A/N: don't own don't sue
Full Summary: Returning from studying in England, Jessica's sister doesn't buy the story she's fed about her sister's death and she tracks down Sam to find out what really happened. Sam welcomes the help but she's not the kind of girl Dean's used to….
Pairings: DeanOFC SamJess
Rating: M for language and eventual sex scenes
Lyrics at the beginning from 'Drift Away' by Uncle Kracker ft Dobie Gray
Hell Hath No Fury
Chapter Seven – Drift Away
Day after day I'm more confused
Yet I look for the light
Through the pourin' rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
And I'm feeling the strain
Ain't it a shame
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll
And drift away
Beginning to think that I'm wasting time
I don't understand the things I do
The world outside looks so unkind
Now I'm counting on you
To carry me through
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll
And drift away
And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I'm feeling blue
The guitar's coming through to soothe me
Thanks for the joy that you're given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Your rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You've helped me along
Makin' me strong
"Mum, I'm fine. Will you just… the university said it was ok… I'm not going to drop out… Mum!"
Sam paused in the doorway of the room he shared with Dean when he saw his brother sat at the desk staring at Maddy who was sat on the desk with her phone to her ear.
"Dean?"
He glanced at his brother slowly closing the door behind him and shushed him.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked as he deposited the books and files he had dug out of the hotel's rather limited library onto his bed.
"Watching Maddy… she's on the phone to her mom."
Sam came over to stand before Maddy who sighed and switched the phone to her other ear, her brow wrinkled as she listened to her mother's tirade.
"Has she been able to get a word in?" Sam asked and she stuck her fingers up at him.
"Once or twice."
Maddy kicked Dean in the shoulder, almost knocking herself off the desk with the effort.
"Well what do you expect me to do?" She snapped into the phone, receiving another tirade down her ear.
"That's real nice Mum, you kiss Daddy with that mouth?"
Dean lifted his eyebrows in amusement and mouthed the word Daddy at her, she glared at him. After a few more moments of half-started arguments Maddy closed her phone with a scowl once her mother had hung up on her.
"So… how's Mrs Moore then?"
Maddy narrowed her eyes at Sam before throwing the bronze paper-weight at him, it made a lovely dint in the wall next to his head.
"I gather she's not very happy with you taking time off school."
"Bite me, can I use your shower?" She said angrily, getting off the desk and stomping over to the bathroom without waiting for an answer.
"Dude, her room's right next door." Dean muttered once the bathroom door had slammed behind her.
"Are you going to tell her that?" Sam replied, already digging through old reports on the hotel.
The boys worked in silence for a few moments, Dean on the laptop and Sam skimming through the reports looking for anything unusual.
"I thought Jess's last name was Moore." Dean half-muttered, breaking the silence they had been working in.
Sam looked up and frowned; "It was."
"So why did you call Maddy Taylor?"
Sam continued to frown at him for a long moment before shaking his head; "I can't tell you that."
"Why not?"
The shower stopped and Sam lowered his voice a little; "Because it's not my past to tell."
Maddy emerged from the bathroom before Dean could reply, wrapped in a huge fluffy white towel and rubbing her hair with another.
"Maddy… where did the name Taylor come from?"
She froze and turned to stare at Dean who was slouched back in the chair and watching her wet body with interest.
She sighed and made her way to the door; "You better come next door, it's a long story."
The two brothers exchanged a look before getting to their feet and following her into her room where she was rummaging through her suitcase for something to wear. Dragging out a bundle of clothes she disappeared into the bathroom to get dressed, leaving the door open a little so they could hear her.
"I'm not like my sister you know, we led very different lives." She called out through the door.
"See Jess, well she was your typical high school senior. Straight A's, on the swim team, very popular. I, however…"
Her voice was muffled as she pulled on a t-shirt and she emerged buttoning up her fitted shirt.
"I was rather more independent than Jess."
She crossed the room and grabbed a brush from her dresser, sitting down before the little vanity table and setting about doing something with her rather wild hair.
"It helped us both though. We ran in different social circles, were members of different clubs and took different classes. It made us closer because we never had to compete with each other."
Dean sighed; "And what does this..."
"I'm getting there." She interrupted him, plaiting her hair and glaring at him in the mirror.
"Well Jess never really had that much time for dating in high school. But I, well I learnt at a very early age how to get what I wanted from men and give them nothing but sweet talk in return."
She smirked at Dean in the mirror and he scowled at her.
"But this one guy, he got under my skin… you know. Totally opposite to what I wanted. See I was into the bad boy phase, I liked guys who wrote on walls and skipped class at the time. But not him. He was the school newspaper reporter, not particularly popular but popular enough. Damn he was hot though." Maddy smiled at her reflection.
Dean looked over at Sam who was prodding mentally at the wound from Jess's death to see how much it hurt to hear about her.
"Anyway we graduated high school, got married at eighteen… mostly to piss my mother off. Things were going alright but it was all so intense. When we were together it was always this heat, sometimes it scared me… like it would just take over us both one day. Anyhow we had this huge argument one day, we'd both got accepted at our chosen universities you see… it didn't occur to us to choose schools near each other so we were faced with this whole new dilemma not to mention still getting heat from our parents about just getting married one weekend. We argued. He left."
Maddy paused and put her chin in her hands, staring at her reflection beadily in the mirror.
"Couple of hours later I got a phone call. Some truck driver had been drinking, passed out at the wheel and knocked Aidan's car off the road."
