A/N: Wow I wrote this chapter really fast. Actually I had this chapter written awhile ago while I was writing chapter 2. Anyway, Please read it.
Puppet
Chapter 3: An Enemy Found
They come into sight of Jake's house. They wanted to see if it was a demon and if it had been in Jake long enough to leave any sulfuric residue trails at his house. It would give them something to build on. Both Sam and Dean had a bottle of holy water and of course Sam had his book of Latin incantations. He had the demonic exorcism ear-marked. They didn't know what else to prepare for though so, they each brought a shotgun and a 9mm with different types of bullets.
They didn't say a word as they evade security and climb into the house by means of a unlocked window. Once inside they look around. Dean brought out his EMF Detector and Sam cocked a shotgun. There was nothing going off as they walked from room to room. They then hear something rustling coming from the next room. Dean puts the EMF Detector away and grabs his shotgun and made sure his holy water could be easily accessed. They open the door to what seems to be the living room. They heard another scratch as they entered. It seems to be coming from over near the couch. The couch is facing away from the boys, so Dean takes the left and Sam goes right. They each have their guns ready to fire. They make their way around the couch...
They look over the couch as they get closer and they see... nothing. But there is something there for again they hear a sound. This time, though, it sounds more like a snore. Dean still has his gun pointed, then Sam has a thought. He drops his gun to his side and makes for the couch at a quicker pace. Dean is shocked and is left wondering what Sam is doing. But Sam makes it to the couch and starts to chuckle. Dean tilts his head in wonder and advances forward. Dean sees what Sam is laughing at. Jake Hudson's golden retriever was under the couch, sticking its head out from under it. The dog breathes in deep and lets it out as another snore. Dean shakes his head in amazement, but keeps his distance. His heart is beating. Sam steps over the dog as they go to search the rest of the house. But there is nothing, no sign of any sulfuric residue or any other sign that a demon had lived there.
In the car, Sam laughed a little at Dean for being afraid of a dog. Dean counters with a fact that Sam was, too... at first. The battle it out in the car a bit but Dean could soon tell he was beat. He had never liked dogs much, and though a sleeping dog didn't really frighten him it was still nerve-racking for him.
Slowly driving in town, they head now to Laurie's house. This house is even more heavily guarded and it takes the boys longer to break in. They finally plan to make a commotion and while the police are busy they would get through a window. Sam sneaks around to the other side of an officer and throws a rock at his head. Bullseye. Sam quickly picks up another rock and intentionally misses to draw him away from that side of the house. The police officer leaves his post and goes to search for who had thrown the rock at his head, but Sam was quick and very quickly he was around the house and Dean was in the process of unlocking a window to the kitchen. There were many quiet shouts as all the officers were alerted. Sam and Dean hid in many places in the house eluding the cops as they searched through the house to see if anyone was in it, but they eventually left and Sam and Dean could search the house.
They head upstairs to where Laurie was killed. Upon entering the room they see greatly disturbed bloody sheets on the bed and splatters of blood covering the wall. Sam walks in with a disgusted look on his face and Dean follows right behind him with the EMF Detector in hand. He searches in vain, though, for there is nothing to be found. There seems to be no sign of a demon.
Dean's disappointed. Now that we're here I really want something to hunt. "Come on, let's go."
"Yea." was all Sam could say as he exits the room in disgust.
They silently walk down the stairs, Dean uses the EMF Detector on the way down just in case but nothing. He sticks the EMF Detector in his coat. They get back to the same kitchen window. Dean slowly lifts it up, making sure to keep quiet, but it only goes about half way before it is violently slammed down. Dean jumps back, just keeping his fingers out of the slamming window. They stare at it for only a second before Dean tries one more time. He tries with all his might, but the darn thing won't budge.
They, then, hear a voice behind them. "What are you doing in my house?"
Sam and Dean whip around, Sam points the shotgun, which is still in his hand, at the darkened figure. The man seems to smile in the shadow. "That gun won't work on me."
