Dean
We decided to walk there, baby would only lead the cops to us. Fortunately they all lived in the same apartment block so it didn't take us long to look in each of their apartments. We'd split up, it was easier and two pairs of eyes were always better than one. Kayla and I were looking around the apartment of Katy and her partner, a man whose name I didn't know.
"Hey Dean, what are these?" Kayla asked from the other room. I walked over to her, looking closely at everything I saw. A receipt on the side from a cheap shop, a nice watch that looked like it was made of silver.
"What?" I asked as I followed her gaze. A glass vase was sat on the windowsill. Inside were a single fern leaf and a flower.
"Just two flowers. Why?" she asked again, I wished I could answer, instead I picked my phone up and went to dial Bobby.
"Don't bother. I already called him." Sienna said as she walked inside the room and looked around. " He says that in the language of the flowers the fern means magic, though I could've told him that, and the forget-me-not means true love."
"The hell does Bobby know flower language?" I asked in disbelief.
"The last time he had the day off he built the panic room, its safe to say he got bored." Sam replied.
"Okay, so true love and magic. What would you do for love?"
"Don't do it Dean. If you say anything from I would do anything for love by Meatloaf I will hurt you." Sienna said. I couldn't help but grin, she knew me well already.
"Would I ever?"
"Yes." Sam dead panned.
"Seriously guys. Your partners got cancer, lets assume it's terminal, and you've been together for a while but they won't live that long. What do you do?" Kayla asked again.
"Everything on their bucket list." Sam suggested.
"Get drunk?" I added.
"Make a wish?" Sienna asked. I turned to look at her as my phone rang.
"Cas. Yes I know. Yes I do. Okay, we'll be back soon." I put my phone back in my pocket and turned back to them. "It's a djinn."
"A what?" Sienna asked.
"A genie, it poisons people and sucks out their blood."
"Oh a djinn." she said, her accent making the word sound almost completely different to mine. "Great." she continued with a grimace.
"How are we going to do this?" Kayla asked.
"Couples with cancer in this block, split up and find him." I suggested.
"We don't know who has cancer though, and it's not something you would tell a stranger either." Sienna said.
"Then we'll go to the hospital." I suggested. "They are bound to have a list of cancer patients and where they live."
"It's not like we can go there." Kayla replied. "They called the cops on us, we're wanted." she said.
"True, but we could call them."
"Or S could call Sophie." I suggested. Sienna blanched.
"I don't want to use her anymore than I have. Besides I don't have her number."
"I can sort that out." I replied as I pulled a piece of paper out of Kayla's bag. "People who have written an important report tend to leave a number that is reachable in the top right hand corner. See?" I asked as I pointed at the number under Sophie's name.
"Fine, give it here." she said as she grabbed the paper and pulled out her phone, pressing in the numbers. "Hi Sophie-yeah I know. Would you like my real name then?"
"Don't give it to her."
"Alright, alright. My name is Sienna Duff." she pulled the phone away from her ear and glared at us. "She was gonna put a trace on us. So shut it dick heads."
I rolled my eyes at her as she turned away.
"I need you to do something for me- no I cant tell you why. Don't call the damn cops. Look- we're investigating the case of the four dead couples, as we said. We think it's something that the cops have no idea exists. No- look shut up. I need you to see if there are any other couples in the same apartment block as the previous that have cancer." she paused and ran a hand through her hair.
"What's she doing?" Kayla asked the question that I was about to ask.
"Looking for them." she replied as she held the phone back to her ear. "Yes. Okay- thanks. Thanks for not doing that. Yep,okay- bye." she said as the phone was hung up.
"Where?" I asked as I grabbed my bag from the floor.
"Room 13 and room 27. I suggest we split up, quicker and easy." she suggested. I shrugged.
"Sounds good, us and you two? Which one do you want to take?" Sam asked. I shrugged.
"We'll take 13, if that's alright." Kayla said before pulling her bag closer to her.
