Hey guys here is another chapter. I am going to follow the story script more for the next few episodes and then will kind of throw in some more of my own inbetween the actual episodes. I think this way everyone will kind of get a little bit of what they said they wanted.
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Ch.8
It had been about a week and the three of them were now sitting in yet another diner.
"Can I get you anything else?" The waitress asked smiling at Dean.
This caused Isabel to snort and Dean to look up and smirk at the waitress.
"Just the check, please." Sam says coming back from the bathroom.
"Okay." The waitress says walking away with a little extra swing in her step.
"You know, Sam, we are allowed to have fun once in a while. That's fun." Dean says pointing to the waitress that is now walking away.
"You're such a pig." Isabel says stealing the last piece of sausage off his plate.
Dean glares at her and then hands the newspaper he was looking at over to Sam and Isabel.
"Here, take a look at this, I think I got one. Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin. Last week Sophie Carlton, 18, walks into the lake, doesn't walk out. Authorities dragged the water—Nothing. Sophie Carlton is the third Lake Manitoc drowning this year. None of the other bodies were found either. They had a funeral two days ago." Dean says summing it up for them.
"A funeral?" Sam asks confused.
"How do you have a funeral with no body?" Isabel asked a little confused as well.
"They buried an empty coffin. For uh, a closure or whatever." Dean says shrugging.
"A closure? What closure? People don't just disappear, Dean. Other people just stop looking for them." Sam says raising his voice a little bit.
Isabel looks between the two boys and knows that nothing good is going to come out of that comment.
"Something you want to say to me?" Dean asks leaning forward.
"The trail for dad—It's getting colder every day." Sam says leaning forward as well.
"Exactly, so what are we supposed to do?" Dean asks getting annoyed.
"I don't know. Something, anything." Sam says throwing his hands up in the air.
"You know what? I'm sick of this attitude. You don't think I wanna find dad as much as you do?" Dan asks clearly getting angry.
"Yeah, I know you do, it's just…" Sam says before being cut off.
"I'm the one that was with him almost every single day for the past two years, while you've been off to college going to pep rallies. We will find dad, but until then, we're gonna kill everything bad between here and there. Okay?" Dean says glaring at Sam.
"Okay that's enough. God you two are so fucking annoying. Jesus we will find dad when we find dad okay. He clearly doesn't want to be found right now. So how about until we do find him you two just shut the hell up. All of your girly arguing is giving me a fuckin headache." Isabel said glaring at both boys.
"Whatever." Sam says looking away.
Dean goes to respond but gets distracted as the waitress walks bye again.
"Stop smirking." Isabel says standing up and walking out to the car.
"What's up her ass?" Dean asks Sam.
"Clearly you don't listen." Sam says getting up and following his sister out to the car.
"Oh yeah and I'm dramatic." Dean says under his breath as he puts the cash on the table.
The three have been in the car for about two hours and they all have yet to say a word.
"All right, Lake Manitoc." Sam says looking over at Dean for a response.
"Hey!" Sam kind of shouts when he doesn't get one.
"Huh?" Dean asks startled which causes Isabel to laugh a bit.
"How far?" Sam asks as if Dean is stupid.
"Not that far." Dean says not really sure of how much farther it is.
"Don't worry Sammy I think it's only like another three hours or so." Isabel says leaning up towards the front.
"Oh only another three hours. No that's not bad at all." Sam says rolling his eyes at his brother.
"What we've driven farther so it's really not that bad." Dean says defending himself.
"You know what would make the time go by faster?" Isabel asked.
"No." Both Dean and Sam said at the same time.
"But you don't even know what I was going to say." Isabel says annoyed that they didn't let her finish.
"Oh we don't have to. We know you and we are not going to be playing any of your stupid car games." Dean says looking at her in the rearview.
"Fine whatever, you two are jerks." Isabel says resting back down into the seat.
Sam and Dean just look at each other before saying at the same time, "Fine what did you have in mind."
Isabel smirked at them, "I knew you would see it my way."
The next three hours consisted of the radio game, I spy, the license plate game, and various other ones that the boys are sure she just made up. Neither would admit it but it did actually make the time go by faster.
It was now late at night and the three decided to get a motel and wait until the morning to talk to the Carlton family.
It was the next morning and the three had decided that it was time to go and see the Carlton's.
The three pulled up to the cabin and decided that Dean would knock. It wasn't long before a young man answered the door.
"Will Carlton?" Dean asked the young man.
"Yeah that's right." Will said looking at them strangely.
"I'm Agent Ford, this is Agent Hamill. We're with the U.S. Wildlife Service. And the lady here is Ms. Parker she is the resident grief counselor." Dean said showing the badges.
Will nodded his head and brought them over closer to the lake.
"She was about 100 yards out. That's where she got dragged down." Will said pointing out towards the lake.
"Are you sure she didn't just drown?" Dean asked trying to get more out of him.
"Yeah. She was a varsity swimmer. She practically grew up in that lake. She was as safe out there as she was in her own bathtub." Will said sadly.
"So no splashing? No signs of distress?" Sam asked a bit confused.
"No, that's what I'm telling you." Will said sadly.
"Did you see any shadows in the water? Maybe some dark shape breach the surface?" Sam asked lightly.
"No. Again, she was really far out there." Will said a bit frustrated.
