Running Up That Hill Δ SPN [2]

045. MEETING WITH LUCIFER

"Because it's crazy, okay?! And it's not going to happen. How many times do I have to say that this is a horrible idea?" Dean asks.

"About as many as I have to say, okay, then what else have we got?" Sam retorts. "Listen, I'm all ears. Dean, ordinarily I'd agree with you, but the visions only happen when I reach out to God. I asked him for a way to beat the Darkness and the visions got more specific -- and I was in the cage."

"Yeah, with Lucifer. The biggest monster ever hatched. Fan-freaking-tastic!" Dean says.

"You know, Lucifer was the biggest monster ever hatched. Until you and I hatched one that's even worse. Listen, in the vision, Lucifer touches me and I feel calm, like things will be all right. And that's not something I would ever come up with. I mean, that is the last thing that I would ever feel." Sam says.

"If Lucifer touched you, it would be the last thing you think. Ever." Dean states. "Why would God even ask this of you? What proof do we have that any of this is actually real?"

"There was a burning bush." Sam says.

"Oh, well, in that case." Ophelia sarcastically remarks.

"A burning bush?" Dean asks.

"Like in the Bible." Sam says.

"You were in the forest. There are bushes there and sometimes they burn!" Dean exclaims. "You know what, man? Maybe there is something to it all, maybe, and maybe there's not."

"Dean, doesn't it make sense? I mean, Lucifer would know how God ended the Darkness. He was there." Sam says.

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Sam and Ophelia are in the dungeon with Rowena, the brothers having worked with Crowley to get her earlier to get them to the cage.

Sam is on the phone with Dean, and thinking she's in the clear, Rowena attempts to look at a different page in the book.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Sam exclaims.

"Quit that!" Ophelia shouts.

"No snooping around there. Focus." Sam tells her before returning to his conversation with Dean, hanging up after a little bit.

"You talk about trust." Rowena says.

"No, I don't." Sam says.

"You and your blood thirsty brother say we're partners in this holy war against Amara and yet--" Rowena holds her chained wrists up. "Trussed like a chicken."

"Sucks to be you." Ophelia comments, smiling sweetly when Rowena glares at her.

"You're sitting there with the Book of the Damned and the means to read every word, and you think I'm going to set you free? Do I look crazy?" Sam asks.

"Well, you do have unresolved issues with your domineering older brother and the abandonment by your father." Rowena says.

"You know what? Just get back to work! All right." Sam tells her. "We're running out of time here!" The two start to leave.

"Aha!" Rowena exclaims.

"Oh, my God!" Ophelia groans.

"What?! What now?!" Sam asks, the two turning to the redhead.

"Well, I'll need some ingredients. But you may summon Fergus. And tell him to bring a handcart." Rowena orders.

"A handcart?" The Winchesters question.

"We're going to Hell." Rowena states.

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Sam is trying to call Dean, failing the first few times.