Chapter 10: The Girl in White Pajamas

Eight months later

"We think it could be good for her. To be around someone who has turned around from the delusions." Andy looked up at the white coated doctor who was trying to convince her that putting this chick in her room was a good idea. She got it. She didn't mind. The girl was pretty and didn't seem violent or anything. They thought it would do her good to see Andy doing so well after everything. She guessed it was true. She had made a turnaround. Except for the dreams, she wasn't seeing it anymore. She wasn't really seeing much of anything really. Just random flashes. A face. A building. A few strange symbols. She was grateful for the break, but she still expected that it would come to tear at her again soon enough. The dreams of green eyes, soft lips, and leather jackets were already starting to do that. Tearing at her. Of all the things her mind could feed her and it chose that.

The first few days were hard on Anna. She cried, and got a bit hysterical a few times. Andy didn't pay much attention to what she would say. It wasn't until she had her first full vision since the pit, that she began to sit up and notice her roommate's words.

The rising of the witnesses is one of the 66 seals. Those seals are being broken by Lilith. Lucifer will walk free.

It was only a few days after that, she began to notice Anna's talk about Angels and Demons. They were together in their room one day. She watched Anna space out for a moment then snap back to herself.

"What were you doing just then?" Andy asked. Anna looked at her steadily.

"Listening."

"Listening to what?"

"The Angels talking."

"What do they say?" Anna looked at Andy. As if trying to decide whether she was worth speaking to.

"That another seal has been broken." Andy looked at Anna as her heart skipped a beat.

"Seal? What kind of seal?"

"One of the 66 seals to -"

"Free Lucifer from hell." Andy finished breathlessly. Anna stared at her.

"You know? You can hear them too?" Andy shook her head.

"I don't hear them…angels. I see things. Things that are happening, have happened, will happen. I saw…someone talking about the seals, and Lucifer. Lilith is breaking seals." Anna nodded emphatically.

"Yes. Oh thank God there is someone else who knows."

One month later Anna was still scared all the time, but she was glad she had Andy. She had someone who understood. It was ironic really. The only person who believed her was the one everyone thought would be the best for her. The day she gave up and told her therapist everything was the day the demons came for her. It was med time. Anna and Andy were both in their room. The orderly came in. Anna was drawing and Andy was writing. Andy looked up and sighed. She hated her meds. When Anna saw the orderly Andy heard her gasp. She looked over at her friend. She was terrified.

"Your face! What happened to your face?" Andy had a sudden sinking feeling. The his eyes went black. Andy moved on instinct and threw herself in front of Anna. He closed the door and locked it. Before he had a chance to turn back the dresser when flying across the room and hit him in the chest slamming him against the door. Andy looked around at Anna mouth open. Anna grabbed her hand and they managed to squeeze out the door.

"I guess the demons know you have an Angel connection." Andy said. They ran out of the building and away.

Four days later they were clothed, and holding up in Anna's church. Andy had gone to get some food. Anna was hiding in the attic when she suddenly heard a noise. Then a voice came.

"Anna? We're not here to hurt you. I'm Sam and this is my brother Dean." Relief flooded through her. She had heard about these two. She would be safe with them. After a brief introduction to the Winchester, things got interesting.

"So they lock you up with a case of the crazies when really you were just tuning into Angel radio?" Anna sighed.

"Yes. Thank you. I was starting to think Andy was the only one who would understand." The name shot through Dean like a bullet.

"Andy?" Anna nodded.

"My roommate. She's kind of special too. She can see things instead of just hearing." Anna watched Dean's face go white and Sam's fall to shocked disbelief. "Dean, are you ok?" Anna asked. Dean stood perfectly still for a moment. Then he looked at his brother with an almost frightening expression.

"Sam?"

"It could be a coincidence Dean,"

"A coincidence. A girl who has visions named Andy! That is no coincidence. You told me she was gone!" Dean turned away and passed a hand over his face.

"What's wrong?" Anna said confused. Suddenly the door burst open. Anna panicked when she saw the demon. She didn't really hear the exchange. She heard another demon was coming. Sam had her hide in the closet. She heard thumps and yells then the demon girl pulled her out of the closet. She was so scared everything went black.

Andy was almost at the church when she was struck by the vision. Ruby with Anna taking her to a cabin. She was so startled she dropped her groceries.

"Fuck. I knew that bitch was trouble." she muttered to herself. She looked around she saw a nice junker just down the alley. She jacked it and got going.

She found the cabin without much issue. She banged on the door.

