Chapter 29

I woke up to the smell of fresh coffee. Dean had one arm under my neck and wrapped around my shoulders. His other arm was wrapped around my waist. Because I had been under the blankets he also had them tangled around me so I was pretty much stuck where I was unless I woke him up. Truth was I didn't really want to move. We used to sleep like that all the time when mom made us take our nap and I hadn't felt that safe since she died.

Dad, Sam, and James were sitting at the table under the window. Sam and James were reading what looked like a couple newspaper articles and dad was just watching Dean and me. He saw me staring back at him and immediately looked away. A few seconds later he was calling out to Dean to wake up. Sam said something about thinking dad was gonna let us sleep, but I said I wanted to get up and couldn't till Dean let go of me. James was trying very hard not to laugh at me and failing miserably.

Dean mumbled something about 5 more minutes and squeezed me tighter. Now it was getting hard to breath and dad saw it. Dad yelled for Dean to get out of bed or face extra drills after the hunt was over. That got his attention and he jumped right up. I climbed out of bed and went to get us both some coffee.

Sam said something to James about Dean being competition for him. James just burst out laughing at that. So did Dean and me, dad just rolled his eyes and then started to tell us about the girl the Kymorii had been. Her name was Shannon Forbes. She was born and raised in Bishop and went to college in San Francisco.

The name sounded familiar to James, but I had never heard of her. Dad said that the night she died she was found in her own bed. Some one had bashed her head in right outside her bedroom window and then dragged the body into the house. Shannon had lived in a small house just outside of town so they didn't find her until 2 days later.

We sat there going over crime scene photos and police reports for another hour and then Dean and I came up with a plan. We figured that the only way to get rid of her was to find her killer. Dad, Sam and James were gonna work on that while Dean and I went back out to keep the Kymorii busy. They protested Dean and me going out there alone, but dad was hurt and James had an effect on Sam so he might be able to keep dad and Sam from killing each other.

Dean and I left while the others were out getting food. We figured that we'd go back out where we found dad and start our search from the base of the cliff. We thought there might be a cave or something at the base that she was hiding in. We also knew she'd be hungry since she missed her meal last night and that would make her more dangerous. Getting shot in the head last night wouldn't help her mood either.

We shut our cell phones off when we got to the top of the cliff. They'd been ringing almost non stop since about an hour after we left the motel. Neither of us wanted to listen to dad and James lecture us so we never answered them. We climbed down to the bottom of the cliff and started our search.

We split up and went in opposite directions. I hadn't gone far when I heard Dean calling me back to him. He'd found the Kymorii's hiding place. I caught up to him and we walked into the cave. There were bones and blood all over the ground.

We found her lying on the floor a few feet in. We thought about torching the body, or cutting her head off, but Sam had said that the only way to get rid of her was for her to complete her mission. We were still kinda debating this when she woke up and screamed. She charged us, but we were ready. We emptied our guns into her and she fell to the floor of the cave.

We decided to tie her up, but I should've known it wasn't going to be that easy. While I was getting the rope Dean walked over to her. He was pushing her with his foot when she jumped up and grabbed him by his throat. She threw him toward the back of the cave. He slid down to the floor and didn't move.

The Kymorii came tearing after me and I got a couple more shots at her before She managed to grab me. She then tossed me like a rag doll into the back of the cave. I heard the unmistakable sound of a bone breaking and then everything went black. I woke up to my brother crying out in pain. He was sitting in the middle of the cave, shirtless and tied up by our own rope. The Kymorii was clawing at his back, feeding off him.

I tried to get to him, but I was tied up as well. My hands were tied behind my back and my knees and ankles were bound together. She just looked over at me and said she'd be eating me in a bit. I don't know what the hell I was thinking, but I just blurted out her name. She stopped clawing at my brother and stared at me.

I told that I knew who she was and what had happened to her. She rushed over to me and got right in my face. She asked me what I thought I knew about it. I told her I knew that she had been murdered, that some one had bashed her head in with the shovel she had swung at me last night.

She just stared, then asked me where the shovel was. I lied and told her it was in the back of my Jeep. It was actually still leaning against the wall in one of the motel rooms. She shrugged and then started to make her way back toward Dean. I knew she was gonna start on him again so I asked her if she knew who her killer was.

That got her attention back on me. She came over to where I was and sat down in front of me. She started telling me about this guy in town that she was dating. He was married, but she had fallen for him. This guy kept telling her that he was gonna leave his wife, until the day Shannon told him she was pregnant.

They were sitting on a bench outside her window and he told her to get an abortion. Shannon told him she could never do that to his child. He started yelling at her, but Shannon wasn't going to give in. The shovel had been leaning against the wall next to the bench. He grabbed it and started hitting her in the head.

I asked her who the guy was. She hesitated for a minute and then told me it was the town sheriff. I shook my head and told her that was an awful thing to happen to anyone, then I asked her what the deal was. She said that a demon had come to her after she left her body and asked her if she wanted to get even for what had been done to her and her baby and she told it yes.

I asked her exactly what the demon had told her and she said that didn't matter. I said it did matter because I might be able to help her get out of the situation. She just shook her head and said no one could help her. She stood up and turned back to where she had left Dean, but he was gone.