Chapter 1 purgatory
The cut was deep.
I sat there shaking.
It was freezing.
Attempting to try and stop the bleeding by holding down on the wound, I felt the blood running though my fingertips. I don't even know how long I've been here, with my thought elsewhere, the agonising pain coming from my head, not remembering how or where it all happened. However, I do know that it smelt like the rotting flesh pulled out of the burning fires of Hell.
Looking around, feeling the cold stone floor in the darkness. I came across a pair of . . . glasses? But I don't wear glasses, so who's were they? I carried on searching, hand fumbling over the little chips of concrete here and there, turning my direction in hoping to find a wall or something to discover some kind of an escape, a door, perhaps? Even a light would help.
Struggling to breathe in panic of unfamiliarity, I could feel . . . sticks? Moving my hand up the rough material, I thought otherwise. I was holding a . . . skeleton's hand? It sure seemed it, or at least it felt similar to what it would feel like.
There was silence until I heard a groan come from in front of me, what seemed like a little over a metre away. My throat was too dry to speak, so my only option was to wait till it made another noise so I can follow the sound.
Lying on the cold floor uncomfortably, I started thinking of my past to try and figure out how this happened but I couldn't think straight; there was another noise. It sounded like moaning.
Someone else was here.
As I tried to move forward, I felt fear. Putting my arms in front of me to pull myself up, I screamed as I touch my leg: one was badly injured and I suspected the other was broken. All I could think about was the pain of my body and now my throat.
Screaming came to be a good thing as the groaning person finally spoke.
'Hi, okay, hang on. I will come to you.'
It was a man and I felt like he knew the situation and how to deal with it. How are we going to get out of here? Is he going to help me? Can I possibly trust him? It didn't seem that I had a lot of choice.
Maybe he has answers to my questions and maybe he knows an escape route. I could hear his breathing now as he shifted towards me. My heart was beating faster than an alarm clock at 5am.
'You alright? Take this.' He came and I could hear him sit down next to me and he managed to place what I recognised as a flask into my hand. I drink half, thankful that my throat was moist at last.
'Thanks,' I say as I pass the flask back to him.
'At night it gets a bit chilly in here,' he chuckled.
'Well, we better get some light in here. It's the only heat we can get,' he says and he moved to get up.
'You're treating this like you live here.'
He stopped moving. 'I kind of do live here, really, but now you're here we can all get out,' he laughed.
'What did you do to get here?' I questioned
'The question is "what is a sweet girl like you doing in here and asking so many damn questions?" '
We chuckled.
"Alright, I've found the lights," he announced.
With the click of the switch, the room lit up. He stood tall, with a limp, next to a metal door. He wore jeans which had rips and mud on them, but he didn't wear a shirt which I was pretty happy about, though he had scars all over his front.
I must have looked such a mess covered in blood and filth, because he said,
"You okay? Here let me help you." He lifted me up bridal style and I swore to myself I would not scream in pain. However, my eyes still managed to well up.
He put me down on an old jail-like single bed in the corner of the room, and in seeing my pain, he walked over to an old worn out wooden closet and opened to get a shirt, which he began to rip into strips.
"Okay, hold on," he said calmly as he wrapped the strip around my head. Trying to focus on anything other than the pain, I look at his deep green eyes and his short hair brown. He finished wrapping the material round me and then grabbed a chair and placed it by the bed that I was lying on. There were two beds, one near the door and the other in the corner.
We spoke a little small talk he said his name was Dean and I spoke of mine which was Maxine. Soon enough, we heard a knock at the door; it was in a little rhythm. Dean got up, holding his thigh and he went towards a box.
"Beer? Really?" I questioned, shocked.
"Yeah, its sorta like beer, it came with a guy but he won't mind," he said, grinning at me then back to the box.
"Door's open" he shouted. "Like it has a lock," he muttered to himself.
The door swung open and a tall man stepped in and Dean threw a beer at the figure and he caught it.
Before I could ask who the guy was, Dean turned to me.
"Don't freak out he's one of us . . . ish . . ."
"Really, he's a vampire and you're a human and you're drinking a vampire's drink so I'm gathering he's okay," I chuckled sarcastically.
Dean and the other guy exchanged glances.
"I'm Benny, but why are you here? You're human."
"I chose to come here." I stated matter-of-factly. Dean and Benny looked at each other and both knew that this was trouble
I got up slowly, even though Dean warned me not to get up, but I couldn't help it; I had a gut feeling I needed to leave, quickly.
