Dean stopped by Lacy's house. He needed to step away from reality for an hour or so.
Lacy opened the door and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Hi."
Dean smiled. "Hi."
Lacy let go of his neck and pulled him inside before shutting the door. "I missed you."
Dean pulled his boots off. "I missed you too." Although he hadn't remembered anything until recently, he felt the gap in time.
"I have a surprise for you." Lacy said with a smirk.
Dean tilted his head. "What kind of surprise?"
Lacy raised her eyebrows. "Follow me to find out."
Dean swallowed hard. He was going to kick older Kate's butt for erasing those memories.
Caleb went to check on Matt and his niece and nephew. "How is Alana feeling?"
Matt felt of Alana's head. "I think she feels okay."
"I will get a few outfits for you guys. Then, there is a park about two blocks from here." Caleb said. He gave each kid a container of food and then gave Matt a blood bag. "I'll be back. Call if you need anything." He left the motel to stop by April's apartment Since her stuff had gotten there, she didn't need the extra dishes.
"Do you mind if Ian and I tag along? I could use a few things from town." April said.
"No problem at all." Caleb said. "I see that you found Ian some pants."
April blushed.
Caleb smiled. "What can I carry out?"
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Castiel put his hand on Naomi's head. "You can give the information willingly or I can extract it."
"You've fallen so far, Castiel." Naomi said.
"Who is responsible for the creatures?" Cas asked.
Naomi pulled her head back. "You are betraying your own kind."
"I am following my orders to protect the Nephilian." Castiel said.
"They are abominations. They were never meant to be and you know that." Naomi said.
"Do you want Lucifer to walk the earth?" Castiel asked.
"Micheal will cut him down before he sets foot out of his cell." Naomi said.
"Nephilian were created to overpower Lucifer." Castiel said.
"And every other angel out there. They have no idea how powerful they are and yet, they are already a threat." Naomi said.
"You attacked them." Castiel said.
"Castiel, think clearly. We should kill them before they kill everything else." Naomi said.
"You do not know those children. They will not harm anyone that isn't trying to harm them or someone they care about." Castiel said.
"You saw Rome fall. You saw the holocaust. Humans are easily swayed. The girl, especially, could wipe out cities if she wanted to." Naomi said.
"Tell me who is responsible for the creatures." Castiel said.
Naomi shook her head.
Castiel grabbed her arm and walked her down the hallway, to the room with the creature. "This is what is out there. This is what will wipe out cities."
Naomi shuddered. She had heard the creature's growls and screeches. She knew what they looked like but seeing one in person was horrifying.
Castiel moved her closer to the cage.
Naomi pulled back. "Okay. Two men were running experiments. I do not know the specifics. I just know that an experiment went wrong and escaped. These creatures get stronger with each generation as the previous generation dies out."
"How long ago did this happen?" Castiel asked.
"Within the past few years. The creatures evolve quickly." Naomi said.
"Where are the men?" Castiel asked. He walked her back to her cell.
"One is the experiment that escaped," Naomi said.
"Where were they working from?" Castiel asked.
Naomi wrote down a rough address on a slip of paper. "Let me sleep."
Castiel touched her forehead and compelled her to sleep. He put the paper in his pocket and went to Bobby's house.
Bobby grumbled when the papers on his desk scattered. "Just use the door."
Castiel handed him the paper. "Naomi claims that two men at this address are responsible for the creatures."
Bobby rubbed his chin. "You trust her?"
"No, but I can check it out." Cas said.
"What happens when you zip over there and land in an angel trap?" Bobby asked.
"I should bring backup." Castiel said.
"When the boys get back, we can discuss it." Bobby said.
Marty spent an hour looking at the samples under the microscope. He was baffled. Matt's sample was changing. The cells looked very different. He also couldn't figure out what was off about Kate and Taylor's blood. Why would the substance react with each sample so differently? He wanted more samples to work with. He added a drop of his own blood to a slide to see how it reacted to the substance. His blood immediately coagulated.
Matt turned the tv on and found some cartoons for the kids. He sat down beside Alana and brushed hair from her eyes. She was warm. "How is your arm?"
Alana shrugged.
Matt picked her arm up and peeled back the bandages. He hid his reaction and replaced the wrap. He sent Caleb a message that Alana was having a reaction.
