Chapter 38
Peace in death
How can I feel this way?
When I know its right
To chase your demons away
And it's so hard but it its right
Inside to feel the fire
To keep you far away
[CHORUS:]
Why do I need?
To make it be
Can you help me kill the sounds inside my head?
Why do I burst?
For all that's worst
Can you help me kill the sounds inside my head?
Now that I call you friend
Feelings return and I
Long see you again
And it's so hard but its right
Inside to feel the fight
I want you back again
[CHORUS:]
Why do I need?
To make it be
Can you help me kill the sounds inside my head?
Why do I burst?
For all that's worst
Can you help me kill the sounds inside my head?
Make my way
Flush my soul
Lost inside in deep dark hole
Sink my ship
Drown my pain
Like a phoenix, I will rise again
[CHORUS x2:]
Why do I need?
To make it be
Can you help me kill the sounds inside my head?
Why do I burst?
For all that's worst
Can you help me kill the sounds inside my head?
Can you help me kill the sounds inside my head?
Inside My Head by Fozzy
"Holy Hell." Ellen whispered as she woke up in the morning with after what's been a hell of a night with Jack probably one of her wildest but she's not going to tell anyone that.
She got up from bed and put on one of his shirts, her hair was messy as she went to the bathroom. Jack groaned as he woke up not long after, he sat up a bit groggy and climbed out of bed and went to see the sunrise. It was beautiful and when Ellen stepped out of the bathroom with a smile.
"Your hair is messy." Jack commented
"Really?" Ellen asked as she walked toward him, Jack shrugged as he pulled her close putting his hands on her hips for a kiss. A bright light were hovering above them and engulfed them, but they didn't notice that as their kiss deepened. She felt a pleasant chill sending down her spine. Boom. Boom. It felt like the room was vibrating but in a good way.
However their sweet moment was rudely interrupted by Jack's cellphone ringing from his jacket. Jack groaned as the light faded. Ellen wasn't too happy about it either.
Jack sighed as he went to answer the call.
"You better come down here, son. Major monster activity on the radar, I'll tell you everything back at my house. Bring everyone here." That was Bobby and from the sound of his voice, it can't be good.
"Right, I'm coming with Ellen and Jo. I'll call Grace, meet you here." Jack said as he hung up and glanced at Ellen who recognized the look, they were going to Bobby's.
"Grace, I got just a call from Bobby. He wants everyone to come by. Said that there's major supernatural activity recently." Jack was talking to Grace on the phone.
"I'll be there, my neighbour can babysit Marie."
"Good, see you soon." Jack said as he ended the call. He picked up his duffel bag and went to the mustang where Jo and Ellen were waiting for him
"Did you call Grace?" Ellen asked, she was driving this time.
"Yeah, she's on the way." Jack replied as he climbed into the backseat. Ellen started Mustang and drove to Bobby's.
On the road, jack leaned his head against the car window closing his eyes as he took a nap where he drifted to a dream.
He was in a gas station watching a trucker named Rick filling gas of his at night when an all too familiar person, approached Rick. It was the woman in white dress. Jack was a whisper of wind so he could do nothing about it.
"Whoa." Rick said as he went to get into his truck only to get startled when he was the woman in white dress standing in front of him
"I'm sorry. Did I scare you?" she asked, he glanced at her bare feet.
"You okay? You look a little…"
"Well, I could use a ride." She interrupted,
He looked around before giving in
"Okay." They climbed in to the truck; Rick was at the steering wheel while the Woman in the white dress climbed into the passenger's seat. Jack got closer to see what's happening.
"So, what's your name, sweetheart?" He asked
"Eve." She replied, Eve as in mother of all Eve?
"Eve. I'm Rick. So, how far you going, Eve?"
"However far you want." She leaned over and kissed Rick but he pulled away from her
"Whoa, whoa. Eve. Look, you're very pretty, but this is not what's right for you. Trust me."
"Then what's right for me?" He handed Eve a pamphlet that had quote saying Jesus loves you.
"This emptiness you feel inside -it's really a hunger for him."
"You do know that Jesus was just a man.
"Sure, but he was also the son of God, sent here because he loves us."
"God doesn't care about you."
"Sure he does."
"Your father made you and then abandoned you, so you pray. You see signs where there's nothing. But truth is, your apocalypse came and went, and you didn't even notice. A mother would never abandon her children like he did. You'll see." Those words sent a shiver down Jack's spine, a statement like that could only mean trouble.
"See what?"
"Can I tell you a secret?" Rick nodded; Eve leaned over and latched into Rick's ear.
