Through It All For You
Chapter 1
Meeting the boys
Fire raged.
Tears shed.
Arms holding her.
Fear gripping her.
A woman woke gripping her chest, she breathed heavily as she sat up. She sighed as she tried to calm her beating heart. She had nightmares ever since her parents' house burnt down. She lost almost everything that day. But she wasn't the only one that lost a lot that day. "Rhee?" another woman's voice broke Rhee out of her thoughts. "What's wrong?"
"Nightmare," Rhee said. "Go back to sleep, Jess." She watched the younger woman roll over and go back to sleep. Her little sister, Jess, had lost almost everything in that fire as well. She lost her husband, and kids along with their parents. Rhee got up and walked to the front room. She took out a cigarette, opened the door, and smoked. Jess wasn't plagued by nightmares like Rhee, but Jess was always better about hiding things.
She smoked the cigarette slowly savoring the cool menthol feeling. She laughed at the cigarette, at one point in her life she would have reprimanded herself for smoking, but her she was savoring it like it was candy. She shook her head. Her life was really messed up since that night. The only things she was thankful for, was the house she got to keep, the cars, and her sister.
As she sat there smoking, she got a hair brained idea. They should go on a road trip, like they did with their parents when they were young. She put out her cigarette, and started to pack. Jess came in while Rhee was stuffing bags full of clothes. "What the hell do you thing you're doing?" Jess asked, sounding draggy.
"Shorty," Rhee said with a excited smile on her face. "We need to get away. Just leave and go anywhere!"
"What?" Jess asked. "Whoa, hold on. With what money? 'Cause if ya hadn't noticed we're kinda broke."
"We'll sell my car," Rhee said with a shrug.
"Your car?!" Jess exclaimed.
"Yeah. I mean your car is the better of the two."
"Yeah, but that was Matt's car! Your dead husband's car!"
"I know, but I still have the house." Jess continued to glare at her older sister. "Come on Short stuff, we need to get away. We're dying here. It's been four years and look at us! We still mope about the house like it's the funeral all over again!"
"And your grand idea is to get away."
"Yes. Think about it. Everything here reminds of the life we once had."
"So we just quit our jobs and go?"
"Yes!"
"You have had some crazy ideas in the past but this takes the cake."
"Come on, Shorty. I know these will help us in the long run." Jess didn't look convinced. "Sis, we have slept in the same room since the fire. In the same bed, because we're both too afraid to sleep alone." Jess's face fell.
"You're right."
"Wait did I hear that right?"
"I'm not saying it again!" Rhee giggled at Jess.
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That was the start of their road trip. Weeks passed, with both desperate to forget everything. They took turns driving and stayed in motels, ate cheap diner food, and just enjoyed the view. They only ran into a few problems, like when men tried to hit on them, but both knew how to defend themselves. Jess because she was married to a former Marine, and Rhee because she was married to a black belt, and both men wanted their women able to defend themselves. They ran out of a bar that they had just started a large fight, laughing like fools.
"Now that was fun," Rhee said.
"Did you have to insult the biggest guy in the place?" Jess said.
"He was really bad at pool."
"But you didn't have to call him out on it."
"Yes I did." They laughed again. "Come on let's go." Rhee lit up a cigarette as she climbed in.
"Why do you have to smoke every time you drive?"
"Because I like smoking." Rhee shrugged. Jess fell asleep not long afterwards. Rhee drove for hours, before Jess woke up again.
"So what's the plan?" Jess rubbed her eyes.
"How does Colorado sound?"
"Sounds fine, why?"
"Because we're right outside River Pass." Rhee giggled, while Jess rolled her eyes.
"That means we're like half way into Colorado?"
"Bingo, I figured we could stop in River Pass. We'll pull into town in a few minutes." Not long after that, they pulled into a dinky little town. "Wow, this is River Pass?"
"Reminds me of Selma."
"Hell, Selma was bigger." They shared a laugh. "Let's find an inn or motel or something."
