Somewhere in Northern Afghanistan
"Get down!" Staff Sergeant Kaia Nieves as she fires her weapon. Her and her troops dive in the hole.
The explosion was loud. The ground shaking with the missile that exploded a few miles away.
"Move it!" She ordered. She and her unit quickly move along, in war nothing can be predicted exactly.
Later that evening, her and her unit were laughing and dining in the unit mess hall.
"You did great today." The woman across from her says with a smile.
"Thanks. It wasn't just me, it was all of us." Kaia insisted.
"Don't be so modest, you managed to save your unit from the surprise attack. No one should have escaped uninjured." Unit 12 was caught off guard as they were returning to their base. The other units were far away and hadn't been able to get to them on time. They were forced to protect the innocent local citizens that were caught in the middle. Thankfully there was no casualties, except the enemy, who died when a missile hit their base.
"No one is dying today or any day." Kaia tells her. "We have a few months left, then we can go home." She was so glad her unit was okay, she didn't want to be responsible for holding a funeral for any of her comrades and friends.
"Sure is hot tonight."
"Sure is." Kaia smiles as she pulled her girlfriend closer. She never thought she'll be where she was now, she was glad her nightmares was over. The Bad Place, she never wanted to see it again. "It's getting late, let's get some sleep."
Kaia was walking through a beautiful field, wherever she was she was glad to see flowers and not monsters. Wherever that place was, it was long gone. Kaia smiled at the two kids running by and laughing as they carried their kite.
She wished her best friend could see this, but she hasn't heard from Derek for some time now. She hoped he was okay, last time he wrote to her, he's been complaining about the Apocalypse, how every "dreamwalk" he did ended in fire and blood. He warned Kaia to be careful, that bad times were ahead.
Kaia was about to pick some flowers when she heard screams. When she looked up she was terrified on what she saw. She screamed when the fire consumed her.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Patience "woke up" with a loud gasp.
"Not again." Another world gone, she hated that her visions were getting stronger.
"Patience?" Jody's voice was on the other side of the door. "Breakfast is ready!"
"Thank you!' She called back. She gets up to get dressed.
"Morning! How was your sleep?" Jody was pouring a cup of coffee.
"I had another nightmare." The fires, Patience will never forget about the smell of her flesh burning.
Jody wanted to tell her it was just a dream, but she knew Patience's visions weren't just dreams. She hands her a plate.
"Here you go. Just like you want them." Over easy, soft cooked, Patience hated hard eggs.
"Thanks Jody." Jody was about to join Patience when the phone rang.
"Hello? Hey Dean! How's the Misses?" Her face dropped. "When? Oh god." She looks at Patience and hands her the phone. When Patience started crying, Jody left the kitchen to give her some privacy.
"My dad, is he okay?" She sighed in relief. "And Grandma Missouri?" Patience barely remembered her, last time she saw her was when she was a young girl at her mom's funeral. "Oh...I'm fine. No, your family needs you." Her grandma, she was found dead this morning. "I can call Claire, she can help. Okay. I'll let Jody know. Thanks. Bye." She pushes her plate away, she lost her appetite.
"Patience? Are you okay?" Jody saw her wiping her eyes with a napkin.
"Not really. Can I be excused?" She was a adult, but she was a guest at Jody's house.
"Of course." Jody remembered what Patience told her last night.
"Patience!" Jody was happy to see her, she missed her young friends. "Its been awhile!" She hugged the young psychic.
"Jody, I had a vision." Patience, she needed to talk to Jody.
"Well come in, it's chilly out here!" She ushers Patience in. "What's going on?" She didn't know Patience that well, she was very private about her life.
Patience was shaking on the couch.
"I needed to see you. Is Claire here?" She knew Alex wasn't around, she was living down south with her family.
"Claire is on a hunt, she and Jack are assisting a group of hunters. Patience, what's wrong?" Jody know Patience had nightmares, she herself had those bad dreams.
"I saw you die." Not just Jody, but everyone she knew.
"Is it about Armageddon? I try not to think about it." Jody hated those dreams, she was forced to fight almost everyday.
"No, but you weren't the only one to die." Donna, Claire, Alex, they died horribly. "I had to come here." Patience's boss wasn't happy that Patience quit, but she had no choice. "I needed to talk to someone."
"My door is always open. You know that."
"Thanks Jody. My vision, hunters are getting hunted." That monster, he was getting stronger. Psychics aren't the only one he was after. "But that's not why I came here." Her dream, it scared her.
Patience was in her room doing her homework when her mom came in and kissed her on the head.
