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Whispers in the dark

Chapter Four

That night John couldn't sleep; there were so many thoughts running through his mind, lots of thing didn't make sense. He decided to stretch his legs and take a wonder down the corridor, slipping on his dressing gown he was coming out of his room when he saw a nurse coming down the corridor towards him

"Excuse me nurse" John asked "Why is there no room 208?"

"I don't know, I worked here nearly twenty years and there has never been a room 208" she replied as she carried on down the corridor.

As he reached room 207 he was strangely drawn towards it again. There was something oddly familiar about it. Everything seemed wrong since he had awoken after the car crash. He walked into the room and immediately he felt a shiver run down his spine but he didn't feel cold and neither did the room. He had this strange feeling; walking over to the bed he placed his hand on the bedrail. It was then that he saw flashes of himself lying in this bed he could hear the beeping of the heart monitor, a wave of sickness and dizziness washed over him, gripping the bedrail with both hands he pushed the feelings aside.

It was all starting to make sense now, at first it had crossed him mind that it was some kind of conspiracy but that was ridicules; who would want to erase Sam and Dean's existence and then make Jim forget. He knew what was wrong here, it was him. Something had put him in a dream world to separate him from his sons and he had to wake up, get back to the real world and help Sam and Dean, they were in danger.

There was only one way he knew of to wake up from a dream, running back to his own room he searched for his duffel bag. He found it in a small wardrobe, tipping the contents onto the floor, he found what he was looking for; picking up his hunting knife and without a second thought that maybe he could be wrong he held the knife with both hands and plunged it straight into his heart.

John woke up to a familiar voice; Pastor Jim was reading the bible to him. As soon as Pastor Jim saw John's eyes slowly flicker open he stopped reading and lean over him.

"John, can you hear me?" Pastor Jim asked

"Yeah, I woke to up to tell you to stop reading that damn bible to me" John replied with a smirk

"I know how much you hate it, that's why I'm reading it to you, I knew I'd get a response from you" Pastor Jim replied back

"I'll ring for the doctor" Pastor Jim reached for the button

John gripped his arm "wait, my boys are they here in the hospital?"

"Yes John" Pastor Jim replied he thought it was a strange question "where else would they be?

John ignored him "I want to see them now" he started to rise from his bed, but Pastor Jim pushed him back down.

"Not until the doctor seen you first, they have both been in comas since they arrived at the hospital, but their conditions are stable, you need to think about yourself first, your no good to them if you have a relapse."

"Ok you win for now"

Pastor Jim pressed the button for attention "The doctor will explain to you about their injuries. It was touch and go for a while with Dean, his heart stopped beating and the doctors had to resuscitate him but he's doing ok now"

"Sammy, how's Sammy?" John asked

"This is where it starts to get a little weird, when Dean's heart stopped Sam's heart beat began to race; it was if he knew Dean was in trouble. I know how close the boys are put it was the oddest thing"

Just then the doctor walked in, it was Doctor Phillips from his dream world "Mr Winchester, glad to see you awake, you've been very lucky. You've cracked some of your ribs and broken your arm…"

John jumped in "Don't tell me, I've had a nasty bang to my head and as a result of that I have a concussion?"

Doctor Phillips looked amazed "that was exactly what I was going to say; how did you know I was going to say that?"

"Lucky guess"

"Now that you're awake I would like to examine you further"

"I'll be next door with Sam and Dean, room 208" Pastor Jim informed John

"There is no room 208" John replied

Pastor Jim and the doctor both looked at each other puzzled, it was the doctor who spoke first "of course there's a room 208, why wouldn't there be?"

How stupid had he'd been that's why in his dream world there was no room 208, it was Sam and Dean's room and it had been hidden from him so that he couldn't sense his own children.

Pastor Jim sat between the two beds and told the boys one of his stories, when they came to stay with him they would all sit around the open fire in his kitchen and he would tell the boys stories. He finished his story and lean back in the chair, closing his eyes he listened to the bleeping of the heart monitors.

The doctor pushing a wheelchair bound John into the room made Jim jump; he quickly stood up and moved his chair out of the way to make room for the wheelchair.

"I'll leave you for a while" Dr Phillips said he then left the room

"How are they?" John asked

"No change John" Pastor Jim replied "Did Doc Phillips tell you about their injuries?"

"Yes, they've both suffered minor cuts and bruises, they were lucky; if they had been awake their injuries would have been much worse. The doctor says he can't figure out why they are both in comas and why Dean's heart stopped suddenly.

John reached out and simultaneously touched their arms "I here for you now, something tried to separate us, it must see me as a fret to its plans, but don't worry I'm going to find a way to wake you up"

Pastor Jim listened to John talking to his sons, he wondered what John was talking about but he stood quietly and listened.

John turned to look at Pastor Jim, "I know why they're in comas and I'm going to need your help Jim?"

"You know I'll do anything for you and your boys" Pastor Jim replied as he squeezed John shoulder.

"Both Sam and Dean are trapped in the same dream world, their dreaming that they are in an abandoned hospital. I don't know how or why? All I know is we've got to find a way to wake them up"

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The soldier passed by, Dean with his hand still over Sam's mouth stepped out of the wall. They quietly walked out of the reception area, once they were far enough away, Sam stopped and turned to Dean "You said you won't be long, you were gone like forever?"

