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A Time to Heal

Chapter nine

Dean

Dean sat on the bed trying to think who might have taken his brother and where they could be holding him…..Or was Sam already dead? Maybe who ever took him already killed him and dumped him out on the highway somewhere. Dean ran out to his car and turned on the police scanner he had mounted in the car. He listened to the conversations of the cops but didn't hear anything about a body being found. Maybe they didn't find him yet, or maybe he was lying out there somewhere hurt. Dean pinched the bridge of his nose trying to stop the terrible images of Sam lying dead next to the road from running through his mind. He took out his cell phone and punched in Ellen's number.

"Ellen?" He asked when someone picked up the phone.

"Yeah."

"Ellen its Dean, Dean Winchester."

"I figured you'd be calling. How's Sam?"

"I was too late, they got him."

There was silence at the other end for a few seconds.

"I'm sorry Dean."

"Do you have any idea who took him?"

"No…. I just overheard the conversation and when I asked who they were talking to they shook their heads and left. You know how it is with hunters….they're not going to tell you anything."

"Do you know anything about them?"

"They've been here before; but I only know their first names, Kyle and Wayne."

"Can you remember what they said?"

"All I heard them say was that someone found Sam Winchester and they were going to…." Ellen hesitated, she didn't want to make Dean more upset then he already was.

"Go on."

"That they were going to make him talk… then they were going to kill him." When she heard the small intake of breath at the other end she added. "I'm sorry Dean. I wish I could tell you more. You know how hunters are; they won't talk to anyone but their own partner."

"It's okay Ellen I understand." Dean knew hunters were a secretive bunch; they had to be in order to stay alive.

"Dean…"

"Yeah."

"Get him back."

"I will." Dean said as he hung up the phone. The only problem was how.

Sam

Sam never knew he could hurt this much. The pain was agonizing and there was no indication they were going to stop. Wayne took out Sam's cell phone. He had turned it off when they had grabbed Sam because he knew it more then likely contained a GPS chip and that if turned on his brother could track him. He turned it on then quickly scanned the numbers in the phone book till he came across Dean's number. He memorized it then turned it off. He then took out his own phone which had a scrambling chip in it to stop anyone from tracking their location and dialed Dean's number.

Dean

Dean looked at the strange number that popped up on his screen, he knew he didn't know the caller but knew he had to take the call in case it had anything to do with his brother.

"Yeah."

"Is this Dean Winchester."

"Could be….Who wants to know?"

"I'm not going to play games with you Winchester…We have something of yours." Wayne held the phone down at Sam's mouth. "Say something to your brother." When Sam didn't talk Kyle took his knife and drove it deep into Sam's thigh which caused him to cry out in pain. Wayne then turned his attention back to the phone. "Your brother doesn't feel like talking right now but we're hoping you help us make him."

Dean gripped the phone tight, he had heard Sam's cry of pain and right now all he wanted to do was crawl through the phone and beat the crap out of whoever had his brother.

"I swear if you hurt him I'll kill you." Dean kept his voice low trying as hard as he could to control his temper; he knew flipping out wasn't going to help find his brother.

"All you got to do is get him to tell us how to find Lucifer and we'll put him out of his pain."

TBC