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Kate finished her math test and handed it in. She doodled on a blank sheet of paper while she waited for the bell to ring. She was always smart but the increase in abilities made school work that much easier. It also made her bored. She couldn't bring a book to school to translate. She couldn't work on sigils or anything that she found important. She had developed a code so that she could take notes on things she thought of without other people knowing what she was writing. She drew a circle and three lines. She wanted to get back into the lab and play around with the venom. She flipped the page and drew lines that branched off of each other. Sometimes, visions were vague images like the ones left behind by a bright light once you look away. The lines were in the forefront of her mind but she didn't know what they were.
Taylor tried to avoid talking to too many people. Nate was the same way he was before they fled but he didn't want to explain things to anyone else. One of his friends asked about David and it sparked his anxiety. "I don't know. I don't talk to him anymore. I think he got picked up for drugs or something."
Ash rolled a ball with his foot. "My sister said that he joined some kind of satanic cult."
Taylor bit his cheek. "I wouldn't know."
"They meet up at that abandoned barn out past the highway. He may be there." Ash said.
"Uh, thanks." Taylor said. Even if David was out there, he had no desire to find him. Ash seemed to be trying to be helpful.
Nate shoulder-checked Taylor and pulled his hat over his eyes.
Taylor laughed and took off after him.
Nate stopped running and held his hands up in resignation. "Sorry."
"You got me out of that situation." Taylor said.
Nate fist bumped him. "Ash's sister likes to gossip."
"David was mixed up in a really bad crowd. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a cult." Taylor said.
"We should check it out." Nate said.
Taylor groaned. "Do you not remember the last time I tried that?"
Nate grimaced. "Oh, yeah."
"I am done with him. I can pass on information but I'm staying far away." Taylor said.
"Do you like Kate's family?" Nate asked.
Taylor leaned against a tree. "They are my family too, you know."
"I am just asking." Nate said.
"Yeah, I do." Taylor said. He couldn't tell Nate everything they had gone through. To his knowledge, Nate didn't know he had abilities. Some things had been erased and some things had been revived. "John offered to adopt me."
"Wow, really?" Nate asked.
"My real dad, I never met. I've been going by his last name because Craig was awful. Then, if I get adopted I'll just use Harvelle as a middle name."
"That is a hell of a name. Winchester is pretty cool. It is a kind of gun." Nate said.
Taylor chuckled. "Yeah, I know."
Kate ran over to Taylor and Nate. "Is Ash running his mouth?"
Taylor rolled his eyes. "No."
Kate frowned. "I'm bored and kicking someone's butt would be fun."
Taylor shoved her shoulder. "Save it for another day."
### ###
Caleb and April dropped off dishes and picked up a few outfits for the kids. They also picked up food and some clothes for Matt.
"I know he isn't like a normal vampire but how do you know for sure that he won't turn on you?" April asked.
"The kids have no bite marks or scars." Caleb explained. "For a lot of vampires, they get hungry and just hunt. He hasn't hurt either of the kids, even when he had to skip a few feeds."
"I don't know how you guys do it. Just knowing things exist gives me nightmares." April said.
Caleb sighed. "I don't think there is a hunter out there that doesn't get nightmares."
"What happened with those creatures?" April asked. She saw Caleb cringe and apologize.
"No, it is okay. Dean and I were on a hunt. I met up with him after he got rid of our ghost. There was a house." He swallowed. "It was haunted. High school kids went missing but the upstairs was a hot spot for... activities." He shifted in his seat. "We went into the basement and the ghosts showed up. Those creatures showed up too. There was a window that Dean could barely fit through. One of those creatures grabbed me. My leg got cut up and it got me across the stomach."
"I'm sorry." April said.
"I shouldn't have lived through that. Kate healed me." Caleb said.
"I'm glad she did." April said with a small smile.
Caleb rubbed the back of his neck. "She gets to hold that over me for a while." He stopped at Matt's motel room and knocked on the door.
Matt opened the door. "She is getting worse."
Caleb felt of Alana's head and then looked at her arm. The capillaries around the scratch were red. He marked the edges of the rash. "She needs to go to a doctor."
Matt and Caleb stepped outside. "Will doctors be able to help?"
"The reaction could be a normal infection," Caleb said.
"What if she turns?" Matt asked.
"I don't know the answer to that. You can keep an eye on her. If she progresses, you can get her out before anything happens." Caleb said.
"What about Brandon?" Matt hadn't been in a hospital in decades.
"Talk to him. If he is okay with it, he can go with us." Caleb offered.
April sat beside Alana and held her hand. "How are you feeling?"
"I'm okay." Alana said.
April brushed hair from her face. "You can be honest. It is better for us to know."
