Note to readers: I am so, so, so, so, so, so sorry. I had lost my internet and went mental because it turns out I like having my internet and I am addicted to this site. I did not forget about you all I was trying to find away to get this up and my editor to check it. Which she did because she is awesome!
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Chapter 10
"Give me their location" Dean yelled. "Give me anything!"
They scrambled around looking for them, trying to track Anna's phones GPS signal. When they finally located where they were, the four of them were out the door. Cass jumped ahead to the woods where Anna and Penny had gone. They had been backed up against in large oak tree and a rock. The hellhounds surrounded them and they were completely cut off. One of the hellhounds lunged forward Adam and tore a deep gash into his arm. "Into the tree" Anna cried. She moved out of the way for Penny to get up into tree first. Anna was the next one in the tree followed by Adam. Kale looked up to them but didn't follow them up. "What are you doing, are you insane get up in this tree. If you stay down there you'll be ripped to shreds."
"Kale c'mon" Penny said, looking down at him with fearful eyes.
Kale turned around and his body began to shake. He dropped to his knees and he cried out a horrifying scream. His shoulders arched, head dropping low as his body changed in front of them. A long tail, four legs, and sharp claws grew out of Kale. The boy that had once stood in front of them was now a large cougar. Bigger than any cougar that either one of them had ever seen. Like an instinct it attacked ripping the hellhounds apart.
Dean and Sam came rushing through the forest over too where Cass stood. The giant cougar threw the invisible carcass to the side. Dean frantically looked around for Penny Anna looking up into the tree he saw the two girls gripping tightly to the branches. Adam was on Anna's left while Penny was on her right. They were completely cut off from them. Both Penny and Adam looked around unable to see what was going on below them. But Anna could see it all; she absorbed it, following every move of the cougar. When the last of the hellhounds fell to the ground, Anna motioned for Penny and Adam to go down. Again the great cougar began to shake as it fell to the ground. Its body arched once again, dropping its head down long as its great tale and claws were sucked back into the body. When the shift was finished, all that was left was Kale.
He slowly stood up and looked around himself, at all the confused and horrified faces. Kale stood there blood dripping off his figure tips, his eyes locked with Penny's but only for a moment before she looked away to Dean. The confusion in Penny's face pleaded Dean to help, to come and rescue her from her thoughts. Thoughts about how Kale was supposed to be normal. He was supposed to be the one thing in her life that wasn't about supernatural forces. He was supposed to be safe. Dean could read it in her face and this almost killed him, he had sworn to protect her and had failed and now when she needed him the most, he was powerless. The silence stayed among them, nobody knowing what to say, but guns were drawn, following Kale where ever he moved. Anna stood beside Penny and Sam, Adam with Dean, Castel, and Bobby, all with their eyes on Kale.
"That was so cool" Anna blurted out, looking around to see their eyes on her now. "What, too soon?"
Sam, Dean, and Bobby sat in the other room quiet. Penny was outside; Adam lounged on the couch, while Anna lurked in the kitchen. She was trying to listen in on Sam, Dean, and Bobby's conversation but they weren't saying anything. Kale was down in the lockup being watched over by Castel. She froze when Dean finally spoke.
"What are we going to do" he asked looking to Sam and Bobby.
"He's a shifter" Bobby said, pointing out that they already knew what had to be done.
"He saved their lives" Sam pointed out.
"He also endangered them" Dean spat back. "I knew we shouldn't have let her go. If you had just listened to me this wouldn't have happened."
"Yeah Dean, this is my fault for wanting them to have a life. Excuse me for not wanting them to be us."
"Our lives aren't so bad and if you haven't forgotten angels and demons are after them. This isn't the time for them to be running around making friends."
"There not soldiers Dean, there nineteen year old girls. They weren't raised like us Dean."
"That's not the issue here" Bobby spoke up. "We know what we have to do with Kale and its best we get it done and over with. No sense delaying the inevitable."
