Chapter 29. He should have known
Stacey was seated back in her seat, feeling just the tiny bit ill. Her plan had worked. The boys had gotten out now she only hoped that they had been able to get off the property to go and get some help, preferably someone that would be able to help them with their current ghost situation.
She now knew that Dean, Sam and their Dad hunted those types of things and maybe they knew other people that did the same thing. At this point she'd settle for anyone.
Dane had been in nearly as much shock as everyone else which had given her enough time to return to her seat without him saying anything to her. The teachers on the other hand were another story. Mr. Graham had not looked happy and had yelled at everyone to calm down and then once everyone had been seated had not so nicely told her that displays like that were not tolerated and that she was going to be punished.
So now she sat in her seat, worrying about Sam and Daniel and having to put up with Dane smiling at her. She began to think that maybe kissing him hadn't been such a good idea after all and the first chance she got she was going to let him know that.
She tore her gaze away from Dane and over to where the teachers were talking and wondered what was going on over there.
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Jacqueline wasn't really sure what she was thinking but she had to at least give those kids the benefit of doubt which was what brought her to where she was now, standing with the other three teachers.
"Sorry we had to leave you and Mrs. Collins with all the students for so long. Did everything go okay?" Mr. Graham asked looking at her.
"Yes everything was fine but … I've been thinking maybe we should take the kids on a small field trip off the property for a while."
She saw Mr. Taylor eyebrows narrow, "Why would we do that?"
"Well we can't keep them locked up here for the entire month. They'll go stir crazy … hell I'll go stir crazy." Jacqueline laughed a little but it died out as she saw that none of the other teachers looked too impressed with the idea.
"I don't think that's an option right now," Mr. Taylor told her, glancing over at the students who were quietly talking amongst themselves.
"Daniel says that Sam told him this place his haunted. He seems to think that the teachers are possessed or something." Matt wasn't sitting too far away from where the teachers were having their discussion and it caught Rodney's attention.
"What you mean like in the Exorcist or something?" Mike laughed.
"I dunno man."
"The Exorcist? What are you guys talking about?" the girl sitting next to Mike asked.
"There's a rumor going around that the teachers are possessed," Matt explained.
"I dunno about the teachers but man it's like Jennifer has been possessed."
"What do you mean?" Matt asked leaning forward to look around Mike at her.
"It's just like she's a different person, I definitely don't want anything to do with her anymore."
"Well that's what Daniel told me anyway."
"Yeah well Daniel has been spending too much time with the weirdo Winchester's."
"Maybe, but could you imagine if they were possessed, that would be just freaky." The girl said.
"Yeah! ... Hey dude can you believe Stacey? My brother is so the man!" Mike stated, earning an eye roll from both Matt and the girl.
Rodney looked over at the girl in question and saw that she was starring at them but looked away as soon as Rodney made eye contact with her. She looked nervous and Rodney hadn't thought anything of it until hearing Matt and Mike talk. Maybe she knew something.
"I think I might go check on Dean, he seems to have been up there for a long time now." Rodney's attention was brought back to the group of teachers at hearing Jacqueline talk about the oldest Winchester boy.
Jacqueline turned around and went to head over to the door but was stopped by a hand on her arm, "I don't think that's a good idea." She looked at Mr. Graham suspiciously.
"What? Why?"
"You're just not going up there now."
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Can I speak with you for a minute?" Rodney asked the older man.
Pierce looked at Rodney and then back at Jacqueline, "Stay here."
Rodney and Pierce walked a few steps away, "What is it?"
"I think we might have a problem."
Pierce looked at Rodney as if to say continue.
"I just over heard some of the students talking about ghost's and possession and take a look at Stacey Dalesfed. She knows something and there's something else."
"What?"
"We're missing two students, Sam Winchester and Daniel McKinley."
"You think they have said anything to Miss Northam?" Mr. Graham asked.
"It's possible."
"Damn it! Too many people are getting suspicious."
"This has never happened before. What are we going to do about it?" Rodney asked and looked over to where Jacqueline Northam was still waiting, a little angrily, with Miss Franklin.
"I don't know but we can't afford for anyone outside of this camp to find out." Pierce told him, gazing at all the students in the room with a plan forming in his mind.
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Caleb had found the path in the forest easy enough and had cautiously made his way down it to now be standing in front of a cabin. He reached into his jacket pocket and brought out his EMF and flicked it on. Caleb gave a small smile when it picked up readings indicating that he was in the right place.
