Chapter 2 : Wendigo
-Author's Note: Here is the chapter two of my sisfic, hope you like it and thank you for reviewing what you think of the story :) .
-Spoiler Alert : Spoilers of season 1 of Supernatural.
Disclaimer : I do not own Supernatural, I only own Alexandria.
I'm sitting in the back seat of the Impala, we've been on the road for a few hours now and I am really bored. Sam is sleeping, lucky him, that passes the time. Dean is listening to a song his head moving on the beat. I love this song, well, I have to like it because it's the only thing Dean listens to.
Sam suddenly jumps awake, still a nightmare. He rubs his eyes and glance at Dean.
"You okay?" Dean asked.
"Yeah" he looks out the window "I'm fine".
He is just a liar, and Dean knows it too and only nods.
"Another nightmare?" Dean asked knowing the answer, Sam only cleared his throat to avoid this discussion "you wanna drive for a while?"
I look at Dean surprised, so did Sam.
"Dean" Sam laughed "in your whole life you never once asked me that".
"Just thought you might want to. Never mind".
"I can drive?" I offered myself.
"First off" Dean sighed looking at me by the review mirror "you are too young and don't know how to drive".
"Yeah I do" I defended myself "you taught me like three month ago".
"No" Dean smiled, he is thinking this is funny, but it isn't "you sure, Sam?"
"Look, man, you're worried about me. I get it, and thank you, but I'm perfectly okay".
"Mm-hm"
He's lying, I know this lying thing, we Winchester's all have this heritage of that lie Telling we are okay to not worry the other but it worries them so much more.
"All right" Sam said grabbing a map "where are we?"
"We are just outside of Grand Junction".
"You know what?" Sam started, that didn't sound good, I know this ton "maybe we shouldn't have left Stanford so soon".
"Sam" Dean sighed "we dug around there for a week. We came up with nothing. If you wanna find the thing that killed Jessica-"
"We gotta find Dad first".
"Dad disappearing and this thing showing up again after twenty years, it's no coincidence".
"Especially on November second" I whispered.
No one says a thing to that, our mother has been killed that date.
"Dad will have the answers. He'll know what to do" Dean told us.
Dad has always the answer because he is Dad. It's the only thing I can rely on.
"It's weird" Sam said ignoring Dean "these coordinates he left us, this Blackwater Ridge".
"What about it?" I asked.
"There's nothing there. It's just woods. Why is he sending us to the middle of nowhere?"
I see the sign that welcome us to 'Lost Creek Colorado' finally we are here.
We start by going at the Ranger's station, if Dad is sending us in the woods, better know the woods. Especially when there is something supernatural.
"So" Sam said to us before entering "Blackwater Ridge is pretty remote".
"I don't think so, if Dad sends us here" I stated.
We enter the station and look around. I'm looking at a 3D map and go to see Dean.
"Dude, check out the size of this freaking bear".
"Shit, could kill us by falling on us" I said impressed.
"Language" Dean looks at me seriously and I roll my eyes.
"And a dozen or more grizzlies in the area. It's no nature hike, that's for sure" Sam post beside me looking at the photo less impressed.
"You three aren't planning on going out near Blackwater Ridge by any chance?" Asked a man behind us.
I turn around, he looks to be the ranger of the place. Dean glanced at me with the look: do not talk. Like usually.
"Oh no sir" Sam said "we're environmental study majors from UC Boulder, just working on a paper".
"Recycle, man" Dean said rising his fist up.
"Bull" the ranger said "you're friends with that Haley girl, right?"
"Yes. Yes, we are, Ranger Wilkinson" Dean lied.
I look at the name tag, Ranger Wilkinson.
"Well I will tell you exactly what he told her. Her brother filled out a backcountry permit saying he wouldn't be back from Blackwater until the twenty-fourth, so it's not exactly a missing persons now, is it?" The ranger asked "you tell that girl to quit worrying, I'm sure her brother's just fine".
"We will" Dean assured "well that Haley girl's quite a pistol, huh?"
"This is putting it mildly".
"Actually" Dean continued "you know what would help is if I could show her a copy of that backcountry permit. You know, so she could see her brother's return date"
The ranger sighs and gives us what we want.
