Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I don't own Supernatural or the characters. However I do own the AU verse and the OCs. The universe of Silthrims and Royalia are mine. Some dialogues used in this chapter are also based on the ones used in the original show along with many of my own - to fit things into the storyline.
The story is UnBeta'd as of now, so all errors, grammar or spellings, etc, are all mine. And I am really sorry for them. I do read it before uploading. But sometimes it's so hard spot your own errors. Hope you guys can overlook them.
A/N : Hi , so far so good, I guess… glad u're loving the stuff I've put up till now… hope u like this one too… please review and let me know what you think or what you would like to see next. So we're already headed towards Bloody Mary…Thanks to each and every one of you who have read and/or reviewed/alerted/favorite my fic… it always means so much… I'm glad I was able to add Ryan and Matt to the mix without making it look gross… hehe… But seriously it was pretty tough and I was scared of messing it up bad… I had to watch and re-watch the episode like 6 times in a row to find nooks and crannies where I could put in my stuff, you know…
And okay, so no killing off Matt… I get it… I'm so happy that you guys like him… hope u like Ryan too…when you guys like my OCs and accept them as a part of the Winchester family, it really does mean sooo much to me… can't tell u how great it feels in words…it means I've done something right at least… so thanks… and no matter how much I keep thanking you, it's still never gonna be enough….
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Dead In The Water II
Come play with me.
Ryan gasped and fell to the ground holding his head…Dean rushed to him… "Ry… Ry.. hey what's wrong?"
You can't save them… I won't let you…
He wanted to scream at Dean to save Lucas… to finish off Peter… but it hurt even to open his mouth… he could not think straight anymore as unbearable pain hit him…
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He forced open his eye … "Lucas!" He gasped, doing his best to get up!
Andrea gasped, seeing Lucas going down to the lake. Jake stood horrified and transfixed for a second.
"GO!" Ryan forced himself up on shaking legs. "GO!"
"Lucas!" Jake screamed in fear and broke into a sprint, others close behind making for the dock where Lucas sat reaching his hand in the water.
Come play with me.
Ryan fought the pain back.
"Lucas!" Dean wished he could get there faster.
"Lucas! Baby stay where you are!" Andrea wished he would listen.
A hand came up and pulled Lucas below…
"NOOOO!"
They reached the edge of the lake… Jake stopped with a gasp…
Peter… Peter's vacuous eyes boring into him… even as his head disappeared under water…Peter…
Sam and Dean jumped into the water while Matt caught Andrea from doing the same.
"No Andrea… you've gotta stay here…!"
"No Lucas! Let go…" She fought him off…
"We'll get him … they'll get him… please just stay here… they'll get him!" Matt reassured her, hoping his brothers would keep his word.
She broke down in his arms... "My baby!...Please…!"
Ryan's head felt like it was on fire… he had to save them… he brought out the knife…
No… you can't have him…You can't take him from me…
"Ughhh!" Ryan groaned, his legs refusing to support him any more…
Matt turned to see his twin writhing in pain…he was torn between running to Ryan and keeping his hold on Andrea… "Ry… Ry, what's wrong?"
Dean and Sam broke to the surface, having found nothing… their guts churned…
"Sam?"
Sam shook his head… and they dived back in…
"Lucas, where are you…?" Andrea thought she'd pass out…but Lucas needed her… "Please let me go… I've to find him…"
Jake saw it all and knew what he had to do…Taking off his jacket, he walked into the water… "Peter, if you can hear me. Please Peter, I'm sorry. I'm so—I'm so sorry."
"Daddy…. NOOO…."
"Peter. Lucas—He's just a little boy. Please, it's not his fault, it's mine. Please take me."
Dean broke to surface and saw what was happening… "Jake, no!"
"Peter… please…."
And Peter emerged from the water.
"Let it be over, Peter… please…"
"Daddy! Daddy! No!" Andrea screamed in vain even as Jake was dragged under. Dean went after him…
Ryan reopened his wound on a rock… he had to save them… but the pain was unbearable….and then suddenly it stopped, even as Sam broke to the surface… shaking his head at Andrea…
"No!" She broke down, pushing away from Matt.
