Chapter 8: Yellow Eyes
Ring ring.
The sound of my phone snapped me out of my trace. The last week Kelsey and I had tried to find more information out on the Cold Ones but hit every dead end possible. I blinked a few times trying to refocus my vision before I grabbed my phone.
"Winchester speaking."
"Lex?" John Winchester's voice came through the other line sounding exhausted.
"Dad! Where are you? Is everything alright?" I haven't heard from my dad in a few weeks and he sounded worse than before.
"Yeah I'm fine.. Look I'm on my way to Forks. I need the Colt, Lex."
"Oh okay. Yeah dad. When will you be here? Can I come with you?" I pleaded.
"I-look Lex, I'll be there by night fall do not tell Charlie or anyone that I'm coming." Dads voice was serious.
"Yes sir. Should I meet you somewhere or are you coming to Charlie's?"
"Meet me at the diner around 8."
"Yes sir."
Click
Dad hung the phone up as the words were barley out of my mouth. Well alright then. I closed the lap top and went up to my room flopping down on my bed. This place was too quiet. Kelsey had gone home a few nights ago when her dad, Bobby started blowing her phone up needing her back home, and Bella had been hanging out with Jake all the time lately. Which I still don't understand why since she was crying a few days ago about him not wanting to be friends. Whatever, her life I guess. On top of everything, Paul seemed to be avoiding me like the plague the last week. Maybe we shouldn't of gotten drunk Monday and hooked up. I'm so stupid. That's all he wanted probably and everything he was saying to me was a way to butter me up. Taking in a deep breath I rolled over on my back looking at the ceiling. Should I call him? Or would that make me even more desperate. Being a girl sucks. Patting my bed I tried finding my phone without moving.
When I finally found it I clicked on his name in my texts. God I look so desperate. Counting I sent him six messages over the last three days that he never responded to. Okay maybe I'll call him and if he doesn't answer I won't ever bother him again. Deep breath Lex, one call that's it. Pressing the call button I tentatively held the phone to my ear. He's not going to answer I knew this was dumb I scolded myself mentally. There were four rings one more before it would go to voicemail.
"Hello?" Paul's raspy voice said.
Holy hell he answered.
"Hello..?" Paul said a little louder than the first time.
"Oh hey...Paul. You uh you busy" fumbling with my words since I wasn't expecting him to answer.
"Uh yeah kind of Lex. Is this important." He sounded annoyed.
"Oh no.. I just was bored.."
"Look Lex. It's not a good time right now." A girl laughing could be heard in the background as Paul sounded even more annoyed.
"Well sorry I didn't know you were with someone." My stomach dropped at the sound of the laughing.
"Lex I-" I cut him off before he could continue.
"No look Paul. You've been blowing me off the last couple of days. Saying you're too busy to hang out or just straight up ignoring me. But you have no problem hanging out with other girls. So do us both a favor and just delete my number. Bye Paul." Over dramatic? Maybe, but that was my style. I threw my phone at the wall pissed that I let myself get played.
Getting up I grabbed a duffle bag and started throwing things in it. I could use a week out of this gloomy town. My phone kept vibrating from the floor I grabbed it to see Paul had been texting me and I had a few missed calls from him. So now he remembers how to respond to messages. I turned it off putting it in my back packet and grabbed my prepaid phone out of the night stand and headed to my car. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Thanks for meeting me here instead dad." We we're currently in a small diner in Seattle.
"So why did you want to meet here Lex?" Dad looked at me puzzled.
"Forks is just so bleak all the time. I need a change of scenery. So can I please come with you dad? Please!" I tried using the puppy dog eyes that always works on Dean.
"Look Lex, I know you want to but it's dangerous and we can't talk about it here. Too many ears." Dad whisper harshly back at me.
"Okay okay, but can I come for a bit?" Still pleading with him. Dad tensed up as his eyes shot to the door behind me. His fist balled up on the table and the other one clenched his coffee cup.
"Dad. Lex? What are you guys doing here." Dean said and he approached our table.
"You told them Alexis?!" Dad said glaring at me.
"Tell us what? We tracked your phone down dad and since you've been calling Lexy a lot it wasn't hard to do. What's going on?" Sammy asked sitting down besides me. John Winchester let out a big sight as he looked at all of us. Still wary of talking out in the open.
"Look let's just go to the hotel we'll talk there." He threw down a couple of bills for the meal and headed to the door.
