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new orleans ♔ and you were the light that brought me back

War of Hearts - Russell Taylor

WHO ||Dean, Rose, Sam, Alainn [closed]
WHAT || Dean & Rose spontaneously tie the knot
WHERE || The French Quarter 24/7 Wedding Chapel, New Orleans
WHEN || A couple weeks post LA, after the Rafael rescue (2017)
HOW || Actionspam (single thread)

[ No one probably ever thought this day would come, probably least of all the bride and groom.

But a surprise proposal (of sorts) from Rose has led them both here, as the clock clicks close to midnight, to one of the only 24/7 wedding chapels there is, conveniently located right here in New Orleans, where they happened to make the decision. Neither one of them seems to want a big wedding, so much as they just want to get married already, although everyone is a little concerned that Dean is going to develop cold feet as the time draws nearer. With a nat 20 will save though, he's actually eerily calm about the whole thing as Sam drives him to the place and they fill out the paperwork, while Alainn gets Rose ready in a nearby room. Dean takes a moment to slip the guy running the place some cash money under the table not to put their name up on the public registry that they keep on their website, to at least not flagrantly advertise their location. By the time anyone traces them here from the actual signing of documents, they should be long gone. Once all that's done, Dean and Sam have a few moments alone while they go to process everything, and he steps into the chapel room, walking slowly down the aisle with his hands shoved in the pockets of the suit that Alainn picked up for him and Sam talked him into actually wearing, studying the kooky decor with a pensive look on his face. ]

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[ dean takes it back from alainn to complete the circle, but lifts it up and locks eyes on bobby, noticing that he hasn't drank the flask dean gave him yet either, and indicating that he's only lifting his in sync with the old man. presuming he follows suit, he'll take a swig, and then offers it back to swap ]

Satisfied?

[ Bobby matches him, move for move, lifting Dean's flask to swallow the holy water himself as the younger Hunter does so. Making a face at the taste, he nods as he caps it once more and hands it back. ]

Well enough.

[ There are still things in this world not affected by holy water that are still weird as shit, but their particular brand of bad? This is still reassuring.

As he takes back his own flask and tucks it away in his vest once more, his gaze finally moves away from the brothers to settle on Dean's new bride, giving her a long once-over before his lips quirk into a crooked smile. ]

Considering that didn't even phase you a wink, I take it you been with these two a while now? [ He holds out a hand to her in greeting. ] Sorry 'bout my manners, they're a bit rusty. You can call me Bobby. I'm not sure whether to offer you congratulations or condolences, but you look the sort who knows what you're getting into, so I'll stick with the congratulations.

[ She watches this without apprehension, her shoulders shuddering with relief at how easy this is and it's an affirmation that maybe, not everything in their lives always has to be so hard.

In the space of a heartbeat she slips from observer to the focus and manages not to shrink under the scrutiny. The Dhampir, who has never really cared what anyone thinks of her? Suddenly aching for the approval of another.

A huff of laughter that's more breath than belly spills over, because there are just so many layers to her answer that she can't begin to explain and her gaze skates to Dean, briefly to Sam before she accepts his hand with a grip that is deliberately restrained (Str 10). ]

You think he'd be standing here any other way? [ There'd be time to explain the rest of it, all the awful reasons why the three of them were still a new concept or why she understands this life as well as she does but it didn't matter now, not yet anyway. Not when he'd just come back into the boys lives. ]

It's... really good to get to meet you. [ Emotion threatening to choke her words, because honestly? Until five minutes ago? She hadn't thought this could be possible. ] I'm Rose.

She's been with Dean...longer than I have.

[He realizes that's probably confusing, but it's just a simple fact at this point. Being here has been a long road of complications and craziness, but it led them here so it can't be all that bad, right?]

I realize that probably sounds weird. Not something we should get into too deep here.

It's... complicated. [ just like the question of how bobby is alive and how veil-related those shenanigans are, but sam is making a good (repeated) point. this probably isn't the place for his ten million questions.

still, his heart feels like it grows three sizes at the sight of his wife (???) meeting his pseudo-dad. he manages to keep it together though with a very manly will save, trying to just appreciate the situation and stay focused somehow in the face of this miraculous moment. ] We've got a motel close by. Why don't you come back with us, and we can lay everything out.

