hey everyone thanks for sticking with me. Here's a longer update. I've had killer writers block with this chapter but I'm happy with how it's turned out. If the "demon" I used sounds familiar it's because I borrowed it from Season 2 of Buffy "Reptile Boy".
Over this break I should be able to crank out the next few chapters, hope you enjoy!
Abigail watched the boys drive off before heading down the stairs into the kitchen where Eva was drinking a cup of tea. "Hey grandma," Abigail said sitting next to her, trying to keep her mind of what has happening at the restaurant.
"Hello my beautiful girl. This is a surprise seeing you here. You're usually out with that boy about this time." Eva remarked.
"I don't spend that much time with him." She laughed knowing that the comment was true. "They had to go do some work tonight."
"Working on a story for a magazine this late on a Friday? Very unlikely, you don't have to lie to me dear."
"Grandma what are you talking about?" Abigail said trying to protect Sam and Dean's story.
"I know they aren't writers. Dean probably couldn't compose a grocery list." Eva laughed to herself. "They remind me so much of your father. Especially after the fire."
"What are you talking about? Dad was a business man, was his whole life. He was married and had me and Andrew on the way by the time he was Dean's age." Abigail recited. 'Wow Dean really is a lot older than he seems' she thought to herself before focusing back on the discussion.
"After the fire, your father was so set on protecting you. It didn't matter if you needed to be protected or not you were his main priority. He's where you get your stubbornness from. I always thought it was your mother but you father couldn't be reasoned with. Men like that need a women in their lives to fight for." Eva said before standing from her chair and putting her mug in the sink.
"Grandma Dean is just my friend. He's not fighting for me." Abigail said defensively.
"Abigail open your eyes." Eva said loudly surprising Abigail with the forcefulness of her words. "Open your yours dear child. Just look, and see." Eva said more softly before leaving Abigail to her thoughts. But not without adding one more bit of her sage wisdom advice. "He may be a bit older than you Ab, but he needs help, whether he'll admit it or not."
Abigail sat thinking about her grandmothers cryptic words before leaving the house. She had promised Dean that she would stay home. But this was her fight. Someone was trying to kill her and she wasn't about to sit back and let someone do the fighting for her. Before giving herself enough time to change her mind, Abigail started walking towards the restaurant hoping that she didn't get herself killed in the process.
The Impala pulled up into the parking lot of the restaurant. All the lights inside were on, even though it was a few hours past closing. Both moving to the trunk to grab there weapon of choice they made there way into the building not the slightest surprised to find the door unlocked. They didn't know where Dominick would be but he figured as much that a very large snake like thing would need lots of space. After checking out the kitchen and the back rooms, they made there way down a flight of stairs into the storage room. Instantly Dean and Sam came across a alter set up with candles and voodoo magic. Making there way further into the room they instantly saw a large, what almost looked to be a well, placed in the far back corner.
"I wouldn't go over there if I were you." A voice said causing the duo to turn around. Standing at the entrance to the room was Dominick, with his sadistic grin smeared across his face. "Machaid isn't really partial to men; I guess they just don't taste the same."
"Look the gigs up Dominick. Abigail is safe at home. You can't win this one." Sam said taking a step closer to the man.
Dominick continued to smile at the two brothers as if nothing had been said to him. "Dean you should know better. With the amount of time you've spent wrapped up with our dear young Abigail, she's just as stubborn and pig headed as you."
Getting fed up with Dominick's taunting Dean lunged forward pressing Dominick into the brick basement wall. "You shut your mouth about Abigail. You don't know anything about her. You're just some sick bastard convinced that you are helping the greater good by sacrificing these girls."
Dean's angry words just sent Dominick into a fit of laughter causing both brothers to step back. "This isn't about the greater good. You have no idea what you are dealing with." Screams from two girls could be heard from the stairs above, and with a tumble they came crashing down the stairs landing in a heap on the hard concrete floor. A man that they assumed as Dylan followed after the two girls.
The one girl who didn't fall unconscious after the fall begged with Dylan and Dominick to let them go, not paying any attention to Dean or Sam standing ready with a weapon each.
"In his name, Machaid" Dominick chanted as a large half-man, half-snake like creature rose out of the well in the corner. Dean and Sam turned their attention to the hideous creature as the sounds of the girl's screams and sobs filled the room.
Dean raised the large battle axe towards the creature which swung its tail out knocking Dean across the room. Sam fought briefly with Dylan and Dominick easily knocking out the two henchmen, leaving Machaid and the two girls as their concern.
"You get the girls out of here, and I'll take care of wormy." Dean retorted standing from the wall and stepping between the snake and the girls.
Sam didn't need to second guess his brother before he quickly picked up the unconscious girl and helped the other one up the stairs while he heard Dean taunting the giant creature.
Dean quickly swung the axe cutting into the snake's side. With a giant hiss the snake grabbed Dean lifting him significantly off the floor proceeding to strangle him. Dean thinking fast brought the axe back up hitting the snake a few more times until a significant amount of what he assumed and prayed was it's blood had spilled onto the floor, and covered most of his body.
"That's disgusting." Dean said trying to wipe some of the goo off his face. "Sam gets to help the poor defenseless girls and I'm stuck here covered in snake goo. Yea my life is fair." A groan from part of the room brought Dean out of his pity rant.
"Machaid." Dylan moaned coming back to consciousness.
