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Chapter 59: All Hell Breaks Loose 1 Part 2
So we told them everything. Everything we knew anyways. Which, in my opinion, didn't seem like the smartest idea. Sam was mostly doing the talking and I just kind of nodded in agreement and added some words in after he spoke. I looked at the people as he talked and even Andrew looked like he was having trouble processing the information and thought we were crazy. Which honestly kind of hurt. I mean, you'd think after knowing that you had a twin brother who had powers along the same line as yours and trying to drive your girlfriend off a bridge he'd be a little more understanding. There was a moment of complete silence among us after Sam stopped talking. I looked at everyone, trying to gauge their reactions or what they would say. But it seemed a lot of mixed emotions.
"So…" I started, ever so cleverly.
Jake instantly cut me off. Like he was just itching for someone to speak first so he didn't have to. "So, we're soldiers in a demon war to bring on the Apocalypse?"
"Well," Sam glanced at me. "When you put it like that—"
"Sam, I'm sorry." Ava interrupted and I nearly rolled my eyes. "Psychics and spoon-bending is one thing, but demons?" Didn't she just sound so high and mighty when she said that? I may have been pregnant but I had no problem knocking her off that fucking high horse.
"Look, I know it sounds crazy, but—" I tried.
"It doesn't just sound it." Jake fumed. Fine. I wasn't going to talk until people stopped cutting me off.
"I don't really care what you think, okay?" Nice Sam. Do some cutting off, seeing as how everyone else was doing it. "If we're all gathered here together, then that means it's starting and that we've gotta—"
"The only thing I've gotta do is stay away from wackjobs, okay?" Jake snapped. "I've heard enough. I'm better off on my own."
"Jake, hold on." He was walking away faster then I could walk. But I could still scream after him. "Jake, it's not safe!"
"Against what?" And how did he cover so much ground that fast? He was five feet away and suddenly he was right in front of me again, getting in my face angrily, like I was the cause he was there. "The demons and spirits in your head?"
"Hey!" Sam pushed him back from my face. "That's enough. We're trying to tell you the truth, to help."
"How are you exactly helping us Sam?" Ava spoke us softly, while Jake turned and stalked off in another direction. "By telling us bedtime stories?"
"We're not…making this stuff up." For some reason when Ava commented I just got ten times more angry then I should have. "What, you think that we're just trying to freak you out? Confuse you? We're not bullshitting you! We're trying to help you…" I broke off, feeling dizzy.
Little black dots formed in my vision and I put a hand over my face and closed my eyes. Fuck, looks like standing too long finally took its toll on me.
"Andy? Hey, you alright?" Sam came up beside me and took a hold of my arm, like to steady me in case I tumbled. Which I felt about to do.
"She alright?" I heard Andrew ask.
"Talk to me, sweetie. What's wrong?"
"I need to sit." I mentioned quietly. Sam sighed softly and wrapped an arm around my waist and guided me to the closest stairs. He sat me down on the last step and kneeled down to look at my face.
"You look pale." He stroked one of my cheeks.
I tried smiling at him, even though I did feel color drain from my face. I felt like I had to go over a checklist in my head, thanks to the over reactive Dean Winchester. Alright so, my water still hadn't broken, I still felt Riley move inside me so I was miscarrying. I was just dizzy so that meant I was either tired or…I needed to eat. Fuck. And eat in this wasteland, yeah right.
"I think I'm just tired." I ran a hand over my face. "You need to go after Jake. Just because he doesn't believe us doesn't mean we're not right."
Sam looked between me and the road Jake had taken. "I can't just leave you…"
"You're not," I looked up. "Andrew will stay. Right?"
He nodded. "Yeah, yeah, I'll stay." He sat next to me and I smiled softly.
Sam looked uneasy, which I thought was odd. It was just Andrew. Simple, funny, easy going Andrew. And for one, I trusted him. More than staying with Ava anyways. I felt like she'd rip my baby out with her teeth. I put my hand over Sam's forearm and gave him a slight squeeze.
