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THEN

From 5.01 "Sympathy for the Devil", in the hospital's parking lot, Dean looked at Sam. "You chose a Demon over your own brother and sister, and look what happened."

From 5.01 "Sympathy for the Devil", in St. Mary's Convent, a brilliant white light flowed from the central point of the pattern of the vortex door on the floor.

Sam: (voice over from 5.03 Free to Be You and Me) "Catty broke the first Seal. I broke the last. We started the Apocalypse."

From 5.03 "Free to Be You and Me", in Sam's motel room, Octavia morphed into Lucifer.

From 5.01 "Sympathy for the Devil", in the hospital's parking lot, Sam looked at Catty and Dean. "I'm sorry. I would give anything."

From 4.21 "When the Levee Breaks", in the honeymoon suite, Sam punched Dean in the face repeatedly, making him turn to face the mirror behind him, making him fall into it face first, making the glass shatter and cut into Dean's skin, making him bleed.

From 4.21 "When the Levee Breaks", in the alley, Sam looked at Catty's unconscious body for a moment, following Ruby.

Sam: (voice over from 5.01 Sympathy for the Devil) "Anything to take it all back."

From 5.01 "Sympathy for the Devil", in the hospital's parking lot, Catty looked at Sam. "I know you would."

From 3.05 "Bedtime Stories", at the crossroads, Dean used the Colt to shoot Catty's Crossroads Demon in the head, killing him.

From 4.02 "Are You There, God? It's Me, Catty Winchester", in the Singer House's Library, Catty shot the two little Ghost girls with a salt shell shotgun, making them disappear.

From 4.17 "It's a Terrible Life", at Sandover Bridge & Iron, Sandover the Ghost appeared between Sam and Dean. Sam Wesson and Dean Smith both swung their iron pokers through Sandover, making him disappear. Catty Beretta was holding Sandover's Gloves, already having them burning. Sandover caught fire, burning into nothing.

From 4.09 "I Know What You Did Last Summer", in the church, Catty, Sam and Dean shattered through the window, falling toward the ground below.

Sam: (voice over from 5.05 Fallen Idols) "If we're gonna be a team, all of us..."

From 5.05 "Fallen Idols", in the motel room, Sam looked at Dean and Catty. "It has to be a three-way street."

From 5.02 "Good God, Y'All!", in the gas station, "Demon 2" swung the baseball bat toward Catty. Catty caught it with one arm, stabbing him in the neck with her knife, killing him, taking it out, letting him fall to the floor.

From 5.03 "Free to Be You and Me", in the bar, Reggie tried to punch Sam. Sam ducked, kneeing Reggie in the stomach, making him double over in pain, kicking him in the face, making him fall to the floor.

From 5.05 "Fallen Idols", in the Wax Museum's woods room, Dean finally pulled free of the ropes, running toward Leshi/Paris, tackling her to the floor.

Sam: (voice over from 5.05 Fallen Idols) "We gotta just grab onto whatever's in front of us, kick its ass, and go down fighting."

From 5.05 "Fallen Idols", outside the motel, Dean considered this, nodding. "I can get on bard with that."

Catty nodded. "Yeah, me, too. But we're gonna have to do it on the same level."

NOW

§

Alliance, Nebraska

Night - House - Living Room

A young woman watched a movie on TV. A hairbrush sat on top of the TV.

The girl leaned forward, taking the brush, brushing her hair while watching TV. She had plastic nails on. She heard something, turning around. She put the brush back, standing, looking around. "Jimmy?" She walked a little further, sliding a closet open to reveal a boy, presumably Jimmy, inside, unmoving and covered in something red that looked like blood, and a headband with arrow halves on either side to make it as if he had been shot in the head with the arrow. The girl sighed. "I told you to go to bed."

"I can't," Jimmy told her. "I'm dead."

The girl leaned down to touch the red substance. "What is this, ketchup? Gross!"

The girl hit Jimmy lightly.

Jimmy stood. "Ow. You're mean."

"Yeah, that's what your parents pay me for, to be mean," the girl told him sarcastically, pulling Jimmy out of the closet. "Bed, now."

"Okay, okay," Jimmy told her. "Just wait." The girl let him go. Jimmy turned to face her, taking off the headband. "Wait. I'll go to be if you let me touch your boob."

The girl sighed, pushing Jimmy along. "Go!"

The girl watched Jimmy walk upstairs, going back to the movie. She heard barking, turning off the TV. The barking continued. The girl walked toward the window, moving the curtains to look outside.

§  

Later

There was nothing but static on the TV. A man and woman walked past the window, into the house. The girl was lying on her side on the sofa, apparently asleep.

The man looked at the woman. "I'll, uh, take Amber home. Don't wait up." The woman walked upstairs. The man turned off the TV, walking toward the girl on the couch. "Amber." Amber didn't answer. "Amber." Amber didn't answer. "Amber?" Amber didn't answer. The man leaned down to touch Amber's shoulder, feeling something squelch. He turned on the light, looking at the liquid on his fingers. Blood. The man rolled Amber onto her back. There was a hole in her skull that showed her brain. The man yelled for the woman in horror. "Francine!"

§ Worlds Colliding (Supernatural) §

Day Two

Morning - Hospital - Morgue

Sam, Dean and Catty were standing in the morgue, posing as FBI, holding up the fake badges to show the male doctor.

"Agents Page, Plant and Jones, FBI," Catty told him.

"What brings you by?" the doctor asked.

