Chapter Four

Later that night Dean lay on the couch thinking about what Cas had told him. How was he supposed to stop Lilith from break seals? He was happy to be out of hell but he never imagined he would be coming back to only to see the world end. Thoughts of Lauren flashed through his mind. He couldn't stop thinking about her. Every time he looked at her he felt something inside him.

Dean closed his eye and drifted off to sleep:

"Dean, Dean...my favorite student." Alistair said, walking over to him.

"What the fuck do you want now?" Dean snapped. He would give anything to rip him apart.

"What more can I ask for from you? I got exactly what I wanted. I knew you would break sooner or later but who knew it would be much sooner than anyone ever thought."

"I'm already in hell so why not make the most of it." Dean said and picked up another blade and waited for the next soul.

"That's the attitude I like from you but who said hell had to be all work and no play," he said and turned around, "Lauren, get over here!" He yelled and once again the young girl walked over to Alistair and Dean, "Dean you remember Lauren don't you?" That name kept only replaying in his mind over and over, "Lauren, Lauren, Lauren"

Dean's eyes snapped open, "Lauren? No way," He jumped off the bed and ran up the stairs. It couldn't be her and if it was how the hell was she here.

Lauren was sitting on the window seal when the door burst open and she saw Dean walk in and up to her, "It's you isn't it?" He asked her as he grabbed onto her arms.

"Dean let me go you are hurting me." She said trying to free herself from his tight grip, "Have you lost your mind?"

"Don't you fucking lie to me, Lauren! I know it's you!" he said and could see the fear in her eyes that he had once seen before. It had to be her, "You were the one in hell!"

Lauren stopped struggling long enough to look into his eyes, "Dean you….you are talking crazy. No one goes to hell and comes out alive." She said as his grip on her got tighter and a tear rolled down her face, "You're scaring me." She said and Dean let her go. That's when he knew it had to be her:

Dean walked into the room to see Lauren sitting on a dirty blanket on the floor, "I knew it wouldn't take you long to finally give in Dean." She said and stood up, looking at him, "They all do sooner or later." She said and turned from him. He walked over to her and grabbed her arm, pulling her up into him. Lauren winced a little as she felt her arm bruising, "Dean please…. just let me go or at least don't let it be like this." She said and he looked into her eyes.

"Like you said, you knew I would be back but things are a little different now but I still have some self control so let me ask you, are you in or are you out?" he asked as he held onto her tightly.

"And what if I said I was out?"

"I would leave unlike some but I don't think you want me to go do you Lauren? So I will ask again, are you in or are you out?"

Lauren had a feeling if she said no that there was a good chance he would walk away but that would leave her with Alistair tonight, "I'm in." she said and Dean's lips came crashing down on her.

He pushed her down onto the hard floor forcefully. He pulled his shirt over his head and lay on top of her. He felt her shaking beneath him as he kissed her neck, "What's wrong with you?" he asked in a deep voice as if he really cared but he knew at this moment he was just wanting her to say nothing.

"You're scaring me." She said quietly.

Dean just looked at her as she rubbed her arm. When Sam walked in, he saw Dean standing in front of Lauren "Is everything ok in here? I heard yelling." he asked and Dean turned around.

"I'm going out!" He yelled and walked out of the bedroom.

"Lauren what's going on?" Sam asked her.

"I….I don't know he just came in here saying things." Lauren said.

"Like what?"

"He was talking about…..he was talking about hell."

Sam's eyes widened at those words, "What did he say?" He remembered that Dean told him he didn't remember anything from hell.

Lauren was beginning to panic, "Uh, he was saying that he knew me from hell or something. He has lost his mind Sam."

"I'll go talk to him." He said and walked out of the bedroom.

As soon as he was gone, Lauren started cursing herself for agreeing to do something like this. There was no telling what Dean was going to do when he got back.

Dean drove down the road as fast as he could. He needed to get away from her. Maybe it was her but then again maybe it wasn't. If it was her then how was she alive? Did she really not remember anything? All these questions went through Dean's mind as he traveled down the dark road. He had tried for weeks to push all the memories of hell from his mind and now it was all he could so to keep them gone.

I saw Lauren from across the room and snuck up behind her, running my hand down her back sending chills down her spine. She knew it was me by the way I touched her. Lauren began to walk away but I just grabbed hard onto her and pulled her back against my chest making her gasp. I then whispered in her ear, and the tone I used would scare any poor women's soul, "I need a release."

Dean just shook the memory away. Even in hell he never intended on hurting her but just the very fact that she was in hell and he didn't know why made him angry. What could she have done to go to hell and become Alistair slave? Every time he tried to forget about her another bad memory came to him:

Lauren walked over and placed a new blade in front of me and looked at the soul. It was her job to make sure I changed it up a little, "What?" I snapped at her.

