Against the Wind

24. The Rapture

EXT. PIER

Dean was fishing at the end of a pier and Castiel and Aneila appeared and said, "We need to talk."

"I'm dreaming, aren't I?" Dean realized.

"It's not safe here," Castiel said. "Some place more private."

"More private? We're inside my head."

"Exactly. Someone could be listening."

"Cas, what's wrong?"

"Meet us here," Aneila said as she handed Dean a piece of paper. "Go now."

Dean looked up and Castiel and Aneila were gone from the pier.

INT. MOTEL ROOM

Dean woke up with a gasp.

INT. WAREHOUSE - SAME NIGHT

Dean, Sam and Emelie walked through the warehouse, flashlights on.

"Well, what did they say, Dean?" Sam asked. "What was so important?"

"If I knew, would we be here?" Dean shot back.

The hunters ascended a set of stairs.

Dean continued. "What the hell?"

"It looks like a bomb went off," Sam noted.

"There was a fight here," Emelie realized.

"Between who?"

Dean's flashlight beam landed on a symbol painted in blood on the wall. "Check it out. Look familiar?"

"Yeah, it does," Sam and Emelie replied.

"And used something like that to wish the angels back to the cornfield."

"So, what?" Sam asked. "Cas and Aneila were fighting angels?"

"I don't know."

Emelie found the angel in the rubble and she and Dean called, "Sam. Cas? Aneila? Cas. Aneila. Hey, Cas, Aneila?"

Jimmy Novak looked around. "What's...? What's...? What's going on?"

Elinor Jackson held her head and groaned. "Where am I?"

Dean glanced at them. "Just take it easy. Take it easy."

"Oh," Jimmy and Elinor realized. "No."

"Cas, Aneila, you okay?" Sam asked.

"Ugh," Jimmy said. "Castiel. I'm not Castiel. It's me. This isn't Aneila."

"Who's 'me'?"

"Jimmy. My name's Jimmy."

Dean frowned. "Where the hell is Castiel and Aneila?"

"He's gone."

Elinor nodded. "So is Aneila. My name is Elinor."

MOTEL ROOM

Jimmy sat at a table and devoured a hamburger, Elinor had a roast beef sandwich, while Dean, Sam and Emelie watched.

"Mmm," Jimmy hummed.

"You mind slowing down?" Dean said. "You're gonna give me angina."

"I'm hungry."

"When's the last time you ate?" Emelie wondered.

"I don't know. Months."

Jimmy took another bite of his hamburger and continued eating ravenously. "Mmm. Mmm. Mmm!"

"What the hell happened back there?" Sam asked. "It looked like angel battle royale."

Elinor's face scrunched up a moment. "All Jimmy and  I remember is a flash of light and we, uh... we woke up and we were just, your know, like, us again."