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Chapter 11 – The Last Day
Dean and Sam arrived at a small dinner in the middle of the town. Although it was a typical American diner the flair of a small city couldn't be denied. Next to the door were huge flowers as well as on each window. Dean caught the last empty space and stopped the Impala's engines.
„So come on Sammy. I'm starving."
He opened the door and went into the diner, Sam was right behind him. Sam had been quiet for the whole ride. He didn't try to listen to Dean's music like he nearly always did and he hadn't said or sign one single word. Dean didn't know what was up with his brother; he thought he was just nervous and scared of the next night, he was just too proud to admit it.
Dean just wanted one super size burger. He needs to have something good in his stomach for this day.
He looked for a table and found one next to one of the windows. They sat down and Dean studied the menu.
„Hmm.. This chicken burger seems to be pretty good... but this one has onions on it... hmmm..." He was murmuring but his menu laid on the table so Sam could still read his lips. Dean nearly expected his brother to shout at him again, for ignoring him for some reason nobody but Sam could understand. But Sam remained silent and looked out of the window without even looking at his menu.
„Hello, world at Sammy!"
Dean waved with his hands right in front of his brother's face so he would notice him.
Sam shot him an angry glance.
What?
„Well, where are we Sammy?"
What do you mean?
„I mean what are we doing here?"
Dean, whatever you just smoke, stop it and don't smoke it again.
„Sam! We came here to eat something. Do you know this place so well that you already know what you want to eat?"
What are you talking about? I have never been here before. You know that.
„Yes, then please tell me why you're not even looking at your menu."
Oh. I forgot.
Sam took the menu and read it. Dean shook his head. Some things never change. Sam was a smart guy but sometimes his super brain seemed to take a short holiday.
Dean put his menu away and looked at the people in the diner. He loved places like this. Every type of people was coming here. In one corner a drunken man sits who seemed like his wife had just broke up with him. In another corner some workers were sitting, eating sandwiches. And then a beautiful blond haired girl came to Dean.
„Hello. My name is Cara. What can I do for you?"
Dean stared at her.
„Well, you could give me your phone number and we both will have a very good time together."
„I am sorry. My phone number isn't on the menu today. I can give you the cook's number, if you want."
„Is the cook a she?"
„I'm not sure. Nobody knows. It could be both."
„Oh. Then, I'm sorry, I don't like breaking the cook's heart but I have to pass."
The girl smiled.
„So do you want to get something that is indeed on the menu?"
„Yeah, I take the double chicken burger with extra onions."
„Whoa, there's somebody hungry. All right and I what can I bring for you?"
She looked at Sam who pointed on the menu so she could see what he wanted.
„Ah okay, the green salad. Okay, I'll bring it to you in a couple of minutes."
She went away to the kitchen.
Dude, stop it.
„Stop what?"
You're smiling like a honey-cake-horse.
„A honey-cake-horse?"
Yes. You know those German things you can eat at Christmas? Who have always a smile that goes to the moon and back?
„Since when do you know German food?"
One guy at college had been in Germany for a few years. He got a big package for Christmas and he shared it with us.
„Aha. Not bad."
He looked out of the window.
„Dean."
„Hmmh?
I'm worried.
„About tonight? You don't have to. We're going to find that book and every one of us is gonna survive this night, okay? We already had harder things to master."
I'm not talking about tonight.
„Then what is it?"
It's dad.
„Dad? Why?"
He acted so out of character. He has been totally different when we came last night into his room. And he didn't come into our room this morning. That has to be some kind of a new record.
„Does that bother you? You should be happy that he doesn't come in all the time."
I just have a bad feeling about this.
„This is just because of today. We don't know what to expect so it's pretty normal that the body of a women acts a little bit different than usual."
Sam throws his table napkin towards his brother.
I'm serious, Dean. There's something wrong.
„Sam come on. What should be wrong with him? Do you think he's possessed or something?"
Well, it could be.
„Ah come on. Don't you think that I would notice it if my father would be possessed? I know him; I have been with him my whole life. And dad would never let a demon take his body that easily."