"Now to find the graves," he said to himself as he looked around the clearing and didn't really see anything.
Caleb walked around the side of the cabin and held up his EMF seeing that the readings were getting stronger. He continued to the back of the cabin and his EMF started going nuts. The psychic turned off the EMF and shoved it back in his pocket and looked around at the forest area at the back of the cabin. At first he thought all he could see was forest but then he saw something that looked like a cross sitting in the ground a few meters away but it was hard to see through all the plants.
Caleb took the bag he was carrying off his shoulder and unzipped it, taking out a machete. He swung at the thick branches and leaves that had been growing there in order to get through. Once he made it through the thickest of it he saw what he had been looking for.
Caleb was standing in front of another area in the forest that had been cleared away to reveal a row of ten wooden crosses stuck in the ground, the only sign that people had been buried there.
"Man …" Caleb complained out loud, "That's going to be a lot of digging!" He hadn't thought about that side of things until he saw all the graves together. Usually, on a normal gig, when having to dig up a corpse there was only one grave, maybe two at the most but ten was definitely a big number.
He cringed at the big job that he had ahead of him. He was at least a little grateful that the grave digging would have to wait till later. First things first, he would have to find that damn ritual. Because it would be no good to salt and burn the bones while the people were still possessed.
Caleb shoved the machete back into his bag and was about to turn around when he heard a noise from behind him. He felt something familiar, but couldn't pin it down. It was like that feeling of being blocked again.
"Need some help?" Caleb heard the familiar voice behind him, not needing to turn around to know who it was but did so slowly anyway.
"Dean," he greeted a little relief in his voice at seeing the boy although he couldn't help but feel that something was off, "Where's your brother?"
"Dad has him … Everything is under control." Dean was starting to unnerve him. The kid was standing there with his hands behind his back looking directly into his eyes and if he didn't know the teen better he would say that everything was normal. But he did know Dean better and he had a bad feeling and that blocking sensation had come back with full force now that Dean had showed up.
Dean felt his body take a step towards his friend and waited confidently /He's not gonna fall for it ya know/ he told the ghost. He could see that Caleb knew that all was not right. Dean could feel his fingers that were wrapped around the thick tree branch that Tommy had picked up on his way in.
"I don't need him to fall for it, just shut up and enjoy the show" Dean wished he could do something to alert his friend that it wasn't him but right now his energy reserves were down so low it was lucky he was still awake. But he was confident that Caleb wasn't stupid, not that he would ever tell the psychic that.
He watched as his friend started moving forward, "Come on Man we need to find that Ritual for your Dad," Caleb told him, intending on heading for the front of the small cabin.
Dean felt himself step in front of the older hunter, "I don't think so," Tommy said shaking his head.
"Excuse me?"
"You won't be going anywhere," Tommy threatened just before bringing the tree branch around and swinging it at Caleb's head.
Caleb however had felt that things were starting to go down hill and his reflexes were nothing if not quick, making it easy for him to jump back and out of range, "I knew something was wrong. I mean, since when does Dean offer to help me with manual labor," Caleb joked keeping an eye on Dean.
Dean mentally rolled his eyes at Caleb's comment but was relieved that Caleb had proved him right and was well aware that the Dean he was talking to was not Dean.
"Caleb Reaves … you know Dean has been raving about how good you are, " Tommy told him causing Caleb to raise his eyebrows, "But all I see is John Winchester's personal sniffer dog. I've seen Dean's memories, your nothing but a psychic freak."
If Caleb was disturbed by the words he didn't show it, "So you know me, now it's only polite that I know who you are," Caleb responded with a fake smile, trying to circle the boy.
Caleb watched Dean's face as he seemed to consider what Caleb had just asked, "Fine … the name is Tommy and I hope it makes you feel better to know the name of the person who's about to end you."
Caleb snorted. He remembered seeing the ghost that had possessed Dean in his vision. The boy could have been any older than Sam.
"No," Caleb shrugged his shoulders, "But at least I'll have a name to tease Dean with once this is all over with."
Caleb was quick he had to admit that. One minute he was standing a couple of feet away and the next Dean felt Caleb's fist crash against his jaw. Tommy using Dean's own body lashed out quickly, hitting Caleb in the side of the head sending him flying, landing on is back on the forest floor. Tommy didn't waste any time because despite what he had told the hunter, he'd seen in Dean's memories the threat that Caleb could be which had made him prepare himself for Caleb to be a formidable challenge.
