Alec saw red. He didn't even notice ripping the needle from his arm or getting out of bed. He didn't notice the weakness of his body or Harper trying to hold him back. He didn't even care that all he was wearing was a hospital gown. All he saw was the demon that almost made him kill his brothers.

He started to move forward, but either Harper was stronger than she looked or he'd been out for a long time. He felt weak but he wasn't about to let that stop him.

He started to move again but Harper pleaded, "Alec, please, just let me explain."

"Move," he lowly commanded, without taking his eyes off of the demon. The demon just smirked back and casually leaned against the wall. Harper refused to move and actually got more in his way.

"Oh, c'mon Cricket, I won't hurt him," the demon said with a glint in its eye.

"Shut up," Harper threw over her shoulder.

Alec suddenly blurred around Harper and slammed Tera against the wall. He pressed his arm against her throat, but he only had a hold of her for a second before she shoved him back. He saw Harper huff out of the corner of his eye and she stomped over to the door to close it. He moved at Tera again and punched her hard, three times in the face before she blocked him.

She managed to toss him across the room and he crashed into the nightstand. He rolled to his knees and glanced up to see Harper sitting in the chair with her legs crossed and an annoyed look on her face. She glanced at Tera, but the look she shot her was a little confusing. Shouldn't Harper be as pissed at Tera as he was?

He ignored that for now and pushed himself back to his feet. He went at Tera again, but he was starting to wear down. He still got in a few good hits, but his body was just too weak from whatever had happened to him. Tera easily swept his feet out from under him and he landed hard on his back. He still pushed himself up though, ready to fight some more.

"Enough!" Harper suddenly said, standing up and getting in between them again. "That's enough," she said again. She pushed him to sit on his bed and then started to say something, but a light knock on the door interrupted her. She shot accusing looks at him and Tera and went to open the door.

"What?" Harper asked crossly as soon as she had the door open a crack.

"I'm sorry…but it sounded like something was going on in here…" It was the timid nurse again. Alec didn't know what her name was, but every time she came in, she seemed nervous.

"Nothing's going on," Harper replied easily.

There was a stretch of silence until the nurse said, "Ok…just let me know if you need something…"

"Sure, thanks," Harper said and then she shut the door all the way. She leaned her head against the door for a second before she turned back around. "Tera, out." Tera was about to argue, but the look on Harper's face stopped her.

Harper waited until Tera walked out of the room and then she moved to sit on the chair next to his bed again. He was sitting with his legs over the edge, facing Harper. He frowned when he saw some bruises starting to form on Harper's cheek.

"Harper…what-" Alec didn't even know what to ask; he was still reeling from seeing Tera again.

"I'm sorry…" Harper whispered. Alec started to ask why she was sorry, but she went ahead and started to explain in a rush. "I didn't know how to find you guys…Dean wouldn't answer my calls and I was out of options. I couldn't just let her go…and she knew some witch that would do a location spell and a binding spell. I couldn't just let that demon do whatever it wanted."

"Woah, Harper, slow down," Alec said; he wasn't really following what she was saying. The room was spinning and his head was spinning and he couldn't keep up with how fast she was talking.

"Sorry…" She took a deep breath and then said, "I'd been trying to get ahold of Dean for a while, but he wouldn't answer his phone. I captured Tera and I didn't know what to do with her since we didn't know how to kill her." She looked up to make sure he was following and he nodded his ok for her to continue.

"You guys had been missing for over a month and I didn't really know where to look. I called Bobby, but he hadn't heard from you either…and then Tera brought up a deal. She would help me find you guys if I would let her go. I couldn't do that, so she settled for a binding spell. She's tied to me, so anything that happens to her, happens to me. But she can't physically get very far from me…"

"Harper! Why would you do that?!" Alec couldn't help but ask. He turned her head gently to the side so he could see the bruises that were already getting darker.

Harper grabbed his wrist and moved his hand away from her face, "Alec, I'm fine…And I was desperate. I didn't know where to find you guys and she did. Once we find a way to kill her, we can go back to the witch and she'll break the binding."

Alec sighed; he didn't like this at all and he knew Sam and Dean would like it even less. Especially Dean.

"I didn't know what else to do," Harper said when Alec didn't say anything. "I'm sorry. I know it's hard for you to see her again and I wish more than anything that I didn't have to do this to you, but I didn't have any other options…"

"It's ok," Alec said quietly. He didn't like having Tera there, but he understood why Harper did it. He probably would've done the same thing if he couldn't find Sam or Dean. "Must suck being with her all the time…" Alec muttered with a small smile to try and prove that he was sorry and that he didn't blame her for bringing Tera back into his life.

