Catching Up
Chapter 5 – Bloodlust

Rowena and Crowley opted to conjure their own seating while the rest reclaimed their spots in the den. Stomaching the news that Lucifer now resided at the bottom of the ocean was among the least of their worries believe it or not. Dean was still highly concerned about Sam and whoever he was talking to and Mary still had a hard time digesting everything else along with the current situation. Sam was now on pins and needles in case Dean struck again and Cas felt like a failure for having lost Lucifer. Hoping to get away from it all Sam picked up the DVD case, "This episode is called Bloodlust, Sam and Dean encounter Gordon, a fellow demon hunter who has been systematically killing vampires in a small town."

"Aw no, not this asswipe," Dean groaned.

"Don't spoil it for the rest of us squirrel," Crowley chided. The recap played and the Winchester brothers didn't know whether they should be grateful to be past this whole ordeal or longing for simpler times. Granted they knew things were about to become pretty crappy as the show opened on a woman being chased through the woods and swiftly beheaded.

"Explain to me why your lives are being portrayed like low-budget campy horror films?" Crowley turned to the brothers.

Sam spoke over the introduction of the boys back in the Impala. "Well we are currently in a room consisting of the former King of Hell, his 300 year-old witch mother, our ex-angel best friend watching a parallel dimension's television adaptation of our lives in an effort to catch up our mother who was brought back from the dead by God's sister. Not to mention, all of this while we wait for Lucifer himself to rise from the bottom of the Pacific. Got any directorial suggestions?"

"As long as I get the good angles compared to you gargantuan brutes. My right side is my best side."

"So Dean is happy now?" Cas redirected their attention to the show.

"Be afraid, be very afraid," Sam snorted. The TV!Winchester interview the Sheriff with little success before heading to morgue to examine the remains. The pair bicker as they look over the head and discover their victim was a vampire.

"Not to be offensive," Mary ventured. "But isn't this a good thing?"

"Oh bless," Rowena crooned. "She still believes in good and bad."

"That'll change after this," Dean held his mother's hand. "Hang on to that while you've got it mom."

Meanwhile TV!Sam and TV!Dean head to a local bar and see a rather familiar face. "Hang on!" Dean paused it. "Benny?!"

"But that can't be him," Sam reasoned. "He was in Purgatory. Besides, wasn't this guy called Eli or something like that? He's a vamp." He added at his mother's questioning gaze.

"Perhaps a descendent, it's not unheard for certain bloodlines to be marked out," Crowley said idly. "Hell has a long memory."

Onscreen, TV!Sam and TV!Dean gather some information while a man from the bar follows them. "That's Gordon," Dean announced.

"Can I garrote him now?" Sam hissed. Whoa Sammy! Gordon tries to find the TV!Winchesters in an alleyway but they get the jump on him. He assures them he is not a vampire and they realize they're all hunters but declines any help taking on the nest. The scene jumps to a service worker at the docks being ambushed by Gordon. They fight and Gordon is nearly killed but the brothers intervene and finish the vamp off.

"That was a stupid call," Dean shook his head.

"I was the one who pulled his sorry ass out from under that saw," Sam scowled. "Should have left him there." Okay seriously, this isn't like you. Rather than respond, Sam opened up his mind, allowing the memories of Gordon and his violence to filter back in. Sam…

The three hunters return to the bar and celebrate their successful hunt but TV!Sam is off and decides to leave. He returns to the motel while TV!Dean and Gordon bond over their love of hunting. "Sixteen years old," Mary frowned. "You should have been worried about pimples and prom dates."

"With all due respect, Mrs. Winchester I don't think Dean would have done well with a cummerbund." Crowley smirked.

"Figure that out while you were planning your wedding Fergus," Rowena countered and Cas and Sam snorted.

Gordon talks about the vampire attacking him and his sister and the conversation turns to John. "You opened up to Gordon?!" Sam made a face.

"Not one of my prouder moments."

