Chapter 8

Before I begin I just wanted to let everyone know that I posted the same chapter twice and that's why there is no chapter 3. Chapter 4 is really three oh well. The story is the way it shoud be now so no one is missing anything. Now on to the REAL chapter 8.

The two siblings were asleep in their nice warm beds when Rain came back from the store. She looked at her sleeping brothers and smiled. "They like to sleep don't they." She softly whispered to herself as she drank her coffee. She was thinking about all the stuff she had said to Dean before she shot him and knew she had to talk it over with him regardless of what he said. She was just looking at random things on the internet when Dean's phone rang. She went over and answered it so not to wake her brothers. "What?"

"Rain? It that you?" Rain lost her breath when she realized who's voice it was.

"Dad? What do you want?" She asked as she went outside to talk.

"Your normal again?"

"Yeah and I remember what you did."

"Listen Rain I.."

"I don't care now tell me what you want."

"Let me speak to Dean."

"Um no."

"Rain, put your brother on the phone. That's an order."

"Last time I checked I don't follow your orders." With that line she closed the phone and went back inside to be greeted by Sam. "Morning Sam."

"Where were you?"

"Outside. Had to take a call and didn't want to wake ya. Sleep well?"

"Fine. Why?" He asked as he rummaged through his bag to get his clothes. Rain sat on the bed and watched him. "What do you want Rain?"

"You still having those nightmares aren't you?" Sam stopped and looked at her.

"No."

"I was sleeping in the same bed as you man and you were tossing and turning all night. Not to mention you talking about Jess." Once Rain realized what she had said, she quickly got up and left. "I'll be back later." Sam watched his older sister leave and signed. He hated it when Rain mentioned Jessica's name and always let her know that.

"Where is she going?" Sam picked up his head at looked at Dean.

"I don't know. She just said she'll be back later. I'm going to shower." Sam went into the bathroom as Dean phone began to ring. Dean moaned as he got up to answer it. He also wondered why it was on the other side of the room. He always put it on the nightstand next to his bed.

"Yea?" He answered with his eyes half closed.

"Is that any way to answer the phone Dean." Dean's eyes shot open.

"Dad?"

"What the hell is up with your sister?"

"What do you mean? We got her back to normal you know."

"I know. I called before and she hung up on me."

"Really? What do you want anyways?" Dean asked as he pulled on his boots.

"I have another job for you. There's a stretch of highway on the way to Burkitsville, Indiana in which couples keep vanishing."

"And you want us to check it out?"

"Yes. Is there something wrong with that?"

"No sir." Dean answered before he could stop himself. The last thing he wanted is to show his father any kind of respect.

"Good. I'll talk to you soon." And John hung up. Dean closed his phone as Sam came out of the bathroom. Dean looked at him.

"We have a job." Sam looked at him.

"Where at?"

"Indiana. Dad called. Call Rain. We'll leave when I get out of the shower." Sam dialed Rain's number and sure enough after two rings she picked up.

"What do you want Sam?" Sam was caught offguard on how angry she sounded.

"You alright?"

"Fine. So why'd you call me?"

"We have a job to do. Where are you?"

"Walking. Do this job yourself. I'll meet up with you later ok." Before Sam had a chance to answer she hung up. Sam signed as Dean came up behind him.

"Where is she?"

"Walking. She said to do this ourselves and she'll meet us later."

"Is she ok?"

"She seemed fine. Just a little mad."

"Well then let's go." They packed up and left the motel and made there way to Burkitsville.

General POV with Rain

'Why the hell am I so mad at him? I'm the one that killed Jess and now I'm walking alone. This blows.' She was walking along a little back road when a truck stopped next to her. She looked at the driver. "Yes? Something I can do for you?"

"Wondering if you might need a ride someplace?" She studied him for a minute and got into the truck.

"Thanks."

"No problem. Where you headed?"

"Nowhere. Just needed to get away. Names Rain by the way."

"That's a pretty name. Mine's Brian."

"Nice to meet you Brian. So where does this road lead anyways?" She asked as she watched the trees pass by.

