ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE - PART 1
Evie's POV
"…Dean!" I screamed as Sam and I fought to wake Dean after finding him in the warehouse after he ignored both Sam and I telling him not to hunt the Djinn alone. "Dean please!" I cupped his cheek bordering on panic.
"Oh god come on" Sam begged beside me as we each helped shake him. "Hey wake up"
"Wake up damn it!" I said staring at the blood bag that was attached to a needle directly in his neck and he finally groaned lifting his head ever so slightly. "Thank god, hey…hey" I smiled up at him cupping his cheeks.
"Oh Aunty Em, there's no place like home" he said and I couldn't help the small laugh of relief just to hear him talking since we'd thought he was dead when we found him, he still looked deathly pale.
"We thought we lost you for a second" I sighed carefully pulling the needle out of his neck.
"You's almost did" he replied before grunting in pain as the needle came out of his skin and I dropped it before Sam moved in with the silver knife we had for the Djinn since the only thing that could kill it was a silver knife dipped in lambs blood and he used it to start cutting the ropes that was suspending Dean in the air by his wrists.
"Sam!" Dean suddenly yelled eyes looking to the side so Sam and I spun and saw the Djinn so Sam reacted trying to cut at it with the knife while I stayed well enough back since I was nearing the end of my pregnancy and there was no way I would spare against this thing so I pulled out a spare dagger and used it to cut away the rest of the ropes and Dean dropped but was able to stand just barely and moved over to the discarded knife that Sam had dropped fending off the Djinn who now had Sam pinned underneath him but Dean was there and stabbed it through the heart with the knife before it could do whatever it did to Dean to Sam…
We were back at the motel after getting another victim that the Djinn had to the hospital and I was sitting next to Dean rubbing his shoulder with my chin pressed against it clinging to his side feeling really clingy while Sam called and checked up on the girl.
"Don't you ever do that to me again, when we didn't hear from you I felt so scared next time you listen to us when we tell you to come and get us…Sam at least" I told him and he turned to me.
"That was the hospital, the girls been stabilized good chance she's gonna pull through"
"That's good" Dean nodded looking back down not meeting either of our eyes.
"Yeah…how about you, you alright?" Sam asked him and I looked up since he told us a little about what the Djinn had done to him, it had put him in some kind of dream world where their mom and Jess was still alive but their Dad wasn't, Sam was getting married to Jess but Dean didn't know me because they'd never gone hunting so we'd never met.
"Yeah I'm alright" Dean replied. "You should've seen it Sam, our lives…you were such a wussy" he added and Sam chuckled at the last bit.
"So we didn't get along then huh?"
"No" Dean said and I couldn't imagine it, these two were closer than brothers usually were and I'd always admired that about them having not had any siblings myself. "And I didn't have Evie" Dean added wrapping his arm around my waist and I snuggled in to him.
"I thought it was supposed to be this perfect fantasy, the Djinn couldn't come up with idea to have had us meet?" I asked trying to lighten the mood.
"It wasn't, it was just a wish" Dean protested. "Yeah I wished for mom to live, if mom never died we never went hunting and you and me just never uh…you know" he added and I nodded.
"Yeah" Sam and I both replied.
"Well I'm glad we do and we're both glad you dug yourself out Dean"
"Most people wouldn't have had the strength, they would have stayed" I added knowing how much having his mom back would have meant to Dean.
"Yeah, lucky me" Dean sighed. "I gotta tell you though, Sam had Jess, I checked up on you Evie and you were a nurse-"
"A nurse?" I asked shocked since as a kid I'd always thought about becoming a nurse but then I found out about the supernatural and just never pursued that dream and hadn't even thought I'd told Dean about it. "Mom was gonna have grandkids" he added standing up and moved to stand in front of us.
"Yeah but Dean it wasn't real" Sam argued with him.