"Sure, come on Sammy looks like we've gotta go find room 27." I said as we left the apartment. They turned left as we started towards the stairs to go up a floor.
We'd barely made it up the stairs by the time that Kayla yelled.
"Guys!" I turned and looked at Sam before running down the stairs and almost into Kayla. "We found the djinn."
"Where are the couple?" I asked as we ran into the apartment.
"In the bathroom, S has it in the living room." Kayla replied before a loud crack sounded throughout the apartment.
"Sam, get the couple and get them out. Kayla, you got the knife?" I asked before starting towards the noise.
"Yeah." she said as she pushed open the door and stepped inside. We both looked around and I noticed Sienna first. She had hit a wall and was sat with her back against it, the djinn stood over her, it's tattoos glowing. Kayla ran forwards as I let of a round in its back. Sienna grabbed his wrist and pulled it away as it brought its other hand around. Kayla slashed with the knife and Sienna let go as it turned, it's hand, still glowing, touching her cheek.
Her head flopped forwards and the djinn turned to face us. I let off another round as a distraction as Kayla got behind him and stabbed him through the chest. He fell forwards and hit the floor.
"She's in a wishverse. She could be there for a while." I said as Kayla turned and pulled the knife out. She looked at her friend and went to pick her up.
"She couldn't protect herself. She was wiped magic wise and- this is my fault."
"Don't think like that Kayla. It is not your fault, if anything I should have realised." I said as I picked her up when Kayla struggled. "Go get Sam, we're leaving." I said. Kayla put the knife back in her bag and went towards the bathroom.
"Sam, we're going." her voice carried through the room. Sam unlocked the door and I prayed for Cas.
Hey Cas, can you heal her. She's stuck in a wishverse and it's my fault, Cas. If you can't then can you send us back to the motel, please Cas.
Cas appeared as Sam stepped out of the room and walked towards us. Cas pressed his hand against her skin and flinched.
"I cannot cure this. If I pull her out she will die, I will be killing her by my hand. To escape she is either cured or she kills herself. Sam knew of a cure, but she's already been affected. I will take you all back. Kayla, can you please touch Sam or I will have to make two trips."
Kayla placed her hand on Sam's shoulder and Cas placed his hand on my shoulder and on Sam's forehead. We appeared back in the motel. I walked over to Sienna's bed and put her down gently as Kayla stumbled towards the wall.
"What if she doesn't wake up?" Kayla asked as she walked over slowly.
"I don't know, the cure maybe. If Sam still remembers it."
"I do partially, I could call Bobby and see if he does." Sam said as I walked over to my bed and sat down.
She woke up crying at 4:30. she sat up and pressed her hands to her face tightly in an attempt not to wake anyone. I got up and walked over to her, gently pulling her hands away. She looked up startled, her eyes blurry and eyelashes stuck together.
"I woke you up, I'm sorry." her voice sounded worse than she looked.
"You didn't wake me up, I stayed awake." I replied in a whisper.
"Why?"
"Why do you think, S?" I said still whispering with a small smile.
"You didn't have to do that, Dean." my heart sunk, did she really think that I would rather she was stuck in a different universe, slowly dying?
"Uh, yeah I did. Dweeb."
"Dickhead." she said with a small smile, though the effect was lost as she was still crying.
"Wanna tell me what the wishverse was?"
"Wishverse?"
"Wish universe. When a djinn touches you it creates a universe built around you deepest wish." I replied. She made a small oh noise before she sat up straight.
"I guess in that case I wished- I wished to be accepted by the people around me. And to be with my family." she continued as she clutched her hands in her lap.
"How did you figure out that it wasn't real?" I asked as I got up from the crouch that was killing my thighs and sat on her bed.
"I- I wasn't being – well threatened really. I wasn't a witch. I wasn't being glared at whenever I walked past someone. I wasn't here, I was home. But it felt so real. Gods did it feel real." she said, her voice getting quieter at the end of the sentence.
