The former Death said that he would reap God too. That wasn't a statement of fact but a threat made to God before creation. Unexpectedly, Chuck's current apocalypse is halted by an unknown force which all major powers are racing to find. Will this n...
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Thanks to Donna's verbal instructions over the phone, Cas, Dean, Sam, and Jack finally reached the perimeter of the fog wall. Dean pulled the Impala to the side of the road and the group slowly approached the wall.
"Well, I'm not going first" Dean spoke in a tone which said well obviously.
"Dean, rock, paper, scissors?" Sam asked.
"Oh no. Nope, not gonna happen. You always win and I always end up bruised, if not bleeding. Besides, aren't you the one feeling reckless today? I mean, ya shot God!" Dean responded.
Sam and Dean continued arguing back and forth for a short time before Cas got involved. Finally, Jack just walked into the fog to the alarm of the other men. As they called Jack's name, he reemerged from the wall of fog with a puzzled expression. The rest of Team Free Will soon shared his confusion as Jack explained that he hadn't turned around, rather he came to what he thought was the other side only to find himself back at his original starting point. The rest of the group also tried then only to get the same results. It seemed neither angel nor human could breach the wall. That revelation led to another one of Dean's angry rants which was quickly interrupted by a call from Donna.
"Donna, hey. Look we're outside the fog fall but we can't get through the shit." said Dean once he answered the call.
"O-Oh, o-okay" Donna responded through sniffles. "J-Just hurry, yeah?"
Dean's anger was quickly forgotten when he heard the sheriff holding back tears. "Donna, what's wrong? Hold on. I'll put you on speaker."
After Dean confirmed she was on speaker phone, Donna started her explanation. "So, my niece, you r-remember Wendy, sh-she found her mother passed out in the sunroom. She's not...she's not waking up. I don't—she's my sister, Dean. I, I can't lose her."
Before Dean could reassure Donna, his brother jumped in the conversation with "We'll be there soon, Donna. Don't worry. Everything will be alright. I promise."
After Donna hung up, Dean angrily confronted his brother, "Everything will be alright?! What the hell, man! You can't just make promises like that. Especially when we can't even get through this damn fog."
"Dean," Sam began in tired irritation "She needs comfort and hope. Not your...negativity."
Sam and Dean once again argued back and forth some more before Dean finally threw up his hands and grumbled, "Fine. Whatever. It's like talking to a damn wall."
As the brothers shared a few more quips, Jack turned towards Castiel with an idea. "Maybe that's what we should do...talk to the wall."
Cas sighed before saying, "Jack, I don't th—"
Ignoring Castiel, Jack walked right up to the wall of fog and reached up his hand as if to pet it before speaking softly, "I don't think you're here to hurt Sheriff Hanscum and her family, not really. Keeping them hidden and keeping intruders out it's not an attack...it's protection. Well, inside your wall, a family member of a friend of ours is possibly hurt. We just want to help. Please, let us in." At his final plea, Jack walked into the fog, but didn't return.
Upon seeing Jack successfully entered the wall of fog, Castiel got the Winchester brothers' attention and they all followed the nephilim through the fog. Jack, Cas, Sam, and Dean all quickly headed towards the cabin on the lake where Donna was waiting anxiously on the porch. Hellos were quickly exchanged before the group was led into the sunroom where Donna's sister, Lexi Hanscum, was lying unconscious in front of the grand piano.
Castiel quickly kneeled by the woman to assess the damage using his grace. "She is physically alright, but it seems as if the energy of her soul is depleted somehow. I can't tell more without touching her soul, but that course of action would be unwise considering her current condition.
"Well, something has to be causing the energy drain, right?" questioned Sam. "Maybe a spell or hex bag."
"Yes," Castiel confirmed "It is likely to be something of that nature."
"Alright," Dean started in a commanding tone. "Jack, Cas, look for hex bags. Donna, get Wendy and look through Lexi's belongings. See if there's anything new or unusual. Sam, you're with me. We'll look for other signs of spells."
Each person separated to do their assigned duty, but upon finding nothing unusual, they gathered back in the sunroom. As the other adults talked, Wendy sat down by her unconscious mother and started straightening her mom's outfit to calm herself. In fixing her mom's collar, the necklace Lexi always wore fell out of her shirt.
"Guys" Wendy said kind of freaked out, "Why is my mom's necklace glowing? It hasn't ever glowed before..." Everyone in the room looked at said necklace and saw that it was indeed glowing.
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Immediately, Cas reached for the necklace with his grace and stumbled back. "Th-That is the source the issue." There was a long pause as Cas closed his eyes with a longing sigh. "The energy is so concentrated and so captivating. I, I haven't felt power like that since the dawn of creation when Fath—God was most active."
"So that little necklace is the cause of all this?" Dean asked incredulously. "And I thought you had bad taste in accessories, Sammy. I mean that at least that hideous bracelet of yours never did anything like this.
Sam smacked Dean on the shoulder for being insensitive and the others talked about how to safely disenchant the piece of jewelry. Meanwhile, Wendy quickly yanked the necklace off her mom and stood. Pausing a moment, the girl then threw the glowing necklace on the floor and stomped on it. When the necklace shattered, the fog wall dissolved, and Lexi Hanscum awoke with a gasp. The relief felt by everyone was short lived, however, since the woman passed out once again.
Unknown to the group, Wendy's actions were felt by multiple beings of immense power. In Death's library, Billie shivered from a power shift, unaware of what it meant. In Reno, Amara stopped in the middle of a museum, looked towards the ceiling, and smirked. In Heaven's recently upturned archives, Chuck abruptly stopped mid search for a document in cabinet only to stand, straighten his red blazer and exit with a smug look on his face. Finally, on the very edge of the universe billions of individual pieces of energy paused in their movement and shivered before resuming their efforts at recombining to become whole once more.
