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A/N: Sorry for the delay but School just got into my way. Funny how college does that sometimes. Anyways, here's the next chapter! Reviews are welcomed!
Julia sat and watched Helen tied up Sam. She was raking her fingers all over the younger Winchester. But Sam kept his eyes locked with Julia's. There was no way that he was going to die like this. He knew that Julia had communicated with someone downstairs. Her eyes no longer seemed worried, more determined now than anything. Helen was too involved with her ritual to notice a thing. Sam felt something wet on his chest. The iron smell hit his nose and he quickly figured out what was now on his chest. He watched Julia cringe at the scene but continue to sit at the edge of the circle that was drawn out by her knees.
"What kind of weapons do you have on you?" Dean asked JJ as he searched his own pockets. He pulled out two more knives, a lighter, and another gun. JJ had bullets, a gun, a couple of his own knives, and something that Dean couldn't make out in the dark.
"Are those, firecrackers?" Dean asked finally focusing on the items in JJ's hands. He could feel JJ's smile as he nodded his head the dark. "This might be easier than we think; you said that Julia has gasoline?"
"In her back pocket she has a small flask of it other than the container she was carrying around. She thought that Helen's father was going to be a problem," JJ stated as he dragged over a bench. Dean jumped onto it and touched the ceiling.
"He's actually helping more than you know," Dean stated with a smile that he knew JJ couldn't see. "You remember the plan?"
"Let's do this," JJ stated. Both boys found their spots in the basement. "On the count of three?"
"One, two….."
Julia pulled the gasoline out of her back pocket.
"Three!" Dean and JJ both shouted as the started to shoot up into the ceiling. Helen's screams urged the boys to work faster. Within moments, JJ was out of bullets. Dean continued to shoot upwards. A foot kicked out the first area shot up. Dean heard creaking of the floor above him. He dove out of the way towards the bench and the items from the buried box. Helen came crashing through the ground.
Sam could not believe what he was seeing. Helen just crashed through the floor ruining her symbols on the floor. Julia was moving as well, pulling JJ up through the second hole that had been shot. Within seconds Julia was upside down in the hole with JJ holding on to her legs.
Dean smiled at Helen as she slowly picked herself up. He lit the lighter behind his back.
"Welcome to Hell Helen, I hope you enjoy your stay," Dean stated as he tossed the lighter onto the box. It lit immediately. Dean watched Julia be pulled back through the hole. Her job of spraying the stuff was done. Helen stood for a moment, watching the flames.
"Fool, those pictures don't mean a thing," she stated. Dean pulled the string of pearls from his pocket. Instantly, Helen's face paled. Dean was reminded of the pirates from a certain movie that he loved.
"What's a matter Helen, these mean something to you?" Dean teased. "I never liked pearls that much anyways." Dean tossed the string into the flames. Helen screamed in vain as they spun in the air and landed perfectly into the fire. Dean watched as Helen fell to her knees.
"Tell Julia I'm sorry," Dean heard from the girl as tear fell from her eyes. "I'm just too tired to dance for the devil anymore." And with that, sparks started to fly from Helen's body. Dean ran to the bench that JJ had used and climbed right through the hole. He could see JJ posed with his gun watching Helen through the other hole.
Sam, on the other hand, was being cut loose finally. Julia's breathing sounded like a wounded dog but Sam still smiled at her. As soon as Sam saw his older brother pop through the hole, he felt relieved. It was all over.
"Well Sammy, just can't stay out of trouble can you?" Dean teased as he cut the remaining bonds. Suddenly, an explosion shot through the house. JJ had dropped his fire crackers onto Helen. Her spell on the house was released as Helen disappeared. JJ flew across the floor as fire shot up through the two holes that the boys had shot out.
"I think it's a good time to get out of here," Dean stated as he helped Sam to a stand. JJ ran back and grabbed Julia.
"Windows?" he asked. The Winchesters nodded their heads as the heat in the room increased. As JJ threw a chair into the window, something surprising happened. The chair bounced back at him hitting him square in the chest. He sat on the ground astonished as Julia, Dean, and Sam turned to each other. The room continued to grow hotter as the fire ate through the ceiling to the gasoline filled second floor. The house was on fire around them and the windows were the only way out.
"Oh shit," Dean stated. Helen was gone but the house wasn't going to let them go.
"Dean, what are we going to do now?" Sam shouted over the roar of the fire. Dean was at lost for words. But Julia wasn't.
"Tamen qua sin exundo , venia exundo totus quantum!" She shouted in the fire. And just like that, the house shuddered throwing all four to their feet. Dean quickly sat up and fired his gun at the window. This time it shattered. And it didn't take more than that for all four of them to climb through the window to the safety of the outside where it was pouring rain. JJ and Julia followed Dean and Sam towards the Impala. Dean turned to them as to say, what, you think you're getting a ride?
