Jason grabbed my arm in a grip that was painful and stumbled towards me, into the room,
"Kaiden? Kaiden, I'm so glad I found you."
I stared at him not able to breath and my mind was racing to find words,
"J-Jason. What do you want from me?" I said, my voice a harsh whisper,
"I need you to listen. He said I have to make you listen." He said with no attempt to keep his voice down, he was concentrated on me.
Dean rolled over and opened his eyes, he saw Jason holding my arm and quickly jumped up from the bed,
"Who the hell are you?"
I looked from Dean, to Jason, searching my mind for a reason as to why Jason would be there. I knew this would be an opportune moment to tell Dean the truth about what had happened. But my heart was beating so fast and I was having trouble breathing, I could barely feel my arms and legs,
"Leave Jason, now."
He shook his head and took a step towards me. Dean must have heard the panic in my voice and seen the fear on my face. He walked towards Jason and wrenched his hand off from where it was wrapped around my forearm,
"Get the hell off of her!"
At the sound of Dean's yelling woke Sam from his deep sleep and he ended up standing behind me. He saw that my legs were wobbling and wrapped an arm around me to steady my shaking body.
Dean was shaking too, but with rage, instead of the deepest kind of fear I was feeling. He grabbed Jason by the collar and swung his arm back to punch him,
"Dean! Don't!"
He turned to me, "Why not?"
"He's not worth it. Just, just let him go. Jason, you better get out of here."
Jason fixed me with a stare that was so intense it was unsettling,
"He said I have to make you listen. And he said that if I couldn't make you listen, make you understand, then…"
I looked at him in confusion,
"Who said this to you?"
"The man with the yellow eyes."
Jason stepped towards me but Dean got to him before he could get to me and shoved him hard into the wood paneling of the motel wall,
"Get. Out." He said through clenched teeth. He gripped Jason's shirt in my hands and shoved him as hard as he could through the door that was still wide open from when Jason had come in, "And if you come near her again I will kill you."
Jason shot me one last desperate look; the guy was seriously disturbed,
"I'll come back for you Kaiden." He said, and then walked away.
I realized that Sam was supporting most of my weight and allowed him to walk me over to the bed he had been sleeping on. I sat down heavily on the bed and looked up at Dean, whose eyes were ramped with emotions,
"Who the hell was that?"
I was so tired, both because it was getting really late and because seeing Jason had drained all of my remaining energy. I wasn't in the mood to rehash painful memories, at least out loud,
"Just an old boyfriend." I said hoping that he would drop the subject. It was just wishful thinking; I knew he wouldn't, especially after Jason had mentioned the "man with the yellow eyes." If I was him and there had been mention of the thing that had killed my mother, I wouldn't just let it go,
"An old boyfriend that is clearly involved with the yellow eyed demon? And one that seemingly has no problem with laying his hands on you."
Well I was pretty much ready burst into tears, honestly, before Dean and Sam had come back into the picture I had my emotions locked away nicely. But ever since my dad died and I became involved with Dean, it was like my tears were always on standby. It was honestly embarrassing; I didn't want Sam and Dean to think that I was some kind of blubbering freak.
Sam saw the look on my face and stepped between where I was sitting and where Dean was standing staring at me,
"Dean. We know the guy is coming back. And we know he is connected with the yellow eyed demon. We need to get Kaiden out of here."
Dean nodded his head and then was quickly lost deep in his own thoughts. Sam was thinking logically about what needed to get done, he was the only one. Since both Dean and I were completely out of it,
"Kaiden, do you think we could stay at your friend, Fay's house?"
I shook my head,
"I don't want to put her in danger. Besides, I haven't seen her for years; I don't want to suddenly push myself on her."
Sam looked at me with a strange expression on his face,
"You're her best friend. Believe me, she won't mind. Besides, George said that if there was anything we needed help with we shouldn't hesitate to ask."
I nodded my head and stood up from the bed, my legs were still a little unsteady, but considerably better than they were before,
"Let's go."
It only took us a couple minutes to get our things together and we were sitting in the Impala. I stared out the window watching the street lights pass by in a blur. It was strange, it had been not time at all since I had been sitting in a hospital bed listening to Fay's message. And now I was in the middle of another mess revolving around Jason. The guy was poison. Plain and simple, there was nothing about him capable of regular human emotion and I had no clue what the hell I had ever seen in the guy.
We pulled up to Fay's house and pretty soon we were standing in their front hall talking to her and George,
"-so do you think its okay that we stay here for the night? Just until we figure something out." Sam said,
Fay nodded vigorously,
"Absolutely, stay as long as you want." She wrapped her arms around herself, "God Kay, if I had known that by calling you this would happen, I wouldn't have called. I'm so sorry."
"Believe me; this is in no way your fault. I would have ended up back here eventually anyways. This way he won't be able to hurt anyone else."
George wrapped an arm around Fay and brushed a tear away that had escaped from her eye. She shuddered,
"You know, I still blame myself for what happened. If I hadn't insisted we talk about your hunting, then he would have never found out, and all of those horrible things would have never happened."
I assured her that she shouldn't blame herself.
Fay nodded her head and showed us to where we would be sleeping. The room Dean and I were sleeping in had walls the colour of a midnight sky and a massive bay window with a padded window seat. A queen sized bed was against the wall opposite the window; I sat down on the bed and let my body sink into the soft mattress. What I would have given just to sleep for a month,
"So are you going to fill me in or am I going to have to pry the details from you?" Dean asked as he sat down on the bed beside me.
I sighed and rubbed my tired eyes,
"Jason was my boyfriend for quite a while. He ended up finding out about the hunting stuff and kind of lost it. He, well, he…"
I couldn't say it, as much as I thought about what he had done in my head, I couldn't voice it, it was just too painful.
I squeezed my eyes shut as tight as I could to try to stop myself from crying. But no matter what I did the tears still seeped out from under my eyelids and ran down my cheeks.
Dean pulled me towards him,
"Shh," he said as a sob escaped from my mouth, "you don't have to say it. I promise you that he will never hurt you again."
Tears dripped down off my chin and dropped onto the faded black t-shirt he had been sleeping before the whole ordeal had began.
Dean leaned back into the array of pillows that Fay had put decoratively on the bed, Fay had always loved things that had no function but looked pretty, and I lay beside him with my head resting on his shoulder,
"What do you think this means?" I asked, "Do you think the demon has got to Jason, Just like he did those other people? Do you think he'll try to kill me?"
I felt, rather than heard, Dean Take a deep breath,
"I don't know what the demon is planning. All I know is that I will kill him slowly if he steps within a ten mile radius of you again."
"Thanks for being my protector." I mumbled as my exhaustion started to win the battle,
"No problem." He answered with a smile in his voice,
"But it only is a good thing if you don't get yourself killed. I like you enough to want to you stick around."
He chuckled and said something that I couldn't quite hear since I was half asleep.
Just before I let my need for rest completely overtake me I felt him drape his leather jacket over my body, I focused my ears and heard him mumble, mostly to himself,
"God knows I can't do this without you Kaiden Trent."