Chapter Eight- Guilty
Author's Note- Death in this one! Lol Enjoy!
Chapter Song- Welcome the black parade by My Chemical Romance (thanks to Rachy lol)
Dean lead the way up the hill towards the cabin the darkness, he was exceptionally quiet and even Sam was finding this irritating. They were now both carrying shot guns packed with rock salt, Evie on the other hand was keeping her eyes and ears open for any small rustle in the undergrowth.
Dean stopped when they came to the entrance of the cabin, he rested his shotgun on his shoulder and whistled, "Nice get away…you must be from a rich family…"
Evie looked at him, "both my parents are doctors, my Dad's a surgeon while Mom is a fertility expert…my brother on the other hand" her words got harsh, "doesn't need thinking about," She walked off to where the camp fire had been burning only a few days ago, the drag marks were still evident.
Sam followed her and switched his flash light so, he shined it into the darkness where the drag marks led, "ignore Dean…"
Dean cast him a 'what's your problem' look and Sam sent him the exact same one, their gaze held until they heard rustling up ahead. Both men pointed their guns into the darkness and Evie shined her light searching for the source of the noise, a few seconds later she caught sight of a short man, he had been crying and approached them.
"Sid?" Evie asked and the men lowered their guns, "what are you doing here?"
He seemed surprised for a second as if he had just woken up from a dream, "the same thing you are…trying to find Anna, or at least the thing that killed her"
Dean cast the man a pity filled glance, "go back to the hotel"
"No…" Sid refused to conform.
"Sid…look at yourself, go back to the hotel…" Evie tried to convince him with a gentler tone of voice.
"No…Evie you were there that night" he walked up to her with tear filled eyes, "you saw what that thing tried to do to her…don't tell me you don't want revenge"
"Sid" her voice was calm and understanding but at the same time authoritative, "I do want revenge…but seeking it when you are not emotionally stable to do anything else but think of it isn't good"
"I can't just walk away" he said.
"I know, and we don't want you to walk away" Sam said, "only go back so we can find out what really happened"
Sid considered their words but before he could respond a high pitched wail cut through the air.
"Run!" Evie shouted to Sid but he was frozen to the spot as the form of water raised itself from the nearby stream.
Dean fired at the pillar of water destroying it for a spilt second, Sam grabbed hold of Sid's arm and pulled him away from the spot. Evie looked at Dean before turning to run along with the others.
He stood there looking at the column of water that made itself into the form of a beautiful young woman, he tried to take another shot but the woman moved and started to wail. He moved his hands to his ears in an attempt to block out the screeching.
Evie turned around to see Dean crumpled on the floor, he wasn't moving and that creature was moving closer, his shot gun was on the floor next to him. She did something that many considered brave…and stupid. She went back, running as quickly as possible. It was a good thing she went running every other day, picked up the shot gun and fired it at the water woman, she disappeared but the sound was still carrying on.
"Come on!" she shouted at Dean grabbing his arm and dragging him away.
Sam and Sid stopped running when they were a little further into the forest and sure nothing was following them…not even Dean and Evie. They heard another wail then the sound of twigs and leaves snapping under the sound of running feet.
"Dean?!" Sam shouted.
"Over here!" his brother shouted back as he and Evie came crashing through the trees.
They stopped running and Evie handed the shotgun over without even a grateful look from Dean.
"Still tonight?" Sam asked.
"Yeah" Dean and Evie said at the same time.
"right…" he said quietly, he looked at both of them and started comparing them, both stubborn, both always right, both powerful…then he saw it…La Llorona standing behind them in between the trees.
"What?" Evie asked then she wailed, "Run!"
They all ran in different directions, Sam and Dean ran to the east towards the town while Evie and Sid ran back into the woodland.
After a few minutes pure running Sam and Dean stopped and listened, they couldn't hear anything, no wailing, no running…
"Where is she?" Dean asked.
"Sticking closer to the water ways" Sam told him.
"Where are the others?" he wondered then realised, "She's after them!"
Both of them started running back towards where La Llorona had been and could only think of saving Evie and Sid from a very nasty death.
