Outfits in the external link.

THEN

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the lab, Henry drew used his blood from the bowl to draw a symbol on the door. The blood Sigil was glowing gold. Henry fell through the door in a burst of light.

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in Dean and Ness' motel room, Dean was sitting down, tying his boots. Ness stood in front of the mirror. Henry fell out of the closet, taking in the area around him. Ness and Dean looked at Henry in confused shock.

Dean: (voice over from 8.12 As Time Goes By) "Some asshat pops out of my closet asking about my dad."

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the diner, Henry, Ness, Dean, Sam, Catty and Sabrina were sitting at the table.

Henry held his hand toward Ness. "Henry Winchester."

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the diner, Ness, Sam, Dean, Sabrina and Catty stood at the counter.

"That's your grandfather," Ness told them.

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", outside Astro Comics, Sam, Dean, Catty, Ness, Sabrina and Henry were gathered.

Henry looked at Sam, Dean, Catty and Sabrina. "My father and his father before him were both Men of Letters, as John and you four should have been."

The Aquarius Star symbol was still visible carved into the door, but it was partly worn away. Henry touched the worn away symbol.  

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the diner, Henry, Ness, Dean, Sam, Catty and Sabrina sat at their table.

"Our father taught us how to be hunters," Sam told him.

From 8.01 "We Need to Talk About Sabrina", in Purgatory, Dean picked up the Vampire's weapon, beheading him, killing him.

From 8.07 "A Little Slice of Kevin", in the warehouse / factory, Catty jumped down from the chains, kneeling next to Demon 2 to stab him in the heart with Catty's Knife, killing him, making him flash with red.

From 8.02 "What's Up, Tiger Mommy?", in the auction room, Sam came up behind Beau, swinging Thor's hammer at the back of Beau's head, killing him, letting him fall. Lightening crackled.

From 8.05 "Blood Brother", in Purgatory, Ness pushed away from the tree, using the machete to turn the Vampire toward the tree, pushing him against it, pushing the blade through his neck, decapitating him, killing him.

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the diner, Henry looked at Catty. "You're a mother to a more-than-Human child?"

"Yeah," Catty answered.

From 8.10 "Torn and Frayed", in the woods, Sabrina appeared behind the Crocotta, kicking his knee, making him fall to his knees, putting a hand on the back of his head, smiting him, killing him with a flash of bright white light, letting the body fall. She smirked, looking at the burned out eyes of the Crocotta, looking at Ness and Dean.  

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the processing plant, Abaddon plunged her hand into Henry's stomach. Henry shook slightly, leaning against Sam. Sabrina, Dean and Catty knelt next to them. Ness stood close by. Sabrina walked closer to Abaddon, lowering her hand to her side, making Abaddon kneel to the floor, taking Abaddon by her head, tearing it off, letting the headless body fall to the floor.

Henry: (voice over from 8.12 As Time Goes By) "I'm beginning to gather I don't make it back from this time, do I?"

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the cemetery, Ness, Dean, Sam, Sabrina and Catty got to bury Henry next to the other fallen Men of Letters in the cemetery they had been earlier.

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the processing plant, Henry took Sabrina's hand with his right hand, taking Catty's with his left, putting the box into her hand.

Larry: (voice over from 8.12 As Time Goes By) "In the box is the key to every object..."

From 6.12 "Like a Virgin", in Bobby's House's Library, Bobby Singer and Ness were reading the pages that Sam, Dean and Catty had found in the sewers.

Larry: (voice over from 8.12 As Time Goes By) "Scroll..."

From 6.03 "The Third One", in the motel room, Castiel was preparing Octavia's summoning spell. Catty lit a match, tossing it into the bowl, making everything inside catch fire. Sam, Dean, Catty, Castiel and Ness turned to see Octavia standing behind them.

Larry: (voice over from 8.12 As Time Goes By) "Spell..."

From 7.23 "Survival of the Fittest", in Rufus' Cabin, Ness poured the blood from the bowl onto the Sister Mary Constant's bone in the other bowl.  

Larry: (voice over from 8.12 As Time Goes By) "Ever collected for thousands of years under one roof."

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in Larry's House, Sam and Ness exchanged a look.

Larry was writing on a notepad. "Take it to these coordinates." 

Larry handed the notepad to Sam.

From 8.12 "As Time Goes By", in the cemetery, Ness, Dean, Sam, Sabrina and Catty stood at Henry's grave. Catty took the box out of her pocket.

"What are the chances that place is still standing?" Ness asked.

"A chance we've got to take," Sabrina told them.

Ness, Dean, Sam and Catty looked at Sabrina. Sabrina smiled a small, sad smile, looking at Henry's grave.

NOW

§  

Flashback - 1944

Vitsyebsk, Belarus

Night - Country Road

A person drove a bicycle with a sidecar along a narrow road.

§  

Nazi Camp - Outside

The soldier riding the bike parked outside a large house with a Nazi banner. He approached a sentry who was standing outside a smaller building, raising an arm in a casual salute. "Heil Hitler."

Both the soldier and sentry spoke in German.

"Du bist spat [You're late]," the sentry told him.

"Ist nicht meine Schuld [Don't blame me]," the soldier told him. "Es war des Schumachers Tochter. [It was the shoemaker's daughter.]"

The sentry handed the soldier a pass. "Gluckspilz. [Lucky bastard.]" The soldier walked past the sentry into the camp. "Hole dir den Tripper. [Get the clap.]"

The sentry tried to light a cigarette, but his lighter wouldn't catch. Heavy footsteps approached. A shadow fell over the sentry. The sentry looked up, dropping the cigarette from his mouth, screaming.

§  

Inside

A soldier looked out a window upon hearing the sentry's scream. He backed away in alarm. The sentry shattered through the window, falling to the floor. The soldier checked the sentry's body, but the sentry was dead. The soldier sounded an alarm. Heavy footsteps could be heard approaching.

"Ja was is hier los? [What is going on?]" Soldier 2 asked.

No one answered.

§  

Office

A Nazi officer poured blood from a jar into a large bowl. He heard screaming, looking up. A soldier was writing in a ledger (Soldier 3), and a radio operator looked up. The radio operator removed his headset. Soldier 3 continued to write. Soldier 4 slid a table in front of the door. Soldier 3 closed the ledger, handing it to Soldier 4.

The radio operator was wearing his radio headset again. "Dad Ding ist nict aufzuhalten. [The thing won't go down.] Es hat die Linie am Osttor durchbrochen. [It broke through the lines at the east gate.]" 

Soldier 4 carried the ledger into an adjoining, well-appointed room where the Nazi officer was standing behind a desk. He put the ledger into a briefcase on a small table near the desk. They could hear screaming and gunfire from outside the building.

The radio operator spoke into his headset. "Herr Hauptmann. [Commandant.] Es hat Richter schon in zwei Halften gerissen! [It tore Richter in half!]"

Soldier 4 looked out of the window. "Mein Gott. Was ist das? [My God. What is that?]"

