It's Not Suppose To Go Like This
Chapter 1
Missing
Kalika had been working with Reid as an Agent of the Special Technologies Department for the last month and so far she hadn't found a sure clad way to get Dean and Sam out from under their legal problems. But Gab had contacted her and let her know that there was something new brewing.
She had been reading over the latest file Reid had given her, it was a simple possession, when a strong breeze blew across her flat, scattering the files to the floor.
Kalika cursed slightly, raised her head knowing already who would be standing there. "Hello Gab. You got something new for me."
Gabriel stood about five foot two, pale white hair cut close to his scalp. He always wore a dark suit and normally had a cigarette or cigar in his hand. Happily for Kalika he had neither of the latter. The look on his face said it all; this was not a going to be a good visit. "Kali you've been with the STD for three months and so far you have nothing new for the Winchesters. My bosses are starting to think you should pull yourself out and get back to what you do best."
Kalika picked up the files from the floor but didn't look up at Gab. He was right. The past three months had done very little in her quest to help Sam and Dean. All that she had accomplished was finding out about the Special Technologies Department, a branch of the FBI that dealt only with the supernatural aspects of the law. Granted Gab's bosses had been ecstatic to learn there was a branch trying to help in the fight. "You're right Gab and so are your bosses."
Gab was speachless; he had been so sure Kalika would fight him on this on, "You mean you'll pull yourself off this, without me having to fight you on it."
Kalika looked up and smiled at him, "No that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying you are right that I haven't found anything that could help them but that doesn't mean I'll stop trying. So long as those two are out there fighting, then I'll doing my damnedest trying to help them."
Gab smiled at her, "That is what I was hoping to hear and what they thought you would say. This brings me to my next part." Kalika cocked her head to the side. "My bosses want to make an amendment to your conditions on helping the Winchester boys. Rather then forbidding you from using your abilities to help them, it has been decided to lift that particular ban."
Now it was Kalika's turn to be stunned, "You mean I can use my hindsight to help them?" Kalika had the unique ability, if she concentrated in a spot hard enough she could see what had gone on there. Kind of like hitting the rewind button on the DVD player. She stood up, "There's something you're not telling me?"
Gab looked nonchalantly out Kalika's bay window, "Let's just say that there have been a few unforeseen developments and as it turns out you and your friend Reid will come in handy where you are."
Kalika didn't like the sound of that. She hated it when Gab tried to be all-cryptic. "I take it that you aren't going to be telling what those developments are?"
Gab gave her a blank look, "I'll take that as I'm right." She sighed then turned back to her file. "So this means I can use my abilities to get what I want to do?" She didn't wait for an answer, because right then her cell phone started ringing.
She picked it up, "Hello Reid, what do you need?" Reid has been with the Special Technologies Department for a few years and it was he who offered Kalika the job to partner up.
"You know I hate it when you do that."
She smiled, "Hey you do that to me all the time." Reid could also read minds
There was a pause, "True. Hope you didn't have plans for the next few weeks. I just got a call from the boss. There's been a missing person filed and they seem to think its right up our alley."
Kalika looked back to Gab who was still watching her, "You knew I would be getting this call, didn't you?"
Gab nodded but said, "Nope had no clue what-so-ever."
"Is someone there with you Kali? I thought I heard a guy's voice."
Kalika turned her attention back to the phone, "Why Reid, jealous?" She could hear him laugh at her.
"Not likely."
"Good then come over and pick me up. We can talk more about the case." She snapped the phone shut, crossed her arms and faced Gab. "This case has something to do with the Winchesters?"
Gab said nothing, gave her a mock bow, "Happy hunting Kali." The wind picked up and Gab was gone.
Reid arrived at Kalika's apartment twenty minutes later. She was packed and ready to go.
"That's all your taking?" Reid asked eyes the single dark purple case on wheels. Kalika nodded and Reid sighed, taking the case. "If you say so." He tossed the case in the trunk and they both climbed in.