"Yeah." Jess smells herself. "I could sure use a shower." Rhee pulled into the town inn. Jess is out first and books a room with two beds, because in the past few weeks they had gotten to the point they could sleep alone without freaking out. Meanwhile Rhee got the clothes out of the car. "Room 112."
"Okie dokie." Rhee followed Jess into the room, and set the clothes onto the bed.
"I call shower first!" Jess ripped her bag of clothes off the bed and dashed into the bathroom.
"I don't need to shower anyway."
"Bullshit!" Jess poked her head out of the bathroom door. "You're showering after me, even if I have to drag you in here and scrub you myself! I'm not riding with a smelly driver." She pulled her head back in and slammed the door. Rhee chuckled at Jess's antics. Not feeling like TV she settled on going back outside and smoking a cigarette. She went to light it when she saw a meteor streaming down the the Earth. It caught her eye and she felt mesmerized by it. She stared until it disappeared behind the trees.
"Awe, shit!" Her fingers got singed by the match she had lit for her cigarette. "That was my last match!"
"Here," a man said as he offered her a lit match. She used it to light her cigarette.
"Thanks," she said, as she puffed her cigarette. She looked over to see a man that looked awful familiar to her. "Do I know you?"
"Nah, I'd never forget a face like yours," he said. "Name's Rufus." He extended his hand for her to shake.
"Rufus?" she asked, as she stared in awe of him. "As in Rufus Turner?" He lowered his hand.
"You've heard of me?" he asked sounding confused. "Are you a hunter?"
"No," she said. "But I'm knowledgeable about everything to do with the occult. I'm Rhiannon Riwitis, but friends call me Rhee."
"Rhee?" he asked.
"Yup," she said.
"If your knowledgeable then maybe you could help me," he said.
"What'ca need?" she asked.
"Strange things been happening here," he said.
"I just got here so I wouldn't know," she said. "But what kinds of strange things?"
"The river is polluted," he said. Her eyes widened as she realized that if the water was polluted that meant that Jess was in danger.
"Sis!" Rhee exclaimed, as she dropped her cigarette and ran back in with Rufus right behind her. "Jessica! Get out! The water is polluted!"
"What?" Jess asked.
"The water is bad don't shower!" Rhee shouted. "But get dressed before coming out we have company."
"Damn it, sis!" Jess shouted as she came out in a different outfit. "What the hell are you going on about?"
"We... Ah... Just walked into the End," Rhee said nervously.
"The 'End' of what?" Jess asked sounding rather put out with her sister.
"The world," Rufus said.
"I saw an omen," Rhee said. She went to her bag and pulled out Matt's copy of the bible.
"You kept that old thing?" Jess asked.
"Of course," Rhee replied. She turned to revelations and read. "'And there fell a great star from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell upon the river, and the name of the star was Wormwood. And many men died.'"
"So the end," Jess said. "The apocalypse. Four horsemen."
"Basically," Rhee said.
"You're both taking this rather well," Rufus said. "Most people would have broken down."
"She has an obsession with all things supernatural," Jess said pointing to Rhee. "And I'm in denial."
"Shorty," Rhee said. "We're gonna need to get the swords and your rifle. They won't stop anything but they will slow most things down."
"Swords?" he asked.
"Her husband was a sword collector," Jess said as the three of them walked out to the girls' car.
"We need to make a base of operations," Rhee said. "Preferably before morning."
"What happens in the morning?" Jess asked.
"The shit will hit the fan," he said.
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It took them a few hours to make a base. With salt lines and devil's traps. Rufus called back up, while Jess gathered as many people as she could, and Rhee gathered supplies. Salt, spray paint, shotguns, shotgun shells, and food. Ellen and Jo arrived right after the demons decided to show up. "Damn good to see you Ellen," Rufus said to Ellen.
"This the back up you called?" Jess asked.
"Jess, this is Ellen and her daughter Jo," he said. "Ellen this is Jessica, and her sister Rhee is around here somewhere. Rhee said she isn't a hunter but she is very knowledgeable about demons, and the apocalypse. If we make it out of this, I want to introduce her to Bobby."
