What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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jalapeno-rain asked: But Dean said that Sam and Adam were in the cage, and Death told him to pick one

I’ve written a longer meta expanding on that point, but here’s the relevant bit:

In 6.11, when Dean talks to Death about breaking into the Cage, he says, “Sam’s soul’s stuck in that box, and our other brother’s trapped in there, too. Michael rode him in,” suggesting a potential ambiguity: that is, that while Sam’s body and soul are trapped, only Adam’s body is. (Also note that Death never confirms this statement; he just reacts to it.) As such, when Death asks Dean to choose - “Sam’s soul, or Adam’s” - it’s not explicitly confirmed that he’d be raising Adam’s soul from hell; only that he’d be bringing him back to life. Given the fact that Castiel rescued Sam’s body from the Cage, and given that Dean had to crawl out of his own grave when Cas resurrected him at the start of S4, it’s clear that bodies and souls are separate things: you need the one to house the other, and they’re not necessarily located in the same place.  

We also know that it’s possible for souls to be removed from Heaven and restored to earthly bodies - not only has this happened to both Adam and the Winchesters, but it’s how Samuel comes back in S6. It’s therefore plausible that, when Death suggests raising Adam, he means fetching his body from hell and his soul from Heaven.

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