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"Sir, has there been any new people coming to see any of the residents here?" asked Sam. Sam and Julie were being escorted around the retirement home by the owner, Mr. Adams. He was a tall man, short brown hair, hairline increasing. He had a gray suit on and he fidgeted a lot with his hands.
"No, no one new," he said as he took us down another hallway.
"What about the recent death? Mrs. Cohl, did she have anyone that visisted her?" asked Julie trying to keep up with the men. Stupid tall men always walking so fast.
"No, actually, all her family are living in Florida. The only one that really gets any visits is Mr. Erickson." Mr. Adams stopped at a door and Sam and Julie looked in. There was an old man, who was plump and balding sitting with a kid that seemed to be in his young teens. "His grandson Andrew. He comes almost every day to visit him. I don't think he knows too many people his age that's why he sits with his grandfather."
"How long has Mr. Erickson been here?" asked Julie still staring at the boy.
"Oh, for about ten years now." Mr. Adams started down the hall again and Sam followed. Julie watched Andrew and Mr. Erickson playing checkers together. Andrew looked up and Julie gave him a little wave. Andrew smiled at her and Julie went after Sam and Mr. Adams.
"Thank you Mr. Adams for the tour," said Sam. Julie and Sam headed out the exit and Sam started to untie his tie. "Well what do you think?"
"To be honest, I have no freaking clue," said Julie as she sat on the brick wall waiting for Dean to come get them. Dean. She thought back to what she heard earlier and she had a gut feeling that something horrible was going on. Why would Sam say that Dean was going to die? They take chances everyday with these cases, they all could die.
"I want to look more into the Erickson family. There might be something there and maybe into the retirement home," said Sam sitting next to Julie. He looked at Julie and touched her shoulder. "Are you ok? You're not as chatty as you usually are when it comes to cases."
"Um, yeah." She wanted to ask Sam but she knew if she did then a huge fight will go on between Sam and Dean. It is Deans business anyway.
"Hey, don't lie to me. Now come on. What is it?"
She let out a deep breath and looked at him. "It's Dean. I know I'm not suppose to be having feelings for him."
"Well, why aren't you? I mean you two are pretty perfect for each other."
"Maybe because he's Dean. He has the feelings of a rock and when you're talking to him about something important that has nothing to do with monsters, ghouls, ghost, vampires, demons or the boogeyman its like talking to a damn brick wall!"
Sam laughed and looked at her more closely. "You have it bad for him."
She looked at him shocked. "No I don't. It's just that I wish he would just open up and tell me what the hell is going on. He's been so tense and depressed lately except for when he's eyeing me like a piece of meat."
"Dean will talk to you when he's ready to talk. Even if it's too late."
Julie bit the inside of her cheek and hopped off the brick wall. She gave Sam a huge hug and he hugged her back. "Thanks Sam."
Dean was pulling up to the retirement home was to see Julie and Sam hugging each other. He saw when Julie let go of him she was smiling and she wiped away some tears from her eyes. Dean felt the little green monster crawl up inside him. Sam was laughing and trying to get her to laugh. Right now he was jealous of his brother. He honked the horn and made Julie jump. They both looked over to see Dean sitting there waiting. Once they got in the car Dean asked, "So you guys having fun without me?"
"Dean," warned Sam giving Dean a look.
"Just saying you having your hands on my wife just wondering if something is going on between you two."
"Are you serious?" "Oh, now I'm your wife?!" asked Sam and Julie at the same time.
"And this is why it was so much better when it was just me and you," said Dean and he automatically regretted saying that. Sam narrowed his eyes and gave him the 'I'm going to kill you' look. Julie just stayed quiet and looked out the window. Sam shook his head and looked out the window. To break the silence Sam said, "One of us can look in the library for the blue prints of the retirement home…"
"I'll do it," said Julie quietly. Dean looked in the rear view mirror. "There are some things I need to do there anyway."
"Ok, thanks Jewels…" started Sam.
"And what kind of things do you need to do Julie?" asked Dean.
"I really don't need to explain myself to you, do I Dean?" If looks could kill, Dean would have dropped dead right there and killed all of them by driving into the truck next to them. Dean just drove to the library and stopped.
