Rain woke to greet the sun. She looked over at her sleeping brother's and smiled. She loved them more than they'll ever know. During the night she had dreams of her former childhood and that kept her awake most of the night. Her dreams showed her the demon, the tourcher, the pain, and the sacrafice she had made for Sam. Even at five she was fully aware of what happened to her. She signed and went into the bathroom. She grabbed the step that she used to give her extra hight. She looked at herself in the mirror and rubbed her cheek. It was true, she hated her father for what he had done, but still she even wondered if she deserved it. She washed her face and went back into the other room where Sam and Dean were still asleep. She sat looking out the window untill Sam woke two hours later. She looked over at him and smiled. She got down and hopped into his bed.
"Your up early." Sam said as he messed her hair. She grabbed his hand to get him to stop. "What's wrong?"
"I had scarey dreams. The bad man was there and he hurt you and Dean." Sam just looked at his sister with worry filled eyes. "There was fire and blood." She looked up into Sam's eyes. She saw the fear he felt for her and somehow Sam knew that. "Where are we going today?"
"Well. We have to go to Texas."
"What's there?" As she asked, Sam was getting up and heading for the bathroom. He didn't want to tell her what they were going for, so he thought to stall.
"Nothing. Can you wake up Dean for me?"
"Sure!" Rain stood up and jumped onto Dean's bed. Little did Rain know that he was already awake and caught her before she landed on the bed. She looked down at him as he held her in the air. "No fair!"
"What?" Dean asked as innocently as he could.
"You were supposed to be sleeping!"
"So you were going to jump on me?"
"Um..."
"Rain." Dean set her down and she leaned against his chest.
"So. I'm allowed to."
"And why is that?"
"Because. I'm the youngest." She looked up at him and smiled. "That means I can jump on you whenever I want." Dean just laughted at how cute his sister was and how much he missed her. Sure she was here, but she wasn't. He wanted the twenty five year old Rain, not the five year old one. Dean got up when Sam came out of the bathroom.
"Get something to eat. We leave soon." Sam looked over at Rain, who was already dressed.
"You hungry?" She nodded. "Come on. We'll go get something to eat while he's in the shower." She grabbed his hand as they headed out the door.
"Your lying Sammy." Rain said without even looking at him. He had to admit that it caught him a little off guard. He stopped and looked at her.
"What are you talking about?"
"I wanna know the truth." She crossed her arms to let him know she ment it. "I wanna know why we are leaving." Sam was speechless.
"Well...we found a way to help you." A smile spread across Rain's face, but Sam stayed the same.
"I thought that would be good." Rain was a little...ok a lot confussed at why her brother wasn't as happy as her.
"It is good."
"Then why are you so sad?" It was true. Sam was feeling a little down at what he was going to do.
"Let's get back to the room ok."
"NO!" Sam stopped again and looked at her. "Your not telling me something and I want to know what it is!"
"We need to go now Rain." Sam and Rain looked at Dean. "There isn't alot of time left."
"But.."
"No but's Rain, now get in the car. You too Sam." Dean turned to go to the car, followed by his siblings. The drive to Texas was pretty quiet. There was, of course, AC/DC playing the whole way. Every now and then Rain would look at Sam and roll her eyes. He would do the same. She looked over at Dean and he seemed to be lost in thought.
"Dean."
"What is it Rain?" He asked no even taking his eyes off the road.
"The reason we are go here."
"That's not import..."
"It's because of this mark isn't it?" Dean shot a quick look at Sam and he looked as shocked as Dean. "You can't hide it from me Dean. I can hear remember." She pointed to her head and looked at the floor. "This is going to hurt bad." Sam placed his arm around her shoulder and looked back at Dean.
"We have to get rid of that mark in order to get you back to your normal self." Dean explained forgetting he's talking to a five year old.
"How are you going to do that?"
"Well..." How was Dean going to explaing this one. 'Oh Rain, just hold still while Sam and I burn off the mark on your back. Sorry about the pain. Yea that'll work.' Dean thought.
"Fire?"
"Crap!"
Rain looked at her twin with fear in her eyes. "You have to burn me to get it off?"
"Yes."
"It's the only way Rain. We've looked, but found nothing else that works." Sam said as Dean tried hard to hide the tears in his eyes. It killed him to know what he was going to have to do to his sister. It was the only way. It had to be done or else she would regress in age untill she didn't exsist anymore.
"But.."
Dean cut her off before she could finish, "We're here guys." Sam looked at the building and then at Rain. She was still looking at the floor as Dean got out. "Come on Rain." He held his hand out and even thought she knew what was going to happen, she took it and followed him. Sam was close behind as they entered the building. Before them stood a man in his late fourties and behing him was an alter. Rain hid behind Dean's leg.
"Dean we can't." Rain whispered.
"It'll be alright." Dean pulled Rain along till they stood in front of the man.
"No Dean. It won't be alright." That's when Sam noticed something in her voice. Not fear, but something else. He looked at her and then this man. Rain knew who this was.
