Jump The Shark
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We had been on the road for what felt like years... in reality it was a couple of days solid. We parked in a spot close to some water and decided to call it a night. I got out and stretched my legs and the guys sat on the bonnet of the Impala. It was a clear night and you could see the stars. I walked around in a massive circle and walked back to the car watching the guys watch the sky. They looked content and peaceful.
"Hey." Dean said softly noticing me walk up to them. I smiled and lent next to him.
"They are beautiful." I said looking up at the constellations.
"They sure are..." Dean said and I turned to see him looking at me. I pushed away from him and walked away from the car. It had been so hard not to be with Dean, even more so now I knew I had less than a month left. Dean hopped off the car and fallowed me. I sighed as I herd his footsteps behind me. I walked far enough away from the Impala to make sure Sam wouldn't hear us talk.
"Dean..." I sighed turning around and seeing him stood there. He smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
"What? Can't I give you a compliment now?" He asked with that cheeky school boy grin. I shook my head and looked away.
"Come on, we talked about this..." I said running a hand through my hair.
"No, you kinda talked, made some excuses and walked out." Dean said coldly and I turned to him. He was staring at me.
"Ok, fair enough. I did this. So what can I do to make you stop?" I asked refusing to look into those amazing green eyes.
"Tell me the truth... about everything. About us, why you're here, what four months means, why you and Sam keep giving each other looks whenever I challenge him about his psychic powers. Everything." Dean said walking closer to me.
"Dude we talked about this...I... I I can't... I..." I struggled for words. Dean shook his head.
"You can. You just wont." He said taking my hand in his. "Why wont you tell me the truth?"
"I, I can't say it... the words... they are so hard to speak. So hard to..." I looked up to the stars. "This is all too hard. Being around you, flirting, joking, seeing you nearly die everyday... this is getting too hard for me Dean. I... I don't even know if I can carry on if you keep questioning me... questioning why we can't be..." I looked back down to Dean's face. He was hurting, this was killing him as much as it was killing me. What could I do... I had orders... I had lives to save.
"I..." He sighed out letting got of my hand. "We should go back before Sam thinks something else is happening." Dean said soulfully.
"Dean," I said taking his hand. He looked at them and then into my eyes.
"Don't do this to me Megan. I want all or nothing... no in between. Not with you... not with you." Dean said pulling out of my hand and walking back towards the car. I dropped my head and fallowed him back to the car. Sam glanced at us both and we all climbed into the car to sleep. I swapped seat with Sam so that he could spread out in the back and I huddled myself in the passenger's side resting my head on the window. Sam drifted off to sleep faster then either of us. For about an hour we just sat staring at each other from opposite sides of the car. Not saying one word, just looking. I dropped off to sleep about an hour or so later.
I woke in the morning just after Sam we climbed out the car and sat talking softly as he cleaned his teeth. I was walking on thin ice with Sam and he was with me. After he punched me back in the motel room, neither of us felt totally comfortable talking to each other. Dean woke up grunting and looking around the car half asleep. Both me and Sam turned to him. He opened the door and nearly fell onto the floor.
"Hey, how'd you sleep?" Sam asked as Dean got to his feet.
"How do you think?" He groaned. "I'm starving lets get something to eat for breakfast." He said stretching.
"Where? We're like two hours away from anything." Sam said looking around.
"But I'm hungry now." Dean said sounding like he was three as he walked over to us.
"There's probably still a sandwich in the back seat." Sam said and instantly Dean turned and headed for the back seat pulling out a brown paper bag and taking a sniff of it. He nearly hurled.
"It's Tuna!" He said looking at the bag disgusted. Suddenly a cell phone began to ring. It came from the glove box and Dean reached in through the open window to get it. He bashed his head as he pulled out the phone.
"Isn't that Dad's phone?" Sam asked confused. Dean just nodded and answered it. I ear wigged a little.
"Hello?" Dean said not reckoning the number.
"Um.. Hello is this John?" The voice down the phone asked nervously.
"He can't come to the phone right now. Can I help you?" Dean replied.
"Um no no...I... I really need to talk to John. This is Adam Mulligan he knows me." Adam said.
"Well sorry to be the one to break this to you pal, but John died more than two years ago." Dean said and Sam turned to look at Dean. Adam sounded speechless. "Who is this?"
"I..I'm his son." Adam replied. Dean didn't buy it but offered to meet up with Adam to check things out.
We drove to a small café in Wisdom Minnesota and waited for him to arrive. Sam and I checked Adam out the whole ride there. We climbed out of the car and Dean headed for the boot.
"Dean best we can tell, Adam Mulligan is real. Um born September 29th 1990 to Kate Mulligan. No father listed on the birth certificate. He was an Eagle Scout, graduated from high school with honours and currently goes to the University of Wisconsin biology major premed." Sam read as Dean grabbed a gun and some other things. "Dean you listening?"
"This is a trap." Dean said plainly closing the boot. Sam turned to me.
"You believe this kid?" I asked.
"I'm willing to." He sighed and we fallowed Dean into the café. We walked in and Sam sat in the window, Dean next to him and me opposite Dean.
