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Chapter Nine

Winchester's Curse

Bobby pulled an all-nighter driving like a mad man towards the hospital that contained the small family. He's been trying to contact John Winchester for a few days in a warning of a curse on the family where he knew the whole family would be vulnerable.

Incidentally the last hunt the family was involved in with Bobby John had ticked off more then a few people. Bobby tried keeping tabs on the ones he thought to be dangerous on getting revenge but when he lost track of Randy Keller and knew he was known for amateur witchcraft, Bobby tried contacting John. But he was unable to and only feared the worse, especially when Jim Murphy called about running into Randy at a book store picking up an ancient book containing only one spell. Caedes Voluntas, or Killing Senses.

It was kind of an obvious title on what the spell was and it made sense. Randy's wife had been the ghost that had been haunting the town, hurting its victims by gouging out their eyes, ripping out their tongues, and cutting off their ears. John didn't really care to find the motive of why this seemingly normal woman would become to sadistic after her death from cancer, but he crisped her bones without hesitation and Randy had been less then pleased.

Bobby immediately called everyone he knew, trying to find anyone who knew where the Winchesters were located. He contacted his old friend Elizabeth Hillshire, whom he helped with a haunting at her apartment a few years back. When she caught whiff of a case in Oklahoma she investigated and called Bobby with their confirmed location.

Now Bobby Singer was pulling into the hospital, avoiding the few pedestrians walking through the almost empty parking lot. From what Elizabeth told him, the Winchester's were in a bad way and this curse would be the last of their problems. Pulling into a spot and cutting off the engine, Bobby pulled out his cell and called Jim Murphy and Caleb and filled them in and Caleb said he would be there soon while Jim stayed on tabs with Randy.

Walking into the hospital, Bobby was greeted by Elizabeth with a Doctor on her tail.

Elizabeth shook Bobby's hand as if just meeting him and introduced him to the doctor. "Dr. York, this is Bobby Singer. He claims he is a family friend and had information for us about who they are."

"Well why don't I just show you John and you can make the verification." Dr. York led them to John' room.

Bobby walked up to his friend and cringed. John Winchester's exterior looked utterly broken, bruised, and beaten down. It killed Bobby to see his tough hunter of a friend so vulnerable.

"Is this your friend?" Dr. York questioned.

Bobby didn't think he could speak at the moment so he just nodded.

The room was silent and still for a moment until Bobby spoke up. "His name is John Winchester. His boys are Dean and Samuel Winchester." He confirmed. "Can I see them?" He looked pleadingly up to the doctor.

"I won't say that you can't but just like your friend here, they're in a bad condition and sometimes seeing someone so young in such a tragic state, well it can be hard." Dr. York explained.

Bobby took a deep breath and ran his hand down his chin. "I'll be fine." He assured, remembering that he needed to check Sam's eyes to confirm their suspicion on Randy.

"Okay. Elizabeth, can you show Mr. Singer to them please, I must report this information in the files."

"Yes." She said and the three left the room, Dr. York going in another direction.

As they walked down the hall Bobby couldn't help but feel his legs shaking. Rarely ever has something affected him life that, not since his wife passed away at least.

"Bobby, are you going to be able to handle this?" She asked as they reached Sam's door.

"Yeah, I'll be fine Lizzie. Don't worry 'bout me." He plastered a smile on his face and entered the room.

At the site of the youngest Winchester, Bobby wavered on his feet for a moment before going to Sam's side.

"Damn it you idjit," He grumbled under his breath, referring to John.

Elizabeth walked up behind Bobby with a pair of gloves already on. "Here, I'll show you his eyes." She reached over and opened the boy's eye lids.

Bobby gasped at the site of the eyes but pushed through his weariness and examined them more closely. And there was the ancient symbol etched with blood on the side of the boy's pupil, barely noticeable fore how bloodshot the eyes were.

Bobby stepped back and collapsed in the chair behind him.

Elizabeth closed Sam's eye lids again and went to Bobby's side. "Is it what you suspected?"

"Yeah," He said peering out the window. Then he cocked his head. "But Randy must have cast the spell over a week ago for it to have gotten that bad. Unless something else speeded the process up." He explained. "Take me to Dean." He said, rising to his feet. "I need to check the other two for any signs of them getting the curse too."

Elizabeth helped her friend down the hall to Dean's room. It took all that he had left of him to check Dean over for signs but luckily found none. He went back to John's room and checked him over and again, found nothing.

"Well that's good isn't it? That they haven't been cursed?" Elizabeth questioned as they sat across from each other in the cafeteria.

"Well it doesn't really matter if they all die anyway." Bobby sighed, tipping his unranked coffee cup back and forth.

"I will admit that from what I see, and what all the others have seen, that their chances are slim. But what most doctors don't believe in is having hope; which is what I have a lot of for them Bobby and you need to have some too."

"Yeah I know," He plastered a smile. "It just kills me seeing them like this. I mean how do they even get themselves wrapped up in a crazy spirits issues like that?" Bobby half jokingly questioned, having been filled in the whole situation after he finished inspecting the Winchesters for the curse.

Suddenly Elizabeth's pager went off. She quickly read it and jumped to her feet and running out of the cafeteria.

Bobby immediately ran after her and was soon running pace with her. "Lizzie, what's happened?"

"One of the Winchesters," She told Bobby, "One of them has woken up."

Author's Note: Quick update, huh? lol This is a good explanation chapter I think, and with a good cliffie! =) Hate me if you must, but love me also! Haha. Please review and tell me what ya think, 'cause I love ya back when ya do! =) Wow, I love being happy all the time. And I do say sorry if this chapter was also confusing, because things I write look sometimes different to the readers. So review and tell me what you thought! =) Thanks,
Miss Dassy