I'm waking up to ash and dust
I walk my brow and I sweat my rust
I'm breathing in the chemicals.
-Radioactive, Imagine Dragons
Chapter 2: All to Ashes and Dust
Ava was missing. I didn't have a good feeling about this.
And trust me i had feelings about everything. I could literally hear every word that was going through everyone's head. I could smell what I took to be their souls.
It was exhilarating. I mean I felt I could lift a mountain and fly at the same time.
But i also felt a darkness. It seemed to lurk at the shadows of my brain ominous and clouded but there. I held it back. I had to; I wasn't one them despite yellow eyes told me. I refused to be.
Andy woke up Regan, when she saw me her eyes widened, but she said nothing. She just thought.
What happened to her?
Oh, if only you knew. I thought
She looked at me wildly.
Did you just hear my thoughts and answer with your mind?!
Okay, so that was not normal even for demons if demons could read minds then Regan and I probably would have had trouble. Know that I think about it Sam and Dean probably would have too.
I-I guess so. I replied
How? she asked
I thought of everything that happened in that dream.
Her mind was literally just shock like little exclamation points.
Did I mention that all of this literally happened in a second? Great so even among demons I was a freak.
Andy stayed in the safe house in case Ava came back. Regan, Sam, Jake and I went out to look for her.
"I'll take the barn, Regan can get the hotel." Jake said. "You guys take the houses."
"Alright." Sam said. "Meet back here in ten minutes okay?"
Jake nodded and everyone set off.
About five minutes passed, then we heard Ava scream.
We rushed back to the house.
We found Andy torn to shreds on the floor. Damn, and I liked his attitude.
Ava was sobbing as she said
"Sam! I just found him like this."
Something wasn't right. I couldn't hear her thoughts and I was pretty sure that should have been able to.
"What happened?" Sam asked
"I don't know." Ava sobbed
"How did that thing get in?" Sam asked
After the dream and the whole turning into a demon thing, I nearly forgotten about the achiri entirely.
"Where were you?" I asked
"I went to get some water from the well. I was only gone maybe, like, two minutes."
"You shouldn't have gone outside." Sam told her. "Ava, we have to stay here."
I tried to step in the room but I couldn't. I looked down and saw the salt line. I guess the regular demon restrictions applied.
Sam looked at the window and I followed his gaze. The salt line had been broken. He pointed at it.
"Who did that?" Sam asked
"I don't know. Maybe Andy"
"Andy wouldn't do something like that" Sam cut her off "Ava that line wasn't broken when we left."
Regan came in and saw Andy. She put a hand to her mouth. Okay so how was I supposed to send her a thought on purpose. I tried just sort of imagining it moving from me to her.
Regan, break the salt line or I can't get in. Something's not right.
She stepped forward towards them and "acidentally" broke the line as she did. I stepped forward without obstacle. I remembered the game. Kill or be killed.
This I told to Regan. She looked at me eyes wide.
When you get a chance, run as fast as you can.
I'm not gonna leave you here to die!
Regan, they can't kill me. remember I'm kind of a demon now.
I don't care!
"What you don't think I-"
"I'll tell you what I think." Sam said "Five months. You're the only one with all that time you can't account for. And that headache you got right when the demon got Lily."
"What are you trying to say?" Ava asked
"What happened to you?" Sam asked
"Nothing!" Ava said, suddenly her shocked face broke and she sighed, then chuckled; reminding me hauntingly of Yellow Eyes.
"Had you going though, didn't I?" she said, smiling all the while. "Yeah. I,ve been here a ling time. And not alone, either. People just keep showing up. Children, like us."
I have plans for you, Sam. You and all of the children like you. That had been what Yellow Eyes had told Sam months before this.
I knew this because that was Sam thought of when she said that.
"Batches of three or four at a time." she said
"And you killed them?" I asked
"And you're a saint? Your nothing but a demon, just another one of hell's bitches." she said.
It was like she had shoved a knife in my gut and twisted it.
"All of them?" Sam asked
"I'm the undefeated heavyweight champ." she said
"Oh, my god." Sam said
"I don't think God has much to do with this, Sam." Ava said
"How could you?" Regan asked
Ava shrugged. "I had no choice. It's me or them. After a while it was even kind of fun. I just stopped fighting it."
"Fighting what?" Sam asked
"Who we are, Sam. I you'd just quit your hand-wringing and open yourself up, you have no idea of we can do! The learning curve is do fast, it's crazy the switches that flip in your brain!"
She was laughing now. I felt Jake's mind come closer.
"I mean I can't believe I just started with dreams." she said. "Do you know what I can do know?"
"Control demons." Sam said
Wait does that mean she could control me?
"Ah, you are quick to the draw." she said
She put her fingers to her temples and the black smoke began to form outside.
The smoke came in the house. Sam stepped in front me and Regan.
