Alright. This is way overdue. :P


Shawn lay there for a second longer, and asked calmly, "Can all of you please get off?"

He scooted out of the body pile, Lassiter and Dean helping the others get up. Shawn helped Juliet; she had that confused—yet knowing—look in her eye. "Shawn?" Even had the tone. "What the hell just happened to me?"

He leaned into her ear and whispered, "I'll tell you later," He leaned back out. "Nice reunion. I imagined it a little better, lit candles, no murderer. Oh, and Lassey," he took out a piece of coal snagged between two marks on the bottom of his shoe, "if this whole experience wasn't enough, this is some coal from the mine. If it matches the mark, then we know who our killer is."

"Who?" Lassey took out a bag, letting Shawn drop it in. Dean and Sam started for their car. "Where do you think you're going?"

Sam, still gasping, turned around. "Back to our hotel, if you don't mind."

"I do."

"Yeah. You weren't the one who just got—uh."

"Hypnotized," Dean finished. "We'll answer any questions that need to be answered later."

"Hey," Henry stopped gasping and stood up straight, "You aren't the only ones who went through this. We were all affected. Now, you both know something about it all. Don't use that whiny "I've been through so much" excuse. Tell us what just happened, because I remember everything. She didn't hypnotize me, and I bet she didn't do anything to you. She just spoke to me, and I felt like I was under some sort of spell."

Dean sighed, but smiled. "You know, I'm really starting to hate you."

He scoffed. "Right back atcha', creep."

"Everybody, everybody," Shawn got between the groups. "Dad. It can wait until tomorrow. It's dark out," he looked at Sam and Dean, "wouldn't want anything attacking from behind. And it so happens that Gus is still scared, he hasn't said any—Gus?"

He looked around. Gus wasn't anywhere in the parking lot.

"GUS?!"

Lassiter drew out his gun. "He must still be in there."

Just to prove that fact, Tabitha appeared at the tree line smiling. "Fun game. You may have survived, but not with all pieces. Play again, you earn him back."

"Who the hell are you?" He pointed the gun at her.

"That's the woman who took me out," Juliet said, "She got me from behind."

"She also claimed to be 'attacked from behind.'" Henry clenched his fists.

"But we won your stinking game!" Shawn cried out. "We all won our lives."

She shrugged. "I'm getting desperate. And lonely. Technically, you all didn't win your lives, just you and Dean won. I guess the cop, too. The others were my pawn pieces. Take your time. As a matter of fact, take a day. I want to prepare myself for the oncoming company." She disappeared into nothing. Her voice echoed from deep inside the forest: "Come in tonight, the only thing you'll get is lost."

Those who didn't already know about the supernatural were dumbstruck. Lassey even dropped his gun, arms still out, eye twitching. "Shawn?!"

"Yeah, yeah. We already told you, she's a witch named Tabitha. Pretty ironic, if you ask me."


Short, but it should pick up now (she says for the upteenth time).