I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take so long to upload this chapter. I've been very busy with work and my daughter. I do get the weekend to myself, though, so I'm going to spend some time writing my stories, getting ahead with work next week and just enjoying myself. This really doesn't happen that often.

Anyway, that being said...here is the next chapter. Thank you for the review for the last chapter, and I'm sure this will answer your questions.

Chapter 4

Hen placed the body of his wife on the floor and started pacing. Wyatt didn't ask any questions, but place his hands over the blonde-haired beauty. He panicked when nothing happened. Was it really too late? It couldn't be.

Dana realized that Wyatt was having trouble and rushed to Wyatt's side. She placed her own hands over Kelsey's body, hoping that the golden healing glow would appear. But it didn't.

"No, Wyatt, you need to!" Hen called out, "You need to. I can't lose her, too."

"What do you mean too?" Chris now asked, only able to watch as the scene played out in front of him.

"Demons attacked. They took Emily and Sarah," Hen explained, "I couldn't heal Kelsey, though."

Melinda covered her mouth in shock as she watched the whole events unfold. Just as she thought she was going to collapse, Dean grabbed her to hold her steady. She placed her head on his chest, tears streaming down her face. Dean's jaw clenched as he realized that the demons that had attacked him and Riley were all part of a bigger plan.

"Where's Xandra, Wyatt," Bianca asked again, as Hen collapsed to grab the body of his wife. He just cradled Kelsey, knowing that there was nothing anybody could do for her now, "Wyatt!"

Wyatt looked at his wife, tears in his eyes. The sadness soon changed to anger, "They took her. The demons."

Hen now looked up from his wife's body and locked eyes with Wyatt, "We need to find them."

"We will do," Wyatt had a dark sound to his voice, "And the demons are going to pay."


Melinda couldn't stand being in the same room as everyone else. Wyatt and Hen had instantly gone to create a plan of revenge. They didn't even know what they were up against, but they clearly wanted blood. Both had children they needed to save and Hen was out for blood for the death of his wife.

Dana and Bianca were sitting in the sun room with Kelsey's body covered by a sheet. They still needed to discuss what they were going to do about it. Dean and Sam had mentioned salting and burning the corpse, but none of the others wanted a hunter's funeral. That wasn't the Halliwell thing to do.

Chris and Riley had explained to the Winchesters that those close to them would get proper burials. They always got full funerals, and that was how it had to be for Kelsey. Hen wouldn't want anything different, and his daughters deserved to say goodbye to their mom properly once they were back. It was during that conversation that Melinda needed to escape.

She couldn't believe the family were going through all this again. It had been almost two years since Ben had been killed and then her mom. But it still felt like yesterday. The family was still moving on from all the sadness and heartbreak. She couldn't believe that they had been thrown this now.

To help her deal with it, she'd gone into the garage. The only car in there was Chris' Mini, but it was enough to help her think. She popped the hood and started working on giving it an oil change. It was better than sitting around doing nothing. She wasn't too certain right now what she could do. There were no leads to know which demon had caused this, and everyone was still really in a state of shock.

"I thought you'd come out here," Dean's voice distracted her from her thoughts. He had two bottles of beer in his hand, holding one out for her, "I thought you might appreciate this."

"You know me too well, Winchester." Melinda pointed out, taking a beer from him and drinking a quarter of it instantly. She leaned on the workbench, placing the bottle on it. She couldn't face anyone right now. This was part of the reason for the garage. She could run through her thoughts alone. But Dean wasn't going to let her be alone. He did know her too well, and knew the state she could get herself into.

Dean walked up behind Melinda, placing his own bottle on the workbench. He then rubbed her shoulders.

"Talk to me, Melinda." He simply instructed her, a gentleness in his voice. Somehow, he was still calm through all this. Maybe it was the fact that he'd seen so much death, or maybe it was because he just needed to be calm right now. Everyone else was panicking and struggling to deal with the events that had happened.

Demons had attacked everyone who could have possibly gone to help Wyatt and Hen. Groups of sacrificial demons had gone just to keep some of them occupied, while the main demons took the children. It was clear that the children were the focus the whole time.

"Why the kids?" Melinda asked, with a shake of her head, "Why take them and leave the rest of us? Of all the people to die, it was Kelsey. She was mortal. No threat to them at all. But they left the rest of us and took the kids. I mean, the demons that attacked Sam and me were pretty much cannon fodder. They were never meant to succeed."

"Same with the ones that attacked Riley and me," Dean agreed, "It was too easy to get rid of them. They were just supposed to be a distraction."

"So, why the kids?"

Deep down, Melinda knew why the kids. It was easier to turn them evil. It would also kill Wyatt and Hen; the eldest of both of their sides of the family. Destroying them would weaken the whole Halliwell family. It would make all of them easier to kill.

"Do they know who was behind this?" Melinda turned to face Dean, but the look in his eyes gave her the answers. Nobody had any idea of who orchestrated this attack. The Halliwells had plenty of enemies.

The anger was bubbling up in Melinda. Suddenly, she felt too constrained being in Dean's arms. She needed to fight. She needed to do something. Forcing his arms away from her, she turned and flipped the workbench with a scream.

Dean simply watched as she took her frustration out on the items around the garage. After the workbench, she moved to the worktop of tools, pushing them all onto the floor. They clanged on the floor, masking the sound of her banging the top and kicking the side of the cabinets. The lights were flickering like crazy, making it clear that her emotions were out of control. That was the sign for Dean to grab her again. It was the sign that she needed him to help reel it all in.

As soon as he wrapped her up in his arms, she started crying in frustration. He felt her body slump as fatigue overtook, and he helped her drop to the floor safely. He just knelt and held onto her, rubbing her hair and back as she cried into his chest. As the emotions overtook him, he felt a single tear fall down his cheeks. It may not have been his family by blood, but he counted the Halliwells as family. He wanted revenge just like everyone else, and he was going to make sure they all got it as well as the three kids back.


So, hopefully that answers one question but raises more. I'll be getting more into this story soon and you will get the answers as to who was behind all this and why. I'd love to know what you think, though :) Please R&R. Thank you!