"You ever see any strange tracks by the shoreline?" Dean asked. Isabel looked at both of her brothers letting them know that this should be the final question.
"No, never. Why? What do you think's out there?" Will asked a bit afraid.
"We'll let you know as soon as we do." Dean says heading towards his car.
"What about your father? Can we talk to him?" Sam asks obviously unaware that Will did not want to talk about it anymore.
"Look, if you don't mind, I mean…he didn't see anything and he's kind of been through a lot." Will says looking down.
"We understand." Sam says walking towards the car.
"I'm sorry if this has brought up hard emotions for you. We didn't intend to upset you although it is completely understandable. If you need anyone to talk to or maybe remember something that might help us here is my number. Don't hesitate to call okay." Isabel says smiling and handing him her number.
"Thanks I'll be sure to do that." Will says smiling slightly at her and putting the number in his pocket.
After this the three of them decided to go to the rangers' station. This time with all three of them as Wildlife Services.
"Now, I'm sorry, but why does the Wildlife Service care about an accidental drowning?" Jake the sheriff asked the three as he brought them into his office.
"You sure it's accidental? Will Carlton saw something grab his sister." Sam says hoping to get a reaction out of the sheriff.
"Like what? There are no indigenous carnivores in that lake. There's nothing even big enough to pull down a person, unless it was the Loch Ness monster." Jake says to them.
"Yeah …right." Dean says laughing a bit.
"Will Carlton was traumatized, and sometimes the mind plays tricks. Still, we dragged that entire lake. We even ran a sonar sweep just to be sure, and there was nothing down there." Jake answered
"That's weird though I mean that's…that's the third missing body this year." Dean said pointing out facts.
"And if your sonar sweeping the lake how do you not even find bodies. It's as though they've just disappeared." Isabel said wondering how you don't even find the body.
"I know. These are people from my town. These are people I care about." Jake said wiping a hand over his face.
"I know." Dean says.
"Anyway all this—It won't be a problem much longer." Jake says shifting in his seat.
"What do you mean?" Dean asks a bit confused.
"Well the dam, of course." Jake says like it's obvious.
"Of course…the dam. It's uh…sprung a leak." Dean says hoping he's right.
"It's falling apart, and the feds won't give us the grant to repair it, so they've opened the spillway. In another six months there won't be much of a lake. There won't be much of a town either. But as Federal Wildlife, you already knew that." Jake says leaning in close to them.
"Exactly." Dean says leaning in as well.
There is a tap on the door and a young women walks in.
"Sorry, am I interrupting? I can come back later." The women says.
"Agents, this is my daughter" Jake says giving her a hug.
"It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Dean." He says shaking her hand.
"Andrea Bar. Hi." She says looking at all of them.
"Hi." They all say together.
"They're from the Wildlife Service about the lake." Jake says sitting back down in his chair.
"Oh." Andrea says a bit uneasy.
As she says this a young boy walks around the corner and into the office.
"Oh hey there. What's your name?" Dean asks holding out his hand.
The young boy looks at it and then walks away with Andrea following him.
"Wow Dean way to scare the kid." Isabel whispers to him which just gets her a scowl in return.
"His name is Lucas." Jake says to the three.
"Is he okay?" Sam asks carefully.
"My grandson's been through a lot. We all have. Well if there's anything else I can do for you, please let me know." Jake says escorting them out of the office.
"Thanks. You know, now that you mentioned it, could you point us in the direction of a reasonably priced hotel." Dean asks actually looking more at Andrea.
"Lakefront motel, go around the corner, it's about two blocks south." Andrea says smiling.
"Two—Would you mind showing us?" Dean asks with his signature smile.
"You want me to walk you two blocks?" Andrea asks laughing.
"Not if it's any trouble." Dean says still smiling.
"I'm headed that way anyway. [to her father] I'll be back to pick up Lucas at three. [to Lucas] We'll go to the park, okay sweetie?" She says kissing him on the head.
"Thanks again." Sam says as they leave the station.
"Yeah thank you." Isabel says walking out.
"So…cute kid." Dean says on their way to the hotel.
"Thanks." Andrea says with a slight smirk.
"Kids are the best, huh?" Dean says which causes both Sam and Isabel to bite back a laugh. However, Isabel can't help but let out an unlady like snort.
"There it is. Like I said. Two blocks." Andrea says stopping in front of it.
"Thanks." Sam says to her.
"Must be hard with your sense of direction. Never being able to find your way to a decent pickup line. Enjoy your stay!" Andrea says smirking at Dean
"Oh burn you know Dean I think I like her." Isabel says smirking.
"Kids are the best"? You don't even like kids." Sam says which causes Isabel to nod her had in agreement.
"I love kids." Dean says defensively.
"Name three children that you even know." Sam says raising an eyebrow.
"Or how about one kid that you have ever even talked to. And me and Sam don't count." Isabel says smirking at him.
Dean looks like he is in deep thought but then quickly just glares at the two of them as he walks away.
Once inside Sam immediately wipes out his laptop and starts doing research. Isabel however see's this as the perfect time to get a quick shower.
When she comes out she hears Sam telling Dean about what he has found.
"So there are the three drowning victims this year." Sam says.
"Any before that?" Dean asks already knowing about the three this year.
