Chapter 36

In front of the Sunrise complex, the trio is spying, hidden behind bushes across the street. Kids are playing hopscotch on the side walk.

"Pretty smart... A whole building full of human shields..." Dean says, taking his binoculars out of his shoulder bag.

"Told you it would be complicated..." Eli adds.

"What do you think, Dean?... Can't we just enter and check the apartments?" Sans asks.

"Not knowing who is a Demon and who is a human... Nan, bad move... How did you find this building anyway, Eli?"

"I followed them here... I was on the warehouse's roof at the meeting point with Meg and heard a part of their conversation... She was accompanied by a second Demon, a guy. When John hand them the gun, he shot Meg with it... So, they knew quiet directly it was a fake... The Demon guy seems pretty much more powerful than Meg, by the way..."

"Meg is gone, by the way..." Dean ironically says.

"You wasted her?"

"Exorcised her, if the exact term..."

"Demon can possess real people, is that what I have to understand?"

"Yep!..." Dean's checking every window of the building.

"That makes more sense why they brought him in an apartment complex…"

"Yep!..."

"And then..." Sam asks Eli, eager to know the rest of her story.

"Not sure that John could make it out of there; I decided to stay on the roof, where I had the best view on the whole area... I saw him going for his pickup and then leaving again... And the Demon guy smashed your father on the wall a little bit further down the premise... I was practically sure they would take him with them, to have some leverage on you, Guys... I checked for cars in the neighbourhood... There was only one and the EMF proved it was theirs... The only thing I had in my pockets was my phone... I engaged the GPS signal and hide it in it just before they arrive... I vanished in a sewer till they get away."

"Not too bad for a debutante..." Dean grins.

"Dean, come on..." Sam warns him gently.

"I went to the pickup and understood why John left it there... The four tires were slashed... So, I called a tow truck..."

"Why bothering?... Why wasting your time?..." Dean says.

"I needed the guns and the material, Idjit... You really think that I could arrive here naked as a new born?... You know how many of those creatures are surrounding this area?... And why did you think I ditched my phone in their car, huh?... Damned!" She suddenly burst, tired of Dean's constant disagreeable remarks.

"All right!... All right!... You both, take a deep breathe now..." Sam tries to calm them down. "You followed them with the GPS signal, Eli?..." He smiles at her.

"Yeah... I had a 50 miles radius, so I knew I had at least 45 minutes in front of me... And while waiting the tow truck, I already had an idea where they were heading, following them on my laptop... And that brought me here..." Eli continues with some sadness in her tone.

"Why didn't you call us with one of Dad's phones?"

"Because there were none to find, Dean..."

"He must have hidden them somewhere... To be sure no one could trace him or anyone if it went south..." Sam concludes.

"So, we have an unknown numbers of Demons in a building full of humans... Demons that can possess anybody inside... Make anybody attack us when needed... And we can't kill them since they are innocent people..." Dean thinks out loud.

"Not to forget that they probably know what we look like too..." Sam adds.

"They don't know me!" Eli says.

"Too risky… You could be possessed too... Seems that they have that sort of easiness to do so... As what YOUR father could tell us about the subject, Becky!" Dean's continuing in the same attitude against her.

"Oh!... How is he?" She shyly asks.

"Fine... It came as a chock to him knowing you were swinging around with us... He was looking for you and kinda worried too, you know... What in heaven did the guy do to you for vanishing like that?"

"Dude, we can maybe talk about this a bit later... Our main problem for now is how the hell are we gonna get in this building saving Dad?" Sam says. Dean goes a little bit further away to check the back entrance.

"What's with him?... He's on my back like I killed is beloved cat in another life of something." Eli burst out.

"Believe it or not... He was really worried for you... And behind this a-hole attitude of his, he likes you..."

"Yeah! Right..." She grins.

"Pull the fire alarm… Get out all the civilians..." Dean comes back near them.

"Okay, but then the City responds is what? Seven minutes?" Sam asks.

"Seven minutes exactly..." Dean punctuates.

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Sam goes in the hallway of the building, looking that nobody is around. He hears a door slamming and holds his movement towards the fire alarm. He is pretending going up the stairs till the person leaves the place. He then comes back and quickly pulls the trigger, a bell instantly starts to ring.

People are quietly leaving the building, Firemen already deploying their equipment.

"Hey, what? What's happening? Is it a fire?" Eli asks to one of the fire-fighters.

"We're figuring that out now, Miss... Just stay back, please." He nicely answers.

"Well, I got my little dog upstairs... I was just going for some groceries... I need to get him down..." She continues playing a panicking woman.

"Miss please, you have to stay back..." This time he takes her gently by the arm and accompanies her behind the security perimeter they delineate, giving the opportunity for Sam and Dean to approach the fire truck and open the door where they have their spare suits.

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A couple, in one of the apartments, is calmly sitting around a table. Hearing the fire alarm, the man is going for the bedroom where tied on the bed, John is laying unconscious. In a distance, the fire engine siren resounds already.