The Apocalypse Stops For No Time Lord [Epilogue]
Epilogue
Somewhere in the middle of February, 2012
It had been quiet since the fall of the Silence and the end of the Leviathan’s apocalypse. The supernatural seemed subdued, nothing more than a few ghosts and spirits of lost souls. Suddenly the Winchesters were finding themselves with extra time on their hands, the chance to go places they had only talked about.
Sam completed the Miami marathon and decided never to run a marathon again. Dean won $15,000 in Vegas and lost it all by dawn the next day. The Winchester brothers shouted into the Grand Canyon and laughed as the echo filtered back. Sam never saw Lucifer again and every week the brothers would introduce Castiel to another ‘human thing’.
Eventually they had started hunting more than just the supernatural. Every now and then Bobby called them with news about lights in the sky and sightings of creatures that could only be from another world. Dean still tried to prove that they weren’t aliens at every turn, debating with Castiel’s calm logic whilst Sam just smiled and shook his head.
They saw Torchwood once, Captain Jack and Bela Talbot, sweeping into a crime scene and quickly taking over. Sam considered saying hello but he didn’t think their fake FBI badges would get them that far. Instead they watched as Jack told stories and Bela laughed. The case was solved the next day and the Winchesters moved on.
In time even Crowley resurfaced, British accent still in place, but a new meat suit; a consulting criminal or something, brain dead from a bullet to the head. The demons had been lying low but Sam knew it wouldn’t last forever, knew it wouldn’t be long before black smoke filtered out from Hell once more.
For now though, they were in a small town in the middle of nowhere, their permanent address. Bobby had tipped them off to a spirit in the area, killing members of the book club. Their first stop was the local book store. Dean had instantly headed over to what he loudly claimed was the greatest manga porn collection ever. Castiel was debating philosophy with the animated clerk.
Sam flipped idly through the books on the half price shelf. Planets And Stars: The History Of The Universe. The younger Winchester opened the book, picked a planet and dreamed of the time-travelling astronaut among the stars.
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