"Uh yeah…six more spread out over the past 35 years. Those bodies were never recovered either. If there is something out there, it's picking up its pace." Sam says quickly.
"So what, we got a lake monster on a binge?" Dean asks a little unsure.
"This whole lake monster thing—It, It just bugs me." Sam said a bit frustrated.
"Why?" Dean asks.
"Loch Ness, uh Lake Champlain—There are literally hundreds of eyewitness accounts, but here, almost nothing. Whatever it is out there, no one's living to talk about it." Sam answers.
"Well what if it's not a monster I mean really it could be anything." Isabel says coming over to the table with them.
"Yeah but what." Sam asks which just causes Isabel to shrug.
"Wait, Bar, Christopher Bar. Where have I heard that name before?" Dan asks looking at the computer.
"Christopher Bar, the victim in May….umm… Oh…Christopher Bar was Andrea's husband. Lucas' father. Apparently, he took Lucas out swimming. Lucas was on a floating wooden platform when Chris drowned, two hours before the kid got rescued. Maybe we have an eyewitness after all." Sam says looking between the two of them.
"Oh my god I can't even image. Do you think that we should go and try to talk to him?" Isabel asks.
"No wonder that kid was so freaked out. Watching one of your parents die isn't something you just get over." Dean says which causes both Sam and Isabel to look at him. Both wondering if Dean is talking about himself and if maybe he did see their mother that night.
"Okay well so then which one of us is going to try to talk to him?" Sam asks kind of hoping that it won't be him.
"Oh I nominate Dean since he just thinks that kids are the best." Isabel says smiling sweetly at Dean.
"Yeah yeah yeah yuck it up assholes." Dean says grabbing his jacket.
They decide to go to the park where they find Andrea sitting on a bench watching Lucas play.
"Can we join you?" Sam asks sweetly.
"I'm here with my son." She says back nicely.
"Oh…Mind if I say hi?" Dean asks and then walks over before Andrea can answer.
"Umm I am going to go over there too." Isabel says following a few steps behind. She can't help but want to hear what Dean has to say to the kid.
"Tell your friend this whole "Jerry Maguire" thing's not gonna work on me." Andrea says to Sam.
"I don't think that's what this is about." Sam answers honestly.
"How's it goin?" Dean asks as he keels down to the table that Lucas is coloring on and has toy soldiers set up on.
Dean grabs one of the toy soldiers. "Oh I used to love these things." He says making gun and explosive noises before throwing one down dead.
Dean looks around and see's all of Lucas's drawings. "So crayons is more your thing? That's cool. Chicks dig artists."
"Hey these are pretty good. You mind if I sit and draw with you for a while?" Dean asks picking up a crayon. "I'm not so bad myself."
Isabel can't help but smile at the scene in front of her. Dean really is good with him. It makes Isabel sad to think that because of the job Dean will probably never have a family. He would be a really amazing dad.
"You know, I'm thinking you can hear me; you just don't want to talk. I don't know exactly what happened to your dad, but I know it was something real bad. I think I know how you feel. When I was your age, I saw something. Anyway…Well maybe you don't think anyone will listen to you, or uh…or believe you. I want you to know that I will. You don't even have to say anything; you could draw me a picture about what you saw that day with your dad on the lake." Dean said hoping to get a reaction but unfortunately Lucas didn't even acknowledge his presence.
"Okay, no problem. This is for you" Dean says showing him his drawing.
"This is my family. That's my dad. That's my mom. That's my geek brother. That's my pain of a sister, and that's me." Dean says but still no response.
"All right, so I'm a sucky artist. I'll see you around, Lucas." Dean says getting up to walk away it is then that Dean notices Isabel.
"Don't even say it." Dean says putting his hand up.
"For once big brother I really don't have anything smart to say." She says following him back to Sam and Andrea.
"Lucas hasn't said a word, not even to me—Not since his dad's accident." Andrea said to Sam as Dean and Isabel were walking back over.
"Yeah we heard. Sorry." Sam says kindly.
"What are the doctors saying?" Sam asks curious.
"That it's a kind of post-traumatic stress." Andrea says unsure.
"That can't be easy, for either of you." Sam says with sympathy.
"We moved in with my dad. He helps out a lot. It's just…when I think about what Lucas went through, what he saw…" Andrea said unable to finish her sentence.
"Kids are strong. You'd be surprised what they can deal with." Dean said trying to avoid the looks of his siblings.
"You know, he used to have such life. He was hard to keep up with, to tell you the truth. Now he just sits there. Drawing those pictures, playing with those army men. I just wish…" Andrea is saying before she is cut off by Lucas walking up to them. He then hands a picture to Dean.
"Thanks…Thanks Lucas." Dean says as Lucas walks back to the table.
About an hour later the Dean and Isabel are watching T.V. when Sam comes threw the door.
"So, I think it's safe to say we can rule out Nessie." Sam says sitting on a bed.
"What do you mean?" Dean asks turning off the TV.
"I just drove past the Carlton house. There was an ambulance there. Will Carlton is dead." Sam said
"He drowned? " Dean asked.
"Yep, in the sink." Sam answered.
"What how is that even possible." Isabel asked sitting up straight.
"What the hell? So you're right, this isn't a creature; we're dealing with something else." Dean says running his hand over his eyes.
"Yeah, but what?" Sam asked.
