Leila's first hunt, that she supposedly wasn't going to go on, gets underway. What will happen when Dean and Sam show up to fight the daeva? Will John come to help his children? When the daeva come to the warehouse, with Meg in control, will they be able to beat them and come out of this fight alive? This may be the most difficult hunt that the Winchester's have encountered...and now the boys have to protect their little sister before she does something even more stupid than sneaking into an abandoned warehouse to fight a supernatural being.
Leila drives up to the warehouse and turns off her car. There were no sounds apart from the sounds she made. She opens the trunk of her car and pulls out a shotgun, a small knife, and a flask of holy water. She sneaks her way into the warehouse, being careful of every step she takes. Eventually, she finds the elevator shaft that Sam said he climbed. There was no way in heck she was going to be able to climb up that like he did. She went back to her car trunk and got out a rope and something to weigh it down with, planning to use it like a makeshift grappling hook. She attaches the weight to one end of the rope and throws it up to the top of the shaft. It hooks onto the grating and, after confirming that it was secure, she puts her gun and flask in her boots to get them out of her way and starts to climb. With some effort, she makes it up and, seeing no one, she gets out of the shaft and finds a place to hide. She was not hidden for long before she sees the silhouette of Meg walking toward the altar at the other end of the room.
Meg stands there for a moment, which gave Leila a chance to take aim. Just as she is about to shoot, Meg speaks. "Isn't it a bit childish to hide, Leila?" Oh crap. That is not how I was hoping this would work out. Leila thinks to herself. "Why don't you come on out so we can speak woman to woman." Leila slowly stands up, still pointing her shotgun at Meg.
"How do you know my name?" she asks, remembering that when Sam introduced her, he called her Katie.
"Well, Ms. Winchester, I think a more important question is 'where are your brothers'." Meg says with a sly smile.
"I don't need my brothers to protect me from you or the daeva. I've done enough research to take you out myself." Leila retorts confidently.
"You're definitely a Winchester: you act confident and prepared, but you're really just cocky...and stupid." Meg says. Leila sees the shadow on the wall of a creature only a second before that very creature attacks her, knocking her down, clawing and ripping at her as she tries to fight back. However, it is hard to fight back when you can't see the thing you're fighting. After fighting the daeva for as long as she could, Leila passes out, her blood gushing from her new wounds.
Leila wakes up after not too long and realizes she is tied up against a pole. Then she looks up and sees two other people in similar situations...Sam and Dean. "Dean." she whispers, not wanting to find out where Meg was. Dean stirs a bit and then his eyes open.
"Leila!? I told you not to come here!" Dean nearly yells at her. If he weren't tied up, he'd have tackled her.
"I couldn't let you two do it on your own. I knew Dad wasn't going to be here." Leila explains.
"How would you know that? I didn't know that for sure."
"I don't know. I just knew he wouldn't be here to help you two." she shrugs. Meg walks to where they were sitting tied and she crouched down in front of Dean and Leila.
"How sweet, the siblings all here. Though one is a bit slow." she says, looking over at Sam.
She stands up and walks over to the altar and decides to wait for him to wake up before she reveals her plans. Leila looks around the room trying to think, fiddling with her pockets and the rope binding her hands. Then, she feels her pocket knife in her right jeans pocket. She looks over to Dean and waits for him to look her way. Once he does, she signals to him to look behind her back, flashing the knife in her hand. He grins slightly and flashes his own. She starts to work on cutting her rope when Sam starts to wake up.
Once Sam is fully awake and alert, he looks over at Dean. "Hey Sam? Don't take this the wrong way, but your girlfriend? Is a b-" Dean says.
"Yes." Sam says, defeated. "The whole thing was a trap. Running into you at the bar, following you here...it was all a setup, wasn't it?"
Meg smiles smugly.
"And that the victims were from Lawrence?" Sam asks.
"And that I was friends with them?" Leila adds.
"Honey, that doesn't mean anything." Meg smiles.
