Chapter Nine - Playthings

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"And what should we do with her?"

"She can be our sister."

"I don't think that is a good idea." Dean said.

"I want to investigate on my own." Emma suddenly said.

Dean stopped in front of the gates of the house. "No."

"What? Why not?"

"Its too dangerous."

"But isn't that what you guys always wanted? I mean, I'm a trainee apparently, shouldn't I also do stuff alone sometimes."

Dean looked like he was thinking. "Okay."

"Super." Emma smiled and wanted to get outside the car.

"Dean! Emma, no!" Emma froze and Dean looked at his brother.

"You got to be kidding me…" Emma grunted a bit upset.

"But it really is too dangerous. We don't know what we are dealing with here." Sam said. "So you will stick with us."

"I will, from time to time. Sam, there is nothing dangerous, you guys will be around and I can take care of myself too." Emma defended her plans.

"Look, when I left Ava alone she went missing, hijacked from a demon. The same could happen to you. I don't want this to happen."

"That is ridiculous. I'll see you guys in the evening." Emma said and got out of the car.

"Great." Sam sighed.

"She's right, that is ridiculous. Why are you such a helicopter mum all of the sudden?" Sam didn't answer and the two waited and watched Emma entering the house.

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"Good morning." A nice woman said, while Emma went to the front desk.

"Hello. I'd like a single room if you got one for me." Emma said and reached for her purse to get the credit card. She shook a bit. Lying, without help of the boys was something new to her and she got a bit excited.

"Of course." The woman took Emma's card while she looked around. "Are you looking for anything special? Because you should be quick, this house wont be a hotel much longer."

"What? Oh no, not really. Well, my grandma told me about this place. Her and my granddad had their honeymoon here. So I finally got around to have a look at this place. It's really lovely."

"Oh yeah it is, isn't it. Such a romantic place, no wonder that your grandparents had their honeymoon here. Do you know which room they had?"

Emma froze for a second. She thought about her lie, but she didn't think it through. "Err, gran always called it the honeymoon suite, so I don't really know." Emma answered as quickly as she could.

"I see. Well, I guess you will be around here. If you need someone to guide just tell me."

"That is very sweet of you. I really want to look around a bit more. It's like a jump back to the past, you know."

"Yes, it indeed is. Okay, here is your key, I hope you enjoy your stay Miss Blake."

"Thanks." Emma took her suitcase and went upstairs.

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Emma went through the hall and looked at the different pictures at the wall, suddenly a little girl ran into her. "Oh, sorry Miss."

Emma smiled. "Nothing happened, don't worry. Why are you in such a hurry?"

"I'm playing hide and seek with Maggie, I have to hide." The girl answered.

"Oh, okay, then I don't want to interrupt you with your playing." Emma said.

"She always finds me anyway."

"She does? Aww, I'm sorry. Well, I was never good at hiding either." Emma grinned.

"Do you want to play with me? I'm Tyler, who are you?"

"I'm Emma. Sure, we can play. I just don't want Maggie to get mad."

"No, no, she won't, I promise." Tyler said. "Now turn around and count!"

"Okay, okay. One, two, three, four." Emma counted and Tyler ran and hid, while Maggie was watching them with an unhappy face.

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Emma was just on her way back to her room when a hand suddenly grabber her and dragged her into a room. Shocked she turned around and saw Dean and Sam. "Damn, that scared the hell outta me." Emma said.

"So, what did you find out?" Dean asked.

"Well…"

"Well?"

"I didn't really… find something out…"

"What? What did you do all day long?"

"I- I was looking around the house…"

"And?" Emma got quiet. She better wouldn't mention that she played games with Susan's daughter. "Didn't you ask anybody? Do you know what investigating even means?" Dean got a bit angry.

"Dean, let it go."

"I'm sorry, I just didn't know what to look for."

"Apparently so. Sam fill her in, I'll go to investigate a bit more." Dean left the room.

Emma sat on Sam's bed and he told her what they figured out so far. "Thank you, Sam." Emma said and stood up.

"Emma, wait."

"What for?"

"The first time hunting on your own is a bit tricky, Dean wasn't a pro at the beginning either, of course not."