"Dean I'm telling you the kid checks out." Sam sighed.
"He's right." I added.
"Great so he's an actual person on the planet Earth, except he's go a demon in him." Dean said as the waitress walked up to us. She passed us some menus and a glass of water. Dean poured the water into the plant behind him.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked as Dean produced a flask and poured water into the glass. "Holy water?"
"Yup." Dean replied. "One sip of the Jesus juice and this bitch is going to be in a world of hurt."
"And what if he's not possessed?" Sam asked as Dean put something on the table and started to open it.
"Than he is a shape shifter." Dean said producing a knife and fork.
"Hence the silver." Sam said as Dean swapped the cutlery over.
"I find that very offensive I hope you know." I said crossing my arms over my chest.
"Well just don't order any food then." Dean replied with a sarcastic smile. "Anyway this thing is going to bleed. I mean using Dad as bate, that's the last mistake of it's short pitiful life." Sam turned to Dean and looked upset. "What? What?" Dean asked.
"Dean listen... there's an entry from Dad's journal dated January of 1990, it says he's heading to Minnesota to check out a case. That's roughly oh nine months before the kid was born." Sam said turning to Dean.
"Coincidences." Dean replied plainly.
"Coincidence? The next two pages of the journal are torn out." Sam said plainly. Dean stared at it for a few seconds.
"You're not actually buying this are you?" Dean asked questioningly.
"Look man, I don't believe it either I'm just saying its possible." Sam replied closing the journal. "I mean Dad would be gone weeks at a time, and he wasn't exactly a monk. I mean hunter rolls into town, kills the monster saves the girl. Sometimes the girls grateful." Sam said.
"Great now I'm thinking about Dad sex. Stop talking." Dean said looking annoyed.
"Maybe he slip one past the goaly." Sam added.
"Dude!" Dean said getting annoyed. A guy walked in and he looked a little like the boys, younger but just as tall. He looked tired and lost.
"Adam?" Sam asked grabbing the guys attention.
"You Sam?" Adam asked.
"Yeah this is Dean and that's Megan." Sam said pointing to us in tern. Dean just glared while I gave Adam a warm smile. He came and sat down next to me.
"Hey... um so how um do you know my Dad?" He asked looking at the guys after giving me a warm smile back. He didn't smell like a demon... but he might have been masking the smell somehow.
"We worked together." Sam replied. Adam looked at us and then the table.
"How did he die?" Adam asked looking up at Sam.
"On the job." Sam replied quickly.
"He's a mechanic right?" Adam asked.
"A car fell on him." Dean replied fast. Dean was glaring at Adam so much. I wanted to kick him but couldn't reach. The waitress returned with another glass of water.
"Oh hey Adam." She said smiling putting the water down.
"Oh I'll take that, I'm really thirsty." Dean said grabbing the water and drinking it. She rolled her eyes at him and turned her attention back to Adam.
"The usual Adam?" She asked.
"Um yeah thanks Denise." Adam replied before she walked off. He reached out for the holy water and took a sip. Nothing happened and I glanced to Dean with a raised eyebrow. He just shook his head.
"So um when's the last time you saw John?" Sam asked distracting Adam from me and Dean's silent convocation.
"I dunno a couple of years..." Adam said trailing off.
"Why'd you decide to call him now?" Sam asked.
"I didn't know who else to call." Adam replied giving me another quick smile. "He's the only family I've got. My mom's missing."
"Really. I'm sorry for that, for how long?" Sam asked.
"Well it's tragic really. But if your John's kid, how come we never herd of you?" Dean asked being a douche.
"Well John and me never really knew each other. Not until a few years ago anyway." Adam said.
"What do you mean?" I asked trying to make Adam feel a little more comfortable. I could sense how Dean was making him feel scared and alone, and how Dean felt so mad at Adam.
"My mom never talked about him and then I knew some stuff." Adam said.
"What kind of stuff?" Dean snapped.
"My mom's a nurse and dad came into the ER pretty torn up. Some hunting accident or something. I knew his name John Winchester that's about it we're not exactly a nuclear family." Adam explained.
"Yeah well who is these days?" Sam asked giving Adam a small smile.
"So when did you finally meet him?" Dean asked sounding bitter and pissed.
"Well I was twelve and my mom had one of his old numbers and after I begged her 24/7. she finally called him. God when John herd he had a son, he raised to town, he dropped everything, he drove all night." Adam explained. Dean was really pissed now I could feel wave after wave of hate aimed at this kid. The waitress brought Adam's food over.
"Well that's heart warming." Dean said.
"You mind?" Adam asked Dean pointing to his food.
"Oh please dig in." Dean replied smiling. Adam put the napkin on his lap and picked up the silver wear.
"He would swing by once a year or so, you know. Called when he could but still." Dean glared at me and I shook my head this time. "He taught me poker and pool, he even bought me my first beer when I was fifth teen." Adam said smiling. "He showed me how to drive. Dad had this... beautiful 67 Impala." Adam added. A massive wave of hate hit me and I had to catch my breath.