Jack was transported to a bedroom where he saw a woman sleeping when Rick came in with a hammer in his hand approached the woman who woke up when she saw rick and smiled.
"No, no. No, no." Jack shook his head when that smile turned to horror as Rick beat her to death with the hammer.
Jack jolted waking up from the dream with a worry look on his face.
"You're alright, hon?" Ellen asked glancing at the rearview mirror.
"I dreamt of the woman in the white dress again and I know her name now." Jack told them
"What's her name?"
"Eve."
"Oh no." Ellen said, that can't be good at all, the woman in white dress whose been haunting her boyfriend was Eve.
"Eve as in Mother of All Eve?" Jo asked; Jack nodded as a deafening silence filled the Mustang at the rest of the trip.
"I've been getting blasts from hunters all week." Bobby explained as he showed a map on the table in the living room with everyone standing in front of the table. He circled points on the map showing cites that were hit by monster. "Nest of vamps. Werewolf dance party. Shifters, six of them. Two hunters died taking them out. Ghouls, ghouls. Ghoul-wraith smorgasbord."
"Is it just me, or is that a straight kick-line down I-80?" Dean asked
"Exactly." "Seems to me that they're running a some sort of march monster crusade." Jack stated,
"Yeah, but where are they marching to?" Ellen asked; Bobby circled another point on the map.
"What is it?"
"Guy bashes in his family's heads." Bobby replie;, Jack and Ellen exchanged a knowing look.
"It's like I told the cops. I blacked out." Rick said with a guilty look on his face as Sam, Dean and Jack in the interrogation room questioning him. Bobby, Jo, Grace and Ellen were in the back observing.
"Well, just tell us what you do remember." Jack stated,
"Driving my regular route, and then I-I woke up in my truck at work.
"And where's work?" Sam asked,
"Starlight Cannery. I-I didn't remember how I got there...So I called home. When no one picked up. I-I went there, and I found..."
"Anything unusual before you blacked out? Sights, smells, anything off the routine?" Bobby questioned
"No. Basic night. I was giving some kid from the truck stop a ride. She took off. I-I think she took off."
"Anything else?"
"I swear -I didn't mean to do it. I-I loved them." he said while he cried feeling pity for himself.
"So, demon possession or ghosts? I thought this was a monster thing." Dean said as he, Jack and Sam were sitting in front of a computer at a desk in the police station, everyone was viewing the security camera that was recording that night when the trucker picked up Eve.
"All right, here we go." It showed the trucker parking at the gas station. It also showed a attractive woman in white dress approaching the truck.
"Hmm. Hello." Typical. As expected, Dean is always a sucker for pretty faces. But his admiration turned to fright, as the camera got static when Sam paused the camera they saw face of the woman in white dress and it was not a pretty sight.
"Freakish nightmare. What the hell is that?" Dean said
"Jack?" Sam asked sounding alarmed
"It's her." Jack said with glint of fear in his eye "Eve."
"You're sure?"
"Postive. She's the one whose been haunting me. I'll never forget a person like her."
"I've never seen that in my life. All those vamps and ghouls out on I-80 - maybe they're coming in for Mother's Day." Bobby stated
"Um...Okay, well, if that is big mama of all the evil son of bitches…" Dean said as he rose from chair and faced them "we got zero on ganking her. So what are we gonna do if we run into her? Throw salt and hope?"
"No, we're gonna turn tail and run, because we're in over our heads."
"No, we have to play smart on this one. We have to get some info before we do run into her." Jack shook his head,
"Hey, let's go." a police officer said to his colleagues as he walked past them.
"What's the ruckus?" Bobby asked
"A guy just went postal down at the Cannery." He told them which caused a bit of uneasiness around the hunters.
"Okay, I'll go with Ellen and Grace. You finish here." Bobby said to Jack, Dean, Sam and Jo as he Grace and Ellen followed the police officer to Cannery while they continued to look through the video.
"You're all right?" Dean asked,
"Not really. feels like I'm going crazy. Everywhere I go, I see her." Jack replied as he ran his hand over his face. "What is happening to me?"
"I don't know but we will find answers soon. Promise."
"I know. So what now?" Jack wondered
"Breaking to the cannery." Jo replied,
Later that day, they called Bobby to meet up with him, Ellen Grace and Rufus. That's right, Rufus. He was on the same case apparently. Convenient, right?
So, they were waiting for them outside of the cannery as they had arrived and got out of Bobby's rental car.
"I don't even know why you have a driver's licence." Rufus told Bobby as they stepped out of the rent car.
"Hey, if you wanna complain about bad driving, you should see Dean's." Jack said with a grin, Rufus chuckled while Dean gave his death glare to Jack meaning I am not a bad driver.