"Sam, Jake could be in trouble. Just go, I'll be fine for the five minutes you're gone."
He nodded and as he stood he planted a comforting kiss on my forehead. Ironic. Wasn't Sam the one who needed to be comforted with this plan? I gave him a smile and squeezed his arm again. He looked at Andrew one more time and gave him the famous Dean Winchester 'take care of her or it's your life' face and took off in the direction Jake had went.
I sighed and looked at the harsh, cold, muddy ground. I could feel pairs of eyes on me and that just made me want to analyze the mud even more.
"So," Andrew broke the silence. "You and Sam are just friends?"
Where the hell did that come from? "Why, you interested?" I quirked. I licked my lips while no one exactly laughed. I felt a little bit of blush seep onto my cheeks. "Yeah, definitely friends."
Ava shifted, like the statement that was about to come out of her mouth made her antsy. "Doesn't really seem like it."
I bit my tongue on rude comments. The group, including Sam when he came back, didn't need that. That wasn't going to get us through anything. "That ship has sailed and sunk." I said simply. Because that's what the situation was; simple.
Sam didn't have those feelings for me anymore; that had been very well established. And I didn't need these strangers with their half assed opinions and observations to tell me otherwise. They didn't know me and they didn't know Sam. That was just a fact. No matter what Ava's smug look was trying to say. What, did she think that after one traumatic bonding situation with Sam proved that she knew him? I just couldn't believe the vibes I was getting off her. She seemed so hostile and I couldn't figure out why. The way Sam had talked about her and described her after weeks of not being able to find her, it was just completely different then the way she was turning out to be. I guess I wasn't something I could hold be offended about or hold against her. People changed; that was also a fact.
"So, Sam lost interest?" Ava asked and my head darted to look up at her.
"Well, since I forgot I tell you everything important in my life…" I snapped and she smirked softly.
"If you don't want to talk about it…" She was trying to be nonchalant; brushing it off like it was a bad situation I didn't want to talk about it because I was embarrassed or something. Fuck off.
"I'm with someone." I nearly bit off. I felt Andrew tense beside me.
I looked into Ava's eyes and something chilled my spine. Her eyes were cold and dead. What was wrong with her? Where the hell did these invasive questions come from? I mean, I'd expect them from someone like Andrew. He at least knew me a little bit more then the average person. But these were personal questions. And she was being smug and rude about them.
"Andy, Sam's coming." Andrew said quietly.
I turned my head to look at Sam coming back over with Jake and by the time I looked back at Ava, her demeanor had completely changed. Her eyes were hazel, not angry or filled with something that I didn't dare analyze and she had a smile on her face. I looked over at Sam; well at least I knew where the hell the friggen smile came from. Damn Winchesters made girls turn into dogs in heat, swear to God.
I sighed softly and looked at my lap and played with the jacket overlapping my legs. Maybe I was just over reacting. I mean, I was tired, cold and stuck in the middle of no where with a demon after Sam and me. I was bound to start thinking unclearly eventually.
"Hey," Andrew got up and Sam took his place. His knee touched mine as he scooted closer and put his arm around me and rubbed my arm. Was I that cold? I could feel the heat of his skin through his clothes. "How are you?"
I shrugged and looked at Jake. "Cold. Jake get himself into trouble?"
Sam smiled softly. "Well it's not like he intended on it or anything." Jake rolled his eyes.
"Spirit?"
"Acheri."
I grimaced. "Those things are little bastards. What kind of demon wants to pose as a little girl?"
Sam chuckled. "All of a sudden rethinking children?"
I smiled and poked his side. "No." I looked up at the group. "Unfortunately an Acheri doesn't tell us where we are." It was too bad you couldn't really do it that way, like a certain demon didn't live in a certain place. Like the way you could a bird or animal with a state. I looked at Sam. "We should gather weapons; hold up in one of these shacks." He nodded.
"Weapons?" Lilly meekly asked. I looked at her. "You seriously think we'll find some type of weapons in this place? You think we'll actually need them?" She sounded scared with the last question.
