DEAD IN THE WATER

Evie's POV

I was sitting beside Dean at our latest stop at some dinner called the 'the Gynnwood Inn', we'd stopped for a rest and something to eat but as I was reading the paper I'd picked up on a possible case after seeing multiple death announcements with no clues on what had actually happened to them.

"Can I get you anything else?" I looked up seeing the blonde busty waitress that served us earlier, Dean smiled at her with a pen in his mouth which he'd been using to doodle on the side of his newspaper and I glared up at her.

"Just the check, please" Sam spat and I looked down at the paper again hiding my face from the boys, I wasn't usually a jealous type but with Dean's playboy remarks and every bitch in the world taking a hit at him it was hard sometimes.

"Okay" she replied still with a smile towards my boyfriend as she walked away.

"You know Sam, we are allowed to have fun once in a while, that's fun" I rolled my eyes at Dean and saw Sam looking at me with the corner of his eye but I shook my head since I was used to Dean still flirting around but knew he'd never actually take them up on their offers.

"Are you two done, take a look at this I think I got a case" I cut in dropping the paper I had in front of them, I'd circled the latest victim. "Lake Manitoc Wisconsin, last week Sophie Carlton, 18 walks into the lake, doesn't walk out , authorities dragged the water nothing" Dean looked back at me impressed and I smirked because I wasn't just a pretty face. "Sophie Carlton is the third Lake Manitoc drowning this year, none of the other bodies we're found either, had a funeral two days ago"

"Funereal?" Sam asked looking up from the paper.

"Yeah it's weird they buried an empty coffin for closure or whatever" I replied looking back down and finished the last bit of my coffee.

"Closure, what closure?" Sam asked making me look up with furrowed brows, I was still worried about him but after Dean's talk with him he was doing a little bit better with the anger and need to find the thing that killed Jess. "People don't just disappear, Dean other people just stop looking for them" I glared towards Sam as that was un-called for, we were doing everything we could to look for John while doing our jobs.

"Something you want to say to me?" Dean spat back at him so I kicked his leg because now was not the time for them to get into an argument.

"The trail for Dad, it's getting colder every day"

"Exactly, so what are we supposed to do about it?"

"I don't know, something, anything" I rolled my eyes looking down because I was sick of hearing them having this argument.

"You know what, I'm sick of this attitude" Dean spat angrily. "You don't think I want to find Dad as much as you do"

"Yeah I know you do-"

"I'm the one that's been with him every day for the past two years while you've been off to college going to prep rally's, we will find Dad but until then we're gonna kill everything bad between here and there, okay?" I looked up raising an eye towards Dean since that was a rant and a half but Sam couldn't even look at him so Dean sighed angrily, I grabbed his hand and he smiled over at me.

"All right, Lake Manitoc" Sam finally replied. "Hey, how far?" he asked getting our attention back towards him.

"Not far at all actually" I replied then the waitress came over and Dean paid smiling up at her as she gave him another flirty smile and show of her boobs, I rolled my eyes reaching down to grab Dean's hand entwining our fingers and made sure she saw it before I walked out dragging Dean along with me.

"Aw Shortstack, are you jealous?" I rolled my eyes letting go of his hand as soon as we we're out of the dinner and walked over to the Impala.

"Of her, not at all but you never know Dean, keep pushing and I might just leave your ass and start matching your game" I remarked and watched Dean stare in disbelief but I'd never actually leave him.

"I'd like to see you try" he finally talked back and I turned to glare at him but then smiled seeing his confident smirk, he really didn't believe that I could pick up just as well as he could.

"Okay then, let the games begin Dean-O, the one with the most phone numbers by the end of the week has to do whatever the other asks, no matter what, deal?" he thought it over for a second then nodded.

"You got yourself a deal Shortstack" we shook hands on it and watched Sam staring at us in shock and amusement at the same time before we all got in the Impala and started the drive to Lake Manitoc.

As soon as we got into town we went straight to the Carlton place to find out exactly what happened to Sophie, I knocked on the door a few times before it finally opened by a younger kid and I knew that this must have been Sophie's brother.

"Will Carlton?" I asked just to make sure.

"Yeah that's right"

"I'm Agent Ford, this is Agent Hamill and Agent Fisher, we're with the U.S Wildlife Services" I wanted to roll my eyes at Dean's aliases and hoped this kid wasn't a Star Wars fan but Dean and I flashed our badges so that we didn't leave him time to question it.

"We're here to ask a few questions about you sister's disappearance" I added nodding at him with a soft smile encouraging him to talk to us. "What can you tell us about it?" he nodded and led us down to the lake where we saw an older man sitting on the dock out on the water staring out at it.

"She was about 100 yards out, that's where she got dragged down" he explained.

"And you're sure she didn't just drown?" Dean asked him.

"Yeah, she was a varsity swimmer, she practically grew up in that lake" I nodded giving him a sympathetic look and he smiled towards me. "She was as safe out there as in her own bathtub"

"So no splashing, no signs of distress?" Sam asked using his puppy voice that always had people opening up.

"No, that's what I'm telling you" Will remarked.

