Chapter 4: First Encounter
"I swear, Dean Winchester, you're a bigger trouble magnet than I am!" Harry shouted as they ran down the salvage yard.
"It's not my goddamn fault!" Dean snapped and yelped when Harry grabbed his forearm and pulled him behind a pile of cars. Dean covered his head when the car on top of the pile exploded and parts of it started to rain down on them.
"Shield!" Dean looked at Harry and his eyebrows met the line of his hair when he saw that two glowing lines were circling around Harry's forearms and that a golden shield was around them.
"Useful." Dean muttered and Harry growled.
"I swear to God if we get out of this alive I'm going to gut you!"
Several Days Before The Gutting Threat
"It's starting." Bobby said and threw a piece of paper on his desk. Sam, Dean and Harry looked up from whatever they were doing and frowned.
"What is?" Harry asked and put down the crystal he's been scrying with.
"We have a cicada swarm and crop failure in Nebraska." Bobby said. "Pretty standard demon omens." He said and Harry leaned over the map of the world he had in front of himself.
"Let me guess." He muttered. "Just outside of Lincoln?" He looked at Bobby through his bangs and Bobby raised an eyebrow at him.
"Yeah. That map of yours that detailed?" Harry snorted and smirked.
"Sure is. Who's going to check it out?" He asked.
"We should all go. I'm not comfortable with leaving anyone behind." Sam said and Bobby nodded his head.
"I agree." Bobby said and Sam looked at Harry.
"I want to ride with you. I've read a few books on demon deals and I'd like to look over a few things with you." Harry sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
"You're not giving up on trying to break that deal are you?" He asked and Sam snorted while Dean rolled his eyes and Bobby grumbled something about stubborn idjits.
"No way in Hell." Sam said and looked deep in Harry's eyes. Harry hummed and the others frowned when they saw him unconsciously rub his left forearm, just under his elbow.
"Did Ellen call in?" He asked and looked at Bobby.
"Yeah. She met up with Joe. They are going to scout out ahead and do what they can. She said we should call them if we need help with anything." Harry breathed a sigh of relief and nodded his head.
"We should move out as well then." He said.
"Do you have some weapons or do you rely on magic only?" Sam asked.
"I'm fully stashed." Harry said.
"Ditto." Dean said and stood up. "Let's go waste some demonic sons of bitches!" He said and Harry rolled his eyes while Bobby and Sam snorted.
"Right. Let's pack up and move out." Harry said and stood up. He ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. "This is gonna be a long day."
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Harry nodded when Dean signalized him to go to the back of the house. Harry looked at Sam and showed him to follow him.
"Stay close, kid." He muttered and Sam rolled his eyes but followed Harry like a shadow never the less.
They rounded the house and found the back entrance that led into the kitchen. Sam almost puked and Harry buried his mouth and nose in his elbow when the stench of decay hit their nose. Dean entered the kitchen and Harry nodded at him. Dean nodded his head in the direction of the room next door and the three hunters walked over slowly.
"Oh God." Sam rasped when they found three corpses on the couch.
"Bloody hell." Harry muttered and looked up when Bobby entered the room.
"Anyone else in the house?" Harry asked, doing his best to ignore the putrid stench in the air.
"Yeah. Something that was once a dog." Bobby said and looked over the bodies.
"I'd say definitely demon work." Dean said and returned the safety on his gun.
"What gave it away, genius, the stench of sulfur or the fact that they seem dried out and anorexic beside a fully stocked kitchen." Harry muttered and Dean shot him a glare.
"I don't like you, squirt." Dean said and stopped in front of Harry who looked in Dean's eyes and took another step closer to him.
"The feeling's reciprocated, Faust." Dean wrinkled his nose in confusion and Harry rolled his eyes. "No use offending an idiot." He muttered.
"Guys." Sam's interruption made the two look at him and Bobby rolled his eyes.
"Seriously, now is not the time." Harry snorted while Dean rubbed his nose and shot Harry a small glare.
