The Rescue of Richie Ryan (5/7) - HL/SPN - Immortal!Dean 'Verse
Title:The Rescue of Richie Ryan (5/7)
Author: Strangevisitor7
Beta: Thanks to Pen37
Prompt: Prompt #4:Insides for crossovers100. My table is here
The rest of the Immortal!Dean 'Verse is here
Rated: PG
Fandom: HL, SPN but set in a far future that looks remarkably like the Firefly 'verse
Characters: Dean Winchester, Duncan MacLeod, Richie Ryan; Mentions of Chloe/Dean
Disclaimer: The characters you know and love all belong to their respective creators.
Summary: Richie has been missing for over 6 months. Duncan finally has a lead and needs Dean's help to rescue him.
Chapter Summary: Dean's great, great...great, grand nephew, Sam Winchester has a plan to get them inside. Dean and Duncan reluctantly agree to follow his lead even though they may end up as prisoners themselves.
A/N: pen37 and I wrote this story called 5 Times Immortal!Dean met Meta!Chloe. Everyone wondered what could have kept Dean away from Chloe for 150 years as mentioned in Chapter 5: When the Fightings Done.
The story that follows explains why Dean left. And pen37's story Methos And Chloe Save the Planet tells what Chloe did when Dean didn't come back.
Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7
Chapter 5: Bait
Dean and Duncan left Sam about an hour later. He’d promised to contact them as soon as he knew something.
“Dean, I hate to ask but do you really thing we can trust him?”
Dean whirled on his friend ready to defend the Winchester name but stopped. Instead he shrugged, “Winchesters stick together, but we did crash his world. I am pretty sure well 99% sure that he’ll help us. He’s family.”
Duncan laughed, “I feel the same way. Come on let’s get some food and head back to the ship.”
“I won’t feel comfortable ‘till we have Richie and get back into the black.” Dean admitted.
They would have to be patient until Sam contacted them and neither of them did that very well.
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Dean and Duncan spent the next weeks reconnoitering the medical facility; mapping out the best escapes routes, checking the security measures and memorizing the floor plans. Sam had contacted them once to inform them of Brand’s arrest and once to confirm that Richie was still alive. He was working on commandeering jurisdiction over the case but it was going to take some time. Still, Sam was positive he could either figure a reason to get them inside or get Richie outside. Sam asked them to be patient, it wouldn’t be much longer.
“Son of a Bitch,” Dean slammed his hand on the table causing the lunch dishes to rattle. “I need to do something!”
“Hey, calm down, I’m eating here.”
Dean stood and started to pace around the small kitchen like a caged panther. “Maybe I should call Chloe after all. She would kill to investigate that place and she’d probably already be inside.”
“Dean, the reasons you didn’t want Chloe along are still sound. Give your nephew a chance to come through. It was a lucky break that Brand was arrested.”
Reluctantly Dean knew Duncan was right. In fact calling, Chloe was a selfish move. Truth was he missed her. “Damn, I’m just tired of sitting around. I want to get moving.”
Duncan rolled his eyes. He was about to retort when the Holovid beeped.
Dean tripped over himself to reach it. Duncan waited. Dean returned moments later, “That was Sam. He wants to meet us. Let’s go.”
Sam was waiting at the diner when Dean and Duncan arrived. The two settled in and waited for Sam to lay out the plan.
“I have good news and I have bad news.”
Dean waved a hand in Sam’s direction, “No drama just tell us, can we get into the facility to rescue Richie.”
“Yes, but we will need to use Duncan as bait.”
“What! You want me to turn myself into the Alliance?” Duncan was incredulous.
Sam grabbed Duncan’s wrist and stared him in the eye, “You have to trust me. I was able to grab partial jurisdiction over Brand because of a connection to a fake case I created to capture his contact, the known smuggler Duncan MacLeod.” Sam was feeling especially clever about that.
“Sam, what have you done?” Dean said menacingly.
Duncan pulled his hand away, “This sounds like the trap we were trying to avoid.”
“No, No, you don’t understand. I had to create the case against Duncan to make the connection to Brand. Director of Programs, Anderson Crabb then had a reason to make a deal with me to get to Duncan. Delivering Duncan gets us access to Richie.” Sam insisted.