Harper smiled and nodded, "You wouldn't believe how annoying she is. She doesn't listen to anything I say."

Alec let out a light laugh, "I can imagine…" He pushed himself back on the bed so he could lean against the back of it. "Any idea what monster's after us?" Alec asked after a minute to try and change the subject.

Harper leaned back in her chair, "I think it might be a djinn…but I'm not sure. I've never gone up against one before, I've only heard of them, so I need to call Bobby…"

Alec nodded and then asked, "Any idea who it is?"

Harper smiled a little, "I wanna say Dr. Anderson, or his intern, but I don't have any proof."

Alec chuckled, "Yeah, I don't like him either."

Harper suddenly stood up and patted his knee, "I'll be back…"

"Where are you going?" Alec couldn't help but ask. He hated that he was going to be stuck here, not able to really do much.

"I'm gonna call Bobby, and then see if I can find Anderson," Harper replied. She started for the door, but then turned back and asked, "You ok?...You hit the ground pretty hard…"

"I'm alright," Alec quickly reassured; he didn't want to slow her down by worrying about him.

"I'll be back pretty fast," Harper said; she sounded like she didn't believe him. But she gave him one last look before she left the room.

Alec waited until her footsteps completely disappeared, and then he got up to search his room. The room blacked out when he stood up and he had to wait a second before he could keep going. He needed to find some clothes because searching the hospital in his hospital gown wasn't happening. He would look too suspicious walking around like that.

He righted the nightstand, but then he had to lean against it from the exertion. He leaned his head against his arms and groaned in frustration. This felt like blood loss, but he didn't have any injuries that suggested he lost a lot of blood. Besides, he was in a hospital and if he had lost that much blood, they would have given him more. Which would have sucked.

Alec shook his head to clear it; it didn't really make sense that he felt like this. She said he'd been missing for over a month, which made sense. He remembered leaving Max and heading for Pennsylvania. Sam and Dean took the lead on the case since they were posing as FBI agents and he hadn't done that with them yet. He'd had many covers at Manticore, but his brothers still wanted to ease him into it. He'd laughed when they told him that, but he'd went along with it.

Dean had brought him along to the hospital where they'd talked to Dr. Anderson. Dean immediately didn't like the guy, but they had to talk to him because he was the lead doctor with the coma patients. They only found out that all the coma patients had been in some sort of accident, but there were no witnesses to what happened. Sam had been the one to find the link that most of the patients had been last seen leaving the hospital after visiting someone there.

The three of them searched the hospital, but they hadn't found anything. They had left for the night, but then something grabbed Sam before they got to the Impala and dragged him out of sight. He and Dean took off after him, but something had slammed into him and before he could get a good look at it, his head had been slammed against the ground.

Then it seemed like a second later and Dean was shaking him awake. He remembered everything about his dream and he, thankfully, had all of his memories back. He hoped that he just felt weak because he'd been lying around for a month, but he suspected it was something else. He hoped Harper would have some more answers after she talked to Bobby.

"Finally," Alec breathed out, finding his clothes in a bag in a drawer under his bed.

He quickly pulled on his jeans and his t-shirt, and then peeked outside his room. The timid nurse was sitting at the desk, but she was looking at her computer. He silently slipped out and closed his door behind him. She stayed focused on her computer and Alec snuck into the room next to his and quickly closed the door.

Dean was lying on the bed, a tube down his throat and tubes in his arm. Wires disappeared under his hospital gown and connected to a heart monitor that showed his steady heartbeat. Alec leaned against the door, unsure about what he was doing.

He didn't know how to get Dean to wake up or if Dean could even hear him. He didn't know if everyone could hear what was going on in the real world, or if that was just him. But it couldn't hurt to try.

He cleared his throat, suddenly nervous for some reason, and slowly walked further into the room. "Um…hey Dean…" This was weird; Dean should be making fun of him right now, not just lying there with a tube down his throat. "Um…I don't know if you can hear me or not…but you're stuck in some kind of dream, and you really need to wake up…Harper's here, if that helps…"

He sat on the edge of Dean's bed and then continued, "Harper thinks this might be some kind of djinn…but I don't really know what that is or how to kill it…so I could really use your help…" Alec really didn't know what to say to get Dean out of this. He ran his hand through his hair and dropped his eyes from Dean's closed ones.

His eyes landed on the tubes in Dean's arm, but then he scowled. There was an IV line, another line to what Alec thought was supplements, but then there was one more and it looked like blood. Alec slowly stood and walked to the other side of the bed. He followed the line and found a bag of blood behind Dean's bed where you couldn't see it unless you went back there. It only took him a second to figure out that it wasn't giving Dean blood, but taking his blood.