"I am so sorry…" Matt caught her in his arms again and held on tighter… Ryan couldn't fight back the tears any longer… Jake… Lucas… they were both gone… he couldn't save them…
"No… please… no…!" Andrea's pain was beyond control.
And then Dean surfaced, holding Lucas in his arms, panting…
Andrea went limp with relief in Matt's arms… And finally it was all over… Ryan let the relief wash over him even as sleep enveloped him in her sweet arms…
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Ryan could hear voices…
"Ry… Ry… come on bro… please open your eyes…I'm sorry we fought…. Just… just open your eyes for Sammy…"
"S'my?" he forced open his eyes… everything was a blur… and the light hurt his eyes…
"Yeah, buddy… come on, just stay with me, okay…?"
Sam's voice sounded muffled even as Ryan tried to focus on his face. His head felt as if it would burst open any second and his hand burned as if someone had set it on fire… Someone was bending over it…
"H'rts…!"
"Sorry, bro!" Matt's voice was taut. "You opened the wound again… looks like it's a bit inflamed…"
"Wha-?" And suddenly it all came back… he tried sitting up but Sam pushed him back firmly yet gently. "Luc-"
"He's okay… Dean's taking care of him… they're both okay…"
Ryan turned to where Sam nodded… indeed Lucas seemed okay in Dean's arms, Andrea showering him with hugs and kisses. He sank back.
"T'rd…Sl'p", He mumbled. Once again sleep won over him.
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Ryan could hear voices again… this time he remembered… he knew the smell and feel of leather too… he was lying inside the Impala… He sighed peacefully…he wanted to play possum for a little longer…he felt as he was floating anyway… so maybe he could stay like that a little longer… it felt good…
"Look, we're not gonna save everybody." He heard Sammy reason.
"I know." Dean's voice sounded sad and heavy.
"Sam, Dean." Andrea's soft voice soothed him. "Hey Matt…"
"Hey…"
She smiled at them. "We're glad we caught you. We just um, we made you lunch for the road. Lucas insisted on making the sandwiches himself", she said pointing to the tray Lucas held.
"Can I give it to them now?" That was Lucas' voice…it was the first time they heard him… soft and sweet like kids should be… Ryan sighed in relief…
"Of course."
"Come on Lucas; let's load this into the car." Dean sounded happy, as he led Lucas to the Impala. Ryan knew Dean had got attached to the kid.
"How you holding up?" Ryan could hear Sam's whisper… so does he now have superior hearing? Hmm… that wasn't bad…
"It's just gonna take a long time to sort through everything, you know?" He could feel her sad smile.
"Andrea, I'm … we're sorry."
"You saved my son. I can't ask for more than that. Dad loved me. He loved Lucas. No matter what he did, I just have to hold on to that."
He could feel Dean put something in the rear seat beside him. Smells good. He could feel Dean taking the driver's seat.
"All right, if you're gonna be talking now, this is a very important phrase, so I want you to repeat it one more time."
"Zeppelin rules!" Lucas chimes out and they exchange high-fives… Ryan knew Dean would make a good Dad someday… and he somehow totally fit with Andrea and Lucas… he sighed softly…
Dean turned towards him but didn't comment yet…Instead he looked back to Lucas, somewhat wistfully. "You take care of your mom, okay?"
"All right!"
He could hear Andrea come up and … wait… what was that… did she just kiss him…How come I always miss the good parts…?
"Thank you…." Her soft voice soothed him… reminded him of someone else… Dean must have been dazed.
"So how is he?"
"He's okay, I guess… just a little tired out…" He had never heard Dean fumble with a woman before… what, did she kiss him again? God, why the hell couldn't he open his eyes… he could almost see Sammy and Mattie giggle… only boys don't giggle, right…?
"Thank you…"
Dean finally seemed to have broken the trance and going red, he started towards the car, leaving behind a chuckling Andrea.
"Sam, Matt, move your asses. We're gonna run out of daylight before we hit the road."
The last thing he hears is the Impala's engines revving up… its comforting sound lulling him back to sleep.