He was alone last night Dean! You said yourself that it's strange that only three demons had been at the door when so many were with us in the garden. Maybe he didn't have a chance to fight against them.
„Stop it Sam!" Dean was starting to get angry now. „ I know dad. Sometimes he acts a little bit strange but that's pretty normal for him. You are seeing ghost where no ghosts are."
I don't.
„It's enough Sam. Dad isn't possessed by a demon, okay?"
Sam knew that this conversation was over. They both were sitting in silence until the waitress came with their food.
„So guys. Here it is. One green salad for you. And your chicken burger with extra onions." She smiled at Dean and went away to the next customer.
Dean looked after her and was thinking about the way he could get her phone number until Sam stopped his thoughts.
Dude, do you have something other in mind then girls?
„ Oh no. I am so not having this conversation with you again. I don't want to live like a monk like you."
Sam roles his eyes and started to eat his salad.
„That's nasty. You know that."
What?
„You're eating like a rabbit. This is real food and not those green things on your plate."
Dean. These green things are called salad and they are pretty healthy but I guess that word doesn't exist in your vocabulary.
„Ha-ha very funny. I'm just saying that it tastes like nothing. You cannot even take one big bite. Look how delicious this burger is. Mhmmm... that's so good." He took one extra big bite to demonstrate his brother how good big burgers were but then the bite he took was actually too big so he ended coughing with his head on the table. Sam laughs out loud. Next to Dean's mouth were the rests of the burger bite and he was still coughing. His face has gone read.
Between two coughs he quickly signed: Shut up Bitch.
Sam didn't stop. Even if he wanted to he just couldn't. This look was just too good and for one single moment he forgot his worries about their father and the next night.
After a few moments Dean stopped coughing. He looked angry at his brother who was still laughing. Dean just wanted to sign something really mean to him when Cara came to their table again.
„Everything alright here?"
Dean shot Sam an angry gaze and murmured „Yeah".
„So I cannot help you somehow? Maybe you should go to the toilette to clean yourself up a little bit. You have some onions around your mouth."
Dean's face paled.
This was getting funnier than expected, Sam thought. Now Dean was embarrassed as well.
„Yeah. Yeah I'll go. Thank you for mentioning."
He stood up and disappeared through the toilet door, leaving Cara and Sam alone.
„Are you brothers? I mean you kinda behave like you're brothers but you don't look alike one bit."
Sam looked at her and pointed to his ears, trying to make her understand that he couldn't understand.
„No."
Cara opened her mouth.
„Oh I am so sorry. I'll better go. Enjoy your food."
With these words she went away.
Sam looked after her. He was used to people who were running away the moment they notice his disability just like Cara did. But she had still laughed at him and didn't look at him with pity in her eyes. He liked that.
He continued to eat his salad when Dean came back into the room with a huge smile on his face.
What happened? Why are you so happy?
„I've got her number."
He handed a single piece of paper to Sam. There was a number and a painting of a huge burger with onions.
Congratulations. I didn't expect that.
„I know, I'm great."
So how did you get this?
„Well it was at the men toilet stcik at the mirror waiting for me."
She's really nice.
„She is not nice, she is awesome."
No I mean, it was nice of her to give you the cook's number.
„What? She... she didn't. This is her number."
How do you know that?
„Because I know! I'm gonna try."
If you're trying now and she answers then you're a stalker.
„Damn. Okay, here's the deal. I'm gonna call her tomorrow morning."
Do that but only when I am next to you.
„You don't trust me to tell you the truth?"
When it comes to something like this? Hell, of course not!
„You know what? Not even you can destroy my good mood right now. I've got a number from a hot chick, an awesome burger... This day is going to be really good. I feel it."
Dean lifted his eyebrows towards Sam, smiled and bit into his burger.
„This is disgusting."
„Dean."
„No really. Look at this. There are fungi everywhere. Urgh."
Sam and Dean were in a very old small hut they found in the forest behind the hotel.
