Hello everyone,

Songs used; Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai and Oh Darkness by Admiral Freebee

BTW; the book Julie is reading is actually a FF, if you haven't read it you must, it's the best I ever read. Look for Crushed by Lady of Arabia

Chapter 5: D-Day, Digging-day

Sam and Dean picked the lock easily and entered the small row house.

'Okay, well, you take upstairs, I'll take downstairs.' Dean said.

Dean pulled out his EMF reader and started scanning the house, specifically checking the windowsills as to see whether there was a sulphur residue. He finished the scan without finding any evidence that a demon had been here. He inspected her pictures and notice that there weren't a lot of them. Only one of her father was standing on the mantelpiece. When he took a closer look he saw that her house was decorated very soberly, like she hadn't had time to personalize but he knew for a fact that she had been living there for at least 5 years. He figured she just didn't have the time.

He started the computer that was standing in a dark corner while browsing through the paperwork that surrounded the old computer. He read some of the headings; hospitals, vets, cancer, heart disease, homes for elderly...

'What the...' Dean thought she must have been very ill or just a hypochondriac.

'Hey,'

'Djeezes Christ! Don't do that,' Sam scared the crap out of Dean by creeping up behind him unannounced.

'What did you find out?' He said regaining his composure.

'Well, for one she doesn't have any personal knick-knacks, just some children's drawings.'

'Yeah I know, look at the place, it's like it's for sale or something. One picture, that's it.'

'Yeah, but get this, I have got her diary, and the one from last year.' Sam said holding both brown bonded books into his hands.

'Nice, where was it? Under the mattress?' Sam just rolled his eyes, 'Great, you're a true scavenger hunter!'

'So what did you find?'

'Nothing much, no sulphur, no EMF, nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe there's something on the computer but at the looks of it, I doubt it.'

'Let me check,' Dean stepped out of the way letting Sam to the chair.

'Hmm...' Sam said.

'What?'

'It's not even password protected, means there's nothing to protect, I guess.'

Sam searched through a couple of files but didn't find anything that would actually help them. There were a lot of files though. And they pretty much had the same titles as the letters and papers scattered around that desk.

'This is a bust, let's go and see if the girls found anything,' Sam said, the thought of getting together with Julie and do some brainstorming really appealed to him and he almost ran out of the house holding the diaries in his hands.

'Okay you do the girl, I do the house,' Julie said while she took a place in the library.

'Ew!' Lena replied jokingly.

But Lena agreed easily, she wanted to know more about this girl. Who she was and if there was any justification to her own behaviour on the phone.

After about two hours of both girls doing a hell lot of research they packed up and went back to the motel.

'You think the boys will be back yet?' Julie asked.

'No idea, why don't you call them and see if we have to bring some food to the motel.'

'Good idea,' Julie took out her cell and dialled #1 one her speed dial.

'Hey, do Lena and I have to bring back some food?'

'You already back at the motel? Yeah, no my cell phone was off while I was in the library. Sam! Get a grip, we're fine. Yeah, we're on our way. See you in 10.'

'What was that all about?' Lena asked.

'Apparently the boys went mental when we weren't back at the hotel yet and we didn't pick up our phones.' Julie sighed, rolling her eyes.

'Men, such panicky weasels,'

'Now they at least know what we go threw like every two weeks.' Julie said smiling.

Lena laughed and she turned up the music, the windows were down and both girls started humming with the tunes.

Futures made of virtual insanity now

Always seem to, be govern'd by this love we have

For useless, twisting, our new technology

Oh, now there is no sound - for we all live underground

**********

When they pulled up they saw the boys standing on the balcony.

'Glad you ladies could join us,' Dean said sarcastically.

'Sorry, you know how it goes we had some sight-seeing and shopping to do,' Julie countered making Lena grin.

'Yeah you better have something useful, 'cause we pretty much came back empty-handed,' Sam said.

'Keep your pants on okay, we'll be up in a second,' Lena stated.

Both girls came up the stairs with a bunch of papers in their hands. The foursome all entered Sam and Julz' room for the brainstorming. Lena and Dean took the bed, while Julz sat herself on Sam's lap in front of the laptop.

'There's pizza and beer if you want,' Dean said.

'Thanks,' they said in unison, smiling at each other and they opened the box in the little kitchenette.

'Vegetarian?' Lena asked in wonder, looking at Dean.

'Yeah, of course!'

'Well thanks hun.'

'So what did you find out?' Sam asked.

'Well the history of the house was completely clean, there's no evidence of anything ever bad happening there.' Julz said confidently.

'Yeah we thought so, go on' Sam said, 'what about the girl?'

