Summary: The adventure of Minis continue as the Winchester brothers, Lilly, and little Lizzy fight against their confusion and terror in the wake of finding themselves thrown together. They've now spent a night together, what will a new day bring?
And what are the Gods, Angel and Bobby going to do?
96.
"Give em' back, Sammy." Dean stirs from slumber when the blankets are tugged off of him, blindly reaching to pull it back over him. However when his tug is met by a warning growl he pauses, his eyes finally opening as he turns to look at his brother only to find, he eyes the tuft of black hair sticking out of the bundle of blankets. What the- He sits up in confusion before he remembers Lilly... Lizzy... The monsters, and now his brother was missing, again.
His eyes narrow in confusion as he bolts up. Fuck. When had he fallen asleep. He shakes his head as he scrambles out of bed. Fear grips his chest like claws when he can't find Sammy or Lizzy.
He was horrified! How had he not woken up? He always woke when Sammy did, usually to just bark orders at him before he turned back over, but he still noticed.
It doesn't take him long to realize the two were in the room. He races through the door, banging off the hallway wall in his haste to find his three missing charges.
"Dean?" He hears the female creature callout. "They're upstairs."
Dean rushes up the staircase. "Sammy? Lizzy? Answer me right now!"
"Yes, Dean?" He hears Sammy call back obediently, and can't help his sigh of relief as he continues up the stairs, awkwardly taking them two by two.
Dean rushes into the room with the pressed flowers cascading down it, only to stop short when he finds Sammy standing above Lizzy, who looked like she was trying to not cry. "What's wrong? What happened?" He demands, looking between the two in confusion.
"I dunno, she says this room is hers, but not hers." Sammy responds with a frown, as he looks up to his brother with desperation in his eyes. "And now she's really upset, again."
"Everything's different. That's not my bed, but that's my toy box." Lizzy hiccups as she points at the furniture in the room, her small lips quivering in confusion as tears run down her cheeks.
Dean frowns before he walking over to Lizzy. He kneels down and puts his hand on her shoulder to draw her attention. "Lizzy, I'm sorry. This has to be weird, like it sucks with everything being different huh?"
Lizzy nods and wipes her arm across her face, "Uh huh." She sniffs as she watches Dean, "I don't like it. It's all not right."
"Look the grown ups have kinda explained what's going on, and I promise it will make sense eventually." Dean sighs as he wipes her tears away. This girl cried a lot, not that he blamed her, he wanted to cry too, but still- The tears seemed endless. He was never going to complain to Sammy about his crying again. This was so much worse. Maybe it was because she was a girl? But the other girl wasn't crying. She was just making him want to cry.
"Are we curseded?" Lizzy asks tearfully, remembering her dream from last night.
"Cursed? Who told you we were cursed?" Dean's eyes narrow slightly, curious if the girl had eavesdropped or something the night prior.
"Is my Momma and Daddy in heaven?" Lizzy whimpers as she covers her eyes with both hands, her too bright eyes barely peeking out from behind her splayed fingers.
"Yeah. They are, I'm sorry Lizzy." Dean admits, not wanting to lie.
Lizzy sobs before she wraps her arms around his neck. "I want them here though."
"It's okay Lizzy, we'll figure this out." Dean says wrapping his arms around her. He didn't know why the adults wanted to keep this from them. It seemed more confusing than the truth.
"Dean what's going on?" Sammy asks in confusion as he sits next to them, rubbing Lizzy's arm.
"Come on, let's get back in the room with Lilly, I don't like us being split up." Dean shakes his head as he stands with the girl in his arms.
"Can I's bring the crayons and colowing books?" Lizzy questions with a sniff as her arms tighten around his neck.
"Of course. Sammy do you mind getting her stuff?" Dean asks his brother gently, instead of answering him.
"Uh huh." Sammy nods as gathers interesting stuff to play with from the knocked over toy box.
Dean leads them back to the game room where Lilly was, thankfully, still sleeping. He puts Lizzy down on the floor, trusting that Sammy would be able to keep her distracted, before he sits at the empty table to keep an eye on the entire room.
97
"You bit me!" Dean shouts drawing his arm back. "What the hell?"
"Give me back my awmuwet!" Lilly growls as she tackles the older, and much bigger, boy.
"Oh noes." Sammy frowns as he looks over at Dean and Lilly and scrambles to his feet. "Lilly, you gotta stop hitting my brother, he's not gonna hit you back." He explains as he runs over to them.
"Fuck off!" Lilly snaps as she reaches up and tries to get the large golden medallion back. She was frustrated that he'd gotten it from her in the first place. She had just wanted to go be somewhere quiet to read. It wasn't her fault Dean was such a big mean adult wannabe.
