Chapter 21 - Salvation
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-Spoiler Alert: Spoilers of season one of Supernatural.
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"So this is it. This is everything I know" Dad said.
Dad been telling us everything on this demon. I glance at the colt on the desk in front of where he is sitting, I want to use this thing on this demon. I want someone to use it on him and kill him.
"Look" Dad continued "our whole lives we been searching for this demon right? Not a trace, just… nothing. Until a year ago. For the first time I picked up a trail".
"And that's when you took off" Dean stated standing beside me.
"Yeah. That's right. The demon must have come out of hiding, or hibernation".
"What trail did you found?" I asked.
"It starts in Arizona, then New Jersey, California" Dad listed "houses burned down to the ground. It's going after families, just like it went after us".
"Families with infants?" Sam questioned leaning on a table by the window.
"Yeah. The night of the kid's six-month birthday".
"But I was three month" I frowned not understanding.
"When Sam turned six month old, they were a fire at our house, your mother managed to get out of the house, we were all safe" Dad explained "I don't know why it came back for you".
"So it came after me too?" Sam asked surprised.
"Yeah, it did" Dad answered.
Why did it came back for me? What does it want? Why did it came for Sam? Why us? I don't understand, but I guess he doesn't like us, and we don't like him.
"So, Mom's death is my fault…" I whispered and glanced at Sam "Jessica might also be my fault".
"We don't know that Alex" Dean snapped.
"We don't know?" I glare at him "fix the puzzle, Dean!"
"For the last time, what happened to them was not your fault" Dean said frustrated.
"How can you be so sure" I replied dryly.
"Alex, Dean is right, it's not your fault, I don't blame you" Sam softly tried to comfort me.
"No! It's my problem!" I half-shouted.
What does it take to make them understand that!
"No, it's not your problem, it's our problem!" Dean yelled back.
"Okay" Dad stopped us standing up "that's enough".
I glance at the floor folding my arms around my chest. Whatever Dean or Sam says, I know it's all my fault.
"So why's he doing it. What does he want?" Sam asked.
"Look I wish I had more answers, I do. I've always been one step behind it. Look, I've never gotten there in time to save…" Dad looks down sadly.
He hasn't gotten there in time to save the woman. Like no one could save Mom…
"All right so how do we find it before it hits again?" Dean asked.
"There's signs. It took me a while to see the pattern but it's there in the days before these fires signs crop up in an area. Cattle deaths, temperature fluctuations, electrical storms. And then I went back and checked...and..."
"These things happened in Lawrence" Dean guessed, well, an easy guess.
Dad nods "a week before your mother died. And in Palo Alto… before Jessica. And these signs, they're starting again".
"Where?" Sam asked.
"Salvation Iowa".
"I guess that's where were going" I mumbled grabbing my bag.
"We'll go in the morning" Dad informed "we should rest if we want to be sharp".
"Yes sir" Dean replied.
I throw back my bag beside the bed and make my way under the covers. I won't be able to sleep that's for sure.
The next day, we were back on the road. I decided to ride with Sam and Dean since I only wanted to lie down in the back seat of the Impala. Sam and Dean are also silent as we drive down the road.
The car suddenly stops bringing me out of my world. I look out the window to see that we stopped at the side of the road. Both my brothers gets out of the car and I do the same.
"God damn it!" Dad cursed getting out of his truck slamming the door.
"What is it?" Dean asked.
"Son of a bitch".
"What is it?" Dean urged him.
"I just got a call from Caleb".
"Is he okay?"
"He's fine. Jim Murphy's dead".
"Pastor Jim?" Sam exclaimed "how?"
"His throat was slashed. He bled out. Caleb said they found traces of sulfur at Jim's place" Dad explained.
"A demon?" Dean asked getting a nod from Dad "THE demon?"
"I don't know" Dad sighed "could be he just got careless, he slipped up. Maybe the demon knows we're getting close".
"What do we do?" Dean asked.
