Graceland Part 6

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It was the first dream he'd ever truly had. For nine years, the boy with no name had lived in a cellar, with zero contact with any other being, including the mother that feared his existence. It was the only world he'd ever known. What little food he had to eat, clothes on his back to keep him warm, and toys to keep him amused were what his limited imagination provided for him.

It was only when the cellar door opened on that fateful day that the boy with no name's world opened up to new possibilities. And it all began with finding a photo of his mother and father at their high school prom. His mother was dead, but his father? He had to be out there somewhere.

Maybe his dad was a superhero, or someone equally important. Maybe he was out there, saving  the world and keeping people safe. But if he was a hero, why wasn't he trying to save the boy from his dungeon? Did he even realize he had a son?

There were so many unanswered questions that he needed to ask the man. But first the boy had to find him. He could only imagine what their first meeting would be like.

So, for the next few months before he went to sleep, he'd pull out the picture and dream the same dream he'd continue to have until the day the day he arrived in Lawrence. The dream of meeting the man in the picture and having someone to love him.

*

There seemed to be a golden light shining behind Adam as he stepped out of the Impala. It was almost like it was happening in slow motion as the boy saw his father for the first time, giving the boy a gentle nod. His face lit up as his eyes locked with Adam's.

It's him. It's my daddy. He's come to rescue me. He is a superhero.

"What's this I hear about me having a son?" Adam asked as he saw all of his friends. "And why the hell wasn't I invited to this party?"

"Adam, we can explain," Ben said as Dawn started getting up.

"You tried to break my deal, didn't you?" Adam asked as he saw Samandriel in his Wiener Hut uniform. "Holy crap, you're an angel again."

"How did you--?"

"Why else would you be wearing that ridiculous outfit again?"

"Hello, Adam," Dawn said as grabbed Adam by the throat and lifted him into the air. "I really wanted our first date to be a little more special."

"Put my daddy down!" the nameless boy shouted as he charged toward Dawn. She held up her hand to stop him, but he broke through her telekinesis and shoved her, causing Adam to fall back toward the ground.

"That's impossible!" Dawn said. "How did you?"

"He's the Anti-Christ, remember?" Jesse asked as Ritchie and Lucas spray painted over the demon trap that was holding him, while Ben and Mike poured dirt on the holy fire. "That outranks lower class demon."

"I'm a high-ranking demon!" Dawn reminded him.

"Sure you are, sweetheart," Asher told her.

"Would a low-ranking demon have been able to manipulate the angel into escaping the Empty?"

"I wasn't in the Empty, I was in Purgatory," Samandriel told her.

"You were in the Empty, in an eternal sleep with every other angel who's died since the dawn of time," Dawn told him. "I used a spell to manipulate your dreams into performing that incantation to get you into the Cage where Adam was. I'm the reason both of you are alive right now. The only drawback was that now every angel sleeping in the Empty is dreaming that they're in Purgatory."

"That would explain the issue where Metatron narrates Ben's backstory," Jesse said to himself.

"I escaped the Empty?" Samandriel asked. "It felt so real..."

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