Chapter Five – Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

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Emma slept at the backseat of the car. She knew they two were just going to visit their mum's grave. Or at least Sam. After a while the car stopped but Emma didn't wake up from it right away. When she woke up she looked outside the window and saw Sam at a grave. Dean was at the graveyard too, but wasn't at their mums grave. Confused by Deans acting she got out of the car and went to Dean. Then she saw all the dead plants surrounded by a grave spot. "Oh that's not good…" She whispered.

"I know, right? There is something wrong."

"So we stumble upon a hunt. Of all places, here? Are you sure that's all what this I about?" Emma was standing right next to Dean.

"So? What else would it be about? Look, if you drag my ass out here that's the least we can do."

"Yeah, fine." Sam said and went inside the car, just like Emma and Dean.

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Sam sat with Emma in their motel room because Dean took off to hit a bar. "He just interprets too much into this case."

"But the dead plants looked pretty unusual, don't you think?" Emma said and sipped on her can.

"But her dad didn't give any advice to something supernatural." Sam responded. Then it got quiet.

Emma stood up. "I will get to my room."

Sam nodded, but then he suddenly held her back. "Hey, I don't have your number." Emma turned around and looked at Sam questioning.

"My what?"

"Your mobile phone number." Sam said but seemed a bit confused. "You have a mobile phone, do you?"

"N- no…" Emma answered.

Sam grinned a bit. "We should get you one."

"Why?"

Sam's grinning became bigger. "Why? Because then we can call you in case of an emergency, or so you can call us."

"Oh, of course." Emma said and looked down.

"Can I ask you something?"

Emma stood in the middle of the room and felt like being in the spotlight. A place where she didn't want to be. "Sure…"

"Since when do you live with Bobby?"

"Some years.", she answered.

"Don't you know exactly?"

"I can't really remember anything from when I was young.", Emma explained.

"So you came to Bobby without any memories?" Emma nodded. "And do you know anything about your parents." The girl froze for a second, then she shook her head. "Okay, I was just curious." Sam started searching something in his pockets, then stood up and gave Emma his phone. "Just in case something happens. Then you can call Dean." Emma nodded unhappily. "He acts like that to you because he doesn't understand. I'm sorry when Dean calls you trainee. But this was the only way to let you stay with us." Emma looked surprised at Sam. "What?" Sam asked confused.

"Nothing, sorry.", Emma said fast.

"Do you think my dad knew more about your past?"

"Maybe…" Emma had to think of the letter she got from John Winchester and she was debating if she should show it Sam.

"Because it's weird that neither you or Bobby know anything. I mean, he took care of you, shouldn't he know? You didn't just appear in front of his door I don't think." Emma put her hands in her pockets.

"I don't know." she mumbled.

"But-"

"Sam, I'm really tired. I will go to my room now."

"Sure. Good night."

"Good night." Emma said and rushed out of the motel room. Sam sat down on his bed. Emma's reaction confused him.

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"What are you doing?" Dean asked.

"I'm calling Emma, she should hear that you got facts about a case."

"What? Why?"

Sam put the phone down. "Why? Dude, we are a team."

"We can be a team another time, but this is about digging up a body. There is nothing else to do but to dig and to burn. Seriously, you want to go all 'how many hunters do you need to burn a body' on me?"

Sam sighed. "I'm going to call her anyway, so she knows, where we are." He said.

"Why are you using my phone anyway?"

"Emma got mine."

"And if I need you?" Dean sounded upset.

"I'm either with you or with her, its no big deal, man."

"Talking about weird lives and then this almost still teenager girl has no mobile phone? It's getting supernatural."

"Can we finish this job now please?" Dean grunted and started the car.

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Emma became bored and sick from all this waiting. All the boys did was telling her what they just did and what they next planned to do. If she wanted to be the general to get informed about every move she would've gone to the army. Suddenly Sam's phone rang. "Yes?"

"Get to Angela's house, right now!" Dean barked and hung up again.

