Disclaimer: I do not own any of the character's from Supernatural but I would be more than happy to take Dean from them if they wish, but I do own my character Vicki Mclellan (She's scottish by the way). She's based on someone I know.
Author's note: Okay, so now it's Hello, Cruel World :)
Mental note: If there are words you don't know about let me know and I'll fill you in (scottish slang will be used)
Thank you: XKaterineNightingaleX for your review on the last chapter and A Special thanks to all who are supporting, reading, following and reviewing this story, so glad you like it and I hope it keeps that way :D
Chapter 9: Hello, Cruel World.
The black veins disappeared from his face and Vicki winced, looking down at the now popped stitch on her arm. Nothing bad had happened to it...and now it was popped and blood was dripping. She looked to Dean who looked back at her and then over to Bobby.
"Bobby?" He asked. Bobby moved and sat up slightly rubbing his head.
"How many of you ass-clowns are in there? A hundred? More?" Dean asked Leviathan!Castiel, who began dripping with black fluid. "Your vessel's gonna explode ain't it? Wouldn't do anythin g too strenuous. In fact, I'd call it a day, head on home huh?"
"We'll be back. For you" Levithan!Castiel said and turned slowly, lipming from the room.
"Well this is a new one" Bobby said after getting up.
Dean got to his feet and then put a hand out to Vicki, who took it reluctantly and got up. He gripped a hold of her arm and examined it, and then looked to her face.
"You alright?" He asked.
"Fine" She nodded.
"I'll fix that when we get back" He said.
She nodded "Better go find Sam" Bobby said.
Dean let go of Vicki's arm and the three of them walked from the room and went to find Sam and when they found him, he had pinned himself to the wall and was shaking his head.
"You're not real" He said shaking his head, his voice was dry and croaky. "No"
"Sam? Sam?" Dean said and began to shake him. "Sam! You hearing me?" He then put his hand onto Sam's chest and Sam seemed to come out of whatever he was into. "Whoa, look at me. hey all right, we got to button this up. Come on, let's got out of here. Come on"
The four of them got out fine and then followed the drips that Levithan!Castiel was leaving everywhere, and then seen him go into the water. He went under and they all stopped, a whirlpool appeared and blew up slightly, then the black liquid radiated out from it and then disappeared.
"Aw, hell" Bobby huffed.
Vicki noticed the sign "Public Water Supply. No Swimming. No Fishing. NO Boating"
"Damn it" Dean said.
"You said it. Those...whatever you call 'em's" Bobby began.
"Leviathan" Vicki said.
"Right. If they're in the pipes, they got themselves a highway to anywhere" Bobby said.
"Awesome" Dean said huffily and he then noticed something in the water. He moved over and picked it up and showed it to everyone standing. Castiel's trenchcoat. "Okay, so...he's gone"
"Yeah. Rest in peace if that's in the cards" Bobby said.
Dean folded the trench-coat and stared at it, a sad expression on his face "Dumb son of a bitch" he said his voice cracking. Vicki bit her lip, the way his voice cracked made her heart hurt. He glanced at everyone his eyes lingering on her for a moment before looking back at the coat.
"Well, he was friends with us, wasn't he? Can't get much dumber than that" Bobby said. "Come on, those things will be coming up for air soon"
When they got back, Dean re-done the stitches on Vicki's arm and he sighed. She was sitting in the kitchen when he entered. It had been hours...nearly a day.
"Sorry" She said.
"what? Why?" he asked looking at her with a confused expression on his face.
"You lost a friend" Was all she replied with.
"Right" he said "Listen...about the other day and what I said..." He began
"Don't" She said shaking her head "It's fine" she got up and moved from the kitchen and went into the living room where Sam had fallen asleep on the couch.
"Will you wake him up for me?" Dean asked.
"Sure" She nodded and went over to him. She shook him slightly "Hey sunshine, time to get up...Sam?"
She looked around at Dean who walked into the living room and she shrugged "Hey. Wake up, sunshine. UP and at'em, atom man" Dean said "Sammy?!"He touched Sam's chest "Sammy, hey-"
Sam jumped in surprise and looked at the two .
