AN: sorry for the delay in posting! I was finishing up a practicum near the end of the summer and getting thrown back into school for the semester. Also, spoiler warning for episode 21-"All Hell Breaks Loose (Part I)".
He was hungry, starving even. Of course that wasn't so unusual because Dean could probably eat his weight in food if given the opportunity. The road stretched out wide and dark in the middle of Iowa so it wasn't like there were too many places for them to stop. Lucy had grown quiet sometime in the hour before Dean realized he was hungry but she was most likely asleep in the backseat. But even Sam was quiet, staring out the window into the rainy darkness. Dean was sort of glad when a sign appeared, advertising an all night cafe. They could eat and then get back on the road. It felt like they'd been driving all day, only making a few necessary stops. They'd even switched off driving but Dean had done most of it, preferring to be behind the wheel of his own car.
Sam looked at him questioningly as he felt the car veer off towards the right. "What're you doing?"
"I'm starving man. Sign back there said there was a diner or something."
He nodded but smiled. "Yeah I could stand a burger maybe. Should we wake Lucy up?"
Dean gave a nod as he pulled the car into a parking spot. "Probably should. I know she hasn't eaten in awhile."
The cafe looked sort of out of place in the middle of practically nowhere. They could see people inside and there were a few cars parked out front so at least they hadn't stumbled upon some place that was boarded up or abandoned. Sam reached into the backseat and managed to poke Lucy in the arm. "Hey Luce...wake up. Lucy?"
She stirred and sat up after a moment, pushing back the hair that she was sure was going in every direction. "What? Where are we?"
"Food stop." Dean said with a smile as he handed some cash to Sam. "Want anything?"
She stretched as best she could in the car and nodded. The thought of food was pretty appetizing. "Yeah I'll go in with you Sam."
Sam grumbled a bit under his breath as Dean started rattling off his order, climbing out of the car. "Hey bring me some pie!"
Lucy laughed as she crawled out of the backseat. "You can't possibly eat that much Dean."
He grinned at her as she closed the door, watching as she rolled her eyes and hurried to catch up to the long legs of his brother. Dean was unable to keep the smile off of his face as he heard Lucy laugh all the way to the door. He saw them go inside but his eyes drifted to his stereo. The station they'd been listening to began to fill with static, the lights of his car dimming and flickering. He reached out and tapped a finger against the face of the stereo. It took him a few moments to recognize all of the signs but collectively he knew what it meant. Looking in towards the cafe, he expected to see the two familiar figures inside. But there was nothing. Checking to make sure he was still armed, Dean hurried from the car and ran towards the diner. Opening the door, he stopped as he saw one of the cafe patrons slumped over a table, blood pouring out from his face. "Sam?" He called out the first name hesitantly. "Lucy?"
There was so much blood, so many bodies. He felt cold suddenly, panicked and worried all at once. He checked the rest of the diner, finding no sign of his brother or Lucy. With his heart pounding, Dean ran from the building, calling their names again. He was hoping to get a response, to find them. But he heard nothing besides the rain hitting the ground again. He was completely alone in the dark.
Lucy woke up feeling as if she'd just woken up from a dream she couldn't remember. The last thing she did remember was walking into the small cafe behind Sam. She stood up, spinning around in a full circle, taking in the old western-looking town that would be a pretty damn good set for a scary movie. It looked deserted, empty, and run-down. Taking a few steps forward she looked around for any sign of life. It was quickly apparent that she was definitely not in the middle of Iowa where they had been before. What was most troubling was the fact that she was split from Dean and Sam. They'd been so permanent in her life for awhile, and now finding herself alone wasn't a comfortable feeling. Wrapping her arms around herself, Lucy started walking. Maybe she'd find either man around the next corner.