We go back to the impala, Dean is pretty happy of he's shot, he's laughing.
"What, are you cruising for a hookup or something?" Sam said.
"What do you mean?" Dean asked.
"The coordinates point to Blackwater Ridge, so what are we waiting for? Let's just go find dad. I mean, why even talk to this girl?"
We're all in front of our door of the car.
"I don't know" Dean sighed "maybe we should know what we're walking into before we actually walk into it?"
No one talks, Dean is right. I look at Sam strangely, he never is this way.
"What?" Sam asked looking at me.
"Since when are you all shoot first ask question later?" I asked.
"Since know" he enters in the passenger seat.
"Really?" Dean sighed.
Me and Dean enter the car. I understand that Sam has lived a lot with losing Jessica, but I don't know how he feels, I never felt this way. I only have them and my father, well I don't know anymore, he is gone. He was angry at Sam because he left for Stanford, but he is now gone, not a word or a note except of this message he left to Dean.
We arrive at the Haley's house. Dean knocks at the door and a girl who I assume being Haley answered.
"You must be Haley Collins" Dean said "I'm Dean, this is Sam and Alex, we're, ah, rangers with the Park Service. Ranger Wilkinson sent us over. He wanted us to ask a few questions about your brother Tommy".
It's funny how they are so much lies in his sentence, but also a little truth.
"Lemme see some ID" she said after hesitating.
Sam and Dean takes out some faked ID's. Haley looks at it and then glanced at me.
"And her?" she asks.
"Student" Sam answered fast "she is a student, doing a traineeship".
"Come on in" Haley steps in to let us inside.
"Thanks" Dean smiled.
"That's yours?" Haley asked looking outside pointing at the Impala.
She just made herself a best friend.
"Yeah" Dean answered proud his smile bigger.
"Nice car".
She gets inside and we follow. Dean mouth something I don't even bother to know what he said, I only rolled my eyes. It's certainly something like: she's awesome! I like her!
We enter the kitchen, a guy about my age is sitting at the table looking at us, and he doesn't look like he is trusting us. Haley comes with two bolls.
"So" Sam starts "if Tommy's not due back for a while, how do you know something's wrong?"
"He checks in every day by cell. He emails, photos, stupid little videos. We haven't heard anything in over three days now" she answered sadly.
"Well, maybe he can't get cell reception".
"He's got a satellite phone, too".
"Could it be he's just having fun and forgot to check in?" Dean suggested.
"He wouldn't do that" Ben said looking at us angry.
"Our parents are gone" Haley said putting some food on the table "It's just my two brothers and me. We all keep pretty close tabs on each other".
"Can I see the pictures he sent you?" Sam demanded.
"Yeah.
Haley gets her laptop and get some photos.
"That's Tommy".
She clicks on a video and press play.
"Hey Haley, day six, we're still out neat Blackwater Ridge. We're fine, keeping safe, so don't worry, okay? Talk to you tomorrow".
I see something weird behind the guy. A fast shadow passed. I look at Dean who didn't notice, Haley neither. I glance at Sam who did, he looks at me and he sighs.
"Well" Dean said "we'll find your brother. We're heading out to Blackwater Ridge first thing".
Oh yeah? That's fun to know.
"Then maybe I'll see you there" we all look at here surprise "look, I can't sit around here anymore. So I hired a guy. I'm heading out in the morning, and I'm gonna find Tommy myself".
"I think I know how you feel" Dean said looking at the ground.
I guess I do too. That's what we are doing right? Looking for Dad, even though he is maybe not in danger.
"Hey" Sam said to Haley "do you mind forwarding these to me?"
"Sure" she answered.
After leaving her place, we went to a bar. I grab my card and throw my backpack on the floor of the Impala.
"Dean" Sam said "why are we here, Alex can't even get in there".
"I've got my first fake ID card" I smiled showing him the fake card saying that I am twenty two.
"Come on" Sam sighed "you are like my twin now? You look really younger than me, and you are".
"Lies" I said "we are born to lie Sammy".
"When Dad was gone and it was just me and her I couldn't leave her alone at the motel" Dean explained.
"Dad knows?"
"Are you crazy?" Me and Dean exclaimed at the same.
"He would have killed me" Dean whispered.
