N/B sorry about the very long delay. At first I wasn't sure where I wanted this to go. Then I was working full-time, and studied full-time. That was when my health crapped out. As well as starting new stories, I am slowly completing old ones. I have used some elements of conversation out of the SPN episodes. It follows some of the storylines, but I have also made up elements. Once again I am so very sorry for the delay. Now, onto the story. You can find me on Twitter and Facebook as wereleopard58

Chapter Eleven

Sam couldn't believe it was actually Ava. 'Are you ok?' He asked.

Ava wiped away the tears, and shrugged her shoulders. 'I don't know, what the hell is going on Sam?'

'I don't know either. Have you seen anyone else?' Sam asked. If Ava was here, there was a very good chance, Cordy was.

'No, you're the first person I've seen. Are you looking for someone?' Ava reached out and placed a hand on his shoulder.

'Yeah, I think my wife could be here.' Sam replied as he looked around.

Ava's eyes widened. 'You're married? One minute I was at home sorting out invites for my own wedding. Then the next thing I knew I woke up here.' The tears started to fall again.

'Don't worry Ava. We'll get out of here, my family won't give up?'

'You're brother; do you think he will find us?'

'My brother and sister.' Sam laughed at the look on her face. 'A lot of things have happened.'

'Like you finding a sister and getting married?'

'Yep, exactly like that. Let's take a look around, the two of us are here, there are bound to be more.'

'Are you sure about the Sam?'

'Uh no, but what do we have to lose?' Sam questioned her.

'Nothing I guess.' Ave muttered sounding doubtful.

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Cordy stared at the door of the shed. She could see a figure of someone outside. If only she had a weapon, or something that she could use as well. There was nothing around her at all.

The door was pulled open; Cordy winced as the sun shone in her eyes. She raised her hand to cover them until they became used to the brightness.

'Who are you?' An unfamiliar male voice asked.

When Cordy felt as if she would be able to see now, she moved her hand away. Her eyes still flinched a little, but she could actually see him.

'Cordelia Winchester.'

'Hello Cordelia, I'm Jake Talley.' He held out a hand.

As Cordelia was pulled to her feet, and then out into the sunshine she could see that he was dressed in military fatigues.

'Do you know where we are?' Cordy asked as she looked around.

Jake shook his head. 'No idea, I was in Afghanistan. We are definitely not there now.'

'I was in Sunnydale.' Cordy saw the confused look on his face. 'It doesn't matter.'

'I guess we should take a look around and see if we can find anyone.' Jake tried to give her a reassuring smile.

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Dean paced while his cell phone was at his ear. 'Bobby, I need your help. Sam and Cordy have vanished. I mean they have vanished. Weapons and everything still in their room, the only things that weren't there were them. Ellen's with you, cool you guys go down this way. If we get any news, I'll call, and if you…' Dean smiled. 'Thanks Bobby, yeah you'd better bring it with you, see you guys soon.'

Faith felt a little better knowing that Bobby and Ellen were now on the case as well.

'We will find them.' She muttered determinedly.

'Yes, we will.' Dean pulled his sister into a hug. He had no idea what he would have done if he were here by himself. 'Bobby's going to bring the colt with him. We may need it.'

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Jake held out his hand for Cordy to stop for a moment. She turned her head to listen and could hear voices coming from inside the house. The two of them slowly made their way to the building. She couldn't help, but smile when she saw the salt. Her heart started to beat a little faster, Cordy really hoped that this meant Sam was here. Jake opened the door and they walked quietly to the room where the noise was coming from. Once they reached it Jake turned the handle and pushed the door open.

Stood there was a group of people, in their hands was whatever things they could grab to protect themselves.

'Sam.' Cordy rushed through the door, and past Jake. He tried to stop her, but she was already in the room and in the arms of one of the men.

'Cordy.' Sam whispered. He held his wife tight against his chest.

Jake walked over to them and looked at her. 'So I guess you know him then?'

'This is my husband Sam Winchester.' Cordy smiled up at the man she loved. 'Sam this is Jake Talley, he found me in a locked shed.'

'So this is your wife?' Ava questioned as she walked over. This curvy elegant looking brunette was not the image she had in her mind when she thought of the wife.

