01/29/2013

Next couples chaps are kinda cut and paste dialogue from season 8. – CF

CHAPTER 8: Do You Believe?

Benny stared down his brother.

"Hello, Quentin." He smiled

"Benny. Where's your girlfriend?" Quentin smiled, "You didn't have an accident did you? Her corpse isn't rotting in that posh hotel room is it?"

Benny stayed silent.

"Did you try and make it look like a suicide before you left? Maybe a murder? Did you leave any pieces behind for her family to mourn?"

"Where's the old man?" Benny asked

"Are you serious?" Quentin scoffed, "Did you really think I'd tell you where he is?"

"Well I guess I was kind of hoping you wouldn't." he held up the impressive knife

"On the other hand, I might show you where he is." Two vampires moved out from the dark shadows, "After me and my boys take off your hands and feet."

"Well, don't go through all that trouble on my account." His smirk never leaving

"Please. You go and crawl your way out of God's ass for another ride on the merry go round? The old man's gonna want to see this for himself."

"Mmm, well, they might be able to kill me. And that's all right," he shrugged, "'cause if they do, I know exactly where I'm going…and who I'll see when I get there."

Quentin snarled as he readied himself to fight, fangs out and glistening. Benny lunged at him, not giving the vamp a second to contemplate what his first move would be, before cutting off his head and turning to the other two vampires.

"Come on boys." Benny laughed

"Sam said they found a cheap motel a few miles up." Dean said, pulling out of the gas station, "Get some rest."

"We're so close." Ros looked at the map on her phone, "We're a few hours shy of the coast."

"Yeah Rosie, but where? Where is he? We need a night to think of a plausible place. We need a night in beds, or hell, couches."

Ros closed the map app and nodded as they drove past a sign that read 'Enid, Oregon.'

Just as they saw the hotel up in the distance, Dean's phone rang.

"Benny?"

Ros tried to steal the phone from Dean, but he rested it against the opposite shoulder and swatted her hands away before she gave up and let him drive.

"Hey Dean," his breathing was heavy, "You um…got a minute? Afraid I messed up, buddy."

"What did you do?"

Ros bit at the end of her thumb as she moved her eyes from Dean to the cell.

"No man, not like that. Vampires. Three of em. They didn't play so nice."

"I'm sorry, you took on how many? Are you crazy?"

Benny looked down at the dead around him, "Hey. See, the thing is, my legs-they ain't working so good. There's uh…" Benny looked around the dock, "There's a fuel barge not too far from here. I'm pretty sure I can make it at a slow crawl. I was kind of hoping maybe I could ask you for one more favor?"

"Where are you?" Dean looked over at Ros

"Eagle Harbor, Washington."

Dean nodded and used the hotel's parking lot as a u-turn.

"One more favor?" Benny gasped as he tried to move and gave up

"Now you're pushing it."

"Leave that worrisome sister of yours behind." Benny said, looking at his broken legs, "She don't need to see this…she don't need to see me like this."

"Got it."

Dean hung up his phone and looked at his sister.

"Benny asks, you fought me tooth and nail, held a knife up to me, I dunno, make something up."

"What are you talking about?" she asked

"Benny doesn't want you coming. Says he's in bad shape, and you don't need to see him like this."

Ros nodded and shoved herself deeper into the seat. She had pulled up directions on her phone and hoped the next four hours would go by fast.

"He's ok though, right?" she asked

"Took on three vampires, you tell me."

Ros smiled, "he's alright. We took on six in New Orleans. How I got this." She pulled up the sleeve of her right shirt, "Benny had four on him at once."

"yeah well, I don't think he had quite the motivation tonight he did then."

Ros texted Sam and said they'd gotten a call about a case nearby and we're heading in that direction.

"He doesn't need to know it's Benny. I get the vibe he doesn't really like him." Ros ignored her brother's angry text back, "So I told you about the pit, are you going to tell me how you and Benny met?"

By the time they pulled up the dock, Ros had learned about the leviathens, purgatory, and Benny and Dean's deal. She was pissed. More pissed at the angel than she ever had been, more pissed that Benny hadn't told her he was dead-dead, and more pissed at herself because she had lost Dean again a year prior, and didn't even know it.

Dean pulls in next to Benny's truck as he looks around for the vampire.

"He'll be somewhere dark." Ros shielded her eyes from the sun, "Let's check over there!" she points to the fuel barge

"Hold up." Dean opens the back of the truck and sees an ice chest, flipping the top as Ros peeks around him and looks at the contents

"Bastard." She smirks

"What?"