"We need to see Amber Freer's body," Sam told him.

"Really?" the doctor asked. "What for?"

"The police report said something clawed through her skull," Dean told him.

"You didn't see the autopsy report that I emailed out this morning?" the doctor asked.

"We had, uh, server issues," Catty told him.

The doctor led the way toward the storage units, pulling out the slab with Amber's body, folding the sheet away from her head. "When they brought her in, we thought she was attacked by a wolf or something."

"Or something?" Dean asked.

"But we were wrong," the doctor told them, picking up a plastic bag from the slab, showing it to them.

"Is that a--" Catty started.

"It's a press-on nail," the doctor answered. "We found it in her temporal lobe."

"Is that even possible?" Sam asked.

"Wait," Dean told them. "Are you--you saying that she did this to herself?"

"Uh-huh," the doctor answered. "She scratched her brains out. It'd take hours, and it'd hurt like hell, but sure, it's possible."

"How?" Catty asked.

"Pick your acronym," the doctor told them. "OCD, PCP. It all spells crazy." Sam pulled back the seat a little further. Amber's right hand had four press-on nails still attached. The middle finger had nothing. "My guess, some kind of phantom itch. I mean, an extreme case, but..."

"Phantom itch?" Catty repeated.

The doctor nodded. "Yep." He covered Amber's head, sliding the slab back into hiding, closing the door. "All it takes is someone talking about an itch—or thinking about one, even—and suddenly you can't stop scratching."

"Thanks, doc," Catty told him, scratching her head.

Sam scratched under his collar. Dean scratched his ear.

§  

Jimmy's House

Sam was sitting in the armchair, holding a notebook and pen. The man and Francine were sitting on the sofa. Dean was sitting in a chair next to Sam. Catty was wandering around behind them.

"Okay," Sam told them.  "Okay, now, some of these questions might seem a bit odd, but please just bear with me. Have you noticed any cold spots in the house?"

"Uh, no," the man answered.

"Okay, uh, what about strange smells?" Sam asked.

Catty looked around a corner to see Jimmy standing there.

"What are you looking for?" Jimmy asked.

"Don't know yet," Catty told him, walking toward Jimmy. "It's, uh, Jimmy, right?" Jimmy nodded. "So, Amber was your babysitter?"

"Yes, ma'am," Jimmy answered.

"Yeah, most of my babysitters sucked," Catty told him. "Especially Ms. Chancey. She only cared about two things. Dynasty and bedtime." Jimmy made a face. Catty chuckled. "Did you, uh, you see anything strange that night?"

Jimmy shook his head unconvincingly. "No."

"You sure about that?" Catty asked.

"I--I would tell you if I knew something," Jimmy told her. Catty raised her eyebrows at him, unconvinced. "I promise. 100%. Cross my heart."

Catty looked over her shoulder toward the others, looking at Jimmy. "Well, Jimmy, I, uh... I happen to know you're lying."

"I'm not," Jimmy told her.

"You don't have to be scared," Catty told him. "You tell me, and I won't tell anybody."

"You promise?" Jimmy asked.

Catty nodded. "Promise."

§  

Outside

Sam, Dean and Catty walked outside.

Catty held up a packet of itching powder. "Kid said he put this on the babysitter's hairbrush."

"Catty, there's no way itching powder made that girl scratch her brains out," Dean told her. "It's just ground-up maple seeds."

"If you have any other theories, I'm open to them," Catty told them.

Sam's phone rang. He answered. "Yeah?" Catty opened the back seat door of the Impala. "Uh-huh." Sam walked around the car toward the passenger side. Dean opened the driver's. "Yeah, we'll be right there."

They got into the Impala, driving away.

§  

Hospital - Man's Room

A nurse zipped up a body bag, and he and another nurse rolled it out of the room. The doctor watched from the corridor. Sam, Dean and Catty walked toward him.

"What happened?" Sam asked.

"Guy got electrocuted," the doctor answered.

"Any idea how?" Dean asked.

"Eh, maybe a loose wire in a piece of equipment shorted out," the doctor told them. "So far, we haven't found anything."

"Witnesses?" Catty asked.

"Yeah," the doctor answered. "Guy in there. Mr. Stanley." They looked toward the man to see that Stanley was an old man sitting in a chair in the room, looking out the window. "He says he saw it, but he's not making a lick of sense. Senile."

"Thanks," Catty told him. They walked into the room. The doctor walked out, leaving. "Um, Mr. Stanley?"

"It was just a joke," Stanley told them. "I didn't know it would really work."

"What would work?" Dean asked.

"All I did was shake his hand," Stanley told them, holding out his hand to show them a joy buzzer.

Sam, Dean and Catty exchanged a look.

§  

Motel

Catty, Dean and Sam were wearing normal clothes.

Dean put on a pair of goggles and a pair of gloves, adjusting the goggles, picking up the joy buzzer, looking at it for a moment, turning to Catty and Sam. "You ready?"

"Hit it, Mr. Wizard," Catty told him, holding another pair of goggles to her eyes.

Sam put on another pair of goggles. There was large uncooked ham in two stacked aluminum-foil pans sitting on the table in front of Dean. Dean held the joy buzzer over the ham, hesitating, pressing it to the ham, electrocuting the ham. Electricity crackled. Steam rose from the ham as it changed the color from brown to black. Dean removed the joy buzzer. The ham sizzled. Catty lowered the goggles in shock.

Dean flipped up the dark-plastic visor on the goggles. "That'll do, Pig."