"That's the point of a wishverse. It tricks you into thinking that it's real so that the djinn can feed off you. But we killed the djinn so we weren't sure how long you would stay there." I said as I pulled her out of the bed. "Come on, lets go talk outside."
She nodded and followed me sleepily, wiping at her eyes as she walked. We stood just outside the door and she leant against the wall.
"What was your wishverse like?" she asked, looking over at me. I was about to ask her how she knew I had one before I remembered that she had read the books.
"All my family was alive and happy, but Sammy and I had grown apart. That's how I knew it wasn't real. I ended up finding the warehouse I had been in and killed myself there. I woke up and Sammy found me. You?"
"My family was happy, we had a nice house. I was an illustrator who always had a job to do, Saf was at Uni working towards her degree in languages. Jack was happy and healthy and mum was- well nothing changed with her. I don't know how I knew, but I did. I was in the kitchen about to kill myself to break the wishverse when Jack came home. Dean, I stabbed myself in front of my brother." she said as she sank to the floor. I sat down next to her and let her rest her head on my shoulder.
"I stabbed myself in front of Sammy. If it helps." I said quietly. I didn't get a reply. I turned my head slightly and saw that she had fallen asleep, not that I could blame her. She'd exhausted her magic, she'd been trapped in a wishverse, and she'd only arrived in America about 3 days ago. The poor girl was tired in every sense of the word.
I picked her up and walked back into our room, putting her back on her bed before pulling the covers over her. She readjusted herself and rolled over. I smiled down at her, glad that she was safe.
"You care for her." Cas said making me jump.
"Seriously, let me tie a bell on you." I replied as I turned to face him.
"She's like a sister to you isn't she." he continued.
"Yeah I guess. They both are." I said a I walked over to my bed.
"Kayla thinks you favour Sienna." Cas said as he walked over to her and looked down as she slept.
"You know I don't, it's just that S keeps getting herself stuck with no magic."
"She reminds me of you when we first met." Cas said softly, as though hoping I wouldn't hear.
"How so?" I asked as I lay on the bed and rolled over to look a him.
"She thinks that no one loves her, that it's her against the world. She seems to think it impossible that anyone could care for her when everything she's done is wrong."
"That doesn't make her like me, not in the slightest. I don't think like that."
"You do, you just don't see it in yourself like you see it in her. You are practically the same, except she swears less and doesn't throw her life away at every opportunity." he said. I guess he was right. She was a lot like me, even I had noticed some similarities.
I shrugged and rolled over.
"Whatever. Cas are you going to stand over them or are you going to do something?" I asked as I glanced at him before pulling the covers over me.
"I'll stay here. Someone needs to watch over you lot, and since I pulled you from perdition that task falls to me." he replied. I rolled my eyes and turned on my side.
"Fine, whatever man." I said as I fell asleep.
When I woke up and hour later, a sensible time to wake up, Sam was already sat by Sienna's side.
"Dude, she's already free of the wishverse. I spoke to her last night." I said as I sat up and jumped when I saw Cas stood over me. "Man, I thought you were watching over them."
"I was." he said with a shrug. I pulled the duvet off and walked towards Kayla, poking her awake.
"Fuck off." came her sleepy reply. I poked her again and she turned, grabbing my arm and pulling the dagger we had given her as a present from her pillow. She opened her brown eyes and looked at me before letting go of my arm.
"Sorry for startling you." I said with a smile.
"Whatever Dean." she said before putting the dagger back and rolling over. "Is she awake yet?"
"Woke up last night, around an hour ago." I replied as I hit Sam gently as he tried to poke her.
"Literally an hour ago, that is not enough sleep to recover from the shit that happened to her last night." I said as he glared over at me. I smiled and started towards the bathroom.
"I'm gonna get food, you want anything?" Sam asked.
"Obviously." I replied as I started the shower.