"Well if you want to find Sis just follow the smell of menthol," Jess said. "She is probably smoking."
"Your sister smokes?" Jo asked.
"Much to my dismay," Jess said sadly. "I think she's trying to kill herself, slowly."
"Why would anyone do that?" Ellen asked.
"We lost our family," Jess said blankly, as she walked away to check on the pregnant woman.
"That'll do it," he said. "I called Bobby but the phone cut out. Thanks for coming Ellen."
"Always, Rufus," Ellen said. She wandered around a bit to check the salt lines and devil's traps. She caught the smell of menthol, and followed it to find a woman by herself. "Hello?"
"Hey," Rhee said.
"You must be Rhee," Ellen said.
"That's me," Rhee said.
"Rufus said that you're not a hunter but have the knowledge of one," Ellen said. "How's that?"
"I love the supernatural. Ever since I was a kid. I studied the supernatural in my spare time. Though if you want my honest opinion on the demons in this town..." Ellen nodded. "Somethings off. I know I'm no expert but they don't bounce back the way the books described. But Rufus doesn't seem to notice so-" Rhee shrugged. "Guess it's just nerves."
"You have hunters instincts. Trust 'em."
"Thanks Ell."
"Ell?"
"I shortened your name, but if you don't want me to."
"Ell's fine." Ellen smiled. "I'm going back down."
"Tell Shorty it's her turn to be look out."
"Shorty?"
"My sister."
"Aren't you two the same height?"
"Yeah, but I've called her 'Shorty' since she could walk, so to me it's always gonna be 'Shorty.'"
"So your the older sister?"
"Damn, proud of it too." Rhee gave a smug grin, that reminded Ellen of Dean.
"I'll get Jessica." Ellen laughed as she left to get Jess.
"Ellen said you wanted to see me?" Jess said as she approached a few minutes later.
"You're turn," Rhee said. "I'm out of smokes, and we're low on some supplies, so I figured I'd leave our best sharpshooter on look out."
"Take Rufus, Ellen, and Jo with you please," Jess urged.
"Will do," Rhee said as she walked away and Jess took her place.
Jess sighed as she looked out the window. She didn't feel as at home in these times as Rhee did. It was like Rhee was born to do this kind of thing, while Jess just felt out of her depth. Rhee did have one thing right, Jess was the best sharpshooter in their family. Ever since their father taught her to shoot, where Rhee was more of a mid-range fighter. Rhee liked shotguns, and handguns. Jess caught Rhee and company leaving so she lifted her rifle so she could watch them.
As she watched a group of demons ambushed them. She shot each demon with deadly accuracy. Rhee turned back and smiled at Jess, only to to be knocked out by a demon. Rufus and Jo pulled Rhee up and tried to drag her back to base, but they were were forced in a different direction than the base. Jess couldn't get a clear shot on the demons. "Damn it!" Jess shouted as threw her rifle to the floor, then she ran down to the door to get Ellen. "Ellen hurry!"
"But Jo!" Ellen cried.
"Jo will be fine," Jess said. "Come on!" Ellen ran in with Jess and locked the door. Jess sighed again as Ellen sobbed. "Look at me Ellen." Ellen looked up to meet Jess's eyes. "Rufus and my sister are with Jo, they will never let anything happen to her. My sister values life far too much to let her die, do you hear me?" Ellen nodded and pulled Jess into a hug.
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A few hours later, Sam and Dean walked into town, both moving cautiously through the town. They wandered seemingly aimlessly through the town, watching for demons. They got to the center of town, only to hear a gun cock. Sam was the first to turn around. "Ellen?" Sam asked. Dean turned around to see Ellen pointing a shotgun at them.
"Hello, boys," she said as she lowered her gun and took a few steps closer. Dean looked behind him at Sam.
