A/N: Okay, here's what you've been waiting for. The breaking of Sam. Hope you all enjoy and drop me a line. I love hearing from so many great people!
Chapter 6
"Do you know who he is?"
"Not by name but he has a reputation. I know he's a badass and he wants Sam's place as leader of the army. He's underhanded and will do anything to get what he wants. Sam is in terrible danger."
"So's Joshua. A demon has Josh and two other hunters. He's not fully under the demon's control. He has one of those charms like you gave us, Bobby. Josh has moments when he has full control, when he can control what he does.
"Ruby, you can sense other demons right?"
"Normally yeah, but not this one. It is so powerful that I can't focus on where it is. Everything is just one big jumble. It's starting to give me a headache." A beep sounded from Sam's laptop, which Bobby had booted up and sent some emails to various contacts in hopes of finding something to help them get Sam back. One of his contacts was returning an email. Bobby walked over and sat at the worn chair. A few keystrokes later he looked at Dean and Ruby.
"I think I know where he is."
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The small arms connected to the table at Sam's temples were raised and angled to rest near his eyes. He gasped and cried out as ice cold water drenched him, raising goose bumps on his flesh. Water sluiced down his shirtless frame to soak his jeans and puddle on the dusty wooden floor.
"Guuhhh. What are you gonna do to me?" The demon smirked and leaned in, leering in Sam's face as he lowered the 'forks' to rest against Sam's eyelids, effectively holding them open. "Stop!" Sam tried to fight him off only to realize he had no mobility. He was strapped back to a table that had been elevated nearly upright. He had leather restraints about his neck, wrists, and ankles. The metal braces held his swollen eyes painfully wide open and his head back tight to the table. "Let me go. Please." Sam's eyes darted wildly about and then locked with Joshua's brown ones. "Josh….please….don't let him… do this…. Josh, please." Tears leaked from Sam's eyes as they involuntarily tried to blink and stay moist.
The demon looked at Joshua, suspicion flickering over his features. God Sammy, I'm sorry. Joshua pulled back a fist and let it fly, hitting Sam in the stomach. Josh felt another rib give beneath his hand and the air audibly left Sam's body once again. Sam grunted in pain and fought to catch his breath. The demon picked up a black piece of rubber with a small hollow tube sticking out of the rounded surface. He smiled sardonically and looked at Sam.
"Open up." Sam clenched his teeth and continued to try to catch his breath, nearly impossible through a broken nose. The demon gripped Sam's jaw painfully and forced his mouth open, inserting the rubber mouth guard between his teeth. Sam's breathing became a hollow sounding whistle as he breathed through the mouth guards little tube. "Now we have some fun."
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Dean circled the table to where Bobby sat looking at the screen. On it was the email from a contact that showed the current weather pattern in one window and the written forecast in another. "Forecast says clear skies and no precipitation 'till Thursday. This," Bobby pointed to the red blotch that covered there area on the map in the other window, "look like clear skies to you?"
Ruby had walked over to stand beside Dean and looked at the screen. "Looks like an omen to me."
"Five miles out. Makes sense, the demon would wanna keep Sam close to mess with our heads."
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The demon stepped up behind Sam and put a hand over each of his temples beneath the small arms that held his eyes wide open. Its eyes turned the darkest black that Joshua had ever seen. Sam struggled to dislodge the cold hands that touched his head, breathing hard through the rubber disc in his mouth. Silver flashed through the demon's hands and looked like static electricity moving to Sam's temples. He gasped through the tube in his mouth and his body went rigid, muscles straining against the restraints. Sam screamed. The demon laughed. Joshua was horrified.
Sam found himself somewhere familiar. He was standing in a small dark room, leaning against a set of double doors. The vents in the doors were darkened as if something was against them. Sam panicked, pounding his fist against the door. His head suddenly started hurting. Pictures flashed through his mind. Dean standing in front of a blond woman. "You wanna kill her you gotta go through me." Sam's head gave a sharp throb and he suddenly found himself facing Dean. His gun was in his hand.
"Okay." Unable to stop himself, he squeezed the trigger. Dean dropped to the floor with a bullet hole in his forehead and a spray of blood and brain on the wall behind him.
Sam was talking with a girl he recognized and her boyfriend as they walked through dark tiled corridors with cement black walls. He found a door and turned the knob the door opened and his head gave a sharp throb. He found himself standing over Dean as he lay on the floor on his back. Sam crouched down, his gun in his hands. "You hate me that much?"
"For once, just shut your mouth."
"Do it."
The gun fired, Dean's body jumping as the bullet entered his head and passed through, lodging in the floor behind him.
Sam found himself at the crossroads, Ruby beside him. He stooped and picked up the crystal that was Dean's soul selling contract. He looked at his brother, who had jogged up to him from where he had stood beside the Impala. "I've got it Dean."
"That's the contract?" Dean asked. Sam's head gave a throb.
"Not anymore." Sam crushed the crystal in his bare fist, his eyes turning yellow. Dean fell to the ground, eyes staring sightlessly at the night sky.
Sam's body strained against the leather holding him fast to the table, silver flashes going from the demons hands to Sam's body at a faster pace, gaining rhythm as Sam began to seize on the table. His eyes remained open, red rimmed with tears pouring from them. The table he was on began to shake, the demon fighting to keep a hold on Sam, to keep him under his control. Objects in the room began floating and the demon roared with laughter, sending more pulses into Sam's system. Blood vessels stood out on Sam's forehead and he continued to shake, his body surging against the straps. His back arched and his breath rasped through the tube sticking out of his mouth. His eyes, now leaking blood from the corners, danced wildly about the room not seeing anything. His body gave three hard jerks, breath gasping through the tube. The demon grinned maniacally and looked at Joshua as flashes continued to flow from him to Sam at a furious pace, looking like a strobe light.
"PULL THE GUARD, I WANT TO HEAR HIM SCREAM!"
Joshua stepped forward and hastily pulled on the rubber tube connected to the disc in Sam's mouth, the guard popping out of his mouth. His body seized and became rigid.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh!"
The objects swirled through the room so fast they appeared to blur as Sam continued to scream in agony. Suddenly he went limp and everything crashed, glass broke out of the windows and the bare bulb hanging over Sam and the demons exploded. Sam's eyes remained open when the demon pulled his hands away and smiled at Joshua. He moved to look over Sam as his eyes returned to normal. The light from the sun fell on Sam's face and chest, glowing yellow on his skin. Joshua started suddenly. Sam's eyes were the same color as the sun.
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"Let's go get my brother and Josh back then. I have a need to kill one evil sonofabitch." Dean started towards the door, Ruby followed behind him, more than willing to kill a few demons if it meant getting Sam Winchester back in her life. The computer gave another beep and Bobby quickly opened another email from the same contact. It showed another map, with the same red blotch covering the area where they were. The center of the red spot had a black circle of off the chart activity on it.
"Hey, you'd better look at this." Bobby said. Ruby and Dean turned around and walked back over, looking at the screen.
Ruby gave a choked sound. "Oh my God!"
"What?"
"That's Sam."
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