Sam woke up in a similar way, wondering what the hell kind of dream he was waking up from. He was sprawled out on what looked to be a pile of wood, looking around bewilderedly at the town he looked to be in. He sat up slowly, surprised to find that he was definitely not in Iowa and he was definitely alone. No sign of Lucy and no sign of Dean. That was especially worrisome. Standing up, he reached in his pocket for his cell phone. If he could call Dean then this would all be fixed! Of course that thought was short lived as his phone beeped, trying to find a signal and was unable to. With a slight grumble, Sam started walking. He needed to find out where exactly he was and find out how to get out. It wasn't good to be separated and not when it seemed to happen out of nowhere. He looked around, trying doors as he passed them but everything seemed to be locked or boarded up. Catching a glimpse of movement, he turned and saw Lucy. Finally, he was beginning to think he really was alone. "Lucy!"
She turned, obviously startled at hearing her name called in the quiet of everything else. But her face lit up when she saw Sam. Running towards him, she nearly launched herself at him out of pure happiness. Because now she wasn't alone wandering around some creepy abandoned town. "Oh thank god, where have you been? Where's Dean?" She pulled back from his warmth and shoved her hands into the pockets of her jacket. It was cold and it was drizzling, again.
"I...don't really know where I've been. I just woke up here. And, I don't know where Dean is. I was kinda hoping he was with you?" He said as he started looking around again. Maybe if Lucy wandered out then Dean would too.
She shook her head as the two of them stood in the mud. "No. I woke up alone. What is going on?"
"I don't know." He motioned for her to follow him and together they started walking again, looking in the windows and trying doors when they came across them.
Sam and Lucy froze when they heard a board creak as if someone put weight on it. Sam turned and grabbed a piece of wood that would make an alright weapon for the moment and kept Lucy behind him as he inched forward. Stepping around the edge of the building he was prepared to swing but the both of them jumped as a man did the same, covering his head. "Andy!?" Sam exclaimed.
The other man straightened, blinking between the two of them. "Sam? What're you doing here?"
"I don't know." Sam replied, there was no point in pretending he knew what was going on.
"What am I doing here? Where are we?"
"Uh...I don't know that either." Sam shrugged a shoulder.
Lucy peeked out from behind Sam, looking over Andy quickly. She had no idea how they knew each other but at least it was another person. Andy noticed her and looked up at Sam questioningly. "Who's that?"
"Lucy. A uh, friend of mine and my brother's. Lucy this is Andy, someone we met uh...a little before you joined us."
Andy nodded his head but immediately began to move, rocking back and forth. Sam shared a look with her but turned his attention back to the other man. "Look Andy, just calm down."
"I...can't calm down! I just woke up in freakin' Frontier Land."
Lucy snorted at that, it definitely was an accurate description. "Um, what's the last thing you remember?" She asked as she tried not to laugh outright at him.
"Honestly?" Andy said. "My fourth bong load. It was weird, all of a sudden there was this really intense smell. Like...uh..."
Sam straightened some as he asked. "Like sulphur?"
"How'd you know that?"
Lucy wanted to know the same thing since she didn't remember smelling anything like sulphur before her and Sam got separated from Dean. But she knew what sulphur meant and that made her a little colder than she already was. Sam was quiet before he muttered his brother's name. Andy lit up. "Your brother? Is he here?"
"We don't know where he is." Lucy said softly.
Sam started to say something but they all three jumped and froze when they heard a scream. Lucy turned around, looking back in the direction her and Sam had come from but she didn't see anything. The three of them hurried away from the porch they'd been standing on, walking through the mud in the direction the screaming had come from. "Help me! I'm locked in here!"
The voice was closer, locked in what looked to be a shed. "Okay okay, we're here. Just...hold on." Sam said as he looked for something to break the lock that held the door shut. He found a rock big and solid enough and started hammering away at the lock. Andy and Lucy stood back some as they watched the lock break. Opening the door, he paused for a second. "Ava?" Of all people that would be stuck in this place with them, he really hadn't expected to see her.
"Sam? Oh my god Sam!" She threw herself at him, holding onto him tightly.
"Guess you guys know each other." Andy said, glancing at Lucy who was still standing next to him.
"Uh...yeah." Sam replied. Lucy, admittedly, had heard Sam refer to Ava a few times but hadn't asked for details and the guys didn't seem very forthcoming with details about her.
"How did...I mean, how long...?" Ava was rattling off parts of questions at a rapid pace but seemed to calm down when Sam gripped her shoulders. "Ava, have you been in there this whole time?"