They were looking for the book almost everywhere, already searching for it for hours. It was early afternoon. The smell in the hut was disgusting, like somebody had died in here a few weeks ago. There was indeed some animal cadaver lying on the floor. Sam had a blade and ditched the floor to look whether the book was here.
Dean walked through the hut with a really disgusting look on this father.
He was talking the whole time, although Sam was so busy with ditching he didn't even try to catch what his brother was saying.
„Look at this." Dean held up a small mouse, which seemed to be dead like a decade or something like that with two fingers. „This is really disgusting."
Sam didn't react but Dean didn't mind. His mind was wandering away from this place back to the diner.
„Have you seen the way she moves? Whoa, I mean... I bet she's absolutely awesome in bed. Maybe she's doing yoga... That would be interesting."
Dean continued his one sight conversation a short while later and turned to Sam who was still ditching the floor.
„You still haven't found anything?"
Sam looked up and shot him an angry glaze. He out away the blade and started to sign.
Well, maybe I would have found something yet if the grand king Dean the first could help me. Do you think that I am doing this for fun? I find this just as disgusting as you so I want to get out of here as fast as possible, okay? So would you please help me?
„Whoa, come down." Dean could see that his brother was really angry. Sweat was running down his face and he had signed so hard that Dean was sure if Sam would have had spoken out loud he would have screamed. „There's no need to get so bitchy." He took the second blade and started to ditch in another corner.
After what seemed like hours had passed and Dean just wanted to give up searching he heard Sam calling his name.
„Dean."
Dean turned around and went to his brother.
„What? Did you find it?"
I don't know. I think so. But look, this book is locked.
Sam held a very old and pretty small book in his hands. On one side the book had a strange lock.
Dean offered his brother a hand so he could come out of the hole.
„Show me please." Dean watched the book closely and tried to open it. He even used his knife to cut it open. But it nearly seemed like the book didn't want to be opened.
„I don't believe this. Cass told us to find the book because here are all the answers we need to know. And now we have it and we still have no damn answer! God, I hate those angels."
Dean, don't you think that it's not quite smart to talk about them like that? I mean, I guess they can hear you.
„I don't care! We need to do the entire dirty work fort hem, why aren't they looking for this book? I bet they have some magical skills to make this a lot faster than we can! And please don't tell me that you believe everything he had said?"
I... I don't know. Well, he's an angel. I don't think that they are evil.
„We don't even know them! I think if we should help them they should help us too!"
Dean calm down. They helped us. Without them we wouldn't even know that this book exists.
„Yeah great. Now we have a book. A totally useless silly book. We don't even know if this is the right one!"
Sam sighed and continued to calm down his brother. He was a little bit irritated as well but he couldn't think that the angels would let them just run into their deaths.
Dean, I guess that they have a plan. Look, it's 2:30 pm now. We still have time to find out what's going in here. But I think that we need to prepare. We should get the people out of the house. All of them.
Dean calmed down a little bit. He was still angry but he knew that they had work to do. He couldn't let his anger overcome him.
„Okay. Let's go back. We're going to talk to the guys in the hotel and then we need to talk to dad. Maybe he has a clue how to open this book."
Dean wanted to go out of the cabin but Sam held him back.
„What?"
I think we should call Bobby as well.
„Bobby, why?"
Well, maybe he knows something new. And just in the case that. You know.
„Sammy, watch my lips. We. Are. Not. Going. T. Die. Not tonight, okay?"
Sam nodded.
And we should try to call Cass.
„What? Why the hell should we do that?"
I mean, I think he's a pretty nice guy and maybe he will tell us more now that we had survived the last night and found the book.
Dean sighed.
„Damn... yeah, that sounds like a plan. God, I miss those old days where I was just a lonely hunter."
Sam punched him in the side.
„Au! That hurt!"
You deserved it.
„Pah, you're crazy. I'm just a poor old guy, together with a crazy deaf person..."
They started to laugh and this way they made their way back to the hotel. They didn't notice the shadow that was next to the cabin and had listened to every single word they said.