"'Es' kommt sie zu toten, Soldat, ['It' is coming to kill you, Soldier,]" the Nazi officer told him. "Ich schlage vor, sie halten lhre waffe bereit. Ihr alle. Zerstort es, oder sterbt. [I suggest you ready your weapon. All of you. Destroy it or die.]"

"Schmeibt den tisch um, [Knock over the table,]" Soldier 2 told them.

The soldiers tipped a table on its side, standing behind it in a line, aiming their guns at the door.

The Nazi officer added ingredients to the bowl of blood. "Ich verfluche euch, Hexen von Abraham. [Damn you, Sorcerers of Abraham.]" The soldiers looked at each other, hearing heavy footsteps approach. The Nazi officer lit a match, picking up a candle. The radio operator took off his headset. The Nazi officer started a spell. "(Latin) Celant flamma, ego te ignire. [Cloaking flame, I ignite you.]" Someone started to break in the door. The soldiers fired at the threat. A very large man walked in. The radio operator shot at the very large man with his handgun. The very large man lifted the radio operator out of his chair. The Nazi officer let wax from a candle drip into the bowl. "Ignis natus est ex sanguine ex ore decedente post nemo. [The fire born from blood leaves behind no man.]" There was the sound of bones breaking. Blood ran down the radio operator's body. The Nazi officer added another ingredient to the bowl. "Nunc evanescant me in nocte. [Now vanish me into the night.]"

He heard a soldier's voice. "(German) Schiebt auf ihn! [Shoot him!]"

The soldiers fired. The very large man approached. His body was riddled with bullets, but he appeared unaffected. He grabbed one of the soldiers, breaking his bones.

The Nazi officer lit a match from the candle. "(Latin) O ignis virtutis dissimulatioque. [O fire of power and concealment.]" One of the soldiers fell to the floor. There was the sound of breaking bones. The Nazi officer looked at the briefcase. He looked at the very large man. "(German) Sag deinen meistern, 'Das ist lange noch nict vorbei'! [Tell your masters, 'This thing is far from over!']"

The very large man approached. The Nazi officer threw the lit match into the bowl. Flames erupted. The very large man pushed the briefcase off the small table. The Nazi officer disappeared. The flames engulfed the desk and the briefcase. The very large man exhaled in anger.

§ Worlds Colliding (Supernatural) §

Now

Lebanon, Kansas

Day One

Day - Bunker - Outside

The Impala, Ness' Car and Catty's Mustang pulled up outside. Sam and Dean got out of the Impala. Sabrina and Catty got out of Catty's Mustang. Ness got out of Ness' Car. They walked toward the entrance of the Bunker. Catty pulled the box with the Aquarian Star out of her pocket.

"When's the last time somebody was in this place?" Dean asked.

"65, 70 years ago," Ness answered.

Catty opened the box, taking out the key inside it. They walked down a short flight of stairs to the door. Catty unlocked it, opening it to reveal darkness inside, pulling out a flashlight, leading the way inside. Ness, Sam and Dean pulled out their flashlights, them and Sabrina following.

§ 

Inside

All was dark. Catty, Ness, Dean and Sam shone their flashlights around.

Dean and Ness chuckled softly. "Son of a bitch."

"Look at this," Ness told them. "Ham radio, telegraph, switchboard. This was their nerve center."

"Henry did say that they ran dispatch on their own team of hunters," Sam told them.

Dean shone his flashlight on a table containing a chess board, ashtray, glass and a dirty coffee cup. "Wow. Halfway through their coffee and a game of chess. Looks like whoever was manning the hub left quick."

Catty and Sabrina walked along the balcony to the stairs, walking down into the room below.

"On the alarm call that ended the Men of Letters," Sam told them. 

Dean opened a switch box on the wall, pushing a lever. The lights turned on. Ness, Dean and Sam walked closer, standing next to Catty and Sabrina. The room they were looking at was a large, attractively furnished library with bookshelves, polished wooden floors and large wooden tables.

Sabrina smiled in awe. "I think we found the Bat Cave."

§ 

Day Two

Morning - The Bunker - Library

(Song:) Get Thee Behind Me, Satan - Ella Fitzgerald

The song was playing on a record. Ness wearing her pajamas, drying her hair off with a towel, looking over the books that were spread of the two tables.

Dean walked in. "Morning."

"Morning," Ness told him. "The, uh, water pressure in the Letters' shower room is marvelous. I still can't figure out how we even have water... or electricity."

Ness walked to the shelves, pulling out another book.

"Yep, well, I am putting that under the 'ain't broke' column, baby," Dean told her. "Listen, Ness, let's not go all geek on this stuff, okay?"

"Geek?" Ness repeated.

"Yeah," Dean answered. "Yeah, I mean, don't--don't get me wrong." He lifted a scimitar from a display stand. "This stuff is awesome, and it looks like they ran a real tight outfit here, but I'm just saying, you know, don't, uh, don't think that they knew some big secrets that we don't know."

Dean struck some poses with the scimitar behind Ness. Ness turned to face Dean. Dean stopped.

"Dean, they were a secret society," Ness told him.

"Which means that they made crap up and wore fezzes and sashes and swung around scimitars," Dean told her. "They probably didn't even sharp--" He ran his finger along the blade, cutting himself. "That's very sharp."

Dean replaced the scimitar on the stand.

"Dean, look, I think we might have something here," Ness told him. "Something that could help us, help Humanity. Henry certainly thought so. I mean, you know damn well we could use a break. What if we finally got one?" She walked closer, smirking. "And the whole point of being married is that we can be geeks." She kissed Dean. "Together."

Dean smirked. "I love you."

"I love you, too," Ness told him.

Dean smiled, kissing Ness more deeply than before. Ness wrapped her arms around his neck, returning the kiss passionately.

(Song Ends)

§ 

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

College Campus - Library

An elderly man was wearing a black hat, walking up to a library counter.

A librarian stood on the other side of the counter. "Well, well... It's so late. I didn't expect you in at all."

"Three times I had to transfer the bus lines to lose him today," the elderly man told him.

"Right," the librarian told him. "Your sinister friend."

"You don't believe that I'm being followed," the elderly man told him. "Nobody ever does. So, yes, I would like to see, uh..." He read from a notebook. "Manuscript FD113 from the Holtzinger estate."

"Oh, my," the librarian told him. "You're going to catalog that whole collection for us, aren't you?"

The elderly man nodded. "If I have to."

§ 

Elsewhere

A woman wearing white gloves put a large box labeled FD113 down on a table in front of the elderly man.

The elderly man removed his hat, wearing a skullcap underneath. "Thank you."

"Mm-hmm," the woman him, walking away, leaving.

The elderly man put on white gloves, opening the box, revealing a red ledger. He ran his fingers down the first entries, then flipped quickly through more pages, sitting in his chair. "(Yiddish) Gottenyu. [Dear God.]"

§ 

Front Desk

The elderly man put the red ledger down on the counter in front of the librarian. "This book? We need to protect it. This thing they put on me? He's too close. I can't take this ledger with me."

"Of course you can't," the librarian told him. "It's part of the special reference section, where it will be perfectly safe."

The elderly man nodded. "Oh. Oh. Oh, I still have have 10 minutes, yes?"

