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Chapter 10 - Halo
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I never promised you a ray of light Why do you put me on a pedestal? One thing is clear I always said that I would make mistakes
I never promised there'd be sunshine every day
I'll give you everything I have
The good the bad
I'm so up high that I can't see the ground below
So help me down you've got it wrong
I don't belong there
I wear a halo
I wear a halo when you look at me
But standing from here
You wouldn't say so
You wouldn't say so if you were me
And I, I just want to love you
Oh I, I just want to love you
I'm only human and that's my saving grace
I'll fall as hard as I try
So don't be blinded
See me as I really am
I have flaws and sometimes I even sin
So pull me from that pedestal
I don't belong there
Bethany Joy Lenz - Halo
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Rika POV
Rika was a bit nervous when she got out of Dean's Impala outside her watcher's house. She knew very well that her watcher wasn't particularly fond of hunters. On the contrary, he resented them for thinking they could do the job of a slayer and the Watcher's Council. The only reason he was somewhat open to the idea of hunters was the fact that they too were ridding the world of evil, even though they were amateurs and fools in his eyes.
All of this made Rika nervous. Also, Hugh didn't know much about her lovelife and her dating, and she was afraid of what he would say when he found out that she had feelings for Sam. And found out that she had revealed her true identity to two hunters who she wasn't sure she could trust - or that's what Hugh would think. Rika knew she could trust Sam and Dean, just as much as she could trust her watcher. She knew Sam had been nothing but sincere with her since he found out she wasn't exactly a normal girl.
She heard the other doors closing while she was thinking, and soon felt Sam grab her hand. When he did she felt the familiar and pleasant electricity between them, and she fought the sudden desire to kiss him.
"You okay?", Sam asked her. Of course he had sensed that she was hesitant. He could read her too well, even after knowing her only this short period of time. She was good at reading him too. It was like they belonged together, and she had to admit - it scared her. Her life hadn't exactly been easy lately, and she'd never felt this strongly about a guy. She knew she wouldn't be able to stand seeing him get hurt in any way. She nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine", she said while forcing out a little nervous smile. "Come on."
Even though she didn't want to, she let go of Sam's hand and walked towards her watcher's door. Even though she usually walked right in, it felt right to knock this time as she had two strangers with her. Soon she could hear footsteps coming from inside the house and the door opened carefully.
"Rika!", her watcher exclaimed. "Why are you knocking? You know you can..."
He interrupted himself when he saw Sam and Dean. He looked a bit confused, and Rika could tell that he noted the fact that Sam was standing so close to her, his hand softly lingering on the fingers of her right hand.
"And who are you?", Hugh asked suspiciously while glaring at Sam and Dean.
"Hugh, I'd like you to meet Sam and Dean Winchester", she said after taking a deep breath. "They're hunters, and I met them last night, which is why I forgot to call you after my patrol. They're here to investigate the campus killings, and have offered to help me out."
Hugh's expression darkened a bit.
"Ah, well, you had better come inside and discuss this", he said politely.
Rika nodded and walked inside the house, closely followed by Sam and his brother.
"Why don't you two have a seat in the living room", Hugh said with a glance at Sam and Dean. "Rika, I'd like to have a word with you in private."
Rika sighed and followed her watcher into the kitchen.
"What were you thinking?", he asked her angrily. "You know better than to reveal yourself to hunters! Are you sure they can be trusted?"
"I'm completely, 110 percent sure that I can trust them. I'm only human, I do stupid things too", she said. "They've been nothing but sincere, and they're good people. And Sam..." She interrupted herself before revealing too much. She could feel her cheeks getting flushed as she looked down on her shoes.
"My God", her watcher said. He too could read her too well by now. "You're in love with him."
"Schhh, he doesn't know", she said trying to silence him. "But yes, I have feelings for him. Could we just track the demon to get it over with and well talk about this later?", she pleaded.
"Very well", her watcher said, still giving her the "I'm the angry father and you're going to get grounded"-look. They walked back into the living room, where they found Sam and Dean sitting on one of the couches, looking around in the room. Hugh got out a few bottles containing colourful powders and a map from a drawer in his cupboard.