"Well could it be a ghost or a spirit. But then who's would it be." Isabel said.
"I don't know. Or it could be a water wraith maybe? Some kind of demon? I mean something that controls water…water that comes from the same source." Dean said giving them even more questions.
"The lake." Sam said quickly.
"Yeah." Dean sighed.
"Which would explain why it's upping the body count. The lake is draining. It'll be dry in a few months. Whatever this thing is, whatever it wants, it's running out of time." Sam said smartly.
"Oh well ain't that just reassuring." Isabel said sinking back down.
"And if it can get through the pipes, it can get to anyone, almost anywhere. This is gonna happen again soon." Dean said easily.
"And we do know one other thing for sure. We know this has got something to do with Bill Carlton." Sam said sadly
"Yeah, it took both his kids." Dean pointed out.
"And I've been asking around. Lucas' dad, Chris—Bill Carlton's godson." Sam said smugly.
"Wow does anyone else feel like this is turning into a huge web. I mean are any of them safe." Isabel asked.
"I don't know let's go pay Mr. Carlton a visit." Dean said grabbing his jacket.
"Okay but first I vote that we keep our water off." Isabel said which caused her brothers to just look at her. "What I'm sorry but I really don't feel like drowning anytime soon so unless one of you would like to lets just keep the water off. Okay. Okay good." Isabel said walking out the door.
It didn't take long for them to reach the Carlton place and Mr. Carlton was of course sitting out on the dock once again.
"Okay so Dean remember be sensitive okay…or better yet just let Sam talk." Isabel said getting out of the car.
Dean just rolled his eyes at her as they made their way out onto the dock.
"Mr. Carlton…we'd like to ask you a few questions if you don't mind." Sam said once they reached him.
"We're from the Department…" Dean started before being cut off.
"I don't care who you're with. I've answered enough questions today." Bill Carlton said turning away from them.
Isabel took the lead and knelt down so that she could be eye level with the man. "Look sir we are so sorry for your lose and I can't even imagine how hard it must be to loose two of your children. But we need answers if we are going to be able to stop this from happening again." She said softly.
When the man didn't respond Sam decided to try another approach.
"Your son said he saw something in that lake. What about you? You ever see anything out there? Mr. Carlton, Sophie's drowning and Will's death—We think there might be a connection to you or your family." Sam said a bit firmer.
"My children are gone. It's…it's worse than dying. Go away…please." Bill said fighting back tears.
The three decided to head back to the car.
"What do you think?" Sam asks looking at his two siblings.
"I honestly don't even know." Isabel said shaking her head.
"Aw, I think the poor guy's been through hell. I also think he's not telling us something." Dean said as he stopped walking.
"What is it?" Sam asks as he see's Dean eyeing the house.
"Huh. Maybe Bill's not the only one who knows something." Dean says pulling out a picture of the house that Lucas drew for him earlier.
"Umm that looks just like the Carlton house." Isabel says looking back and forth between the picture and the house.
With this they decide to go back to Andrea and her fathers' house.
When they get to the door Dean asks Andrea if he can come in and talk to Lucas.
"I'm sorry, but I don't think it's a good idea." Andrea says to the three.
"I just need to talk to him, just for a few minutes." Dean says trying to convince her.
"Andrea please just let Dean talk to him if he doesn't find anything out then we'll leave you both alone okay." Isabel says hoping that Andrea would cave.
"He won't say anything, what good's it gonna do?" Andrea said a bit annoyed.
"Andrea, we think more people might get hurt. We think something's happening out there." Sam said honestly.
"My husband, the others—They just drowned. That's all." Andrea said sounding a little unsure.
"If that's what you really believe then we'll go. But if you think there's even a possibility that something else could be going on here, please let me talk to your son." Dean asked almost pleading with her.
Andrea gave in and allowed for Dean to go and talk to Lucas. The others stood outside the door hoping that Dean would be able to get through to him.
"Hey Lucas. You remember me?" Dean asks with a smile. However Lucas doesn't even look up to acknowledge him.
"You know, I, uh…I wanted to thank you for that last drawing…but the thing is, I need your help again." Dean says carefully not wanting to scare him in anyway.
"How did you know to draw this? Did you know something bad was gonna happen?" Dean asks Lucas opening up the picture that he had drawn for him earlier.
"Maybe you could nod yes or no for me. You're scared. Its okay, I understand. See, when I was your age, I saw something real bad happen to my mom, and I was scared, too. I didn't feel like talking, just like you." Dean said glancing for a moment at the doorway that held his brother and his sister. For a split second he debated if he should go one but decided that it would be best for the case.
"But see, my mom—I know she wanted me to be brave. I think about that every day. And I do my best to be brave. And maybe…your dad wants you to be brave, too." Dean finished up. At this Lucas dropped what he was doing and handed Dean a picture of a yellow house with a church and a red bicycle. "Thanks Lucas." Dean said talking the picture and standing up.
The three of them left shortly after but not before Dean thanked Lucas once more for the picture. They were now in the care trying to find the house that Lucas had drawn.
"Andrea said the kid never drew like that till his dad died." Dean said putting facts together in his head.
"There are cases going through a traumatic experience could make people more sensitive to premonitions, psychic tendencies." Sam said like it was totally natural to know that.