"Did you see any shadow's in the water?" I asked thinking it could be some kind of creature in the lake. "Maybe some dark shape breach the surface?" Will looked back at me and I saw his eyes scanning over my body making me uncomfortable but I could use this to my advantage, he looked old enough that it wasn't illegal.

"No I…again she was really far out there-" he replied looking back up at my eyes.

"You ever see any strange tracks by the shoreline?" Dean asked and I could hear the anger and jealousy in his voice, he'd seen Will checking me out.

"No never, why what do you thinks out there?" Will asked him.

"We'll let you know as soon as we do" Dean replied putting his hand on the small of my back and started to walk away but I wasn't done yet since something was still bothering me.

"What about your father, can we talk to him?" I asked moving out of Dean's arms staring at the old man still sitting out on the dock staring out at the water, Will hesitated and looked over his shoulder for a quick glance at his father before looking back at me.

"Look if you don't mind…I mean, he didn't see anything and he's kind of been through a lot"

"We understand" I immediately replied nodding and smiled at him sympathetically again. "Thank you for your time and make sure to give us a call if you think of anything else that might help us" he smiled and nodded so I walked back towards the Impala with Sam and gave Dean a wink when I saw his glare, now he knew how I feel every time he flirts for information or some fun.

Our next stop was the police station and the Sheriff didn't hesitate at all when we asked to speak to him although he was confused why 'Wildlife Services' was interested in this case.

"Now I'm sorry but why does the Wildlife Service care about an accidental drowning?" he asked leading the way to his office.

"Are you sure it was accidental, Will Carlton saw something grab his sister?" Sam asked as we followed him back.

"Like what?" he asked then told us to sit, Sam and Dean took the two chairs and I took a seat on the arm of Sam's chair. "There's no indigenous carnivores in that lake, there's nothing even big enough to pull down a person, unless it was the Loch Ness Monster"

"Yeah your right" Dean scoffed.

"Now Will Carlton was traumatized and sometimes the mind plays tricks, still we dragged that entire lake, we even ran a sonar sweep just to be sure and there was nothing down there"

"That's weird though, I mean that's the third missing body this year" Dean replied leaning forward in his seat.

"I know, these are people from my town, these are people I care about"

"I know" Dean replied so I kicked his leg since he was laying it on way too thick.

"Anyway…all this, it won't be a problem much longer" the Sheriff replied confusing us.

"What do you mean?" Dean asked him.

"Well the dam of course" the Sheriff replied like it was obvious and gave Dean a look of suspicion and Dean sat back startled.

"Of course the dam…it has…yeah sprung a leak" I closed my eyes sighing because Dean was just digging himself deeper.

"It's falling apart" the Sheriff spat back. "And the Feds won't give us the grant to repair it so they've opened the spillway, in another six months there won't be much of a lake, won't be much of a town either but as Federal Wildlife you already knew that"

"Exactly" I replied before Dean could say anything to screw our covers anymore, we all turned at a sudden knock and saw a young woman standing there.

"Sorry am I interrupting, I can come back later?" she asked and both of the boys stood up out of their chairs.

"This is my daughter, Andrea" the Sheriff said standing too and I watched Dean smirk at me before he walked over to Andrea.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Dean" he held out his hand and shook hands with her.

"Andrea Barr, hi" I always found it weird how no one questioned or even noticed when we didn't say our last names, they just smiled and acted as if that wasn't suspicious or secretive at all but I supposed it wasn't to them.

"They're from the Wildlife Service, here about the lake" the Sheriff said and I noticed Andrea's whole demeanor change in an instant as she regarded us again but my gaze dropped to the small boy who came out from behind her.

"Hi there, what's your name?" I asked calmly but the boy quickly turned and walked away, Andrea looked up at us with a weary look before following after him.

"His name is Lucas" the Sheriff spoke up answering my question and I frowned looking out at Andrea and Lucas as she handed him a crayon, I felt sorry for them and had no idea why since I didn't even know them but I sensed something bad had to happen for a kid to act like that.

"Is he okay?" I asked turning back to the Sheriff.

"My grandson has been through a lot, we all have" I nodded with a sigh and saw Dean looking at me so I managed a small smile at him. "Well if there's anything else I can do for you, please let me know"

"Thanks" Dean replied as we left the office but then he turned. "You know, now that you mentioned it, could you point us in the direction of a reasonably priced motel?" he asked looking at Andrea more than the Sheriff.

"Lakefront Motel, go around the corner, it's two blocks" Andrea replied.

"Two…would you mind showing us?" I rolled my eyes at Dean, was that the best he could do.

"You want me to walk you two blocks?" she asked and I looked up at Dean with a smirk crossing my arms.

"Not if it's any trouble?" I rolled my eyes.

"I'm headed that way anyway" she replied and I sighed, great. "I'll be back to pick up Lucas at three" she added towards her father before looking back down at Lucas. "We'll go to the park okay, sweetie?" Lucas didn't even look up and remained focused on his drawing.

"Thanks again" Sam said as Andrea left and we followed walking up the sidewalk behind her.

"So cute kid" Dean stated and I bit back a laugh at his serious attempt to pick her up.

"Thanks" Andrea replied as we started to cross the road.

