I am SO, SO sorry! I know it's been painfully long since I updated, I apologize profusely. "Life" is all I can say (I know, such a horrid, pathetic excuse).
~ Chapter Four: Tests ~
Dean smiles devilishly just you wait.
"Give us a minute." Dean says, grabbing Sam's shoulder and dragging him into the other room.
Once in the next room, Sam checks behind his shoulder to make sure they are both out of earshot, even then, Sam still speaks in hushed tones.
"What are you doing? You do realize there are no tests for good or evil right? Or have you been hiding something from me this whole time?" Sam asks.
"Yeah, I know that. Now help me think of one."
"Wh-What? Dean, you're kidding me. What kind of test do you even want? Actually, never mind. Don't answer that." Sam shakes his head and looks at his brother.
"Yeah well I said it. So I'm not taking it back. Especially in front of witches." Dean says, he runs his hand through his hair.
"You're acting like a child." Sam says, Dean glares.
"Just start brainstorming already!"
Sam shakes his head, "Look, Cas said we could trust them, so let's trust them and keep our guards up." Sam reasons.
Dean stares for a moment before silently cursing. "Fine."
Sam nods, he walks back into the other room, he looks behind him to see that Dean is nowhere in sight. He sighs before going back to the room and dragging Dean with him.
Dean yanks himself out of Sam's grasp. The sister's' all raise their eyebrows at the scene.
"Well?" Phoebe asks.
Dean rolls his eyes before looking at the Charmed One. "We decided that there's no reason to… test you three." He says.
"And why's that?" Paige asks.
"Just didn't feel the need to" Dean smiles tightly meanwhile Sam stifles a laugh.
"We just, figured our friend sent us here for a reason. That's all." Sam finishes explaining.
The sisters all share a look before nodding their heads. "Alright, where should we start then?" Piper asks.
"Do either of you know what demon that trench coat guy was talking about?" Paige questions.
Sam shakes his head. "No, no idea."
Piper looks over back over to the man lying on the floor, "One of you explain him" Piper points to the corpse.
"You've never seen a demon before?" Dean asks, shocked.
"Demons disappear when vanquished. He's still here. No demon." Piper states.
"Did you really just say 'vanquished'? What is this Bewitched?" Dean asks incredulously, his tone mildly condescending.
"And what are you guys? Starsky & Hutch?" Paige counters, Dean's proud smirk vanishes and Sam huffs.
"Possession. Sort of, demons from Hell take on a human vessel. Sometimes we are able to save the person but most of the time their body is already dead. " Dean explains, still surprised that he has too.
"What kind of demons have you guys faced exactly?" Sam asks.
Phoebe takes a step towards Dean, her eyebrow quirked up. "All kinds. Like the kind you saw in the book. "
"The ugly bastard?" Dean asks.
Phoebe tsks meanwhile Piper and Paige try to hide their smirks before Phoebe notices them.
Letting out an exasperated sigh, Phoebe answers "Yes. Like him."
"Okay so you haven't hunted – vanquished anything like him before?" Sam asks.
"Not exactly, we've all dealt with being possessed or changed into different things, demons, ghosts, vampire, a wendigo-"
"Woah, wait, wendigo? You can't come back from being a wendigo, not to mention the fact that it can take decades to even become one." Dean states, he looks to his brother for confirmation Sam just shrugs, not knowing what to do with the new information. Dean faces the sisters again, all of them have confused expressions on their face.
Phoebe looks over to Piper before she nods then Phoebe opens up the book to the Wendigo page, she shows Sam and Dean. The brothers silently read the page.
The Wendigo is a non-dead creature who roams the Earth destroying the good-hearted and those in love. His fate is to wander the Earth feating on human hearts. The first Wendigo was a mortal who was betrayed by his sweetheart. In revenge for the treachery, he slew his love and ate her heart. Rather than savor the warmth of revenge his heart was in turn, turned to ice. During the daylight hours and the phases of the moon, the Wendigo looks as you or I. Beware the Wendigo on the three days of the full moon when his strength and appetite are greatest. Beware being attacked and injured. He duplicates himself by slashing but not killing his prey.
Dean shakes his head, Sam looks over to the picture before briefly re-skimming the page again. "I suppose it's possible that there are different species of Wendigo, I just never would have imagined it."
"Yeah I'll say. This thing seems more were-wolfy than Wendigo though. Minus the full transformation into all sorts of ugly" Dean says.
"What… kind? Of Wendigo have you faced before?" Piper asks.
"Something just as ugly but more animalistic and predatory. It will hunt any human and kill and eat them slowly while they hibernate." Dean replies.
"I think maybe we should see what other differences and similarties we've had in the monsters we've faced. I'm sure it will help all of us to have that information." Sam states.
Paige nods her head, "I agree, we can add it to the book as well." The half witch, half white-lighter looks over to her sisters to see them nod in agreement. Dean groans.
"What?" asks Sam.
"It's gonna be like a freaking high school study group." Dean suppresses another groan but then snaps his fingers. "I know what we need" Dean smirks and Sam is already rolling his eyes. "We need some pie."
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Yes I know, this is horrible. I am so sorry about how short this is and that it doesn't do much to move the plot forward. I am having majors writers block with this story, the outline and story line I had isn't as well thought out as I'd like it to be and now I'm not sure where I want to go with this.
Also, for the next chapters, I think I am going to try a new writing style, meaning more from different characters POVS or 3rd person (does that make sense?)
Please let me know what you think! Again I am so sorry for the awfully long wait for the update and the minuscule length of this chapter.