Authors Notes: Alright, I'm back with the fic! I love this chapter better now that I rewrote it and it's A LOT longer than before...and actually mostly every other chapter...anyways, hope you like it and it's good enough for the long wait I gave you guys. Sorry, blame the writers block I had!
Sam sighed, as he leaned his back against the Trans Am in the hospital parking lot and looked down at the ground. He put his head up as he heard the familiar sound of the Impala's engine roaring as Dean drove it up into the spot next to the Trans Am and parked her. Sam stood up, as Dean got out of the Impala, shut the door and then turned to Sam, "So, dig up anything?" Dean asked, as he crossed his arms.
Sam nodded, "Yeah, I've got a couple things actually." He replied, as he turned and leaned down, reaching into the Trans Am, grabbing a few files off from the seat and then stood up and put them on the Trans Am's hood, as Dean walked up and stood next to Sam to take a look at the files himself and then pulled a picture of a plant from the folder, "This plant, Silene capensis, is also known as African Dream Root. It's been used by shaman and medicine men for centuries."
Dean nodded, as he looked at the picture of the plant, and then at the other pages Sam had dug up about the plant, "Let me guess. They dose up, bust out didjeridus, start kicking around the hackey."
Sam slightly laughed, "Not quite. If you believe the legends, it's used for dreamwalking. I mean, entering another person's dreams, poking around in their heads."
Dean looked up from the papers in his hand and over at Sam, "I take it we believe the legends."
"When don't we? But dreamwalking is just the tip of the iceberg."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, this Dream Root is some serious mojo. You take enough of it, with practice, you can become a regular Freddy Krueger. You can control anything. You could turn bad dreams good, you could turn good dreams bad. "
Dean blinked and looked back up at Sam, "And killing people in their sleep?"
"For example. Let's say uh, let's say this doc was testing this stuff on his patients, Tim Leary-style."
"Somebody gets pissed at him, decides to give him a little dream visit, he goes nighty-night."
"What about Bobby?" Sam asked, as Dean crossed his arms on the Trans Am hood and sighed, "I mean, if the killer came after him, how come he's still alive?"
Dean shook his head, looking off into the parking lot distance, "I don't know." He replied, as Sam put the folder back into the Trans Am.
"Should we go tell the girls this?" Sam asked, after all Bobby was Gabrielle and Liz's uncle. They deserved to know what was going with him.
Dean put his head down, then looked back up and turned back to Sam, "That's the thing... I don't know if I want Lizzie to get into this."
Sam nodded in understanding, he knew Liz would want to jump right into everything, "You're right...with the new baby on board, it just wouldn't be good for her. Doesn't matter how early or far along she in in the pregnancy. Though, we can't just keep it a secret from them. Bobby's their uncle, they deserve a right to know."
"Sammy, I don't want to put her or the baby in danger. You know she's not going to care what's going on. She'll come jumping in and trying to give it all what's she's got to save Bobby and to prove to us that she can still fight and I don't want to take that chance."
"You're right. She shouldn't know about any of this. It'll be best if she stays out so we can keep the baby safe." Sam agreed, pausing for a moment and then he half laughed.
Dean raised an eyebrow looking at his brother, "What's so funny?"
Sam chuckled, "I don't know, it's just weird, man. Talking about a baby and all. You know?" Dean nodded, slightly smiling too, "How does it feel though...I mean, knowing you guys are gonna have a kid together?"
Dean ran his hand through his hair and shrugged, "It's still trying to dawn on me, after all I did just found out about it two days ago." He sighed, putting his hand back down to his side and leaned against the Trans Am, "Part of me is excited, but then I keep remembering that I won't be there before my kid's even born." Dean said, with a sigh as he crossed his arms. Sam frowned, it hadn't come to his mind yet that Liz was still early and that it'd be a long nine months until she had the baby but by that time, Dean would be in Hell, "Look, I don't want to talk about this anymore and we turn this into a whole chick moment."
Sam half laughed, nodding, "Yeah. Alright." He replied, turning his head and looking away.
Dean clapped his hands together and rubbed them, "Now, how do we find our homicidal sandman?"
Sam shrugged, "Could be anyone."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah." Sam replied, as he looked back over at Dean.
"Anyone who knew the doctor and had access to his dream shrooms."
"Maybe one of his test subjects or something?"