Evie and Sid kept running, once or twice he had fallen or started to lag behind but she never allowed him to fall behind her once she noticed. She often fell back and pulled him with her.
When she was out of breath Evie stopped and crept under a bush dragging Sid with her so that she could hide and come up with how they were going to survive this. She tried to listen but all she could hear was their deep breathing and her own pulse in her ears.
She calmed herself down and tried to listen for any sign of the woman or the guys, when it was clear that the water woman wasn't nearby Evie relaxed her entire body and collapsed fully on to the piece of earth beneath her only to find it slipping away. Slowly at first but not enough to notice then it gave out under her and her and Sid when tumbling down a dirt slope, they both screamed giving away their position.
Dean stopped moving, "You hear that?"
Sam slowed to a halt beside him, "hear what?"
"Damn it! She's found them!" He shouted and cursed before running the fastest he'd ever run, Sam joined him and they ran towards the sound of the faint screaming.
Evie opened her eyes and rubbed her head, it felt like the worse hangover possible, she rolled over on to her back and raised her hand to her face. She saw fresh bloody covering her fingers. She quickly assessed herself and deemed it was nothing life threatening. She turned her head to one side and saw a stream trickling near by, she couldn't see Sid but she heard his coughing not too far away. She turned her head to the other side and saw the deep brown hair she recognised instantly.
"Anna!" she shouted hopeing for a reply but then it sunk in, the bloated features on her normally slim face, the blue tinge of the skin, the water slowly creeping from her nose…and about all the rotting flesh on her skeleton…Anna wasn't alive…
"Anna!" Evie screamed her friends name and backed away from the eerily quickly decomposed corpse of her best friend, she got up to her feet and backed herself up to a tree, tears fell down her face and then she remembered what did this to her, "Sid…? Sid we have to go"
No reply came to the calling, then she heard someone getting to their feet, Evie turned her head to see Sid stood a little while away.
"Come on…we're going" she told him.
He nodded his head slowly and approached her but then he fell back down to the ground, almost as if someone had pushed him over and they were pulling him towards the stream.
"No!" she shouted and ran towards him grabbing at his weak arms, she managed to get a grip just as the water woman appeared and wailing dragged Sid towards the water.
Dean and Sam appeared at the top of the ridge just in time to see Evie dig her heels into the ground and yank backwards with all her strength pulling Sid's arms out of their sockets.
He screamed in agony, "let go…save yourself…"
"No!" she shouted just as his feet came into contact with the water.
The brothers ran down the slope and it was clear Sid was going to die no matter what they did, Dean fired his shotgun at La Llorona but it made no effect, he'd run out of rock salt. Sam tried some Latin words in attempt to save him but it didn't work and Evie didn't let go, by now Sid's head was under water.
"No! I'm not letting this bitch have you!" she shouted still holding on to his arm.
Dean grabbed her around the waist, "He hasn't got a chance Evie…let go"
"No!" she struggled and went hysterical as Sam continued various words meant to banish evil.
"Let go…" he whispered in her ear, "you have to let go…"
"I can't! I can't leave him…not so she can kill him…" she said between sobs, she knew he was dead.
Sam lowered his head in respect and guilt, it was hard to cope when they lost someone, when they couldn't save them but it happened and he knew Dean felt the same.
"You have to" his word was final, "you have to let go"
Evie did as she was told and allowed Sid to float in the water, she broke down in Dean's arms, "it's my fault…it's my fault…"
"No its not" he told her.
Then something clicked in her head, she practically flung herself away from him into Sam's arms and glared up at him with tearful hazel eyes, "this is what your like…how can you not feel regret?! How can you not feel guilt?! How can you not feel!?"
"I'm a hunter, We're hunters…we cant feel bad otherwise it doesn't work…" Dean told her.
"Oh bullshit!" she screamed, "Your brother looks guilty! But you don't! Why the hell did I even want to help you guys kill this thing?! You know what? You can do this on your own! I don't care anymore!"
With one last glare she left them both standing there, she stalked off back towards the town.
Dean wanted her to understand and wanted to explain but he knew it was the best if she just thought the worst about him and he let her storm off back to the town.
