A/n. you guys, I'm on a roll. Another day, and another new chapter! This story has become so much fun, it has kind of taken over my life... Send condolences to my husband...

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Chapter Twelve

Dean passed Sam his food, and leaned over the laptop. "Alright, let's see it."

Sam looked over his shoulder at me. "I am so sorry Alice. I didn't know you could hear me. You don't have to look, if you don't want to. It might be kind of...unsettling."

I sat on the edge of the bed behind me, "I think I want to see. I just hope you guys are troopers when I have to sleep in here on the couch, because I'm too scared to be alone."

Sam chuckled, and turned the laptop so I could see it. "I'll start with this one." He clicked through a few pictures to one of the ones I took while sitting on the front lawn.

It was one of the second story windows. I leaned forward, and at first I didn't understand what the big deal was. But then I saw her, she was off to one side, almost peeking out of the window.

"Zoom in Sammy." Dean instructed, and Sam reached for the mouse.

Her hair was short, and styled like an older woman. She was looking directly at the camera, as if she was watching me take the shots. "You think she's a ghost?" I asked, my voice a bit shaky.

"Well she wasn't there when we were inside the house." Sam said, I heard the trepidation in his voice, he was afraid of scaring me.

I smiled. "I'm okay Sam. Believe me, I've seen my share of scary things."

He nodded his head, "well there are a couple other shots that have a strange mist in them." He flipped through a couple more shots within the house, sure enough there was a gray cloud covering parts of them.

Now I was intrigued, I moved closer the computer, kneeling on the floor in front of it. "That is so weird, nothing there when I took the pictures, and now this." I reached my hand up and touched the screen.

Sam took a deep breath. "One more Alice. Are you ready?" He looked down at me, his eyebrow raised.

"Yes, let's see it." I said with confidence. How bad could it be?

I wasn't prepared, he brought the picture up on the screen, and zoomed in. I fell backwards, and crab walked back to the bed. Had it been taller, I would have crawled underneath it. I tried to take a breath, but it came out in more of a whimper.

Dean was immediately at my side, "it's okay Alice." He wrapped an arm around my shaking body. "She didn't hurt you, so it seems she was just trying to scare you."

"Mission accomplished." I whispered. I climbed back to my knees, and creeped back over to the computer, forcing myself to look at the image again.

"You don't have to look Alice." Sam said softly, as he tried to turn the laptop away.

I grabbed his arm, "it's okay Sam. I need to see it."

It was one of the shots I took in the basement. It was just a basement wall, and that is all it would have been, if not for that damned mirror. The mirror was off to the side, I could see my own reflection in it as I stood there with the camera.

She was behind me, RIGHT behind me. Her arms reaching for me, her mouth opened hugely wide in a silent scream. Her eyes were black holes, and her fingers almost looked talon like.

I sat and looked at it, trying to see if I could make myself believe it was something other than what it was. "Maybe she was trying to say something." I murmured, almost to myself.

I felt Dean kneel behind me. He wrapped his arms around me, pulling me back into his chest. "Maybe. There is no way to know for sure."

"We have to go back." I couldn't believe the words, even as they were coming out of my own mouth. "We have to see if we can help her."

"She's right, we have to go back. If this woman has anything to do with the disappearances, we need to stop her." Sam said.

I felt Dean nod, and then he rested his chin on the top of my head. "We can go without you Alice. Sam and I."

I sat up and turned around, "no. I need to do this." I motioned to the picture, still haunting me from the screen. "She needs help. Whether she's crazy or not, she was a person at one point. We have to do something."

"Get rid of the picture Sammy. What about the symbols, any information about those?"

Sam clicked another picture, and I couldn't help but be relieved the frightening image was gone. He brought up the large symbol from the basement, and the ones from the staircases.

"We recognized the devils trap, and there were a couple more along those same lines, that we found outside. But these," he motioned to the screen. "I have no idea. I can't find anything, nothing online, nothing from Bobby. And even dad's journal has nothing even close." He picked up an old leather bound book, that was barely holding together.

