……………………………………………CHAPTER 3……………………………………...
Checking out the dark dusty motel room Dean stands guard by the door while Sam runs a towel under the cold tap in the bathroom. Sitting on the bed Nina accepts the towel from Sam and begins to wipe off the scuff marks from her forehead.
"Sorry about that." Sam says apologetic as he grabs a chair and sits down in front of Nina.
"Who the hell are you guys?"
"I'm Sam and this is my brother Dean. We need to talk to you about last night."
"What about it?"
"Well…..how did you know what that guy was planning to do?"
Nina looks at Dean and then back at Sam.
"I didn't know he was planning anything. I just saw him from the window sitting in his car." Dean gives Sam a 'told you so' look. "He was loading a gun, doesn't take a scientist to figure out what's going to happen next."
"You've got your answer Sam, now can we leave?"
Sam's eyes remains locked on Nina.
"I don't believe you."
"It's the truth." Nina says standing up and walking over to the wardrobe where she pulls out a large brown duffel bag and throws it on the bed. As Dean watches Nina grab a few cloths off the floor he can tell that she is used to living out of a suitcase.
"No its not. Do you know what I reckon? I reckon that you saw what was going to happen last night in a vision." As Nina goes to grab a pair of jeans off the back of a chair she stops dead in her tracks. "Felt so real like you were there didn't it? When you woke up you had this overwhelming need to prevent it from happening…...at any cost."
Watching Sam, Dean stands up straight and listens as he hears for the first time the feelings his brother gets while having a vision.
With tears forming Nina turns around to face Sam.
"How did you know that?"
"Because I get them too."
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Finishing off her last French Fries Nina looks up at Sam and Dean who ate their food so fast she felt like a 2 year old at a dinner party that everyone was watching, waiting for her to hurry up and finish so that they could leave and go home.
After the brief interrogation Sam and Dean gave Nina, a peace agreement was made finished off by Dean grabbing some burgers from the diner while Sam filled in Nina about his and Dean's past. An hour later Nina swallowed the last French Fries and leans back in her chair staring at the brothers.
"Soooo you're both Demon hunters?"
Dean and Sam nod.
"And while you're helping the world get rid of poltergeists and evil spirits, you're also trying to hunt this demon that for some reason is choosing random children…..killing off their parents…..and then has decided to come back 21 years later to claim the children back?"
Dean and Sam look at each other and then back to Nina and nod.
"And your one of those children."
Nina points to Sam as he nods.
"And, I'm one of those children."
Nina points to herself and Sam again nods.
"Oh Shit!!!!"
Dean can tell that Nina is trying to process the information and to his surprise she was taking it better then he thought.
"So you never knew? About the demon or the fire?" Sam says leaning forward and crossing his arms on the table.
"No, I mean I knew about the fire because my mum died in it. I don't really know much about what actually happened though as my Dad died when I was 5." Before Dean can ask 'How' Nina already answers. "He killed himself. He never really got over my mother's death." Dean and Sam look at each other both knowing that had their father not been so strong he could have done the same thing. "After that I went to live with my grandmother who sadly died about 2 years ago. Now it's just me, myself and I. Oh and the open road." Nina says trying to give Sam and Dean a happy smile as she takes a sip from her drink.
"Why the open road? Why not stay where you were? You must have had friends, a job?" Sam removes his arms from the table and sits back into his chair.
"Oh I did, I had all of that and so much more." Nina pauses as she stirs her drink with the straw. "You know those visions you where talking about. I started to get them about a year ago, but in the last 8 months they got really strong. I was seeing people getting murdered, women getting raped and people drowning because their car crashed over a bridge. The more I read in the papers about the people I had seen the guiltier I felt about the fact that I didn't do anything to help them. I decided one day to just pack up and leave. Follow my visions if you will."
"And that's it?" Dean says sounding unsure about her story.
"No…..When my visions got stronger I started to have these dreams. Dreams of a man with yellow eyes who would come and visit me and tell me to do some horrible things. He promised me that if I went ahead with them he would be their waiting for me with open arms. I started to feel……things towards my boyfriend." Dean and Sam perk up. "I mean our relationship was never great and we argued more than anything, but the things I were feeling weren't natural, they weren't right. I….I felt like I wanted to kill him. I didn't want to be the person that yellow eyed man was trying to make me to be so I left everyone I ever loved so that I didn't hurt them. All of my friends have moved on now anyway. Some have got married, some gone back to college. I have no family to check in with, no one would even notice if I died I expect. I'm all alone."
"Do you wish sometimes that you had done what the yellow eyed man asked? Just so you had someone to be with? Someone there to love you?"
Dean looks up at Sam, shocked by what he had just heard as to does Nina.
"NO, I would never do the things he wanted."
Seeing the pain in Nina's eyes Sam begins to feel guilty as he realises that his last comment was a bit harsh.
"Can I ask you another question?" Dean says leaning forward on the table. "Why did you let my tyres down?"
Giving a slight smile Nina sits herself up straight.
"Just a gut feeling really. I saw you two in the vision, and your car being the only one left in the car park and I just thought, if anyone is bound to follow me it would be you two. And I didn't want to followed."
Dean laughs in his mouth as he tries to hold back the anger of his car being vandalised.
"Why did the Demon choose us? And if he really is coming back for you, me and the others then why do it now?" Nina asks as she pushes her empty cup away to the side.
Biting his lip, Dean refuses to comment as Sam shakes his head at Nina.
"We don't know."
Feeling the awkwardness of silence beginning to grow, Dean nudges Sam and signals towards the door.
"We're going to check in to a room." Sam says as he starts to put on his jacket while Dean pulls out a handful of fake credit cards and begins to flip through them in order to see which one is the best to use. "If we tell you all that we now then we might be here a while. We will be right back ok?"
Leaning against the door frame Nina watches as Dean chooses an American Express Credit Card and heads over towards the reception desk.
"Can you grab me a bottle of water from the vending machine please? It's at the reception desk?"
Before Sam can say 'ok' he sees Nina grab her head in agony.
"NINA!"
Hearing his brother yell Dean spins round to see Nina fall to her knees holding her head while Sam, who failed to catch her in time, bends down and holds on to her shoulders keeping her steady while she wriggles with pain.
As Sam places his hands on Nina's shoulders he feels his stomach suddenly get pulled away almost ripping itself from his body. As the rest of his body catches up Sam takes a deep breath and opens his eyes where he starts to scan the surroundings around him. Standing up Sam realises that he and Nina are no longer outside the Motel room in broad daylight, but are standing in the middle of a street surrounded by darkness with Dean nowhere in sight.