"Ellen, what the heck is going on here?" Dean asked as he looked back to Ellen who splashed him in the face with holy water. "We're us." She led them to the church. She was careful to step over the salt line when she entered. She stopped to have a moment with Sam and Dean.
"Real glad to see you boys," she said with a broken voice, as she hugged Dean tightly. She released Dean and took a good look at him, then slapped him across the face. "The can of whoop-ass I ought to open on you."
"Ow," Dean said as he rubbed his face.
"You can't pick up a phone?" she asked sounding angry. "What are you, allergic to giving me peace of mind? I got to find out that you're alive from Rufus?"
"Sorry, Ellen," Dean said.
"You better be," she said. "You'd better put me on speed dial, kid."
"Yes, ma'am," Dean said.
"I heard a slap," Jess said as she burst through the inner doors.
"Just disciplining some unruly boys," Ellen said.
"Who are they?" Jess asked as she trained her rifle on them.
"They're Sam and Dean Winchester," Ellen said. "Best damn hunters in the world. Though your sister could give these boys a run for there money." Jess smiled sadly and lowered her rifle.
"I'm Jessica, most call me Jess," Jess said.
"Jess?" Sam asked sounding broken inside.
"Yeah," Jess said. "Got a problem with my name?"
"No," Sam said, seeing the obvious differences between this Jess and his dead girlfriend. This Jess was spunky. His Jess was mild mannered.
"How'd the search go?" Jess asked Ellen.
"No sign of them," Ellen said.
"Not even menthol?" Jess asked.
"Sorry, kid," Ellen said.
"Damn you, Rhiannon!" Jess exclaimed, punching the wall. "Where the hell are you?!"
"Wait, Rhiannon?" Dean asked, looking a bit unnerved that Jess left a dent in the wall.
"Sis's full name," Jess said. "I swear if she makes it out of this I'm going to kick her ass!" Jess stormed back into the inner part of the church.
"Did you find Rhee?" the priest asked, Ellen.
"No," Ellen said as she walked in with the boys right behind her.
"With how much she smokes you'd think she'd be easy to find," a man with glasses joked.
"Have some decency man, that's Jess's sister!" the boyfriend of the pregnant woman exclaimed.
"It's okay," Jess said. "She does smoke like a freight train, but she has her reasons."
"I'm sure she does," the man in glasses remarked.
"Who are these guy?" a young man asked.
"This is Sam and Dean," Jess said. "They're hunters, like Ellen and Rufus. Don't worry their here to help."
"Ellen," Dean said. "I thought you would be leading them."
"No," Ellen said. "The Riwitis sisters have been in charge the whole time."
"Who are they?" Sam asked.
"Some girls Rufus met when he came to town," Ellen said. "He said he felt drawn to them."
"Weird," Dean said. The boys looked around and frowned.
"We need to get them out of here," Sam said, nodding to the civilians.
"Easier said than done," Jess said. "We barely got them in here. How'd ya expect to get them out?"
"We could give everyone guns," Sam said.
"What, you're gonna arm baby bump over there?" Dean asked.
"More salt we can fire at once, more demons we can keep at bay," Sam said. Dean gave Sam a look, then looked back to the priest.
"There's a sporting goods store we passed on Main on the way in," Dean said. "I bet they got guns." The boys put their bags down.
"All right," Sam said to Ellen. "You stay, we'll go."
"That includes you," Dean said to Jess as she went to leave with them.
"Like hell!" Jess exclaimed. "I will lead this group in my sister's stead but I will not abandon my sister!"
"Damn stubborn woman!" Dean shouted back. "We'll find your sister."
"I say again, 'Like hell!'" Jess exclaimed.
"Jess," Ellen said. "They are the best hunters in the world. If anyone can find Rufus, your sister and my daughter it's these boys."
"How can I trust these yahoos to find my sister?" Jess asked. "I need to go with them, Ellen."
"What would Rhee tell you to do?" Ellen asked.
"She'd call me an idiot and tell me to stick to what I do best," Jess said with a small laugh. "To leave the search and rescue to the pros."