It bothered me how comfortable I felt going to look for salt and iron to fend us off while everyone other than Sam was freaking out. But geez, believe me, I was doing my own freaking out. It was just about Yellow eyes and you just couldn't see it. All inside turmoil. How very Dean Winchester of me.
"No, I don't think we'll need to use them." I was a fucking liar. How the hell did I know? "More of a precaution thing."
"Should we split into pairs or something?" Ava asked as Sam helped me stand. "Look in different houses."
"No." Sam said. "We stay together. One group." Sam held onto my arms for a moment and looked around. "You alright to walk?"
"Well, we need to find weapons and you can't leave me here. So, the no choice answer is yeah."
He smiled and ruffled my hair softly. I could literally smack myself for all the times I complained about staying in bed while the Winchesters went out and about and walked around.
"Alright, come on. We'll go this way." His head motioned towards the right.
I held his hand as we walked, my shoes slipping along the mud. The group was behind us. I kept feeling like Ava was going to attack me from behind. Where the hell was this paranoid-ness coming from?
"So, which one of the creepy old run down houses you want to go into first, Scoob?" Sam smirked and I squinted my eyes at something up ahead. "Is that a bell?
Sam looked in the direction I was squinting. "I don't see one. Although, the fog is nearly as thick as damn cotton balls."
"Over there." I pointed but then found that was useless too. "Uh, it kind of looks like the liberty bell. But smaller and has no historic significance." I looked at the shape a moment more and scoffed. "I know where we are."
"Where?" Andrew asked as the group came up beside us.
I looked up at Sam. "Cold Oak, South Dakota."
Sam nodded and as I looked into his eyes I could tell he was unnerved by the fact that we were here of all places too. "A town so haunted, every single resident fled."
Ava sighed and walked closer to Sam, wrapping her jacket further around herself. "Good to know we're somewhere so historical."
Lilly came up closer beside Andrew and Jake stayed behind. "Why would that demon or whatever put us here?" She asked softly, so soft in fact I'm sure the voice didn't even carry enough to Sam's ears.
"Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing." I said just as soft. I was trying to give away how worried I was becoming. Although I knew Sam knew how I felt just by holding my hand. I wasn't just shaking from the cold.
She shook her head and suddenly stopped walking. I stopped too and Sam's arms was tugged, causing him to look at me and then at Lilly. "Lilly? You alright?"
"Alright?" She asked, nearly dumbfounded. Poor choice of words Sam. "No, I'm not alright!" She sighed. "You know what? It doesn't matter. Clearly, the only sane thing to do here is get the hell out of Dodge."
"Wait, hold on." She started walking and I broke out of Sam's hold to stop her. She whirled around, nearly knocking me on my ass.
"Don't!" She screamed even though I had no intention of touching her.
I stopped dead in my tracks and my hands went up automatically like I was trying to defend myself. "Okay, sorry." I said softly. I felt Sam coming up behind me and pull me back a little. Was he afraid Lily's powers weren't under control? I guess that could make sense. She got angry enough her powers could go haywire and it was not good to be in the crossfire of that. "Lily, the only way out is through miles of woods."
She scoffed and a shaky hand ran through her blonde hair. "Doesn't it beat hanging out with demons?"
"Yeah, I admitted. "I guess it does. But we're in the middle of no where and we have no idea how many are out there. It's dangerous; I just don't want something to happen. I know you're scared…"
"You know?" She asked me, stunned. "You know nothing. I…I accidently touched my girlfriend."
I looked up at Sam and he frowned softly. I ran a hand through my hair and felt everyone awkwardly shift behind me. "I'm sorry." I squeaked out. "But I've lost people too."
"And that makes it better?" Lily asked me looking at the water tower that seemed farther away from us because of the fog.
"No, I never said that." I looked at the mud. "I'm not trying to compare. I have…a boyfriend out there right now, probably going out of his mind trying to find me and Sam." I laughed, it was so sad sounding though and I felt Sam's lips trail through my hair softly. "But I don't know…if he's dead or not." My voice seemed to constrict on that fucking word. I'd said it so often in my life you'd think by now I'd be comfortable with it. I cleared my throat. "Let's just stick together okay?"