"Eight minutes, before all materials must be returned to the main desk," the librarian answered.

The elderly man smiled patronizingly. "(Yiddish) Ikh hofn zey batsoln ir gut tsu haltn az zhuk aroyf deyn tokhes. [I hope they pay you good to keep that bug up your ass.]"

The elderly man walked away, leaving. The librarian was confused, not knowing what he had just said.

§ 

Night - College Campus - Outside

The elderly man walked out of the library, looking around. Someone was watching him from a distance.

§ 

Campus Restaurant 

The elderly man was making a call on a pay phone. 

§  

Outside

A bespectacled man in a suit watched the elderly man through the bar windows.

§  

Inside

The elderly man was still on the phone.

Operator: (on phone) "Leave a message after the tone."

The elderly man spoke into the phone. "Now, listen to me carefully. I got no time left. I found it. I found it. When you--when you follow me here, you--you--you're gonna need this number here. Q..."

§  

Outside

The bespectacled man watched.

§  

Inside

The elderly man slowly hung up the phone. He walked toward the windows. He smiled, calling out to the bespectacled man outside. "Why so shy? Come in! Come in out of the cold! You'll have a cup of coffee with--with your old enemy. You Nazi piece of rubbish!" He began to sizzle. Smoke began to rise from his body. Students gasped in alarm. "You Nazi pig!"

The elderly man continued to burn, bursting into flames. Restaurant patrons screamed, running away.

§ 

Outside

The bespectacled man watched the fire, turning to leave.

§ 

Two Weeks Later

Lebanon, Kansas

Day Three

Morning - The Bunker - Outside

Catty's Mustang pulled up behind the Impala and Ness' Car.

§ 

Inside - Foyer

Sabrina and Catty walked into the Bunker, with Catty carrying a duffle bag, walking down the stairs.

§ 

Library

Ness and Dean were sitting at one table. Ness was on her laptop, with a file on the table next to her. Sam was sitting at the other table. Sabrina and Catty walked in.

"Hey," Catty told them.

"Hey," Sam told them. "So, how's Kevin?"

"You know, he's okay," Sabrina answered. "I guess."

"In his corner, hacking out his Da Vinci code, nothing actionable yet," Catty told them, taking a beer out of the refrigerator. "Garth says hi, by the way."

"Anything from Cas?" Dean asked.

"No," Catty answered. "Not—not a peep from Cas to me."

"Sabrina, you?" Ness asked.

Sabrina was turned away, getting a bottle of water from the refrigerator. "No, he's, uh, Dad's not answering."

Catty looked at Ness, Dean and Sam. "How'd your guys' last job go while Sow and I were checking on Kevin?"

"Good," Sam answered. "The Wolf bit the bullet."

"Right," Ness agreed. Catty looked at Sabrina. Sabrina closed the fridge, turning to them, taking a drink of her water. Catty sat at Sam at his table. "And since we got back, I have been trying to chart out the Letters' network of hunter, their allies, uh, affiliated groups they worked with, kept files on..."

"Circa 1958?" Dean finished.

"Yeah," Ness answered. "True. Uh, most are dead of defunct, but others? I'm not so sure, and this one... You should definitely check out."

Ness put a file with the Aquarian Star symbol on it in front of Dean.

"The Judah Initiative?" Dean asked skeptically.

"What is that?" Sabrina asked.

"A European team," Ness answered. "They were active during World War II."

"Really?" Sabrina asked. "Hunters fighting in a war? That's cool."

"Not exactly hunters, n—not exactly fighting, but, uh..." Ness trailed off, tapping a finger on the file.

Dean looked at a photograph of a group of men in the file. "Rabbis? Rabbis?" Ness nodded. "Really?"

"The Letters' file on them is—is sketchy, but, apparently, they were hard-core saboteurs," Ness told them. "So, I ran a search on the Initiative's entire roster, and I got a hit. One Rabbi Isaac Bass. He was 17 years old when he joined the Initiative and 85 years old when he died... two weeks ago." She turned her laptop toward them. "In a college town back east, he was capped."

"'Capped'?" Sabrina repeated.

Freak Accident on Campus.

"Yeah," Ness answered. "He was there doing research, and according to eyewitnesses, he spontaneously combusted."

"So, this is a case?" Sabrina asked. Ness raised her eyebrows. Sabrina looked around the room as if she didn't want to leave, looking at Catty. "We just got back."

Catty smiled a small smile.

Dean sighed. "Ness, we just finished a job, and you want to hit the road again?"

"Why not?" Ness asked. "The big bads ain't just gonna be on pause long enough for us to take a break, Dean."

Dean sighed, looking at Catty knowingly. "Right."

Ness reached for the file on the table, starting to stand. "Hey, if you guys don't wanna take the job..."

Dean grabbed her wrist to stop her. "No, of course we wanna take the job. You sure you do?"

Ness sighed, leaning forward against the table. "Why wouldn't I? Besides, who else do you have that can rattle off intel that you can't get your hands on alone?" Catty and Dean exchanged a knowing look. No one answered. Ness nodded. "Exactly. Can we go now?" Catty and Dean looked at her. Ness didn't wait for an answer, nodding. "Okay."

Ness walked toward the door. Catty and Dean both knew the reason behind this. Sabrina and Sam looked at them in confusion.

§ 

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

College Campus - Library - Outside

The Impala pulled up to the library. Sam and Dean got out of the car, wearing normal clothes.

§ 

Inside - Front Desk

Sam and Dean were standing across the counter from the librarian.

"So, you... worked with the late Rabbi Bass?" the librarian asked.

"We were research associates of Rabbi Bass, yes," Sam told him. "We're trying to complete his last paper for publication. I'd just like to review what he was after here."

"Well, that would be quite a lot of material," the librarian told them. "He was here open to close for almost a week."

"Wow," Dean told him. "Um, how about just the stuff he was looking at... you know, the day he, uh... caught fire?"

The librarian nodded. "Does shorten the list a bit."

§  

Campus Restaurant 

Catty and Ness were posing as FBI, sitting at a table with two women wearing matching sports uniforms.

"He was a really nice old kook," Girl 1 told them.

"Really nice," Girl 2 agreed.

"Kook?" Catty repeated. "How so?"

"You know, he'd talk a lot to us, to himself, to anyone who'd listen," Girl 2 told them. "He was always talking about this secret war that nobody knew was going on."

"Conspiracy stuff," Girl 1 told them. "He was obsessed with Nazis."

"But he said they were 'Special Nazis'," Girl 2 told them. "You know, Necromancers."

"Necromancers?" Ness repeated.

Catty noticed that Sabrina was looking off into the other side of the restaurant cautiously.

"Yeah, like from that world of whatever-craft that my little brother is always playing," Girl 2 told them.

"Nazi... Necromancers," Ness repeated.

"It's sad, isn't it?" Girl 1 asked. "That old people have to go so crazy?"

"I know," Girl 2 told them. "It is sad."

