Kaia Nieves

Name	Kaia Nieves
Actor	Yadira Guevara-Prip
Dates
Location	South Dakota
Occupation	Dreamwalker
Episode(s)	13.09 The Bad Place

History

Kaia was raised by her mother until the age of 12, when her mother died in an accident. She never knew her father. Her aunt took her in after her mother's death until she died of cancer, leaving Kaia on her own from then on.

As a dreamwalker, Kaia can see into other worlds. One of these worlds, which she has dubbed "the Bad Place" was the only world she would visit in her dreams. It is a place of blood, death, and monsters. Any injuries she incurs in the Bad Place follow her into the waking world, causing Kaia to take amphetamines to stay awake. At some point in time, Kaia was found in an abandoned tenement building, having overdosed on prescription amphetamine and sent to a rehab facility.

Episodes

13.09 The Bad Place

Sitting in a group circle, Kaia is questioned by her counselor if she would like to take the next turn and share with the group. She tries to brush it off, but is soon pushed by her counselor to talk about her overdose, when he tries to move the subject to the scars on her arms, Kaia tries to shut him down, telling him she doesn't belong, as she isn't an addict and explains that she hates putting the drugs into her body, but they are the only things that keep her from visiting the Bad Place, believing she is speaking in metaphor, the counselor assures her that everyone deals with their own "bad places" that they use alcohol and drugs to numb.

At the end of the session, Kaia is suddenly greeted by Jack. Curious she asks him what his "poison" is, unsure, Jack tells her he likes cocaine. Not believing he has a cocaine addiction, Kaia tells Jack to find a new day one buddy as she walks away. Jack continues following her, telling her he knows who she is, explaining that Derek Swan told him about her and how she is a powerful dreamwalker and needs her help. Kaia, tells him she can't help him. But when Jack tells her he can get her out of the facility, she follows. As they are exiting Kaia witnesses Jack render the counselor unconscious with a single touch and upon reaching the outside tries to leave Jack, telling him she never agreed to help him. Jack grabs her arm and pleads with her that he needs her help, but is soon distracted by the arrival of Sam and Dean, allowing Kaia to free herself and punch Jack before she makes her escape.

Hitchhiking down the road, Kaia is picked up by a pair of angels, who knock her unconscious. Taking her to an abandoned building, the angels restrain Kaia, who tells him she is the wrong type of bait and that no one will come for her. The female angel agrees that she doesn't matter, but that "they" think she does and will come to her. Just then, Dean walks in the room holding the other angel at blade point with Jack and Sam. As the female angel tries to convince Jack to leave with them, a fight ensues where Kaia witnesses Jack's power against the angels. After freeing her, Sam and Dean attempt to get Kaia to help Jack rescue their mom, but when she continues to refuse, a desperate Dean pulls out his gun and tells her to get in the car. When Kaia still refuses, he cocks the hammer back and puts the gun to her head, and with a face full of rage demands she get in the car, for which finally acquiesces.

In the backseat, Jack tries to explain how Derek thought they could help each other. Angry, Kaia blames Jack for Derek's death. Jack asks Kaia for five seconds to show her what he was able to see with Derek, not just the Bade Place, but everything. Kaia agrees, and as Jack places his hand on Kaia's head, energy begins to flow through her face and she able to bear witness to the Multiverse, telling Kaia with their powers they can do good in the world. Suddenly the Impala is nearly run off the road by the female angel, who has tracked them down with a small group of angels and starts giving chase, forcing Dean into an abandoned shipyard. Sam, Jack and Kaia make a run for an abandoned boat. Inside Sam begins painting warding sigls to keep the angels out. Worried, Jack tries to calm Kaia that everything will be fine, but with Dean's declaration that they are screwed, the group moves up the ship. Suddenly the angels begins pooling their energy in an attempt to alter the warding. Realizing the angels will get through eventually, Dean believes they have to go out guns blazing and kill as many of the angels as possible, until Kaia suggests that she and Jack open a doorway out of the ship. Kaia takes a seat as Jack places his hands on her head, and as the energy flows between them, Kaia is taken to the Bad Place, but with Jack's help is able to pull away into the multiverse, where he is able to locate Apocalypse World. As the two traverse the post-Apocalyptic landscape, they are able to reach Mary Winchester's prison. But Kaia's connection begins slipping, sending them back to the Bad Place, where a cloaked figure is stalking through the woods, Jack tells her to focus, bringing them back to Apocalypse World, until the strain becomes too much and Jack and Kaia send out a blast of energy that disintegrates the angels, sends Jack to Apocalypse World, Sam and Dean to the Bad Place, and Kaia on the side of a road, while leaving an opened rift on the empty ship.

Trivia

• The character is described as:

"Having lost her family at a young age. By the time she reached adulthood, she was on her own, completely disconnected from her roots, as she tried to understand a burgeoning gift: In her dreams, Kaia walks between worlds — a rare and terrifying power she experiences only as a curse… a power she doesn’t understand and can’t yet control. Flinty, sarcastic, and profoundly haunted, Kaia is nevertheless strong and willful as hell — she’s had to be to survive this long on her own."