"AB negative." She pokes the pouch, "Same as me."

"Well isn't that cute." Dean rolled his eyes as she shut the chest and the two headed towards the barge, climbing down under the ground and into the cold and dark place.

Benny leaned himself against the wall of the barge as Dean ran up to him, about to slap the man awake before his eyes flutter open.

"Not lookin' so good." Dean comments

"Up yours." Benny laughed, eyes passing over the opened ice chest as he looked up at Ros, her hands on her hips as she shook her head, "I thought I asked you not to bring her?"

"Can't keep track of all your favors now can I?"

Ros doesn't say anything as she steps over his broken legs and grabs a blood transfusion from the box, opening the top of it and sitting down next to Benny, facing him as she holds the top of the straw like contraption to his lips.

"Ros, please." He shakes his head, "Go outside, I don't want to do this in front of you."

She smiled softly and kissed him, "Don't even try and act all gentlemanly right now. You're hurt, and I'm not leaving here until you can stand up. Got it?"

Dean stood up and glanced back at the ladder of the barge.

"I uh…gotta go grab something from your car, I'll umm…be back."

Ros nodded and the two watched as Dean left.

"He doesn't really have anything to grab, does he?" Benny chuckled

"Nope." She smiled, "Come on, drink. You need it."

"Ros-"

"Would you rather it be from me, or the blood bag?" she cocked her eyebrow at him, "Either way, I'm not leaving."

He took the transfusion from her and drank it down in a record time. She pushed a few pieces of his hair into place as she pushed the ice chest next to him, waiting for him to finish it all.

"I'm really sorry about everything back in New Orleans." She said, "If I had known you knew Dean from Purgatory, I wouldn't have hid it all from you."

"So he told you about that, huh?" Benny asked as he opened the fourth bag

"Yeah. We'll talk about it later, if you want, alright? Right now, you just need to get your sea legs back." She kissed his temple

"Can you grab my bag from the truck? I need to change."

She glanced down at his legs.

"They're still broken, I ain't going nowhere." He grabbed his keys from his front left pocket

Dean leaned against the table in an office they had broken into once all the workers had left for the day. He looked over at the empty blood bags as Benny came out of the bathroom, wiping water from his head. Ros looked up from his duffel as she finished folding the clothes he had haphazardly thrown in there.

"Wow, you uh…look okay."

"Getting there." Benny said, throwing the towel on the the floor

"Dude, you were double hamstrung."

"Yeah well, a little rest, half a cooler full of AB negative- most wounds short of an amputation will mend up, vampirically speaking."

"Uh-huh." Dean glanced over at his sister as Benny takes the bag from her and puts his cap back on.

"I'll be 100% before you know it." He takes the ice chest and holds out his hand to Dean, "Thank you Brother." Dean shakes his hand before speaking up.

"Benny, what's going on?"

"Oh, your work here is done Dean, yours too Ros. You already saved the day. You know, I got my, uh, deal and you got- what'd you call it? A family business?"

Ros looked over at Dean and then Benny. Dean saw it in her eyes, there was no way she was going to let Benny go, not now that she'd found him. And Dean couldn't let her just run into harm's way with Benny.

"Benny, what's going on?" Dean asked

"You and that whole 'friend' thing, man." Benny shook his head

"Why are you getting into machete fights with your own kind?"

Ros looked down, she knew the story.

"Quentin, the one I came for? We were in the same next. I'm hunting the vampire who turned me, my maker."

"Well now, don't get me wrong. I'm down with the hunting, but uh…why?"

"Kill him 'fore he kills me…again." His eyes met Ros's

Benny picked up the money clip before throwing it down, as Dean looked at a notebook.

"Listen to this, 'Age of Auarius II, 0800." And then theres some other numbers all crossed out. Some other weird names here too-the Big Mermaid, Solitaire-it's all crossed out, except for this one – The Lucky Myra."

"Yachts. Names of yachts-the Lucky Myra," Benny grabbed the notebook from Dean, "Look at this one –Sea You Later, spelled S-E-A, I mean, come on." He laughed, throwing the book back down as Dean looked at it

"So then these are launch times, and what, destination?"

"Mmhmm, except none of them ever get there. The Lucky Myra left yesterday afternoon, I guarantee you it's already been hit."

"What do you mean 'hit?'"