"Lilly, you'rs not ah'pos to say adult words." Lizzy says, peeking out from behind her splayed out hands.
"No Lilly, you keep trying to leave. You want this back, you have ta stay with me. It's for your own good." Dean says, backing away from the tiny girl's assault.
"I's don' havva do wha' you say!" Lilly yells in his face.
"Yes you do!" Dean yells back, upset that she was questioning him.
"What is going on in here?" Maat demands hands on her hips, trying to hide her amusement.
"Ut ohs, we's in trouble." Lizzy says, backing slowly away from the pretty lady.
"He took my awmuwet!" Lilly lets out a high pitched growl, as she stomps her foot and points her finger at Dean accusingly.
"I need you to use your words Samara Lilly."
Lilly pouts, before she takes a deep breath shoving her hands in her pockets as she explains her side of the events haughtily weaving latin and egyptian as she points at Dean, working herself into a fluster as her face grew flush, forgetting to breath in her rant.
Maat hides a small smile behind her hand. "Samara Lilly Ahmes. Calm down." She instructs firmly, before she turns to Dean, "Dean, give me her amulet." She says as she holds out her hand to Dean, before she realized the other three were completely transfixed on Lilly, who was currently busy sulking in her hoodie and glowering at Dean from beneath her hood.
"Wat was that?" Lizzy blinks as her head tilts in confusion.
"Yeah, what was that?" Dean repeats, glaring at Lilly. He didn't need to understand the language to know she'd just insulted him. The tone was enough.
"Wat?" Lilly asks still glaring at Dean, her eyes narrowed.
"Dean the amulet." Maat repeats.
"No, she won't listen to me. I need this. I'll give it back when we're normal again."
"Dean, as amusing as that would be for Thoth, and I assure you only Thoth, I don't think that's a good idea." Maat says still holding out her hand expectantly.
"Well-" Dean shrugs as he puts the amulet in his pocket defiantly. "I do."
Maat quirks her brow and stays quiet for a moment, before she lets out a sigh of resignation. "Alright… If that's what you wish." She shakes her head. "Just know all actions have consequences. But, you're right, she's your consort. Please try not to abuse it." She walks away.
"No I's not!" Lilly yells after her stomping her foot, newly enraged at her gods words.
"Abuse what? It's just a stupid necklace." Dean says, shaking his head as well.
"It's not stuwpid. Give it back Dean." Lilly growls holding out her hand.
"What's a con sort?" Lizzy asks Sammy, who just shrugs.
"Nothin'. Fuck it. I don't even cawe." Lilly shrugs walking over to the couch and climbing onto it, opening her book to where she had left off petulantly.
Dean tosses the necklace on the table in front of him. He was frustrated with the girl. Obviously this wasn't going to work with her like it always did when he needed Sammy to listen to him. He was starting to think Bobby and the monsters were actually just fucking nuts. Why would he like like that girl?
Lilly eyes the amulet, from over her book, doing her best to act like she didn't care. Even though the need to go get it back was nearly overwhelming. She'd played this game before, she just had to wait.
Lizzy walk over to the table, looking at the shiny necklace. "Why did you take it Dean?" She asks.
"Cause I thought she was normal." Dean huffs, falling into the chair next to the table.
"Nope." Lilly remarks flipping the page in her book.
Lizzy tilts her head to the side. "It's prwety."
Lilly looks over her book, her eyes glued to Lizzy as she shifts uncomfortably in her seat. Her fingers tap out a nervous rhythm on the arm of the couch.
"Ooh it's so shiny! I bet the nice dragon would love it." Sammy joins Lizzy near his brother.
"Uh huh. He's out in the garden acuz the angel moved him." Lizzy says excitedly. "Dean, can we plays too?"
"No! You'll get it diwty! Give it back." Lilly pushes off the couch rushing over to Dean to reclaim it.
Both Lizzy and Sammy scream in terror as they take off running, in the confusion Lilly takes off after them.
"Guys! Stay together." Dean shouts as he grabs the stupid necklace and hauls himself out of the chair to chase after them.
"Gods dammit!" Lilly snaps as she begins chasing them. "Don' get it diwty!" She cries out.
"Hows he gonna get it dirty? We's inside." Lizzy asks as they stare down around the coffee table in another room. "We's no even have it."
"Give... it... back!" Lilly growls through a wheeze, her chest heaving from running, as she slams her hands on the table, feeling dizzy.
"Lilly! Sit down!" Dean orders. She was doing that weird breathing again and he didn't like it.
Lilly blinks, surprised to find herself sitting as she continues to breath heavily.
