Chapter 27

Charlie saw the holy water flying towards them before Dean did and teleported back to Lawrence before she got burned. Dean however got soaked not for the first time, but sadly for the last. How he missed Bobby so much! He needed Bobby, yet Bobby didn't know him, not yet, and he wouldn't until 1987 in Canton. Still, they needed Bobby now because if anyone could help them it was him.

"So if you're not a demon then what are you? God? Vampire? And where did your friend go? I don't know nothing that can do that. No demon I've ever met can teleport."

"Wait until Crowley," Dean muttered. "And I'm human 100% human. See, iron," Dean pulled out an iron blade and cut himself a bit. "Silver too," he did the same.

"You're a hunter? You're a hunter who's hanging out with one of those things? Are you mad?"

"Probably," Dean admitted, "Never met a hunter who wasn't. Charlie isn't that bad though…. Once you get to know her."

"She's a demon! How is she not that bad?"
"She's not a demon actually. I'll tell you the whole story if you will kindly remove this rifle from my chest."

Bobby looked hesitant so Dean began dropping his various weapons on the floor. Once Bobby was confident there could be nothing left on him he let down his guard.

"My name is Dean Winchester, and believe it or not you will be like a father to me."

"Will be? What's this future tense. You're making no sense boy."

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you. All I know is you're the best d*mb hunter I've ever met and an even better researcher. My mother and brother along will a whole world of other will die if we can't find a way of stopping this thing."

"What you hunting?"

"Honestly, you wouldn't believe me," Dean told him smiling sadly.

"Try me."

"The Devil."

"You're right you are mad. The Devil ain't real boy. He's just a story from demon Sunday school."

Dean had to chose his words carefully so nothing he said would make what Bobby told them in the future a lie. "Here is the thing you won't believe, I'm from the future. In the future my dad is going to become a hunter. You're going to save his life in 1987 in Canton, Delaware when he's hunting a vamp without knowing they live with others. "

"What kind of *dg*t hunts a vampire without knowing they live in nests?"
"My dad," Dean told him smiling. "Well from that point on you're going to be there for my brother Sam and me up until the day you die. We need you in a way you will never need us. Now, in the time I come from you're dead."

"Went down fighting I hope," Bobby asked clearly not shaken by the news he was dead. Everyone died someday, and with a hunter it was never of old age.

"You died saving the entire world," Dean would not cry, "And me."

"So say you're telling the truth and you're actually from the future, which you're not. Say you were though. I'm dead and you need my help finding information so you went back in time just to ask me? Why didn't you go back to a time when I knew you?"

"Time travel is hard, even for Charlie. Teleporting is easier for her. We already were in 1979 saving my mom before she could be killed before I was born… I know complicated. I know you don't believe me, but believe this. I'm a hunter and I need help and you're the only person I can think of."

"I might not believe you're from the future. But you're definitely a hunter. Let me see what I can dig up. What's the subject."

Dean hadn't thought about it, but there were two things they needed info on. Lucifer, and Eden. They needed to stop Lucifer and save their mom, but… there was nothing on Eden either, nothing they could find at least. Dead had a choice, and he knew what he had to ask for.

"I need you to see if there is a spell that could open up the gates to Eden."

"Eden? Like Adam and Eve Eden? You sure you're not nuts boy?"

"I'm sure."

"I do not envy you then. It's funny though that you should ask."

"Why?"

"I just found this on my desk this morning," Bobby held up something that was unmistakably a tablet. "It's written in some language. I'd say Enochian if I didn't know better. I can't read it, but I do know two words. Eden and Human."

"Bobby. You are amazing."

"Why what is it?"

"It's the Human tablet. And it's the word of God."

Somehow, maybe because she was a prophet, Charlie knew that it was time to pick Dean up. Without even giving him a chance to say goodbye Dean was whisked away from his beloved Bobby again.