First Seal [Video]

[hadtoperishtwice]

[The video turns on, showing Sam Winchester. Hair a bit shorter than the previous one, looking a few years younger, wearing a green, light jacket and a blue and white check shirt.]

[He looks surprised. And a little lost.]

I've got to say. I expected Hell to look a lot less metropolitan. [He holds up a hand.] I know, I know. I read the packet. Not Hell, just Florida. Though I'm pretty sure more than a few people back home would have said that there wasn't much of a difference.

[The smile he gives his own joke is wan. Yeah, he knows it's a bad one. It's what he's got for the moment.] I didn't see it in the file, but are you here, too, Dean? Not sure if I should hope for that or not, actually. But if I'm hallucinating, I'm pretty sure I'd drag him in, too.

[He pauses a moment, considering, before adding--] If this ISN'T a hallucination, I suppose I should introduce myself. Sam Winchester. Uh...pleasure to be here, I suppose.

Comments

[hadtoperishtwice]

Let's just say your advice worked. Just that there were a few casualties along the way.

[Sam's not talking about it over a monitored line. Or a public line. Or possibly in public at all.]

[larker]

[Hasn't heard about what happened to Castiel. Has heard who wound up in the cage though. And for once, Gabriel is legitimately unimpressed.]

Yeah I heard about your little plan. I should twist your dammed ears off for being an utter idiot.

[hadtoperishtwice]

[There's a moment before Sam shrugs, turning back to the device.]

It wasn't perfect, but it worked out for the most part.

[Sam feels terrible about dragging Adam in. He really didn't want to, but there hadn't been a choice. If he hadn't hesitated, though, Michael wouldn't have made it back in time to get grabbed, but there's not much he can do about it now.]

[larker]

You're an idiot.

[Simple and to the point. Though maybe that's because a waitress has come over to see if Gabriel wants another coffee. Which he orders. And it's very obvious that Gabriel is a popular patron.

Oh wait he's talking to Sammy, ooops.]

Apparently it worked out. Doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid idea. Anyway, who cares? Now we're all in this hell hole.

[hadtoperishtwice]

It was the best of a lot of terrible ideas, honestly.

[And yes, those plans included finding a way to push Lucifer in while he was riding Nick. The problem being finding a way to make Lucifer stay STILL while they did the incantation and tried to open the Cage up behind him.]

I have to admit, I'll take this hell hole over the real one.

[larker]

Uh huh.

[Not buying it. But then Gabriel's feathers are mainly ruffled due to the fact both brothers swore they wouldn't say yes, then did anyway.]

I dunno. This place is boring, dull and full of stupid people who suddenly find themselves with powers.

[hadtoperishtwice]

[It wasn't like Sam WANTED to say yes. It was more that there hadn't been a lot of choices left and it was the only one that had worked and didn't end up with a lot of people killed.]

Sound's like a lot of people for you to have fun with.

[larker]

[Gabriel's idea of fun is totally different from Sammy's. That and he tried and no one noticed. Coffee is easier and Gabriel will shelve whatever he was going to say when his fresh coffee arrives.

It's a beast of a coffee too. All whipped cream etc. More than likely sweet enough to kill.] Just an FYI; if you don't register, the government stop paying your rent.

[hadtoperishtwice]

Ah...yeah, that's good to know.

Apparently I've got a job as a religious studies research assistant at the university. I'm assuming that's the government, too?

[For the moment, it doesn't seem like an entirely bad thing.]

[larker]

Uh huh. They'll assign some people a job, you can choose if you want to keep it or not. Just so you feel like you have some kind of control over your life here.

[Snorts into his coffee. Might hear the snickered words "Religious studies" in that coffee mug.]

[hadtoperishtwice]

[Sam doesn't mind. It's not like he didn't have a similar reaction when he saw it.]

[Without the coffee, though.]

For getting settled, it doesn't seem like a bad idea. Reserving judgement until I have more idea what's going on.

[larker]

Mhmm they'll have you part of the herd in no time. Nothing supernatural here either, so you'll probably love it.

[Such boredom what.]

Those religious studies tests are rigged you know. I took one for a laugh and managed to fail it. Rigged I'm telling you.

[hadtoperishtwice]

[Which causes Sam to roll his eyes. Taking advantage of shit while getting set up is hardly going to make him 'part of the herd'.]

Of course you failed it. We've got ninety percent of it wrong in the first place.

[larker]

According to my score? You've got 97% of it wrong. That's pretty terrible, Sammich, but can't blame you all. What with your new fangled science and crap shoving it's nose in.

[Hard to tell if he's joking about that or not.]

[hadtoperishtwice]

I'm guessing that between the giant game of telephone that most religion is these days and the fact that everybody puts their own interpretation on it, there's not really a surprise there.

[larker]

Man, I remember when shit was simple. And then they had to go make it more complicated with those ten commandments. That was when this neighborhood went to Hell, I'm telling you right now.

Ugh this place. I've been here so long I'm starting to sound like an adult. I need to fix this quickly! [Looks around. Uh, uh, oh that will do! Scrunches up a napkin and throws it at a random passerby, giving his best innocent look when it bounces off their head.] I don't feel better for that. This place is disgusting, my advice would be to run, far away and don't come back.

[hadtoperishtwice]

[Sam snorts and rolls his eyes.]

If it makes you feel any better, I'm never going to see you as an adult.