A/N : … Own nothing about supernatural…

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Chapter 13 – The struggle within

In his mind, it was all lost. Jackie would turn evil forever, he'd die, Sam would as well and the demons would win this battle, it would be way too unfair. His family had dedicated their lives to send the as many sons of bitch to hell, they wasted their chance of a normal life to save people…Jackie couldn't do that to him and end things that way.

His despair became hope though. The stab never came. He opened his eyes slowly to check if a miracle had actually happened. The dagger was one inch from his chest. Jackie was holding it with shaky hands.

" Help me!" She said putting all her strength to keep the dagger from thrusting in his chest.

" Put it down Jackie…and kick it away. You can do it…come on." Sam said, he saw the relief in his brother. With a lot effort, Jackie throws the dagger away from her. Dean lets out a sigh. That had been close.

She takes some steps away from him and falls on her knees breathing hard. They knew she was fighting to regain power.

" Don't give in Jackie…don't let them win." Dean encouraged her.

She grabbed her four-leaf-clover amulet again and started whispering the same words she used last time someone tried possessing her.

Kneeled on the floor, she tightened her grip on the amulet and continued saying the words with determination. Her breathing was heavy and she could feel the evil inside her struggling hardly for control. Somehow, she was in direct contact with Sam, probably because of his gift. She could feel his vibes, his good thoughts about her, telling her not to give up. Dean kept with the encouragement, he really believed her. Jackie was special to him. Not only she hunted and knew a whole deal about supernatural. To get to know them was important to her, she wasn't about to give it all up for a demon.

" Go back to where you belong!" She shouted as a black mist came out of her and disappeared in thin air. Damn, she felt exhausted.

" Jackie?" Dean called. Both Sam and him exchanging looks wondering.

" The one and only…literally". She said recovering her breath.

" That's her alright". Sam said relieved.

" I don't be a pain the ass here but, we don't have time, so…we'd appreciate if you could untied us…after all there is just a bunch of demons wishing us dead outside".

Jackie got on her feet and glanced at him with a grin. Sam rolled his eyes. The situation was urgent, of course, but Jackie was actually herself for less than a minute and he knew she was sure very tired.

" Give a girl a minute, will ya! I just expelled a demon out of me, but that's no big deal!" She said approaching Sam first.

" Untie him first, sure, I was the one tortured…so what?" Dean said observing her. Using sexy gestures, Jackie reached her bra and pulled from it, a little thing to pick on the locks. She grins at Dean who was staring at her with his mouth opened.

" Being a girl has advantages you know. You can keep these little things in many places…earrings, necklaces, bracelets…bras…" She said while picking on Sam's locks.

" This is so turning me on". Dean said as Jackie came approached him, their faces very close, lips almost touching and began picking on his locks. Dean couldn't help but to look down on her breasts.

" Hey!" Jackie said finally getting him free. She didn't actually mind him looking, she was teasing after all, but playing hard was more interesting, of course.

" You're the only one to blame…you and your bra thing". Dean said as he rubbed his sore wrists. He felt so tired. Sam approached him and helped Dean to keep himself up. He was too weak to bare his own weight.

" Guys! Bigger issue…how do we get out?" Sam questioned. They were free, but the demons still were outside.

" We'll have to sneak out of here, it's the only way. Daniel thinks you're dead by now, he'll come here any minute".

" Good plan, a question though, how… do we sneak out of a place where you bump into a demon every corner?" Dean says still holding on his brother. Jackie looked at the floor carefully.

Although she'd never been there before, she had heard about that house full of demons…it was the devil's playground, like her brother used to say. Her brother used to tell her about this place where demons and other creatures of the night gathered to perform rituals that would trap one's soul in agony for the whole eternity. This place of darkness had been chosen for a special purpose as the house was built over an unholy ground… a ground stained with blood and hatred. The place was ideal to summon a soul reaver. Specially designed by a Satan follower, the house contained rooms equipped for torture, rituals, proffers to the shadow's Lord and underground tunnels for a quick escape in case of an emergency.

The tunnels had been transformed in dungeons during some years, where several people remained convicted until their death, the tunnels were isolated and even the louder screams wouldn't be heard by single soul. Those convicts moans and screams were never, ever heard by anyone, thus, it was never proved they actually existed. The dungeons were no longer used when the recent demons decided to make use of the house specially to summon the soul reaver and torture all those hunters that came along their way disturbing their plans.

" Here". She said pointing to a hatchway on the floor. Neither brother had seen that, after all it was well hidden.

" How did you know about that?" Dean asked surprised.

" My brother used to tell me a lot about this house. Hunters have been trying to put an end to this place for centuries, they all disappeared though, and my guess…the demons took care of them". She said with a shiver.

" Wait, wait, slow down…this is the house?". Dean asked shocked. His dad has mentioned it once during a hunt. Some of his father's connections had mysteriously vanished and John imagined the damn stubborn hunters had found the place. He couldn't believe that the room he'd been kept was one of the torture rooms.

" Yes, I'm glad you two managed to stay alive".

Barely. Dean thought.

" Where does it go?" Sam asked opening the hatch.

" Outside, it was an emergency getaway. We have to be quick; the demons know this tunnel better than anyone". She added with some concern.

" That's great, as if we weren't in trouble enough". Dean said getting inside the hatch first.

