Around 3 Sam, Dean and Jessica pulled up at Aponi's house. Sam climbed from the back seat and went to the door. He knocked and waited for Aponi to come to the door. When she didn't answer after a couple attempts at knocking and ringing the doorbell Sam started to have a nagging bad feeling. He walked back to the car. "She's not coming to the door. I'm going out back to see if she's in the barn." Dean peered up at Sam through the window, "We'll come with you. I don't want to just sit here and wait." Dean, ever the impatient guy that he was, opened his door and waited for Jessica to slide across the seat toward him. They followed Sam to the barn and found Brandy standing in the hallway of the barn with a halter and lead rope on. Sam patted her neck as he walked by on his way to the room where he and Aponi first made love.
He lightly knocked on the door before opening it and going in. "Aponi are you in here? Why is Brandy out here in the hallway?" Not getting an answer he looked in the bathroom and found it empty as well. He turned around and Dean and Jessica were standing in the doorway of the little apartment looking at him. Sam's brows furrowed with worry. "She's not in here and she's not in the house. She would never leave Brandy just out here in the open like this without being at least tied." Jessica nodded, "You're right. She loves this horse better than anything. I'm going to put her in her stall. Sam there is a spare key by the back door. It's under the fourth flowerpot from the top of the steps." Sam nodded and headed toward the house as Jessica walked out and smoothed her hand over Brandy's velvety nose. She put her in her stall and she and Dean headed to the house to see what Sam had found.
Sam found the key easily and let himself into the house. He really didn't need the key but there was no time to explain that either. He walked into the kitchen and looked around. There was no sign of any kind of struggle. Aponi's house looked like it had when he left there earlier. Dean and Jessica came in after a few minutes. "Sam her truck and trailer are gone. Jessica just noticed that when she was walking over here from the barn.", Dean said as he looked to his brother. Sam raked his fingers through his hair and looked at the floor thinking. "She said she was taking Brandy to Luke's for breeding. If her truck and trailer are gone then Brandy should have been gone as well." Sam shakes his head trying to think through everything. Dean looked at Jessica, "Do you know where Luke's is?" Jessica nodded, "Yeah he lives just a few miles down the road." They follow Jessica out the back door and lock it up.
Jessica directs Dean to Luke's house. Sam's legs jump nervously as he sits beside Jessica in the front seat. His nagging feeling was growing. Why would the truck and trailer be gone and Brandy not be? That just didn't make sense. Dean pulled into Luke's driveway and around to the back where the barn was. Aponi's truck and trailer were nowhere to be found. When they stopped in front of the barn and climbed from the car Luke came from the office inside. He wiped his hands on a rag he pulled from his back pocket. He had what appeared to be blood on his hands. Jessica walked forward since she knew Luke and the guys really didn't. "Hey Luke.", stopping when she saw his hands she questioned, "Is that blood?" Luke looked down at his hand where he was wiping with the rag. "Yeah I just had one of my young studs castrated. He put up a little fuss and I got more on me than I intended to."
Jessica nodded and Luke looked to Sam and Dean who were standing on either side of Jessica. "Can I help y'all with something?", Luke says and smiles. Sam steps forward, "Yeah we were looking for Aponi. When I left her place this morning she said she was coming over here to bring Brandy for breeding. We went to pick her up a little while ago and Brandy was in the barn and Aponi was nowhere to be found. Her truck and trailer were both gone so we thought maybe you had seen her." Luke looks up at Sam and gives him a huge smile. He studied Sam's face and wondered what Aponi saw in him. Sure he was tall and he had those dimples that women seemed to find so attractive but other than that to him he was just an average guy. "Well Sam she did come by here with Brandy. Just as she was leading Brandy to the barn the crazy bitch took off and headed in the direction of home. Last I saw Aponi she had gone looking for her. Maybe she's out driving around looking for Brandy."
Sam looked down at Luke trying to determine if he was telling the truth or not. He finally nodded, "Thank you for your time Luke. We'll get out of your hair now." Sam stuck out his hand to shake Luke's. Luke reached for Sam's hand and they shook hands. Sam still had a really bad feeling about Luke but he thought it was best to discuss this with Dean away from here. The three headed to the Impala and decided to go back to Aponi's place and wait. Maybe she would show up soon. Maybe, just maybe, she was out looking for Brandy.
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Aponi heard the sound of the Impala pull up. She knew it had to be the Impala because no one else she knew had a vehicle that sounded like that around here. She opened her eyes and tried to see through the haze. She heard the engine cut off and she saw a shadow move across her line of vision. She felt a gag in her mouth and she could tell she is tied to a chair. He head ached and there was a pain in her thigh. The shadow left the room where she was and she tried hard to listen to what was going on outside. She heard Sam talking and somehow she knew he was there to find her. She could also hear Jessica talking and knew that she and Dean must be with Sam. Aponi closed her eyes and listened to the smooth sound of Sam's voice and tried to not pass out again. She wanted to be able to do something to alert him to the fact that she was here.
She began to try and scoot the chair so that she could get close enough to something that she could kick it or knock it over. Just as she almost reached a wall to kick she heard the Impala fire back up and drive away. Soon the shadow was back. She wondered why she couldn't see better and tried to blink her eyes so that she could see better. "Well, well, well! Look at you in here trying to move. What were you trying to do? Did you hear that sasquatch that you have been shacking up with here asking about you? Seems that damn mare of yours went home and he found her. He's a little too nosey for his own good if you ask me." Aponi blinked a few more times and then felt the sting of her captor's hand across her face. She cried out as best she could with the rag in her mouth and unwanted tears slipped down her cheeks. "If he brings his gargantuan ass back here he's going to be sorry.", her captor grounds out between clenched teeth.
Her chair is dragged back to the spot where it was originally and she feels steel cuffs snap around her ankles after her boots have been removed. Those are cuffed together and then to what sounds like iron rings in the concrete floor. She then feels a prick at the bend of her arm and her captor begins to talk to her, "You're going to be just fine. I'm going to take good care of you. Now sit back and dream those sickening dreams of yours." She feels his hands on her wrist and then she feels lightheaded for a bit.
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When Aponi wakes up she's laying in bed with Sam behind her. She's curled up against him and she feels his arm tighten around her waist as she begins to move. She rolls to her back so that she can look at his face. He's still asleep so she takes in the beauty of his face. She longs to touch the cleft in his chin and to run her fingers through his hair. He has a bit of stubble on his face and this causes her to quiver with anticipation of what is to come. She reaches up to smooth her palm over his stubbled cheek and he slowly opened his hazel eyes. "Good morning sweetheart."