"Me too" I agreed.
"Fine" Sam sighed.
He gets out of the car and I look at Dean who smiles. Like the good old days.
In the bar, we sit down at the table, I'm still laughing at Sam. He was sure that me passing in wasn't going to work, but it worked! I'm too good.
"So" Sam said to us "Blackwater Ridge doesn't get a lot of traffic. Local campers, mostly. But still, this past April, two hikers went missing out there. They were never found".
Sam takes Dad's journal.
"Any before that?" I asked.
"Yeah" Sam answered pulling out a newspaper article and shows it to us "in 1982, eight different people all vanished in the same year. Authorities said it was a grizzly attack".
Dean and I read the article 'GRIZZLY BEAR ATTAKS!-UP TO EIGHT HIKERS VANISH IN LOST CREEK AREA-HIKERS DISAPPEARANCE BAFFLE AUTHORITIES- FAMILIES CONTINUE SEARCH AND RESCUE EFFORTS IN SPITE OF DISAPPOINTING…'
"And again in 1959 and again before that in 1936" Sam opens his laptop to Tommy's video "every twenty-three years, just like clockwork" he pauses looking at the screen "okay. Watch this. Here's a clincher. I downloaded that guy Tommy's video to the laptop. Check this out".
Sam clicks through three frames. A shadow passes behind the guy. I knew it!
"Do it again" Dean asked concentrated.
Sam did what Dean said.
"That's three frames. That's a fraction of a second" Sam said "whatever that thing 00is, it can move".
"Fast" I added.
Dean hits Sam on the arm "told you something weird was going on".
"Yeah" he closes his laptop "I got one more thing" he hands us another newspaper article "in fifty-nine one camper survived this supposed grizzly attack. Just a kid. Barely crawled out of the woods alive".
"Is there a name?" Dean asked.
"Yep, come on" Sam said getting up.
"I think he missed hunting" I sighed.
Dean doesn't say anything and pulls me up by my arm and we went out.
We go to that guy's house who survived the attack when he was a kid, his name is Shaw. I hope he tells us that there is something bad, I only want to kill that evil son of a bitch and go find my dad.
The old guy leads us in the dark living room. He has a cigarette in his mouth and his smoke gives me tears in my eyes and hell, I hate the smell.
"Look, ranger, I don't know why you're asking me about this. It's public record. I was a kid. My parents got mauled by a-"
"Grizzly?" Sam interrupted "That's what attacked them?"
Shaw takes a puff of his cigarette and shakes his head.
"The other people that went messing that year, those bear attacks too?" Dean asked.
He doesn't answer. He's face fell, he looks really sad and he glanc at the ground.
"What about all the people that went missing this year? Same thing?" Dean continued.
Nothing. This guy is really getting on my nerves.
"If we know what we're dealing with, we might be able to stop it" I said.
Dean gives me this 'shut up' look.
"I seriously doubt that I don't see what difference it would make" Shaw said sitting down "you wouldn't believe me. Nobody ever did".
Sam sits down on the couch in front of Shaw "Mr. Shaw, what did you see?"
"Nothing" the guy said after a long pause "it moved too fast to see. It hide too well. I heard it, though. A roar. Like… No man or animal I ever heard".
"It came at night?" Sam asked and Shaw nodded "got inside your tent?"
"It got inside our cabin. I was sleeping in front of the fireplace when it came in. It didn't smash a window or break the door. It unlocked it. Do you know of a bear that could do something like that? I didn't even wake up till I heard my parents screaming".
"It killed them?"
"Dragged them off into the night" Shaw shakes his head down "why it left me alive… Been asking myself that ever since. Did leave me this, though".
He slides down his collar revealing scars, claw marks. It was made very deep.
"There's something evil in those woods. It was some sort of a demon" Shaw conclude.
We walk in the corridor to go out of the motel after reviewing everything on this job.
"Spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors" Dean informed us even though we knew "they just go through the walls".
"So it's probably something else, something corporeal" Sam guessed.
"Corporeal? Excuse me professor" Dean joked.
"Shut up. So what do you think?" Sam asked looking at me.
"Well, the claws, speed and moves…. Could be a black dog? Skinwalker? Well, we know that it's a creature… Corporeal" I said smiling.