"I didn't say anything." She said and started to walk away when I grabbed her, "Dean let me go!"

"So let me ask you something Lauren, what did you do that made you have to spend eternity in hell huh? Did you kill someone or maybe even have someone killed? Mommy and Daddy not love you enough? Prince charming didn't want you?" I seethed into her ear.

Lauren pulled away from me forcefully and I could see the fear in her eyes that I had grown to love, "You don't know anything about me Dean and if you want to play that game then let me ask you why you are here But then again I can see why because you are just as evil as Alastair. After all you are his best student aren't you?" She snapped at me and I couldn't stand being compared to that sick bastard so I raised my hand and slapped her hard. I watched her fall to the grown and cover her face.

"Don't ever act like you know me bitch!" I said and walked away.

Dean pulled over to the side of the road and hit his fist on the steering wheel, "Damn it!" he yelled at he ran his fingers though his hair. How could have he had acted that way toward her? Maybe she was right. He was no better that Alistair.

Lauren sat on the bed holding her amulet, her legs were shaking. Alistair was not going to be happy about this. As she gripped it tight, she began to feel light headed and fell back onto the bed.

When she opened her eyes she was once again looking into the darkest pits of hell, "I guess you know why you are here." Alistair said as he came up behind her and she swallowed loudly, "I am not happy."

"I…I know but it's not my fault he found out. I didn't say anything to him." She could feel his breath on her neck as her heart began to pound.

Alistair gripped her arms and pulled her back against his chest, "This is your last warning. You now have two weeks and that's all. Lilith is working on the seals as we speak and I can have them messing anything up for us. I have heard there is a young girl on earth that just so happens to be very special. Find her! Lead Sam and Dean to her and I am will to the rest. I can kill two birds with one stone."

"Who is she?" Lauren asked.

"That's what I want you to find out for me and like I said, this is your last chance. See you soon my love."

Lauren gasps as she sat up on the bed, "Lauren?" She looked up and saw Dean standing in the doorway "Is everything ok?"

"Yeah….yeah just a bad dream I think." She said and he walked in and closed the door.

"I need to talk to you, Lauren." He said and walked over to her, "First I am sorry about earlier. I didn't mean to hurt you or scare you but I have my reasons."

"Uh, its ok I guess but mainly I was just confused a little."

Dean walked over to the bed and sat next to her and she tensed up, "Lauren, this might sound crazy to you and personally it kind of sounds crazy to me but I have to ask you something."

"Does this have something to do with why you attacked me earlier?" she asked and looked at him.

"Again I am sorry about that but I just had a very, very weird dream."

"I am guessing I was in it or someone like me?"

"Yeah it was just someone I use to know and I have to ask you, what were you doing lets say a month ago?"

Lauren sat there for a moment and thought back 'well I guess I can't say hiding from you in hell' I was working at a service station. Why do you ask?"

"Because I don't think you were Lauren, I think you were dead." He said and Lauren looked at him. 'Ok Lauren how are you going to get out of this one', "And I know it sounds crazy and you don't have to believe me. I think it has something to do with why you have that amulet."

"I told you I found it after my father died."

"Maybe that's what they want you to think."

"Who?"

"Let's just say a certain demon you once knew but I want you to know that we are going to figure all this out."

Lauren looked up at him and wasn't sure what she could say without letting him know she knew exactly what was going on, "Why would you want to help me?"

"Let's just say I owe you more than you remember." Dean said and Lauren was a little shocked, "You will be safe and we will find out what really going on here but you have to trust me."

That was something that was going to be hard for her to do considering their history together but she had to try. Only two more weeks and Alistair and Dean Winchester would forever be in her past. She just had to play her part, "I trust you."

"Give me your necklace." He asked her and she wasn't sure if she could do that.

"Why?"

"It's for your own good I promise. We need to find out what this thing actually does."

"O…ok" she said and took it off and handed it to him. She felt like a huge wait was lifted off her and she felt almost….free.

"Try and get some sleep Lauren and don't worry about anything. We are pretty good at what we do so we will figure this out and you can get on with your life." Dean smiled at her.

"Thank you." She said and Dean pushed a strand of hair from her face before getting up.

Lauren watched as he walked out of the room. She placed her hand on her chest and smiled. It was the first time in a long time she had not wore that thing and she loved the feeling. It made her feel almost…happy. Maybe this was a way to get out of her deal herself. If he could see her then she couldn't hurt her but she had to work fast and maybe Dean could help her in someway. She wasn't going back to hell no matter what it took.

A/N I had a really hard time finishing this chapter but thank you DeanWinchesters Guardian Angel for helping me get on track. Please let me know what you think and what you may like to see happen. Reviews make it so much easier to write.