[ Bobby gives Rose's hand a squeeze, shaking it in introduction (and probably not realizing she was going out of her way to restrain herself - impressive) but then Sam interjects and brings up the weirdness of any of them being here at all and he huffs out a deep breath and nods, tucking his hands into his pockets. ]

Sounds like a plan. I pulled in every favor I could think of to get here as fast as I could to check into this and didn't make too many plans past that. So I literally rolled into town and came straight here. Wasn't even sure this was gonna play out like I was hoping - figured that was a little too good to be true, ya know?

[ But as he steps back, he glances between Dean and Rose before fixing the new groom with a stern look. ]

You can lay everything out tomorrow. You have a wedding night to take your bride back to, if I'm not mistaken.

[ Is this what people feel like when their parents try to have the sex talk with them? Rose got to skip that with Janine. It was more, don't get pregnant it will ruin your career and don't flirt you look like a whore???

Yeah, you thought Dean's family life was weird. ]

Uhhhh. [ Should she be taking advantage of this?

Instead, she's going to make her first act as is wife to reach out and pat him on the shoulder. ] I'm letting you field that one.

[As she dodges the hell out of the sex talk with not!Dad and starts towards the exit of the church because... as much as she doesn't want to break this party up? If Bobby managed to track them down then anyone could. (Breaking out an unnecessarily OP Nat 20 Listen check and a 30 Spot check as she goes. Just Winchester things.) ]

[ it's a good thing someone is paying attention because the groom in question is a little distracted by the fact that a) he forgot about his honeymoon and b) bobby is calling him out on it. ] ... Good point. I'm sure we can get you a room. Sam's gonna need somewhere to crash anyway--

[ while he's talking, rose hears something before she sees anything, getting to the outer doors of the chapel and hearing a strange wind kicking up outside, a strange sound she can't put her finger on that sends shivers creeping up the back of her neck, each hair standing on end in response. her hand reaches the door, and finds it slightly warm to the touch... but whether she intends to keep pushing it, it goes flying open of its own accord and she finds herself staring into the lot beyond, where two fingers stand about twenty feet out, the slightest of dying flames licking the ground in a circle at their feet that surrounds them both and vanishes into the concrete. ]

[At first, it might be hard to recognize her. After all, during her previous visits, she's done her best to fit in the way she once might have, if only on the most basic of levels. If there were any remaining doubts of what Elena had become, this laid them all to waste.

She's wearing a dark, elaborate gown, her hair intricately tied up. Her skin is pale and perfectly smooth, almost as if it were made of marble. She looks older in an almost ethereal manner, beautiful in a way that makes you want to look away and stare at the same time. Lastly, two horns protrude from beneath her dark hair, blood red in color.

She stands close to the other figure, slightly behind his taller stature, her face impassive if not for the slight lift of one corner of her mouth. She says nothing, giving the group an almost imperceptible tilt of her head, a silent examination of them (intimidate 35), before her eyes skate over toward her companion.

Will saves for everyone, please. :)]

[ here i am - tommee profitt (ft. brooke)

and in the front is a figure who draws rose's immediate attention, if not because there's another version of him just a few feet behind her, still inside the church.

sam 1.0 looks remarkably like the brother she has come to know - they even visibly appear to be around the same age. but the white suited fiend in front of her, devoid of any obvious hellish features like elena sports, but different all the same. it's in his posture, his bearing, and the ancient weight in his eyes, more than anything, that lock onto hers as the door buffets inwards. there's something both unsettling familiar to it and undeniably alien, and it's very difficult to read what kind of emotion sits on his seemingly impassive face. ]

You must be Rose.

[ Bobby had been turning towards the door to walk out with them when the doors blow in and...

Welp. She sure looks like trouble. Gorgeous, but that just means double the trouble in his book. (That sure was only a 25 on his Will Save. He's intimidated. Or as intimidated as he gets She looks scary as shit, he'll give her that, kudos, demon-lady.) Bobby stops short and stares at her, wary and alert for a moment before he finally registers the figure she's standing with.

He stares. And then does a doubletake before glancing back over his shoulder at Sammy behind him.

Only to turn and stare some more. ]

....What in the holy hells...?

[ All night she’s had that feeling. Some would call it paranoia and even she wanted to believe it was exactly that but a part of her had known, even before she’d asked Dean to marry her, that this was exactly what their life was going to look like. There wouldn’t be a moment, good or bad from now until the day they died where they wouldn’t be looking over their shoulder. She’d just hoped… foolishly. Naively, and in the end, pointlessly, that for one night. For one single night in the midst of all the shit they dealt with that they could be those people who got to share a moment in time that wasn’t in some way been tainted by Heaven or Hell.

