Hey guys! I'm back from Africa! And just let me say that it was amazing!!! Here's the next part of the story! I hope you all find it worth the wait. Hopefully I'll have a pretty regular update of about 2 chapters a week! Hope you all enjoy!

Dean and Sam sat patiently in the emergency room waiting for Abigail to be released. She had 3 deep cuts from the glass that they had to stitch up and dress before they could go back in. "She's going to be fine Dean." Sam said trying to calm his brother's nerves.

"Sam, this isn't over yet. Dominick, this thing it's still gonna happen. And now that Abigail knows she's not going to be safe until this is over." Dean said resting his head in his hands. "I just don't want her to get hurt again."

"She's out of this Dean. She wont be going back to the restaurant, she wont be anywhere near this." Sam told him. "But we do have to question her though. It'll be okay Dean."

"I know, I'll go do it now." Dean said standing and walking back towards the curtain that Abigail was at. A female doctor was putting on the final bandages. "Hey," he said softly walking in.

"Hey," Abigail said her face instantly brightening up.

"Well, Abigail you should be fine. You'll have to come back in five days to get the stitches out." The doctor said. "If your boyfriend wants to wait with you, someone will be by to discharge you soon."

"Thanks," Abigail said not caring to correct the doctor. Giving her a smile of thanks before the doctor left the curtain area. Dean took the doctor's seat and moved to sit next to Abigail. "16 stitches. I'm going to have some pretty awesome scares from this thing." She smiled sadly.

"But you'll be fine." Dean said taking her hand being careful not to hurt her. "So other than the cuts, how are you?"

"I'm a little shaky. Dominick has always been so nice and then today he just. I don't know it's like he snapped." She said looking down at their joined hands. She didn't want to acknowledge it for fear that Dean would pull away again.

"Did he say anything to you? I mean did he hint on before he went all physco?" Dean asked.

"Not before, but he said something to me before you punched him. He said that Machaid would wait for me?" Abigail told him. "Does that make any sense to you? Because to me it's all coming out in riddles?"

"No but I'll look into it." Dean said matter of factly. "I'm just glad you're okay."

"Yea, me too. After this we should probably head over to the Sheriff's station, before Dominick has a chance to leave town.

"No, we cant do that."

"I don't understand?" Abigail asked confused.

"There's a reason why we had you tell them that you tripped on a rug and into the window. Trust me, Dominick is going to pay for this, but Sam and I need a day to figure this out."

"Dean I don't understand.' Abigail said leaning her head back on to the pillow.

"I know, but do you trust me?" Dean said moving to sit on the edge of her bed.

"You know I do." Abigail told him. "I just-"

"I promise. He's going to pay for what he did to you. Just let me take care of this." Dean said leaning over to give her a small kiss on the forehead. Leaning her body into his chest, Dean held her rubbing small circles on her back calming her into a half sleep. The doctor finally came back in and discharged Abigail, with instructions to come back in a few days. Dean wheeled her to the car complaining all the way that she felt like an invalid in the chair.

When they got back to the boarding house Dean carried Abigail up to her room. Carefully removing her shoes and jacket before sliding her underneath the covers. Waiting a moment too long to watch her sleep Eva stood waiting on the landing between the 2nd and 3rd floor. "Dean?" she said simple, half question half acknowledging her presence.

"Hi Eva." Dean said closing the door to the stairway. If Eva was going to yell at him he at least didn't want Abigail to wake up. "That wasn't what it looked like."

"Oh really, and what does it look like?" she smiled.

"Abigail didn't want to worry you. She tripped at work, and fell into a window. She got a few cuts on her arms. Sam and I took her to the emergency room, she got a few stitches." Dean explained.

"Is she okay?" Eva asked playing the concerned grandparent.

"The doctor says she's going to be fine. I think Abigail was just more embarrassed than anything." Dean told her trying to make light of the situation.

"Alright then, I'm going to bed. Maybe I'll see you in the morning for breakfast." Eva said turning and walking down the hallway.

Dean let out a sigh of relief and started towards his room. Before he could open the door he heard the door to the stairs open. "Dean." Abigail whispered moving closer to him.

"Hey, I talked to Eva I told her what happened. You should really get to bed. You have school in the morning." Dean said unintentionally reminding himself of her age, it hadn't seemed to matter when he saw her in the hospital bed, but now he couldn't help but think about it.

"I know, I just wanted to say thank you. If you hadn't of showed up-"

"Don't think like that. Everything turned out okay." Dean said rubbing the tops of her arms. "I'll see you tomorrow."

Abigail started to turn back to her room but stopped and moved back to Dean's arms to give him a final hug. The hug didn't last too long before Abigail turned and run up the stairs. Dean smiled to himself before turning and heading back into his own room.

Sam looked up at his brother when he walked in. "I heard you talking to Eva. Are we all good?"

"Yeah, were going with the rug story. So Abigail told me that Dominick said 'Machaid would wait for her.' Does that name ring any bells for you because I'm drawing a blank." Dean asked sitting down and picking up their dad's journal.

"Not off the top of my head but I'm sure a little bit of research would be helpful." Sam said pulling his computer toward his body. The duo spent a few minutes in silence both compiling any information they could find. "Okay so the only thing that I can tell so far, is that it seems to be every six months that 3 girls go missing. Now in general that's not that big of a deal but they all go missing during a one week span. And it's exactly 6 months apart."

"So in other words we have nothing." Dean said closing their dad's journal. "Did anything come up when you typed in Machaid?"

"Just the name of a city in Japan." Sam said lowering the screen of the computer. "Dean I don't know what to tell you. It's always the first full week of the month. Which means we have 2 days until this thing is supposed to end."

"So we have to days to find the other 2 girls, and take this thing down."

"Dean maybe we should get some sleep. Agonizing over this isn't going to help at all tonight. Why don't we just get some sleep and head over to the library tomorrow." Sam said turning off the bedside lamp.

Dean took a deep breath before continuing his search on the internet, hoping a praying for a solution to what was happening and a way to protect Abigail and keep his promise...for once