Cordy glared at the other woman for what sounded like an insult.

'Cordy, this is Ava Wilson, and this is Andy Gallagher. Over there is Lily Baker.'

Cordy smiled at them. 'You've mentioned Ava and Andy, but Lily is a new name.'

'It's the first time I've met her. Everyone this beautiful woman is my wife Cordelia Winchester, and Jake Talley?' Sam waited for the man to nod. 'I am so glad that we found each other. I was so worried about you.'

'Technically we found you, and I was worried as well.' Cordy looked around at everyone. 'So what's the plan?'

'If only we could get a message to Dean or Faith.' Sam muttered. 'They are my brother and sister.' He explained when he saw the blank looks.

'I might be able to help with that.' Andy grinned at them. '..I've been practicing, training my brain. Like meditation, right. So now it's not just thoughts I can beam out, but images, too, like anything I want. It's like bam - people they see it. This one guy I know, total dick. I use it on him... gay porn. All hours of the day. It's just like; you should've seen the look on his face.'

Lily just shook her head. 'I wished I had an ability like that.' She kept herself a little bit away from everyone else.

'What's your ability?' Cordy asked.

'I have a death touch.' Lily looked around and realised that she would have to explain. 'I can give someone a cardiac arrest by just touching them. I accidently did that to my girlfriend.'

Cordy turned to Sam; she had no idea what to say to that. 'Do you have any idea where we are?' She asked her husband and she tried to move the conversation away from Lily.

'I think I do, the bell is what made me realise it.' Sam began to talk.

'Don't keep us in suspense, get on with it.' Cordy urged him on.

'We're in a place called Cold Oak, it's in South Dakota. It's one of states most infamous haunted towns. This town was so haunted that everyone who lived here left.'

'Just great.' Cordy muttered.

Andy stared at Sam for a minute. 'Would your brother know the name of the town if he saw an image of the bell?'

'He might not, but he would know some people that probably could, why?'

'I can send images, and if I sent some to Dean, he'd be able to figure out where we are, right?' Andy looked around at the others.

'Well, we don't have a lot of other options. I say go for it.' Jake tells them.

'I guess.' Lily whispers from her corner.

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Bobby and Ellen had managed to reach them; they now needed to make a plan on how to find Sam and Cordy. Dean suddenly clutched at his head as images flashed through them. Faith grabbed hold of him as he wobbled on his legs.

'Dean, what the hell is going on?' Faith growled terrified that she was going to lose both brothers, and sister-in-law.

The images stopped as soon as they started. Dean looked around at everyone and saw the worried look on all of their faces.

'I'm fine.' He noticed Faith's face get angrier. 'I'm fine now. I saw a picture of Sam, Cordy and Andy Gallagher. Then there was a deserted town, and a bell with a pattern on it.' Dean thought back over those images in case he had missed something.

Bobby stared at the young man he considered a son. 'What was on the bell?'

Dean closed his eyes, he frowned as he concentrated. 'It's a tree.'

'Let me just check on a couple of things. I think I might know where that is.' Bobby rushed off to the computer.

'So you think somehow Sam sent these images?' Ellen asked it seemed a little suspicious to her.

'We don't have a lot of choices now, do we?' Faith smiled grimly and shrugged her shoulders.

'No we really don't.' Ellen agreed.

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'I hope Dean understood.' Cordy mumbled as she finally succumbed to sleep wrapped up in Sam's arms. He was close behind her.

Lily opened her eyes and looked around. The rest of the group's eyes were closed and their breathing was steady. She hoped that it meant they were asleep. She carefully got to her feet and snuck out.

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Bobby turned and grinned at them. 'They're at Cold Oak, South Dakota.'

'What's so special about this place?' Dean asked.

'This town was so haunted that everyone who lived there upped and left.' Bobby told them.

'Just perfect, absolutely perfect.' Dean muttered sarcastically.

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Sam looked around, he was no longer in the house but outside by the bell. He could feel that this was a dream state. His body was still wrapped around Cordy in the house.

'Hello Sam.' Azazel smirked as he walked from behind the bell. His yellow eyes shone brightly against the night.

'What do you want?' Sam snarled.

'Don't want you to know why you are here?'

