Tayla awoke in hospital the next day, a stressed and crying Sam in the seat beside her bed his brother standing awkwardly by the door.
"Hey Sammy. How long have I been out?" Tayla murmured making Sam's head shoot up in shock, relief momentarily overtaking his grief stricken features.
"Hey Baby Girl, how do you feel?" Sam asked gently as he grasped her hand in comfort.
"A bit sore but I'll be fine. Jess?" Tayla asked hopefully her eyes closing in grief when Sam's face fell. "I didn't think so but I had to ask."
"What do you remember?" Dean asked seeing his brother struggle to get the words out.
"The last thing I remember is Jess pinned to the ceiling and then that fuckwit knocking me out." Tayla growled anger filling her mind as she remembered the thing that murdered her sister in cold blood.
"Wait start from the beginning what happened last night?" Dean prompted.
"Jess and I had decided to have a girl's night and Jess had gone upstairs for a shower whilst I packed for staying at a friend's today. The shower was still going once I finished so I headed into Sam and Jess's bedroom to wait for her to get out so I could say goodnight." Tayla began her voice fading to monotone as she stared at a spot on the wall blankly.
"Then what happened?" Sam asked desperate to piece together what happened.
"As soon as I entered the room I saw her on the ceiling with her stomach split open and bleeding her mouth open in a silent scream. I yelled for her and this man stepped out of the shadows and told me to keep it down or I'd wake the neighbours. I asked him who he was and what he had done to Jess he just grinned twisted at me and said she was in his way so he got rid of her" Tayla retold her eyes welling with tears.
"What did the man look like?" Dean asked professionally his eyes soft in sympathy.
"I can't remember my memory is kind of blurry but I remember screaming at him telling him I'd kill him and he just mocked me. I broke his nose though." Tayla said a dark smile on her face.
"Is that all you remember?" Dean inquired.
"No. He threw me off without touching me and I smacked my head on the bedside table. He told me that I'd been naughty and that daddy had to punish me. He-he choked me without even touching me and I thought I was going to die but then he let me go and told me it was time to sleep whilst slamming me up against the wall where he proceeded to punch me across the face making me black out." Tayla finished her voice laced with anger and pain.
"Why did he let you live though?" Dean asked.
"I don't care why I'm just glad she's alive." Sam said tightening his grip on her hand slightly as he tiredly ran his other hand through his hair.
"What happened after I blacked out?"Tayla asked more for the sake of asking then an actual want to know
"I came home and found the cookies you and Jess had baked and took one upstairs with me as I entered our room. I found you curled up on the bed but didn't find that too unusual and lay down behind you waiting for Jess to get out of the shower. I was relaxing on the bed for a moment before I felt something drip on my head and saw Jess. She- she exploded into fire and I screamed for her in shock. Dean burst in and grabbed you off the bed before grabbing me by the arm and dragging me out." Sam explained dully his eyes glassed over with emotion.
"What am I gunna do now Sammy?" Tayla asked in a small voice as she realised something. "I'm all alone now. I have no one all my family is dead."
"You're not alone Baby Girl. I'm not going to lose you too." Sam told her his large hand lifting her chin as she looked down at her hands. "I promise I won't leave you."
"But will they let you? I only just turned seventeen they're not just going to let me live with you" Tayla said fearfully not wanting to lose the last important person in her life.
"I'm almost certain that J-Jess put it in her will that if anything happened and you were still underage that you would stay with me" Sam stated stuttering on Jess's name.
"Hopefully. I'm kind of sleepy now; I might try and go sleep." Tayla tiredly stated relaxing back against her pillow.
"Alright Baby Girl. I'll be here when you wake up" Sam assured her sitting back against his chair and running a hand over his face tiredly.
~time skip~
Tayla was standing in front of a mirror having just been discharged from hospital just in time to attend her sister's funeral. Frowning she tugged at the hem of the black dress she'd brought after leaving hospital as most of her clothing had been damaged by the fire.
"You look fine" Sam told her as he sat on the bed in a suit heavy bags under his eyes which were also rimmed with red not unlike her own.
"I haven't been to a funeral since Mum died and now I'm burying the last of my family" Tayla said dully pulling her hair into a ponytail not being able to find the motivation to do anything else.
"I know baby girl come on we need to get going before we're late" Sam stated sympathetically standing from the bed and walking over to her, putting his arm over her shoulder.
"Right let's go" Tayla said shaking her head slightly to clear her head of her morbid thoughts.
~lalalala~
Tayla stood next to Sam in the front row, Sam's brother Dean behind them as she leant into Sam silent tears streaming down her face. Once the funeral itself was over friends and peers of Jess came to them offering condolences as Sam nodded his head and quietly thanked them whilst Tayla faked a small smile and accepted the hugs offered to her.
"Are you ready to go?" Dean asked coming up to them fidgeting with his suit uncomfortably once everyone else had left.
"Yeah lets go" Tayla answered as Sam nodded his head in agreement guiding her towards his brothers black Impala quietly.
~lalala~
"Where are we headed to now?" Tayla asked quietly from the backseat.
"I figure we head back to the hotel for the night and take off tomorrow morning" Dean explained.
"And where are we going once we leave?" Tayla enquired curiously.
"I'm thinking head to our family friends Bobby's. What do you think Sam?" Dean asked prompting Sam out of his melancholy mood.
"Yeah sure sounds good I haven't seen Bobby in years" Sam replied with a slight smile getting out of the car as Dean pulled the Impala into the motel parking lot.
"I'll go grab us a room then" Dean said as he got out of the car and walked into the motel office smiling awkwardly at Tayla as he passed.
"How are you doing Tay?" Sam asked worriedly as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder comfortingly.
"I don't sleep much until I pass out from exhaustion and even then it's not much but the pain is mostly numb now until I think of her or something reminds me of her and then it sparks back up again and it feels like my hearts being ripped in two" Tayla admitted exhaustedly leaning against him tiredly.
"Yeah me too, Smurfette" Sam agreed sadness lacing his voice as he looked down at the sad, exhausted teen in his arms. "Sometimes I'm not sure how I'll ever get past the pain"
"Jess." Tayla said simply looking up and catching his eye as a tear escaped her own. "You know if she could she'd be here telling us not to cry over her and to be strong, that we're survivors."
"She would say that" Sam said with a sad smile on his face.
"We'll get through it together, Sammy. For Jess" Tayla whispered as more tears slid down her face.
"For Jess." Sam echoed a lone tear falling from his eye as he wrapped Tayla in a hug.