"Which means we can kill it" Dean added.
Outside, Dean opens the trunk of the Impala and the weapons box. He uses a shotgun to prop it open. He takes a duffel bag and takes some weapons.
"We cannot let that Haley girl out there" Sam sighed.
"Oh yeah?" Dean said surprised "what are we gonna tell her? That she can't go into the woods because of a big scary monster?"
"Yeah".
"She's gonna call us crazy" I inform him.
What the hell has he in his mind?
"Her brother's missing, Sam. She's not gonna just sit this out. Now we go with her, we protect her, and we keep our eyes peeled for our fuzzy predator friend" Dean picks up the duffel.
"Finding Dad not enough?" Sam asked angry, real angry. He slams the trunk shut and sighs "now we gotta babysit too?"
I look at the ground and sigh, Sam usually is always there to save people.
"What?" Sam almost shouted.
"Nothing" Dean answered throwing the duffel bag at Sam and walks to the car. So did I, not looking at Sam for a second.
The sun is coming up soon and we have to go in the woods, and I love the wood so much! Especially when they are a creature that we don't even know what it is...
After ten minutes of driving, Sam turns around and looks at me.
"I was asking myself something" Sam started "don't you go at school?"
"Nop" I answered "I do home school. Well, on my computer".
"Why?"
"After Dad disappeared, we were on the road a lot and Dean needed my help… And I hate high school".
"What about you're social life?" Sam glance at Dean "you accept that? Dad wouldn't be okay with that".
"Well Dad isn't here" Dean said impressively calm "I am the one in charge when he isn't there".
"Yeah…" Sam sighed looking outside.
Sam is the one that is always trying to make me feel normal, even though I know that I am not. I love hunting, killing those evil bitches and saving people always cheers me up. Weird? Yeah, welcome to my life.
Dean pulls up the car in the entry of the woods where we can see Haley, her brother Ben and a guy looking kind of old staring at us.
"You guys got room for two more?" Dean asked getting out of the car, me and Sam follow him.
"Wait, you want to come with us?" Haley asked surprised.
"Who are these people?" the guy asked.
"Apparently this is all the park service could muster up for the search and rescue" Haley answered.
Sam walks pass us without giving a look to anyone, his still pissed off.
Wow… We look good, I guess… She should be grateful that we care about her life when we should be out to find our father.
"You're rangers?" The guy asked again.
"That's right" Dean answered.
"And you are?" I demand looking at him.
"Roy, ranger".
Dean glance at me with again his favorite look 'shut up' and I give him the look 'oh I am so not sorry bro'.
"And you're hiking out in biker boots and jeans?" Haley looks at us from head to toe.
I'm wearing my black t-shirt, my black and white flannel with my khaki jacket, tight black jeans with my brown boots. I look badass.
"Well, sweetheart" Dean smiles looking down at himself "I don't do shorts".
Dean walks away in front of us and like a little puppy I follow him, great to be the youngest.
"What, you think this is funny?" Roy asks us "it's dangerous back country out there. Her brother might be hurt".
We turn face to him, me, Sam and Dean.
"Believe me" Dean sighed "I know how dangerous it can be. We just wanna help them find their brother, that's all".
We continue our walk.
I think I just changed my mind, I kind of like the woods, it's beautiful and cozy. I walk with Sam behind, Haley, Ben and Dean are walking in front of us and Roy leads the way. Sam is looking at his feet while walking, he doesn't look that good.
"Are you okay?" I asked him. He doesn't answer, still looking at the ground "Sam… Sam".
"What?" He looked up at me kind of annoyed "sorry… What is it?"
"You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine don't worry".
"Well, I'm sorry too, I can't stop worrying".
"You're the kid" he smiled "I am the one who should be worrying about you".
I smile a bit, older brothers, overprotective.
"Roy" I heard Dean say in front of us "you said you did a little hunting".
"Yeah" Roy answered "more than a little".
"Uh-huh. What kind of furry critters do you hunt?"
"Mostly buck, sometimes bear".
"Tell me, uh, Bambi or Yogi ever hunt you back?" Dean joked.
Roy grabs Dean's arm and stop walking, I prepare myself to run to separate them if I have too.