"Call us when you're ready," said Sam.
Julie just closed the door and didn't look back. She wanted to leave this town. She wanted to get away from Dean Winchester. He was driving her crazy. He was like a freaking must up fosset, hot and cold. One minute he's fine then the next minute he's freaking out! Julie heard the Impala drive away and she stopped and waited till the engine was far enough for her to walk past the library and to town hall where the court house was located.
"You need to relax," said Sam. "She's just upset."
"She has no reason to be upset. Fucking PMS," said Dean as he got out of the Impala and followed Sam into his room. Dean noticed two beds. "I thought you were getting one bed."
"I figured Julie would get sick of you and throw you out." Dean agreed. He knew that Julie was probably going to get back to the room and lock the door and make him sleep outside. He wouldn't really mind sleeping outside because he'd just sleep in his car.
"You should tell her." Dean looked up to see that Sam had already changed into jeans and a tshirt.
"It's really none of her business."
"None of her business? Really? So you in love with her is none of her business?"
"I am not in love with her."
"Then how come you went all green monster on us when I was giving her a hug for comfort. She knows we're hiding something from her. She's not dumb."
"Course she's not dumb, she's one of the smartest women we know. I'm afraid to love her Dean. If I fall in love with her and tell her, do you know how hard its going to be for her when my time is up?"
"That's life Dean. Remember how Dad was when mom died."
"Exactly Sam! I don't want her being like Dad! She deserves so much better than me!"
"Then tell her. Tell her everything before it's too late Dean."
Sam heard his phone ringing and he picked it up. "Julie?"
Hey, Sam. I found the blue prints. There's nothing really odd about them but that's my eye. Maybe you will be able to find something. I made copies.
"Yeah, ok. We'll come get you…"
No I don't want to be a bother, I'll just take the bus.
"Julie, no don't take the bus. Dean will come and get you." There was silence on the other end. Sam looked at Dean who was ready to leave to get her. "Julie? Are you there?"
I'm here Sam. I'll just take the bus. It's here, I'm on it. I'll be there in five minutes.
"Alright see you soon." Sam hung up.
"She's taking a bus?" asked Dean giving him a look.
"She'll be here in five minutes." Sam threw his phone on his bed and sat down rubbing the back of his neck.
Julie sat in the back of the bus and pulled out the copies of the blue prints. She then took out the other papers she had in a folder. She read them over. An annulment. Just so Dean doesn't have to go around and say that he is divorced. He can pretend nothing ever happened between them. Since this marriage was a prank, a horrible prank from a demon, it never was real to begin with. Nothing between them except for their friendship, as little as that was, was real.
"Why would you do that?" asked a voice next to her.
She turned to see Cupid sitting there with a sad face. Julie looked around the bus. "Please tell me everyone else can see you so they don't think I'm going crazy talking to myself."
He gave her a little smile. "Yes, they can see me. Now, tell me what are you doing?"
Julie let out a deep breath. "The destiny that was suppose to be for us changed. Dean is being a total prick and I want my feelings for him gone."
"Why would you want them gone?"
"Because I know deep down inside he doesn't feel the same way. If he did, there would be someway I could tell."
"Dean is going through something right now, that he wont share with you. It's his choice to share it with you. He does love you Julie." Julie looked at him through tears that formed in her eyes. "He's just being a stubborn mule." The bus stopped and Julie looked to see the motel across the street. She turned to find Cupid gone. She wiped the tears from her eyes and got off the bus. She folded the annulment papers and placed them in her pocket. She knocked on Sams door and he opened it up. She smiled at him.
"Hey we might have something," said Sam. He walked back to his computer and Julie took off her jacket and took her hair out of the bun she had it in all day. She ran her hands through her hair and massaged her head feeling the relief. Dean watched her from where he was sitting. She was beautiful.
"According to this news report, Mr. Erickson was suppose to be dead three months ago," said Sam pointing to the computer. Julie pulled a chair next to him. "Somehow he just lost his cancer and was a normal man."
"Three months ago? The same time that the other senior citizens would start feeling normal and then drop dead a day or two later."
"Yes. Remember Andrew?"
