CHAPTER 4

The creature's head exploded, but her teeth remained in Dean's shoulder. A sickening rip sounded as the creature's body ripped away from the remains of the head. Sunny pulled the body away as Sam checked his brothers broken arm to make sure he hadn't done any more damage to it than there already was. John knelt down next to them. "Dean, I need you to open your eyes and look at me." Dean didn't open his eyes and began to tremble. John brushed a hand over his son's forehead and already felt it heating up with fever. "Sam, get the holy water from the trunk." John didn't even look to see if his youngest did as he was told before he grabbed the first aid kit that still lay nearby. As John opened it Dean began wheezing. Sam returned with the jug of holy water. He was pale with worry as he saw his brother gasping for breath. "Get him to calm down!" John barked the order as he began to remove the teeth in the bite wound with a pair of pliers.

"Dean, please breath." Sam glanced at his Dad than sat against the crumbled Impala. He waited until his Dad removed the tooth he had been working out before he carefully pulled his older brother's upper body into his lap. Sunny helped move Dean so he was sitting up and against Sam. John moved to their side and continued to work. John was not surprised to see Dean's wheezing slowed down some once he was near Sam. His boys always had done better in each other's presence.

"Pore some of that water on the blood on his face." John said to Sunny as he gestured towards the jug. The woman did as he said and dumped some of the holy water on the blood to wash it away. The scream Dean let out as the water touched his skin startled John and he looked at his sons, seeing the worried look in Sam's eyes.

Sunny dropped the jug and moved away. "What was in that?"

"Holy water." John grabbed the jug as he abandoned his work on getting the rest of the head removed from his son's shoulder and brought it to Dean's lips.

"Dad, it might hurt him more…"

"I have to." John poured some of the water into Dean's mouth. Dean coughed and choked on it. Steam rose from his mouth and he began thrashing around trying to get loose from his brother's hold. Not being able to waste anymore time John ripped away the rest of the teeth in Dean's shoulder and dumped the holy water onto the wound. Dean screamed louder and the wound oozed with pus. Sam held onto Dean tighter and began singing something softly to only his brother. John picked up a few of the lines and recognized it as a song from one of Dean's Metallica tapes. Dean calmed down and relaxed against his brother. John cleaned the bite and than wrapped it. He pulled the blanket back over to cover Dean. John closed the first aid kit. "Get the girls over here. We can't be caught off guard again."

Sunny looked to want to say something. She didn't though and headed towards the girl's car.

"He's still burning up."

John got a couple of aspirin out of the first aid kit and put them in Dean's mouth. He brought a bottle of water to Dean's lips. "It's just plain water, Dean. If you can hear me I need you to drink." The lips opened slightly and John poured some of the water into Dean's mouth. Dean swallowed it. Kat came to their side and sat against her father and uncle. John stood up and turned towards the three women. "They may be coming back. We need to be prepared. If you don't know how to use a gun get Sunny to show you. Don't let Dean out of your sights." John headed towards his truck and climbed up into the back of it. He unlocked the locker back there and began to go through it as he looked for anything that he thought could be used for some protection.

Sunny looked at the two college girls. "You point the gun at what you want to hit and shoot. With any luck you might hit what you're aiming at…" Sunny's eyes drifted to where she left the creatures body and found it gone. There wasn't even a speck of blood where it had been. "Have…Have either of you ever shot any type of gun before?" She turned her eyes to the girls hoping they didn't notice the body was gone. She didn't want them anymore scared than they already were.

"We've played paint ball before." April answered. "I'm not very good though."

"It's something. I'll see if John has any handguns." Sunny walked over to the truck and looked at the stuff John was going through. "What is it you do? Do you have any handguns for the girls?"

He handed her two of them and extra clips. "Have you ever seen anything unusual in your years driving a truck?"

"More than one. It's something you pay attention to when your out driving alone." Sunny went to the two girls and handed them the guns and ammo before returning to John. "You're too heavily armed to be just a normal hunter. Are you part of a militia?"

John shook his head. "I trained my sons to be warriors, but not against the government. We are hunters. We hunt supernatural things that hurt people. I've never heard of the creatures that we just seen before. I'm thinking their some kind of shape shifter. Normal bullets and shotgun shells killed it so that's a plus."

"I'm not sure its dead." Sunny looked at the empty spot where she left the body. "It's gone."

John looked. How the hell had it gotten away with all of them watching? If the body could disappear that fast or be taken that fast it would be too easy for it to take one of them.

"Dean might be better off in the back of my truck. I'll clear a space." Sunny didn't give John a chance to say no before she headed to her rig. John grabbed a piece of chalk from a case in his truck locker and left the truck. He walked to the semi and began to draw symbols on it that he hoped would keep the creatures out. If they didn't he knew their next action would have to be to try to get to town and that would mean leaving Dean here.