As she pulled into Bangor, Maine and up to a motel on the outskirts of town she turned her car off and looked at her sleeping passenger. She pulled out another bottle and took a deep drink, she couldn't help the feeling a dread pushing itself into her head. She didn't notice Jason had awoken until he touched her arm startling her.
"What are you thinking, Love?" She shook her thoughts away, and put the cap back on her half filled bottle of cold blood. She didn't want to talk, all she wanted was to get into what crappy hotel room she was going to get and warm up her blood.
"Nothing I'm tired" Getting out of the car she knew he would try to pry. He exited the car and followed her into the lobby of the Plains Inn and got a room with 2 single beds. Bunking with him would save them money and he could monitor how fast she drank the blood he had gathered for her. Opening the door to Room 314 she didn't even take a second look at the horrible light blue wallpaper that was peeling from the walls or the nautical theme the room had she was used to it. She dumped her duffel bag of clothes on the floor next to the bed closest to the door subconsciously, so she could protect the other occupant in the room. She put the duffel bag full of the blood on the table and plopped down on the bed wanting to relax without her thoughts.
Jason sat down at the table running his hands over the duffel bag and peeking in seeing she had already drank 2 bottles of the blood. He knew he would have to get her more soon if they kept going at this rate. He looked at her laying on the bed, their relationship , if you could even call it that was complicated and twisted at its best. He had some sort of feeling for her, most of the time it was hate but sometimes it was something entirely different he knew he had played a big part in her downward spiral and her eventual separation from the Winchesters. He had only met them once when he was making a blood run for Madison, they had caught him draining a witch and tried to kill him but he was able to convince them that he was just a amateur witch and had heard witch blood was powerful and that he meant no harm since the witch had died at their hands anyway. They let him go not giving him a second thought, but he would never forget looking into Dean Winchesters eyes and feeling hatred for the man he knew was with Madison and knowing that they were happy and he couldn't help but feel jealousy in the thought, but he felt a certain smugness also knowing that he was the man helping Dean's 'perfect girl' go down a path that would end up hurting the brothers.
He got up and sat down next to Madison being careful not to convey anything that was sexual, even if his first thought was to run his hands over body and take her to make her forget all about Dean Winchester.
Running his hand through her hair, trying to give her some sense of comfort he asked the one question that he knew he wouldn't want a true answer from.
"What's going on in your head?" She looked up at him and gave him a tired smile.
"My head is a terrible place to be right now." She said shaking her head and getting up from the bed. Walking over to the table she glanced down at the bag and pulled her phone out and had to fight the urge to call Dean. She threw the phone back on the bad turning it off, she knew she could call Sam and convince him that what she was doing was to protect them, him of all people would understand and could probably get Dean to at least talk to her but as she glanced back at her phone she saw the folder containing the information for the case and decided she would focus all her attention and effort into killing whatever killed that couple. She picked up the folder and sat next to Jason who had moved to his bed.
"So do you want to go check on the place now or wait for tonight?"
"Its up to you, I know your tired you could get some rest and I could go into town and see if they know about who our ghost could be"
"You sure you can handle that all alone" She said smiling at him. She knew Jason was a good hunter, that he had come from a long line of hunter. It wasn't until his dad Gus started teaching him the magic's that his grandfather had taught his dad when he was a little boy, did he learn how powerful and addicting magic was. He didn't drink witches blood like Madison but he didn't need it, he was powerful enough of a hunter to not need to use magic all the time. He smiled at her and got up gathering his worn in black leather jacket.
"I'm sure ill be fine, but if I get into any trouble you can come save me. Can I take your car since you made me leave mine?"
"That's wasn't your car you probably stole it from some poor old lady"
"I would never steal from a old lady, I do have some morals" She scoffed at him and dug in her pocket to fetch her keys, holding them out she snatched them back as he went to grab them.
"Don't hurt my girl" He grabbed the keys and started to the door.
"I would never hurt a girl Maddie you know that" She looked at him with sad eyes, only the boys and her dad ever called her Maddie. As Jason left she stripped down to her panties and walked into the bathroom, washing her face to try to get the tiredness out of her eyes she knew sleeping would prove to be hard but she had to try. With everything that had happened in the past 24 hours she just wanted to be numb to the world for a couple of hours, no pain, no thoughts, and no memories of the men she lost to her own selfish habit.
2 hours later Jason pulled up to the motel turned the car and sat back in the seat, going into town was a bust, nobody had known anything, he checked the library and found that there were no previous hauntings, he was starting to think this wasn't their kind of thing. He pulled out his phone, getting out the car dialing the number as he leaned against the drivers door.
"Hello"
"Hey dad how are you?"
"Jason where are you I thought you were going to come down and help with things at the center"
"Yea something came up" he said glancing at the door where Maddie was either sleeping or drunk.
"Is it Madison?"
"Yea the boys found out, so we're on a hunt in Maine trying to keep her mind off it"
"How is that working?"
"She's seems ok, almost too ok I don't think it's hit her yet I guess"
"Well when your finished up there you should bring down here maybe she could help at the center" Running a hand through his hair he knew Madison would never agree to go talk to a whole bunch of strangers about her powers.