It seemed despite the fact that I was now a demon he would die before me. Ava's gut wound began to heal.
"Yeah I'm sorry, Sam you too Regan but...it's over."
Jake's mind was close. I grabbed Regan's hand ready to drag her out myself.
Then suddenly we were in the woods standing next to two guys I tried to tell them who we were but then I was back and in the safe house. Regan had stayed with them somehow.
Jake suddenly walked in and snapped Ava's neck from behind.
Sam and I looked at Jake. There was nothing to say so we just walked outside.
When we were out Sam said "We should be safe now."
I heard the whispers of Jake's thoughts but I couldn't make out what they were saying.
"But the achiri demon." he said
"No, no, no." Sam said "Ava was summoning it, controlling it. It shouldn't come back now that she's dead."
"Where's Regan?" Jake asked
"She's dead. We didn't find her body, but found a lot of her blood." I lied, I didn't trust Jake, not completely. I couldn't hear his thoughts and it was the same with Ava.
"We gotta go." Sam said
"Not "we", Sam, at least not you." Jake replied
I could suddenly hear his thoughts.
"Sam, he's gonna try to kill you." I said
He looked at both of us.
"Only one of us is getting out of here besides, you Makayla. I'm sorry."
"What, SAm asked
"I had a vision." Jake said "That yellow-eyed demon, or whatever it was, he talked to me. He told me how it was."
He was talking at stuttering now. He was nervous. He should be because there was no way I letting him kill Sam. Sam had accepted and protected me even when I turned into a demon.
I was gonna do the same for him.
"No, listen, you can't listen to him." Sam told him
"Sam he's not letting us go. Only two, with Makayla. Now we don't play along he'll kill us both. Now, I-I like you, man, but do the math, good is it for both of us to die? Now I can get out of here, get close to the bastard and kill him."
"No, come with me and we can kill him together!" Sam tried to tell him
"How do I know you won't turn on me?" Jake asked
"I won't." Sam insisted
"I dont' know that." Jake said
"Okay, look." Sam said. He took his knife out of his jacket pocket and threw it on the ground near Jake.
"Just come with us, Jake." Sam said "Don't do this don't play into what it wants."
We all stared at each other for a moment, I didn't notice when I stopped hearing Jake's thoughts.
He knelt and dropped his iron bar, then came back up.
"Okay." Sam said
Suddenly Jake punched Sam. With his super strength Sam landed yards away.
He threw salt into my face and rubbed in it my eyes. I screamed.
Dammit! That hurt like a son of a bitch! I fell down and dumped more slat on me. It burn like hell.
I couldn't see anything except my blood and the ground but I heard him go towards, Sam. I tried to get up and help him but every time I tried the pain nearly knocked me out.
I heard punches and kicks being thrown, both of them grunting in pain. Sam had a chance. A very slim one but a chance. I was still trying to get up. When I heard bones cracking and Sam cry out.
I finally managed to at least sit up and see. Jake was on the ground and he got up as Sam walked by. Sam knocked him out cold. Sam started to come over to me. He looked at the knife on the ground and thought about killing Jake.
Sam, don't your better than that. I thought to him.
He looked at me and nodded, unnerved by the fact that I knew what he ws thinking and could talk to him in his head, but still came over to me and helped me up.
"You okay?" he asked
"Peachy." I said, sarcastically.
He chuckled as he helped me walk. "Like I said, you remind me of Dean."
We heard a voice. "Sam!" the guy yelled we looked towards the sound of it.
Two guys came walking towards us, with Regan walking with them. These were the two guys I had seen before when I...teleported, if that's what it's really called.
"Sam!"
"Dean!" Sam said back. The relief in his voice was clear. So this was Sam's brother, who he said I was like. I could tell I was by Dean's thought. Damn I need to learn how to control that.
"Sam, look out!" Dean yelled I turned around and saw Jake stab Sam in the back. This time literally.
"No!" Dean and I yelled at the same time.
Sam fell to his knees as Jake began to run.
Bobby, the one who chased after him his name was Bobby.
Dean and I knelt beside Sam and grabbed him. I was sobbing as Regan tried to pull me from him. I think I might have hit her because she gasped and let go of me. I just didn't process that. Dean was telling Sam it was alright and that it wasn't that bad but, I knew that Jake had cut clean through his spinal cord.
"I'm gonna take care of you." Dean was saying "That's my job right? Watch after my pain-in-the-ass little brother."
Then I saw the life drain out of his eyes. The only thing that I could process was that Sam Winchester had just died in mine and his brothers arms. That the guy who had protected and accepted me to the end was dead. That no matter how many times Dean and I screamed his name he wasn't waking up. And finally when Dean stopped saying his name, that I realized this wasn't Sam. All we were doing was clutching the corpse of Sam Winchester.