Catching Up
Chapter 8 – Simon Said

A/N: Hey guys, I know it's been way too long. I was going to hold off until the other chapters for this round finished but I really just wanted to update. I am continuing with my decision to pad angel society and figured we could examine Hell too. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for the yearly massive Christmas upload. ENJOY! R&R PLZ!

When the boys returned, Mary already had the next episode queued up and waiting for them. "What's next on our greatest hits?" Sam asked offhandedly.

"Simon said," Mary replied. "Sam and Dean meet Andy, a slacker who has psychic powers of persuasion that uses to gain favours from people."

"You know it's rather fascinating," Crowley mused. "Seeing Azazel's experiments muck about. That prick was on the biggest pains in the arse you could ever imagine. Talked about himself like he was God. Always blathering about his higher purpose and true connection to our Father Lucifer. Dumb bastard."

Mary sighed, "Do I even want to know?"

"You're going to find out anyway," Dean tilted his head towards the TV. "Enjoy this before the pain actually hits."

"Wait you consider Lucifer your father?" Sam questioned.

Crowley laughed once, "Piss poor excuse for one but yeah, there was a time when all the denizens of Hell looked to Lucifer as their Father. After all he did create the demons. For all his belly aching about the Big Man, I'd say he was a worse deadbeat dad than his own."

"Now this is a learning experience," Dean looked between him and Cas.

"Start the show," Rowena requested. "And please fast forward through the angst."

"Done, done," Mary hit the right buttons on the remote and the show opened on man answering his phone. There are some strange visions of him getting a gun before he actually walks into a gun shop to get a rifle. Then man loads it, shoot the shop owner, then himself before the show reveals it was actually a vision of Sam's.

Well that was layered. Sam merely pursed his lips. He was glad that these days were long gone especially when TV!Dean calls him a 'freak' in the moment. You are not a freak. "Says the voice in my head." Touché

TV!Dean and TV!Sam nonetheless go to the Roadhouse to meet with Ash to look up the area and signs of their demon. They convince Ash to help while Jo and TV!Dean continue their little 'thing' even TV!Dean admits to being terrified of Ellen.

"Everyone was scared of Ellen," Sam chuckled over his brother's surprisingly on-key singing. They'd set off looking for an Andrew (Andy) Gallagher posing as estate lawyers this time. TV!Sam worries that he might predisposed for homicide as the other children affected by the demon had. They do eventually catch up with Andy living…a lifestyle…and spot the shooter from the previous vision. TV!Sam tails the shooter and TV!Dean goes after Andy.

Andy leads TV!Dean to a side and simply just asks for Baby…which TV!Dean agrees to. He did not… "Now I'm a little scared," Rowena admitted.

"As am I," Cas concurred.

"That is one powerful little whelp," Crowley observed.

"Not sure how I feel about Heaven and Hell being fully aware of my attachment to my car," Dean shifted uncomfortably.

"Oh you have every right to be sweetheart," Mary ruffled his hair. "You wouldn't be here without her." There were immediately stifled laughs at slow horror-filled looks on the Winchesters' faces. Rowena gave Mary a high-five while matriarch smugly sipped her beer.

Brings a whole new definition to 'Baby' "You're so sick," Sam groaned. The whole scene stood out in great contrast to the show where TV!Sam tries to thwart the shooting only to cause the shooter to step in front of a bus instead. The brothers realise it's mind control and TV!Sam beats himself up for not saving him.

"At least you saved the owner," Mary supplied.

Elsewhere, Andy is upset that man, apparently named Dr. Jennings, died. The coffee shop owner Tracy, mentioned speaking to TV!Winchesters earlier while they investigate Andy's van. Andy catches up to them and tries to get them to leave but his powers won't work on TV!Sam. At the same time, he has another vision of a woman killing herself by lighting herself on fire at a gas station. They were unable to stop it from happening, but it did prove Andy was innocent. "These are targets," Mary surmised. "And the killer hates them."

"How can you tell?" Cas asked.

