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Ice Princess
Chapter two
They pulled up alongside the lake and got out of the car. The cold of the dark winter night immediately hit them and they both shivered and zipped up their jackets as they walked down to the lake. Once there Dean took a few steps out onto the ice.
"Dean be careful." Sam warned him, his heart pounding in his chest as he watched his brother. Sam had fallen through the ice on a lake when he was five and could still remember the feeling of the freezing water sucking his breath away. He could still see the fear on Dean's face when he had fallen through. They had been fighting with each other and he had run out onto the lake to get away from his brother. Dean had stood on the shore and watched as the ice cracked beneath him and opened up under him. His brother had stood there for a few seconds frozen with fear as he watched him bobbing up and down in the water. Finally Dean had shouted for their dad who came running down to the lake. Their dad had grabbed a large branch lying nearby and crawled out onto the ice on his stomach and pushed the branch out over the hole. Sam had managed to grab the branch but couldn't hold on; his hands were too numb from the cold. He remembered his Dad yelling for Dean to come out onto the ice and his Dad holding onto Dean's leg as Dean stretched out over the hole and grabbed him. He could still hear their dad giving Dean hell for fighting with him. He had felt bad for Dean because the fight had been his fault not his brother's, but Dean took the punishment and never ratted on him. Now as he watched his brother step out onto the ice the memory of that day long ago came flooding back to him.
"Dean …don't go out any further…please." Sam pleaded with his brother.
"It's okay Sam. I'm just trying to see how thick it is." He took a few more steps out then looked back at Sam. "It seems pretty….." He stopped when he saw the look of fear on his brother's face. "Sammy you okay?"
Sam stood frozen for a few seconds before talking.
"Yeah." He said softly. "Just get off the ice."
Dean walked back to his brother. He had forgotten about the ice incident years before but the look on his brother's face brought it back to him.
"Are you going to be okay with this?" Dean asked. "Because if you aren't….we end it now, I'm not putting you through this."
"Sorry." Sam gave a nervous laugh. "I thought I was over it, but seeing you walk out there…. it all came back."
"Well then this is over, we'll find another hunt." Dean started walking back to the car. He turned around when he noticed Sam wasn't following him. "Sam?"
Sam stood transfixed staring out onto the lake.
"Sam?" Dean repeated as he walked over to his brother.
"Dean, don't you see it?"
"See what Sam?"
"She's out there Dean." Sam slowly raised his arm and pointed out onto the lake.
Dean looked out to where Sam was pointing but couldn't see a thing.
"Sam, there's nothing out there."
"There…" Sam pointed. "In the middle of the lake…Don't you see her?"
Sam watched as a glowing blue mist emerged from the center of the lake and hovered over it.
"Sam I don't see anything."
"She's there Dean." Sam seemed to be in a trance as he slowly started walking out onto the ice his fear of the ice seemingly forgotten as the mist turned into a figure.
Dean grabbed his arm stopping him from going further.
"Sam, is she calling you?"
"No, she's not even paying attention to me. She's just… standing there. It looks like she's waiting for someone."
"Sam there's nothing there, maybe it's that psychic thing you have going, because I don't see anything."
"She's moving…" Sam said as he turned and looked across the lake. "Dean…." He pointed to where a car was parked next to the lake. "She's heading for that car." Sam started running around the lake toward the car with Dean right behind him. "She's at the car Dean!" Sam yelled over his shoulder to his brother. He began waving his arms in the air trying to get the driver's attention as he watched him get out of the car.
"Don't follow her! Get back in the car!" Sam shouted as he watched the man begin to head out onto the ice along with the mist. "Stop! Don't go with her!"
Dean still couldn't see the spirit but he could see the man walking out onto the ice and knew the spirit was luring him out there.
"Go back! Don't follow her!" Dean shouted to the man.
The man glanced at them and they could see the terror on his face.
"I can't stop!...Help me!... Please help me!" He shouted back to them terrified.
Sam and Dean both headed out onto the ice toward the man, Sam completely forgetting his fear in his attempt to save the man's life.
"Sam the ice is thick, he won't fall through!" Dean shouted to his brother.
The ice had to be about six inches thick and should support the man's weight with no problem. But a few seconds after Dean made his statement they watched in horror as the ice cracked directly under the man and as he screamed in terror as he slipped into the freezing water. Sam watched as the glowing figure sank back into the ice.
"Nooooooo!" Sam shouted as he ran toward the opening in the ice. He laid down near the hole and reached into the freezing water hoping the man hadn't been swept away by the current and he'd be able to grab him, but when he couldn't find him he was just about ready to dive in after him when he felt his brother grab his jacket.
"It's too late Sam." Dean said as he pulled his brother back. Dean knew the current had already pulled the man away from the opening and it would be impossible to find him, and he wasn't about to let his brother risk his life by trying. They both watched in shock as the ice almost immediately began to freeze back over the hole.
TBC