Catty looked toward Sabrina. "Hmm." Sabrina noticed Catty looked at her, nodding toward the other side of the restaurant. Catty followed her gaze to a bearded young man. The bearded man smiled, raising a hand. "You, um..." The bearded man looked away. Catty looked at Ness and the two girls. "I'm sorry. You, uh, you both saw the accident?"

"I can still hear his screams," Girl 1 told them.

"It was like the fire was alive, like—like it was attacking him," Girl 2 told them.

"It was like watching the most awful movie of the most terrible thing you could possibly see," Girl 1 told them.

"It was like that," Girl 2 agreed.

The bearded man met Catty's eyes. Ness sensed Catty's paranoia, following her gaze. The bearded man looked away. Ness was thinking.

§  

Library

A woman pushing a trolley walked toward Sam and Dean at their table, walking away, leaving. Sam was wearing white gloves, taking the box labeled FD113 from the trolley, putting it on the table, opening it, taking out "The Explorer's Guide to North American Birds".

Dean was looking through a magazine. "So, you got this, right?"

Sam tilted his head. "Dude."

Dean looked up. "What?"

Dean continued to look through the magazine. Sam scoffed softly, shaking his head, starting to look through the book he had taken out.

§  

Campus Restaurant

(Song:) Love High - Dude Royal

Ness and Catty sat down at the table with Sabrina.

Catty looked toward the bearded man. "Is he..."

"No, he's Human," Sabrina answered. "But I can find out why he's following us."

Catty looked at Sabrina. "No. No mind reading. Stay out of peoples' heads."

"But—" Sabrina started.

"Sabrina," Ness told her. Sabrina sighed, relenting. Ness smirked, curious and amused. "Why are you two so sure it's something bad?" Catty and Sabrina looked at Ness. Ness nodded slightly. "Oh, right, right. Uh, paranoia, right? You have a right to be paranoid, but, guys, you gotta relax."

"How can we relax when someone or something has tried every way in the book to get to us?" Catty asked.

"Oh, what?" Ness asked. "Like trying to hit on you like Mr. Flirty Eyes over there?"

Catty nodded. "Yeah. More than once."

Ness shook her head. "Man, you two are so damaged."

"Look who's talking," Catty replied. Ness shrugged slightly. Sabrina was slightly confused. Catty looked at Sabrina. "I'll show you how we handle this the old-fashioned way."

"But what if he's one of those guys that are after us?" Sabrina asked.

"Then he won't do anything in the middle of a crowded, public place, Sabrina," Ness told her. "Trust me. I'll be right here with you, and I'll be ready to help Catty as soon as something bad happens. Okay?"

Sabrina hesitated, nodding. Ness looked at Catty, nodding. Catty nodded, sighing, standing, walking away. Ness slid around the table closer to Sabrina. Sabrina took Ness' hand. Ness smiled a small smile.

Catty walked toward the bearded man, holding up her fake FBI badge. "Special Agent Welch."

Catty put the fake badge on the table.

The bearded man looked at it. "Oh, really? Wow. I thought you were like a headhunter or something."

The bearded man laughed.

"This is the second, maybe third time I'm seeing you today," Catty told him. "Why you following me, Gingerbread?"

"Oh, so we, um..." the bearded man trailed off. "We didn't have a thing back there, huh?" Catty waited for him to go on. "I'm sorry. I--I thought--I thought we had a thing back there. A little 'eye magic' moment, and I saw you here..." Catty looked down, pressing her lips together, sliding the badge toward her, picking it up. "And I figured I'd wait until you were done with your meeting and talking with the woman and little girl, and then maybe we might, uh..."

Catty put the badge away. "Yeah, uh, okay, but, no. Uh, no moment. This is a... federal investigation."

"Is that supposed to make you less interesting?" the bearded man asked. Catty looked away. "No. I—I'm sorry. I hope—I hope I didn't freak you out or anything."

Catty looked at the bearded man. "No. No. I—I'm n—not freaked out. It's just a, you know... a federal thing. It's, uh... As you were."

"You have a good night," the bearded man told her.

"Yeah, you too," Catty told him, walking away toward Ness and Sabrina, sighing, looking up. "My God."

"What?" Sabrina asked.

"Ness was right, as usual," Catty answered.

"See?" Ness asked. "Nothing to worry about." Sabrina stood, walking out of the restaurant. Catty sighed, closing her eyes. Ness stood. "You okay?"

Catty opened her eyes. "My paranoia's out of control." Ness seemed sympathetic. Catty shook it off, smiling a small smile. "But at least I got my cool-headed best friend sister-in-law to keep me calm and okay. And in a surprising role-reversal, I now get to help you do the same."

Ness smirked. "Come on. Let's go."

Catty and Ness walked out.

(Song Ends)

§  

Outside

Sabrina was skipping along skipping stones outside on the campus. Catty and Ness were following a little ways behind.

Ness' phone rang. She answered. "Yeah."

Dean's voice was on the other line. "Hey." Outside the library, Sam and Dean were walking out. Someone was watching them from behind a pillar. "So, we, uh, well, more like Sam, looked into the Rabbi's research. It doesn't make a lot of sense." Sam looked toward the pillar, lightly hitting Dean's arm. Dean followed his gaze. Someone stepped behind the pillar to hide. Dean looked at Sam. Sam nodded. Dean spoke to Ness over the phone. "Um, bird watching."

Sam and Dean continued on.

"Huh," Ness told him. Outside the restaurant, Sabrina was still skipping along the skipping stones. "Well, uh, the two co-captains of the women's volleyball team agree that the Rabbi's death was very unnatural. I think we still got a case."

"That would explain why we have something stuck to the shoe," Dean told her.

Ness looked at Catty, making a circling motion with her finger. "You being followed?"

"Yeah, I think so," Dean answered.

"That's weird," Ness told them. "Catty and Sabrina thought we were being followed earlier, and Sow finally learned the meaning of 'flirting'."

Sabrina turned to give Ness a look, trying and failing to look serious. "Aunt Ness."

Ness smiled innocently. Catty smirked.

"What?" Dean asked.

"Nothing," Ness told him. "You need a hand?"

"Yes, please," Dean told her. "Got someplace quiet?"

"Visitors' parking," Ness answered. "The boonies."

"We'll park in the back," Dean told her, getting into the driver's seat of the Impala. Sam got into the passenger seat. "30 minutes."

Sabrina got into the back of Ness' Car. Ness got into the driver's seat. Catty got into the passenger seat.

§  

Night - Parking Lot

Sam was leaning against the Impala. Ness' Car pulled up nearby, parking. Someone was watching him from the distance.

§  

Wooded Area Near Parking Lot

Dean walked toward the unknown person. "Hey, pal."

The unknown person stood, towering over Dean, revealing it was the very large man from 1944. Dean looked up at the very large man nervously.

§  

Parking Lot

Sabrina, Catty and Ness got out of Ness' Car, walking toward Sam.

"Uncle Sam, where's Uncle Dean?" Sabrina asked. Sam nodded toward the wooded area. Dean was thrown into the Impala, breaking a side window, falling to the ground. "Uncle Dean?"

