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Chapter 14

Tuesday

"Red! Come on it's time to go." Maria called running towards my room. I turned to look at the door and saw her open it.

"Oops, I didn't know you had a visitor." She said.

I cocked an eyebrow and tilted my head at her. "I don't have a visitor?" But even before I finished my sentence I realized what she was talking about.

I turned around slowly and saw Castiel looking at me. "Well hi stranger." I said, smirking.

"Um, I'm not a stranger. You-" He paused when I made a face at him. "Oh, sarcasm. Hi." He did this sort of awkward laugh then looked away.

"I'll call Carol for you, did they send the address?" Maria asked, still standing at the door. After a nod from me she went on her way.

"What's going on Castiel? Where were you?" I questioned.

"I was dealing with, issues. I probably shouldn't get you involved in it." He avoided my question.

I was upset for a split second but decided it wasn't my problem. If he didn't want me involved then who am I to interfere? I only just met the guy what, three days ago?

"Alright, well we are going to go help out some friends of mine. You're welcome to join us but if you have other issues, I won't keep you here. Oh and if you need a little assistance," I cracked my knuckles for fun "Don't hesitate to ask."

"I will keep that in mind, thank you." He nodded his head at me.

"Red! Come on they just called me! Me! And that is not okay. Did you give them my number?" Olivia called.

I sighed and stood up slowly, trying not to jar my aching ribs. Castiel saw this and furrowed his eyebrows.

"You're hurt." He said.

"Cracked ribs, nothing I can't handle." I reassured.

"Just because you can handle it, doesn't mean you have to." He said. That got to me.

No one has ever really told me I shouldn't have to handle the weight on my shoulders. Usually, they just add more on.

He made a gesture towards my ribs, so I nodded. He placed two fingers on my forehead and all the pain disappeared. But then he placed his fingers in the middle of my collar bone and a searing pain went through my ribs.

I flinched and pulled away, putting a hand over where his fingers were.

"Ow!" I said, furrowing my eyebrows at him in confusion. "What was that?" I asked.

"It's Enochian sigil, to protect you from angels." He said.

"Wait, you branded me? Why?"

He looked up worriedly, most likely angel chatter.

"Just in case. I have to go." He said.

I blinked and before I could say anything he was gone. I sighed and grabbed my bag, heading towards the door.

"Freaking angels." I muttered.

"Can't you just drop us off at Carol's?" I heard Olivia whine.

"That's two hours in the opposite direction! They said it was an emergency." Sam said.

"Can't we just, I don't know, let them die or something? They make us feel so uncomfortable." Maria said.

I turned the corner to see the girls crossing their arms at poor Sammy, who seemed to worry about what to say.

"Alright! We have no time to drop you off, and they need us. Even though they are the weirdest nerds we have ever met, that does not mean they have to die." I said.

Sam gave me a grateful look and slid into the Impala. The girls slouched in defeat and climbed in the back. I shoved my bag into the trunk and added Dean's in when he came out.

"Just so you know," He said, not looking at me, focused on packing the trunk. "I only said what I said so you would wake up."

"That brave face doesn't come off until you're dead, you know that! This is your life, a hunter's life. You're not done until you're dead."

I blinked and sighed. "You were right though, I am a hunter and this is my life. I'm not dead yet, so my job isn't done. It's simple." I shrugged.

"You call that simple?" He asked, looking at me. I paused and looked at him.

"You don't? I know it sucks but at least we know what we have to do. Other people have no clue what to do with their lives, so they spend all of it searching for their purpose. Hunters know what they have to do and they spend their lives fulfilling their purpose. I wouldn't have any other life." I stepped back as he closed the trunk.

"You know, you've got a good view on life for having such a sucky one." He said.

"It could be worse, I could be worrying about what to wear and if my make-up looks good." I smirked.

He rolled his eyes and hopped in the driver's seat. I smiled and slid in next to Maria on the passenger's side in the back seat.

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"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

Dean looked at me in the rear view mirror. "Yes."

"Really?" I perked up.

"No." He said and I practically heard his smirk.

I fell back into my seat and crossed my arms. "That was cruel." I pouted.

