Fault In Our Stars
Rainbow Haired Girl
Summary: Dean has sold his soul and now Sam, Aeron, and Dean have to make much of the year that Dean has left with the two of them. Will they be able to save Dean from the Pit and will Sam and Aeron's relationship grow and will they be alright without Dean? Part 3 in the Vampire Hunter's Granddaughter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural. I do own Aeron.
Authoress Note: Welcome to the third book of Vampire Hunter's Granddaughter. I am thankful to say that this is the longest series that I have written so far. This season is going to be a bit bumpy for the three of them. Also we will see how Aeron and Sam grow closer together. They aren't dating just yet or whatever you want to call it. Perhaps it might be because they aren't even sure of what to call their relationship with one another. Without further ado Chapter 1 of Fault in Our Stars.
Chapter 1
A week had gone by since Dean had revealed that he was going to hell for saving Sam's soul.
Sam and Aeron were in the Impala giving Dean time to do what he wanted.
Aeron was sound asleep in the back seat and Sam was looking through a book to see if he could find something about crossroad demons and deals. He looked up and saw his brother giving him the thumbs up. He shook his head. He looked back at the book. So far in reading it he hadn't found anything. He was hoping to find something. Anything that would help his brother. His phone rang causing the sleeping woman in the back to wake up. He pulled his phone out.
"Sam.." Aeron said, rubbing her eyes. "Who's calling?"
"Bobby." Sam said answering it. "Hello."
"Hey, Sam."
"Hey, Bobby."
"Whatcha doing?"
"Oh, same old, same old."
"You buried in that book again?"
Sam grimaced.
"Sam, you want to break Dean free of that demon deal, you ain't gonna find the answer in no book. Aeron knows that."
Sam let out a sigh. "Then where, Bobby?"
"Kid, I wish I knew. So where's your brother?"
He glanced up "Polling the electorate."
"What?"
"Never mind."
"Well, you three better pack up. I think I finally found something."
"What Bobby?"
"I will tell you. You three better pack up."
"I will go and get Dean then."
"I will see you shortly."
Sam hung up his phone.
Aeron looked at Sam. "Bobby came across something?"
Sam looked back at her. "Yeah… he did."
"Let me guess. He told us to pack up and meet him?"
Sam nodded his head.
Aeron groaned. "And you couldn't tell Bobby that he was busy screwing around?"
Sam rubbed his face. "No…"
Aeron sighed. "And which one of us lucky youngsters gets to go and get the 27 horn ball?"
Sam looked at her with wide eyes.
"Well since he's your brother… you should be the one to get him. I am not going anywhere near any guy and their birthday suits." She said, holding up her hands. She had never seen a naked guy in all of her years alive and she wasn't about to now unless she was ready to. And that was not now.
Sam sighed. He leaned back over the seat and pressed a kiss on her forehead. "I will be back."
Aeron smiled. "I'll be waiting darlin."
Sam shook his head not liking the idea that he had to go and get his brother. But he would not submit Aeron to seeing his brother in a state. Hell he didn't like it that he was going in. Sam went into the home and knocked on the bedroom door. He opened it slowly. "Dean?" He slowly entered the room. "Dean, you… you conscious? Bobby called, and he thinks that maybe we…" He stared in horror. "Oh god." He ran out of the room slamming the door behind him. He darted out of the home.
Aeron looked at Sam. She slowly got out of the car. "What's the matter?"
Sam couldn't find the words to tell Aeron what had happened there.
Aeron pulled him into her arms. She rested her head on his chest. "Let me guess…"
"Hm…" He said softly, looking down at her.
She looked up at him, giving him a coy smile. "You saw him in a way you didn't want to see him?"
"Can I use your knife?"
"Sorry there darling. Can't help you with that." She said, giving him a cheeky smile.
Sam shook his head. He pressed a soft kiss on the top of her head.
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Dean drove the impala down the road. He had a smile on his lips.
"Let me see your knife." Sam told his brother.
Aeron shook her head. She had to try to talk to him about the knife bit. But he still wanted a knife.
"What for?" Dean questioned not even looking at his brother.
"So I can gouge my eyes out."
"It was a beautiful, natural act, Sam."
"It's a part of you I never wanted to see, Dean."
Dean chuckled and slapped him on the thigh. "Hey, I appreciate you giving me a little quality time with the Doublemint Twins."
"Yeah, no problem." Sam said quietly.
"Really? Well, I got to say, I was expecting a weary sigh or an eye roll, something."
"No, not at all. You deserve to have a little fun."
"Well, I am in violent agreement with you there." Dean waggled his eyebrows. "So I thought that you two would be having some quality time back in the motel with one another."
Aeron scoffed. "Really Dean. Is that all you think about? Sex?"
Dean looked in the rearview mirror and winked at her. "Well you two deserve it."