"Do you think there was more than one?" Bobby asked and Harry shrugged looking over the corpses.
"I'd take a wild guess and say no." He muttered and looked around. "We have nothing to do here. Let's go." In that moment they heard movement and all four of them tensed up. Harry suddenly had a butterfly knife in his hand and his eyes flashed a brighter green for a second.
"Split?" Dean asked and released the safety on his gun.
"Sam." Harry said and moved for the back while Bobby and Dean moved for the front. Sam took his gun and tapped Harry's shoulder.
"Let me go first." He whispered and Harry frowned for a second while he quickly calculated the possibilities. He nodded minutely and let Sam go first. Just as they were about to round the corner they heard a shout and the sound of a body meeting the floor.
"Isaac!" Bobby shouted as Sam and Harry ran around the corner only to stop in their tracks.
Dean was on his ass and two dark skinned people were shaking hands with Bobby.
"It's been a long time Bobby." The one Sam and Harry presumed was Isaac said while Dean picked himself up off of the floor and the woman checked them over.
"Tamara. It's been a while." Harry muttered lowly and immediately found himself facing the barrel of her and Isaac's guns. Harry rolled his eyes while Bobby, Sam and Dean observed the exchange with raised eyebrows.
"Good to know you three know each other." Bobby said and the two looked at him with matching frowns.
"You know he is a-"
"Natural born wizard; no deals, no strings attached." Bobby said and Isaac and Tamara looked at Harry who shrugged and pursed his lips slightly.
"Don't even try, Bobby. These two are almost as bad as John Winchester." He muttered and started to walk towards his car. "You five chit chat all you want. I'm going back to Bobby's to try and find out what the fuck happened to those people." Sam looked at Dean who shrugged and then at Bobby who shook his head at Isaac and Tamara. The two wore confused looks on their faces.
"Come on. We'll fill you up along the way." Bobby said and the two nodded in agreement.
"Sure." Isaac said and they made their way to the Impala where Dean was waiting for Bobby.
"I'm riding with Harry!" Sam shouted over to them and entered Harry's car.
"You're really not good with making friends, are you?" Sam asked as Harry started the car. The raven haired hunter snorted and drove over to the road, starting on their way to Bobby's.
"I'm not good with making friends with people who try to kill me. Call it survival instinct." Sam chuckled and shook his head.
"Makes pretty clear why you've kept away from hunters." He said and Harry hummed lowly.
"Sure does." For a few moments there was silence in the car and then Sam looked at Harry.
"Do you really think Dean's deal can't be broken?" He asked and Harry sighed.
"Again with that." He muttered and Sam shot him an apologizing smile. "Look, kid." Harry said and sighed. "Every deal can be broken. Usually it's because one side doesn't keep to it. As much as I understand the deal Dean made is pretty simple. The demon brings you back to life and he gets a year to live. At the end of the year the demon collects Dean's soul. End of story." Sam frowned and looked down at his hands. "The way I see it, the only way to break the deal is for Dean to die before the year expires."
"What?!" Sam snapped and Harry shot him a dull look.
"You asked for my opinion, kid. Don't gape when I give it to you."
"But-but that would mean-"
"He dies, the deal is broken, and you die." Harry said and Sam gapped at him. "Easy as pie. Fact is no one wants that."
"But why would Dean have to die?" Sam asked and Harry sighed.
"The demon gave him a year to live, Sam." Harry said. "Demons need to know when the human is going to die because if they die in the duration of the deal, the deal is off and they lose the soul; it goes to Purgatory, Heaven, wherever. Essentially, that means that Dean has more than a year to live. If Dean dies before the year is done, the deal is off." Sam frowned.
"That makes sense." He muttered. "Doesn't mean I like it." He said and sighed.
"I know, kid." Harry muttered and gripped the wheel tighter. "I know."
