Dean was too stubborn to let Ellen drive so she rode shot gun and led the way while Kim and I sat on Dylan and Sam's lap in the back. Kimberly's thought the entire drive was; please let that be his gun. PLEASE. We drove to a bridge that was completely damaged. There was no way we were driving across.
"This is the only road in or out." Dean clarified. Sam checked his cell phone.
"No signal." He said. The girls and I whipped out our phones to double check. He was right. It was a dead zone.
"You guys were right." Dean said to Ellen. "Demons got this place locked down."
"Looks like we're hiking in." Sam sighed.
"Splendid." I breathed.
"The hits just keep on coming." Dean said as we marched to find a safe way across.
When we finally got to the town, it was a ghost town. Completely vacant. All we saw were cars, empty houses, and blood. Signs of struggle. Ellen led the way into a local church. When we walked past the threshold which had a line of salt and a symbol like the one we saw at Bobby's, she turned and faced the boys. Her whole strong and brave act was gone.
"I'm real glad to see you boys." She held Dean and he returned the embrace to comfort her. Then suddenly, she smacked the lights out of him. A chuckle escaped from Kim but she covered it with a cough. "You know what can of whoop ass I ought to open on you?" She yelled.
"Ow." Dean gasped.
"You can't pick up a phone? What, are you allergic to giving me piece of mind?" she glared from Dean to Sam, to let him know he was included in the whoop ass. The shocked smile came off Sam's face when he realized she was serious. "I got to find out that you're alive from Rufus?"
"I'm sorry Ellen." Dean tried.
"Yeah, you better be. You better put me on speed dial kid." She threatened.
"Yes ma'am." Dean said respectfully for the first time ever. Me and the girls smiled at each other in shock. He actually has manners? Then, without another word she turned away and walked down the steps. Dean turned back to look at Sam. His thought: this woman just slapped me. During the drive, Ellen had explained to us that the entire town was possessed minus the people she was able to save and hide in the church. She knocked on the door.
"It's me." She said. Someone looked through the peep hole and opened the door. Men with guns, woman and children were hiding for their lives. Even a pregnant woman. She introduced us to the group. We were relieved that she too introduced us by name, not by title. The last thing anyone needed was to know our secret. Even with the six of us, there weren't enough of us to cover all of these innocents but we needed to get these people out of here.
"There was a sporting goods store we passed on Main on the way in. I bet they got guns." Dean said.
"Alright." Sam said as they dropped their bags. "You guys stay." He said to us. "We'll go."
"Wait. What about?" Dylan said grabbing his arm."
"Jo and Rufus are out there. We'll bring them back." He promised. "You guys should stay here and keep these people safe."
"There are six of us. There is no reason four of us should stay." I said.
"We don't want you guys to get hurt. We can't afford that. The world can't afford that." Dean scolded.
"No, we split in threes." I argued.
"Fine, Ellen will come with us." Sam sighed.
"No. These are our type of demons. The girls don't have that much experience with them." Dean pointed out. "Ellen stays and protects the town's people."
"Look, like you said. These are your demons, so the power of three won't help. So I'll go with you. Sam said the Ruby knife can kill demons, while those guns can't. You need me to go with you." I said.
"Fine." Dean gave in after a few beats of his pulsating temple. He wasn't pleased but I made sense so tough.
"We'll stay here." Kim said. "We have children in here and if the demons find a way to get in here, we are going to need gun power."
"And Dylan. You know how to use a gun so you should stay and help Kimberly." Dean said. "Sam, Sharnel, let's go." It was settled. Or so I thought. "Shar, can I speak to my brother alone for a second?"
"Sure." I said. "I'll wait upstairs for you." I walked up and waited by the door.
"You know what? Why don't Sharnel and I just go." Dean suggested.
"A-alone?" Sam asked confused.
"Yeah. Somebody's got to stay here and start giving them shotgun 101." Dean said.
"Forget it. I'm coming." Sam said as he stepped toward the stairs. Dean blocked him.
"No. It's going to go a lot faster if you stay here okay?" Dean said sternly. Sam raised an eyebrow.
"While you go and get guns and salt and look for Jo and Rufus? That's stupid."
"We can handle it." Sam's expression changed and he became hurt and defensive.
"You don't want me going out there." Sam accused.
"I didn't say that."
"Around demons." Sam continued.
"I didn't say that."
"Fine. Then let's go." Sam walked up the stairs. Dean followed reluctantly. I felt the tension as they walked past me.
"I'll get the salt. You get the guns." Sam said to Dean. "And you, watch our backs and stay close." He said to me. I sneered at him.
"What am I four?" I said. "Get the crap. Your ass is covered. Just hurry so we can find Ellen's daughter." Dean smiled at me. He was enjoying the hard time I was giving Sam since Sam gave him such a hard time in general. I'm the pain in the ass to his pain in the ass.
"I don't think we should be splitting up." Dean said.
"Dean, it's right there. Can we at least do this like professionals?" I chuckled and they glared at me.
"Like professionals!" I scolded. "Pay attention."
"Come with me." Sam growled at me.
"Be careful." I whispered to Dean as I walked off with 'Mr. Tightass'. I stood by the door while Sam went for salt. I thought it was stupid to stand right in front of the door so I hid behind the counter. Sam heard the door open. Two demons entered. One holding a bat. Oddly, the one without a bat went to steal a few water bottles. His back was to Sam. Sam reached for the gun, but the demon spun around and attacked. The one with the bat went around to attack Sam from the back, so I ran to the aisle hoping he wasn't already dead. The batless demon was choking him so it made it easy for me to waltz up behind him and stab him in the back with the Ruby knife. Boy do I love that knife. I didn't see the other demon standing with the bat behind me. Sam spun me out the way, grabbing the knife out my hand and punched the demon in the face. He then drove the dagger through the demon's throat.