"Oh this is crap! You know what, you're lying!" Dean snapped.
"No I'm not." Adam protested.
"Oh yeah you are!" Dean spouted.
"I'm sorry, but who the hell are you to call me a lair?" Adam asked getting mad himself.
"We're John Winchesters son's. That's who." Dean snapped. "We are his sons." Dean said point to him and Sam. Adam stared at Dean then Sam and took a deep breath.
"I've got brothers?" Adam asked sounding happy and relieved in a way.
"No you don't have brothers! Look man I dunno if your a hunter or what type of game you're playing here." Dean snapped.
"I have never been hunting in all my life." Adam said plainly.
"Whatever I'm outta here, come on guys." Dean said getting up and walking to the door.
"I can prove it." Adam said plainly.
We went to Adam's house and he showed us a couple of pictures with him and what I presumed to be their Dad.
"He took you to a baseball game?" Dean asked shocked and upset.
"Yeah when I turned fourteen." Adam replied with a smile. I smiled back as Dean continued to stare at the picture. I noticed Adam kept watching me... checking me out. "Dad was around for a few of my birthdays."
"September 29th 2004," Sam read from the journal. "One word Minnesota." Dean was focused on the picture and I felt the anger in him rise up again.
"He took you to a freaking baseball game?" Dean snapped looking up at Adam.
"Yeah." Adam said taking back the picture. "Why what did Dad do with you on your birthday?"
"Oh," Dean said sarcastically looking really pissed. He turned to Sam.
"Adam you said you called Dad because your mom was missing?" Sam said.
"Yeah." Adam said nervously.
"How long has she been gone?" Sam asked. Dean was so mad it was real hard to keep my wolf side under control. His anger fed my wolf and I found myself battling just to stay in the same room without changing.
"Three days." Adam replied.
"Who was the last person to see her?" Dean asked. The question seemed to send a wave of calm through the air, he was still mad at Adam but not as mad as he was.
"Mr Abinanty our neighbour. He saw her come home Tuesday night, but she never showed up for work on Wednesday." Adam replied. Something caught Dean's eye but I couldn't see it.
"Did you call the police?" I asked softly with a sympathetic smile towards Adam.
"Mom's supervisor at the hospital did, then I drove down here as fast as I could." Adam replied sounding upset and worried. "I should have been here..." Adam said and I rubbed his arm.
"It's not your fault." I said with another smile. Adam nodded and smiled back. Dean cleared his throat.
"What the um what the cops say?" Dean asked drawing Adam's attention back to himself.
"Not much. They um they searched the house, they didn't find anything." Adam started to get really upset. "She wouldn't leave without telling any body..." He said nearly in tears. "It's like she dropped off the face of the Earth, you know?"
"It's ok. We'll help you look." Sam said with a warm smile.
We started to look around the house in case it was something supernatural. I was in the kitchen talking to Adam. He was bright, and reminded me a lot of the guys.
"So... um did you work with our Dad too? I mean your English, so I'm confused how you fit in." He asked as I searched behind the fridge.
"No, I never met him." I replied finding nothing. I looked at Adam and he was watching me intensely. I could feel how he felt about me and it made me a little uneasy.
"So how do you know Sam and Dean?" Adam asked sitting down at the kitchen table. I sighed and smiled sitting down too.
"Um... well I met Sam when my car broke down. He helped me fix it and I went on my way. A few months later it broke again and that's when I met Dean. They were short handed and I know a little something about cars so I help them out." I lied, I wasn't sure even I believed it.
"Oh.. cool so um... are you dating one of them?" Adam asked nonchalantly. I was a little surprised at his question and smiled.
"No." I laughed a little. "Things get complicated with work romances..." We sat there in silence while Adam thought about it.
"Oh." He said with a small smile.
"Oh?" I copied him.
"Yeah... um... it's good to know." Adam said smiling at me. He was flirting and if Dean found out, he might be dead. "I was just wondering about Dean that's all. I think he hates me."
"He doesn't hate you." I lied. "He's in shock, they both are. Go talk to him. Trust me he isn't so bad." I said with a small smile placing my hand over his. Adam smiled at me and nodded.
Sam and I walked upstairs to find Dean and Adam talking. It looked like we had interrupted something. Sam had found something out.
"Give us a minute." Dean said to Adam and walked over to us and we walked down the hall. "Talk to the cops?"
"Yeah like Adam said they have no leads on his mom." Sam replied.
"Shocker there." Dean added sarcastically. I gave him a disapproving look.
"Yeah but I did find this." Sam said showing us some paper. "Um... here. In 1990 there was 17 grave robberies in Wisdom."
"Think that's why Dad came through here?" Dean asked looking at the newspaper article.
"I'd say so, check it out." Sam said pointing to the picture. In the background as a image of there Dad hiding behind a tree.
"Alright, so he was hunting something. What?" Dean asked looking at the picture.
"No idea. Those are the pages he torn out of the journal. But last month the corpse snatching started up again.. um three bodies from the local cemetery." Sam said. Dean was thinking about something.