"I don't want to turn into a monster." Alana said.
"Sweetie, you won't. It is a small scratch. Your mom had a big bite." April said.
Matt spoke to Brandon.
Brandon wanted to be with Alana but agreed to go with Caleb.
"They will just check her out and we will be back as soon as possible." Matt said.
Caleb got everyone into the car. "I'll drop you and Ian off and then take them to the hospital."
April was anxious about having Ian in the car with a vampire but Matt did seem genuine. Once they got to the apartment, she got out and carried Ian inside. She waved at the others and shut the door behind her. Her emotions were all over the place. She had been with Steven for years and accepted his treatment of her because everything felt like it was her fault. He seemed nice and had a way of making himself look good to other people. Being in the bunker, and even the apartment gave her something that she hadn't had before. She could go to sleep at night and know that no one could touch her. Caleb was wonderful with the kids and he kept popping up in her mind. She was a single mom with two kids and baggage. He was young still and had a full life ahead of him. She put Ian on her back and wrapped a blanket around him. She had to focus on the boys.
Dean pulled up in front of the school and waited. He was bumping along to the music when Kate opened the door.
"Ew, you are in a good mood." Kate said.
Dean flicked her. "Why is that ew?"
Kate fake gagged. "I know where you went today."
Dean cringed. "Fair point."
Taylor tossed his bag into the seat and got in. He was distracted and didn't catch the look Dean was giving him.
"What is that?" Dean asked.
"Hmm?"
"Hmm?" Dean mimicked Taylor. He could see what older Kate meant by brooding and pensive. "If you furrow your brows any harder your face is going to stick like that."
"Oh, a friend said something about David being in a cult that meets at the barn." Taylor said.
Dean sighed and drove away from the school. "David is in custody."
"Okay but hear me out." Taylor said. "Someone, obviously not me should check it out. If any of them are legit, then we should be worried about them pulling some kind of crap for David."
"I will look into it." Dean said.
Kate opened the cooler that Dean had in the backseat. "Do you ever pack food?"
Dean raised an eyebrow.
Kate opened one of the beers. She sniffed it. "It smells awful."
"Hey, give me that." Dean said.
Kate grinned. "We probably can't even get drunk."
Dean's eyes twinkled. That moment may have been why older Kate thought it was prudent to warn him about their future escapade. "Don't try it. We are stopping by the lab."
Kate wedged the open beer into the cooler. She sat forward and watched the streets zip by. "I'm going to become a scientist."
Taylor snorted. "A mad scientist."
Kate smacked the back of his head. "Jerk."
Taylor turned around.
"Do not say it." Dean warned.
Taylor looked at him. "What? Oh! I wasn't going to call her a bitch. That is a you and Sam thing."
"What were you about to say?" Dean asked.
Taylor blushed. "Nothing."
Kate swung the door to the lab building open. She fast-walked to Marty's office and knocked on the door.
"Well, hello." Marty said.
"Did you find anything?" Kate asked.
Marty pushed his chair back. "Let's go have a look."
Dean called Matt to see how Alana was doing.
"She has a fever and some type of infection. The doctor is still looking into it." Matt said.
Dean grimaced. "Keep me updated."
"Sure thing."
Caleb drove to Bobby's house and showed Brandon the house.
Bobby welcomed him in. "Make yourself at home. Just don't touch the decore." He had gotten off the phone with Taylor's grandmother. "Caleb, Marie and Rod are going to be driving in."
"When?" Caleb asked.
"Tonight. Taylor doesn't know." Bobby said.
Caleb figured Taylor would be pretty excited. "Where are we going to put people?"
"I don't have an answer to that yet."
Caleb blew air through his nose. "Brandon can bunk with the kids. I don't know how long he is staying. His sister may get released tonight."
"Rod and Marie will take that spare room." Bobby said. "If they don't demand to get a motel room."
"You need to build on." Caleb said.
"I don't know why my house has become the place to be." Bobby grumbled.
Caleb poked his stomach. "It is that grandfatherly act you've had going on."
Bobby smacked the back of his head. "Go show that kid around."
Caleb grumbled and grabbed a slingshot. "Brandon, come with me."
Brandon followed him.
Caleb handed him the slingshot. "Aim at that car."
Brandon crinkled his brows. "Why?"
Caleb didn't think he was good with kids but had seen Dean help them work through stuff. "Well, the cars in this area are free game. That one has had a bat taken to it. They are too run down to use for anything so Bobby lets people destroy them."
