Linking Lives / Book 12 / The Life Series / Supernatural Season 13

Lost and Found

When Brandon, Sam and Dean came back from the fight with Lucifer that ended with Luci being trapped in the other world that they had told us about over the phone, it was with some very bad news.

Castiel was dead.

Mary was trapped with Lucifer.

Back home in the Bunker, Amara, Aiden and I were all devastated but trying to focus on what to do now. Brandon, Sam and Dean were getting ready to leave again, because Lucifer's son, Jack, had taken off after he had knocked them out.

"We still have holy oil, right?" Dean asked.

"For what?" Aiden asked.

"'Cause we're gonna have to hit him with everything we got," Dean told us.

"Hold a second," I told them. "Can we just talk about what happened back there?"

"Sure," Brandon answered. "Which part? Let's see. Crowley's dead. Kelly's dead. Cas is, too. Mary's gone, and apparently, the Devil's kid hit puberty in thirty seconds flat. Oh, and almost killed us."

"Yeah, because Dean tried to shoot him, Brandon," Sam told him.

"I tried to shoot the monster, Sam," Dean told him. "It's kind of what we do."

"We don't know what he is yet, Dean," Sam told him. "And I had it under control."

"I'm sorry, are you defending the son of Satan?" Dean asked.

"I'm not defending anything," Sam told us. "I'm just saying. Look, with everything that's happened, I'm obviously spun out also, but we need a plan."

"Yeah, kill him," Dean told us. "Okay? That's the plan."

"Dad," Amara told him.

"Look, right now, all that matters is finding him," I told them. "Before anybody else gets hurt. And once we do that, we'll figure everything else out."

"What about Cas?" Amara asked. "Is he--is he really dead?"

Sam and Dean looked devastated, but Dean was also furious. Brandon looked at us sympathetically.

"Dad?" Aiden asked.

Dean sighed. "I'm sorry for snapping at you, Nessie and Amara, Aiden. Look, it's not your fault. You weren't even there."

"But we all might have to go to get this done," I told him. "Dean, we don't know what's gonna happen out there. And after what happened with Mary, with Cas... I'm not risking losing you and Sam, too."

Amara sighed. "And I'm not letting Brandon get hurt either."

Brandon, Sam and Dean knew that we weren't going to take no for an answer, sighing, nodding in agreement.

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I was able to track Jack to a fast food place, where we were pulling up in the Impala.

"Nessie, you really think that Lucifer Junior is at Pirate Pete's Jolly Treats?" Dean asked. "That he was like, what, 'because I destroy the world, let me just grab a bag of curly fries'?"

"Look, if he would've kept to the main road, he would have walked past it," I told them. "And I don't know--"

"Fine," Brandon told us. "Just make it quick."

"You're not coming?" Amara asked.

Brandon sighed. "No. Look, maybe Ness is right. Maybe the Devil's kid is in there just hanging out. Or maybe he's halfway across the country, torching Chicago."