Chapter 9

Dean sat in a hospital room with his brother. Sam lay in the bed with an oxygen tube running under his nose; his eyes were closed; he was sleeping.

Dean kept moving his eyes from his little brother to the door waiting for the doctor to bring news of Abby.

Sam stirred just as Dean looked away to the door. He looked over at his brother. "Dean!" Sam's voice came out as a hoarse whisper.

"Hey Sammy!" Dean said turning to see his awaking brother.

"It Sam" Came the slightly louder voice.

A small smile played across Dean's face when he heard that. "You're an idiot. You know that? Running into a fire like that you could have gotten yourself killed."

"It's nice to know that you care, Dean." Sam chuckled and was thrown into a coughing fit.

Dean grabbed the cup of water next to the bed and gave it to his brother, who took a drink ending the coughing. "Hey, dude, you ok?" Dean asked

"Peachey" Sam replied. "How is Abby? Where is she?"

"Well the doctor is checking her over now." Dean said just as the doctor walked into the room.

"Mr. Winchester." The doctor said, "I am Dr Rae Jackson. I have been looking over your Cousin, Abigail Winchester."

"Yes and how is she?" Dean asked.

"She is resting she is still having a lot of trouble breathing on her own so we have replaced the tube that was in when she first arrived." The Doctor replied, answering Dean's question.

"Can I see her?" Came Dean's second question.

"Yes, yes of course you can, but she will be out of it for a while. We give her a mild sedative so that she will not have a panic attack because she has a tube down her throat, because odds are she will not remember what has happened and will start freaking out because she is in the hospital."

"Thank you doctor."

"You're welcome, if you have any more questions just have me paged and I will get back to you." She said as she walked out of the room.

"Well now we know that she is ok…" Sam began

"And that makes you a hero Mr. Samuel Winchester." A male doctor walked in "Hi I am Dr. Ben Green, I have met your brother here, but you were unconscious when you were brought in so I haven't had the pleasure. How are you feeling?"

"Pretty good, considering what has happened." Sam said shrugging his shoulders

"Well that is good. I am going to check you out one last time then I will discharge you. How does that sound?"

"Sounds good to me doc" Sam replied.

"Alright, then while that is happening I am going to check on Abby ok." Dean said getting up to leave.

"Whatever," Sam replied as Dean left the room.

Dean spent ten minutes outside the room that contained his cousin. He was hesitant to enter the room because he didn't want to see his cousin in the shape that she was in. It scared him to think that he could have lost her tonight along with his aunt and uncle.

Dean finally walked into the room that held his cousin. He saw her on the bed, a tube prodding from of her mouth, an IV placed on her left hand, and wires for a machine place on her chest; monitoring her heart beat. With all this stuff around her she looked so small and fragile.

Dean walked up to her bedside and put her hand into his. "Hey Abby" he whispered to her. He gave her hand a small squeeze and released it and continued to talk to her in a whispered voice. "You know you scared me tonight and that is a very hard thing to do." He stopped for a minute. He had a lump in his throat and he was holding back the tears that threaten to fall.

"Abby!" this time his voice croaked as he let the tears fall on his face. He could no longer hold them back, but he continued. "We will get him. We will kill this sprit and you will no longer have to deal with it. You won't have to lose any one else. I promise you that."

"And so do I." came a voice from the door

Dean turned to see Sam standing in the door way. "How long have you been standing there, Sammy?" Dean asked wiping the tears away.

"It's Sam" he replied in a soft voice, then said a little louder, "long enough bro, long enough."

Sam walked over to the bed and stood on the other side of the bed "Hey Abby" he said lightly pushing her bangs off her forehead and placed a kiss there then pulled away, to talk to his brother. "So when are we going to leave?"

"I thought you would never ask" Dean said.

The brothers left the room and the hospital got into the Impala and headed to the home town of Jeffery Wood.