"There's no higher power, there's no God. There's just chaos and violence and random, unpredictable evil that comes out of nowhere. It rips you to shreds. "
- Dean Winchester.
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_-=|=-_ 22 years ago _-=|=-_
Night had fallen over a quiet town, crickts chirping and the wind blowing the only sounds to be heard outside. A large dedicuous tree with no leaves stands outside of one of several suburban homes, and inside a family just settling down for the night.
a woman in a white night gown, Mary Winchester, carries her son, dean into a dark room, stopping right next to another smaller but older child and a crib with a bacy inside "come on dean, percy, lets say good night to your brother"
Mary turned on the light to reveal sam, swaddled and inside his crib. dean leaned over the side of the crib with marys help and kissed the baby on the forehead. " 'Night sam,' he said in his small kid like voice
Percy leaned over the side and carefully ruffled sams hair "good night sammy" he said before stepping away to let their mom lean over the side of the crib and smile lovingly at the child "good night, love" she said with a smile before turning away to greet her husband who was standing in the doorway with a bright smile on his face
"Daddy!" Dean cried before jumping into his arms, and percy went over to hug im tightly.
john winchester greeted both of his kids, respectively. "Hey dean, percy. so what do you both think? Is sammy ready to toss around a football yet?" Dean and percy both shake their heads laughing "no dad, " percy said.
"No," john said also laughing as mary passed them and went into the hallway, asking percy to come with her
"You got him?" mary asked, referring to dean, and john nodded
"i got him," he said and looked back to sam. he quickly said "sweet dreams" to the baby before switching out the light and carrying Dean to his room, where he put the kid to bed in a soccer themed room and left.
while he was doing this, however, no one noticed the fact that the baseball mobile above sams crib started spinning, the transportation themed cock on the wall ticks.. ticks.. and stops, the moos shaped nightlight flickering.
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over the baby moniter, sam could be heard fussing, and mary who at this time had been asleep, stirrs. she turns on a light on her nightstand where a picture of her and john stands "john?" she asks tiredly only to find that shes alone in the bed.
she gets up and walks over to sams nursery seeing johns shadow next to her babys' crib, "john? is he hungry?" she asked only for her to be shushed quietly
"alright" she says a bit surpised but eaves john to tend to sam and goes back down the hallway only to see the light by the stairs slickering. frowning, shetaps it a few times and it goes back to normal. she gives a soft hum before turning to see more light flickering downstairs.
she goes to investivate and sees john sitting in a recliner asleep while watching a war movie. she takes a moment to process and in a fit of panic she rushes back up the stairs "sammy! sammy!" she cries out but stops short as she sees the man looking back at her with glowing yellow eyes...
a scream echoes through the house, startling all of its residents awake. john races up the stairs and bursts into sams nursery and gives a quick glance around before settling next to sams crib "hey, sammy. you okay" he asks in a quiet voice
he sees something dark fall next to sams head and touches it, the feeling wet and sticky. two more drops land on johns hand before he looks up and gives a cry of shock and pain. there, pinned to the ceiling was Mary Winchester, looking pale and like she was going into shock
"No! Mary!" he cried as he fell next to sams crib. suddenly percy pears in the doorway and has just enough time to take in the situation before mary bursts into flames and john grabs the baby and puts him into percys arms, at some point realizing that dean had also shown up to see what was going on
"Take your brothers outside as fast as you can and dont look back! Now, percy, go!" he demanded and watched as his boys ran off, percy carrying sam with one hand and dragging dean with the other as he attempted to resist, wanting to stay for his dad.
"Mary!" john yelled as he turned back to the flames, but could barely see her as she lay, still pinned to the ceiling "No!" john cried a bit quiter as he watched his wife burn to death.
he only hesitated a moment however as he remembered his boys outside and ran out of the house to them, grabbing them as they stood outside just as the window in sams nursery exploded muttering a quick "ive got you" as he pulled them away.
several minutes later, the 3 boys and their dad sat across the street on the hood of johns impala, wrapped in a blanket, sam still wrapped closely in one of percys arm and dean held closely in the other as they watch the lawrence fire department extinguish the fire in their once briliant house.
little did they all know, this would only be the beginning of a long journey, creating legends of their own as they worked to extinguish evil in the world.
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22 years Later
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October 31st, 2005
Appartment complex near Stanford University
Sams P.O.V.
"Sam!" my girlfriend calls as she comesaround the corner. i couldnt help but eye her up, dressed as she was in a sexy nurses outfit, and adjusting her hat as she looked at me "get a move on, will you? we were supposed to be there like fifteen minutes ago"
she walked off to grab her small white handbag purse, calling out to me again, nocking me out of my slight daze "Sam! You coming or what?" she yells and i poked my head around the corner, dressed in a shirt and a flannel and jeans, which she doesnt notice
"do i have to?" i asked in what i would admit was a slightly whiny voice
"Yes!" she said and i finish stuffing my belongings into my pocket "itll be fun" she says as i walk into the room. she sees me finally and asks in a slightly dexasperated voice "wheres your costume?"
i laugh and shake my head "you know how i feel about halloween"
she just shakes her head at me and we head out to the bar where we settle at a table and our friend lois comes up to us with some shots. jess raises hers for a toast and we follow suit "so, heres to Sam and his awesome LSAT victory!"
