The Prophet

Chapter 53: The Book

We were searching for information on the Mark of Cain in the library and not having much luck with it. There was lore on the mark in the bunker library but nothing about removing it. There were removal spells for lot of things. Most of them were to remove the effects of other spells but some of them . . . . Yeah I won't go into detail.

Sam's phone rang and he answered.

"Cas?. . . . No, we need him alive. For now.Look, after he gives you your Grace back, you can do whatever you want with him. . . . No. I mean, I've been digging for something, for anything, but...I don't know. . . . "

Dean walked into the room.
". . .Yeah, uh, no one here by that name. Sorry." He hung up on Cas.

"So, We've been checking through everything again, double-checking, and triple-checking, and..."

"The Mark is a curse," said Dean.

"Yeah, tell me about it." Sam said.

"No, Sam, it's a... it's an actual curse." Dean said.

"What are you talking about?" Sam asked.

"Crowley told me.Or rather Rowena told him after she tried and failed to kill me." Dean said.

"Wait when?" asked Marcey.

"While Maria and Sam were at that movie and I went to the bar. The Mark protected me.Rowena doesn't really have a beef with me. She was pissed at Crowley because she thinks he's going soft."

"She's not wrong," said Sam.

"Yeah, well, after he and mommy dearest got into a fight -"

"Mommy dearest?" asked Sam.

"Rowena is Crowleys mom," I said.

"Wait how did you know that?" Dean asked.

"There's a TV show about it and it would be really beneficial if you watched it," I said.

"Anything else that might be helpful?" Dean asked.

"Not that I can think of we haven't actually gotten to see any of the episodes on TV since- . . . since we became hunters."

The phone started ringing. Dean answered it.

"Winchester accounting. How may I help you?. . . Charlie? What's going on? Where are you?. . .Okay, hey, hey. Take a deep breath, kiddo. Uh, we're all sitting here. Tell me what happened. Why are you bleeding?" Dean put the phone on speaker.

"I, uh - I got shot." said Charlie "Did you know dental floss works great on stitches? I only passed out twice, and I'm pretty sure my wound is now minty fresh."

"Charlie, you probably need to go to a hospital." said Sam.

"No, no, I-I'm fine!" she said "I just got to get someplace safe.These guys are still after me."

"What guys? Who?" asked Sam.

"Some southern-fried D-bags.They've been after me since I-I dug up "The Book of the Damned.""

"You found it?" asked Sam "Where?"

"After some near misses and some broken-into museums, I found historical documents that led to a monastery in Spain. It burned down years ago, left for dead, but, uh, I had this hunch about it. Turned out I was right."

"Okay, Charlie, what does it say about the Mark?" asked Dean.

"I have no fracking idea. The language it's written in, I've never seen anything like it. I, uh - I found some research notes in the monastery crypt, though, by the friar that buried it. "The Book of the Damned" is a spell book for creating or undoing any kind of damnation there is. We translate this thing, I think we can get the Mark of Cain off you, Dean."