In this chapter we learn more about the creature. Limp Sam is beginning, be patience.

oo0oo

When Dean saw Sam on the floor, he realized his mistake. He shouldn't have leave Sam unprotected when he was still disoriented from the fall.

Please God let him be ok just this once. I won't let him out of my sight again, I swear.

He hurried to Sam'sside. He put his arm at the nape of Sam's neck and rolled him over in his arm. Sam's head lolled back. Dean shifted his arm under Sam's neck to support the weight of his head.

"Sam." Dean cupped Sam's face in his palm. "Come on Sam wake up." He tapped Sam's chick lightly. "SAM!"

oo0oo

Outside the house Mary and Ann were listening to the sounds inside the house. After the wind blow out of the house there wasn't any sound.

"I guess it's over. She's gone." Mary said. She was holding trembling Ann in her arms.

"I can't believe it. It's real…. It's real, I knew it." Ann sobbed, big tears rolling down her chicks.

"Get yourself together." Mary ordered but Ann continued sobbing. Mary took her by her arms and shook her. "It's gone. Ok? She can't hurt us. She's gone."

Ann stopped sobbing long enough to sigh and look at her cousin.

"We gotta check on the guys. Come on."

Ann wiped away her tears by her sleeve and back of her hand. "Ok."

oo0oo

Mary and Ann came in the house slowly. "Is he Ok?" Mary asked.

All Dean's attention was on Sam, he even didn't look up. "She tried to choke him. His breathing and pulse are ok, but he won't wake up."

"Do you want me to call an ambulance?"

"No." Even if Sam needed hospital, he would drive him to hospital himself. They didn't need police to get involved.

Sam please, wake up! You know I hate hospitals.

"Aghh…." Sam moved his hand to his neck.

"Come on sleepy head time to wake up." Dean encouraged.

"I'm not sleeping." Sam whined.

"I'm not the one who's scattered all over the place like a rag doll." Dean helped him to sit. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, you killed the creature?"

"Aaaa… no. didn't' want to take away the fun from you."

"Lucky me for having such a good big brother."

"Your very welcome."

Both of them forgot the girls who were listening to them. Sam, because he was still dizzy and lightheaded. Dean, because he was so relieved to see Sam talking again.

"You guys are brothers? I didn't know it." Mary said.

Oooubs. "Well…" Dean tried to make up an explanation for having different family name with his brother.

"Why do you have different family names?" Mary interrupted him.

"We are half brother." Sam tried to cover.

Sam was never a good liar.

By the look on Sam's face, Mary could say he was hiding something. "How did you know a creature or whatever it is would attack us?"

"They are not police." Ann explained flatly. "Police does not know about supernatural living things."

They all looked at her.

"She's right. You were prepared to fight it. Who are you?" Mary asked angrily. She hated to be played with.

If these girls believed something supernatural attacked them, there was no need to lie any more.

"We are hunters." Sam said, "We hunt supernatural thing…. supernatural evil things."

"I'm Dean, this is my brother Sam."

oo0oo

They were all sitting in the living room. Sam was holding an ice pack on the lump on his forehead. Dean was looking at the girls and they were looking at him quietly. The atmosphere was so tense.

"Look ladies, you tell us what you know about the creature and her connection to the carpet. We figure out a way to kill her. She won't be able to kill any body else and you won't see us again. Every body lives happily ever after."

"How about I call the police, you go to prison and I won't see you again? Ha?" Mary snapped.

"For starters because we saved your ass, and because if you do the creature attacks you and kills both of you this time." Dean said with a mocking tone in his voice.

"There is not such a thing as a creature."

"So why you haven't called the police already?"

"We know the creature is real." Ann said with a shaky voice.

"Shut up Anahita." Mary snapped at her.

"Why? That thing nearly killed me tonight. You can't pretend it's not real." God her cousin was stubborn.

Ann who up to now seemed to be a quite shy girl, was shouting on top of her lungs at her cousin.

"You don't even know what it is , how could anybody know? These guys can't help us."

"I know what it is. If you just listen to me for a sec….."

"You always think you know every thing, and you're always wrong."

"No, I'm not." Ann's eyes started to get wet.

"Hey girls why don't you calm down and tell us what you know. We find a way to deal with it." Sam suggested.

They both calmed down a little. "My grand mother always told this story about a creature." Ann started in a low voice. "Its name is Aal. They kill woman by taking out their livers. She said one day when her grandfather was working on the land he saw this creature. She was drinking water from a stream. Her grandfather approaches her from behind and cuts her tail of her with his shovel…. Cause their power is in their hair. He wants to kill her, but she begs her not to do so, and promises him if he doesn't she would protect his daughter and grand daughters for seven generation and won't let other Aals to hurt them."

"What did your grand father did?" Dean asked.

"He agreed, but he kept her hair. She had to stay around his grand daughters to protect them."

"So that is why she hunts here. She came here with you." Everything was making sense now Sam thought. "You came here around four years ago?" It was when the first murder happened.

"Yes I did, but Ann came here a few months ago." Mary answered for Ann.

"That's when I brought the carpet with me." Ann added.

"I guess that's why she got more powerful and killed more people." Sam said.

"Because he is closer to the source of her power, the carpet." Dean said it in a way as if he was angry with the poor old carpet. The damn old carpet was the reason his brother got hurt.

"The other night she couldn't kill me because she's supposed to serve me." Mary said. "But why she came here to kill Ann?"

All three of them stared at her, because a moment ago she didn't believe any of it. But it seemed she has put aside her hard headedness and was in the same line with the rest of them.

"What?" Mary asked unknowingly.

Dean looked away from her to ask Ann, "Yeah why she tried to kill you?"

"Mary and me are not from the same generation. Only the daughters or the daughter of our grandfather sons are protected. My mom is protected, but I'm not. I mean only those females who have the same family name as my grand grand father are protected. Besides I guess she came here for the carpet."

"The only question which remains is why the carpet is the source of her power?" Dean asked no one in particular.

"The hair. It's real hair. My grand mother made this carpet when she was a young girl. I guess she used the hair of Aal to craft the hair of the woman in the carpet. This way he could protect the hair from missing or throwing away by next generations who probably didn't believe her story." Ann looked at Marry.

Marry looked away sighing.

"No way, is that real hair?" Sam got up to take a closer look at the carpet. He felt so tired after his encounter with Al or Aal, didn't matter. The girls pronounced it with a long /a/ sound, but for him it was easier to pronounce it Al. His legs felt like he had a marathon lately. He slowly walked to the carpet which was leaned against the wall and touched the hair of the woman in the picture. The hair part was softer than the rest of the carpet.

"The rest of it is from ship hair…. er…Ship fur." Ann said.

Sam felt something is crawling on his lips. He raised her hand to touch his lip and it came down bloody. Another drop of blood fell on his palm when he was looking at the blood on his fingers, then another one.

"Sam! You ok?" Dean could tell something was wrong just by looking at Sam from behind him.

Sam palmed his hand under his face to prevent the blood from dripping on the floor and turned her head to look at Dean.

"Jesus Sam. What the hell?"

"I think I hit my head a little hard."

Dean felt guilty for landing on Sam. That creature was so in trouble, if he could get his hands on her again.

"I'll get a towel." Ann went to the bathroom.

Dean helped Sam to sit on the couch. He took the towel from Ann and gave it to Sam, Sam held it on his nose and mouth.

"Hold it still. It's going to stop soon." I hope.

TBC

More limp Sam in next chapter. He can't get away from a close encounter with an Aal so easily.