"So whatever he was after, he didn't kill it and its back." Dean said.
"And what it's stepped up its game to fresh meat?" Sam asked. "I mean Kate's missing and um so's the local bar tender a guy named Joe Barten." Sam said passing Dean the missing poster. Dean looked at the picture and then walked off back towards Adam in the room. We fallowed him.
"Hey does your mom know Joe Barten?" Dean asked Adam who was sitting on the bed.
"Um I don't think so, why?" Adam asked and Dean turned back to us. Sam sighed and Dean looked to the floor. He noticed something under the bed and went to look. "What is it?" Adam asked getting off the bed.
"Watch out." Dean said bobbing down to take a closer look. "Give me a hand with the mattress." Dean said to Adam as he cleared the things off the bed. The guys moved it and there was an air duct under her bed, scratch marks led to it. Dean turned to me and Sam and we all raised one fist. We shook our hands one, two three. Sam pulled rock, I pulled rock and Dean pulled scissors. Dean padded like a kid.
"Every time." He huffed. "I mean your tiny, you would fit so much easier." Dean said looking at me.
"I know, and this is why I get included in rock paper scissors." I said shaking my head. "So I'm not always it."
We moved the bed and opened the air duct so Dean could get down. Dean went it and started moving around. Sam and I traded looks while we waited to see if Dean found anything. Adam looked nervous.
Dean came out of the vent and looked at us. I could smell the blood on him. I turned to Adam. "Hey can I grab a glass of water?" I asked him. He looked between me and Dean.
"I want to know what he's found." Adam said looking at Dean.
"Please?" I asked. Dean was looking at the ground. Adam took one more glance at Dean and lead me to the kitchen.
"I have a right to know." Adam said getting me the glass of water.
"No one is saying you don't. I was just thirsty." I said taking the glass and drinking the water off. Adam stood next to looking at me.
"Tell me what he found." Adam asked giving the puppy dog eyes Sam and Dean perfected.
"I don't know what he found." I said looking up to them. It wasn't a lie, I knew he found something bloody just not what.
"Don't treat me like a kid." Adam huffed.
"Dude I'm not. I don't know. But whatever it is, you have two brothers to help you through it." I said putting my hand on his arm. Adam looked at his arm and then into my eyes. He was upset and confused. He wanted answers but didn't know who he could trust. I gave him a sad smile and pulled him into a hug. I herd Dean clear his throat.
"Are we interrupting something?" Dean asked glaring at me. I rolled my eyes and walked over to Sam as Adam looked at Dean clueless.
"What did you find?" Adam blurted out.
We went back to the motel and left Adam to call the cops. The whole drive back Dean kept glaring at me. I ignored it until we got back to the room. Dean was cleaning his shot gun and I was sat researching with Sam on the laptops.
"So you and Adam seem to be getting cosy." Dean said looking at his gun.
"He's upset and when your being a jack ass to him, someone needs to be kind to the kid." I replied typing away. I herd Sam sigh.
"Yeah well there is definitely something wrong here. I can feel it." Dean replied still looking at his gun. I laughed.
"You hope there's something wrong." I replied still looking at the screen.
"Excuse me?" Dean said turning to me. I opened my mouth to speak when someone knocked on the door. Sam got up to answer it.
"Who the hell are you?" Adam said walking into the room fast.
"Adam hey, take it easy." Sam said closing the door as Dean covered up the guns.
"Don't tell me to take it easy ok? My house is a crime scene and my mom's probably dead. And you guys. You told me I gotta call the cops but you have to bail before they show." Adam said looking at all of us. "So who are you really?" He asked looking at Sam. Dean looked at us over his shoulder. "Cops didn't know where to look for my mom Dean, but you did." Adam said looking at Dean for answers. "And I herd you talking earlier, something about grave robberies." He clocked the shot gun. "You're not mechanics. I just want to know what's going on." Adam started to break down. "Please..."
"We're hunters." Sam said.
"Sammy." Dean said sternly still with his back to us.
"He deserves to know Dean." Sam said softly.
"What do you mean hunters?" Adam asked confused. Dean shook his head. He was not happy about this at all.
Sam and Dean sat and explained everything to Adam. Everything Supernatural, except me. Which honestly I was glad about. I didn't want to confuse the matter more with me in the picture. Dean came and sat next to me at the table while I continued to looking for the monster. He glanced at me as I typed and I pointed to the screen.
"You mad at him for being John's son or just because he had a better life than you?" I typed and passed Dean the laptop.
"This is family business. What are you doing flirting with him?" Dean typed back passing me the laptop.
"It's called being comforting, he's your brother, be a little more compassionate." I replied. Dean read the screen and grunted.
"So, basically your saying every movie monster, every nightmare I've ever had, that's all real?" Adam asked looking at Sam.
"Godzilla just a movie." Dean piped up. I could tell Sam was rolling his eyes at Dean.
"We hunt them. So did Dad." Sam said softly. Adam zoned out and took a deep breath.
"Ok." Adam said plainly.
"Ok? That's it?" Dean asked surprised.
"What am I suppose to say?" Adam asked.