At that Anna came running into the room. "You can't kill him" she shrieked.
"Anna" Sam began but she cut him off.
"Don't talk to me like I'm a kid. What you're planning to do is murder, murder an innocent person."
"He's a shifter" Dean tried to explain but it was no use. Anna knew everything they were going to say and she knew how to dispute it.
"He's a native shape shifter. What we say was his spirit guide. Native shape shifters are dangerous like shape shifters. They don't morph their faces to blend they can only turn into one animal. Their spirit guides animal of choices or whatever animal their tribe is connected to is usually only activated when they are threaten. Therefore he is not dangerous and you don't have to kill him." No one said a word; Anna just looked at them with hopeful eyes. "Look he saved us and if you don't believe me, then just ask Penny or Adam."
"Adam" Dean yelled, "Come here." Adam slowly slandered in. "Did Kale save you guys."
"Yeah, but we didn't even know they were there until..." he stopped talking and his eyes locked with Anna's. She shook her head no and her eyes shined. "Uh, well until we heard the growling."
"Don't you see, Kale is a good guy, I just know it."
"Anna we can't just let him go. If you're wrong about him and he is dangerous and he kills someone; that's on us. We cannot take that chance; we have to consider what's best for everyone, people's lives are at stake."
"If you kill him and I'm right, that's murder and there is no going back from that. I get what you do and all but there is a line and you guys are about to cross that line. All I'm asking for is a chance to prove that he isn't something that you need to slaughter."
Dean sighed and looked to Sam. Sam couldn't see any harm in giving Anna what she wanted. She was right after all, just condemning him because of what he was, was murder. But after what they had gone through with Ruby, being cautious was a necessity. Kale would do whatever he needed to do; his life was on the line. But could Penny and Anna see through that. They did have an uncanny gift to see right down into people. See the good in them and see the bad. The whole thing weirded him out, the ability to see down into people, see their intentions couldn't be something easy to deal with. He brought his hand to his face; he didn't know what to do.
"Look I think pigmy is right. We at least owe him the benefit of doubt. Don't we" Adam said leaning forward on the table. Anna shifted her head, giving him a strange look. He agrees with me and still finds time to insult me. Now that's dedication.
Sam shook his head there couldn't be any harm in just letting him explain himself. "Alright, we at least can talk to him. Go get Pen-" Penny came flying into the room and wrapped her arms around Sam, hugging him as tight as she could. Sam groaned and nearly went backwards as she threw her arms around him.
"Thank you, thank you, THANNK YOU! I take every bad thing I ever thought or said about you." Sam gave her a puzzled look and pulled out of her hug.
"Don't get your hopes up" he warned standing up and gesturing for her to lead the way.
They walked down the stairs into the basement were Cass stood; guarding the door to Kale's imprisonment. "What's going on" he asked walking forward towards them.
"Were going to find out his true intentions" Dean said unconvinced by Anna's argument.
Castel move the way as Sam went to open the door. Tale shot straight as they entered the room.
"We're going to try something" Penny said moving toward him. "We need to find out your true intentions" she said trying to stay calm.
"And how are you going to do that?"
"Uh you know, invade your personal space." Anna joked as she moved to stand by Penny.
They explain to him the best of their knowledge of what was about to occur. No one really knew what was going to happen but they had to do something. Penny and Anna went to the other side of the room to discuss what they were going to do. While everybody else gathered around waiting for it to happen. As the time neared for it to happen, Kale became very nervous.
"Okay, guinea pig." Adam rubbed his hands together and grinned at Kale who glared back at him.
"I'm not a guinea pig." Kale looked over at Bobby, his eyes begging.
Bobby shrugged; "Sorry boy, but it's the only way."
Kale looked at Penny and Anna who were slapping each other in the arm. "And uh, how exactly does this thing work?" he asked, eyeing the two girls laughing over something apparently funny.
Penny glanced at Kale and smiled confidently. "You should be ok." She assured him and Adam snorted a laugh.