"Whole time? I just woke up in there a half hour ago."
Sam shook his head, "No you've been gone for almost five months. My brother, Lucy, and I have been looking for you everywhere."
"That's impossible because I just saw you two days ago."
Shaking his head again, he stooped down to see Ava better. "No, you didn't. I'm sorry."
Ava looked like she was about to cry again, shaking her head slowly. "But that...that makes no sense. Oh my god! My fiancé, Brady! If I've been missing that long then he must be freaking out."
He wasn't sure on how to answer her but luckily Sam didn't have to come up with one as Ava finally noticed Lucy and Andy. Andy waved and motioned between the two of them. "Uh hi, Andy and Lucy. Also freaking out."
"Sam what is going on?" Ava turned back to him.
That was another question he didn't have an answer for because he wasn't sure what was going on either. "I don't know. But I do know what the four of us have in common." He was about to elaborate when they all turned hearing another voice calling out. Sam stepped towards Lucy before he said, "maybe more than four."
The four of them started running towards the voices with Sam calling out, "hello?" every few feet. Two more people made their appearance on a porch of a building with more cracked paint and wood. One was another male, dressed in Army fatigues and a female with blonde hair and dressed in mostly black. "Hey, you guys alright?" Sam asked.
The man nodded, glancing back at the blonde. "Think so."
"I'm Sam."
The guy in the army fatigues was named Jake and the blonde was Lilly. Sam asked if there were anymore people but Jake and Lilly had been alone since waking up. Lilly asked how they had even gotten there and again, Sam wasn't sure on how to answer. How could he when the answer most likely sounded insane?
"Let me take a wild guess. You're both 23, right?" Sam asked.
Jake and Lilly both nodded and Sam knew then that he was right. "Me, Ava and Andy all are too."
Lucy frowned because she seemed to be the only one not 23 years old. Of course she had no idea what that meant, if anything. But they all did have something in common: their so-called abilities. She didn't volunteer her age, mostly because she didn't want to draw any unnecessary attention to herself.
"Let me guess, it all started about a year ago when you found you could do things, things you didn't think were possible?" Sam rolled on, telling them how he and Lucy had visions, with Ava saying she did as well.
Andy raised a hand and said, "I can put thoughts into people's heads. Like make them do stuff. But don't worry, I don't think it works on you guys." He started up the steps towards Jake and Lilly. "But get this, I've been practicing, training my brain like meditation. So now it's not just thoughts I can...beam into people's minds but also images. Like anything I want like, bam! People see it. This one guy I know, total dick, I used it on him and gay porn. All hours of the day, it was great! You should've seen the look on his face."
No one was really laughing although Lucy wanted to crack a smile. Anything to lighten the mood that had seemed to take over everything. Everything suddenly felt too heavy, too serious and all she wanted to do was get out of there. Andy shrugged off the fact that no one seemed as amused as him and came back to stand next to Lucy. She offered him an apologetic smile, he was only trying to help. Lilly stared down at them before she said anything. "So you go 'Simon says give me your wallet' and they do?" She looked at Sam and Lucy next. "And you have visions? That's great! I'd kill for something like that."
She looked either on the verge of tears or killing someone so Lucy tried to diffuse the situation. "Lilly, listen it's okay-"
Lilly cut her off before she could really get anything worthwhile out. "No, it's really not. I touch people and their hearts stop. I can barely leave my house. My life's not exactly improved. So screw you, I just want to go home."
She turned to stalk off in the direction her and Jake had come from but he tried to stop her. Lilly just turned back towards him, ready to tell him off or hit him, no one was really sure. Lucy sighed and stepped forward. "Hey look, whether we like it or not we're here. And we all have to deal with it."
Andy looked at her then, "so who brought us here?"
Biting her lip, she stole a look up at Sam. The thing was she was pretty sure who had brought them there, she just didn't want to voice it out loud. Sam faltered for a minute before he answered. "It's less of a who and more of a what."
"What does that mean?" Ava asked, her arms crossed in front of her.