"Kids are the best, huh?" Andrea gave him a weird look and I couldn't help the laugh that escaped but hid it when Dean turned to glare at me but I couldn't wipe the smile, he was dooming himself by trying too hard.

"There it is" Andrea said looking up at the hotel in front of us, exactly where she said it would be and still visible from the station. "Like I said, two blocks"

"Thanks" Dean smiled at her.

"Must be hard with your sense of direction, never being able to find your way to a decent pick-up line…enjoy your stay" Dean's face fell and I burst into a fit of laughter as Andrea walked away throwing my hands up in victory.

"'Kids are the best'?" Sam asked laughing with me. "You don't even like kids"

"I love kids!" Dean argued.

"Oh yeah, name three children that you even know" I replied unable to wipe the smile of my face, Dean lifted his hand ready to count but then paused and I laughed even more shaking my head at him. "Don't hurt yourself Dean" I added as Sam and I walked away.

"I'm thinking!" he yelled following us as we walked in and we got a room, I was gonna get two but that was going a bit overboard and a waste of money so I was just gonna push Dean to the couch or even bunk with Sam.

I calmed down by the time we got a room and after we settled in it was straight to research, Sam and I were sat at the small table checking out various articles on his laptop while Dean was standing behind us sniffing his clothes and I guessed we did need to find a laundromat soon.

"So there's the three drowning victims this year-"

"And before that?" Dean asked.

"Uh yeah…six more spread out over the past 35 years, those bodies we're never recovered either" Sam replied.

"If there is something out there, it's picking up its pace" I added looking up when Dean tossed another shirt across the room to add to a pile of clothes he started.

"So we got a lake monster on a binge?"

"This whole lake monster theory it just bugs me" Sam argued staring at the laptop, I stood and moved over to my bag intending to change my shirt since if Dean was doing laundry I might as well add mine to the pile.

"Why?" Dean asked walking over to stand behind Sam.

"Loch Ness, Lake Champlain there are literally hundreds of eyewitness accounts but here, almost nothing, whatever it is out there no one's living to talk about it"

"Wait Barr, Christopher Barr, where have I heard that name before?" Dean suddenly asked pointing at the screen and I looked up confused.

"Christopher Barr, the victim in May" Sam replied as I walked up just as he clicked on the article and a picture came up and I recognized the kid straight away. "Christopher Barr was Andrea's husband, Lucas' father" Sam read from the article and I took a seat again. "It says he apparently took Lucas swimming, Lucas was on a floating wooden platform when Chris drowned, two hours before the kid got rescued" Sam clicked on the picture of Lucas and I frowned staring at it, no wonder the kid was this way. "Maybe we have an eyewitness after all"

"No wonder that kid was so freaked out, watching one of your parents die isn't something you just get over" Dean said quietly and I looked up with sympathy since I knew he still remembered the night Mary died vividly so I reached out and squeezed his hand.

"We need to talk to him" Sam added then stood up and although I really didn't like the idea of dredging up his father's death with Lucas, we needed the information so we headed to the park which is where Andrea said they were gonna be at this time and found them.

Lucas was sitting by himself at one of the tables drawing instead of playing on the equipment like the other kids and again I sympathized since I also knew how it felt growing up with only one parent and since I didn't even know my mother I grew up without behaving like a normal kid would.

"Can we join you?" Sam asked as we walked up to Andrea.

"I'm here with my son" she said with a shrug.

"Oh…mind if I say hi?" I asked although I didn't really give her time to answer and walked over to Lucas, I knew that was very rude and probably considered sexual predator like and noticed Dean followed me over. "Hey Lucas" I greeted but he didn't even look up.

"Oh I used to love these things" Dean spoke up picking up one of the toy soldiers that was on the table then made gun noises making me smile up at him before I looked back down at Lucas.

"So crayons is more your thing?" I asked but he still refused to look up or speak.

"That's cool, chicks dig artists" Dean added but I hit his shoulder shaking my head.

"I used to love drawing when I was younger too" I said turning back to Lucas then saw some of his drawings and flipped through them. "These are pretty good" it was a red bike and some black swirl thing.

"You mind if we sit and draw with you for a while?" Dean asked but again he didn't even respond so we each took a piece of paper and crayons and started drawing in silence. "I'm not so bad myself" I laughed quietly and looked up at Dean as he started to draw and couldn't help think of a different life where we actually might have had kids and done stuff like this but it wasn't in the cards for us so I snapped myself out of it.

"You know Lucas I'm thinking you can hear us, you just don't want to talk" I replied focusing back down on my drawing not really drawing anything so I decided to draw a dog but it had been a while and it was horrible. "We don't know exactly what happened to your Dad but I know it was something real bad"

"I think I know how you feel" Dean cut in. "When I was your age, I saw something…" I looked up seeing sadness in Dean's eyes so I reached out and touched his knee knowing he was thinking about his Mom. "Anyway, well maybe you don't think anyone will listen to you or believe you, I want you to know that we will" I smiled and nodded my head.

"You don't even have to say anything, you could just draw us a picture about what you saw that day with your Dad on the lake" Lucas still refused to say anything so I looked up to Dean and shook my head, this wasn't going to get us anywhere.