Dean stared at his nephew, “I’m not feeling this plan, Sammy. How do you ‘capture’ Duncan in the first place? Aren’t they going to question why you’re willing to turn a man over for testing?”
“I have that all worked out. Director Crabb has just awarded me clearance because I have indicated that I have evidence that Duncan is a mutant and I have no problem turning him over. I insisted on being a part of the program. Crabb was thrilled to have law enforcement on his side.”
“Great, so you confirmed that Duncan is an Immortal.” Dean groused.
“No, they call them regenerators. They have no idea about the Immortality.” Sam insisted
Duncan huffed, “Well that’s something, but what happens after I let you capture me?”
“I’ll take you to Section 13.1 and turn you over. Uncle Dean will be a member of that escort team. He’ll make sure you’re not really bound. Once, in the lab Dean will be able to take everyone out before they even realize you’re free. One of you knocks me out and frees Richie.” Sam gave a ‘ta da’ motion and leaned back in the booth.
“Wrong, this plan ends with the two of us in cells and you arrested, Sam.” Duncan objected. “Dean, tell him it won’t work.”
Dean sat quietly lost in thought. Finally he looked at Duncan, “It’ll work. Once we get in the lab we’re home free.”
“Are you sure, Dean?” He saw the conviction in his friend’s manner and acquiesced, “I guess this means I have to give up my name after we escape.” Duncan laughed ruefully.
Dean snickered, “After a thousand years, its time for a new one.”
“Yes Dean, I expect you’re going to need a new one too.” Duncan paused as he thought of Richie and added “We all will.”
Sam smiled and reached into his case. He handed Dean a large brown envelope. “I realized that you’d need new identities; especially since I am making Duncan a wanted man. So, I took care of it. I expect you won’t be able to use you’re real names for at least a generation.”
Dean opened the envelope and laughed as he pulled out the three sets of identification papers, “James Page, Peter Townsend and Thomas Shaw. Nice choices, Sammy.”
They spent the next hour working out the details of the capture, escort and breakout. Everything would be set to go in three days.
Sam was about to leave when Dean stopped him, “Sammy, can you do me a favor?”
“Sure Uncle Dean, anything.”
“Can you call Chloe and tell her …,” Dean paused, “...tell her that I’m making a circuit of the relatives but that you don’t know where I’ve gone next. Tell her I should be back soon.”
Sam studied Dean. “You sure you don’t want to tell her the truth or contact her yourself.”
Dean shook his head. “This rescue is too dangerous. If Duncan and I get taken, I don’t want her coming after me. And if we get away, I don’t want her to have any connection to me if the Alliance comes looking.”
He had to break ties with her and it was killing him. It was the only was way he could think of to keep her off the Alliance’s radar. Damn, he wanted to see her again but either way it was going to be along time before it was safe to be with her. Sadly, he suspected that by that time, she probably wouldn’t want to see him.
“Sure, I'll cover for you. But she’s a reporter, she’ll know I’m lying and then she will come looking for you.”
Dean gave a small laugh. He realized just telling Chloe to wait patiently for his return wouldn’t work, “So you convince her that I’ve left her. Hell, make up some story about another girl. I don’t care. Tell her you thought she should know I was running around on her. Your ancestor was good at lying, well not to Chloe.” Dean smiled in spite himself at the way Chloe had Original Sam’s number right from the beginning. Pushing the memory away he continued, “You’re a clever guy, you’ll figure out a way to let her know I’m not coming back that won’t have her chasing after me.”
“Dean,” Duncan interrupted. “You don’t know that it has to go down that way.”
“Come on Mac, there is no good way for this to end.” He couldn’t look at Duncan. This was hard enough without Mac trying to give him hope that he could reclaim his normal life with Chloe. There’s irony for you, he thought, him missing the domestic life.
“Dean…” Duncan let his protest drop. “I’m sorry,” he offered instead.
“Yeah, me too.”
Sammy looked between the two old friends, “Its okay Uncle, I’ll talk to Chloe. I’ll make sure she doesn’t come looking.” He rose from the table, said goodbye and headed for the exit.
Duncan sighed, “Well James, what say we hit the bars before we end up behind them.”