"Well when you ask that question every five seconds, people can get cruel." He shrugged.

"Did the Idiots tell you what the case was when they sent the directions?" Maria asked, pulling out an ear bud.

I looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "Do you really think they were smart enough to?"

She thought for a second then shook her head and went back to listening to music with Olivia. They were probably listening to Green Day.

I sighed and looked out the window. It saw starting to get a little dark out. We had decided to stop and get something to eat before we came here. By 'we decided' I mean I had whined and complained about my growling stomach, then Dean joined in and we were on our way to stuffing our faces. Well not Sam and Maria, they had freaking salads. Salads. You won't catch me eating that rabbit food any time soon.

Anyways, back to my window. We were passing a large chunk of woods. Just as I was about to ask if we were there yet, I did a double take.

Past the tree line was a small open field, with a two people running wildly out of the forest. People I recognized.

"Stop the car." I said. And even before it was fully stopped I opened the door and jumped out.

I ran down a small hill and grabbed my gun from my pants, getting it ready to fire. As I got closer, the two men saw me and instantly ran towards me, shouting things at me from all sides.

"Shut up!" I yelled. They shut their mouths and stood still. Ed and Harry were both wearing a GhostFacers t-shirt, while pointing their dumb cameras at me.

"Now what did you get yourselves into?" I questioned.

"A bunch of campers in the area have gone missing." Ed started.

"And we thought we should take a look and find out what's been going on." Harry added.

"But when we got here we couldn't find a single trace of anything." Ed jumped back in.

"That is until the fastest creature I've ever seen went running through the trees, but I managed to catch it on video." Harry finished.

They said it so quickly it was almost like they rehearsed it. I blinked several times as I registered what they were saying. I was about to respond when Harry pointed behind me.

"Hey, we know those guys." He said.

"Yeah those are the ass-hats from the Morton house." Ed pointed as well.

"Ass-hats? We saved your lives." Dean said, walking up behind me.

"We had it covered." Ed said, though it seemed like a lie. Especially since I know they would have never gotten out of the Morton house alive. I've been there, I would know.

"If we hadn't shown up when we did you would have been a dead man's birthday present." Sam scoffed.

Ed and Harry looked at each other before closing their mouths in defeat. I smirked and put my gun back in my pants.

"Harry, can I see that video?" I asked, holding my hand out for the camera.

He did something to it then handed it to me. I pressed play and the first thing I saw was Harry scream like a little girl.

I raised my eyebrow and looked at him over the camera. He sheepishly looked away and put his hands in his pocket. I rolled my eyes and looked back at the screen.

"How many campers have disappeared?" Harry asked after he calmed down.

"Five and counting. And so far there have been no survivors. We are here to find out what this is, and stop it." Ed said, looking into the camera at the last part.

"What are our best guesses so far?" Ed asked.

Harry paused to look at Ed. "That'd be good for next time." Harry said, Ed nodded and continued walking.

There was a figure that passed behind him that took less than half a second to disappear from the screen.

"What the hell was that?" Harry said from behind the camera.

"What was what?" Ed asked.

"Hey, check this out." Harry said.

The camera turned to the left and found a tree with deep claw marks in it. Harry traced his fingers over it and the figure appeared again. This time they both saw it, and they both started screaming.

I rolled my eyes but kept watching.

They started running out of the forest with Harry at the end. They exited the tree line, still screaming when the sound of a car door was heard. A couple of seconds later the camera turned to show a Red head in cut jeans, a bright purple plaid shirt, and a leather jacket.

The Idiots went running towards her as she gave an exasperated look when they shouted questions all at once. She put her hands on her temples and shouted "Shut up!"

"Now what did you get yourselves into?" She questioned.

"A bunch of campers in the area have gone missing." Ed started.

"And we thought we should take a look and find out what's been going on." Harry added.

"But when we got here we couldn't find a single trace of anything." Ed jumped back in.

"That is until the fastest creature I've ever seen went running through the trees, but I managed to catch it on video." Harry finished.

They breathed out in relief as if they could finally relax now that the information was off their chests.