"Then get up in that roast and don't let a single demon get close to these boys," Ellen said with a smile. Jess nodded and went to the bell tower. "You boys need to forgive her. She and her sister just lost their family, so they are all they have left."
"We can relate," Sam said.
"I know," Ellen said. While upstairs Jess was getting ready to fight for Rhee. She popped a piece of gum into her mouth, and the left ear bud into ear, while the right hung from her shirt. She grabbed her Mp3 and found the perfect song for the mode she was in, (S)aint by Marilyn Manson. She pressed play as Sam and Dean walked out to the sporting goods store.
I don't care if your world is ending today
Because I wasn't invited to it anyway
You said I tasted famous, so I drew you a heart
But now I'm not an artist I'm a fucking work of art
I've got an F and a C and I got a K too
And the only thing that's missing is a bitch like you
She watched as they split up, Sam went into the general store and Dean into the sporting goods store. Sadly she didn't have a good view of the front of the general store but she had a clear view of the sporting goods store, which she shot any demon that got close.
You wanted perfect
You got your perfect
But now I'm too perfect for someone like you
I was a dandy in your ghetto with
A snow white smile and you'll
Never be as perfect whatever you do
Dean came out of the sporting goods store and gave Jess a thumbs up when he saw the dead demons outside. She watched him go into general goods store. She sighed as she waited for them to come out of the store.
What's my name, what's my name?
Hold the S because I am an AINT
What's my name, what's my name?
Hold the S because I am an AINT
Shortly there after, Sam and Dean came out of the general goods store, with bags of salt and guns. She continued to cover them, but luckily no demons attacked. She took a deep breath as she relaxed a bit. She really missed her sister and prayed to every god she could think of, for Rhee's safety.
I am a bone top, a death's head
On a mop stick
You infected me, took diamonds
I took all your shit
Your "sell-by-date" expired,
So you had to be sold
I'm a suffer-genius and
Vivi-sex symbol
You wanted perfect
You got your perfect
But now I'm too perfect for someone like you
I was a dandy in your ghetto with
A snow white smile and you'll
Never be as perfect whatever you do
What's my name, what's my name?
Hold the S because I am an AINT
What's my name, what's my name?
Hold the S because I am an AINT
I've got an "F" and a "C" and I got a "K" too
And the only thing that's missing is "U"
I've got an F and a C and I got a K too
And the only thing that's missing is a bitch like you
I've got an F and a C and I got a K too
And the only thing that's missing is a bitch like you
I am a dandy in the ghetto with a snow white smile
Super-ego bitch, I've been evil awhile
I am a dandy in the ghetto with a snow white smile
Super-ego bitch, I've been evil awhile
What's my name, what's my name?
Hold the S because I am an AINT
What's my name, what's my name?
Hold the S because I am an AINT
What's my name, what's my name?
Hold the S because I am an AINT
What's my name, what's my name?
Hold the S because I am an AINT
"Are you alright, kid?" Ellen asked.
"What do you think?" Jess asked with a hint of anger.
"Wanna talk about it?" Ellen asked.
"Not really," Jess said bluntly.
"I'm here if you need," Ellen said. "Hunting can damage anyone, and Rhee told me what happened before we met you both. So if you need to talk I'm here."
"Thanks, Ellen, but I doubt anyone can help me at this point," Jess said. Ellen shook her head as Jess hugged her rifle, and sighed again. "I'll be here if I'm needed."
"Alright," Ellen said as she walked back to help train the civilians to fire.
"Damn it!" Jess shouted and kicked under the window, cracking the drywall. "Rhiannon Jane! I'm so pissed at you!" She sat down and sighed again. "I guess I'm more angry at me than you, and I'm so happy you can't hear me, right now."
"But I can," Dean said as he came up he stairs.
"Fuck!" she exclaimed.
"Here," he said as he handed her a beer. "We thought you could use it."
"Thanks," she said as she took the beer.