Alec quickly pulled the tube from Dean's arm. So it was blood loss that he was feeling.

He suddenly got up, but then he had to sit back down. Stupid, freakin' blood loss. He needed to remember to keep it slow, instead of rushing around everywhere. But he had to get to Sam's room.

He peeked out the door again before he left to make sure no one would see him. When the coast was clear, he snuck out and then into what he hoped was Sam's room. He got lucky and saw his brother in the same state that Dean was in.

It was easy to find the bag of blood since he knew what he was looking for. He took the tube out of Sam's arm, and then sat on Sam's bed. Whatever this monster was, it fed on blood. It was obviously someone who had access to all of the rooms and who wouldn't be questioned.

He suddenly stood up again, but had to sit back down and put his head in his hands. This was ridiculous. If this stupid monster took this much blood from him, he couldn't even imagine how Sam and Dean were doing.

He finally got up again after the room came back into focus and made his way to the door. He didn't want to leave Sam and Dean alone, but he had to see if the other coma patients were being fed on too.

He snuck out, but he had to casually walk across the hall to the next room. Nurse Timid didn't notice him as he slipped into another room. It only took him a second to locate the blood bag and get the needle of out the middle aged man. He needed to get to the rest of the rooms and hopefully start to save these people.

Harper was reluctant to leave Alec alone. She knew he could take care of himself, but she still felt protective over him. She needed to find out what was going on so she could get Sam and Dean awake too. Alec needed his brothers and she needed all three of them to be alright.

"Finally," Tera said, pushing off of the wall and walking towards her when she left Alec's room. "Thought you were going to leave me out here all day…"

"Wish I could," Harper replied with a smile.

"What are we doing now?" Tera asked, easily falling into step with her. This was bad; she was starting to get used to being around this demon.

"I'm going to make a phone call, and then we're going to find Dr. Anderson," Harper replied. It was just easier to answer the questions instead of avoiding them. Tera wouldn't drop it anyway, so she might as well answer.

"Calling that old man again?" Tera asked with a smirk. "Is he the only other person you know?"

"No, he's not the only person I know…but yes I am calling him again," Harper muttered.

Tera chuckled, "Fine, you make the call and I'll keep watch."

Harper glared back at her, but pulled out her phone and dialed Bobby's number.

"Yeah?" Bobby answered.

"Hey Bobby, its Harper," she replied.

"You find the boys?" Bobby asked back.

"Yeah, I found 'em…" Harper said. "They're in Pennsylvania, but they were all in a coma when I found them. Alec just woke up…"

"Why didn't you call me sooner?!" Bobby asked angrily.

"You can lecture me later, Bobby," Harper said with a sigh, "I've kinda got a lot on my plate right now…"

"Which is why you should've called me," Bobby said slowly.

"Whatever Bobby, I'm callin' you now ok?" Harper replied.

Bobby grumbled something and then said, "Fine…what d'you think we're dealin' with here?"

"A djinn," Harper answered. "But I've never gone up against one before and I don't know how to kill it."

"Alright, you need a silver knife dipped in lamb's blood," Bobby replied. "Sam and Dean have been up against one before, but Dean was the one trapped in the dream. I don't know exactly how he woke himself up, but he did it. Did Alec say how he woke up?"

Harper hesitated, "…No, um…he didn't say…We've been a little busy with some things…"

"Alright, well, maybe he'll know of a way…Who d'you think's the djinn?"

"Their doctor," Harper answered.

"Harper…" Bobby started slowly, "Djinn usually don't hang out in hospitals…They're covered in tattoos and they like really run down places so they can hide. They wouldn't be hanging out in a hospital."

"Look Bobby," Harper said impatiently. "I'm just telling you what I think it is. I don't know diddly-squat about djinns and I'm just guessing here. They are stuck in a coma and can't be woken up…"

"Alright, find out what Alec remembers from when he was out and then we'll know if it was a djinn or not. If it was, he probably will remember some kind of dream world. Then we can talk about who it could be," Bobby reasoned.

"Fine," Harper relented. "I'll call you when I know," she said before she hung up.

"So, what'd Grumpy Gills have to say?" Tera asked when Harper dropped the phone from her ear.

"What is it with you and nicknames?" Harper asked back.

Tera shrugged, "Don't know, don't care. We knifin' the Doc or what?"

Harper sighed, "I don't know…"

"You don't know if you wanna knife the Doc or you don't know if it is the Doc? Because whether it's the Doc or not, I think we should knife him."

"Would you keep your voice down?" Harper hissed. "We're in public. People don't like hearing other people talk about knifing people."