"What the hell?" Catty asked.

Sam took off the goggles. "That crap isn't supposed to work."

Dean took off the goggles, looking at the now-cooked ham. "This thing doesn't even have batteries."

Dean took off the gloves.

"So..." Sam trailed off. "So, what? Are--Are we looking at Cursed Objects?"

"Sounds good," Catty told them. Dean pulled out a knife, flipping it open, cutting a piece off the ham. "Maybe there's a powerful Witch in town." Dean ate the piece of ham. "Is there any link between the, uh, the joy buzzer and the itching powder?"

"Uh, one was made in China, the other Mexico, but they were both bought from the same store," Sam told them.

Dean cut off another piece of ham. "Hmm."

Dean held up the piece of ham. Catty and Sam shook their heads. Dean ate the ham.

§  

Conjurarium

Sam, Dean and Catty walked in, the bell chiming when the door opened, chiming when the door closed. They walked further into the store, looking around.

"Guys," Dean told them, picking up a whoopee cushion, holding it up, grinning.

Catty smirked, rolling her eyes. Sam sighed, shaking his head, turning away. Dean brought the whoopee cushion up to the checkout counter, which had a display of rubber chickens next to it.

A man walked out of the back room. "Welcome to the Conjurarium, sanctum of magic and mystery."

Sam and Catty walked up to the counter.

"You the owner?" Catty asked.

"Yep," the man answered.

"You sold any itching powder or joy buzzers lately?" Dean asked.

"Yeah," the owner answered. "A grand total of one of each. They aren't exactly big-ticket items. Look, you guys here to buy something or what?"

Dean pulled some cash out of his wallet, holding up the whoopee cushion, handing the owner the cash.

"So, you get many customers?" Sam asked.

"Kids come in," the owner told them. "They don't buy much, but they're more than happy to break stuff. These days, all they care about are their iPhones, and those kissing-Vampire movies. The whole thing makes me just--"

"Angry?" Catty finished.

The owner hesitated, nodding. "Yeah. Yeah, I am angry. This shop has been my life for 20 years, and now it's wasting away to nothing."

"Which is why you hate them?" Catty asked.

"I suppose," the owner answered.

"You wish there was something you could do about it?" Catty asked.

"Yeah, I guess I do," the owner answered.

"So you're taking revenge," Dean told him, pulling a rubber chicken off the display, slapping it down on the counter. "With this."

Dean held up the joy buzzer, pressing it to the rubber chicken, electrocuting it.

The owner leaped back. "Oh! No!"

The rubber chicken melted. The owner stared in shock, making inarticulate noises. Dean, Catty and Sam watched his reaction.

"Yeah, something tells me this guy is not a powerful Witch," Sam told them.

"Sorry," Catty told him. "Sorry."

Dean, Catty and Sam walked out of the store, leaving.

§  

Night - House - Girl's Room

A little girl was sitting in bed.

A man sat next to her, holding up a baby tooth to show her. "I'll just slip this tooth under your pillow, and while you're asleep, the Tooth Fairy will float down and swap it out for a quarter."

"So some freak is gonna come in my room while I'm sleeping and take my tooth?" the girl asked. "Sounds scary. No, thank you."

"Come on," the man told her, standing, fussing with the girl's pillows. The girl laid back. The man tucked her in, kissing her on the head. "Good night, sweetie."

The man turned off the light, walking out, leaving. The girl shifted position.

§  

Man's Room

The man was sleeping in bed. The girl snuck into the room, tooth in hand, hiding it under the man's pillow, sneaking out. The man shifted position. A hand covered the man's mouth. The man startled awake.

A man wearing a pink tutu and sparkly wings stood there. "Shh. Hold still. You might feel just a little... pinch."

The "Tooth Fairy" reached into the man's mouth with a pair of pliers. The man tried to scream. The "Tooth Fairy" pulled out a tooth.

§ 

Day Three

Morning - Hospital - Hallway

The man was lying in a hospital bed. Sam was talking to him.

Catty was talking to a nurse. "Well, I, uh, appreciate that, Nurse..." She read her name tag. "Fremont." Fremont walked away, leaving. Sam walked toward Catty. Catty turned to Sam. "What's up with Toothless? Cavity Creeps get a hold of him?"

"Yeah, close," Sam told her. "He wrote up a description." He read from his notebook. "5'10", 350 pounds, wings, and a pink tutu. Said it was the Tooth Fairy."

"So he's obviously whacked out on painkillers," Catty told him.

"Maybe," Sam told her. "Whatever it was got past locked doors and windows without triggering the alarm."

"Come on," Catty told him. "Tooth Fairy?"

"And it left 32 quarters underneath his pillow," Sam told her. "One for each tooth."

Dean stepped up next to them, startling them when he spoke. "Well, I will see your crazy and raise you some." Catty and Sam jumped slightly. Dean smirked. "There's a couple of kids upstairs with stomach ulers. Say they got it from mixing Pop Rocks and Coke. Another guy... his face... froze that way."

"What way?" Sam asked.

Dean looked around to make sure no one was watching, pulling out the sides of his lips, crossing his eyes, letting go. "He, uh, held it too long, and it--it stuck. They're flying in a plastic surgeon."

Dean poked at his cheeks, wiggling his chin.

"So, I mean, if you add all that up..." Sam trailed off, hesitating. Catty raised her eyebrows. "I got nothing."

Sam walked down the hallway past Dean. Dean and Catty turned to follow him.