'Well she kind of has a sad history really. She doesn't have any family except for an aunt in the UK, called...' Lena paused going through her papers, 'Teresa, Teresa Eagles, living in London. She is loved by the town because she is involved in pretty much every charity organization in the state and some internationals as well...'

Sam and Dean now understood everything they had found on the computer and the desk, they looked at each other in agreement.

'She volunteers pretty much every free minute she has. She has been in numerous news paper articles, but the first article was different, she apparently lost her parents ten years ago, some sort of plane crash over Canberra, technical difficulty or something.'

'What wait,' Sam suddenly said interrupting Lena.

'What? Something ring a bell.'

Sam sighed, 'Yeah you could say that, when did her parents die?'

'Ten years ago,' Dean said, he picked up on it as well.

'What? What's going on,' Julie said.

'She made a deal, probably to get her parents out of her life.' Sam explained.

'Yeah, I think you're right,' Lena added, 'background check on Mrs Lipton did not get back clean, apparently she was a cocaine-addict and a mean drunk. She had 7 arrests on her record. Guess Allie didn't have the happiest of childhoods.'

'What about the dad?' Dean asked.

'He came back clean, no arrests, not even a parking ticket.'

Dean smiled and shook his head in disbelief, he got of the bed frustrated by the results he kicked the desk with the TV on.

'Those lying stinking skanks!'

'What is it Dean?' Sam asked, not getting it.

'Don't you see! She made a deal ten years ago for her mom, but they took both and probably the entire plane as well! All that on the shoulders of that poor girl. What she did was wrong but she didn't deserve this.'

'Guys?' Julie asked, 'So I don't really know the details about a deal, so how does it work? Is suicide normal?'

'Actually no,' Sam said, 'you usual look like you were a giant dog's dinner.' Sam suddenly flashed back to seeing his brother lying in that house, bleeding and the terror in his eyes, but he shook that nasty feeling off.

'And if you make a deal, is it pretty strict, I mean time-wise?' Julie asked.

'Yeah, ten years is ten years, why?' Dean said confused.

'Well the dates don't add up,'

'What do you mean,' Dean said.

'She died well a couple of days ago, April, her parents died well 10 years and six months ago.'

'Okay I feel we're going around in circles.'

Dean and Julie were trying to make the demon-deal fit, while Sam and Lena were reading the journals.

'Look guys, something is off, it's definitely a deal,' Sam suddenly said. The others looked at him confused.

'I quote: "I have 365 days left as of now, I have to make it count, I have to know that I made a difference, maybe then I'll find peace with the decision I once made."' Sam looked up and saw the date on the page, 'this was written a year and a half ago.'

'She must have found a way to hold off the dogs,' Dean explained.

'For six months?! Dean, be real! We searched the globe to fight them off and we have our background, our connections and we failed, I still failed!'

Julie was startled by the turn of events in the room. Sam was standing now raising his voice towards his brother. She grabbed his hand and pulled him back to the chair.

'You're right,' Dean complied, he saw Lena flipping pages back and forward with a confused face.

'Hunny, you alright there? Don't hurt yourself.'

'Haha...' she said without looking up, still flipping pages.

'What is it,' Dean said.

'It's just so strange. It's like I am reading about two different people but it's the same hand writing. The first one is lively and up-beat and a hard worker, the second is a scared little girl, afraid of everything and suffering from a great depression.'

'When's the change?' Dean asked.

'Euhm,' Lena hummed while turning the pages and deciding where the personality changed, 'End of October, beginning November. Around the change of the month.'

'Maybe she just has had her period for the last couple of months?' Dean said, laughing with his own joke. Lena threw a glass at him but he caught it effortlessly.

'So, correct me if I am wrong,' Sam said, 'she changed around the time she actually should have died?'

'Euhm, yeah I guess so. She even talks about it. She wrote: "I am getting scared, I never thought that any of this existed, I don't know what's going to happen. Yes I regret dealing with the red-eyed man but I would have been dead anyway, at least now I have been able to make the best of my life, and help anywhere I can. My refuge for abused children will be my legacy. At least I got to save a few lives. Trading an old life for several young ones, seems a fair deal."'

'So she dodged the bullet and managed to defy the hell hounds, we don't know how, and then eventually she kills herself six months later? That just doesn't make sense, at all!' Sam said.

'Yeah she gets paranoid and scared and there's tons of self-loathing in here. She thinks everything is her fault. Here towards the end, she no longer wants to go outside; "I asked Mrs Pepper if she wanted to bring over some groceries, she went to the store for me and a rack of canned soup fell on top of her, I am a bad person. It's all my fault. It's all my fault. It's all my fault." She keeps repeating that sentence as well.'