'Why are we here?' Any extra info helped no matter how or where he got it from.

He sauntered towards Sam. 'All of my children are here to fight. You will fight each other, and the sole survivor will lead my army. I always had my heart set on you Sammy, with your family's background, you're the perfect choice. I can't wait to see you and your gorgeous wife go at it, a fight to the death. How hot would that be?' His eyes had glazed over for a moment before they focused back in on Sam. 'Some things did get in the way though, you weren't meant to leave the family business. I had to get you back somehow, so the first thing I had to do was get rid of that beautiful girl of yours, Jessica, right?'

Sam yelled angrily and tried to rush him. Azazel just disappeared and then appeared over by a tree. 'You son of a bitch.'

'Let's go somewhere else.' The yellow-eyed demon waved his hand and they were suddenly in a nursery. Azazel was stood over a crib; slowly he dripped blood into the baby's mouth.

Sam knew where he was. He was home, and this was the night his mother died. The door to the room opened, and there stood Mary Winchester.

'Mom, get out.' Sam shouted even though he knew it wasn't real he couldn't help it. Then he froze as Azazel and his mother looked at each other. She recognised him. Where had they met before?

Before Sam could ask any questions, he woke up as he shouted his mother's name again.

'Sam.' Cordy called to him.

He took a few deep breaths. 'I'm fine, just a nightmare. Sorry, if I woke everyone…' Sam looked around. 'Where's Lily?'

They all got to their feet and started a search for her. Cordy screamed as she finally found her. The others rushed to her side, and there was Lily hung from the town windmill.

'Oh my god.' Cordy turned and buried her head in Sam's chest.

'We'd better, where's Ava?' He noticed that she wasn't with them.

'I'll go and check by the bell and that area.' Jake ran off before anyone could stop him.

'I'll start on the house; she was there when Sam woke up.' Andy smiled.

'Be careful, we'll be right behind you.' Sam told him. He just wanted to make sure that Cordy was okay before they did anything else.

'Sure thing.' Andy saluted him and went back towards the building they had stayed in.

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Andy wandered from room to room looking for their missing comrade. That was when he found her. He watched Ava break the salt barrier at on one of the window sills. That was when he knew she was the one that killed Lily; he turned to run but was attacked by a demon. He managed to send some images to Sam before he died.

Ava watched for a moment longer, and then she took a deep breath. Tears fell from her eyes, and then she screamed.

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Sam suddenly stops and stumbled a little as images attack his mind.

'Sam, are you all right?' Cordy asked her husband.

'I'm fine.' He turned to look at her. 'I need you to stay here for a few minutes while I check something out.'

'Sam...' Cordy warned him, she knew that something was obviously wrong.

'Please just for a few minutes, and then you can come in. Just be really quiet.' Sam asked.

'Ok, but only a couple of minutes and no more.

Sam kissed her, and then headed into the house. He ran as he heard Ava's scream. As soon as he walked in he stared down at Andy's body. His face contorted in horror. He slowly moved his gaze to the other occupant in the room. Ava. That was when out of the corner of his eye he saw the salt barrier broken.

'What happened?'

'I don't know.' Ava sobbed. 'I came in here and he was being attacked.'

'Why did you kill him? Why Lily?' Sam couldn't believe that this was the same woman he had met. The woman that travelled to save the life of a man she had never met.

The tears dried up and she smirked at him. 'I've been here for months. This 'gifted' people arrived. I had no idea what was going on, then one night he came to me in a dream. He told me I had to kill them. There could only be one survivor. As each one, came they all saw me as helpless. They were so easy to take out.' Ava explained as she strutted around. 'That was when my new gift appeared.' Suddenly in the window with the broken barrier appeared a demon. 'At first I wanted to go home, but after a few deaths I began to really enjoy it. I loved all that power, and being able to extinguish someone's life. Oh Sam, it's the best drug ever.'

Sam could no longer see the woman he had met. This monster had taken her place. He was amazed that Ava could control demons; it was an Acheri demon, lower level but still a demon.

'Ava you don't need to do this, we can work together and get out of here.'

'If I wanted out of here I would have left. I would have let Lily leave, but I didn't she had to die. You all have to die.' Ava turned to the demon.