While Emma was rushing to Angela's house she got another call. "Cemetery, candles, now." Dean commanded and hung up again. 'You got to be kidding me.' Emma was there before the boys and went to Angela's grave and started to lighten the candles. Then she looked at the gravestone. It was a bit awkward for her to put candles in front of a graveyard. She should do that at her parent's grave…

"Emma!" Sam and Dean ran to the girl and started to lighten the candles too. "Get into the car." Emma nodded and started to run.

"Wait!" Emma stopped immediately and turned around. Sam stood up, gave her a weapon and went past her. "If she is coming after you, shoot."

"Yes sir." Emma said and still stood where Sam stopped her. She looked around and paid attention to every noise. Suddenly she heard a shot.

"Emma! Watch out for her! If she comes, just shoot her into the grave!" Emma nodded, then she saw, how Dean ran to where the shot fell. Just moments later she saw Sam, who ran to her direction. Suddenly Angela grabbed him and Sam fell. But before she could touch him Dean started to shoot Angela and shot her into her grave, when Angela was close enough Emma joined him with a shot. But more she couldn't do, as she had froze when Angela was too close at her. Dean reacted fast, jumped into the grave and stabbed Angela with the knife. Dean came to the grave and looked down. "What's dead should stay dead."

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The three sat in the car and drove somewhere. Emma repeated to blink with her eyes nervously. Why were there so many different monsters outside? Couldn't there be just normal ones she knew how to fight? Suddenly Dean drove to the sideway, stopped the car and got out of the car. Sam looked at Emma and then followed his brother. Emma tried to hear some words from the conversation.

"I don't know how this whole thing works. But dad's dead because of me."

"You don't know that. Not for sure." Emma froze. Bobby gave her the letter right after she told him about the reaper and Deans Recovery.

"Sam. You and dad, the two most important people in my life. And now? I shouldn't have come back. That wasn't natural." Sam looked away. "I was dead, and I should've stayed dead. You wanted to know how I feel. Well that's it." Sam nodded. "So tell me. What could you possible say to make that alright?" Emma put her hands inside her pockets and felt the letter from John. But then she got her hands out of her pockets. There was no reason to show them the letter nor was there a reason to tell them about Bobby's reaction to Johns dead.

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Chapter Six – Simon Said

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"Emma? Wake up." The girl blinked and needed some seconds to recognize where she was. At the backseat of the Impala. Sam looked at her. "Come on." He said and got out of the car. Totally confused and still a bit sleepy Emma looked at Dean.

"What's going on?"

"Sammy got one of his nightmares without sleeping again. He wants to ask Ash something." Dean explained, got out of the car and opened Emma's door. Emma stared surprised at Dean. "Little early for you to sleep." He said. Emma climbed out of the car and saw that they were at the roadhouse.

"I guess." She answered and followed Dean inside.

"Hey Jo. How are you doing?"

"Doing fine. Sam walked past me, I guess he forgot how I'm looking?"

"Could you get us some beer?" Dean answered and went to Ashs Office.

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Emma sat yet again in front of a bottle of beer while Ash looked for information for them. "What's wrong? Still afraid of this?" Dean asked. Emma looked from Dean to Sam.

"If she doesn't want to you shouldn't force her to drink." Sam grumbled.

"It's just beer." Dean demanded.

Emma didn't really want to have this conversation right now, she was still really confused and a bit absent, so she stood up and went to the bar. "Nice to see you without any broken bones." Ellen said.

"Yeah, I guess." Emma answered and looked to Dean.

"Is something wrong?" Emma looked away and then back to Ellen.

"Yeah, everything is fine. I'm just tired. I slept before we arrived here."

"They should've let you sleep."

"No, it's alright. I want to be part of a hunt, really. I'm glad they wake me and let me come with them." Ellen surveyed Emma.

"Are you sure you are fine?"

"Yes." Emma drank a sip from her water and looked back to Dean. She didn't know what it was, but she felt so weird. Or it felt weird. The whole situation she was stuck in now was just awkward. And after Deans confession to Sam Dean had changed. It seemed like that he finally accepted her. Or started to accept her. Suddenly Jo turned on Reos ‚I can't fight this feeling anymore' and walked to Dean and talked to him. Emma looked away.

"I hope they take care of you." Ellen continued and glanced to Dean.