'Maybe she was only safe from the hell hounds in her own home?'

'There are no mentions in here of giant demonic dogs,' Lena noted.

'I suggest we go home...'

'What? We don't know what's going on?'

'How can you say that?'

'Sam please, we need to know what happened.'

'Shut up all of you, let me finish. We have done our digging, we have our research. It's obviously not bound to the town or the house. There's no need for us to be here, we might as well go back, where I have books at home with more info. We can even swing by Bobby's place, see if he has an opinion.'

The group felt sorry for attacking Sam and kind of agreed. There was nothing more for them to do here, though they were determined to find out the very last detail, they did decide to go back home.

The girls started packing up the cars while Sam and Dean went to the local grocery store to get some provisions for the road.

Sam paused before they walked back to the car and stopped Dean.

'You do know what we'll have to do, don't you?' Sam said.

'Yeah I have been thinking about it.'

'I don't see another way, if you are still resolute about finding out what happened to Allie.'

'Yeah, I am. We'll have to bite the bullet.'

The guys continued walking to the cars as the girls just closed the trunks.

'Ah, Julie look our strong men have returned and they brought food.'

'How neanderthaler of them,' she said cooing.

'You love it when I go all stone age on your ass,' Dean said close enough to kiss Lena.

Sam did the same and he handed over the food to Julie.

'Drive safely now.'

'What do you mean? No headbanging to the music? No taking phone calls? Or no falling asleep?'

'All of the above please, urgh, just make sure my fiancée gets home in one piece okay!'

'Fine,' Lena sighed, rolling her eyes.

Julz and Lena got into the car.

'Something is off,' Julie suddenly said when their doors closed.

'Yeah I know,' Lena replied.

'You know what I'm talking about?'

'Of course I always know what you're talking about. Dean's kiss it was different.' She sighed.

'Yeah, exactly,' Julie replied silently.

The odd foursome took off and they put Champaign in their rear-view mirrors, the sun was just going down and they were heading into another beautiful night.

Julie was reading her favourite book, Crushed, again while Lena was listening to the music.

The first time I saw your face

There was a fire in your soul

I felt that first embrace

As a fire in your soul

Where has it gone now?

Where has it gone now?

Haven't seen you in a long long time

Except maybe in my dreams

But nothing's ever yours to keep

Nothing's ever as it seems

**********

Around 3am Lena's phone went off but Julie was already sleeping, so she picked it up herself.

'Hi,' Dean said.

'Hi,' Lena grinned.

'You weren't supposed to pick up,'

'Julz is asleep, besides I am a good driver, so just you worry about the Impala swaying from left to right.'

'What? I am not moving an inch.'

'Yeah, okay, whatever you say,' Lena said sniggering.

'Hun, Sam and I are going to make a little detour, we're getting off at the next exit. I want you to go straight to Bobby's.'

'What? The hell we are! We're in this together! What do you know that we don't?' Lena nudged Julie awake and mouthed what was going on. She was still dazed but just as angry as Lena.

'I could fill books with stuff that you don't know, but that's not the point, just go to Bobby's we'll see you there tomorrow, late afternoon.'

'No Dean, I will not let you brush me off like this, you'll have to spill it else I would just trail you, you know that.'

'Look, Bobby really needs to see this and we have to check out a lead, please, please just listen.'

'Fine!' Lena answered and she cut the phone off.

'I can't believe those guys,' Lena said hitting her steering wheel.

Julie saw them turning off at the next exit.

'You're not going to follow them?'

'No I'm not,'

'Lena! Turn around, that's the love of my life leaving to god knows where. Turn around now!' Julie yelled.

'No,'

'Why not!' Julie said in despair.

'Because I promised that man to keep you safe, and I am not going to break that promise. And for your information, the love of my life is in there too.' Lena said icy calm.

'I can't believe this, I can't believe what I am hearing, who the fuck are you! You're not my mother or father! What gives you the right to decide this?'

'You are the closest thing I have to family, and I am going to make damn sure that it stays that way! We've known each other for a long time and I'd like to keep it that way!' Lena now yelled back at her, silencing Julie for a minute.

'Yeah, because I was the only one reading your books,' Julie smirked still pissed off.

'Yeah, my number one and only fan,' Lena said smiling with Julie's joke.

'I'm sorry I yelled,'

'That's okay,'

'You know I consider you family too right?'

'Yeah I know,'

'What did she say,' Sam asked when Dean shut the phone.

'She didn't say anything, she yelled a lot though.'

'What do you think? They'll follow us?'

