Takes place shortly before episode fifteen of season one. I own Tala Galtero and my friend owns Jennah Bailey. Original Supernatural belongs to Eric Kripke. This is only the beginning of a series. "Because It's Not Me" is only the first story, there will probably be over four others, in a series.
Get Your Facts Straight
Ch. 2 Part 3
I paced up and down the drive way with my arms crossed over my chest. It shouldn't have been taking her so long to get back from a simple beer run. Bobby continued to work on my pickup like nothing was wrong.
"Aren't you the slightest bit worried that somethin could have happen to her?" I asked annoyed.
He stopped what he was doing, leaned against my pickup, and looked at me. "For all we know she might have just ran into some traffic. No sense in getting your britches in a knot."
I clenched my fists together and stormed into the house. I picked up a book that was sitting on the table and tried my hardest to read it but I couldn't focus. After about five minutes I tossed it aside and went back outside.
"I'm going to look for her." I opened the drivers side door and looked at him across the cab in the back.
"Fine. Let me get all this crap into the backseat then." he shoved tools and other material into the back seat and closed the door.
I nodded at him as he passed by me to go into the house. Just as he was about to shut the door to the house and I was about to climb into my truck; an old van came swerving into the the junk yard, narrowly missed me and crashed into a pile of crushed cars. Rumsfield went nuts and started barking like crazy. Bobby came down the steps in a rush and started towards the van.
I felt myself go cold. "Jennah!"
Bobby and I got to the drivers side and peered in. Jennah was slumped against the wheel, a small stream of blood going down the side of her face. He opened the door and I moved to get Jen before he could say or do anything. I wrapped her arm around my shoulders and hauled her out of the broken van. Her eyes fluttered as I got up into a straight position.
"What happen to you?" Bobby asked peering into her face.
"Wha..? Wh-where am I..?" she tried to look around but she groaned and her eyes rolled into the back of her head.
"We have to get her inside." I started to drag her towards the house while Bobby had a grim expression on his face.
He didn't help me carry her but he opened the door to the house and allowed us in. Rumsfield had gotten more and more agitated as we came closer to the house, nearly snapping out at me as I passed him to go inside. I looked down at him bewildered. I sat Jen down on the couch in the study, propping one of the cushions under her head. Bobby had disappeared shortly but was now standing in the doorway holding a flask. I rolled my eyes, apparently his beer was more important at the moment. He popped the top off and started towards us. I watched him confused as he started to tip the flask over her head.
My hand shot out and grasped his wrist before any of its containments could be spilled. "What the hell do you think you're doin?"
"I take all the precautions I can. That might not be your friend, Tala. It could be a monster or she could be possessed." his was face grim and a dull look entered his eyes.
"She's not possessed! That is my best friend, I would know!" I growled, letting my feelings get the better of me. "Besides, you didn't check us when we first came over." I glared at him.
"Yes, I did. You didn't notice it but I had a line of salt at the door when y'all came over. Most evil can't cross it but y'all were able to." he removed my fingers from his hand and once again positioned the flask over Jen's body. "We just have to be sure."
I could feel my mouth squeeze shut in frustration. He just ever so slightly tipped the flask over and let a fairly decent size drop fall. It landed on her collarbone and began to sizzle. Jen hissed as her eyes snapped open, but her eyes weren't normal. They were solid black. She quickly struck the flask out of Bobby's hands and stood in a flash. He gripped his hand in pain and Jen turned to me. I eyed a gun that sat on the table a few feet away. She just smirked and laughed at me.
"Do you honestly think that's going to hurt me? The most you'll even do is damage this pretty little figure." she made a gesture to herself.
My hands shook in anger and fear. That thing was in my best friend and what the hell could I do? Her eyes turned back to normal and she smiled at me.
"I bet your wondering what I'm doing in your friends body." when I didn't answer she continued anyways. "I've heard a little bit through the grapevine about you, Tala. Real interesting stuff."
"What the hell are you talkin about?" what could this thing possibly know about me.
"Don't listen to it, Tala. Demons are notorious for telling lies." Bobby mumbled from where he stood.