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"Look if you don't like being here then scam! I'm as happy about this as you are but I'm not rubbing it in their faces!" Bobby walked into his living room and found Sam and Dean sitting on the couch, watching the showdown between Harry, Tamara and Isaac.
"Be quiet, Wizard!" Tamara snapped and Harry glared at her. "You are as much of a monster as those demons are-"
"Oh shut up about it already!" Harry snapped. "This isn't about me being a Wizard it's about the two of you blaming them for all this bullshit! Sam didn't ask for Azazel to mark him for this shit and they sure as hell didn't know about his plans, so get your heads out of your respective buts or get the fuck out of here!"
"Shouldn't you be fighting this battle, Dean?" Bobby muttered to the two. Sam rolled his eyes while Dean grinned at him.
"It's funnier to watch and besides, if they insist on this after the Squirt is done with them, I'll take things into my own hands." Sam looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"What?" Dean asked. "Nobody offends my brother like that, hunter or not." Sam's eyes widened slightly but he was stopped from saying anything when Harry suddenly roared.
"WHO THE FUCK DO YOU TWO THINK YOU ARE TO PASS JUDGEMENT LIKE THAT!" Tamara and Isaac took a step back and winced when the lamp on Bobby's table exploded. "It's like you never made a bloody fucking mistake in your whole fucking lives!" Tamara winced while Isaac took a step forward.
"Not like this. Oh, yeah I've locked my keys in the car, turned my laundry pink. Never brought on the end of the world, though."
"Who the fuck said anything about the god damn end of the world?!" Isaac looked at him with wide eyes.
"Alright, stop this." Bobby interfered and Dean groaned.
"It was just about to become interesting." He muttered and Sam chuckled before he stood up. Harry snorted and ran his fingers through his hair.
"Do whatever you want. I'm gonna eat something." He grumbled and made his way into the kitchen.
"Are you two with us or not?" Bobby asked and Tamara and Isaac shared a look.
"Sorry, Bobby. But we're solo players." Isaac said and looked at Sam. "We're gonna hunt down this son of a bitch on our own." He said and Tamara smiled at him.
"We'll stay in contact." She said to Bobby and they left, with Bobby following them to escort them out. Dean whistled lowly and stood up.
"That was interesting." He said and Sam chuckled. He shook his head fondly at his brother and followed him into the kitchen. They were closely followed by Bobby and they joined Harry at the table.
"So, what's our next course of action?" Sam asked and Harry snorted before he swallowed the bite he took.
"We should track down that demon." He said.
"How?" Bobby asked and Harry shrugged.
"I can try scrying for him or I could try a locating spell. Or…" He trailed off and the three frowned at him. Harry rubbed his left wrist with his right hand.
"What?" Dean asked.
"I can make my foxes locate him. That's the fastest way I know. I've done that a thousand times already." Sam, Dean and Bobby exchanged looks and nodded almost simultaneously. They looked at Harry and Bobby spoke for all three of them.
"We'll go with that."
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Night was slowly falling and Bobby, Sam and Dean were leaning on Harry's car.
Harry stood a little in front of them with his eyes closed, breathing slowly and deeply.
"Here goes nothing." He muttered. He clapped his hands in front of his chest and a wave of magic that spread around him made the three hunters shiver. Their eyes opened wide when they saw the tattoos around Harry's wrists glow gold, float off of his skin and start circling around his wrists.
"I humbly call upon the Gods of Harvest." Harry spoke lowly and another wave of magic spread from him. His eyes snapped open, glowing pure gold. "Follow my wishes! Leave non unfulfilled!" With that it seemed like lightning exploded around him. In a gust of white smoke two giant foxes materialized in front of him. Both of them were white and instead of having only one tail, each had 5. The one standing on Harry's right had blue eyes, while the one on his left had red eyes.
"Your wish is our command." They said and Harry lowered his hands.
"Track him down. We'll follow you." He said.
"As you wish." The foxes spoke again and disappeared.
"Where did they go?" Sam asked while Harry rushed over to the car.
"Let's go." He said and the three quickly entered his car.
