Thanks to Ezraduke and fairyofmusic for their reviews. I hope to put up chapter 15 as soon as I write it. Don't you hate it when real life gets in the way of writing?
Chapter 14
"What the hell were you two doing at the park?" John demanded.
"Going for a walk." Katie said sarcastically as she walked past her father into the small kitchen area.
"We don't have time for this crap." John said.
"Dad, just calm down for a second ok." Dean said as he guided Sam into the kitchenette and pushed him into a chair.
"What happened to him?" John asked.
"He…" Dean started, but stopped when he looked up at his sister.
"Don't." Katie said.
"He needs to know." Dean said flatly.
"It has to come from Sam." Katie said.
"What the hell is going on?" John yelled.
"Dad." Sam said. "Just sit down and I'll tell you."
Katie poured out three cups of coffee for herself, Dean and John. She handed two of the cups to Dean, left hers sitting on the counter and then went outside to the truck so she could get something for Sam to help with his headache and hers. As soon as the door closed to the room, she called Rachael.
"What's going on sis?" Rachael said.
"You remember our little stunt with Sam at Stanford?" Katie asked.
"Yeah, something finally happen?"
"He had one of his visions. When I touched him, I saw exactly what he was seeing."
"Did you tell them?"
"Nope, but I think I'm gonna have to here in about two seconds."
"Good luck."
"Yeah, call me when you have Caleb."
"I will."
Katie hung up her phone, grabbed her med bag out of its hiding place in the truck and then walked back into the room. She walked back into the kitchenette and started looking through her bag for the Advil as soon as she set it down on the counter. When she found the bottle, she popped three of the pills with a sip of her coffee and then handed three more to Sam.
"Here, this should help with the headache."
"Thanks." Sam said as he took the pills.
"A vision." John said.
"Yes." Sam replied after swallowing the pills. "I saw the demon, burning a woman on the ceiling."
"Alright and you think this is gonna happen to the woman that you met because?" John asked.
"Because these things happen exactly the way I see them." Sam replied.
"It started out as nightmares. And then it started happening while he was awake." Dean said as he walked into the kitchenette to get some more coffee.
"Yeah." Sam added. "It's like the closer I get to anything involving the demon, the stronger the visions get."
"Alright, When were you gonna tell me about this?" John asked Dean.
"We didn't know what it meant." Dean replied.
"When something like this starts happening to your brother you pick up the phone and you call me." John said angrily.
"Call you." Dean said angrily. "Are you kidding me? Dad I called you from Lawrence, all right. Sam called you when I was dying. I mean, getting you on the phone I got a better chance at winning the lottery."
A tense silence filled the room. Sam looked over to Katie and she shrugged. Katie was trying not to show how proud she was of Dean for telling their father off again.
"You're right." John said. "Although I'm not real crazy about this new tone of yours, you're right. I'm sorry."
Dean looked back to Katie and she gave him a small smile.
"I take it you knew about this too." John said, catching Katie's attention.
"Yeah, I knew before they did." Katie said
"What?" How could you know about this vision thing before Sam?" John asked.
"Rachael." Katie replied.
"Oh god, you didn't?" Dean asked.
"Not that, no." Katie replied. "Something else."
"What did you and your friend do to my son?" John asked angrily.
"Would some one please tell me what the hell is going on?" Sam asked.
"The first thing you need to know Sam is that Rachael has powers." Katie said. "She's like you, but different. The demon went after her, but Bobby recognized the signs and got her out. Unfortunately, he couldn't save his wife and son. The demon lit a fire in every room of that house searching for Rachael."
"Oh god." Sam whispered.
"She's had her powers all her life." Katie continued. "The demon did some kind of binding spell on you or you probably would have been the same way."
"How do you know that?" Sam and John asked together.
"I remember it." Katie replied.
"You remember it? And you didn't think of mentioning this before now?" John asked.
"After the way you reacted when you found out about Rachael back in St. Louis. You're kidding right? Katie said.
"Enough." Dean said. "How did Rachael find out about Sam's ability?"
"The week before Jess, Rachael was visiting me at Stanford." Katie answered. "A couple days after Rachael got there, Jess came to talk to me. She said that Sam had been having nightmares. That he would wake up screaming her name in the middle of the night, but he wouldn't talk to her about it. She was getting really worried. Racheal was in my room and heard the conversation. One of her abilities is to see into other people's dreams, so she tried it that night with Sam. The problem was it didn't work, so we went about it in another direction. She couldn't link to Sam directly but she could link me to him."
"You saw it?" Sam said his voice full of shock. "You saw it and you didn't warn her."
"Sam. I'm sorry. I tried to, but how would you explain that to a normal person?" Katie said sadly. "I tried to get her out of there, go visit her parents or something while you were gone, but she wouldn't. She said she had to be there when you got home, so I just stayed with her."
"I take it you told Rachael what you saw?" Dean asked.
"Yeah." Katie replied. "She said it had to be a premonition and that meant Sam's powers were trying to surface."
"What was the side effect?" Dean asked.
"There wasn't one, until today." Katie replied.
"What was it?" Dean asked again.
"When Sam had that vision about Monica, I saw it too." Katie replied. "But only when I touched him."
"You know as well as I do that's gonna change the more time you spend around him." Dean said.
"Look, guys." Sam said. "Visions or no visions the fact is, we know the demon is coming tonight and this family is gonna go through the same hell that we went through."
"No they're not." John said." No one is, ever again."
Katie and Dean shared one of their looks before he went back to getting his coffee and she went back to drinking hers. She was trying to think of a way to get Monica and her family out of the house when the silence was shattered by the ringing of Sam's phone.