"Possible. But his research was pretty sketchy. I mean.. I don't know how many subjects he had or who all of them were."
Sam sighed, "You know, in any other case, we'd be calling Bobby and asking him for help right now."
Dean squinted his eyebrows, looking off and thinking for a moment at what Sam had said, "You know what? You're right."
Sam raised an eyebrow, "What?"
"Let's go talk to him."
Sam huffed, "Sure, I think we might find the conversation a bit one-sided."
"Not if we're tripping on some Dream Root." Dean replied, tilting his head and giving Sam a grin.
"What?"
Dean sighed, "You heard me."
Sam narrowed his eyes on Dean, "You wanna go dreamwalking inside Bobby's head?"
Dean shrugged, he thought his idea was brilliant, "Yeah. Why not? Maybe we could help."
"We have no idea what's crawling around in there." Sam protested, Dean rolled his eyes.
"How bad could it be?"
Sam gave Dean one of his serious looks, "Bad."
"Dude, it's Bobby."
"Yeah, you're right." Sam scoffed, looking up into the distance, "One problem though. We're fresh out of African Dream Root, so unless you know someone who can score some it..." He trailed, as he looked back over at Dean.
Dean lifted his eyes in half a roll, "Crap."
Sam raised an eyebrow, "What?"
"Bela."
"Bela? Crap." Sam groaned, then scoffed as he stood straight up and putting his hands in his pockets, "You're actually suggesting we ask her a favor?"
"I'm feeling dirty just thinking about it, but yeah."
"Well, then how do we hide her from Liz? If Bela's here, then Liz will find out and you know how much those two can't stand each other." Actually, it was more that Liz couldn't stand Bela, "Doesn't help either that Liz's hormones are out of wack right now because of the baby; she won't hesitate to punch Bela in the face."
"She would punch Bela in the face; pregnant or not." Dean replied, then sighed, knowing Sam was right, if Liz knew that Bela was around then all hell would break loose and it would not be pretty, "Well, why don't you just tell Elle and make sure Liz stays away from the motel?" He suggested.
Sam shook his head, "If Elle knows, then Liz will get suspicious and find out."
"Hey, Lizzie is going to be at the hospital until visiting hours are over, right?" Sam tilted his head to the side and nodded, "Then, we just make sure that Bela leaves before Liz and Elle get back. Easy."
Sam sighed, "I hope."
xxxxxx
Gabrielle took in a sigh, all she wanted was to see Bobby wake up. She hated seeing him like this. It killed her inside, knowing she couldn't even do anything either to help him out of it. She looked up, over towards the entrance to see Sam and Dean at the door, Sam moved his head towards the hallway for Gabrielle to come talk to him. She nodded, then looked over at Liz before she stood up from her chair and walked over towards the entrance of the room and Dean walked past her into the room, as her and Sam walked into the hallway, "So, did you find anything?" Gabrielle asked.
Sam put his hands in his pockets and took a big sigh, "Well, we did." He replied, then he paused looking down to the ground because he knew that Gabrielle wouldn't like what he was about to tell her.
Gabrielle raised an eyebrow, "Okay, what did you find then?"
Sam looked back up at her, "That's the thing." He said, as he moved his eyes darted to his left, looking away from eye contact with Gabrielle, "I can't tell you."
Gabrielle squinted her eyes at Sam and tilted her head to the side, in confusion at what Sam meant, "What do you mean you can't tell me? Sam, Bobby is my uncle. I deserve a right to know."
Sam nodded, closing his eyes, "I know." He replied, opening his eyes back up and looking over at Gabrielle, "I know you do, but we can't tell you."
Gabrielle crossed her arms, "And why not?" She slightly snapped, this was her Uncle they were talking about. She had to know whatever she could do to save him and she'd do just about anything, even if Sam didn't agree to it.
"We're afraid that Liz will get suspicious and want to get into it."
Gabrielle sighed, knowing that Sam and Dean were only trying to keep Liz out of the action so the baby could stay safe. She nodded her head, looking down at the ground, "Alright then." She looked back up at Sam, "Well, can I at least do something to help?"
"Yeah." Sam replied, sighing and looking up at Gabrielle, "Dean called Bela for help, so-"
"You called in Bela?!" Gabrielle yelled, in a slight whisper because she didn't want Liz to hear from the room.
"Hey, she's the only one who could get what we need for this." Gabrielle groaned, rolling her eyes, "Look, all I'm asking is that you keep Liz away from the motel and distract her until Bela's gone. Can you do that?"
