1 | Accidental Video

[olyelloweyes]

[Before the video even turns on, there's signs. The fluorescent lights flicker on and off in all the surrounding rooms and hallways. Then all the clocks completely stop. When the video does start broadcasting, it shows a body lying there with his eyes wide open and a gunshot wound straight through the heart. It's obvious that he's stone-cold dead.

Then he blinks, gasping out once, and then sitting bolt upright. The lights go crazy around him. In between the time of one turning off and turning back on, his eyes flicker a pale yellow. Azazel looks around him in confusion. The last thing he remembers was being shot by Dean Winchester. And now he was....here, wherever here was.

It's then that he notices the phone, showing off everything he's been doing. He picks it up, brow furrowed in confusion.]

Where the hell am I?

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[ video ]

[foundacause]

[ Meg stares in silent shock at the video for a long time. There is a face she never expected to see again. Really, she should know better. Lucifer showed up before. The other archangels showed up before. Why not the demons? ]

Hello father... Welcome to Cape Kore.

[olyelloweyes]

[The last he'd heard of his daughter, she'd been sent on a one-way exorcism back to Hell. To see her now is quite the welcome surprise.]

Good to see you too, kiddo. Cape Kore? Sounds like it should be a seaside town in Maine.

[foundacause]

[ He might not be so pleased to see her when he learns some of the things she's done - helping the Winchesters and falling in love with an angel for starters.

And they all had such high hopes for her. ]

There used to be a seaside town - not in Maine though. Earthquake took care of that and now we're stuck here. They call it the Science Center.

[olyelloweyes]

And what's to stop us from just walking right on out the door?

{Or teleporting, as the case may be. He may be feeling on the weak side thanks to being shot, but he's still got his powers intact.]

[foundacause]

Yeah good luck with that. Be sure to send me a postcard!

[ Miss Sassypants, don't sass your father! ]

If you do manage to find a door then all you'll find outside is endless forest that brings you right back to where you started.

Whoever designed this place didn't want us to leave unless they said so. Not even the archangels could escape - Lucifer included.

[olyelloweyes]

[Azazel had thought there wasn't much left in the world that could shock him. He'd been around the block more than just a few times. Yet now he finds himself staring at Meg in amazement.]

......Back up and freeze frame just a sec. The God Squad is floating around here? And-- [Could it really be true?] --the big fellah himself?

[foundacause]

[ You've missed a lot, Daddy! ]

At one point all four archangels were here and a handful of other angels. Not anymore. Seems whoever or whatever brings us here has the power to send us home again.

[olyelloweyes]

[There's a whole host of emotions that go through Azazel. A feeling of elation at the idea his whole plan had actually worked out. His father had gotten out of the cage! Then there's disappointment and frustration at the idea of just barely missing him. All of this is portrayed as nothing more than a muscle twitching in his cheek.]

Well, hot damn. I feel like the guy arriving late to a good party.

[foundacause]

I've seen better parties, I gotta say.

So... what's the last thing you remember? I'm guessing by that gaping hole in your chest that it involved the Winchesters?

[video]

[blackmagus]

[Okay. Dramatic. She'll give the new arrival that. She's a little glad, to be honest, that a dead body hadn't just popped into existence in the Center. That'd be a little spooky.

Fortescue offers a friendly, if slightly wry, smile.]

Kidnapped far from home, I'm afraid.

[olyelloweyes]

That's a first.

[Usually, he's the one doing the kidnapping, which inevitably ends in possession or death for the unfortunate victim. He's sure that he doesn't like being on the receiving end.]

Who's the gracious host? [So that he'll know who to light on fire when he finds them.]

[blackmagus]

That depends on one's point of view, love. The general consensus seems to be the eerie machine that takes up one of the rooms here. No one in suit with a clipboard who can be slapped, sorry to say. Not anymore.

[Fortescue had really, really been looking forward to seeing Donna slap the scientists, too.]

Are you all right?

[There's the matter of the gunshot wound.]

[olyelloweyes]

Great. Stuck in the middle of nowhere with HAL 9000.

[Not his idea of fun. He glances down at the bloody wound in his chest and then sticks a finger in it idly. Oooo, squishy.]

I'll live.

[And he laughs, because there's the joke right there, isn't it? If he hadn't been dragged here, he'd be six feet under.]

[blackmagus]

[It's a good thing that she's had at least one drink today. She needs it, for this call.]

HAL-who? [Bloody pop culture, she imagines. Actually, no, wonderful pop culture. New things to learn to keep her mind off of everything... else.] Your door has your name on it. And I'll warn you, the hallways like to change. So getting lost is rather easy, if you're not expecting it.

[ video ]

[lost_my_shoe]

[ There's a face Sam hoped he'd never see again. Look, Azazel! One of your special children is all grown up now! ]

I guess the dead don't stay dead long here...

[olyelloweyes]

Sammy.

[He gives an absolutely terrifying grin. First his daughter and now one of his special children. It doesn't look like Cape Kore is going to be such a bore after all.]

This place just keeps getting better and better.

[lost_my_shoe]

[ His jaw tenses. Why did he respond? Why didn't he just ignore it? ]

It's Sam.

[ No one calls him Sammy - except Dean. ]

It's been awhile.

this isn't here

[venatical]

[ nope. ]