"Sorry, they never stopped talking or should I say whispering" Dean replied "Ok the long and the short of it is, there's a door in the basement, but it can't be opened from this side. But they warned me not to go down there because evil spirits wander around down there. There is also a girl like us here called Isabel, she came here some time before us and she wanders the corridors freely like we do, she stays on the upper floors."

What Dean didn't tell Sam was that nobody had ever left this place; only those who died naturally here when it was an actual hospital could come and go freely but Miss Alicia had captured most of them and trapped them in the walls; she hated them because she could never leave this place and if she couldn't nobody else was either.

They made their way back to the bottom of the staircase; all the time keeping an eye out for the soldier, the ghosts had told him that he helped Alicia to imprison them in the walls and they have to hide from him. They started to climb the stairs, once they reached the second floor where they had started from they carried on up to the next floor. They were stood at the top of the stairs deciding which way to search for Isabel when Dean heard very low whispering. He moved to the wall to listen to the ghosts. They were shouting out to him "Dean, she knows, she's coming; she's going to punish you again"

Dean looked up and down the corridor and saw nothing "come on we got to move, now Sammy" he yelled

But it was too late the ghost soldier had already appeared out of a wall and grabbed Sam from behind, he was pulled backwards into the wall. Dean followed them through the wall, when he came out into the room at the other side he froze, he saw Miss Alicia in her headmistress's image standing near Sam; they were both standing in the middle of the floor next to a cast iron bath full of water. The soldier reappeared behind Dean grabbing him by his upper arms; Dean was pushed towards the bath.

Sam shouted out "No, please don't punish him"

Sam wasn't prepared for what happen next. It wasn't Dean who was pushed into the bath, it was him; invisible hands pushed him down and held him under the water. His arms and legs franticly struggling to get out, he wanted air, he need air; his lungs began to burn with lack of oxygen, from under the water he could hear Dean's screaming and pleading with Miss Alicia, suddenly he felt like he was floating, he saw a bright light and he could hear muffled voices all around him, he could smell something it was oddly familiar to him, then he remembered what it was, that hospital smell of disinfectant and then he felt a sharp pain run thru his chest and then another that almost made him pass out

"It was me, I did it, not Sam, I talked to the ghosts in the wall, it was my idea. Punish me not Sammy" Dean pleaded tears rolling down his young face

"Please stop, please Miss Alicia" he begged trying to get out of the soldiers cast iron grip to get to his brother but the soldier was too strong. All Dean could do was watch as Sam slowly stopped struggling and his body went still. The soldier then let go of Dean, he started to hyperventilate as he slumped to the floor on his knees.

"It was me, I broke your rules" he sobbed "you should have punished me"

"I know it was you Dean" Alicia replied "and I am punishing you"

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Pastor Jim walked into John's room "I've spoken to Caleb and Bobby they're going get back to me on how to get the boys out of the dream world. Bobby's on a hunt but when he's finished he come and help us.

Just then they heard running footsteps outside the room, they went to the door to see what all the commotion was about, doctors and nurses were going into Sam and Dean's room. Both John and Pastor Jim rushed into the boy's room to see the doctor trying to resuscitate Sam; they watched helplessly as they heard another set off alarms going off and more doctors and nurses came rushing in, they went over to Dean's bed. The doctor working on Sam started giving orders to Dean's doctor. John and Pastor Jim were ushered from the room by the nurses. They stood in the corridor not knowing what was happening.

"I'm going to lose them both, just like I lost Mary?" John said a tear ran down his face

"The doctors are doing all they can John" Pastor Jim replied trying to reassure his old friend

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Dean looked at Sam's limp form in the bath "you bitch!" getting up Dean launched himself at Alicia but she put out her hand and Dean was stopped in his tracks by an invisible force.

"You are wayward Dean and you don't care about yourself, the person you care about is you brother, so to keep you under control, I will punish San every time you step out of line" Miss Alicia warned him.

Miss Alicia walked over to a wall stepping into it the bath disappeared, Sam fell to the floor gasping for air. Dean ran over to his brother turning him on his side and rubbing his back while Sam coughed up water.

"Sorry Sammy, it's all my fault. I didn't know she would punish you. I'm supposed to look after you, protect you."

"I'm ok Dean, you weren't to know" Sam replied between coughs

John and Jim looked at the doctors as they came out of the room. Doctor Phillips addressed John "Sam's heart stopped but he back with us, Dean's heart started to race, like he was having a panic attack, it was touch and go for a few minutes but their heart beats have returned to normal. You can go back in shortly once the nurses have finished"

"Thanks doctor" John replied with relief. The doctor left them and walked down the corridor.

"John you go in and sit with them, I want to make another phone call" Pastor Jim said he had his suspicions about this so called dream world the boys were in

Pastor Jim made his call to an old Naive American friend of his called Johnny Black Crow. He confirmed his suspicions that the boys weren't in a dream world; it was far worst then that. Now all he had to do now was tell his old friend the bad news.

TBC