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Kicking open the attic door, Dean and Sam enter with their guns raised only to find nothing but old furniture and clothes.
"Abi are you ok?" Dean shouts down through the hole in the floor as he sees her feet.
Leaning against the wall Abi drifts in and out of consciousness before jumping at the sound of Deans voice. "I'm fine." Abi yells before placing her head back against the wall and closing her eyes as unconsciousness starts to set in again.
"There's nothing here. What's the EMF saying?"
"The things broken, it didn't pick up anything earlier, but there's something is in this room I can feel it." Dean spits.
"We should get back down to Abi, get her to a hospital." Sam says as he watches Dean snap off his protection necklace and throw it on the floor. "What are you doing?"
"We obviously don't need it Sam. I think Abi laying down there is enough proof of that."
As Dean takes another look around the room Sam snaps off his necklace and places it in his pocket. Daylight outside now turns to dark as the only light in the attic comes from the boy's torches. As Dean knocks over a box of old clothes Sam notices a red light flashing from behind one of the wood panelling's of the far wall. Walking over towards the wall, Sam begins to tap his fist along it until he hears a hollow sound.
"Now's not the time to do some remodelling Sam."
"There's something behind here."
Handing Sam his torch, Dean pulls out his knife and places it in a crack of the wood panelling. With one forceful pry of his knife, Dean takes a step back as the wooden wall in front of him now opens up as a door. Putting back his knife and taking back his torch, Dean opens the door fully to reveal a secret room in which an old table stands covered by a dirty grey sheet. Pulling off the sheet the brothers stand amazed as they uncover 5 blank TV monitors. Flicking on the power switch, the brothers watch as each TV screen shows a different room in the house, changing every few seconds to another room.
"That's the room on the first floor I was just in." Dean says as he points to the third TV screen where the porcelain doll sits at her table, and the child's baby carriage lies on its side next to the door.
"And that's they room I was in." Sam replies pointing to another TV monitor showing the billiard room.
"That one looks familiar." Dean nods as the room that contains the abandoned bag flashes up.
"Dean, what is going on?"
As the fourth TV screen changes the brothers see Abi leaning against the wall in the room of the second floor. With the gun resting on her lap, the brothers can clearly see she is unconscious.
"What's this?"
Pulling the grey sheet completely off the table, Dean uncovers a keyboard and joystick. As Sam presses a green switch the keyboard lights up just as the fifth TV screen flicks over to show up a list of room names. Moving the joystick down, Sam selects the billiard room and the TV screen flicks over to show the empty room.
"Now what?" Asks Dean.
As Sam moves the joystick forward the brother's watch in amazement as a skeleton comes flying out of the cupboard. Moving the joystick again, this time in all directions, the brothers watch as the skeleton moves following Sam's exact movements.
"Select the room I was in."
After pressing a few buttons, the list of room names reappears. Selecting the nursery, Sam moves the joystick yet again and watches as the dolls head begins to spin round. As a red button begins to flash on the key board, Sam presses it and then smiles as the rocking horse begins to move.
"It was all a hoax?"
"Let's see what else we can do?" Dean says nudging Sam out of the way and taking control of the joystick.
"Are you kidding me? Dean, someone has gone to all this trouble for a reason. We need to get Abi and get out of here now."
Realising Sam is right, Dean lets go of the joystick and stands up almost disappointed.
"Dean!" Sam says as he points to the first TV screen which shows the room containing the abandoned bag. As the room stands in silence a shadow figure walks past the door and down the hallway.
"Abi?"
Racing to the attic door, the brothers are too late as it slams shut in front of them locking them in.
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Hearing the sound of someone walking into the room, Abi slowly opens her eyes where in a cloudy haze of focus she sees a figure standing in the doorway.
"Dean? I…I think I do need to get out of here."
Rubbing her eyes Abi looks back at the figure then holds up her gun as she sees it is neither Dean nor Sam. Shuffling her body along the wall in an attempt to get away, the tall man casually walks towards her shutting the door behind him.
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With another shoulder barge to the door Sam steps back and begins to rub his arm as Dean takes the lead. Before Dean begins his run up he pauses as the sound of a gunshot goes off from downstairs.
"ABI?"
Sam again kicks at the door as Dean runs to the edge of the hole where he can no longer see Abi's feet. Slamming his fists against the floor Dean sits himself along the edge of the hole and prepares to jump.
"Dean no!" Sam says pulling him back. "We're lucky Abi managed to survive it, it's a 2 floor fall."
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Abi watches as smoke starts to drift off the man's stomach and into the air. Standing up tall, the man smiles at Abi before knocking the gun out of her hand and grabbing her by the wrists.
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"Come on, come on."
Dean says as he looks at the TV screens waiting for them to bring up the room in which Abi is in. Running back to the door Sam kicks over a stack of paintings causing them to fall over and revealing a rusty axe behind them. As the third TV screen flashes up the right room, Dean sees Abi now being held up by a very tall dark man.
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"Please..."
Throwing Abi back down on to the floor the man takes a step back and pulls out a gun as Abi tries to shuffle herself back away from him.
"WHO ARE YOU?" Abi screams as the man checks that the gun is loaded. "No...Please no."
Covering her head with her hands, Abi lets out one more scream as the man pulls back on the trigger.
"HEY!!!!!"
Turning around, the man comes face to face with Sam and Dean and their guns. Firing two shots each, Sam and Dean hit the man in the chest and watch as he stumbles backwards before falling to the floor.
With her hands still over her head Abi screams out as Sam runs over towards her.
"Abi...Abi it's me...it's Sam."
Upon hearing Sam's voice Abi stops screaming and throws her arms around his neck where she sobs into his shoulder.
"NO!" Abi screams out as Dean begins to walk over towards the mystery man. "I shot him before but it didn't work. I don't think he's..." Abi cuts off mid sentence as her eyes fall down upon the man behind Dean. Following her eyes Dean looks back and curses as the mystery man stands up before them.
"Son of a bitch."
Staggering a little on his feet, the man starts to walk towards Abi holding out his gun towards her. As Sam covers Abi with his arms, Dean fires a shot at the man's leg. Stumbling a little the man continues to walk forwards ignoring Dean's warnings and keeping his focus on Abi. Firing another shot which hits the man in the shoulder, Dean curses as the man still walks forwards. Firing one more shot at the other shoulder the man stops and looks at Dean. With no emotion on his face the man turns back to Abi and raises his gun once more. As Abi screams out, while still in Sam's protective hold, they both jump as Dean fires one last shot hitting the man directly in the forehead.
Dropping his gun, the man continues to look at Abi as he falls down to his knees before finally collapsing on to his chest dead.
Kicking the gun out of the man's hand and turning him over, Dean rips open the man's shirt to uncover a bullet proof vest. Moving the man's hair out of his face Dean notices a rip like tare along his cheek bone. Sam watches on in amazement as Dean pulls off the pale man's face before holding it up to reveal it was nothing more than a carefully designed mask and wig.
With help from Sam, Abi hobbles over to Dean where the trio look down at the man.
"Do you know him?" Dean asks.
"No." Abi replies taking another look at the man on the floor. His grey bushy side burns showing along with his grey hair.
Pulling off her necklace Abi throws it down on top of the man's chest.