A few minutes later they arrived at the hotel. They went to the kitchen hoping to find Trudy there. They were lucky; Trudy was sitting together with Kathy and Carl at one of those tabled. Kathy looked incredibly pale and when she saw Dean and Sam enter the room she gasped.
Trudy turned around.
„Oh hello. I haven't seen you this morning. Where you eating in town?"
Dean nodded. „Yeah we did. Not that we don't like your food here, no offence."
Trudy smiled. Dean noticed that her smiled didn't seem to reach her eyes. Something was bothering her.
„Can we sit?"
„Yes of course."
Dean and Sam sat down. Sam was facing Kathy and she looked at him with red eyes. They were full of fear.
„So... excuse me if I'm a little bit impolite but... is everything all right with you? You look worried."
Trudy sighed.
„No, it's just... I didn't sleep well last night there were those rats on the attic again so I'm just a little bit tired. And right now I just want to get some sense into my daughter."
Dean looked to Kathy. „What's going on?"
„Nothing important really. I don't want to ruin your stay here. I guess we're just all a little bit... stressed."
„Ah okay. Isn't today the day where every thirty years somebody dies?"
Kathy gasped loud.
„You don't really believe in this kind of thing, do you? I mean, I cannot imagine that one of is going to kill himself tonight."
„Trudy I'm gonna tell you a secret. I don't think that somebody is going to kill himself tonight. I don't think that one of those victims had killed themselves. Someone or something did this to them and they will do it again tonight."
Trudy shook her head.
„You're kidding me. And please stop with this. Don't you see that my daughter is already scared?"
„Trudy, I don't want to scare one of you. I want to protect you. My partner is my brother. And that other guy here is our father. We know of those things and we take care of them. All I'm asking you to is to leave this for tonight. Stay in town until morning and I promise you that we will leave tomorrow and won't come back."
„What? What are you talking about? I.. I cannot leave my guests alone here. This is my hotel. And why did you lie to us about your relationship? I thought you were gay!"
Dean swallowed. Why did everyone think that they were gay? Damn he hated this.
„Excuse me but do I really look gay? Why does everyone think this? I mean.." Seam punched him into his side.
„O well, yeah. Different topic. Trudy listen. I know that this sound crazy but you have to believe us."
„I won't leave my home on your hands. This is all nonsense!"
„I think they are right, Trudy. Something is in this house, I can feel it. It's been here for all those years but in the last few days it became stronger. I think we should do what they say and leave for today."
Carl looked Trudy into her eyes.
„You as well? I don't believe this. Why is going on with you? You're all crazy!"
„Trudy, if you don't believe us or Carl then take a look at her daughter and tell me that she's fine."
Trudy looked to Kathy. She was crying and looked terrible.
„You see. You cannot tell me because you know that she isn't fine. She's totally acting out of character. She had seen something. Something she cannot explain. But she's scared and I beg you for your daughter as well, pack your things and go."
Trudy's mouth was open, her eyes were huge. She couldn't believe what was going on here.
„Please mom. I want to go."
Trudy looked at her daughter who had spoken very quiet. She swallowed and stood up.
„Okay. Okay. We're leaving but we come back first thing in the morning. And then you two owe me an explanation."
„We will."
Trudy nodded again and then they she went away to tell the others that they were leaving.
Carl stood up as well.
„I don't know about what exactly is going one here but I know that this is going to be dangerous. I wish you luck and remember: Elisabeth Burton was sad when she died. She had lost everything she had and she was about to kill what was left of her family. Love is the key. Good luck."
With these words he turned away and left.
Sam looked at Kathy and tried to catch her glance.
Slowly she looked at him. „ I'm scared."
Sam looked at Dean to show him that he should translate what he was signing.
„I know. But I promise that you're safe. We going to take care of this and end this. It will be over tomorrow and then we'll leave. You don't have to be scared. Please."
Kathy nodded.
„Take care of you. Both of you."
The brothers both nodded.