"Whoa. That's twelve hours straiht, I'm calling that rested here." Dean said. He handed Sam a bottle of water and a power bar. "Hydrate and, uh protein-ate"
"Protien ate?" Vicki asked cokcing an eyebrow and Dean smirked and gave a shrug.
"Breakfast in bed" Sam muttered.
"Don't get used to it, let me see that hand" Dean said and motioned for Sam's hand. Sam held his hand our and Vicki noticed him glancing slightly to the right, she followed his gaze but seen nothing. Dean removed the bandages on Sam's hand and examined it "Eh, you'll live. Here" He poured whiskey over it and Sam sucked in a painful breath. "All right take it easy"
"SO, ooze invasion. Any leads?" Sam asked.
"Bubkis" Vicki said with a small smile, Sam smiled back.
"I got all my feelers out" Bobby said coming into the room "Whatever they're up to, it ain't about goin Mothra down Main street. They'll turn up. You seem pretty eager to stretch your legs you know" Bobby said and put new bandages on Sam's hand.
"Mmm" Sam nodded.
"Now onto our other big problem. How're you doin'? And do not say okay" Dean said.
"I'm not okay" Sam said.
"You think?" Dean asked.
"Go easy" Vicki snapped at the elder brother who glared back at her.
"There's nothing to go easy about Vic, okay. We acted like he had everything under control" Dean said.
"I get it" She said nodding "But did you question yourself as to why he didn't tell you?"
Dean stared at her and licked his lips shrugging slightly.
"I'm sorry, look I didn't exactly want to crack up, you know?" Sam said.
"What the hell happened back there?" Dean asked.
"Well, it's not just flashbacks anymore" Sam said.
"Well then what?" Dean asked.
"It's more like I'm seeing through the cracks"
"What does that mean?" Dean asked.
"It means I'm having a difficult time figuring out what's real" Sam replied.
"Hallucinations" Dean said.
"For starters" Sam said.
"Well for starters, if you're tripping hell's bells why would you hide that?" Dean asked.
"I wasn't hiding it, Dean. I...I was just not talking about it. I mean it seemed like you two had enough going on as it was-"
"You two?" Dean asked. "Did you know?" He asked turning to Vicki.
"She didn't-"
"That's a lie" Vicki said "I did know"
"And you didn't tell me why?" Dean asked
"Because I promised. I don't break promises" She said shaking her head.
"And it didn't occur to you that I had a right to know about it?" he asked.
"Yes it did" She said "I did want to tell you..."
"But I made her promise Dean, I asked her not too" Sam said "Look I just figured, try to hold onto the safety bar and ride it out, you know? But it's getting more specific"
"As in specifically what?" Dean asked.
"I'm seeing Lucifer" Sam stated "And before you go off on one at her...she didn't know...it only started at the lab"
Dean moved and poured himself a whiskey and poured one for Bobby "What the hell Sam?"
"I told you" Sam shrugged.
"I mean seriously, how fo you, how fo you argue with that?" Dean asked.
"I know it's a problem" Sam said.
"Well now wait, I got it. Why would the devil holodeck you a whole new life when he could just kick your ass all over the cage?" Dean asked.
"Cause as he puts it, You can't torture someone who has nothing left for you to take away" Sam said.
"Okay fine, but this Malibu dream mansion that he, he, he makes for you to take away is this post apocalyptic mess?" Dean asked.
Sam looked over at the empty space in the living room and everyone's eyes followed his gaze.
"Are you seeing him right now?" Vicki asked.
Sam nodded.
"You know he's not real, right?" She asked.
"He says the same thing about you" Sam said.
Everyone was silent for a minute and Bobby sighed "I'm going back to work" he said and moved. Bobby left the room leaving the other three alone.
"He's not real Sam" Dean said "Okay..I'm gonna fix this...I promise"
"I don't know if you can" Sam said.
Dean stared at him and then looked to Vicki, who was biting her lip.
"Can I talk to you?" He asked "Just for a minute"
She nodded slowly and followed him into the kitchen and out the back door.
"Are you insane?" he asked turning to face her, his face filled with rage. Though Vicki stood her ground.
"I promised him. Okay? If you asked me to tell him something I wouldn't...I don't break promises" She said "I didn't know it was THAT bad"
"Nothing triggered it?"