"That we're liars, that we're crazy, no body just says ok." Dean said annoyed.
"Well your my brothers. You're telling me the truth right?" Adam asked.
"Yeah." Sam said.
"Then I believe you." Adam replied. I smiled at Adam and he smiled back until Dean started to glare at him. "Now what took my mom?"
"We're not sure. We're still looking." I said from my laptop.
"Some thing's in town stealing bodies, living and dead. But we don't know what." Sam said softly.
"It's a long list of freaks that fit the bill." Dean said looking at the floor.
"You think maybe she might still be alive?" Adam asked hopeful. No one said anything and we all avoided eye contact with Adam. "No." He said softly. "How can I help?"
"You can't!" Dean snapped.
"This thing killed my mom. You're hunting I want in." Adam asked looking at Dean.
"No." Dean said glaring at Adam.
"Dean look maybe-" Sam started to say.
"Maybe what?" Dean snapped.
"He lost his mother, maybe we can understand what that feels like." Sam snapped back. Dean got to his feet with the journal in his hands.
"Why do you think Dad never told us about this kid huh Sam? Why do you think he ripped out the pages?" Dean shouted.
"Because..." Sam thought out loud.
"Because he was protecting him." Dean shouted.
"Dad's dead Dean." Sam said softly.
"It doesn't matter! He didn't want Adam to have our lives ok and we are going to respect his wishes!" Dean shouted throwing the journal on the floor.
"Do I get a say in this?" Adam asked.
"No!" Dean shouted.
"No." Sam said softly at the same time and then turned to Dean. Sam struggled for words as Dean went to grab his coat.
"He's just a kid." Dean said getting his coat.
"Where you going?" Sam asked.
"I'm going out!" Dean shouted slamming the door behind him. Sam sighed.
"Is he always like that?" Adam asked. Sam laughed.
"Welcome to the family." Sam said.
"I'll go get him." I said getting up and grabbing my coat too.
"Is it a good idea?" Adam asked looking worried for me.
"Don't worry, she can handle him." Sam said turning to me. I sighed and walked out the door.
"Hey! Hey where are you going?" I asked catching up to Dean who was storming down a street.
"Leave me alone!" He snapped. I kept walking by his side.
"What has got you so worked up over this kid? I mean he's you're brother for crying out loud." I said and Dean stopped and pulled me out of the main street to a side one.
"My problem?" Dean shouted in my face. "My problem is even if this kid is Dad's, it's clear Dad never wanted him to get involved in all this crap! But you and Sammy seem fine to ignore his wishes!"
"Dean he's got no one but you now! What did you expect? Did you think you could get away without telling him about all this?" I shouted back waving my hands around. Dean glared at me and then huffed. "You can't protect him from the truth Dean! For all we know he could be next to go missing! We need to protect him!"
"Oh yeah I'm sure you wouldn't mind protecting him!" Dean shouted walking away from me.
"What is that suppose to mean?" I asked as he turned to face me. He gave me a sarcastic smile and shook his head.
"Like you don't know!" He snapped.
"What?" I asked.
"The way he is looking at you, flirting with, playing the I'm so sad give me a hug card! He is practically dry humping your leg for crying out loud!" Dean snapped.
"Oh come on! This is rich! You think I want to be with your baby brother?" I laughed bitterly. "This from the man who would make out with anything in a skirt!" I said shaking my head.
"That's different!" Dean shouted.
"Sure! Whatever! You are jealous of Adam. Jealous he had fun with your Dad, jealous that Sam is getting on with him, jealous that he's flirting with me! Face it Dean, you are bitter and angry at a kid when it's not his fault at all!" I shouted and we just glared at each other.
"Go screw him!" Dean said threw grit teeth and walked off. I huffed and made my way back to the motel.
I walked into the motel and got a shotgun in my face. I grabbed it and then realised it was Sam.
"What's happening?" I asked passing him it back and pulling a gun from my back.
"Not sure yet." He whispered and went to check out the bathroom. I looked around the room. The lights were out. There was banging noises coming from around the room, as if the thing was in the ducts again. Adam was stood there clueless and scared.
"It's in the vents. Go!" Sam said to Adam as we got out of the room. We ran to Adam's car and Sam grabbed the keys. Suddenly Sam fell to the floor and was being dragged under the car.
"Sam!" Both Adam and I shouted at the same time. We raced around as Dean pulled up in the Impala. We all grabbed Sam's arms and pulled.
"Can't you, you know?" Dean asked me.
"Only if you want Sam to have two ripped off arms. This thing is as strong as me Dean!" I said pulling on his arms as thing pulled back as hard as we were.
"Try anyway!" Sam shouted. I cracked my neck and felt the rush. I closed my eyes and pulled Sam free and I fell to the ground. Dean grabbed the shot gun and shot under the car at the thing. Dean turned to Sam who in turn looked at Adam who collapsed on the floor. Adam moved the car back and we went to investigate. Dean had his shotgun out and I was holding my handgun. We walked over to the man hole and looked. There was blood.