"Whatcha doing, Roy?" Dean asked with and rough voice.
Roy takes a stick and pokes the ground, a bear trap closes, and Dean almost stepped in it.
"You should watch where you're stepping, Ranger" Roy advice saying Ranger like if he didn't believe him.
He drops the stick and walks up the lead.
"It's a bear trap" Dean said with a worried laugh.
I try to not laugh at him, but I can't keep it in.
"Shut up" Dean warned me and continue to walk.
Walking, walking… I am kind of bored. I go to Dean this time, Sam doesn't want to talk.
"You didn't pack any provisions" Haley said to us "you guys are carrying a duffel bag. You're not rangers, and she is too young to be a college student. So what the hell are you?"
Ben walks past us, Sam looks at us. Dean makes a quick nod to tell us to continue. Me and Sam walk in front of them.
"I have provisions" I mumbled.
"What are you talking about?" Sam asked.
"She said that we don't have any provision, I have my gummies in my bag".
"You seriously brought them?"
"Yeah, why not?"
He starts laughing, a laugh that I didn't here since Jessica's death, it's good to hear him again.
It's maybe noon. Still walking, bored as hell.
"This is it" Roy announced "Blackwater Ridge".
"What coordinates are we at?" Sam asked.
Roy pulls out his GPS "thirty-five and minus one-eleven".
I listen to the noise, nothing… This isn't normal… I pull on Dean's sleeves like I did when I was a kid.
"You hear that?" I whispered.
"Yeah, not a sound" Dean answered looking up.
"I'm gonna go take a look around" Roy announced.
"You shouldn't go off by yourself" Sam stopped him.
"That's sweet. Don't worry about me".
Roy takes his gun and takes back the lead, I turn to see Haley and Ben catching up to us.
"All right" Dean said to us "everybody stays together. Let's go".
I look around, the woods is still really silent.
"Haley!" Roy's voice called "over here!"
She starts running towards Roy and we follow. Roy has found the campsite, the tents are all ripped and blood all over the place, the supplies are all scattered.
"Oh my God…" Haley whispered.
"Looks like a grizzly" Roy informed us.
I look around and bent down where there are traces of someone who has been carry and blood with it, definitely not a grizzly.
"Tommy? Tommy!" Haley called out.
I turn to them, Sam catch her arm and hush her.
"Tommy!"
"Shh-hh-hh" Sam insist.
"Why?"
"Something might still be out there" Sam said.
"Sam, Dean" I called them.
They both crouch next to me.
"The bodies were dragged from the campsite" I said pointing the tracks "but here, the tracks just vanish. That's weird".
We stand up and look around us, what could it be? I've never seen something like this.
"I'll tell you what" Dean tells us "that's no Skinwalker or black dog".
"What could it be?" I asked.
"Don't know".
Me and Sam follow him back to the campsite. I go check the tents, but there is nothing there.
"Pretty good back there" Sam tells me.
"What you talking about?"
"Finding the tracks".
"Well, I'm not the little twelve years old kid".
"But you still a kid" Sam sighed "at you're age I went to only two or three hunts, you went to a lot with what Dean told me".
"Yeah well, I am badass" I joked.
It's true that when Sam took off, Dad took me to more and more hunts. I thought he was using me like replacement, but I was ready for this, Dad knew it so he took me with him, I understood that a year after.
"Help! Help!" Called out a man's voice in the woods.
We all run towards the shouts, but there is no one.
"Help! Somebody!" The voice shouted scared.
Still, we see no one, but I could bet my life that the shouts are from there.
"It seemed like it was coming from around here, didn't it?" Haley asked.
The shouts stops, no sign of anybody.
"Everybody back to the camp" Sam ordered.
We all go back to the campsite. All the supplies that the ranger and the two others brought are missing.
"Our packs!" Haley exclaimed looking around.
"So much for my GPS and my satellite phone" Roy sighed.
"What the hell is going on?" Haley asked looking at me and my brother's.
"It's smart. It wants to cut us off so we can't call for help" Sam ignored Haley's question.
"You mean someone, some nutjob out there just stole all our gear" Roy told Sam.
Sam comes to us "I need to speak with you two. In private" he leads us in the woods "good let me see Dad's journal".