"I thought sea-monkeys were real," Catty told them.

"They are," Sam told them. "They're brine shrimp."

"No, no, no, I mean, like, in the ads," Catty told them. "You know, like the sea-monkey wife cooks the pot roast for the sea-monkey husband, and the sea-monkey kids play with the dog in a sea-monkey castle. Real. I mean, I was six, but I believed it."

"Okay," Dean told her awkwardly.

"Point is..." Catty trailed off, stopping the walk. Sam and Dean stopped, turning to face her. "Maybe that's the connection. The Tooth Fairy, the Pop Rocks and Coke, the joy buzzer that shocks you. They're all lies that kids believe."

"And now they're coming true," Sam agreed. "Okay, so whatever's doing this is--is reshaping reality. It has the powers of a God. Or..." He rolled his eyes. "Of a Trickster."

"Yeah, with the sense of humor of a nine-year-old," Dean told them.

"Or you," Sam told him, turning around, walking away, leaving.

Dean looked offended. Catty smirked, shaking her head, following Sam down the hall. Dean followed them.

§  

Motel Room

Dean sat at the table, taking another bite from a sandwich made with the remnants of the cooked ham. Catty was sitting on one of the beds, on her laptop. Sam walked in, holding a map. Dean and Catty looked toward Sam.

Sam looked at Dean. "Dude, seriously? Still with the ham?"

Dean talked through a mouthful. "We don't have a fridge."

Sam closed the door, putting the map down in front of Dean. "Well, I found something." Catty placed her laptop aside, standing, walking closer, looking at the map. Sam pointed at a red X on the map for every incident. "Um, Tooth Fairy attack was here, Pop Rocks and Coke was here, then you've got itching powder, face freeze, and joy buzzer. All located within a two-mile radius."

Sam gestured to the area containing all the red X's.

"So, we got a blast zone of weird, and inside, fantasy becomes reality," Catty told them.

"Looks like," Sam agreed.

"And what's the A-bomb at its center?" Catty asked.

"Four acres of farmland... and a house," Sam answered.

Catty nodded to herself.

§  

Farmhouse - Outside

A mail truck drove past the house, and past the Impala. The Impala pulled up, parking. Sam, Dean and Catty got out of the car, posing as FBI, walking across the street, up to the house. Catty checked her knife, which was tucked away into her inner jacket pocket. Sam leaned down to pick the lock. The door opened. Sam stood in a hurry.

A boy stood inside. "Can I help you?"

"Hi," Catty told him. "Uh, what's your name?"

"Who wants to know?" the boy asked.

Sam, Dean and Catty exchanged a look.

"The, uh..." Dean trailed off, clearing his through, pulling out his fake badge, showing it to the boy. Sam and Catty did the same. "FBI."

The boy took Catty's badge. "Let me see that." He examined it, handing it back to Catty. Sam put his away. "So, what, you guys don't knock?"

Catty put her badge away. "Are your parents home?"

"They work," the boy told them.

"Well, you mind if we ask you a few questions, maybe take a look around the house?" Sam asked.

"I don't know," the boy told them.

"Come on," Dean told him. "You can trust us. We're the authorities."

Dean held up his badge again. The boy was unimpressed, looking between the three of them. Sam, Dean and Catty smiled reassuringly.

§  

Inside - Kitchen

The boy led them into the kitchen, going up to the stove, turning it off.

Sam and Catty followed him further into the kitchen.

Dean stood in the doorway.

Sam looked at the pot that had been boiling on the stove. "What's that?"

"It's called soup," the boy told them, taking the pot off the stove. "You heat it up, and you eat it."

Sam chuckled. "Right. I--I know. It's just, um... I used to make my own dinner, too, when I was a kid."

"Well, I'm not a kid," the boy told them.

Catty noticed the artwork on the fridge.

"Right," Sam told him. "No, I--I know. Um..." He held his hand toward the boy. "I'm Robert, by the way."

The boy shook Sam's hand. "Jesse."

"Jesse, nice to meet you," Sam told him.

Catty stepped closer to the fridge, taking off a picture of a bearded man with pink wings and a tutu, looking at Jesse. "Did you draw this?"

Jesse nodded. "It's the Tooth Fairy."

"That's what you think the Tooth Fairy looks like, huh?" Catty asked.

"Yeah," Jesse answered. "My dad told me about him."

Catty looked at Sam and Dean. "Huh."

"What?" Jesse asked. "Didn't your dad tell you about the Tooth Fairy?"

"My dad?" Catty repeated, chuckling. "My dad told me different stories."

"Well, the Tooth Fairy isn't a story," Jesse told them.

"What do you know about itching powder, Jesse?" Catty asked.

"That stuff will make you scratch your brains out," Jesse told them.

"Pop Rocks and Coke?" Catty asked.

"You mix them, and you'll end up in the hospital," Jesse told them. "Everyone knows that." Catty pulled the joy buzzer out of her pocket, holding it up for Jesse to see. "You shouldn't have that."

"Why not?" Catty asked.

"It can electrocute you," Jesse answered.

"Actually, it can't," Catty told him. "It's just a wind-up toy. It's totally harmless. Doesn't even have batteries."

"So it can't shock you?" Jesse asked.

Catty shook her head. "Nope. Not at all. I swear."

"Oh," Jesse told her. "Okay."

"I mean, all it does is just shake in your hand," Catty told him. "It's kind of lame. See?"

