I got this chapter done a lot faster than I thought I would! Hope you all like it! (Also If you haven't read my other story, Seven Devils, you will be a little confused)


"Hey Bobby," Harper greeted as soon as Bobby picked up the phone. "It's Harper…"

"Yeah?" Bobby asked in reply. He always sounded grouchy, but Harper knew he truly cared about her.

"Real quick, when was the last time you heard from Dean?" Harper asked, crossing her fingers that he'd heard from them at some point in the last month. Dean hadn't answered any of her phone calls and she was just hoping that he had lost his phone or something.

"I haven't heard from 'em since that demon army hunt," Bobby replied. Her heart sank at the news. She hadn't heard from Dean since then either. That really wasn't the part that worried her though. They usually went for long periods of time without talking to each other, but they always returned each other's calls.

She took a deep breath, "Ok, just wanted to check…Thanks Bobby."

She started to hang up, but Bobby stopped her, "Wait! What's goin' on?"

"Umm…I'm not really sure yet, but I'll keep ya posted…" She hung up before Bobby could say anything else or before her passenger could speak. She didn't want Bobby to know she was traveling with a demon, in fact, the very demon who was going to lead the demon army.

"So, that grouchy old man hasn't heard from them either…what a shock," Tera said sarcastically.

"What was the deal?" Harper asked harshly.

"Hey! I didn't say anything that whole phone call! Cut me some slack!" Tera defended, raising her chained hands up in surrender. She started to reach for the radio, but Harper slapped her hands away.

"What was the deal?" Harper ground out between clenched teeth. Shooting Tera a quick glare before she looked back to the road.

"Shut up or else I go back in the trunk," Tera replied with a smirk. Harper looked over at her with her eyebrows raised.

"So shut up," Harper hissed.

It was quiet again and Harper was grateful. She hadn't been joking when she'd told Dean's voicemail that it was urgent. She had been hunting a demon, but she hadn't known that it was Tera until she caught up to her. It was too easy to actually trap her in a Devil's Trap and Harper knew it, but she wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth. She didn't know what game Tera was playing, but for now she had her hands full.

Harper had been able to trap her, but she couldn't exorcise her. She couldn't stay in the same spot forever so she had to come up with a way to keep Tera trapped but move her at the same time. She'd ended up carving a couple of Devil's Traps onto a pair of handcuffs and slapped them on her. After that, she'd thrown the demon into the trunk of the car that she'd gotten from Bobby and moved on. The only reason Tera had moved from the trunk to the front was because every time Harper stopped, she would pound on the top to try and draw some attention.

She didn't really know where to start on her search for the Winchesters. She'd already tried calling Sam and Alec's phones, but they'd both gone straight to voicemail. Dean's was the only one on, but he never answered and he had the GPS off. She should've figured out something was wrong sooner, but she hadn't. Now she really didn't know what to do.

"Now what are you going to do?" Tera asked in amusement.

"What don't you get about 'shut up'?" Harper asked, practically seething. Tera had asked the same question she'd been asking herself, but she wasn't about to tell Tera that.

Tera huffed and then sat back in her seat. She was only quiet for a second until she said, "I'm genuinely curious how you plan on finding them. I mean, you have nowhere to start and no one, and by no one I mean the one person you called, knows where they went, so really, how are you going to find the terrible trio."

"Would you shut up!? Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you," Harper replied angrily. Dammit, she didn't mean to admit that.

Tera grinned, enjoying poking and aggravating her captor. And she was playing right into it.

Harper took a deep breath to try and calm herself down. She needed to find a place to pull over and start searching. They were currently driving through the state of Iowa down toward the state of Missouri. She was just about to stop for the night to do some research on any possible cases the boys might have been working on.

"Do you not trust me?" Tera asked with a smirk. She shouldn't answer, she knew that, but she couldn't help it.

Harper's eyebrows drew together and she stated like it was obvious, "You're a demon."

"Yes, very good observation," Tera replied. The demon was very good at getting under her skin.

"You tried to kill me and my friends," Harper said incredulously.

"Well, it is part of the job description. No hard feelings." Tera said with a shrug, like it was no big deal.

"Just wait until I find a way to kill you," Harper mumbled.

"Good luck with that!" Tera said with a laugh.

Harper didn't say anything in reply; if she just ignored the demon maybe she would stop talking. She had already tried to exorcise Tera, but it hadn't worked. She'd never come across a demon this strong before, which was why Tera was still with her. She was looking for a way to kill her, but so far she didn't have anything.

She thought that the boys might know and if they didn't, they would find out. Sam could research anything and she knew he would find a way to take Tera down. Either him or Alec. The transgenic would be pissed at seeing the demon again. She had had him possessed and acting as her second in command. She'd forced him to almost kill his brothers, but he'd fought the possession. Harper felt awful for bringing Tera back into his life, but she knew they would want to get rid of her.