Gabrielle sighed, then nodded her head and ran her hand through her hair, looking down the hall on her side, "Yeah, I'll try my best." She replied, as she looked back over at Sam, who gave her a smile. Gabrielle turned, walking back into the room, Sam took a sigh and then followed her in.
Liz and Dean turned to see the two walk in, Sam gave Liz a half smile as she looked at him and she raised an eyebrow as she watched him walk over to the corner of the room. Liz sighed and then looked back at Dean, "Alright, so then this African Dream Root stuff, that's what we need to help Bobby?" Liz asked.
Sam and Gabrielle's eyes widened and Sam looked over at Dean, "You told her?"
Dean shrugged, "She pressured me." Liz smirked and snickered, Dean rolled his eyes at her.
Sam rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, Liz smirked and gave Sam a smile, "Look, Dean already told me everything. If you guys don't want me in the action to keep the baby out of harms way, then alright."
Sam raised a brow, shocked at how surprisingly okay Liz was about not getting into the action. He thought once she knew that she'd want to prove them both wrong and show she could still fight, "You mean, you're actually okay?"
Liz huffed, lifting her eyes up, "Of course not but," She said, as she put her hand on her stomach, "I know for a fact myself that it'd be wrong to get into any of the action if I actually want to keep this baby; I'll just help with the research." Liz replied, looking up at Sam and giving him a smile.
Gabrielle laughed, not taking Liz serious one bit. She knew her sister and she knew her sister well enough to know her sister hated researching, "Yeah, let's see how long it'll take until you get bored of that."
Liz crossed her arms, "Look, I'm not fond of having to stay back and research either."
Gabrielle grinned, "Knew it." She snickered.
"Shut up!" Liz snapped, Gabrielle laughed once more.
Dean half laughed, "Alright, well Sam and I will head back to the hotel. Do some more research on the Doc, see what more we can dig up on him and his experiments." He said, wrapping his arm around Liz's waist and then the two turned to each other smiling and gave each other a quick kiss, "If you need us, give us a call." He said, after him and Liz parted.
"Actually, you call us when Bela's gone." Gabrielle spoke up.
Dean closed his eyes and winced, "Dammit, Elle."
Liz looked over quickly to Gabrielle and then back at Dean and glared, who gave her a non convincing smile, "You called Bela?" She asked, gritting her teeth together as she spoke.
Sam sighed, "Great going, Elle."
"Sorry, I thought when Liz said Dean told her everything, I thought he also told her about Bela too!" Gabrielle retorted back at Sam, who groaned and put his head back. Gabrielle huffed and crossed her arms.
Liz crossed her arms and Dean sighed, "Okay, I called Bela. She's the only person who could probably get some hands on the dream root stuff." He confessed, Liz was still glaring at him, "She turned me down though and said to try someone else, that's why I didn't tell you that I called her."
Sam frowned, "So, she's not gonna help us?"
Dean shook his head, looking over at Sam, "No. She's not."
Liz huffed, "Well, you should've figured that much. Can't trust Bela with anything, Elle and I learned that before; almost got ourselves killed because of her."
"That's why you guys hate her because you guys trusted her and then almost got yourselves killed?" Dean asked, Liz had actually never told him the story as to why her and Gabrielle held grudges on Bela and didn't trust her.
Liz waved her hand, to brush off the subject, "It's a long story, but yeah...we trusted Bela, partnered up with her thinking that she was a hunter as well, then she turned on us and we almost got ourselves killed."
Sam blinked, then turned to Gabrielle, who knew that from his eyes asking if that was true and she nodded her head, "That's why we've never trusted her again." She added, Dean and Liz looked over at Gabrielle who turned and looked at Dean, "All she had cared about wasn't saving someones life, it was more about the expensive pendant that she could pon off."
Liz sighed, not wanting to get into anymore of the story, Sam and Dean could both see themselves that the subject seemed to pinch at Liz and she didn't like talking about it, Dean wanted to find more about this story later seeing that Liz didn't like talking about it, "Look, let's just forget about it all."