Brandon aimed at the window and shattered it. It felt good.
"Do you want to talk?" Caleb asked.
"About what?" Brandon asked.
Caleb leaned against a van. "Some scary stuff is going on."
Brandon shrugged.
"I lost my mom when I was younger. Then I lost my dad when I was a teenager. Kate and Taylor both lost their biological mom and dad. Dean and his brother, Sam, lost their mom. All of us get it. It sucks and it isn't fair." Caleb said.
Brandon hit another window. "My mom could be okay."
"Maybe. Even if things turn out to be perfectly fine, you can still get angry over stuff." Caleb said.
"I want my sister to be okay." Brandon said.
"I want her to be okay too. We are studying the stuff the creature has on its fangs. We have someone in a lab that is looking into it." Caleb said.
Marty pulled the samples out of a drawer and placed them on the tabletop. "I want to run more tests with more samples."
Kate looked at Dean. "His idea."
Dean nodded. "Go ahead."
Marty took blood from Kate's arm and did the same with Taylor. "Sometimes, blood reacts differently to things because of what is in it. Some people are allergic to peanuts while others aren't. Some cannot take certain types of drugs while others can. That is what I think is happening here. If you want to try it out, you are welcome to. Just label what you are doing."
Kate bounced on her toes. "Thank you!"
Marty smiled. He set up a workstation for Kate and Taylor and stepped to the side to talk to Dean. "I'd like to know what that stuff is."
Dean sighed. "You know that there are things out there that most people don't know about, right?"
"Yes, I know about the creatures." Marty said.
"There is something we haven't seen before. It is fast and deadly. Vampires are fast too. One of those things got the jump on more than one vampire. We have seen a few sick ones lately. The most recent one turned into one of the things after being bitten. We don't know what it does to humans." Dean said.
Marty rubbed his head. "I'm guessing one of those samples was from a vampire. The cell type completely changed."
Dean nodded.
"Why are some of the samples reacting differently?" Marty asked.
Dean awkwardly shrugged. He wasn't about to tell Marty that Kate and Taylor were Nephilian or anything other than an average human.
Taylor made notes as Kate worked. "What are you doing?"
Kate bit her lip. "Working on a theory."
"Don't go too crazy. You and your theories tend to drag me down with you." Taylor said.
Kate rolled her eyes. "We are in a lab with permission to work on stuff."
"Fine." Taylor grumbled.
Kate added Matt's blood to two dishes and added a drop of the venom. She added a drop of her own blood to the first dish right away. For the second dish, she waited a few minutes before adding her blood. She shifted from foot to food. "Look at it!"
Taylor looked at the first dish. "Nothing is happening."
Kate grinned. "Exactly."
Taylor furrowed his brows. "Well, a little something is happening. It is just a lot slower."
Kate couldn't contain her excitement. "Try yours!"
Taylor did the same experiment and waited.
"I was thinking, we were told that we were supposed to end up preventing the apocalypse thing. What if we are like those donor babies? The first child gets sick so the parents have another kid for stem cells and stuff." Kate said.
"I don't like the sound of that." Taylor said.
"It makes sense," Kate said. "My blood reacts with demons, it heals people, it does something to the venom. Who knows what else it does?"
Taylor looked across the lab and made eye contact with Dean.
Kate scoffed. "Really?"
Dean walked over. "What is the SOS for?"
Taylor dodged a kick from Kate. "We found something."
Dean snorted. "What?"
"Matt's blood and the venom have a certain reaction. When you add our blood to that mix, it has a different reaction." Kate said. She wrapped her arms around Dean and felt a surge of electricity. She stumbled back and held her head.
"Hey, are you okay?" Dean asked.
Kate blinked. "I saw something but I don't know what yet."
Matt called Dean to update him on Alana. "She is running a high fever now and the rash is spreading."
Dean swore under his breath. "What are the doctors saying?"
"They don't know what is wrong yet." Matt said.
Kate bit her lip. "Our blood could stop it."
Dean put the phone on his shoulder. "It could also kill her." He groaned. "Do you need anything?"
Matt hung his head. The stress was making his hunger worse. "Food."
Dean looked at the time. "One of us will stop by."
"Thank you." Matt said. He hung up the phone and helped Alana sip her water.
Dean drummed his fingers on the table. "I will be right back. Don't do anything you know you shouldn't." He made eye contact with Kate.
Kate rolled her eyes. "Rude."
Dean raised an eyebrow.