"No" She said shaking her head "No"
Dean sighed aggrivatedly and punched the car they were next to, the noise caused Vicki to jump in surprise but she stared at him. "Okay..okay...I'm gonna figure this out"
"What if you-"
"I will" He growled.
She stared at him in surprise "How do you know what I was going to say?"
He scoffed and moved slightly "Well what were you going to say?"
"You know what. Never mind" She said and she turned going to go back into the house.
"Don't walk away from me" Dean said and she turned to look at him.
"What is your problem?" She asked.
He growled slightly "You are my problem. You know things about MY brother and don't tell me, yeah and blah blah promises blah blah, all right fine. But he is MY Brother, you should know when to tell me something like this, you're acting as if this is all about you"
She narrowed her eyes "I am not acting like any of this is about me, because it isn't, it's about YOUR brother who needs help not critisism!" She snapped back "And I am NOT YOUR PROBLEM! I AM MY PROBLEM! I didn't ask to be brought here, okay but you're making it very hard to even wanna be anywhere near you, and I haven't done anything wrong...how many times do I have to say that I'm not going to hurt you? Because that's what this is, that with Crowley proved it!"
"What with Crowley"
"You thought maybe I would tell him about what I knew" Vicki said "And I wouldn't have...because I am not that stupid...I might be blonde but I know when to keep my mouth shut"
"Oh obviously" Dean snorted.
"You know what, seriously Fuck you" She said shaking her head. "I am sick to death of you"
"Yeah and I feel the same about you"
"Good" She shrugged.
"Good" He said.
"Fine" She snapped.
"Fine" He snapped back.
"If you're going to be like this with me everytime I try to say something or everytme I try to help...just don't talk to me, it'll make it easier on you if anything bad happens" She said and she turned and went back into the house, leaving Dean outside to glare at the car he'd hit.
The next day Vicki was sitting with Sam as he took apart his gun.
"Are you sure you should be doing that?" She asked.
He glanced at her "Yeah.." he smirked "Why? Dean send you to keep an eye on me"
"No" Vicki said. "I'm worried about you is all, you seem to be the only one who trusts me and honestly I don't know why"
"Bobby trusts you, Dean-"
"No Dean doesn't trust me. He made that perfectly clear" SHe said handing him the cloth.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked.
"Oh come on Sam" She said "You can't tell me you don't notice the snide comments"
"He's just...getting used to you"
"getting used to me should've happened a while ago...I've been here about a month"
"He's Dean" Sam shrugged "If you know him as well as I do-"
"Sam. Tv show"
"Right. But you should know that he isn't used to a girl...that's I don't know, as cocky as you are"
"What?"
"Well you seem like the shy type...but you're not...you're cocky, sarcastic and don't seem to take anybody's crap...and Dean respects that, trust me he does"
"Oh really?" She asked cocking an eyebrow.
"yeah. Course he does, don't think for one minute Dean doesn't trust you now...if we'd had this conversation a few weeks ago I would've agreed with you...but now? Nah. He trusts you fine, if he didn't he would watch you all the time"
"He does"
"He worries too much" Sam replied.
"Sam he doesn't like me" She said shrugging "I can tell"
"He does like you"
"No...no he doesn't..."
"How?"
"He threatened to kill me...he doesn't trust me...I don't know I can tell it's one of those feelings"
"One of those feelings" Sam murmered "Trust me, he trusts you or he wouldn't listen to what you say"
"He doesn't listen to what I say" Vicki retorted.
"He does"
"He doesn't" Vicki said.
"If he didn't trust you...he wouldn't let you anywhere near me" Sam said "Not with the state I'm in"
"I think I'm lucky to be anywhere near you" Vicki said.
"You kept a promise, and he knows that, he'll get over it"
"Yeah when? Cause I'm sick of his attitude" Vicki said.
"You'll get used to it"
"God I hope not" she huffed.
A little while later, Dean came back in with some stuff from the stores.
"Hey there Gunga Din, buck up" Bobby said to him.
Vicki didn't look up but continued with the drawing she was doing on the paper. Her tongue sticking out because she was concentrating.
"So it looks like we got some bad news for a change. Stockville North Kansas, most of a high school swim team got mangled to death in their locker room" Sam said.