"Whatever's out there, what if Lucas is tapping into it somehow? I mean it's only a matter of time before somebody else drowns. If you got a better lead, please." Dean said when he saw the looks on his siblings' faces.
"All right…we got another house to find." Sam said going back to the picture.
"The only problem is there are about a thousand yellow two-stories in this county alone." Dean said exasperated.
"Yeah but there has to be something about this one that sets it apart. I mean his picture of the cabin was pretty specific so this one should be to I would think." Isabel said leaning towards the front to look at the picture again.
"See this church? I bet there are less than a thousand of those around here." Sam says looking like he just won the lottery.
"Oh, college boy thinks he's so smart." Dean said which caused Isabel to laugh.
"You know, um…what you said about mom…you never told me that before." Sam said.
"Oh god." Isabel mumbled in the backseat.
"It's no big deal…Oh God; we're not gonna have to hug or anything, are we?" Dean asked scared.
"Oh come on you know that you want to give us a hug." Isabel said leaning over the seat to hug him.
"Get off of me you crazy bitch." Dean said swatting at her arm.
"Not until you admit that you love us." Isabel said smirking which caused Sam to laugh.
"Yeah yeah whatever just sit your ass back down." Dean said trying not to smile.
"Well I suppose that will just have to suffice." Isabel says fake rolling her eyes.
The three arrived at the house much quicker then they had anticipated. Turns out there really aren't a lot of yellow houses by a white church.
Isabel knocked and it wasn't long before an elderly lady answered the door.
"We're sorry to bother you ma'am, but does a little boy live here, by chance? He might wear a blue ball cap, has a red bicycle." Dean asked sweetly.
"No sir. Not for a very long time. Peter's been gone for 35 years now. The police never—I never had any idea what happened. He just disappeared. Losing him….You know, it's…It's worse than dying." The lady answered sadly letting them into the house. This is when Sam notices the toy soldiers sitting on the table…like the ones that Lucas had at the park.
"Did he disappear from here—I mean, from this house?" Dean asked cautiously.
"He was supposed to ride his bike straight home after school, and he never showed up." She answered shaking her head.
Dean picks up a picture that was on the table. There are two boys in it, one with a red bicycle. He turned it around before saying, "Peter Sweeney and Billy Carlton, 1970."
Dean puts it down as the three look at each other and quickly excuse themselves from the house.
"Okay this little boy, Peter Sweeney, vanishes, and this is all connected to Bill Carlton somehow. " Sam said.
"Yeah, Bill sure as hell seems to be hiding something, huh?" Dean replied.
"Umm I would say that he is hiding a big something." Isabel said from her spot in the back seat which she still wasn't all that happy about. Car sick anyone.
"And Bill—The people he loves—Are all getting punished." Sam said voicing his thoughts.
"So what if Bill did something to Peter?" Dean said logically.
"What if Bill killed him?" Sam said suddenly.
"Then Peter's spirit would be furious. It'd want revenge. It's possible." Dean said turning onto the Carlton's road.
"Yeah but they were only twelve. I mean wouldn't Bill have to have been awfully strong to kill peter all by himself." Isabel asked her brothers.
"Well no not if he had some kind of a weapon." Sam pointed out.
"Yeah but if that was the case then he should have grown up to be a murderer or something. I'm not saying that something didn't happen but I don't think that it was necessarily planned you know what I mean." Isabel says which causes both of her brothers to look back at her.
"What I like to look at it from all angles" She said reasoning with them.
However before either of them can respond they reach the Carlton house.
"Mister Carlton!?" Sam yells looking around for the man.
"Umm does anyone else hear an engine?" Isabel says looking between her two brothers.
"Hey, check it out." Dean says pointing to Mr. Carlton out on the boat.
"OH shit." Isabel says as the three run out to the end of the dock yelling to him.
"Mister Carlton! You need to come back!" Sam
"Come out of the water!" Isabel
"Turn the boat around!" Dean
Then all of a sudden the water rises up and the three watched as Mr. Carlton's boat is practically blown out of the water.
It's not long before the three are walking through the sheriff's office once again only this time he doesn't seem very happy with them.
"Sam, Dean, Isabel, I didn't expect to see you here." Andrea said a little surprised.
"So now you're on a first-name basis." Jake said
He then turns to Andrea, "What are you doing here?"
"I brought you dinner." She says handing him a paper bag.
"I'm sorry sweetheart; I don't really have the time." Jake answered.
"I heard about Bill Carlton, is it true? Is something going on with the lake?" Andrea asked worried.
"Right now we don't know what the truth is. But I think it might be better if you and Lucas went on home." Jake said to her.
It was then that Dean felt a tug on his arm. He looked down and saw that Lucas was whimpering and tugging on him.
"Lucas, hey, what is it?" Dean asked worried.
"Lucas." Andrea said confused.
"Lucas, it's okay. It's okay." Dean said while Andrea pried Lucas away. She then led him outside.
"Okay, just so I'm clear, you see…something attack Bill's boat, sending Bill, who is a very good swimmer, by the way, into the drink, and you never see him again?" Jake asked looking them all in the eye.
"Yeah, that about sums it up." Dean said smirking.
"And I'm supposed to believe this, even though I've already sonar-swept that entire lake, and what you're describing is impossible, and you're not really Wildlife Service?" Jake says causing Dean to look surprised.