Anna glared at him. "What are you laughing at? It will be all good, you'll see. It will be better than good; it will be perfect, superb even. "
"Ah right pigmy, it will make everything magical okay." He answered sarcastically and she glared.
"WAIT, did you say I SHOULD be ok?" Kale asked, his voice rising a little. Sam hid a smile and Dean stood there with his arms crosses, ready to step in at any moment. Anna stood to one side of Kale and Penny on the other. Alarmed Kale glanced back and forth between Penny and Anna as they closed in on him. Anna and Penny linked arms.
"Hey." Penny spoke softly, her eyes twinkling and Kale focused on her. "It will be just fine." She put her hand gently on his shoulder. "You will be fi-"
Suddenly a light flashed and all three relaxed their eyes vacant.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!" Dean yelled, rushing forward to grab them.
"No Dean, don't!" Sam grabbed his brother wrenching him back. "If you touch them, you might get sucked into whatever they are doing."
Dean pushed Sam but Sam held his ground. "He's right Dean. The girls know what they are doing." Bobby spoke and then muttered. "I think."
Adam just stood there frozen, wondering what the heck happened. He looked around to make sure no one saw his expression but he glanced at pigmy worried. He found himself hoping she was okay. Not that he liked her. That would be just impossible, just the exact opposite. She was every that ever irritated him, she was a nuisance.
Penny and Anna stood there in the dark, what looked to be woods surrounding them. Completely alone and unaware of their surroundings, they kept arms linked but stayed calm. Ready for anything that could happen.
"Whoa! That was a rush." Anna muttered, shaking her head as if she had something in her ear.
"WHAT!" Penny screamed, scratching her ear. "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
"Shut up Penny! Just pop the air pockets." Anna grumbled and managed to settle herself down, looking around to see where they were.
Penny did what she was told. "AH THAT DIDN- oh that's better okay."
"Hey where are we exactly?" Anna frowned looking around.
"Uh, I have no clue." Penny looked around as well. "Where is everyone else?"
"Kale" Anna called out but no answer at the moment. Both girls turned and glared what each other. "WHAT DID YOU DO?"They yelled at one another. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! MY FAULT, NO IT'S YOUR'S" they yelled in unison. The arguing continued until Kale suddenly appeared beside them.
"WHOA! What are you doing?" Kale yelled getting their attention.
"Oh hey Kale. Do you know where we are exactly?" Anna asked.
"Uh are you telling me that you guys didn't know what was going to happen?"
They both gave him a sheepish grin. "Uh well, we kind of we're just played it by ear." Anna said.
"Adam was right" he muttered and Anna glared. "Why the hell would I know where we are?"
"Because it's your subconscious, uh hello" She said raising her eyebrows up and looking away. "And he is not right, that red neck hillbilly is not right" her tone slightly more serious and angry.
"Or at least we think it's your subconscious. We are almost one hundred percent sure. But to prove it, all you need to do is think about a place in your memory and it should appear around us." Penny said confident.
"We think" Anna added getting glares from Penny and Kale.
"Okay, what do I think about" he asked looking at Penny. Their eyes locking she smiled but didn't pull her eyes away from his.
"You could think of anything" she whispered.
"Oh brother" Anna mumbled before looking up to see a fuzzy image of Bobby's house surrounding them."Holy mother of" she said, eyes widening as an image of Penny standing at the door way beside a fuzzy Anna became clear.
Penny was the clearest image there. Suddenly Kale's voice could be heard. "Beautiful, simply beautiful. She so amazing, I have to talk to her." The net next image that was shown was also of Penny. In fact his mind played through every image he had of Penny. They listen to his thoughts things he wanted to say to her, of what he thought of her. The fact that in the moment when the hellhounds attacked, all he could think of was to save her.