But that wasn’t the life they got to live anymore and it probably never would be.

Even before the door flies open, Rose is reaching for the weapon strapped to her thigh. The tension that radiates through her body perhaps warning the others before she has a chance to do so and in the end, it’s not shock in her features that greets the Fiends who stand in front of her. There’s no fear, despite how intimidating they are by their mere existence and Elena, you might be the Queen of Hell but there will be no reading her mind today because you two just showed up and tainted her wedding with your bullshit and she is done, with you and your shit. (Will Save Nat 20).

It’s equally hard to read the emotion on her face at first as Rose shifts to block as much of the entry to the church as she can, her eyes locked on the ones that are as familiar as they are foreign as she holds her stake out as a warning that she could, and would use it. It’s the familiarity in that face that makes her think of Sam, their Sam and Rose’s body shifts infinitesimally as if to block the new arrivals view of him as she… declares In Harms Way for him.

It’s only when she speaks that anyone would get a sense of the rage that burns in her blood. Rose’s features twisting with loathing as she spits the words out through gritted teeth. ]

How. Dare you.

[ It’s in that moment that Rose’s body almost seems to begin to glow. A soft, barely perceptible light and it’s moving, traveling towards the stake in her hand, building into a crackling light of energy that dances and crackles along her blade is it begins to glow with pure divine light.

It’s fine. This is fine.]

[He notices Rose's movements first, the moment her hand goes for her stake, he's reaching for his gun. The doors fly open and he can practically smell the fire from here even as it dissipates, his wind-ruffled hair in his eyes before he can quickly shake it out and clear his view.

He barely even notices Elena, honestly. He couldn't beat that intimidate if he tried, so his eyes skate past her fiendish features and settle on, well...

...it's like looking into a mirror. No doubt when he first arrived he looked a lot younger than this one but now...they're almost identical, especially considering the outfits. In the face of his literal evil twin, of all the things he's done in the last couple of years that involve him by proxy, he experiences some brief mental panic, even as he's moving to cover Bobby (will save 16).

The fact that Rose is literally like living electricity in the next moment is what breaks him out of his brief stupor, and he lifts his gun to train on the two fiends, jaw clenched as he mutters over his shoulder.]

Bobby, stay behind me.

[ through the glass - stone sour

dean is fucking stunned for almost a full minute, time seeming to move in slow motion for him as he turns to process what the actual fuck is happening, and his eyes land on sam - his sam, once upon a time - the brother he died for, and the brother who betrayed him and left him broken for years.

he's not entirely immune to the intimidating presence of the fiendish queen behind sam, but he plays it off effectively enough that it's hard to tell he's rattled at all (will save 30 and 25 vs the other effect). but he barely spares her a second glance anyway, as he finally moves at the sound of his brother's voice beside him, reminding him of the stakes, and grounding him enough to find his voice.

where he was keeping it in the suit is difficult to say, but he draws out a wicked looking knife carved with runes that flashes in the light reflecting off rose as he moves up beside her and sam. ]

... Give me one good goddamn reason not to drive this right in your gut, you evil sonuvabitch. [ that voice of his isn't without a deep tremble to it, belying the tough guy act for what it really is: a deep wound that cuts to the core of him, one still laced with anger and resentment and soul-rending heartache after all this time. ] I told you if I ever saw you again, I'd kill you.

Because you can't, Dean. [ even after the uncountable number of years that it has to have been for him, the way the words slips out speaks of an exasperation that sounds, well...

brotherly. ] You're not going to stand there and say you've forgotten about your deal. [ he gives him a Look that is just about as pointed as possible ]

[Elena seems to visibly tense, her muscles going taut at both of their words, though it's her Sam's that makes her look sharply over at him (yeah, she rolled a 3).

She steps up evenly with him, her eyes narrowing ever so slightly. She knows Rose still (wisdom 23) and she knows that that was precisely the wrong thing to say, but there's something in her voice, the way it's said harshly and commanding, a verbal warning, that gives away that she's personally not okay with what he's just said either.]

Sam.

[ there's a slight visible tensing when she says his name, his jaw tightening, although he doesn't look particularly cowed in any way, his eyes still locked on dean's ]

What I mean is this doesn't have to turn violent. And it's better for everyone if it doesn't.

[ He has absolutely no clue what's going on right now - and here he thought he'd be the big surprise wedding crasher, but some people just always gotta have the last word. he hates those kinda people.