"Okay no problem, this is for you, this is my family" I smiled up at Dean. "That's my Dad and that's…that's my Mom, that's my geek brother and that's me" I smiled wider as I looked up at Dean and again was reminded on what it'd be like if we lived a different life. "And that's Evie, my girl" I rolled my eyes but still smiled as I stood up and brushed off my jeans. "Alright so I'm a sucky artist, we'll see you around Lucas" Dean put down the paper and we walked away back over to Sam and Andrea.

"Lucas hasn't said a word, not even to me, not since his Dad's accident" we hear Andrea say as we approached.

"Yeah we heard, sorry" Dean apologized and Andrea gave him an appreciative nod.

"What do the doctors say?" Sam asked her.

"That it's a kind of post-traumatic stress" she replied.

"That can't be easy, for either of you" Sam shook his head sympathetic.

"We moved in with my Dad, he helps out a lot" she looked over at Lucas. "It's just…when I think about what Lucas went through, what he saw-" she trailed off not knowing how to continue and I turned looking back at Lucas too.

I couldn't imagine it either, I know my Mom died when I was a baby and I know it was something to do with a demon but I'd never got full answers since my father doesn't speak of it and I'm glad I don't remember when she died since you can't miss something you never really had.

"Kids are strong" Dean said startling me out of my thoughts. "You'd be surprised what they can deal with"

"You know, he used to have such life, he was hard to keep up with to tell you the truth, now he just sits there drawing those pictures, playing with those Army men, I just wish-" she cut herself off when Lucas walked up behind us. "Hey sweetie" Lucas didn't look up but held out a drawing towards me, I looked down surprised but took it.

"Thanks, thanks Lucas" I replied and he turned walking back to his little table without a word as Andrea stared after him and I shared a small look with the boys before Andrea turned to me with a look of surprise.

As Dean, Sam and I walked back to the car I stared down at the picture Lucas had drawn, it was a house and I smiled then looked up seeing Dean looking at me so I shrugged then we got in the Impala and headed back to the hotel to do more research before we ended up crashing and I was too exhausted to protest when Dean climbed into bed with me and wrapped his arm around my waist holding me while we slept.

"So I think it's safe to say we can rule out Nessie" Sam suddenly spoke up, coming inside the motel just as I pulled a shirt on, after he'd left this morning Dean and I quickly snuck in a bit of us time even though I was supposed to be mad at him.

"What do you mean?" I asked throwing my hair up into a messy bun.

"I just drove past the Carlton house, there was an ambulance there" Sam replied taking a seat next to Dean on the couch. "Will Carlton is dead" my eyes widened in shock.

"He drowned?" Dean asked tone laced with disbelief.

"Yep, in the sink" Sam replied.

"What the hell?" Dean exclaimed. "So your right, this isn't a creature, were dealing with something else"

"Yeah but what?" I asked them taking a seat on the arm next to Dean.

"I don't know, Water Wraith maybe?" Dean replied looking up. "Some kind of demon?"

"It's something that can controls water" I added looking down at my feet then looked up when it suddenly clicked. "Water that comes from the same source"

"The lake" they replied at the same time.

"Which would explain why it's upping the body count, the lake will be dry in a few months, whatever this thing is whatever it wants it's running out of time" Sam added looking up at us.

"And if it can get through the pipes it can get to anyone, almost anywhere" Dean replied then stood up. "This is gonna happen again, soon"

"And we know one other thing for sure, we know this has something to do with Bill Carlton" I spoke up moving over to the bed and pulled on my old worn combat boots seeing Dean do the same.

"Yeah it took both his kids" Dean replied nodding.

"And I've been asking around, Lucas' Dad, Chris?" Sam paused looking up at Dean. "Bill Carlton's godson"

"Let's go pay Mr Carlton a visit" Dean nodded then we left going to the Carlton place and found the old man sitting on the dock again staring out at the water.

"Mr Carlton?" Sam asked as we approached and he looked up. "We'd like to ask you a few questions if you don't mind"

"We're from the Department-"

"I don't care who your with" Mr Carlton replied cutting Dean off. "I've answered enough questions today"

"You're son said he saw something in that lake" Sam said anyway pressing the man for answers and we weren't leaving without them. "What about you, you ever see anything out there?" Mr Carlton refused to answer. "Mr Carlton, Sophie's drowning and Will's death we think there might be a connection to you or your family"

"My children are gone" Mr Carlton said cutting Sam off this time. "It's…it's worse than dying" I frowned then looked to the boys. "Go away…please" I touched Sam's arm and when he turned I shook my head, he wasn't going to tell us anything so I walked away and they followed me back up to the Impala.

"So what do you think?" Sam asked us.

"I think the poor guy has been through hell" Dean replied walking to the driver side. "I also think he's not telling us something"

"So now what?" I asked them but then looked up at the house and my eyes widened.

"What is it?" Sam asked seeing my reaction.

"Maybe Bill's not the only one who knows something" I reached into my jacket pocket and grabbed the drawing Lucas had given me unfolding it then held it up looking back up at the house to see it was a perfect match.

We found the way to Andrea's address and knocked with her answering straight away surprise evident on her face as the three of us all stood on her porch.