Dean grabs the journal in his coat and hands it to Sam. He flips the pages.
"All right, check that out".
He points a First Nations-style drawing, a kind of tall human. Up the page it's writing 'WENDIGO'.
"Oh come on, Wendigo's are in the Minnesota woods or, or northern Michigan. I've never even hears of one this far west" Dean said.
"Think about it, Dean, the claws, the way it can mimic a human voice".
"What's a Wendigo?" I asked.
"It's a creature that eats humans" Sam explains "they take them in a cave and keep them for the winter".
"Sweet" I say sarcastic.
Dean takes out his pistol and sighs "well then this is useless".
"Why?"
"The only way to kill them is to burn them" Sam said giving back the journal to Dean "we gotta get these people to safety".
Sam goes back to the camp, he is really still pissed because Haley and Ben came.
"Come on" Dean takes me by the arm and drags me to the camp site.
"All right" Sam says to the group "listen up, it's time to go. Things have gotten… more complicated".
"What?" Haley asked.
"Kid, don't worry. Whatever's out there, I think I can handle it" Roy said offended.
"It's not me I'm worried about. If you shoot this thing, you're just gonna make it mad. We have to leave" Sam explains angry as hell "now".
"One, you're talking nonsense. Two, you're in no position to give anybody orders" Roy advances closer to Sam.
"Relax" Dean ordered Roy.
"We never should have let you come out here in the first place, all right? I'm trying to protect you" Sam almost shouted.
"You protect me? I was hunting these woods when your mommy was still kissing you good night".
"Yeah? It's a damn near perfect hunter. It's smarter than you, and it's gonna hunt you down and eat you alive unless we get your stupid sorry ass out of here".
"You know" Roy laughs "you're cray, right?"
"Yeah? You ever hunt a Wen-" Sam start off.
Before he could finish his word, I push him away and Dean takes away Roy.
"Shut up Sam" I said to him.
"Chill out" Dean ordered with his big voice.
"Stop. Stop it" Haley intervenes "everybody just stop. Look. Tommy might still be alive and I'm not leaving here without him".
And hell if we don't, we are here for that, I'm not here for only camping.
"It's getting late" Dean breaks the silent "this thing is a good hunter in the day, but an unbelievable hunter at night. We'll never beat it, not in the dark. We need to settle in and protect ourselves".
"How?"
Its dark out and I get started a campfire while Dean draws some symbols around the site. I sit next to Sam who looks at the ground, away in his mind.
"One more time, that's-" Haley starts.
"Anasazi symbols" Dean answered Haley "it's for protection. The wendigo can't cross over them".
Roy laughs, he is really starting to piss me off.
"You shouldn't be skeptic Roy" I say looking at him.
He only laughs again. I get up to go and jump on him to kick his ass but Dean pushed me down a hand on my shoulder.
"Calm down Alex".
"I'm calm" I said annoyed.
Dean sits down next to Sam "you, you wanna tell me what's going on in that freaky head of yours?"
"Dean-"
"No, you're not fine. You're like a powder keg, men, it's not like you. Alex is like that but not you, and I'm supposed to be the belligerent one, remember?"
I look at Dean, I'm not like that, God.
"Dad's not here" Sam sighed "I mean, that much we know for sure, right? He would have left us a message, a sign right?"
"Yeah, you're probably right" Dean admits "tell you the truth, I don't think Dad's ever been to Lost Creek".
"Then let's get these people back to town and let's hit the road. Go find Dad. I mean, why are we still even here?"
"That is why" Dean gets up and sit in front of Sam and takes out Dad's journal "this book. This is Dad's single most valuable possession-everything he know about every evil thing is in here. And he's passed it on to us. I think he wants us to pick up where he left off. You know, saving people, hunting things. The family business".
"That makes no sense" Sam sighed "why doesn't he just-call us? Why doesn't he-tell us what he wants, tell us where he is?"
"I dunno. But the way I see it, Dad's giving us a job to do, and I intend to do it".
"And Sam" I say "its Dad, he is a mystery. Dean is right, we have to do this".
"Alex…no. I gotta find Dad. I gotta find Jessica's killer. It's the only thing I can think about".