"Dean, your brother isn't like you. And I'm not one to jump in the sack with anyone. I have to be head over heels in love… which right now with an army out there we don't have time to do something like that."
Dean rubbed the back of his neck. "What's Bobby got?" He asked Sam.
"Not much. A crip failure and a cicada swarm outside of Lincoln, Nebraska. Ahh, could be demonic omens…"
"Or could just be a bad crop and a bug problem." Dean said, shrugging his shoulders.
"Yeah, but it's our only lead."
"Any freaky deaths?"
"Nothing Bobby could find… not yet, anyway."
"It's weird, man. I mean, the night the devil's gate opened, all these weirdo storm clouds were sighted over how many cities?" Dean asked, looking over at his brother.
"Seventeen of them Dean." Aeron said, leaning forward.
"Seventeen. You'd think it would be Apocalypse Now, but it's been five days and bupkis."
Sam looked at him confused.
"What are the demons waiting for?"
"Beats me." Sam said, shaking his head.
"It's driving me crazy. I tell you, if it's gonna be a war, I wish it would just start already."
"I don't know, man. Be careful what you wish for."
"Who knows what they are waiting for. Unless they are waiting for someone to lead them." Aeron said looking out the window. "But I don't know if that is the case or not."
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The next morning they were outside of a farmhouse. Dean was munching on a burger.
Aeron looked around hearing the sound of cicadas.
"Hear those cicadas?" Sam questioned.
"That can't be a good sign." Dean said as he continued eating.
"No. No, it can't."
"And you think that it is just a good time to be eating." Aeron said, rolling her eyes.
Bobby came up to them. "So, we're eating bacon cheeseburgers for breakfast, are we?" He questioned Dean.
"Well, I sold my soul. Got a year to live. I ain't sweating the cholesterol."
"So, Bobby, what do you think? We got a biblical plague here or what?" Sam asked, looking at the older hunter.
"Well, let's find out. Looks like the swarm's ground zero." Bobby told them.
Dean went up to the door with the others. He pounded on the door. "Candygram!"
Aeron rolled her eyes. "Seriously Dean?"
Dean rolled his eyes. Of course she would say something about how he was going about this.
There was no answer.
Dean picked the lock to the house.
The four of them went inside and covered their noses.
"Oh god." Aeron said, trying not to gag.
"That's awful." Sam said from behind his hand.
"That so can't be a good sign." Dean said, looking around.
"You think."
They creeped around the house. They heard panicked screams from the second room.
"You hear that?" Sam asked.
They kicked open the door and saw that it was coming from a television.
The two brothers recoiled back.
"Oh my god." Sam said, trying not to gag.
Bobby came into the room. He recoiled in horror. "Anne, you stay out there."
"Why?" Aeron asked from behind Bobby.
"You don't want to come in here."
"Okay…"
"Bobby, what the hell happened here?" Sam asked, looking at the older hunter.
"I don't know."
"Check for sulfur." Dean told them.
"Yeah."
"Bobby, I'm coming in." Aeron told him. "If there are dead bodies it won't bother me." She came into the room and gagged. "Well now I see why you didn't want me to come in here."
The four of them looked around to see if they could find sulfur.
Dean heard a noise out front. He whistled quietly. He signaled to them that he would check it out.
Sam, Aeron and Bobby went to check outside as well. But they went out the back instead.
Bobby and Aeron came around on the porch. Their eyes widened.
"Isaac?" Bobby asked.
"Tamara?" Aeron asked in wonder.
"Bobby… Little Red? What the hell are you two doing here?" Tamara asked, looking at the two of them.
"I could ask the same thing." Bobby said, looking at the two hunters.
"Heya, Bobby. Little Red Riding hood." Isaac said with a smile.
Aeron chuckled. "Are we really going to that again Isaac?" She asked, cocking her hip to the side, putting her hand on it. She shook her head. "Nice to see you two again."
Dean raised his arm pitifully waving for attention. "Hello. Bleeding here."
Aeron rolled her eyes and walked over to him. "Come on Winchester." She said, grabbing his arm and helping him up to his feet. "Never thought I would see the day that another hunter would knock you onto your ass." She said laughing lightly.
"Haha, very funny Red."
Aeron rolled her eyes. "Shall we take this inside."
The four other hunters nodded their heads.
"I'll meet ya there. I'm gonna find Sam and bring him in." She said with a smile.
"Of course you do that."
"One more smart comment from your mouth I will shoot your ass full of rock salt."
"She'll do it too." Tamara said, shaking her head.
"I know she will." Dean said, shaking his head. He had heard the story many many times. Hell she threatened John and even Gordon.
SPNSPN
Aeron, Sam, Bobby, Tamara, and Isaac were in a room together and Dean was in the other room and they could hear his conversation.
"Jenny! That is a beautiful name. That's my sister's name, actually." Dean said with a grin.