"Ruby! Open the fucking door! I know you have Anna in there!" The door didn't open. "I'm coming in!" she got ready to kick the door in. It opened before she raised her foot. There was witch bitch Ruby looking at her all serine.

"Nice to see you again Andy,"

"Where is she?" Andy said pushing passed her. Anna was sitting on a couch.

"It's ok Andy I'm fine. Ruby's not like other demons. She saved my life."

"Yea I'll bet she did," Andy muttered. "We need to get her somewhere safer than this." she said turning to Ruby. Anna put a hand on Andy's arm.

"But Sam and Dean are on their way here right now. We should wait for them." At the mention of the boys a jolt of adrenaline shot through Andy. It took a moment to register fully what Anna had said.

"Sam and who?"

"Sam and Dean. I assumed you knew them because you seem to know Ruby." Andy looked between Anna and Ruby.

"Sam…" she had to swallow hard before she could get the next name out "and Dean?" Anna looked concerned as she detected the note in her friend's voice. Ruby was looking at her sceptical then confused. Suddenly realization dawned.

"You don't know." Andy wheeled on her.

"Don't know what?"she spat. Ruby laughed.

"That an Angel swooped down and pulled Dean out of the pit right as rain." Andy stared wide eyed at the demon who laughed again. "That is rich. The psychic who can see into hell but can't see her own lover's return from death." Andy sat down heavily on the couch. Anna put a hand on her shoulder concerned.

"I never believed them. I thought they were just dreams. Wishful thinking. There was no way that it could be true." She looked at Anna tears in her eyes. "You saw him? He's really alive?" Anna nodded.

"I saw him Andy. He's alive." A laugh that sounded more like a sob broke through Andy. She was shaking and she couldn't stop. Anna held her hand. Andy looked at her friend, and suddenly she had to get out.

"I need some air," Andy said rising suddenly. Ruby blocked the door.

"There is plenty of air in here."

"Get out of my way." Andy said menacingly.

"I'm not going to let you risk our safety."

"Ruby if you don't move so help me-"

"What? What can you possibly do to me?" Andy lost it. She took hold of the water in her meat suit and flung her aside and stormed out the door. She hadn't done that in a long time. Taken hold of someone's body like that. But she didn't care. It was Ruby. She walked a long perimeter. She wasn't sure how long she was gone, but when she finally circled back to the cabin she knew she had made a mistake. The door was wide open and she could hear raised voices. Carefully she looked in. There were four men in the room and Ruby, she couldn't see Anna. In a sudden shock she realized that two of the men were Sam and…Dean. She stared for a moment. He was right there. Black canvas jacket, collar popped, shoulders set in a defensive stance. Suddenly things started getting harry. The large black man in a suit grabbed Ruby and threw her against a window. Dean tried to go after him, but he knocked Dean down to the ground and landed a few clean punches. A man in a trench coat advanced towards Sam and touched him on the forehead. He dropped like a rock. The other man managed to keep Dean down. Andy jumped into action. She rushed in and tackled the man beating Dean up. It was like running into a tank, but her element of surprise served well and they all went down in a tangle of limbs. The other man turned around and the one on the floor managed to right himself. He managed to haul Andy to her feet. She was slightly dazed and couldn't react fast enough. He hit her cleanly and she went flying. The last thing she heard was a high pitched humming and a flash of light, then everything went black.

She came around to the sound of her name being called. She opened her eyes, and suddenly wasn't sure where she was.

"Is this heaven, or hell?" she asked, her words slightly slurred as she looked up into Dean's face. She was afraid. Afraid she was back in the nightmare. She had a flash of memory. Eyes filled with bitter rage and a savage pleasure in hurting others. But as she stared into the face above her she saw eyes filled with concern, relief, and caring. Those were the eyes of her lover, not her tormenter.

"Dean?" she breathed

Dean helped her to sit up. She held her head in her hands for a moment. Then looked back at him. The look he was giving her broke something and she started to cry. She lunged for him and locked her arms around him and sobbed into his neck. He held her tightly, fighting back his own tears. Andy got herself under control quickly. She pulled away and scrubbed at her tears.

"Where's Anna?" she asked looking around. Dean snapped back to himself.

"Anna," he let Andy go and headed to the back room. Andy followed him. They found Anna with her arm sliced open and a strange sign in blood on the mirror.

"Did you kill them?" Dean asked as he quickly wrapped a scarf around Anna's arm.

"No, I sent them away, far away"

"How?"

"I don't know. It just popped into my head."

