Chapter 12

The next morning Abby woke up early. At first she couldn't remember where she was, and then she realized that she was in a motel room with Dean and Sam. She looked over to see that Sam was on the other bed and Dean was sleeping on the floor of the room in between the two beds.

Abby quietly got out of the bed and grabbed the bath robe, which she had received the day before and grabbed her drawing pad and color pencils that sat on the table. She put the bathrobe on over her pjs and walked to the door quietly opened it and closed it without awakening the brothers.

Across the street from the motel was a small pond, which is where Abby headed to. She sat down by the pond placing the pad and pencils on the ground, then pulling up knees to her chest and places her arms around her legs holding them to her chest.

Abby sat there for a few minutes looking out on the pond, not seeing much because the sun had not risen yet. Soon that was not the only reason, for she began to have tears fall from her eyes, travel down her face and land softly on her legs.

She let herself cry until the sun began to show itself. She wiped the tears from her eyes and watched as the sun slowly rose into the sky. She remembered when she was a kid and watched the sunrise with her mother.

Flashback

"See Abigail, look at all the colors." The six year old looked at the sky which showed shades of red, yellow and orange. The two of them sat on the porch swing watching the sun rise.

"Mommy, are you going to draw that in a picture?" She asked looking at her mother.

"No baby, are you?"

"Yes mommy I am, but not today, mommy."

"Why is that Abby?"

"Because it has to be a special day"

"Do you know when that will be?"

"No silly, you don't know until that day comes." She gave a smile laugh and gave her mother a look as if it were the most obvious answer.

"Ok, honey" Her mother replied with a smile "I love you Abby" she whispered to her daughter; kissing her on the forehead.

"I love you, too, mommy" the small girl replied "always and forever mommy."

End flashback

"Today's that special day mom." Abby whispered to herself. She picked up the pencils and pad and began to draw all the beautiful colors that filled the sky. Today was the anniversary of the day Abby and her mother had the conversation ten years ago.

Sam woke up at about eight o'clock to find his older brother sprawled out on the floor. He let a smile play across his face. Then he looked over at the other bed to see that it was empty.

Sam got out if the bed and walked over to the bathroom. Upon seeing the door open and no Abby in the small space he began to panic.

"Dean, Dean Wake up." Sam voice said in a frantic state.

"What?" Dean groaned.

"Abby isn't in the room."

Dean bolted up. "What?"

"I just woke up and she wasn't in bed and she isn't in the bathroom."

"Let's go find her." Dean jumped up from the floor.

The brothers got on their shoes and walked out the door. The brothers hadn't expected their cousin to be in sight, but there she was sitting across the street gazing out at the pond.

The brothers crossed the street and over to Abby.

"Abby what are you doing out here?" Dean asked sitting down next to her.

"I was wondering when you guys were going to come out here." She replied.

"Abby, you scared us why didn't you leave a note or something?" Sam asked a note of worry in his voice. He sat down on the other side of Abby.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to worry you." She said not looking at either of them.

"So what are you doing out here?" Dean asked again.

"I…I had to do something." Abby replied

"What did you have to do?" Sam asked.

"This" Abby said picking up the book and showing the picture she had drawn.

"Wow, Abby, this is beautiful." Sam stated as he looked at the drawing. Then he handed it to Dean.

"Why did you have to draw this Abby?" Dean asked as he looked over the picture.

"I told my mom that I would draw the rising sun on a special day." Abby said looking at Dean. She looked back to the pond and continued. "I told her that I didn't know when that was going to be and that I would know when that day would be when it came." A smile played asked her face when she said this. "Today is the tenth anniversary of the day that mom and I had this conversation. I knew today was the day that I needed to draw it. So...I did."

The three just sat there in silence for a little while, gazing at the pond; then went back into the room to get ready for the funeral.

The funeral went by in a hazy for Abby. She didn't really see or hear anything that was happening. She just sat there staring off into space.

The gathering after the funeral was in a park because Abby no longer had a house and didn't want to have it at anybody else's house because that just didn't seem right.

Abby didn't feel like socializing so she went to walk the path that lined the park. As she was walking he heard someone call for her.

"Abby"

She turned to see who had called her name and was surprised to find who she found.