Gabrielle looked down and nodded, Sam squinted his brows seeing that there was a lot more to the story than what the girls were telling, but he decided he's shrug it off for now and ask Gabrielle about it later, Dean sighed, "Alright, come on Sam, let's go." Sam nodded, turning to Gabrielle to give her a kiss and then he looked back over at Liz, then turned and followed Dean out of the room.
xxxxxx
The motel door opened, Gabrielle walked in first and then Sam right behind her. Gabrielle yawned, she was tired from spending all day at the hospital, Sam helped her take her coat off, "So, what exactly happened between you guys and Bela? Liz seemed a bit touchy on that subject." Sam asked as he walked over to the closet and hung Gabrielle's and his coat up, deciding he would bring it up and find out the whole story before they went to research any more.
Gabrielle sighed, pulling up her black hair into a high ponytail, "It's a long story."
Sam shrugged, looking over at her and giving her a smile, "I've got time."
Gabrielle half laughed, smiling back at Sam and nodded her head, "Alright, sit down." She said, motioning her hand to the table, Sam nodded and walked over to the table sitting down across from Gabrielle, who crossed her arms on the table. He looked at her, studying her every moment, showing that he was listening. Gabrielle took another sigh, then began to talk, "It was about two years after we split from you guys," She started, "Liz and I were just driving through a town after I picked up something interesting from the paper, figuring it was our sort of thing. There was this guy, Zach, only about two years older than Liz-"
"Let me guess, Liz fell flat for him?" Sam asked, seeing where this story was probably going.
Gabrielle half laughed, "Actually, it was more like, opened her legs up for him after they met." Sam made a digusting face, shaking his head back and once again hating how so alike Liz and Dean were. Gabrielle chuckled, "She did start to like him though..." Gabrielle sighed and Sam raised an eyebrow, "Well, you see...he had bought this gun, a really old gun, like 1800s Civil War gun; little did he know there was a vengeful Confederate soldier attached to that gun. That's when Bela showed up, actually at our motel while we were getting out. She said she was also a hunter, we thought we could trust her, after all we needed some help. When we got back to Zach's house, the ghost was in full metal jacket mode, nasty bastard I tell ya." Gabrielle said, shaking her head, "He managed to throw me against the wall and knock me out for the whole fight, next thing I knew I was in the hospital room, and then Liz told me that Bela had snatched the gun before she could salt and burn and then the ghost killed Zach..." Gabrielle trailed off, her voice a little weak.
Sam gave her a half smile, reaching over the table he took a hold of Gabrielle's hand, "So, that's why you guys hate Bela so much?"
Gabrielle nodded, "Mhm." She sighed, "Well...it's more like Liz hates her, since at the time she was really starting to like Zach; I thought she could finally move on from Dean. Then Bela showed and screwed everything up."
Sam frowned, feeling sorry for Liz seeing that everyone she had ever really began to love had died on her. He knew the feeling himself, he hated it and he didn't like how Liz was dealing with the same thing. There was a knock at the door, "Hey, it's me!" Dean called from the other side, Sam sighed and got up, walking over to the door and then opened it to let Dean in, "Hope I didn't interrupt anything between you two."
Sam shook his head, with a slight laugh, "No. We were just talking."
Dean nodded his head, "Yeah, talking. Okay." Sam and Gabrielle rolled their eyes, "Liz finally went to bed, I'm surprised how fast she managed to fall asleep." He said, as he walked into the room.
"Don't forget, she is pregnant." Gabrielle spoke up, "She gets tired easily."
Dean half laughed, nodding his head, "Yeah, it usually takes her hours until she can fall asleep. We got in the room and she took her clothes off and headed straight for bed and fell asleep."
Sam chuckled, "Well, she will need all the sleep she can get now. Won't be getting much after that baby's born."
Gabrielle half laughed, "Ain't that the truth. Oh, it should be fun after the baby's born and we're all woken up at all hours of the night from him or her crying." She said sarcastically, then groaned. She was hoping that maybe Liz would move down the street from Bobby and then they wouldn't have to deal with that.
Dean raised a brow, "Dude, Robby's quiet."
"But, that's Robby and he's almost two." Gabrielle added, she couldn't believe how dumbfounded Dean was when it came to babies even though he had been helping Liz take care of Robby.
Sam nodded his head, Dean looked over at him, "Once the new baby arrives, he or she is going to take a while to get use to their surroundings."
"No more sleep for Dean." Gabrielle chuckled, Sam and Dean were silent though and Gabrielle raised an eyebrow at them, "Okay, what changed you guys all of a sudden? Was it something I said?"