"Don't you worry they'll be seen?" Sam asked. Harry snorted and drove off the salvage yard as if Hell Hounds were chasing them.
"They are only visible to those they want to be visible to." He said and stepped onto the pedal making the others grab onto whatever was closest.
"And you complain to me about my driving!" Dean snapped and Harry smirked at him.
"You've seen nothing yet."
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Uko and Mike disappeared and Harry crossed his elbows on the wheel, leaning forward to peek at the restaurant the foxes led them to.
"They said there are more inside and that our culprit is with them." He muttered and his fellow hunters leaned forward as well.
"Did they say how many?" Bobby asked.
"7." Harry muttered. "Which makes sense in a way." He said.
"How does that make sense?" Dean asked and Harry hit his head against the wheel.
"All beauty, no brains." He muttered.
"What did you say, scar-face - AUCH!" Dean snapped when Harry's swiped the back of his head. "What the fu-" Dean stopped when he saw the deadly look in Harry's eyes.
"Never-ever call me that again, do I make myself clear?" He growled lowly and Bobby and Sam flinched back a little. Usually Dean's first reaction would be some smart ass remark, but there was something in Harry's eyes that told him he would feel very, very sorry if he said anything.
Harry looked back out at the restaurant.
"Aw, bloody, fucking hell." He muttered and the other three looked out.
"I can't believe this." Bobby said. "They are just marching straight in there!" He said and Harry unlocked the car.
"Bloody, stupid idiots!" He got out, closely followed by the others. He walked back to the trunk of his car and opened it sharply.
"What's the plan?" Dean asked and raised an eyebrow when he saw Harry's wand appear in his hand all of a sudden. Eight 5 liter canisters appeared in the truck and Harry placed the tip of his wand in the first one.
"Aguamenti." He muttered and to the surprise of the other three the canister started to fill up with water that was flowing out of Harry's wand.
"Damn. Magic is useful." Dean muttered and Harry hummed lowly. Once he was done filling up the canisters he reached into his pocket and pulled out a Rosary. "Bobby." The oldest hunter jumped into action and pulled out his own Rosary. Sam and Dean exchanged looks, shrugged, grabbed two canisters each and pulled out their own Rosaries from their pockets.
"Let's get this show on the road." Harry muttered once they were done. "We only get them out of there. No heroics." He said and the other three nodded. Each grabbed two canisters and as one they marched for the restaurant. They burst through the door just as Isaac collapsed on the ground and Tamara screamed.
"Get them!" Dean shouted and soon enough the demons were screaming as the holy water burned their skin.
"Tamara!" Bobby shouted and let go of his canisters to grab the hysterical woman. "Move it!" He shouted and they ran for the exit.
"NO! I can't leave Isaac! I can't leave him there!" Tamara screamed as Bobby pushed her into Harry's car and the others followed them in.
"REPULSO! INCIDERE!" Tamara's screams stopped as she stared in shock at the demons Harry set aflame with a single word. He jumped into the driver's seat, started the engine and in a burst of speed they rushed down the road and away from the demons.
"You destroyed them-"
"No, I didn't." Harry interrupted Sam. "If it were so easy I'd call in a few favors and we'd be done with this whole charade by the end of the month. They are angry and they are coming after us." He said and looked at Tamara through the rearview mirror.
"I hope you're happy with yourself." He muttered and Tamara's breath hitched in her throat.
"What?" She rasped out and Harry snorted.
"Nothing." He grumbled and focused on the road. "We're fucked."
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"Are the traps ready?" Sam asked when Harry passed beside him with two bags of salt in his hands.
"Yeah." Harry said and spared Tamara a glance. She was sitting on Bobby's couch, with a dull look on her face and a Palo Santo stake in her hands she didn't have a chance to use earlier. Dean and Bobby walked into the room just as Harry finished salting the windows.
"We're as ready as we'll ever be." Bobby said and Harry put the salt bags on Bobby's table.