"Yea we'll see about it I'll run it by her"
"You do that it might be a nice distraction for her"
"Ok well let me go I gotta make sure she hasn't drowned herself in a bottle of Scotch"
"Alright son hopefully ill see you soon"
"Bye dad" Hanging up the phone he walked to the room and found that the door was unlocked, he pulled his gun out, he knew no hunter would leave their door unlocked for fear of anything inviting themselves in. He pushed the door and saw that the salt line was undisturbed, walking further in the room he saw Madison under the covers. He relaxed putting the safety back on his gun and placing it on the table, he looked over at her and saw that she was breathing slowly. He was glad that she could at least rest a little, he was hoping that it would help her deal with this stuff, he was never one to deal with someone emotions but he knew she would have to get over and accept what happened with the boys.
"Did you find anything out?"
"I thought you were sleeping"
"I wasn't sleeping I was resting" She had tried to sleep but every time she closed her eyes she saw his and she had seen the anger and hurt and disappointment in them the last time she saw him.
"I thought the agreement was that I would go out in the hot sun and find out who our ghosty was and you would sleep" She looked up at him getting off the bed and grabbing the bottle on the nightstand and tossing it in the trash. She had wanted to grab another one and just chug it but she knew she would have to finish up this case before she could even think about running out. She grabbed her duffel bag of clothes and set it on the toilet and started the shower letting it run to get hot.
"That was all your idea, I wanted to go check out the hospital"
"Uh huh, well I didn't find out anything I think it might be a bust"
"Did you check the papers to see if there has been something like this before?"
"Yea there's nothing, I was thinking we can go get some lunch and then try to keep digging"
"Yea ok I'm going to grab a shower and after lunch we can go over to the hospital and see if anything try's to kill us"
"Deal, go hurry up I'm hungry and the longer you stand here the more I'm going to want to jump in the shower with you" She looked at him and smiled a little she knew he was trying to make her feel better but she really wasn't trying to deal with. She was doing what she knew she was running from her feelings and wasn't about to start talking about them.
"Then I should hurry up I would hate for you to scar me for life" Walking into the bathroom she heard him chuckle.
As the door to the bathroom closed Jason got up and walked to his bed pulling off his shirt and searching in his duffle bag for a clean one. He was anxious to finish this job and head back to Texas, hopefully with Madison to help his dad train young hunters, his dad being a witch he knew he could teach Maddie a thing or two about using powerful magic and not getting lost in it. A phone vibrating pulled him out of his thoughts, He looked around trying to locate the phone, he saw it wasn't his so he figured it was Madison's, he walked over to her bed and pulled the sheets back and saw the phone peeking out under her pillow he grabbed the phone and saw that it read Sam, he didn't know if he should answer it or get Maddie, he was almost willing to get her just to see her dripping wet and wrapped in a towel. Before he could make up his mind the phone stopped vibrating he let out a breath, he went to throw the phone on the bed but it started to vibrate again and this time he saw the name Dean flashing on its screen. He felt anger and jealousy build up in him and he didn't even think twice of flipping open the phone.
"Hello" He heard Dean take a sharp breath.
"Who the hell is this?"
"I'm sorry were you looking for someone?" He smiled knowing that he was working Dean up and he loved that he was pushing his buttons.
"Look I don't have time to play games where is she?"
"She's in the shower right now can I take a message" He heard Dean hang up the phone and bit back a laugh. He put the phone back on the bed and heard the shower turn off, he started freaking out a little, what would Madison say when she found out that he had answered the phone. Before he could think about what he was going to do Madison came out of the shower fully dressed and pulling her hair up into a ponytail.
"You ready?" He looked at her and decided he would just deal with it when she found out.
"Yea lets go I'm hungry" He waved his arm to the door so she could walk in front of him. As she passed him he could smell the vanilla cinnamon body wash she had used and he felt his heart start to race, all he could think was that he was fucked. They were walking over to her car when her phone started vibrating she stopped and took a deep breath. Seeing Dean light up on her phone almost stopped her heart she didn't know what to do, she knew if she answered she could explain everything and that they would forgive her but she knew that would want her to stop drinking the blood and that was something she wasn't ready to give up yet, she wasn't strong enough yet. She let the phone stop vibrating before walking over to the drivers side, she didn't open the door she just stood there with her hands on the hood and her head down, she was physically hurting, she felt her heart twisting and telling her how stupid and selfish she was and that she was just hurting herself. She looked up at Jason and saw the look of concern on his face she gave him a small smile and she gave him a nod indicating that she was fine. She opened the car door and slid in the seat, Jason got in and looked over at her.
"You want me to drive?"
She shook her head. "No, I got it there's something I gotta do"
He looked at her confused when she got back out of the car and bent down by the front wheel, she got back in the car starting the car she took a very weary breath and put the car in reverse. He knew what she had just done and was in a way relieved, she would never find out about the phone call and maybe she could finally move on from all this. She took a couple seconds to rethink herself until she finally decided it was the right thing to do and stepped on the gas, they could hear her phone getting crushed under the weight of the car and she let out a breath that she didn't even realize she was holding and felt her heart become heavy and light at the same time. She had just broken off communication with the boys for the first time in all the years she knew them and because now she didn't have to worry about pleasing anyone or disappointing anyone she was finally free to do what she wanted and become one powerful ass witch and that thought alone made her smile.