"Don't worry about it," he said, with a shrug. "Ellen and Sammy are going to go look for your sister, Rufus and Jo again."
"I'll cover them," she said as she took a swig of the beer and set it back down. She put her rifle in place. She looked back to see that he was still standing there. "Take a picture it lasts longer."
"Mental picture is best," he said, in a flirty tone. She rolled her eyes as she looked back to the street. She watched as Sam and Ellen entered the street. They both walked without running into anything. Jess sighed when she couldn't see them anymore.
"They are out of view," she said, as she lowered her rifle and picked the beer up to swig it again.
"You handle that rifle like a pro," he said. "Where'd you serve?"
"I didn't," she said. "My grandpa and dad taught me to shoot. Taught us both."
"They serve?"
"Grandpa did. Dad was just a natural with a gun, like me."
"So your sister as good as you?"
"With a pistol." She laughed as she finished off her beer. "She and I would try and see who could get the most head shots on the silhouette targets. With a rifle I always won, but pistols she did. But we both tied on every other weapon."
"Wow, a hot chick with guns. Have to say I'm getting turned on a bit."
"Keep it in your pants. We are still neck deep in demons."
"After?" He winked.
"No promises."
"That wasn't a 'no.'"
"But it wasn't a 'yes.'" She then saw Ellen running back to the church. "Something's wrong." Jess pushed passed Dean and down the stairs. She let Ellen in, as Dean came up behind her.
"Where's Sam?" he asked. Ellen just shook her head as Jess locked up again.
"They took him?" the pregnant woman asked. "Demons took him?" She started to breath erratically. "Oh, my god. What if they're in here? The Demons?"
"Could they get in?" the priest asked.
"No!" both Dean and Jess said firmly. He picked up a shotgun.
"Everybody just sit tight," he said as he turned to the door. "I've got to-" He stopped talking once he touched the doorknob. He looked back to see Jess's eyes on him, while everyone else was looking to her. He couldn't let her down, he didn't know why but he just couldn't. "Okay." He walked back to the table. "We need a plan. Tell me everything you know."
"Dean," Ellen said sounding unnerved. "I think Rhee had a point."
"What'd Rhee say?" Jess asked.
"She told me something's off with the demons," Ellen said.
"'Off?'" Dean asked.
"One of them is in Jo," Ellen explained. "And it called me a 'bitch.'"
"Bruise a little easy, don't you think?" Dean teased.
"No, that's not what I meant. It called me a black-eyed bitch," Ellen said. Dean looked surprised by that. "What kind of demons are these? Holy water and salt roll right off. My daughter may be an idiot, but she's not stupid. She wears an anti-possession charm. It's all kind of weird, right?"
"Unless they aren't demons," Jess said.
"But they have black eyes," Ellen said.
"I know," Jess said as she sat by Ellen at the table. "But if you really think about it. It makes sense. The polluted water, the comet Rhee saw, and the fact that all the usual demon repellent don't work."
"Comet?" Dean asked.
"That's right!" Jess exclaimed. "God damn it Sis!" She shot up and went to her sister's stuff, looking for the bible. "She had this damn thing figured out from the get! Damn it! I'm going to slap that bitch so hard!" Jess pulled the bible out and opened to the marked passage. "'And there fell a great star from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell upon the river, and the name of the star was Wormwood. And many men died.'"
"Revelation eight ten," the priest said. "Are you saying that this is about the apocalypse?"
"The End of Days," Jess said. "War has come to town."
"That cherry mustang parked on Main," Dean said. "That must be his ride."
"Why didn't your sister just tell you?" Ellen asked.
"She's big into riddles or maybe she didn't connect all her dots herself," Jess said with a shrug.
"But War rides on a red horse not a mustang," the priest said.
"It's the 21st century," Jess said.
"It's how I'd roll," Dean said with a smile at Jess.
"But that means," Ellen said. "We've been killing each other not demons." Jess felt her stomach turn at the thought. She had shot more than most. She felt like she was going to be sick.
