Ok you may read this with a 'huh?' or a 'what the..?' but I will explain in the next chapters. Promise!

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Chapter 10

Helena looked in the mirror and sighed a sigh of contentment. The mirror was full length and she was standing naked in front of it, turning, and admiring the glow from her new skin. She ran her hands over this new body, so soft, so silky smooth and she gave a little shiver of delight. She was almost whole again.

Finally she tore herself away and got dressed, slipping into skin tight black jeans and a white t-shirt. She brushed her long black hair admiring the sheen that it now had and then tied it back. Her face was beautiful. Soft skin, full lips and delicate sea green eyes, her features now a total contrast to that of before. She took one last look in the mirror and headed out.

Kate was furious, although she knew better than to show it to Helena. She had been deprived of her fun; Helena had stopped her 'visiting' their guest, worried that her treatment of him was making him go downhill too fast, that he would be dead before she could heal fully but Kate suspected another reason for Helena's reluctance to allow her little bit of fun. Helena was lonely and much as she despised him Kate would be the first to admit that Dean Winchester had his attractions.

Kate watched as Helena walked towards her, she was quite something. Slim, tall and extremely beautiful. Kate could feel a feeling almost akin to lust run through her.

"I take it you're finished with him now?" She hoped that the answer would be yes, but she knew that she was going to be disappointed.

"Not yet, but you may get to finish your little game." She gently ran a hand through Kate's hair, brushing it back from her neck. Kate groaned with her touch and Helena lent in and drank a little from her. Kate was giddy, she had others drink her before but she had never felt like this.

Helena laughed. "Perhaps we could both have a little fun with Mr Winchester?" Kate just stood there rubbing her neck and grinning as she watched Helena walk away.

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Sam jumped at the pounding on the window that his head was resting against. Sitting up and wiping the drool from his chin he turned his head and looked into Bobby's face.

Lenore had made Sam swap places only an hour out of Blackwood after his head drooped and they almost went into a ditch for the second time. She had agreed to help even though she knew that there was a certain danger attached but she didn't want to get him killed on the way there. He had protested but she had insisted, either that or he stop the car and she would go. He let her drive.

"Hey sleeping beauty, ready to go get your brother." Bobby's smile almost spilt his face.

Sam tried to gather his thoughts and get out the car. "Eh? Did you find him?"

"Lenore's narrowed it down to four houses that she thinks they'll use. She likes the location of them, so we'll start with them and then go further afield if we have to."

"Hell, how long was I out?"

"Long enough for Lenore and I to get to first name terms. She's quite something, makes you think about vamps in a whole new light, apart from the ones that have got Dean that is!"

Lenore walked over to join them.

"Sorry for not waking you, you looked like you needed the sleep."

"Thanks, the car had that effect on me." Sam stretched and rolled his head trying to ease up his neck muscles.

"Isn't that how I ended up driving in the first place?" She laughed and turned to Bobby.

"How do want to do this, as a party or just Sam and me out front until we find them?"

Sam was confused. "You're coming with us?"

Lenore turned back to him. "You should have told me it was Kate that you were hunting down. You go in there alone and you're dead. She's bad news, has a real mean streak, besides we have a history. Nothing I'd like more than to take her head off her shoulders."

Sam laughed "Watch it, your evil streak is showing."

"Killing other vampires…doesn't count; besides there is no way that I'd drink her blood, you just don't know where it's been." She grinned and then walked away to speak to the other vamps that had been following them in her truck.

"I like her." Bobby's voice made Sam jump. He had been thinking about Dean. "I can't believe I just said that about a vampire. What is the world coming too?"

"You getting soft in your old age Bobby?" Sam smirked as he walked round the car. "You and Father Thomas better come with us, don't want an obvious convoy." Sam slipped into the driver's seat.

"Don't help me with the door or nothing." Bobby balanced on one crutch and struggled to open the Impala's back door. Lenore came to his rescue. "Here let me help." She held his crutches and helped him lower himself into the car.

"Thank you."

She smiled. "Don't mention it."

They were on their way. Sam felt the tension building in his shoulders. Relief at finally having a heading and a plan tempered with what they would find when they got to where his brother was being held.

The first two houses were a bust. Boarded up and obviously deserted. Sam sighed, two down, two to go. He offered a little prayer up to the heavens.

They were on a back road to the third property when she got them to stop. Sam watched as she got out the car and then rounded it to his side, all the time watching, looking for something in the woods beyond. He went to get out of the car but she motioned him to stop. She knew they were near. She turned round and tapped the window. Sam rolled it down.

