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Sometimes, everything we do in life rests on a choice. It may not be a big choice—in fact, it may be the smallest thing you ever did. Like deciding to get a chicken taco instead of steak. Or making a left turn when you thought you were supposed to go right. Maybe you stumbled across somebody who changed your world forever.
So it’s possible there are a hundred different ways your life could go. And it all hangs on one little choice—or I guess it’s a series of little choices that all make us who we are. For better…or for worse.
After Sam got his soul back, after everything had happened and the dragons let loose The Mother of All, the Winchesters were sunk deep into the war in Heaven. A lot of lives were lost…and a lot of things changed.
But what if Sam and Dean had gotten there in time, and stopped the Dragons, and Mother had never gotten out?
What if something else had?
On November twenty-ninth, two-thousand eleven, Sam and Dean got a call from a woman named Nikki Walters. She was an old contact of their dad’s, out in upstate New York. When Mother escaped Purgatory, Sam and Dean didn’t take the case, because they had other things to think about. And a few weeks later, they found out the whole thing was a sham.
But what if they had taken that case, instead of going to Rhode Island? Their lives would be totally different.
And that’s what this story’s about. This is what happened when Sam and Dean took a case in Essex, Maryland.
—Chuck