"So, when we find them, do you think Sam will get over the whole demon thing?" Tera asked after a moment.

Harper looked over at Tera like she was insane. It was going to be a long ride.


"So the handcuffs…they can come off now, right?" Tera asked, walking into the motel room and sitting on the first bed.

"Noooo," Harper drew out, tossing her bag onto the other bed in the room. "You're a demon. Handcuffs stay on." She pulled out her laptop and started looking for anything strange from the past month. It was going to be easy to find the cases that would catch the boys' attention; the hard part was going to be narrowing down the cases to the one they picked. And if they had done more than one hunt, she would have to search some more. This was going to be a nightmare.

Tera sighed, breaking the silence. Harper tried her best to ignore her, but she sighed again. Harper finally glanced over and Tera acted like she wasn't doing anything; Harper went back to searching.

Tera sighed again and Harper looked over at her sharply. "What?"

"I didn't say anything," Tera defended with an innocent look.

Harper glared at her, and then went back to her computer. There were four hunts so far that the boys could have gone one. Possible werewolf in North Dakota, a spirit in Connecticut, something weird in Pennsylvania, and maybe a poltergeist in Kansas, but who knew if Dean had even seen these.

Tera sighed.

"Stop!" Harper yelled at her.

"I'm bored," Tera complained.

Harper ignored her; she should've just put her back in the trunk.

"Is this how it's going to be?" Tera asked after a minute. "I'm just going to sit here and do nothing while you look for the Winchesters."

"Yup," Harper replied shortly without looking up from her computer.

She heard Tera shift on the bed, but she didn't want to encourage the demon to keep talking so she kept her focus on the computer.

"You know…I could help," Tera said quietly. Harper refused to acknowledge her, but that didn't stop Tera. "You'll never find them without my help…" She said in a sing-song voice.

Harper gave her a fake smile, "I think I've got it, thanks."

"Fine, I'll be here when you change your mind," Tera replied. She made a show of getting more comfortable on the bed and waiting.

Harper went back to searching. She spent most of the night looking for any strange deaths that she could find and making a list of the ones she thought the Winchesters would go for. By the time she decided to call it quits, she had over 20 cases on her list. She ran her hand down her face in aggravation; this was going to be impossible.

"How would you find them?" Harper finally asked in defeat. She didn't have much time to waste; they'd already been missing for a month and she needed to find them as quickly as possible.

"Well…we could make a deal," Tera started slowly.

"I don't make deals with demons," Harper replied with disgust.

Tera rolled her eyes, "Not that kind of deal. More like, I help you find the boys and you let me go."

"No," Harper instantly refused. "I am not releasing you so you can wreak havoc on the world and start up your demon army again."

Tera threw her head back in exasperation, "More like just take the handcuffs off. And the army dream is dead…I have something else in mind…" That wasn't reassuring.

"That's the same as letting you go and that's not happening," Harper argued.

Tera sighed, "There's a way that you could do this where I would lose the handcuffs, but still be bound to you."

"How?" Harper asked; she couldn't help her curiosity. It didn't sound great, especially since a demon was suggesting it, but she was still curious.

"There's a spell and I know someone that can do it," Tera replied. "It will bind me to you; I can't leave or smoke out, but you can't kill me either."

"And why would you willingly do this?" Harper asked suspiciously.

"You amuse me and I wanna lose the handcuffs," Tera said simply.

"That can't be it," Harper said, her eyes narrowed.

"I'm simpler than you think; I've been around for a long time and am ready for a change. Plus I really like Sam. Do we have a deal or not?"

Harper thought for a minute and then asked, "How would you find them?"

"Do you have anything that belongs to them?" Tera asked.

Harper nodded, "Yeah…I have one of their t-shirts."

Tera raised her eyebrows suggestively and shot her a wicked smile, "Whose? Dean's?"

Harper glared and then ground out, "How would that help you find them?"

"Y'know that spell I was talking about? The same person can do a location spell. Find them in seconds," Tera said. She leaned forward just a little, "So, do we have a deal or what?"


Harper hated this plan, but she was out of options. She was willingly trusting a witch to find the Winchesters and trusting the witch to bind a demon to her. Dean was going to be so pissed. But that was ok; this would find them and it would keep the demon from escaping.

She had driven them all the way down to Georgia to meet the witch who was going to do the spells. She hated witches, but she would do what she had to. She parked outside of the old diner and got out of the car. She stood and looked at the front of the building debating whether she should go through with this or not.

Harper jumped when Tera suddenly bumped into her; she was used to working alone and it was hard to get used to having Tera with her.