"The grandson, yeah."
"Andrew's father, Jonathon Erickson, son of Mr. Erickson, died a year ago, driving accident. Andrews mother works all the time taking care of everything. No wonder this kid doesn't have any friends. He has no one else. He's all alone."
"And the only one he had was his grandfather. Do you think he made a deal of some sort?"
"That's what we were thinking."
"But the other senior citizens, what do they have to do with any of this?"
"Maybe in order to save his grandfather he offered the other senior citizens souls to a demon."
"Makes sense. Alright I'm going to get changed. And we can go to the retirement home and see if Andrews still there and tell us about the demon." Julie grabbed her jacket not noticing the papers falling out. Sam grabbed them when she left and opened them up.
"What's that?" asked Dean looking over.
"Um, nothing part of the blue prints." Sam stuck them in his pocket and took a quick glance at Dean and back at his computer.
The three of them drove over to the retirement home and walked towards Ericksons room. They found Andrew sitting in there watching TV. Julie stopped the boys and walked in.
"Andrew?" she asked, even though she knew who he was.
Andrew looked up and smiled. "Yes."
"Do you remember me from earlier?" Andrew nodded. "Can I talk to you for a second?" He nodded again and got up following Julie outside the room. Andrew saw Dean and Sam standing there and tensed a bit. Julie smiled at him. "Don't worry, these are just my friends. You don't have to answer them if you don't want to." Andrew nodded. "I know your grandfather is your best friend."
"Yeah, he is. Grandpa and I have so much fun. He's the greatest guy there."
"I heard he almost passed away a couple months ago."
Andrew looked sad now. "Yes, it was so horrible for me." Andrew started walking down the hall and Julie followed and told the boys to stay behind. "I couldn't stand there and watch him die. He is my bestfriend after all. So I ran."
"Where did you go?"
Andrew pointed to the courtyard. "Out there, the woods, there's a lake. That's where I met her."
"Her?"
"I'm not suppose to say or she'll kill Grandpa."
Julie bent down and looked down the hall to see Sam and Dean a little farther behind them. They were following them making sure that nothing happened to them, especially Julie. She looked back at Andrew. "Andrew, there are people dieing. You're grandpas friends are dieing. That's life sweetie. People die and it hurts." Julie closed her eyes. "Believe me, it hurts so much. I lost my family a long time ago." She opened her eyes to stare at the boy again. "But you move on. You start living your life without them. Good things will start happening again. Trust me. Now please tell me what happened that day you met the lady."
"Well, she told me she could pull a miracle you know. Keep Grandpa alive."
"At what cost?"
"The other people in the retirement home. I tell them to drink the water out of the lake to become young again. Foutain of Youth kind of deal, after a couple days, they belong to her."
"Thank you Andrew. Thank you so much."
"Is grandpa going to die now?" Andrew had tears falling down his face.
"I don't know Andrew." Andrew nodded and headed back to the room. Sam and Dean walked up to her. "What's up?" asked Dean.
"Well, its definetly a demon. She had the little boy tell the people that the lake is a Fountain of Youth."
"That's why they were all feeling energized and young again," said Dean and he looked at Sam and back at Julie.
"Yeah, they drink from the river and she'll take their souls."
"Ok, well, lets find this demon bitch and kill her," said Dean. "Where's the lake?"
Julie nodded towards the courtyard and all three of them followed. It took some time for them to find the lake and when they got there it was so beautiful. "Wow," said Julie when they stopped. "Most beautiful lake I've ever seen." It seemed to shine and sparkle. And there were little waves when it hit the edge of the lake. Everything seemed too perfect. That's when the wind started picking up and they saw something coming out of the water. It was a woman and she started walking over to them. She was walking on the water. Dean shot at her and water just leaked from her.
"Were going to have to use a silver knife," said Sam. "Cut her neck?"
"We'll see if it works," said Julie. The demon put her hand out and threw the three of them back. Julie landed on a branch and hissed in pain. "Fucking bitch."
"You alright?" asked Dean turning over to her. Julie just nodded not looking at him. They got up and the demon went after Dean.
