Breaking The Deal Has Costs
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CHAPTER 02
Previously: There was a problem though Dean also wanted to get out of here faster then he ever wanted to get out of anywhere even jail. In fact, he could only remember once in his life, a place that made him feel like this before and when the memory hit him, he was almost willing to drag Sam out to the Impala and leave then and there but looking at Sam he couldn't not that he did not try to accidentally wake him up but there was no chance. Sam was out, and the only comfort that Dean had as he double salted the doors and windows and made sure he had not one but two guns loaded with silver bullets ready was that Sam looked better, the dark rings where fading and hopefully by morning he would wake and they could get out of here. Hunt or no Hunt if Dean was right about his feeling, he had to get away and quickly, but how to tell his brother. Dean shook his head, No, he had seen the face Sam gave him when he found out about the cross roads demon deal, Dean could not tell him this. Only he and his father knew about it and Dean swore that this secret he would take to his grave. You see this was not the only time Dean was desperate enough to deal.
Yes Dean had dealt before and now he realized what the feeling he had was and he know that he had to get Sam out of the town, whether he himself managed to get out or not was another matter though. It was then that Dean went back to the computer but he was not looking for a ghost or succubus this time, no he was looking for a demon princess and he know that she was in the area. Dean knew that because well, he felt that she was near and he know that annoyed would be the understatement of the millennium when she found him. Well his father had dealt with her rather splendidly and the result was that both his father and Dean thought the deal had been broken but the way he felt now not only showed that the deal was still intact, but she was back and in one hell of an angry mood. In other words she was out for revenge and that meant trouble with a capital "T".
The problem was that there where no mansions, or even high class hotels in the neighborhood, several clubs and bars but nothing that said "I am a demon princess intending to send people direct to Hell", which was how his father John put it, when he was looking for her after he found out about Dean. Dean sunk back into his chair, God how could he have forgotten what happened, how she had cursed when John sent her to Hell, or rather back to Hell, but Dean knew that if he had it to do again, he would still have agreed, and he proved that with the crossroad demon. Great Dean thought, "I wonder just who will be torturing me in Hell", but he also remembered Lucy's smile, and the look of kindness she gave a 12 year old boy. Her place smelt of home and his mother and if he had not known she was a demon Princess, he would have sworn she was a angel, but she was a demon princess and more to the point, she owned him heart, body and soul. Dean shivered she would not get Sammy. Tomorrow morning they would leave and whatever had made Sam so tired could kill the entire town as far as Dean Winchester was concerned.
Over the other side of town though, at seeing Dean's attitude, though her crystal ball, Lucy laughed, this was delicious, not only would she have her revenge but she would have both Winchester boys, this was going to be good, very good for her. Of course she would have to punish Dean but maybe she would force Sammy to do that. Lucy sat down on her four poster bed, and sipped from her glass, she remembered the first day she saw Dean Winchester. He was a frightened 12 year old boy asking to meet the owner of the hotel she ran. Her staff laughed and asked what he needed a soda or ice cream. She had thrown every staff member in his way but still he had stubbornly continued, even when she had him thrown out of the hotel and told to go home, because the owner did not deal with 12 year olds.
She had thought that would do it but no, later that night when she retired after making several worth while deals with some mayors and lawyers, there he was sitting on her bed telling her how lax her security was, wearing one of those charming grins of his. She had put her hands on her hips and threatened to call her security, asking him what a 12 year old could do for her. It was as she was reaching for the bell, when he came upto her and said "anything, anything you want. I can work here. I'll do anything. Please at least listen to me, hear me out" Maybe it was the sincere look in his eyes that stopped her ringing the bell, "OK, what does a 12 year old want and why come to me,. You of all people know what is asked and what must be given". Dean even at that age knew what he was doing, he knew this would cost him and what it would cost him, but any price was worth paying for what he wanted. Dean swallowed, his throat suddenly didn't want to work, and when it did his voice sounded small and young, "I want you to save my family". Lucy remembered how she had suddenly realized exactly what had happened, yes she had heard about the incident but never in her wildest dreams did she think that a hunter would come to her for help to deal with it. Normally hunters did not come near her, oh yes there had been one or two that had decided to ask for something, but generally they would rather shoot themselves before darkening her doorway, and yet here standing before her asking for her help, was the son of a up and coming hunter, who had already made a name for himself and had done more in the 8 years he had been hunting then most people did in a lifetime.
You might ask what had happened to make Dean go to a demon princess, willing to make a deal. Well it had started with a normal hunt, well it looked normal anyway but John had decided that he needed a little backup and had called in Pastor Jim to help. Both John and Jim thought they where dealing with a group of goblins, which they would have been if they had arrived about a month before, but since then something far more deadly had moved into town. Actually the manticore was hunting the demon princess on a revenge kick, but unfortunately for the Winchesters it found them first and John in particular, and has every schoolboy and girl knows, a manticore wound is deadly. To make things more difficult the manticore attacked John as he was about to get back into the car after a night long hunt for goblins (and finding nothing), and even though John shot it several times, it managed to scratch Sam and bite John, before Jim and Dean who arrived fast, but not fast enough, after hearing the shots, came into view and finally managed to kill the creature. While Jim burned the body of the manticore, Dean straggled to get his father and brother in a comfortable position in the car and wanted to take them straight to Hospital. It was then that Jim stopped him and said he had to talk to John alone.
Dean said you can talk at the hospital but both Jim and then John agreed that the hotel was where they should go, so Dean drove the car (alright he was 12 but he's a Winchester), back to the hotel while Jim followed him. After making his father and brother as comfortable as possible, Dean had dragged Jim into the kitchen, and demanded to know what was going on and why no hospital. Both his father and brother where burning up and even though Jim know what was going to happen, he found it very hard to tell Dean. "Look Dean, things happen on a hunt and sometimes it's better if well I... How would you like to stay with me from now on Dean."" Jim stop talking nonsense, we have to get their temperature down, and they'll be alright won't they." said Dean. "Dean remember Bobby's dog last summer, when it got hit by a car and was to far gone to save." Dean, looked at Pastor Jim and suddenly realized what Jim was trying to say, "No, no! They are going to be alright. There's a cure! Isn't there - Everything has a cure - Every problem has a solution." Jim turned, "sometimes you have to quit and call time on some things, Dean". "Not on my dad and Sam" said Dean, "Give me a few days to try and find a solution, please Jim. If I can't, (Dean Sobbed) I'll pull the trigger myself. Jim turned "NO I'll do it OK." "No, JIM Their my family, I'll do it!" and with that Dean walked back to where his father and brother where now shivering in their sleep.
Next Chapter - The rest of how Dean finds a answer and what it costs him.
