After spending a day in jail, the officer then told me and the boys that we were free to go. "Why?" Sam asked them. "Charges against you three were dropped." The officer said and the boys and I share a look before we walk out.

Later, we make it to the hotel lobby where we see Jay standing by, waiting for us. "Jay. Thanks for dropping the charges." Sam said. "You mind telling us why you did it?" Dean asked and I noticed that Jay looked very upset. "We have to talk." he said.

Minutes later, Jay took us to a bar and we all had drinks while he tells us that Charlie had died after Jay had done another death-defying stunt. "I was just a kid when we first met. All I knew was how to cheat at cards. Charlie got me out of more scrapes than I can count. Hell, I would have been dead by the age of 20 if it hadn't been for him." Jay explained then he sighs. "...he was more than my friend. He was my brother."

"I'm sorry, Jay." I said, sympathetically. "Look, I should have listened to you guys when you told me that my show was killing people." Jay said. "Well, you weren't the one pulling the trigger." Dean said. "Yeah, but someone did, and I want to find out who did this to Charlie, so I'll do whatever you guys say. Just tell me what to do." Jay said. 

"Jay, whoever's doing this...They like you. They're probably close to you." Sam said. "Did Charlie and Vernon get along?" I asked Jay. "No. No, it's not Vernon." Jay said, shaking his head disbelieving. "He's the only one that makes sense." Dean said.

"Charlie and Vernon were your family, Jay." Sam said as Jay looks between us. "And now Charlie's gone." I said. "Yeah, but...they butted heads sometimes, but Vernon could never do something like this." Jay said. "See, the thing about real magic is it's a whole lot like crack. People do surprising things once they get a taste of it." said Dean and Jay looks at us and sighs. "You better be damn sure about this. Vernon's all I got left." he said.

*3rd Person POV*

Vernon picks up his phone. 'Yeah? Yeah, okay. I'll be there in two shakes. I got something to tell you anyway." He said and he leaves. Seconds later, Sam, Dean and (y/n) enter Vernon's hotel room. "Wow. It's like a...magic museum." Sam said, awed at all of the props and posters. "You must be in heaven." Dean said as (y/n) looks around the room. 

"This guy doesn't travel light." she remarks. "He's been on the road his whole life. Probably everything he owns is in this room." Sam points out. "Let's get started." 

"Just talked to the head of the convention. Headliner gig is yours." Vernon said to Jay as he walks up to him after arriving at the convention building. Jay turns to him with a look of disappointment on his face.

"What? You don't want it?" Vernon asked him and Jay looks down and sighs. "A day ago, if you told me I'd be standing on this stage..." Jay said as he paces the stages then stops and turns to his friend. "No, I can't do it, Vernon." He said.

"What are you talking about?" Vernon asked. "Charlie's gone." Jay said, upset. "Charlie would have wanted you to go on. This is your shot. It's our shot." Vernon said. "Really? This is what Charlie would have wanted?" Jay asked as Vernon looks at him, confused.

"Charlie's dead." Jay said. "Hey, he was my friend, too, you know." Vernon said, defensively. "It's a hell of a way to treat a friend." Jay said, accusatory. "Again, what are you talking about?" Vernon asked and Jay walks up to him.

"You killed him, didn't you? And for what? So that I -- So that we could be back on top?" He asked. "That's insane." Vernon chuckles but noticed that Jay was serious. "No, you're scaring me." He said.

"First it was Vance, then it was Jeb . Even if you thought you were doing it for me, how in God's name could you kill Charlie?" Jay asked him, angrily. "Oh, you are crazy." Vernon said. "You used me, and you used my act to do this to him. If you think --" Jay started to say but a voice speaks up. "I wouldn't be so hard on him, Jay. He didn't do it."

"This is just a bunch of old-Timey magic stuff --None of it magic." Dean said as they continue to look around Vernon's room. "No herbs, no candles, and no tarot cards." Sam said, downtrodden, as (y/n) picks up a poster and her jaw drops and her eyes widens.

"I'll be damned." She said. "What?" the boys asked her. She holds up the poster to them to see a familiar man but he was younger looking. "Look like anyone we know?" she asked them and their eyes are just as wide as hers.

"Sweet Mary and Joseph." Vernon said, shocked, as him and Jay look at the young man that approached them. "Charlie." Jay said, confused, and the man smiles. "It's really me, Jay." he said.

"How the hell..." Vernon said, confused,  and Charlie chuckles. "God, you forget what it feels like to be young. It's amazing." Charlie said. "How old are you?" Jay asked. "Oh, it depends on what you mean by old. Right now, technically, about 28, but I've been around a lot longer than that." Charlie said.

"How long?" Jay asked him. "Long enough to have shilled for Barnum. And he gave me something." Charlie said and he holds up a book. "What's that?" Jay asked, nodding at the book. "The grimoire --A book of real magic. At first, I thought it was a scam, but then I tried one of the spells, and it worked. In fact, they all worked. So when I got to the end and there was one for immortality..." Charlie explains.

"My God, Charlie." Vernon said, shocked. "And my show, the things that I can do." Jay said. "Different spell. But it gives you a little taste of what's possible." Charlie said and he pulls out a deck of tarot cards and Jay goes to reach out for them but Charlie pulls back. "Oh, no, I wouldn't touch those, Vernon. They're --They're still radioactive." He said.

"You killed Vance and Jeb Dexter." Jay said. "What, you think this is a parlor game? You were being humiliated by those punks. A washed-up old man who couldn't even defend himself." Charlie said, getting angry.

