Another Life / Book Ten / The Life Series / Supernatural

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I heard Sam and Dean arguing in the library of the bunker, walking inside.

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

"About as many as i have to say, 'Okay, then what else have we got?'" Sam answered. "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," Dean told him. "The biggest monster ever hatched." I tried to walk out of the room before they noticed I was there. "Ness, back me up here, please."

I sighed. "Fan-freaking-tastic."

"You know, Lucifer was the biggest monster ever hatched, until we hatched one that's even worse," Sam told us. "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."

"If Lucifer touched you, it would be the last thing you think," I told him. "Ever."

Dean stood, pouring himself a whiskey. "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 answered.

"A burning bush?" I repeated. "Like in the bible?"

Sam nodded.

"You were in the forest," Dean told him. "There are bushes there, and sometimes they burn."

Dean sat back down.

I sighed, walking closer. "You know what? Maybe there is something to it all, maybe, and maybe there's not."

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

I sighed, shaking my head.

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Crowley was here in the bunker now, looking at Sam. "God assured you of this, did he? I'd say you're making this up, but I never think of you as imaginative."

"We're not saying it's going to happen," Dean told him. "We just want to know..."

"Theoretically, if it's possible," I told him.

"The cage is a can of worms you do not want to open," Crowley told us. "I believe this conversation is over."

Crowley prepared to snap his fingers.

"Is it?" I asked. "Crowley, you know that the Darkness is going to pound on everything and that includes you."

"Yeah, and you had a shot at taking her out when she was with you, but apparently, you thought that sucking up was the way to go," Sam told him.

"And that didn't work out so well," Dean told him.

Crowley looked at Dean and me. "Because she chose the two of you. And you two couldn't control your daughter."

I looked away.

Dean looked at Crowley, controlling his anger. "Amara is our daughter. Not the Darkness. You wanna know what the Darkness is, Crowley? How about God's sister?"

"God's sister?" Crowley repeated. "He has relatives? I had that kind of leverage under my thumb, and I let it slip away."

"Can we focus on the big picture here, okay?" I asked. "Can Sam meet with Lucifer or not?"