Aeron rolled her eyes. Of course Dean would go off flirting.
"Honey? Where's the Palo Santo?" Isaac asked, looking over at his wife.
"Well, where'd you leave it?" Tamara asked him.
"I don't know, dear. That's why I am asking."
"Palo Santo?" Sam asked, looking at Tamara in confusion.
Aeron chuckled lightly. She forgot that Dean and Sam hadn't learned that there were other things out there besides what they knew. Other things that worked.
"It's holy wood, from Peru. It's toxic to demons like holy water. Keeps the bastards nailed down while you're exorcising them." Tamara said with a smile. She dug in a bag and pulled out a large pointed stake. She handed it over to her husband with an affectionate smile.
"Thank you, dear." Isaac said with a smile.
"You'd lose your head if it wasn't for me." She said, shaking her head.
"So, how long have you two been married?" Sam asked curiously.
"Eight years this past June." Tamara said with a smile.
"The family that slays together…" Isaac began.
"Right. I'm with you there." Sam said with a nod of his head. "So, how'd you get started?"
Aeron cleared her throat.
Sam looked at her. He then looked at the couple who were sharing a look with one another. "I, uh, you know… I'm sorry. It's not… that's none of my business." He said, shaking his head.
"No, no. It's… it's alright." Tamara said looking at Sam.
"Well, Jenny, if you look as pretty as you sound, I'd love to have an… appletini…" Dean made a face at the others.
Aeron rolled her eyes.
"Yeah. Call you." He hung up his cell phone. "That was the coroner's tech."
"And?" Sam asked, looking at his brother.
"Get this… that whole family, cause of death? Dehydration and starvation. There's no signs of restraint, no violence, no struggle. They just sat down and never got up."
"But there was a fully stocked kitchen just yards away." Bobby said in confusion.
"Right. What is this, a demon attack?" Sam asked in confusion.
"If it is, it's not like anything I ever saw, and I've seen plenty." Bobby told them.
"I haven't seen anything like this either." Aeron said, crossing her arms.
"Well, what now? What should we do?" Dean questioned looking at the five other hunters.
"Uh, we're not gonna do anything." Isaac told them.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked in confusion, looking at Isaac.
"You guys seem nice enough, but this ain't Scooby-Doo, and we don't play well with others. Well… except for Little Red Riding Hood here." Isaac said, looking at Aeron.
Aeron rolled her eyes. "I'm never going to live that down am I?" She questioned looking at Isaac.
"Nope. You're the one that wore that red skull cap."
Aeron shook her head.
"Well, I think we'd cover a lot more ground if we all worked together." Sam said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"No offense, but we're not teaming with the damn fools who let the Devil's Gate get opened in the first place."
"No offense?" Dean looked at Isaac. "Red was there."
"Isaac." Tamara said looking at her husband. "Like you've never made a mistake."
"Oh yeah, yeah. Locked my keys in the car, turned my laundry pink. Never brought on the end of the world, though." He said, rolling his eyes.
Dean chuckled. "Alright. That's enough."
"Guys, this isn't helping. Dean…"
"Look, there are a couple hundred more demons out there now. We don't know where they are, when they'll strike. There ain't enough hunters in the world to handle something like this. You brought this war down on us… on all of us." Isaac said, looking at the three young hunters.'
"How about you shut your mouth." Aeron said, narrowing her eyes. "It's not like we knew that this was going to happen."
Tamara pulled her husband back. "Okay. That's quite enough testosterone for now."
Aeron rolled her eyes. "This is going to be a pain having us all work together. But I don't care what you boys do… we need to work as a team. Army or not, people's lives are at stake."
Tamara nodded her head. "I agree with you Little Red."
Aeron smiled.
Tamara then proceeded to pull her husband out of the room.
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Bobby looked out the window and shut the curtains. He rubbed his face tiredly.
"You should get some rest Bobby." Aeron said, looking at him.
He looked over at her and patted her on the arm. "You should get some rest too." He said, smiling a small smile.
Aeron crossed her arms. "Well there aren't many places to sleep really here." She admitted.
"I am sure that one of the boys will move."
Aeron shook her head. "It's bad enough in the motels. I make them take the beds and I take the couch." She shrugged her shoulders. "It doesn't bother me."
SNSNSN
The next morning, Sam, Dean, and Aeron had gone to a department store. A murder had happened and they decided to go and see if they could find out what happened. Dean had gone into the store and Aeron and Sam were outside.
Aeron shook her head and tapped Sam's arm.
Sam looked down at her and nodded his head.
The two of them walked inside of the store.
Dean rested his hand on the blonde's shoulder. "What happens outside makes you realize how fragile life really is. You have to make every second count."
The woman nodded her head.
Aeron rolled her eyes.
Sam cleared his throat.
"Excuse me a minute, would you?" Dean asked her.
"Sure." The woman said leaving.