Lily looked at me for a long moment before nodding. "Fine."
I sighed and turned to look at Sam. "Alright, let's head in that house."
He pointed right ahead of him. The house was normal sized but it seemed bigger with all the wood falling off and creating piles of planks every which way. You could smell the rotting of the wood as we walked closer, you could see the light yellowish green mold forming along the dark brown mud color surface.
Ava, Jake and Andrew went in first, walking very slowly. Sam should have been leading but apparently I wasn't walking fast enough for the group. And he didn't seem like he was intending on leaving my side anytime soon. Lily followed a little behind us and I made sure I kept looking back to make sure she was even there and not running off in other direction.
"You know Dean is fine right?" Sam asked me. "He's probably doing the exact same thing he did the last time we went missing."
"Work with a very angry lady cop?"
Sam smirked. "No, you know, throwing things, getting stubborn, swearing a lot and then finally asking Bobby for help. Or…someone for help."
I nodded and looked at Sam's feet. "Yeah, you're right." I said softly.
He tilted my chin and smiled softly. "Damn right I'm right." I smirked. "He's not gonna just leave you here by yourself to take care of this baby." He let go of my chin and ruffled my hair. "He's too damn stubborn to die."
I chuckled softly. "Yeah, that definitely sounds like him." I licked my lower lip as we approached the bottom steps of the house. "Are you sure its safe to head in there? Looks like it's about to collapse."
"Well, Ava, Andrew and Jake are already in there. I think if there was a problem we would know." He helped me up the stairs.
"Alright," I sighed softly as Sam and I walked through the front door, everyone's eyes meeting ours. "Just no body sneeze."
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Sam looked around the cluttered room. "Alright, look everywhere. Salt, silver, iron…" He looked at me. "Any type of weapon."
"Salt's a weapon?" Jake asked, overturning a table.
Sam nodded. "It's a brave new world."
"Well, your world obviously as food." Andrew sighed. "I'm starving."
I nodded. "I know what you mean. Wanna search the kitchen for entertainment purposes?"
He smirked. "Sure." He started heading down the hall and I squeezed Sam's hand before letting go to follow him.
"Hey." I turned around to look at Sam. "Stay with him, alright? Scream if you need me."
I nodded. "Yes, Dean."
He smirked. "Yeah, real funny Andy. If I was Dean you wouldn't be going off with him. God, you'd be chained to my hip."
I stuck my tongue out at him. "Dean never chains me to his body when we're out."
"Yeah, well, I'm sure he would in this situation." He looked his lips and frowned softly. "If anything happens to you and I…Dean will never—"
"Stop it, Sam." I cut him off. "Nothing is going to happen to me. You know why? Because other then Dean, you are the only person on this planet that could possibly keep me safe." He looked at me for a moment. "Understand?"
He nodded and smiled. I smirked softly and leaned up to kiss his cheek. "I'll stay close to Andrew, promise."
I turned and followed the way Andrew had went and smiled as I saw him looking through some cabinets. "So, any food. Some…cereal or bread. God, maybe some pie?" He chuckled and pulled out a can of beans and what looked like a rotten bag of tomatoes. I scrunched my nose. "Mmm, beans and rotten food. My favorite."
"Can't even find salt."
"Well, it should be in a can somewhere. Just keep looking." I leaned up and looked in the cabinets for some cans. Of course all of them were rusty. I sniffled and rubbed my nose. Andrew handed me a tissue out of his pocket and I smiled and took it. "Thanks, dust is driving me crazy."
"No problem." He tipped over a can and sighed. "So, you think we'll get out of here."
"Let me just put it this way. If anyone can get us out of this, its Dean and Sam."
"You have a lot of faith in them, don't you?"
I smiled and closed a cabinet. "I trust them with my life. How's that for faith?"