The man walks forward into the moonlight, which is shining through the unopened window. Sam has the gun pointed at a tall man with great arm muscles that could be seen through his blue jacket. A strong upper... and lower body. He also wore dark blue jeans. Starting on his neck and going somewhere down his arm is an intricate tattoo. His head was bald with the shortest black stubble on it. He seemed like he could put up an awful fight.
Dean raises his eyebrows at this man and he frowns. "Christo."
The man's eyes go pure black. "You found me. Now what?"
Dean smiles. He whips out the holy water the water that was in his hand behind his back. He puts an X pattern on him and he smokes and screams. "Now, Sam!"
Sam pulls out the exorcism, from his Latin incantations book, and immediately starts to read before the demon can recover from the holy water and get a drop on them.
Dean talks over Sam's chanting and the demon groans of pain. "So why are you here if you didn't do anything."
Through the pain the demon stutters. "How do you... you know I didn't do... anything?"
"No sulfuric residue... also you wouldn't have gotten yourself caught so easily if you had of done it."
Sam keeps on chanting as the demon grins and falls to the ground on his hands and knees. "You're smart... like your daddy... You... you're right, I didn't do it," He looks up. "And I don't know who did," He grins, "But I wish I had done it. Who... would have known you... guys would follow this trail. I... I would have done it myself if I had... of known it would bring... you here."
Dean flusters a little but quickly hides it. "Why did you want us here so bad?" What did dad do to this thing to piss it off so bad?
"Sim... simply put... your dad came after me. Now... I want to go after him. I... want revenge. But if... he isn't here, you guys... will do."
Dean scowls at him and keeps a deep frown on his face. He doesn't answer what the demon said. "So you sure you don't know what killed Laurie?"
"I'm... sure."
"See, I know demons lie so I believe you to be lying."
"You... think so... do you...?"
"Yea, I do." I hope he's lying anyway...
"Well... then you will... never... see... the truth."
Dean's very confused by this statement. "Huh?" What's that supposed to mean?
The demon raises his head higher. Then it starts laughing maniacally before the laughing is engulfed in screaming as the demon is expelled from the host body. It shoots up into the air and hits the roof with a splash like water hitting a wall. And upon hitting the roof it burst into flames quickly before it disappears even quicker. Chris stops screaming and falls the ground, unmoving. They stare at the roof for a second before both move towards Jake's side. Sam flips him over on to his back and in doing so Chris wakes up. He eyes slowly flicker open, and he looks around.
Sam has a worried look on his face. "How do you feel?"
"I feel... I can move! That thing has been inside me for a few hours and I couldn't control my movements. It was awful. I..."
Sam is trying to imagine what the guy could have been going through but he couldn't even imagine. "Shh. It's ok. The demon is gone. Are you ok?" I don't think he was in Chris long enough to actually hurt him much.
"Yea, I'm fine."
"You're not hurt at all?"
"No. I don't think so"
Dean is a little more stern when he talks. "Was the demon telling the truth?"
"Huh...?"
"About not killing these people? About not knowing what did?"
"Yea it... Oh my god. Laurie..." He tries to get up but Sam pushes him back down. "No... I saw the bloody sheets when I went up there. That was our bed. Laurie... Laurie is dead. No... no... no... I..."
"Yes she is. But you didn't do anything." It's so hard to comfort him.
But I didn't even wake up when she was killed. Maybe if I had waken up, I could have..."
Sam kept his voice soft for the grieving man. "No you couldn't have done anything. She was stabbed in the heart as I heard it."
"Yea, you couldn't have saved her." Dean was still stern.
Sam gives him a look that is saying how could you be so cold at a time like this. "Dean..."
Dean doesn't look at Sam. He could tell by the way he was staring what he was thinking. "Can you answer the questions?"
"No... No... It didn't kill Laurie. It told me. And it kept saying how it wished it did know what did. But he didn't kill... ... ... I can't believe she is dead."