"A town called Burkitsville. It's a quiet place so if your looking for somewhere to hide for a while, it'll be perfect."

"That's good." Rain's phone rang. "What?"

"That's no way to talk to your loving brother."

"What do you want Dean?"

"Where are you?"

"Nowhere."

"Rain what's wrong? Why did you just leave like that?" Rain could hear the concern in Dean's voice and it made her a little upset.

"I just needed to get away Dean. Nothing more. There's no big thing going on. I'm going to go. I'll call you later ok." Rain hung up her phone and turned to look out the window again and noticed that they had stopped. "Why did we..." She was cut off by the driver putting a damp cloth over her mouth. She was struggling and trying to scream, but nothing came out. She slowly slipped into darkness and she slumped over in her seat. Without a word he drove off into town.

General POV with Dean and Sam

"Well?" Sam was waiting for his brother to explain what Rain had said.

"She'll meet up with us later. For now we're going to Burkitsville to check this thing out. So what's the deal with these missing couples?" Sam pulled out a map and laptop and began looking for anything that stood out as odd.

"Well it appears that three couples have disappeared over a three year peroid on the same day in April. They all traveled the same road going through Burkitsville. Hey Dean."

"What Sam?"

"Don't you think we should go and get Rain?" Sam asked after he explained everything he learned about the missing couples.

"She can take care of herself. Right now we have to find out what's going on in this town." Sam looked at his brother and shook his head.

"Stop the car." Dean glanced at Sam. "Now Dean pull over." Dean did as he was asked and Sam got out and went to the trunk. "Keys."

"What are you doing?" Dean asked as he tossed Sam his keys.

"Going to get Rain."

"But we have to do this job Sam. Dad said that.."

"You follow dad's orders, I'm going after Rain." Sam said as he pulled out some of his belongings. Dean stood in shock at what his baby brother was doing.

"So your just going to leave?"

"Yes. If following dad's order's are more important than your sister then fine. I'm not going anywhere untill I find Rain."

"I will leave you here Sam. If you really want to leave than I'll leave you."

"That's what I want you to do." Sam turned to Dean. "I can't believe that this is more important than Rain."

"We have a job to do Sam. Rain will be fine. Now are you comming or not?" After a moment of silence Dean turned and got beck in the car. Sam watched his older brother drive off and he continued walking the opposite way. He wasn't even sure if Rain went this way, but he had to look. She would do the same for him. It pissed Sam off that Dean didn't come, but right now Rain was more important than his anger. He had a feeling something was wrong and that was weird. Dean's the one that always knew what was wrong with their sister, not Sam. Still he knew something happened to her and he was going to find out what, without Dean's help.

POV with Dean

He pulled into town still curseing Sam that he left. He parked the Impala and pulled out his phone. He skipped down to Sam's name and thought about calling him. He changed his mind rather quick and went to look arounf town. He saw a man sitting out in front of a local store and thought this was a good a place as any to start asking questions. "Escuse me."

"What is it?"

'A pleasent one this man.' "I was wondering if you had seen my cousins?" He handed this man, who's name was Scotty, a picture of the latest missing couple. "He and his wife went missing and this is the last place they called from." Scotty looked at the picture before handing it back to Dean.

"Haven't seen them."

"Ok. Thanks." He walked into another local store and asked the owners if they had seen them. Neither the man or his wife saw the young couple. It was their niece Emily that recognized Vince, the young man that's missing, by the tattoo on his arm. She said that they passed by, but only stayed long enough to get gas. "You wouldn't happen to know what road they took out of her would you?"

"There is only one road in or out. It passes by the apple ochard. That way." The man pointed and Dean went.

"Thanks for all your help." He drove down the road and as he passed the orchard, his EMF detector went off. "What the?" He pulled over and walked through the field. He came across an very ugly scarecrow and noticed a mark on it's upper arm. Dean grabbed a ladder and got a closer look. "Dude you fugly!" He said as he got a good look at it's face. His vision mover to the mark and it was the same as the tattoo that the missing man had. He went back to the car and yes called Sam.

"Hey Sam. How ya been?"

"Fine. You?"

"Super. Find Rain?"