Sammy and Lizzy look at each other before they turn to look at a surprised Dean.
"Are we playing Simon says?" Lizzy asks with a giggle as she sits.
"Ooh! I wanna play." Sammy says happily as he joins the girls on the floor.
Dean watches Lilly, still concerned about the way she was breathing, but glad that she had finally listened to him.
Lilly's fingers twist in her blanket as she tries to stand up, but finds herself firmly planted on the floor.
"Are you okay Lilly?" Dean walks over to her. "You're breathing all funny again."
"I's stuck." Lilly frowns as she looks at him.
Dean tilts his head to the side. "Did ya sit in gum or somthin'?"
"Ew." Lilly's eyes widen as she frantically tries to stand.
"Well get up and let me check. Stop freaking out." Dean shakes his head. What was wrong with this chick?
Lilly immediately stands up, her breathes coming easier as she moves away from the spot she'd been stuck too.
Sammy and Lizzy both stand at the same time Lilly does, both giggling at the new game.
Dean looks around where she had been sitting. "There's no gum. You okay now?"
"Uh huh." Lilly nods as she forces a small smile on her lips. She was confused, and felt like crying, but she couldn't, and it just made her want to cry more. She pulls her hood up embarrassed before her fingers twist in her blanket again.
"Good." Dean sighs and looks around the room he'd chased the little ones into. "This place is weird. Why do you have another room to sit in with no TV?"
Lilly shrugs. "It's got books in it."
"All the rooms have books in them." Dean points out. "Let's get back in the other room."
Lilly turns as she heads back to the game room.
Lizzy and Sammy both frown.
"I thought we were playing Simon says?" Lizzy pouts.
"Simon says get yer asses back in the game room." Dean snaps.
"I'm hungry." Lizzy announces suddenly with a grin.
Dean turns and focuses on Lizzy, a small smile creeping on his face, at the less ornery child. "Come on, let's go get food then."
Sammy takes Lizzy by the hand as he pulls her from the room.
"Come on Lilly." Dean calls back over his shoulder. "We're gonna go eat."
Lilly turns mid step and follows behind Dean with a small, confused frown.
Dean just shakes his head and holds out a hand for Lilly. "You really okay?"
"No." Lilly frowns. "I don't like this game." She shifts nervously, eyes dropping as her fingers twist tighter around the blanket.
Dean frowns. "What game?"
"I's not sure, I's neva plays it befows, it feels funny." Lilly mumbles as she moves to follow behind the other two, confused.
They enter to find Lizzy standing behind Sammy with her head laid against his back and Maat flitting about, setting the table for a meal.
"All right you four, come over here to wash your hands." Maat says, pulling a step stool out from under the sink.
Each of the kids line up to wash their hands, getting help from Dean before he finally washes his own. He gets them over to the table and settled before looking back at Maat suspiciously.
"What did I do?" Maat asks with a quirked brow, "I haven't even gotten involved with your pack politics. I just made pancakes."
"I can make food for them." Dean says with a frown.
"I'm sure you can, but you're not taking this away from me." Maat responds haughtily with one hand on her hip.
"I like pancakes Dean." Sammy says with big eyes. "Do you Lizzy… Lilly?"
Lizzy nods her head, but stays unusually quiet.
Lilly looks over at the other girl confused by her lack of response, but nods anyways.
"Fine." Dean says, flinging himself into the chair.
Maat's eyes linger on Lizzy for a moment before she smiles. She passes out plates filled with pancakes and bottles of syrup. "Eat up! Anyone want eggs or bacon?"
At the food Lilly's concern suddenly dissipates, as she pulls the plate towards her before pushing up her too large sleeves and begins scarfing down the pancakes, in the fashion she had done their other meals. Not looking up or talking, one arm protectively wrapped around her plate.
"Geeze Lilly. Slow down or yer gonna choke." Dean shakes his head. She'd done the same thing last night, but none of the monsters or Bobby had said anything.
Lilly immediately slows her eating, as she turns to Dean, her golden eyes flashing at him from behind her hood as she growls at him in indignation.
Sammy also digs into his food dousing it with an unnecessary amount of syrup, before he starts chowing down on the food. "Can I have bacon?" He asks in between large bites of food.
"Absolutely!" Maat smiles. She wasn't sure what to do about Dean's mistrust. Apparently not even Bobby had been able to convince him that they meant him and the rest of his family no harm. Lilly had already expressed her dislike of Dean bossing her around, but now he had the amulet, and neither of them understood what was happening. And then there was Lizzy; she was worried about how the girl had found out about her parents, and why she thought all the adults were liars. Sammy was the only one that seemed to be well adjusted; he was just happy to just be near other children.