"Honey? It's late. You need your sleep."
"I know, but the AP exam is next week." Patience was studying hard, she was determined to go to Harvard.
Tess Turner closes her textbook.
"You won't remember anything without a good sleep. Go to bed." She ordered.
"Okay mom." She was exhausted anyways. "Tell dad I said goodnight." James Moseley often worked late.
"Night!"
"Night!" After her mom left, Patience closed her eyes. She was about to go to sleep when she heard her grandma's voice.
"Patience! Get up!"
Patience blinked when she sat up.
"Granny?" She hasn't seen her grandma in years. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to warn you, there's something evil coming." When Missouri's eyes started bleeding, Patience's eyes went big.
"What's...what's going on?"
"Everything you see is an illusion." Patience remembered. Her mom was dead.
"Mom?" She remembered her mom's funeral. How angry her father was at her grandma. "What's going on?"
"You have to be strong. Believe in yourself. Your friends. Don't be fooled by lies."
Patience cried at what she saw. Claire was dead, her throat ripped apart. Alex, she committed suicide when her family was murdered. Donna was killed by a monster, her death livestreamed over the Internet. Then Jody, she was killed by a vampire. But that wasn't the worst part, it was seeing everyone going insane. Her friends, they were lucky to die.
"I saw you all die." Patience sniffled. Before Jody could say anything, Claire opened the Jody's front door, followed by Alex.
"Patience?" Claire looked surprised to see her.
"Hey Jody." Alex waved to Patience. She smiled when Jody hugged them both.
"My girls." Jody never realized how much she missed her daughters. "Where's Micaela?" Jody was looking behind Alex.
"With Kevin. She's entering kindergarten right now." Alex was miffed she was missing her daughter's huge milestone, but when Claire called her to let her know what was happening, she came right over.
"Well, since you are here, Patience have something to tell you."
Claire was shaking her head, Alex had a blank expression.
"I thought it was over." Paige told Alex about what the Angel of Destiny said. She and her husband never hunted, not since Micaela was born, but she checked in with her adopted mom and 'sister' from time to time.
"For Sam and Dean. Plus the Charmed Ones. Us, we're expendable." Claire was ready to quit, not that she hated hunting, she was one of the few that loved it; but she felt guilty that there were other cases out there that weren't getting any attention. Like that kidnapped girl. Those werewolves never saw her coming.
"I love to, believe me I do, but I can't." Alex kept having her nightmares, what happened to her daughter in the future, she woke up crying. Her daughter, her friends. Alex wasn't there to protect her. "Besides, if Patience said was true, then we have to remain vigilant."
"Did your vision happen recently?" Jody asked. She and Donna kept an eye on things, they consulted with other hunters on occasion to make sure their hometowns were safe from evil.
"I don't know." None of them were wearing the clothes she saw in her vision, but the amount of blood, Patience never will forget it. Especially Jody's.
"Well, since we're already here, Jody heard any news about New York?" Claire heard about that wraith, how he murdered a hunter.
"The girls are currently there, they are working to track down that wraith. He killed another woman before the Charmed Ones could get him."
Patience knew who that woman was. Her father James told her about her death. Plus, how he was narrowly saved by two hunters that were in the area. He was thankfully okay, he was currently at a hunter's safe house. Her thoughts were interrupted by Claire that was snapping her fingers in Paige's face.
"Hey Psychic!" Claire teased. She knew Patience zoned out on occasion, but she looked like she was in another world.
"Huh? What." The way Claire was smiling, her death, it was fresh on her mind.
"When does this happen?"
Patience shook her head.
"Anyways. Jody anything weird going on around here?" Claire knew that psychics' visions didn't always come true, she knew most used them as warnings to be careful.
Later while they were eating the dinner Jody cooked, Patience was asking about Magic School when she had a vision.
They were watching television when the windows broke. A bunch of monsters charged in, seeking revenge.
"We have to leave now." Patience warned.
They were on the road ten minutes later. Claire was looking at the footage on her smartphone.
"Werewolves. Figures." Guess those werewolves had friends. "Thanks Patience." Assholes must have been following her. Thank god Jody had cameras installed. She hated having no privacy, but it was necessary. Her and a few of her friends had them installed.
"So where to?" Jody had no idea where to go.
"Dammit!" Claire saw headlights heading right for them. "It's them."
"Behind us as well." Alex remarked.
"The old shipyard." Jody knew it was a dead end, but she had no choice. "Hold on!"
It was a tough drive, Jody was glad to have a vehicle that was meant for tough terrain.