Dean can tell this man is fine and he is just really really sad and mad about his dead wife, so he sits back a little. Sam continues to hold him up. He also wants to know what is going on here. "What else did it say?" Maybe if I can keep the guy talking, I can keep him calm.
"Well he said alot of times that if he had just been quicker he could have got to him this time. Find him. He was envious of his work I think. He wanted to find him. He..."
"This time?" What? This thing has killed before?
"Yea, I think the demon said that Laurie is the fourth person killed that way. Fourth... I wish the damn cops would get their heads out of their asses catch all the guys. Laurie would still be alive."
Dean perks up at this comment and chuckles. "Yea, I hear you." Finally someone agrees with me. See Sam? God...
"I mean they have no idea what's going on here."
"You two are like two peas in a pod." It's like having two Deans in a room. Scary...
Dean chuckles again. "Anyway, the fourth victim?"
"Yea, they had been saying on the news that there had been a rash of murders quite a while ago but they seemed to have ended, but then recently people had been dying. Four so far, one night after another after another. They all died at night while sleeping mostly. They also find different people killing them. They are all caught, but they all have the same MO which they are saying means they are all in a killing gang or something."
Dean thinks a minute. "How long ago were the first murders?"
"A couple weeks or so."
Sam looks up at Dean. "That's around the time the demon disappeared and Dad left."
Sam thinks about this but it doesn't seem to be really relevant to the murder of Laurie and the others. "Yea, and are all the murderers in jail?" Maybe we can speak with them.
"I'm not sure. The news was saying that something major was happening with them but they wouldn't tell what was happening because the cops were keeping it in tight locks."
Then Dean hears a noise outside, and realizes that they had been talking for a few minutes after all the screaming had been going on. He also realizes that cops had not flooded the house. By the look on Deans face Sam realizes this aswell. "Something must be going on." We should have been caught by now.
"Or maybe your distracted worked so well that these dumbasses are still looking for whoever was chucking rocks at their heads." Hilarious.
Chris chuckles a little and Sam just looks at him. Would you stop it already?
They pull Chris to his feet. He wasn't physically hurt so he was able to walk on his own. They get to the window and Dean opens it up enough to get out, and this time it doesn't slam down on Dean's fingers. They sneak out relatively quiet and quickly move to the cover of the trees that separated two properties. They all move quietly towards a cop car where an older cop is talking on his car radio. He then yells. "OK go on in." Dean and Sam looks towards where the cop is yelling and see about 6 cops flooding the house once again.
"Wow good timing." Good thing you were paying attention, Dean.
"Yea."
Sam then catches onto something that the older cop had said. He had been talking really quiet on his car radio, when he spoke up a little. "Oh no, he was a nice man. So he's dead?... OK And no sign of any killer?... Well if it is this gang, we will find the guy sometime soon, though I hope to catch this one before he goes into shock or whatever they are saying it is... Ok well get that body to the coroner's office, though I'm guessing there isn't going to be anything new. Stabbed in the heart right?... Yea, Ok..." That was all they were able to hear because then the older cops turns around facing the other direction making it impossible to hear anything more. Dean looks at his watch, which reads 9:57. He shows Sam.
They stay a little longer hoping to catch up on anything else they might have missed or hoping to get anymore information on this whacked-out case. Two cops come out of the house and report to the older cop who was still talking on his car radio. "Well...?"
"Nope nothing since last time we checked. There was definitely someone screaming in there though."
"Yea, sorry I didn't send you in earlier but there was that call on the radio and you all needed to hear it."
"Yea. I don't think it was much though, if nothing or no one is in the house now."
"Ok thanks."
"Yes, sir."
Chris shifts. He is getting a cramp. He was not used to stakeouts and just didn't have the muscle to stay still for long periods of time. He was a more active person. Sam notices this uncomfortable movement and nudges Dean. He looks over and making eye contact, he agrees with Sam that they probably won't find out anything more by staying. They sneak across Chris's neighbour's property to get to the road unseen.
A/N: This chapter had alot of action in it. Please tell me what you think of it. Seriously reviews are greatly appreciated, along with criticism.