"I take it those guys were Angels?" Andy said looking at Anna. She nodded. She glanced from Andy to Dean to Sam who had managed to get up. Ruby went to help Anna bandage her arms up. Andy, Sam and Dean stepped out. Dean and Andy stared at each other for a moment.

"Let's save the stories for later. We have bigger fish." Andy said. Dean nodded.

"So what do you think?" he said.

"Both sides want her pretty bad." Sam mentioned.

"Yea and not just for her angel radio."

"We need to get somewhere safe fast." Andy said. That was one of the most awkward car rides Andy had experienced in a very long time. You could cut the tension with a knife but they got Anna safely to Bobby's. What, or who they wound there no one was really expecting.

"Hey boys," Dyson said as after he opened the door.

"Dyson?" Sam said amazed. He hugged his friend hard. "Where the hell did you come from?"

"Exactly," Dyson replied. Sam raised an eyebrow at him. "I'll explain in a bit. Get yourselves in here." Dean shook Dyson's hand. When Andy walked in behind Dean leading Anna Dyson gave her a small smile and was pleased when she smiled softly back. They all took Anna down to the panic room. Then Dyson filled them in with what he had been doing. Dean and Sam filled Andy and Dyson in as much as they could. Then all eyes fell on Andy.

"Sorry we all kind of lost track of you." She shook her head.

"No, you all had shit to deal with."

"So what have you been doing?" Sam asked.

"And how did you end up with Anna?" Dean put in. Andy hesitated. She bit her lip, avoiding several pairs of eyes looking at her.

"I really don't want to get into that right now guys. We should focus on keeping Anna safe right now." The boys all exchanged looks.

"We need to find out more about Anna."

"Well I can help there. She came into the ward about two months ago, she had an episode when she was 2. Thought her father wasn't really her father."

"She must be hiding something."

"I don't think she is. She might have something buried way down that could help."

"Great how do we uncover it?"

"We need a psychic."

"I thought you were a psychic."

"I'm a Volva, there's a difference. We need someone with a different skill set. Hypnosis and stuff like that." Sam and Dean exchanged looks.

"Pamela," they said in unison.

Sam volunteered to pick up Pamela. He headed out straight away. When he was away Dean and Dyson cornered Andy.

"Alright missy, you need to start talking," Dyson said. Andy just looked at him evenly.

"What happened to you Andy? Anna told us you were her roommate…care to elaborate?" Dean asked. Andy looked between the two boys she loved more than anything. She swallowed roughly.

"You really don't want to hear this guys."

"Andrea, you were a roommate to a woman who wore white pajamas all day. There is a story that needs to be told." Andy sighed and sat down.

"After…" she glanced at Dean "After you died, I didn't take it well. You kind of know that," she said looking at Dyson. "But then Dyson started trailing Sam and I went to Ellen and Jo. It started small. Bad dreams, waking up screaming. They worked through it with me. But slowly the dreams shifted. They were visions. Then I started having them during the day."

"Visions of what?" Dean asked. Andy looked at him straight.

"Of Hell." Andy watched as Dean absorbed what she had just said. She couldn't help the tears that came to her, but she held his eyes. "I watched as they ripped, and sliced, and carved into you. I watched you grit your teeth trying not to scream, and I watched when you gave in. I can still hear it when I close my eyes. When I was having visions almost constantly Ellen and Jo couldn't take it. They got me set up in the hospital. They came to visit every now and again, on the rare days I was lucid, it was nice to talk with them. Although I usually cried through most of it. Three months I watched you get torn to shreds every day and then become whole again. Then after a particularly long lucid period the visions changed. I wasn't some third party observer anymore. I was on the rack. I was being torn apart." Dyson's eyes were tight and pained, but Andy only had eyes for Dean at the moment. His expression was one of utter horror. Like he knew what was coming. "I was being torn apart over and over, by you Dean." That did it. Dean's face lost all colour. He reached out to a nearby chair and collapsed heavily into it. He stared at her without really seeing. Andy could almost watch the memories flashing across his mind. The burning ripping slicing. She had to keep going, once she had started she knew she wouldn't be able to stop until it was all out in the open. "By that point I was never lucid. If I was I couldn't keep the pain away. They tried me on all sorts of drugs, but obviously nothing helped. I was restrained most of the time, the sedated me continuously to keep me quiet. Then I remember one day I saw this pure fiery light piercing through everything, then I woke up. Everything had stopped. I still had dreams. Memories would flood in when I slept, but I started telling my therapist that I had come to realize that everything had been in my head. That hell was all a delusion. That was when Anna became my roommate. The doctors thought I would be a good influence on her. To see someone who had turned away from their delusions." Andy paused Dean was trembling slightly but he held her eyes. "I thought it was ironic when we started talking and found out we both knew the truth. They had put her with the one person who would believe her. The rest you know." Andy looked away. She couldn't bare the look on Dean's face. Dyson was just as horrified. He looked at her with stricken eyes.