"So where are we going to?" Kalika asked fastening her seat belt.
"Crystal Lake, Connecticut. A guy down there filed a missing persons report on his sister." Reid handed Kalika the file and she read it out loud.
"Hazel Tolman, reported missing by her brother Max last week. He states he hadn't heard from her in three days. Went to her collage dorm and roommate says she hadn't seen her in two days." Kalika shut the file. "So why do the bosses think this is one of ours?"
"They didn't say. They just thought we should look into it."
Kalika rolled her eyes, "Guess Gab's bosses aren't the only ones who like to be cryptic," she muttered to herself.
"You know one of these days you are going to have to introduce me to this Gab. You talk about him so little but he seems to be taking up a lot of your mind."
"Hey! Stay out of my head. I've told you, you could get lost in there and it's not tidy right now."
The drive to Connecticut was uneventful. They pulled into the Tolman drive, which was nothing more then a dirt rode. The house sat back from the main rode and was about fifteen miles from the town. It was nice and secluded but Kalika loved the view.
As Kalika got out of the car a white blur came bounding out the front door. Kalika knelt down and a white boxer sniffed and licked her hand.
"Annie!" a male voice yelled and Kalika looked up. "Get your butt back in the house!" A young man, with sandy colored hair and a haggard look to his face was standing with the screen door open. The dog left Kalika while Reid got out of the car.
"Glad to see dogs don't scare you," Kalika joked with him. He just rolled his eyes at her.
They followed the dog up to the front door and Kalika held out her hand to the young man, "You must be Max, I'm agent Moore and this is agent Reid."
Max took her hand and nodded. "Hi," was all he said. Kalika studied him for a moment and could tell he looked the worse for wear. "Can we come inside?" she asked nodding towards the front door.
Max held it open and they both stepped in. The living room held pictures of Max and pretty blonde girl all over the place. Kalika picked up one of them and turned it to Max, "I take it this is your sister?" she asked him as he sat down with Annie by his feet.
Max nodded, "Yea that was taken this summer. Look I'm not sure what more I can tell you guys. I hadn't heard from Hazel in three days, I couldn't get her on her cell and when I would call her dorm all I would get was the answering machine."
Reid took out a pad and pencil, "So that's unusual for your sister, to be out of touch with you for a few days?"
Max nodded, "Hazel and I are really close. Our parents would often leave us to go on trips and such. We pretty much had to entertain ourselves. We swore that wouldn't change when she went off to collage. And it didn't. Hazel would call me every couple days or I would call her." He hung his head, "This is killing me not knowing where she is, if she's alright."
Kalika could that this guy was really torn up about his sister. She looked over at Reid and he nodded at her, confirming her thoughts. "Well Max this had been really helpful." She and Reid stood. "Well let you know the moment we find out anything about Hazel." She shook his hand and she could tell he didn't believe a thing she told him.
"Max don't worry," Reid told him as he shook his hand. "Moore and I will do everything in our power to find your sister and bring her home. We'll keep you informed, you have my word."
"Max is really worried about Hazel. He doesn't think we are taking this case seriously or that we'll be able to help. Also that dog is a little creepy. She kept looking at me and I swear she was having coherent thoughts. I kept getting phrases off of her."
Kalika chuckled, "So you can talk to the animals, Dr. Doolittle?"
Reid glared over at her, "No smart ass. But like I said that dog was creepy."
"Alright so what phrases were you getting?" Kalika asked him once her giggles had stopped.
"Something like she couldn't believe the boy hadn't told the tall one yet. Like I said creepy.
Kalika was quiet on the ride back into town. Her mind was racing. Why had both Reid's and Gab's bosses sent them to investigate a simple disappearance. She didn't know about Reid's but when Gab's bosses sent her somewhere there was always something supernatural about it. Added to the fact that Gab had it sounding like this case involved the Winchester boys it was puzzling to her.
"Reid, drop me off at the library?"
"Why?"
