A.N.- hello everyone. I haven't got much of an author's note. So without further adieu, here's chapter 14.
Dean, Sam, Hayley and Lydia all walked into the bar, and made their way to the farthest table in the place. Sam got his computer out while Dean had got the drinks. Hayley started playing darts and her sister joined her since it would help with the wound as long as she threw the darts instead of getting them. Sam had just found an article when Dean returned with the beer.
"Alright, check this out. Blackwater Ridge doesn't get a lot of traffic. Local campers, mostly. But still this past April, two hikers went missing out there. They were never found." Sam explained as Hayley, Lydia and Dean crowded around him.
"Any before that? (hiss/groan)" Lydia plead as a wave of pain engulfed her because someone hit her from behind which caused her to hit the table. Sam pulled out his Dad's journal and opened it to another page with many other older newspapers there as Dean put Lydia in front of him so that if anybody wanted to get through they'll have to deal with him.
"Yeah, in 1982, eight different people all vanished in the same year. Authorities said it was a grizzly attack. Just like the one, we found online back at Bobby's. Only that was in 1959 and there was one before that in 1936." As Sam opened the video of Tommy Hayley spoke,
"Every twenty-three years, just like clockwork." Sam continued after Hayley as he told them,
"Okay. Watch this. Here's a clincher. I downloaded that guy Tommy's video to the laptop. Check this out." as he played three frames from the video one at a time. Lydia saw a shadow move across the three frames.
"Do it again." she heard Dean tell Sam from behind her and Sam did. The same shadow goes across the screen.
"That's three frames. That's a fraction of a second. Whatever that thing is, it can move." Hayley and Sam told them in unison while Lydia frowned, Dean hits Sam in the shoulder,
"Told you something weird was going on." Lydia continued to frown but rolled her eyes as she left Dean's protective front to go back to the game of darts she was playing. Hayley joined her and they heard Sam,
"I got one more thing." as he pulled out a newspaper article, "In 'fifty-nine one camper survived this supposed grizzly attack. Just a kid. Barely crawled out of the woods alive." The girls quit their game and moved back by the boys. Lydia grabbed the article, began reading it as she probed Sam,
"Is there a name?" Sam took back the article looked it over again then began to type on his computer. After a few minutes, Sam finally spoke up,
"No, not really. Just a last name and an address. A Mr. Shaw." Began to type on his phone,
"There's the address, Lydia." Then handed her his phone with Mr. Shaw's address.
"Well, do you want to check him out?" Hayley quietly questioned, "Or do you want to stay here for a while?" Dean looked at his still full beer and at everyone else's before he said anything. However, before Dean could even speak, Lydia shook her head,
"No. Let's wait awhile. I'm hungry and my wound hurts so let's just rest. Besides, this man isn't going anywhere, right?" and everyone had to hand it to her, she was right. They were all hungry anyway. Dean nodded,
"Lydia's right. Let's eat. I'm starving." then he walked off, presumably to the bathroom. Sam packed his computer away and helped Lydia into her chair. Hayley came up besides her sister and the three of them waited for Dean to return. After three minutes went by, Dean had still yet to return and Lydia decided to go look for him. Sam asked to go with her but she told him, she was fine and that she would be right back. Lydia walked around, found a waitress where she probed,
"Would you go over to that table over there and get their orders in about five minutes?" she nodded yes and Lydia continued her search for Dean. She eventually found him. Dean was up against the wall kissing some girl near the bathroom, and Lydia's heart plummeted as she stood there frozen.
(I know he can do whatever he wants but it still hurts seeing him like that.) she thought before she took off towards the woman's bathroom. Lydia didn't know how long she stood there watching but all she knew was that her heart was in pain. She didn't cry but she was hyperventilating and that caused her wound on her chest much pain. After Lydia calmed down and the pain had passed, she joined her sister, Sam and Dean to eat the food that was ordered.
