Chapter Seventeen

While Autumn was showering, Athena called for pizza, and Sam filled his brother in on the men from the video store. Dean got one hell of a laugh out of it, slapping his brother on the back and saying "That's my boy." When Athena hung up the phone she grabbed her sister's purse and rummaged through it to find the dough to pay for their pizza pie. The three continued to joke and carry on until Autumn came out. She'd chosen a long sleeved tee with AC/DC's logo on its chest, and flannel pants with Pink Floyd's logo all over them.

"You're mixing your music." Dean commented. She nodded.

"I know. When's the pizza gonna get here?"

"Any time, come have a laugh."

Athena filled her sister in on the story and Autumn wasn't nearly as amused as the others had been. She stopped just short of lecturing them on the Golden Rule and what Barney taught us all. They still hadn't gotten themselves completely under control when someone knocked on the door. The delivery boy tried to crane his head to see over Sam's shoulder, when he paid for pizza, to see the two women laughing inside.

"You getting another boyfriend over there Sammy?" Dean called. The delivery boy then tucked the red bag, used to keep pizzas warm, under his arm and practically ran for the stairs.

"So, what movie are we watching?" Autumn asked while Athena folded out the couch, Dean got the blankets for it, Sam popped the popcorn, and she grabbed the beers out of the mini fridge.

"You'll see." her sister said trying to sound sly. Autumn rolled her eyes and sat the beers down on the coffee table that had spent the past several days shoved up against the wall.

They all piled on the bed, Athena with the remote, holding a slice of pizza and a beer, the bowl of popcorn tucked between Sam and Athena. Dean and Autumn were both on the edge leaving their younger counter parts in the middle. Once everyone had settled in Athena clicked on the movie.

Whining woke Autumn up several hours later. The curtains had been pulled so even had it been high noon the room was dark, that was about the only thing motels did right: thick curtains. She attempted to stretch but found she didn't have room to move. The T.V. screen was glowing blue, so the movie was over. She lay quiet for a moment, someone close was snoring. She sat up deciding whoever else was in bed with her was asleep. John was on the floor sleeping, he must have been dreaming because he was kicking and whining. She smiled at the sight.

She got up to turn off the T.V. and check the time but couldn't help stopping and staring at the forms in her bed. Dean had an arm around his brother, who had Athena cradled in his own arms, and Athena's head rested on Sam's chest. She had to fight off the memory of the four of them camping out in a tent in her basement as children. That night so long ago they had been entertained by Dean's shadow puppets, they'd stayed awake until long after midnight when the boys' father had come in and told them all they had to go to sleep right away or he'd have them up at dawn. Before she could even think about going back to bed she had to get a picture. She clicked on a small lamp and stood still to make sure they weren't going to wake up. Then she snuck over to her duffle bag grabbed her camera out of it and snapped a couple of shots.

2:34 AM is what the clock on her cell phone read, she clicked off the TV and climbed back into bed curling on her side to watch the others. It was a long while before she drifted back to sleep, but finally she was taken away into dream land. A flash of light brought the bed's three occupants back to the waking world. A cruel laugh sounded as they all spit out plastic spoons, gagging.

"What the hell!" Athena called her blurred vision focusing in on the object in her hand.

"Weak Dean." Sam growled throwing his spoon at his brother. The girls followed suit beaming the man in the forehead.

"Nice camera whose is it?" Dean asked clicking it over in to review mode.

"Mine." Autumn said disentangling herself from the blankets and empty beer bottles. "Come here and I'll tell you who the pictures are."

"You can barely see them." Dean noted. Sighing Autumn snatched her computer up and unraveled the digital camera adapter from her case.

"Bring it here I need to download them anyway." Athena and Sam scooted over allowing Dean admittance to bed. He forked over the camera and a few clicks and a twice as many minutes later Autumn turned the screen so the other three could see.

"Oh gosh! I forgot about that." Athena laughed. The picture that popped up was her and Autumn standing next to a high school boy they'd spent most of their last case with. His shaggy, dirty blond hair in his eyes and an arm around each of their waist.

"That's Josh Mc Formic, his brother was killed by a rogue spirit." Autumn said before clicking to the next picture. "There's Jenny, and Penny, they were sisters that ran the motel we stayed in a few months back, they're husbands were both shipped to Iraq last year." The women were young and had inherited the motel that had been opened by their great grandfather.

"Autty, that's the house we exorcized right?" Athena asked when the picture of a yellow cottage surrounded by a beautiful garden showed up.

"No, that was the pastor's house. The one that tried to exorcize us." Autumn answered.

"Why?" Dean asked.

"Because he thought we were possessed. It didn't go over to well when we told him his church was being targeted."