"Don't look at me like that," Andy said her voice cracking "I don't want you to think I'm breakable just because of what I've seen. Dean lived it, I only saw it."

"Andy I…" Dean started to say.

"Don't!" she shouted. He flinched. Andy softened a bit. "Dean, don't do that to yourself, or to me. None of it is your fault." He looked lost. She could see he was fighting to keep it together. She got down on her knees in front of him. She put a hand on his cheek and tilted his face to look at her. "None of it is your fault." He held her eyes for a moment, but he couldn't hold back. He dissolved into tears. Andy wrapped her arms around him whispering over and over. "It's not your fault Dean. It's not your fault." Andy was grateful that for once in his life Dyson had enough tact to quietly leave the room and let her have some privacy.

Once everyone had settled a bit, and they were having a beer in the kitchen, Dean looked at Dyson and asked,

"So…what happened to you for four months. I know you looked after Sam until…well he gave you the slip. But Bobby said you dropped off the face of the earth. What happened?"

"Well, Bobby wasn't far off." Dyson said. He sat down and told them the story. After Dean went to Hell, Dyson kept an eye on Sam like he had promised. When things started going south he had the thought of trying to find a way into hell to get Dean out. Ruby pointed him in a direction and he followed it.

"Only it wasn't the right hell." Everyone started, until Andy started to laugh.

"Wow. It was Hel. One L. It really exists." Dyson nodded and went on. So he met Hel, the goddess not the place, and asked her about Dean. Obviously he wasn't there. When Dyson tried to leave, Hel wouldn't let him. For some reason she liked him. She made him stay with her until he made a deal. Now every soul he reaps with any one of his blades will go to her. That includes demons, spirits, anything. When he got out he had no idea when it was so he made his way back to Bobby's and only got back a few days ago. Dean and Andy stared at him in disbelief.

"There's another hell?" Dean said confused. Andy looked at Dyson and they both burst out laughing.

"It's nowhere near as violent as the Christian hell. In fact Norse Hel is rather boring."

"Boring hell," Dean quipped as he took a swig of beer, "who'd of thought."

It turned out, Pamela managed to help Anna remember who, or what, she was. She was an angel in human form. She was without a grace and without wings. They had a small adventure getting finding her grace. Uriel had it. And that posed a serious problem. It was Sam who came up with the plan to get Alistair, Castiel and Uriel all in the same room and duke it out together. The amazing thing was it worked. The angels and demons beat on each other for a bit. Anna managed to grab her grace back from Uriel. When she took it in though it looked like the power was going to overwhelm her human body. She told everyone to shut their eyes. Dyson and Andy watched. Just before she completely lost herself Dyson managed to siphon off some of her energy into a ball. She stayed intact, and when he released it, it was like an angel style EMP had gone off. The demons disappeared. Castiel and Uriel looked genuinely surprised at Dyson and Anna. In a flash Uriel pulled his seraph blade and lunged towards Anna his face a mask of rage. Castiel seemed to be too stunned to react. Uriel made a move to stab Anna but was surprised again by Dyson who caught his wrist handily and pulled his blade from him. Both angels were again stunned. Dyson quietly passed the blade to Anna. She turned to the other angels.

"Now that we have gotten past this. Maybe we can talk?" Castiel and Uriel exchange a glance. Suddenly, the two angels vanished with nothing but a soft brush of air to signal their departure.

Anna decided it was best for everyone if she left as well. Everyone would be back for her at some point. So she said her goodbye's and Andy lost her new best friend. Anna was gone. Her best friend for the past two months was now an angel with wings on the run. She missed her, but she had Dean again. But that was a challenge in and of itself. Every time she looked at him the first thing she saw was the bitter eyes and a blade in his hand. Dean was so full of guilt for what she had been through, what he had put her through, he couldn't help treating her like a breakable statue. He had also confessed to Sam after Anna left. Andy knew he had been waiting. She also knew, in the long run, that it would be good for him.

It wasn't until much later that Andy began to realize there was something off with her. It was after they had found out that, not only was Anna an angel, she was a wanted angel, that Andy noticed the shift around herself. She had stopped seeing visions of Hell, but it always felt like Hell wasn't far away. Something sinister was lurking just out of sight. Just out of her sight. Things were not going to be quiet for long.