(I wish he would look at me like he did when I was injured or in pain with those loving eyes. Now his eyes look in pain every time he gazes in my direction. No love only pain and guilt and that hurts me.) Lydia thought as she and the others ate. After the group finished their meal, they decided that it was time to go and meet this Mr. Shaw. So Dean went to go pay while Sam, Hayley and Lydia went to the car and waited for Dean. About a minute later, Dean emerged from the bar, got in the car, started her up before he took off down the road.
About a hour later, Dean finally made it to the survivor's house and got out of the car. Sam made it to the door first and knocked just as the others arrived. An elderly man opened the door only a crack,
"Yes?" and Hayley spoke first,
"Hi, Mr. Shaw. We're with the Park Service and we would like to ask you a few questions if you don't mind." Mr. Shaw opened the door further and let them in. Once inside, Mr. Shaw went to his chair but remained standing and lit a cigarette just as Sam asked him,
"Tells us about the night, you and your family were attacked?" Mr. Shaw retaliated,
"Look, ranger, I don't know why you're asking me about this. It's public record. I was a kid. My parents got mauled by a-" only Hayley interrupted him,
"Grizzly? That's what attacked them?" the old man took a puff of his cigarette then nodded just as Dean probed him,
"The other people that went missing that year, those bear attacks too?" then he paused, "What about all the people that went missing this year? Same thing?" Dean paused again,
"If we knew what we were dealing with, we might be able to stop it." Mr. Shaw immediately announced,
"I seriously doubt that. Anyways, I don't see what the difference it would make." then sat down as he continued,
"You wouldn't believe me. Nobody ever did." Hayley moved beside him and took his hand as she urged him on,
"Mr. Shaw. What did you see?" Lydia, who had been silent and standing near the door finally moved towards her sister as she listened to Mr. Shaw,
"Nothing. It moved too fast to see. It hid too well. I heard it, though. A roar. Like...no man or animal I ever heard." Sam moved closer to and sat across from Hayley and Mr. Shaw,
"It came at night?" nodded as he comtempladed what to say next, "Got inside your tent?"
"It got inside our cabin. I was sleeping in front of the fireplace when it came in. It didn't smash a window or break the door... It unlocked it. Do you know of a bear that could do something like that? I didn't even wake up till I heard my parents screaming." Shaw explained then Hayley questioned,
"It killed them?"
"Dragged them off into the night." Shaw shook his head as he continued, "Why it left me alive...been asking that myself that ever since." Hayley tried to comfort the old man as his hand when to his collar,
"Did leave me this, though." then he pulled his collar down to reveal three evenly long jagged scars. Hayley turned her gaze from the man's shoulder to Dean, Sam and Lydia, who were just as shocked as her but like her didn't show it. Shaw spoke one last time before he asked them to leave,
"There's something evil in those woods. It was some sort of a demon." After they heard that, the group went to find a motel room for the night since night had fallen when they were talking with Old man Shaw. Dean found a cheap motel and got two rooms so the girls could have their privacy and so could them.
Dean, Sam and Hayley were heading back to the car to get their supplies and weapons while Lydia remained in her three of them were walking down the corridor towards the exit sign to the parking lot.
"Spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. If they want inside, they just go through the walls." Dean pondered and the others agreed,
"So it's probably something else, something corporeal." Sam told them as they finally made it to the door that lead to another hallway then outside.
"'Corporeal'? Excuse me, professor." Sam responded immediately,
"Shut up." and they made it to the last door before they were outside as Sam finished,
"So what do you think?" Hayley joined the conversation before Dean could even answer him,
"The claws, the speed that it move… Could be a Skinwalker, maybe a Black Dog. Whatever we're talking about, we're talking about a creature, and it's corporeal. Which means we can kill it." Sam and Dean nodded in agreement and went out the door. Dean made it to the Impala first, unlocked the trunk then lifted weapons box and propped it open with one of the shotguns that laid in there. Dean grabbed a duffel bag and began to fill it with guns and anything else they might need as Sam and Hayley walk up. Hayley reached over Dean and grabbed her and Lydia's bags then left the brother alone.