"It's fine, Sam. I know I messed up, but I'll try to improve." Emma said and went to the door.

"You'll do fine I'm sure."

"Mhm." Emma responded and went outside.

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Back in her room Emma took a shower. All she did today was freaking nothing. She played with Tyler. And she had to admit: it was a lot fun. She never really got to play hide and seek or anything like that. And she enjoyed it. But she wasn't here to make up for her lost childhood, she was here because people died. Emma closed her eyes and looked up, so all the warm water ran over her face. Sam tried to defend her acting, but Dean was right, she didn't do anything today and he got all right to be mad at her. She didn't even talk to anyone in the house about the past of the hotel or anything. Suddenly Emma opened her eyes. But she could talk to Tyler about it. She maybe didn't know much, but it was worth a shot.

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"Hey Tyler." Emma greeted the girl.

"Emma! Hi!" Tyler said happily. "Do you want to join my tea party?"

"Sure." Emma grinned and sat down. "Thank you.", she said after Tyler filled Emmas cup with imaginary tea.

"Most welcome." Tyler smiled and continued filling other cups.

"Why is no one sitting in this spot?" Emma asked.

"It's reserved for Maggie but she hasn't showed up yet."

"Oh, too bad, maybe she will later." Emma said and sipped the tea. "You don't like it much that you guys are moving, do you?"

"I hate it, so does Maggie. Maggie says that when I leave that she can't come with me, so we can't play anymore." Tyler said.

"That's pretty sad. You like Maggie a lot it seems."

"Yes, she showed up a while back, after gran became sick, so we became bff's." Tyler said.

"That is so sweet, that Maggie is there for you."

"Yeah, since grannys stroke I didn't have anyone to play with."

Emma nodded and looked around. "But you know, I'm sure that when you move you will find new friends soon. It's pretty lonely here, isn't it?"

"Oh yes it is. People think this house is scary. But I love it here, I have so much space to play."

"But when you got new friends you can play at their place, its space too." Emma said. She knew how Tyler felt, she experienced that herself.

"Hey Maggie! Come, sit down." Tyler said suddenly. Emma looked around, then she understood, Maggie was imaginary.

"Hello Maggie, nice to meet you." Emma said to no one.

"Can you see her?" Tyler wondered.

"Sadly not, I would've loved to meet her in person though."

Tyler smiled and looked at a spot. "No Maggie, Emma is really nice!"

"Oh no, did I make her jealous? I'm sorry Maggie, that wasn't what I wanted to do."

"See Maggie, she doesn't want to split us apart." Emma frowned. "Stop it Maggie."

"I better go now, I don't think Maggie likes it when I play with you." Emma said and stood up.

"But Maggie, she only wanted to join the games, three people is more fun, really. No, she didn't say we should leave you alone. You know I would never leave you."

"I'm really sorry I upset you Maggie. I'll go now." Emma said.

"Bye, Emma."

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"Emma!" The girl turned around and suddenly Sam hugged her. Emma reacted confused. "At least you are okay." Sam said. Emma felt a bit weird but she still enjoyed the hug somehow.

"W- why wouldn't I be okay?"

Sam let her go again. "There was this puppet and it just looked like you."

"What? A puppet?" Suddenly a cupboard moved slowly and started to fall. Sam reacted fast and pushed Emma away, she slipped and fell while the cupboard hit the ground and the place Emma stood a second ago.

Sam came to her and helped her up. "Are you all right?" Emma nodded. "Are you sure?"

"Yes, don't worry. But why did that happened? I thought all victims were connected with the moving out of the house. How do I fit into this pattern?"

"Emma?" Dean now ran over to them. "Everything fine?" Dean asked and looked at the Cupboard.

"Yeah, everything is fine." Emma said and wandered back to the boy's room, Sam and Dean followed her. "What did I do?" She sat on Dean's bed.

"You tell us." Dean responded and stood near the window, looking at Emma.

"What?"

"Apparently you did something while we left you alone. We should never have done that. If it wasn't for Sam you would've been buried by a cupboard."

"Dean!"

"Stop that, damn it! I didn't do anything. I was playing with the daughter. There, yes, I didn't do anything but playing."

