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A/N: Apologies again for taking so long to update. Here is the next chapter and thanks to my wonderful beta D767468 who makes my chapters so much better. :)

They spent a few tense days driving, each of them switching off to let the other one sleep so they could get there as soon as possible. They had arrived there some time ago. There being a place that was hardly recognizable as a place that used to be an office building. Which he only knew because Sam told him it used to be one. Now it was mostly just burnt and in shambles.

Sam got out of the driver's seat in a hurry. He was so anxious that Xander had to tell him about a hundred times on the drive there to slow the car down so that they didn't end up getting killed before they saved Dean. Xander grabbed the blue cooler and opened his door as well. He grimaced as he got up, he was tired, so bone tired all he wanted to do was take a nap, not to mention a bit dizzy. He shut his door and had to jog a bit to catch up with Sam, which of course left him feeling even more tired. Xander watched Sam examine the ruins and he noted how pale his skin was, how even though he seemed to want to move faster he was moving slower. Xander followed Sam's slow pace and started

looking around at the rubble.

"This is where Dean was last." Xander raised his eyes and Sam continued."I had to blow it up." Sam said nonchalantly like it was every day you had to blow up a building, Xander looked around the place, impressed by all the damage that had been done.

"You did a nice job of it." he saw a brief fleeting smile on Sam's face before he blanked it and started heading off in a direction.

"How can you tell where the spot used to be?" he asked.

"I've replayed that day over and over in my head and I know where we need to be." Xander just followed him after that. Through the rubble which sometimes shifted if you stepped in the wrong place. Not to mention you had to watch the floor carefully for sharp things that jutted out, but eventually Sam

stopped as he looked around for a long moment, then nodded.

"We're a couple floors too low but this is the best we're going to get." He took a bag from his jacket and started taking items out of the bag. Xander assumed that Sam knew what to do with them since he had been studying the instruction sheet and vials, ever since they had got in the car a few days ago. Sam closed his eyes for a moment and took in a few breaths, he opened them,

held up a red vial and smashed it on the ground,

"Ab illo loco."

Then he smashed a green one,

"Ad locum nunc est."

Then he smashed a blue,

"Reddere debitam sibi locum."

Lastly he smash a black vial.

Xander opened the cooler he was holding which was full of blood bags. The only other way to get the amount of blood needed would have been to slice open a vein and that would have required a hospital trip which the Winchesters couldn't afford. The blood was still warm since they had drawn it in the car right before they had left the car, which was why it was harder than usual for Xander to keep up

with Sam on the way into the buildings remains. Sam took his blood and Xander

held his. Sam nodded and they poured it out on the ground in front of them as

Sam said, "Sanguis sanguini revertimini ad me."

A blinding white light filled the space, Xander closed his eyes but he still seemed to see it even with his eyes closed. Then it was gone and Xander opened his eyes and saw a new man standing with them. He was about his height, maybe a little taller. He was very roughed up as he could see several cuts and bruises on his frame. He knew it was Dean the second Sam went forwards and hugged him tightly for awhile. He could tell the hug was hurting Dean but he didn't say anything as Dean's face was also relieved and happy. Those brothers really did love each other. Eventually they separated and as Dean's eyes met his, they suddenly shone with suspicion.

"Sam, who's this?" Sam turned around as he seemed to remember Xander was there.

"Dean this is Xander, he's our big brother and he helped me save you." Xander saw Dean looking him over.

"You sure he's our brother?" Xander held back a frown. It had taken awhile for Sam to trust him, even the small amount he did and he had assumed he and Dean probably wouldn't be hugging for awhile, if ever. Sam nodded.

"DNA test, along with all the other monster tests."

"When?" Xander didn't know what he was asking but Sam seemed to.

"Before Dad met Mom, he's two years older then you." Dean nodded stiffly and resumed looked him over, what he was looking for he didn't know. Xander just stood still and let him look him over.

"And you're not surprised about this? I mean it's not every day you take someone out of Purgatory."

"He's a hunter." Sam answered for him. Dean seemed to take that as invitation to look at him even harder.

"A hunter, was he that before or after you found him?"

"He found me and he was one before that." Dean's scope widened to the surrounding area and he looked back and forth suddenly, then to Sam.

"Sam, where's Cas?" he asked and Sam's smile fell a little and Xander noticed his skin was even paler then it had been before. He frowned, maybe they should get to the car and get the juice boxes they had brought as Sam wasn't looking so good.

"I couldn't get him out with the spell I used."

"So Cas is just stuck there alone?" Dean demanded. Xander watched as Sam opened his mouth to try to reply to Dean's accusation then promptly fell backwards. Xander rushed forward to catch Sam but Dean got there first.

"What's wrong with him?" he demanded. Xander started to not feel so hot himself. He needed to rest and drink some juice but Dean had asked him a question and he did his best to not show his exhaustion.

"The spell we did, it required a lot of blood." Dean looked at him sharply.

"How much?"

"About half of what it would take to kill him."

"He needs to rest and to get some fluids into him." Dean said worriedly and Xander nodded.

"We have juice in the car."

"You have a car?" Xander nodded, as Dean nodded seemly to himself as he tried to pick Sam up but failed, and he tried again and failed.

"Are you...will you help me." Dean asked hesitantly, Xander knew that he wouldn't have asked if he was able to do it by himself. Xander was tired as well and was a little concerned that if he tried to help carry Sam's weight he'd faint as well. However Xander wasn't willing to just leave Sam there, so he would get Sam to the car then faint if he had to. Dean grabbed his upper half leaving Xander with his lower half. Xander lifted Sam up and felt a wave of dizziness hit him.

"You good?" he heard Dean asking faintly which he might have taken for concern if Dean hadn't added, "I mean you're not going to drop him are you?" Xander shook his head trying to clear it which helped a bit.

"No, not going to drop him." he said back to Dean. He helped Dean carry Sam over all the rubble.

"Where is this?" Dean asked.

"Where you disappeared from." Xander said focusing really hard on Sam and not on the little stars at the edges of his vision. "Sam said he had to blow it up."

"Hm...not a bad job." Dean said as they continued on their trek towards the car. Xander was leading since he was the one who knew where the car was. When he finally caught sight of the car he let out a sigh of relief, since the stars were getting more and more numerous and the edges of his vision were starting to gray out. He was able to hold on long enough to get Sam into the backseat of the car. The second Sam's feet were in the car though he wasn't able to stand anymore and fell down. His head made a sickening sound as it hit the car on the way down but he wasn't conscious to hear it.

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