Catty pressed the joy buzzer to Sam's chest, making it buzz, but nothing happened. Sam stiffened up, turning to Catty, looking murderous.

Dean tried not to smile, looking at Jesse. "What did you say your name was, again?"

§

Outside

Sam, Dean and Catty walked out of Jesse's house.

Dean looked at their sister. "Catty, what the hell?"

"I had a hunch," Catty told them. "I went with it."

"You risked my ass on a hunch?" Sam asked.

"You're fine," Catty told him. "And anyway, it's nothing that you two haven't done to me before."

"Oh, yeah?" Dean asked. "Name one time."

"Ghost racist truck," Catty answered.

Dean hesitated. "Well... I don't have anything to come back to with that."

"That's what I thought," Catty told them. "Besides, now we know who's turning this town into Willy Wonka's worst nightmare."

"The kid," Sam agreed, stopping the walk.

Dean and Catty stopped walking, turning to face Sam.

"Yeah," Dean agreed. "Everything Jesse believes comes true. He thinks the Tooth Fairy looks like Belushi, uh, joy buzzers really shock people, boom, that's what happens."

"Yeah, but convince him the joy buzzers don't actually work, and they go from killing machines back into crap toys," Sam told them.

"He probably doesn't even know he's doing it," Catty told them. Sam, Dean and Catty looked at the house. The curtains on an upstairs window parted. Jesse looked out at them. Catty smiled, waving. "How is he doing it?"

Sam, Dean and Catty walked away.

§

Motel Room

Sam was sitting on one of the beds, reading a book, still in his suit. Dean was sitting at the table, still in his suit.

Catty walked in, still in her suit, closing the door behind her. "So, dug up what I could on Jesse Turner. It's not much. Uh, B student, won last year's Pinewood Derby. But get this. Jesse was adopted. His birth records are sealed."

"So, you unsealed them, and?" Dean asked.

"There's no father listed, but Jesse's biological mom is named Julia Wright," Catty explained. "She lives in Elk Creek, on the other side of the state."

Sam closed his book, tossing it onto the bed.

§  

Elk Creek, Ohio

Julia's House - Outside

A sign hanging on the gate of a rusty, over grown read: No Trespassing. Dean pushed the gate open, leading the way toward the house. Sam, Dean and Catty walked around to the front door, which had two deadbolts. Dean rung the doorbell.

A woman's voice came from the other side. "Whatever you're selling, I'm not interested."

Dean looked at Sam and Catty. "We're not salesmen. Agents Page, Plant and Jones, FBI."

Dean, Sam and Catty pulled out their badges, holding them up to the peephole.

"Put your badges in the slot," the woman told them.

Dean put their badges into the slot. The woman hesitated, unlocking the door, opening it, handing them their badges.

"Julia Wright?" Catty asked.

The woman barely nodded. "What do you want?"

"Um..." Sam trailed off. They put their badges away. "We just had a few questions. About your son."

"I don't have a son," Julia told them.

"He was born March 29, 1998, in Omaha," Catty told her. Julia looked up expressionlessly. "You put him up for adoption."

"What about him?" Julia asked.

"We were just wondering, um, was it..." Sam trailed off. "Was it a normal pregnancy?"

Julia didn't answer.

"Was there anything strange?" Dean asked.

Julia slammed the door closed. "Stay away from me!"

"Mrs. Wright, wait!" Dean told her, pushing the door open.

They followed Julia inside.

§  

Inside - Kitchen

Julia ran to the kitchen, closing the door. 

Dean pushed the door open. "We just want to talk."

Julia grabbed a canister of table salt, wrenching it open, tossing the contents on Sam, Dean and Catty, but nothing happened. She looked at them in shock. "You're not Demons?"

Dean barely shook his head. "How do you know about Demons?"

§

Living Room

Julia sat at the table with a cup of tea, setting the cup on a saucer, crossing her arms over her chest. "I was possessed. A Demon took control of my body, and I hurt people. I killed people."

Sam, Dean and Catty sat across from Julia.

"That--that wasn't you," Catty told her.

"But I was there," Julia told them. "I heard a woman beg for mercy. I... felt a young girl's blood drip down my hands."

"That's how you knew about the salt," Dean realized.

"Yeah," Julia answered. "I picked up tricks. It was in my head for months."

"How many months?" Dean asked.

"Nine," Julia answered.

"So, your son..." Sam trailed off.

"Yeah, the whole time," Julia answered. "The pregnancy, birth, all of it. I was possessed."

§  

Flashback

Julia's House - Basement

Julia/Demon was heavily pregnant, lying on the floor, screaming.

Julia: (voice over) "The night the baby was born, I was alone."

§  

Now

Julia's House - Living Room

Julia looked at Dean, Sam and Catty. "And the pain was—the pain was overwhelming."

§  

Flashback

Julia's House - Basement

Julia/Demon was screaming, laughing.

Julia: (voice over) "I--I screamed, and it came out a laugh, because the Demon was happy."

§

Now

Julia's House - Living Room

Julia looked tormented. "It used my body to give birth to a child."

§

Flashback

Julia's House - Basement

Julia/Demon groaned in pain, clawing at the floor. 

§  

Now

Julia's House - Living Room

Julia shook her head barely in confusion. "When it was over, something changed. Maybe the—the Demon was tired or if the pain helped me fight it, but..."

§

Flashback

Julia's House - Basement

Julia/Demon's eyes were black. She groaned in pain, screaming. The black faded into nothing. Julia took control, lying back, exhausted, in pain.