"That's right, I checked. The department's never heard of you three." Jake says smiling at them.
This caused all three of them to look at each other a little worried. They did not need to get arrested right now.
"See, now we can explain that." Dean started.
"Yeah you see umm…we're in training and so…umm we're just not you know in the system yet." Isabel said smiling nervously.
Both Sam and Dean looked at her like she was the biggest idiot they had ever met.
"Enough please. The only reason you're breathing free air, is one of Bill's neighbors saw him steering out that boat just before you did. So we have a couple of options here. I can arrest you for impersonating government officials and hold you as material witnesses to Bill Carlton's disappearance. Or we can chalk this all up to a bad day, you get into your car, you put this town in your rearview mirror, and you don't ever darken my doorstep again." Jake said a bit evilly.
"Door number two sounds good." Sam said to which both Isabel and Dean nodded.
"That's the one I'd pick." Jake responded.
The three walked out of the station and Isabel immediately felt two hands smack the back of her head.
"We're in training." Dean said snidely.
"What at least I tried you two just stood there like a bunch of morons." Isabel said defending herself.
"Oh well you did a wonderful job." Sam said walking past her and getting into the car.
The three were on their way out of town and were stopped at a light. Isabel could see that Dean was thinking about what he should do. However they were brought out of their thoughts.
"Green." Sam said
"What?" Dean asked coming out of his daze.
"Light's green." Sam answered.
Dean looked back at Isabel through the mirror and she just nodded at him. Then Dean took a left.
"Uh, the interstate's the other way." Sam said confused.
"I know." Dean said as he kept going.
"But Dean, this job--I think it's over." Sam said.
"I'm not so sure." Dean said glancing back at Isabel again. Isabel knew that look she had seen it on another hunt and knew that no matter what Dean needed to go back and make sure.
"If Bill murdered Peter Sweeney and Peter's spirit got its revenge, case closed. The spirit should be at rest." Sam said trying to prove his point.
"All right, so what if we take off and this thing isn't done. You know, what if we missed something? What if more people get hurt?" Dean said trying to reason with Sam.
"Look Sam if Dean doesn't think that this thing is over then it's probably not okay. I mean Dad always said that we should trust our instincts right. So if Dean's instinct is that we need to go back then we need to go back." Isabel said.
"But why would you think that?" Sam asked looking at Dean.
"Because Lucas was really scared." Dean said finally caving.
"That's what this is about?" Sam asked surprised.
"Wow Jeez Sammy that didn't sound shocked at all." Isabel said.
"I just don't want to leave town till I know the kid's okay." Dean said ending the argument.
"Who are you, and what have you done with my brother?" Sam asked smirking. Isabel couldn't help but let out a little chuckle as well.
"Oh come on Sammy don't you remember. It's cause Dean just thinks that kids are the best." Isabel said smirking at Dean.
"Shut up." Dean said laughing a bit too.
The three of them arrived at the house in what Isabel thought might be a new record speed for the Impala.
"Are you sure about this? It's pretty late man." Sam said not wanting to piss off Andrea or even worse Jake.
Dean just gives him a look and rings the doorbell. Almost instantly Lucas flings the door open panting.
"Lucas!? Lucas?!" Dean says following him up the stairs and to the bathroom door.
The three look down and can see that there is water coming out from underneath it.
Dean quickly moves Lucas towards Sam as he kicks the door open. Lucas immediately grabs a hold of Dean while Sam runs in to try to pull Andrea out of the tub.
Isabel quickly turns to Dean and grabs a hold of Lucas.
"Dean help him." Isabel says trying to get Dean to move.
Dean looks down at Lucas quickly before Isabel shoves him towards the bathroom.
"It's fine I have Lucas." Isabel says as she holds the young boy back with her.
"It's okay Lucas calm down Sam and Dean are going to save your mom I promise." She says pulling him in close so that he won't see what's going on.
Isabel can hear grunting and then a loud gasp of breath.
By the time morning comes everyone is a little worse for the wear.
"Can you tell me?" Sam asks sitting next to Andrea.
"No. It doesn't make any sense. I'm going crazy." Andrea says starting to cry a bit.
"No, you're not. Tell me what happened—everything." Sam says reassuringly.
"I heard…I thought I heard…there was this voice." Andrea said trying to compose herself.
"What did it say?" Sam asks hoping that it would go along with their earlier theory.
"It said…it said Come play with me. What's happening?" Andrea asked clearly confused.
In the other room Dean and Isabel have been looking through notebooks and albums that belong to Jake.
"So you found anything useful yet." Isabel asks.
"Nope nothing how about you." Dean asks.
"Umm…yeah no." Isabel says back.
Just as Isabel is about to suggest that this is useless Dean picks up an album that says Jake 12 years old. He takes a quick look inside and Isabel can hear his sharp intake of breath.
"What did you find?" Isabel asks.
"Come on lets go show the others." Dean says walking out into the kitchen with Isabel not to far behind him.
"Do you recognize the kids in these pictures?" Dean asks setting the album in front of Andrea.
"What? Um…Um, no. I mean, except that's my dad right there. He must have been about 12 in these pictures." Andrea says looking at the picture.
The three look at each other as they realize that Jake is standing right next to Peter Sweeney...