"Hello Agents, did you need something?" she asked and I nodded so she let us inside.

"We were wondering if we could see Lucas for a few minutes" I replied and she froze glancing over her shoulder.

"I'm sorry but I don't think it's a good idea" she replied.

"We just need to talk to him, just for a few minutes" Dean argued.

"He won't say anything, what good is it gonna do?" she replied and I looked towards Sam for help.

"Andrea, we think more people might get hurt" he said and she turned to him. "We think somethings happening out there"

"My husband, the others, they just drowned, that's all" she argued with a simple shrug.

"If that's what you really believe then we'll go but if you think there's even a possibility that something else could be going on here please let me talk to your son" I replied and Andrea nodded then led the way upstairs to Lucas' bedroom where we saw him sitting in the middle of the room drawing with toy soldiers surrounding him, I hesitated for a second before walking forward and knelt in front of him. "Hey Lucas, you remember me?"

I looked down and saw more of his drawings and flicked through them again seeing the same red bike drawn over and over, it was the same one from the park as well, I turned looking back at Sam and Dean as they stood in the doorway with Andrea before looking back down at Lucas.

"You know I wanted to thank you for that last drawing you gave me but I need your help again" I reached into my pocket again and took out the drawing of the Carlton House and put it in front of him. "How did you know to draw this?" I asked him hoping he'd give me something but he continued coloring. "Did you know something bad was going to happen?" still nothing. "Maybe you could nod yes or no for me" he lifted his head a little and I saw he was scared. "You're scared, it's okay I understand" I looked back at Dean knowing we needed to let this kid know that we knew what it felt like to be scared and he nodded understanding what I was asking and walked into the room crouching beside me.

"Hey Lucas, you know when I was your age, I saw something real bad happen to my Mom and I was scared too, I didn't feel like talking just like you but see my Mom, I know she wanted me to be brave" I reached for Dean's hand grabbing it when his voice broke. "I think about that every day and I do my best to be brave and maybe your Dad wants you to be brave too" Lucas finally dropped the crayon and looked up at us before he handed us another drawing. "Thanks Lucas"

We thanked Andrea and walked back out to the car, once there I took the time to look at the picture he gave us, it contained a white church, a yellow house, a boy and a red bicycle, exactly like the one he kept drawing bigger as well.

"Andrea said the kid never drew like that till his Dad died" Dean said making me look up from the drawing.

"There are cases where going through traumatic experience could make certain people more sensitive to premonitions, psychic tendencies-" Sam explained.

"Whatever's out there, what if Lucas is tapping into it somehow?" Dean asked looking over at Sam. "I mean it's only a matter of time before someone else drowns, so if you got a better lead please" I smiled at Dean as Sam held up his hands.

"Alright, we got another house to find, Evie can I see it" I nodded and handed him the drawing then sat back in my seat pulling my journal out from under the seat and flipped to the back page blocking out the rest of the world as I stared at the photo of my Dad, Mom and me when I was a baby, it was the only photo I had of my Mom and me together.

"The only problem is there's about a thousand yellow two-stories in this county alone" I heard Dean argue making me close the book and wipe a tear before leaning forward looking over the seat.

"See this church?" Sam suddenly said looking down at the drawing. "I bet there's less than a thousand of those around here"

"Oh college boy, thinks he's so smart" I scoffed rolling my eyes at Dean's failed attempt at an accent.

"You know um…what you said about Mom" Sam suddenly spoke up and I tensed seeing Dean's hands clench tighter around the steering wheel. "You never told me that before"

"It's no big deal" Dean replied passing it off before looking over at Sam as he continued to stare at him. "Oh god, we're not gonna have to hug it out or anything, are we?" Sam scoffed and turned away as I leaned my head against the seat looking up at Dean and he caught my eye. "You okay?" I nodded.

"Yeah, just hard seeing a kid that scared, reminds me of some things I'd rather forget too" he nodded then reached back and squeezed my hand before we continued searching for this house and finally found a possible match so we got out comparing the picture then walked over to the house knocking on the door and an older lady answered and let us in.

"We're sorry to bother you ma'am but does a little boy live here, by chance?" Dean asked her. "He might wear a blue ball cap, has a red bicycle" her breath hitched and she looked down.

"No sir" she replied on the brink of tears. "Not for a very long time, Peter's been gone 35 years now" he showed us a picture of a young boy, her son. "The police never…I never had any idea what happened, he just disappeared" I frowned just as Sam nudged my arm nodding over at some toy soldiers so I relayed it to Dean who looked over to. "Losing him…you know it's…it's worse than dying" I looked up at Dean remembering Bill Carlton saying the exact same thing.

"Did he disappear from here, I mean from this house?" Dean asked her.

"He was supposed to ride his bike straight home after school and he never showed up" she explained before Dean walked over to a dresser table and picked up a picture from the mirror of two boys in boy scout uniforms and one with a bicycle which I guessed was Peter, he flipped it over and two names were written on the back 'Peter Sweeney and Billy Carlton 1970', we left getting back in the Impala.

"Okay, this little boy Peter Sweeney vanishes and this is all connected to Bill Carlton somehow" Sam spoke up.