Dean groaned in pain. The very large man stepped out of the bushes, walking toward Sabrina, Catty, Ness and Sam. Sam opened the trunk of the Impala, taking out a machete, swinging it at the very large man. The very large man raised his arm, receiving the blow in his forearm, the blade getting stuck. Dean rolled over onto his front on the ground, raising his head to watch. The very large man lowered his arm. Sabrina pulled the machete free, looking up at the very large man. The man gripped her shoulders, raising her to his eye level. Sabrina used the machete hilt to hit him the face with enough strength to make him let her go, falling back toward the ground. Catty and Ness caught her before she landed badly.

They heard the bearded man's voice. "Stop."

They turned to the bearded man.

"Oh, my spleen," Dean told them, groaning in pain.

Catty looked from the bearded man to the very large man. "What. The hell. Is that?"

"He's a Golem," Ness answered. 

"Well, he's my Golem," the bearded man told them.

Sam nodded. "Right."

Dean grimaced, flopping onto his back.

§  

House - Living Room

The bearded man opened the door. The Golem pushed the man aside, walking past him into the house. Sabrina, Catty, Ness, Sam and Dean followed.

"The Rabbi who was murdered, Isaac Bass, he was my grandfather," the man explained. "That's why we're here. When you guys started to follow up on his case, we started following you." The Golem paced the room. The man looked at Catty. "I mean, don't get me wrong. The flirting bit? That was totally me, and totally genuine."

"Thanks for the clarification," Catty told him sarcastically. "It was very smooth."

"Yeah, well, smooth is just about all I got," the man told them. The Golem looked at him. "What?" The Golem grunted, pacing away. "Yeah, that's right. Keep walking... you Chia Pet."

Sabrina looked up. "Aunt Ness, told you we were being followed."

Ness gave Sabrina a sarcastic look. Sabrina smiled sarcastically.

The man looked at Sabrina. "Who or what are you? You're the only thing I've seen able to take this guy on."

"I'm a Hybrid," Sabrina answered. "Well, I'm the True Hybrid."

"What's a True Hybrid?" the man asked.

"Sabrina's more than one thing," Sam answered.

"I know that," the man told them. "I mean, what all is she?"

"I don't want to answer that," Sabrina told him. "It makes me tired."

The man frowned in confusion.

Sam looked at the Golem. "So, that's a Golem?"

"Yes," Ness answered. "Shaped from clay and brought to life by Rabbis to protect the Jewish people in times of—I don't know—general crappiness."

Sam looked at the man. "And he's yours?"

"Hardly," the man told them. "My grandfather left him to me. I'm the last surviving descendant of the members of this... thing, this... Initiative."

"The Judah Initiative?" Sam asked.

The man nodded. "Right, and he—"

The Golem was directly behind Sabrina, Catty, Ness, Sam and Dean, growling. "Who?" Sabrina and Catty jumped, looking at him. Ness, Sam and Dean looked back at him. "Who are they to know about the men of Judah?"

"It's okay," Dean told him. "We are the good guys."

§  

Outside

The bespectacled man watched through the windows.

§  

Inside

Sam looked from the bearded man to the Golem. "We're hunters. Sam, Dean, Catty and Sabrina Winchester." He gestured to Ness. "Ness Singer-Winchester, because she couldn't let go of her maiden name after her father died so soon after Dean and Ness got married." He gestured to himself, Dean and Catty. "We know about The Judah Initiative because our grandfather, Sabrina's great-grandfather, was a Man of Letters."

The Golem relaxed. "Yes. The Rabbis knew the Men of Letters."

§  

Outside

The bespectacled man watched through the windows.

§  

Inside

The bearded man handed Catty, Ness, Sam and Dean each a beer, handing Sabrina a soda.

"Thank you," Dean told him.

"Thanks," Sabrina told him.

The man looked from Sabrina to Catty. "Your kid, I take it?"

"Yeah," Catty answered. "It's a long story."

"Take a seat," the man told them. Sabrina, Catty, Ness, Sam and Dean sat down. "You're all hunters?"

"Yeah," Dean answered. "Grandparents, Mom, Dad, truckload of cousins. The whole family was lousy for it. Ness' dad got her into it, too. But..." He looked at the Golem. "We never had a Golem."

"Right," Sam agreed. "Yeah. We, um, we grew up in it, but you... didn't?"

"My grandfather's adventures, the Initiative, the Golem, the war?" the man asked. "They were the stories that he told me when I was a kid. I thought it was make-believe. So did my parents. You know, fantasies to help him cope with all the horrible stuff he'd seen, but every once in a while, crazy old Grandpa Bass would come back by on one of his trips, hand me a $20 savings bond, and say, 'one day, you'll inherit the mantle'. Sure enough, a few days after he died, this big box shows up at my apartment. He always said I'd know what to do. Which was crap, because when I opened that box, this big, naked, potato-faced lunatic wakes up and goes crazy."

Golem looked out the window. "I didn't... go crazy."

"You trashed my entertainment center!" the man told him. "And my water bed."

The Golem looked at Sabrina, Catty, Ness, Sam and Dean, gesturing to the man. "Aaron knows nothing, observes none of the mitzvahs, labors on Sabbath, dines on swine."

"Everybody loves bacon!" Aaron told him.

"He's no Rabbi," the Golem told them. He looked at Aaron. "Yifalchunbee!"

Aaron held up a hand. "Oh, don't start with that stuff again."

"Yifalchunbee!" Golem told him.

"Enough!" Aaron told him. "Please! Quiet time."

The Golem continued pacing around the house.

Sabrina looked at Aaron. "Okay. What was that? What was he saying?"

"It's Hebrew for, 'take charge'," Ness told them.

"Right," Aaron agreed. "But I have no idea what he means. Look, I grew up in Short Hills. I cheated my way through Hebrew school. I never really listened to my grandfather, what he was saying."

"So, wait," Ness told him. "He just sends you this—this Golem and expects you to work it out?"

"He didn't get much chance to prepare me, I guess," Aaron told them. "My parents, they did everything they could to prevent him from screwing me up with all his crazy talk. See, after the war, my grandfather spent the rest of his life trying to track down something he called the Thule Society."

"The Thule Society," Ness repeated. "Right. They were Nazis." She tilted her head, correcting herself. "Nazi Necromancers."

"N—Necro—" Sabrina started. "Who?"

"Uh, Necromancer," Ness repeated. "Uh, Witches, Sorcerers, dark magic. Mostly with dead people."

Aaron nodded uncertainly. "Okay. All I know about the Thule is that they were twisted, secret fraternity, hell-bent on world domination, that sponsored the early days of the Nazi Party. My grandfather said the Judah Initiative was started to fight them."

"And the Thule murdered your grandfather, boy," the Golem told him. "Find them so I can do my work!"

The Golem smashed a side table, breaking it.

"Hey," Aaron told him. "Hey! We're renting here! Renting." The Golem walked into the kitchen. Aaron looked at Sabrina, Catty, Ness, Sam and Dean, sighing. "Look. I think my Golem's right. My grandfather, he left me this message on my machine the day he died, and he said that he had found something that the Thule were willing to kill him for. He said he was hiding it here in plain sight. He left me this weird, I don't know, equation." He took a piece of paper out of his pocket. "It's not a phone number or an address or coordinates. Q-L-6-7-3-W-3-8?"

