Augustine's Ring
Disclaimer: So okay I didn't do it so you can't blame me ... oh wait sorry umm yeah I don't own any of the Supernatural characters or the show and it's not my fault that the boys are temporarily MIA ... umm I didn't do it I swear!!
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Author's Note: I know that is this is a short chapter but it is rather intense and I think that I would have spoiled it if I had kept going. I should be wrapping this one up in at least two more chapters, three at the most.
CHAPTER 29
St Augustine
Florida
1627
'Mother?' a young man stood in front of the woman watching her reaction carefully, he wore a simple loose shirt and britches looking more patched than new. Tall with sandy blond hair and sparkling green eyes as soon as she saw him walk up the pathway to her home who he was.
'Augustine?' Anna Maria Menendez-Youngman gasped, 'how? You died when I gave birth to you.'
'My father took me and left a dead babe in my stead.' Augustine said softly his green eyes refusing to leave his mother's, 'he raised me believing that you had abandoned me after you birthed me.'
'I would never abandon my child Augustine I promise if had known.' Anna Maria held her arms up for him to enter her embrace. 'my son.'
'Mother.' he cried and moved into her hug holding her tight, 'I am home.'
'My son, come meet your family.' Anna Maria took his hand and wrapped her free arm around his waist led him into the large house. 'You have a new father and sisters and a brother.'
'I have a brother?' Augustine asked his eyes wide, 'and sisters?'
'Si, Samuel is almost fourteen and already standing a head and shoulders above his father; he is very smart too I think he shall do well with his studies perhaps enter the priesthood. Lucia is twelve and quite a beauty her father has already arranged a good marriage for her and little Josephina is nearly ten years ah and here she is.' Anna Maria smiled at the petite girl with jet-black hair and even blacker eyes, 'come Josephina and meet your older brother Augustine he has been returned to us.'
'Josephina?' Augustine smiled and held his arms out to the little girl.
'Who is he mama?' she asked frowning when she looked into Augustine's eyes.
'He is your older brother who I thought was dead but has been sent back to me.'
'I won't bite.' He smiled widely at his small half-sister.
'Anna Maria who is this boy?' A deep voice came from the doorway behind them turning Augustine stared up at his new father with an obvious look of mistrust and undisguised hatred.
'This is my son Augustine, the one who I thought had died at birth.'
'You were told never to mention the devil-spawn.' The man snarled.
'The Lord has seen fit to return my son to me Jacob do not call him devil-spawn.' Anna Maria said quietly but her voice commanding respect.
'I am Augustine Menendez Sir.' The younger man straightened and took a step towards him.
'I do not care who you are.' Jacob Youngman snapped, 'step away from my daughter, you may keep the boy if you wish Anna Maria but do not expect me to embrace him and his return.'
'Jacob please.' Anna Maria pleaded with her husband, 'Augustine defied his father and grandfather to return to me do not do this.'
'Enough.' The man declared, 'come Josephina it is time for you lessons.'
'Yes Papa.' Josephina said sliding a sideways glance to Augustine poking her tongue out at him before taking her father's hand and happily skipped away from the strange young man with glittering green eyes.
'I am sorry Augustine.' His mother said tears sparkling in her deep brown eyes.
'There is nothing to be sorry for Mama, now you said that I have a brother?'
'Si, si Samuel is over there practicing his sword.'
'He is pretty good.'
'Si, his father drills him all of the time, sometimes I think that he is too hard on him but I am only his Mother.' Anna Maria waved at her youngest son and beckoned to him. the tall youth with light brown hair and sea-green eyes and large dimples came running over to his beloved mother. Kissing her chastely on the cheek Samuel straightened and stared down at the new arrival.
'I am Samuel.' He said with a bright smile holding out his hand.
'Augustine.' The terse reply came but the handshake was warm and Augustine felt himself relax with the boy's presence, perhaps there is hope with this one.
'Samuel this is your older brother,' their mother introduced the brothers for the first time, 'the Lord has sent him back to me.'
'I have a brother?' Samuel exclaimed excitedly, 'I have a brother!'
The two youths greeted each other happily, 'do you want me to show you some new moves?' Augustine offered nodding towards Samuel's sword, 'I am pretty good.'
'Thank you.' Samuel blushed and hurried to find Augustine a suitable weapon to train with.
Lucia sat in the shade watching the exchange with interest a smile playing across her lips as she watched the handsome young man train with her older brother. He moved with such grace and skill that she held her breath and fanned herself with the lace fan she clutched tightly.