"What's the last thing you remember?" Dean asked, whilst both men sat around the bed I laid on.
"I'm not sure," I said, trying to remember.
Then it hit me.
"The last thing I remember is . . . that my house was broken into and then my dad came rushing in to mine and my two big brothers' room. Dad told me and my brothers to lock ourselves in the bathroom, but then the people found us. I remembered screams . . . and then I blacked out. That's the last thing I can remember."
"Okay, anything else 'bout your family?"
"My dad and brothers tried to hide it from me and thinking now. . ." I paused for a moment.
"I know why I'm here."
Dean and Benny looked eager for me to continue, but there were screams and growls coming from outside. We all turned to the door
"Okay" Dean said, knowing he had to explain everything.
"We're in a place called Purgatory and outside there are over a hundred creatures. Now do you know anything 'bout this?"
"PURGATORY" I panicked but calmed quickly
"Yes I know, most of my family are hunters. I read a lot of their books, so, yes, I know about Purgatory and the vampires, leviathans and other demons out there and crap, and that just puts me in more shit."
"It's going to be fine, cause you knowing all that crap helps us so much to get out here and survive."
Benny decided to chip in.
"She has a broken leg, both actually."
"Thank you I would never have realised that," Dean said sarcastically.
"Right, so it sounds like we better get a move on," Dean said joyfully, trying to diffuse the fear in all of them, and as we all knew what lie ahead.
Benny shook his head at Dean.
"Well, what do you think we should do."
"I think we should stay here till she gets a bit better, then we head out at light."
Therefore, we rested down for the night talking about how and what our lives were like before, Dean spoke of a family who have lost and loved and that he only has a younger brother Sam, who was different to him and his father; Sam dreamed of an actual boys life and he went to college in California. He had a girlfriend that died a while back, by the same demon that killed their mum, and that's how he got sucked back into hunting.
"I'm sorry about your mum." I said continuing
"No! I just had a flash-back … I know what killed my family and I sorta know how I got here."
"Go ahead." Benny nodded
"Have you ever heard of a leviathan?"
"Yeah, I blasted one and landed here." Dean said
"Oh . . . "
I passed out and didn't wake till the next day, but when that came it was no different, just a little bit lighter.
I thought to myself 'waking up to the sweet sound of screaming, wonderful.' As soon as I thought it I realised it had slipped out.
Benny and Dean both looked at me in the same way.
"Sarcastic" I announced as I sat up, falling straight back down. Then I remembered more, but this time I awoke in tears.
"My whole family's dead . . . because of me"
Dean brows rose. "Hey, hey, let's not jump to conclusions."
"Dean what if I belong here, like, what if this is my punishment?"
"Guys, we gotta go." Benny's impatient, listening to the surroundings, while I and Dean were ignoring him.
"No one like you belongs here, okay? Now, we are going to get out of here today."
"What have I got to go back to?"
"Hey, can you two finish your chick-flick moment." Benny said
We stop to look at Benny.
"He's right, we have to go or they will find us and beg to God you don't want that."
Dean picks me up again and Benny gathers what we'll need into a bag of knives and guns made out of materials in purgatory.
We start by walking hastily though trees and thorn bushes.
"We need to get to an angel. Cass," Dean states.
Benny turns to Dean in disgust.
"No, I'm sorry, but I'm not finding a damn angel. We already have her; we don't need an angel as well."
"I don't care. I came here with him I'm leaving with him," Dean retorted.
Benny sighed.
"The only way we can get outta here, there's no room for an angel."
"I'm gonna find him." Dean was getting angry
Before Benny could retaliate, Dean shouted,
"I'm not leaving him, okay!"
The whole forest went silent, the screams and cries diminished. We all look around, knowing what lies ahead, waiting to strike.
"Okay," Benny accepted. "Give her this," he handed Dean a knife, "and she will have to fight."
"She can't –"
"Don't you think I taught myself how to fight?" I piped up.
"I've been surrounded by hunters all my life." I didn't want to be a burden, but I also knew this isn't as easy as I make it sound.
"Fine," Dean said, "but stay behind me."
I nodded, knowing that the things out there are going to be hard to kill, especially with a broken leg.
The sound of dead sticks cracking and dead leaves
breaking all around sent horror to us all. Five leviathans formed in front of me.
Dean and Benny turn, ready to fight, but they didn't; they just stood there looking at me with blank expressions plastered over their faces.