"So you just killed them for nothing?" Leila says, trying to escape from her bonds. Her tone was very hostile and, if she had not been tied up, she would have tackled Meg.
"Honey, I've killed a lot more for a lot less." Meg says evilly.
"You trapped us...good for you...it's Miller time!...So why don't you kill us already?" Dean says, sarcastically.
"Not very quick on the uptake, are we?" Meg says. She leans in towards Dean. "This trap isn't for you."
After thinking for a moment, Sam figures it out, while Dean still looks confused. "Dad...It's a trap for Dad." Sam says to Dean.
"Aw, sweetheart, you're dumber than you look." Dean says cockily to Meg. "Cause even if Dad was in town, which he's not, he wouldn't walk into something like this. He's too good."
"He is good, I'll give you that." Meg walks over and crouches down in front of Dean. "But you see, he has one weakness."
"What's that?" Leila asks, mimicking her brother's cockiness.
"You." Meg says, moving her gaze to Leila. After a moment to let that sink in, Meg continues. "He lets his guard down around his boys...and even more around his apparent daughter. Let's his emotions cloud his judgement." He looks back to Dean. "I happen to know he is in town...and he'll come and try to save you." She looks at Sam. "And then the daevas will kill everybody...nice" She pauses to turn to Dean. "And slow" she turns to Leila. "And messy."
"Well I got news for you. It's gonna take a lot more than some...shadow to kill him." Dean says confidently.
"Oh the daevas are in the room, here. They're invisible. Their shadows are just the only part you can see."
"Why are you doing this, Meg?" Sam asks. "What kinda deal you got worked out here, huh? And with who?"
"I'm doing this for the same reasons you do what you do: loyalty...love." Sam and Leila both roll their eyes at that answer. How could someone like her have any idea about love and loyalty when she kills people for fun? She looks to Sam. "Like the love you have for Mommy and Jess."
Sam freezes at the mention of those names. How dare she speak of them in such a way. She has no idea what love is, especially the love he felt for those two women. He tells her where to go and Meg just smiles slowly.
"Baby, I'm already there." She crawls over to Sam. "Come on, Sam. There's no need to be nasty." She gets really close to him with her mouth to his ear and whispers seductively "I think we both know how you really feel about me." She sits on his lap. "I know. I saw you...watching me...changing in my apartment. It turned you on, didn't it?"
"Get a room, you two." Dean says. He was partially distracting Meg so that she wouldn't realize what he and his sister were up to.
"I didn't mind." she says, not interested in Dean's commentary. "I like that you were watching me. Come on, Sammy. You and I can still have a little dirty fun." She starts to bite at Sam's ear. This alone makes Leila uncomfortable, but she was still focused on cutting away the rope tying her hands.
"Wanna have fun? Go ahead. I'm a little tied up, right now." Sam says. As far as Leila could tell, Sam had seen Dean's knife and so was simply stalling so his brother could get free and take her down.
However, as Meg smiles at the comment, Dean struggles with the knife in his bound hands. He drops it, quickly picking it up, but it made enough noise that Meg heard it and walks over to him. She crouches down and feels Dean's hand as he tries to hide the pocket knife. She grabs it and tosses it past Leila. In doing that, she sees Leila's knife and goes to grab it from her as well, throwing it in the same general direction. Meg looks Leila in the face with a grin, then crawls back over to Sam, picking up where she left off.
"Now were you just trying to distract me while your brother and sister cut free?" Meg says playfully.
"No" Sam whispers to Meg. "No." Leila is suddenly a little concerned because she thought that that was exactly what he had been doing. Then Sam, with a smile, says to Meg "It's because I have a knife of my own." His hands now free, he grabs Meg and rams his head into her body, knocking her over and disorienting her enough so that she will need a minute to get up.
"Sam, get the altar." Dean says. Sam, still reeling from the blow but quickly regaining his bearings, gets up, walks past Meg, and knocks over the altar.
