I think "Simon Says" by Pharoahe Munch goes along pretty well with this chapter considering that is what I was listening to when I wrote it. Just a reminder, I don't own Dean, Sam, Roy, Hailey or her brother or any other familiar character from "Supernatural", I do, however, own amber. For those of you who have not read the beginning chapters, I picture Amber looking like the woman on the front cover of the book "A Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray.
Sorry my chapters vary in length. I try to make them as long as I possibly can, but I do like the cliffhanger endings.
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Chapter 16: On the Run
When they pulled apart the second time, Dean smirked down at her,
"Now that wasn't so bad, was it?" Dean asked, "Wait, don't answer that!"
Amber laughed.
"Just give me some time," she said.
"Would you be…" Dean began, but was cut off by yelling in the darkness.
All six of them turned towards the direction of the yelling. It came from behind them, down the hill. Dean and Sam both pulled out their guns, cocking them.
"Stay here!" Dean ordered.
"Inside the magic circle?" Roy asked sarcastically.
"Yeah," Dean said, running out into the darkness with his brother Sam.
"I don't think so," Roy stated, cocking his gun, chasing after them.
"Wait!" Amber yelled, running towards the edge of the circle and stopping, "Don't!" she called again, but the three of them were gone, leaving her alone with Hailey and Ben, "Shit!" she threw her hands up in the air.
"What do we do now?" Hailey panicked.
"Stay here," Amber replied, "Wait for them."
Hailey, Ben and Amber sat around the fire, huddled close to one another, terribly frightened. They sat there, listening for any sort of sound, but heard nothing until about five minutes later. A gunshot echoed through the woods followed by incoherent shouts. The three of them instantly stood up and listened, hearing footsteps quickly approaching them. As the footsteps got louder, they huddled closer together. The three of them sighed as they saw Sam and Dean emerge from behind a tree,
"Oh thank God," Amber placed a hand over her heart
"Where's Roy?" Hailey eyed the gun in Dean's hand.
"I didn't shoot him, if that's what your thinking," Dean told her, putting the gun away, "We're leaving!"
"Leaving, what about Tommy?" Hailey took a few steps towards Dean.
"We have to move away from here," Dean said.
"How do we know it's not going to follow us?" amber asked from her spot beside Hailey.
"We don't, now let's go," Dean replied, taking Amber's hand and pulling her towards him, leading her into the woods, Sam, Hailey and Ben following behind them, tree branches crunching beneath their feet.
It was morning by time they were close to their destination. They walked through the woods, but Sam stopped them in the middle of a clearing.
"Wait, look," he pointed to claw marks on all the surrounding trees, red and angry.
They all stopped and looked around them. They all turned in time to see Hailey land on her butt after a high-pitched scream and see a dead Roy land beside her.
"Oh my God," Amber turned away from the scene as Sam ran over to Hailey,
"Are you alright?" Sam asked, helping Hailey up off the ground.
"His neck's broken," Dean stated after touching Roy's neck.
They all turned and looked towards the direction they had just come when they heard a twig snapping and saw something run across the path.
"Let's go!" Dean yelled to them, running off towards the right, grabbing amber's hand and dragging her along with him. They all ran as fast as their legs could carry them, which was pretty fast considering their current situation. None of them looked back, except Sam, who stopped to help Ben who had tripped. Hailey, Dean and amber continued running until something large stepped in front of them. Amber felt the blood drain from her face as the large creature, half man, half…something else, roared at them. Dean took three steps back, holding his arm out in front of amber, trying to protect her somewhat. The only thing Amber remembered before everything went black was them turning to run, but not even being able to take one step before something hit them over the head, knocking them out. The only thing Sam heard was Hailey and Amber's screams then silence.