Julia: (voice over) "Somehow, I took control."

§

Now

Julia's House - Living Room

Julia closed her eyes. "And the Demon wailed inside me. It pounded against my skull. I thought my head was gonna explode. But I knew. I knew what I had to do."

§

Flashback

Julia's House - Basement

Julia grabbed fistfuls out of a bag of road salt, pouring it down her mouth, swallowing. The Demon smoke was forced out of her body, making her scream. The smoke disappeared up the stairs, leaving. Julia leaned against the wall, exhausted.

Julia: (voice over) "And when I was alone with the baby..."

Julia could hear Baby Jesse crying, looking toward where the noise came from.

Julia: (voice over) "A part of me... part of me wanted to kill it."

§  

Now

Julia's House - Living Room

Julia looked at Dean, Sam and Catty. "But, God help me, I couldn't do that. So, I put it up for adoption, and I ran."

"Who was the father?" Dean asked.

"I was a virgin," Julia told them. Dean, Sam and Catty exchanged a look. "Have you seen my son? Is he Human?"

"His name's Jesse," Catty told her. "He lives in, uh, Alliance. He's a good kid."

Julia nodded. Catty seemed thoughtful.

§  

Outside

Sam, Dean and Catty walked outside.

"So, now what?" Sam asked.

Dean shrugged. "We need up."

§  

Alliance, Ohio

Night - Motel Room

Sam, Dean and Catty walked in. Castiel was waiting for them.

"I take it you got our message," Catty told him, sitting at the table.

Dean closed the door.

"It's lucky you found the boy," Castiel told them.

"Oh, yeah, real lucky," Dean told him. "What do we do with him?"

"Kill him," Castiel told them.

Sam paused in the middle of loosening his tie. Dean, Sam and Catty looked at Castiel in confusion, realizing he was being completely serious.

"Cas," Catty told him.

"This child is half Demon and half Human, but it's far more powerful than either," Castiel told them. "Other cultures call this hybrid Cambion or Katako. You know him as the Anti-Christ." He sat at the table across from Catty, unaware he sat on the whoopee cushion Dean had put there, the cushion creating fart noises. He shifted position, only to make it worse. Dean raised his eyebrows. "That wasn't me."

Castiel pulled out the whoopee cushion.

Dean smiled awkwardly. "Who put that there?"

"Anyway, I don't get it," Sam told them. "Jesse is the Devil's son?"

Castiel sighed. "No, of course not. Your Bible gets more wrong than it does right. The Anti-Christ is not Lucifer's child. It's just Demon spawn. But it is one of the Devil's greatest weapons in the war against Heaven. There are many legacy and prophecy children, Hybrids such as Jesse. Some are very good. Some are very evil. Some could go either or. Depends on how the Hybrid is raised and by who. The Cambion is not one for good."

"Well, if Jesse's a Demonic howitzer, then what the hell's he doing in Nebraska?" Dean asked.

"The Demons lost him," Castiel answered. "They can't find him. But they're looking."

"And they lost him because..." Catty trailed off.

"Because of the child's power," Castiel answered. "It hides him from both Angels and Demons. For now."

"So, he's got, like, a force field around him," Catty told them. "Well, that's great. Problem solved."

"With Lucifer risen, this child grows strong," Castiel told them. "Soon, he will do more than just make a few toys come to life. Something that will draw the Demons to him. The Demons will find this child. Lucifer will twist this boy to his purpose. And then, with a word, this child will destroy the Host of Heaven."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa," Dean told him. "Wait. You're saying that--that Jesse's gonna nuke the Angels?"

"We cannot allow that to happen," Castiel told them.

"Wait," Sam told them. "We're the good guys. We--we don't just--kill children."

"A year ago, you would have done whatever it took to win this war," Castiel told him.

"Things change," Sam told him.

Catty stood, putting a hand on Sam's shoulder, putting herself between Sam and Castiel. "Okay. Hey, look, we are not going to kill him. All right? But we can't leave Jesse here either. We know that. So... we take him to Ness and Bobby's. They'll know what to do."

"You'll kidnap him?" Castiel asked. "What is going on in this town, it's what happens when this thing is happy. You cannot imagine what it will do if it's angry. Besides, how will you hold him? With a thought, he could be halfway around the world."

"So we--" Catty started.

"So we tell him the truth," Sam told them. He looked at Castiel. "You say Jesse's destined to go dark side. Fine. But he hasn't yet. And you also said that these prophecy or legacy children or whatever can be good or evil. So if we lay it all out for him--what he is, the Apocalypse, everything--he might make the right choice."

"You didn't," Castiel told him. "And I can't take that chance."

Sam glared at Castiel. Castiel disappeared.

Catty sighed. "Damn it."

§  

Elk Creek, Nebraska

Julia's House - Outside

Julia walked up to her front door, unlocking each of the locks. A mailman walked up behind her.

Julia turned around, gasping, startled. "Oh. Sorry. I'm sorry."

"It's--it's no worries," the mailman told her. "You okay?"

Julia nodded. "Yeah. It's just today, a little... shaky."

"Ah," the mailman told her. "Well, talking to the Winchesters will do that to you." Julia began to become alarmed. The mailman stepped closer, pushing Julia against the door. "Don't you recognize me, sweetheart?" His eyes turned completely, Demon black. The Demon possessing him was presumably the same Demon that once possessed Julia. "We had some great times together, didn't we? And then you stole something from us, hid it away. That was very, very naughty of you. So we watched, and we waited. And now... they told you where he is, didn't they? I think it's time we go and visit our son."