Aaron handed the piece of paper to Dean.

Dean looked at the code in confusion. "Is it a combination?"

Dean handed the piece of paper to Sam.

"Oh, it's a call number," Sam told them. "Library of Congress. Their filing system. They use it in college libraries. Uh, Q-L-6-7-3, that... that's sciences. Uh, birds, I'm guessing. Let's go."

Sam stood, walking toward the door. Ness and Dean stood, following Sam.

Sabrina looked at Aaron. "Auntie Ness and Uncle Sammy are nerds."

"Yeah, I can see that," Aaron told her.

Catty smirked.

§  

College Campus - Library

Dean, Ness, Sabrina, Catty, Sam, Aaron, and the Golem walked in. Catty was holding a lock pick.

"What, do you guys just break in wherever you go?" Aaron asked.

"Yeah, well, our dads  wanted us to have a solid career to fall back on, just in case this hunter thing didn't pan out," Dean told him.

Sam read a directory sign on the wall that said sciences were on Level 2. "Okay, so if I'm right, then I think your grandfather switched manuscript FD113 out of the archives. I'll be right back."

Sam ran up the stairs. Sabrina sat down to wait at the bottom of the stairs. Dean, Ness and Catty stood next to Aaron and the Golem.

§  

Level 2

Sam walked past the bookshelves, finding the section he was looking for. He took the red ledger off the shelf. He was hit at the top of his jaw with a dart. He pulled it out, groaning in pain. The skin turned dark purple. He winched in pain, groaning, blinking, as if his vision was blurring. He staggered back against the bookshelf behind him, starting to unsteadily walk away with the ledger.

The bespectacled man stepped out from behind a bookshelf. "I owe you thanks. The Rabbi got me this far, but you..." Sam's vision blurred. "Took me all the way. Now, give me the ledger."

Sam kicked a trolley toward the bespectacled man, making him back away, running away weakly, staggering. "Help!"

§  

Main Floor

Ness, Dean, Catty, Aaron, the Golem and Sabrina had heard Sam, looking around. Sam ran toward the top of the stairs behind Sabrina weakly, staggering. They looked up at Sam. Sabrina turned from where she was sitting at the bottom of the stairs to look up at Sam. Sam fell on the landing partway down the stairs.

Sabrina, still turned toward Sam, disappeared from where she was sitting at the bottom of the stairs, reappearing on the landing next to Sam, kneeling next to him worriedly. "Uncle Sammy?"

Another dart hit Dean in the neck, making him fall, his skin having the same affect as Sam's did.

"Dean!" Ness told him.

Catty looked at Aaron. "Stay here!" 

The Golem ran up the stairs. Another dart hit Aaron in the neck, making him fall, his skin having the same affect as Sam and Dean's did.

Sabrina looked up in annoyance. "Stop doing that!"

Sabrina turned to Dean, healing him in the same way she healed Sam, facing Ness from the other side of Dean.

Catty helped Sam sit up. "Come on. Come on."

Another dart flew toward Ness, about to hit her in the head. Sabrina caught it just in time, turning around, throwing it in the direction it had come from, up on the balcony above them in exasperated annoyance, across the room.

§  

Level 2

The dart that Sabrina had thrown hit the bespectacled man in the chest. He started to get weak. The Golem reached a hand forcibly through the shelves behind the bespectacled man, knocking books out of the way, grabbing him, pulling him hard against the shelves, knocking him against the shelves again, letting him fall to the floor.

§  

Main Floor

Sabrina was done healing Dean and Sam. She turned to look down the steps toward Aaron at the foot of the stairs, disappearing from where she was, appearing next to Aaron, kneeling next to him, healing him the same way she had healed Sam and Dean. Ness and Catty heard a noise at the top of the flight of stairs, still kneeling on the landing next to Dean and Sam as they stirred awake, aiming their guns up at the top of the stairs. The Golem dragged the bespectacled man to the top of the stairs, dropping him on the landing above them.

The bespectacled man looked weak and like his bones had been broken too many times to count, raising his head. "Long live the Thule."

The Golem broke the bespectacled man's neck, letting the body fall to the floor of the landing. Catty and Ness lowered their guns. Aaron stirred awake.

Sabrina tilted her head. "Or not."

§  

Woods 

The Impala and Ness' Car was parked in the middle of the woods. The Golem stood next to the backseat driver's seat door of Ness' Car.

§  

Ness' Car

Aaron took a deep breath, sitting up in the backseat. He put a hand to his chest where he had been hit with the dart. "Oh... man."

"Sabrina healed you," the Golem told him. "Sabrina saved your life."

Aaron looked toward where Sam, Dean, Ness and Catty were standing with shovels next to a grave they had just dug, where a body was wrapped in a sheet lied on the ground, and where Sabrina was kneeling next to the body. "What are they doing?"

"Burying the Necromancer," the Golem answered.

Aaron frowned in confusion, watching Sam, Dean, Ness, Catty and Sabrina.

§  

Outside

Sam, Dean, Catty and Ness tossed down their shovels.

Sabrina knelt next to the sheet-covered body, poking at the body, making the bones sound like they were tinkling inside. "That's like a bag of Legos. The Golem destroyed this guy."

"Yeah," Sam agreed. "So, uh... Thule Society Necromancers aside, what's our contingency plan on that?"

Ness followed his gaze to the Golem. "You mean how do we 'Oh, No!' Mr. Bill over there?"

"I mean, I'd like to think we could if we had to," Dean told them. "Unless you think Aaron can get a handle on him."

Sabrina put a hand to the body's head, making his head burst into flames, pushing his body into the grave below. They watched the fire spread to take over the whole body.

§  

Ness' Car

Aaron watched in shock. "Oh, my God." The Golem watched impassively. "These guys are psychopaths."

§  

Outside

Sabrina held her hands over the fire to warm them.

Dean chuckled. "Sabrina. Putting her hands over a burning dead body like it's nothing."

"What?" Sabrina asked innocently. "I'm cold."

Sam, Dean, Ness and Catty smiled in amusement.

§  

Day Four

Morning - Aaron's House - Living Room

Aaron, Sam, Sabrina and Ness were sitting around the table. Dean and Catty walked in with a tray of food and a tray of coffee. Ness was reading the red ledger from the library.

"What'd you find out?" Catty asked.

"I think it's a log-book from a Nazi compound in Belarus," Ness explained. Dean set the tray of food on the table in front of Aaron, Sam, Sabrina and Ness. Catty set the tray of coffee next to it. "It was run by the Thule." Ness help up the ledger to show them. "This is the red ledger." Dean sat between Aaron and Sam. Catty sat between Sabrina and Ness. "It was lost in the fire that destroyed the compound, but obviously somebody found it after the war. It describes the horrible experiments before on the camp's population. The Golem walked in. "Magical experiments."

"More horrible than words," the Golem told them.

"You were there, weren't you?" Sabrina asked. "At the camp?"

