Ah and now we are back again on this lovely Saturday afternoon or evening or morning on Sunday or any other day you are reading this. I hope you have enjoyed the chapters so far and will like this one just the same. Chapter 7 "The Start"

"Good morning to you too Dean," Bobby snapped back. "What got you all railed up this morning? You sound like you are ready to kill someone."

Sending another glare at Tea he nodded. "Yeah well you better have something good or I just might." He really hated being talked down to. Tolerating it at sometimes from those like Bobby or Cass who knew more about things than he did, he wasn't going to take it from a nineteen year old girl.

Bobby laughed. "You got a little blond ruffling your feathers don't ya?" He knew it probably wasn't much of a good idea to laugh at Dean but he couldn't help it. "You shouldn't let her do that. She should know her place when talking to you."

Dean nodded liking what Bobby was saying. "So you got anything for us? Cause we could really use it." He was starting to calm down knowing that Tea was actually being logical. "We are kind of blocked."

"Well from what I've found the NeverNever is part of our world. The Faerie king is going to be a Seelie Prince which means that he has got some major power." Bobby sighed looking down at the atlas in front of him seeing the different regions. "There is a small possibility that this is a solitary Fae with no court affiliations but that is pretty small."

Dean wet his lips staring at the wall. "So anything else? Otherwise I' going to get back to our little problem."

Bobby chuckled "You know killing her would make Sam angry and be helping demos. You don't want to do either of those." He pulled a book toward him. "As for the other information, I think I can help you. This book I have had got some information on the suckers. Just basic stuff is they pull their power from innocence and nature. They essentially can be shape shifters because of their glamour which is their form of magic."

Sighing Dean clenched his jaw. "Is there anything in those books about seeing them for what they really are?" He could think of nothing better than being able to close this case as quickly as possible before another boy gets taken or some poor girl has to spend the rest of her life with Faeries.

"Actually I've found a couple." bobby grabbed a smaller leather bound book with yellowing pages. "There is one that claims eating or wearing the herb Vervain and or a four-leaf clover will allow you to see Fae." He flipped to another page in the small book finding he hadn't been on the right page. "I do have one book from the mid-twelfth century that had a potion that if you put it over your eyes and let it sit for a hour it will open your eyes to everything. This book is really reliable but the ingredients ad directions are pretty steep."

Dean rubbed his eye wishing he had gotten more sleep instead of watching the soap opera. "What does it say?" He glanced over at Sam and Tea seeing them close together talking in hushed tones.

Bobby read through some basic herbs. "Then there is the root of a Faerie truffle from the 237th degree of a Faerie ring." He sighed. "You have to cut this root with a silver blade at the stroke of midnight on the third Wednesday of the on cycle. This root has to be added to the potion on the stroke of noon that day." His voice had become monotone as if he was reading it straight out of the book.

"You've got to be kidding me." Dean scratched his head. "Let me guess the third Wednesday of the moon cycle was last week or something?" He hated how some rituals and potions had to be so specific.

"Yesterday actually but yeah." Bobby had the same frustrations with the specifications of hunting. "A contact of mine grows Vervain. I don't know if it will actually work but it can't hurt. I have looked it up and it seems like it could be pretty workable."

Dean growled. "There anything else?" He hated the thought of the potion actually working but they had missed out. "And do we need to go to your contact to get the Vervain?"

"My contact is bringing it to me and I've convinced Cass to take it to you three," bobby answered. "I doubt he will stay to chat though."

"Thanks Bobby if you find anything else can you give us a cal?" Dean got ready to hang up the phone.

"Wait a minute you idgit," Bobby barked. "You haven't heard everything I have to say. There is one other way I can find. A royal Fae can grant you Sight. I don't know how but I'm sure if you found a royal you already have Sight so you don't need it but still."

Dean rolled his eyes, like they really needed to know that" Thanks again Bobby, is there anything else?" He didn't want Bobby getting all frustrated again. Bobby was one of their best resources because he had made it his mission to know just about everything one would need to know when it came to hunting.

"Nope that's about it. Another contact of mine had got this other book he's going to bring me tonight but so far that's it." Bobby pushed the smaller book off the bigger one. "Be careful these devils are tricky little bastards and as for the Vervain you should have it by the end of the day."

Nodding Dean smirked, maybe they could get Cass to stay a while and tell them what he knew. "Once again thanks Bobby. Looking forward to hearing from you with more info." They traded good-byes quickly before Dean snapped his phone closed.

"Anything good?" Sam looked up from his whispered conversation with Tea. "Or did he have just about what we have?" He took a small step away from Tea. Sam had asked her about how she was feeling while Dean talked with Bobby.