"It's a...well, it's a demon." He figured he might as well be up front with Jake, Lilly, Ava and Andy. While Lucy knew what was going on, obviously, he didn't want to put it on her to try to explain it all to everyone else. It was complicated enough. But he had to tell them. If he didn't then they would all be majorly screwed.
Bobby and Dean stood on the side of a road, a map spread out between them. "This is it," Bobby said as he straightened out a stray corner. "All demonic signs and omens over the past month."
"Are you joking? There's nothing here." Dean replied.
The older man gave half a shrug. "Exactly."
"Well c'mon! There's gotta be something. What about the normal, low level stuff? You know, exorcisms, that kinda thing?"
"That's what I'm tellin' ya. There's nothing, it's completely quiet."
Dean growled under his breath, turning from the map. "Well how the hell are we supposed to look for Sam and Lucy, just close our eyes and point?" His phone rang before Bobby could answer. Glancing at the number, he half hoped it was going to pop up with either Sam or Lucy's name but, it didn't. Instead it was Ash at the Roadhouse. Dean had contacted him to help him find them but so far there was nothing. But Ash did tell him he had something that would help him find his brother and Lucy. Ash just refused to tell it to Dean over the phone, insisting that he hurry and get to the Roadhouse. Dean hung up the phone and glanced at Bobby. "I guess we're going to the Roadhouse. C'mon." Both men got into the Impala, leaving Bobby's truck on the side of the road. The engine roared to life as Dean turned the key in the ignition, pulling out onto the road.
Lucy had shoved her hands deep into her jacket pockets, trying to get herself warm. The air was cool and damp as it was and it seemed no matter what, she just could not get warm. Jake was pacing around the porch of the building they all stood on, taking in everything Sam and her and told them. "So, we're soldiers in a demon war to bring on the apocalypse?"
"Well, when you put it like that..." Lucy said wryly. Saying it like that made it sound even crazier than it was.
"And we've been picked?" He said.
"Yes." Sam and Lucy answered at the same time.
"Why us?"
"I'm not sure, okay?" Sam said. "But look, I just know-"
Ava spoke up from where she stood. "Sam, I'm sorry. Psychics and spoon bending are one thing but demons? Come on."
"We know it sounds crazy, believe me." Lucy pushed away from the railing she'd been leaning against.
"Crazy? It doesn't just sound it." Jake said.
"Yeah and I don't really care what you think." She'd gotten to be annoyed with Jake's questioning of every last thing. "If we're all gathered here together then that means it's starting, smartass. And we need to-"
He stepped over to her, getting closer than Lucy would've preferred. He towered over her much like Sam did, glaring down at her. "The only thing I need to do is stay away from wackjobs. I've heard enough and I'm better off on my own. And FYI? So are you." He brushed past her, nearly knocking her over as he stepped past her.
"Jake, hold on." Sam really didn't want them all fighting since he knew they would be safer in numbers. But Jake didn't listen and chose to ignore him, walking off in the direction of more buildings. Lucy rubbed at her forehead with one hand, looking at Sam.
"Sorry Sam."
He shook his head, "Not your fault."
They stood around for a few more seconds before they decided as a group to go after Jake. They were better off being together than wandering off alone. Sam was the first to get inside the schoolhouse where Jake had gone inside. Spotting a demon dressed as a little girl, he grabbed the nearest thing made of iron and swung at her as she advanced on Jake. Lucy grabbed the back of Andy's jacket and yanked him backwards out of the doorway as the rest of them watched as black smoke disappeared out into the air. Sam looked at Jake before saying, "And just so you know? That was a demon."
They left the schoolhouse, their shoes sinking into the mud as they walked back in the direction they had come from. Sam motioned to the bell sitting in the middle of everything, glancing down at Lucy and then at Jake. "I think I know where we are. I recognize that bell."
"You do?" She asked, staring at the bell. She'd done enough research and reading in her life but couldn't place the bell anywhere.
"Yeah. Cold Oak, South Dakota. A town so haunted that every single resident fled."
"Well good to know we're somewhere so historical." Ava said, sarcasm dripping from her voice.
Lilly spoke up finally. "Why in the world would that demon or whatever put us here?"
"I'm uh, wondering the same thing." Sam admitted.