The drive to the hotel was short as dad had gotten on only a few blocks away from the diner. I grabbed my duffle bag out the of the passenger seat as I followed Dean and Sammy to the door.
"Lex you have it?" Dad said sitting on the bed.
"Yeah I do dad." I reached in my waist band pulling the Colt out passing it to dad.
"Wait! What. Lex has had it the whole time dad?!" Dean sputtered out.
"Yes I figured it would be safest with her and if she ran into trouble alone in Forks she would have a way out." Dad said turning the Colt over in his hands. "But that's a different story. I guess were all headed for Rupert, Idaho. I'll explain when we get there." Dad all but jumped to his feet handing the Colt back to me. "Lex get what you need out of your car l, leave it here you can ride with Dean and Sam. We need to get there as fast as we can."
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"Where's dad? I thought he would of beat us here." I looked around, for some reason the location dad sent us was an abandoned warehouse.
"I don't know Lex. This has bad news written all over it." Dean was pacing around his footsteps echoing.
"I need to pee." I started hopping back and forth on my legs.
"Sammy go with her I'll wait here for dad."
"I don't need a babysitter Dean," I glared at him, "I'm almost 17."
"Lex it's not the time to argue. Just go with Sammy he probably has to too." Dean sent us his best dad look he could muster.
"Fine." We went out the side door towards the wooded area by the building. I guess I could see why Dean wanted Sammy to come with me. This place had creepy written all over it.
"Take your time Sammy! I'm going to go back in!" I yelled in the direction I saw Sam go. I slowly made my way back into the warehouse. I could hear Dean and dads voice arguing about something. Typical of them really.
"Can you guys go a day without arguing?" I said as I approached Dean from the back.
"It's not dad, Lex." Dean said his voice had no emotion.
"What do you mean Dean?" I slowly stepped forward looking confused between the two.
"Lex, Dean has had a long day. He doesn't know what he's talking about." Dad said with a slight smile on his lips. Something was off with him..I couldn't place my finger on it. I stepped closer to Dean believing him more than the man in front of us.
"Really Lex? Sammy! They've lost their minds maybe you can talk some sense into them." The man pleaded to Sammy.
"It's not dad Sammy." My voice was no louder than a whisper. I felt Deans hand on my back reaching for the Colt. In a blink of an eye Dean had it drawn pointed right at dads head.
"Is this really necessary Dean?" John turned his back now facing us. A laugh full of malice escaped his lips. Slowly he turned back around facing us, his eyes now a dull yellow color. "I need to give you guys more credit." He laughed again. "It was almost too easy for you to see right through me."
"What do you want." Dean barked out taking a step closer.
"You know what I want." With a swish of his hands we all flew backwards hitting the wall. Dean still clutched the Colt to his chest. "I should of known none of you Winchester's would go down without a fight." The yellow eye demon said. "No worries at least in your dads head I could find your one weakness. You look so much like your mother did." His eyes bore threw me as he flicked his wrist upwards.
My body followed the way his hand motioned and before I knew it I was 10 feet off the ground struggling to breath. You're really screwed this time Lex. My throat was constricted as if someone was choking me, I could barley make out what Dean and Sam were yelling. A chorus of no's and let her go rang through the room. A white light flash in front of my eyes as I felt if my chest was ripped open by a wild animal. Blood. All I could smell was blood as I realized yellow eyes intention. The pain was like nothing I've ever experienced as I felt like my insides were being crushed. I felt blood coming out of my mouth as I had to cough it out.
"Dad! Please dad! I dont wanna die! Dad fight him please dad.." Fear was in my voice making it sound different. Pleading begging for him to put up a fight so yellow eyes wouldn't win. My vision blurred as the tears were freely flowing down my face. Everything started going out of focus. Dean and Sammy sounded like they were far away as they were still glued to the spots unable to do anything.
"No. I won't let you." Dads voice was clear as day as he fought trying to contain yellow eyes.
Just as quick as he said that I dropped to the floor landing face first on the concrete as my eyes close and I faded into the darkness. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Beep. Beep. Beep.
Pain. That's all I could feel as I started to wake up. A blinding bright light made me close my eyes as fast as I could. There was a scuffling noise to the left of me. Where am I? I tried opening my eye again the light was still blinding but as not bad as it had been. A smell of bleach was in the air. An IV was in my hand hooked up to the machine by me. When did I end up in the hospital?