"Chris Bar's drowning--The connection wasn't to Bill Carlton. It must have been to sheriff." Dean says thinking out loud.
"Bill and the sheriff—they were both involved with Peter." Sam says pointedly.
"Umm which means that we need to get Andrea and Lucas out of here before something happens again." Isabel said just wanting to be as far away from the water as possible now.
"What about Chris? My dad—what are you talking about?" Andrea asks not only confused but maybe a little irritated as well.
Dean looks over and see's that Lucas is staring out the window almost as if listening to something. "Lucas? Lucas, what is it?" He asks.
Lucas opens that door and starts to walk outside.
"So I'm thinking that we should probably follow him." Isabel says as the rest get up and start walking after him.
"Lucas, honey?" Andrea asks a little worried.
Lucas suddenly stops and looks from the ground to Dean as if expecting him to do something.
"You and Lucas get back to the house and stay there, okay?" Dean says looking at Andrea.
"Alright well I am going to go get the shovels. Don't start the fun without me k." Isabel says catching the keys from Dean.
The three dig in silence not really sure what it is that they are going to find. However it isn't long before the shovels hit something.
Sam quickly grabs a hold of it and lifts it out of the earth.
"Peter's bike." Sam says looking at it.
"Holy shit." Isabel says as she see's Jake walking towards them.
"Who are you?" Jake asks pointing is gun at them.
"Put the gun down, Jake." Sam says calmly.
"How did you know that was there?" Jake asks them shaking a little bit.
"Lucas showed us where it was." Isabel says stepping in front of Sam a little bit.
"What happened—You and Bill killed Peter, drowned him in the lake and then buried the bike? You can't bury the truth, Jake. Nothing stays buried." Dean said focusing on getting the truth.
"I don't know what the hell you're talking about." Jake says yet his voice gives him away.
"You and Bill killed Peter Sweeney 35 years ago. That's what the hell I'm talking about." Dean says almost shouting.
Suddenly Andrea comes running over from the house "Dad!" She yells.
"And now you got one seriously pissed off spirit." Dean says kind of angry with Jake for keeping this secret.
"It's gonna take Andrea, Lucas, everyone you love. It's gonna drown them. And it's gonna drag their bodies God knows where, so you can feel the same pain Peter's mom felt. And then, after that, it's gonna take you, and it's not gonna stop until it does." Sam said trying to get Jake to understand.
"Yeah and how do you know that?" Jake asked thinking that they must be insane.
"Because that's exactly what it did to Bill Carlton." Sam said quickly.
"It's a restless spirit Jake. It wants you and it wants you bad. It doesn't care who else has to die in order to get to you. Do you really want to have your family at risk like that?" Isabel asked him.
"Listen to yourselves, all of you. You're insane." Jake said laughing at them a bit.
"I don't really give a rat's ass what you think of us. But if we're gonna bring down this spirit, we need to find the remains, salt them, and burn them into dust. Now tell me you buried Peter somewhere. Tell me you didn't just let him go in the lake." Dean says already knowing the answer.
"Dad, is any of this true?" Andrea asks hoping that it won't be.
"No. Don't listen to them, they're liars and they're dangerous." Jake says covering.
"No Jake we aren't lying. I really think that you are and we don't have time for these kinds of games. We need to get rid of this thing and now so whatever it is please just tell us so that we can stop it before it drowns someone else." Isabel said getting a little sick of this I didn't do it game already.
"Something tried to drown me. Chris died on that lake. Dad, look at me. Tell me you—you didn't kill anyone." Andrea almost begs him.
"Billy and I were at the lake. Peter was the smallest one. We always bullied him, but this time…it got rough. We were holding his head under the water, we didn't mean to. But we held him under too long and he drowned. We let the body go, and it sank. Oh Andrea, we were kids. We were so scared. It was a mistake. But, Andrea, to say that I have anything to do with these drownings, with Chris, because of some ghost…it's not rational." Jake said trying to explain himself.
"All right listen to me, all of you. We need to get you away from this lake as far as we can right now." Dean says getting ready to head back to the house.
However he stopped when he heard Andrea gasp next to him. They all turn and there is Lucas going down by the lake.
"Lucas!" Jake shouts as they all start running towards the dock where Lucas is already reaching his hand into the water.
"Come play with me." The voice of Peter calls.
"Lucas!" Dean shouts running.
"Lucas! Baby stay where you are!" Andrea says fearing for her son.
Quickly a hand comes up and grabs Lucas pulling him into the water. Sam and Dean quickly jump off the dock and into the water as Isabel struggles to keep Andrea away from the water.
"Andrea, stay there." Sam shouts as he see's her trying to get into the water.
"No, Lucas!" Andrea calls out
"We'll get him just stay on the dock." Sam shouts back.
"Andrea its okay they will find out. Sam and Dean know what they are doing they are going to find Lucas and everything is going to be fine." Isabel says as the women starts to cry.
Both Sam and Dean surface neither of them having Lucas with them.
"Lucas where are you." Andrea cries.
All of a sudden Jake starts taking of his jacket and walking into the lake as Sam and Dean go under the water again.
"Peter, if you can here me. Please Peter, I'm sorry. I'm so—I'm so sorry." Jake says walking deeper into the water.
"Daddy, no." Andrea says torn between her father and her son.