"While I may not know how your bosses work I have a good idea on how Gab's bosses work. I need to look back and see if there is or has been anything odd that's happened in this town."
Reid shrugged, "Alright."
He dropped her off at the library but gave her the key to her hotel room, "You really think this is our kind of gig?"
She just looked at him; "I'll take that as a yes. See you back at the hotel."
Max closed the door after the FBI agents left, turned away from it and slumped down. If the FBI was getting involved, Max knew this was bad. He hung his head on his arms and could feel his eyes starting to sting. Annie's cold muzzle caused him to look up. She was seated in front of him. Just sitting there. He petted her, "I know, you miss her too."
He stood back up, headed down the hall to her room, opened the door and leaned against the jam.
"Come on Hazel," Max whined. "School doesn't start for another week. You can wait that long."
Hazel stopped packing and looked at her younger brother towering over her. "Oh come off it Max, it's not like I won't be calling you ALL the time. Besides I still have to settle in and all that good stuff." She tossed her cell phone charger in her bag.
"Yea but you've been feeling sick lately and…"
Hazel interrupted him, "I'm feeling better. Besides when I have ever let a little upset stomach get in my way." She zipped up her bag, left it on her bed then went to her brother. "Look I'll call you when I get there, I'll call you when I'm eating, heck I'll call you when I'm on the john for peat sake."
Max wrapped his arms around his sister, "Fine but please don't let me know when you're on the toilet."
"Deal."
Max closed his eyes. That had been a month before she had gone missing. The room still smelled like her and he entered it and sat on the just knew that she was in trouble but he felt like there was nothing he could do. He fell onto her bed and looked up at the ceiling. His parents were still in Rome, Have been since right before school started. He didn't have it in him to call and tell them. The cops had said they would do that for him, but he had told them he would take care of it. This wasn't something parents should hear about from the authorities. He rolled over and his eyes fell on a scrape piece of paper held down by a picture frame.
Max pulled it out and saw a number scribbled on it, with Sam's Cell written next to it in Hazel's handwriting. He thought back to when they had been here over the summer. He and Dean had fixed the Impala after the fuel line had busted. Oh yea they had also stopped a Wampus Cat from killing Hazel. He scooted off the bed and headed for the living room.
He found the phone and dialed the number. He hung up before it began to ring. "What can they do? It's not like it's something they deal with?" Max looked down at the paper and saw Annie sitting on her hunches looking up at him. He sighed then hit redial.
"Hello?"
"Umm… Hi Sam? It's Max. You meet my sister and me over the summer?" Max wasn't sure what to say.
"Oh hey Max," Sam's voice sounded happy to hear from him but Max was dreading to tell him the reason for the call. "So how are you and Hazel doing?"
Max sighed again and sat on the couch, "Sam that's why I'm calling. I'm hoping you can come down here and help with something. You see Hazel's missing. I've filed a missing person's report and the cops say they are doing all they can, but I'm hoping that you and Dean can come out here and help me find her, I know it might not be something you guys do but I could really use the help, I feel useless and I can't just sit here and do nothing." All this tumbled out of him and he stopped for a moment to take a breath.
There was silence on the other end and Max could hear a female voice asking, "Sam, what's wrong?" There was a little shuffling noise and then the female voice came on the line.
"Hello this is Railean. What's going on?"
Max was a little ticked. Here he was asking if Sam could help him find his sister when he seemed to have moved on from her.
"Look I'm sorry that I bothered you and your boyfriend."
"Brother," the girl corrected.
"Excuse me?"
"Look Sam's my brother and right now he is sitting on the edge of the bed in total shock. What did you just tell him?"
Max was relieved, "Hazel, my sister, is missing. I was hoping he and Dean could come out here and help me find her. Please I don't know what else to do."
Max could tell the phone was being cover because the voices were muffled, but Railean came back on the line, "Max is it? We'll be on our way in the morning."
She hung up and Max did the same. Annie was still sitting beside him but now she looked incredible pleased with her self. "Help's on the way girl."