Tommy used Dean's body to pounce on the Caleb just as he was sitting up shaking his head and slam a fist into him again.
Caleb blocked the next fist and flipped him over so that now he was sitting on top of the possessed boy. Caleb grabbed hold of Dean's wrists and remembered that Tommy had told him that Sam was with John and he knew that John thought that Sam was possessed. He needed to send John a message but it was difficult to concentrate while in a fist fight with a possessed Dean.
/That's it Caleb!/ Dean thought and mentally winced when he realized that once this whole thing was handled he was going to be pretty sore because now he really knew what it was like when Caleb didn't holed back.
Dean felt Tommy lift his leg and manage to kick Caleb in the head sending him falling to the side and releasing his grasp on Dean's wrist.
/JOHN, ITS DEAN!!!!!!!!/ Caleb screamed in his mind, trying to direct the message to John before having to block another attack from Tommy.
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Now that Dean was gone John wasn't exactly sure what he was planning on doing with the two boys in front of him. Sam was starring at him with those pleading big brown eyes. He really wanted to believe him. But then if he believed him, then that would mean that he would have to believe that Dean was the one who was possessed.
"Dad, God damn it! Will you just listen to me," Sam asked frustratingly.
"I'm not in the mood for lies right now, "John said releasing one of his hands to open his bag, bringing out a thin small rope and chucking it to Sam, "Now tie that around his wrists, then I'll tie yours and then you are both coming with me," John explained.
Sam caught the rope and stared at his father like he had grown two heads, "No." Sam threw the piece of rope on the ground.
John raised his tazor, "Bind his wrists together now!" he ordered.
Sam shook his head, "No! Not until you listen to what I have to say." Sam placed his hands on his hips and gave John a look that he had seen far too often in the last year or so. It was a look of defiance and annoyance and looked so much like Sam that John almost lowered his gun.
"Please Sir we're telling you the truth," Daniel pleaded. The poor kid looked scared out his wits.
"Dad, Dean is possessed. He went missing and then just now when we were going to go for help he turned up, but he was different. Dad he attacked us. And you just sent him after Caleb," Sam said accusingly, like only Sam could.
"How do you explain the note and Caleb's vision?"
"Look I dunno what Caleb saw but Dad, Dean had suspected something was wrong from this place since we got here and he was snooping around, maybe they caught him and decided to possess him instead so that they wouldn't be caught out or something … look Dad if you are ever going to trust me do it now. For Dean's and even Caleb's sake," Sam took a long breath once he had finished his long spiel and looked at his father, he was starting to look like he might be considering that Sam was telling the truth.
"Look …" John began but was interrupted but strange feeling in his head and had to close his eyes. Then he heard it /JOHN, ITS DEAN!!!!!/ Caleb's scream echoing clearly in his head.
"Dad, are you okay?" he heard Sam asked in a concerned voice.
John opened his eyes to see that Sam had edged closer in concern but was still keeping a little distance since John was still holding the tazor on him.
"Damn it!" John cursed as he realized all the time he had wasted.
"Dad?"
"Come on Sammy," John said lowering his tazor and picked up his bag and began walking past Sam and to the back of the building.
"What? What happened?"
"Caleb …Dean's possessed and I think Caleb might be in a little bit of trouble," John said not stopping.
"That's what I have been trying to tell you this whole time and it takes a message from psychic boy to get you to believe me?" Sam charged after his father angrily, now understanding how Dean had probably been feeling this whole time. Daniel followed quickly behind the two Winchester's.
John stopped just as he reached the end of the building causing Sam to run into him. He leant down a little and placed a hand on his youngest son's shoulders, "Sammy I'm sorry I didn't believe you. Believe me I am but right now we don't have time to argue," John told him, his hand still on the boys shoulder waiting for him to answer.
"Yes Sir," Sam answered. He father was right. Dean and Caleb were in trouble and they came before his anger towards his pig headed father.
"Good boy. Now Daniel, are you sure …" John began to ask but was cut off.
"I'm coming with you Sir," Daniel told him. John could tell the boy was scared but there was really nowhere else for the kid to go right now anyway. Staying with Sam and himself was probably the safest option.
"Okay, stay close and do as I say, "John told them, directing the last order in Sam's direction, earning him a scowl.
John shook his head as he turned around to continue their way to the forest where he had sent Caleb. He realized that he should have known that it was Sam all a long because no other kid held that much contempt for him.
TBC ...
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