"I winged it, did you see anything?" Dean asked as we walked back over to Adam and Sam. My wolf side wasn't going away because of how Dean was feeling. I sighed and tried to avoid looking at Adam if I could. Sam sighed.
"I didn't get a good look." Sam said sitting on the bonnet.
"What the hell is this thing?" Dean asked looking at the man hole again.
"Um should we go after it?" Adam asked nervously.
"No... no. In that maze, that thing is long gone." Dean said and turned to me. "Thanks for pulling Sam free."
"It's ok." I said with a small smile. Adam turned to me and looked at my eyes. I panicked and smiled, he smiled back so I guess my eyes had turned back to normal.
"How did you do that?" He asked and I turned to Sam and Dean.
"Um... she's stronger then she looks." Dean said.
"We don't know what that thing is, but we do know what its going after. Joe Barten, Adam's mom..." Sam said.
"And Adam." I pipped up looking at Dean who nodded.
"It was under his truck just waiting for him." Dean added.
"Setting a trap and I walked right into it." Sam said shaking his head.
"It doesn't matter, you're right there's a pattern. Joe Barten was a cop, I'm pretty sure he helped out Dad. So we got him, Dad's girl and his son." Dean said.
"All the people Dad knew in town." Sam said.
"Least we know why it's back." Dean said looking out to the man hole again. I glanced at Adam and he looked zoned out.
"Wants revenge." Adam piped up.
We headed back to Adam's house to gather Adam's stuff so we could protect him.
"Grab your stuff so we can hit the road." Dean said to Adam as we walked in. Sam and I sat at the table and traded looks. We both felt mad at letting the monster get the upper hand and wanted to kill it. Dean checked Adam was out of ear shot and came over to us.
"We shouldn't leave." Sam said putting his leg on another chair.
"Yeah lets stay here were the kids mom got yanked. Good one." Dean said plainly.
"I'm serious." Sam replied looking at Dean.
"No Sam, we're going to take the kid, dropping him off at Bobby's then you me and Megan are coming back here and finishing what Dad started." Dean said walking over to the fridge.
"How? We got no leads, no witnesses. We do have what this thing wants." Sam said and I helped him bandage up his ankle.
"You want to use the kid as bait, that's why you want to stay here?" Dean asked surprised.
"Maybe this thing will come back. We could train Adam, get him ready." Sam said and I looked at him shocked.
"He could die Sam." Dean said leaning on the kitchen table.
"We could all die Dean." Sam said turning to Dean. "Even if we do kill this thing, there are tons of other freaks who want revenge. On Dad, on us. What if they find the kid and he's not ready?"
"I'll do it." Adam said in the hall way. I never herd him approach. I was a little confused. "Whatever it takes, I'll do it. I want to do it."
Sam started to teach Adam everything he needed to defend himself from the big bad's. Dean was not happy about it, he didn't say anything, but it was the looks he was giving Sam. And honestly I agreed. I know the kid needed to be protected but I didn't think this was the way to do it. I walked into the kitchen as Sam was talking to Adam about leaving everything behind and only relying on family.
"Sam can I talk to you?" Dean asked I walked in the room. I passed them and sat down next to Adam.
"Scary stuff huh?" I asked looking at a book.
"Yeah... I never thought... I mean, you have to leave everyone behind. It's gotta be hard." Adam said looking at me.
"It is at first... but I was raised a hunter, it's all I know. I know you keep family safe and if you make connections with other people to try to keep them at arms length so they don't get hurt. But it's not always easy, we've all learnt that lesson the hard way." I sighed looking at a picture of a Rugru.
"Who'd you loose?" Adam asked and I looked at him.
"First my family, then my best friend...all within a year." I said looking into his eyes.
"But you have Sam and Dean." Adam said with a small smile.
"Yeah Mr. Grouch and Emo Big foot. They are just a party a minute." I joked and Adam laughed. Dean walked back into the kitchen and looked at both of us.
"You ok?" I asked picking up and the frustration he was feeling. He didn't say anything but walked out of the house. Sam walked back in and looked at us both huffing. "See that was a good chat." I said sarcastically. "Should I fallow him again?"
"No leave him... he'll be fine." Sam sighed.
We started to monster proof the house, putting salt down, checking the vents and nailing them shut, everything we could think of. We left the vent in Adam's mom's room open so we could tunnel it out and kill it.
"This is the only way in or out for it." Sam said and we looked at the vent. Suddenly there was a squeaking of a door.
"You were saying?" Adam said looking at Sam.
"Adam? Adam!" A woman's voice shouted and Adam took off after it.
"Adam no!" Sam shouted and we chased him. "Adam wait!" Sam shouted as we raced down the stairs and found a woman, Kate, stood in the kitchen bleeding from her stomach. She smelt like a corpse.
"Adam, it's me. I got away. I got away!" She said as Adam pulled her into a hug. We both pointed our guns at her.
"Adam step away from her." Sam said cocking his.
"Sam, what the hell?" Adam shouted scared.
"Adam that is not your mother!" Sam shouted, my gun aimed on the woman's heart.