"That's just perfect! We are in real danger here and you play with the kids." Dean yelled.

"Kids? I only played with Tyler, there are no other kids." Emma said confused.

Dean stopped walking around and stared at her. "Come again?"

"What?" Emma still didn't know what was going on and what Dean meant.

"What's with Maggie?" Sam asked now.

"Maggie is her imaginary friend, she isn't real." Sam looked like he was thinking, while Dean said:

"What did Tyler tell you about Maggie?"

"I don't know, Maggie got angry at me because I was talking to Tyler about how she will find new friends when she will move. Tyler said that Maggie can't move with them and…" Now Emma realized what was going on. "She is a ghost! And she always has been around, the hoodoo, the grandma practice it to keep Maggie away from Tyler!"

"What?" Dean didn't understand fully.

"Tyler said Maggie appeared shortly after her grandmas stroke. It was all Maggie. And because Maggie doesn't like me she tried to hurt me too." Dean got up and stormed out of the door, Sam and Emma followed him.

"What else did she say?" Sam asked.

"Uhm, something like Maggie doesn't want to be split from Tyler. Of course not, then she would have no one to play with."

"She's going to kill her!" Sam said.

"Sherwin said that Rose's sister, Margret died because she drowned in the pool." Dean said now while they got downstairs.

"The pool house is right next to the hotel." Emma said and they hurried outside to get to the pool house. They were standing in front of the glass house and tried to get inside, but the door was closed.

"Tyler!"

"Emma!" Tyler was hanging at the ledge, looking to Emma.

"Tyler, don't move! We come and get you!"

"Sam, keep on trying, we'll try to find another entrance." Dean said and he and Emma surrounded the pool house to find another door, which they did. Dean pounded on the door.

"Come on Dean, try harder!" Emma said.

"I do!" He yelled and finally got inside. The two ran to the pool where Sam just saved Tyler and he swam to them. Emma helped Tyler to get outside of the pool.

"Hey there, everything fine?" Tyler nodded while Emma hugged her relieved.

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"Thank you guys a lot for saving my daughter. I don't know why she did that, maybe she was really desperate." Susan said and touched gently Sam's arm.

Emma felt uncomfortable, looked away and saw Tyler coming out of the house, so she went to her. "Hey, little one. Everything fine?"

Tyler nodded. "Yes, everything is all right."

"And you are sure you can't see Maggie anymore."

Tyler looked around. "Yeah, she is gone."

Emma smiled. "Don't worry, like I said, I'm sure you'll find fast new friends."

Tyler hugged Emma. "It was a lot fun playing with you." Tyler said.

"Yeah, it really was."

"I'm going to miss you." Emma froze for a second because of this saying.

"I'll miss you too. Now, chin up, I'm sure you'll do great."

"Bye Emma." Tyler finally let her go and went to her mum.

"Can we go now?" Dean asked.

"Sure." Emma climbed inside of the car.

"Think you could have hooked up some MILF action there, bud. I'm serious, I think she liked you."

"Yeah, that's all she needs." Sam said calm.

"Well, you saved the mom, you saved the girl. Not a bad day. 'Course you know, I could have saved them myself, but I didn't want you to feel useless."

"All right, I appreciate it."

"Feels good getting back in the saddle, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, it does. But it doesn't change what we talked about last night, Dean." Emma listened attentively.

"We talked about a lot of things last night."

"You know what I mean."

"You were wasted."

"But you weren't. And you promised." Dean got quiet. So apparently they wouldn't say what they talked about. "And I think you owe someone here an apology." Sam continued. Dean sighed.

"He doesn't have to apologize to me." Emma said.

"Of course."

"No, he doesn't. I was just goofing around and I didn't investigate. I was unprofessional. And I'm sorry for that."

"Well, if it wasn't your goofing around we wouldn't have known early enough what was going on. But you saved the kid and Maggie is gone now too." Dean said. Emma smiled slightly. "Don't get me wrong, you shouldn't continue doing work this way, we were just lucky."

"We are constantly lucky." Sam interrupted.

"Let's get out of here." Dean said. Emma smirked a bit. In Dean's weird world he just praised Emma, at least that's what Emma thought. And that was good enough for her.

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