"What?"

"Give me the map." She opened it on the roof of the car and worked out just exactly were they were on this road. She spotted the clearing in the woods not far from where they were.

"Stay here. I need to check something." She motioned to one of her own to follow her and Sam watched as they set out into the trees, splitting just as they disappeared from view. He watched anxiously for any sign of their return. This could be it, please let this be it. After what seemed like an eternity Lenore appeared back.

"They're here! John's gone down to make sure the road is clear." She jumped back into the car.

"You sure it's them?" Sam couldn't quite believe it. Dean was only just the other side of these trees.

"Oh, yeah. It's them. The drive shouldn't be much further up this road. Let's go."

Sam didn't need to be asked twice, he drove up until they found the break in the trees and the dirt road that ran through it. Slowly he turned the big car in, the dirt road not much wider than the Impala itself. They drove up until they saw John signal them to stop and waved them into a passing place on the road.

"Need to walk from here or they'll hear the cars."

Sam turned. "Sorry Bobby looks like your staying here." The road up to the house was uneven and there was no way Bobby would manage on his bad leg, or so Sam thought.

"The hell I am. You go ahead; James and I will bring up the rear."

Sam went to argue and was cut dead. "I am going and no gammy leg, bad road or Sam Winchester is gonna stop me, do I make myself clear?" He flung open the door and struggled out.

John spoke to them as they gathered weapons. "Looks like there are only two outside, they're well hidden, probably not expecting any trouble. Can't see in though, all the windows are blacked out."

Lenore turned to Sam. "You stay with me. Whatever happens, whatever we find, you stay with me." He nodded. "Sam, I need to let you know, Kate's thing is torture, the more cruel and unusual the better. If Dean's still alive…..you might not like what you find. Just thought you should be prepared." He noted the concern in her eyes.

"Lenore as long as he's alive we can fix him, no matter what she's done. I just want my brother back."

"Ok." She looked at their assembled group. "Let's go."

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Dean woke to find that he had been moved. The surface below him was no longer cold and hard but warm and yielding. He tried to sit up but it caused the world to spin so he rested. He found that he could move his hands, the restraints now gone. Someone had re-dressed him, the jeans his but the shirt was definitely not, it felt like silk and lay warm and sensuous against his cold skin. He tried to sit again and managed it this time. Both his arms ached but the excruciating pain was gone. He slowly threw his legs over the side of the bed that he was now sitting on and looked round the room. It was darkly decorated and lit, only a few candles burning on the mantel across from where he sat. The bed was a magnificent wooden four-poster, hung with heavy black drapes. He tried to remember how he got here but it was a blank.

He hopped off of the bed and looked round for a door. There were two. He padded barefoot across the stone floor to the nearest one. It opened to reveal a bathroom. He ran his hand along the wall and found the light switch, blinking as the change in light hurt his eyes. Once his sight had adjusted he walked in and turned the water on, filling the washbasin, dipping his hands into the cool water, it's touch refreshing on his face, making him feel more awake. He lifted his eyes and looked in the mirror. Slowly he raised his hand and reached forward pressing his palm against the glass surface. He pulled away and lifted both hands to his face, touching them to his cheeks.

The crash came just as his brain caught up with his senses. He turned. He could hear voices, shouts nearby. He ran out into the main room and to the other door, throwing it open and ran out into a small hall. The voices were off to his right so he turned and headed that way soon reaching another junction, he stopped to judge where the voices were coming from now when he heard a shout. This voice he recognised. "Sam!" He screamed his brother's name and tore down the next corridor. It opened out into a huge room one wall of which was covered in a huge mirror, albeit one that was now broken into a myriad of smaller pieces.

The two vampires Jason and Sue where down and Kate was on Bobby, Sam and a woman he recognised but couldn't quite place at the moment desperately trying to pull her off. Their backs were to him and he realised that the woman helping Sam was a vampire as she cast no reflection in the mirror.

He turned as he heard Helena's voice behind him.

"Enough!" All four stopped and stared at her reflection in the mirror. "You shouldn't have come here." She let her second set of teeth descend and stepped forward to Dean's side.

How come a vampire's got a reflection?" Bobby had never seen such a thing.

Sam turned and saw that his brother was standing beside her. He looked at the mirror then back at the pale face of his brother. "Bobby, her having a reflection is the least of our problems."

Helena tilted her head and smiled at Sam. "You're too late……your brother said yes."