Ok all, I warned you at the very begining I was gonna kill of Laura and now I finally have. Thanks to everyone following this. I hope you al are enjoying reading this as much as I am writing it. Reviews are much loved.

KIM

Chapter 22

We followed the blood trail all the way back around and to the far east end. We found Laura on the bank of the river. As soon as we saw her lying there we bolted toward her. Her wrists were bound together by a length of rope with a 3 foot lead. The injuries that covered her body could only have been caused by being dragged.

Dean and I rolled her over very carefully and laid her head in my lap. Amazingly she was still alive, barely. Dean cut the rope from around her wrists and then sat and held her hand. We both knew her injuries were too severe. Even if we'd gotten there sooner, she wouldn't have made it.

She started talking to us, even though we tried to keep her quiet. She told Dean that he needed to take care of Sam no matter what. Made him promise her he would. She told him to tell Sam she loved him and that she was sorry she didn't get to watch him grow up.

When she looked up at me, I knew what she was going to say. She wanted me to take care of Dean, Sam, and dad. She told me I was the only one strong enough to do it. I told her I wasn't, but she wouldn't let it go. She begged me to promise her, so I did.

When she finished talking she just lay there. Dean and I stayed quiet, listening to her breathing become more and more labored. Neither of us cried. I think our minds were total shock. She died just as we heard the sirens coming from a distance.

Dad and Caleb got to us before the cops and paramedics could. Caleb tried to get Dean and I to let go of Laura, but we wouldn't leave her. We told him we were gonna stay with her until the ambulance arrived. Dad just stood and stared at the scene from a distance. The look on his face still haunts me.

Caleb pulled dad away to a hiding place just as the police cars and ambulance came into view around the corner. When they picked up Laura off my lap, I completely freaked out. I started screaming and crying for my sister. When I tried to follow, an officer grabbed my arm and I pulled him backwards into the shallow river. I jumped up and headed toward the back of the ambulance, still screaming for Laura.

I got there just as they closed the doors. I was banging on the doors when it started to pull away. Before I could chase after it, Dean spun me so I was facing him and wrapped his arms around my waist. I just collapsed in his arms.

We cremated Laura's body 2 days later. Dad and Sam weren't there. Dad had taken Sam into Elko and got a motel room. He couldn't face Dean and me I think, or he couldn't watch his daughter's body burn. Maybe both.

Caleb did a little digging and found out that they had caught most of the cult members and got the story from them about what had been done to Laura. They said she just walked out of the ravine and right into them. The cult leader ordered them to beat her. When they'd had their fun, she ordered them to tie her hands and then tie the end of the rope to her car.

They dragged her behind the car from the east end of the canyon, to the west, and back. When a tip came in that the cops were coming, they cut the rope from the car and left her to die. None of them knew where their leader disappeared too after the rope was cut. There was only one road in or out of that canyon that they knew of, so they knew they were all trapped.

They also told Caleb that they were trying to trap him and "his" kids. The demon told them that we were all a threat that needed to be eliminated. However, it did not tell them why. Most of them didn't realize they were being instructed to kill children until Laura appeared.

A phone call to dad revealed the rest of the story. Laura was able to get close enough to them to hear what the demon was saying to his captains. What most of the cult members believed to be a trap for Caleb, was actually a trap for the Winchesters. It was after all 5 of us. Laura told dad and I guess he wanted to spring the trap himself. Before he got the chance, Laura hit him with her gun to knock him out. Then she tied him up and left him for Caleb, Dean, and me to find.

I stopped talking to anyone but Dean after Laura's memorial service. I wouldn't even leave my room. I wouldn't eat and I refused to sleep unless Dean made me. I know if he hadn't been there, I probably would have starved myself to death.

Dad didn't come around until a week later. Caleb had called him because I'd decided I was leaving. I was gonna go hunting on my own. Everyone tried to talk me out of it, except my brother. He knew I needed to get away from there.

Dad showed up while Dean was helping me pack the Jeep Wrangler Caleb had bought for Laura and me. He called Dean to him and I just kept packing. Dean walked off somewhere and dad came over to me. He stood there watching for a second then he asked me the question Laura had been waiting to hear her entire life. "Do you wanna come home with me and your brothers?"

I just froze. I didn't know what to say at first. I wanted to yell and scream at him, beat him into the ground, but I didn't. I looked up at him and said no. I told him he should've asked Laura that question 3 years ago and that asking me now, when he knew that was the last thing I wanted, was the biggest insult to her memory anyone could have come up with.

He didn't say a word. He just turned around and walked away. I watched him walk around to the front of the house and then went inside to get the last of my hunting gear. When I came back out, Dean was sitting in the driver's side of the jeep. I couldn't understand how he was still there. I'd heard the Impala leave while I was upstairs.

I asked him what was going on and he said he was going with me. I asked him why and he said because it was time he spent more than a few hours with his sister. When I asked him what dad thought, he didn't reply for a few minutes. When he finally did, he said he was 18 years old and didn't really have to answer to dad anymore, plus, I didn't even know how to drive. The truth was that dad had told him to stay with me until he was told otherwise.

I knew he was lying about his last answer, but it didn't matter. I had my big brother all to myself. I said goodbye to everyone and we hit the road. We were completely free of everyone, at least for the summer.