#And also Jacob Pond deserves vengeance and Amy Pond should never have died

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That vamp is not the person who should have killed Dean. Listen, if Dean had to die like, 20 minutes in by the hand of an old enemy, there is only one character I can think of who should have done it -- Jacob Pond. During the episode, they’re not on a hunt at all. It’s all just fluff, lazy days of talking about Cas, Jack, and how they’re missed and doing laundry, cooking, etc. Lots of Sam petting the dog. We’ll know they’re being hunted by something thanks to the first 2 minutes of the episode and maybe a few other small clips here and there. When Dean gets hit, he doesn’t see it coming -- or maybe he does, but he doesn’t act fast enough. The set up doesn’t really matter, but perhaps it’s outside of the bar that Sam and he were hanging out at. Dean goes outside into an alley for a minute, maybe to take a phone call.  Jacob Pond has been waiting for him there (maybe he set up that call). He shoots him straight in the chest (He has to use a gun, as a statement that he’s more than just a kitsune. He doesn’t want to kill to eat in the same way his mother didn’t, so he keeps the claws - and any instinctual urges that accompany them -- at bay).  Sam, of course, hears the gunshot. He runs out in time to see Dean bleeding out on the ground. He kneels down to start putting pressure on the wound (he has to if Dean is going to have a chance) and looks around frantically for the threat. Said threat is easily spotted - Jacob. He’s wearing a hoodie so that any security cameras can’t catch his face, but looking up at him from the ground, Sam can recognize the teen easily.  Jacob Pond is clearly about to bolt, but he stops, staring Sam in the eyes. Jacob is all too young to be a killer, and he’s clearly still a little shaken up about what he’d done. Jacob, voice cracking as though in tears, can only choke out one statement: “I had to.” 

Jacob runs and Sam lets him go, partially because Sam can’t afford to take pressure off of the wound but partially because Sam knows the truth in Jacob’s words.  Sam knows what it was like to be that kid, broken, angry, and desperate to kill the thing that murdered his mother.  Maybe Dean has time to give a final death speech - starts by saying that he “Probably had that coming.” Maybe he even admits he was wrong in killing Amy, words that Sam had just been waiting to hear but not like this. Maybe Dean gets to have the same, weirdly long speech he had in the finale. Or maybe Dean is silent, and his last words consist of the casual joke that he threw over his shoulder to Sam before he walked out.  None of the details of the proposed scenario really matter, but the point is, if Dean had to die, Jacob Pond should’ve been responsible. Keep in mind, the finale still likely would have sucked, but hey, at least the Big Bad would have been a bit better.