"Yeah Bill sure seems to be hiding something huh?" Dean asked.

"And Bill, the people he loved, they're all getting punished" I added nodding at them.

"So what if Bill did something to Peter?" Dean asked us.

"What if Bill killed him?" Sam asked back trying to piece together what happened since it seemed like we were dealing with an angry spirit instead.

"Peter's spirit wound be furious, it'd want revenge" I replied and they nodded. "It's possible" we drove back to the Carlton place and knocked but nobody answered so we walked around calling his name just as we heard the sound of an engine and turned seeing Bill driving out onto the lake in a boat.

"Hey check it out" Dean called turning to Sam before we all ran out onto the dock calling him back to shore but he was ignoring us even though he clearly heard us since he looked straight at us then the boat was hit sending Mr Carlton into the water and he disappeared right in front of our eyes.

"God damnit" I cursed kicking my foot out as I walked off the dock leaving the boys standing there in shock, we eventually called the Sheriff and when he got here he didn't seem too happy with our story and asked us to follow him back to the station and when we got there we saw Andrea and Lucas.

"Sam, Dean, Evie, I didn't expect to see you here" I tried my best to give her a smile.

"So now you're on a first name basis?" the Sheriff asked his daughter clearly not pleased, we we're in trouble that bit was for sure. "What are you doing here?" he asked walking up to her.

"I brought you dinner" she replied and I looked down seeing Lucas rocking back and forth in his chair clearly distressed, he must know something, I turned to Dean and he nodded seeing it too.

"Oh I'm sorry sweetheart but I don't really have the time" he replied taking off his jacket.

"I heard about Bill Carlton" Andrea whispered looking at us and I couldn't help thing wow news travels fast but then small towns did that. "Is it true, is something going on with the lake?"

"Right now, we don't know what the truth is but I think it might be better if you and Lucas went on home" Andrea was about to agree when Lucas suddenly ran up and attached himself to Dean grabbing his arm surprising the hell out of him.

"Lucas, wait what is it?" Dean asked sounding almost frantic looking down at the boy but Lucas remained silent and kept pulling on his arm.

"Lucas" Andrea came over to pry her son of Dean's arm.

"Lucas it's okay, it's okay hey" Dean said trying to calm him down and touched his head. "Lucas it's okay, it's okay" he finally settled and Andrea led him out as I looked up at the Sheriff who was staring after them with a blatant expression before I turned and watched Lucas and Andrea as they walked out with Lucas' eyes never leaving Dean.

The Sheriff walked into his office and Sam followed but Dean hesitated staring off to where Lucas had disappeared to so I grabbed his hand and squeezed it letting him know I was here before we followed the Sheriff and Sam into the office and retold our story but the Sheriff was not buying it at all.

"Okay just so I'm clear…you see something attack Bill's boat sending Bill, who is a very good swimmer by the way, into the drink and you never see him again?" we all shared a look.

"Yeah that about sums it up" Dean replied.

"And I'm supposed to believe this even though I've already sonar swept that entire lake and what your describing is impossible and you're not really Wildlife Service" we all stared at him hiding our shock. "That's right I checked, the Departments never heard of you three"

"See now, we can explain that-"

"Enough" the Sheriff said cutting Dean off. "Please" I frowned shifting around nervously on my feet since this is the time we usually get arrested. "The only reason you're breathing free air is one of Bill's neighbors saw him steering out that boat just before you did, so we have a couple of options here, I can arrest you for impersonating government officials and hold you as material witnesses to Bill Carlton's disappearance or we can chalk this all up to a bad day, you get in your car, you put this town in your rearview mirror and you don't ever darken my doorstep again"

"Door number two sounds good" Sam replied since the Sheriff had looked at him mostly through that.

"That's the one I'd pick" I frowned but we didn't hesitate to get back to the hotel pack our bags and got in the Impala driving out of town but I couldn't stop feeling that we were making a mistake and I knew Dean was feeling it too especially as we both thought about Lucas and his reaction back there, there was something seriously wrong.

"Green" Sam said making me look up.

"What?" Dean asked him.

"Lights green" Dean clenched his jaw then inched forward but instead of getting on the interstate he turned right. "Uh interstate's the other way"

"I know" Dean replied.

"But Dean this job I think it's over" Sam argued.

"I'm not so sure" Dean replied shaking his head.

"If Bill murdered Peter Sweeney and Peter's spirit got it's revenge, case closed the spirit should be at rest" Sam argued again.

"Should be and is are two very different distinctions Sam" I argued glaring at him. "What if we take off and this thing isn't done, what if we missed something and people got hurt"

"But why would you think that?" Sam asked turning to me.

"Because Lucas was really scared" Dean replied before I could.

"That's what this is about?" I turned back to Sam and glared.

"I just don't want to leave town until I know that kid's okay" I smiled at Dean nodding my head.

"He's right Sam"

"Who are you's and what have you done with Dean and Evie?" I rolled my eyes at him.

"Shut up" Dean and I said at the same time.

We got back the Andrea's and knocked a few times but we're getting no answer which was really starting to worry me but Sam's attitude was getting on my nerves, how can he not see that something still isn't adding up.