Sam helped Dean to come down, Jackie followed, once inside, they closed it in a attempt to buy sometime.

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The woman and guy outside the door were getting impatient. Even though Alessa had the chance to take part in the kidnapping of the Winchesters, she desired to kill them herself. She had to contain herself not to do it. It was so unfair. That little girl wasn't even a real demon and Daniel had granted her the chance to kill the famous hunter family.

Her thoughts were interrupted when Daniel stormed through the corridor, angrier than she had ever seen before. Daniel was mostly calm and patient, few things caused that furious reaction inside him.

" You two idiots! Jackie's demon is gone, what the hell is she doing alone in there!"

" But I thought…" Alessa was cut off.

" Out of my way!" He said pushing her aside and abruptly opening the door.

His rage just grew bigger as he saw the room empty with the chains hanging from the ceiling. Alessa and the guy followed Daniel in. She was speechless.

" They're gone! And you allowed it! I should send your sorry ass to the reaver, and that wouldn't be even close of the punishment you deserve for this!"

" Daniel, I didn't know, you seemed to trust her completely!" Alessa had never felt that fear before. She had sent lots of people to the reaver and some demons had been sent there as punishment too but, she was a devoted follower and being part of that gory ritual never crossed her mind.

" It's no too late sir, they must be in the tunnels, we can track them down". The guy said ready to call other demons and start the search.

Daniel took a deep breath and nodded. " What are you waiting for!" He said opening the hatch and getting in first, Alessa followed.

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Dean's breathing was heavy and they were slowly going through the tunnel. Sam was doing his best to support his brother and Jackie not to get them lost. She had had training in dark places that looked like a maze and her sense of direction was very good. Mike had taught her to trust her intuition above all. Intuition was usually right and was a powerful weapon when you were in trouble. Jackie liked to believe that this whole thing of a woman having sixth sense also counted a lot, true or not, she believed in hers.

" Shit! You gotta go faster or they'll catch all of us. I'll try to hide or something, but you have to go". Dean said.

" No way, it's you and Sam they wanna kill. We're all getting out or no deal". Jackie protested. Dean always had to be the hero; his attitude had got them in trouble before. Jackie's proud was as big as Dean's.

" She's right, they nearly killed you Dean. Come on, I know it hurts, but you gotta try…for me". Sam tried. Dean had always been protective and letting Sam alone wouldn't be an option.

" Fine, let's go before you two start some drama-Oprah moment". Dean said as they kept going. All the bones in his body hurt, but Sam's damn puppy eyes usually succeed in convincing Dean to do all Sam wanted.

" By the way Sam, you cannot use these puppy eyes for the rest of the week, I mean it".

" What puppy eyes?" Sam asked confused.

" Never mind, let's go".

Dean tried his best to go faster, his body protesting, his mind ignoring. There was no way he would go back there, besides his stomach, who kept his thoughts busy with the whole menu he'd ever tried in his life, specially the burgers.

" Damn!" Jackie said as she stopped suddenly.

" What?" They brothers asked together.

" Listen!" They got quiet for a moment and heard some voices deciding where they would head to. " Daniel".

" Go, go!" Sam said helping Dean again, pushing him over his limits into going faster.

Even though they were going fast, the steps behind them seem to be getting closer and closer. The voices talking were understandable now. Jackie imagined by their talk that, there were cameras down there too as they knew exactly where she was leading the brothers.

" Fuck, they can see us!".

" What else is new?" Escapes were never easy and Dean knew that. There were always guns being pointed, crazy people or cops coming after them, ghost trucks chasing his ass. They never made it easy.

The tunnel was cold and moist. The walls covered in moss and spider webs. Looked like a typical dungeon indeed. The terrible smell of death, the blood stains on the floor could confirm people suffered down there. The walls probably had secret passages leading to the cells where those people were held captive.

Jackie felt a little better when she saw another hole on the floor. This one sure leading to the sewer and to the freedom of the streets.

The steps behind them got apprehensively close.

" I found the way out, come on!" They approached the hole on the floor.

" About damn time". Dean said taking a better look into the dark hole.

" How do you know this is the way o…" Sam words were lost as Jackie suddenly pushed them inside the hole. Sorry guys.

They were too weak to get caught. She knew Daniel wanted her by his side and he wouldn't give up on her easily. They needed time to recover. She was sure the brother would come back for her later, specially because of Sam's vision when back at that room. But right now she needed to distract them, while they got away.

Daniel and Alessa finally approached her, immediately one of the guys came from behind her and grabbed her by arm firmly.

" You disappoint me sister. Where are they?" Daniel asked. Alessa looked all around. Besides the hole on the floor, there were two other entrances on the wall where the boys could have gone though, that was deepest part of the tunnel and no cameras had been installed there. None had ever gotten this far during a escape, so they never needed vigilance that part of the tunnels.

" They who?" She asked sarcastically. Alessa grabbed a pair of cuffs and restrained Jackie's hands behind her back. Daniel asked Alessa to step back. He approaches Jackie and slaps her hardly on the face.

" Where are they!"

" Go to hell…wait…that's where you came from…". She had nothing but despise in her eyes and voice.

" We'll find them, I promise you that". He said making a gesture for the guy to take her. " She's coming back with me to the warehouse…you two will look for them…and don't screw this up".

TBC…

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