Aeron shook her head. "What are you doing?" She questioned putting her hand on her hip.
Dean shook his head at Aeron's tone. "I'm comforting the bereaved. What are you two doing?"
Aeron rolled her eyes. "Yeah uh huh. You are just looking for another lay."
Dean narrowed his eyes. "Whatever. Tell me, what were you two doing?"
"Working." Sam replied. "Dead body, possible demon attack… that kind of stuff."
Dean caught pathetically. "Sam, Red, I'm sorry. It's just, I don't have much time left, and, uh…" He coughed more theatrically.
Aeron rolled her eyes.
"Got to make every second count."
Sam let out a sigh. "Yeah, right. Sorry."
"Apology accepted."
Bobby entered dressed in a suit and his hair slicked back.
Aeron chuckled. "Looking smooth." She said with a smile.
Dean and Sam looked at Bobby impressed.
"Whoa." Dean whistled. "Looking spiffy, Bobby. What were you, a G-man?"
Bobby rolled his eyes. "Attorney for the D.A's office. I just spoke to the suspect."
"Yeah? So, what do you think? Is she possessed or what?" Sam asked.
"Don't think so. There's none of the usual signs… no blackouts, no loss of control. Totally lucid. Just, she really wanted those shoes. Spilled a glass of holy water on her just to be sure, nothing." Bobby told them.
Aeron groaned.
"Maybe she's just some random whack job." Dean said, crossing his arms.
"If it had been an isolated incident, maybe, but first the family, now this? I believe in a lot of things. Coincidence ain't one of them. Did you three find anything around here?"
Aeron shook her head.
"No sulfur, nothing." Sam said, shaking his head.
"Well, maybe something." Dean nodded to the security camera. "See? I'm working."
Aeron rolled her eyes. She shook her head.
SNSNSN
Sam was seated in a seat while Dean, Bobby, and Aeron were looking over his shoulders.
"Anything interesting?" Dean questioned.
Sam rubbed his face. "I don't know yet. Might just be a guy…"
They watched a red haired man approach the woman that had committed the crime.
"Or it might be our guy."
Aeron shook her head. "Well looks like we got our work cut out for us."
"Why don't you two go ahead and Bobby and I will finish up here." Dean told Sam and Aeron.
Aeron looked at him. "Are you certain about that?"
"We got this. You two go and see if you can find out anything about this guy."
Aeron moved back to allow Sam to push the seat back. "Alright. If you say so."
"Just go." Dean said with a smile.
SNSNSN
Sam and Aeron walked out of the store. Sam wrapped an arm around Aeron and stuck his other hand in his pocket.
Aeron grinned and wrapped her arm around his back walking with him down the road.
Sam stopped causing Aeron to stop as well.
Aeron looked at him.
Sam turned to see if there was someone following them. He didn't see anyone following them.
"You alright darling?" Aeron asked, looking at him.
"Yeah I swear someone was following us."
Aeron gave him a look of confusion. "You sensed it?"
Sam nodded his head.
Aeron shook her head. "Well we got work to do."
"I think Dean is just trying to get us closer together."
Aeron chuckled. "How close does he think we are going to get?"
"Dating…" Sam mumbled.
Aeron shook her head. "Well… We like each other… but we will just have to see how that works for us… but I wouldn't want to push it."
Sam pressed his lips to the top of her head. He agreed with her there. He liked how things were with her at that moment. Maybe they would get past that point, but who knew.
"Come on. Let's find out who our mystery redhead is."
The two of them continued on their way to see what they could find.
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Aeron and Sam went to Bobby's car.
Sam pounded on the window causing the two older hunters to jump.
The two of them slipped into the back seat.
"That's not funny!" Dean shouted at the two of them.
"Sorry Dean, but you two should have been watching a bit better." Aeron said, rolling her eyes.
"Uh, alright, so… so, John Doe's name is Walter Rosen. He's from Oak Park, just west of Chicago. Went missing about a week ago." Sam explained what he and Aeron had found.
"The night the Devil's Gate opened?" Dean asked, looking at his brother.
"Yeah."
"So you think he's possessed?"
"Well, it's a good bet. So, what, he just walks up to someone, touches them, and they go stark raving psycho?"
"Those demons that got out at the gate… they're gonna do all kinds of things we haven't seen." Bobby said.
"You me the demons we let out." Sam said, looking at Bobby.
Dean saw something. "Guys."
The man that they were looking for had gotten out of his car and went towards the bar.
"Alright." Dean said as he continued to watch. "Showtime."
"Wait a minute." Bobby said.
"What?" Dean asked in confusion.
"What did I just say? We don't know what to expect out of this guy. We should tail him till we know for sure." Bobby told them.
"Oh, so he kills someone and we just sit here with our junk in our hands?"
Aeron rolled her eyes.
"We're no good dead. And we're not gonna make a move until we know what the score is."