The Golem barely nodded. "I was made in the ghetto of Vitsyebsk to tear that hell down. I broke its walls, its men. The commandant burnt the place to ash around me."

"Okay, um, w—what does it mean, when—when you tell Aaron to take charge?" Catty asked.

"The boy would know, if he could consult the pages," the Golem told them.

"Pages?" Dean repeated. "W—What pages?"

"When I was—when I was bar mitzvahed, my—my grandfather gave me this little old book," Aaron explained. "It was in Hebrew. It was like an owner's manual for a Golem."

"Okay," Sam told him. "Great. Get that, then."

"I—I can't, exactly," Aaron told them. "When I went to high school, I sort of... drifted. I started getting off the academic track, and, uh, I kind of, um... I kind of smoked it."

"The boy smoked the pages," the Golem told them.

"They were these thing, vellum-y pages," Aaron told them. "I mean, it was perfect for rolling." Sabrina looked at Catty in confusion. Catty shook her head. "Look, they were driving instructions for a clay man. Okay? It was nonsense. Right? I mean... I... Okay. All right. Look, I'm sorry, okay?" Aaron looked at the Golem. "Why can't you just tell me what I don't know?"

The Golem slammed his hands onto the table, leaning over it. "It's not my place to guide the Rabbi, to teach the teacher! It's not my place! Yifalchunbee!"

The Golem walked out of the room.

Dean sighed. "Can't Sabrina just read the Golem's mind and tell us what we don't know?"

"No," Sabrina answered. "It's clay. It doesn't have a mind."

"It's a spell that makes it able to walk and talk, but Sow's right," Ness told them.

"That's not super-comforting, got to say," Catty told them.

Aaron nodded. Dean stood, walking toward the sink.

"So, as far as I can tell, these experiments?" Ness asked. "The Thule were murdering Jews, Gypsies, just about anybody and everybody." Sabrina grabbed a muffin from the tray of food, eating. "Then trying to magically reanimate them. They were trying to figure out a way to bring their own dead back to life... which I'm guessing they figured out because, this." Ness turned pages of the ledger. "This last page is a roster of every dead Thule member who was reanimated."

"This is why they killed my grandfather?" Aaron asked.

"Anything in there on how to kill it?" Sam asked.

"Apparently, they experimented with that, too," Ness told them. "Um, head shot. But, if you don't burn the body within 12 hours, it reanimates again."

"Nazi bastards," Dean told them.

Sabrina seemed to get an idea, looking up, kind of excited. "Would smiting work? It's more light than fire, but it is still fire. Dad taught me that. He said that I couldn't smite them because I always thought of it as fire instead of light."

Catty shrugged. "I guess."

"You should definitely try it, Sabrina," Sam told her.

Catty took a drink, expressionless.

§  

College Campus - Library - Outside

A black car pulled up outside the library. The driver opened the rear door. A man got out of the car, his face unseen. He was wearing a ring. The ring was bearing a design with a sword and four crosses. The shot panned up to the man's face, revealing it was the Nazi officer from 1944, looking exactly the same as he had then.

§  

Inside - Main Floor

The Nazi officer and the driver walked up stairs.

§  

Level 2

The Nazi officer walked among the shelves.

The driver walked toward the Nazi officer, speaking with a German accent. "The security camera's hard drives have all been wiped. Are you sure he's been murdered?"

The Nazi officer also still had a German accent. "Torvald was killed here, but not by a man. I'd know more, but his Ghost was forced to depart before it could tell me. They knew enough to burn his remains."

The Nazi officer took a book from the shelves, finding some clay underneath.

"Blood?" the driver asked.

"Clay," the Nazi officer answered. "Torvald killed the Initiative's last Rabbi, and now the Golem of Vitsyebsk kills him."

§

Aaron's House - Living Room

Sam, Sabrina, Catty and Ness were sitting at the table. Sam was reading the ledger. Ness was on her laptop. Catty was drinking water. Sabrina was eating another muffin.

Dean put a duffel bag down on the table, on the phone. "No, no, Garth, not a tool society. 'Thule'. T-H-U-L-E. Yeah. All right. Call me if you find anything." He hung up. "All of Garth's contacts are stumped. Nobody on the circuit's ever even heard of the Thule Society." He took off his jacket. "Whoever these people are, they've been flying beneath the hunter radar." He looked at Ness. "Anything?"

"Nothing solid," Ness answered. "I mean, the lore is all over the place. Uh, according to one legend, um, it can be shut down if you erase one of the letters off its forehead."

"I didn't see any letters on Clayface," Sabrina told them.

"Exactly," Catty told them. "So, side-burner that. Another one." 

Ness read from an article about Golem from a website titled 'Ancient Lore'. "'Some have a scroll in their mouth you're supposed to rip out'."

"Wouldn't that give him some sort of a lisp or something?" Dean asked.

"Well, classically, they're not even supposed to speak," Ness told them. "We do know that he took on an entire camp full of heavily armed German soldiers and Thule Necromancers and won."

"One badass Hummel figure," Catty told them. "That we have no idea how to put back in the box."

"Awesome," Dean told them sarcastically.

Aaron walked into the room. "So, that's your plan? Taking out my Golem?"

"It's not a plan," Sam told him.

"We would just feel a lot better if we knew how," Dean told him. "That's all."

"What makes you think you have any right to make that decision?" Aaron asked.

"Believe me, if we need the right, we will take it," Dean told him.

"Look, he may be a pain in the ass, but he's my responsibility," Aaron told them.

"Look, the Golem was built to go to war," Ness told him. "You're not trained for that. How are you gonna take that on?"

"I don't know," Aaron told them.

A man in a suit kicked in the front door. Dean grabbed Aaron, pushing him back. Sam hid the red ledger under a leather bag in the corner. Catty instantly stood, drawing her gun, shooting the man in the head, making him fall dead. Several other men walked into the house from separate entrances. A man punched Dean in the face, making him fall to the floor. Another man aimed a gun at Ness. Another man used magic to push Sam into the wall, making him fall to the floor. Another man pulled Aaron up off the floor by his shirt. Another man used magic to throw the gun out of Catty's hands into the wall, another man restraining Catty from behind. Another man stepped in front of Sabrina. Sabrina disappeared, reappearing on the table behind him. The man turned to face her. Sabrina put two fingers to his head, smiting him, killing him with a flash of bright white light, letting his body fall to the floor.

The Nazi soldier walked toward Sabrina. "(Latin) Placidos facientia somnos auferam ad pugnam, et vigilate. [Deep slumber will take away the will to fight and stay awake.]"

Sabrina tried to fight against the spell, falling unconscious. One of the men caught her as she fell.

Sam, Dean, Catty and Ness were worried. "Sabrina."

Catty struggled against the man restraining her. The Golem charged into the room, growling, overturning the table that Sabrina had been standing on. The man put Sabrina down. The Golem grabbed his throat, choking him.

The Nazi soldier looked at the Golem. "Enough! There you are." The Golem let the man go. "You grim piece of work." The Golem turned to face the Nazi soldier. "After all these years."

"Eckhart," Golem told him, stepping toward him angrily.