He nodded and looked along the floor. "Hey, bags."
I looked down. "Uh, okay…"
"Bags of salt; look." He went towards one of them and brushed away the dust on the burlap bag. The word SALT were burned into the bag. "So much for cans."
I stuck my tongue out at him. "Well fine Andrew. We'll get you a congratulatory medal for finding salt." He smiled.
"Just a cheeseburger will do." My stomach growled at his words.
"Yeah, I could really go for a lot of food right now. Like some cheese fries, a burger and a large milkshake." I ran a hand over my stomach. "We should tell Sam we found salt."
I tried to go over and lift one of the bags, dust puffing in my face in as I did so. I let out a very loud sneeze. "Oh, here let me get them." Andrew said and I groaned softly, rubbing my nose with the tissue.
"I think just inhaled a dust bunny and its entire family through my nose." I coughed.
Andrew winced. "Sorry."
Sam came down the hall, Jake and Ava on his heels and looked into the room. "Hey, everything alright?"
"Yeah, I just…" I broke off and sneezed again. "Lot of dust."
He came up beside me and dug in the pockets of the jacket I was wearing and handed me another tissue. "Here, we'll leave in a few minutes. Get some fresh, well, kind of fresh air before we settle down a fort."
I blew my nose and scrunched it afterwards. "Andrew found salt."
Sam smiled at Andrew. "Nice man. Ava and I found some iron and a nice rusty knife."
I smirked at him. "You shouldn't sound so happy about that." Sam shrugged but blushed softly.
"Where do you intend on settling?" I asked.
"I don't know. House a bit sturdier than this one, if that's possible. Slightly less dusty too." He gently tapped my nose and I smiled.
"Well, lets do one more look over and then we can all—" I looked behind Jake and Sam. Ava was short so it was easy to see behind her.
"What is it?"
"Where's Lily?" I asked Sam urgently. I walked past him and looked down the hall. She was no where to be seen. "Did she even come in the house with us?" I turned to look at the group but got no confirmation from anyone. "Lily!" I yelled.
"I'm sure she just, went to another house or upstairs even." Ava said calmly. "Can you please stop screaming, I have a headache." She rubbed her temples. I looked at Sam incredulously.
"No, she's right to scream Ava. If Lily went missing or left the group this isn't good." He joined me and we walked outside, the group following. "Lily!" He yelled as well, right after I did. Didn't anyone understand that if this girl went missing that that meant she was probably—?
The Acheri laughing in the distance cut my thought off and something swinging close to my left caught my eye. I slowly went down the stairs, Sam following.
"Oh, God." A hand covered my mouth and I turned into Sam as he walked up behind me and buried my face in his chest.
Lily was dead, hanging by her neck on the top of the water tower. We were one solider down. And it was a frightening thought that there'd be a lot more like Lily before the night was over.
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"Oh, my God!" Ava was very close to screaming. I sniffled softly against Sam, pushing scared to death tears away. I felt Ava grab Sam's arm and shake him a little as she spoke. I lifted myself from him and walked a little to the side, trying to take deep breaths to calm myself. Trying to push down the fear and my need for Dean aside. "Okay, Sam, she's dead! She's dead!" Ava kept yelling. I wondered if she knew that that was going to do absolutely nothing. "We have to get out of here."
I turned to look at the group and wrapped my arms around myself. Sam shook his head and grabbed Ava by the arm as she started walking past him. "Stop."
"Yeah, I second that emotion." Andrew spoke up. I had never heard his voice sound that somber or terrified.
I shook my head. "Not sure that's an option." I said softly. I was surprised anyone heard me.
"What the fuck does that mean?" She snapped.
Sam looked over at me and walked closer. He put an arm over my shoulder and drew me close. "It means Lily was trying to leave." I bit my lip hard and looked at the girl. "The demon's not gonna let us get away that easy. We've gotta gear up for the next attack."
"Gear up?" Jake asked meekly. He was a soldier from Afghanistan, seen deaths far worse than this all the time. I never thought his voice would be meek in this situation.