"This is the best we can do." He muttered and Tamara spared him a look. He snorted and shook his head.
"Bloody idiots." He muttered and Tamara snapped.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Harry looked at her with darkened eyes. "I just lost my husband! I just lost-"
"And whose fault was that!" Harry roared and Tamara winced back. "You just strolled in half cocked and expected everything to go just fine when you know that in this whole damn situation we can't know how many of those BLOODY MONSTERS gather at one place!" Tamara looked to the side in shame. "You brought this upon yourself, so SHUT UP and PRAY we survive this shit!" Dean looked at Sam and Bobby who couldn't find anything to say.
Really, what more was there to say?
Sure, Tamara had every right to mourn her husband's death, but in all honesty it was their fault. Both of them would have died if they hadn't pulled Tamara out.
Everyone looked at Harry when he cursed under his breath and walked over to the window.
"What is it?" Sam asked.
"They're here." Harry muttered. In that moment the lights flickered and Dean cocked the shotgun he was holding.
"Let them come." He said.
"TAMARAAAAA!"
"Oh god…" Tamara whimpered and squeezed her eyes tightly shut.
"Tamara, help me! Please!" Tamara ran over to the window but Harry grabbed her arm.
"Don't you dare." He growled lowly and she shot him an incredulous look.
"Tamaraaa! I managed to escape, but I'm hurt pretty bad! Please!"
"That's a demon in his body, Tamara." Bobby spoke and Tamara whimpered, burying her face in Harry's shoulder. Harry looked at Sam, Dean and Bobby with dark, hateful eyes.
He hated, absolutely abhorred demons.
Loud knocking shook the front door and the five of them walked into the hallway, with Tamara clinging onto Harry.
"Baby! Why won't you let me in? You left me behind back there! How could you do that?" Tamara whimpered and Harry's eyes darkened even more. "We swore! At that lake in Michigan! Remember? We swore we would never leave each other!"
"God! How did he know that!" Tamara whimpered and Harry gripped her arms tightly.
"Steady." He muttered and she looked at him in shock. The demon hit the door hard and they rattled making everyone look at them, hoping they wouldn't break down.
"You just gonna leave me out here?" The demon shouted and hit the door again. "You just gonna let me die?!" Tamara's eyes widened and she pushed away from Harry a little. "I guess that's what you do, dear!" The demon's voice turned mocking and Tamara shivered in rage. "Like that night those things came to our house." Tamara's breath started to come out quicker and she shivered in rage. "They came for our daughter! You just let her die, too!" In that moment Tamara ripped herself out of Harry's hold and with a war cry rushed at the door.
"YOU FUCKING SON OF A BITCH!" She screamed insanely and tore the door open.
"No!" Bobby shouted when she broke the salt line and charged at the demon. The two tumbled down the porch.
"You're not Isaac!" She screamed and pierced the demon's heart with the stake. Harry and the others rushed forward only to stop in their tracks when 6 demons practically strolled into the house.
"Fuck!" Dean snapped and raised his shotgun. Before he managed to fire it one of the demons raised his hand and all 4 of them were suddenly flung back.
"Bloody hell!" Harry cursed as he picked himself up. He saw three demons chase Sam up the stairs and another go after Bobby. He looked at Dean who was a few meters away from him and then at the two demons that were coming at them.
"Repulso!" He snapped and the demons were flung back. He scampered to his feet and over to Dean. He grabbed his arm and pulled him up.
"On your feet soldier!" He snapped and Dean got up with a growl.
"I soo hate you right no-" In that moment they were flung through the windows and onto a pile of old car parts.
"Son of a bitch!" Dean groaned as they rolled off of the pile and ran off onto the parking lot. Harry pulled Dean behind a car and quickly looked him over.
"Hurt anywhere?" He asked.
"What?"
"ARE YOU HURT!" Harry snapped and Dean flinched back.
"No. I don't think so."