"Yep, he's dead. And if I didn't have conscious you would be too. But we'll just let the cops deal with you sick puppies." Dean said showing off his axe to prove that he meant business.
Meanwhile upstairs Sam was almost to the door when he saw Abigail enter the restaurant. "Abigail what the hell are you doing here." Sam yelled as he saw the small girl enter the room quickly closing the door behind her.
"I couldn't just stay at home while the two of you risk your lives." Abigail said moving over toward Sam helping the conscious girl make her way out to the car.
"Abigail this thing isn't over yet. You get these girls out of here and you don't even think about re-entering this building." Sam said standing next to the car, after placing the unconscious girl in the back seat. "I mean it."
"You girls are going to be all right." Abigail said trying to calm them down. "These guys know what their doing."
As Abigail stood and started to head back into the building the girl called out to her. "What are you doing? He told you not to go back in there."
"I have too, this is my fight and I'm not going to stand on the sidelines." Abigail said before rushing back in. She knew that Sam and Dean would kill her for this. But they were in there fighting for her, and she would be damned if she wasn't a part of this in the end.
Abigail reached the basement to find Sam and Dean standing in front of Dominick and Dylan making sure they didn't think about moving. "Is it over?" Abigail asked causing the four men to turn in her direction.
"What part of stay outside do you not understand?" Sam yelled annoyed.
"Outside, what happened to staying home with the doors and window's locked?" Dean said just as equally annoyed. "Damn it Ab, I'm not kidding you shouldn't be here."
"Too bad, I'm here. Is that it?" Abigail motioned to the dead creature on the floor.
"Yea, that's it. I must say the thing did go down a lot easier than I thought it would. Must be some pretty boy demon." Dean laughed looking at the two brothers' on the floor.
"See there's nothing to worry about. It's dead." Abigail said moving to stand next to Dean. She was about to lean into his body when she noticed the slime like goo covering his clothes. "What happened to you?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Dean grumbled causing Abigail and Sam to laugh. "Man how long does it take for the cops to get here."
The cops did eventually come. Arresting both Dominick and Dylan for kidnapping, attempted murder and even a building violation for the well in the basement. After taking statements, being checked by the paramedics, and a sample of the goo from Dean's clothes, Sam Abigail and Dean now dressed in a clean pair of hospital scrubs. Climbed into the Impala and headed back to the boarding house.
While Dean went upstairs to shower Sam filled the rest of the details in for Abigail. Details not only about Machaid but about their life, and most importantly about Dean.
"Abigail I don't really know you that well, but I just want to let you in on something." Sam started in a serious tone. "Dean's not the guy you think he is."
"Sam if you're talking about the magazine job I know that's not true. I know what you both do for a living. Well what you do. I know about your mother and fire. I've lived through it myself so I understand."
"That's part of it but that's not everything. Dean and I haven't always gotten along but I've spent enough time with him to know that Dean's not the boyfriend type. I mean we move from city to city and there have been other girls that Dean's hooked up with on trips but it was never anything serious."
"Sam why are you telling me this?" Abigail said uncomfortably.
"Dean has been acting differently with you than I've seen him with anyone else. But I think that's only because of how long we've been here. I just don't want to see you get hurt. I know you've probably invested some feelings into this thing with Dean, but we're just going to leave town in a few days. This place was just a job." Sam said he knew it was sounding cold and harsh but he didn't want to sugarcoat this for the young girl.
"Well Sam thanks for letting me know." Abigail said bitterly. "I mean I really need someone else to protect me. Because apparently I do such a bad job of that."
"Abigail that's not what I meant." Sam said trying to defend his method. "I just know that Dean is falling for you, and I know that he doesn't know how to handle that. But he's going to choose this job. It's all he knows how to do I just don't want you to get hurt worse."
"I'm really not mad Sam." Abigail lied. "If I'm mad at anyone it's myself. I let myself believe for so many weeks that this was about Dean wanting to protect me, but I know this is a job to him and to you. Thanks for saving me. It was nice knowing you." Abigail quickly pushed her chair back from the table and started her way up the stairs. As she passed Dean in the hall she held back the tears knowing that it would probably start a fight between the two brothers if he knew what Sam had just told her.
"Abigail what's up?" Dean said stopping her, a few water droplets still hung on his neck.
Abigail looked at him and a smile crept across her face. He looked too good freshly showered, all the thoughts that Sam had just put in her head quickly vanished. "I'm just going to head up to bed. It's been a long day."
"Good night girl." Dean said watching her go up the stairs. The smirk on Dean's face quickly vanished as she closed the door. The girl wasn't a very good liar which Dean knew meant something had happened. Moving downstairs into the kitchen Sam was on his computer, probably looking for their next hunt. "What did you say to her?"
Sam looked up noticing the flash of anger in his brother's eyes. "Nothing, I just told her the truth."
"Which is?" Dean said sitting across for his younger brother.
"That we're leaving town soon. To not get her hopes up for this being a long term relationship. Let's face it Dean. You're not that guy. It's not in the cards for us."
Anger and then realization flashed over Dean's eyes and face. Yea it was all true, they had to leave town. He had to leave Abigail behind. His whole life he knew there was no point in wishing things were different. This was the life he had been dealt and he had to live with it. He had always been on the go, he knew he had to leave Andover and leave Abigail.
But for the first time in his life, Dean wanted nothing more than to stay.