"You sure about this, it's pretty late man" Dean rolled his eyes and rang the doorbell and the door opened finally but instead of Andrea it was Lucas and he was terrified and hyperventilating.

"Lucas, Lucas" I ran forward to grab him but he took off upstairs and knowing then something was extremely wrong we followed him to a door that he started knocking on and there was water pooling out from underneath it.

Dean grabbed Lucas out of the way pushing him towards me and I led him where he was out of the way and Dean kicked down the door before the boys went in and I held Lucas back so that he didn't see anything but he struggled in my grasp.

"Lucas it's okay, they've got it" I soothed him and he stopped fighting and he clung to my arm before I finally saw Sam get Andrea out of the water and she coughed it out of her lungs.

By the time things were calming down it was early morning, Andrea was fine and in dry clothing sitting at the dining table with Sam while I was with Lucas as he stared out of a window and Dean was searching around the room for anything that seemed useful or out of the ordinary.

I tried to get Lucas to talk but he was as silent as ever then turned seeing Dean walk in and gesture his head for me to follow him so I did and we walked into the dining room and he dropped a scrapbook in the middle of the table.

"Do you recognize the kids in these pictures?" he asked pointing to a boy scout photo and looked up at Andrea.

"What…um no…I mean except that's my Dad right there" she pointed him out. "He must have been about 12 in these pictures" Dean looked up at me and Sam.

"Chris Barr's drowning, the connection wasn't to Bill Carlton, it must've been the Sheriff"

"Bill and the Sheriff" Sam replied looking up at Dean seeing the connection. "They were both involved with Peter"

"What about Chris?" Andrea asked but I looked up seeing Lucas had moved now standing by the door. "My Dad, what are you talking about?"

"Lucas?" I asked making them all turn to him. "Lucas what is it?" I stood up and walked towards him but he walked to the door and opened it then walked out so we all followed him as he walked towards a tree then looked down at his feet before looking up at Dean who was standing right in front of him.

"You and Lucas get back to the house and stay there, okay?" Dean spoke up and Andrea looked at him before grabbing Lucas and walked back to the house.

"You thinking body?" I asked looking up at Dean and he nodded so we went to the Impala grabbing the shovels and we got to digging but didn't have to dig long before a metal clang so we dropped the shovels and dug with our hands pulling up a red bike instead of a body.

"Peter's bike" Sam stated.

"Who are you?" we turned and saw the Sheriff behind us and he cocked his gun pointing it at us.

"Put the gun down Jake" Sam said as Dean pushed me behind him shielding me from the gun.

"How did you know that was there?"

"What happened?" Dean asked him. "You and Bill kill Peter, drowned him in the lake and then buried the bike?"

"You can't bury the truth, Jake!" I snapped glaring at him. "Nothing stays buried"

"I don't know what the hell your talking about?"

"You and Bill killed Peter Sweeney, 35 years ago" Dean argued still holding his arm out in front of me in attempts to keep me behind him. "That's what I'm talking about"

"Dad!" Andrea yelled running up.

"And now you got one seriously pissed off spirit"

"It's going to take Andrea, Lucas, everyone you love, it's gonna drown them and drag their bodies god knows where so you can feel the same pain Peter's Mom felt" I replied stepping out from behind Dean ignoring his anxious shuffling to push me back there. "And then after that, it's gonna take you and it's not going to stop until it does"

"Yeah and how do you know that?" the Sheriff asked us.

"Because that's exactly what it did to Bill Carlton" Sam replied.

"Listen to yourselves, your all insane"

"I don't really give a rat's ass what you think of us but if we're gonna bring down this spirit we need to find the remains, salt them and burn them into dust" Dean replied glaring at Jake. "Now tell me you buried Peter somewhere and you didn't just let him go into the lake"

"Dad is any of this true?" Andrea asked looking up at her Dad.

"No don't listen to them, they're liars and they're dangerous"

"Something tried to drown me, Chris died on that lake" Andrea replied. "Dad look at me, tell me you didn't kill anyone" her Dad looked at her and you could see his mind whirling around for an answer but we could all see the truth. "Oh my god" the Sheriff finally dropped the gun.

"Billy and I were at the lake, Peter was the smallest and we always bullied him but this time it got rough" he hesitated looking up at Andrea. "We were holding his head under the water, we didn't mean to but we held him under too long and he drowned" he looked over at us. "We let the body go and it sank" Dean, Sam and I shared a look because that meant we couldn't burn the body and get rid of his spirit. "Oh Andrea, we were kids and we were so scared, it was a mistake but Andrea to say I have anything to do with these drownings, with Chris because of some ghost, it's not rational"

"All right listen to me, all of you, we need to get you away from this lake, as far as we can right now" Dean said but Andrea suddenly gasped and we turned seeing Lucas right near the water's edge.

"Lucas!" the Sheriff yelled out and we all ran towards him screaming for him to get away from the water but he was pulled in, the Sheriff stopped but Dean, Sam and I didn't hesitate running onto the dock and jumped in diving down to find him, I looked around for a bit before running out of breath and swam up seeing Dean and Sam but no Lucas.