A moment or two later, a women stepped forwards, she looked at Benny and Dean with a grin then straight at me with the look that a man gives when he finds gold.
"So, you are the girl that has the magic?" she said, half laughing.
My brows furrowed. "What?"
Her head cocked to the side, face spreading in an ear-to-ear grin.
"Didn't poor daddy tell his little angel?"
"Tell me what?"
She walked closer with a smirk on her face. I want to punch the thing off, but I also want to know what she means.
"But if I remember clearly, you weren't always daddy's little girl. You're the girl he never wanted, the trouble that wouldn't leave."
"Is this the part where I rip your head off?"
She laughed.
As she stood a mere six foot away from me, she looked strange, with no grin. It was shock.
"Where is it? Where did you put it?" she raged
"What are you talking about?"
"The necklace."
Thinking of any necklace I had
'What, the blue one?' I responded.
"Yes" she said through gritted teeth.
"Oh, yeah . . . that one." shocked to her actually wanting my necklace
"Yes, that one, you little whore."
"Hey, do you really want to be saying things like that when I know where the necklace is?"
The next blink I had, she was holding my neck and I was dangling off the ground.
Opening my eyes, I see she also had Benny's knife held at her neck. 'Put her down now, Danielle,' he commanded.
She looked at him with eyes of hatred and disgust and he looked back in the same way.
"Why do you care? I've heard a lot about you, not caring about anyone or anything except yourself" She paused
"but then there's Dean Winchester . . ." she said looking head to foot at Dean
However, she did put me down, although not so carefully, and I screamed as the pain seared up my legs.
"I have broken legs, bitch," I scorn.
"Sorry, I'll be careful next time . . . now just tell me where the necklace is." One of the men from behind her, whispered in her ear.
"Now, get them." She ordered
The men instantly ran towards Dean and Benny and left me for two other men, who grab both my arms and drag me towards Danielle.
"Now, you're going to tell me where the necklace is and you are going to take me there."
"That's a real shame 'cause I would love to get to know you better, but it's on earth." I said sarcastically
"Don't you worry. I have a way of getting both of us back." She laughed with a grin again.
"Dean?" I turned to see both the hunter and Benny still fighting, but struggling.
We carried on walking, but a sudden stop came upon us, five or so vampires were surrounding us.
"Shit," she cursed, looked at the men holding me.
"Well… deal with them." The two men sat me by a tree.
"Well, hand me a knife." I ordered, trying to persuade them. One of the men took out his knife, but Danielle shouted back at him.
"What are you doing giving her a bloody knife?"
"It's not bloody yet," I corrected her with a grin on my face.
"Just get on with it or do I have to do it myself." Danielle said with an angry tone. The two men headed out towards the vampires with knifes and stakes.
Danielle walked up to me with a knife in her hand. As she struggles to get a grip of my arm, which was dripping with blood from my head, I screamed at her, telling her to let me go, telling her that I didn't know where the necklace was and that I would never be able to find it but she still carried on then suddenly she had hold of my arm and lade the knife over it and slit my arm as I screamed,
"Be a good little princess now" she said cutting her own arm
she gave me a handshake but held tight with her holding my wrist and I holding hers but then an
excruciating pain came flying through my arm over my body, I nearly fainted from the pain but couldn't hold on, closing my eyes it happened all of a sudden, I didn't know how I done it, but I did.
Dean and Benny came running round the corner. Dean runs up to me to pick me up off the floor while Benny jogs over to Danielle lying on the floor as well.
"Maxine, what the hell happened here?" questioned Benny.
"I'm not quite sure," I said, confused and scared. What had I done?
With Dean picking me up again, he barely struggled to lift me off the ground. Walking to the nearest tree to sit and rest didn't sound like a bad idea while Benny drags Danielle from her arms over towards the tree we were heading to.
We sat there for a while with little speech, though, with every growl and howl we all hushed and became alert of our surroundings.
Falling asleep with my head on Deans shoulder, I awoke with a shock
"I know what I've done, I should have remembered"
Dean and Benny looking at me for an explanation,
"Ok when I was little I used to get out the house while they were out hunting and my mother was at work, I met up with my best mate and we would have a race to the park but I always won, then one-day a group of shit-heads came over and started pushing and kicking us then they split us up, all I could hear was mike crying, then I closed my eyes and it was silent the next time I opened my eyes I saw my father and brothers running up to me and then he took me home"
Both stared at me with shock
"I did not expect that" Dean said trying to break the silence with a chuckle
"Wow, I guess it's the only explanation for it" Benny thinking to himself
"What is" I was shaking with fear as in two seconds I will know the thing that my father did not tell me all my life and the reason the she-devil wanted me and the necklace, am I ready to know? Can I even handle what he will say?