Suddenly, the same shadows that had attacked the Winchesters not even an hour ago begin to soar towards Meg, who still laid on the floor. She turns to crawl away, but not fast enough. the daeva grab her ankles and begin to drag her to the window as she protests. Then, before Leila could even process what was happening, Meg was thrown out of the multi-story warehouse. Sam rushes back to where he had been tied and grabs his knife. He goes to Dean and then Leila, cutting their bonds then helping them to their feet. Once they were all standing, they rushed to the shattered window, looking down to the street where Meg now laid motionless.
"Guess the daevas didn't like being bossed around." Sam says, in awe of the situation.
"Guess not." Leila says.
"Hey Sam? Next time you wanna hook up with a chick? Find a girl who's not so buckets of crazy, huh?" Dean says, always the one to even slightly lighten the mood. He grins and walks off as Sam and Leila stay at the window a moment longer, looking down at the body of a girl that none of them had expected to be as evil as she was.
Walking back into Leila's house, Dean looks back at his brother, who is carrying the same big bag of weapons. "Why didn't you just leave all of that stuff in the car?"
"I said it before and I'll say it again: Better safe than sorry." Sam retorts.
Leila unlocks the front door and leads her brothers inside. After a very short moment, Leila can tell something is off. She looks over and sees a silhouette of a man in the doorway leading to the living room. She puffs up her chest, trying to seem as tough as possible, then yells "Hey!" in an attempt to startle the man. The attempt failed and the man simply turned around slowly as Dean turns on the kitchen light. Upon seeing the man's face in the light, Leila lost all of her resolve to look tough and her shoulders sagged.
"Dad." Dean states, in shock of his father's unexpected presence in the house.
"Hey kids." John says with a smile. He walks slowly over to them and hugs Dean first. Then Sam puts down the bag of weapons and receives a similar strong hug from his father. John looks to Leila like he wants to hug her, but assumes she is still angry with him. "Hey Leila."
"Hey Dad." she says, still astonished that her new-found father had broken into her house.
"It was a trap. I didn't know. I'm sorry." Dean says, ashamed that he was not as perfect a son as he has always aimed to be.
"It's fine. I thought it might have been." John says.
"Were you there?" Dean asks.
"Yeah. I got there just in time to see the girl take the swan dive. She was the bad guy, right?" John says with a slight smile at the question.
"Yes sir." Dean and Sam say in perfect unison. Leila bowed her head, realizing just how much she missed by not knowing that these men were her family. They had a system, a way that things were run. She hadn't learned what system that was, yet.
"Well doesn't surprise me. It's tried to stop me before." John says simply.
"The demon has?" Sam asks.
"It knows I'm close. It knows I'm gonna kill it. Not just exorcise it or send it back to hell...actually kill it."
"How" Dean asks, perplexed at such an idea of killing a demon.
"I'm working on that." John smiles.
"Let us come with you. We'll help." Sam offers.
"No, Sam. Not yet. Try to understand. This demon is a scary son of a gun. I don't want you caught in the crossfire. I don't want you hurt."
"Dad, you don't have to worry about us." Leila says.
"Course I do. I'm your father." John turns to look at his daughter. "Listen, Leila. Last time we were together, we had one heck of a fight."
"Yes sir." Leila says timidly.
"It's good to see you again." John says with tears in his eyes. "It may not have been very long since that fight, but I've spent your life away from you...it's been such a long time."
"Too long." Leila says, tears building in her eyes as well. John steps forward and wraps his arms around Leila in a long-awaited embrace between father and daughter. He releases her after a moment and steps back to where he was before.
John takes a breath in to say something, but before he can say it, he is thrown back into the kitchen cabinets by one of the daeva. The daeva then strike Sam, Dean and Leila in turn, throwing them away from their father. Dean tries to crawl towards his dad, but a daeva throws him back down. Another shadow demon holds John against the cabinets and strikes him repeatedly as he cries out in pain. Sam, though, can get to the bag of weapons. He goes through it and picks up a flare.
