Short little chapter with a surprise twist….
Chapter 10
"They should have been back awhile ago" J.J. said pacing the small room.
"Garcia said she can't get a trace on either of them their phones are either dead or off" Morgan told them as he hung up the phone.
"Generally that's not a good thing" Sam got to his feet. "They were just heading out to get food from that diner down the road, I say we follow the route they would have taken and go from there"
"Just what I was going to suggest" Spencer nodded.
"Alright, Morgan, Prentiss, and J.J. stay here in case they return. Sam, Spencer, and I will try and retrace their footsteps" Rossi said grabbing the keys for the Tahoe. "Constant contact" he looked around worry was etched on everyone's face. This was not like Hotchner to go off the grid like this.
The three piled into the Tahoe and started down the road towards the diner. It was only a few moments when Sam shouted for them to stop. Rossi pulled the vehicle in behind Dean's car. The three of them got out of the vehicle slowly pulling their guns from their hip as they approached the vehicle. It was still running and looked as if it had crashed into the ditch. Sam was the first to reach the drivers side door. Looking inside he saw blood on the steering wheel on the floor near the gas pedal he saw Hotchner and Dean's phones the screens looked smashed. "Guys" Sam said looking up to see Rossi on the other side of the vehicle.
"I have to call the locals, maybe there was an accident and their phones were damaged." Rossi said trying to sound hopeful. They knew that the longer they stood there the chances of finding Hotchner and Dean alive where growing slimmer and slimmer.
"What if the person we've been looking for, found us?" Spencer said voicing what they were all thinking.
"Then we have bigger problems than just a dead agent. My brother can't die, the mark won't let him. The last time someone tried to kill him he turned into a demon, and you don't want my brother to be a demon again no one will be safe."
"How did you cure him originally I mean he's not a demon anymore." Rossi said cautiously.
"We had to lock him in the dungeon and inject him with purified human blood. He almost killed me with an ax if it hadn't been for Cas he would have succeeded." Sam locked eye with Rossi.
"Then we have to find them and fast." Spencer came around the front of the car and stood beside Sam. "Not just for Hotchner's sake but so that Dean doesn't become a demon."
LILILILI
"Dean" Hotch whispered, "Dean Wake up" Hotch struggled against the ropes around his wrists. Glancing around him he noted that they were in some sort of warehouse. Old rousted equipment lay discarded on the floor. The paint was peeling from the walls and what little light there was shone from a small lamp in the corner. He and Dean where suspended with their hands tied above their heads. Hotchner's toes barely touched the ground and his shoulders where screaming at him from the weight of his body.
Dean groaned the first thing he registered was the pain and tingling in his arms. It almost felt like they had fallen asleep. He tried to move them only to discover his arms bound. It took him another moment for comprehension to dawn on him and his memory's to come flooding back. His eyes snapped open and locked with Hotchner's.
"About time you woke up" Hotch snapped.
"Well I'm sorry, I was drugged after you make sense I would wake up after you" Dean growled. "Where are we and where is our new friend?" Dean asked trying to look around. He struggled against the rope trying to turn himself; his toes barely skimmed the ground.
"No idea, I haven't been awake long but I haven't seen him" Hotch said watching Dean.
"Well I for one am not going to wait around for our friend to come back" Dean frowned looking up at the knots in the rope. It was relatively simple knots, the rope was frayed as if it where old and had been used several times and upon closer inspection he could see what looked like old dried blood. He tried to reach for the knots but his fingers where damn near useless, there was no telling how long they had been out. "I can't make my arms work" Dean grunted in frustration.
"Neither can I, I hope the team finds us and soon." Hotch's eyes flicked about the room there was nothing in reach of hands or feet that they could use to cut the ties.
"So I guess we just hang out and wait to either be killed or rescued, well in your case killed... Me I'll come back and be all Demon Dean again, that's not something I am looking forward to." Dean sighed watching Hotch.
"I can't die, my son... he would lose both his parents so I can't die" Hotch's voice cracked a little.
"I didn't know you had a kid" Dean's voice fell a little as he watched Hotch try to keep a leash on his emotions.