Anna was now sitting down with her hands on her head; she was extremely uncomfortable listening to all of his thoughts about Penny. Seeing how he saw her, how much he cared for her. She felt like she was invading their privacy, and all the mushy loving goo-goo eyes were making her a little ill. All she could think of was that she should not be here. "As nice as this is, for you Penny but can you please show us something that can actually help us. Like if you have ever killed somebody or lost control of your power and hurt someone."
"I've never done that, that's not how it works. We are the protectors of my people." Suddenly images of his people's past began flooding them. Images of certain members of his tribe having the same ability as him. This going back thousands upon thousands of years, starting back when is the people first settled here.
"Is that all you do, protect people. You've never used your powers for your own gain?" Penny asked her eyes walking with his once again.
Once again images flooded his mind of conceiving people, of him working with his tribe. "We never use our abilities for our own gain. It's like it's against our religion are something, this is not what we are. I'm not a killer and I am certainly not in monster."
Anna looked at Penny and smiled, "well that's good enough for me, what about you?" Penny smiled and shook her head and looked around. Both she and Anna were thinking the same thing. "Now" Anna began, "how to get out of here?"
Again a flash of light surrounded their bodies which had gone limp suddenly jolted back up right. Both Penny and Anna instantly collapsed as they came through. Adam had a fight the rush to run to Anna's side. Sam and Dean rushed over to the unconscious girls.
"Penny" Dean said shaking her.
Her eyes will slowly flickered open, confused she asked "what's going on?"
"Are you okay" Dean asked, helping her sit up straight.
She looked over at Anna and smacked her. Anna sat straight up with a jolt she looked around just as confused as Penny. "Well" Sam said helping them off the floor.
"Well" Anna began, "it was interesting and I can definitely say one thing was made clear." Penny grabbed Anna's arm and pulled her way from everyone.
She looked back at the faces and spoke underneath her breath. "Anna, do you really think they need to know about what we saw. I don't think we actually have to tell them about when she was going on inside his head, you know about me and him and..."
"What are you talking about? I was just going to tell them that he was good that we can trust."
"Oh, okay" Penny smiled as her in Anna walk back to the boys.
"As I was saying before" Anna began giving Penny look. "Kale is completely trustworthy, he's one of the good guys we have nothing to worry about."
Sam and dean looked at one another before dean gave Sam the go ahead to un-cuff Kale. Once Kale was free they made their way to discuss the recent attack.
"So" dean began. "Last I checked hellhounds don't go running about without a reason now."
"Oh they had a reason" Anna said quite bluntly as if it was as clear to them as it was to her.
"Oh really, would you like to enlighten us?" Dean said moving towards Anna with his eyebrows raised.
"Mmhmm. Well it was a hit on Penny. Lucifer put a hit out on Penny, so this demon obviously was collecting on the hit." She said stepping back and avoiding all of their looks.
"And how did you come across this info, Anna?" Dean was now inches from her and looking down at her.
She pulled her sweater across her chest and crossed her arms. "Well he was in the forest line and I overheard him." She could look Dean in the eyes and she knew that, that was a clear give away that she was lying to him. "Look" she said smiling her classic mischievous smile. "I can't really explain why you didn`t hear him talking maybe you need to get your hearing checked. You have been around a lot of shot guns going off near you head; it may have done some damage. Anyways it isn't how I know that's important; it's finding the dude so he can't do it again. Okay, let's get moving, come on chop, chop." She said clapping her hands together and moving to the other room to look at a map of the area.
"How does she do that" Sam asked Penny who smiled at him. "How does she just shift it off to the next thing?"
"She's a daddy's girl" Penny answered and moved to the other room followed by everyone else.
Sam shook his head and left Dean standing yelling; "How does that make any sense?"
Anna look at the map then up at Kale, "Where would be the best place for a hit man to hide out?"
"I don't know the old mill?"
"Probably best place he would find. It's deserted and well covered" Bobby and pointing it out on the map.