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Ryan must have dozed off for long… when he finally woke, it was to Dean shaking him gently.
"Come on, we're here…. Time to wake up…"
"Wh're?"
"Motel… buddy… come on…" Dean helped him and led him to their room. It was a big room with one king-sized bed and another single one …Ryan tried to move to the single bed but Dean deposited him on the larger one…
"'m f'n…"
"Mmnnn-hmm… Tell that to your fever… you know you have some kind of love affair with it… you're always getting the fever…"
"Evr'un do's"
"Not as much as you do… as a kid even the doctors were baffled by you…. And they couldn't find anything in their tests either…" Sam remembered them rushing with a burning Ryan to the ER.
"Am h't"
"Yeah, right… just sleep now 'coz you gotta lot to answer when you're up next, Mr Hot !"
Ryan didn't even know what happened next… the last he heard was his brothers chuckling at something he had said…
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When Ryan woke next he felt tired and achy...
"D'n…?"
"Shhhh… am here…."
But it wasn't Dean. "M'tt…?" His voice sounded hoarse.
"Yep… and before you ask Sam and Dean had to leave on a hunt…"
"Th'y l'ft us…?" Ryan knew they were angry but he was sick… they couldn't have left if he was sick unless... "Th'y m'd?"
"No, silly, of course they weren't mad… they were worried… they hardly slept the whole of last two days…your fever broke last night…"
"Oh…"
"Yeah… something came up… they didn't wanna leave, Ryan, but there was no option…I mean they're the best and if they hadn't gone and more planes crashed… that would've been worse… so I had to make them go… it's not the same as before…they didn't want to leave this time… honest…"
Ryan frowned … he didn't … couldn't follow Matt, yet… "Wh-..I don' "
Matt smiled at him. "It's okay, bro… you've got me… besides, your fever's gone… and they are gonna come back soon…"
"Oh"
"What happened with you though?"
"Me?"
"Yeah, genius … you"
"I don' rem'mb'r… "
"Well, you better tax your brain a little before they come back" Matt smiled as he watched Ryan settle back into sleep again. "Sleep well, bro… I am here…"
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"So how did it go?" Matt whispered.
"How's Ryan?"
"He's okay… sleeping… he's pretty wiped out… well, how was the hunt…?"
"Piece of cake…" Dean swallowed and Sam snorted.
"Really Dean, piece of cake, huh? Was that after or before we landed? I mean I think I'd imagined you squealing like a little girl at one time… scared shit of flying!"
"What? Hilarious, drama queen!"
Matt snorted… "Dean, you are scared of flying? Wow!"
"Don't … don't even go there, Matt… Am warning you…"
Ryan took that moment to groan something like a shuddup… le' me sl'p
They stopped.
"Fine, Sleeping Beauty, we'll talk in the morning!"
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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other."
-Lucian de Crescenzo.
You know this is one of my favs in S01 coz it brings out so much in Dean… I loved his little thing with Andrea and had hoped that if Dean ever settled down it could be with her… she seems so much stronger and more accepting of Dean than Lisa… so wish it could have been Andrea and Lucas rather than Lisa and Ben… Andrea, delicate as she looks, is strong enough to still love her father and respect him for all the love he had for them… instead of blaming him for her husband's death… she has seen much but still starts moving on… and she's clearly fallen for Dean for his actions rather his smart-ass remarks or good looks … so who knows maybe there could be more of her… coz of course this is AU…what do you say ?… but come on you've gotta sit up and review and make my day! And you can tell if you like the way I flow in and out of the original epis without breaking the actual flow… I do hope you do…!
As for the next update… I hope to write more soon… I guess after these two biggies, I'll try out for a break but don't worry, not too long, I hope… but see even I've had to watch and re-watch Bloody Mary to find places to put in my twists and gosh, that epi is very tricky…I'm finding it hard to make any change to it…maybe coz I like it just the way it is…But that simply won't do for this fic, huh?… so please be patient with me… am really trying to write better and faster… but do please review in the meantime.
Keep smiling as always…. :)
Till next time.
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