"Yeah, they do."

"I mean not only during the hunts."

"Ellen? What did John Winchester tell you about me?"

"What?"

"Is there anything? About my past maybe. Or why I got raised from Bobby." Ellen had a shocked expression in her face. "What? What is it?"

"I don't know if I can tell you."

"Tell me what? Ellen please! I have a past and I don't have a freaking clue what my past is. It's gone, everything. How-"

"Emma! We gotta go." Sam said.

"In a minute." Sam stopped and looked blankly at her. "Sorry!" Emma stood up and looked again at Ellen. "There is something I got. John Winchester gave it to me. Well, Bobby did. And-"

"Emma!" Sam yelled.

"I'm coming!" Emma repeated quickly.

"Go, we will talk another time."

"Alright."

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"And even as a wander, I'm keepin' you in sight. You are a candle in a window on a cold dark winter's night..." While Dean was singing this, Emma hummed the melody to that without noticing she did. Sam looked annoyed at her and Dean. "And I'm getting closer than I ever thought, I might-"

"You're kidding, right?" Emma cleared her throat and stopped immediately.

"I heard the song somewhere, I can't get it out of my head. I don't know, man." While Emma listened to Dean and Sam talking she spaced out a little. She felt the letter of John in her pocket which gave her an uneasy feeling.

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"A barbarian queen? Really?"

"Hey, I like that dude." Dean said and looked to Sam, who seemed to be worried.

"What's wrong?"

"This Andrew Gallagher. He is the second guy like this we found. A demon came to them when they were kids, now they are killing people."

"We don't know yet who Andrew Gallagher is. He could be an innocent."

"My visions haven't been wrong yet."

"What's your point?"

"My point is: I'm one of them."

"No you are not."

"Dean, the demon said he had plans for me and children like me. Maybe this is his plan. Maybe we are all some kind of psychic freaks. Maybe we are all supposed to be-"

"What? Killers?"

Sam didn't answer right away. "Yeah."

"So the demon wants you out there, killing with your mind, is that it?" Sam looked a bit away. "Oh come on, gimme a break. You are no murderer Sam! You don't have it in your bones."

"Last I checked I killed all kind of things."

"Things that asking for it. That's a difference." Dean answered. Emma was a bit confused. Not only that she didn't know exactly what was going on, but this wasn't a real hunt apparently. She looked outside and saw a guy with a long robe coming out of a house.

"Guys." Gallagher looked up to the girl, who was pretty hot. She waved at him while Gallagher just continued walking. He stopped and was talking to a man and he suddenly gave him his cup of coffee. Emma shook her head in disbelief.

"What is he? A magician?"

"Close. That's the guy from my vision." Sam suddenly said, pointing to a black guy.

"Okay, get to him, we'll stick with Andy."

"Yes." Sam got out of the car to follow the guy he saw in his vision while Dean and Emma followed Andy's Van. Suddenly the Van stopped and Andy got out of it and went to them.

"I got it covered, don't worry." Dean said and grabbed a gun to hide it under his jacket.

"Hey." Andy said nicely and also smiled at Emma. She tried to smile back but it didn't work well.

"Hey, hey."

"Sixty-seven Impala? The best year for them if you ask me. That's a serious classic."

"Yeah, I just rebuild it." Emma got really confused, because suddenly Dean had the hand which he held the gun before out of his jacket. "You never find a car like this, dude."

"Damn right. Can I have it?"

"Sure!" Dean said, got out and even helped Andy to get inside.

"Sweet. But you better get your girlfriend out there too." Emma couldn't believe her eyes, but suddenly Dean opened her door, grabbed her hand and pulled her out.

"There you go." Dean smiled.

"Take it easy." Andy said and drove away.

"Alright." Dean answered, looking happily at the back of his car.

"What the hell just happened?" Emma almost yelled. But right away Dean got a phone call.

"Dean! Andy has the Impala!"

"I know! He just sort of asked me for it, and then I let him take it..."

"You what?"

"He full-on Obi-Wanned me! It's mind control, man!"

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"There you are." Dean said when they found the Impala again. "I'm sorry baby, I'll never leave you again." He looked at the car. "Everything fine. At least he left the keys in it."