"Hey, Bobby? I don't think that's an option." Sam noticed something.
"Why not?"
Aeron groaned. "Are you fucking kidding me. Those idiots are gonna get themselves killed."
"Damn it!"
The two of them got out of the car. They ran to the bar and to the door. They couldn't get it opened. They tried using their bodies to get the door to open.
Aeron and Sam got out of the car.
"This is just fucking perfect. Those two are going to get themselves killed… and in turn they are going to get us killed.
Bobby and Dean came back to them.
"We can't get the doors to open. Everyone in." Bobby told them.
The four hunters quickly got into the car.
Bobby started it up and slammed into the building through the door.
The four of them quickly got out of the car. They are armed with holy water. They are flinging it violently at the demons to keep them back.
Sam grabbed Tamara who was screaming for her husband. "Come on, we got to go! He's dead! Get in the car." He said pushing Tamara into the car. He pushed Aeron towards the car. He saw his brother still in the fight. "Dean, Come on! Dean! Come on!"
Dean had the trunk of the car opened and shoved the man that they had followed to begin with into the trunk. He quickly gets into the car. "Go,go,go,go,go,go,go!" He shouted to Bobby.
Bobby hit the gas and they were out of the bar.
Aeron leaned her head against Sam's shoulder.
Sam's hand found its way into her hair. His long fingers knotted into her short hair in a soothing motion.
Aeron closed her eyes. "Let's not do something like that again." She said, breathing out a sigh. "I don't feel like dying any time soon."
Sam nodded his head. He had to agree with her on that one. There were too many demons at once.
"When we get back Anne I am going to need your help." Bobby told her.
Aeron lifted her head up looking at the older hunter. She nodded her head. "You got it Bobby."
Bobby nodded his head knowing fully well enough that she would help him. He had a feeling that this was going to be one of those cups of coffee nights and keep them coming to get the information that they needed.
SPNSPN
They had tied the red haired man up underneath a devil's trap. They were waiting to hear from Bobby and Aeron.
Bobby and Aeron were going through what books were there to see what they could actually find out what they were dealing with. The worst thing that they could be dealing with was from the dark ages and if they were, well then they were screwed.
"And I say we're going back… now!" Tamara shouted. She wanted to go and get her husband and bring him back home right by her side.
"Just hold on a second!" Sam yelled. He couldn't allow her to leave. Not with how her mind set was.
"I left my husband bloody on the floor!" She shouted at Sam.
"Okay, I understand that, but we can't go back." Sam told her. He wasn't going to allow her to commit suicide to get her husband back.
"Fine. Then you stay. But I'm heading back to that bar."
"I'll go with her." Dean said, looking at his brother.
"It's suicide Dean!"
"So what? I'm dead already!" Dean shouted to his little brother.
"How are you gonna kill 'em? Can't shoot em. You can't stab me. They're not gonna wait in line to get exercised!" Sam yelled.
"I don't care!" Tamara shouted heading toward the door.
"We don't even know how many of them there are!"
Bobby and Aeron came into the room.
"Actually a strange thing." Aeron said, putting her hands on her hips.
They looked at Bobby and Aeron.
"Yeah, we do know how many." Bobby said with a nod of his head. "There's seven. Do you have any idea who we're up against?"
"No. Who?"
Aeron groaned. "The seven deadly sins, live and in the flesh."
Dean grinned. "What's in the box?"
No one said anything.
"Brad Pitt? Se7en? No?"
Aeron handed him the book.
"What's this?"
"Binsfeld's Classification of Demons. In 1589, Binsfeld Id'd the seven sins… not just as human vices, but as actual devils." Bobby explained.
"The family… they were touched by Sloth." Sam said softly realizing that it was more dangerous than what they thought that it was going to be. "And the shopper…"
"That's Envy's doing…. the customer we got in the next room. I couldn't suss it out at first, until Isaac. He was touched with an awful Gluttony."
"I don't give a rat's ass if they're the Three Stooges or the Four Tops! I'm gonna slaughter every last one of them." Tamara said thinking about what they had done to her husband.
Aeron groaned. "Tamara shut the fucking hell up."
Tamara looked at her. "You think that you have the right to tell me to shut up, Little Red? You're still a child."
Aeron rolled her eyes and shook her head. "We've all lost someone. Now is not the time to go on a fucking war path and get ourselves fucking killed."
Bobby nodded his head at what Aeron had said. "We already did it your way. You burst in there half-cocked and look what happened!" Bobby shook his head. "These demons haven't been topside in half a millennium! We're talking medieval, Dark Ages! We've never faced anything close to this! So we are gonna take a breath…" Bobby looked at them. "And figure out what our next move is!" He shouted at them.
Tamara and Bobby stared at one another.
"I am sorry for your loss." He said softly to Tamara.
Tamara walked out of the room.