"I know but I wanted to stay" Dean said and I frowned looking down at the ground. "I wanted to stay so bad, I mean ever since Dad…all I can think about is how much this jobs cost us, we've lost so much, we've…sacrificed so much-"
"But people are alive because of you, it's worth it Dean" Sam argued with him while I kept my eyes focused on the ground not sure how I was meant to feel hearing Dean say all that, him saying he'd want to stay in a short temporary world where we didn't even know each other. "It is, it's not fair and you know it hurts like hell but it's worth it and because we do have one good thing coming into our lives and it's because of love" Sam added and when I looked up I saw them both looking at me.
I shot upright coming out of the memory dream right as the Impala pulled to a stop and I brushed my hand through my hair looking up seeing Dean and Sam both looking back at me in surprise seeing me wake up and I frowned.
"Sorry…I'm okay" I told them looking up seeing Dean's worried look, after the last hunt I'd been having recurring memory flashes of the last hunt we did and it was haunting me.
"You hungry?" Dean asked and I looked out the front windscreen seeing we were stopped at a café in the middle of nowhere.
"Nah I'm good" I replied and he gave me a look before turning to Sam.
"Don't forget the extra onions this time huh?" he said handing Sam some money.
"Dude, Eve and I are the ones who's gonna have to ride in the car with your extra onions" Sam protested but got out of the car when Dean just smiled at him.
"Hey see if they have any pie" Dean quickly added before Sam was out of fully out of the car and he glared through the window before shutting the door and headed towards the café. "Bring me some pie"
"You and your pie, honestly" I laughed rubbing the back of my neck feeling sweat beading down it since it was quite warm.
"Love me some pie" Dean smirked before he turned back to me as I pulled the pillow off the back seat that I kept in here onto my lap. "Was that the same dream?" he asked and I frowned hating that he knew it was the same dream.
"Yeah" I sighed giving him a quick smile in hopes to reassure him that I was okay but we didn't speak about it and haven't for the past three weeks but I wasn't okay with seeing him like that.
It wasn't the first time I'd seen him injured during a hunt but seeing him suspended like that just felt different this time, I'd never been so scared for his life and I had no idea why but I knew it was for selfish reasons because I didn't know what to do without Dean and with my pregnancy fast approaching as I'd moved into my thirty sixth week a few days ago and with that came the terror knowing that it wasn't going to be long before I had a totally innocent life depending on me and I knew I couldn't do that without Dean's help.
My attention was taken from my dark thoughts when the radio started to cut in and out making both Dean and I to look down at it curiously while Dean tapped it but it fell silent so we looked around before our eyes turned to the small café but it was empty…completely empty.
"Stay in the car" Dean told me as he climbed out and I wanted to protest but I stayed put watching as Dean ran inside and the moment I saw him get inside I saw his face and knew whatever he found wasn't good especially as he drew his gun so I found myself stepping out of the car still watching Dean as he moved through the café through the windows as I moved towards the door opening it seeing a dead body hunched over the table that was soaked in his blood before my eyes rose to Dean as he stood near the back door.
"Sam?" he called out but there was no answer and he let the door swing shut.
"Dean?" he turned to me and I expected to see a little anger that I didn't stay in the car but all I saw was deep seeded worry for the fact that Sam was nowhere to be seen and I joined his worry especially as he held up his hand which had traces of sulfur on it which he'd gotten from the door meaning one thing…a demon took Sam, probably the demon. "Sulfur" he moved back towards me grabbing my arm as he moved back out the front door towards the car calling out for Sam but it was no use Sam was gone.
"Dean hey" I called turning him to face me. "He's not here but were gonna find him, we have to call for help…my Dad, were going to find him okay" he nodded his head.
I pulled my phone out of my jacket pocket and called my Dad getting him to meet us shooting him coordinates with a brief reason why we needed him before Dean and I climbed into the Impala and drove to meet up with him with Dean practically calling Sam's phone every five minutes but the call wasn't even going through meaning Sam was somewhere out of service, he'd even called Ash in hopes he could look into finding Sam as well.
When we finally pulled up at the rendezvous point I told Dad to meet us at, we saw my father in his truck already waiting for us on the side of the highway so we got out and he followed suit with a rolled up map in his hand laying it out on the hood of the Impala.