"Rain." She looked at Sam. "What's up?"
"It's the man with the funny eyes." She pointed at the man and he smiled. Dean looked from Rain to Sam to this man. HE knew she was telling the truth, but he found out to late. He and Sam were thrown to the wall and stuck to it. Rain was left by herself with the demon, with Uvall. "SAM! DEAN!" She screamed when she saw what happened to her brothers. She turned back to the demon. He placed his hands on her shoulders and it send a chill down her spine.
"It's been a long time since I saw you this young Rain. It's nice to see again after all we have been through together." His smile was sadistic and that alone scared her. She tried to get away, but his grip was to strong for her to break. "Now now. You don't think I'm going to let you go that easily again, do you?"
"Please let me go." She was struggling with every fiber of her being to break free, but it was useless.
"Fine." He tossed her onto the floor and she sat up and looked at him. "Your so cute you know that?" Sam and Dean were watching all of this from their new home on the wall. "I'm going to talk to your brother's and then I'll be back to talk to you ok." He walked over to where Dean and Sam were. "Nice to see you two again. Where's John?"
"What the hell do you want?" Dean snapped at him. Uvall focused on Dean and that made Rain even more scared than she already was.
"Your not very polite are you?"
"Why don't you bite me you demonic piece of shit!"
"Oh temper, temper. And the language infront of the child." He looked over to where he left Rain and she was no where to be seen. "Now where did she run off to?" He looked back at Dean. "She's a speedy one that Rain. Even when I was with her, always wanted to get things done quick if you know what I mean. I liked to take my time. Make it last." He was so happy with himself with how mad he was making Dean, knowing full well Dean couldn't do anything about it. Uvall leaned in closer to Dean's ear and whispered, "She was so sweet at this age wasn't she? A shame I had to take that sweetness away. Guess I'll get to do it all over again!" Dean was fumeing at what he was hearing. All he wanted to do was tear this demon apart with his bear hands, and if he was free he probably would have. Sam couldn't hear anything that was just said, but he knew it wasn't good for how mad Dean was. "Did you ever wonder what I really did to her? I'll tell you what, I'll go find her and then I'll show you." Uvall backed away and smiled at the faces Dean and Sam were making at him. ""Don't go anywhere boys."
"Don't worry they won't!" Uvall turned and came face to face with Rain. A twenty five year old Rain. "Time to send you back to hell!" She lifted the gun and fired hitting him in the chest. Uvall flew back in-between Sam and Dean and then fell to the ground. Rain soon followed as did her brother's. They were quickly by her side.
"This isn't over! Without your powers you'll be easy to kill." With that the demon was gone AGAIN.
"How?" Dean asked looking at Rain.
"I burned it off stupid." She sat up and lifter the back of her shirt to revieal her new wound. Sam looked at Dean in shock.
"You did this to yourself?"
"I had to. He would of killed you and then me. A shame my demon powers are gone with it." She said as Dean helped her up. She couldn't quite stand by herself and she fell against him. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it. So what about your powers?"
"Somehow the little demon power's I had were also connected to that mark. It turns out that it wasn't the candyman that gave it to me after all. It was Uvall. He planned it from the beginning. That night, the fire, me giving my life for Sam's, everything. He planned it all." They made it back to the car and still all got into the front seat.
"So that night. He knew." She nodded at Sam's question.
"He was never going to take you Sammy. The whole plan was for me. Why? I don't know, but I am going to find out."
"So then why did all the candyman's victims all have the same mark?" Dean asked as the trio drove away. Rain looked at her brother and smiled. She was happy to be this age again. She was happy to have the 'twin thing' back to it's full strength again, hell she was glad to see over the dashboard.
"To throw you off Dean. He didn't think you would figure out that those marks were connected. He didn't plan on me being strong enough to burn it off myself." She leaned against Sam's side and closed her eyes.
"You know we have to look at that when we get to a motel." Dean said.
"I know, but for now I just want to sleep." Dean smiled at his sister. He was glad to have her back to her old self and fro mthe look on Sam's face, he felt the same. 'Hey Dean.'
'Yea?'
'Thanks.'
'For what?'
'Standing up to dad the way you did. Didn't think you had it in ya.'
'You remember all that?'
'Yup. Dad hit's pretty hard man.'
'Your welcome Rain. Just get some sleep ok.'
'I will.'
'How's your back?'
'It'll be fine for now. Just patch me up later.'
'Will do. Night Rain.'
'Night Dean.' "Night Sam." Sam looked down at her and then at Dean. He knew he missed something, but right now he didn't care.
"Goodnight Raindrop." Rain smiled at her nickname and fell asleep, quickly followed by Sam. Dean was left all alone to drive to their next destanation. He smiled at the thought that they were all ok and that Rain was normal again. Still, his happy thoughts soon turned to his father. How was he going to deal with that? More importantly, how was Rain?
A/N Sorry this is so short. It's late and I'm tired. Next one will be longer I promise. REVIEW! Thanks to all who reviewed and for all who read this and my other stories.