"They were watching," Mary replied. "When the doctor didn't shoot himself, he got a call immediately to go in front of a bus. Mind control isn't foresight, they had to be somewhere nearby and saw the doctor live."

"And there are quicker, subtler ways to die." Rowena added on. "The killer wants to make a spectacle of their death. They aren't doing this for the thrill of killing, this is revenge love."

"For what?" Cas frowned. The show answered the question when they discover that the female was actually Andy's birth mother and that she had given birth to twins.

Seriously an evil twin? Where's Rod Serling when you need him? But the tale only gets more complicated when it's revealed that Andy's brother is none other than the waiter that works at Tracy's shop, Webber. The brothers had been separated at birth until Webber, whose real name is Ansen, came to town. Except he never told Andy about their relationship and has now turned his attention to Tracy. "That poor girl," Mary frowned.

The brothers have a final showdown at the dam where Webber had taken Tracy to make her jump off. TV!Dean stays apart from it all, letting TV!Sam and Andy fight. They try to tape Webber's mouth but he's able to use his power without speaking. Apparently the yellow-eyed demon had got to him and told him about his brother and made him wait before revealing himself. In the meantime, Webber tracked down the ones responsible for 'separation' and made them pay for ruining their lives in his eyes. "I'll give the twat this much, he had a flair of chaos," Crowley sipped his drink.

"You see it too?" Rowena smirked.

"I don't understand," Dean knit his eyebrows together.

Rowena merely replied, "Keep watching,"

Webber threatened to make Tracy, who now stood at the edge of the dam, walk off so Andy backed off, pleading for her safety. Meanwhile, TV!Dean got into position with a sniper rifle except somehow Webber sensed him and almost made TV!Dean kill himself if Andy didn't shoot him in the back first. Andy was able to fend off the police but now Tracy was terrified to even look at him. The TV!Winchesters had to go but TV!Sam gave Andy his number, promising to help if he ever needed it. Kind of shitty just leaving Andy like that. "I wish we could have done more for him but we had nothing to offer."

"If only we had this place in those place, life would have been so much different," Dean mused.

Onscreen, the brothers argue over having the potential to kill and TV!Sam thinks the demon is trying to break them. "Very good Samuel," Rowena nodded. "You catch on quick."

"So it's grooming them," Mary comprehended. "How far one needs to push before a person snaps."

"Precisely," Crowley nodded. In the show, TV!Winchesters go back to the Roadhouse and Ellen confronts them about their case. TV!Dean wants to hide it but TV!Sam comes clean and explain the demon and the psychic children that all lost their mothers in fires on their sixth-month birthday except Webber didn't have that happen, so the pattern seemingly didn't matter at all.

"Oh darling you were so close," Rowena pouted at the show's close. "There's a reason nothing happened to the brother."

"Why?" Sam asked.

"He was a tool," Crowley filled in. "Azazel never wanted him like he did you and Andy. This whole charade was simply for Andy's benefit. If I know his style, I'd wager Webber didn't have a good home life so when this mysterious man with yellow eyes shows up, telling him that he's special, destined for greatness and that he has a brother just like. The boy ate it up. But no he couldn't go to his brother, he had to wait, building up his power by feeding his thirst for revenge. Making sure his mother burned like she should have all those years ago. And that evil doctor who separated them and sent them off to terrible homes."

"Conveniently depriving Andy of anyone to turn too," Rowena continued. "And then Webber finally gets his long lost brother. Except! He pushes too far and Andy shoots him. Everyone of any significance to Andy is dead, except the girl he loves who never wants to see him again for extra bit of torture. All nice and neat and tied up in a bow."

"Okay everyone except mom knows the demon's MO," Dean jumped in. "Why would he go through the trouble of creating Webber, grooming him into a willing killer – better than Andy – only to throw him away."

"I believe I know the answer to that," Cas interjected. "As it is in Heaven, so it shall be on Earth. What are the odds that Andy was the younger brother?"

Sam ran a hand through his hair, "That is messed up." Totally.

"I need a drink," Dean scooped up a fresh beer. "Let's keep this going."