"You know what? It doesn't matter." She turned, already starting to walk away from the group. "Clearly the only sane thing to do is to get the hell out of dodge."
"Lilly, wait! The only way out is through miles of woods."
"It beats hanging out with demons!" She exclaimed but she at least had stopped walking.
"Lilly look, we don't know what's going on. And we don't even know how many of them are out there." Lucy said as she stepped towards the other woman.
"She's right." Jake said, "We should-"
"Don't say we. I'm not apart of we." Lilly spun on her heel, stalking towards Jake. "I have nothing in common with any of you."
"Okay, look I know-" Lucy put herself in between Jake and Lilly before another argument or fight could break out but the other woman interrupted her again.
"You don't know anything. I accidentally touched my girlfriend."
They all sort of froze, realizing what had happened to Lilly. Lucy felt all her anger and all her annoyance dissipate some. "I'm sorry. I really am."
Lilly swallowed hard but tried to play it all off. "Whatever. I feel like I'm in a nightmare and it just keeps getting worse and worse."
"You're not the only one that's lost people Lilly. You're not alone in this, I promise." After all, Lucy had lost her parents, Sam had lost his dad not too awfully long ago and his mom before that. It was hard to imagine what it was like to not be able to touch people but Lilly wasn't alone in losing people, in being unable to help people or save them. "I have a...boyfriend out there somewhere, Sam's brother. And we don't know where he is, if he's alive or dead. We're all in bad shape but we're trying to tell you the best way out of this is to stick together. It's not going to do any of us any good to get separated now." She hadn't realized that she'd referred to Dean as her boyfriend just because neither of them had discussed what exactly they were, just that they were more than friends and less than being something like...married. But she just ignored Sam's open mouthed look and hoped he wouldn't question her later.
She seemed to listen to Lucy, finally. Nodding her head a little bit she just said, "Fine."
Sam put them to work, searching for any kind of weapon that could help stave off the demons. Iron, silver and salt were on the list. Both him and Lucy had to explain what they were used for but at least none of them were looking at them like they had completely lost their minds. Andy mentioned food and Lucy realized just how hungry she was. Hopefully they could find something to eat before too long. Sadly, they were all too busy looking for weapons (and food) to notice that Lilly had gone off on her own.
Dean was anxious. Probably more than anxious, a little more on the nervous side. But Bobby didn't say anything as Dean tapped his fingers continuously on the steering wheel on the drive to the Roadhouse. He squinted out the window as they rolled up to what used to be the entrance to the place. Dean leaned forward, staring through the windshield as he looked at what used to be the Roadhouse. There was nothing left except smoldering, smoking wood. Part of the frame still stood but it looked ready to fall at any minute. He felt his heart drop into his stomach for the second time in as many days. "What the hell...?" He trailed off, not knowing exactly what else to say. Some place that had felt a little like home, a little like a safe haven, was gone. And it seemed everyone had been taken with it.
Dean pulled the car up to where the entrance used to be. Him and Bobby exchanged glances before he cut the engine and they each got out. The smell of burning wood filled their senses and they were careful not to step on anything still hot as they started looking around. For what? Dean wasn't sure. It didn't look like anyone could've survived. It had burned quickly and it had burned hot. His stomach turned at the thought of everyone inside. Personal belongings littered the remains of the building and even Dean had to hurry and look away when he stumbled upon a charred body. Bobby was shaking his head as he looked around, mumbling a quiet "my god" as he searched.
"You see Ellen?" Dean asked. He knew the answer, especially if she'd been inside.
Bobby was quiet as he looked, searching for a sign. But he finally shook his head again. "No. Or Ash either."
Dean spotted something he recognized and stepped over the skeleton of a chair, reaching down to get a better look at a watch. "Aw Ash...damnit!"
They were searching a house for anything to be used as a weapon. Andy and Lucy had wandered off, eventually finding enough salt that would last them awhile. Andy proudly displayed it as Sam, Jake and Ava wandered back into the main room. But it was then that they noticed Lilly was missing. Ava and Sam both called her name but there was nothing. Lucy frowned, looking around to make sure the blonde wasn't just hiding out in one of the other rooms. They all froze as they heard the same childish laughing that had been heard when Jake had wandered off into the schoolhouse. Walking out onto the front porch, all of their jaws dropped once they saw the windmill. Lilly hung from a rope, swinging slightly back and forth. Lucy felt her stomach drop. "Oh my god..."