"Ha! How do you like me now?" I said, kicking the demon. "Come on. Let's go get Dean." I walked out of the aisle expecting him to follow, but instead he stared at the puddle of demon blood on the floor and the blood on his knife and hands. "Hey." I said making him jump. "I almost forgot the knife. You okay?" I asked. He nodded so I took the knife and walked out to Dean.
Meanwhile, back in the church of all holiness, Dylan and Ellen was giving tutorials on guns. They demonstrated how to quickly reload more ammo and how to aim, but they didn't want to shoot and risk attracting any demons with the noise. We joined and Dylan forced me to pay attention. It's just because she cares I told myself. Even though she knows how much I hate guns.
"You're not holding it right!" She yelled at me. "I know you got the all powerful knife, but could you just humor me." I sighed and did as I was told. Kimberly got the hang of it pretty quickly. During our lesson, we witnessed a little tiff between Sam and Dean. Sam pushed Dean into the wall for some reason. Now that I thought back, I haven't really seen that much brotherly love between them. It's always so tense around them. There is a lot more going on than they are telling us. Sam said something and the look on his face was totally defeated. He walked up the stairs away from his brother without another word. Ellen told us that she was going to go look for Jo and Rufus with Sam. Again, we thought someone else should accompany them, but with the tension we just witnessed, it definitely could not be Dean.
"I think Dylan should go with. She's the best of us with a gun and she's taught Kimberly and I a lot, and whatever she hasn't shown us, we have Dean to take care of us."
"I think that's a good idea." Ellen agreed. Kimberly and I pulled Dylan aside to speak with her first.
"Watch out for Sam. He's tense, which means he's distracted." Kimberly told her.
"Yeah, and trust me, it's crazy out there. You three need to be on your toes." I said. We hugged her and they left. Dean sat in the corner by himself and didn't even look up as they walked out the door.
"So, what's up with you and Dean?" Ellen asked. It had been bugging Dylan also, but she didn't feel it was her place to ask. She was relieved Ellen had. Sam looked at them but didn't say a word. "It was hard not to notice," She continued. "how different things are between you guys these days." He still said nothing. It didn't seem like he was planning on answering any of those questions. "What happened? Some girl come between you or something?" she said looking over her shoulder at Dylan. Dylan didn't know if Ellen was right, but what she did know was that it wasn't any of us.
"Just the stresses of the job. You know how it is." He finally spoke and still managed to say absolutely nothing. Dylan thought that for a moment he sounded like me. Telling half truths, but never really lying. "I'm kind of surprised that you and Jo are hunting." He said changing the subject. Ellen smirked at Dylan. She knew he did it on purpose. "Didn't you always say she couldn't hack the life?"
"She can't?" Ellen said. "But if she's going to do it anyway"
"You're going to keep an eye on her." Sam said. Dylan stayed silent. Only listening to the conversation. Hey. It's not ease dropping if the conversation is laid out on your lap. Sam spotted smoke. It seemed as if it was coming from a chimney. The three of them headed towards it. From the looks of things, it was a house filled with demons. The three of them spied around the corner, through the windows.
"Guess we found base camp." Ellen said.
"Demons don't get cold." Sam pointed out.
"So, then what were they burning?" Dylan asked.
"Exactly." Sam said. Suddenly, the three of them were jumped. A male demon grabbed Ellen's gun and pinned her to the wall, while a blonde girl, pointed the gun to Dylan's head.
"Don't move you evil skank." She yelled. That's great. Put a gun to Dylan's head but she's the evil skank? Sam pointed his gun at the male demon, but the dude was fast. He gut punched Sam and took his gun while the girl wacked Dylan with it, knocking her out. Sam managed to grab the gun and pin the demon to the wall, choking him with it, but the blonde demon did the same to Ellen. That's when things got weird. Dylan wasn't sure if she was hearing right, after all she was just wacked with a shotgun.
"Don't you hurt her." Ellen said. "Don't you-"
"Give me my mom back you black eyed bitch!" The blonde demon said. Then Ellen kneed her in the gut and knocked her out with the gun. She then helped Dylan up. Sam knocked out that demon and told them to run, but another demon snuck up behind him and knocked his lights out.
The black demon stood over Sam. "Got you now you bastard." Dylan and Ellen ran and ran until they were safe within the threshold of the church. Dylan saw tears coming down Ellen's face.
"We'll get him back." She assured her.
"But they've got my baby. Both Jo and Rufus are possessed."
"The girl was your daughter. And the black man was Rufus." Dylan realized. They marched down stairs to join us.
"Where's Sam?" Dean asked when he let them in. No answer.
"They took him? Demons took him?" the pregnant girl asked. Kimberly held her to calm her down. Last thing we needed was her going into labor. "Oh my God. What if they get in here?" she began to panic.
"Could they get in here?" Kimberly asked.
"No. We've blocked off the entrances with salt and demon traps." Dean said. He grabbed his gun. "Everybody sit tight. I have to find Sam."
"Dean wait." Kimberly said. "We will get him back. We just need a plan before you go storming off into demon central." He stopped at the door and squeezed the doorknob. He then released it and sat down.
"Okay. Tell us everything." He said to Ellen and Dylan.