"It's really good to see you, Rufus." Sam said as he and Rufus shake hands. After that, Jack did the same gesture with Rufus.
"I can believe it. It must get old dealing with this miserable cuss here all by yourself." Rufus replied as he hugged Jo who returned the favour.
"Is it that obvious?" Jo asked as they separated
"Why don't you five get a room?" Bobby retorted,
"Take it easy, pops." Jack chuckled; Bobby frowned for "Pops." "Alright, we all set?"
"Yeah."
"Let's get this show on the road." Jack stated as they headed to the cannery. they searched for any lead as they went further in the cannery. They stepped in to a elevator and went higher in the cannery. they stepped out of the elevator when they heard a sound, not far from them. They pulled out their guns, cocked it and aimed at the intruder as a familiar brunette came through the door. It was Gwen Campbell.
"Gwen?" Dean asked
"Dean." Gwen said and as if that wasn't enough, Samuel appeared in the background, Jack and Dean exchanged a look of fury, Dean informed Jack that Samuel sold them out back at Crowley's and that pissed him off. They burst through the door about to kill him
"Hey, Samuel. Bye Samuel. " Jack stated as they aimed their guns at Samuel but Ellen and Sam prevented Dean and Jack from killing him.
"Hold on, boys." Ellen ordered as she lowered Jack's arm,
"You're serious, Ellen? After he sold us out?" Jack asked in disbelief, normally he would be calm and reasonable but when someone threatens him or his family, everyone is fair game.
"Look, just a second." Sam told them, Jack and Dean reluctantly calmed down.
"I take it you know each other." Rufus said
"He's our grandfather." Dean replied
"Oh. Somebody needs a hug." Rufus said sarcastically,
"Why are you here?" Bobby asked,
"We're working. You?" Samuel said
"None of your damn business!" Dean snapped
"Sam, take Dean for a walk. Ellen, take Jack for a walk too." Bobby
"You got to be kidding me."
"What?!" Jack exclaimed
"Come on." Ellen said as she took his arm and walked him out of the room.
"Listen, hon. I know that you're pissed as hell at Samuel and believe me, I am too. But you can't kill him just yet. Just let hear him out."
Jack sighed in frustration knowing that he's got no choice. "Fine, but if he's trying to stab us in the back again, all bets are off."
"Fair enough." Ellen nodded in agreement as they re-entered the room while Sam walked Dean out of their
"Well, looks like somebody's got you whipped." Samuel commented,
"You're about this close of getting a bullet in your skull." Jack warned; it took all of his willpower to control his temper. Samuel was getting on his last nerves.
"So...you're Samuel." Bobby said
"You must be the guy pretending to be their father." Samuel stated as Sam re-entered the room
"Well, somebody ought to." Bobby countered; Samuel turned his attention to Sam.
"Sam. You're looking well."
"Save the small talk, all right?" Sam said plainly
"You seem different." Samuel said as he noticed something different about his grandson,
"I got my soul back. No thanks to you, I hear."
"You hear? You don't remember."
"I remember enough."
"I, uh, really hate to break up this little circle of love, but why don't we talk shop, huh? How about you tell us what it is you're hunting?" Rufus questioned as he joined the conversation
"A creature from Purgatory. She calls herself Eve."
"Great, just great." Grace deadpanned "you're looking for Eve too? Well, you're not only the ones who knows about Eve, Samuel."
Samuel was surprised by the group's knowledge about Mother of All. "How do you know about that?"
"Oh, I don't know, in a place none of your business, jackass." Jack said,
"Who is this Eve?" Rufus asked confused
"Cliff note version: she is the mother of all supernatural son of bitches who lived in Purgatory and now she's here to lead a monster crusade to reclaim her territory." Jack explained as simple as he could to Rufus.
"Hmm." Rufus murmured, "makes sense."
"Now, why are you here? Here to sell us out again?"
"What?" Gwen asked not sure if she heard it right
"He betrayed us, sold us out to Crowley a while back, almost got Dean become dinner for a couple of ghouls." Jack told her
"not to mention he had my daughter locked in a room with couple of vampires, almost got her killed too." Ellen continued
"And I had to suffer the effects of a djinn not far from Jo's cell." Grace finished,
"You what?" Gwen asked as she gave her distant cousin a disbelieving look
"Dean lied to Jack."
Jack snorted, "Oh, right. Dean lied to me."
"Why won't you ask Dean himself?" Ellen said
"Good idea." Gwen agreed as she exited the room to ask Dean about it.
Jack sighed as he ran his hand through his hair. Moments later they heard a gunshot.