"Now we act like every second counts. There's two hospitals and a health centre in this county. We split up, cover more ground. I want records. I want a list of every infant that's going to be six months old in the next week".
"Dad that could be dozens of kids" Sam stated "how do we know which ones the right one?"
"We check 'em all that's how" he glares at Sam "you got any better ideas?"
"No sir".
Dad nods turning towards his car as we open our respective door. I glance at him who is leaning against his truck his eyes empty.
"Dad?" I called out.
"Yeah. It's Jim" he admitted sounding upset "you know I can't… this ends, now. I'm ending it. I don't care what it takes".
I get it the car laying back down in the backseat. I can't believe that Pastor Jim is dead. When Dad was going on a hunt with Sam and Dean, I was left with Pastor Jim when Bobby couldn't. He taught me how to cook and explained me a lot of things on God, even though I don't believe. He also helped me for school and he was the only other person I could be open too, talk too. He was a good man…
Dad told us to go at a general hospital, Dean and I. While him and Sam separated somewhere else. This is going to be hard as shit to find the six-month old kid who is the one who is going to be the one.
Dean and I walks to the desk and I can see Dean exchanging a smile with a chick. His kind of smile.
"Hi" the girl said too friendly "is there anything I can do for you?"
"Oh God yes" Dean grinned he holds up his fake ID "only I'm uh… working right now, so…"
"Oh, that's too bad" she pouted with a smirk "she's your partner?"
"Yeah, she's an intern".
"Okay, what do you need?"
She got us all what we needed and started to take the list of all the kids. There is so much! I can't believe it, and there's more in the places Dad and Sam went.
Once we were done, we got back to the Impala. I review the lists that we did, big list.
I frown looking at Dean, why isn't he starting the engine?
"Dean?" I questioned.
"Alex, we need to talk".
That's not good I really don't like his tone. The tone he uses to say that we need to do a deep conversation about something touchy.
"What you said yesterday, about blaming yourself for Mom" he pauses looking in my eyes "you have to understand it isn't and I want it to be the last time I tell you that, okay? I mean you were just a baby. Okay?"
I bit my lip, I was, but… I don't know anymore… I guess he's right.
"Yeah, I understand… I guess I just tried to blame someone" I admitted.
"Blame the demon" he dryly said as he started the engine.
"A vision" Dad sighed sitting on the bed.
Sam told us that he had a vision of a woman burning on the ceiling and she has a six month old baby, turns six month today. I'm sure this is our shot.
"Yes" Sam confirmed still rubbing his temples "I saw the demon burning a woman on the ceiling".
I glance at Sam sitting in front of me and give him a reassuring smile which he returns to me.
"And you think this is going to happen to this woman you met because…"
"Because these things happen exactly the way I see them".
"It started out as nightmares" Dean explained as he walks across the room "then it started happening while he was awake".
"Yeah" Sam nodded "it's like the closer I get to anything to do with the demon the stronger the visions get".
"All right. When were you going to tell me about this?" Dad asked.
I frown glancing at Sam and Dean both sharing the same confused look.
"We didn't know what it meant" Dean said.
"All right, something like this starts happening to your brother, you pick up the phone and you call me".
Dean dumbs his coffee mug on the counter and walks towards Dad with a hard expression on his face.
"Call you?" Dean repeated "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 of winning the lottery".
"You're right" Dad sighed to my surprise "although I'm not too crazy about this new tone of yours, you're right. I'm sorry".
"Look guys, visions or no visions" Sam stated "fact is we know the demon is coming tonight. And this family's gonna go through the same hell we went through".
"No" Dad shakes his head "they're not. No one is, ever again".
That feeling for revenge… it's so hard in us. This demon needs to die, he destroyed our family and so much more. I went it to end and go back at what we were. Hunting, normal hunts.
Sam phones ring catching everyone's attention.
"Hello?... who is this?... Meg".
Meg? As in Meg who fell down a building and died? Meg?