"Anyone else?" Maat asks as she walks away from the table, figuring they'd be more likely to eat if she wasn't watching them.
Lizzy pulls her plate to her, but her eyes never leave Dean.
Dean sighs as the glance before he pulls the plate closer to him and starts eating the pancakes slowly.
Lilly scoots her chair away from Dean before she returns to eating at the subdued pace, as she goes back to protecting her plate.
"No one is taking your food Lilly. They have their own, and I have more." Maat assures her with a sigh.
Dean backs away from Lilly to give her more space before he takes another bite.
After Dean takes a few more bites Lizzy pours syrup on her pancakes and starts tearing them into little pieces with her fork.
"Lizzy, stop playing with your food and eat it." Dean says sternly.
"I has to get them all covered." Lizzy replies petulantly as she stirs the tiny pieces in the lake of syrup on her plate.
"Stop bossin' people ah'wons." Lilly growls at Dean nastily.
Dean glares at her before he takes another bite.
Sammy smiles as he shoves another bite into his mouth, "They's good Lizzy, eat 'em."
Lizzy looks up to Maat, watching her suspiciously. With a frown she turns to Sammy, leaning closer so she could whisper in his ear, "Where's Uncle Bobby?"
Sammy looks at her with his head tilted to the side, "I don't know." He frowns as he looks to Maat. "Mrs. Lady. Where is Uncle Bobby."
Maat smiles as she places a plate of bacon on the table. "Bobby is working a case right now with Castiel and Thoth. Is there something you need Lizzy?"
Lizzy blushes and begins moving her food around on her plate, keeping her eyes down.
Lilly looks up from her cleared plate, adding more pancakes to it, along with the bacon, before pulling her plate back to her.
Sammy also quickly snags several strips of bacon and more pancakes with a grin at the lady. "Thanks."
Maat's eyes move from Lizzy to Lilly, concerned at the amount of food on her plate. "You're welcome Sam" She says softly before she returns to the stove to make more pancakes, keeping an eye on Lilly. Surely she'd stop if she was full, right?
Dean finishes his plate and watches the younger kids, waiting for them to get more before he does. Suddenly several more pancakes are dumped on his plate by their 'babysitter'.
"Would you like bacon Dean?" Maat asks even as she piles a few pieces on his plate, not waiting for an answer. "What about you Sam?" She grins at the boy when he holds his plate out to her. She gives him a few pieces as well. "Lizzy, would you like some too?" She asks dropping the last two pieces of bacon on her plate.
"Ew. I's no eat that." Lizzy says quietly, her face scrunched up as she pushes her plate away.
Lilly looks up and grabs the bacon off her plate. "There?" She says adding it to her plate as well pushing the plate back to the girl before she turns back to her own food.
"Lizzy, eat." Dean says, taking a bit of his own short stack.
"I's did eat." Lizzy responds with a frown, pushing her plate towards Sammy before she lays her head down on the table. Her tummy hurt. "But I filled now."
Lilly stares at the other girl in complete confusion. The other girl's words individually making sense just not in that order. "If there's food you shoulds eat it." She tells her concerned.
Lizzy looks over at the other girl before she shakes her head. "I's no hungry anymore. You want it?"
Lilly opens her mouth to say yes, before she thinks better of it and shakes her own head. "Yous need it."
"I no want it." Lizzy pouts.
Again Lilly stares blankly at the other girl, for a long moment her face shifting with indecision, before she shrugs and goes back to her own plate.
"That's ok, Lizzy, you don't have to finish if you aren't hungry." Maat tells her sweetly before she asks, "Can you go wash your hands for me?"
Dean quickly stands up to go help her wash her hands, wanting to talk to her. "Lizzy, you have to eat." He whispers, keeping her steady on the stepstool.
"I did. I eats lotsa bites." Mae says with a little stomp.
Dean frowns as his eyes sweep over her. "All right. But you tell me if you get hungry, promise?" He sighs, as he dries her hands off.
"Lilly? Are you still hungry?" Maat asks, watching as Lizzy gets back in her chair next to Sammy before she puts her head back down on the table.
Dean slides back into his own chair as he continues to eat.
Lilly finishes swallowing her food in her mouth, refusing to look up as she ponders her goddess' question. She shrugs as she shovels another bite in her mouth.
"Lilly… Are you still hungry?" Maat asks again.
Lilly looks down at her plate with a frown. "No… But I wanna eat it."
"But if you're not hungry then you should stop. Come on, let's get those hands clean." Maat says, walking over to take her hand.
"But it's here." Lilly frowns, not willing to leave the food that was readily available.