"That can't be good." Jack commented as they left the room and found Gwen lying motionless with her eyes shut. Sam kneeled down to check for pulse and got up to look for Dean who was nowhere in sight.
"See if you can plug that hole up, Bobby." Rufus told Bobby as he started to do CPR.
Sam, Grace and Jo were searching for Dean while Rufus were trying to bring Gwen back but to no effect.
"She's gone."
Rufus sighed as he gave up trying. "Ah, damnit."
"I'm sorry...If you care." Bobby told to Samuel with no empathy and then turned to Jack who nodded, saying I'll bring her back soon, promise.
"Screw you. I care."
Sam, Jo and Grace returned to them "Is she, uh..."
Rufus shook his head no, "Where's Dean?"
"We couldn't find him. Whatever got into those guys must have got into Dean."
"All right. Rufus, Ellen. Help Samuel move Gwen somewhere, everyone else will lock down here. We better find Dean before he finds us." Jack stated,
"We're gonna find him alive, Samuel, or I'm gonna put a bullet into your head." Sam told his restrained grandfather.
"He's not the only one." Jack added as he walked over to Ellen
"Look after them, al right?" Ellen said
"I will." Jack replied as he kissed her cheek and he followed the others in search for Dean.
After some time, Sam called Dean's number and Dean's cellphone were heard from another room not far from them.
"Dean, put it down." Rufus demanded aiming at Dean with a shotgun
"You're the least of my worries right now, Rufus." Dean stood his ground
"Dean, don't do anything stupid." Jack said as he, Sam, Jo, Ellen, Bobby and Grace joined them "Same thing goes for you Rufus."
"My ass."
"I'm not in the mood. I just had a 12-inch...Herpe crawl out of my ear." Dean snarled,
"What?" Jack and Sam asked in unison
"You heard me. I just woke up on the ground, just in time to see this - this...worm thing sliding out of my freaking ear and into that vent. So you tell me what the hell's going on!"
"You killed Gwen. That's what's going on." Samuel told him
"We were just talking out in the hallway. That's the last thing I remember. That thing must have jumped me."
"So, we're talking about, like, a monster that gets in you?"
"It's like a Khan worm on steroids."
"You mean like a parasite, something that took over your body."
"Worm crawls in you, worm crawls out."
"Monster possession? That's novel."
"Or that thing's still in you, and we can't trust a word that you're saying."
"It's not!"
"Check your ear, Dean." Jack said, remembering how Rick got taken over by the monster worm entering his ear
"What do you mean, check my ear? Check my ear for what?" Dean asked, Rufus sticked his finger in Dean's ear. "Hey! What? Why don't you buy me a drink first?" Dean mumbled the last part
"Second date. "Rufus countered, "Oh, yeah, we're goo positive."
"What does that mean? What does that mean?" That confused him more and more
"That means it was in you, all right." Grace nudged Bobby to get a bag.
"Or it still is."
"Okay. Everybody, give up your guns." Bobby said as he held a opened bag.
"What?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, think about this for a second, Bobby." Rufus said, is Bobby nuts?
"I'm thinking we don't know who is and who ain't got the damn Khan worm up inside his melon."
"It's not in me!" Dean snapped,
"He didn't say it was, Dean. Point is we don't know who it is. It could be any one of us. So the best we can do right now, is to make it that much harder for that thing to blow our heads off. I'll put my gun in the bag first" Grace said as she held up her handgun and put it in the bag, everyone followed her lead. Well, not everyone.
"Are you waiting for a handwritten invite, Campbell?" Rufus asked, Samuel relcuantly put his gun down in the bag.
They went to a locker room and locked the weapons in a locker.
"Okay. We need some time to breathe, make a plan." Bobby said
"A plan?" Samuel repeated as he rose from chair and walked towards Bobby "Based on?"
"I'm gonna make a few phone calls, see if anybody ever heard of anything like this." Bobby stated the obvious
"Good thinking." Jack pulled out his cellphone from his pocket to make some calls "Grace."
"Way ahead of you, brother." Grace pulled out her cellphone from pocket
"Come on,Mike. You still owe me for that vengeful sprit in Boston." Jack was talking to a fellow hunter on the phone.
"Sorry, man. Got nothing on a monster worm."
Jack sighed,"All right, thanks." Jack ended the call, "Damnit."
"Oh, balls, Allard. No, I told you that." Bobby was also on the phone along with Rufus,
"Are you sure that you've found nothing on the worm?" Grace asked one of her friends Stacy on the phone
"Nope, checked and double checked the books, found squat."