Sam sighed, "Elle, Dean won't be with us after the baby is born."
Gabrielle glared at Sam and stood up, "No. He will be with us." Dean looked up at Gabrielle, seeing how stern her voice went, "Dean, we're gonna find anyway we can to save you." Dean gave her a soft smile, seeing that she wasn't giving up on him just yet and Gabrielle looked at him straight in the eyes, "You will see your child born and you will see him or her grow up, I'll make sure of it with whatever I can." Sam smiled, seeing how Gabrielle still wasn't giving up on Dean and then that she was going to try anything possible to keep him alive even if he had a few months left.
Dean was about to open his mouth and say thanks to Gabrielle, but there was a knock at the door. They all looked at each other with eyebrow's raised and Dean turned to open it since he was closer. He opened the door by a crack and huffed when he saw Bela, then he opened the door the rest of the way to let her in, "Bela, as I live and breath." He greeted her, while she walked in, Gabrielle glared at her once in while Dean shut the door and then turned to Bela, "What are you doing here?"
"You called me, remember?" Bela answered, as she walked over to the table.
"I remember you turning me down."
"Well, I'm just full of surprises." Bela replied, giving Dean a smile, Gabrielle crossed her arms and Bela looked around seeing that Liz wasn't in the room, "So, where's the fourth one to your posse?"
Sam and Gabrielle looked at each other, then over at Dean, "She's asleep. Rough day."
Bela nodded, but she could tell something seemed a little off, she shrugged it off and then turned and dug into her purse, "I brought you your African Dream Root." She said, as she pulled the jar out of her purse and turned around and handed it to Dean, "Nasty stuff, and not easy to come by." She said, as she put her purse on the tv and then began to take off her coat.
Dean squinted his eyebrows at her, "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"What? I can't do you a little favor every now and again?" Bela asked, as she threw her coat over to the chair next to the table.
Gabrielle rolled her eyes, "A little favor?" She huffed, "What's the price?"
Bela looked over at Gabrielle, giving her a wicked smile, "No price."
Dean huffed, "Yeah right, I wanna know what the strings are before you attach them."
Bela turned to Dean, "You said this was for Bobby Singer, right?" Dean nodded his head suspiciously while Gabrielle raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms, "Well, I'm doing it for him. Not you."
"What exactly has Bobby ever done for you, Bela?" Gabrielle asked, she didn't like where any of this was going, just Bela being in the room made everything uneasy.
Bela turned over towards Gabrielle, "He saved my life once." She answered, Gabrielle squinted her eyebrows this time, "In Flagstaff." Gabrielle looked over at Sam and Dean who both gave her a shrug then she looked back at Bela who could see that they had trouble buying everything "I screwed up and he saved me, okay? You satisfied?"
"Maybe." Dean spoke, throwing the jar of Dream Root over to Gabrielle and she caught it then turned and walked over to the closet.
"So, when do we go on this little magical mystery tour?" Bela asked as her eyes followed and watched Gabrielle as she opened the closet door and then opened the safe and put the jar of Dream Root in it, right next to The Colt.
Gabrielle huffed, shutting the safe and locking it then turned around and shook her head, "Oh, hell no! I'm sorry Bela, but I don't trust you in my uncle's head. Sorry."
Bela gave Gabrielle a grin, "Figured much." Gabrielle gave her a smirk back and then she walked over to stand next to Sam, "What exactly do you expect me to do? It's 2am."
"Get a room." Dean spoke, Bela turned to him and glared, "Not this hotel though, I don't think it'd be best if you and Lizzie ran into each other."
Bela crossed her arms, she obviously figured out that something was up, "Unless, she's actually not here."
"Oh, she's here." Dean replied, crossing his arms, "Just sleeping in our room down the hall."
Bela huffed, "That's strange because normally, if I am correct, Liz would be here right now and not asleep. I don't see why she'd be sleeping while her uncle is practically dying at the moment and you guys are here researching. Either, she's not actually here or something else is up. I'm not stupid, you know." She gave the three all a smile, Dean wasn't about to tell Bela about the new baby on board yet.
"I told you, she's sleeping. She had a rough day." Dean replied, looking her straight in the eye.
Bela squinted a brow and then sighed, walking over and grabbing her purse and coat, "Alright, fine, I'll go."