"Not yet. Where are you?"

"Burkitsville. I think I might know what's going on. Where are you anyways?"

"A bus station. So what's up?"

"Well I think I'm dealing with a god."

"A god?" Sam asked shocked.

"A pagan god accually. That explains why it's always a man and a women. Their using the couples as fertility sacrifices."

"What else did you find?"

"I have a meeting with a professer and that's where I'm going now. You know since I don't have my trusty sidekick geek boy to do the research for me."

Sam laughed. "Listen Dean, about the way I left."

"I know man. I'm worried about Rain too, but she'll be fine. I wanted to tell you that...um that I." Dean couldn't get the right words out, but Sam got what he was trying to say.

"I'm sorry to Dean."

"Call me when you find her."

"I will. Bye.

"Bye." Dean hung up and drove to the local school to have his little meeting. "Thanks for seeing me so late." He said as he met the professer, who we'll call Pete.

"I don't know what you hope to learn from me." Pete said as he led Dean into a room where he pulles out an old book about pagan gods.

"I was just looking up info about a certain one. A fertility one."

"Well if it does exsist then it'll be in here." They flipped through the pages untill Dean stopped at one.

"Here. A vanir that get's it's energy from a sacred tree. Kinda looks like a scarecrow huh?"

"Well I suppose it does."

"You think if you tourch this tree it'll kill the god?" Pete looked at Dean.

"This is just a legend we're talking about here."

"Your right. Thanks for all your help." Dean shook his hand and was about to leave, but as soon as he opened the door the sheriff knocked him out cold. Pete looked at Dean and shook his head. The sheriff took Dean and threw him into a wine cellar and when he came to he saw someone he didn't expect.

"How do ya feel?"

"Rain? What the hell are you doing here?" Dean asked as he rubbed his head. "How long were you here?"

"Long enough. Where's Sam?"

"Looking for you." Dean stood up and was soon joined by Rain.

"So what are they planning on doing?" She asked as Dean tried to break his way out.

"You don't know?"

"Nope. Some guy knocked me out and here I stayed."

"Well the short version is that they're gooing to sacraffice us to some god in order to keep sickness away and for good crops." Dean explained as he gave up and sat down.

"On the bright side."

"There's a bright side?"

"We need to talk about what happend in that asylum."

"For the last time Rain, there's nothing to talk about."

"Yes there is." Rain was going to continue, but the cellar door opened and the twins came face to face with men from the town pointing guns at them. "Damn it!"

"It's time to go." An older man said as Dean and Rain were led out of the cellar at gun point. They were talking to the orchard and tied to different tree's.

"So sheriff, how many people have you killed? How many cars have you hidden?"

"We don't kill the people."

"No but you sure cover it all up nice." Dean was a little pissed at mr. sheriff man.

"You have to understand the way it works here. The sacrafice of the one benifits the many." An older women said.

"That's all bullshit and you know it." Rain spat at her.

"Either way this is your time." The sheriff said as the town's people left poor Rain and Dean to be the next sacrafice.

"I hope your apple pie is fricken worth it!" Dean yelled as he watched the towns people leave him and his sister there.

"Hey Dean. How we gonna get out of this one?"

"I'm working on it."

Dusk

"You don't have a plan do you?" Rain asked as she struggled against the ropes that tied her hands to the tree.

"I'm working on it." Dean had nothin. "Can you see the scarecrow? Has he moved yet?"

"I can't see him at all. This really sucks, but hey!"

"What?"

"About what I said in the asylum."

"Now's so not the time Rain."

"Maybe not, but at least you can't run away and you have to listen to me."

"I'll make you a deal, we get out of this alive and I'll talk about it ok?"

"Fair enough." Rain was looking around and she saw a shadow heading for Dean. 'Dean. Shadow headed your way.'

'Are you kidding?'

'Does it sound like I'm kidding?' Dean struggled against his ropes now just as the shadow came into view.

"Sam?"

"Dean? Rain? What the hells going on?"

"Guess who the next sacrafices are?" Rain asked with a smile. "You going to untie us now?"

"Not yet. How do we kill it?" Sam looked at Dean. "Well?"