"Okay" Dean nods "all right, Sam, we'll find them, I promise. Listen to me. You've gotta prepare yourself. I mean, this search could take a while, and all that anger, you can't keep it burning over the long haul. It's gonna kill you. You gotta have patience, man".
Sam looks down and then at Dean, me and back to Dean "how do you do it? How does Dad do it?"
"Well for one, them" Dean points Haley and Ben who are by the campfire. "I mean, I figure our family's so screwed to hell, maybe we can help some others. Makes things a little bit more bearable" he pauses "I'll tell you what else helps. Killing as much evil sons of bitches as I possibly can".
I smile looking down.
"Saving some people is kindda fun too" I add.
"Yeah, that too" Dean said pointing me.
Sam smiles. I hear a branch snap broken and then someone yelling, probably the wendigo.
"Help me! Please!" A man's voice yell.
We get up and take our gun out.
"Help!"
Sam shines his flashlight on the forest.
"He's trying to draw us out. Just stay cool, stay put" Dean ordered.
"Inside the magic circle?" Roy asked skeptic.
"You can't just shut the fuck up Roy" I looked at him angry.
"Help! Help me!" The wendigo shout and then a growl.
Roy points his gun at the sound "okay, that's no grizzly".
"It's okay" Haley told Ben "you'll be all right, I promise".
I guess she was saying that to herself too, if I didn't know how to use a gun or didn't know about the supernatural, I'd be scared as hell right now.
A shadow passes close to us, Haley let out a little scared scream.
"It's here" Sam whispers.
Roy shoots in the wood and we hear a hurt growl.
"I hit it!" Roy exclaimed running to the woods.
"Roy, no! Roy!" Dean shouts, he turns to us "don't move, you too Alexandria".
Dean runs with Sam in the woods.
"Dean!" I shout angry.
Why do I have always be the one left behind dammit! I know I have to stay put, because when Dean says my full name, I really have to stay put. I turn around to look at Haley and Ben, Haley got a big branch using it as a weapon.
"It's okay" I said "were in safety in the circle".
"H-how can you be so calm?" Haley asked me with a shaky voice.
"Kindda use to it" I smile to calm her down.
Sam and Dean comes back without Roy, this stupid son of a bitch just got himself killed.
The next day, we were still at the campsite.
"I don't… I mean, these types of things, they aren't supposed to be real" Haley said not believing the Wendigo.
"I wish I could tell you different" Dean admitted.
"How do we know it's not out there watching us?"
"We don't. But we're safe for now".
"How do you know about this stuff?" Haley asked.
"Kind of runs in the family".
"That is why you were calm back there" Haley looks at me and I nod "but you're a kid!"
"Yeah but I have two overprotective brothers to protect my ass" I smile looking down.
"Yeah and say to talk like a normal kid too" Dean grins.
"Funny but we all know that I'm not normal" I smirk.
"Hey" Sam joins us and Haley gets up "so we've got half a chance in the daylight. And I for one want to kill this evil son of a bitch".
"Well, hell, you know I'm in" Dean said.
"Me too"
Sam shows a picture of the Wendigo from Dad's journal.
"Wendigo is a Cree Indian word" Sam said "it mean 'evil that devours'.
"They're hundreds of years old" Dean continues "each one was once a man. Sometimes an Indian, or other times a frontiersman or a miner or hunter".
"How's a man turn into one of those things" asked Haley.
"Well" Dean said picking up some things on the ground "it's always the same. During some harsh winter a guy finds himself starving" he looks at us "cut off from supplies or help. Becomes a cannibal to survive, eating other members of his tribe or camp".
"Like the Donner Party" Ben whispers.
Wow… He can talk!
"Cultures all over the world believe that eating human flesh gives a person certain abilities. Speed, strength, immortality" Sam explained.
"If you eat enough of it, over the years, you become this less than human thing. You're always hungry" Dean added.
"So if that's true, how can Tommy still be alive?" Haley asked.
"You're not gonna like it" Dean answered, he glance at Sam and back to her.
"Tell me" she insisted.
"More than anything, a Wendigo knows how to last long winters without food. It hibernates for years at a time, but when it's awake it keeps its victims alive. It, uh, it stores them, so it can feed whenever it wants. If your brother's alive, it's keeping him somewhere dark, hidden, and safe. We gotta track it back there".