"Yeah his names Jack, he's a good kid but losing his mother has been hard on him." Hotch looked up when he heard footsteps.
"You are not a hunter, at least not the kind I hunt" said a voice stepping out of the shadows.
Dean was surprised; he really hadn't expected him to look like a regular guy. He was tall and skinny his face looked sunken and he was perspiring quite a bit.
"You must be George Jaeger, I'm Dean Winchester this here is, what was it Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner with the FBI" Dean said almost proud of himself for remembering.
George sighed, "The BAU, you and your elite team of profilers" he said mockingly using quotations around elite. "Now where are you? I don't go after innocent's Agent Hotchner but then again you're not so innocent are you?" he said stepping closer.
"I don't kill innocent people, I kill in self defense and the defense of others" Hotchner retorted.
"That's the line they teach you to use. Tell the public this and you can get away with murder!" George spat.
"Look George, my brother will be looking for me. HIs team will be looking for us. You won't get away with this." Dean insisted.
"Oh but I will this place is heavily warded, my abilities make this place all but invisible. They won't find you in time; they will just find your corpses."
"So let me get this straight, you have powers. You've been killing Angels and Demons and Hunters. Now I understand the hunters who killed your parents but why me and my brother we never did anything to you."
"You hunters" George started getting more and more angry, "Rip the lives of innocent people apart in the name of protecting them! You think you are better then everyone because YOU know how to hunt the supernatural. Anyone can hunt the supernatural Dean Winchester. You aren't special Dean."
"That is where you are wrong, Georgie. You see my brother and I have been in hell a few times. I have tortured souls and been to purgatory. I have died several times but I don't stay dead. No death and I are friends, well as close as you can be with death. I can't die." Dean laughed.
"You will die here Dean I don't care about your past you will die and my name is not Georgie."
Dean threw his head back and laughed. "Go ahead try to kill me but I will come back and when I come back I will hunt you to the ends of the Earth because I will no longer be this human, I will be a knight of hell. You can't kill a knight of hell."
"You lie"
"George" a female voice called out.
"Leana not now"
"George, he's right. You can't kill him." Leans said coming into view. "No one wants Demon Dean back in business."
Dean watched the woman walk across the floor. A flicker of recognition crossed his face. "Kali, you've changed your appearance but I recognize those eyes."
"Nice to see you again Dean, so the rumors are true. You carry The Mark of Cain." Kali said changing her appearance back to the one that Dean had last seen her as right in front of their eyes.
"So you're behind this" Dean said watching her.
"A little push was all it took." She grinned.
"Excuse me who is this?" Hotch interrupted.
"The Hindu Goddess Kali, the creator and destroyer of the universe. Last time I saw you we were staring down the apocalypse and you were trying to kill us. We got you outside after Gabriel told us too."
"Loki was a good man, he saved me that day, tell me is he really dead?" Kali asked looking at Dean she seemed to almost be pleading with him to tell her it wasn't so.
"He is I'm sorry." Dean frowned, he was of the opinion that Gabe would pop back up and tell them he had just been laying low for awhile.
"Jen what's going on you know this man? How did you... what are you?" George fumbled with what he was trying to say.
"I am Kali, the Hindu goddess. I am one of very few deities left thanks to Lucifer. I am the creator and destroyer of the universe. All things start and end with me."
"So you got yourself a pet and decided to go after the Angels and Demons but I am guessing the hunters where his idea and to appease him you agreed. I am assuming you hid your real self from him and let him think he was doing all the killing at least the magical ones he did the butchering ones because he doesn't have magical powers. So when he couldn't use them he butchered those people. You probably fed him some line about why it didn't work and so you promised him he could try again and here we are. You can't kill me Kali, you owe me."
"I owe you nothing Dean Winchester!" Kali spat.
"Kali" Sam said stopping short
"Look who has came to join the party!" Kali laughed. "I guess you where right Dean, they were looking for you and here they are. Come on out, come come" Kali held a hand out and pulled the others from the shadows through the air. She looked at each one of them sizing them up as they hung in mid air. "Welcome, welcome, let's play a game" Kali grinned.