"You used me to do these terrible things." Jay yells. "I used them to give you a gift. And you wanted it, Jay. I saw it in your eyes." Charlie said and Jay shakes his head. "No, I never wanted this." he said. "You were ready to kill yourself. I saved your life." Charlie said and this makes Jay stop in his tracks while Vernon gives Jay a shocked look 

"Is that right, Jay?" He asked Jay, who doesn't respond. "I was there for you, like I've always been. Like I'll always be. Come with me, both of you. You think the first time around was good? The second time's even better. All the know how, none of the aches and pain." Charlie said. "No, I won't do this. I won't." Jay said. "I've never made this offer before. But, then again, I've never had friends like the two of you before. Let me do this for you." Charlie offered the men.

"And who else has to die so that we can live forever? What's the price tag on immortality?" Jay asked and Charlie doesn't answer. "This isn't right, Charlie, what you're doing. You know that. Somewhere, you know that." he said. "I know I don't want to come back alone, to start all over, alone." Charlie said then Vernon turns to Jay.

"Jay...We can be young again." He said and Jay couldn't believe Vernon was buying into this. "The three of us together -- Vital and alive...forever." Charlie said, smiling.

"Not so fast!" a voice calls out and all three men turn and see Dean, Sam and (y/n) walking in. "I ain't Guttenberg, and this ain't Cocoon. Immortality. That's a neat trick." Dean said. "It's not a trick. It's magic." Charlie said, smiling, then two nnoose appear behind Dean and (y/n), drop around their necks and lift them up.

Sam shoots Charlie but Charlie catches the bullet in his teeth. "Hey, bullet catch --Been working on that." Charlie said after he pulls the bullet out of his mouth. "Get him!" Dean gasped as he and (y/n) get strangled. 

Sam goes towards Charlie but he disappears then reappears behind Sam. "Let them go -- Now!" Sam yells. "Just leave me and my friends alone. All right, I will give it up --The spells, the hexes. This is the last time. I promise." Charlie said then he pushes Sam onto a the sword-table.

Sam gets strapped in then looks up to see the swords hanging above him, the rope holding it getting slowly cut. (Y/n) and Dean were choking and gagging as the noose ties tighter and tighter around their necks.

Then Charlie clutches his stomach, where he is now bleeding. Charlie looks over and sees Jay had stabbed himself in the stomach, holding a tarot card. "Jay...You picked these strangers over me?" Charlie asked Jay as he falls back and then he dies.

Sam's restraints latch off of Sam and he gets off of the table before the swords land down on the table. The nooses let Dean and (y/n) go and they fall on the ground and begin to cough. "You guys okay?" Sam asked as he walks up to the two. "Yeah." (y/n) coughs. "Yeah, I'm all right." Dean said while Jay stares at the dead body of his friend before he tears up, Vernon watched all of this in shock.

*(y/n)'s POV*

The boys and I walk over to Jay at the bar the next day, Jay was sitting and drinking which I can't blame him after what he had to do. "Hey, Jay. We wanted to thank you for what you did yesterday." Dean said. "I killed my best friend yesterday, and you want to thank me?" Jay said, venomously.

"Where's Vernon?" Sam asked him. "Oh, he's gone. He said he didn't want to speak to me again after what I did to Charlie." Jay said, upset, and I couldn't help but feel sorry for the man. "Listen, Jay...you know Charlie was never gonna give up what he was doing. Ever. You did the right thing." I tell him and he looks up at me. "Are you sure about that?" He asked me and I don't respond 

"You know, Charlie was like my brother. And now he's dead... because I did the right thing. He offered me a gift, and I just threw it back in his face. So now I have to spend the rest of my life old and alone. What's so right about that?" Jay asked and he gets up and walks out. "Jay...your cards." the bartender said as she points at the cards. Jay looks at them then sighs. "Throw them away." he said and he walks out while the bartender looks at the cards, sadly.

"Well, I don't know about you, but...I could go for a beer." Dean said and I let out sigh and nod. "Yeah, me too." I said as I rub my eyes. "I'm gonna take a walk." Sam said and he walks out. Dean and I share a look before we go to the bar and order our drinks.

We drank a few rounds in silence until Dean speaks up. "Have you thought of names?" He asked and I turn to him. "What?" I asked him. "Names...for our kids." He said and I furrow my brow. "Why are you..?" I asked but he turns his head to me. "Just...indulge me for a bit." He said and I slowly smile. 

"Well...I've gone back and forth with some names. I've thought for a boy it's between Jack or Jared..." I said and Dean nods a bit. "Jack sounds good but Jared...I don't know sounds like a name for a weirdo." He said and I chuckle. "And for the girl...I like Claire or Jolene." I said and Dean turns his head to me. "What?" I asked. "Isn't Jolene a song?" Dean asked and I nod.

"Yeah, I know the song is about homewrecker but...I liked the name when Dad introduced me to the song during one of our trips onto another job for him." I said and Dean smiles. "Either way, all those names are pretty good." Dean said and I look at him. "Wait, really? No sarcasm?" I asked, surprised. "No sarcasm." He said and I stare at him for moment then I turn back to my drink.

"Course I think I can come up with better names." Dean said and I turn my head back to him. "Like what?" I asked. "Dean Jr." He said, giving a sarcastic smile, and I snort out a laugh. "One Dean Winchester is enough." I said and Dean laughs and sips his beer.

"Having a kid named after you, not gonna happen…although I think you gave me an idea to name our kid after their Uncle Sam." I said, jokingly, and Dean chokes on his beer. "Nope...not gonna happen." He coughs and I laugh. "Don’t let your brother hear you say that, you could hurt his feelings.” I teased, feigning sadness. "Whatever." Dean said, dismissively, and I giggle before we go back to enjoying our drinks.

"Now, about that whole you being a tied to the bed kind've girl..." 

"Oh God." I groaned.