Okay, yes, I know Chris is supposed to be dead, but i can't kill him, so it's AU
Also, I might have changed my mind and made this before Leo killed Gideon. hmmmmm
And yes, I know the Winchesters aren't supposed to know about The Trickster yet, but let's just say Bobby just told em about it, okay? I'll explain more about it later...
Here is the next chapter, enjoy!
Disclaimer: -cries- I wish I owned Supernatural so I can see the Winchester boys making out all the time and make Wincest the one and only pairing, but alas, I do not. And Charmed isn't mine, because Chris would have never died, and I don't know if I would have had the attention span to keep it going like that for 9 seasons...
On the way to the attic, Dean made a few more arguments on the way up.
"You expect us to believe you? How do we know this isn't some trick to get our guards down?"
"Oh yes," Piper said. "We're going to get your guard down and kill you AFTER you are completely stupid to your surroundings due to your brother's pain because that makes SO much sense."
Sam laughed. "She's got a point there."
That shut Dean up.
After looking at The Book of Shadows, Dean seemed a little more convinced, but still wary of everyone in the room. He read through the demon section and pointed something out to the girls as he flipped to the section on water demons, correcting them on something.
"This isn't a demon…" Dean said.
"What are you talking about? I know a demon when I see one. I've dealt with it before. It was a demon," Piper said.
Sam looked over and scanned the section on it. "Dean's right. It's not a demon, and there isn't just one in the world out there."
"You mean there are more water demons?" Phoebe asked.
"First off, it's NOT a water demon." Dean said. "It's a vengeful spirit, and these ones haunt large bodies of water and kill whoever they think is responsible for their death. And the lake isn't their only way to prey. They reach their victims through any sort of water near the lake. I've seen it take its' victims through water out of a sink and bathtub. These things are much more powerful then you realize. If you have to call them something, call them 'Water Spirits, not Water Demons'."
"But they are still demons." Piper argued.
"No, they are spirits."
"What does that mean?" Paige asked. "We've seen ghosts before, but usually they can't even touch solid things.
"That's because they want justice, not vengeance," Dean said. "These guys can kill just about anyone, depending on how they died and why they linger behind. This one here, this 'water demon', is a vengeful spirit that was drowned in the water and seeks out revenge from whoever did it wrong, or anyone that tries to get rid of it of course. The spirit probably took the children here because the kid himself was bullied by them. I bet you anything the first kids that died were the ones that drowned him or her… and shocking it? Hmm, that's a new way to deal with the thing. Dangerous though. It's useful, but not the only way to deal with it, although the other way would be near impossible."
"What would be the other way?" Paige asked.
"Well, you'd find the body, then salt and burn it. Of course, that would be a little hard to do if the body is in the lake. Imagine trying to swim under there to find the body with the demon trying to drown you the whole damn time."
He tore out the page.
"HEY!" Piper shouted.
"I'll rewrite it with your facts added to what I already know about it. You should really do more research on the things you hunt and get background information before you whip up a potion and kill it."
"Shit! You killed people you thought were demons with black eyes?" Sam asked as he saw another page.
"Well, yeah," Phoebe said.
"Those people were humans being possessed by demons. By doing that, you killed what you call 'innocents'."
"Oh no…" Phoebe said, looking devastated.
"That's alright I guess, you didn't know…" Sam said.
"That doesn't excuse them Sam!" Dean snapped. "They should investigate themselves before automatically killing everything they think is evil."
"Says the man who pointed a gun at everyone earlier today," Chris reminded.
"What else did you expect? You just kidnapped us and brought us to a strange place. We've been kidnapped by demons and creatures so many times, we've lost count… Your page on Shape Shifters is lacking by the way. Most of them don't live in houses. The one you dealt with next door was a very rare occurrence. They must have gotten freer powers from somewhere else. They almost always have a different motive… and usually only keep the forms of humans." Dean tore out that page too and started re-writing it.
"You don't have ANYTHING on The Trickster?" Dean asked.
"Trickster?" Phoebe said, confused.