"And then how do we stop it?"
"Well, guns are useless, so are knives. Basically" Dean holds up a can of lighter fluid, a beer bottle, and white clothed "we gotta torch the sucker".
Me and Dean are behind Sam who leads us through the woods, Dean has a Molotov cocktail in his hand.
"Dean, Alex" Sam called us.
We reach him up, he is looking up.
"What is it?" Dean ask and looks up too.
They are some claw bloody marks on the trees.
"You know" Sam stated "I was thinking, those claw prints, so clear and distinct. They were almost too easy to follow".
A growl resonate in the wood, I look all around us, nothing. Suddenly, I hear Haley let out a scream, I turn to her and see the bloody body of Roy on the ground. I crouch down next to his corps, Dean joins me.
"You okay?" Sam ask to Haley.
"His neck is broken" I announced.
"Yep" Dean confirmed.
Once more, we hear a growling, and it's much louder.
"Okay, run, run, run, run, go, go, go!" Dean shouted.
We all run away, I follow Dean away and we get separated from Sam and Ben, Haley follows us. Suddenly the Wendigo is right in front of us, tall, grey disgusting skin, thin, no hair.
"Shit!" I exclaimed.
And then I hear Haley scream. I feel something hitting me on my head.
"Alex!" Dean screamed.
I see a blurry Wendigo hit unconscious Dean and then fall myself.
I wake up, my head is killing me and my arms hurt as hell. I try to look around, my vision is still blurry, and I hope it's not a concussion. I see Dean beside me, we are both tied up by our wrists. A giant form appears at the entry of the cave, the Wendigo. I close my eyes to look still unconscious and keep my breath steady. I feel the breath of the Wendigo in my face. I hear my heart beating at a crazy rhythm. Stay calm, stay calm. I'm not hanging at the ceiling anymore, the Wendigo is dragging me away. I open my eyes and look around, there must be something for me to use against him somewhere? I feel myself going in the dark, again, and then nothing.
"Alex! Alex! Dammit! Answer me! Alex!"
I open my eyes and see Dean in front of me. I look around me and see dead corpse, fresh blood. I jump up letting out a gasp.
"Whoa it's okay, it's okay" Dean whispered to me taking me in his arms.
"Where's Sam and the others?" I ask catching my breath.
Dean grabs me by my arm to help me up.
"Getting out, come on we have to go, now".
We run away, I follow Dean. We find the Wendigo getting closer to Sam who is pushing behind him Ben, Haley and their brother Tommy.
"Hey!" Dean yells.
The Wendigo turns towards us, Dean shoots it in the stomach and he starts to go in flames. Flare gun, that's lucky.
"Not bad, huh?" Dean smiles when the Wendigo is gone.
Sam grins.
"You okay?" Dean ask me.
"Yeah" I lied.
My head is still hurting like hell and I see blurry spots, maybe just a little concussion.
After helping Haley and her brother's, we went to the ranger's station and called the police to bring Tommy to the hospital. I am sitting on the hood of the Impala, I only want to go to sleep. Sam and Ben are getting interviewed by an officer while Dean speaks to Haley. The paramedic patched me up, but I lied about the concussion, the last thing I want is to go to the hospital.
A paramedic goes see Haley and Dean and tells them something, but I can't hear them. They join Sam and Ben and they talk.
Haley kisses Dean on the cheek and leave with Ben. My brothers join me on the hood.
"You sure you're okay?" Sam asks me.
"Yeah, I only need some sleep".
"Alex" Dean sighed "we talked about that".
I remember that talk. We were on a hunt before going to get Sam, I got hurt and lied to Dean and it got infected, it was pretty bad.
"It's just a little concussion, I'll be fine. But don't ever bring me into the woods again, I hate it".
"Man, I hate camping too" Dean confirmed.
"Me too" smiles Sam looking at the ground.
The ambulance and police drives away.
"Sam, you know we're gonna find Dad, right?" Dean asked him.
"Yeah, I now. But in the meantime? I'm driving" he points at me "and you sleep".
"Don't worry about that, already thinking about that" I said.
Dean tosses the keys to Sam and go to the passenger seat. I lay down in the backseat and fall asleep.