[s11e1] Out Of The Darkness, Into The Fire -

The black smoke that had roared across the landscape was gone, leaving behind a stillness that felt like a trap. Dean wiped a smear of blood from his forehead, his eyes darting to the tree line. He could still feel the phantom touch of the woman in the black dress, the Mark of Cain gone from his arm but the weight of her words settled deep in his marrow. "Sam," Dean rasped, his voice cracking. "You okay?"

They climbed back into the car, the rumble of the engine the only familiar thing left in a world that had suddenly turned alien. As they drove toward the nearest town, Superior, Nebraska, the signs of the "Darkness" began to manifest. It wasn't monsters in the shadows; it was a sickness. [S11E1] Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire

"We didn't have a choice," Dean snapped, though the conviction was hollow. The black smoke that had roared across the

The town was a graveyard of the living dead. Amidst the chaos, they found a young deputy, Jenna Olson, terrified and clutching a shotgun in the local hospital. She was protecting a newborn baby—a girl whose mother had succumbed to the darkness moments after birth. "Sam," Dean rasped, his voice cracking