"All right, thanks. I'll call you back if there's anything else." Grace said as she ended the call
Samuel got up and went to the door but Sam blocked his path along with Jo and Ellen
"Relax. Bathroom break. So unless you want to hold it for me." Samuel walked past them and left the room. Sam, Dean and the Harvelles followed him.
"Well, I got a dump truck full of bubkes." Bobby said as he flipped his phone shut
"Nothing here, either, Jack?" Jack shook his head no,
"You call Willie?"
"Of course. You think I'm an idjit?" Grace and Rufus chuckled
"How about Raj?"
"Wouldn't talk to me or Grace. Still holds a grudge against us for that screw up in St Louis." Jack replied,
Rufus chuckled, "Yeah, me neither."
"Okay, plan "B." Let's just go and grab the thing." Bobby suggested flaty
"And then what, exactly?"
"Well, we sit on our thumbs, or we go in guns blazing."
"Like Omaha?" That was a very sensitive subject for Bobby to talk about; that was a long time ago he thought.
"You know what? Screw you for bringing up Omaha. That's just low." Jack and Grace exchanged a look for a second. Just then they heard a gunshot, they left the room in a hurry and found Sam and Dean against the lockers while Jo and Ellen were getting back on their feet.
"I heard a shot."
"Samuel!" Dean told them as he and Sam went to find Samuel; the Khan worm was possessing Samuel.
I'm gonna be needing my gun back now, Bobby." Rufus said,
"You think?" Bobby asked the obvious.
"Yeah." Bobby broke the lock on the locker that was holding their weapons and grabbed the bag and put it on the table.
"Hey, don't feel bad. You know, it was a good plan, except for the part where a monster would definitely, definitely not give up all his weapons." Rufus stated as he took his shotgun back while Jack and Grace got their guns.
"Shut up." just then the Winchesters and Harvelles re entered the room
"We lost him." Jack cocked his gun as everyone got their weapons back.
"So, what's the plan?" Sam asked,
"We stick together. We got to keep track of this thing, who it's in." Ellen said
They searched through the cannery for Samuel when suddenly Sam grabbed Dean pulling him back. Everyone pointed their guns at Sam.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hold on. Look." Sam shined his flashlight on a wireline leading to a booby trap. Good thing that Sam is such a jolly giant, right?
"Booby trap." Dean told the group
"I'll be damned." Bobby muttered, they stepped over the wire carefully not wanting to trigger, the trap, Jack and Sam went first to make sure that are no other traps when suddenly a door slided closing behind Sam and Jack cutting them off from the group.
"Hey! Hey!" Dean shouted
"Ellen!" Jack called to Ellen as he banged on the door,
"Jack!"
"Dean!" Sam called to his brother
"Damn it. Son of a bitch."
"Dean! We're gonna go around, ok?" Jack said
"Be careful, boys." Ellen replied from the other side of the door as Jack and Sam walked down a tunnel and entered a room when they spotted Samuel with a extra gun and aimed their guns at him.
"Samuel. Don't move." Jack ordered
"Sam. Jack." Samuel replied
"Put your gun down." Sam said firmly
"What you gonna do, boys? You're not gonna shoot me." Samuel stated,
"You got your soul back. You gonna shoot your own family?"
Yeah, I wouldn't go with the family thing. Try again." Sam said plainly, he may have done a lot bad things in the past but he's not going to listen what his grandfather says.
"Mary's still my daughter." Samuel moved a bit closer.
"I said don't move." Jack warned,
"You're still named after me." Samuel reminded his grandson as he moved closer and closer.
"Damnit Samuel, I said don't move!" Jack snapped; Samuel did just that.
"You still want to know about your summer vacation? I'll tell you all about it. You're dying to know, huh?" Samuel offered to Sam.
"Yeah, I am."
"Well, then, let's just put these down and talk." Samuel said as he held up his extra gun in defeat, showing that he'll put his gun down.
"Samuel." Jack advised Samuel to not move an inch.
"It's all right, guys." Then out of instinct, Sam shot Samuel in the head as he got too close. Samuel crumpled to the floor lifeless. Jack glanced at Sam as they lowered their guns down.
"Sam, you ok?"
"Yeah, you?"
"I'm good." Jack replied and then he sighed in exhaustion.
"Sam!" that was Dean as he and the others found Jack and Sam in the room. "Sam!"
"Oh, thank God." Bobby murmured in relief and then noticed Samuel's dead body. "Drop your guns, boys." Jack slowly did so along with Sam just to make sure that they're not worm possessed.
"It's us." Sam assured
"Okay. That's great, boys. Just got to cuff you two, uh, till we can be sure, okay? You understand, right?" Rufus said as he cuffed both of them.