'No, I don't think so, if I know Lena and I think I do, she would have followed if she was alone, to no regard of her own life. But with Julz by her side, no she'd rather make the detour of returning her safely to Bobby and then go after us than putting a friend in harm's way.' Dean said smiling, he knew he was right.

Sam smiled, he knew Lena would take care of his girl, but hearing the confirmation from Dean just made his heart slow down to a normal pace.

They came to a stop on a dirt road with no traffic, Dean turned off the lights. And they both got out of the car.

'What do you think you're doing?' Dean said.

'What?' Sam asked innocently.

'They don't like you very much,'

'So what?'

'You've killed one before and you've pinned one down, seriously get back into the car or we came out here for nothing.'

'Fine!' Sam got back into the car against his own will. He did keep a close eye on his brother.

Dean took out a small box with all the necessities and a picture. He buried it in the middle of the crossroads.

Haven't seen you in a long long time

Except maybe in my dreams

But nothing's ever yours to keep

Nothing's ever as it seems

'My, my, my Dean, you have grown,' A very attractive brown haired woman said, with a thick English accent, walking up to Dean like a lioness to its prey.

'Don't I know you from somewhere?' Dean asked completely confused.

'Maybe, I am wearing a travel guide, nice suit. She's fun, her mind is almost as obscene as my own.'

'Yeah I remember.' Dean said wincing.

'So you little tagger, where are the devil's traps you always seem to have around, or the knife, or the colt. You know my peers are calling it suicide showing up for the Winchesters, but what can I say... I get off on self-sacrifice.'

'No devil's traps, no tricks, you have my word.'

'So what can I get you? Money, fame? Or a life without the supernatural perhaps? You and your brother can be happy and marry those poor feeble girls and have many, many children. You should have some decency, you both need to be with strong intelligent women but instead you picked those two worthless chicks.

Dean was now steaming.

'Obviously you have never met either of them, because they are both twice the woman you'll ever be.'

'Tututu Dean, don't provoke me, by the way where's you trigger happy little sidekick?'

'He's in the car, don't worry he wont do anything,'

'What if I want him to do me?' She said biting her lower lip.

'You better ask him yourself,'

'Please go fetch him, I need to talk to both of your,'

Except the fire

Except the fire

Oh darkness, oh darkness

Roll over me tonight

Oh darkness, oh darkness

Roll over me tonight

The first time I saw your face

There was a fire in your soul

Sam joined the party as they now stood as an odd threesome, all three menacing in their own ways, all three powerful enough to hurt one another.

'Sam, Dean. I must say I am disappointed. You,' she said nodding to Sam, 'you were supposed to lead the demon army and become king of the underworld, keeping the lock on Lucifer's cage. Instead you don't become who you were born to be, loose you powers and shack up with a sweet, brown-haired teacher? Please, you are a walking cliché. And you Dean, being thrown in hell, seriously I feel for you. The angels pulled you out but decided to leave your balls down there, and they use you like the good little soldier you are. You were supposed to be canon fodder, I'm surprised you made it out of the war. Oh and then you bumped into an average plane girl, what a step down!' she said shaking her head disapprovingly.

'This monologueing, does it come with the demonic job description 'cause I got to tell ya, it needs some work, tell us something we don't know.' Dean countered, not caring about anything she said, they were a lot stronger now than back then.

'What do you want to know? Why you are really here?'

'We're here for Allie,' Sam interrupted.

'No puppy, you're not. Allie got what she had coming for, that's all. You are here because you are both so sick of living these lives in constant danger,' she walked up to Sam, looking into his eyes she stroked his face, 'you want to marry the silly git, and start a family and your brother is thinking about children. How will you manage that when you know what kind of world we live in?'

'What happened to Allie,' Dean asked again, ignoring the demon's visions for them, 'was she yours?'

'I wouldn't be here if she was.'

'What's that supposed to mean?' Sam asked.

'My colleague was sent straight to the pit for that contract, he shouldn't have lost it.' She stated with just a pinch of false sympathy in her voice.

'What do you mean by loosing a contract, there's no paperwork?' Dean remarked.

The demon laughed at his idiotic response.

'Oh boy, you really don't know. And I thought I was talking to the legendary Winchesters! Instead I have a groom and a soon-to-be-daddy. Tell me Dean what example are you gonna follow, run away from your offspring when things get tough? And you Sam, are you prepared to see Julie burning on a ceiling? Because that's where you're headed, with this life anyway.'

Sam had had enough of the blabbing and he attacked the demon bitch while Dean got out the holly water and took out a necklace made out of salt-drenched rope and a devil's trap charm hanging it around her neck.

'What the hell are you doing?' she screamed while the water sizzled on her skin.

