Laying in bed after just waking up I rolled over onto my back. I must have fallen asleep as soon as I fell onto the bed after breakfast. I lay there trying to wake myself up and heard a loud thud in the next room. It sounded as if someone had thrown a body against a tree. I swung my booted feet over the edge of the bed and grabbed my pistol off the night stand. I made my way quickly but quietly into the living room where I saw Nicole on the floor. That dark figure was above her again and there was a pool of blood beneath her head. My first instinct was that the thing above her was a ghost. Even though I did not have my double barreled shotgun with the salt rounds I did have my pistol. I aimed and fired at least hoping to scare the thing away. It worked and I went to Nicole and knelt beside her. I checked her body with my hands first and didn't find anything other than a gash over her left eye.
As I grabbed a dish towel from the kitchen the garage door opened and Sam rushed into the room. "What the hell is going on Dean?", Sam looked and saw Nicole still laying in the floor and me with the dish towel in my hand. "I was asleep in the other room and heard something just as I woke up. I grabbed my pistol and came in here. I found a dark figure hovering over Nicole and her on the floor just like this." I explained to Sam as I knelt again beside Nicole's prone figure and held the towel to her bleeding forehead. Liz and Dean walked in from their room and Liz gasped and put her hands to her mouth. In a muffled tone she said, "Is she ok?" and came to stand beside me. "It looks like she fell and hit her head on the coffee table and knocked herself out.", I answered from my spot on the floor. "Sam grab another dish towel and put some ice cubes in it for me. Liz grab a pillow from her room and put it here on the couch and Dean go to the bathroom and grab some gauze. I need to see how bad this gash is." I gave everyone orders and stayed with Nicole still holding firm to her wound.
Sam made it back from the kitchen with the towel and ice. "Here hold this to her head while I lift her onto the couch.", I said looking up at Sam. He did as I asked and Liz placed the pillow against the arm of the couch. I lifted Nicole's small body and lay her gently on the couch. I took the towel with the ice from Sam and removed the blood soaked towel to see how bad the gash was. Dean handed me the gauze and some bandages he found in Nicole's bathroom. The wound wasn't large but as with all head wounds it was bleeding a lot. When I removed the pressure the blood would start to trickle down Nicole's face. I swore and looked up at Sam. "I'm going to need to close this up. Get me the suture kit from the Impala and grab a bottle of whiskey too." Liz looked at me and gasped. "No not whiskey. She has peroxide and alcohol in her bathroom. I'll get those instead." I nodded at Liz and sat beside Nicole. While I was waiting on everything I needed to fix Nicole up my body was against Nicole's stomach because I was sitting so close to her on the couch. I felt the baby inside begin to kick and the wonder of it startled me and I reached down to let my free hand rest against her stomach.
Sam came back in with my suture kit and stopped short when he saw me with my hand on Nicole's stomach. "What the hell are you doing Dean?" I looked up and shrugged as I removed my hand. "It was moving. I guess that's a good thing since at least we know he's ok." "Yeah but you need to be worried about her head and not her stomach.", Sam cocked his eyebrow at me. I took the kit from him and Liz handed me the peroxide and the alcohol. I put some of the peroxide on one of the pieces of gauze and applied it to Nicole's wound. It boiled out and then I poured it full of alcohol. Dipping the suture needle into more alcohol I then began to apply six tiny almost precision stitches to Nicole's forehead. Just as I trimmed the thread on the last suture Nicole's eyes began to flutter open. She thrashed her head from side to side and I shushed her and tried to soothe her. "Shh baby it's alright. You're alright. Just a little bump on the head but I took care of that.", I smiled down at her and her eyes grew large but she got still. She looked into my eyes and blinked slowly. Then she reached up and stroked her fingertips down the side of my face. Before I knew what was happening she sat up enough that her lips met mine. She gently kissed me and her hand moved from my chin to the back of my head. Her fingers grasped my hair and she gently moaned.