"Boarded, burned, and buried at sea. My nest – that's how we fed... How we always fed. We kept a tight little fleet, maybe a half-dozen boats. Nothing ostentatious, just pleasure craft. I must have circled the Americas ten times during my tour. A few of us would act as stringers and patrol the harbors, looking for the right-size target – fat, rich yachts going to far-off ports. Take down the boat's name and destination, radio it to the crew in the water. And then we just, uh... let the ocean swallow up all our sins."

"Vampire pirates? That's what you guys are? Vampirates."

Ros laughed out loud as she looked at Benny, she had said the exact same thing.

"I shoulda known you guys were related then. Vampirates." He scoffed, "How come you two are the only ones to have ever thought that?"

"What do you mean? It's like the third thing you say."

"No it isn't." Benny shook his head

"All right, so your maker is set up to feed around here then, right?" Ros asked, taking the money from the wallet on the table and shoving it in her brother's hand, "Well, what are we looking for?"

"You're not looking for anything."

"Screw you blood sucker, I'm in on this, got it?"

Benny looked up at Dean, "She always this mouthy?"

"Don't even ask." Dean shook his head, grabbing the money from the money clip as well, "I just don't even argue with her anymore."

"Fine." He sighed, "The old man likes to live in style. He usually rents legitimately. Always remote, always coastal."

Dean unfolded a piece of paper, "So an island maybe? You ever heard of Prentiss Island?"

"Oh, yeah." Benny laughed

Dean looked in the rear view mirror as his sister sound asleep, curled up in the back of the car.

"So, if you were your maker's favorite, why did he kill you?"

Benny looked back at her too, watching as her chest rose and fell as she went deeper and deeper into sleep.

"When you get turned, it's like you're reborn into a vampire nest. Your maker, he means everything to you. I mean, you really start believing he's God. Now, if your maker happens to believe the same thing, well…" Benny shrugged, "Anyway...our father – he was a jealous god. He kept the family together but kept us apart from the rest of the world, always at sea. I always did what was best for the nest... till I met her. Andrea. Andrea Kormos. Beautiful. I mean, words don't even cut it, you know? Greek, heiress."

"Come on." Dean laughed

"She was sailing a 42-foot sloop to the Canary Islands. Now, I should have called her boats destination in to my crew, but instead, I joined her on it." His eyes looked back at Ros, but still, she stayed asleep

"Seriously, was Fabio on the cover of that paperback?" Dean laughed

"My life changed when she entered it, Dean. Everything I had been or done up to that point just... seemed to vanish... into what we had become together. I mean... We found it, man. Eventually, we settled in Louisiana. And then one night, we were coming home, and the old man – he was just there. Quentin, Sorento, my oldest nestmates. It was only that night I understood what a crime it was to him – me leaving him. They pinned me down, and they beheaded me. The last thing I saw was the old man tearing out Andrea's throat."

"Well, that's what payback all about, am I right?"

Benny nodded, "Docks are up ahead. Should be able to find a dinghy to use."

Ros awoke once the car came to a stop.

"Go back to sleep, Ros." Benny begged

"Good luck with that." She wiped the sleep from her eyes

"You're no good to us half asleep." Dean asked

"Kiss it, Winchester." She climbed out of the car

The trio stands by a large tree as Dean glances down at his phone. He decides against texting Sam back and takes the weapon Benny hands him.

"What the hell is that? Did you make that in caveman school?" Ros laughs at the barbaric instruments Benny and Dean hold

"Remind you of anything?" Benny asks as he and Dean look around the forest, "It's weird being back-in the world, I mean. Isn't it?"

Ros grows uncomfortable as she remembers how she was when she first came back from the pit.

"Sure as hell is." Dean says

"I mean, what do you do with it all? All the, all the everything?" Benny asks, "Hell, I don't even know if this world is real…if I'm real."

Ros takes Benny's hand and pulls his attention to her, as she stands on the tips of her toes and kisses him, "You listen to me Benjamin, I've been there, I've done that, ok? This is real." She kisses him again, "You stop talking like that, you hear me?"

Benny nods as they make their way towards the house. They enter the nautical themed house through an antry way off a hallway, weapons at their ready as they walk into the main room. Benny looks down at a harpsichord and smiles softly, "The old man's harpsichord."

Dean and Ros are already out of the room when Benny sees a framed photo of a woman.

"No." he shakes his head, "No. No."

The stairs creak as a beautiful woman makes her way down the steps.

"Benny?"

"Andrea."