"It's in him." Sam said gesturing to Samuel's body
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I think." Sam replied a bit uncertain.
"You're sure about that you saw anything coming out of him?" Ellen asked
"I don't know." Jack admitted after he thought about it.
They took Samuel's body back to the locker room for examination, Bobby swabbed Samuel's ears for goo.
"Tell me you got something." Dean said bit impatient,
"Nothing." Bobby replied
"What?" Sam questioned surprised
"You're saying that he wasn't a monster when Sam killed him?" Jack asked confused
"One way to find out. Bobby, you got a cranial saw in the car?" Rufus asked
"Of course." Bobby said the obvious; of course he's got a cranial saw
"You're not going alone."
"Oh, no, he won't. He won't. We will both go grab some tools and see about getting some power in this place. And I want you and you to..." Rufus said pointing to some of the group but wasn't sure who. "Okay, I want you and you to watch him and him and " He decided to cut to the case. "All right, if anything crawls out of anybody, somebody step on it."
"Don't worry, Sam and I will watch Samuel, Dean and the others will watch us." Jack assured
"Yeah, right." Rufus and Bobby exited the room to get surgicial tools from Bobby's car.
Jack sighed again while shaking his head,
"You did the right thing, you know." Dean told his brother,
"You mean you think I did, if it's in him and I'm me. This thing's playing three-card monte with us." Sam replied,
"Well, I'm just gonna assume you're you." Dean assumed
"You want to take this off, then?" Sam asked motioning to his bound wrists.
"Not till we get that sucker out of his walnut. That goes for you, Jack." Jack shrugged meaning I'm ok with it.
"I don't know. I mean, I barely remember him, and what I do remember - it's not good. And what he did to us...But..."
"There's a "but"?" Of course there's always a but, right?
"I mean, I just can't help but think...What would mom say?" Sam wondered,
"You know what I think mom would say? She'd say just 'cause you're blood doesn't make you family. You got to earn that." Dean said simple as that
"True word never be spoken, my friend." Jack agreed, Just then lights turned on and Bobby and Rufus returned to the room with Rufus carrying a bag.
"Well...All right. Let's play operation." Rufus said as he put the bag on the table and opened it.
"You people wanna take a breather?"
"We're good." Grace said
"We're about to crack open your grandpa's grapefruit. Take a breather." They did just that as the others exited the room and waited outside.
Moments later, they heard some chair being tossed. They rushed to see what's going on only to discover something shocking, Samuel was alive and well and he was kicking ass.
"No freaking way." Jo whispered in disbelief
"Ellen." Jack said nudging to his bound wrists, Ellen cut off him free with a pocket knife. Dean did the same thing with Sam; they just saw Bobby tossing Samuel into a frayed cable, electrocuting him and the Kahn worm. The worm crawled out of his ear as Jack with one single kick, kicked the door open and went to the aid of Bobby with Dean and Grace.
"Bobby? You ok?" Jack asked as they helped Bobby up
"Rufus?" Ellen asked, Rufus woke up and got up with the help of Ellen and Sam.
"Take it easy, Rufus. You're ok."
"This can't be my afterlife 'cause the seven of you are here. What happened?" Rufus asked
"Well, when we left, he was dead on the table." Sam explained.
"Yeah, till he wasn't." Bobby continued,
"So how did he get double dead?" Rufus asked,
"Bobby threw him against that. I guess it was a live wire. It shorted, and he went ape. Then that thing crawled out of his ear." Dean motioned to the frayed cable.
"Well, at least we know how to kill that damn thing, electricity." Ellen said
"Yeah. Now the question is, where'd it go? You see?" Sam asked the big question
"No." Dean, Jack, Grace and Jo shook their heads no.
"You two were down for the count."
"Yeah. Well, either it bailed or it's in either one of you." Dean argued,
"Or, it's in one of you." Rufus countered,
"No, we were awake." Dean stated,
"Did you have eyes on each other?"
"Yes."
"100% of the time?"
Dean hesitated on that question "Define 100."
"Like I said."
"How about we can check our ears for goo? Just to make sure?" Jo suggested, everyone was checking their ears for goo but they've found no goo whatsoever.
"Nothing." Dean said
"It might just be gone." Bobby replied
"No. It might have wised up and covered its trail." Dean looked around the place.
"All right, let's settle this…100%." Sam said
"How?"
Sam striped a cable and Dean plugged it, he were going to test them by put the cable on their arms to make sure that the Khan Worm isn't in any of them. First up was Samuel. Sam put the cable behind Samuel's head, it ignited some sparks but the worm wasn't there.
