Wayward Sons

Set between 5x01 and 5x02

Chapter One

"Sam!" Dean Winchester yelled, rushing forward as the witch placed her bloody hand on his younger brother's forehead. A white light shot out from her hand and into the sky. Dean grabbed her hand, but she took her other bloody hand and put it on his forehead.

A bright light blanked out his vision, enveloping him until he blacked out.

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Sam struggled to regain consciousness, moving his head from side to side. He could feel Dean lying next to him, but he could also feel someone else on his left. Or was it Dean on his left and someone else on his right? He opened his eyes to find that it was neither…it was both.

Sam jumped up and faced the two Deans lying on the forest floor…and they weren't the only ones. All around him were carbon copies of him and Dean. They were all dressed differently and were of different ages, too. Sam made a quick count. There were seventeen Deans and fourteen Sams, including himself. Sam wasn't sure what was going on, but he needed to find out.

"Dean!" Sam yelled, throwing caution to the wind. The thirty bodies stirred and sat up, looking around. Immediately, they shouted and jumped up.

"Cloners!" one Dean shouted.

"Oh, my gosh!" one Sam cried. "I'm stuck in a living wax museum!"

"It's Manticore! I know it!" another Dean shouted.

"No, I'll tell you who did this!" yelled another Dean. "I'll bet you anything it was Clark. He'd do anything to get Lana all to himself!"

"You're both crazy," another Dean told them. "This is Axel's doing. He's trying to get Sarah to think I'm crazy. He's probably doped me up."

"None of you is really here," a Sam spoke up. "This is probably a mirage brought on from the heat and lack of water."

"Would you all calm down?" another Sam called out. "This is just some joke. It was probably Luke. He's hated me ever since I dumped Rory."

"Everybody shut up!" another Dean yelled, brandishing a .45. "You get away from me, you evil sons of bitches! Where the hell is my brother?!"

Finally, Sam thought. "Dean!" He rushed over to his brother. "Dean, I don't think they're shapeshifters."

"Then what the hell are they?!" Dean yelled.

"Alternate realities?" suggested Sam.

Dean glared at him. "You're kidding me."

"Not really."

"Oh, that witch bitch!" Dean yelled.

A Dean in front of them laughed. "Hey, that rhymed."

Sam and Dean's eyes widened as they took him in. He was wearing a green Mohawk, a beard, eyeliner, a lot of jewelry, and…a kilt?

"There is no way in hell that any alternate version of me would be caught dead like that," Dean said.

"Look, let's just try to figure this out," Sam told him.

"Fine," Dean said as he pocketed his pistol. "Everyone who looks like me…over here." Dean pointed at Sam. "Everyone who looks like him…over there." There was a shuffle as the group split in half. Only one Dean stayed in the center. "Was that too difficult for you to understand?"

"No, it's just…" said the other Dean. "I think I can help explain this. My name is Jensen Ackles. I'm an actor."

Dean looked Jensen's outfit up and down. He was in jeans and a white dress shirt with a gray sweater vest over it. "Oh, yeah. You look it."

"And I believe my Sam counterpart is somewhere over there…" Jensen trailed off.

"Jensen!" a Sam called out as he bounded forward. He was dressed in jeans, a plaid shirt, a long black jacket, and a black hat. "Hey, I'm Jared Padalecki. I'm an actor, too."

"And you think you can help us, how?" asked Sam.

"Well, I recognize some of these guys," said Jensen.

Dean looked around. "Ya think?"

"No, he means their characters," Jared explained. "These are all people we've played on movies and TV shows."

"Really?" asked Sam.

"Yeah," said Jensen. "Now, obviously you two are Sam and Dean Winchester. We play you on a TV show called Supernatural."

"Of course that's what it's called," muttered Dean.

"We'll help you sort some things out," Jared told them.

The four of them moved over to the Sams. The first one was young.

"State your name and something that makes you different from everyone else," said Dean.

"Sam," the other Sam said.

"Seriously?" Sam asked.

"Yeah," said Sam.

"Well, what's your last name so we can tell the two of you apart," said Dean.

"I don't have a last name," said Sam.

"It was a guest role on a movie called Silent Witness," Jared explained. "My character didn't have a last name."

"Okay," said Dean. They moved to the next Sam. He was also slightly younger looking, but there wasn't really anything noticeable about him.

"I'm Paul Harris," he said. "My dad and I were in a car accident."

Jared seemed mildly confused, but then smiled. "Oh, I guest starred on an episode of ER."

The next Sam was dressed in hiking boots and khakis. "I'm John Davis. Our plane crashed in the desert."

"Flight of the Phoenix," Jared explained. "My character died." John's eyes widened as he heard this. "Oh, come on. What actor hasn't died in several movies?"

The next Sam was dressed in black slacks with a red blazer and tie. "My name is Tom. I also don't have a last name."

"Cry Wolf," said Jared.

The next Sam was really young. "Matt Nelson."

"A Little Inside," said Jared.

The next Sam had stubble on his face, which was covered in sweat and dirt. "Clay Miller. My sister and I killed this psychopath with a machete."

Jared laughed. "Friday the 13th."

"Whoa, you killed Jason Voorhees?" asked Dean.

"How'd you know his name?" Clay asked.

"He's only the most famous horror icon ever," said Dean.

"He is?" asked Clay.

"Never mind," said Dean.

The next Sam was wearing a black leather jacket. "I'm Dean Forester—"

"Wait, what?" asked Dean.

"My name is Dean," said Dean.

"That's my name, too," said Dean. "We'll call you Forester."

"Uh, okay," said Forester. "Uh, my ex goes to Harvard and she comes from a rich family."

"Gilmore Girls," Jared said.

"No way," said Sam. "That's hilarious."

"Why?" asked Jared.

"On the tour Dean and I took when we were in L.A., the guide said we might—"

"—see one of the actors of Gilmore Girls," finished Jared. Sam looked confused. "I played you, remember?"

The next Sam wore regular jeans and T-shirt, but he looked pissed at the world. "I don't have a name, and it's not funny." Jared laughed. The kid jumped up, advancing on Jared. "What did I just say, pretty boy?!"

"Sorry, sorry," said Jared. "I played a high school bully on Cheaper by the Dozen, which was un-credited."

"You did an un-credited role?" asked Sam.

"Well, my buddy Tom Welling was on the movie and they wanted someone bigger than him to play the bully who picks on him," Jared explained. "And not many people are bigger than Tom."

The next Sam looked depressed and all "woe-is-me." "I'm Zachary Gray. My girlfriend can talk to dolphins."

"She can what?" asked Dean.

"It was a Disney movie called A Ring of Endless Light," Jared told them.

The next Sam was dressed kind of preppy. "I'm Trey Lipton, and my girlfriend has a twin."

Jared rolled his eyes as Jensen laughed. "Ugh, New York Minute. It was an Olsen twin movie."

The next Sam had a brown suede jacket, red scarf and hat. "I'm Thomas Kinkade, and I'm a painter."

"Thomas Kinkade?" asked Sam. "Seriously?"

"Yeah," said Thomas.

"The Christmas Cottage," Jared said.

The last Sam had a long-sleeve shirt on, and his hair looked like Sam's had four years ago. "I'm Wade, and my friends and I are headed to a football game. Of course, that was before we ran across the wax museum from hell."

"House of Wax," Jared explained. "He also died."

"What?" asked Wade.

"Well, haven't we all?" muttered Dean.