"Cop talk on the wire's kind of garbled, saying it looks like some sort of animal attack. They're saying that whatever attacked them's about the sizze of a linebacker" Bobby said.
"It's a lead Dean" Sam said.
"All right but if you think you're going out on a hunt..." Dean began to lecture Sam.
"No, I know I'm not, but you and Vicki are" Sam said and this caught Vicki's attention.
"Say what?" She asked cocking an eyebrow.
"Look, Bobby's running the hub, I'm...I'm 5159'd which leaves you two to follow this thing up"
"You're in the middle of a psychotic break" Dean said to Sam.
"It's a couple of hours drive, Dean, and it could be a Leviathan thing"
"Nah, if you think I'm leaving you here alone..."
"hey. What am I chopped braisn on toast? I can eyeball the kid. Go. Work off some of these nerves on something useful"
Dean looked from Sam to Bobby and Bobby shrugged.
"Fine" Dean said.
"Why do I have to go?" Vicki asked "He can manage on his own"
"And if he runs into something?" Bobby asked.
"Then that's his problem" Vicki said making a face.
"Thanks very much" Dean stated.
"You're not welcome" she replied going back to the drawing.
"You two had another falling out?" Bobby asked wih a dramatic sigh.
"Blame him" Vicki said "His fault"
"My fault?" Dean asked.
"Guy's come on!" Sam huffed "Just...do this okay? Get it over with..."
Vicki made a face and got up from the seat "Fine". Dean smirked and walked out first, Vicki followed and waited until he'd gotten his duffel ready. This should not be so much fun...
The first half an hour of the drive was silent, all from Dean's music, yet again. He tapped his hand on the steering wheel and eventually looked over at Vicki who had her arms folded and her lips were puckered up into what looked to be a pout.
"Oh come on pouty" He said and he moved his hand and nudged her leg.
She glanced at him and continued to stare out the window and Dean smirked turning the music up louder but frowned when he noticed it didn't bother her.
"My music not bother you?" He asked.
"Can't hear you. Music's too loud" She replied.
"You gonna stay mad?"
"Why for me not to be mad for you to make me mad again?" She asked raising a eyebrow.
"If I promise to be good will you talk to me?" He asked.
"No"
"Why not?"
"Because I don't feel like talking to you" She said.
"You know you can't resist this...sexy face" He grnned.
She looked at him with a strange expression on her face "You're so up yourself"
"Don't pretend you don't know I'm sexy"
"Shut up" She replied.
"I don't hear you denying it...so you think I'm sexy?"
"No"
"Liar...you're totally into me"
"No. I am not"
"Yes. yes you are"
"No really, I'm not"
"Liar" He said in a sing song voice.
"Please stop talking"
"Don't worry I think you're sexy too" he said.
She made a face and then looked at him "What are you on?"
"Life" he smirked.
"You are not funny" She said.
"No. I'm halirious"
"No you're not that either"
"So what am I?"
"Nothing"
"Oh come on huffy" He said "Enjoy the ride"
He pulled the car over "What are you doing?" Vicki asked.
"I gotta take a whizz" He said getting out of the car
"In the dark?" She asked.
"yes...why you worried about me?"
"No" She said shaking her head.
"Liar" He got out and after a minute of silence, Vicki stared out the window, straining to see him. When after five minutes he didn't come back she huffed and got out of the car.
"Dean you're not funny" She said. But go no answer. "Dean?"
Silence.
"Dean! We have work to do!" She shouted.
Just then something grabbed her and she let out a shriek when she was pinned to the car, she then heard laughing and opened her eyes seeing Dean. SHe narrowed her eyes and shoved him back, opening the impala door and getting in, slamming it shut. "Dick"
Dean had been in to the school, and examined the blood and found the icky black substance just like the stuff that had oozed from Castiel and the two of them were now on their way back.
"Well, we are positive for ick. Same kind of stuff that came of of Cas, and uh two of the swim kids were missing, they stole one of their parents cars" Dean said to Sam on the phone.
"So you think these, um, these Leviathan things ust jump into people? Like Eve did?" Sam asked.
"I don't know, it makes sense right? Anyway, uh, state trooper's got surveillance cam on the kids about six hours ago, of them gassing up just South of Dakota line, so we're headed back your way, we'll just track them from Bobby's" Dean said.