"You're going to make me walk back to the hospital, you're just as wet as I am," Julia stated with her hands on her hips. Dean had no answer for Julia as exhaustion started to hit him on the head like a hammer. He just moved to the backseat door and opened it up for her. Seconds passed and all four were in the Impala, looking at the house as it burned down.
"This is weird," Dean heard from the back. Julia shivered as he looked at her through his rear view mirror. "Let's go before I'm late again and the hospital refuses to let me be a patient there ever again." Dean tried to hold back a smile at Julia's claim as they drove to the hospital.
The four got into the hospital and Julia's room with no problems at all. One by one, they changed their rained filled clothing for more comfortable wear as they all waited for the day to come. Dean, who was the first one changed, crawled into Julia's hospital bed. He was still bleeding from his head and she was too slow to change. Of course, when Julia came out of the bathroom, she jumped right onto the bed with him.
"You like playing a pillow?" she joked. Dean smiled as he closed his eyes. Julia was too wide awake to sleep now. Within moments of her comment, Dean's head was on her shoulder. JJ climbed into a chair as Sam appeared from the adjoining room with another chair and blankets. JJ and Sam instantly started to talk about past jobs, laughing at dumb mistakes and sharing tips with each other. Dean, on the other hand, was sound asleep for the moment. Julia took everything in, from the night to currently where Dean's head leaned on her shoulder and his hand was on her thigh. She knew she was going to have a tough decision to make in hours, maybe days but that decision could wait. Julia started to look forward to Helga's look when she was clean and obviously in her room the night after a job. She pulled up her knees to cover the bottom of her feet with her sweatpants that were entirely too long for her.
Sam couldn't believe their luck. Back on time and in mostly one piece. He looked at his older brother who looked quite comfortable leaning next to Julia who was wearing her hair down for the first time. They both looked at ease but Sam would see a passing look of worry and concern on her face for the briefest second before her laughter would ring out. Sam wondered what she could be worrying about. They had vanquished Helen, Liam was dead, and she was finally free.
Dean felt the warmth of Julia next to him. For a moment, he felt normal, well as normal as a Winchester could be. Sam was laughing, Julia was in one piece, and her brother JJ was okay too. If it wasn't for the ominous smell of the hospital, Dean felt like he was carefree and not a hunter for just a second. That second faded and a smile creped up on his face. Not a Hunter, don't make me laugh. Before Dean could keep pretending he was asleep Sam caught his smile.
"And he's alive. Dean open those eyes, you're about to see a nurse have a heart attack," Sam joked just as the door opened from the outside. Dean cracked open his eyes as the doctor from the night before walked in.
"Julia, you made it," he stated in total and complete shock. It was well know knowledge that Julia never made it back before morning, especially in one piece. Everyone in the hospital knew what she did and what she fought. It was the one piece of information that kept her safe in the hospital walls and the one reason why he left her go the night before.
"Dean what happened to your head?" Doctor Martin asked but Dean's answer wasn't heard. At that exact moment Head Nurse Helga walked into the room with anger on her face. She was talking to another nurse about how Julia wasn't going to be in the room when she stopped dead in her tracks. Silence filled the room.
"Nurse Helga, could we have four breakfasts in here, we've been up for hours talking and we're all starving?" Julia asked keeping a straight face. Nurse Helga's mouth just hung for moments while the four tried not to laugh. Doctor Martin opened one of the drawers on the room and pushed the table over by the four.
"Dean, I think you need stitches," he laughed as Helga walked out mad as a dog that was just denied a treat. Julia felt Dean tense up. His hand slid from her thigh but Julia was too fast. She turned herself sideways draping her legs over his and grabbed his hand.
"That's what it is isn't it? You're afraid of needles," Julia said with another straight face. Sam started to laugh as Dean looked confused for a moment. Of course he wasn't afraid of needles. He squinted at Julia to size her up.
"You're in luck Dean, I know this great story about two little boys who liked to play Superman," Julia said with a smile.
"Name two little boys you know," JJ cut in not knowing of the things that had already transpired between the three. His comment made Sam burst out laughing and Julia stuck out her tongue at her brother. Dean tried to make his face look younger.
"Does he have anything to numb the area," he squeaked out. Julia's face looked at him in shock before she slugged him in the arm.
"I don't sound like that," she shrieked as Dean rubbed his arm in fake pain. The room continued to laugh well beyond Nurse Helga returning with the four breakfasts and the four rehashing their story to Dr. Martin.
A/N: There is about one more chapter after this one. Yep, this crazy journey is finally coming to an end!