"Okay, well, I'm not a soldier." She sounded extremely snooty in that tone of voice. I felt like asking her to weigh her options. Which was more important? Her life or her stubbornness? "I can't do that!"
Sam sighed, annoyed. "Well, if you wanna stay alive, you're gonna have to." He looked around for a moment. "Come on, we'll get the salt and head in there." I glanced at the bigger foundation farther down past the house with the salt.
Andrew and Ava looked at each other and then went into the house we were just in and grabbed our supplies. "I'll get her down." Jake said softly and took the rusty knife Sam had found and went towards the water tower.
I sighed and my breath puffed in the air. It was getting colder as the day went on. I looked up at the sky and saw gray clouds cover the mucky off white sky. It'd be night soon and I couldn't help but wonder how many people would be dead between now and then.
"Hey," Sam said softly, gaining my attention. I looked up at him. "How you doing?"
"I'm…" I was tired of lying. "I'm not doing so well."
Sam took me to the steps and sat me on his lap. He pulled me close to me and rubbed my back. "Is it Riley? Or anything with your body?"
"No," I shook my head and looked at him with tears in my eyes. "I'm scared. I…I want Dean."
He frowned softly. "Aw sweetie." He stroked my face. "I know, I know." I rested my head on his shoulder and turned my face into his neck as tears streamed down my face. He stroked my hair and held me tightly.
"We're gonna get through this," Sam said softly into my ear. "I promise you."
I didn't have enough energy to call him a lair.
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After everyone started walking towards the bigger house, Andrew proposed getting in touch with Dean. He figured that since he could plant thoughts in a guy not far from him he could at least give Dean a try, even though he never really did long distance before and wasn't sure it would work. But what did we have to lose? Sam had to dig in his pockets to look for something that Dean had recently touched, which happened to be a receipt with D. Hasselhoff on it. Took a while to explain that one to Andrew.
We set up in the living room of the house. Surprisingly it wasn't that dusty and didn't look as shitty and moldy as the rest of the rooms.
"Saw a barn out back." Jake said to Sam as we spread salt around the room. "See what's out there weapons wise if you want."
Sam nodded. "I'll go with you." He looked over at me as I spread salt out on the windowsill. "What are you gonna do? You wanna stay here or come with me?"
I glanced at Ava, who was looking over at Sam. "You, please." He nodded and took my hand.
Sam looked at Andrew and Ava. "Keep salting every nick and cranny guys. Any way you can get in, a demon can get in."
Andrew nodded and slid more salt. Ava approached us. "Where are you two going?"
"Barn with Jake to look for more weapons. Stay with Andrew, alright? Look out for each other and call if you need us." He looked at Jake as he stepped over the salt to go onto the porch. "We won't be long."
We stepped over the salt as we left as well and walked across the mud to a barn a few inches away from the house. We found iron bars lying around the far corner. I sat down on a big wooden box as Sam and Jake tried to bend each of them. Sam was hitting his against a tractor while Jake did it with his goddamn bear hands.
"I'm not Superman or anything." Was my mouth hanging open? "It's no big deal."
"Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to stare or something. I was just…wow."
He smirked. "Not that impressive."
"Bench pressing a truck isn't impressive?" I asked and Sam smiled.
"Well, I bench-pressed 800 pounds, stone-cold calm. I never told anybody, of course. It was just too crazy."
"Yeah, well lucky for you, crazy's relative for us." I said, kicking my feet softly.
"Ya know, I really appreciate what you two are doing here." I looked at Sam as Jake spoke. "Keeping calm. Keeping them calm. Especially considering how freaked to hell you two really are."
I nearly laughed. "What gave us away?"
"Just know the look."
I nodded and ran my hands over my legs and cupped my knees. "Well, we just have to keep telling them everything is gonna be okay. Even if we don't exactly believe it."
Sam handed him his bar and Jake bent it and broke it easily. "It doesn't matter if we believe it. Only matters that they do."
Yeah, he was right. I just wish I believed it too.
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