For This You Were Born

19. In My Time of Dying

[Due to conditions, slight change for a character]

Season Two

The demon-possessed truck driver stepped out of his truck and walked over. John, Dean and Charlotte were unconscious. Sam swallowed, barely awake. The demon pulled the driver's side door off its hinges and Sam pointed the Colt at him.

"Back," Sam demanded. "Or I'll kill you, I swear to God."

"You won't," the demon said. "You're saving the bullet for someone else."

Sam cocked the gun. "You wanna bet?"

The demon smiled before black smoke poured from the man, who collapsed. Sam uncocked the gun and dropped his head back in relief.

"Oh, my God!" the man cried.

"Dad?" Sam called.

"Did I do this?"

"Dad! Dean? Charlotte? Dean! Charlotte!"

Caroline and Aliana ran up, looking in horror.

The next morning, a rescue helicopter arrived on scene.

The four were being loaded onto stretchers. John, Dean and Charlotte were still unconscious, Sam was awake.

One paramedic looked over Dean. "Significant passenger side intrusion. Unresponsive. BP is 180 over 60, heart rate 95."

Another looked Charlotte over. "Significant passenger intrusion. Also unresponsive. BP is 90 over 50, heart rate is 70."

"Tell me if they're okay!" Sam cried.

"You have to stay still!" a female paramedic told him.

"Are they even still alive?"

HOSPITAL

In his room, Dean sat up, worked his jaw, and got out of bed. He was wearing a white T-shirt, hospital pants and nothing else.

He went into the hallway. "Sam? Dad? Caroline? Aliana? Charlotte? Anybody?" He went down the stairs to the front of the hospital and found a nurse's station. "Excuse me. Hi. I, uh, I think I was in a car accident, my dad, my brother, my daughter and my friends, I just need to find them." The nurse was unresponsive. "Hello?" He snapped his fingers before going upstairs, panicked, and found himself intubated on his bed, dying.

A little girl ran up and hugged Dean. She signed as she said, "Daddy, what's happening?"

Dean picked up his daughter. "I don't know, sweetie. Your voice is beautiful, little one."

Caroline made her way to the doorway of Dean and Charlotte's room and stared at them. John and Sam had fought to keep Charlotte by her father and had won.

Sam entered Dean and Charlotte's room. He stopped at the door and stared at his brother and niece's bodies, breathing heavily. Aliana walked up behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Sammy!" Dean exclaimed. "You look good. Considering."

"Oh, no," Sam said.

"Man, tell me you can hear me."

"How's Dad? Is he okay? Come on, you're the psychic. Give me some ghost whispering or something!"

The doctor entered. "Your father's awake. You can go see him if you like.."

"Thank God," Dean mumbled.

"Doc, what about my brother and niece?" Sam asked.

"Well, he sustained serious injury; blood loss, contusions to his liver and kidney," the doctor informed. "But it's the head trauma I'm worried about. There's early signs of cerebral edema. She sustained serious internal bleeding."