Chapter Six
"Dean? Can you put the car and drive" Autumn asked. Dean did just that. He changed the gear to the 'D' with a circle around it.
"Okay, very good. Now press the gas pedal and let's go back to the motel." Dean glared at Autumn in the rear view mirror. She was smiling at him which pissed him off even more. But even though he was mad, he listened to Autumn and drove back to the motel as fast as he could.
Back at the motel Dean was the first to get out of the car. He ran inside and slammed the door behind him.
"Does he always get mad like this when someone smacks him?" Athena asked.
"No. I've never seen him this pissed before about getting smacked. And he gets smacked a lot." Sam replied, opening the door for Autumn and Athena. Autumn got out and walked inside. Followed by Athena and then Sam.
"Dean?" Autumn yelled.
"Yes?" Dean yelled back.
"Are you okay?"
"I am now. Thanks for asking." His voice was coming from the bathroom. Everyone suddenly understood why he had ran inside.
"Okay, so what did you find, Sam?" Athena asked.
"Well, we couldn't take it with us, but there were claw marks engraved into the floor under the little girl's bed. Hard wood, it wasn't pressed wood. So we think it was really angry. That's it. We didn't want to stay very long, Dean had the genius idea of going through her window."
"Ah, well we found this under Jonathan's bed." Athena pulled out part of a claw from a Ziploc bag. It was black, green, and had dried blood on it. "The black is the natural color, we're not sure what the green is, or how it got dried blood on it. The kids didn't have any cuts or bruises, so it must be his own." Athena said. She put what she had of a claw back in the Ziploc bag, sealed it and gave it to Autumn.
"Did you find anything else?"
"Yes, but we didn't bring it."
"What was it?"
"It was Jonathan's baseball bat. It had been broken, and I don't think a boy his age could break a bat."
"Do you think he was trying to defend himself?"
"That was my theory. Whatever we're hunting here must've gotten angry and broken it."
"Exactly."
"Is there a possibility I could go with you to talk to the kids? Autumn and Dean can go around talking to the locals."
"That's fine with me. Is it okay if Sam goes instead, Autumn? Someone's got to be with Dean. He can't be left alone."
"Yeah, that's okay. We'll just have to say we're with the news or something along those lines so they talk." Autumn said.
"Why can't I be left alone?" Dean asked.
"It's just not safe, trust me." Athena answered.
"No… I think you just want to spend time with Sammy."
"Of course I want to spend time with Sam. I want to spend time with you too. You guys were my only two friends as a 10 year old girl, besides Autty."
"You can spend time with me anytime." Dean winked at her.
"No, that's okay. Thanks anyway. I meant like at home watching movies, or at parties. Stuff like that."
"Okay. You tell me if you change your mind though. What all have we found out?"
"It's pissed off, lives under children's beds, it don't appreciate the kids trying to defend themselves and it has claws with green stuff on them and dried blood." Athena answered.
"Dried blood?"
"Yeah, its probably his own because the kids don't have cuts or anything."
"Uh huh. Well who's up for dinner?" Dean asked smiling.
"Here, or out?" Autumn asked.
"Uh… out."
"Where?"
"I don't know. What sounds good?"
"I'm kind of craving wings right now. I know where a wing joint is a few miles away." Athena offered. Everyone agreed, so they once again got into Dean's car and drove off.
"Don't you two have a car?" Dean asked.
"Yeah, but why waste our gas when we can waste yours?" Autumn answered.
"Can't say I wouldn't do the same thing. What kind of car do you have?"
"Red Mustang."
"You must think mine is a piece of crap then."
"No, I kind of like it."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, it's nice. Needs washed and waxed, but it's nice."
"It's stupid to wash and wax it when it gets the crap beat of out it." Autumn shrugged.
"I guess so. We park ours a little ways from where we're going to be. I worked my ass of for years trying to get it."
"Dad gave me this one. I suppose I worked my ass off for years. I listened to, and did everything he told me to do." Dean pulled into the crowded parking lot of the wing joint. He got out of the car, and for the first time in his life, opened the door for a girl. He opened Autumn's side and Sam opened Athena's.
"Was that so hard, Dean?" Athena asked. Dean shut the door behind Autumn. He didn't bother replying to Athena's question. He would of said the wrong thing and gotten smacked again. They reached the front doors of the restaurant. Sam and Dean opened the double doors and let the girls walk in.