"Oh! You're awake finally!" A cheerful nurse had walk into the room to check my vitals. "Everyone's been waiting for you to wake up."
"Wha-" my voice cracked my mouth suddenly dry. I tried clearing my throat before I continued. "What day is it?" My voice was still raspy.
"It's March 30th, you've been out for almost two weeks." The nurse squeezed my hand comfortably. "You've been through a lot with the car accident. They didn't think you'd make it with all of your injuries."
"Car accident?" My brows furrowed, I don't remember a car accident.
"A semi t-boned you, your brothers, and your father." The nurse gave me a small smile. "Once the doctor checks you out I'll let your brothers know you're awake."
"Do you know where my phone is?" Now realized I left Forks almost two weeks ago without telling anyone where I went.
"Your IPhone? I think I know where they put it, I'll go grab it for you and tell the doctor you're awake." She left the room. She came back in a few moments later and passed me my phone. "I'll be back to check on you soon." She messed with one of the machines and soon the pain had vanished. I gave her a small smile as I turned my phone on.
378 new text messages, 154 missed calls, along with numerous messages from other apps.
Shit. Where do I even start. I spent most of the time send out group text messages saying I was in a car accident just to at least prove to people I was still alive. I hovered over Paul and Embry's name knowing the we're probably together. I decided to see what Embry had sent me; the same "where are you," "are you alive" were most of the messages except one caught my eye.
Embry
Lex. Look can you please at least talk to Paul? He looks horrible. Please Lex.
There were a few more message of Embry saying the same thing. Shit, maybe I did over exaggerate with my last conversation with Paul. There was a knock at the door right as I was about to look through Paul's messages. The doctor walked in and started going through his list. I'm not sure how long it was from X-rays to blood tests he finally left the room saying he'd be back soon to let me know when I could leave.
"Thank god Lexy." Dean said as he barreled threw the door wrapping me in a tight hug.
"Dean..I...cant...breath.." I could only gasp as I felt if my ribs were being rebroken.
Sammy moved the the other side of the bed pulling me into a more gentle hug.
"We're glad you're awake finally." Sam said still hugging me.
"Where's dad? Did he leave already?" The was a twinge if disappointment in my voice as my eyes looked around the room. I could feel Sammy tense up and Dean's face went hard. "What. He's okay right? I mean it was only a car accident." My stomach dropped as Dean and Sammy we're having a mental conversation.
"Lex.. Dad-" Dean's voice started to crack as he tried to find the right words to say.
"No. No! He can't be Dean." My voice started to crack as I looked between the two.
"It was just too much Lexy." Dean rested one of his hands on my knees as he was trying to hold back tears. "Between being possessed, the car accident, and him almost loosing both you and me... it was just too much for him."
"You're not telling me something Dean." I looked at him, he was such a bad liar most of the time. He broke eye contact and stared at the wall.
"Look Lex. You need to get better first then we'll tell you everything. You can even come with us once you're all healed up." Sammy said looking down at me. Dean's head snapped back towards Sam his eyes hard.
"She what! No Sam. We just lost Dad and we almost lost her. It's too dangerous right now." Dean stood up and walked out the door without another word to us.
I couldn't help but let the tears run down my face. Dad was dead and I didn't get to say goodbye. Dean was hiding something from me. Sammy wrapped his arms back around me rubbing my back comfortably.
"Don't listen to Dean, Lexy. Once you're all healed up you can come back with us. Especially over the summer. I need someone to talk to besides Dean's multiple personalities." Sam said trying to comfort me.
"You mean it Sam?" I tried wiping the tears out of my eyes looking at him blurry.
"Yeah I do."
The doctor walked back in the room with final discharge papers for Sam to fill out since Dean had left. Sam wheeled me out of the room once it was finalized and we gathered all of my things. Crutches, a knee brace, a bag full of gauze and pain medicine would be my life the next couple of weeks.
"You're like robo cop with all the hardware on Lexy." Dean said more happily a definite attitude change from earlier.
"Well come on Dean I don't have all day. Who knows I probably got kicked out of school for being gone so much."
"Well then we'd have to find you another school to go to." Dean smirked at me helping me into the back seat of the impala. "Just rest Lexy. We'll be there before you know it."
It was almost instantly my eyes closed when I laid down in the back seat. Just like old time, huh Lex.