Aeron rubbed her face. "This is one cluster fuck that I was hoping to never see in my days alive." Aeron shook her head. "I guess…"
"Anne."
Aeron looked over at Bobby. "Yeah?"
"You know more about the Dark Ages…"
Aeron groaned. "Because of all those straight A's in that one school that I stayed in long enough to learn about the Dark Ages in a whole?" She rubbed her face. "Can't say I'm impressed that you remembered that I studied so hard on that."
Bobby rolled his eyes. "Quit being a smart ass you idjit."
Aeron crossed her arms and tilted her head to the side in a manner that Sam thought was cute. She had a small smile on her lips. "How about we go in and say hi to the son of a bitch called Envy?"
"Going in half-cocked?" Bobby questioned her, eyeing her wearly. He knew Aeron well from when she was a young teenager and she had a knack for causing trouble and going into things half-cocked.
Aeron shook her head. "Nah. I am just having a fun little chat with him."
Bobby crossed his arms and shook his head. Of course she would say something like that.
The four of them walked into the room that held Envy.
Envy chuckled at them. "So you know who I am, huh?"
"We do. We're not impressed." Bobby said, crossing his arms.
"Why are you here?" Sam asked, narrowing his eyes. "What are you after?"
"He asked you a question." Dean said, narrowing his eyes as well. "What do you want?"
Envy chuckled.
Dean opened his flask of holy water and splashed it onto him.
"Ya! Ah! Ungh… We already have…." He panted. "What we want."
"What's that?"
"We're out. We're free. Thanks to you, my kind are everywhere. I am legion, for we are many." He chuckled. "So me, I'm just celebrating. Having a little fun."
"Fun?" Sam questioned. His hands tighten into fists.
"Yeah. Fun. See, some people crochet. Others golf. Me? I like to see people's insides… on their outsides."
"I'm gonna put you down like a dog." Tamara hissed.
Aeron grabbed Tamara and shoved her behind her.
"Please." Envy laughed. "You really think you're better than me." He laughed again. "Which one of you can cast the first stone, huh? What about you Dean? You're practically a walking billboard of gluttony and lust."
Dean nodded his head. It was true for him. He loved to eat and loved to have sex. It was who he was.
"And Tamara. All that wrath. Oh…" He clicked his tongue sticking to her. "It's the reason you and Isaac became hunters in the first place, isn't it? It's so much easier to… drink in the rage than to face what really happened all those years ago."
Tamara got past Aeron smacking him hard twice across the face.
Dean and Bobby pulled her back from Envy.
"Aah! Whew!" Envy laughed. "My point exactly. And little miss Red here."
Aeron narrowed her eyes at Envy.
"All that envy. Wanting… the need to belong." He shook his head. "Poor little orphan with no family. Desire to have a brother… Oh by the way I enjoyed your brother on the rack."
Aeron's eyes widened.
Sam pulled her to him so she wouldn't go and attack Envy.
"How about you go to hell you son of a bitch." Aeron hissed.
He laughed. "My point exactly. And you call us sins. We're not sins, man. We are a natural human instinct. And you can repress and deny us all you want, but the truth is, you are just animals. Horny… greedy… hungry…. violent animals. And you know what? You'll be slaughtered like animals, too." He looked in thought for a moment. "The others… they're coming for me."
"Maybe. But they're not gonna find you… cause you'll be in hell."
Envy looked at him in shock.
Dean rolled his eyes. "Someone send this clown packing."
"My pleasure." Tamara said. "Exorcizamus te, Omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica…"
The four other hunters left the room.
Aeron's hands were clutched at her sides. What Envy said. It could have been very much true.
"I don't think we're gonna have to worry about hunting them." Bobby said, shaking his head.
"What does that mean?" Sam asked, looking at Bobby.
"I think maybe this joker's right. They're gonna be hunting us. And they're not gonna quit easily."
"You guys, why don't you take Tamara and head for the hills? I'll stay back, slow them down, buy you a little time." Dean said not liking this idea, but it was the only one that he had at the moment that might work.
"You're insane, Dean. Just forget about it, okay?" Sam said, looking at his brother.
"Sam's right."
"There's six of them, guys. We're outmanned, we're outgunned. We'll be dead by dawn." Dean told them.
"Maybe, but… there's no place to run that they won't find us."
"Look, if we're going down, we're going down together, alright?" Sam asked, looking at his brother.
"Well let's not make it easy for them."
They heard Envy scream and the house shook and the candles went out.
Tamara came into the room. "Demon's out of the guy."
"And the guy?" Sam asked.
"He didn't make it."
Aeron rolled her eyes. "Don't have to be heartless Tamara."
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Dean sat on the floor with a shotgun on his lap loading it up.
Sam was across the room filling flasks up with holy water.
The two brothers looked at one another. The lights flickered. They looked around.