The Demon held Julia's mouth open. Black smoke poured out of the mailman's mouth into Julia's. The mailman fell to the porch floor. Julia's eyes turned completely, Demon black. She smirked, walking forward.

§  

Alliance, Ohio

Jesse's House - Living Room

Jesse got a cup of water from a five-gallon jug. Castiel appeared. Jesse backed away, dropping the glass, making it shatter on the floor.

"Don't be afraid," Castiel told him. "I won't hurt you."

Castiel walked closer, Catty's Knife held behind his back.

Jesse continued to back away. "Mom! Dad!"

"Your mother and father are sleeping," Castiel told him. "I assure you, they won't wake until morning." Jesse breathed heavily, scared. "I'm sorry."

Castiel raised Catty's Knife.

§  

Later

The door was kicked in by Catty. She ran inside. Sam and Dean followed. Jesse looked at Catty, Sam and Dean.

"Was there a guy here?" Catty asked. "In a trench coat?"

Jesse pointed at the floor. There was an action figure wearing Castiel's suit and trench coat and holding Catty's Knife. Catty knelt to the floor, picking Action Figure Castiel up, looking at Sam and Dean in shock, looking at Jesse.

§  

Catty set Action Figure Castiel on the mantelpiece carefully. Jesse was sitting on the couch. Sam and Dean were sitting in chairs across the table from each other.

"Was he your friend?" Jesse asked.

"Him?" Dean asked. "No."

"I did that," Jesse told them. "But how did I do that?"

"You're a superhero," Dean told him.

"I am?" Jesse asked.

Dean nodded. "Yeah. Yeah. I mean, who else could turn someone into a toy? You're Superman, minus the cape and the go-go boots. See, my--my partners and I, we work for a secret government agency. It's our job to find kids with special powers. In fact, we're here to take you to a hidden base in South Dakota, where you'll be trained to fight evil."

"Like the 'X-Men'?" Jesse asked.

Dean raised his arms in a shrug. "Exactly like the 'X-Men'." He chuckled. "In fact, the, uh, guy we're taking you to, Bobby, he's even in a wheelchair. Got a daughter, Ness, that can help you. You'll be a hero. You'll save lives. You'll get the girl. Sounds like fun, right?"

Magically, Catty was thrown against the wall, pinned.

Julia/Demon walked in. "They're lying to you." Sam and Dean stood. Julia/Demon used magic to push them against the wall on either side of Catty, pinning them there. Jesse stood in shock. Julia/Demon looked at Sam. "Stay right there, dreamboat. Can't hurt Sam. Orders." She looked at Dean and Catty. "You two, on the other hand? They don't care if I hurt Dean. Hurting Catty's encouraged."

Julia/Demon used magic to slam Catty against the opposite wall, slamming her back against the wall between Sam and Dean, making her groan in pain.

"Leave her alone!" Jesse told her.

Julia/Demon knelt next to Jesse, speaking sweetly. "Jesse. You're beautiful. You have your father's eyes."

"Who are you?" Jesse asked.

"I'm your mother," Julia/Demon answered.

"No, you're not," Jesse told her.

"Mm-hmm," Julia/Demon told him. "You're half Human... half one of us."

"She means Demons, Jesse," Catty told him.

Julia/Demon stood, holding up a hand, clenched into a fist. Catty was suddenly in pain, groaning, gasping.

Julia/Demon knelt next to Jesse. "Those people you call your parents, they lied to you, too. You're not theirs, not really."

"My mom and dad love me," Jesse told her.

"Do they?" Julia/Demon asked. "Is--is that why they leave you alone all day? Because they love you so much? These people--these impostors--they told you that the Tooth Fairy was real and that your toys could hurt you and a hundred other things that aren't true. They love you so much, they made your whole life a lie. Look into your heart, Jesse. You've always known you weren't theirs. You've always known you were different. Everyone has lied to you." She looked at Sam, Catty and Dean. "They're not FBI Agents." She looked at Jesse. "And you're not a superhero."

"Then what am I?" Jesse asked.

"You're powerful," Julia/Demon told him. "You can have anything you want. You can do anything you want."

"Don't listen to her, Jesse!" Catty told him.

Julia/Demon held a hand toward Catty, causing her the same pain as before, making her groan. She looked at Jesse. "They treated you like a child. Nobody trusted you. Everybody's lied to you. Doesn't that make you angry?" Jesse clenched his fist. The room rattled. Julia/Demon looked up, exultant. The fire flared up. The lights flickered. "See? It does make you angry. But I'm telling you the truth, Jesse." Things began to shatter. "Wouldn't it be better if there were no lies? Come with me, and you can wash it all clean. Start over. Imagine that. A world without lies."

"She's right," Sam told her. "We lied to you." Julia/Demon looked at Sam, eyes completely black. "But I'll tell you the truth." Julia/Demon raised a fist, making something crunch. Sam tried to speak through the pressure on his throat. "I just want... to tell..."

Jesse looked at Julia/Demon. "Stop it." Julia/Demon was forced to let Sam go. Sam fell to the floor, released, gasping for breath. "I want to hear what he has to say."

"You're stronger than I thought," Julia/Demon told him.

Sam stood. "We lied to you. And I'm sorry. So here's the truth. I'm Sam Winchester. That's my brother, Dean, and my sister, Catty. W--we hunt monsters."