"Adam who is this? What's?" His mom kept saying looking terrified.
"Get away from him!" Sam shouted to his mom.
"Listen to me, its really her ok." Adam said walking towards Sam.
"There's too much blood, she's dead. There's too much blood!" Sam shouted.
"Its a corpse!" I shouted as Adam got the gun off of Sam. I kept mine aimed at his mom.
"Adam!" His mom said.
"Shot it!" Sam shouted.
"He's crazy! They both are!" Adam's mom shouted. Adam was just looking at the gun.
"Do I shoot?" I asked Sam. This grabbed Adam attention. He started to point the gun between Sam and his mom. Sam shouted for Adam to kill it, while the corpse was pleading for its life.
"Adam shoot it! It's not human!" Sam snapped. Adam stopped being worried and smiled.
"I know!" He said hitting Sam in the face with the butt of the gun knocking him out.
"Oh shit." I said still aimed at the woman.
"Megan put the gun down." Adam said pointing the shot gun at me. I sighed.
"It's always the quiet ones, isn't it?" I said cocking my gun.
"Don't shoot her!" Adam snapped cocking the shot gun.
"Yeah... right." I said and took aim. Adam swung the shot gun at me and I grabbed it off him as his mom dived on my back. "Jesus Lady!" I said backing up into a wall as she knocked the gun out of my hands. Adam picked up the shot gun and smashed me in the face with it. It didn't knock me out.
"What?" Adam asked as I fought his mom off my back.
"Like I said, it's always the quiet ones!" I said throwing his mom off my back and onto the ground. As I lifted my head up Adam brought the gun butt down and hit me on the head, and he kept hitting hard until I was knocked out too.
I woke up before Sam did. I was tied to a chair and Sam was tied to the table in a crucifix position. My head really hurt. I groaned and opened my eyes. Sam woke up and pulled on the ropes.
"Silver?" He said looking at Kate. "No wonder the silver didn't work your not shape shifters. You're ghouls." Kate looked up from her fingers and turned to Sam.
"You know I find that term racist." She said. Sam laughed. She went around to near Sam's head and sniffed him. "Hmm fresh meat, so much better to what we are used to."
"Hey! Leave him alone!" I shouted pulling on the ropes. She popped her head up and looked at me.
"Oh you'll get your turn." She said smiling at me.
"I should of known, it was the fresh kills that threw me. Ghouls don't usually go after the living. See you're just filthy scavengers feeding off the dead. Taking the form of the last corpse you chocked down." Sam said pulling on the ropes.
"And there thoughts, and there memories." Adam said stood next to me. "Like Adam for instance."
"Yeah well we are what we eat!" Kate pipped up.
"You're monsters." Sam said and Adam cut his arm. The smell of fresh almost human blood hit me and I had to fight back a shudder. The smell of Sam's blood was making me hungry, making my wolf side hungry. Kate started to feed off him. "You use that word a lot Sam." Adam threw the knife down near Sam's head. "But I don't think you know what it means."
"His blood, it tastes different." Kate said raising her head off the cut. More whiffs of the blood came my way and I couldn't hid the shudder any more. I noticed and looked at me for a second.
"Our father was a monster? Why because of what he ate? He never hurt anyone Sam, living anyway." Adam said and then started to walk towards me.
"No he was no monster. But the thing that killed him was." Kate said trailing a knife over Sam's chest. "A monster named John Winchester."
"Why are you shuddering?" Adam asked stood over me. I looked up and smiled.
"It's a little chilly in here, you know with all the corpses and all." I replied. Adam slapped my face busting my lip. He knelt down so that he was eye level with me and sucked my lip. I tried to pull away but he bit it so it bled more. After sucking my lip he licked his lips.
"Hmm... not human either... wonder what you are." He said standing up.
"Leave her alone. I'm the one you want. I'm John's son." Sam shouted. Adam stood there looking at me a few seconds before he turned back to Sam. He poked a cut in the side of Sam and licked his fingers.
"Thanks to your Daddy we grew up on our own." Kate said. Sam was screaming in pain and the smell of fresh blood was getting harder and harder to fight. "Least we had each other." Kate said to Adam.
"Like you and you're brother, inseparable." Adam said licking his finger again.
"Actually it was really hard to get you on your own." Kate said to Sam. "And even then you came with baggage." She glanced at me.
"It's sad Sam the only thing you can count on is family." Adam said. Kate fed more off of Sam.
"And for twenty years we lived life like rats." Kate said licking the blood off her.
"Graveyard after graveyard, all that stinking flesh." Adam said and turned to me. I stared at him as he just watched me again.
"Then we thought hey why not move up to fresher game?" Kate said walking over to the other side of Sam.
"We knew just where to start." Adam said walking over to Sam and cutting him, digging the knife in. Sam screamed again.
"Leave him alone!" I shouted pulling on the ropes again, loosening them. Kate backhanded my face.
"Revenge, it's never over is it Sam?" Adam asked still digging the knife in.
"First it was John's cop friend, then it was his slut and then his son." Kate said pointing the knife at her then Adam.