'Well I thought it was time that I bought you a gift, pretty necklace don't you think?' Dean said circling the former travel agent.

'You forget, I like things a bit kinky and that woman here inside me is exceeding my expectations, we like it.' She said in a horny way, laughing at the boys who were, honestly, a bit stunned.

'Tell us what we came here for,' Sam yelled.

'Or what? You exorcize me? You know I'll just climb back out and I'll bring some friends who love white meat. Julie does look tasty.'

Sam smacked her hard in the face before coming back to eyelevel.

'I wont exorcize you, well that's not completely true, I'll read the incantation over and over and over again, but that necklace will keep you from getting out of that body. Pretty clever ain't it? Just good old fashion torture, as you said I lost my powers but I never lost my brain.' Sam said with more confidence than Dean had seen in a long time. Well it had been a long time since they both actually needed to be on their toes, using their wits and their training. Since the apocalypse the jobs had been fairly straightforward and pretty easy. They weren't quickly challenged, they were the Winchesters, after all, legendary for closing the gates to hell, stopping the apocalypse and killing Lilith. You had to be nuts to challenge them in America, and if you had the bad luck of being tracked down or cross paths unintentionally, well not even Lucifer could help you then.

'So what's it going to be?' Dean asked.

The demon laughed a bouldering laugh.

'You think you can trap me? Do you have any idea who you're dealing with?' she threatened.

'What do you think Sammy, I was thinking your average run in the mill crossroads bitch, how many have we seen so far?' Dean said turning to Sam, shrugging like it was nothing.

'Yeah my thoughts exactly, shall I begin?' he asked his brother.

'Please, do the honours, it has been a while though, you think you can still get it right or will you have to start over and over again?' Dean said faking his nuisance.

The demon looked at both, sizing them up, wondering if they were kidding, but they looked more like two trolls deciding how to eat the hobbit in front of them.

'I think I can manage, let's see,

Regna terrae, cantate Deo, psallite Domino

qui fertis super caelum

caeli ad Orientem

Ecce dabit voci suae vocem virtutis,

tribuite virtutem deo.

Deus caeli, deus terrae,

humiliter majestati gloriae tuae supplicamus

ut ab omni infernalium spirituum potestate,

laqueo, deceptione et nequitia,

omnis fallaciae, libera nos, domine.'

The demon screamed in fury as she now came to terms that she was really stuck in that body, no matter how hard she tried to escape.

'Wo ho! Sammy! And without fault, I got to hand it to you man.' Dean said clapping his hands, he was really enjoying this. He had been itching for a serious hunt, he had been afraid that they had become rusty.

'Yeah, I know it's like riding a bike,' Sam said triumphantly.

They all knew who had the upper hand and there was no use in going on.

'Fine!' She screamed, 'I'll talk.'

'Good, I was afraid I was going to be here all night,' Sam said.

'Look I don't know the details...'

'Oh oh! That's no way to start now is it, try again.' Dean interrupted.

'I just heard the story okay, I was never near the demon who made the deal nor the girl. There are some rules we have to obey. People who can't be touched, who can't be involved in deals or any other demonic crap. Call them the diplomats of earth. She was one of them, a chosen one.'

'What does that mean,' Sam asked sternly.

'She had another destiny and when she made that deal she went off the grid, she was made of pure goodness, you can't touch those. If you do, you kind of declare war to the other side.'

'So? What happened, why did she still die?'

'Covering up the mistake that was made ten years ago, and they succeeded. They sent a dark angel on her, so she would kill herself. That way no one was to blame. Those souls are lost to heaven, whether they are made out of pure goodness or not.'

'So why was she untouchable? What was her destiny?'

'I don't know, I swear. I just know the rules, that's all.' She said honestly scared for her life, she had hoped toying with the boys' mind would have been enough. She hadn't thought about the consequences.

Dean saw she was telling the truth and decided to lift her off the pain bench. He took off the necklace and let her go. Within seconds black smoke spewed out of the travel agent's mouth and all there was left was a very confused, suddenly very horny, thirty-something year old woman.

'Sam? Dean? What am I doing here?' she said grasping her head. 'What happened? Why am I wet?'

'Come on, let's get you to the car, you'll be fine.' Dean lifted her, like she weighed nothing and he put her into the backseat of the Impala, but not before her hand traced down his back and squeezed his ass. Dean looked at her confused.

'Sorry doll, I just couldn't resist,' she said.

They drove off while the sun was already making its entrance and they still had a long way to go.

'So dark angels huh?' Dean said, 'ever heard of them?'

'Heard of? Yes, what they are? No idea,' Sam said.

So I hope you like the story and where this is going....