"Last time I saw you, you fell out of a window… just your feelings? That was a seven-story drop?... my Dad. I don't know where my Dad is".
Sam stares at Dad hesitating and Dad signs him to give him the phone.
"This is John" Dad spoke in the phone "…I'm here…Caleb?"
I sit up on my chair. Caleb s one of Dad's friend. He also kept us a little while when Dad was on hunting trip. He's cool.
"You listen to me. He's got nothing to do with anything. You let him go" Dad ordered "… I don't know what you're talking about… Caleb. Caleb!"
Oh God, that tone, something bad is happening. Dammit.
"I'm gonna kill you, you know that?" Dad threatened "…no, it's one or the other… no… you can't-… okay… I said okay, I'll bring her and the colt… it's gonna take me about a day's drive to get there… that's impossible. I can't get there in time and I can't just carry a gun on the plane…"
Dad hangs up and sits back on the bed sighing heavily.
"Dad?" I half whispered.
"I think she's a demon, you guys said she is the one that fell down the window right?"
"Yes sir" we answered in unison.
"So she would be a demon?" Sam asked.
"Either that, or she's possessed by one. It doesn't really matter".
"What do we do?" Dean asked the question that had been torturing me.
"It doesn't look like we have a choice" Dad sighed he looks at me sadly "if I don't go, a lot of people die, our friends die".
"Dad, the demon is coming tonight. For Monica and her family. That gun is all we got, you can't just hand it over" Sam stated.
"Who said anything about handing it over. Look, besides us and a couple of vampires no one really seen the gun, no one knows what it looks like".
"So what, you're just going to pick up a ringer at a pawn shop?" Dean joked.
"Antique store" Dad corrected.
"You're going to give her a fake gun?" I frowned "you sure she's going to fall for that".
"Look, as long as it's close, she wouldn't be able to tell the difference".
"Yeah but for how long?" Dean replied "what happens when she figures it out?"
"I just…" Dad pauses "I just need to buy a few hours, that's all".
"You mean for, Dean, Alex and me" Sam glances up at him "you want us to stay here, and kill this demon by ourselves?"
Dad gets up sighing "no Sam. I want to stop losing people we love. I want you to go to school, I want Dean to have a home, I want Alex to have a normal childhood. I want… I want Mary alive" he choked out a few sobs "it's just… I just want this to be over" he turns around to look at me "and it's not all, she wants me to bring you".
"What?" I choked out.
Bring me? What for? Why does she wants me? I look at my brothers both chocked as well.
"Dad you can't-"
"Dean" Dad cut him off "I hate it too, but I can protect her and I will".
"Dad, it's not a good idea" Sam argued.
"We'll have a backup plan" Dad assured and glances at me "I won't let anything happen to you, okay?"
I feel tears watering my eyes. This can't be happening.
"Okay" I nodded bringing myself up "I know".
"Good".
Even though I know my father can protect me, what if I can't protect him? What if I do something wrong and it all goes down? I have to stay focus.
I stare in front of me sitting on the ground my back pressed against Dad's truck. I can't stop thinking about what is about to happen. I still don't understand why Meg wants me to go. I'm not afraid of a lot of things, but this is freaking me out.
The engine sound of the Impala catches my attention. Dean gets out of the car joining Sam and Dad by the truck. I get up and walk towards them standing beside Sam who gives me a small simle.
"You get it?" Dad asked Dean.
Dean pulls out a brown paper bag from his jackets pocket handing it to him. Dad takes out an antique gun identical to the colt, but it doesn't have the symbols on it. Guess it could trick Meg after all.
"You know this is a trap don't you" Dean stated after a moment of silence "for both of you".
"I can handle her" Dad assured "I got a whole arsenal loaded. Holy water, Mandaic, amulets…"
"Dad…"
"What?"
"Promise me something" Dean said with a small voice.
"What's that".
"This things goes south… get the hell out. Don't get yourselves killed all right, you're no good to us dead".