"alright, its not that big of a deal" i say, trying to take the attention off of me and failing miserably.
we all clink our glasses to gether anyways and jess rolls her eyes "yeah, he acts all humble.. but he scored a 174"
louis drinks his shot, and so do i "is that good?" lous asks and he sets down his glass
"Scary good" jess says and drinks her shot and also sets her glass down
so there you go!" louis says enthusiastically "you are first round draft pick. you can go to any law school you want!" louis sits next to me smiling widely
"actually, ive got an interview on here. on monday. if it goes okay, i think i got a shot at a full ride next year" i say with a small embarrased smile
"hey, its gonna go great" jess says and puts ahand on my shoulder, grinning a proud smile
"it better" i mumble as louis speaks up "how does it feel to b the golden boy of your family?" he asked with a laugh
"ah.." i paused thinking that id been caugh, thinking i had something to prove "they dont know"
"oh, no, i would be gloating! why not?" he asked confused but staying happy non the less
"because were not exactly the bradys" i retorted fiddling with my emtpty glass
"and im not exaclty the huxtables." he deadpanned making me smile "More shots?" he asked getting up
"no. no" jess and i said at the same time, but louis got up and went to the bar anyways. i gave a small sigh and turned my attention to the beautiful girl at my side
"seriously though, im proud of you" she said making my heart swell "your going to knock 'em dead on monday-- and your going to get that full ride. i know it"
"what would i do without you" i asked, praying i never found out that answer
"crash and burn" jess said and we both laughed and she pulled me into a kiss. i felt my heart speed up and i could feel butterflies in my stomach. i would never get used to that feeling.
later that night, jess and i were asleep, mg back turned to her and something outside woke me up. with the way mine and my brothers father trained us, instinct had me out of bed and walking around trying to find out what caused the noise.
i walked into the sitting area and saw there was a window open with the curtain fluttering in the breeze. i know i closed it earlier as i had checked, and suspicion rose in me.
movement in the hallway where the kitchen is caught my eye and i quickly hid behind the door as the shadow of a man walked by. i quietly lunged forward and grabbed the mans shoulder. he slipped out of my gras and the guy threw a punch at me which i dodged. he guy then grabbed my arm and swung me around and shoved me back.
i kicked out at him and the man blocked it before pusing me into the next room and knocked me don before pinning me "woah, easy tiger" a familiar voice said and thats when i got my first look at him.
"Dean?" i asked incredulously and he laughs "you scared the crap out of me!" i said from my spot on the floor
"well thats cause your out of practice" he said snarkily and in response to this, i yanked deans hand away, slammed my arm ito him, quikly rolled us over and pinned him in return "or not" he said slightly impressed
"get off me" dean said, having enough and i rolled my eyes helping him to his feet
"what the hell are you doing here?" i asked, now seeing that if dean was here there was probably something wrong
"well i was loooking for a beer" he replied sarcasticaly. he put his hands on either of my shoulders, sizing me up quickly before shaking me once an letting go.
"what the hell are you doing here?" i asked a bit more forecefully and finally he relented
"okay. alright, we need to talk" he said and i looked at him dubiously
"uh.. the phone?" i said as if stating the obvious
"if id'a called, would you have picked up?" he asked and i didnt answer, feeling a bit guilty.
suddenly the light turned on and jess walked into the room "sam?" she askedd tiredly and slightly confused
dean and i turned our heads at once an i couldnt help but stop and admire her for a moment. theen i remembered that dean was there and introduced them "jess, hey. dean, this is my girlfriend, Jessica" i said ad dean grinned at, moving closer
"Oh, i love the smurfs. you know, i gotta tell you, you are completely out of my brothers league." dean said sounding slightly surprised.
jess, looking slightly ucomfortable and points to the room saying "let me justput sommething on really quick" and turned to leave before dean said
"no, no, no i wouldnt dream of it. seriously"
that pissed me off and i felt my face turn cold "anyways," dean said still watching her "i gotta borrow your boyfriendhere, talk about some family business" he said and i immediately didnt want jess to go "but uh, nice meeting you" he said grabbing my arm and attempting to walk me away.
i pulled away from him and went to jess, wrapping an arm around her as i regarded my brother stonily "no, wwhatever you want to say, you can say it infront of her"
"okay" dean turned to face us head on "uh, dad hasnt been home in a few days" he said and i scoffed
"so hes working overtime on a miller time shift. he'll stumble back in sooner or later"
dean ducked his head a little and suddenly i felt dread overwhelm me throughi kept my face neutral "dads on a hunting trip and he hasnt been home in a few days" he said and all of a sudden deans presence made some sense to me
though my expression didnt chance, i saw jessica look up beside me and though i didnt want to, i said in an even tone "jess, excuse us, we have to go outside"