So many questions having their own mini stampede in my mind,
Benny looking at Danielle he started speaking
'This explains everything, did you have the necklace on you when the shit-heads attacked you?' Benny questioned
"Yes my dad told me to have it on me at all time no matter what, but what does it do to make Danielle want it so bad"
"This is only a guess but I think it's a weapon, I heard of this kind of stuff when I was in my gang, they told me everything I should watch out for and this came up"
Before he could say more I jumped in
"What did they say about it"
"Its a curse put on children who are born to cause trouble, you know when they say that everyone's born for a reason, well these kids are born to cause deep trouble and when they get in trouble with anything supernatural well they kind turn into a bomb killing any demons, lithiathans and vampires in their path"
My eyes filled with tears and my heart with doubt and fear.
"So are you 100% that she's got this"
"Its the only explanation, I'm sorry"
I couldn't speak, my throat was not dry, I just couldn't speak I was frozen.
When I eventually found my voice I said
"Okay, let's just get out of here then we can worry about this once we're back at earth"
We all nodded and agreed
As again Dean picked me up bridal style and Benny holding the bag, we set out on angel hunt hoping again not to be stopped.
When morning settled above the oak trees, still leaving the ground in darkness, I hoped soon we would be out of here but as soon as I thought that I remembered what I had coming to me when I went back, every time I thought of this a few tears came to my eye.
Being lifted though the forest, feeling like a burden, like I was holding them back and I was the one who would get them killed but then the slight reminder from Benny looking behind at us with the worst look,
"What do you think will happen when we find this angel" Bobby said
"We will find the portal to get outta this place"
"She's broken, right and she has a cures" Benny pointing the obverse out
"Yeah"
"You can't get the angel back in a broken curesed body"
I felt Deans heart drop from his chest as Benny explained, I even swore I saw a tear drop from his cheek.
"Dean I've gotta ask, why do you wanna save him when he left you, in purgatory"
"He had a good reason to and I owe him"
At that moment I thought Dean would drop me and leave me in this place alone but then something else happened
Benny! I shouted as he got drew up into the trees, a thud as I dropped, turning around I saw that Dean was attacked from behind so he had no choice but to drop me, as I turned my head again I saw Benny back to purgatory floor with a body at his feet he started to help Dean fight off the... Vampires I acknowledge as one was close to ripping Deans throat out I had to do something, I looked around but there was nothing luckily Dean threw his dagger towards me I leaped across not careing about the pain I swung below the knee it was the best I could do, as Dean stood back up I threw the dagger and he caught it and sliced off the head of the vampire.
But there was too many, after one was dead another came, five vampires came running up to me
"Shit shit shit" I cursed, trying to find something to defend myself with, I had nothing I knew I was done for but it was unexpected when they didn't attack me.
One came right up to my face
"We've got you now"
I had never seen him before, I was officially terrified. I knew I couldn't use 'my cures' as Dean and Benny was there, In my panic I heard someone shout
"No" it wasn't Dean and it wasn't Benny, I tried to look through the vampires as they stood infront of the figure.
The pain from my leg got to me, it was to much to handle I fainted.
Awoken with a familiar voice I bounced up but still sitting,
"Michael" it was my big brother Mickey (for short), Mickey had brown short hair quite like Deans with brown eyes and a little smaller then Dean, thinking about it now Mickey is like Dean with the big brother strength and caring,
"Are you ok, did they hurt you"
"No I'm fine my leg's broken, I thought you was dead, uh is everyone else dead"
Mickey walking up to Dean asking him
"Who are you, have you done this to my sister, if you touched her"Mickey threatening Dean
"No Mickey MICKEY" I shouted "They saved me"
"No I saved you, I didn't know I left you with two perverts"
"Hey we are not perverts at all ok" Dean chipping in
"What do you mean you saved me"
"I left you at that cabin and I protected it and I was always one step ahead of
you"mickey explained
"You saved me"
"Yeah but we can get outta here and I'll look after you like always, but I guess you being here means you don't really need much looking after" trying to lighten the mood
"Dean, Benny this is my big brother Mickey and Mickey this Dean and Benny, Bennys a nice vampire so please guys stay cool" introducing everyone
"Right, but Max we really need to go now" mickey erudge
"They're getting out too"
"I'm not leaving Dean...and Benny" I said as Benny rolled his eyes
"They're getting an angel first" I explained
"Angel"
"His names Cass, Castiel you may've heard of him" Said Dean
"Cass, what about knowing the guy"Mickey laughed
"let's get going and you can tell me on the way"Dean said interested
"Wait big thang guy, are you okay with us getting an angel especially Cass"
"No" Benny said giving Dean a disgusted look again.
