Chapter 18

On the last day of school Caleb got a phone call from Racheal's dad. He wanted to take Racheal, Laura, and me hunting with him that summer. Caleb agreed to it because he really didn't wanna take me back to the roadhouse. I'd never seen Racheal so happy. For the first time since her mother and brother were killed, she was getting to spend more than a week with her dad.

Bobby came and got us the next day. He took us to his house first, which was perfect for me and Laura. We got everything we needed and followed our plan. We cut our hair short and dyed it red. To add to it, we started wearing blue contacts. We told Bobby that we did it in case we ran into our dad. He said ok.

We had a lot of fun that summer. I think we went on a total of 12 hunts. The one I remember most happened about mid July. We were hunting a Pontianak. These creatures are akin to vampires. They prefer to feed on newborn children, but would also attack men if desperate enough. The only way to kill them is to drive a nail into their necks and then give them a proper burial. Problem is that if some one finds them, digs them back up, and removes the nail, they go on a new killing spree and you gotta do the process all over again.

The interesting part of this hunt was who we ran into. Dad, Dean, and Sam were also working the case. Laura actually got a little upset about Sam being there. She didn't think he was old enough to be working a hunt. She seemed to forget that dad would have flipped if he'd recognized us, he didn't really want us hunting either.

We picked up a story about several infants disappearing from a hospital in Mitchell, South Dakota. Dad and the boys were there on a different case, men found with their intestines missing. We thought it was 2 separate things, but we kept running into each other on the same leads. We figured the 2 creatures were just working together, or using each other 2 cover there tracks. Boy were we wrong.

When Bobby and dad decided they should get together on the case, they decided that us girls would do the research and stay in the motel while the guys did the leg work. Something bout we'd just slow them down cause we were girls. How dumb was that? The thing was hunting men and we'd just get in the way. We tried to tell Bobby he was being an idiot, but he followed dad's lead and in the motel we stayed, worrying about them.

Laura was the one that found out exactly what we were dealing with. When she tried to call the guys to let them know what she'd found, she got no answer. We spent an hour trying to call them. We were really starting to freak when Sam burst into the room. The Pontianak had managed to grab all 3 of them.

Sam managed to follow it to it's hiding place and then came to get us. That was all we needed to hear. Laura and Sam went to watch the place while Racheal and I went looking for the nearest construction job. We were gonna "borrow" a couple nail guns. We figured it'd be easier to shoot the thing in the neck than to pin it down and use a hammer.

It took us about an hour to find everything we needed. It was around 2 A.M. when we finally got to where Sam and Laura were. We were trying to figure out how to get the thing outside when we heard some one cry out in pain. It was Bobby. We decided to hell with the planning and ran in.

Dad, Dean, and Bobby were tied to the rafters by their wrists. The Pontianak was standing in front of Bobby and trying to force her hand into his stomach. We knew we had to get it away from the guys so we would accidentally shoot them with a nail. Those nail guns are kinda hard to aim from a distance greater than 3 inches. Racheal took a shot and hit her in the back of the leg.

It screamed and turned on us. It must have thought Sam had shot her cause she went after him. She was on him in a matter of seconds. Laura charged it and knocked her off him. It stood up to lunge after her but was dead before it could make it's move. Sam had tossed the gun Laura dropped to our sister and she put the creature down.

The whole fight took about 3 minutes. We got the guys untied went looking for a good place to bury her. We found a recently opened grave behind the building the Pontianak had been holed up in. It looked like some one had been grave robbing and just picked the wrong grave. Dad asked Racheal and me to show him where we got the nail guns cause he had an idea how to stop her from being awakened again.

We took him to the site, he grabbed a couple bags of cement, and we went back to the Pontianak's hide out. While Dad and Dean cleared the grave out a bit more, Bobby and Sam mixed a little concrete in a wheelbarrow. Dean asked Racheal, Laura, and me if we were gonna help at all and we said no, we'd don't want to get in the way cause were just a bunch of silly girls. Bobby laughed at that.

They put her back into her coffin and then poured in the concrete before they closed the lid. Laura, Dean, Sam, and I filled the grave back in while dad and Racheal took care of Bobby's injuries. By the time everything was done the sun was coming up. We decided to go get some breakfast and then we went back to the motel and crawled into bed.

I was the first one to wake up because I heard what I thought was a car door slam. I walked out of the room I shared with the girls in time to catch dad coming out of his room. He'd been loading stuff into the trunk of his car. He said that we'd really impressed him and he hoped that we could work together on a case again. I almost told him who Laura and I really were, but thought better of it. He would have come unglued and picked a fight with Bobby.

He went back into the room and came out a few minutes later with both boys. I said goodbye to them and then watched them drive away. Laura came out a few minutes later. She was hoping to get to say goodbye to them. She looked sad for a second when I told her they were gone already, but then cheered up. She was just happy that she finally got to see Sam, even though he didn't know who we really were.

We went back into our room and started packing our own stuff so we could move on to the next case. Chatting bout dad and the boys the whole time. We had just finished when Bobby came in and said it was time to go. It was almost a year before we saw dad and our brothers again.