"This is it, all demonic signs and omens over the past month" Dad told us and I frowned not seeing anything but I'm guessing that was the point.
"You're joking, there's nothing there" Dean argued.
"Exactly" Dad said and I sighed nodding my head.
"There has to be something Dad, what about the normal low-level stuff, exorcisms that sort of thing?" I asked him.
"That's what I'm telling ya's, there's nothing it's completely quiet" Dad argued and I frowned since that wasn't normal.
"How are we supposed to look for Sam, do we just close our eyes and point?!" Dean exclaimed so I reached out and touched his arm to calm him down but then my phone started ringing, I pulled it out confused since who in the hell would call me…my first thought was Sam but saw it was the Roadhouse.
"It's Ash" I quickly said answering it. "Ash, what do you got?" I asked putting it on loudspeaker.
"Okay listen it's a big negatory on Sam" Ash replied and I sighed looking back at Dean.
"Come on you gotta give us something, were looking at the 3000-mile haystack here" Dean argued.
"Listen Dean…I did find something" Ash shot back making us all feel a flicker of hope.
"Well what?" Dean demanded impatient.
"I can't talk over this line Dean"
"Come on I don't have time for this" Dean protested so I squeezed his arm again.
"Make time!" Ash snapped surprising me, he was never one to lose his temper. "Okay cause this…what's up, what's going on?" Ash went on before cutting himself off. "Not only does this almost definitely help you find your brother, this is…it's huge" he went on confusing us. "So get here, now" he finished before the line went dead meaning he'd hung up.
"I guess were going to the Roadhouse, come on" Dean said and we quickly moved all getting into the Impala with Dad getting into the back seat and Dean sped towards the Roadhouse but the closer we got I knew something was wrong until we finally rolled up and saw that the Roadhouse was nothing but a pile of rubble.
"What the hell?" Dean asked rolling the Impala to a stop.
"Ash!" I jumped out running towards the building but someone grabbed my hand stopping me, I turned and saw it was Dean that was holding my arm. "Let go!"
"Wait" he warned me and I frowned but stopped fighting him and let him take the lead as we walked through what once was the front door looking around at the rubble seeing a few bodies mixed up under all of it and it was enough to make me sick.
"My god" I heard my Dad say.
"You see Ellen?" Dean asked but I shook my head.
"No" Dad replied from behind me. "No Ash either" he added but my eyes fell on something and I knelt down hesitantly touching the wrist watch that was attached to a burnt and blackened arm.
"Ash…damn it!" I pulled my hand away looking up at Dean and my Dad as I stood back up. "It's Ash" I told them and their eyes showed their silent mourning before we walked out of the rubble back towards the Impala.
"This is…" Dad started shaking his head.
"What the hell did Ash know?" Dean cut him off and I frowned. "We got know way of knowing where Ellen is or if she's even alive, we got no clue what Ash was gonna tell us, now how the hell are we gonna find Sam" Dean yelled out in an outburst.
"We'll find him" I insisted refusing to give up but Dean suddenly grimaced holding a hand to his forehead.
"Dean?" Dad asked as I moved towards him as he groaned shaking his head but then grimaced again this time holding his forehead with both his hands on his head.
"Dean!" I exclaimed worried. "What was that?" I asked him.
"I don't know, headache?" he replied making my frown deepen.
"You get headaches like that a lot?" Dad asked him.
"No" Dean groaned out so I rubbed his shoulder making him look at me. "Must be the stress" he added as if to placate me. "Could of swore I saw something" he added making me turn to my Dad and we shared a look.
"What do you mean like a vision, like what Sam gets?" Dad asked him.
"What no!" Dean argued defensively.
"I'm just saying"
"Come on I'm not some psychic" Dean said then bent over holding his head again.
"Dean?" I put my arm against his chest keeping him upright. "Dean!" I yelled as Dad came around and helped me steady him as he pressed his forehead against the roof of the Impala. "Dean hey, you with us?"
