Full Circle (Book 8 in Arrow/Spn Crossover)

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There was no way for me to tell how long the silence lasted. I was pretty sure I wasn't technically dead since there was nothing around me except darkness, or maybe I was and all the usual places I'd end up didn't want me back. Which made no sense, Crowley'd would probably love to take another crack at making me his right hand demon. Heaven? Well I doubted they'd ever really get over me denying Michael and humans aren't supposed to go to Purgatory. Maybe this was the Veil and I'd just be stuck here forever. Of all the possible options that one bothered me the least, it'd be peaceful if nothing else.

"Dean..."

I didn't recognize the voice, it was male-ish. "Yeah?"

"Dean..."

"Heard you the first time." I tried to locate the direction it was coming from.

"Not outside, inside."

"What?"

"Oh for fuck's sake. It's me, us, you."

That sounded a lot like me. I felt something furry brush against my legs. "What the?" A whole slew of emotions flooded through me. Oh. "You talk?"

"Took you long enough. I've always talked, you just had no idea how to listen."

A small circle of soft, diffused light appeared to the left of me, there he was, my Warrior Spirit. He looked even better than last time. The grey had faded more, most of his fur was back and his eyes were filled with life. "Glad you're looking better. Guess last night with Coyote helped more than I realized."

One of his ears twisted down, I got the impression that was his version of exasperation. "Yes, it's all about the mating of course. We'll just skip past the existential conversation here, you know, the fact that we're hanging on to life by a thread and on the way to becoming a werewolf."

"You don't have to be...wait, you're me, yeah you do. Never mind. How about I shock both of us and ask the obvious question. What do I need to do here?"

His ear righted itself, he cocked his head to the side and let his tongue hang out. I was laughing at myself, my brain hurt.

"I like this new side of us. I was getting tired of being nearly destroyed repeatedly."

"You and me both, or, whatever."

He sat down and turned his head, when he did a path opened up. There was a massive old growth forest beyond it, it looked like something you only see in movies now. Completely untouched and wild. "What's that?"

"The beginning. What that bitch said, path to our rebirth, but there's someone we have to see before we go back. Feel him calling?"

And then I did, it was subtle but powerful. Then I heard the song, Lakota. "Coyote's friends?"

The wolf looked back at me and nodded. "Yes. Do you trust me?"

"What? That makes no sense, you are me. I'd have to trust you right?"

In a flash he jumped on top of me, knocking me flat on my back, fangs bared as he growled in my face, his claws on my throat. Wait, he'd never had claws like that before, they were the same claws that Mairyn bitch had. Fully retractable cat type claws. "What the fuck?"

"If we walk out of here, leave this spot, this is what the rebirth will bring out. We can control it, I know we can, but are you willing to feel this again. There is no way back from this. We will be one of them. Forever. Decide."

He didn't back off, just stood there and growled.

"The others may not make it back, we may be alone, truly alone. Can we survive that?"