Dean nodded solemnly, “I’m with you, Peter. Let’s get blitzed.”
Author: Strangevisitor7
Beta: Thanks to Pen37
Prompt: Prompt #4:Insides for crossovers100. My table is here
The rest of the Immortal!Dean 'Verse is here
Rated: PG
Fandom: HL, SPN but set in a far future that looks remarkably like the Firefly 'verse
Characters: Dean Winchester, Duncan MacLeod, Richie Ryan; Mentions of Chloe/Dean
Disclaimer: The characters you know and love all belong to their respective creators.
Summary: Richie has been missing for over 6 months. Duncan finally has a lead and needs Dean's help to rescue him.
Chapter Summary: Dean's great, great...great, grand nephew, Sam Winchester has a plan to get them inside. Dean and Duncan reluctantly agree to follow his lead even though they may end up as prisoners themselves.
A/N: pen37 and I wrote this story called 5 Times Immortal!Dean met Meta!Chloe. Everyone wondered what could have kept Dean away from Chloe for 150 years as mentioned in Chapter 5: When the Fightings Done.
The story that follows explains why Dean left. And pen37's story Methos And Chloe Save the Planet tells what Chloe did when Dean didn't come back.
Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7
Chapter 5: Bait
Dean and Duncan left Sam about an hour later. He’d promised to contact them as soon as he knew something.
“Dean, I hate to ask but do you really thing we can trust him?”
Dean whirled on his friend ready to defend the Winchester name but stopped. Instead he shrugged, “Winchesters stick together, but we did crash his world. I am pretty sure well 99% sure that he’ll help us. He’s family.”
Duncan laughed, “I feel the same way. Come on let’s get some food and head back to the ship.”
“I won’t feel comfortable ‘till we have Richie and get back into the black.” Dean admitted.
They would have to be patient until Sam contacted them and neither of them did that very well.
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Dean and Duncan spent the next weeks reconnoitering the medical facility; mapping out the best escapes routes, checking the security measures and memorizing the floor plans. Sam had contacted them once to inform them of Brand’s arrest and once to confirm that Richie was still alive. He was working on commandeering jurisdiction over the case but it was going to take some time. Still, Sam was positive he could either figure a reason to get them inside or get Richie outside. Sam asked them to be patient, it wouldn’t be much longer.
“Son of a Bitch,” Dean slammed his hand on the table causing the lunch dishes to rattle. “I need to do something!”
“Hey, calm down, I’m eating here.”
Dean stood and started to pace around the small kitchen like a caged panther. “Maybe I should call Chloe after all. She would kill to investigate that place and she’d probably already be inside.”
“Dean, the reasons you didn’t want Chloe along are still sound. Give your nephew a chance to come through. It was a lucky break that Brand was arrested.”
Reluctantly Dean knew Duncan was right. In fact calling, Chloe was a selfish move. Truth was he missed her. “Damn, I’m just tired of sitting around. I want to get moving.”
Duncan rolled his eyes. He was about to retort when the Holovid beeped.
Dean tripped over himself to reach it. Duncan waited. Dean returned moments later, “That was Sam. He wants to meet us. Let’s go.”
Sam was waiting at the diner when Dean and Duncan arrived. The two settled in and waited for Sam to lay out the plan.
“I have good news and I have bad news.”
Dean waved a hand in Sam’s direction, “No drama just tell us, can we get into the facility to rescue Richie.”
“Yes, but we will need to use Duncan as bait.”
“What! You want me to turn myself into the Alliance?” Duncan was incredulous.
Sam grabbed Duncan’s wrist and stared him in the eye, “You have to trust me. I was able to grab partial jurisdiction over Brand because of a connection to a fake case I created to capture his contact, the known smuggler Duncan MacLeod.” Sam was feeling especially clever about that.
“Sam, what have you done?” Dean said menacingly.
Duncan pulled his hand away, “This sounds like the trap we were trying to avoid.”
“No, No, you don’t understand. I had to create the case against Duncan to make the connection to Brand. Director of Programs, Anderson Crabb then had a reason to make a deal with me to get to Duncan. Delivering Duncan gets us access to Richie.” Sam insisted.