"That's a lot of people," Tera replied in amusement.

"Shut up," Harper grumbled. "And no, I don't know if it is the doctor and we need to find out before we go knifing someone. And," Harper said, stopping and holding up one finger. "I don't even have what we need to knife him."

"You don't have a knife?" Tera asked in disbelief.

"I have a knife and it is a silver knife, what I don't have is lamb's blood," Harper explained.

"Easy," Tera replied, instantly snapping her fingers, but nothing happened. She snapped again, but still nothing. Harper couldn't help but smirk and raise her eyebrows in waiting. "What is going on?" Tera muttered in disbelief.

"You're bound to me remember?" Harper asked smugly. "So no more zapping in and out."

"Then how are we going to get the lamb's blood?" Tera asked in annoyance.

"That's actually a pretty good question…" Harper mumbled. She looked around the hallway in thought. There probably wasn't anything nearby that would have lamb's blood and even if there was, it was a very strange request. "I got it!" Harper suddenly said, starting to walk a little faster. "Dean would probably have some in the trunk…"

"Really?" Tera asked, her eyebrows rising up doubtfully.

"Yeah, really," Harper replied, opening the door to the stairs and walking down. "He keeps just about everything in the trunk…"

"And where do you think their car is?" Tera asked.

"I saw it in the parking lot…kinda hard to miss," Harper said with a smile. "And before you ask, no, I don't have the key. But I know how to pick a lock."

Tera didn't question her any further as they made their way outside and through the parking lot. Harper quickly picked the lock to the trunk of the Impala and opened the secret compartment. She scanned the contents until her eyes landed on a jar of what looked like blood.

She smiled and picked up the jar and saw that 'Lamb's Blood' was written on the side of it. "Thank you Dean," Harper said in a sing-song voice as she opened the jar and dipped her knife in the blood. She put the jar back and closed the trunk, and then started back to the entrance of the hospital.

She walked right up to the circulation desk and asked the nurse sitting there, "Is Dr. Anderson here?"

The nurse shook her head no, "He's actually not on call tonight."

Harper sighed, "Of course he isn't, thanks though."

Harper turned away from the desk and started for the stairs with Tera following behind her. She started walked back up to the floor where Sam, Dean, and Alec were, but then she stopped.

"Hospitals have basements right?" Harper asked Tera.

"Um…probably…" Tera replied slowly.

Harper turned back around and walked down the stairs. She found a locked door, but she picked the lock and led the way into what seemed like the basement. There wasn't a light and Harper didn't have a flashlight, but she could see from the light coming through the open door.

She and Tera walked silently into the room. They had to walk around a lot of clutter and Harper thought maybe this would be the place the djinn stayed. But honestly, she was just working off of a hunch.

They walked all the way across the room, but there wasn't any sign of him. Harper turned to start checking the other side when she heard something rustle. She turned the direction the sound came from and held her knife out.

She didn't see anything for a minute, but then Anderson appeared from out of the shadows.

Alec got through six rooms; each one of the people in them had a blood bag connected to them. Alec had taken the needle out, but he still needed to find a way to wake them up. Alec looked outside before he started for the seventh room. Nurse Timid wasn't at her desk anymore and Alec assumed she had started to make her rounds. He started out of the room and was almost to the next when a voice stopped him.

"Excuse me!"

Alec stopped and took a second before he turned around to see Nurse Timid was the one that stopped him. She must have just finished in one room and walked out when he did because he hadn't seen her a minute ago.

He gave her a small, innocent smile and asked, "Yeah?"

She narrowed her eyes in recognition and then asked, "Aren't you supposed to be in your room?"

Alec raised his eyebrows and then said, "Um…I'm feeling a lot better…just wanted to stretch my legs…"

She walked towards him and grabbed his arm. She steered him back to his room, but he dug his heels in to stop her.

"I'm not all that tired…in fact, I'm actually tired of sleeping," Alec lightly teased.

Her grip on his arm tightened and she forced him to keep walking. Alec shot a glance over at her and tried again to stop, but she was actually too strong. He tried to break her bruising grip, but couldn't.

She forced him back into his room, but she kept her grip on him as she closed the door.

"You just couldn't leave it alone," she hissed angrily. Alec's eyes widened as she suddenly threw him across the room. He hit the wall hard and slid to the floor in a heap.

"You're one of them?" Alec asked incredulously. He honestly couldn't believe that Nurse Timid was the monster. "You're joking right?"

She smiled at him as she walked closer and crouched down in front of him. "I am one of them. But I won't make the same mistake as the other two. This time, you won't wake up."

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