Maddy let out a dry laugh.
"I don't even remember getting to the hospital, I don't remember getting in my car or driving across town. I just remember walking down the corridor towards his room, his little sister was hugging my waist and his mum was crying. The doctor didn't tell us he was dying. Just put his hand on Mrs Taylor's shoulder and said it was the last time we'd ever get to speak to him."
Both brothers watched her in silence but she continued to stare at herself for a long moment before she could speak again.
"My mind went blank, I couldn't think of a single thing to say to him. I sat down next to him and held his hand. I remember noticing they'd taken his wedding band off when he came in. I told him I loved him. And he died."
Maddy took a deep breath, her voice was unsteady and her throat was hoarse with tears. But she wouldn't cry.
"Sometimes I'll just be doing something and I'll think of something I should have said to him." She laughed a little. "Stupid little things. Anything… I should have said a lot of things."
All three jumped when an alarm went off and bustling could be heard in the hallway. Maddy got to her feet and pulled open the door, Sam and Dean just behind her.
"What's going on?" She called out to a passing woman in a dressing gown.
"A boy's gone missing. The owner wants everyone in the foyer apparently."
The three of them exchanged a look and Maddy moved back into the room to tug on a pair of socks and shoes. Hesitating she ran her hand over the small fold-up knife on her desk before slipping it into her back pocket and following the brothers out towards the stairs.
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They merged into the crowd heading towards the foyer, most people were either dressed up ready to go to the bar for the night or were in their pyjamas. As they reached their destination she could see the owner and the man that had asked her to dinner the evening before huddled with another couple in front of the desk.
She struggled to get a closer look at the couple but the crowd weaved in front of her and Dean had her by the elbow, guiding her to one side of the room. The owner called for silence and the hall gradually fell quiet.
"As I'm sure you'll have heard we have an emergency." Her voice echoed off the marble walls eerily. "A child has disappeared."
Uproar followed her words as people started speculating loudly to their neighbours. Maddy felt Dean's hand tighten on her elbow and she glanced over at Sam who was listening carefully to everything being said around them.
"Its nothing serious I'm sure." The owner called out, once again bringing silence to the room. "But we will need your help in locating the child. We will have several search teams…"
Maddy didn't hear anything else she was saying because the couple stood with the owner had finally come into her line of view.
"It's that boy." She muttered to herself.
"Wanna share that with the rest of the class?" Dean whispered into her ear.
"I saw them talking with the guy who asked me to dinner, their son… the one that's missing… he was freaked out by him. That's why he gave me the creeps in the elevator."
Dean and Sam exchanged a look and they took a step back until they were in a small alcove almost hidden by a tall potted palm tree, Dean dragging Maddy back with them.
"Was there anything about missing children in the records?" Maddy asked, her gaze still fixed on the worried couple through thick leaves hiding them.
"No… not that we could find." Dean answered, shaking his head.
"Although." Sam started thoughtfully.
"What?" Maddy prompted, finally turning to look at him.
"There are people who have vanished here. Not children but young people, varying normally from about early twenties to late thirties. Sometimes there's people older than that missing too."
Maddy frowned, feeling Dean tense up besides her when someone hurried past where they were hiding.
"What do you mean vanished?"
Sam gestured with his hands a little; "Not in a poof way… well maybe in a poof way…"
"Dude." Dean interrupted and Sam shook his head and continued.
"Well one day they just aren't there anymore."
"And how do you know that?" Maddy whispered as a group of people passed them going in the opposite direction.
"Well their things are still in their rooms, their beds look like they've been slept in but they just aren't there anymore."
All three of them considered this for a moment as people bustled past them. It appeared the search teams had been chosen and people were hurrying to get changed and set about looking for the boy.
"I think you guys should check up on whether these people did go poof or not." Maddy finally said.
"Where do you think you're going?" Dean asked, rather more harshly than he had intended to.
"I'm going to go look around."
Both boys stared at her as if she was insane and she sighed, folding her arms and glaring at them.
"Look I have to do something alright, that kid was scared just looking at this guy… god knows what might happen to him if we don't find him."
The brothers exchanged a look and Sam shook his head; "Alright fine, you two look for the boy. I'm going to see if I can find out what's happening here."
Maddy grinned at him as he stepped around the tree and headed off to their room. She was left with Dean and they looked at each other for a moment.
"What are you going to do?" Maddy asked eventually.
"I'm going to keep an eye on your boyfriend, it sounds like he's the one snatching people out of their beds."
Maddy shook her head and frowned at him.
"What about you?"
She sighed and waved a hand over her shoulder; "Well if they are behind it then odds are the places they sent these people to search are not where the boy's being kept. I'm going to look about where they've 'forgotten' to send people."
She was about to leave the alcove when she felt Dean's hand at her wrist.
"Here."
He held a gun out to her and she smiled; "No thanks, you'll probably need it before I do."
He reluctantly tucked the gun into the back of his jeans and shifted his shirt so it was hidden, the metal was cold against his bare back.
She reached up and pulled his head down to hers, kissing him gently. He pulled her to him and her lips opened beneath his, their tongues meeting silkily for a moment before she moved away.
"Don't go getting your dumb ass killed." Maddy warned. "I sure as hell don't feel like playing hero tonight."
He scowled at her and she smiled. Trailing her hand down his chest as she moved out of the alcove and across the practically deserted foyer.
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