"Okay that's...that's...we need to get out of here!" Ava said hurriedly.
Andy nodded, "I uh second that motion."
"I don't think that's an option."
"What'd you mean! She's dead Jake!" Ava turned to look at the man in the army fatigues.
"She was trying to leave." Lucy turned to face them all. "It's keeping us here for a reason. It went after Jake when he tried to leave."
"The demon's not going to make it that easy for us to leave. We've got to gear up for the next attack." Sam said, unable to look away from Lilly.
Jake offered to find something to get her down with, none of them wanted to leave Lilly where she was. Lucy watched as Ava disappeared back into the house, choosing to stick close to Andy and Sam. "You know, I would give just about anything to have Dean here to help out."
Lucy cracked a smile in Sam's direction. "He would definitely have a plan and be ready to set it into action."
"And I'd give my arm for a working phone." He said as he glanced around. The rain was starting up again, just another thing to add to the misery of the entire place.
Andy lit up after a moment. "You know, you may not need one. I've never tried it long distance before but do you have anything of Dean's on you? Like, something he touched?"
Lucy shook her head but Sam produced a receipt from one of the stops they'd made on the way through Iowa. "Would that work?"
He nodded and took it from him. "Yeah." Eyeing the signature, he looked up at Sam. "Does that say D. Hasselhoff?"
"Yeah that's Dean's signature. It's uh...hard to explain."
Lucy snorted, wrapping her arms around herself. "Yeah, really hard to explain. Will that work though?"
"Yeah, it should." He looked back down at the piece of paper in his hand.
Bobby and Dean had searched everywhere within the ruins of the Roadhouse. Nothing and no one was left. "What did Ash know?" Dean grumbled as they stepped away from the still smoking ashes. "We got no way of knowing where Ellen is, or if she's even alive. We have no clue what Ash was going to tell us, now how in the hell are we going to find Sam and Lucy?"
Bobby looked at him sternly. "We're going to find them." He knew it, deep down they were going to find them. It was just going to take longer than they'd anticipated. He just had to keep telling himself and Dean that.
Dean looked like he was about to answer but doubled over as a sharp pain shot through his head. He could hear Bobby saying his name but it sounded far away and he couldn't really answer. He felt dizzy and lightheaded and thought for a moment he might pass out. Shaking his head, he started to straighten up when another pain shot through his head. This time he could see something, a flash of a bell.
"What was that?" Bobby asked as Dean finally managed to stand straight up.
"I don't know, a headache?
He stared at the younger man hard as he asked, "Do you get headaches like that a lot?"
Dean shook his head, "No. Must be the stress or something. But I could've sworn I saw something..."
"What'd you mean? Like a vision? Like what Sam gets?" It didn't seem all that out of the ordinary considering Sam had visions apparently. Maybe Dean had the same thing.
"What? No."
"Well I'm just saying."
"C'mon, I'm not some psychic." Dean started to say something else but another pain shot through his head, this time nearly bringing him to his knees. He clutched at his head as Bobby ran around the car towards him, just in case he fell.
"Dean? Dean, are you with me?" Bobby again sounded far away, like he was in a tunnel or something. But the pain was gone as he felt the older man's hand on his shoulder. Dean nodded his head as he leaned his forehead against the car's hood. "Yeah. I think so. I saw Sam. I saw him Bobby."
"So it was a vision?"
"Yeah." Dean stood up fully, thankful when he didn't feel lightheaded anymore. "I don't know how but yeah. But you know, that was about as much fun as getting kicked in the jewels."
"What else did you see?" Bobby pressed on, wanting to find out as much information as he could before it was all forgotten about.
"Uh...there was a bell."
"What kind of bell?"
He looked at him for a moment as he tried to think of what it had looked like. But it had been so quick that Dean wasn't sure what he'd seen. "Uh...it was a uh, big bell? A big bell. With some kind of engraving on it. I don't know."