"Whoa," Dean said as Jess's face turned green. "You alright there?" She shook her head as she stood up quickly and lost her lunch into a nearby waste can. "Ew."
"Wait, back up," the priest said. "It's the apocalypse?"
"Sorry, Padre," Dean said as he walked over to Jess. "It'll be okay."
"So now you're saying that there are no demons and war is a guy," a young man said.
"You believed crazy before," Dean said with a shrug as he rubbed Jess's back. Then someone hammered on the door.
"Open up! It's Roger!" the man with glasses voice came from the other side of the door. The young man checked the peephole and let Roger in. He was breathing hard, as if he'd been running.
"I saw them, the demons!" Roger exclaimed. "They know we're trying to leave. They said they're gonna pick us off one by one."
"Wait wait wait," Dean said as he moved over to stand before Roger. "What?"
"I thought you said there were no demons," the young man said.
"There's not," Dean said. "Where did you go?"
"I thought someone should go out and see what's going on!" Roger exclaimed.
"Where did you see the demons and what did they say exactly?" Dean tried to get the full story from Roger.
"We just sit here, we're going to be dead," the young man said, sounding frightened.
"No, we're not!" Jess shouted as she regained her composure.
"They're gonna kill us unless we kill them first," Roger said.
"Hold on. Hold on," Jess and Dean said at the same time.
"No, man, we got people to protect," the young man said. "All right, the able-bodied go hunt some demons." He passed out shotguns to the able-bodied men.
"Whoa whoa whoa," Dean said. "Slow your roll. This is not a demon thing."
"Come on," Jess said. "You all trusted me before, trust me now!" She watched Roger hold up his right hand and twist his ring, then he pointed to Jess, Dean, and Ellen.
"Look at their eyes!" Roger cried. "They're demons!"
"Awe, Fuck!" Jess exclaimed, as everyone turned the guns on them.
"Go, go!" Dean cried as the three of them turned and booked it out of there. "Move!" Someone shot and missed but barely.
"Fuck!" Jess shouted as they ran.
"You have a fowl mouth," Ellen stated.
"So?" Jess said.
"Rhee didn't cuss near as much," Ellen said.
"That's cause she's not mad," Jess said with a shrug. Ellen looked confused. "When my sister is pissed she cusses as much as me."
"Where did you find Jo and Rufus?" Dean asked.
"In the house with the fire going," Ellen said as she took point. Jess right behind, with Dean following closely behind. Ellen was about to go up to the house.
"Wait," Jess whispered.
"What?" Ellen asked. Jess got beside her and showed them the trip wire she had seen. "Whoa, thanks."
"How'd you know?" Dean asked.
"'Cause it's what I'd do," Jess said. "I have an idea to stay safe and get their attention." Dean gave her an odd look. "I'll show you. Stand back." They stood back and she picked up a rather large rock. She threw it with deadly aim, hitting the trip wire dead on. The bomb blew the front door wide open. "Let's go but keep your eye out for bombs. Dean you go left, I'll go right, Ellen you good with the front door?"
"Yeah," Ellen said. Dean nodded, shocked with himself. He wanted to listen to this skinny little girl, follow her every command.
Jess went to the right of the wrap around porch. She prayed that she would find her sister unharmed. She saw someone walking around and waited for them to turn around before she grabbed them in the neck applying just enough pressure to knock them out. She sighed in relief, she silently thanked her dad for teaching them pressure points. She continued around the porch, finding her way all he way around to Dean and Rufus fighting. "It's War!" Dean exclaimed.
"Damn right it is!" Rufus snapped back.
"He means War the horsemen!" Jess exclaimed. Rufus looked up to see her standing not too faraway with black eyes.
"Horsemen?" Rufus asked her.
"Yes," she said. "He's been turning this town inside out."
"You're hallucinating," Dean said firmly. Rufus looked back to Dean to see the black fade from his eyes, then looked to Jess to watch hers fade too.
"The horsemen," Rufus said in disbelief. "War."
