AN: I am super glad that I am getting readers for this story. Thank you so much for your reviews. They matter a lot to me, as always. Here is another chapter. It is longer than the previous chapters. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks.
Chapter 7: Talking To A Witness
Sam and Dean got Lucas's address from the Sheriff. They arrived at the said address posing as FBI agents. Lucas owned a small garage. After graduating high school, he started working and didn't go to college for further education. Lucas's father was very ill at that time and they needed a lot of money for his treatment. Therefore not only Lucas had to drop his dream of going to college but he had to work very hard to make the money. Lucas's father passed away two years after Lucas graduated high school. Since then he is living on his own. That was all Sam and Dean got from the sheriff about Lucas. Dean rang the door bell and waited for Lucas to open the door. The door opened and revealed a man who Sam and Dean assumed would be Lucas.
"Lucas Weasley?" Dean asked.
"Yes." The guy nodded with confusion and curiosity in his eyes.
"We are from the FBI. This is Agent Curt, I am Agent Jensen" said Dean and both him and Sam flashed their fake FBI cards in front of Lucas.
"We are here to talk to you about Davina Stavros." He stated.
"Davina? She died five years ago, in the fire accident." Lucas said and wondered why the agents wanted to talk about Davina after so many years later her death.
"We know that. But we have reasons to believe that the fire wasn't an accident" said Sam expecting Lucas to say otherwise but he didn't.
"And by the look on your face, I could tell you don't believe the fire to be an accident either" said Dean with confidence.
"I have always doubted what people said about that night." Lucas kept talking while stepping aside to let the agents in.
"That house is haunted for a reason."
"You believe that the house is really haunted?" Dean asked checking this guy's belief in supernatural beings.
"There are too many proofs not to believe it. Anyway, I am sure it doesn't matter to you what I believe and what not" said Lucas. Sam and Dean didn't say anything to that.
"You were friends with Davina, weren't you?" Sam asked straight away. Sighing out heavily Lucas nodded his head. The three of them settled on the couch. Sam and Dean sat together while Lucas took the couch across from them.
"And you wanted to be more than friends with Davina, didn't you?" Dean kind of stated it. A surprised look flashed over Lucas's face but he nodded anyway. He figured there was no point in denying the truth to the agents who obviously knew this for sure. Lying would only get him into trouble.
"I'm the same age as her brother David. I liked Davina a lot. Since the first time I saw her, I fell for her. She was beautiful, kind and I loved her. But I never got the guts to talk to her when I was still in high school" said Lucas and it immediately brought up questions in Sam and Dean's minds.
"Were you friends with David?" Sam asked even though he doubted they were friends.
"No, I wasn't friends with David" said Lucas firmly after giving out a dark scoff. "David hated me for liking his sister. One time he caught me staring at Davina and he punched me in the face."
"Then how did you and Davina became friends?" Dean asked with interest because Davina used to do everything David asked her to do according to her diary. She would never go against David to be friends with Lucas. Perhaps they became friends after the fight. Now that was a possibility.
"We started being friends after David left for college" said Lucas confirming their theory.
"Something happened between Davina and David right before David graduated high school. A fight, maybe, I'm not sure." Lucas didn't seem to be hundred percent sure about it.
"Davina was like a zombie for months. She didn't talk to anyone, didn't sleep, or eat. It seemed like her life was slipping away from her. I loved her. That's why I couldn't bare watching her like that. I gathered up my courage and talked to her for the first time." Lucas explained the beginning of their friendship. He exhaled a deep breath at the old memory.
"At first, I thought Davina wouldn't let me comfort her but surprisingly she started hanging out with me. I guess I was a breath of fresh air for her. Of course I wanted to be more than friends with her but Davina wasn't going to see me as anything else but a friend. And I took what I got" said Lucas and so far Sam and Dean could tell that he was telling the truth.
"Why do you think the fire wasn't an accident?" Dean asked the question which he wanted to ask since they started conversing.
"David and Davina had many enemies. When I first heard about the fire, I couldn't help but think that someone started the fire to kill Davina" said Lucas. The thought of Davina burning alive still seemed to bother the guy very much.
"Are you one of those enemies?" Dean asked straight away while looking at Lucas suspiciously. Sam gave his brother a look but Dean ignored it.
"Look, I may have hated David but I loved Davina. I could never hurt her, let alone burn her alive" said Lucas defending himself immediately and feeling offended at the false accusation. He could never lay a finger on Davina. But the agents obviously didn't know that.