"Except when you are the monster," Julia/Demon told him. "Right, Sammy?"

Sam ignored her, looking at Jesse. "And that woman right there, her name is Julia. She's your mother. But the thing inside of her, the thing that you're talking to, it's a Demon."

"A Demon?" Jesse repeated.

"He's done nothing but lie to you since the moment you met him," Julia/Demon told him. "Don't listen to him. Punish him."

"Sit down and shut up," Jesse told her.

A chair slid up behind Julia/Demon. She was forced to sit down, silent, struggling to speak.

Sam looked at Jesse. "There's, uh, kind of a... a war between Angels and Demons, and... you're a part of it."

"I'm just a kid," Jesse told them.

"You can go with her if you want," Sam told him. "I can't stop you. No one can. But if you do... millions of people will die."

"She said I was half Demon," Jesse told them. "Is that true?"

"Yes," Sam answered. "But you're half Human, too. You can do the right thing. You've got choices, Jesse. But if you make the wrong ones, it'll haunt you for the rest of your life."

"Why are you telling me this?" Jesse asked desperately.

"Because I have to believe someone can make the right choice, even if I couldn't," Sam answered.

Jesse considered this. He clenched his fist, looking at Julia/Demon. "Get out of her."

The chair was thrown back against the wall. Black smoke poured out of Julia's mouth, disappearing up the chimney. Dean and Catty fell to the floor, breathing heavily in pain.

Dean looked at Jesse. "How did you do that?"

"I just did," Jesse answered.

Catty smiled a small smile. "Kid... you're awesome."

Jesse looked up at them.

§  

Jesse looked at Julia in the chair. "Is she gonna be all right?"

Catty looked at Julia. "Eventually." She knelt to the floor to pick up Action Figure Castiel that fell from the fight. "Look, uh, truth is, he's kind of a friend of mine. Is there any way you could turn him back?"

"He tried to kill me," Jesse told her.

"Right," Catty told him. "Uh... But he's a--he's a good guy. He was just confused." Jesse didn't respond. "Okay. It's been a long night. We'll... talk about it later."

Catty put Action Figure Castiel back on the mantel carefully.

"What now?" Jesse asked.

Dean looked at Sam and Catty. "Now we take you someplace safe, get you trained up. You'd be handy in a fight, kid."

"What if I don't want to fight?" Jesse asked.

Sam stepped toward him. "Jesse." He knelt in front of Jesse. "You're powerful. More powerful than... pretty much anything we've ever seen. That makes you--"

"A freak?" Jesse finished.

"To some people, maybe," Sam answered. "But not to us. See, we're kind of freaks ourselves."

"I can't stay here, can I?" Jesse asked.

"No," Catty answered. "The Demons know where you are, and more will be coming."

"I won't go without my mom and dad," Jesse told them.

"There's nothing more important than family," Sam told him. "We get that. And if you really want to take them with you, we'll back your play. But you got to understand. It's gonna be dangerous for them, too."

"What do you mean?" Jesse asked.

"Our dad..." Catty trailed off. "He would take us with him wherever he went."

"Where is he now?" Jesse asked.

"Dead," Catty answered, kneeling next to Jesse. "A Demon killed him."

Dean stepped closer. "Look, Jesse... once you're in this fight... You're in it till the end, win or lose."

"What should I do?" Jesse asked.

"We can't tell you," Catty told him. "It's your choice. It's not fair. I know."

"Can I go see my parents?" Jesse asked. "I--I need to... say goodbye."

Catty nodded sadly. "Sure."

Jesse stood, walking toward the stairs, going upstairs to say goodbye.

§  

Jesse's Parents' Room

Jesse peeked into the room, seeing his parents asleep in bed. He looked at them for a moment, closing the door.

§  

Jesse's Room

Jesse fell back onto his bed. He sat up, looking at a poster on his wall. The poster showed a surfer riding waves. It said: Australia

§  

Living Room

Sam examined Action Figure Castiel, putting him back on the mantel without any care at all.

Dean looked between them. "He's been up there a long time."

§  

Jesse's Room

Catty, Dean and Sam walked in. It was empty.

They heard Castiel behind them. "He's gone."

Catty, Dean and Sam turned to face Castiel.

"Where?" Sam asked.

"I don't know," Castiel told them. "Jesse put everyone in town back to normal. The ones still alive. Then he vanished."

Catty noticed a note on Jesse's bed, picking it up. "Hey."

"What does it say?" Dean asked.

"That he had to leave to keep his parents safe, that he loves them, and he's sorry," Catty answered.

"How do we find him?" Dean asked.

"With the boy's powers, we can't," Castiel told them. "Not unless he wants to be found."

§  

On the Road

The Impala drove down the road.

§  

The Impala

Dean was driving. Sam was in the passenger seat.

Catty was in the backseat. "You think Jesse's gonna be okay?"

Sam took a deep breath. "I hope so."

"You know, we destroyed that kid's life by telling him the truth," Catty told them.

"We didn't have a choice, Catty," Dean told her.

Catty sighed. "Yeah. You know, I'm starting to get why parents lie to their kids. You want them to believe that the worst thing out there is mixing Pop Rocks and Coke. Protect them from the real evil. You want them going to bed feeling safe. If that means lying to them, so be it. The more I think about it... the more I wish Dad had lied to us."

"Yeah, me, too," Sam told them.

Dean nodded. "So do I."

Sam, Catty and Dean looked at each other sadly for a moment, looking out to the road ahead.