Letting Go- Chapter 1

by KansasRoad

Short story stand alone, but part of an ongoing storyline. Charlie Bradbury gets caught up in a hunt that takes her down a path she never expected. Sam and Dean Winchester, along with a trusted friend and colleague, Jody Mills try to unravel the mystery before it's too late. Complete.

7. Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Avera McKennan Hospital& University Health Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Charlie's hospital room

5:26pm

"How's your head?" Sam asked Dean as a nurse finished checking him out. "You were out for a bit."

"Like it got stomped on by a herd of elephants." Dean responded irritated. "She sure as hell packed a punch."

"So I guess this answers our question if Charlie was being possessed." Sam retorted.

"I mean the sheer power behind it.. " Dean shook his head.

"She's a mother that wants to be with her son. There's a power behind that and not much can get in the way." Jody said sympathetically.

Dean lightly touched the growing goose egg forming on the back of his head. He grimaced in pain. "Yeah, well right now this ghost has our Charlie. And there's not much in the way that's going to stop me from getting her back." Dean gave Jody a hardened look before his expression softened when he realized how easy it was for Jody to sympathize with Jessica and the loss of a child. Losing a child wasn't an easy thing for anyone. Devastating might be a better word, but he knew even that was a description that fell incredibly short. Jody gave a tight smile. She knew Dean's heart was in the right place.

"Did you get anything?" Dean asked her gently.

"Surveillance shows Charlie walking right out the front entrance." Jody answered.

"No one stopped her?" Sam asked.

"If they had I doubt they would have done much better than Dean here." Jody responded.

Dean rolled his eyes. She wasn't wrong. "We gotta find her before it's too late." Dean said as he got up from his chair, thanked the nurse helping him and headed out of the hospital room. Jody and Sam followed. "My guess is that when we found Charlie we interrupted something." Dean surmised. "That ghost has been sitting in Charlie this whole time just waiting to finish what it started and it still needs Charlie to do it."

"So back to the scene of the crime so to speak." Jody said anxiously.

"That's where Charlie's headed. And that's where we need to be." Dean said. It was now or never and they all knew it.