Chapter 1
Author's Note: Wow! I actually posted something. This is weird. This is a step for me. I don't own any of the characters or the show. Only the episode-specific characters are mine. This is based off the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Please comment with constructive criticism. Thanks!
The woman paces the room, pausing occasionally to tear at the wallpaper. Her nails are scabbed and bloodied from catching on the dry wall beneath. Her eyes search the walls for something that may or may not be there. Loud knocks erupt on the door. The pounding at the door is not as loud as the pounding in her head.
"Open the door Alice. Don't make me break it down!" A gruff voice demands.
"Please, Alice, we're here to help," a softer voice than the first.
The voice sounds sincere, but She told Alice they would lie. As if moved by an instinctual force deep inside, Alice's eyes flit to the window. It is still barred. She knows she can't leave, the woman in the wallpaper needs her. Still, it would comfort Alice to know there is another way out.
Alice rips at the wallpaper once more. That atrocious, hideous wallpaper. Alice sees the bars amongst the bulging eyes and lolling tongues in that god awful pattern giving way as her nails dig into the plaster behind once more. Her nail beds bleed. It doesn't matter, She is free now. Alice stumbles back as she rips the final sheet free.
" Thank you, Alice." She whispers in a voice neither male nor female.
Alice stands transfixed as the being before her advances and places a cool hand on Alice's forehead. No, not cool. Searing hot, as if a white hot poker is taken from the fire and wiped across Alice's head.
Alice begins to decay. It starts slowly, gaining momentum and speed. She ages, her already sickly skin becomes more and more palid. Her hair grows long, and gray. it falls out in clumps. Alice crumbles, nothing more than a pile of dust to be scattered by the wind.
A large crash echoes from behind as the thick oak door is kicked in. Sam jolts awake as the chorus of "Enter Sandman" by Metallica begins.
" You ok?" Dean asks, glancing over.
" Yeah, its just… I know where we need to go next."