"You will get to eat when you're hungry Lilly. You just have to let me know. Lunch will be ready around one. If you're hungry before I tell you it's lunch time, let me know and I'll give you a snack, ok?" Maat keeps her hand out for the tiny girl to grab.
Lilly kicks her feet hesitantly, not wanting to get away from the table.
"If you keep eating when you're not hungry, you'll get sick. And then that will be a waste of food." Maat continues to explain after a few moments of reading Lilly's indecisive mind.
"You's can gets sick from fat?" Lilly asks as she looks up at Maat in confusion.
"Yes you can." Maat frowns. "You can hurt your tummy over filling it."
"Oh." Lilly sighs as she looks at her mostly empty plate before she takes the goddesses hand, not happy about leaving food on her plate.
"Let's get your hands washed so you and Lizzy can go play, how does that sound?" Maat asks as she helps Lilly up to the step stool, washing the girl's hands and her own.
Lilly looks down the whole time, growing increasingly uncomfortable with the new situation she had found herself in as she automatically mumbles "Good."
"You don't have to play if you don't want to Lilly. Are you feeling ok?" Maat frowns as she puts her dried off hand to the girl's little forehead.
Lilly nods her head.
"You sure?" Maat whispers as she hugs her.
Lilly just nods again.
"Ok, but you'll tell me when you get hungry, or if you don't feel good?"
Lilly nods again.
"That's my good little priestess. Would you like to help me make lunch later?"
Lilly nods again.
Maat lets her down, smiling as Dean walks over with Sam to wash his hands.
"We're done too." Dean quickly and efficiently washes his and his brother's hands, drying them when done.
"Okay you four can go play if you want, I'll come get you for lunch. Please let me know if any of you need anything okay?" Maat says with a smile, after she had taken several steps away from the brothers, leaving Lilly to stand by them.
"Come on Lizzy, time to play again." Sammy grins excitedly as he rushes over to the table again.
Lizzy hops down from her seat, smiling as Sammy pull her from the room.
"Come on you." Dean says, taking Lilly by the hand. "Are you feeling better?"
"Yes." Lilly nods her head and follows him to the game room.
98
"So we're all cursed?" Sammy asks in confusion.
"That's what the adults told me." Dean frowns and nods.
"The angel too." Lizzy adds.
"Figaw's." Lilly sighs darkly. Sad to realize that a curse was making her happy.
"Luc fur telled me we's all grown ups, but somefing cursed us to be little. I no likes it. But all the stuffs here is wrong. He says my family is all passed way." Lizzy looks down at the ground, "I wants Unca Bobby."
Lilly looks over at the other girl, frowning. Should she have told her sooner? She always hated when the new kids came. Especially when they were like the girl in front of her, it was obvious that she had no idea what death was, and she was sad she didn't know how to help her.
Dean's quiet for a moment, his brows drawing in concern. "The adults said Lucifer was after you Lizzy. When were you talking to him?" Dean asks, his tone and posture protective of the small girl.
"Uhh." Lizzy grabs a pillow to hide behind. "I nos wants to be in trouble."
"Lizzy you're not in trouble, you just might get hurt or worse." Dean explains as he places a hand on her shoulder.
Lizzy lets out a little sigh, her eyes just visible over the pillow, "I tries not to talk to him, but he, he is sad. And he's worried about me. He saids we're vuln-ah-bull, ah-cause we're stuck like this. He told me lots of things."
"The adults said that too, but we're vulnerable to them, the angels Lizzy, we all have to be careful and stick together here. All of us, no secrets, gottit?" Dean says looking to the other three children
All three of them nod somberly.
"Okay, so who knows what?" Dean asks.
"Luc fur says we's all together as grown ups." Lizzy nods. "Like Lilly's my sister, and Dean's my brother and Sammy's and I are… are…" She looks away, blushing.
"Maat and Fof told me we's a famwry." Lilly adds backing up Lizzy's claim after a moments hesitation, shifting her feet uncomfortably. Her eyes fall on the amulet around Dean's neck. "And fat's a cuwsed amuwet." She sighs as she points to her amulet.
"I don't know nothing, that's not fair." Sammy says, folding his arms over his chest. "And what are we Lizzy, I wanna know."
"We's like my mommy and daddy, an' so are Dean and Lilly." Lizzy says, finally finding the words to describe what the angel had told her.
Lilly looks around the group before she puts her hood up, stepping closer to Lizzy hesitantly and further away from Dean. She shoves her hands in her pockets, playing with her blanket.
"But girls are just fun to be friends with." Sammy scrunches his face as he looks up to Dean.