"Hey, we know those guys." Harry said.

"Yeah those are the ass-hats from the Morton house." Ed pointed as well.

"Ass-hats? We saved your lives." Dean said, walking up behind the red head.

But the camera started to zoom in on the little cleavage the Red head had.

"We had it covered." Ed said.

"If we hadn't shown up when we did you would have been a dead man's birthday present." Sam scoffed.

There was a slight pause then the Red head moved a little bit.

"Harry, can I see that video?" Red asked.

The video camera quickly zoomed out and focused on her outstretched hand and impatient face before stopping.

I raised my eyebrow at Harry and crossed my arms, glaring.

He blushed and looked in every direction but mine. I just ignored him, why feed into his stupidity?

"From what I can tell, you've got yourselves a Wendigo." I said,

I got empty stares from the Idiots. They looked at each other for answers, but turned back to me when they found none. I sighed and clenched the bridge of my nose.

"Yet another reason why you shouldn't be doing this." I muttered.

After combing back my hair with one hand and the other on my hip, I explained what we were dealing with.

"Wendigos were once humans, but after being forced to eat human flesh to survive, they become supernatural monsters that retain little human features in common. They start to crave human flesh, and aren't smarter than when they were human. At the same time, Wendigos are embodiments of gluttony, greed, and excess; never satisfied after killing and consuming one person, they are constantly searching for new victims. It's common that Wendigos just capture humans to hoard their food, and then eat when hungry. When was the last vic. reported missing

"Uhm, two days ago." Ed said after a bit of thought. "It was a father and daughter camping, apparently they did it to try to find the mom who went missing the day before."

"There's a chance all three of them might be alive." Sam whispered behind me.

"Yeah, but for how long?" Dean asked.

"Not very, that's why we need to get a move on." I said, turning to go back to the car.

"Hey, we're helping too." Harry said, grabbing my arm.

"Oh hell-to-the no freaking way." I said and spun around to yank my arm out of his hold.

"The GhostFacers found this case so the GhostFacers are going to finish it." Ed said.

"Would you quit it with the dumb 'GhostFacers' thing?" I exclaimed.

Harry looked hurt while Ed furrowed his eyebrows and shook his head at me. "Don't be a Facer hater." He said disappointedly.

I gave him an exasperated look and started for the car again. I could feel Sam and Dean behind me, and I saw the girls still in the car. They probably didn't want to have to talk to Ed and Harry.

"Do you guys have any flare guns?" I asked the brothers.

Dean popped the trunk and searched through it. In the end he found three of them. All I have to say, is thank God these boys come prepared.

"Why do we need flare guns?" Harry asked, pointing the camera at the trunk. I shut it quickly and looked at her.

"One, you don't, we do. Two, Wendigos can only be killed with fire. That," I pointed to the can of salt Harry was holding. "is basically useless against them. They're too fast for it."

"If they're too fast for salt then why aren't they too fast for a flare gun?" Ed challenged.

I looked at him and waved the flare gun around. "Because I have good aim, and so do they." I nodded my head at the brothers.

"The only reason I'm letting you two ass-tards come with us, is because we might need help getting survivors out."

"Are you sure that's the best idea?" Sam questioned.

"Nope." I said, popping the p "But they would have just followed us anyways. This way we know where they are and what they're doing."

"We know what we're doing." Harry said.

I slammed the trunk down and turned towards them. "Must I remind you about the past four experiences I've had with you?" I crossed my arms.

They both looked down in defeat, I rolled my eyes.

I mean, did it really have to be that hard? Can't they just do what I say when I say it? It would be seriously easier if they did, I wouldn't have to worry about them getting killed.

"Fine, we'll stay near you." Ed started. I couldn't help but let out an annoyed groan, he's trying to get something. "If, Maria and Olivia join us."

I closed my eyes and leaned over the end of the Impala, putting my head on the trunk. I knew that if the girls didn't come those idiots would run out of our sight and get ripped to shreds.

Damn it.

"Fine."

They smiled in triumph and fist bumped. I stood up and glared at them, I wasn't done yet.