Aeron came into the room with her shotgun over her shoulder. "Time for work boys." She said, cocking her shotgun. "Try not to let them touch you."
The brothers nodded their heads.
"Tamara! Tamara! Tamara! Tamara! Help me! Please!"
Aeron closed her eyes. They were going to use Isaac's body against Tamara and it was going to drive her insane.
"Tamara! I got away, but I'm hurt badly! I need help! Baby! Why won't you let me in? You left me behind back there. How could you do that? We swore… At that lake in Michigan. Remember? We swore we would never leave each other!"
Aeron closed her eyes and bit her lip.
"How did he know that?" Tamara asked, looking at them.
"Demons can read minds." Aeron said, looking at her.
"Steady, Tamara. Steady, Tamara, steady, steady…" Bobby said, trying to keep her calm.
"You just gonna leave me out here? You just gonna let me die?! I guess that's what you do, dear! Like that night those things came to our house… came… for our daughter! You just let her die, too."
"You son of a bitch!" She yelled.
"Tamara, no!"
Tamara was already out the door tackling Isaac's body down the stairs. She stabbed him with the Palo Santo stake that she had in her hands. "You're not Isaac!"
Aeron groaned. "Damn it. That was one thing that we didn't want to happen." Aeron began to back up. "Time to get moving." She muttered.
Six demons entered across the broken salt line. One was a balding man that was overweight and he was cornering Bobby. Dean was being backed into the bathroom by Lust. Sam and Aeron were backed up the stairs by Pride and Greed.
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Sloth tried to follow Bobby past the devil's trap that he unknowingly had walked into.
Bobby smiled. "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life son."
Sloth looked at him angrily.
"Exorcizamus te, omnis, immundus spiritus, omnis satanica…."
Sloth began to scream.
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"I suppose you're Lust." Dean said looking at the pretty girl that had cornered him in the bathroom.
"Baby, I'm whatever you want me to be." She said with a flirtatious smile.
"Yeah, alright, just stay back."
"Or what?"
"Good point."
"I'm not gonna hurt you… not yet. Not unless you want me to." She said, running a hand along his shoulder.
He looked down at her and his lips met with hers in a passionate kiss.
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The door came flying into the room.
Aeron jumped because she was in the way of the door.
A man dressed in a business suit came into the room. "Here's Johnny!" He said walking towards Sam and Aeron.
Sam backed up slowly.
The demon held his hand up to the other two demons that were with them. He looked up and saw the devil's trap. "Come on. You really think something like that is gonna fool someone like me? I mean, me?"
"Well you can't be angry." Aeron said with her eyes narrowed.
"Let me guess…" Sam said, looking at him. "You're Pride."
He grinned and gestured at the ceiling. The symbol was destroyed by a long splitting crack. "Hm. The root of all sin. And you… are Sam Winchester. That's right, I've heard of you. We've all heard of you. The prodigy. The boy king. Looking at you now, I got to tell you… don't believe the hype. You think I'm gonna bow to a cut-rate, piss-poor human like you? I have my pride, after all. And now with your yellow-eyed friend dead, I guess I don't really have to do a damn thing, now do I?"
Sam looked nervously at Pride.
"You're fair game now, boy, and it's open season."
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Dean lusts up with him until he hits the shower curtain. He pulled away from her and pulled open the curtain and pushed her face into the bathtub that was filled full of holy water.
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Pride knocked Aeron out the way, sending her into the wall with a thump.
"Aeron!" Sam shouted as Pride knocked him down to the ground. Pride then pulled him up with an arm wrapped around his throat strangling him.
A woman appeared with a knife strapped to her thigh. She pulled the knife out and slashed the throat of Gluttony.
Gluttony fell to the ground dead.
"You!" Greed shouted.
She turned to the second demon who punched her twice knocking her way. She then rushed to Greed, plunging the knife into her chest pulling it up to her chin.
Greed was also dead.
Pride turned, releasing Sam to attack the woman.
Sam pulled him away punching him in the face putting him into the path of the knife.
The woman stabbed him, killing him.
Sam looked at her in shock. "Who the hell are you?" He asked panting.
"I'm the girl that just saved your ass. Along with Red there." She said looking at the fallen woman.
"Well, I just saved yours, too."
She chuckled. "See you around, Sam."
"Wait!" He went into the hall and she was already gone. Who the hell was she? He shook his head and turned back to the room. He went over to Aeron. "Aeron…"
Aeron groaned. "I'm fine."
He helped her up off of the ground.
She looked around. "What the hell happened?"
"Honestly. I don't know."
Aeron shook her head. She chuckled. "Let's go and see if the others are alright."
Sam nodded his head in agreement.
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The next morning Sam and Dean piled the corpses of the demons that didn't live into a shallow pit. They poured salt and fuel over them.
Tamara stood with Aeron several yards away in front of a funeral pyre.