"Hey, relax. My partner is just wondering here" said Sam trying to calm down the situation and get it back to normal again.
"You said so yourself. You wanted to be more than friends with Davina but clearly she didn't want to. You could have killed her out of anger" said Dean ignoring the fact that he was downright accusing Lucas of a murder when they have no proof of that.
"If anyone killed her out of anger or rage, it's David." Lucas blurted out making the brothers frown at him with confusion.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked with soft tone of voice unlike Dean. Lucas started stammering. He didn't mean to say that.
"Lucas, what do you know about David and Davina?" Dean asked straight away once again with stern and firm tone of voice. Playing the bad cop is always fun.
"I know... I know that, that they were involved with each other... as lovers" said Lucas stuttering the entire sentence.
"So you were grossed and you decided to kill Davina." Dean accused Lucas of killing Davina once again.
"For god's sake. I did not kill Davina" said Lucas out loud with desperation and frustration in his voice. "Yes, I was grossed and devastated when I learned about it but that doesn't mean I set Davina's house on fire after trapping her inside. I suspect David, because he was obsessed with Davina and extremely possessive of her. He could have killed her than let her be with someone else. And after whatever happened between David and Davina, she didn't want anything to do with her brother. It could have made David angry enough to kill her."
"How did you learn about their relation?" Sam asked believing that Lucas didn't kill Davina. He knows someone is innocent when he sees one. Dean however kept Lucas on suspect list. Until they find the real culprit everyone was a suspect. Lucas sighed out heavily and started telling them the story.
"David had come back home after graduating from university. Davina suddenly showed up at my doorstep and asked me if she could stay in my house for a few days. I obviously welcomed her and let her stay. I didn't know at that time why Davina wanted to stay in my house all on a sudden. But I know now, she didn't want to stay in the same house as David. He must have made Davina uncomfortable. The same night around ten, ten thirty David showed up at my door as well."
Flashback
"Where is my sister?" David asked Lucas with anger in his voice. They were standing on the porch of Lucas's house. Before Lucas could answer his question, Davina came out of the house to see what was going on.
"What is going on?" Davina asked and got shocked when she saw her brother there.
"David? How did you find me here?" Davina asked with a surprised tone of voice at first but then her voice became firm and edged with bitterness as well.
"What are you doing here David?" She asked this time.
"I want to ask you the same question sister. What are you doing here? With him!" David asked and he shot a dangerous glare at Lucas.
"And who are you to ask me these questions?" Davina was completely pissed off at David. She was practically fuming with anger. David was angry too. And Lucas could only stand there and watch them fight.
"I am your brother." David stated the obvious with strong tone of voice. Davina however scoffed at that darkly.
"No, you are not. You stopped being my brother a long time ago. Now you are just my mom and dad's son for me. And you certainly have no right to ask me questions about what I do and who I am with." Davina said with stern and cold tone of voice. Lucas never heard her speaking so unemotionally and rudely before. David kept staring at her with unblinking eyes as if he was trying to penetrate her cold demeanor. Suddenly David stopped looking angry and he inhaled a deep breath to calm himself down.
"Fine but you need to come home with me now. You are not safe here." He said hoping that Davina would listen to him but that was just a wishful thinking.
"And you expect me to believe you care about my safety." Davina snapped at her brother angrily. Her being difficult was getting on David's nerves as well. He wasn't used to of his sister not listening to him. This was something very new to David.
"Yes, because I happen to care about your safety the most." He said with strong tone of voice. But Davina rolled her eyes at him.
"Then you better leave right now because as long as you are not anywhere near me, I am perfectly safe." Davina spoke with thick bitterness in her voice. David closed his eyes and inhaled a deep breath once again to keep himself from shouting at her.
"Davina, don't make me force you to come with me" said David threateningly. He had no choice. David wasn't going to leave Davina alone with Lucas or just alone for that matter.
"Really?" Davina said crossing her arms over her chest. "What else you are gonna force me to do, sleep with you, be your whore again?"
"Davina!" David finally shouted at his sister but Davina didn't get scared. Lucas on the other hand choked on his own breath hearing that. He couldn't believe his own ears. He kept looking between the siblings with wide eyes and open mouth.
"What David?" Davina shouted back at her brother. "What the hell do you want from me?"
"I just want to make sure you are safe." David insisted with desperation in his voice. Davina however, shook her head to herself clearly not believing him.
"Please, just come with me. We can talk about everything once we get back home." Davin said with pleading tone of voice.
