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Broken Faith

Chapter Fourteen- Running to Nowhere

"No! No way is this happening Danni!"

Danni, sat on the edge of the bed in Sam and Jake's room. "Jake, don't even try and talk me out of this. Dean had no luck and neither will you. Look I get the worry you both have and it's fro good reason, I completely agree that this is one of the worst ideas I've ever had-"

"Then why are you considering it?" Jake jumped in, cutting Danni off for the fourth time since she and Dean had arrived.

"Because Jake, this is going to be the quickest way to draw this thing out and you know it."

Sam stepped forward, away from the corner he'd been in observing. "What if it doesn't come after you?" Everyone in the room turned to look at Sam in confusion. There had been no doubt in anyone's mind that Danielle would be a target for this thing, they hadn't thought about it not going for her. "Don't look at me like I'm crazy; I know that she'd fit's the bill for this thing but there nothing that can guarantee that it'll be drawn out to her. Maybe it knows hunters are on to it and maybe it will know that Danni would just be used as bait, to draw it out and in the open."

"Score one for Sammy, he makes a good point Danni." Dean said, sitting down beside her. "There is know way to now for sure if you suicidal mission will work; whether it knows you're a hunter or not, it may have its' eye on someone else."

Danni's eyes flicked from Sam to Dean where they stayed for a moment as she glared at him, no wanting to admit that Sam was right and angry that Dean was going to get his way. She took a deep breath before speaking again, collecting all her thoughts.

"Okay, so maybe you're right Sam," She made a point to give the credit to Sam and not Dean or Jake for that matter. "What are we supposed to do if we don't have a way to draw it out? We only have tonight deal with this thing, if we don't either kill it or find out who it is then we have to wait another month and who knows if it plans on moving on after tonight. That is if it hasn't moved on already, it has drawn a lot of attention."

"Sam and me mapped out the places where all the deaths and attacks happened. If you look at the map-" Jake spread the map out on the table in front of him, Danni and Dean moved forward to look down at the map seeing a bunch of red marks on it. "Even where it's making the attacks is a pattern. It started over here to the right and made its' way around in a clock wise direction. There's a condo complex right in the center, seems a little random but would be a perfect place for this thing to hide out on the off season. All the condos look alike so anyone who may have follow it there wouldn't really be able to come back to it at another time."

Danni stared at the map, noticing that all the attacks Jake and Sam had mark were just about five miles from each other. There looked to be only one more location the was five mile from both the most resent site and the first one. "Jake, what's right here?" She pointed to the spot on the map and looked at Jake.

He looked where her finger was and shrugged, pulling Sam's laptop to him and getting a closer look at that area. After a couple minutes of searching Jake found what was within a couple blocks of the location Danni had asked about.

"Looks like there's a small stripe mall, a line of two or three restaurants, then there are a long row of house and empty lot then looks like a bar." Jake looked at Danni, wondering where her head was at. "Doesn't seem like anything out of the norm."

"I'm not looking for abnormal, I'm looking for a hunting ground. Either the mall or the bar seems like the most likely spot for this thing to be lurking. Both places would be somewhere a girl my age would be going to on a regular basis."

"Okay, so what do me do?" Dean asked, looking up at Danni.

"Well, someone's going to the bar and someone's going shopping." Danni looked around the table at the three boys. "Look I'll head to the mall and you guys can go to the bar, since I'm sure you're more comfortable with that then a mall."

"You're not going alone." Dean threw in his words of protest, which Danni was waiting for. "There is no way you're going in alone, don't even try to fight me on this cause there is no way in hell I'm going to let you win."

Danni looked down, smiling to herself before looking back at Dean. "I wasn't going to fight you, promise." She moved away from the table, grabbing her jacket off the bed. "Come on, we better get a move on. It's getting late."

Dean rolled his eyes, turning to face Danni with a groan. "Of course I have to be the one stuck going to the mall."

Danielle smiled as her and Dean walked out the door and to her car. She fell back a step, walking side by side with Dean and taking his hand in hers. "Be honest, is there anyway that you would he had Sam or Jake come with me? I know you Dean, you'd want to be there to save my ass if shit went wrong."

Dean laughed lightly, walking up the driver side door and opening it for Danielle. "Well it sure as hell an ass worth saving. I trust my brother of course and Jake I know would watch your back but I just feel better about being the one to back you up. Then I know that you're okay, that you're safe and if something does happen that no one is able to do anything about I'm there with you. No matter what happens."

Danni stood on her tip toes, kissing Dean lightly. "Good, cause as much as I love my brother I would rather you be by my side. I feel like I have to protect him and that he can't protect me even thought I know he's more then capable. I still see him as an 8 year old kid, you know."

"Yeah, I get it. Same with Sam, he may be a giant but he's still my kid brother and he always will be." Danielle smiled at him before he lend her inside the car. "We need to hit the road, you're the one that said so."

"Yes, sir." She sat as he gently closed her door and moved to the passenger side of the car.

The car was started and ready to move when Dean slide into the car. Soon the couple was making their way to the mall, short after Jake and Sam climbed in to the Impala and went in the same direction toward the bar.

The mall was pretty packed, it being almost 8 at night all the high school kids were hanging around with no intention of buying anything at all. Dean grunted and growled as the hyper, whiney teens ran passed him and brushed his shoulder, glaring at the ones swooning over his looks. Danielle laughed at the naive teens who thought they could have a shot with him; also finding his annoyance in the whole thing funny. The two walked around the mall, holding hands while trying to blend in, for another hour keeping their eyes scanning the faces of everyone they passed. There was only another hour before the mall would be closed and they hadn't seen anyone that could either lead them to their monster or that looked like they could be the monster.

The announcement went off in the mall informing the shoppers the mall and store would be closing in ten minutes. By then the mall had already pretty much cleared, the kids parents coming rather early in Danielle's opinion. There only seemed to be a handful of patrons in the building beside Dean and Danielle themselves and the workers inside the mall. They may one last lap around the small mall to see if they had maybe missed something or could see if there was someone hanging back, lurking around. But once there seemed to be no danger in the mall Dean and Danielle moved to the outside of the mall, walking the parking lot for a little bit.

"I hate malls, there are always too many people and too many kids." Dean grumbled as they scooped out the parking lot, looking in every darkened corner.

"There were a few groups of girls who were really into you, I think one of them said you were a babe." Danielle teased.

"Yeah, that's exactly what I need. Some 14 year old having a thing for me."

"Awe come on Dean, they were 16 at least." Danielle laughed nudging Dean a little. "It looks like everything's clear here, why don't we walk down to the bar?"

Dean sighed. "Walk to the bar? We have you're car here though, why would we leave it hear and walk?"

Danielle rolled her eyes. "Cause we'll be able see more if we walk, we might miss something in the car."

He nodded, understanding her point but still not really in the mood to walk after spending almost 2 hours in the mall. "Yeah, okay. Let's get going, I could really use a beer."

Danielle nodded and the two made their way out to the road and down the street. They had only walked about a half a block before they heard a high pitched scream. At first they weren't sure it was from a person, the two stopped dead in their track and listen to see if they would hear it again. The froze, not even breathing just glancing at each other and waiting.

The stood there for five minutes then heard the shriek again, this time positive it was a girl. The went running down the road, Dean pulling out his phone to call Sam. The only problem was, they were running but didn't know were they were running to.

TBC

A/N: Another chapter to add, I hope it flows with it all. I'm not too sure if I like this one, but I seem to say this about almost all the new chapters but they end up working pretty well.

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