean and Sam walked back in.
"I'm sorry Jimmy, but you can't go home right now." Sam said.
Jimmy stood up angrily and yelled, "What the hell are you talking about, I can't go home?"
"There's a good chance you have a bulls-eye on your back." Dean answered.
"What? From who?"
"Demons."
"Come on, that's crazy. What do they want with me?"
"I don't know, information, maybe?" Dean said.
"I don't know anything."
"I know, but…" Dean said before Jimmy interrupted him.
"Look, I'm done, okay? With demons, angels, all of it. I just want to go home."
"We understand."
"I don't think you do understand. I've been shot and stabbed and healed, and my body has been dragged all over the Earth. By some miracle, I'm out, and I am done. I've given enough, okay?"
"Look, all we're saying is that until we figure this out, the safest place is with us." Sam said trying to calm Jimmy some.
"How long?"
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Sam answered evasively.
Jimmy shook his head then tried to move past Sam.
"Where are you going?" Dean asked stopping Jimmy.
"To see my wife and daughter, okay?"
"No, you're not. You're just going to put those people in danger." Sam said forcefully.
"So, what, now I'm a prisoner?"
"Harsh way to put it." Sam said back.
"Boys! Stop this now." Sarah said getting between Sam and Jimmy. "It's late. We'll discuss this in the morning. Now everyone find a bed." The three men stared at her. "Now!" She said forcefully.
Jimmy walked over to the bed that was closest to him and sat down in a huff.
Dean looked from Sarah to Sam. "So…" he said before looking at the other beds.
Sarah rolled her eyes and sat down on the bed Dean had been using earlier. "Sam you can use the cot. Dean and I can sleep here." Dean smirked at her, "You stay on your side, Dean."
"I'll keep watch." Sam suggested.
About an hour later, Sam woke up Sarah and Dean because Jimmy had escaped.
"Dean. Would you hurry up?" Sam said anxiously as he packed his bag. Dean laughed as he brushed his teeth. "Sorry, is this funny to you?" Sam asked frustrated.
"Mr. Big-bad-prison-guard, Jimmy McMook give you the slip? Yeah, it's pretty funny. What were you doing, anyway?" Dean said.
Sam sighed, "I was getting a coke."
"Was it a refreshing coke?" Dean teased.
"Can we just go, please?" Sam whined.
Sarah grabbed her bag and said, "I swear, you two act like two year olds sometimes."
A while later, Dean was driving down the road, Sam sitting quietly next to him. Sarah was sleeping in the backseat. Everything was quiet.
"Hey, guys." Anna said from the backseat.
"Whoa!" Dean yelled as he jerked the steering wheel causing the impala to swerve.
Sarah jumped up right, wide awake.
"Smooth." Anna said.
"You ever try calling?" Dean asked.
"I like the element of surprise."
Sarah sat confused trying to get as much space between her and the new person sitting next to her. She was about to ask who she was when Dean said, "Well, you look terrific," while checking her out in the rearview mirror.
"Um, yeah, not the most appropriate time, Dean. You let Jimmy get away?" Anna said, her gaze moving to Sarah then back to Dean.
"Talk to ginormo here." Dean said gesturing at Sam.
"Sam. You seem different." Anna said to Sam.
"Me? I don't know, heh. A haircut?" Sam said uncomfortably.
"That's not what I'm talking about." Anna replied giving Sam a meaningful look, only to have him look away. "So, what'd Jimmy tell you? He remember anything?"
"Why? What's going on?" Dean asked, sparing a glance at Sarah, who was glaring out the window.
"It's Cas. He got sent back home. Well, more like dragged back." Anna explained, following Dean's glance to Sarah.
"To heaven? That's not a good thing?" Dean asked returning his attention to the road.
"No. That's a very bad thing. Painfully, awfully bad. He must have seriously pissed someone off."
"Cas said he had something to tell me. Something important." Dean said.
"What?" Anna asked.
"I don't know."
"Does Jimmy know?" She asked.
"I don't think so."
"You don't think so? Whatever it is, it's huge. You gotta find out for sure." Anna said.
"That's why we're going after Jimmy." Sam chimed in.
"That's why you shouldn't have let him go in the first place. He's probably dead already." Anna said before disappearing.
A few minutes later, Dean asked Sarah, "You ok back there?"
"Never better…" Sarah said then mumbled, "Always fun meeting one of your conquests," before putting her ear buds in.
They pulled up to Jimmy's house a few hours later. Walking up to the door they could hear fighting. Dean grabbed Sarah's hand and signaled for Sam to go to the backdoor.
Once inside, Dean snuck up behind the man that was attacking Jimmy and cut his throat with the demon killing knife.
The demon woman moved to attack but Sam caught her with his psychic powers.
"Go. Get them out of here." Sam yelled at Dean & Sarah as he struggled to hold the demon with his powers.
"Go, go." Dean yelled.
Sarah grabbed Jimmy's daughter and rushed outside, followed by Dean & Jimmy. After a moment, Dean ran back inside to help Sam.
"Thank God." Jimmy said when the boys joined them at the impala.
"Where's your wife?" Dean asked Jimmy.
"Right here." Amelia said joining them.
"Let's go." Dean said as they all piled into the impala.
They traveled to a parking garage and found a car for Amelia & Claire to use. And then Dean, Sam, Sarah and Jimmy were on their way in the opposite direction.
Sarah & Jimmy fell asleep in the back seat only to be woken up a little later by a phone call from Jimmy's wife. Who was now possessed by a demon.
They saved Jimmy's wife and daughter from the demons with some last minute help from Cas. They also found out how Sam was increasing his powers. Demon blood.
Cas after re-possessing Jimmy's meatsuit made sure to inform Dean that he served heaven, not man and not Dean. Then he disappeared.
Dean, Sam & Sarah got Claire and Amelia to safety then set about on their own. It was a very awkward drive after Sam's secret was outed. Then Bobby called and told them to get to his house pronto.