"Yeah, what a Samaritan guy."

"Looks like he cant work his mojo by twitching his nose, he has to use verbal commands."

"The guy, he just got off the cell phone before he sat himself in front of the bus. Andy must have called him or something."

Dean looked at Sam, then at Emma. "Yeah, I don't know, maybe."

"Come again?"

"I just don't think he is our guy. He just doesn't seem like the stolen colt killer guy, you know?"

"Either way, how we gonna track this guy down?"

"He left his van after taking-" Dean looked sharply at Emma. "Its right down there." Emma continued.

"Well, the lovecave of this dude wasn't exactly the layer of a killer." Dean said when he got inside the car, where Emma had to wait.

"I don't get the motive. The doctor was squeaky clean, why would Andy waste him?" Emma looked over Sams shoulder so she could read the papers too.

"If it is Andy."

"Dude, enough."

"What?"

"The doctor was mind controlled in front of a bus. Andy just happens to have the power of mind control."

"I still don't think the guy got it in him."

"But how would you know?"

"Its just not right about him."

"About Andy?"

"Hey!" Suddenly Andy stood at Sam's carside.

"You think I haven't seen you guys? Why are you following me?"

"Well," Sam started " we are lawyers-"

"Tell the truth." Andy commanded.

"That's what-"

"We hunt demons." Dean interrupted Sam. Emma and Sam stared at Dean.

"What?"

"Demons, spirits, things your worst nightmare wouldn't even touched. Sam here is my brother, Emma is our trainee."

"Dean, shut up."

"I'm trying. He is psychic, kind like you. Well not like you. See, he thinks you are a murderer and is afraid to become one himself. Cause you are all part of something that's terrible. I hope the hell he is wrong, but I'm starting to get a little bit scared that he might be right." Dean smiled.

"Just leave me alone, alright?", Andy commanded.

"Alright." Dean said. Andy walked away, but Emma and Sam got out of the car and followed him. "What are you doing? Look, I said leave me alone." But Sam followed him. "Get out of here. Just start driving and never stop."

"This is not working on me, Andy."

"What?" Dean finally came out of the car too.

"You can make people do things, can't you. You can tell them what to think." Sam held Dean back.

"That's crazy.", Andy responded.

"And it all started about a year ago, didn't it? After you turned 22. First little stuff but then you became better." Andy looked surprised at Sam.

"How do you know all this?"

"Because exactly the same happened to me. My mum died in a fire too, I have abilities too. You see, we are connected, you and me."

"Just get out of here!"

"Sam, you scare him." Emma said.

"Why did you tell the doctor to walk in front of a bus?" Andy froze for a second.

"What?" Suddenly Sam grabbed his forehead.

"Sam?" Emma grabbed his arm.

"Why did you kill him?" Sam continued.

"I didn't!" Sam again looked like he got a real bad headache and suddenly he lost his power and sank to the ground, while Emma still tried to support him, but the way taller Sam was too heavy.

"Sam?" Dean ran to them. "What is it?"

"Look, I didn't do anything to him." Andy said right away.

"A woman… Burning alive… She's at the gas station. She is going to kill herself." Sam stammered. Andy was confused, just like Emma.

"Going to? What does he-" But Dean stopped the asking with a short hand sign.

"He must've told her to do that."

"I didn't do anything." Andy repeated immediately.

"Yeah, not yet." But suddenly they heard and saw the fire truck rushing pass them. Dean looked at Sam.

"Go.", Sam said and Dean ran. Andy wanted to go too, but Sam held him back. "No, not you. You are staying here with me."

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Emma sat next to Andy on a van and listened to them two telling their stories. Andy was a mind controller and Sam had visions. Okay, she was pretty fine with that, she just didn't get it, why the mind controlling never worked on her. She totally spaced out and didn't even realize that Dean came back. Dean glared shortly at Emma before he started to give Sam details. 'If they are special kids and everything started on their 22nd birthday and Sam wasn't influenced by Andy's commands… But Sam said it's the same year for everyone. So far…'

"Lets go, Emma." The girl looked confused up and into Sam's worried eyes. "Are you alright?" Emma nodded, stood up and went to the car. Sam looked at her again before he got into the car too.