"Yes," Jess and Dean said at the same time.
"So which one of you figured that out," Rufus teased.
"My sister," Jess said, as she helped Rufus off Dean.
"But she's still upstairs," Rufus said helping Dean up.
"She figured it out before being knocked out," Dean said. "Jess just connected the dots." He sounded impressed.
"Let's get back to Ellen," Jess said. Dean nodded. The three of them rush back inside, to have Ellen point a shotgun at Rufus.
"Whoa," Dean said. "Whoa!"
"We're all on the same page now," Jess said.
"All right," Ellen said as she lowered her gun.
"Hi, Jo," Dean said.
"Hey," Jo said.
"Okay," Dean said. "We've got to find War before everyone kills each other-" Suddenly shots fired. The five of them huddle together. "Damn it! Where Rhee and Sam?"
"Upstairs," Rufus said. Dean and Jess ran upstairs into the same room.
"Dean," Sam said, in relief. "It's not demons." Jess found Rhee laying not too faraway from Sam. Dean untied Sam.
"It's War," the three of them said at the same time.
"Why is she still out?" Jess asked Sam.
"War did something to her," Sam said. "He said something about her having too much information."
"Damn it!" Jess said. "You two go, find War and kick his ass for us!" Both boys nodded slowly. They left, leaving Jess alone with Rhee's unconscious form. She sat there in silence for a minute hoping Rhee would just wake but no dice. So she figured it was a good time to spout her feelings, so she closed her eyes and turned around. "I already know what you're going to say. We should join the boys. Saving people, and helping stop this apocalypse. But I don't think I can do that, just yet." Suddenly a set of familiar arms were hugging her.
"It's okay, Sis," Rhee's voice cracked as she spoke. Jess spun around in Rhee's weak hug and tightly embraced her older sister. "It's going to be alright." Jess's grip keep getting tighter, causing Rhee to cough. "Though if you keep squeezing me it won't." Jess let go and laughed. "Let's go."
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Later on, after they gathered their stuff and made sure everyone with wounds were treated, they found Sam and Dean at the park. "So, I was right," Jess said. "You want to join them."
"My knowledge can help people," Rhee said.
"Do you remember what they're talking about?" Jess asked. Rhee nodded but looked sad.
"Sam can't trust himself to hunt," Rhee explained. "So he's going to leave Dean." Jess looked down and away from Rhee. "You sure you don't want to hunt?"
"I killed people," Jess said. "Innocent people."
"You were only doing what you thought was right," Rhee said.
"I didn't see after season 4," Jess said. "And it was so long ago that I don't remember much."
"I know," Rhee said.
"Is their life always like this?" Jess asked.
"No," Rhee said. "Some times it's worse."
"Worse than murdering human?!" Jess nearly shouted as she turned to look back at Rhee.
"Shorty," Rhee said, her voice full of love and concern.
"No!" Jess shouted. "I won't take part in that!" Rhee looked down and away.
"I have to help where I can," Rhee said. "But I won't drag you into hell with me." She gathered her stuff from the car, including her swords. She left Jess's rifle. "See ya 'round, Shorty." She never even looked back as she walked over to Dean as Sam walked away from Dean.
Jess watched her sister walk away with a heavy heart. She wondered if this is how Dean felt as he watched Sam walk away. Or maybe how Sam felt walking away. She sighed, maybe if she stuck close to Sam she could see Rhee again. "Sam!" Jess called out. "I'll take ya, wherever you wanna go."
"Are you sure?" Sam asked.
"Positive," she replied.
"What about your sister?" he asked as he pointed back to Rhee's retreating form.
"She is going to try and join Dean," Jess said. "She wants to hunt."
"She's choosing to hunt?" he asked genuinely confused.
"She wants to use her knowledge to help people," she said. "Which I get, but I just wish there was a less dangerous way."
"Dean will be with her," Sam said. "He'll do his best to keep her safe."
"He is part of what I'm worried about," she said. "Come on." She got into her car.