Sam knew what was coming next. There was nothing he could do. He had no weapons. Sam closed his eyes and thought about his family, his beautiful wife.

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Cordy carefully snuck into the house and listened to the conversation. She knew that Sam told her to wait, but she couldn't. That was when she heard it all. Cordy looked down and an iron fire poker was leant against the wall. She grabbed it and shoved it through Ava's chest before she could send the demon to kill Sam.'

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Dean, Faith, Spike, Bobby and Ellen finally arrived at Cold Oak. It had taken them a little while to persuade Angel so stay with Buffy. They had to make sure that she had as much manpower as she could.

Dean made sure that he had the mystical colt loaded and ready. That was when they saw them, Cordy and Sam. He couldn't help but smile. They were alive.

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Cordy grinned when she saw them all. She sped up a little. As soon as she was in their huddle she was going to feel safer. Cordy turned to look at her husband to tell him to hurry up that was when she saw Jake.

'Sam!' She screamed.

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Dean yelled out his brother's name, but he knew it was too late.

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Jake held the knife and plunged it down. There was a flash of black in front of him. When he looked up Sam stood in front of him. When he looked down there was a blonde man on the floor with Jake's knife stuck in his back.

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Sam reached out before Jake could do anything else and snapped his neck. Jake crumpled to the floor dead.

'Spike.' The younger Winchester brother knelt down beside the vampire.

'Will you pull out the bloody knife, you wanker.' Spike gripped.

Sam grabbed the handle and pulled.

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Dean reacted automatically as soon as he saw the yellow-eyed demon. His arm was raised and he had pulled the trigger without thinking about it.

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Sam, Cordy, and Spike turn just in time to see Azazel fall to the ground with a bullet hole between the eyes.

'That was anti-climactic.' Spike muttered and winced when Cordy hit him.

'It's not over yet, we still have another battle.' Sam reminded him.

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Once they arrived back in Sunnydale Dean gave the gun to Spike. 'Go and find them. You can do it quicker than us.'

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Angel fought to try and reach Buffy, but he knew he wasn't going to make it.

Buffy struggled with the hand that was wrapped around her throat. It began to squeeze. No matter what she tried to do there was no escape for her. They were going to lose, everything was doomed. The world around her started to go black. Then a shot echoed around them and she was dropped to the ground. Buffy took in gasping breaths. Everything around her slowly came back into focus. On the ground next to her dead was the First Evil. She looked up and watched as Spike smirked at her, a gun in his hand.

The floor around them began to tremble.

'Get out.' Buffy shouted.

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They vehicles all final stopped and everyone climbed out and stared into a crater that once had been Sunnydale.

Cordy walked over to Angel and smiled at him. 'You take care of yourself big guy. You keep fighting that good fight.' She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him. She then went to each member of the fang gang and held them as well. 'Take care all of you.'

'You too Princess.' Doyle smiled at her.

'You could come back with us Cordy. I'm still in love with you.' Angel made sure that he ignored Buffy's hurt expression.

'You'll find someone Angel, and when you do, don't hold back. That person isn't me, I have my life now. I'm a hunter.' Cordy turned and walked back over to Sam.

Buffy walked over to whom she had always thought of as her vampire. 'What about us Angel? You were supposed to love me.'

'I do love you Buffy, a part of my always will. I'm not in love with you.' Angel explained and watched her eyes fill up with pain.

Buffy turned and headed straight to Spike, who held up his hand. 'You can't keep doing this to me.'

'Doing what?' Buffy asked.

'I'm suddenly good enough because broody boy doesn't want you. That's not fair on me. I need to get away from this, from you.' He turned and walked over to the Winchester's. 'I don't suppose I can travel with you guys for a little bit?'

They all grinned at each other. 'Sure Spike, you saved my life you can come along.' Sam offered.

Angel watched the woman he loved leave. It had been his fault that he lost her. He wanted to bury his pain in Buffy, use her to feel better, but that wasn't fair on her.

Buffy watched as two vampires walked away from her. She was once again alone.

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It was a year later and Spike pulled Faith into his arms and kissed her. Dean walked in and groaned. 'Oh god, you're getting as bad as Sam and Cordy. Why me?' He asked himself as he walked out of the room.

The End