"Sam?" Dean asked but Sam shook his head so I dived back under but again it was too dark to see anything and swam up seeing Jake in the water begging Peter to take him instead of Lucas and Peter took the bait pulling him down so I dove under again but still couldn't see Lucas anywhere.

I looked up ready to swim to the surface when I felt my air supply running out but I was stopped and held down, I looked down seeing my foot caught in between two wood logs and tried pulling my foot out but it was stuck and I started screaming even though it was pointless.

"Evie!" I heard a mumbled scream before the water surface broke again just as black spots started filling my vision as I was on the verge of passing out and the last thing I saw was a dark shape swimming down to me and the feeling of my foot being released before a pair of arms wrapped around me and started dragging me up but I was out cold.

Dean's POV

After the sheriff had sacrificed himself to Peter, he had released the kid and I managed to pull Lucas to the surface and onto the dock where Andrea grabbed him hugging him tight taking a breath of relief when I saw the kid was breathing then spun seeing Sam swimming towards the dock but no Eve.

"Evie!" Sam spun to look behind him at my yell but I couldn't see her anywhere so I didn't waste any time diving back into the water and looked around through the murky water seeing her shape bopping lifelessly so I swam towards her grabbing her leg which was caught between two logs before wrapped my arms around her pulling her up to the surface and soon as I broke the surface I cupped her cheek but she wasn't responding and was dead weight.

"Eve, hey look at me" she didn't reply. "Sam, help me!" he helped me pull her onto the dock and I quickly climbed up as he laid her down and I crawled to her side. "Evelyn you open your eyes, don't you dare to this to me"

"Dean-"

"No!" I cut Sam off and started chest compressions to force the water out of her lungs. "Come on Eve please, open your eyes baby please" I breathed into her mouth twice and she finally coughed forcing the water up as she opened her eyes as wide as they could go.

"Lucas?" was the first thing that came out of her lips.

"We got him" I turned to where Lucas was in Andrea's arm shaking violently in shock and from the cold and when I looked down at her she too was shivering so I wrapped his arms around her and held her against my chest fighting back the tears in my eyes because I honestly thought I'd lost her for a second there.

Evie's POV

I managed a small smile when Dean pulled me into his arms practically sitting in his lap as he started rubbing his hands up my arms and shoulders to bring me some warmth as I shook uncontrollably against him.

"You ever do that again and I swear I'll-" his voice broke so I turned wrapping my arms around him too. "I thought I lost you"

"I'm okay" he sighed pulling me tighter to him and I turned seeing Lucas was clutching onto his Mom eyes open and I smiled, we we're all okay…well most of us anyway, Jake sacrificed himself for his grandson.

The next morning and a hot shower later we walked to the Impala throwing our bags into the back but I could tell something was still bothering Dean so I turned and grabbed his hand forcing his eyes to meet mine.

"We're not gonna save everybody"

"I know" he replied looking up at me then touched my cheek smiling a little.

"Sam, Dean, Evie" we turned and saw Andrea walking up to us with Lucas and I smiled my mood instantly brightening.

"Hey" I replied as we walked over to them.

"We're glad we caught you, we just…we made you lunch for the road, Lucas insisted on making the sandwiches himself"

"Well thanks dude, you wouldn't believe how much these two eat" I replied smiling down at him.

"Can I give it to them now?" he asked looking up at Andrea and I smiled even wider for the fact he was talking again.

"Of course"

"Come on Lucas, let's load this in the car" Dean said grabbing the plate of him and they walked over to the Impala and I smiled watching them go then looked up seeing Sam staring and smiling at me so I cleared my throat.

"How you holding up?" I asked looking at Andrea.

"It's just gonna take a long time to sort through everything, you know?" I nodded looking back over at Dean.

"Andrea, I'm sorry" Sam apologized but Andrea looked up.

"You guys saved my son's life, I can't ask for more than that" she replied and I nodded. "Dad loved me, he loved Lucas, no matter what he did I just have to hold onto that" we walked over to the Impala just in time to hear Lucas yell out.

"Zeppelin Rules!" he exclaimed happily and Andrea smiled while I laughed kneeling down in front of him.

"Damn right they do, now up high" I high fived him and he high fived Dean too. "You take care of your Mom, okay?" he nodded.

"Alright" Lucas agreed just as I looked up and saw Andrea kiss Dean and I froze as did Dean.

"Thank you" she said smiling as she pulled away and Dean looked down at me before scratching his head and cleared his throat before heading around to the driver's side.

"Sam, Evie move your asses" I rolled my eyes standing up and opened the door climbing into the back. "We're gonna run out of daylight before we hit the road" Dean pulled out and started driving and as soon as we we're out of sight I reached up and smacked the back of his head. "Ow, what was that for?" he exclaimed as Sam laughed.

"You know what, I said flirt for numbers not kiss someone"

"What can I say, chicks dig me" he sighed smirking.

"Oh yeah, well you're sleeping outside from now on" he shot a glare back towards me.

"Truce?" I shook my head.

"Uh-uh, you aren't getting off this one that easy Dean-O" Sam shook his head still laughing at us but I eventually smirked at watching Dean squirm as he drove down the interstate.