Chapter 12-Don't Make It Bad
"Hello?!" Sam yelled as he walked around his empty room. He couldn't look at himself, but he was the only person in the room. Occasionally, the door would open, as if a ghost opened it, and a nurse would materialize and walk into his room, do what needed to be done, and would disappear. It was almost as if he could only see people that were in his room. That's when he decided to put his theory to the test.
When a nurse came in, Sam walked through the open door. To his surprise, the hallways weren't empty, it just wasn't anyone who should be in the hospital hallways. People with wounds, of course, they weren't bleeding, walked around freely. Older people who had been in the I.C.U for years had turned young again and were looking for a way out. When they saw Sam, their eyes grew sad, like they knew what he was going through.
"Hey." Sam said to a young girl who was sitting in the hallway, her head resting against her knees. "Are you okay?"
"I just want it to be over." She said. Sam looked into the room behind her. An old woman with all kinds of tubes lay there.
"Is that you?"
"I didn't think anything would happen. It was just cliff diving. Everyone was doing it. I just aimed wrong. Now I want it over." That's when Sam realized that everyone who was talking was talking about it being over. "Finally." The girl said. Sam looked back at her to see her walking back into the room. A young woman in a black dress was standing on one side, the girl on the other.
"Take my hand." The woman said. "It will all be over now."
"Thank you." The young woman said, her eyes full of hope.
The new woman raised her hands over the body of the old woman. Sam stood there as lights began to come from the body of the woman in the bed. Then he heard it. The monotone buzzer that signaled death. As the buzzer continued, the woman he had talked to disappeared into a brilliant display of lights. The new woman disappeared as well.
"Spying?" Someone asked. Sam jumped around to see her behind him. "It's only spirits here and you're not exactly Mr. Invisible, are you Sam?"
"How..."
"My name's Tessa." She said. Sam started to back up, away from her. "Relax. I'm not here for you yet."
"Are you a demon?" Sam asked.
"No. I'm not one of them selfish barbarians. I'm a reaper."
"Yeah right. And next you're going to tell me to 'Don't Fear the Reaper'." Sam said. He turned to leave her.
"I know you've met one of my kind before." Tessa said. When Sam kept walking away, she reverted to plan B. "At lease Dean wasn't this skeptic." That got Sam to look at her.
"You know Dean?" Sam asked. Tessa nodded her head. "How?"
"Remember a few months back, when your family was in the hospital…" Visions of what had happened popped into Sam's head. Talking to comatose Dean, yelling at his dad for wanting to summon Yellow Eyes to the hospital…finding his dad on the ground after Dean woke up. "I was there. I was with Dean. He was living on borrowed time and I was there to collect his debt." That made Sam's heart beat faster.
"I don't believe it." Sam said.
"Maybe this will make a believer out of you." Tessa placed her hand over Sam's heart. He closed his eyes as warmth spread throughout his body. Then, there was pain as he fell to his knees. He crawled away from Tessa, towards his own room. There, he pulled himself up so he could look into the window. He watched as the invisible nurses ran into his room. He heard it. The deathly buzzer.
"Please." Sam begged. "I need to get to Dean."
"Then are you ready to believe me?" Tessa asked. Sam nodded his head. With a wave of her hand, the buzzer stopped and the pain inside Sam's chest eased. The nurses returned to their invisible state as they left the room.
"I think I would've felt better if you told me just not to fear you." Sam said.
"Well, you hunters are all hard headed when it comes to meeting my kind." Tessa said. "Especially you Winchester's who think that not even God's mightiest angel can strike you down." Sam lightly smiled.
"You really did meet Dean, didn't you?" Tessa sighed. She began to walk away from Sam. "Hey! Wait!" Sam yelled after her. Tessa stopped to look at him.
"Yes?" She asked.
"Are you gonna take me like you did that woman?" He asked. Tessa walked back up to him.
"Not yet." She said. "Your clock still has time on it. Her's was up."
"But…" But before Sam could say anything else, Tessa disappeared. Sam set down in front of his room, his head resting against the wall. He had to get to Dean, somehow.
"Hey Jude." Sam whispered. "Don't make it bad." But it was too late for him. It was already pretty bad.