"But if you annoy them at all I will let the Wendigo rip you to shreds. Got it?"

They took on this look of pure terror and nodded their heads vigorously. I smiled sweetly.

"Good. Girls!" I called, still looking at the idiots.

I heard a car door open and close before I was greeted by two smiling faces. As if. They looked as though they were about to take a pop quiz.

"We're going on a Wendigo hunt, the sweetness level on this is going to suck." I warned.

"For us or them?" Maria wondered, looking at Ed and Harry.

"For me and me only, as long as you stay with the guys."

"Do you have what you need to prepare for the negative level of sweetness?" Olivia asked.

"Indeed I am, are you two?" I raised my eyebrows.

"Indeed." They nodded in unison.

We nodded at each other for a couple of silent seconds.

"What the hell just happened?" Dean asked, breaking the silence.

"Red happened." The girls said in unison, I nodded.

"Well whatever really happened, it can wait till later. Now can we get a move on?" Ed said, circling his hand around to make his point.

I could slap him so hard he glasses would fly to China, but I don't get mad: I get even.

"On second thought, the sweetness level is going to be very low for Ed, Harry and I. I'll stay with them and you two stay with your men." I said.

All four of them started to protest. From what I could gather, it sounded something like…

Sam: "We're not-"

Olivia: "He wouldn't-"

Maria: "Red! Why would you-"

Dean: "Soon."

I looked at Dean and he looked around in a frenzy and started to protest like everyone else.

"Oh shut up, you know it will happen. And it better happen while I'm still alive. So if you wouldn't mind picking up the pace that would be great." I crossed my arms.

Someone's throat clear and I looked over to see that it was Harry. Ed continued waving his hands around.

"So the Wendigo…" Ed said.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. We stay as one big group but if we need to split up Maria's with Dean, Olivia's with Sam, and you two are with me." I clarified.

The Idiots looked at each other and smiled. I just made a big mistake…

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"Could you walk any freaking louder?" I looked back at Harry.

Olivia and Sam where drawing sigils on the ground so the Wendigo couldn't get to us. Dean was making a fire pit and flirting with Maria, while the Idiots and I gathered fire wood. We had been out here for two hours and it had gotten dark a while ago.

"Could you be any hotter?" He muttered under his breath, I could hear Ed snicker.

I paused and smacked the back of both their heads'. Ed grabbed his and whined.

"Why'd you hit me?!" He complained.

"It was a two for one special, I couldn't pass that up." I shrugged and continued picking up sticks. I heard a loud howl that sounded close to where the three of us were.

"Sweetness!" I exclaimed loudly enough for the girls to hear me, then picked up another stick. "This one's a keeper." I nodded at the boys, playing along.

They pointed their cameras at me and looked around the woods. "What was that?" Harry asked at the same time that Ed asked "Did you hear that?"

I cocked an eyebrow and looked at them. "What was what? I didn't hear anything." I paused and handed them my pile of fire wood. "Take these back to the camp, tell the girls I sent you."

After a second of confused silence I put my hand on my hip and pointed towards the camp. "Go!" I yelled.

They jumped from surprise and started running towards the camp. I could feel something watching me through the trees, I was glad it was focused on me and not those morons.

I turned in a circle and peered around the forest, waiting for it to attack. My flare gun was in my pants, and I kept it there. After all, if my plan was going to work, I'd need it later.

"Come on! I'm waiting!" I pushed.

There were crunching leaves to my left and just as I turned to look at it, a force sent me flying into a tree. I hit it so hard I saw stars, and then bounced off of it, landing on my stomach. I tried to stand up but was way too dizzy to even think straight. The last thing I saw was the Wendigo's foot coming towards my face, and I barely saw that coming, it was so fast…

Third Person

The girls watched Red's retreating figure as she went with the Idiots to pick up fire wood. They were worried stiff about her, but they never showed it. It would only make her feel bad for making them feel bad; she didn't need that in her horrible, short life.

The group heard a howl to their right. A couple seconds later they could hear Red yell "Sweetness!" Excitedly.

The girls looked at each other and nodded. The brothers saw that and were just about to ask about it when the GhostFacers came running towards them with sticks in their ghost white hands.