"Alex! You have a way to get in and out of that Magic Place?" Alex was required to have a basic understanding of magic to work at her school.
"We're running?" Claire was disappointed. She was looking forward to a showdown. She was still wired about her last hunt. Too bad Jack had to go home, he had work. Castiel hired him as his assistant at Sacred Meadows.
"Don't be a idiot." Alex scolded. "I can get us outta here, Jody drive faster."
Jody had to be careful, her car was not meant to drive over rickety bridges.
"Hold on!" Jody yelled. She pushed her foot to the metal. Whoever was behind her, they weren't taking her daughters.
They screamed when the bridge shook with their weight. When the bridge collapsed under them, Jody forced herself to speed to the other side before they sank. Just in time, she managed to barely make it before the bridge collapsed into the river taking the cars that was chasing them with it.
"Hope they know how to swim." Claire smirked. She hated werewolves. Especially that time she was forced to become one. Thankfully it was only a day. "So Alex, how do you open the door?"
Magic School
"Wow." This place. It was the first time she seen it. "This is the the legendary school?" She seen magic before, but this was another level.
"This is nothing. Knox on the other hand." Alex been there on a tour.
"A school is a school." Claire gave no shits. She saw Patience looking around in awe. "This place is hiring, same as San Francisco. Castiel needs a counselor for the younger clients."
"Hey Amanda." Alex greeted the former librarian. "Working late?" Amanda wasn't just a librarian, she was now the vice principal as well.
"Always." Jophiel was strict. She wished his counterpart was working instead, but she was in Heaven.
"Alex, Micaela is at the kindergarten class if you want to see her."
"I'll come with." Jody missed her granddaughter. "Claire, you coming?"
"You go ahead." Claire wanted to look around, see if there was anything to give her a edge about hunting. "What about you Patience?"
"I'll stay here." Patience saw a book about psychics. Maybe she could find out more about her gifts.
"Suit yourself."
So many books. Patience couldn't believe it. She been to many libraries, but none had what she was looking at.
"You a psychic?" Patience jumped when she heard the librarian behind her. "You aren't the first one I seen. Shame you didn't come here when you were younger, you could have learned to control it."
"It can be controlled?" Why didn't anyone tell her?
"Mostly. The one that teaches it, she used to be a student here. After she graduated from Knox University, we hired her as a instructor." She handed her a card. "Her office is down the hall, she tends to stay late. Especially now with midterms."
"Thanks." Patience, she had to know how to control her visions, people were starting to think she was crazy.
Enola Finley was grading papers when she felt a presence.
"Come in." She smiled warmly at the young psychic. "Patience Turner. It's a pleasure."
"How did you know I was coming?"
"Your grandma told me. Sit."
Patience didn't know what else to do but to sit down.
"Yeah, I see things. Your grandma, rest her soul, she came to me. She told me to tell you to embrace your gift."
"Are you psychic too?" Patience only heard of a few. Phoebe Halliwell being one, plus her grandma, Missouri.
"A shaman. My great grandfather was one, as many others were before him." She put away her papers. "Patience, you seen things have you."
Patience nodded. It wasn't just her nightmares, it was seeing everyone die.
"My dad, he forbade me from using my powers." Patience knew he never forgave Missouri for her mom's death. She said she seen her mom healthy and alive after her diagnosis. Sadly, she was wrong, and Tess died after a few months. "Called her a fraud and told her to stay away from us." Patience wasn't sure what to say about his own gift, he secretly practiced his own powers without her knowledge. She remembered the day she left her home.
A Couple of Years Ago
"You know once you walk out that door, you can't come back." James Moseley was standing at her bedroom doorway watching her pack. "Are you really throwing away your future for nothing?"
"It's not nothing." Patience couldn't figure it out herself. She had AP exams, she was applying to colleges. She woke up with a feeling to hit the road. "I'm eighteen. I'm not a child anymore." She made sure to pack the barest essentials, she had to head north. Why or where, she had no clue.
"Eighteen maybe, but you don't have a clue how to survive out there." James allowed her to work part time, but of only she put half of her paychecks in her college fund, and kept her grades up.
"I'll figure it out." She slung over her bag over her shoulders. "I already graduated, I used my extra credits." Patience was so glad she prepared.
"How long have you been planning this?"
"Awhile." Those dreams she had, they were warnings. She already took out most of her savings and sold her stuff to acquire her independence. She looked at her dad. "Tell Granny that I said hello." She never spoke to her in years, but she knew she was cheering Patience on from behind the scenes. James had a blank expression. "I'm sorry dad."