"Fine, scouts honor." Kate said.
He turned on his heel and he went outside. He got into his car and bounced his leg. "Future Kate, if you are out there, it would be really helpful if you stopped by." He felt stupid. She wasn't an angel so praying wouldn't work. He waited a few minutes before reaching to open the door. He felt the cool air and jumped.
"You called me. Why are you jumpy?" Kate asked.
Dean blinked. "I uh.."
"Didn't think prayer would work?" Kate asked.
Dean rubbed his face. "Did it?"
"No. When we were in the lab, I got a vision. I didn't know what it was until now. I guess I foresaw you needing help." Kate said. She shifted so that she was focused more on Dean.
"I can't get used to you looking like that." Dean said.
Kate smirked. "What do you need?"
Dean looked back at the lab. "Do we find a way to save Alana?"
"We do." Kate said.
"How?" Dean asked.
"We already figured it out." Kate said.
"Well can you tell me what it is?" Dean asked.
Kate shook her head. "I really want to but there are details I can't change. The way we find out is part of it."
Dean growled and clenched his fist around the steering wheel. "You have been changing a lot of stuff."
"Caleb and April become a thing." Kate said.
Dean tilted his head. "And?"
"It is a good thing because you will want to keep him around." Kate said.
Dean stared at her blankly.
"He is more than a good friend." Kate said.
"Will you stop with the damn riddles?" Dean grumbled.
"I really can't. There are time limits and consequences to walking through time." Kate said.
"Anything else you want to tell me?" Dean asked.
Kate's eyes twinkled. "You make cute kids."
Dean blinked rapidly. "What?"
Kate got out of the car. "Hmm?"
Dean got out too. "What does that mean?"
Kate stepped backward through an invisible veil.
Dean huffed. "What the hell does that mean?" He growled and kicked the tire of the car. He'd have to wait to talk to a much older Kate but he was certain she never outgrew being a pain in the ass. He rubbed his face. "Caleb is more than a good friend. What the hell does that mean?" He went back into the lab and wracked his brain for what Kate meant. He looked at the dish with Caleb's name on it. "Is anything different about his?"
Kate looked at it. "Yes but I don't know why except he has leftover blood from us."
"We should figure out why his is different." Dean said.
"That is what we are trying to do. Kate said."
Dean looked at the time. "I need to take something to Matt."
Taylor was tired of looking at samples. He was interested but he was getting a headache. "I'll go with you."
Dean shrugged. "Kate?"
Kate shook her head. "Science time."
Dean chuckled. "Marty, is it okay if she stays?"
Marty smiled. "Absolutely."
Kate tuned everyone out and stared at the screen. Something was there.
Taylor was quiet on the drive to the hospital. He had a nagging pain in his head and thought sleep sounded good.
"Do you want to go in?" Dean asked.
"Sure." Taylor said. He wasn't sure about waiting outside as it got darker.
Matt looked up when Dean walked into the room. He took the 'smoothie' from him and sipped it. "Thank you."
"How is she?" Dean asked.
Alana whimpered and turned on her side.
Taylor saw the red rash creeping up her arm. His head started to hurt worse. He stepped into the hallway and took a deep breath. His eyes grew wide and he gasped. He shakily grabbed his phone to call Kate.
"Hey is everything okay?" Kate asked.
Taylor walked away from people. "Caleb got scratched and then we gave him... the stuff. He didn't heal until I added my own." He whispered.
Kate pinched the bridge of her nose. She felt like she was looking at a photograph that she just couldn't quite make out. "So we healed him."
"Right. I don't think our blood is still in his system. If it was, he wouldn't have needed Cas to heal him when David showed up." Taylor said.
Kate was starting to piece it together. "He has antibodies."
Taylor's heart was beating out of his chest. "I bet he does."
Kate waved Marty over. "Okay, I'll have Marty look at it."
Taylor hung up the phone. He heard Dean calling his name and turned the corner.
"Where did you go?" Dean asked.
Taylor flicked his eyes to the surrounding nurses.
Dean walked with Taylor to the car. "What is it?"
"Caleb has antibodies. I mean, we don't know yet but it makes sense. We thought he just still had grace in his system but he got hurt and didn't heal during the demon fight." Taylor said.
Dean palmed his forehead. "He is more than a good friend, damn it why did that have to be a riddle?"
Taylor tilted his head. "What?"
Dean shook his head. "Nothing."
Marty was as excited as Kate was. "How on earth did you come up with that idea?"