Dean stared at his nephew, “I’m not feeling this plan, Sammy. How do you ‘capture’ Duncan in the first place? Aren’t they going to question why you’re willing to turn a man over for testing?”
“I have that all worked out. Director Crabb has just awarded me clearance because I have indicated that I have evidence that Duncan is a mutant and I have no problem turning him over. I insisted on being a part of the program. Crabb was thrilled to have law enforcement on his side.”
“Great, so you confirmed that Duncan is an Immortal.” Dean groused.
“No, they call them regenerators. They have no idea about the Immortality.” Sam insisted
Duncan huffed, “Well that’s something, but what happens after I let you capture me?”
“I’ll take you to Section 13.1 and turn you over. Uncle Dean will be a member of that escort team. He’ll make sure you’re not really bound. Once, in the lab Dean will be able to take everyone out before they even realize you’re free. One of you knocks me out and frees Richie.” Sam gave a ‘ta da’ motion and leaned back in the booth.
“Wrong, this plan ends with the two of us in cells and you arrested, Sam.” Duncan objected. “Dean, tell him it won’t work.”
Dean sat quietly lost in thought. Finally he looked at Duncan, “It’ll work. Once we get in the lab we’re home free.”
“Are you sure, Dean?” He saw the conviction in his friend’s manner and acquiesced, “I guess this means I have to give up my name after we escape.” Duncan laughed ruefully.
Dean snickered, “After a thousand years, its time for a new one.”
“Yes Dean, I expect you’re going to need a new one too.” Duncan paused as he thought of Richie and added “We all will.”
Sam smiled and reached into his case. He handed Dean a large brown envelope. “I realized that you’d need new identities; especially since I am making Duncan a wanted man. So, I took care of it. I expect you won’t be able to use you’re real names for at least a generation.”
Dean opened the envelope and laughed as he pulled out the three sets of identification papers, “James Page, Peter Townsend and Thomas Shaw. Nice choices, Sammy.”
They spent the next hour working out the details of the capture, escort and breakout. Everything would be set to go in three days.
Sam was about to leave when Dean stopped him, “Sammy, can you do me a favor?”
“Sure Uncle Dean, anything.”
“Can you call Chloe and tell her …,” Dean paused, “...tell her that I’m making a circuit of the relatives but that you don’t know where I’ve gone next. Tell her I should be back soon.”
Sam studied Dean. “You sure you don’t want to tell her the truth or contact her yourself.”
Dean shook his head. “This rescue is too dangerous. If Duncan and I get taken, I don’t want her coming after me. And if we get away, I don’t want her to have any connection to me if the Alliance comes looking.”
He had to break ties with her and it was killing him. It was the only was way he could think of to keep her off the Alliance’s radar. Damn, he wanted to see her again but either way it was going to be along time before it was safe to be with her. Sadly, he suspected that by that time, she probably wouldn’t want to see him.
“Sure, I'll cover for you. But she’s a reporter, she’ll know I’m lying and then she will come looking for you.”
Dean gave a small laugh. He realized just telling Chloe to wait patiently for his return wouldn’t work, “So you convince her that I’ve left her. Hell, make up some story about another girl. I don’t care. Tell her you thought she should know I was running around on her. Your ancestor was good at lying, well not to Chloe.” Dean smiled in spite himself at the way Chloe had Original Sam’s number right from the beginning. Pushing the memory away he continued, “You’re a clever guy, you’ll figure out a way to let her know I’m not coming back that won’t have her chasing after me.”
“Dean,” Duncan interrupted. “You don’t know that it has to go down that way.”
“Come on Mac, there is no good way for this to end.” He couldn’t look at Duncan. This was hard enough without Mac trying to give him hope that he could reclaim his normal life with Chloe. There’s irony for you, he thought, him missing the domestic life.
“Dean…” Duncan let his protest drop. “I’m sorry,” he offered instead.
“Yeah, me too.”
Sammy looked between the two old friends, “Its okay Uncle, I’ll talk to Chloe. I’ll make sure she doesn’t come looking.” He rose from the table, said goodbye and headed for the exit.
Duncan sighed, “Well James, what say we hit the bars before we end up behind them.”
Dean nodded solemnly, “I’m with you, Peter. Let’s get blitzed.”