The brothers re-entered the room, Lorraine sat on a chair just outside of the line of salt, that surrounded the bed, Bobby stood in the corner of the room, His arms folded the shotgun rested against his shoulder, Mary sat at the end of the bed face to face with her mothers,
"Oh just in time," the demon said as Dean stood behind Lorraine placing a hand protectively on her shoulder, Lorraine covered it with one of her own, Sam stood next to Bobby arms folded in front of him, like two bouncers, a dark expression on his face "me and mummy where just having a chat,"
"I'm not your mother," Lorraine replied, slowly, he voice filled with tiredness
'"Oh gee that hurts," it smirked
"So what do you want," Dean asked
"I told you I want to play,"
"Play what," he replied
"How about, tear-your-daughter-apart-from the inside,"
"No," Dean growled, his fists clenched, as he was ready to hit the demon
"No, daddy, please don't hurt me," Mary's body cowered, and then laughed demoniacally
"Dean, outside now," Bobby growled, Dean ignored him, "now," his voice rumbled
"Oh no, some ones in trouble now," Mary sang, as Dean followed the older man out of the room, and started pacing
"Dean get a grip ok, that's not really Mary, and you can't hit her"
"I'm not going to hit her, Bobby" he sighed frustratingly and ran and hand though his short hair "maybe Lorraine was right I should have stayed away,"
"What are you dense boy," Bobby replied, "this is not your fault, this could have happened whether you where here or not" he stopped pacing to glare at Bobby, he didn't really believe him, he sighed then continued pacing "maybe Sam and I should handle this,"
"No," he stopped, turning back to look at the man, "I'm alright, let's just get this son of a bitch," he walked back into the room, and stood in front of Mary his face just inches from hers, it was hard for him to treat what looked like his daughter this way "ok, now talk, what do you want,"
"It's about mummy's boss," Lorraine looked up surprised,
"What," Lorraine's voiced filled with shock, "you, you're the one that possessed Eddie, and killed peter didn't you,"
"Oh, not just a pretty face, but someone beat me to your boss, shame really I was really looking forward to teaching him a lesson,"
"Why" Lorraine asked,
"Well call me sensitive but I hate seeing men treat woman the way he treated you, he really did make a mess of your beautiful face too"
"What is she talking about," Dean asked, he glared at Lorraine and she avoided looking at him,
"Oh, so you haven't told him," Mary laughed, "maybe we should fill him in,"
"Maybe you should just shut up," Lorraine snapped
"Come on, you should be proud, you really know how to handle yourself, oh, but I do apologize for Eddie, didn't know he would turn on you,"
"You possessed Mr. Johnson too," she said, realization settling in,
"Ah, right again my dear," she smiled "Eddie wasn't supposed to find out about me, it was an accident, but what's done is done,"
"Because of you two innocent men are dead,"
"Innocent, yeah ok, Eddie maybe, but do you really think your boss was innocent, what do you think would have happened if you hadn't of gotten out of that office when you did,"
"What the hell would have happened," Dean asked, anger in his voice, Lorraine ignored him again
"How do I know it wasn't you that possessed peter?"
"Oh, please I wouldn't lower myself,"
"How much lower could you go," Lorraine replied darkly, Mary replied with a sly smile, the room went still as they stared each other down
"So what has this got to do with what you want," Bobby asked, breaking the silence, Lorraine had almost forgotten that there were other people in the room,
"your right, where getting off track," Mary replied sweetly placing both hands in her lap and smiling, "now I have a fair idea who beat me to the bastard, I want you to kill it, then I will leave and never bother you again, although, I've forgotten what it feels like to be this young,"
"Alright, who was it," Sam asked
"Well the whole thing reeked of sulfur and vengeance," it turned to Lorraine, "you haven't been doing a little summoning lately have you," Dean and Sam looked at her questioningly
"Of course not," she replied shocked "why would you say that,"
"it's just that there are only three demons in the country at the moment with the same MO and two of them have to be summoned, so if you didn't summon any of them, it only leaves one,"
"Wait, what MO" Sam asked
"His, you know," she glanced done shyly, "was gone,"
"That sounds familiar," Den grimaced
"That's right you have meet Michelle, haven't you, I completely forgot,"
"Wait, no Michelle can only been summoned," Dean said
"Oh, you didn't hear, Michelle was, Well how would you put it, promoted, she no longer has to be summoned," She told them sounding quite proud of the fact
"We must have missed the memo," Sam replied flatly
"Who are you talking about," Bobby asked
"Remember about 7 years ago, you sent as on that job at the high school, the boys were dismembered," Bobby nodded, remembering the case, it was the job that had brought Dean back into Lorraine's life,
"Ok, why don't you go after her?"
