ty @valleydean ily 💞 under a read more bc it’s LONG and also a quick caveat, pretend like cas left his angel blade behind when he got taken by the empty in 15x18:
OKAY SO. secret good 2-hour spn finale that lives in my head. first hour is a tmwwbk-style episode that takes cas throughout his memories/regrets (a la @plantdadcas’s headcanon here) and culminates with a replay of the confession scene only this time dean says “i love you” back, and that’s when we (and cas!) realize this dean isn’t a memory, it’s the real dean and he’s here to break cas out of the empty. end of act one.
act two starts three months earlier; dean’s drinking and grieving, trying desperately to find a way to bring cas back to no avail. prayers to jack go unanswered and sam and eileen hover around him, trying to get him to eat or sleep or help with the research, but dean pushes them away because he thinks that this is his burden to bear, cas died for him so he’s the one who has to bring him back. then a massive, explosive fight between sam and dean in the bunker kitchen, dean breaking down and admitting that even though chuck’s been defeated and they won, he still lost because cas is gone for good and he can’t bring him back and he doesn’t know what to do with himself when cas isn’t there, he’s never known what to do with himself when cas leaves. cue classic emotional heart-to-heart moment where sam tells dean that he deserves a happy ending too, and that he needs to let sam help him for a change.
enter jack, who’s spent the last three months being god and he’s fucking tired of it skdhkjdj he just wants to be a kid again, wants to come home. sam and dean immediately hug him and remind him that he’s family and he’s always welcome, then dean asks if he can bring cas back. jack apologizes, says that another reason he was gone for so long was because he was trying to find a way into the empty but only something older than time itself can open a portal. eileen pops in, suggests amara could help (“while you guys were busy having a chick-flick moment, i actually did the research. we might be able to pull amara from jack. rowena’s on her way.”)(would also love it if there was implied saileenxrowena here.) rowena arrives with the grimoire, which contains the spell that originally split chuck and amara into two entities. before they can perform the spell, however, there’s a knock on the door (cue dean joke about how they’re not running a goddamn bed and breakfast). it’s charlie, stevie, bobby, max, jody, donna, and the wayward sisters! patience had a vision and told everyone to meet at the bunker because dean needs their help (cut to dean being visibly touched). (short scene between claire and jack, the latter looking apprehensive as she approaches. claire tells jack that kaia told her jack was cool, even if he was a freak, and after this is all over they should go get burgers or something and she’ll teach him how to do all the cool stuff cas and dean says he’s too young to do.) as max, sam, and rowena prepare the spell, jack lies on the map room table while dean, eileen, and claire holds his hands. rowena does the spell, jack screams, and amara appears. (cue short scene where jack and amara properly meet for the first time, amara offers to take over the responsibility of god and jack agrees, but only after they save cas.) amara can open a portal, but warns them that finding cas won’t be easy; the empty runs on angel grace but it cannot absorb pure angel grace - that’s why the empty takes the vessel as well, to serve as a conduit. the portal opens and amara says they have five hours. tfw 3.0 enters the empty. end of act two.
act three opens in the empty, with everyone back to back watching for signs of danger. it’s completely still until jack turns around and empty!meg is there, grabbing him by the throat and asking why they can’t just leave it alone to sleep. dean demands that it let cas go; empty!meg tells him if he wants him, they have to go through it first. (sam:”oh yeah? the way i see it, you’re the one who’s outnumbered here.”) empty!meg laughs and disappears; the room/floor start to bubble and shift as black goo monsters surround them (charlie:”now was not the time for quippy one-liners, dude!”) cue massive fight scene. mid-fight, sam grabs dean and tells him to go find cas. dean hesitates until claire and jack hand him cas’s angel blade. (claire: “i found it in your bedroom. go find our dad.” jack: “bring him back, dean.”) dean runs off, slashing past monsters and running blindly until the angel blade starts to glow in his hand and points dean to a certain spot in the darkness. dean takes a deep breath then thrusts the blade into the goo, ripping a hole into the fabric of the empty and jumping inside. he finds himself standing in a field beside a barn in illinois; a tall figure in a trench coat is making his way to the barn. dean calls out to him, but the figure doesn’t hear him. instead, his shouts draw the attention of the empty’s monsters, and he flees until he finds himself outside a strip club, watching two figures with their arms around each other walking away towards a black car. again, dean tries to call out but he just gets attacked again. (start of short montage that parallels the scenes/memories that cas relived in act one).