Sam cleared his throat. "Ummm there are other people in the room. How hard did you hit your head anyway?" Nicole pulled back and blinked a few times before she looked around the room. "What happened? Why is everyone staring at me?", Nicole squeaks. Liz stepped forward and said, "Dean found you lying in the floor. You must have fallen and hit your head on the coffee table. You have a gash there but Dean stitched it up." Nicole reached up to touch where her wound was and gingerly touched it. "Oww.", she said and I reached for her hand. I took it in mine. "You're going to be ok. We're going to take care of you. The baby is fine too. I felt him moving before I stitched you up." Sam spoke up, "Do you remember anything before you hit your head?" Nicole looked way up at Sam and answered, "I was sitting here reading my book and I felt like I was being watched. I looked around and didn't see anything but still felt funny. When I looked back over my shoulder I saw a dark presence in the corner over there." She pointed toward the far corner which would have been behind her. "I was scared so I jumped up from the couch. When I did I became dizzy and I guess I fell and hit my head. That's really all I remember until I woke up and saw Dean looking down at me."
"You really need to rest. I'm going to take you to your room and let Liz stay with you for a while so I can talk to Sam." I stood and leaned over to pick Nicole up. I carried her to her room like I would carry a child to their bed and Liz followed with Nicole's pillow. Liz pulled back the covers and placed Nicole's pillow on the bed and stepped back for me to place her gently on the bed. Making sure she was comfortable I smoothed her hair back from her wound and placed a gentle kiss beside it. I covered her up and stepped back. "Liz I'm going to go talk to Sam and Dean. You stay with her and don't let anything happen to her. Try to keep her awake for a little while until we decide if she has a concussion or not." Liz nodded at me and sat on the foot of Nicole's bed. I walked back into the living room and saw that Sam had already pulled out his laptop and was doing more research. "I think we're dealing with another Incubus or maybe the same one.", Sam said never looking up from his computer. "Do you think that's how she became pregnant?", I asked Sam. Sam only shrugged. I questioned him further, "So how do we get rid of this thing?" "I can't find anything that shows how to kill it but from everything I've read if the person has an active sex life then the entity goes away. It sounds like these things are brought on by a need in the person that is affected."
I raised my eyebrows at Sam and smirked at him a bit. "I could maybe fill that role." Sam looked at me with disgust, "You better not use this girl. She's a good soul and she needs someone to love her. Besides you do realize she's pregnant and she could be hurt very easily." I held up my hands. "Ok ok bro! It was just a joke!" "Well don't joke about stuff like that! We've got to stay with her while she's asleep. We'll set up a schedule and one of us sit up with her every night until we can figure this out." Dean seems to agree with Sam but I felt differently. "Look I already sat up with her last night. I'll just keep doing that if y'all can take care of things during the day so I can catch a few hours of sleep then." Sam looked skeptically at me. "Are you sure you're not getting carried away with this Dean? Remember I said you better not hurt her." "I'll be careful Sam. I just feel responsible for her in a way that I can't explain." Sam finally relented and I went back to Nicole's room to relieve Liz.
"Liz I'm going to stay with Nicole at night. Sam and Dean will fill you in on the rest.", I patted Liz on her shoulder and she said her goodbyes to Nicole and hugged her before she left. I sat down on the bed beside Nicole after Liz left and closed the door behind her. "I'm going to stay with you every night until we figure out what this thing is and how to deal with it. We're sure it's something supernatural that we're dealing with but we're still doing research on it. Are you going to be ok with me staying with you?", I looked into Nicole's eyes and watched for her reaction. She nodded and reached for my hand. "I feel safer when you're with me. I can't explain it but it's the truth.", she said looking pleadingly up at me. "Please lay here beside me until I fall asleep.", she almost begged. I knew that Sam wouldn't approve but we were grown people and I'd take my chances. I nodded and removed my boots and then crawled onto the bed. I made sure to keep the covers between us but Nicole snuggled up to me anyway. She rested her head in the crook of my arm and her hair smelled like gardenias as it brushed against my chin. I may be getting in over my head but for now I'm just following my instincts.