Aeron patted Tamara's arm and walked away from the woman. She stuck her hands in her pockets.
"Think she's gonna be alright?" Sam asked softly.
"No. Definitely not." Dean said, shaking his head.
Bobby came out of the house tiredly.
"Well, you look like hell warmed over."
"You try exorcising all night and see how you feel." Bobby snapped at Dean.
"Any survivors, Bobby?" Sam asked, looking at the older hunter.
"Well, the pretty girl and the heavy guy, they'll make it. Lifetime of therapy bills ahead, but still…"
"That's more than you can say for these poor bastards." Dean said, shaking his head.
"Bobby, that knife… What kind of blade can kill a demon?" Sam asked, rubbing his head.
"Yesterday, I would have said there was no such thing." Bobby said, looking at Sam.
"I'm just gonna ask again… who was that masked chick? Actually, the more troubling question would be, how come a girl can fight better than you and red?"
Sam chuckled. "Three demons, Dean. At once."
"Hey, whatever it takes to get you through the night, pal."
"Yeah, well, if you want a troubling question. I got one for you."
"What's that?"
"If we let out the seven deadly sins, what else did we let out?"
"You're right. That is troubling." Dean said, shaking his head.
Aeron lit a matchbook tossing it into the pyre.
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The five hunters prepared to get ready to go.
"See you gents and Little Red around."
"Tamara?" Bobby said.
She stopped in her tracks.
"The world just got a lot scarier. Be careful."
"You too." She said getting into her car. She took off.
Bobby looked at the three young hunters. "Keep your eyes peeled for omens. I'll do the same."
"You got it." Dean said with a nod of his head.
"Wait, Bobby. We can win this war. Right?"
Bobby didn't answer the question that Sam had asked. "Catch you on the next one." Bobby said, heading towards his car.
"So, where to?" Dean asked.
"Uh, I don't know. I was thinking Louisiana maybe." Sam shrugged his shoulders.
"Little early for Mardi Gras, isn't it?"
"Yeah. Listen, I was talking to Tamara, and she mentioned this hoodoo priestess outside of Shreveport that might be able to help us out. You know, with your… with your demon deal."
"Nah."
Aeron shook her head.
"Nah? What does that mean, nah?"
"Sam, no hoodoo spells gonna break this deal, alright? It's a goose chase."
"Yeah, but we don't know that, Dean…"
"Yes, we do. Forget it. She can't help."
"Look, it's worth…"
"We're not going, and that's that. What about Reno, huh?" Dean smacked Sam lightly on the arm, turning to walk away.
Sam grabbed onto Dean's sleeve making him face him. "You know what? I've had it. I've been bending over backwards trying to be nice to you, and…" He shrugged. "I don't care any more."
"That didn't last long."
"Yeah, well, you know what? I've been busting my ass trying to keep you alive, Dean, and you act like you couldn't care less. What, you got some kind of death wish or something? Hell Aeron's been doing the same thing trying to keep you alive."
"No, it's not that."
"Then what's it like, Dean?"
"Sam…"
"Please, tell me."
"We trap the crossroads demon, trick it, try to welch our way out of the deal in any way?"
Sam looked at his brother in shock.
"You die. Okay? You die. Those are the terms. There's no way out of it. If you try to find a way, help me god, I'm gonna stop you."
Sam sighed. "How could you make that deal, Dean?"
"Cause I couldn't live with you dead. Couldn't do that. And Aeron would be a mess."
"So, what, now I live and you die?"
"That's the general idea, yeah."
"Yeah, well, you're a hypocrite, Dean. How did you feel when dad sold his soul for you? Because I was there. I remember. You were twisted, and broken. And now you go and do the same thing. To me." He let out a sigh.
Aeron grabbed onto Sam's arm.
"What you did was selfish."
"Yeah, you're right. It was selfish. But I'm okay with that."
"I'm not."
"Tough. After everything I've done for this family. I think I'm entitled." Dean let out a sigh. "Truth is, I'm tired, Sam. I don't know, it's like there's a light at the end of the tunnel."
"It's hellfire, Dean."
"Whatever. You're alive. I feel good for the first time in a long time. I got a year to live, Sam. I'd like to make the most of it. So what do you say we kill some evil sons of bitches and we raise a little hell, huh?" Dean smiled and nodded his head.
Sam walked to the car. "You're unbelievable."
Aeron opened the door and went into the car.
"Very true." Dean said getting into the car starting it up.
Sam shook his head and got into the car.
"Raising hell… I guess that we got a lot coming our way then." Aeron said, shaking her head.
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This is the end of Chapter 1. I hope that you enjoy this chapter. I tried my best with it. I can't wait to get to the next chapter though. We get to meet someone from Dean's past. Please leave a review and I will try to update soon. The question is when Dean gets a blast from his past will Aeron be with him. What would you guys like to see? Should Aeron be with him or not? Until next time.