"Jake please get back up on land." Isabel says wondering if she should go get him.
"Peter. Lucas—He's just a little boy. Please, it's not his fault, it's mine. Please take me." Jake says getting out into the deeper water.
"Jake, no!" Dean shouts when he see's what's going on.
"Just let it be over!" Jake says right before he is dragged under the water and out of their sight.
"Daddy! Daddy! No!" Andrea says crying.
Dean and Sam both dive down again in search of Lucas. Sam comes to the surface first and shakes his head no to Isabel who is hoping that they will find him. Then almost as if in slow motion Dean comes to the surface with Lucas in his arms.
"Oh my god." Andrea says running closer to the edge.
"Dean is he breathing." Isabel asks going to the ladder to help them get him out.
Dean just looks at her and Isabel knows the answer.
"Okay get him up here quick. Andrea I know that you want to help but please just stay back for a second. Okay Dean you breath for him and I will do chest compressions." Isabel says laying Lucas on his back and getting into position.
"Okay Dean breath." Isabel says pumping his chest five times.
"Okay Dean again." Isabel says and this time on the third pump Lucas starts coughing up water.
"Oh thank god." Andrea says rushing to her son and taking him in her arms.
After making sure that both Andrea and Lucas were alright the three of them went back to the hotel room.
"Okay so I just have to say that I thought that our family was screwed up but at least we're not cursed…or at least I don't think so." Isabel said flopping down on a bed.
"Yeah I guess so." Dean says sitting on the other bed.
"Look, we're not gonna save everybody." Sam says looking at Dean.
"Yeah I know it just sucks." Dean answered back.
"We know it does but you know what I'm kind of proud of Jake. I mean I'm not glad that he's dead but he stepped up and did the honorable thing. I mean after all he did kill Peter 35 years ago so it's only right that he would save his grandson from the same fate. I think that in that moment he was able to redeem himself you know let go of the guilt." Isabel said looking at her brother.
"Yeah I guess your right." Dean said going into the bathroom.
"Is he okay?" Sam asked worried about his brother.
"Yeah he just doesn't do really well with losing people you know." Isabel said shrugging her shoulders.
"What and your fine with it." Sam asked a little confused.
"No not at all but I just kinda figure that this is the one thing that Dean really shows emotion with so it's kind of like my turn to be the strong one for him you know." Isabel said turning on the TV.
Sam didn't say anything just nodded and got on the laptop…they were going to need another hunt.
They next day the three of them were loading up the impala when Andrea and Lucas walked across the street.
"Sam, Dean, Isabel." Andrea said looking at them all.
"Hey." Dean said smirking at her.
"We're glad we caught you. We just um, we made you lunch for the road Lucas insisted on making the sandwiches himself." Andrea said smiling at her son.
"Can I give it to them now?" Lucas asked.
Hearing Lucas talk caused the three siblings to smile probably the widest smiles they had had in a long time.
"Of course." Andrea says smiling at her son.
"Come on Lucas; let's load this into the car." Dean says taking the sandwiches from him.
"How you holding up?" Sam asked Andrea once Lucas was out of earshot.
"It's just gonna take a long time to sort through everything, you know?" Andrea replied sadly.
"Andrea, I'm sorry." Sam said looking down.
"We really didn't want it to end the way that it did. No one was supposed to get hurt so we're all really sorry." Isabel said finishing for Sam.
"You saved my son. I can't ask for more than that. Dad loved me. He loved Lucas. No matter what he did, I just have to hold on to that." Andrea said with a small smile.
"All right, if you're gonna be talking now, this is a very important phrase, so I want you to repeat it one more time." Dean said smiling at Lucas.
"Zeppelin rules!" Lucas said happily.
"That's right. Up high. You take care of your mom, okay?" Dean said seriously.
"All right." Lucas said smiling.
With that Andrea walked over and gave Dean a quick kiss.
"Thank you." She said smiling at him and walking away.
Dean just kind of stood there for a moment watching her walk away before scratching his head and getting into the car that Isabel was already sitting in.
"Sam, move your ass. We're gonna run out of daylight before we hit the road." Dean said starting the car.
"You know Sam that's the second time that Dean has gotten a kiss from the damsel in distress and you have yet to even get so much as a hug." Isabel said laughing.
"Shut up." Sam said back to her.
"So do you guys think that maybe the next person we save could be like a really hot guy…cause uh you know I could kinda go for a little fun myself." Isabel said laughing at the looks on their faces.
"Well I don't know how much good that would do you. They would still probably want to kiss Dean." Sam said laughing at the look on their faces.
"Hey Sammy you haven't been getting anything either remember." Dean said to him with a smirk.
"Yeah Sammy you haven't either." Isabel said sticking her tongue out at him.
"Yeah but Isabel here's the thing. At least Sam is supposed to look like a man." Dean said laughing and ducking for the hit he knew was coming for the back of his head.
"You two suck and I do not look like a man." Isabel said fake pouting.
"Yeah you kinda do." Sam said laughing at her.
With that Isabel smacked both of them upside the head.
"I really hate you both you know that." Isabel said trying to keep a straight face.
"Sure you do sure you do." Dean said smiling at her in the rear view mirror.
With that the three took off onto the road ready for whatever craziness might be thrown their way.
Thank you so much for reading. Please review so that I know what you want more of.
Delia