Twenty Nine
As Thomas and I followed Crowley through the house, Thomas was edging closer and closer to me. When he tried to put his hand in mine I got angry and shoved him. He bumped a vase full of deep red roses on a table, it fell to the ground and smashed, sending shards of glass everywhere. This made Crowley chuckle.
"Oh give it a rest mate, she's still stuck on that Ken doll." he shot at Thomas. Thomas scowled but left me alone for the rest of the tour. Crowley showed us every single room, all of which were weirdly empty.
"So what do you want me to do Crowley?" I asked him when the tour was over.
"I have had a few, shall we say, absconders, of late, I would like your help tracking them down."
"Why me? I mean I realise I am a hunter but you could have enlisted any hunter." I was confused.
"Well let's just say you have unique abilities that will make it much much easier." Crowley smiled at me.
"Like what?" I asked and Crowley smirked
"Follow me love." he said as he walked down towards the basement. At the bottom of the stairs there were two doors. One was just a normal door, the other was steel with a huge padlock. A demon with light grey wings was guarding the door, he saw me looking and his lip curled in contempt, it looked like not everyone was happy I was here.
"What's in there?" I asked pointing to the steel door.
"Nothing for you to be concerned about, your work is in here." Crowley directed me into the other room. In the room there was a chair and a desk, on the desk was a map of the USA and a jar full of blood. I shuddered remembering what had happened the first time I saw a jar like that.
"I'm not drinking that!" I yelled stepping away from the room in disgust.
"Oh love, yes you are, I will be giving you the blood from the AWOL demons and you, with your abilities will tell me where they are," he said evenly, I shook my head violently, Crowley's face changed, he looked angry, "yes, you are, you can either cooperate or see what the consequences are if you don't, remember our agreement is they only thing keeping me from going after that ragtag band of misfits you call a family!" he snarled. I realised he was right, I nodded and slowly made my way to the desk, my heart was beating a million miles an hour. I sat down and opened the jar, the smell was overwhelming and made me feel queasy. I looked at Crowley and Thomas who were standing in the doorway, they were watching me intently, I closed my eyes and took a swig from the jar. Nothing happened, I focused and all of a sudden I saw a flash of a blonde woman with black eyes, her demon wings were a dark grey, I saw her looking around, I saw a sign before I was completely back in the room. I saw that Crowley had left and Thomas was standing beside me.
"She's in Amherst, New Hampshire. What are you going to do to her?" I asked.
"Well first I will see if she will come back to our side, if not, well they know the consequences." Thomas said before handing me another jar. I sighed.
"How many of these are there?"
"A few, we have put the names on the jars in case you don't see that, just label their whereabouts on the map. And don't leave the room unless I come and get you. Someone will bring you some food and drink in a little while. I'll come back after I sort a few things." he kissed me on the cheek and I shuddered.
Two hours later I had located roughly eleven demons, someone had brought me a nice home cooked meal, something I hadn't had in a while, I was offered wine but I turned it down for some water instead. While I was writing down the details of a twelfth demon I looked up and saw Thomas at the steel door, he was arguing with the guard demon in hushed tones, the demon eventually let him in, I could hear a woman yelling as he opened the door. I could barely hear the voice but something made my stomach drop. I stood up and crept towards the door, even closer I could barely make anything out. All I knew was I needed to get in there.
I waited until Thomas had left and barged up to the guard demon.
"Let me in there!" I yelled at him. He growled, blocking me. I tried to push past but he grabbed my arm and launched me into the wall. I pulled myself up using the wall for support, I realised I would have to use my abilities if I was going to get into the room. I closed my eyes and clenched my fists, I concentrated hard on pulling the demon out of the mans body, I opened my eyes to see black smoke escaping from his mouth, the man collapsed onto the ground, I bent down and placed two fingers against his neck to check his pulse. I felt nothing, that was the problem with exorcising demons, sometimes the body was so damaged from the demon riding them that when a demon smoked out, it killed the host. I got back up and tried to open the steel door. It was locked up tight, I pressed my ear to the door, I could hear the woman screaming, suddenly thought I recognised the voice. I felt panic well up inside me, if I could see visions, locate demons and exorcise the bastards, maybe I could use the demon blood to get inside. Once again I closed my eyes and concentrated, I opened them and screamed, as I did the door blasted open and I charged into the room to see I was right, I had recognised the voice. Standing in the centre of a ring of fire, was Dylan.
"Rayne!" she yelled as I ran towards her, "Rayne look out!"
I turned around just in time to see Crowley standing with slightly disappointed look on his face.
"You couldn't leave well enough alone could you love?" he sighed before flicking his hand and hurling me up into the air and back down onto the concrete floor.
"Rayne! Oh god no, Rayne!" I heard Dylan scream as everything went black.
When I woke up I could see Dylan, still in her ring of fire.
"Dylan!" I screamed trying to race towards her, I took a few steps before feeling like I was unable to take any more. I looked around trying to see what was holding me back, I looked up and on the roof was a devils trap painted in red.
"What the hell?" I screamed. I heard a chuckle behind me. It was Crowley.
"Oh love, you are part demon and you have ingested a ton of demon blood, the devils trap will hold you until it wears off and I don't intend for that to happen. See now you have defied me, I am going to test your full potential by feeding you blood from the two highest demons here. Thomas and I. This is going to be fun!" he smirked.
"You can't force me!" I screamed.
"Oh love, of course I can, I have the person you love most. Do what I say or I will destroy her!"
I looked over at Dylan and sighed.
"No Rayne, please, don't, don't let him do this to you!" she screamed, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"I have to Dylan, you are my sister!" I called back to her, "fine Crowley, do your worst."