"You're pretty jumpy for a hunter," Tera said with a smirk. She had a jacket hung over her cuffed hands to keep them from view. Harper still refused to take them off; not caring that they were in public and someone might see them. She had a fake badge on her just in case though.

Harper glared at her and started for the door. She walked inside and scanned the booths for whoever the witch might be. There were multiply people in the diner, but only a few of them were sitting alone.

"Who am I looking for?" Harper asked Tera in irritation. Instead of answering, Tera walked past her and started for a booth in the corner. A woman sat facing them; she had long, wavy red hair and dark green eyes. She looked ok for being a witch.

Harper stood to the side and made Tera slide in the booth first before she sat down.

"So, you must be the witch," Harper said. She didn't care that she was being rude, she just wanted to get this over with as quickly as possible.

"I am," she replied, "But I go by Aurora."

"Sleeping Beauty?" Harper asked, her eyebrows raised.

Aurora looked back at her in confusion and slowly shook her head, "Who?"

Harper frowned, "Never mind…"

"So, this binding spell…" Tera started when no one said anything else. "Can you do it?"

"Yes, I can," Aurora replied, she was almost mystical in the way she spoke. "Do you know what it will mean?"

"Yes," Tera said at the same time that Harper said "No." Tera hadn't really told her much about it and Harper hadn't wanted to get her talking again so she didn't ask.

"I can bind the two of you together, but you will not be able to stray far from each other. There is no exact number that I can give you, but you will know once I have put the spell on you and you test it. With the spell, if one of you is killed, the other will also die. There is no way for you to break the spell unless I remove it. May I ask why you wish to have this spell placed upon you?" Aurora asked.

"She doesn't want me running amuck and I like being alive," Tera said simply.

This plan was sounding worse by the second, but Harper didn't have any better ideas.

"Hmmm," Aurora hummed, "Very well, are you ready?"

Tera suddenly nudged her, "You're looking a little green, Cricket."

"Just do it," Harper muttered.

Aurora put her hands on the table, palms up. Tera moved her hands out from under the table and put them in one of Aurora's hands. Harper hesitated for just a moment more and then did the same. Aurora whispered a spell under her breath with her eyes closed. Harper didn't feel anything at first, but then there was a slight burning around her wrist. It felt like something was circling her wrist, and then a second later the feeling was gone. Aurora opened her eyes and released their hands.

"It's done," She said simply.

Harper rubbed her wrist and Tera said, "Ok, we need one more thing. We need a location spell."

"Who is missing?" Aurora asked.

"My friends," Harper quickly answered. "They've been missing for over a month now, maybe longer."

"Who are these friends?"

"They're three brothers…they help people…"

"She likes one of them, I like one of them, and let's face it, they're all good looking," Tera interrupted. "Can you do the spell?"

"Do you have something of theirs?"

Harper pulled out a folded gray t-shirt from her jacket. It was one of Dean's favorites; it was soft and he'd worn it a lot. He'd left it, on accident, in the motel room they had shared while they were hunting together. She had packed it with her own things, planning on giving it back to him, but she never had.

Aurora took the t-shirt from her and held it in her hands while she whispered another spell. After just a moment she was done and she handed the shirt back to Harper.

"He is in Pennsylvania. I was unable to get more than that, but I hope this helps," Aurora said.

She started to stand, but Harper asked, "Wait, don't you want some kind of payment?"

"No. I am a witch and you are a hunter. You don't like my kind, but we are not all bad. I wanted to prove that to you," she started to leave, but then turned back to them, "If you want the binding removed, Tera knows how to contact me."

"Umm, thanks," Harper said and then Aurora left.

"So, you wanna take these off now?" Tera asked, holding up her hands.

Harper shook her head no, "Not yet. We have to test this binding thing first." She stood up and started walking to the door while Tera stayed where she was. Harper got all the way to the car before she started to feel a tug on her wrist. She kept going down the road, but she had to practically pull on an invisible line to keep walking. She only got a few more steps before she couldn't move.

The binding spell worked and now she had a demon tied to her.


They were almost to Pennsylvania now. Harper had walked back to the diner to get Tera and they'd been driving ever since. She had seen the possible hunt in Pennsylvania, but there had been too many other hunts that could have drawn the Winchester's attention.

But this was the kind of weird that Dean would go for. It was a mystery of what was going on, and he loved solving the puzzles. There were a high number of coma patients in the town of Williamsport and when she looked into the causes, there were no explanations. Dean would definitely want to look into it.

"So, you think our boys are in Williamsport?" Tera asked; Harper had refused to tell her anything.

"My boys, not your- never mind… would you please be quiet," Harper said, her teeth clenched.

"Oooo! A please this time! That's new!" Tera said with a laugh. Harper sighed and Tera lightly hit her arm, "C'mon Cricket, smile a little! We're on our way to find the boys!"

