Season: Ten

Episode: After 10x9 – The Things we Left Behind

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*SPOILERS* Season 10, Episode 9, speculation/AU for upcoming episode(s).

WOW: paint (Nov. 16th), star (Dec 28th), frosted (Jan 4th), forever( January 11th, 2015)

Aftermath of the Masque of the Red Death

Dean sat inside the devil's trap, Sam putting the finished touches on the last point of the pentagram star. The red paint still shone bright and wet. Dean grimaced a bit but didn't try to leave it. He wasn't sure if he wanted to know if he could or couldn't leave it. The Mark was affecting him again. He'd just done something unforgivable, unspeakable. And yet here was Sam and Cas and that Claire chic all in the bunker, though Cas and Claire were nowhere to be seen.

"Sam, why are you doing this? I'm not worth it, man, this is gonna be bad again, you should just finish me off."

"Dean, you're my brother. I'm not giving up on you. Besides, do you really think that'll work?"

"What the hell do you mean do I think it'll work? I'm something we hunt, you kill it."

"It's not that simple, Dean! Remember what happened with Metatron stabbed you with that angel blade? It killed you but you came back a demon! Do you honestly think if you die now, that's it end of story? What's to stop you from waking up all demon-eyed again?"

Dean went rigid at those words, sitting in silence. The ramifications of what Sam was saying chilled him. He could wake up a demon again. Sure, they could cure him again, but the cycle would repeat, again, and again, and again. Forever. Until something happened and Dean was stuck as a demon or they found a way to finally end him.

"What about the demon killing knife?"

Sam glared at him with those words

"What about it? All signs point to, well, you being a Knight of Hell. Which means only another Knight can kill you."

That thought really frosted Dean, to think that he might go on, killing and maiming until someone like Cain put him out of his misery. Dean realized what he'd just thought.

"Cain."

"What?" Sam was puzzled.

"Cain, he made me this way. If he's still a demon…if he's still a Knight, maybe he can unKnightify me or something."

"Where would you even find him? It seems like a long shot, he did his damage."

"No, wait. He…he asked me to kill him once I did what I had to, killed Abaddon. I think he'll come out for me, if only to make me fulfill my end of the deal."

"And what if he does?"

"Does what?"

"Make you fulfill the deal and you go all demon and he's gone, what then?"

"He's gotta know something! It's our only lead on the Mark, he's had for it centuries. Come to think of it, he wasn't all kill happy either. Scary in a quiet danger kind of way. But not all knife-y-stab-y."

Sam's brow furrowed as he thought, then nodded his agreement with the plan. He needed to find a way to save his brother from becoming what he feared most.