"Burn the tree. It's the only thing I can think of since this god get's it's power from it." Dean explained. "Now untie us."

"No. Where is this tree?"

"Somewhere here. It'll be really old looking. Please man, my wrists are chafeing."

"I'll be right back." Sam left.

"Sam! What the hell is he thinking?" Dean asked no one.

"You think he'll find the tree before the scarecrow kills us?"

"I don't know. Can you see where the scarecrow is?"

"I already told you no. Wait. I take that back. Look. Dead ahead." The twins turned their attation to the thing walking to them. "SAMMY HURRY!" The scarecrow stopped in front of the two. It was deciding which to take first. 'This isn't good Dean.'

'Tell me about it. If we die, I'm going to haunt Sam for the rest of his life.'

'I think your first man.' The scarecrow raised it's sickle and before he brought it down he vanished. 'You can open your eyes now Dean.'

"Where did it go?"

"I burned the tree." All eyes on Sam. "The state police are dealing with the town's people."

"Great. Now untie us." Dean demanded.

"Nope. Can't do that." Sam said as he sat in front of them.

"And why not?" Rain asked.

"Not untill you work everything out."

"What?"

"You heard me. Work out your issues with each other before I untie you." Rain hit her head against the tree she was tied to.

"I'm going to kill you Sam, but I have to agree with you. We need to talk about it now Dean."

"Fine. It's not like I have a choice this time. So talk."

"Why do I have to start?"

"Fine I'll start." Rain said. "You know what I said in Rockford."

"How could I forget."

"Dean shut it." Sam demanded. Dean looked at him and zipped his lips. "Continue Rain."

"Thanks. Anyway I ment it all."

"What?" Dean yelled. "But you said that.."

"I know what I said. I didn't want to kill you or even shoot you at all, but the you following dad's order's after everything that happened. That pissed me off and it hurt man."

"What do you mean it hurt?" Sam asked. 'I think I like playing shrink.'

"It's simple. After Dean threantened to kill dad or what ever, he still followed his orders like he always did. I mean dad was a real ass during my five year old spell and you acted like it never happened."

"It's not like that Rain. It's not like I forgot about what dad did because I didn't. It's just that.."

"Just what?"

"I don't know. I was scared."

"Scared of what man?"

"Dad leaving. I mean you guys are the onlt thing I have left and if dad was to leave..." Sam and Rain looked at one another and then at Dean. "I just didn't want to make him mad and never want to come back."

"You know that he'll always come back and you know that you always have us." Sam said before Rain could. "The thing is Rain."

"Yo!" Sam smiled at her.

"Did you really mean everything you said?"

"Ok not everything. I mean some stuff was Dr. Crazy. I was just so angry at you Dean that I didn't care what I said. I picked words that I knew would hurt you the most and I'm sorry man." Tears were forming in her eyes and she wasn't the only one. Sam too felt like crying, as did Dean.

"I am too. I love you two more than anything and I just want to know that you'll both always be there no matter what."

"You need to ask that?" Sam said as he went to untie Rain.

"I guess. I just...I know that you both want your own lives after this whole thing is over and I just don't know what I'm going to do." Rain walked over and untied Dean, then her and Sam sat next to him.

"You know that we'll do anything for you Dean right?" Rain asked.

"I know. I just don't want to loose you two like we lost dad."

"You won't. Hell I'm not going anywhere any time soon." Sam said as he stood up. He was soon joined by Rain and Dean.

"You have to do more than yell at me to get me to go anywhere." Rain said with a smile.

"Thanks guys. I needed that." Dean said as they headed for the car. He grabbed his younger siblings and pulled them into a group hug, which at first shock them both. After a second the hugfest was on. It may have only lasted a moment, but to them it was like an eternity. The trio got into the car with Rain behind the wheel.

"Well." Sam started.

"Ok Dr. Phil, where to next?" Dean asked Sam. He laughed and was about to say something, but thought against it. "What?"

"Nothing. Let's just go out tonight. Find something to hunt tomorrow ok." Dean and Rain nodded in agreement and they went to the nearest bar for some good ol' fun.

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