"Okay." Rufus said as he looked at Samuel's lifeless body "I'm not a doctor, but I'm gonna go ahead and call this one."
"Yeah. All right,who wants to go first?" Sam asked
"I'll go." Jack answered as he removed his jacket and held out his arm
"You sure?"
"Just do it before I change…" Sam held the cable to Jack's arm, which left a nasty burnmark as he groaned a bit
"Ow, son of a.." Jack pulled back his arm as the scratch closed itself. "All right, Dean. You're ready?" Dean removed his jacket as well.
"Just hurry up before I start thinking,,,," Sam wasted no time to do that on his arm that was extended
"Son of a...Whew. Awesome. Here, you want me to…" It was Sam's turn to do that as he placed the cable on his arm, which he hissed in pain. He gave it to Jo who did the same thing. She then handed to grace who was bit less tolerate to electricity but she passed it none the less.
"All right, Rufus. You're up."
"Uh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." Rufus said as he made a hand gesture, "Uh, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
"Rufus, no chickening out on this one." Jack said with a sharp look on his face.
"I got a damn pacemaker."
"Well, you better hope it's a good one." Grace said
"Since when do you got a pacemaker?" Bobby asked
"Since Bush Jr., term one. I'm down three toes, too, F.Y.I. All right, come on. Just make it quick." Grace put the cable on his arm and tested him.
"God! God! Damn it! Damn it!"
"You okay?" Grace asked trying to hide her amusement
"No, I'm not okay. Give me that." Rufus snatched the cable from Grace.
"Okay. All right, my turn. Well, it ain't inside me, so go right ahead." Bobby said
"All right, then just stand still, Bobby."
"Okay, sure."
" I'll make this quick."
"No problem."
"All right? Let's do this."
"Okay, uh, just a second, Rufus."
"Just a second nothing, whatever you are."
"I'm Bobby." Rufus knew better than that, the Khan worm possessed Bobby now.
"Bobby, my ass." Busted. Out of desperation, Bobby stabbed Rufus straight into the heart with a knife.
"Bobby!" Sam said as Rufus fell into Sam's arms. Sam put Rufus body down on the floor and immediately all of the hunters surrounded Bobby who looked around carefully and cautiously trying to attack someone but unfortunately the numbers were too great for him.
"Bobby, there's six of us and one of you." Sam told him like it is, just Jo and Ellen grabbe Bobby from behind by the arms and Jack punched him hard, knocking him unconscious.
"All right, everyone. Lock this room down; make sure that worm doesn't escape when it crawls out of his ear. Jo, Ellen. Tie Bobby up in a chair. We're gonna ask some questions." Jack ordered,
"What about Rufus?" Grace gestured to Rufus lifeless body
Jack sighed sadly, a part of him wanted to bring Rufus back but he knew that Rufus had been waiting for death for some time so Jack let him stay dead "Let him be. We bury him once we're done here."
Bobby woke up dazed moments later tied to a chair with duct tape. He struggled against his restraints but it was well tighted.
"Well, hey there you little herpe." Dean greeted as he approached Bobby and held the cable against him frying the worm inside.
"Dean, why do you keep saying herpe?" Jack asked
"What? I don't. Shut up." Dean replied, Jack gave him a look that said right. "Shut up." Dean turned to Bobby. "Now, don't you even think about shagging ass out of here, 'cause we got every crack in this room sealed. So get comfy."
"I am comfy. It's nice in here. And you love this guy, don'tcha?" Bobby's voice was deeper and disorted than normal which was a bit creepy "You really want to kill me and take him with me? Haven't you lost enough pals today?"
"We'll do what we have to do. And we got some questions for you, so you can either play ball, or we could fry up a little shrimp on the barbie." Dean made his and the other's intentions clear to possessed Bobby
"Ask. Been waiting for you to ask."
"What the hell's that supposed to mean?" Ellen asked confused
"It means I got nothing to hide."
"What are you?" Sam questioned
"You haven't got a name for me yet. I'm new around here. Eve cooked me up herself."
Jack walked up to him snatching the cable from Dean and held the cable against the table torturing the worm.
"Why is she following me? Where is she?!" Jack demanded, Ellen felt his emotions; it was rage and frustration running through him right now.
He chuckled, "You're just dying to know, aren't you? Well, she has a message for you: She will see you soon and I mean very soon."
"Why?" Jack hissed,
"You'll see." Bobby smirked evily "By the time she's done, there'll be more creatures than humans. You'll live in pens. We'll serve up your young and call it veal."
"What's your deal in all of this? I mean, how's jumping a few truckers gonna help?" Sam asked getting back to subject
"You think I'm here to mess with a couple of Cannery workers? We led you here."