Ros tries to step around her brother when she sees the woman, but Dean holds her back and nods his head towards a small group of men who begin to surround Benny.

"Benny." Ros whispers

"Idiot." Dean sighs

The men fight Benny for a few seconds before they overpower him and handcuff him to a chair, one man in particular finding extreme humor in the situation at hand.

"Gonna make me do this all over again, aren't you?"

"Hello Sorento." Benny smiled

"Sorento, go. Tell the old man it's true." She says, watching as the vampire leaves

"He listens to you?" Benny asks

"It's been a long time. Our father has come to trust my judgment over Sorento's. I answer only to him."

"Well, sleeping with God has got to have some perks."

Andrea slaps Benny across the face as he tries to ignore the pain.

"Yes it does." She says, looking over at the two other vampires, "Make sure the old man has everything he needs."

As soon as they leave Andrea is straddling Benny's lap and kissing him roughly. Ros's face turns red with anger as Dean holds her back. They both watch as Benny returns the kiss.

"Oh Benny. When I heard you were back, I don't know, somehow, I knew it was true. I had to believe it, to hope."

"Andrea what happened? The old man said he was gonna bleed to you dry."

Dean pulls Ros alone as they go to take care of the two vampires that had just left. After the vamps are dead, Dean calls Sam, explains the situation and their corrdinates. Ros wants to run back and grab Andrea and behead her. She wants to behead both of them. But instead, she has her blade out killing other, less worthy vampires, until she gets split from Dean, a vampire holding a blade to her throat and dragging her down the hall

MINUTES LATER:

Benny, Andrea, Ros, and Benny's maker all stand opposite each other, staring each other down.

"Well, now how is this going to end?" Benny's maker laughs, looking at the situation surround him. The maker has his arm around Ros's waist, a knife pressed against her throat, as she whimpers, the knife slowly cutting into her.

"Benny, just let him have her." Andrea says, "It's just us, remember?" She tugs at his coat

"You're dead." Benny snarls at the old man

"We can go anywhere Benny. Start this all over again. We can have our own organization in Greece, or Italy, or anywhere." She tries to bargin with him as the old man holds the knife steady against Ros's throat, she tries to move out of his grasp but he digs the knife in more as blood begins to seep from the surface of her skin and she cries

"What are you talking about?" Benny looks away for just a second to stare at Andrea

"We have everything now, Benny. I know how this all works. We can ride the high seas, plunder together. We can have the life we always wanted."

"What I wanted was to leave a burning crater behind. I wanted to put your memory to rest."

"But I'm not a memory, Benny, I'm right here."

Benny stares her down, "What I loved-it ain't here anymore. It was snuffed out a long time ago by monsters like me…like what you've become."

"You think you're better than me now?" she let go of his hand

"No, I think we're all damned."

Andrea's eyes glowed with anger as she stared down Ros. She stomped past Benny and looked at their maker.

"Give her to me." Andrea said

"I'm afraid I can't do that Andrea." The old man spoke up

"Give her to me now!" Andrea screamed as the old man moved the knife, seconds later Andrea stood just as their maker had, his knife still pressed into Ros's throat, only this time by Andrea, and only this time, harder.

Blood trickled down Ros's throat as she began to cry tears.

"Benny I'm sorry." She choked out, "I'm sorry I lied. I'm sorry I hurt you. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

Blood mixes with her tears as Andrea's teeth descend. Benny tries to talk Andrea down, but its only getting worse. Theres so much blood. It pours from Ros's throat, it pours out from her mouth. A swishing noise is heard, seconds later followed by a thump as Dean runs into the room, taking off the master's head, surprising Andrea as he moves for her, taking off her head too, but not before she pulls the knife against Ros's throat the rest of the way.

Both Andrea and Ros fall to the floor. Benny pushes Andrea's body away, as Ros coughs up blood, her white and black stripped shirt is now only red. Dean tries to hold her, to take her away from Benny, afraid he might be overwhelmed by all the blood, but Ros takes what little energy she has left and wraps her bloody fingers in Benny's.

"I love you Benny." She whispers

Her body begins to convulse and her eyes roll back as Dean falls to his knees, tears falling down his face.

"No. No, I just got her back!" he exclaims

Benny looks at his friend, and to his lover. Before he sees the life slip from her, he rips into his own wrist with his teeth and lets the blood fall into her mouth. Dean sees what is going on but cannot move. He can't argue. He can't speak. He can only hope that Ros doesn't die.