"No, we don't need to talk about anything David. Because I remember everything. I remember you telling me how much you hate me. I remember making you sick because I loved you more than anyone else. You broke me David. I was completely destroyed. And now you showed up all on a sudden and claimed to care about my safety. What do you take me for brother, an idiot?" Davina spat the brother word with extra bitterness.
"Look, whatever game you are playing here, stop it right now and stay the hell away from me." Saying that she walked away from both Lucas and David. After what happened she wasn't going to stay with Lucas anymore. He must be disgusted after learning the shameful truth about the Stavros siblings. Lucas however was still feeling shocked only. He just learned that the girl he loves, was romantically involved with her own brother once. Anyone in his place would be shocked. Before following his sister, David looked back at Lucas. He was feeling very guilty because Davina just brought up all the bad memories that he would rather erase from his mind forever. David screwed them up big times and there was nothing he could do to take it all back, no matter how much he wanted to. Losing Davina was the worst thing that happened to David and he was suffering for that ever since he lost her. He was certainly sorry for everything bad that happened between them. And hated himself for causing his sister pain. David made a mistake but he wasn't going to live with it forever.
"Lucas, right?" David asked even though he certainly knew the name already. Lucas nodded his head. He suddenly lost his voice momentarily.
"Well, aren't you a lucky man Lucas? If I am not wrong, you have always had the hots for my sister. And you finally have her" said David with bitter cheerful voice and a cruel smirk on his lips.
"Look man it's nothing like that." Lucas tried to say, finally gaining his voice but David threw a punch at him and broke his nose. It started to bleed right away. David grabbed Lucas by his throat and brought his face closer to him.
"If I see you anywhere near my sister again, I will kill you and I wouldn't go easy on you. That's a promise." He threatened Lucas dangerously before letting go of him. The poor guy started breathing in and out heavily. David turned around to leave but stopped again to look back at Lucas.
"And if you say a soul about me and my sister, I'll make sure you beg for death."
End Of Flashback
"Honestly speaking, David seemed like a monster to me that night" said Lucas in the end of his story. Dean and Sam looked at each other, thinking of the same possibilities. It was possible that David was possessed or something supernaturally must be wrong with him. Or he could just be a monster indeed.
"Didn't you tell Davina about her brother threatening you?" Sam asked curiously.
"No, after that night, I never got to see Davina again" said Lucas and he breathed out heavily.
"You never thought about using this secret against her or David?" Dean asked and received a glare from Lucas immediately.
"And get what out of that exactly? Davina was never going to love me or anyone else anyway except for her brother. Even if David hadn't threatened me, I'd have kept it a secret. Because in the end I did love her and didn't want Davina to get into any trouble" said Lucas truthfully.
"You said David was talking about keeping Davina safe. Any idea from what or who?" Dean inquired about it. Something Sam wanted to ask too.
"At first I thought, he was talking about me. You know keeping your sister safe from a guy you hate. But after what happened to Davina. I don't think David was worried about me hurting his sister" said Lucas what he genuinely thought.
"You mentioned of enemies that David and Davina had. Who are they? Can you give us a few names?" Sam asked rather politely.
"There were a few boys David had a beef with because they showed interest in Davina like me. And there were a few girls Davina hated because obviously they were interested in her brother. Then there was Violet. David's first girlfriend. Davina hated her. And I guess Violet disliked Davina as well." Sam had to interrupt Lucas there.
"This Violet girl. Can you tell us anything about her?" He asked because Violet was a suspect in his book.
"Apart from the fact that she was a hot looking chick from California, no. I don't know anything else about her. She only talked to David in the school" said Lucas and that was all he knew really.
"Any other name in that list?" Asked Dean for another name.
"There is Davina and David's maternal aunt Christiana. I only met her once at Davina's house. She came in town to visit her sister. I didn't know anything about the aunt or what happened between them but I could tell that she hated Davina. More like disgusted by her. And Davina also wanted to stay as far away from Christiana as possible. When I asked Davina about it, she didn't want to talk about it. And I didn't push her" said Lucas and that was it. He got nothing else to say. Sam and Dean realized that and decided to leave.
"Thanks Lucas" said Sam and he gave him his card. "Call me if you remember anything else about Davina." Lucas nodded taking the card from him. After that the Winchester brothers left the house. Once outside Dean asked-
"So, what do you think?" Sam knew what Dean wanted to know.
"Lucas isn't our guy." Unfortunately Dean knew that too. Unfortunate because now they have to look for someone else.
"You better finish reading that diary tonight." Saying that Dean got into his Impala and started the car. Sam got in too and Dean started driving towards the motel.