"What about the Doctor Alice? Would this be something he would know about?" Dean asked.

I got to my feet, "I am so stupid. Of course he would! He knows everything. Be right back."

I ran back to my room, grabbed my backpack and ran back across the hall. Yep, definitely not staying alone tonight. Just doing that alone creeped me out.

I sat back on the bed, and dug through my backpack until I found it. My birthday cell phone. I hadn't used it yet, I had never had a need to. I looked down at it, and pressed the button to bring it to life. "I don't know if I can send pictures or not, so I'll just have to call him, and hope he is somewhere he can answer it."

"Wait a second," Dean said, swiping the phone from my hand. "Are you saying this phone can call outer space?"

I shrugged, "I guess so. He told me it would reach him."

Sam waved his hands, "hello? What are you talking about? Your Doctor friend is in space?"

"Oh yeah, sorry Sam. I forgot you didn't know. The Doctor is an alien." I said simply, and Sam gave me the 'you're being crazy' look again.

I took the phone back from Dean, and walked over to where Sam sat. I put a hand on his shoulder, "you trust me Sam, right?"

He smiled, "yeah Alice. I trust you. Call him, there is nothing I want to do more tonight, than talk on a space cell phone, to an alien."

He was teasing me, but I could still hear the disbelief in his voice. Who was I to judge? I didn't think ghosts existed, and now I knew for sure they were real.

I slid the laptop over, and sat up on the table. Sam got out his salad and started eating, while I fidgeted with the phone.

"I'm not quite sure how it works." I admitted. "I haven't had it very long, and this is the first time I am actually using it."

Dean stood next to me, as I tapped through the menus. He reached over, and tapped a contacts list icon, and then chuckled when he saw the entries.

It was empty, save for the one contact space that existed. And the space said, 'The Doctor, and you remember Alice Temple, no take out orders.'

I smiled, and tapped his name and waited. At first nothing happened, I held the phone to my ear, but didn't hear anything. I looked down at the screen in disappointment, "maybe he can't get calls wherever he is."

But then the screen blinked to life. It was shaky, and I saw the inside of the Tardis. "Doctor?" I said into the phone, looking at the screen.

I heard him yelling in the background. "Alice!? One second. Just you wait one second. Don't you move a muscle, I am heading that way, and..." Then his smiling face popped up on the screen.

He straightened his glasses, and gave a great big smile. "Alice Temple! How is my favorite human!"

I smiled, and my heart soared at seeing his face. Suddenly I heard a voice from beside him, "Oy, I'm a human, and literally right here."

He turned, "oh quiet, she's my favorite human that's actually ON earth. How's that?"

"Better. Now shove over so I can say hello." A beautiful red headed woman, slid into view next to the Doctor on my screen.

I smiled at her, "hello, I'm Alice."

"Nice to meet you Alice, I'm Donna."

"The bride!?" I said to the Doctor.

He nodded, "the one and only. She found me a few weeks ago, and I haven't been able to shake her since."

The Doctor tilted his glasses down his nose, and leaned closer to the screen. "Now hold on a second there Alice. You have someone sitting next to you too, did you know this?"

I looked over at Dean, and he leaned into view of the screen. "Yes, I did know. I have successfully made some friends Doctor. This is Dean."

Dean waved awkwardly, "hey there."

I turned the phone toward Sam, "and this is Sam."

Sam waved, and nodded, his mouth full of food, that he had stopped chewing in surprise.

I turned the phone back around, to see the smile had slipped from his face. "Doctor? What is it?"

He sat back in his chair. "Leave it to you Alice. Do you know how many people there are on your planet? Do you? I could do the math, but frankly I'm not in the mood."

"What is wrong with you?" I asked, he was obviously agitated.

"It's like you have a gift Alice. A crazy, dangerous gift. I gave you one job, ONE Alice. Find some friends. That was it, and now here you are with... Oh I can't even say it out loud. Here you are, with the WINCHESTERS?" He did a face palm, "seriously Alice, I can't leave you alone for a second, can I?"