Dean raised a quiet eyebrow with a frown. He had never noticed how close Sam and Tea were. He had seen it while on the phone that they stood almost toughing as they whispered to each other. Shaking his head he let his thoughts about them flutter to the back of his mind. "Yeah he found a couple of things you two missed. For one we are definitely dealing with either a Seelie Prince or a Solitary Fae, but the solitary is really slim. Secondly their glamour allows them to be able to turn into anyone or anything. Finally he says he found that vervain works to see Faeries. He also found a potion but due to instructions we missed out on it."

"Vervain?" Tea frowned. She had heard of the herb before. "Isn't that..." She stopped not wanting to sound stupid. "I've never heard of it being able to see Faeries but I have heard it helps clear the mind and see things the right way."

Sam watched Tea. "What do you mean?"

Tea swallowed. "This may sound silly but I have read that Vervain is lethal to vampires but obviously that isn't true." She blushed slightly. "Though it also said that wearing, eating, or otherwise coming into contact with Vervain will allow the person to see through mental tricks."

"So are you saying you think it is true, that the Vervain will work?" Dean raised his brow. He tried to keep his mind off of how funny it was to think about vampires being harmed by Vervain. "What do you mean by mental tricks?"

"Well I mean in the vampires could do mind control and could make others see and do things that the vampires wanted." Tea shrugged. "But from what ya'll have told me vampires can't compel people."

"Compel?"

Sighing Tea leaned up against the wall crossing her arms. "Well you know, compulsion, like making you do something you don't want to do." She rolled her shoulders. "So where are we getting the Vervain?"

Dean sat back on the edge of his bed. "Bobby's contact is taking it to Bobby and then he had convinced Cass to bring it over to us." He dropped his phone on the bed. "So should we wait for the Vervain or should we go ahead and walk around?"

Tea bit her lip. She wasn't so sure how good of an idea walking around would be anymore. Being out in the middle of the woods wasn't her idea of a good day, especially when she didn't get all that much sleep the night before.

"I think we should give it a try at least." Sam shrugged looking at Dean. "I mean yeah we can't See today but maybe if we find something interesting we would be able to go back tomorrow with use of the Vervain and be able to See if anything is going on there."

Dean nodded. "So how far out do you think we should look? Tea you said that you think they would be near Metaline Falls right?"

Tea shook her thoughts out of her head as she looked at Dean. "Well you said that three of five kids came from here right? So yeah my best bet is that the HQ is closer to Metaline Falls than any other city."

"Yeah the first came from here the second from Metaline the third from here the fourth from Ione and then this fifth one was also from here," Sam answered for his brother. "It sounds to me like they are either really close to here or they just wanted to even up their kidnappings."

"Nah they are close by. They are probably only a mile or two maximum five miles away from the town." Tea shook her head once again. Her light blond pony tail swished from one side to the other as she moved. "I would say because they also took a kid from Ione they are probably in between the two on the west side of the river."

Dean went to the table and pulled out a map from underneath some papers. Placing it on top of everything else he scratched his head. "Well Ione is just a little bit over ten miles down the highway from Metaline Falls."

Sam and Tea joined him. Tea looked at the map with a frown. There was forest all up and down both sides of the Pend Oreille River. "Well because they come back to Metaline Falls I really don't think that they live more than five miles away. Metaline is only a mile along the highway from the Falls so it wouldn't be hard to get from one to the other especially by boat."

"So we should check a five mile radius around Metaline Falls?" Dean picked up a pencil tied to a string, measuring out how long the string would be for five miles he drew a circle with Metaline Falls as the focal point. "We have to walk through all of this?"

Tea shook her head. "Only the west side of the river." She took the pencil from him and did the same circle drawing with Metaline as the center. She darkened the overlapping lines on the west side of the highway. "If I had my guesses they wouldn't go a whole ten miles to get to Ione." She measured out seven miles on the string and then drew only part of the circle where it would connect with the other two circles. "This way it is pretty central. We have about a mile or two of land to walk around."

The brothers looked at the augmented map. "So you're saying that we only need to check out these places?" Dean drew his finger around the three intersecting lines. "What happens if you are wrong? We waste away a day?"

Tea shrugged. "If more than three Faeries gather at one time there will be a Faerie Ring. This means that there will be a large Ring around the head quarters." She shrugged. "Or at least there should be. If we were to find a line of mushrooms we could follow the line around the whole thing and know where their HQ is."