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"So, I got an evil twin…" Andy said, sitting next to Emma in the Impala.

"Tell us everything you know about this Webber."

"I don't know. He came here eight months ago and was acting like he was my best friend. He tried hard, a little too hard, you know?"

"But why did he change his name and didn't tell you right away when he knew?" Suddenly Sam got again one of his vision attacks. Dean stopped the car and ran to his brother on the other side of the car. "Sam?"

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They arrived near the place Sam had the vision about. "Dean, you should stay back."

"Not working on me. My head got screwed enough already today."

"I'm coming with you too." Andy said. "If he got Tracy I have to stop him." Sam threw a gun to Emma, which she caught a bit clumsy.

Dean looked at Sam. "We can't take her with us."

"It will be fine." Sam said calm. Emma didn't know what to say. But Sam apparently had the same thoughts she got, but he kept them to himself.

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Sam dragged Webber outside the care and Emma put a duct tape on him. Andy came and started to punch his twinbrother. "Stop it, Andy!" Sam said and tried to calm him down. Suddenly Tracy hit Sam with a wooden piece.

"Sam!" Emma came to him, but Sam couldn't move. Andy turned around.

"Stop that, Tracy." He commanded. Meanwhile Webber got rid of the duct tape. He looked at Emma, who just sat next to Sam and wasn't moving. Sam became a bit confused. Did Webbers power now work on her? Maybe it did that all the time, but she- "Who told you that?" Andy asked his brother. Emma now reacted again to the brothers talking.

"The yellow-eyed man. He came to me, through my dreams. He said he got big plans for us." Emma looked nervously for Dean. Suddenly Webber turned. "I can see you." Webber said and saw Dean in the woods with a caliber. "Bye bye." He said.

Emma stood up and ran to Dean's direction. "Dean, no!" Suddenly she heard a shot. She stopped and looked back, from where the shot came. Andy had a gun in his hands and Webber collapsed from the shot in his chest.

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While the boys talked to Andy Emma sat in the car. She hadn't been mind controlled at any point. Even when Webber apparently tried to do so and he was even stronger than Andy. But Andy's commands didn't do anything to her. "What are you, seven?" Sam said upset.

"It doesn't matter. Look, we gotta keep doing what we are doing, find this evil son of a bitch and kill him." Sam got in the car and seemed pretty annoyed, while Dean got a phone call from Ellen.

Sam suddenly turned around. "They never controlled your mind at all, did they?" Emma didn't know what to say and looked down.

Dean got into the car. "Roadhouse, here we come." He said and started driving. Sam turned back again and stared at the street.

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"Wanna tell me about your last hunt?" Ellen asked. Emma held her glass tight. Everything was alright. She was no special kid like Andy or Sam. Maybe it was something really simple, maybe like in this movie with the mind controlling kids, the adults built up walls in their head so they couldn't control them anymore. That must be it. "You mind your tone with me, boy. This isn't just your war, this is war. Now, something big and bad is coming, and it's coming fast, and their side holds all the cards. Now, at best, all we've got is us, together. No secrets or half-truths here." Dean looked to Sam who started to talk.

"There are people out there. Like Andy Gallagher, like me. And, uhm, we all got some kind of ability."

"Ability?" Ellen repeated. 'I got no ability either! So I need to stop freaking out.'

"The Demon said he had plans for people like us."

"What kind of plans?"

"We don't really know for sure." Sam answered and felt a bit small.

"These people outside there, are they dangerous?"

"No." Dean said. "Not all."

"But some of them, some of them are very dangerous." Sam clarified.

"How many we are looking at?" Ellen wanted to know.

"We follow this track, mother killed by a fire after their sixth month birthday-" "

That's not true." Sam interrupted Dean. Emma froze.

"What?"

"Webber or whatever his name is. I looked at his file and there was no house fire. There is nothing ordinary."

"Which breaks pattern." Ellen said while Emma and Dean sat there pretty shocked from Sam's saying.

"Which means no track and no idea how many are out there…"

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