"Yeah, sounds good"
"Hey! How are you doing?" Dean asked.
"You know, uh, okay"
"Well hang in there all right?" Dean asked.
"Yeah...how's Vicki?"
"Asleep...I scared her earlier"
"WHat do you mean?"
"Explain it when I get back..." Dean smirked "Was funny though"
"She still pissed at you?"
"A little" Dean said "I think...I don't know"
"try to apologize"
"I'm trying" Dean said rolling his eyes "Okay see you soon"
And with that he hung up the phone.
When the two of them got back, Vicki and Dean entered the house.
"Sam?" NO answer "Sammy? Sam?" Dean shouted.
"Oh crap" Vicki said.
"Come on" He said and pulled out his phone as they left the house.
"Where is he?" Vicki asked.
"A building" Dean said tracking him on the phone GPS.
"That's-" Vicki began and then something blurred her vision. "He's not okay"
"How do you know?"
"A memory thing" she said twiddling her finger's "I know what to do"
"What?"
"You'll see when we get there" She siad and Dean sped up and haulted the car to a stop when he came to the right place. He pulled the car up next to a black van and the two got out, they went in quickly.
"Sam? Sam!" Dean called. "Sam what are you doing?"
Sam turned and aimed his gun at both Vicki and Dean.
"Whoa! Whoa!" Dean said putting his hands up.
"I was with you two" Sam said.
"Okay, well here we are"
"No, no I don't...I.." He began "I can't know that for sure, you understand me?"
"Okay now we're gonna have to start small" Dean said.
"I don't remember driving here" Sam said.
He then turned and shot at thin air and both Vicki and Dean jumped in surprise.
"Whoa! Whoa! Sam! This discussion does not require a weapons discharge" Dean said.
Sam was breathing heavily and he lowered the gun.
"Look at me, come on, you don't know what's real? Look man, I've been to Hell. Okay, I know a thing or two about torture, enough to know that it feels different, than the pain of this, this regular stupid, crappy..this" Dean said.
"No, no, how can I know for sure"
Dean seemed at loss and Vicki smiled at Sam "Let me see your hand"
"What?" Sam asked.
"You trust me right?" she asked.
"Y-yeah" He nodded.
"Let me see your hand" she said and he raised his right hand "No, the other one, the gimp hand"
He looked away from her and she looked to Dean who shrugged slightly and she grabbed his hand he began to squeeze it. "This is real, not the past, not in hell, now. We were with you when you done it, Dean sewed it up! Look" She said and he looked down, blood seeping through the bandages "This is different, Sam you know it is, We're different, trust me..." Dean moved forward and took the gun from Sam and Vicki continued to squeeze the wound "When he shows up...you do this...and he'll disappear, I promise...okay, I promise just squeeze it as hard as you can and he'll go away...he's not real Sam...we're real"
Sam looked at her, then at Dean and then past them and he took his hand from Vicki's grip and began putting pressure on it.
"Sam?" She asked "Sam"
"Hey, I am your flesh and blood brother, okay? I'm the only one who can legitimatly kick your ass in real time" Dean said.
"You got away from it Sam, they got you out" Vicki nodded. "Believe in that, okay?"
"Yo gotta make a stone number one and build on it. You understand?"
Sam nodded "Yeah, yeah okay" Sam nodded again and his cell phone began to ring. He pulled it out and answered it "Bobby, hey.." He said "Leviathan, here?" He asked. Sam hung up and looked at Vicki and Dean "Bobby's got a live one"
"Okay, well let's go" Dean said.
The two followed him and went out into the impala and got in and Dean began driving.
"Look when we get back to Bobby's-"
"It's okay, Dean, I'm good. No white rabbits" Sam said and then he laughed "I'm not seeing anything"
"Okay. baby steps" Dean said. He gave his brother a small smile and Sam gave one in return.
"Oh no" Vicki said and she leaned forward, pointing at Bobby's which had been set ablaze. The three of them got out of the car and Dean went into the house, Sam walked around and Vicki staed where she was.
"Bobby?" They all shouted "Bobby!"
Dean walked out of the house and both Vicki and Sam moved over to him.