Sam nodded. "Okay so we should just walk this? How are we going to split it into three sections? Or should we just go as one?" He didn't like the thought of Tea walking around on her own. Sure she was out of reach of the Faerie King, but that didn't mean she couldn't get hurt in other ways.

Dean scratched his chin. It wouldn't be a good idea to get hurt or lost in the forest if they didn't need to. "We probably won't get cell reception will we? How will we be able to communicate with each other?"

"We will just have to make due." Tea grabbed up the map. "We will need to get a zoomed in one of these for each of us and a compass." She rolled her shoulders. "I don't see why we can't do this."

Without much more talk they started working on getting the things they needed together. Sam went to the library and printed out good maps zoomed in a ten mile square around their location. Each map showed Ione and Metaline falls in minor detail. He had drawn in the extra lines that they had drawn on the other map.

Dean went out and picked up a couple compasses that they would be needing and a case of water bottles to replenish their stock. While the boys were out Tea checked a few other things on the Internet making sure that they had all the facts correct. She figured out how they should divide up the searching area. It didn't take long to do and by the time she was finished the boys had come back to the motel room.

"So we got everything we need?" Sam placed maps he had printed out on the table where Tea had left the large one. "Or do we still have more to do?"

Dean plunked the case of water on the table also. "I've got water and compasses and found a pretty cheap set of GPS units that will do well for us." He put the bag on the table. "They are fully charged and unless there are any other inquiries we can head on."

Tea explained how she had split up the different sections. It didn't take long before they had everything together and were heading toward the forest one the west side of the river.

"Take care of yourself." Sam pulled Tea to him when they were about to split up. "Don't let anything happen to you okay?" He kissed her lips gently.

"Can we just get going? I would rather this not take all day." Dean rolled his eyes at his brother and Tea. "We should meet back here before sun down so that we can all ride back together." Dean made sure to add the coordinates for the parked Impala into his GPS unit.

"That would give us at least eight hours." Sam did the same thing as his brother so that he would be able to find it easier. "If we find anything add the coordinates to the GPS so that we can find it tomorrow when we have the Vervain."

Tea nodded. "Sound good to me." She tucked the map and the GPS into one of her pockets. "So should we pick an actual time or should we just meet before sundown?" She didn't like the plan all that much. It was a gamble at best but Dean and Sam didn't seem to think of anything better.

"I don't know when the sun actually goes down but we should meet back here no later than eight in the evening." Dean pushed back the sleeve of his jacket to check his watch. "Which means more to ten hours than eight if we leave soon."

"Well then we should head out. If anything at all is suspicious save the coordinates into the GPS then we can recheck it tomorrow once we are able to See." Sam showed his GPS as if to add emphasis. "We may not have cell phone coverage while we are in the forest. But at least try to contact each other in case something does happen."

Tea nodded along with Dean. "I'll keep mine on me and hopefully nothing goes wrong."

Dean rolled his eyes. "Well then Tea not to be rude but try not to get captured by the Faerie King." He smirked at her. "Unfortunately it wouldn't be all that hard to get captured if you can't see him."

Sam shook his head not wanting to say anything. "Leave her alone Dean." He wrapped his arm around Tea kissing her forehead lightly. "But really don't please stay safe," he whispered in her ear where Dean wouldn't be able to hear. "Not that I don't trust that you can handle yourself but really."

Tea giggled hitting him playfully in the stomach. "Don't you be mean." She kissed him back. "I will be back here just like you will be no later than eight unless the sun goes down first."

The three said their goodbyes before heading into the forest at three different points going to their sections so that they could cover more ground in less time.

Ah I hope you liked this chapter! It is a little short but I have had a crazy week.

To the reviews

K.T.: Heheh no not Cass sorry but worry not he will come to play soon. Yeah actually that has been written for a while like even before I finished writing the end of 4 to 1I thought it was kind of funny. As for the pure thing... well I will just leave that and we will see if anything happens because of it. I can't give too much away. And to the Episodes... you should watch them, they are really good but yeah for Sam's character... grrrr I hope something good comes out of everything they are doing to him because it is killing me to watch him like that when I've grown to love his sweet compassion. But we will all have to wait for the next episode on that one.

Once again if you didn't know there is a contest for what show will get the cover for the December 13th issue of TV Guide. Last I heard Supernatural is in second so hopefully everyone will go vote you only have the remainder of today and tomorrow because the poles close on the 1st of November! You can get the link from the Supernatural Facebook page and probably several other pages like the Twitter account and what not. But let's try to get them to number one okay!

And one more thing. I really like how easy it is to update on days that are multiples of 5 so you'll have to wait one extra day to get the next chapter. I'll update on the 5th of November with the next chapter!