"Cover your eyes! If these things are shadow demons, let's light 'em up!" he says. Then he, Leila and Dean covers their eyes as Sam sets off the flare, lighting the entire room in brilliant white light and getting rid of the demons, for now. They stumble their way out, Dean helping John, Sam carrying the weapons, and Leila walking shakily but swiftly from the house, coughing at the smoke made by the flare.
They make it to the car and Sam throws the bag into the back seat of their Impala. "Alright come on! We have to hurry. As soon as that flare is out, they'll be back."
"Hold on wait, wait!" Dean says, hurriedly. Then, tiredly, "Sam wait." He looks at John, saddened by what he was about to say. "Dad, you can't come with us."
"What?! What are you talking about?" Sam asks, beyond confused.
"You kids...you're beat to heck." John says.
"We'll be alright." Dean says.
"Dean! We should stick together! We'll go after this demon is-" Sam argues.
"Sam, listen to me!" After a few moments to be sure he had Sam's attention, Dean continued. "We almost got Dad killed back there. Don't you understand? They're not going to stop. They're gonna try again. They're gonna use us to get to him. I mean Meg's right!...Dad's vulnerable when he's with us." He looks over slightly to his father. "You're stronger without us around."
John considers all that his son has said. Upon seeing his father consider leaving them again, Sam's eyes grow wide. "Dad. No." He puts a hand on his father's shoulder. "After everything we've done, after all the time we've spent looking for you, please. I've gotta be a part of this fight."
"This fight is just starting." John tells his son. "And we are all going to have a part to play. So now you've gotta trust me son...kay? You've gotta let me go."
After a moment, Sam nods his head slightly, claps his hand on John's shoulder, and drops his hand back to his side. John gives meaningful looks to all of his children and walks to his truck. Before getting in, he looks back at them and says softly "Be careful, kids." Then he gets in and drives off.
Winchester kids stand there, processing what just happened, then discuss what the next move should be.
"Should I take my car?" Leila asks quietly.
"Sure. You can follow us around. That is one car I wouldn't mind following my baby." Dean says with a slight smile.
"Okay, I'll go get it." she says with a similar smile to her brother's. She walks around to her garage to get the car, but soon after she rounds the corner, a car pulls into her driveway. It may be dark, but she would know that car anywhere after having ridden in it so many times and parking in it more times than that.
She hears the car door open and slam shut. "Hey, nice get-up." she hears a man say.
"Go away Damien." Leila says annoyed. She whips around, ready to tell him off, beat him up, and anything else that she needs to do to get him to leave her.
"I was just trying to be funny, Leila. Don't be so serious." He pauses for a second, looking at her by the light of his car's headlights. "What happened?"
"None of your business...what did you call me?" she asks after thinking about Damien's words. He knew her as Katie, not Leila.
After a moment of silence, Damien walks forward slowly with a growing smile. "Hello, Ms. Winchester."
Leila, suddenly speechless, backs up, running into her car and cornering herself between it and the house itself. Her battered body freezes in fear as Damien's villainous face gets closer and closer to her own. He grabs her arm and she finds her voice. "SAM! DEAN! HELP!" she screams, but it was too late, by that point. Damien has a hold on her and carries her to his car as she thrashes around, trying to get free.
"LEILA!" she hears Dean call from the front of the house, concern filling his voice. Leila is thrown into the back seat of Damien's car just as Dean and Sam run around the corner of the house. Damien gets in quickly and begins to drive away as Dean and Sam run after the car. Leila struggles to escape the car, but before she can get far in her attempt, Damien knocks her over the head and she passes out.
Dean and Sam then watch in horror as their little sister is stolen from them again after only just being reunited.
A/N: Well after seeing how this hunt went, what do you think? Will the boys find Leila? What is Damien going to do to Leila? Will they see John again any time soon? Find out in the next chapter of this story that may never have an end. This is my first story on . I had this story on a different site before, which is why I posted these 6 chapters so quickly, but I wanted more feedback than what I got. I will try to post as often as possible, but it would help if you as the readers offered ideas for me to go off of. Please comment with your thoughts about the story so far and your ideas for what will/should happen next.