"Oh I couldn't do that, we have a sort of rule that we can't kill our own, well actually we really can't kill our own, some stupid spell, that forbids us,"
"I still don't understand why you want her dead anyway, some sort of ego thing or something," Lorraine asked
"More of a commission thing,"
"And if we refuse," Dean questioned
"we'll then you wouldn't really be doing your job properly, and then you'll have to bury your daughter in pieces, don't even think about exorcism either I will tear her apart from the inside out before you even open the book" Deans eyes flashed with anger,
"Alright we'll do it," Lorraine answered,
"Well done I knew you would," she smiled triumphantly,
"Any idea where she is,"
"Well last I heard she was at this abandoned house over in Nebraska,"
"Of course," Dean replied, which earnt a scowl from the demon, "I'm not happy with this plan, I mean what is going to happen to Mary,"
"As soon as I have your word she's all yours," Dean, Sam, Lorraine and Bobby all looked at her suspiciously, "I promise," she added raising three of her fingers in a scouts honor, Lorraine looked at Dean pleadingly, she was wondering why he was taking so long to agree,
"Tell me where, I'll go," Lorraine finally announced
"Lorraine," Dean exclaimed,
"Well I can't just wait for you to get off your ass, I want my daughter back"
"I think we should talk," Dean said
"There's nothing - "
"Outside," he cut in heading out of the room,
"What the hell is the matter with you," Lorraine snapped once they were in the hallway,
"Me, what about you, your wanna kill yourself do you," he snapped back
"I want my daughter back, Dean," tears started down her face, he wrapped his arms around her hugging her close to his chest, "I want her back,"
"Shhh, I know, I do to," he soothed "but we can't trust her, when need to think of a plan"
"A plan we have the plan, find this Michelle and kill her," Lorraine said, pulling away from him "how much simpler can it get,"
"come here," she walked back into the comfort of his arms, "you know I wouldn't let anything happen to you or Mary, and I'm not going to let this bitch get away with what she has done," Lorraine nodded
"So what are we going to do," Lorraine pulled away slightly, without letting go of Dean to look at Sam and Bobby as they walked out of the room,
"How much of that bullshit are you buying," Dean asked them
"what other choices do we have," Bobby said, they all stood silently weighing up their options, an exorcism could be harmful to Mary, and then there is no guarantee that the demon would leave them alone afterwards, it seemed that the only way they could get this demon out of their lives was to do as it asked,
"We don't even know for sure it was this other demon," Bobby added, the demon had started singing, 'Mary had a little lamb', its childlike voice floated from the bedroom
"Or how to kill her," Sam added in, the last time they tried, they had failed,
"Well we have to do something, we can't just sit here," Lorraine said
"Alright, alright," Dean snapped, "me and Sam will go, Bobby you stay here with Lorraine,"
"no Bobby should go with you, I'll be fine, I'll call Joanne see if she can come round, if this other demon is as hard to kill as you say she is, then you'll need all the help you can get," she had finished the song and reverted to calling out to Lorraine, "let's just get this over with"
"She has got a point," Bobby agreed,
"Fine," Dean didn't like the idea, but he knew he didn't have any choice,
"So do we have a deal," the demon asked as they all re-entered the bedroom,
"We have a deal," Dean responded
"Good, now listen closely, I'll tell you where she is and how to kill her,"
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"So, we have played four games of cards, and they've been gone now for three hours, when are you gonna hold you end of the deal, and get out of my daughter," Lorraine sat in the chair across from the bed,
"Oh, I thought we were getting along nicely," she replied, Joanne had arrived half an hour ago, and was still in shock at the sight of her niece,
"Well it's been charming, but that doesn't neglect the fact that you still have control of my daughter's body, and I would like her back, please"
"Don't worry she's sleeping soundly, she won't hardly remember anything it'll just be like a dream for her,"
"So why did you do it, I mean why did you have to possess Mary," Lorraine asked as she reshuffled the deck of cards,
"I knew that it would be the only way to get the boys to do as I asked," the demon smiled sinisterly, touching on Lorraine's long time fear, of Mary being used at bait to get to the boy's, "this isn't the first time I have been here, it took me a while to track the three of you down, I never in million years thought that Dean could be domesticated," Lorraine couldn't help laughing at that, and knew if Dean had heard the reference she probably would have been given a holy water shower, the demon paused briefly wondering whether to tell Lorraine her little secret, she was grateful Lorraine hadn't picked up on the slip up she had made, and time was running out, she still had work to do "but your right, the boys will keep their word and I should really be going, I had a fantastic time," and with that black smoke emerged from Mary's mouth and her body slumped back on to the bed, the smoke disappeared though the open window,
"Mummy," Mary's voice sounded small and groggy
"Oh, Mary," Lorraine cried out as she pulled her daughter into her arms hugging her closely, tears falling down her face.
