Warping to Destiny - A Supernatural FanFiction

Chapter 35 - A Discovery and a Phone Call

Sam and Dean

Thirty minutes after the girls left, Sam was in the study looking through some of the Multiple Universe books, when Dean stumbled into the study, tears streaming down his face. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy, you gotta help me!"

Sam jumped up and hurried to Dean. "Dean! What's wrong?" He put his arm around him and said, "Come on buddy, come on. Sit down. What's wrong?"

Dean held out his arm, his hand balled into a fist. The mark of Cain was glowing, throbbing. "I can't control it, man. I need Maggie."

"Maggie?" exclaimed Sam. "What does Maggie have to do with it?"

"I don't know, Sammy. I just know that when she's here I can control it better." Dean was in obvious distress.

"Has this happened before?" he asked, panic in his voice.

"Yes," Dean said. "Every time she leaves. But each time it gets worse. Sammy please, you need to do whatever you have to do to stop me, because soon I won't be in my right mind, and I won't care. You may have to kill me."

"Dean, that's not gonna happen, any more than you could kill me when Dad said you might have to."

All of a sudden, Dean started breathing easier, and the Mark stopped glowing. "Oh, thank God, they're home!" Dean said. "They're home already, I can feel it. Sammy, please, don't tell her okay? Don't tell Katie either, Please!" He looked as panicked as Sam had a few minutes ago.

"No, Dean, I won't," he said. "Go, get yourself under control."

Dean left just as the girls came in from the other side, clearly excited about something, and talking over each other. "Girls," said Sam, trying not to laugh and making a piss poor job of it. "One at a time please."

Just then Dean came strolling in like nothing had happened. "Ahh, you're home already. Good! What did you find out?"

"It's Eric Kripke," said Katie.

"It has to be," Said Maggie.

Sam laughed, clearly amused at their excitement. "Let's go to the viewing room and you can tell us all about it."

"I'll go grab some beers," said Katie.

Maggie's POV

While we were waiting for Katie to join us, Dean pulled me to him and wasn't letting go. "Are you all right?" I asked him, concerned.

"Yeah Baby, I just missed you is all," he said, though I wasn't completely sure I believed him. He seemed a bit clammy, and he was trembling just a bit. I wouldn't even have noticed it if he weren't holding me so tightly. I looked over at Sam as though I could read some answer on his face, but he didn't seem concerned about anything. Maybe it was just my imagination.

Katie came in with chips and beers, and we explained in a much calmer way what we had discovered. Everyone agreed that Kripke was the obvious choice for our mystery angel, seeing as how he had tried to sell the idea for ten years.

"So what should we do now?" asked Katie.

"We should talk to Cas for one thing," said Sam.

Just then his phone rang, and he took it out and looked at it. "It's Jeffries," he said. "Hello! … Yes, this is Sam Winchester… Really? … Yes certainly, hang on a sec."

He went to the desk and took out a pen and paper and wrote something down. "Flight number? … Great, someone will pick you up at the airport… Oh I see… then call us when you get close, because our place is a bit hard to find... No sir, thank YOU." he said, and hung up. "Jeffries is flying in tomorrow evening," he said. "He's bringing his son, and they will rent a car at the airport."

That sent us all on a new round of excitement. "Maybe things are beginning to come together," said Katie.

Then Dean called to Cas, and he actually came. We told him our suspicions about Eric Kripke, and he said he had an idea and disappeared.

Then Katie said, "By the way, guys, Maggie and I were talking. We need to go to the Home World and pack up our stuff and turn in our apartment. We don't think we'll be needing it anymore."

Sam started to nod but Dean said, "Do you really need to do that? I mean, does it have to take both of you?"

"Well yeah Dean, it wouldn't take us more than a day," said Katie.

Dean got up and paced. "Well maybe you could hold off on that for now?"

I said, "Dean, what's matter? Why should we wait? We're spending unnecessary money over there." Then I had a horrible thought. "Unless… you aren't saying you might want us to go back home are you?"

Dean grabbed my arms. "No!" he exclaimed loudly. "No, that's not it I… " He looked over at Sam as though asking for help. But Sam just shrugged. "Um, nothing, don't worry about it. Just do what you have to do."

"Okay then," I said. "I'm hungry. I'll go make us some sandwiches."

"I'll come help you," said Dean.

Katie's POV

After Dean and Maggie left, I said, "Sam, what's going on with Dean?"

"Nothing," he said.

"Sam!"

"What?"

"Tell me! It's not nothing. Something is up with him."

He shrugged. "Not that I know of," he said.

"Sam!"

"What?"

"You're lying to me. Please don't lie to me."

He looked at me for a long moment and then he sighed. "Okay yeah, but I can't tell you, Katie, I promised I wouldn't say anything."

I thought for a moment and then I nodded. "Okay," I said, "I can respect that. But if it's something that's going to hurt my sister, I would appreciate knowing."

"No," he said. "It's nothing that will hurt her, I promise. I just can't tell you more than that."

I sighed. "Okay," I said, and I gave him a hug. But something was definitely not right, and it was very troubling.