Book 2
It's been a year since The Judgment Day.
A lot has changed since then.
Sam's trapped in the cage with Lucifer and Michael and nothing's been the same since that day.
And of course, a lot has changed between Dean and Elena.
Are they gonna...
WEEKS LATER. OLD HOUSE. HAMMONTON. NEW JERSEY. NIGHT
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Dad and i walked into the house where the boys had taken care of the electricity.
Sam took a seat at a table and we others stood around it.
Dad"Well, isn't this cozy?"
Sam "Yeah. Well, Motel 6 just ain't leaving the light on anymore. "
Dad " Well, I'm taking a page out of Frank Devereaux's Bible on this. Everybody's out to get you -- paranoia is just plain common sense. "
Dean " Weeks, guys. Weeks. We've been living with cold showers, cold Hot Pockets, cold freaking everything. I mean, this is the bottom that we're living in. You guys get that, right? "
Dad " How many big mouths are out there, running card traces, like Chet, or hunting us down God knows what ways? No, now's not the time to be laying our bed rolls out on the grid. Not if we can help it. "
Suddenly the lights go off. I sighed.
Sam turned on a battery-powered lamp.
Dean " That's just great. This is stupid. Our quality of life is crap. We got Purgatory's least wanted everywhere, and we're on our third "The World's Screwed" issue in, what, three years? We've steered the bus away from the cliff twice already."
Sam " Someone's got to do it. "
Dean " What if the bus wants to go over the cliff?
I looked at him "You think the world wants to end?"
Dean" I think that if we didn't take its belt and all its pens away each year that, yeah, the whole enchilada woulda offed itself already. "
Dad " Stop trying to wrestle with the big picture, son. You're gonna hurt your head. "
Dean took a beer out of a cooler and lied down on a sofa.
Dad " So, what's the guff?
He sat down at the table with Sam.
Sam "Well, uh, there've been a rash of sightings all over the southern pine barrens -- a strange, fast-moving, human-like creature. Locals even have a name for it. "
I sat down next to Dean on the sofa.
Sam passed a print-out of an internet search to Dad.
Dad " The Jersey Devil? I thought that was just local tall-tale crap. "
Sam" The area's history of sightings goes back more than two centuries. Some accounts gave it bat wings, others horns, a...a tail. "
Sam showed Bobby another print-out ""Science Journal Report Article The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variations. To date the most raucous reports of the Jersey Devil was in 1909 where hundred of people had testified to the sightings. There had been many sightings of the creature since 1909. Recently a farmer in Jersey had reported disturbances and killing of his livestock." And, uh, oh yeah, a horse's head. "