"Um no," Mary cut into Gordon's not-so-sage advice to her son. "Hunting is not an emotional outlet. Bottling your pain and using against creatures will make you a ruthless hunter not a strong one. No one should need to kill anything to handle their grief and pain."

Meanwhile, TV!Sam puts in a call to Ellen to ask about Gordon. At first nonchalant, Ellen is quick to insist that the boys get away from Gordon, calling him dangerous to everyone and everything around him. Whilst back at the bar, Gordon calls the hunting life perfectly black and white. He even makes a connection between him and TV!Dean having a visible effect on the elder Winchester. "Get the hell away from my son," Mary growled.

"We may need to restrain her from the TV," Sam said lightly.

"That's not true," Cas added. "The world has never operated on absolutes. Humanity only chooses to look for them where they want to see it."

The show jumped back to TV!Sam where he is jumped at the motel and taken to a farmhouse. The bartender Eli is there when he awakens and another vampire named Lenore. She explains that their nest had been living off of cow's blood but were still being hunted.

"Vegetarian vampires," Mary blinked. "So wait…the hunter is the bad guy and the vampires are the good guys?"

"The devil is in the details sweetie," Rowena smiled beatifically. "What side of the line you're on and what you're doing while you're there."

In the show, TV!Sam doesn't believe that Lenore and her nest are good so as a sign of good faith, she releases him without a scratch. He returns to the motel to find TV!Dean and Gordon going over a map of the town. TV!Sam tells his brother everything, unaware that Gordon is listening, and insists that they leave the vampires alone. However TV!Dean remains stubborn causing the brothers to fight.

"Do you two ever stop?" Rowena rolled her eyes.

"No." Cas said simply.

TV!Dean makes to go after the vampires only to discover Gordon gone and the keys to the Impala missing. They have no choice but to hotwire Baby and TV!Sam is able to retrace the route back to the farmhouse. Lenore and Eli are packing up to leave, she sends Eli away while all the hunters close in. Gordon gets to Lenore first and poisons her with dead man's blood. Mary made a disgusted noise, "Who's the monster here?"

"Exactly," Rowena replied.

They watched with contempt and disgust as Gordon tortured Lenore for information even TV!Sam and TV!Dean try to get him to stop. "He's so calm," Dean grimaced. "I forgot how calm he was about it."

Then Gordon revealed the truth about his sister being turned and killing her himself. He also knew that Lenore's nest wasn't hurting anyone and didn't care. To prove it, he sliced Sam's arm and let the blood drip onto Lenore's face. For moment it looked like vampire would drink but she resisted. "Incredible," Cas murmured. "To war with their basic nature like that."

"She was one of the good ones," Sam commented.

Meanwhile, TV!Dean lets his brother take Lenore away and faces on Gordon. They fight and TV!Dean overpowers the other hunter, tying him down to a chair until sunrise. TV!Sam comes back to report that all the vampires escaped safely and TV!Dean promises to call and have someone let Gordon out in a couple of days. "I really don't want to say it," Dean bit his tongue.

"Just do it, I've done it already." Sam invited.

"I wish we had ganked that son of a bitch," Dean admitted.

Mary just looked between them and sighed, "Well I already hate Gordon, I look forward to despising him even more."

"Yeah that won't take long," Dean assured her as his television self gets one last punch to Gordon's face before leaving. Outside, TV!Dean offers to let his brother punch him but TV!Sam takes a rain check.

"Too late to cash in that one?" Sam asked mildly.

"Dude you've already passed up so many chances to clock me," Dean chuckled.

In the show, the brothers discuss the possibility of ever having killed something that might not have deserved it. TV!Sam points out that he didn't kill Lenore but TV!Dean insists that he wanted to and didn't only because 'Sam was a pain in his ass' to which TV!Sam promises to stick around to be just that.

"Man you really know how to keep your word," Dean said as the credits rolled.

"Shut up jerk," Sam scoffed, reaching for the DVD case.

"Bitch."

You feeling any better? "A little now that we won't see him for a bit," Sam whispered. In a louder voice he called, "Next episode?"