Dean just shook his head and wrote out a new page on them. "Bobby told us about them in case we ever ran into one. You have practically NOTHING on ANY kinds of spirits. I'm sure you must have dealt with at least ONE avenging spirit. Except for this here spell, damn. You actually kill yourself for a few minutes, say a spell, and HOPE that you get them in time before you yourself die?"
Phoebe thought about it. "Well, now that you mention it, according to your description, I met one in a prison. It used a dead human to transport it across the water because it couldn't do so on its' own. It started killing people after it got to land."
"And you didn't write anything about it?" Sam asked.
Phoebe shook her head.
Dean rolled his eyes. "These people are obviously lax in the information they put in this book. I'll fix up what I can and add a new entry on Spirits and fill in what we have that the book doesn't, which is basically almost everything we know."
Sam raised his eyebrows. "Oh, so you DO believe them now?"
Dean rolled his eyes. "Yes Sammy, I believe them. I don't fully trust them, but I believe them."
"Why wouldn't you trust us?" Chris asked.
"Well gee, I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the fact that you, I don't know, ABDUCTED US?! And that's just for starters."
"I saved your lives!"
Dean rolled his eyes. "Yeah yeah, you still just glimmer-thingyed-"
"Orbed." Chris corrected.
"Right, glimmer-thingyed us to god-knows where!"
"You're at our house," Paige said. "We live here."
"Nooooo, really? I would have never guessed." Dean said sarcastically. "I know that NOW, but I didn't right away."
He pulled out the book that dad spent his entire life working on and flipped through the demon entry, referencing to dads book, adding things here and there in the Book of Shadows, re-writing entries, and filling out new ones. He stopped at one page and smirked.
"Well, congratulations! You almost got everything right about the Wendigo, except for the part that wild ones in the woods stay in creature-form all the time. They only turn into humans when they need to live in society or if they are newly turned. Hmm, I never knew that was how it turned into an original one. That's sick, a human eating a lover's heart. Yuck!"
"Oh come on, we've seen much worse than that Dean."
"Yeah, but still… It's usually the demons that do the nasty stuff, not people. Demons I get. People are just crazy." Dean said.
He continued flipping through the book, not really caring when the book magically added pages whenever he needed them. He just got used to this new kind of magic and was thankful for it. After he finished with the demon entries, a whole bunch of pages appeared before the Demon Entry. Dean smirked and flipped to the first blank page, writing "Spirits" on it in big, fancy writing to match the books general theme and started writing pages about all the different types of spirits from his dads' book and what they knew from personal experience or heard from Bobby, including the ways to get rid of them, hurt them, protect yourself from them, and trap them. He glanced up at the surrounding people and glared at them.
"This will take a while, so scram."
"Excuse me? Scram?! That is our book!" Piper exclaimed.
"And you don't trust us? After you abduct us, hold us here against our will, and tell us crap that doesn't really make sense and expect us to believe it and not try to kill you, you find us untrustworthy? Wow, funny how that works, isn't it? Now, Sammy can stay here and help me update your book, but the rest of you can leave unless you really want to just stand there for hours. This is going to take a looong time."
"Let them Piper, the book obviously trusts them, so it should be safe," Phoebe told her.
"Not to mention he has a pretty damn good point." Paige added.
"I'll check up with the other Elders and inform them about the situation." Leo said and orbed out.
"Well then, let's get going, shall we?" Phoebe said. "We don't need to stand here all day."
The girls left the room and dragged a reluctant Chris with them. Sam pulled up a chair next to Dean and watched him write with a smile on his face.
"I can write it if you want you know." Sam said, smiling humorously at him.
"I can handle it." Dean said.
Sam chuckled.
"What?!" Dean asked, annoyed.
"Nothing, it's just that I never took you for the type to willingly do this studying/writing stuff. That's usually my type of thing."
"Yeah, well… this is different. And I know more about some of this stuff since I've been hunting for longer then you have."
Sam just raised an eyebrow at Dean and smirked. "Just admit it Dean, writing and research isn't as horrid as you make it out to be. You even enjoying this."
"Shut up!"
"Fine, jerk."
"Bitch."
They smiled at each other and Dean continued writing in the Book of Shadows with Sam watching over his shoulder in comfortable silence.