"Time to track Belphegor", he said.
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Sam POV
Sam had been shifting positions in the couch while Rika was in the kitchen talking to her watcher, he couldn't sit still. He had figured out by now that her watcher didn't like the fact that she had brought two hunters to his home, as he heard their faint voices coming from the kitchen. When he saw her coming through the doorway back into the living room, his heart took a leap. She was breathtaking as usual. Her watcher pulled out some bottles with some sort of powder in them and a map from one of the drawers in a cupboard.
"Time to track Belphegor", he said. Him and Rika had probably managed to make peace temporarily and put their differences aside. Hugh was still looking a bit pouty. Sam looked over at his brother Dean who was staring at Rika and her watcher while they moved the living room table aside, and then sat down Indian-style on the floor facing each other.
"Now you're about to see some magic", Rika said and smiled at Sam, whose heart took another leap. "God I love this woman", he thought while Rika continued to explain while her watcher lit a few candles and placed the map between himself and Rika on the floor.
"We're going to scatter some powder over the map. Anywhere there's a demon, a little light will appear. The yellow lights are corporeal demons, and the pale blue ones are people possessed by demons. Hugh has adjusted the spell so that Belphegor, our demon, will appear as a little orange light." She then looked at her watcher. "Okay, scatter."
They scattered the powders carefully across the map, and just as Rika had said, small lights appeared on the map. Sam's jaw dropped once more, he had never seen anything like this. He was learning so many new things thanks to Rika.
"There are so many of them", Sam said, surprised at the hundreds of lights on the map.
"You have to teach us how to do that", he heard Dean say to Rika. "It would be so useful!"
"Yeah, later", Rika replied with a small smile. "We found our demon."
She pointed at the map, and how would you know, there was a tiny orange light.
"Where's that?", Sam asked.
"It's in the park near campus", Rika replied. "I figured it'd be staying close."
Sam looked at her figure as she got up from the floor and grabbed the sword that had been leaning against the couch.
"Let's go", she said.
Sam got up from the couch and Dean did too. They walked before Rika out the door, her following closely behind.
"Be careful", he heard Rika's watcher say to her while she stood in the doorway.
"Always", she merely replied before closing the door. Once again all three of them got in the car, getting ready to save the day.
"You think you know your way to the park?", Rika asked Dean, who reassured her he could just before hitting the gas. They were on their way to kill Belphegor.
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Dean POV
Dean parked the Impala on the students' parking lot next to campus and got out of the car.
"What do we need to know about how to kill this demon?", Dean asked Rika.
"Hugh says it's not supposed to be that powerful, beheading should to the trick", she replied. "I'm hoping the demon is corporeal and not possessing a human, that would complicate things. No matter whether it's corporeal or not, the careful not to get too close to its mouth, it uses it to suck the life out of people, remember. So no making out with the demon.", she joked.
Dean laughed, as he thought that was funny. Sam gave him another glare. "Oh, don't be such a party-pooper", Dean thought.
"So, what am I and Sam supposed to do?", he asked.
"You two aren't doing anything. If it's corporeal, it's going to be freakishly strong and you two can't fight it without risking to get injured. I'll do the fighting. If it's taken over a human, I need your help to perform and exorcism. I'll try to knock it out without killing it in that case, to buy us time to do the ritual."
"But...", Dean began but was soon interrupted by Rika.
"No buts", she said. "If you guys are helping out, we're doing this my way." She started walking towards the park and Dean couldn't help but to admire her ass as she walked. He looked at Sam, who in his turn was looking worried.
"What do you think about this?", Dean asked his brother.
"I'm worried about Rika", Sam said. "I don't like this one bit."
The brothers then started walking the same direction as Rika when they heard a sound. A very troubling sound. It was a loud scream.
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A/N: That's it for now. Some action is coming up in the next chapter, finally. ;) Reviews are sexier than Sam and Dean while they're hunting.