Harper sighed again and then said, "We're going to the diner that's close to the hospital. That's where they would go and someone there will remember them. We can get some information before we just charge in."

"Huh, you're smarter than you look, Cricket," Tera replied with a smile.

"Stop calling me Cricket," Harper grumbled.

"But it fits you so well!" Tera argued. "You jumpy little hunter you."

She pulled over next to the diner and wished more than anything that she could keep Tera in the car. "C'mon," she muttered after she turned off the car. She got out and didn't wait for Tera as she walked up to the building.

A little bell rang when she opened the door and a petite blonde bounced up to greet her. "How many?"

"Umm, actually I just have a quick question…" Harper started slowly. She pulled a picture of her and Dean out of her back pocket and held it up so the girl could see. "Have you seen this man?"

The girl's eyes widened in recognition and she slowly nodded. "Yeah, he came in here a while ago with his brothers."

"And you haven't seen him since?" Harper asked.

"No, they got into an accident…" she replied quietly. "No one knows what happened, but all three of them are in Williamsport Regional Medical Center."

"Do you know if they're ok?" Harper asked in a rush.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know…"

Harper looked around the diner and then finally nodded. "Ok, umm, thanks for your help…"

She turned to leave, brushing past Tera on her way out. She needed to get to the hospital and see if they were there. Tera caught up to her once she was outside.

"So what will you do now?"

"We're going to the hospital…"


Harper pulled open the glove compartment and pulled out a fake diamond engagement ring. She put it on her ring finger and then looked up to see Tera looking at her with curiosity.

"You get more visiting rights if you're family," Harper explained.

"What if they aren't under the name Winchester?" Tera asked smugly.

"Why do you think we stopped at the Library before we came here?" Harper asked incredulously.

"Just thought you finally wanted to start educating yourself," Tera replied with a fake smile.

"You were with me the whole time!" Harper argued.

"Shockingly, everything you do is not fascinating to me," Tera deadpanned back.

Harper sighed and then gave in and explained, "I hacked into the hospital's records to find out what name they would be under."

"Which is…" Tera asked impatiently.

"Tyler," Harper replied with a small smile. Tera raised her eyebrows, questioning why that would be funny so Harper explained, "For Steven Tyler." Tera still just looked at her, "The lead singer of Aerosmith! What? Do you live under a rock?"

Tera smirked, "I know. I just wanted to see what you would say."

Harper glared and started to get out of the car and Tera followed.

"Why do they use classic rock names?" Tera asked as they walked up to the entrance.

"Dean likes classic rock," Harper said simply. "Make sure you stay close…"

"Ya think?" Tera asked sarcastically.

Harper rolled her eyes, but didn't say anything in reply. She was too focused on finding her friends and didn't want to get into it with the demon right now.

She walked right up to the nurse at the circular desk and said, "Hi, I'm looking for my fiancé…"

The nurse had her hair pulled up in a ponytail and she was wearing dark green scrubs. She had been typing on the computer, but had stopped and looked up when Harper had spoken. "Ok, what's his name?"

"Dean Tyler," Harper replied. She tried to sound nervous and it wasn't really a stretch; she was nervous to find him or to find out that he wasn't actually there.

The nurse started typing on her computer and then she frowned. "Umm, did someone call you?"

"No," Harper replied, her tone clearly displaying that, that was a problem. "He's been missing, and I had to figure out for myself where he was." She knew she was on Dean's emergency contact list and she knew Bobby was too, but no one had called them.

The nurse cleared her throat, "I'm sorry, I don't know how that happened," she quickly stood and motioned for Harper and Tera to follow her. "Your fiancé and his brothers were brought in a little over a month ago. They had been in an accident, but no one really knows what happened."

"Ok," Harper said slowly, trying to figure out what could have happened and where they were.

The nurse suddenly stopped and faced her. She put a comforting hand on her arm and then said, "They're all three in the ICU…they are all in a coma…I'm sorry."

Harper put her hand against her mouth and let her eyes fill with tears, but her mind raced; whatever was attacking people here had gotten to them too. She just needed to figure out what it was and kill it.

"Can I see them?" Harper finally asked, her voice soft.

"Of course," the nurse replied sympathetically. "I'll take you to them."

Harper and Tera followed her through the hallways and up to the ICU. Harper walked faster the closer they got, until finally she was standing outside of his room.

There was a tube down his throat and tubes in his arms, but there was no sign of any accident. She slowly walked further into his room and sat in the chair next to him while Tera stayed in the doorway. The nurse might have said something to her, but she hadn't been listening.

She grabbed Dean's hand in her own and brought his hand up to her lips. She kissed his knuckles lightly, and then ran her hand through his short hair.

"I'll figure this out," she whispered against his hand. "Just hang in there."


More soon...