"Why?" Grace questioned
"She has another message for you."
"Oh, yeah? What's that?"
"You're all gonna die. She's pissed. She's here. And it's gonna be nothing but pain for you from here on in."
"Well, here's our response." Jack held up the cable to Bobby's neck
"Jack! Jack! How much more do you think he can take?"
"You can't kill me, not without taking him with me."
Jack smirked evily this time forming a plan already
"Well...We'll just have to do what Bobby would want us to do. Sam." Sam wrapped Bobby's mouth and ears shut with duct tape.
"No way out, Daddy-O." Jack said as he glanced at Sam who nodded meaning do it
"Hang in there, Bobby." Jack held the table to Bobby's neck torturing the worm until black goo coming out of his ears and nose while Bobby was twitching . It was painful to watch it for everyone but that's what Bobby would've done. And then he stopped twitching meaning the worm was dead. Jack pulled away the cable and put it back on the table.
"Bobby?" Dean asked worried,
"Hey, hey." Sam removed the duct tape which let the worm crawling out of Bobby's ear and landed on the floor, dead.
"Sam, Dean. He's not breathing, put him on the table now." Jack told the Winchesters, Sam and Dean did just that. Jack put his fingers on Bobby's head focusing on healing him.
Bobby inhaled sharply as he opened his eyes and coughed bit
"Balls." Bobby moaned,
"You're gonna be ok, Bobby." Jack patted Bobby.
Couple of days later, the group was in a jewish cementery. They have just buried Rufus.
"Is Gwen all right, honey?" Ellen asked,
"Yeah, she'll be fine. Said that she's got a few friends up north there, probably staying there indefinite."
"That's good to know." Ellen nodded, "We're going to find Eve, Jack."
"I know and I'll be ready for her." Jack replied as he took her hand and intertwined them. Bobby joined them carrying a bag with a blank look on his face.
"Have to say, Bobby. Rufus was a paranoid SOB but I never thought he was a religious SOB." Jack told him
"Well, he didn't exactly keep kosher. He always used to pull the old "can't work on the sabbath" card whenever we had to bury a body." Everyone let out a soft laugh, Ellen leaned her head against Jack's shoulder. "You know, I-I was just a job. I was Joe mechanic. Then my wife got possessed...went nuts on me. I stabbed her, and that didn't stop her. Next thing I knew, this guy comes busting in, soaks her with holy water, and sends that demon straight to hell so fast. I'd have gone away for killing her. But... Rufus cleaned up everything. Taught me a thing or two about...what's really out there. Pretty soon, we were riding together. Worked like that for years, kind of like you three knuckleheads." Bobby told them
"I am not a knucklehead." Jack said a bit offended
"You keep telling yourself that, idijt." Bobby muttered, Ellen shook her head in amusement and she kissed Jack's cheek.
"You're my knucklehead, honey." Ellen stated, Jack shot her a smile.
"So, what happened?" Sam asked Bobby,
"It was Omaha. It was my fault. And he never let it go."
"Well, he should have." Dean said,
"You don't know what I did, Dean."
"Doesn't matter."
"What do you mean, it doesn't…"
"I mean at the end of the day, you seven are family." Dean interrupted,
"Life's short, and ours are shorter than most. We're gonna spend it wringing our hands? Something's gonna get us eventually, and when my guts get ripped out, just so you two know, we're good. Blanket apology for all the crap that anybody's done all the way around."
"Some of us pulled a lot of crap, Dean." Sam replied
"Well, clean slate."
"Okay." Sam said after some thought, Bobby took out a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue whiskey and poured some on the grave and then took a swig himself.
Jack sighed, "Rufus, I hope you find peace in death that you could not get in life." Jack knew that Rufus was somewhere that he could find his inner peace and live a serene life without tragedy.
Alone again again alone
Patiently waiting by the phone
Hoping that you will call me home
The pain inside my love denied
Hopes and dreams swallowed by pride
Everything I need it lies in you
'Cause I'm broken
I know I need you now
'Cause deep inside I'm broken
You see the way I live
I know I know your heart is broken
When I turn away
I need to be broken
Take the pain away
I question why you chose to die
When you knew your truth I would deny
You look at me
The tears begin to fall
And all in all faith is blind
But I fail time after time
Daily in my sin I take your life
All the hate deep inside
Slowly covering my eyes
All these things I hide
Away from you again
All this fear holding me
My heart is cold and I believe
Nothing's gonna change
Until I'm whole again
Broken
Broken
Broken
Broken
Broken by 12 Stones
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