'He is your brother Lucia.' Anna Maria said sitting next to her eldest daughter, 'that is Augustine.'
'But didn't he die at birth?'
'Si and the Lord has graced me with his presence again.' Anna Maria beamed happily.
Lucia watched the handsome young man with renewed interest, taken at birth and raised by strangers.
'Who took him Mama?'
'His father and grandfather, they put a dead baby in his place and stole him from my breast.'
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Augustine stood over the bodies of his mother and her husband with a look of sheer malice written across his face, 'too bad you chose him mother.' he snarled his green eyes now obsidian discs, 'did you not see what he was doing to your son?'
He turned to stare at the young boy lying unconscious on the bed, the bruises stark on his pale skin. Augustine's anger knew no ends when he came hurrying into his brother's room eager to continue training and found his stepfather rutting his brother like a pig.
Then he turned on his mother, for her failure to keep Samuel safe from the human monster, 'demons are better mannered than he was.' He spat on the man, summoning the minions from his true father's domain Augustine ordered them to take his brother careful of his injuries and to take the older girl. The other brat can die for all he cared she was too much of her father.
Turning his stony gaze once again on his weakling mother and brute of a stepfather Augustine walked out of the house with two siblings leaving the bodies of others in their steads. Suddenly he stopped and had the male body removed, he wanted it known that he loved his brother. The girl would prove useful in other ways. 'Demons I understand, humans are insane.' He muttered as he walked away flicking his hand to the side igniting the house with the action.
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Room 112
Memorial Hospital
Dresden Kansas
May 2006
Dean slept uneasily, his dreams filled with old-worldly images, the other Dean and Sam merging with strangers in colonial times. Waking with a start he saw Sam lying quietly watching him.
'Hey Sammy how you doing?'
'Okay.' Sam rasped, 'throat ... hurts.'
'Want some ice chips to suck?' Dean asked scooping some of the ice onto a spoon for Sam and feeding it to him, a small smile formed as the action took him back nearly twenty years, 'ya know I used to feed you all of the time when you were a baby.'
'Yeah?' Sam sighed thankful for the cooling effects of the ice, 'thanks ... Dean.'
'How you doing Sammy?' Dean asked his smile fading as he took in the haggard look on his younger brother.
'Tired, where's?'
'Where's who?'
'Ah ... nothing.' Sam shook his head and let his head fall back on the pillows, 'thanks Dean.'
'What for?'
'Being here.' Sam yawned and settled back down in his bed, 'Dean?'
'Yeah dude?'
'You'll be here if I fall asleep?'
'Totally.'
'Dean?'
'Sammy?'
'What are we going to about Augustine?'
'Whatcha talking about?'
'Gotta ... go ... back.' Sam felt himself slipping away from Dean again, his eyes snapped open wide and filled with fear, 'no ... no ... Dean?'
'I'm right here Sammy.'
'They're pulling me back!'
'Who Sam, who's pulling you back where?'
'Why Dean? Why are they doing this to me again?'
''Who Sammy?' Dean inched forward on his seat, concern for Sam's physical and mental wellbeing filling him with dread.
'Augustine and Samuel they are together again.' Sam whispered he could feel himself fading away, 'why me?'
'I don't know but ... hey listen to me Sam ... they are not going to get to you I promise.'
'Dean? I don't want to relive it again, I can't.'
'You won't I promise we're going to find out what is going on, we're going to get to the bottom of this I promise.'
'Hey Dean?'
'Yeah Sammy?'
'I'm gonna give you more grey hairs.' Sam tried to chuckle but winced with the effort he could feel his strength waning again, 'so tired Dean, I'm just so tired.'
'Don't let him fall asleep Dean.' Jonas said stepping out of the bathroom as though he had been there all along but this time he brought someone else with him.
'What the fuck? What the freaking hell are the two of you doing here?' Dean demanded moving to stand in front of Sam, effectively blocking their view of him; he could feel Sam's hand gasping at his arm.
'Dean ... please we're not here to harm him we're here to help.'
'How?'
'We think that we have worked out a way to stop Augustine for good.' Jonas said.
'Dean ... help me.' Sam cried out his fingers digging into Dean's forearm, 'please.' Dean turned to see the horrified expression return to Sam's face as his eyes closed, his body trembled as the horrors once again assailed him.
Dean turned with furious eyes to stare at the new arrivals, 'You want to help? You want to help then help Sam, bring him back before they rape and abuse him again. You bring him back to me before they kill him.'