"That part doesn't matter right now. We're family, and we're staying together. What's the last thing everyone remembers before we woke up in the hotel?"
Lizzy starts when Dean looks at her first. "I 'member I was excited because Mommy was talking to me about my fairy garden birthday party. Mommy read me a bunch of bedtime stories, cause I keeps asking her too. I want to stay up so when Daddy gets home I could get kisses goodnight. But I had to sleep because I goes to school. But I was awake when they came back in and kisses me. Then I wakes up next to Sammy."
"I remember you reading me a story, and playing with my toys while you were cooking us dinner. We ate, and watched Scooby Doo and then we went to bed, and woke up to Lizzy crying." Sammy grinning at his brother, happy he had something to add this time.
"I was at the Hen'diksin's, it was my second day, and he was...Not vewy nice afta' wowk so I's was hidin' wif the ofers unda fe bed, an's fen I woke up next to Dean." Lilly mumbles, her speech worse with her discomfort, obviously uncomfortable with saying more after what the other two had shared. Her tiny body shivering as she remembered how angry the man had got after work the first night. Her fingers twist tighter in her blanket as she looks down at the floor.
Dean puts his arm around Lilly, pulling her closer to him. Remembering nights that his dad drank. He never hit them, but he cried alot. "It's ok Lilly. I won't let anyone scare you like that anymore." He rubs her tiny shoulder.
"I's o'tay, he wasn' the worwse.." Lilly mumbles still not looking up.
"I remember staying up after you fell asleep Sammy. But all I did was watch more cartoons and then the Legend of Zorro. I fell asleep after that, and woke up to you in the shower." He says to the girl, giving her shoulder a squeeze."Okay, so anyone besides Lizzy havin' dreams with the angels? I know I haven't been." Dean asks.
Sammy shakes his head. "Me either."
Lilly untangles one of her hands from her blanket and slowly raises her hand.
"So, just the girls. Did you sleep on the pillows?" Dean asks.
Lilly nods her head.
"Uh huh. And I couldn't not talks to him, he was sad an' worries. And he picked me up and held me," Lizzy frowns as she crosses her arms in front of her. "Like that, and I couldn'ts get down.
"Wait, he talked to you last night with the pillow?" Dean asks concerned.
"Uh huh, he was sad that I was going to get in troubles. But he was nice. He brought me to see my Mommy, shes gots to meet the nice dragon." Lizzy smiles.
Lilly nods, in affirmation.
"Maybe we shouldn't sleep with the pillows." Dean mutters, still trying to work everything out. It was incredibly frustrating to believe he was actually an adult, but only have memories of being a kid. He felt lost, and like he was letting his family down. He looks over at Sammy, feeling bad that he was lying to him about their dad.
"But Fof made em'." Lilly says with a frown.
"Yeah, I know. But they didn't work for you last night, right?"
Lilly hesitantly shakes her head.
"So, maybe we should try without them, just incase." Dean tries to reason. "I don't think we can entirely trust the grown ups. I mean, we can trust Uncle Bobby, but I was told to never trust a supernatural being."
"I's a pweistess in twainin' an' has Ahmes.." Lilly pouts. "Kinda." She sighs. "I's twust my gods." She stomps defensively as she pulls away from Dean. She wished Viola was here, these kids were trouble.
"Yeah, a human priestess and only kind of." Dean responds quickly, taking ahold of her hand. "I'm just sayin' that we should be very careful. I don't know who's tryin to hurt us. But it sounds like someone is. So, we stay together."
Sammy takes Dean's free hand, and grabs Lizzy's hand. "Dean's a superhero, we'll be ok."
Lizzy smiles at the group, feeling happier and less scared with friends, no matter how strange the were.
Lilly felt torn as she stared at her hand in Dean's. Part of her was happy to feel included, the other part was lost without Ahmes and Viola's guidance. She felt empty and confused. Everyone kept telling her the three other kids were her family, but she didn't know or trust them. Then there were her gods, who kept pushing her off on these kids, even though they said she was theirs. It was overwhelming, and confusing, and she just wanted to go hide somewhere in the house and read until she was able to sort things out. She missed Viola, maybe when the other three were playing she could look for her.
Dean smiles at the three of them. "Okay, so, anything else?"
The three little ones shake their heads.
"Good. We'll figure this out guys." Dean looks down at the ground, wishing he knew where to start.
Sammy and Lizzy hug Dean as Lilly steps to the side and watches the three of them with a frown.
99.
Dean closes his eyes and starts counting to sixty. He didn't like the idea of playing hide and seek with the group, but one look from Lizzy and Sammy's excited eyes after Lilly suggested the game made it impossible to say no. He smiles when he hears the three of them take off running.