Eckhart held a hand toward the Golem. "Lutum ex reddidit vinculum tuuam ad me. [Your bond of the clay of the earth is given to me again.]"

The Golem stopped walking, freezing, his shoulders sagging. Eckhart patted the Golem on the shoulder, walking past him toward the others. Catty looked from the frozen Golem to the sleeping Sabrina.

§  

The man aiming a gun at Ness pushed her against the wall. Another man aimed a gun at Dean, who was still on the floor. The man restraining Catty pushed her against the wall, aiming a gun at her. Catty slid down the wall to the floor.

Eckhart walked toward the Golem. "I command you by the covenant of your makers, Clay of Adam, surrender your bond onto me." The Golem opened his mouth, allowing a small scroll to fall into Eckhart's hand. Eckhart looked at Aaron. "So, you are the Golem's Rabbi?" He read the scroll. "You woke him, but you didn't take possession of him. You write your name on the scroll, boy. That's how you... yifalchunbee."

"I didn't know what he meant," Aaron told him.

Catty looked at the gun that had been magic-thrown out of her hands, which was just out of reach next to the wall.

"Knowledge is power, isn't it?" Eckhart asked, hitting Aaron across the face, making Aaron fall back against the wall. "Now, which of you is going to tell me where I can find a certain red ledger?"

One of the men looked through a chest in front of the bed.

"How about you screw yourself, Nazi bastard?" Sam asked.

"Can we..." Eckhart trailed off. "Could we put the Nazi thing aside for the moment and just talk about this like—"

"Nazi Necromancer dicks?" Dean asked. "Pass."

"So I take it you're the commandant," Ness told him. "The one that authorized all those experiments."

"Invented those experiments, thank you," Eckhart corrected.

"So, what about you?" Ness asked. "I mean, you're not... undead. So what did you do? You cast a 'forever 21' spell on yourself, like your little friend at the library?"

"His name was Torvald," Eckhart told them. "And you will suffer for that."

One of the men found the red ledger under the bag in the corner.

"You know, I got to say, spell or no spell, he broke easy," Catty told them.

The man handed the red ledger to Eckhart.

Eckhart flipped through the red ledger. "I'm sorry. So... let me tell you what I see. A magic Jew at my feet, not a master in sight, a sleeping, powerful Hybrid, and, finally..." He held up the ledger. "Our secrets secret once again." Catty looked toward the place where Sabrina had been asleep to see that she was gone. "Which reminds me of a story. 'A Jew, four gentiles, a Hybrid, and a Golem walk into a bar.' And it ends with only the Hybrid walking out." Sabrina appeared behind Eckhart, using a broken table leg to hit him in the head hard enough to make him fall to the floor. Sam dived for a gun in a leather bag. Dean did the same in his jacket. Catty did the same for the gun next to the wall. Ness drew another gun from her ankle holster. They each shot the men that were aiming the guns at them in the head, making them fall dead. The fifth man dragged Aaron toward the door. Sabrina threw the broken table leg through the fifth man's head, pinning him to the wall, killing him with the technical head shot. Aaron gasped, backing away from the man pinned to the wall. Sabrina turned to Eckhart, stepping closer to him. Eckhart rolled onto his back, looking up at Sabrina. "You fool. You can kill me. But you will never kill all the Thule."

Sabrina put a hand to his head, smiting him, killing him with a flash of bright white light, making him scream, letting the body fall to the floor. "That's a start."

Catty stood, walking toward her daughter. "Sabrina? You okay?"

"Yeah," Sabrina answered.

"Were you ever really asleep?" Catty asked.

"Yeah," Sabrina answered. "But the spell wore off quickly."

"Well, thank God for that," Catty told her. 

"What about you, Aaron?" Ness asked. "You okay?"

Aaron nodded, shaken up. "Yeah. Yeah."

Sabrina saw that Eckhart had dropped the scroll when she had killed him, picking it up, looking at it thoughtfully.

§  

Night - Aaron's House - Living Room

The Golem was still standing near the door with his mouth open. Aaron, Sabrina, Catty, Ness, Dean and and Sam walked in.

"Well, now we know," Sabrina told them. "Paper beats Golem, fire beats undead Nazi Zombie freaks."

"So..." Sam trailed off. "What do you say, Aaron? I mean, we got a place we can keep him."

"No," Aaron told them. "I mean... Eckhart might be dead, but you heard him. The Thule are still out there. Hidden, active." He unwound the scroll, looking at the last name on it. "That's my grandfather. He left me something important." He took a pen out of his pocket. "Something only I can do." He wrote his name on the scroll, rolling it up, placing it in the Golem's mouth. The Golem took a deep breath, standing straighter, turning to face Aaron. "It looks like I'm the Judah Initiative now."

"Yifalchunbee," the Golem told him.

"B—But I thought I did," Aaron told him.

"Yes," the Golem agreed, bowing his head to Aaron.

Aaron smiled a small smile. Sabrina looked at Catty, Ness, Dean and Sam with a small smile.

§ 

Lebanon, Kansas

Day Five

Morning - The Bunker - Library

(Song:) Sunny Side of the Street - Frankie Laine

The song was playing on the record player. Ness took a card from a drawer, walking toward the table.

Dean walked in. "Ness? What're you doing?"

Dean opened the refrigerator.

Ness sat down. "Ordering. I'm making a, uh, card entry for our, uh, copies from the Thule's red ledger for our collection."

Dean looked down at the beers in his hand, looking at Ness, putting the beers back into the fridge. "So, uh, what? Aaron's a JI, and... you're a Letters now? Woman of Letters, to be exact? Is that it?"

Ness smiled a small smile. "I like the sound of that, Dean. That'd make you and Sam Men of Letters, Catty a Woman of Letters, and Sabrina a Girl of Letters."

Dean poured Scotch from a decanter on one of the bookshelves, setting a glass down in front of Ness. "Good." Ness looked up at Dean, picking up her glass. Dean sat down opposite of her. Ness propped her feet up on the table. They tilted their glasses toward each other, drinking. "See, I also thought you said there was nothing else to talk about, but you're still running. Still trying to keep busy." Ness put her glass down. "Honestly, Ness, I get it. I know you don't wanna think about it, and the only way that you can't is if you're out there doing something."

"Dean, I'm taking my own advice, and trying to move on," Ness told him. "And bringing it up constantly's not gonna help any. Trust me. But these things take time. Okay?"

Dean nodded. "I know that. I'm not saying I know what it's like, but..."

Ness sighed, closing her eyes. "You see, if I wasn't handling it this well, I'd have succumbed to drugs, alcoholism and violence by now."

"You mean, like Sam, Catty and I have done each and every time something truly horrible happened to us," Dean told her. "Like Brett. Cas. Ava. Hell. Purgatory."

"Yeah," Ness answered. "But I'm still going. Can--can we just be thankful for that and move on?"

Dean nodded. "'Course."

Ness smiled barely, looking down, taking a drink. Dean leaned his head back contentedly. Ness went back to writing. Dean looked as if he knew that Ness wasn't doing as good as she seemed to be, or as good as she thought she was.