AN: Rated T for superfluous use of the word 'fuck' in various grammatical settings.
Hephzibah
Chapter 1
Dean was absolutely furious. His brother was being raised in the air by a psychotic fucking witch, and forced immobile as she sat on the ceiling like a mounted moose with her rotten teeth and fucking disgusting saliva. Bobby had warned them about her. She was more dangerous than any they'd faced so far, mostly on account of her ridiculous lack of civilized manners. Just as powerful as some of the heavy hitters they'd crossed once or twice, this one was sadistic and arcane on top. She'd gone miles beyond slaughtering bunnies for spells, and taken to using humans instead.
The abandoned church they were in now bore witness to the dozens she'd slaughtered in just the few weeks she had been there. Dean wasn't even really surprised no one took any fucking notice, what with the apocalypse and all. Three hurricanes had rolled through this area in the last two months.
He cursed when he got up and tried to aim his colt, listening to his brother's frantic choking gurgles. His vision was blurring and a vile smell was spreading through the room. He aimed high, a little higher than he'd liked, and fired. The bullet missed his brother by a hair and burrowed deep into Hephzibah's shoulder.
He heard the joint snapping out of place. She released Sam with a roar, and he crumbled to the ground in a boneless pile. Dean could hear him openly crying and gagging in panic, and panicked himself over just what the fuck the bitch had done that could scare his ginormous little brother to tears seconds after nabbing him. The only people still alive were screaming and crying for him to save them much like Sam, but all he saw was Hephzibah's rotten face staring at him in rage. She moved like a flash. She wasn't even bleeding from her wound, and she moved like nobody's business.
Faster than a Wendigo, and somehow….graceful.
In a blink she was towering over him with bony fingers clamped around his esophagus, forcing his jaws apart. She opened her mouth slowly. Black-tinged, layered teeth quivered until they all pointed outwards like a shark's. Her tongue was quivering and a slow trickle of saliva dripped from it. He felt his jaw snap out of place when he reflexively tried to close his mouth, because something horribly wrong was oozing down his throat. It crept into him until it reached his stomach where the reaction was instantaneous.
Bile bubbled in protest to the foreign substance. It made sweat spring from every pore in his body and the shivers started. The witnesses were all screaming like they were having limbs chopped off. His muscles began to seize and a tingle on every single joint. He felt gristle warm and almost vibrate as joints felt like being dislocated from the stress his body was putting itself under. As if every single cell was fighting against whatever the fuck she'd just put in his mouth. Hephzibah smiled. Leered and raised him closer to her leathered face.
This was the gnarly, old woman from every night terror he'd ever had. Her face was a mask of distorted wrinkles, and her shark-eyes were bulged and fixed on him. His sweat must have slicked her grip because suddenly he was falling. He hit the floor in a heap, unable to stop the paralyzing convulsions caused by her saliva; completely unable to exercise even the slightest level of control over his body, but able to hear relatively clearly.
He heard a loud-ass shot and saw her face convulse. He heard Bobby shout at her in foreign words over what he assumed was a cell on speaker, and saw Rufus leap to assist him.
He felt hands on his face, but the feel of skin against his own was like fire. His back curled and he gurgled-moaned in the back of his throat. Suddenly his clothes felt like scalding oil. Melting his skin and disfiguring him worse than he'd been in hell. More hands. Something ice cold poured down his wide open mouth. He felt like his skull was splitting in half. His jaws were disjointed way beyond their normal width and his head was pounding. When the cold substance rolled deep into his stomach new convulsions began.
Starting in his intestines and rolling through him. Up his abdomen and esophagus, until finally reaching his throat, and spewing out his mouth. Again and again it seemed to revolt. Pouring from him with breathtaking cramps and convulsions. Suffocating him until he was on the brink of unconsciousness. And then more cold liquid was forced into him. This time he struggled. He buckled, not even feeling the damages from his previous convulsions.
Simply wanting to escape the pain in any way possible. Someone besides him was screaming. He knew it wasn't himself only because the screaming continued straight through his regurgitations. He was being raised from the floor by two, strong hands. Being spoken to in a demanding voice. Telling him to get it out! Keep throwing up! Get it the hell out! Dean! Get it out now! He could feel it hitting the floor from the way it slicked his hands. It was warm after its visit to his stomach.
His hands skated around in the slippery vomit, but every time he thought he'd hit the floor completely, someone held him up. C'mon, kid! The voice kept demanding until there was nothing left to expel. When all that left his slimy lips was white foam, the arms pulled him away and placed him on his side. Minutes passed. The person left him. He heard frightened voices and cries. But the thing that scared him the very most, the thing that made his skin crawl, were the sounds coming from somewhere to his left.
Bobby was shouting for Rufus, and someone else was… wheezing. Not like a snake. Not like any creature Dean had ever had the displeasure of hearing. But from someone nearly mute from screaming who just couldn't stop. He just couldn't stop screaming even though it hurt Dean's throat just listening to it. Even though it hurt just from the fear alone. Someone who was screaming Dean's name over and over like they were being ripped apart from the inside.
Someone sounding horribly like Sam.
TBC
AN: This is a re-vamp of an old one from SNV so it should be pretty painless :)