Lilly ran as quickly as she could with a book pressed to her chest, happy for any opportunity for solitude. She figured if she couldn't find Viola to talk to she could at least try to sort things out.
She races up the stairs, halting at a black door with a single golden lily embedded into it and smiles. If Viola would pick anywhere to hide, it would be a room with a black door. She takes a deep breath before she opens the door, sneezing at the pungent aroma of incense mixed with lemons. She smiles at the dark room, admiring the guitars on the wall before her eyes land on the bookshelf taking up an entire wall. She jumps up and down in excitement before she remembers that she was playing a game and clicks the door shut behind her. She places the book down next to the door and walks into the closet, softly calling out for her friend. She pouts when there isn't a response before she exits and looks around in confusion. Was she really gone? She frowns as she crawls under the bed to check there as well. A frown forms on her lips when she doesn't find her there either. She sighs as she checks several more of the shadowed areas before she gives up and retrieves her book before she settles under the bed and begins to read in the dark, hoping that maybe if Viola came she would find her there. She really missed her friend. It was too quiet without Ahmes.
Sammy giggles quietly as Lizzy leads him by the hand to one of her favorite hiding spots. The closet under the stairs, where she said her grandparents had a reading nook for her.
"What happened to my books?" She asks tearfully when they open to door to find three large shelves full of cleaning products in a ''U' shape.
"Don't cry Lizzy." Sammy looks around trying to find a way to comfort her and notices that it was dark behind one of the shelves. "What's that?" He asks, kneeling down to look under the shelves.
"Sixty, ready or not, here I come!" Dean shouts as he starts looking around the room first.
Sammy moves a bottle to the side, showing Lizzy a hole she could crawl through. He shuts the door behind them and follows her, putting the bottle back in place.
"My books and pillows are still here." Lizzy whispers with a smile as she rips the plastic off the pillows. The small amount of light coming in under the door and through the shelves was just bright enough to see by.
"See, not everything is bad. This is cool. Oh, I likes these books too." Sammy says as he pull a Berenstain Bears book down from the bookshelf. "Oh, It's too dark to read." He frowns.
Lizzy finishes setting the pillows out on the floor and sits next to Sammy, "It's o'tay. We jus' has to be quiet so Dean can't find us. We cans read when he does."
100.
Dean groans, frustrated he ever agreed to play the stupid game. He had looked in every open room from top to bottom. Sammy had never been this good at hiding, not even when they were training with dad. He runs back through the first floor, just making sure he hadn't missed anything. He opens every door on one pass, and closes them after another inspection. Finally, he decides to check the second floor of the house.
"Sammy? Lizzy? Lilly? This isn't fun anymore I'm done. Come out!" Dean shouts out into the hall upstairs.
Lilly looks up when she hears Dean shouting, and finds herself again responding to the stupid boy's orders. She sighs as she walks to the door and opens it. "Dean. Yous a bad finda'" She frowns at him, as she shuts the door behind her.
"Lilly? What are you doing upstairs? Everyone knows you stay on the same floor when you play hide and seek. Those are the rules." He rushes over to her, taking her by the hand.
Lilly bristles. So he could sleep with a knife but she couldn't hide upstairs? This house was stupid.
Dean sighs. "It's ok, I'm guessing you didn't know. Why did you hide in there?" He starts moving down the hallway with her.
"It was bwack, an' and dark. I was lookin' for Viola." She frowns looking back at the dark door just wanting to go back and explore more.
"Who's Viola?" Dean asks.
"The monstwer who wivs unda beds, somestimes cwosets, occaswasionally undastairs- but always in the shadohs..." Lilly quotes her friend as she raises her arms above her head, wiggling her fingers like the shadow tentacles Viola could make.
Dean tilts his head to the side. "What?"
"She's my fwend." Lilly sighs as she drops her arms back to her sides and shifts in discomfort.
Was everyone in this stupid house friends with monster? How was this girl still alive? His dad had taught him to shoot a gun, now he protected Sammy from the monsters. This girl was friends with them. And gods, apparently. "You're so weird." He rolls his eyes.
"An yous a dick." Lilly shrugs.
Dean's jaw drops. "No I ain't. Take it back."
Lilly closes her eyes in frustration as she screws her mouth shut and cups her hands over her mouth tightly her eyes narrowed.
Dean raises an eyebrow at her. "What are you doing now?"
Lilly winces in pain releasing her mouth. "Yous no dick." She cries out in frustration.
Dean sighs. "Look, I know I'm bossy and all, but I've never had to keep more than just Sammy safe. And there's all kinds of scary things going on and I just…" He grimaces as he looks away, "Look, I'm sorry, okay?"