...Even if one of them is currently looking like Sam's evil twin. When the first one (second one? Good one? The one not wearing the tacky white suit?) cautions him to get behind him, Bobby just gives a quiet scoff and pulls out a pistol of his own, letting it rest in the crook of his elbow for a moment before he takes a step forward to join the rest of them, easily falling in line.

...And definitely not hiding behind Sam's pantlegs. What does he look like here? Some toddler in need of protecting? He's been hunting longer than both of them combined.

But he's not the one inciting violence, either, although he fixes this other Sam with an intent look (Sense Motive 34) as he tries to get a read on him. Or maybe just what the hell is going on. ]

Seems to me you're the one crashing into a party he wasn't invited to. [ That's just a guess, but considering Dean's reaction... ] So say your piece or be on your way.

[ ...That actually doesn't sound likely in the least, but from reading the reactions of the other three here, this was a bucket full of ripe crap left on their doorstep. It made for careful walking. ]

[ Sam is hardly the first Fiend to make the fatal mistake of thinking that this was a wise argument to make with Rose there and they'd all see it; The anger that flashes in her eyes. The way the divine light crackles and flares as if begging to be unleashed. What Sam at least, may see, is the way that Rose's gaze briefly slides to Dean. A silent assessment of the man she knows better than she knows herself and that, far more than her own will power is the only reason Sam doesn't have a blade protruding from his chest right now. ( Sense Motive 32 / Will Save 28)]

I made no such deal. [ Her tone a deadly reminder that she isn't here to play. (Intimidate 38]

And I don't wanna hear anything he's got to say. [ the words are a reaction to bobby, and he still sounds like he's trying hard to keep it together, as though something in his chest threatens to crack at any moment and split him apart ] You hear me? Not one goddamn word out of that lying, manipulating mouth of his. [ he spares a single glance over at rose, clearly understanding that if he gives the go ahead, she'll follow through on that thread, but not pulling that ripcord yet ]

Or so help me, deal or no deal? There won't be anything left of him to talk.

[ to darkness - mumford and sons ]

If you're going to let her kill me just for standing here, do it already. [ again, probably the worst thing to say, but he says it anyway (unsure). ] But if you think that's going to get anyone downstairs off your back, you've got everything backwards.

[ his next words come out aggressively, deliberately, practically a slap ] Hell doesn't want anything more to do with you, Dean.

I'm here to try to tell you that, because apparently you won't believe it any other way. But if you can't let this go, you're going to start forcing their hand. Do you really want to go through all that again? Do you want to put your wife through that? Him? [ apparently, saying his own name is still a bridge too weird for even fiend!sam, but he does nod in the direction of sam 2.0. ]

Bobby?

[Sam's just staring at all of this unfold a little dumbfounded. Speechless, even. Wouldn't you be if you were staring into the face of someone who, essentially, used to be you? It's like staring into the future, all of his mistakes lined up and brought to life.

The way Dean speaks rips him apart all over again, reminding him anew of what he'd been through, and everything he'd done to let him down.

And yet he listens to him speak, his mouth dry and his insides tied up into knots, and he finds a source of clarity there. Maybe not everything Glasya ever told him was a lie. Or maybe, it's because he knows himself, and he wouldn't be able to live with doing that to his brother forever (sense motive 24).]

I don't think he's lying, Dean.

[There's a clear uncertainty to the way he says it, because in the end it's his call, but he's also pretty sure that killing him won't make anything better.]

[Meanwhile, Elena looks fucking shaken by this. She'd expected this to go all sorts of ways but this does not seem to be unfolding the way she'd wanted it to at all. It's all gotten much too real for her and a wave of emotions seems to crash over her in a most unpredictable fashion.

She lets out a shaky breath, stepping in front of Sam before literally exposing her back to the entire group to try and get him to look at her.]

Sam, we need to go. This was a mistake.

[Diplomacy 51. There's no command in her words. It's almost as if she's pleading with him.]

Please. They don't need your help. You've done enough.

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[ Bobby doesn't think he's lying, either. He may not know the history here between Dean and this Sam... if he's really Sam? But he'd always been good at getting a read on the youngest Winchester and even now - while there's no denying that something is very very wrong with the man standing in front of them, Bobby can still catch glimmers of something familiar. There and gone again, so fast, that they'd be easy to miss, if one weren't really looking for them.

He doesn't know the history here, even though it's obvious there's a lot of it. And probably all of it bad. But what he does pick up on is the pleading in Sam's voice - something he probably never intended to show in the first place. He doesn't miss the raw emotion in Dean's either.

