A/N: Okay here is chapter 12 and I hope you like it, and are you ready this story is almost done... but before I start thinking it's over I have to end it first hmm... back to business so on with the show shall we...

Chapter 12: I Know

It had been two days, two days since Dani locked herself in that room... and she hadn't even come out for food. She would only talk to Missouri when the older woman brought her food and drinks. She wouldn't even talk to her brother's, or her father, well that was obvious. Dani wondered if they had done it, if the dark evil, that she knew was in the world, had won... she didn't know but the reality was that this might've been their goal... to isolate her. Dean was angry, not at her, not at his brother or father, not even at the older woman who seemed to be looking around in his head whenever she got the chance... in his opinion. He was angry at himself, for choosing to leave his sister in the dark about what had happened to both him and Sam, for choosing to think that she wouldn't find out; she wasn't dumb, she was his sister after all. Sam was just sitting on the front porch thinking of how Dean chose that way of action, and that it was his older brother's fault that his older sister wouldn't talk to either of them, but fact is that he had never done anything to change Dean's mind, he was a part to be blamed as well. John just stood in Missouri's back yard with 'The Colt' in hand, trying to figure out how his family became so broken... and disfunctional... noo bad word to use in this type of situation. But he knew he had to face facts, he made them this way... he made them so fucked up that if Mary were alive that she would be dissappointed in him, that he chose this way to raise his children... to raise them to be fighters and to fight every bad son of a bitch that they could find, it was, ultimately his fault.

Now Missouri entered her room with a tray full of food, trying to make her eat sometime today. Danielle was sitting in front of the window, looking out at the world... like she was an outsider looking in.

""Here you go childe, I made some lunch for you" Dani stayed silent, not moving from looking out the window.

"Do you ever think life would be different?" she asked as Missouri was leaving, not knowing that Dean had snuck up to eavesdrop.

"If what childe, life would be different if what?" Missouri already knew what Dani's answer would be but it must've been really serious topic to have one of the Winchester's motionless.

"If mom was alive" she choked, Dean just seemed hurt to know that she couldn't come to him with this conversation, but he understood how Dani felt.

"Of course it would be different, for one you and those boys wouldn't be going off into life and death situations" both Dani and Dean smiled at this but refused to laugh, it was too emotional to laugh.

"I just would've loved to know her for longer you know... like Dean did"

"But sweetheart, Dean's memory is fuzzy as well" Missouri said, yes the older boy got on her nerves but she could understand that they both came from a loving family and to have a part of that be taken away must be a terrible and horrible tragedy.

"I know but if it was just a few years later... and to where Sammy could have known her for longer than 6 months, and Dean for more than four years and me, more than two"

Dean was touched, underneath all the hurt and betrayal that she felt she could still think of her brother's it was amazing to him. Sam was standing underneath the window, but Dani was too focused on what she was talking about to notice. Sam was grateful that someone other than him thought that way, Dean probably thought like that too but he never said so, he liked his life... kicking ass was good for his older brother.

Suddenly blood started to drip down from Dani's chest and only missouri noticed it, Dani was too mesmorized by what she saw out the window... she saw her mother calling out to her, guiding her to meet her where they could be together agaain.

"Childe, your bleeding" noticing the dark red colour that her shirt was becaming.

""No, no it's not real, it's not real" Dani cried.

Missouri led her over to thee bed and laid Danii down so she could look where Dani was bleeding from, but when she looked she saw nothing. Dean and Sam had crept aay quietly not hearing the whole bleeding thing.

"Shh childe, Sleep now, we'll talk about it later"

And as quickly as Danielle drifted off to sleep, the bleeding slowly stopped... not knowing what to do, Missouri took the tray of food back into the kitchen and walked out to join Dean and Sam, John was still outside. She sat down and waited for John to get back, as she processed what had just happened, she knew what she had to do.

It had taken an hour to get John back into the house and thank god Dani was still sleeping. The living room was silent until Missouri spoke up, with a knowing look of confidence on her face.

"I know who that girl needs to see" Missouri annnounced.

"Who?" asked Sam and Dean in unison.

"A friend of mine can tell us what is happening to your sister and can explain why this demon or Meg as you call her is after her"

"Oh no... not her" John stuttered.

"Who's her, and what's so special about her" Dean and Sam asked.

"She's a healer"

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Three hours later and Maxie Carlton was there, the so called healer. It took a while for John to agree to this but with a whole lot of explaining and persuading he gave in. dean and Sam were happy that someone could help with her condition. Dani had been put into like some type of dreamscape thingy and Maxie was just walking into the room, and she put her her things down and sat next to Dani without a word. she placed her palms on her chest and closed her eyes, suddenly her eyes shot open and she started mumbling in a different language.

"You... show me the back of your neck" Maxie ordered as she pointed to Sam, she looked and nothing was there.

"You... same thing" she pointed to Dean, she looked and saw it, the mark of a unicorn.

"She's the key" Maxie whispered.

Maxie walked over and checked the back of Dani's neck and found the exact same mark, a unicorn. She looked up at Dean and searched his eyes trying to find an answer.

"Do you know where she got this?" Maxie asked pointing to the mark.

Sam answered no, John answered no... but it took a while for Dean to answer the question. Maxie searched his eyes and found the answer, he did... and she needed to know how.

"How did she get this mark?" she asked again, but this time the question was directed towards Dean.

"My son has know idea what you're talking about" John stood up, furious as hell.

"Yes I do dad... I know"

Everyone sat down, getiing ready to listen to Dean's story. It took awhile but he finally did.

"It was before we ever moved from here, you had just met Pastor Jim and you left Sam there for the night. You told me to take care of Dani which I always did, and then you left. It took a few hours, and a whole tub of ice cream to actually get us loopy, and that's when she said that she wasn't afraid of anything and told me even if I dared her to do it, she wouldn't be scared. So I dared her to search our old house and to end at Sammy's nursery and I would be just outside" Dean gulped, he knew he was gonna get in shit for this, "So she did and I wwas outside, but when she finished in the nursery I saw a whole bunch of red smoke and heard her call my name, but hen I got there she was gone... I soon found her a few hours later at the entrance" Dean finished.

John stood up, angry and about to say something but Maxie stopped him.

"So that explains it"

"It explains what?" Sam asked.

"Why you have the same mark that she does" explained Maxie.

"She's the key" Maxie repeated.

"The key to what... I don't understand" John questioned.

"The key to releasing him" Maxie choked.

"Him, you mean the demon that killed our mother right?" Sam asked desperately.

"Maxie only nodded in saddness, she knew what was going to happen to their sacrifice aka Dani. Dean just fell back down on his chair and cover his face to hide the shame that he felt inside.

"Wait a minute... if Dani's the key... what will happen to her?" Sam asked stuttering.

"She will die"

A/N: Chapter 12 for you, I hope you like it. If you see that button at the bottom of the page, press it and say what you want. And the ideas for the end of this storyare for inspiration, I know what will happen... I just want to know if there is anything you'd like me to incorperate.