"Any sign of him?" Sam asked.
"That place was torched somebody knew what they were doing" Dean said.
"You think Bobby was back there?" Sam asked.
"I don't know" Dean said.
Vicki stopped walking and Sam and Dean noticed, her eyes were glazed over and her face was scrunched up.
"Vic?" Dean asked and she shook herself.
"What is it?"
"I...I don't know...I'm not sure"
"Okay..." Dean said "We'll go this way...go that way"
Sam nodded and went to the right.
"Bobby!" Sam called.
Dean pulled out his phone and waited a minute "You cannot be in that crater back there. I can't...If you're gone I swear, I am going to strap my bautiful mind broher into the car and I'm gonna driv us off the pier. YOu asked how I was doing? Well not good! Now you said you'd be here" Dean said into the phone "Where are you?"
He hung up and glanced a Vicki was staring at him "What?"
"I didn't say anything" she replied softly.
"Bobby!" He shouted.
"Bobby!" Vicki called.
As they rounded the corner Vicki grabbed onto Dean's arm "What?"
"Leviathan..." She said and they moved seeing one talking to Sam, Dean shot him in the side of the head with a shotgun. He straightened up and black ooze on his hands, his face transformed, his mouth enlarged and teeth were long and sharp and his togue unfurled. He then went back to normal, and he knocked Dean's gun away, he grabbed Dean. "no!" Vicki growled and stomped on his foot, he dropped Dean to the ground roughly and grabbed Vicki's shirt.
"Don't you look delicious" He said. Her eyes widned and he flung her back and she landed on her ass next to a car. He then picked up Dean and threw him against a car, Dean let out a groan. Sam punched the guy in the face.
"Dean now!" Sam shouted.
Dean moved and hit the control button but not before Sam was smashed in the head with a metal bar and he fell backward. The car dropped onto the Leviathan and Vicki got up, not sure who to go for first. She moved over to Dean and examined his leg.
"Is it-"
"Broken...yeah...Sam" he said and Vicki helped Dean up and helped him over to his brother. She helped him sit slightly "Sam" he said "Sammy, hey come on now, I'm the one with the broken leg, you got to carry me, Sam!"
Vicki pulled out her phone and dialled 911 and bit her lip when she'd finished. Dean looked as though he was going to cry and Vicki sighed. She wiped the blood from Sam's head and then moved to Dean.
"Sit back"
"N-"
"Sit back Dean" She said. He stared at her and moved so he was sitting on his ass, and he frowned and she cupped his face "He's going to be fine, you're going to be fine, Bobby is fine...okay?"
"I don't-"
"Do you trust me?" she asked.
"What?"
"Do you trust me?"
He hesitated before nodding "Yeah, yeah I trust you"
"Then lie back until the ambulance gets here"
"But Sam-"
"Sam will be fine...just lie back" She said and pushed him softly until he was lying on his back.
Vicki moved and examined his leg again, before trying to move it and Dean let out a cry "No..no don't do that...don't do that..."
"Sorry" She said breathlessly.
She moved to Sam "Sam? Hey! Sam" she said to him and bit her lip slightly getting no response from him.
The ambulance arrived and both Dean and Sam were put on stretchers.
"Who are you?" The paramedic asked. "Only immediate family can-"
"She's my wife" Dean lied quickly.
"Right" he said as Vicki sat across from them in the ambulance.
"Sam" Dean said and Sam's head turned to look at his brohter "Stay with me you hear?"
"Male, late twenties, head trauma. Signs of increasing intracranial pressure" The paramedic said.
Sam began to thrash around "Sam?" Vicki asked.
"Sammy!"
"Yeah, he's seizing. Copy that, we're just pulling into Sioux Falls" The paramdeic said.
"Sioux Falls? Sioux Falls Gerenral? No, no, no, no, you gotta take us somwehre else, anywhere. Please" Dean begged.
"He's right we can't go there" Vicki said worridely.
"Yeah, okay, buddy" The paramedic said.
Dean knocked his head back onto the pillow in distress and looked around, Vicki grabbed his hand and squeezed it gently. "It'll be okay" She whispered.
He didn't know what to do, his brother was off on one and now they were heading right into Monster Central...what the hell was he supposed to do?
