25: All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 1

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Dean pulls into a small diner on the side of the road, all 3 boys looking equally exhausted. The boys have been looking for Jade for about a month now and have found absolutely nothing on where she could be. And they mean NOTHING. For the past month, everything had gone completely radio silent and none of the Winchester brothers were taking it well.

As expected Dean was becoming more short-tempered and sleep-deprived as his usual four hours had turned into one if lucky. He's also been more paranoid about finding anyone who even looks at him suspicious. Dean was in a constant, high panic mode as if he was waiting for something to attack. He's also started to drink more. It was obvious that Dean was one slip away from completely loose it.

Oliver wasn't much better, he barely slept, he'd barely even eaten more than one meal a day, and he barely even spoke. Oliver was struggling without Jade. Oliver had to not only deal with his emotions but also with his brother's as well. Now this was nothing new, he had been having to deal with his sibling's emotions his whole life but he always had Jade to kinda filter everything out. Cause believe it or not having 4 different sets of emotions(3 of them not even being his)all day long was not only exhausting but also extremely overwhelming. After a while emotions would start overlapping, and Oliver would start to struggle to differentiate these emotions by not only who they were coming from but also from his own emotions. After a while, it became quite suffocating for Oliver.

His solution to this though was focusing on his sister. Somewhere along the way, Oliver learns that he can tap into a single person's emotions and just stay there making everybody else emotions basically background white noise. Now Oliver did find after some time that this small little trick did become just as equally exhausting as his usual use of his abilities well except for when he used it on Jade of course.

Jade was the only person that Oliver could tap into without immediately getting exhausted after a few minutes or getting overwhelmed by too many emotions coming in at once. He could just simply focus his powers on Jade and then just stay there.
This allowed Oliver to let him think out his own emotions, and give him space to breathe. It also just kept Oliver sane.

And right now that's exactly what Oliver needed just a moment to think, but Oliver wasn't going to get that moment because Jade wasn't here and Oliver had no idea what to do.

And then there was Sam, who was honestly holding up the best out of the three of them.  Sam was the only thing keeping his brothers from going completely off the rails. Of course, Sam was having his own panic about his little sister being missing but after seeing how quick of a spiral both Oliver and Dean were going through as soon as they woke up to Jade gone Sam immediately knew he had to try to hold all 3 of them together. He tried his best to think logically about everything but honestly, it was beginning to become quite hard to even do that.

But just for right now, the boy's main focus was on getting some food for the road so they could continue their search.

"Hey, don't forget the extra onions this time, huh?" Dean says handing Sam some money.

"Dude, me and Ollie are the ones whose gonna have to ride in the car with your extra onions," Sam complains.

Dean just grins and Sam gets out of the car, sighing.

"Hey, see if they've got any pie."

Sam glares at his brother before shutting the door.

"Bring me some pie!" Dean yells.

"I love me some pie, "Dean whispers more to himself.

Dean then sighs looking at the rearview mirror just to see Oliver silently staring out the window.

          

Dean already knows that trying to get small talk out of Oliver was useless having that Oliver probably wouldn't even respond to him.

With that Dean just watches Sam go into the café and talk to the waiter. Suddenly, the car radio becomes staticky grabbing both Boy's attention.

Dean glances down and fiddles with it, but it turns off completely.

Oliver then feels a sinking feeling in his gut.

Dean and Oliver quickly look at each other before looking back up into the now empty café. No waiter, no Sam.

Dean and Oliver share another look before they both run into the café. Country music is playing, One customer at a booth is dead, face down in a puddle of blood.

Both Dean and Oliver draw their guns. Dean also made sure that he stayed as close as possible to Oliver.

" Sam?" Dean calls out.

Dean paces forward and looks around while also making sure Oliver stays close. They find that the employees are also dead, with their throats slit.

Dean then looks back at Oliver before going to open the back door and looks around outside.

"Sam?!" Dean calls out once again.

As Dean closes the door, Oliver notices something by Dean's fingers.

"Dean, the door."

Dean looks at Oliver confused before looking down at his hard to see a yellow line of power against his hand.

Dean lifts his hand from the door looking at the dust.

"Sulfur." Dean then quickly grabs onto Oliver's arm as he drags him out of the diner and to the car still calling out for Sam

"Sam! Sammy! Sam? Sammy!SAAAAM!"

*

Sam wakes up with a gasp lying on the ground; he quickly sits up taking in his surroundings seeing he's in the middle of nowhere. Surrounding him a few abandoned buildings are lining the street. He stands and takes out his phone, but gets no cell reception.

Sam continues to search the deserted town. He walks around trying at some of the building's doors and looking through the windows but they all seem locked, rundown, and empty.

Suddenly, He hears a creaking noise nearby. He grabs a plank of wood, ready to fight, when Sam brandishes the plank ready to swing someone turns the corner before immediately jumping back, startled.

Sam pauses.

"Andy?"

Andy quickly Stands back up.

"Sam! What are you doing here?"

" I don't know."

"What am I doing here?!"

" I don't know."

"Where are we?!"

"Andy, look, calm down," Sam says throwing the plank of wood to the side before cleaning off his hands as Andy continues to freak out.

"I can't calm down! I just woke up in freaking Frontierland!"

"What's the last thing you remember?"

Andy closes his eyes putting his hands on his head in distress.

"Honestly? My fourth bong load. It was weird. All of a sudden, there was this really intense smell. Like, uh..."

"Like sulfur?"

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