"What happened?" Maria asked.

"Red told us to tell you that she sent us back." Harry said.

"With these." Ed held out his fire wood.

In the distance the group could barely hear Red instigating something.

"Come on! I'm waiting!"

"What the hell is she doing?!" Dean said and got up to start after her.

"Don't!" Maria said and grabbed him before he could.

"She's gonna get herself killed!" Sam said, starting towards Dean.

They heard a quick cry of pain, followed by two loud thumps. Then it was dead silent.

Before the girls could stop them, the brothers readied their flare guns as they darted through the forest. Sam spotted a purple fabric stuck on a tree and stopped where he was. Dean walked up to it and ripped it out of the branch and threw it on the ground.

"Son of a bitch!" Dean exclaimed.

"Take a chill pill, she's fine." Olivia said as she caught her breath, leaning against the tree for support. She was never the most athletic one.

"How do you know that? She could be dead in a ditch!" Harry said., running to join the group.

"Or worse, she could be alive in a ditch." Ed added. Harry took an intake of breath and looked at everyone.

They were all staring at them like they jumped into a volcano expecting not to get burned.

"We planned on her getting caught. She was bait." Maria said.

"When did you guys have any time to plan this?" Sam asked.

"Code word, sweetness isn't as sweet as it sounds." Olivia answered.

Maria nodded her head in agreement. The bothers looked at each other and the Idiots pointed their cameras at the group.

"Is her tracker up and running yet?" Olivia asked.

"Ummm…" Maria fidgeted in her pocket for a couple of minutes until she pulled out her phone. "Yep! It's still moving so I can't exactly pinpoint it, but it's active." She sat down on a log and continued looking at her phone.

"Wait, didn't she say that the "Sweetness" level would be low for her, Harry, and I?" Ed asked.

Maria shrugged. "She must have changed her mind."

"She probably didn't want to hear your complaints when you were captured." Olivia added.

"Does she do that often?" Sam asked.

"Do what?" Maria questioned.

"Be bait." He clarified.

"Only when there are lives at steak, like now. She has a time limit because of the family that's missing, so she can't waist the hours trying to look for them. In situations like this she would rather get to them faster, than worry about her own well-being." Maria answered.

"How has she not died yet!" Dean exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air for good measure.

"What?" Olivia questioned.

"Inside joke." Sam smiled at the love-sick girl. She giggled and returned to the fire.

Maria knew that if Red had been there, she would have shaken her head and rolled her eyes. So she did it for her. But on the inside, Maria was happy for her friend. Almost as happy as she was for herself.

She had had so many guys hit on her before that they all just blended together. She never knew why they did, Red and Olivia said it was because she was so adorable. But they got hit on just as much as she.

Olivia went on many dates but she never really liked any of them because they 'wouldn't get on her level' as she put it. She was crazy, funny, and gorgeous. But people just didn't appreciate the crazy enough. She felt like Sammy actually did, he was refreshing.

Maria would flirt with anyone she talked to, but she didn't know she was flirting. To her, it came as naturally as a Demon killing. Even though all they guys flirted back she never really liked any of them, they were all jerks. Red had threatened to hunt about half of them when they treated Maria as a tool. That' what the girls loved about Red, she was dangerous.

Red got hit on, on almost all of her cases. But she never has time to date, and even if she did, she wouldn't. It would put them in danger, she had barely wanted to become friends with Olivia and Maria in fear of their deaths being her fault.

Even if it was, they could never blame her. She gave them more life experiences than a war veteran would have. She made their lives exciting, so what if it was dangerous? It was fun. And they got to share it with her, become best friends and share bonds no one else could have.

Little did the girls know, that this was the reason Red didn't want to drag them inter her life. Her rule of thumb was- don't care about people. Love and friendship are weaknesses. They're the weakest link in the chain of feelings. The strongest for Red, were anger, sadness, resentment, and loneliness.

If she made friends, they would come first; before her, and definitely before the victims. She couldn't risk it, so she just had to risk herself instead...

Sorry for the cliff hanger... I had to have one in there somewhere...

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