They arrived at the old mill in no time and began to work on their masterful plan. Kale took care of the remaining hellhounds, which they used penny for bait to attract them. Sam and Castel set up the devil's trap; while Anna and Dean went looking for the demon. Adam and Bobby had stayed back to guard the tablet in case anyone tried to grab it while they were out. Dean and Anna walked around the building; their plan to lead him back to Sam, Castel, Kale, and Penny. They had been all around the building and seen nothing yet. Until they saw man that looked to be having car problems out by the road.
"Hey" Dean said walking up to him. "Have some car problems?"
"Yeah, started making a funny noise out on the road, I had to pull inn here. I was hoping more people would be around but the place looks closed."
"Yeah, here why don't I give it a look, I'm good with cars."
"Thanks" the man replied.
Anna began tapping Dean on the arm, lightly at first whispering his name. He shrugged her off so she began slapping him harder and harder. Just as Dean turned around to ask her what she wanted she slapped him as hard as she could across the face. Her hands fling to her mouth; "Oh my god. I'm so sorry, my bad." Dean rubbed his jaw and gave her a look. "Dean you know that guy we were supposed to meet, well he's here."
"He's here?" Dean's eyes widened as he gestured to the man standing beside him. "Oh you mean he's here."
"Yep, so..." She said smiling as she began to step back. Dean pulled out the knife slowly but the man saw and shoved Dean.
"Anna run" Dean cried as he hit the guy and took off after Anna. The demon followed, right on Dean's heels. They ran into the building into a large room and the door slammed behind him as the demon ran right in to the devil's trap.
"I am assassin" the demon yelled over and over again. He had been doing that for the past three hours. No matter the amount of holy water that was poured on him, he repeated those words over and over again. Dean was running out of ideas, this demon was trained never to give up information, no matter what. Dean didn't have a clue on how he was going to break him. They were running out of time.
"We can't stay here much longer" Sam said crossing his arms and looking over at the demon. "He may have contacted others; Penny is in danger the longer we stay."
"What would you like me to do Sam, this guy won't break. Not in the time that we need him to at least."
"I have an idea" Anna said standing up straight. "Just you all wait her and I'll make him sing like a canary." Anna left walking over to the demon; leaving the confused faces of her companions behind her. She knew that they were far enough away that they would never be able to hear what she was about to say. "Hello there mate." He didn't answer her. "Look I already know that the contract was made for you and you alone. That we could kill you and not fear because Lucifer only entrusted you with the task of killing my best friend. I also know that if we send you back to hell you are in big trouble for failing, and more'en likely you get ripped to shreds. In fact there isn't anything you can say to me that I don't already know."
"So then why are you over here?"
"Well, see they don't know I know all that and I can't have them know I'm dialled in on hell's frequency. Now can they?"
"I still don't understand why your over here telling me all this."
"You don't? What did everyone else get all the brains and you just get the muscle? Well, I'm using you, to put it bluntly. You see when I go back over there I'm going to tell them everything I know and because you and I have been chatting there going to think you told me. Then there going to come back over here and either send you packing or kill you. My money's on killing you, Dean has a lot of pent up rage right now and he's really stressing."
"You bitch, if you think your little plan is going to work. You are so wrong, you are just like me and you are going to end the world. There is no stopping fate, Anna you'll help us whether you want to or not."
Anna smiled and turned to walk back to every on, "He confessed and told me everything. He's the only one with a hit Penny. I guess he's never failed before."
"What did you say to him" Sam asked, he was proud of how easily she made him talk.
"Oh I just told him that Dean was missing his favourite show, you know the one about the doctors. And how when he misses that he gets grumpy, heads roll. You know you're really rather feminine for someone of such a muscular stature and you scream like a girl." Dean eyes narrowed on Anna into a glare. "What at least I didn't tell you he called you a sissy."
"Alright, that son of a bitch is going down and do not mock the show" Dean said taking out the knife and walking over to the demon for the kill. Anna smiled as she watched Dean slit his throat, a mischievous smile. She knew her plan had worked out.
The end of chapter 10, Ive made it to double digits. Cool.
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