"Aw, Dean, came to die already? We can't wait to play with you down there," she said and started choking him. Julie felt her head spinning. Sam ran up to the demon and stabbed her in the back, it just went right through her. She threw Dean down and she pushed Sam away and threw the knife in the river. The demon turned towards Julie and raised her in the air. "And you're the little wifey? Now what exactly did he see in you?" The demon looked her up and down. "I can't say much. But then again, all humans are ugly." Julie started feeling water filling her lungs and she started coughing the water out.
"Better looking than you bitch!" yelled Dean. Julie blacked out but heard a gun shot. There was a scream.
Sam ran up and cut the demons neck. There was another scream the demon fell to the ground. Sam and Dean ran over to Julie. She wasn't breathing. Sam pushed Dean back and started CPR.
"Come on baby," said Dean holding onto her hand. "You did it before, you can do it again. Come on. Please if you come back I'll tell you everything. I promise."
Julie coughed up water and Sam turned her head. Julie blinked and looked up at them. She smiled. "My heroes." Sam laughed and Dean just looked down at her with worry on his face. They helped her in a sitting position. She looked out to the lake and smiled. "Well, if I was going to die, I wouldn't mind dieing here."
When they got back to the retirement home they saw an ambulance outside and the medics with a stretcher. Julie saw Andrew standing there with his mother. Mr. Erickson was dead. Julie walked up to Andrew.
"You going to be ok, Andrew?" she asked.
Andrew smiled. "Yeah, like you said, life moves on."
"It will be hard at first but you'll learn to be strong." She rubbed his shoulder and walked over to the Impala.
"What'd you say?" asked Dean.
She smiled at Dean and looked back at Andrew. "Told him life moves on, at first it would be hard, but things always have a way of working out." She smiled at Andrew again and got into the back of the Impala.
In Sams Motel Room
"Dean I think you need to see something," said Sam and he took out the papers from earlier.
"What?" Dean asked throwing away his trash from dinner. Sam handed him the papers and Dean read the first line. Dean felt his heart sink to the pit of his stomach. He looked at Sam. "You kept this from me?"
"It's not my responsibility to tell you this. I was having a battle with myself to tell you."
Dean just walked out of the room and to Julies room. He banged on the door and she opened it half asleep. "This better be good," she said and Dean put the papers in her face. She grabbed them from him. "How did you get these?"
"You dropped them in our room. When were you going to inform me in this?! Especially an annulment! Was I seriously that bad of a husband for you to want to get an annulment?!" Dean asked backing Julie into her room and slamming the door.
"I did this for you Dean!" she yelled back. "You seemed to not want anything to do with me and…and you put on this act where you hate me one minute and then the next you want to screw my brains out! How else am I suppose to react to you? We already agreed the night we were getting Cupids arrows that we were going to figure a way out of this! I thought this was the right time!"
"Julie…I'm going to hell!"
Julie stopped in her tracks and stared at him. "What?"
He rubbed his face and looked at her. "I'm going to hell, I made a deal with a crossroads demon and I'm going to hell."
"Why…why would you do something so stupid? Are you insane?"
"I saved Sammy! If it wasn't for me, Sam would be dead right now."
Julie swallowed back the tears she was feeling. "Why didn't you ever tell me?"
"At first, I didn't think you should know. I mean you were just another girl in my life that was going to leave, but you never left. You kept coming back into my life. Then the whole marriage…"
"Do you love me?" Dean looked from the floor to her eyes. He looked her straight into her eyes. "Do you love me?" she asked again.
"Yes," he said quietly. "But I'm not suppose to. And you aren't suppose to fall in love with me. I am going to be dead in a few weeks. You can't love me. I don't want you to love me."
"If you don't want me to love you then why they hell are you flipping out about me getting an annulment?!"
"I would like to leave this world knowing I had someone in my life other than Bobby and Sam."
"Dean.."
"Don't, just don't!" He walked over to the door and walked out slamming it. Julie sat on the bed staring at the door. She felt tears falling from her eyes and she leaned into the palm of her hands. She started to sob and cry. This was the hardest cry she ever felt in her life. It was worse then when the other hunters and their children had died. Julie was in love with Dean Winchester who was in love with her back and was going to hell.