Gabrielle sighed, "Thank god!" Bela turned around and glared at Gabrielle who smiled and waved her fingers at her. Bela growled and then turned and walked out the door, slamming it behind her. Gabrielle cracked out a laugh while Sam and Dean shook their heads and smiled.
xxxxxx
Sam picked up the three glass cups with the liquid that had the Dream Root mixed into it. Then walked over to him and Gabrielle's bed, Gabrielle sat next to Dean on the long side of the bed, Sam handed them their cups. Gabrielle took a sniff of the liquid and then shot her head back and shook it, "Oh, gross!" She gagged, "We actually have to drink this stuff?" She asked, turning to Sam who laughed at her.
"Just, drink it fast." Sam replied.
Gabrielle stuck her tongue out, not excited for what she was about to taste and put into her body then she sighed, "Well, not like I didn't try anything worse before in college."
"Oh, Elle, tell us more about your wild college days." Dean joked, nudging Gabrielle in the side, "Sure they're more interesting than Sam's here." Sam rolled his eyes, but Gabrielle laughed along with Dean. Dean then held the cup up, "Bottoms up!" He said, bringing the cup to his mouth.
"Wait, wait, wait." Sam held out his hand and stopped Dean who looked at him, Gabrielle turned and looked as well as Sam took a small brown envelope out from his shirt pocket, "Can't forget this."
"Can't forget what, exactly?" Gabrielle asked, raising a brow and watching Sam pull something out of the envelope then handed it to her.
"Give some to Dean, too." Sam told her, Gabrielle squinted her eyebrows moving her head in confusing then she looked in her hand to see that Sam gave her hair.
"Um...Sam, is this what I think it is...?" Gabrielle asked, trailing off and then taking a piece of hair and handing it over to Dean.
Dean raised an eyebrow, "Hair?"
"Bobby's hair." Sam replied, "That's how you control whose dream you're entering. You gotta drink some of their uh... Some of their body." Sam explained to them, Gabrielle and Dean both just looked disgusted, more Gabrielle than Dean did.
Dean tilted his head to the side in a slight nod, "Well, guess the hair of the dog is better than other parts of the body." He said, as he put the hair into the cup.
"Gross." Gabrielle whined slightly, not liking this at all, obviously, but she'd do anything now to save Bobby at the moment. She groaned and then put the hair in her cup, not ready to drink it, though.
Dean chuckled, then huffed, "Well, let's do this." He said, holding his cup out and the three tapped their cups together and then as if they were taking shots drank the liquid down as fast as they could and it tasted just as horrible as it smelled. Gabrielle put the cup down after taking the last sip, she stuck her tongue out feeling as if she was going to throw up and she shook her head fast and then coughed, "Feel anything?"
"Nope." Sam answered, looking around the room then turned to Gabrielle, "Are you feeling anything?"
Gabrielle coughed once more, "Just a little backwash taste, that's it."
Dean held up his cup and looked at it, "Maybe we got some bad shwag."
Gabrielle raised her head up, squinting her eyebrows as she heard rain off of the window, "Hey, when did it start raining?" Sam asked, as Dean got up and walked over to the window and then opened the curtains to see that instead of the rain falling from the sky it was going up in a different direction.
"When did it start raining upside down?" Dean asked, as he turned and then noticed the room had completely changed and they were no longer in the hotel room and Gabrielle and Sam were standing across from him. Gabrielle looked around, she knew this place, obviously she did because she grew up in it, "Okay, I don't know what's weirder. The fact that we're in Bobby's head or that he's dreaming of Better Homes and Gardens."
Gabrielle shook her head, "No. No." Dean and Sam turned to look at her while she walked around the couch, her hand on it as she moved, "I know this place."
"Yeah, Dean, just imagine the place without the paint job." Sam spoke, pointing to places he was gesturing, "More cluttered, dusty, books all over the place."
Gabrielle nodded and turned around, "It's my house." Then she nodded her head to the side, "Well, before everything had happened."
"You mean, before you became hunters?" Dean asked, Gabrielle nodded her head but didn't answer. Dean looked around, "Bobby!" He yelled in a hushed voice. Gabrielle walked over to the staircase, resting her hand on the rail and looking up the steps. The place hadn't looked this way since she was about five, memories quickly filled her head.
Sam walked over to the living room entrance, turning around to look at the windows as if he felt someone was watching him, although he decided to shrug it off a little and walked over to Gabrielle, noticing she was remenancing her old life, "You alright?" He asked.