"Yeah I think so" he replied lifting his head. "I saw Sam"
"So it was a vision" I replied confused as hell but focused my attention on my boyfriend who was still coming back from the pain resting against the roof.
"Yeah…I don't know how but yeah" he nodded slowly standing upright. "Whew that was about as fun as getting kicked in the jewels" he added making me laugh a little.
"What else did you see?" Dad asked him.
"Uh…there was a bell" Dean replied making my eyes furrow.
"What kind of bell?" I asked him to clarify.
"Um, like a big bell with uh…some kind of engraving on it, I don't know"
"Engraving?" Dad pressed since that might help us pinpoint Sammy's location.
"Yeah" Dean nodded.
"Was it a tree, like an oak tree?" Dad asked him and I turned to him eyes widening a bit as I understood what he was suggesting and where.
"Yeah exactly" Dean replied as Dad and I shared another look. "What, you two know something?" he asked us and we both nodded turning to him.
"I know where Sam is" Dad replied and I nodded.
"It's an old mining town, not far from here"
"Let's go" Dean nodded getting back into the car so Dad and I followed with me getting into the back this time and Dean drove following my Dad's every direction and it took us about two hours before we were forced to stop by a fallen tree blocking the road and a lot of overgrown foliage stopping us from going any further by car.
"It looks like the rest of the ways on foot" Dad said as we climbed out of the car, Dean turned to look at me and I was expecting him to demand I stay in the car again but he didn't say anything and moved to the boot opening it up and started to gather weapons with my Dad grabbing a few.
Dean grabbed his sawn-off shotgun and Dad grabbed a standard one with a torch, I reached in and pulled out my pistol checking the clip seeing it fully stocked and once again Dean turned to me and once again I expected an argument.
"Stay behind me" he told me and I nodded turning to my Dad almost expecting an argument from him but he just nodded before we both followed after Dean who'd already began to walk with Dad taking the lead given he knew the general direction that this place was and it took us around another hour before we first sighted the collapsing buildings finally making it into the heart and saw Sam walking towards us holding his arm against his chest.
"Sam!" Dean called to him.
"Dean!" Sam called back but we saw some guy slowly charging up behind him.
"Sam look out!" Dean and I both yelled but the warning came too late and we watched the guy stab something into Sam's back. "No!" we ran towards them as Sam fell to his knees and the guy that stabbed him took off at a sprint with my Dad racing after him but Dean and I remained falling to our knees besides Sam.
"Sam" I cried as Dean grabbed his shirt keeping him upright. "Sam…Sam" I put my hand over the wound on Sam's back pulling it away seeing my hand soaked with blood and looked up at Dean as he continued to call for Sam but I knew there was no way he was walking away from this, with the position of the wound it was spine related and we were in the middle of nowhere even if we could've gotten him to a hospital. "Hey come here, you're okay champ" Dean continued pulling Sam against him examining the wound for himself. "Hey look at me, its not even that bad" he said but he knew it was a lie I could see it written all over his face. "Its not even that bad alright"
"Dean-" I tried but he didn't even look my way.
"Sammy, Sam!" he yelled as Sam started to fade. "Hey listen to me, we're gonna patch you up okay you'll be good as new" I felt the tears rolling down my cheeks as I watched Dean's heart breaking and I could do nothing…I couldn't think of anything that was going to help him come back from this. "I'm gonna take care of you, I got you it's my job right…watch out for my pain-in-the-ass little brother" the only thing holding Sam up right now was Dean and I didn't have the heart to tell him. "Sam…" he continued to repeat his name and I felt my heart breaking every time he uttered Sam's name because even though we weren't related by blood and I could never know the pain Dean was going through right now Sam was in a small way my brother…and he was dead. "Sammy!" Dean yelled making me jump looking back up at Dean. "No, no, no" he cried once again pulling Sam against him as Sam's eyes were shut and he'd finally realized that Sam was gone so I wrapped my arms around Dean not saying a word as I let him mourn the loss of his brother.