Jen turned slightly to glare at him. "Would you shut your gab. Human's are no better. You lie to each other, try to hurt others, and try to destroy one another. And you call us the monsters?" she turned her attention back to me. "As I was saying, there's been some chatter about a girl named Tala Galtero. Someone's got big plans for you, so I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about."
While she was taking another look at me, I noticed Bobby slowly taking steps backwards towards something. He shook his head slightly and nodded towards Jen. I nodded my head in understanding.
"Who has big plans for me?" I asked trying to keep her preoccupied.
"Now if I told you that, that would ruin the surprise." Bobby picked up a coffee thermos and threw it's containments onto Jen.
She screamed in pain and Bobby ran passed her. "Run!" he grabbed me by the arm and tugged me out the door. I followed behind him out into his salvage yard. I now understood why the dog hand gone crazy, it knew something was up with Jen. I let it off its chain before Bobby lead me behind several different rows of stacked cars and finally came to a stop. As we tried to catch our breath I heard Jen giggle somewhere from the direction we had came. Bobby gave me a worried look as he crouched down to look around the end of the car we hid behind. He jerked backwards as a shot rang out. I helped him up and turned him in the direction we were going to run.
"You go. I'll distract her." I told him.
"What?" Bobby looked shocked as he turned to gap at me.
"Just go!" I nearly yelled and shoved him to get him going.
He took off sprinting and I walked out into an open space. "Come and get me Jen!" I could hear a gun being cocked and then all went quiet. She was no where in sight. I took the slightest step forward and a bullet whizzed by, just barely missing my head. "Come on!" I yelled aggravated, dodging out of the way as bullets began to rain down around me.
Running in the direction Bobby had disappeared, I soon caught up with him. We hid behind one of the old busted up cars.
"You're a freakin idjit." Bobby growled out of breath.
"Thank you Bobby. I know." I rolled my eyes and started to run again.
We came to the edge of the property and glanced around. We couldn't see Jennah anywhere but that didn't mean she wasn't there.
I took a moment to rest and let Bobby catch his breath. "What are we gonna do?"
Bobby took his cap off and wiped the sweat from his face. "We need to lure her back to the house. Everything we need is there."
I sighed and nodded my head. Letting him take the lead, we slowly made our way back to the house. It took a lot longer then it should have but we were stopping constantly to make sure the coast was clear. Once we were a few yards within the door, Bobby took off in a sprint and made it into the house. When I took off running after him though, I was stopped about half way when a gun shot rang out. I dove to the ground behind my pickup.
"Come now, Tala. All I wanted to do was talk but instead you throw holy water on my head and play hide & seek with me. Well I've got some news for you, you can't hide from me." my pickup thudded down as Jen looked at me from the bed. She had a crazy looking smile on her face.
She jumped down next to me and picked me up by my shirt. She held me an inch from her face and just looked into my eyes. Her expression was serious but then she began to smile like she had seen something she liked. I swallowed uneasily, forcing myself not to show any fear. She knocked me back and I landed in a pile of scrap metal. A couple of smaller pieces scratched me but a large one pierced my leg causing me a great deal of pain.
"Mother f-!" I bit my lip to keep myself from screaming out.
Jennah walked towards me like she was taking a stroll. She stopped and crouched down to my eye level. "I can see now why you're so special."
"Hey!" Bobby came up behind Jen and struck her in the shoulder with a rod of metal.
Jen screamed out and scurried away from him. The place he had hit her was smoking.
"Iron rod. Now get up." He held his hand out to me and I took it hauling myself up as best as I could. "We need to get inside, now."
Despite the pain, I made it inside quickly. The dog was no longer there, probably ran into the woods behind the salvage yard. I didn't blame it. Bobby motioned towards the study and at the couch. I looked at him confused but he just glared at me. I sat down and applied pressure to my leg. Did he really think this was the best time to sit back and relax? Jennah walked into the house giving Bobby a cold stare. He readied his iron rod and Jennah just walked right up to him. She pulled back her hand to strike him but as she swung it around something stopped her. She looked around slightly frightened as she placed her hands on an invisible wall. I looked up and saw a weird symbol drawn on the ceiling in red. That was the last thing I saw because I passed out from the blood loss.