Gabrielle looked up at him and gave him a smile and nodded, "Yeah, I just got old memories flashing through my head right now." She assured him.
Sam looked up the stairs, "Bobby!" He yelled in a whisper, then huffed and turned to Dean, who was moving towards the kitchen, "Dean?" Dean turned around to Sam and Gabrielle, "I'm gonna go outside." He said, Gabrielle quickly looked at him, not knowing if that was a good thing or not.
"No, no, no, stay close." Dean protested, not wanting to lose Sam.
"Dean's right, Sam. We have to stay together." Gabrielle agreed, not wanting to split up in Bobby's head alone.
"Dude, I'll be fine." Sam assured Dean, then looked at Gabrielle who sighed, then he looked back at Dean, "Just, look around in here. Look, we gotta find him."
"Don't do anything stupid." Dean told him.
Sam nodded and then looked at Gabrielle, "You coming with me, or staying with him?"
Gabrielle shrugged, "I feel kinda safer in here, I guess. Be careful." Sam gave her a smile, showing that he would and then turned around and walked out the door. Gabrielle turned and walked into the living room.
"Why didn't you go with him?" Dean asked.
"Strange feeling. I don't know." She answered, Dean nodded then turned around and opened the doors to the kitchen. Gabrielle followed him cautiously as they walked into the kitchen and then moved into the other hallway, while entering they noticed another closed door down the hall, "Bobby!" Gabrielle called, hoping she'd get an answer from him.
"Elle, is that you?" Gabrielle's head perked up and she turned around hearing Bobby's voice soft and frightened behind the other door.
Dean turned around, then noticed the scratch marks on the door, Dean squinted his brows studying the marks before Gabrielle opened the door, "Bobby, it's us." Dean spoke up, "Open up." He said, as he tapped on the door a little bit before the door opened and Bobby walked out, bringing Gabrielle in a hug.
"I'm so glad to see you, girl." Bobby said, Gabrielle smiled and hugged Bobby back, glad to see him again while he wasn't sleeping, "Where did you guys find me?" He asked, as him and Gabrielle pulled apart.
"Well, we got our hands on some of that Dream Root stuff." Dean answered.
Bobby looked over at Dean like he was talking crazy, "Dream Root? What?"
"Dr. Gregg, the experiments?"
"What the hell are you talking about?" He asked, before the lights flickered Gabrielle quickly looked at the light, "Hurry." Bobby said, turning around to run back to the closet door before Dean stopped him.
"Woh, woh, woh, woh, woh. What's going on?" Dean asked, Gabrielle turned her attention from the light back to Bobby.
"She's coming."
Gabrielle raised an eyebrow, "Bobby, who's coming?"
"Okay, you know this is a dream, don't you?" Dean tried to drill into Bobby's head, hoping that maybe Bobby would realize it and then they all would wake up.
"What are you, crazy?" Bobby asked, terrified apparently but of what they didn't know. Gabrielle squinted her brows as she heard the door from the other side begin to creek open and she turned to look.
"It's a dream, Bobby! None of this is real!"
Gabrielle gasped, seeing Karen standing there in the doorway entrance. She backed away and into Dean, Bobby then pointed at Karen in the doorway, "Does that look made-up?" He asked, Dean then turned around and noticed Karen standing there in a white gown with a blood stain right in the chest area and other blood marks from stab wounds above the dress on her neck.
"Bobby, who is that?" Dean asked, turning back to Bobby and then looking over at Gabrielle who now seemed terrified herself.
"She's... She's my wife." Bobby stuttered.
"Karen..." Gabrielle finally spoke aloud, but she walking back into the kitchen and living room entrance. Dean took a hold of Bobby to follow Gabrielle.
Dean turned back to look at Karen, "Why Bobby? Why did you do this to me?" Karen asked, Gabrielle stopped once she ran into the table as she walked back, still in shock seeing Karen in front of her.
"I'd rather died myself than hurt you." Bobby answered Karen, softly and as apologetic as he could sound.
"But you did hurt me, you shoved that knife right into me. Again, and again. You watched me bleed, watched me die. All in front of Lizzie too, she was only eight, Bobby. How do you think that wounded her mind?" Dean's eyes widened slightly, for one because of the fact Karen called Liz, Lizzie. He thought that only he ever called her that and two, she never told him that she had actually watched Bobby kill Karen.