"Same goes for you" he pauses "all right listen to me. They made the bullets special for this colt. There's only four of them left. Without them this gun is useless. You make every shot count".
"Yes sir" Sam replied.
Dad hands Dean the colt.
"We'll see you soon Dad" Sam stated with emotion.
"I'll see you later".
He gets in his truck. I take Sam in my arms.
"It's going to be okay" he whispered in my ears "we'll see you later kiddo".
I nod in his chest and move to Dean who didn't say a word, just hold me tight and I buried my head against his shoulder smelling the order of his leather jacket that always made me feel better. I don't want to let him go, I want our father and I want to go with them to kill the demon and finish it.
I get away forcing a smile before getting in the passenger seat beside Dad who drives away.
Dean must be freaking out too, we never separated like that on a hunt and it's scarier to know that my brothers won't be there to help me if anything happens.
We've been on the road all day without saying a word but I could feel my father glancing at me a few times but I didn't look at him keeping my eyes on the landscape.
"We'll be there in a few minutes" Dad announced "I want you to follow me without saying a word. If something happens, I want you to run and get away from here as fast as you can, okay? You'll take the car".
"But I can't leave you there".
"It's only in an emergency case, if something happens I'll run with you" he pauses "it's going to be okay, I promise. As long as you stay with the plan and follow me, I promise nothing is going to happen to you".
"Okay" I nodded.
"I know you're scared" Dad said "I understand".
"It's a trap and we're obviously going to get killed or maybe even worse than that. And we just step right into it. I mean it's stupid to do this and-"
"Alex" Dad stopped be "it's going to be okay".
"Okay, I stick to the plan" I clear my throat.
I have to be strong for this, I have to get my shit together and fight. It's the first time I get involved with this kind of demon, the one in the plane me and my brothers hunt down was much easier.
"Dad, what will we do when all this is done?" I asked.
"What do you mean?" He asked back frowning.
"If we'll quit hunting" I explained "live a normal life. This demon is the reason we are hunters right now, we kill him and we did our revenge, what do we do after?"
"We continue to hunting" Dad sighed "we know what it's there, we can't stop, we have to save people".
"Yeah" I force a smile "anyway I guess a normal life isn't that fun, nothing happens, as what I saw in the movies".
Dad looks at me sadly and smiles passing a hand affectional on my head. What I said was a total lie, I know a few things about normal. With Dean who told me a few stories about Mom, Sam telling me how it was to live in a house and school. School is the most normal place I've been, people didn't know shit about supernatural and I was there doing the same thing as the others. I also lived the victim of bully part of school, being the new kid all the time was suck, but Sam and Dean were always there to help me out of it and stop all of it.
Dad pulls up his truck in front of the warehouse only light up by the moon light. I get out looking all around me. Looks like Meg isn't there yet.
Dad makes me sign to follow him. We jog in an ally until we reach a ladder, he goes first and I follow up to the water tank. Dad pushes me behind t putting a finger to his lips. After a few minutes, he checks if it's clear and opens the lid of the tank. He gets out a rosary up saying a few words in Latin and drops the rosary in the water. To make holly water.
We went back down and enter the warehouse, I hope everything is going to end well. I hope Sam and Dean are okay right know. I hope they will be able to save this family.
As we walk in the warehouse, Meg stands there, in the middle of the room looking at us.
"John, you made it" she said "and you brought your little baby girl. Too bad, really, I was hoping to kill more of your friends".
"Sorry to disappoint" Dad stated sarcastic.
"I can see where you're girl and boys get their good looks. Though I must admit, considering what they say about you, I thought you'd be… taller" Dad doesn't say anything at her statement only staring at her "well aren't you the chatty one. Alexandria is calm too, for once. You wanna get to business? Fine" she walks closer to us "why don't you just hand over the gun".
"If I give you the gun, how do we get out of here?"
"If you're as good as they say as you are, I'm sure you'll figure something out".