Kate blushed. "Wild guess."
They ran Caleb's blood sample a few times and Marty said that the blood reacted but it wasn't catastrophic like the other normal samples had been. The cells didn't change. They reacted how antibiotics acted with bacteria. He was amazed by Kate and Taylor. He had never met anyone with the creative curiosity that they had.
Dean ran back into the hospital. "Matt, we are going to need some of her blood."
Matt furrowed his brows. "Why?"
"I think we found something." Dean said. He found a tube meant for blood in another room. He quietly reentered Alana's room and used her IV port to get the blood he needed. "We are going back to the lab."
Matt nodded. "Okay."
Dean drove back as quickly as he could without getting caught. The sun was sinking lower by the minute and he felt like he was on a time crunch.
Marty didn't ask what the new blood was. He was too intrigued. Alana's blood looked similar to Bobby's and the others but the reaction was slow. There were only a few black spots.
Kate added her blood to some of Alana's and the reaction was quick. Dean was probably right about her blood killing Alana. "Taylor, try."
Taylor did the same thing and had the same reaction.
Kate drew some of Caleb's from a tube and held her breath. Her hand was shaking and she felt dizzy. This had to work. She added the blood and stepped back. She was afraid to open her eyes.
Marty viewed the sample and sat back. "I don't see anything new."
Kate slumped. She really did not want Alana to get sicker. It wasn't fair. She was just a kid.
Taylor watched the monitor, willing something to happen. There was no movement or change. He blinked. "There!"
Kate jumped. "What?"
"There was a black dot there." Taylor said.
Marty sighed. "Things can move off-screen."
Taylor shook his head. "No. It was in the center. It isn't there anymore."
Marty looked through the microscope and studied the sample at a closer magnification.
Kate pointed to another spot. "Another one just went away."
Marty counted the dots left on the screen and set a timer for five minutes. He counted three less by the time the five minutes was over. "That is a new reaction."
Kate wrapped her arms around Dean. "You figured it out!"
Dean blushed. "I didn't."
"No, you said something about Caleb and it made us think about it." Taylor said.
Dean couldn't tell them how he came up with the idea. Although, maybe that was why Kate couldn't tell him the answer.
Marty ran the experiment three more times with nearly the same result.
Dean called Caleb. "Where are you?"
"At Bobby's." Caleb said.
"I'll meet you at the hospital." Dean said.
Caleb put his boots on. "What is going on?"
"You have antibodies." Dean said.
Caleb's mouth fell open. "What? How?"
Kate took the phone. "When Taylor and I healed you, we helped your body fight off that infection. You were able to handle our blood. Alana isn't but when we added your blood to hers, it killed the infection."
"So the scratches can turn someone?" Caleb asked.
"It looks like it. Maybe it is different than the bites. Maybe it is slower. I don't know but it is worth a shot."
"Brandon, stay here with Bobby. I'll be back." Caleb said. He drove to the hospital and made a beeline for Matt's room.
Matt was worried about Alana. The rash was spreading faster.
Kate sprinted down the hallway and right into Alana's room. "Here." She grabbed Caleb's arm and cleaned it. She stuck him with a needle and drew out enough blood for a syringe.
Matt was confused. "What are you doing?"
"This may fix it." Kate said. She added a few CC's of blood to Alana's IV in case she had a reaction to it. She added a few more after a few minutes went by. Alana wasn't having a reaction which was a good sign. She used the last of the blood in the syringe and capped it.
Matt held Alana's hand. He was terrified.
Kate used a marker to put a few dots along the edges of the rash. "Now we wait."
Fifteen minutes slowly slipped by. Matt looked at the dots. "The rash is shrinking."
Kate jumped excitedly.
Caleb let her draw another syringe of blood. "They are going to kick us out." He said, referring to the hospital staff. "If progress slows down, I guess add that."
Matt was overjoyed with any form of hope. "Thank you. Thank you all so much."
They cleared the hospital when a nurse came into the room to make them leave.
Taylor recognized Marie's car when they got to Bobby's and darted out of the car to go inside.
Kate climbed over the back seat and fidgeted happily.
Dean had a twinge of sadness knowing that she was going to grow and get older. He had seen her grown up and it hurt a little.
"I have an idea." Kate said.
Dean chuckled. "Yeah?"
"Caleb's blood may be a cure for Alana. Matt is a vampire. He has had Caleb's blood. That blood goes to his bloodstream..." Kate said and waited for Dean to catch up.
"We might be able to cure Mary."