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"so, you think she's in there," Dean asked as they sat in the car looking at the old, decaying house, taking in its size, back in its day when it was brand new, it was a very nice looking house, now the paint had faded away due to the sun and weather, the lawn, well what was left, was overrun with weeds, teenagers with nothing better to do, had smashed the windows years ago, they had driven though the night, and the early tell tale signs of the morning were already cutting into the darkness,
"Well it's the address the demon told us,"
"Not exactly isolated is it," he joked there wasn't another house in sight,
"Have you heard from Lorraine yet, has she gone," Bobby asked,
"Nah, not yet, and she's not answering when I ring" Dean pushed away the feeling that ran though his body,
"You don't think-"
"Don't Sammy," he cut him off, he didn't even want to think of the possibility that they had been sent on a wild goose chase, and something had happened to Lorraine "don't even think it, let's just get this over with so we can get home," Dean snapped, as he shoved open the door, and got out of the car,
"You moron," Bobby growled,
"What," Sam asked
"The last thing Dean needs to be thinking about right now is that something has happened to Lorraine or Mary,"
"I wasn't going to ... that's not what I was going-," Sam gave up and sighed then got out of the car, Bobby followed
"alright, you ready" Dean said walking into the house, the door nearly feel off the hinges as he pushed it open, the floor boards squeaked in protest as they entered the house, they entered into what they could assume was the lounge room, a sofa sat lonesome in the middle of the room, "you go that way," he pointed though to the kitchen, "Me and Bobby will take up stairs," Bobby followed him up the staircase, both stepping cautiously, there flashlights leading the way, as if the staircase will give at any moment. Dean and Bobby separated at the top of the staircase, Dean took what he thought would be the master bedroom, and bathroom, Bobby scanned the two smaller rooms, they meet back in the hallway greeting each other with a shake of their heads, then descended the stairs meeting back up with Sam in the lounge room,
"The place is empty," Sam stated the obvious, "not even the smell of sulfur, just mold and dust,"
"I'm gonna try Lorraine again," Dean said pulling the phone out of his pocket, apprehension was in his voice, he exited the house,
"Bobby, you don't think, it was a set up do you," Sam asked, as he proceeded to draw a 'devils trap' in the middle of the lounge room floor, Bobby didn't reply, but it was on his mind, and he knew that Dean probably thought the same, he was hoping that Dean got a hold of Lorraine so he could put his mind to rest, the two brothers and Loraine and Mary were the only family he had now, and he hated to think of anything happening to any of them,
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"How is she," Joanne asked as Lorraine entered the kitchen, offering her a cup of coffee which Lorraine accepted gratefully,
"She's sleeping." Lorraine sat at the bench, Joanne could see the bags forming under her eyes,
"Does she remember anything," Lorraine shook her head, and yawned, something the demon had said was playing on her mind, "why do you think she said she was looking for the three of us,"
"What" Joanne asked
"Before she said it took a while to track the three of us down, why was she looking for me" Lorraine yawned again and tried to ground the sleep from her eyes,
"Why don't you go and get some sleep," Joanne suggested as she wiped down the counter, "I'm sure she didn't really mean anything by it,"
"I think that sounds like a good idea," she placed the cup on the bench and stood up, "have you heard from the boys yet," Joanne shook her head, "have you tried to call,"
"Yeah, Dean, Sam, and Bobby's phone, but no answer,"
"I hate it when they do this," Lorraine sighed
"You just get some sleep; I'll try them again,"
"No, I'll do it,"
"Lorraine please, go and get some sleep, you look like shit,"
"thanks, a lot," Lorraine replied, then headed up the stairs and into her room, Mary was still sleeping on the bed, she had kicked the covers off, so Lorraine pulled them back over her, and placed a kiss on her forehead, then got into the bed to try and get some sleep for a few days now she had been tired and then with Mary's possession it had really knocked it out of her, she closed her eyes and was a sleep instantly, not even the ringing of her mobile woke her, either did the images that flashed though her dreams, some hours later she could see Dean, Sam and Bobby, in the run down house, then she heard the screams, they where her own, it wasn't until she felt the gentle tugging from Mary that she realized that she had been screaming in her sleep,
"Mummy wake up," Mary cried, Lorraine wrapped her arms around her daughter, she could see the fading light outside, but didn't know whether it was the sun setting of rising, "there's a man here," Lorraine sat up quickly and scanned the room, but she couldn't see anyone,
"Where," she asked, marry pointed to the doorway
"You can't see him, he said he's not going to hurt you," Lorraine realized that it was one of Mary's 'friends', which Lorraine had decided to call them,
"What does he look like, sweetie" she asked laying her head back on the pillow, and looked up at her daughter, who stared at the man in the doorway,
"His eyes are yellow,"