„We will."
Twenty minutes later Trudy and the others left the hotel. Sam and Dean were standing in the door, wondering where their father was. When the car disappeared around the corner Dean heard somebody calling his name.
He turned around to see his dad coming towards them.
„Dad where have you been? We were looking for you."
„I was busy. Bobby called, we need to prepare for tonight. We need to go to the mausoleum."
Dean translated for Sam and then the three of them went to the garden.
„Dad what is going on?"
John didn't answer and stopped on front of the mausoleum. He turned around and smiled at them but it wasn't the smile Dean was used to. This one was mean and just didn't fit to his father.
„Dad?"
„I am sorry, Dean. But daddy isn't here."
Suddenly John's eyes became black. Dean gasped in shock. His dad was possessed. Had been possessed since last night. Sam was right. This wasn't their father. He looked to Sam looked just as shocked as Dean.
„Oh please, spare me those faces. You're looking incredibly stupid with those faces, you know that?"
„Go back to hell and get the damn out of our father!"
„Oh... I am sorry. No way. Look, I invited a few friends to join us."
Suddenly demons came out of nowhere. They came from everywhere. From the forest, from the house... there were at least fifty of them. Fifty demons against Dean and Sam.
We're lost. Dean signed to Sam.
The demon interrupted them.
„Ts... You know it's not polite to talk in front of other people in another language. We use our mouth and our ears to communicate."
Suddenly Sam recognized him. He looked at his brother and quickly signed: That's the demon from our room! That's him!
In this moment Sam was lifted into the air and fell against the mausoleum. A groan escaped his mouth.
„Sammy!" Dean ran towards his brother who had a nasty cut at his forehead.
He could hear the demons laugh but he didn't care about that right now. Sam was hurt that was the only thing he could think about right now.
„Sammy, Sammy come on." He touched his brother's face. Sam couldn't really focus on his brother he looked like he would pass out every second.
„Hey, hey, hey, hey. Come on Sammy, don't leave me hanging."
Dean knew that Sam couldn't hear him but he continued touching him. Then slowly Sam's eyes focused on Dean.
Dean smiled. „Hey drama queen. That's good. Come try to sit up."
He lifted his brother so he was sitting then he looked back at the demon.
„You. What did you do? Didn't I tell you to get the hell out of here?"
The demon laughed. „Are you really that naive, Dean? Did you really think that I would listen to you? I mean I have to admit that your brother's skills were pretty impressing but something like that doesn't scare me. Now let's get back to business. We cannot use you. You try to destroy our plans. Plans we had made before one of you was born! We won't allow that. I am sorry Dean. But the last thing you will ever see in your poor life will be a bunch of demons and your daddy killing your brother. Then we will kill you. You're father is screaming. He wants to get the control over his body back. But I don't care Dean. I want your father to watch both of you die. I love good family scenes. Say goodbye Dean. You're time is up."
Slowly the demons came towards the brothers. Dean could see that they were ready to kill. He had no idea how he should get out of here. Sam couldn't fight he seemed pretty much out of it. But even with Sam being okay they didn't have a chance against all those demons.
He kneeled down next to Sam.
„Sammy, come on. I need you help here. We won't die without fighting, okay? We need to fight and to get as many demons to hell as we can. But I need your help. Come one you can do this."
Sam slowly nodded and with Dean's help he could stand up. He was a little bit shaky on his legs but the adrenaline that was coming let him forget his nausea and his pain. He was ready.
Dean held Sam's hand. The demons were coming closer. Dean could see demon-John standing a little bit behind with a mean smile on his face. He knew that this wouldn't help him but he just had to try.
„Dad! Dad if you can hear me, you can fight! You can end this! Sam and I could use a little bit help over here. Dad come on; don't let that freaking demon control you! We need you! You need to stop this!"
It didn't worked. Demon-John was still demon-John.
Dean swallowed and looked to Sam. Sam nodded and with a big fighting scream they got out the guns and knifes they were wearing at their body and started their struggle to survive.
TBC
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