#sam is 100% henry winchester's grandson

[mycasandstarrs]

SPN 8x12: “As Time Goes By”

THEN: The family motto. Hunting runs in the family. John and Mary Winchester getting together was a big deal. Hunting and saving people was important to John; now it’s important to Sam and Dean.

Normal, Illinois. 1958.

John’s last encounter with his father. 

The music box. Whatever happened to it? I figured John might’ve wanted to keep it to pass down to his kids. That would’ve been nice.

Our introduction to Josie and the Men of Letters.

(Though I’m now remembering, this isn’t really her. She’d been possessed at this point.)

Abaddon.

RIP Men of Letters. Killed by Abaddon.

Our first look at the time travel spell.

“Which of you is John Winchester?”

“Gentlemen, in the absence of any and all other explanations, I'm afraid this has been a marvelous, tragic misunderstanding. I'll be on my way.” Henry’s so well spoken.

WHAT A MOVE

“2013. My God. Guess the Mayans were wrong.” haha

Damn.

“I'm quite certain this is all beyond your understanding, my alpha-male-monkey friend. And violence will not help you comprehend this any easier.” How goddamn rude, jeez.

LEAVE RIGHT NOW.

“Josie. I know you're still in there. You must fight this.” Very much like his grandson, Dean.

The knife fails.

RIP hotel guy. Killed by Abaddon.

Oh dear. Poor Henry. At least he didn’t vomit in the car; Dean would’ve been even more pissed.

“I've told you that's not gonna happen.

“Why not?”

“Because he’s dead!”

“What’s it to you?”

“Everything.”

:(

Boys, meet your Grandpappy.

“Dad hated the son of a bitch.”

“And Dad made up for that how? By being father of the year?”

Exactly.

“Look, Dad had his issues, okay, but he was always there for us.” ...do I even want to argue with that?

“How you doing?”

“I'll be fine. After all, despite everything, I've just met my grandsons, haven't I? Henry Winchester. It's a pleasure.”

Henry’s a better grandfather than Samuel already.

OH COME ON DEAN. Shake your grandfather’s hand, ffs.

“My blood, an angel feather, tears of a dragon, a pinch of the sands of time – I – I would need those and... at least a week for my soul to recharge, but, yes, it's possible.”

“You tapped the power of your soul to get here? I thought only angels could do that.”

Sam’s already intrigued.

“Our father taught us how to be hunters.”

“You're not. Are you? Hunters? Well, hunters are... Hunters are apes.” 

Okay, let’s watch the vocabulary.

“What do you have against us [hunters]?”

“Aside from the unthinking, unwashed, shoot-first-and-don't-bother-to-ask-questions-later part, not much, really.”

Henry ain’t entirely wrong.

“We're preceptors, beholders, chroniclers of all that which man does not understand. We share our findings with a few trusted hunters – the very elite. They do the rest.” Huh, exactly what the British Men of Letters intended to do in the U.S.

"Surf's Up America" by Bodega Girls feat. Anthony Rossomando. Cool song.

Okay, y’all need to stop him.

Albert Magnus.

The Aquarian Star,  “representing great magic and power.”

“I like your top.” I like it too! I wish I had it.

“Cover this up. Let's be on our way.” Thanks for the help, Henry.

“Your father saw ‘Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy’ at the drive-in one night. It scared the beeswax out of him. So I got him this little music box that played that song to help him sleep at night. It worked like a charm.”

I love hearing little details of a character like that.

Abaddon is a Knight of Hell. (One of them, at least.)

John’s journal becomes a centering point for another member of the Winchester family.

“I sent away for one the day before my initiation. As a matter of fact, judging by my initials here, this one, I believe.” AWW.

“Surviving a lonely childhood, a stinking war... only to get married and have his wife taken by a demon... and later killed by one himself. That man got a bum rap around every turn. But you know what? He kept going. And in the end, he did a hell of a lot more good than he did bad.”

“I'm sorry. I wish I had been there for him.”

“Yeah, it's a little late for that now, don't you think?”

“It's the price we pay for upholding great responsibility. We know that.”

“Your responsibility was to your family, not some glorified book club!”

OKAY HOW BOUT WE CALM DOWN

Ha, Sam knew exactly what kind of reaction “I had no choice” was gonna get from Dean.

Dean is deadass asleep.

“Henry – he's gone.”

“Where is he?”

“Well, no idea. He just left a note saying he was gonna fix everything.”

Aww, Henry.

“I understand. You don't know me, so you're reluctant to sell to me. Fine.”

Ha, Henry reading the shopkeeper well.

Nice of him to only put her to sleep.

Oh! Dean was gonna call Garth.

I can now officially say it: RIP comic store girl. Killed by Abaddon.

“In the box is the key to every object, scroll, spell ever collected for thousands of years under one roof. It is the supernatural mother lode...”

DEAN, STOP HIM.

“Oh, I think I can. See, I've read that thing more times than you can imagine, and it hurts every time.”

“Maybe so, but you didn't let him down! I did! Just like you said!”

Aww, my heart just broke. Do you know who you’re saying that to?

“If this works the way I planned, there will never be an Apocalypse to stop.”...is that possible? If Henry had made the jump, and he changes the timeline to where Sam and Dean were never born, then there would’ve been an apocalypse and it would’ve been catastrophic.

“If you know where the key is, then take it to these coordinates. Throw it in. Shut the door forever. And walk away.”

“Wait, w-why would I do that?”

Sam already lamenting at the possibility of losing such grand knowledge. Me too, hon.

“You do... have the key, don't you?”

“I don't, um... but, uh…my brother...my brother does.”

Shouldn’t have said that!!!

RIP Larry. Killed by Abaddon.

RIP Larry’s wife. Also killed by Abaddon. 

Sweet new outfit.

pfft. Sleeper choke your grandfather, Dean.

“That's the problem with you hunters. You're all short-sighted.”

“Yeah, at least we're not extinct.”

What an act these two were putting on.

Sam, who had no idea of their plan, sincerely apologized to Henry.

How is Henry still standing after being gutted?? What a legend.

Devil’s trap on a bullet. How clever.

“You're gonna have to get close. And ‘close’ means it could get ugly.”

“I know. But you do that for blood.”

Bye for now, Abaddon.

Aww.

“I'm sorry I judged you two so harshly for being hunters. I should have known better.”

“About?”

“You're also Winchesters. As long as we're alive, there's always hope. I didn't know my son as a man, but having met you two...I know I would have been proud of him.”

Henry’s last words.

RIP Henry Winchester. Killed by Abaddon.

(Sam and Dean couldn’t keep this grandfather around??)

Brains and brawn combined are Sam and Dean.

“Hey, I, uh... found this in Henry's wallet.” The photo of Henry and John, AWW COME ON, I’VE CRIED ENOUGH.

“You think it would have made a difference?”

“What?”

“Dad. If he'd had his own father around.”

“What, in how he raised us? Sammy, he did the best he could.”

“I know that. I – I do. They all did.”

I know I’m hard on John...but now I’m just sad for him.

“What are the chances that place is still standing?” 100%.

Ending with the titular song: “As Time Goes By”.