"Was it a tree, like an oak tree?"
"Yeah. Exactly." How Bobby knew what the hell he was talking about, he would never know.
Bobby nodded his head, "I know exactly where Sam and Lucy are."
Lucy had laid enough salt lines in her life. She was beginning to wonder if there would ever be a time where she didn't have to. Where salt could be used for normal household purposes. People back home must have thought she was crazy for buying so much salt in bulk or that she was really into raising her sodium levels. The thought brought a brief smile to her face as she laid another line down near a window in the house they were holed up in. It would hopefully keep the weaker demon or demons out. It was dark outside although she had seen a couple of flashes of lightning and heard more than a few claps of thunder. It had made her shudder each time it thundered, mostly thanks to the fact that Lucy didn't really like storms all that much. She felt cold to the bone even though she still wore her jacket. Sam had offered her his more than once, seeing her shudder just after a bolt of lightning illuminated the whole room. She'd declined though, there was no point in him freezing just so she could be semi-warm.
She thought it would be better if it was at least light out. In the dark it was harder to see things. They had found a few candles lying around and eventually were able to light them but all it did was cast an eerie glow around the main room they were all in. Lucy eventually took a chair and closed her eyes for a moment, hearing Sam and Ava talking lowly in the background. She was hungry and she was tired. Even though she knew it wasn't best to fall asleep, she figured if anything happened then she would wake up.
When she opened her eyes after what felt like a few seconds, she was surprised to find herself face to face with the yellow-eyed demon. With a gasp, she stood quickly and turned around, looking for Sam or Jake or even Andy and Ava. But there was no one. He grinned at her and took a step forward, laughing when Lucy stepped back and flinched as her back hit the wall.
"Hello Lucy."
"What are you-where is everyone!"
"Should we start with the first question or move on to the second one?" He was closer to her now, the grin still plastered on his face.
She shrank back against the wall, afraid that at any minute he was going to rip her heart out of her chest just for the fun of it. "Why are you doing this to us?"
"Us? You weren't really supposed to be apart of the plan." He shrugged a shoulder, "but your precious father got a little too close for comfort. He was going to tell on me. And I couldn't have that."
"So you killed them!?"
He sighed and tried to look sympathetic but it didn't last long before he just laughed. "Your mother just got in the way and I had to get rid of her too."
"So why me then? And where's Dean?"
"Oh now, don't worry about your little boyfriend. You should be worrying about your own well being Lucy. But why did I pick you? Because you were convenient. And I figured the Winchester's would come to your rescue after the untimely death of your parents. Oh! And it looks like I was right. Again."
She frowned, looking around the room. She wanted to yell for Sam but she knew it would be futile. It was a dream she couldn't wake up from. "Why are we all here then?"
"I need a leader for my army. One of you are going to be it. My money was on Sam but I know how strong you are. Stronger than I ever gave you credit for." He was pacing in front of her now, looking down at the floor as he walked.
"What army?"
"Oh I'll get them soon enough. But this is a competition Lucy. If you want to survive then you'd better start fighting. I'd take either Sam or you. Of course that would put Dean in quite the pickle, now wouldn't it?"
"You leave him out of this!" She growled, hating to even hear either one of their names come out of the mouth of the thing that had taken so much from them.
He stopped right in front of her, leaning in close enough so she could smell the sulphur. "Don't backtalk me little girl because I could snuff you out in a second."
She nodded just to get him out of her face, watching wide-eyed as he started to pace again.
He smiled, shaking his head as he leaned back in suddenly, "You'd better wake up now Lucy. You've been asleep for quite some time."
And just like that she was startled out of the worst dream she'd ever had. Her eyes shot open and she was gasping for air as she came around. Sam was at her side in an instant, pulling her back to look at her. "Lucy? Lucy what's wrong? Are you okay?"
She managed to nod and pushed him out of her face. She could swear she could still smell the sulphur. "Yeah. I'm fine...I'm fine Sam. Really."
He nodded and it was then that Lucy noticed the completely scared look on his face. Something told her that he'd experienced something along the same line as she had.