How the hell would come here with no plan of getting out of here? Especially when it's a demon that we're dealing with.
"Maybe I'll just shoot you" Dad threatened.
"You wanna shoot me baby? Go ahead. There's more where I come from".
A guy walks in the room from behind her. Fuck, that wasn't part of the plan, they are probably stronger than us now.
"Who the hells that?" Dad asked.
"He's not nearly as much fun as I am, I can tell you that. So I suggest you give us the gun".
No one moves, Dad stares at them for a long moment. This is now we'll know if it's going to work.
"Now!" Meg shouted impatiently.
Dad hands her the gun. She takes it examining it carefully before looking up at us.
"This is the colt?" She asked getting a nod from my father. She hands the gun to her friend "what do you think?"
The guy takes it, looking at it. He points it up to the ceiling, charges it… fuck he's going to shoot one of us. I jump at the shot he triggered in Meg's chest.
"You shot me!" She exclaimed staging back "I can't believe you just shot me!"
Oh God, now they'll know it's not the real colt. We are in deep shit.
"It's a fake" the guy said throwing the gun away.
Dad grabs my arm protectively.
"You're dead John! Your boys are dead!" She shouted "we'll kill your daughter slowly!"
Dad backs away me behind him "I've never used the gun" he lied "how I could know it wouldn't work?"
"I'm so not in the mood for this" she spat angrily advancing "I've just been shot".
"Well then I guess you're lucky the gun wasn't real" Dad joked.
"That's funny John. We're going to strip the skin of your dear Alexandria from her bones and then you, but that was funny".
I feel my Dad tense. They wanted me to be an insurance, great, guess that didn't work out well.
A noise distracts Meg and the other demon, they look behind them for a second. This second where Dad starts running away pulling me with him.
We run in another room. Dad looks the door, but that is surly not going to be enough.
"Come on, we have to go" Dad urged me.
I nod quickly following him down a trap in the floor and climb down the ladder. We run down the hall. One of the demons knocks the door down and follows us down the trap. Dad stops me from running still keeping me behind him. I look at him confused, why the hell are we stopping?
Dad turns on a tap making water run down the floor. That's genius.
Both demons looks at the water and then each other. The guy walks right on the trap, his feet's starts boiling and he stumbles back yelling.
"Holly water John" Meg stated angry "real cute".
Dad grabs me once again and we run off again. That's how we do it, now we can get the hell out of this place.
We race as fast as we can back to the car, but the demons are not stupid, since it's a trap, they punctured the tires.
"Dammit" Dad cursed and glanced back at me "come on".
Now our backup plan is ruined, that's great.
We continue our run through some turns until we reach a dead end. I can feel myself shaking, I could just puke. I look at Dad panting for breath.
"What do we do now?" I asked terrified.
He doesn't answer and gets his cell out, hope we get service in here. But before he can dial the full number, he gets flung onto a wall and so do I. We stay clued there like if someone was holding me. The demon guy approaches Dad looking at him with a victory smile. Now we are totally screwed.
The guy knocks my father out cold hitting him on the head and let him fall on the ground.
I swallow hard as the guy than comes to me. Hope he doesn't kill me right now. The demon grabs my face forcing me to look at his smile and knocks me out.
I open my eyes groaning from the pain in my head. Where the hell am I? I blink a few times the dizziness, I'm still in the warehouse. Where is Dad? I look all around me but he isn't here. My phone starts suddenly to ring, I grab it but someone takes it from my hands. I look up to see Meg with a huge smile and she ties a gag around my mouth and she answers.
"You boys really screwed up this time" she said walking away from me.
Sam, Dean. I try to yell at them that I'm here but the gag keeps me from yelling too loud, anyway she's too far so they can't hear me.
"You're never going to see you sister and father again" she snaps the phone close and destroy it on the wall. I jump at the contact and look up at her shaking like crazy.
"Well, let's go now" she said and knocks me out again.