"And I called John. But son of a bitch was already dead." Adam said and Sam smiled.
"So I guess you and Dean will have to do instead." Kate said stroking Sam's cheek, Sam moved away best he could.
"Hey! What am I invisible?" I shouted getting the ghouls attentions.
"Oh no... but I think we'll leave you for desert, make you watch as we chow down on Sam here, then Dean." Kate said with a grin. I pulled on the ropes.
"Dean wont interrupt us this time, we're going to feed on you nice and slow, like we did with Adam." Adam said.
"Oh and by the way, he really was your brother." Kate added Sam pulled on the ropes. "You should know that." She added in a whisper.
"He was still alive when we took our first bites." Adam said leaning over Sam.
"And he was a screamer." Kate added then looked to Adam.
"Don't do it!" I shouted as Kate and Adam cut length ways into Sam's forearms. Blood started to pour out into bowls. The smell was overwhelming my body began to shudder and I started to feel the wolf inside me rise. I was sweating and shaking.
"Don't you know Sam, the more you struggle the quicker you'll bleed out. So you might as well lay back and relax." Adam said. The smell of Sam's blood was getting too much I balled my hands into fists and closed my eyes tight so that I didn't change and kill everything in the room including Sam.
I herd Dean shout and shoot them both. But I couldn't open my eyes. I had to fight my own battle with the wolf inside me.
"Dean they're ghouls!" Sam shouted. Another shot rang out.
"Which means head shots." Dean said and was crashed into a glass door by one of the ghouls. I could hear them fighting in the next room. I could also hear Sam's blood dripping into the bowls, his heart beat and every breath he was taking. I herd Dean hitting the ghoul. But then... it started. I could feel the bones in my body shifting, my spine was moving, the bones in my fist's were growing longer and changing. I let out a scream but kept my eye's closed in some vein hope it would stop it, just for a little longer.
"Dean!" Sam shouted. I herd Dean untie Sam.
"Come on come on come on." Dean said to Sam sitting him up on the table. "Hang on, here we go, here we go." Dean said to Sam.
"Thank you." Sam said threw the pain. The smell of the blood died down but it was still there.
"It's What's family are for right? Keep pressure on that." Dean said and rushed over to me. "Are you ok?" He asked bobbing down to my level. I just shook my head. "What is it?" He asked and reached to untie the ropes.
"Don't!" I screamed and opened my eyes. Dean looked into them and nodded. He got to his feet and rushed over to Sam.
"Sam I gotta get you out of here now!" Dean said helping his brother off the table. He turned to me. "I'll be back, just hold on." Dean raced Sam out of the house.
I felt my bones moving all over my body. I let scream after scream out but did my best to hold onto the form I was in. Not all werewolf, but not human looking either. I don't know how long I was sat there screaming and pulling on the ropes. My bones twisting one way and then another, muscles contracting and expanding. The smell from the ghouls and Sam's blood in the bowls meant I couldn't get myself to be human. I herd the door open and smelt Dean before I could see him.
"Whoa!" Dean said walking in the room and seeing me. "You still in there?" I just nodded. "Great... Mm I got no idea how to help you." Dean said walking over to me and bobbing down. "We could knock you out? Get you out of here."
"Too strong." I replied in a soft growl. My voice had changed but I wanted to sound normal it didn't really work.
"OK... ok ok I have an idea. Look at me." Dean said tentatively placing his hands on my legs. I looked into his eyes and he smiled. "Good. Ok, um.. I want you to focus on me. Look at, into my eyes. Come on that's it. Keep focusing on my eyes. Keep looking at me." Dean said and my bone started to move back into human places. I screamed/growled and Dean grabbed my face. "Keep looking at me. Come on Megan, keep looking." I looked into his eyes and felt the hunger, the anger everything my wolf side brought to me fade away slowly. After about five minutes I was as human as I ever was. Dean untied the ropes and helped me to my feet.
"Thanks." I said softly and hugged him as we walked out.
The guys made a funeral pior for their brother and Dean finished putting the last of the dry wood on it. I was sat on a fallen tree while Sam and Dean stood closer.
"Are you sure we should do this?" Sam asked Dean.
"Ghouls didn't fake those pictures, they didn't fake Dad's journal... Adam was our brother, he died like a hunter, he deserves to go out like one." Dean said pouring lighter fluid over the corpse of the real Adam.
"Maybe we can bring him back? Get hold of Cass ring in a favour." Sam said to Dean.
"No Adam's in a better place." Dean said lighting a match and throwing it on the pior. We watched it burn. "You know I finally get why you and Dad butted heads so much, you two are practically the same person. I worshipped the guy you know, I dressed like him, I acted like him, I listen to the same music, but you are more like him than I will ever be and I see that now." Dean said looking at the fire.
"Take that as a compliment." Sam said looking into the fire too.
"You can take it anyway you want." Dean said and walked back over to sit next to me. I gave him a sad smile and he put his arm around me.
"You going to be ok?" I asked softly. Dean was still looking out into the fire.
"I don't know." He replied.
So I hope its ok, it's near the end now... wonder what's going to happen :O
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