Lilly looks to him in slight fear and nods as she rubs her temple. What was he doing? It hurt.
"What's wrong?" Dean frowns.
Lilly looks to him suspiciously. "I's no like fis game. Stop." She frowns.
Dean shakes his head. "You're the one that wanted to play hide and seek. I don't like this game either. This house is too big."
Lilly glares. "Not fat game." She frowns.
"What game are you talking about?" Dean asks.
"Simons says." Lilly frowns.
"We're not playing simon says anymore. We weren't ever really playing it. Sammy and Lizzy were just being weird." Dean shakes his head.
"Liar." Lilly glares at him as she crosses her arms over her chest.
Dean rolls his eyes. "Whatever. Help me find the other two."
Lilly let's out a huff of frustration as she looks to the ceiling before she turns to the closest door and opens it and begins looking for the other kids.
"What's going on Dean? Why are you two shouting?" Maat asks walking towards them from the other side of the hallway.
"We's were pwayin' hide n' go seek, an' I bwoke the wules. Now I's has to do his job cause he sucks..." Lilly explains with a frustrated huff as she looks under the bed.
"We're fine lady. I found her, we'll find the other two. It's just a big house." Dean says with a blush of embarrassment.
Maat sighs as she kneels down to be at Dean's level. "Dean. You need to be careful with Lilly's amulet. You're forcing her to do what you tell her to do." She explains to him softly. "Lilly, Dean didn't know he could hurt you. He's just kind of bossy." She says as she turns to Lilly who was searching Lizzy's closet.
"I hurt her?" Dean asks with wide eyes.
"She has to follow the orders given to her by the holder of her amulet Dean, or she gets sick." Maat explains as she looks at Dean.
Dean frowns and looks down at Lilly's amulet. He pulls it from around his neck. "I don't wanna do that. That's stupid. Why does she have to do what people say? Just because they have this?"
"Lilly was cursed when she was born. She has one of my priestesses coexisting with in her. Some really bad people got to her family when they were in Ahmes' tomb. Something went wrong with the ritual, and now she's stuck with Ahmes curse, that amulet makes it so she has to listen to the one who possesses it. Do you understand?" Maat explains softly as she looks at Dean expectantly.
Dean sighs as he looks up at Maat. That sounded horrible. He'd hate to have someone able to tell him what to do all the time and not be able to stop it. And he was doing it to her. His face screws up in disgust as he turns to look over into the room Lilly was in. "I'm sorry Lilly. I didn't know it did that." He turns back to Maat with a frown. "How do I make it stop?"
Maat sighs. "You give it back to her." She explains with a small smile.
Dean nods as he turns to look at Lilly again. "Hey Lilly."
Lilly frowns as she peeks out from inside the chest she had fallen in. "Yes?" She grumbles.
Dean holds the amulet out towards her. "I'm sorry I took your amulet. I shouldn't have. It's yours."
Lilly looks at him suspiciously before she scrambles to pull herself out of the chest. She ends up tumbling out of it, landing on the floor with a blush. She quickly pushes herself up and brushes herself off before walking over to Dean to take the amulet back. She quickly puts it back under her shirt and hoodie securely. "Mine." She frowns at him.
Maat purses her lips at Lilly. "He said he was sorry Lilly. He didn't understand what it did, but when he found out he wanted to give it back. He didn't like making you do things like that."
Lilly turns from Maat to Dean and looks at him with a frown. "Fank you." She grumbles with a blush before she continues looking for Lizzy and Sammy. Dean clearly couldn't entertain himself, and she was done playing.
She hadn't heard anyone the whole time she was hiding under the bed. There was no way Lizzy had gone this long without crying, breaking something, or giggling and with how blissfully quiet the second floor had been there was no way they were up here. She would have heard it. Sammy was a good distraction, but even he got excited.
Maat shakes her head. Well, she had listened."Do you want help finding Sammy and Lizzy?"
Dean stands there torn. Yes, he did want help finding his brother and Lizzy, and he didn't want to let her know he didn't trust her. But he didn't trust her, and he didn't want her touching the little ones. He just wanted them all back in the same room where he could watch them. This game was stupid; this house was stupid.
Maat covers her mouth at the young boys thoughts, finding them as amusing as they were sad. "Lunch is almost ready anyways." She says as she walks back down the stairs, figuring the best place to start looking was the first floor. "We'll all look for them, and then eat."
"That works I guess." Dean agrees hesitantly.
A troubled thought enters Maat's mind as they all call out for Sam and Lizzy. What if they fell asleep somewhere? Without their pillows. This wasn't good.