back to tfw 3.0. sam and co. are still fighting the monsters. sam goes to stab another goo figure until he hears it say “haven’t we gotten past this already, moose?” sam pauses, reaches into the goo and pulls out crowley (crowley: “took you long enough.”) rowena cries out and grabs him into a hug. (crowley, disgruntled: “hello, mother.”). jack, seeing what sam did, rushes over to claire and the monster she’s fighting and reaches into the black goo, pulls out balthazar. (balthazar: “and who might you be?” jack: “i’m jack. this is claire. castiel is our father.” balthazar: “your father? well. cassie sure has some explaining to do.”) all around them, angels and demons alike appear out of the goo: anna, gabriel, michael/adam, ruby. empty!meg appears, furious. monologues about how they’ll never leave the empty and that they’ll be stuck there forever, until something stabs it in the back. empty!meg falls to reveal real meg (meg:”shut up.”). crowley asks if they can leave now, but sam says not without dean and cas. he checks his watch; 30 minutes.
back to dean. he’s made it to the bunker in time to hear cas’s confession. close up on cas’s face as he says “i love you”, the exact same shot from 15x18. the camera stays on his face as we hear somone say “i love you too.” cas looks confused; camera zooms out and pans to where memory!dean used to be standing, only now it’s the real dean. here’s the confession we’ve been waiting 12 years to hear: lots of call backs to things they’ve said, lots of apologies, lots of man tears. cas smiles and cries and they (finally, FINALLY) kiss. but cas pulls away and tells dean he has to leave, cas can’t escape the empty, he’s too in too deep. dean remembers what amara says about the empty running on angel grace - he offers cas the blade. cas looks at it, understands. he wraps his hand around dean’s and together they cut his grace out. the thin blue light escapes into the air, burning brighter and brighter and brighter until it explodes and the ‘room” shatters around them. now back in the black abyss of the empty, dean grabs cas’s hand and they run.
back to sam. the ground beneath them starts to shake; it’s time to go. “leaving without me?” everyone turns around; it’s billie. sam and eileen stand in front of jack, protecting him. billie raises a hand in surrender, tells them that even with chuck gone, they’ll need a reaper on their side. sam asks how they can trust her after she tried to kill jack. billie argues that she was trying to spare jack from a life of pain; she looks at him. “being god’s no fun, right kid?” jack nods, but tells her that amara’s gonna be god now. billie agrees (“as long as it’s not chuck, that’s fine by me.”) the ground is shaking even harder now (gabriel: “enough with the hallmark movie, let’s get this show on the road!”) they all start sprinting towards the portal. jack turns back, determined to wait for cas and dean but sam and claire grab him and pull him through. amara stands on the other side, arms outstretched as she tries to hold it open longer. everyone turns around and watches, waiting. 5 seconds…4 seconds… 3… 2… at the last second, dean and cas burst through the portal. it slams shut behind them. jack breaks free from sam’s grip: “dad!” he launches himself into cas’s arms, claire following suit. sam hugs dean, everyone around them breathes a sigh of relief. cas meets dean’s eyes and smiles. fade to black.
open back to the bunker, post rescue. everyone is safe and happy, milling around the map room eating pizza and relaxing. cas, amara, billie and jack are talking in a huddle, jack curled protectively under his father’s arm. charlie and eileen are trading hunting stories while max and the wayward sisters listen in awe. gabriel, balthazar, anna, and michael/adam catch up in the corner, with bobby, donna ,and jody filling them in on what’s happened since their collective deaths. rowena is fussing with crowley while meg looks on and laughs. dean and sam sit away from the group on one of the library tables, drinking a beer and watching their family. cue sappy scene about how they never thought they’d make it this far, how proud they are of each other, etc, ending with a toast to honor those they lost along the way (“to mom, to kevin, to bela, to emma, to rufus, etc…”). eventually eileen and cas come and sit with them, holding their respective partner’s hand/shoulder. (eileen:” so the winchesters saved the world. again.” cas: “hopefully this one will stick.”). they smile at each other, holding each other close. a beat. sam: “so now what?” suddenly, a phone rings. everyone stops talking as bobby answers. a brief conversation, and then: “maggie’s calling for back up a few towns over. sounds like a woman in white. any volunteers?” sam and eileen look at cas, cas looks at dean, dean looks at claire. “hey kid.” reaches into his pocket, tosses her the keys to the impala. as claire catches it, “carry on my wayward son” starts to play. she grins, starts bounding for the door. cut to jack, who looks at cas with a hopeful smile. cas sighs, and nods. jack follows her out. dean smiles, pulls cas in. sam and eileen laugh. the brothers clink their beers together. smash cut to a fun montage of the past fifteen seasons, interspersed with shots of sam and dean and their loved ones back at the bunker. song ends with claire and jack in the impala, riding off into the sunset.
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