We carried on walking but my brother carrying me this time
"How did you survive, I saw everyone die" my chin started trembling as I held my cry back
"I can't explain it properly but it's only you and me now okay but we will be fine as long as I look after you"
I let go tears came rushing down my cheek but there was no wine, just tears,
"Michael, did you know about Maxines cures" Benny asked
Saying yes as he tried to avoid eye contact but as soon as he looked with guilt
"I couldn't tell you, dad was going to tell you after the attack of your friend"
"it wasn't an attack, I killed him"
"And that's exactly why, you were so depressed after that he couldn't tell you"
With a nod, the silence was back.
Still tears coming down, I wiped them off trying not to let my brother see my pain.
Hearing water to the west, I alerted the others, we started walking, with the water becoming more clear, we only had one corner to go, and we took it.
"Cass" Dean cheered with a hug to a figure,
Cass was tall with black hair
And beautiful blue eyes but he was dirty just like us with casual clothes
"So this is the angel"
"How did you find me, Dean, you need to go now"
"Why did you bale on Dean"
"I ran away, I had to"
"You ran away, that's your excuse... I prayed to you Cass every night"
"I'm an angel in the land of abomination there have been things hunting me from the moment arrived, their not just monsters their laviathen I have a price on my head, I've been trying to stay one step ahead of them to... Keep them away from you, that's why I ran"
"Just Leave me please" Cass begs
"Cass We're getting outta here, We're going home"
"We got a way of getting out Benny tell him"
"Purgatory has an escape hatch but I got no idea if it's angel proff"
"I need you" Dean pleeds
"I'm not leaving here without you do you understand"
"I understand"
With us staying out of the reunion I thought I should chip in
"Guys we really better get outta here as Cass said laviathens are gonna he after us"
"Who's the girl"
"She's a girl that wants to get outta here" Dean still trying to leave
"Cass"
"Michael, wheres your father and your sister"
"She's my sister and they're all dead"
"Oh I'm sorry but you two really have to get out of here let's go"
Dean waved his hands to the sides as we all left on Casses call
As soon as we head out again with Cass, we were ambushed by 4 laviathens.
My brother had no choice but to put me down, as he did a laviathen (who was already knocked down) bit his leg
"No" I kicked at the beastes face
"I'm okay" getting his weapon out to kill.
Watching them fight ans doing nothing Killed me inside, they were all dead.
Before mickey could pick me up I said
"Mickey, how did you servive, I saw EVERYONE be killed by the laviathens"
"After they saw that you were not there, they captured me and tried to find out where you were but I didn't know either, but I blasted one and I ended up here, so you not being there is the reason I'm alive"
With a smile on my face
"I love you Mickey"
"I will always love you even if you get into trouble"
With a laugh that ended so sudden as sticks cracked around us we knew we had company, but this time it was more much more thundering to the ground like lightening and from now we could see the sparkling light blue portal and only one thing stopping us.
Mickey leaned me up to some rocks to put me down and the others guarding us.
He joined them.
I'd never seen him fight, not like this anyway, he had never killed so many.
Three laviathen attacking Cass with kicks and punches, six attacking Benny, Dean and Mickey but they looked more like the three muskerteers,
We ran as fast as we could towards the portal with my brother doing his very best not to drop me while he runs but then she came back, we thought she would never well we all hoped,
"Hello children"
"Aww Mickey long time no see"
"You know her"Mickey passing me to Dean
"Take care of her"
"What no"
With one leap off the rock shouting
"You killed my family"
With anothe laviathen throwing her a sword made out of bone, their weapons clash, with a few clashes of the swords, they were together, as were their faces she spoke to him and he spoke back but I couldn't hear it then she pulled back with a kiss and put the sword infront right into my brother.
I screamed.
Dean pulling me back in to the portal
"No, you murder, no, I will kill you" with tears running down my face, dean through me back into the portal as he tried to help Cass get in aswell.
"Cass come on, we can't lose you as well"
"You need to look after her, Dean Dean Deann"
"No" Dean screamed