Dean then walked up to Bobby and took a hold of him a little forceful to shake him up, Gabrielle was still in shock seeing Karen standing there, "Bobby, she's not real!" He tried to get into Bobby's head, then he turned to Gabrielle, "Elle, help me out here, won't ya?!" Gabrielle though just stood there, she seemed like she was about to cry along with Bobby.
"How could you?" Karen asked, Dean turned to look back at her.
"You were possessed, baby. You were rabid. And I didn't know what I know now. I didn't know how to save you...And Liz, she just, walked in...unexpected, I never wanted her to witness that." Bobby replied, trying his best to apologize.
"You're lying. You wanted me dead. You wanted to take the girls from me. If you'd loved me, you would've found a way!" Karen screamed at him, this time Gabrielle jumped and was shaken out of everything.
Bobby shook his head, "I'm sorry, baby."
"Come on!" Dean forced, grabbing Bobby, and then Gabrielle followed them into the living room as Karen chased behind her and then her and Dean shut the doors. Gabrielle breathed heavily, running her hands through her hair and stepped back, as Dean leaned back against the doors to keep them shut while Karen continued to bang on them and scream from the other side. She remembered hearing Liz run out of the house that day, how she found her hiding in the Trans Am, and then told her what she saw. Dean looked over at Gabrielle, seeing she was having a hard time functioning over seeing her dead aunt and that he'd have to again try and convince Bobby this was all a dream, "Bobby, hey! Look at me!" Bobby looked quickly up at Dean, who could see how scared Bobby was, "I'm telling you, all of it. Your house, your wife, it's a nightmare!" Dean looked over to the table next to him and looking at the lamp on the table and pulled the wire out and tied the wire around the doors.
Bobby looked at Dean, tears in his eyes from seeing Karen, "I killed her..."
"Bobby! This is your dream that you can wake up." Dean said, as he tied the wire around the doorknobs, "I mean, hell, you can do anything."
"Just leave me alone. Let her kill me already." Bobby said, as he walked up.
Dean turned around to where Gabrielle was still standing, shocked, "Elle!" Gabrielle jumped, snapping out of her memories and the shock of seeing Karen and quickly looked over at Dean, "Help me here, dammit!"
"R-right." Gabrielle stuttered, then she walked up and grabbed a hold of Bobby's hand, Bobby turned to look at her, "Bobby, you can't leave us. I won't let you. You've got to wake up from this!"
Bobby shook his head, turning back towards the door, "I should've found a way to save her..."
Gabrielle tugged Bobby's arms, turning him around, "Bobby!" She slapped him in the face, she never would do that to him ever but she had to get him to his senses somehow, "This is all a dream, none of this is real, that's what we're trying to tell you! You've got to believe us!" Gabrielle yelled, looking Bobby hard in the eyes, and then squeezed his hand, "Bobby, I won't let you die! You never gave up on me, so I'm not giving up on you!"
Dean watched the two intently, "Bobby, you've always been like a father to me. I'm not gonna let you die, either. Please, believe us!"
Bobby looked up into Gabrielle's eyes and then over at Dean, who nodded his head to the side and shrugged his shoulder, then Bobby looked towards the door and back at Gabrielle, "I'm dreaming?"
"Yes!" Dean and Gabrielle both spoke in unison.
"Now take control of it!" Dean added, Bobby looked over at him and then back to Gabrielle once again then he breathed in and closed his eyes, suddenly all the screaming and banging stopped. Dean and Gabrielle looked at each other, then Gabrielle let go of Bobby and they turned and watched as Dean turned around and undid the wire cable from the doorknobs and opened the door to reveal no Karen behind it, she was gone.
Bobby shook his head, "I can't believe it."
Dean turned around to look at Bobby, "Believe it. Now would you please wake up?"
xxxxxx
Gabrielle, Sam, and Dean all gasped as they shot up from the bed and breathed heavily, Gabrielle looked over at Sam and then over at Dean. Trying to process what they all just went through. Gabrielle looked at the cup still in her hand and then she sighed and tossed it to the floor, then ran her hand through her hair, she tilted her head to the side with a nod, "Some trip, huh?" She looked over at Sam, who glared at her, Dean blinked and lifted his eyes shaking his head. Gabrielle turned and looked at Dean, then back at Sam, "What?" Dean and Sam both groaned and then fell back onto the bed.