"She sure didn't want to stick around." Dean commented as Hayley opened the motel door and disappeared inside. Sam shrugged before he leaned on the Impala as he stated,
"We cannot let that Haley girl go out there. We already have one problem with Lydia and her injuries."
"Dude, I thought I told you, Lydia is coming. End of story. As for Haley, what are we gonna tell her? That she can't go into the woods because of a big scary monster?"
"Yeah." came Sam's reply and Dean looked over at him before he firmly told his brother,
"Her brother's missing, Sam. She's not gonna just sit out. Now we go with her, we protect her, and we keep our eyes peeled for our fuzzy predator friend." then grabbed the duffel and that pissed Sam off,
"So finding Dad's not enough?" he then slammed the weapons box down followed by the trunk,
"Now we gotta babysit too?" Dean stared at Sam with a 'you just didn't do that to my Baby' type of face.
"What?" came Sam snarky reply as Dean shrugged his shoulders,
"Nothing." then threw the duffel at Sam before he stocks off back into the motel while Sam only stared after him before he followed. Dean walked to the girl's room then knocked on the door, Lydia answered sleepily,
"What is it, Dean?"
"Nothing. Just checking on both of you. Making sure your o-" Lydia interrupted him before he could say anything more,
"I'm fine. Now if you would be so kind as to let us sleep. Got a big and long day tomorrow. Goodnight." then slammed the door on his face.
"Night." was all Dean said to the closed door before he slandered back to his room. Dean entered his room to find Sam sitting on the bed. Sam looked up when he heard the door shut to see Dean walk to the other bed and flop down on it.
"Something wrong?"
"No nothing. Good night." then slipped off his shoes before he turned out the light and went to bed. Sam remained awake for a while longer before he too fell asleep. The next morning, Dean was the first one awake followed by Lydia and the both of them were getting the car ready when Sam and Hayley finally walked out of the motel.
"Morning." Lydia greeted them both, "Sleep well?" that time to Sam. Dean noticed Lydia wasn't talking to him at all. Sam nodded as he climbed in the backseat with Hayley close behind.
"Come on. Let's get this show on the road." Lydia told Dean as she climbed in carefully. Dean didn't like the fact Lydia wasn't really talking to him but got in anyway and drove out of there. Dean drove up to the trail that lead to Blackwater Ridge and parked the car. Dean and the others see a man talking to the Collins.
"I'll tell you again, I don't think Ben should come." then heard Haley,
"Roy-" but was interrupted by the man now named Roy,
"Look, you're paying me good money to keep everybody safe. I think Ben's safest at home." Ben noticed them first before he got his sister and Roy to notice as well.
"You guys got room for four more?" Dean pleaded as the group walked up to them then Roy demanded,
"Who are these guys?"
"Apparently, this is all the park service could muster up for the search and rescue." Haley added sarcastically as Sam passed everyone. Roy looked to them skeptically as he asked,
"You're rangers?" and Lydia answered before anyone else could,
"That's right." as she moved ahead of everyone else like Sam and Haley noticed Dean's outfit and commented on it,
"You're hiking out in biker boots and jeans?" and Dean began to walk over to her,
"Well, sweetheart, I don't do shorts." then moved passed her with Hayley close behind. Roy wasn't happy having more people to deal with so he tried,
"What, you think this is funny? It's dangerous back country out there. Her brother might be hurt." Sam and Lydia stopped as Hayley told him,
"Believe us, we know how dangerous it can be. We just wanna help them find their brother, that's all." Dean passed his brother and Lydia followed by Hayley as they headed deeper and deeper into the woods with Haley, Roy and Ben right behind.
Tommy woke up to something wet repeatedly hitting him in the face and noticed that he was hung by his wrists from the ceiling. Suddenly, he heard growling as it got closer to Gary, who he also just noticed. The growling got louder and then he heard the screams coming from Gary and he tried his best not to watch his friend get eaten.
A.N.-Hi again. What did you think of this chapter? Lydia and Dean's relationship? Anyway, onto chapter 15!