"Good." Harry was about to look around the corner only to be forced to duck. Dean grabbed his arm and pulled him along. They ran down the salvage yard, among the piles of cars, trying to buy themselves a little time.
Dean pulled Harry under a bunch of cars.
"I think we have a moment." He said, trying to catch his breath. He looked at Harry and frowned when he saw some blood trail down Harry's neck from behind his ear.
"You're hurt." He said and Harry reached up only to wince.
"Insignificant." He said.
"Yeah, and you were about to bite my head off because-"
"Run!" Harry snapped and pulled Dean along. "I swear, Dean Winchester, you're a bigger trouble magnet than I am!" Harry shouted as they ran down the salvage yard.
"It's not my goddamn fault!" Dean snapped and yelped when Harry grabbed his forearm and pulled him behind a pile of cars. Dean covered his head when the car on top of the pile exploded and parts of it started to rain down on them.
"Shield!" Dean looked at Harry and his eyebrows met the line of his hair when he saw that two glowing lines were circling around Harry's forearms and that a golden shield was around them.
"Useful." Dean muttered and Harry growled.
"I swear to God if we get out of this alive I'm going to gut you!" Dean rolled his eyes.
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"We have to get back to the house! It's our only chance to trap them!" He said and Harry nodded. He looked around and saw the two demons coming at them with malicious smirks on their faces.
"Be ready to run." Harry rasped out. He lowered his hands and the shield fell. He quickly clapped his hands in front of his chest and closed his eyes.
"I humbly call upon the Gods of Harvest! Follow my wishes! Leave non unfulfilled!" Dean let go of a shivering breath when Uko and Mike appeared in front of them again.
"Your wish is our command!"
"Run!" Harry snapped and pulled Dean along in the direction of the house.
"Can't those foxes take care of them?!"
"I'm not strong enough to hold them on this plane for long!" Harry answered and Dean raised an eyebrow, but forewent a snarky remark. The house came into vision just as Harry stumbled in his run and the lines pulled back to stick to his skin. Dean reacted quickly and grabbed him before he met the ground.
"Dean! Harry!" Sam ran out of the house and gapped when he saw the two demons coming after them. "Bobby!" He ran back into the house followed by Harry and Dean and they ran for the basement.
"Two more are left!" Dean shouted and let go of Harry who leaned onto the closest wall.
"Here's Johnny!" One of the demons said with a big grin and Harry scampered away from them.
"There's nowhere else to run." The second demon said, almost lazily.
"Let me guess." Harry gasped out as Sam helped him stand while they pulled back. "Pride and Sloth." He said and the demon of Pride chuckled and looked at his companion.
"Right you are." He said and tsked with a grin when the hunters met the wall. "Like I said, there's nowhere else to run. Why don't you just die in peace." He said but stopped in his tracks when Harry's wand appeared in his hand and he pointed it at them. Pride laughed at that.
"You think you can stop us with a little wand? You're exhausted." Pride almost gushed and Harry sneered at him. "You would die if you tried that handy killing curse of yours."
"Funny you mention that." Harry gasped out. "Thankfully, I don't need that to stop you." He said and the demons frowned in confusion. "Revelo!" Harry snapped and with a sound of breaking glass, on the ceiling directly above the two demons appeared a devil's trap.
"You little-"
"Bobby!"
"Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus, Spiritus, omnis satanica…" The second Bobby started to chant the demons screamed and it was over in a matter of minutes. When the bodies of the two men met the floor, the hunters breathed a sigh of relief. Harry took a seat on the ground heavily and Sam kneeled beside him with a heavy sigh.
"Glad that's over." He muttered and Harry shot him a small glance. He looked at Dean and Bobby who were leaning against the wall, breathing just as fast as Sam and Harry did.
"Oy, magic-man." Dean said and Harry looked at him from under his sweaty bangs. "Didn't you say you'd gut me if we survive?" Harry rolled his eyes, groaned and collapsed heavily on the floor with his arms spread out to the sides.
"Aw, shut up."
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