Apparently, not even alternate universes is enough to change everything between these brothers. here they were, at odds all over again.

Which is why he sighs and steps forward, putting himself between both groups now and hoping that's not a big-ass mistake right there. He holds out a hand to Dean catching his gaze and holding it. He doesn't add Rose to this - he doesn't know her, but he knows Dean, hopes that maybe he can diffuse this long enough to figure out what's so dang important to bring these two face to face when there's outstanding death threats on the table. ]

Easy. Both of you. [ (Diplomacy Nat20 anyone?) ] Dean, I don't know what this deal is you two have, but he's obviously here for a reason. Sam... I'm assuming you're Sam? [ This comes with an arched eyebrow as Bobby turns back to face the newcomer in the white suit, fixing him with an intent look as his eyes scrunch up and he holds his gaze for a long moment. ] What is it we need to know? I'm listening and so is... [ this is awkward. he glances back at the other Sam. There really needs to be a better way to tell these two apart. ] ...Sam. What it that's got you all ruffled over what we'll be going through this time? Because it seems like you've already put the happy couple through quite a bit.

[ Oh yeah, he hadn't missed those words, Miss Evil-in-a-black-dress. She might be pleading with him, but right this moment, in his own way? So is Bobby. ]

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[ Rose can feel it, the anger building with every word that passes Sam’s lips. Her hands trembling with the effort it takes to restrain herself and there’s a storm raging behind her eyes and for a second there, a brief moment it looks like maybe whatever Dean is or isn’t ready for isn’t going to matter. It’s too much, it’s always been too much and she could end it, right here right now if she wanted to. At least for Dean. She could give him that, even if he might not be able to truly forgive her for it.

But then there’s a shift, a flash in her eyes, an unexpected wavering in her emotions and she looks at Sam, really looks at him and whatever she sees or senses? Her stake drops an inch or two as certain pieces start to fall into place. She becomes oblivious to the other people around her, only aware of Dean barely clinging to what remains of his composure and an expression crosses her features as she’s reminded of something she hasn’t thought about in years. She remembered once, pondering if she thought that Kyp should die for what he’d done and the answer she’d come up with? That death was too good for him. He had to live with his actions and spend every day for the rest of his miserable existence, contemplating what he’d done and as she looks at Sam now? It’s that same emotion that rolls through her and that very same look of contempt that hardens her features. ( Sense Motive 34) ]

Yes you have! [Done enough.

It’s the first time that Rose will even allow herself to acknowledge that Elena is there and the hatred that shines in her eyes as she stares daggers into her back is nothing short of terrifying, at least to those in the room who are not fiends. (Intimidate Nat 20).]

Both of you, have ruined everything you’ve ever touched and it never stops! It never ends! You couldn’t even let us have one day without making it all about yourselves! There is no letting go because you’re everywhere we go. You infect, everything decent that exists because it always has to be what you decide. What you want and when you want it. Helen. Sam. Ana – it just never ends.

[ And it never matters what anyone else wants. It doesn’t matter that in trying to force their presence on others they’re putting all of them at risk. It doesn’t even seem to matter that they’re trying their best to live their lives without heaven or hell, constantly hanging over them because at the end of the day? If it suits them, or it suits Lucifer or any of the other devils they have to play bitch to? They will come after them, Rose is certain of that much. ]

I won’t kill you. [Staring pointedly at Sam for just a moment.] I won’t kill either of you because you deserve, every bit of misery that your eternal existence gets you and if you think - [ It’s now she turns her head, not ignoring Bobby’s words but not about to let them do this again. It wasn’t going to be their way or on their terms. Not after everything they’d done. She was with Dean on this 200%. There was nothing they could say, that they could do that mattered enough no reason whatsoever why she would or should believe it.] That anything either of them have to say, is worth a damn… you’re wrong. Because at the end of the day they don’t serve themselves. They serve Hell. The Queen and apparently… her Jester.

[ Again she looks at Sam and perhaps worse than the anger, worse than anything else there’s something close to pity mingling with her disgust as she shakes her head. ]

Open your eyes. [ There’s a silence that hangs in the air for a moment and she takes a step towards him, her stake still gripped in her hand but she’s no longer waving it around like she’s going to start disemboweling people. ] And if you ever try to use me to push my husband around again, you will have my handprint permanently branded on your face. I know what I signed up for... Can you say the same?

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