James just walked away and shut the door to his room after he went inside.
Patience sighed. Did she have to do this? She could just unpack and re-register for her AP classes. Live a normal life, go to Columbia like her dad. But when she felt that tug, she knew she was doing the right thing.
She felt her dad's eyes as she climbed in the taxi. She had a car, it was a gift for her college trip. But since she wasn't going to college, she couldn't take it. That girl, she didn't exist anymore.
"Where to sweetheart?" The taxi driver asks.
"The bus station." She had just enough to head to Michigan. There was plenty of jobs there, plus she knew a hunter.
Two Years Later
"Ugh. The smell of apple juice and dirty diapers." Patience groaned as she walked in her shared apartment. Annie just laughed.
"Welcome to the real world." Annie 'Alex' Jones recently moved out of her adopted mom's house. Once she told Jody she got accepted into nursing school, Jody and Donna helped her get scholarships to attend college in Michigan. Their other roommate, Alex's foster sister was out on a hunt. "At least you're not a hunter." Alex kind of was, but only hunted if necessary. She preferred to be behind the scenes, doing research and healing wounds.
"My dad, he and my grandma were hunters." He never hid that from her, why he thought hunting was better than being a psychic she'll never know. After she answered an ad for roommates thanks to that website she visited, she called the number and Alex agreed to have Patience as a roommate. Plus helped her get that job at college Alex was attending. Being a daycare worker wasn't her dream job, but it paid the bills.
"And you're not?" Alex liked Patience, she was a quiet roommate, unlike Claire who was loud and messy.
"My dad wouldn't let me." Patience was grateful for that, she hated blood and gore. "He wanted me to have a normal life."
"Same here." Alex spent her whole life staring at blood. Being raised by a murderous vampires, she was forced to being innocent men and women for food. Thankfully she was saved, but always wondered about who she really was. "Believe me, most hunters want your life." When Claire stomped in, she smirked. "With some exceptions. Hey, did you finally have a case?" She still made fun of Claire about that misunderstanding in Sioux Falls. Poor Jody has to call a lot of favors to cover her ass.
"Ha ha. Very funny. Matter of fact I did." She took out her knife. "Two dead skinwalkers." She nodded at Patience. "Hey."
Patience nodded back at her. After two years she still didn't know much about Claire. She lived here, but was rarely home.
"How's your mom?"
"How many times do I have to tell you? Hannah is not my mom. God."
"She calls here everyday to make sure your safe. She makes Jody look neglectful." Alex joked.
"At least she gives you space." Claire felt like she was under a noose. "I can't tell you how many times she tries to bribe me." She still hated angels, but after both Castiel and Hannah cut off their wings for her and Jack, she respected them more. But still was distrustful of them.
"At least she cares." James never called or wrote. Every email she sent, letters, phone calls, they were never answered or returned. "My dad wants nothing to do with me."
Both Claire and Alex stared at the floor. Their foster parents always checked in from time to time. Patience's own father disowned her. Neither knew what to say. Luckily they were interrupted by the phone.
"I'll get it!" Claire hoped it was Jack, she missed her good friend. "Novak Residance. Oh hey Sam."
Patience tuned them out. She went to have a shower.
"Really? That's weird. Missing girls? I can help." She rolled her eyes. "I'm hardly a amateur. Well they are witches, I'm sure all three can take care of them. No I never heard of anything like that here. I'll call Jody. Okay. Bye." She hangs up the phone. "Looks like we have a case."
"We? Sorry, I have homework." Alex was swamped.
"Missing girls! Alex, we can't just leave them." She closes her textbook.
"Didn't you and Jack solve that last case?" Alex heard about those poor women, their souls were getting eaten by angels. Yuck. "I'm sure Sam's new girlfriend is on the case." She opens her textbook again.
"In San Francisco. C'mon! Ever since your breakup with Henry, all you ever do is work. It'll be fun."
"Henry was a vampire." Alex never forgave him for trying to kill her and Claire when she was in high school. Thank god Jody, Sam and Dean saved them in time. "Besides why would I want to work? Hunting is no different." Alex still was angry about that. Jerk build her up just to tear her down. "All my life I was a blood slave. At least now I can be normal." Being a nurse was a good career. Alex hoped that someday she'll meet someone and have a family of her own.
"Please?" Claire needed the company. "Jack is attending college, and I need help. You, me. After this, I'll let you be." Seeing Patience walking in, she asked her if she wanted to hunt.
"Me?" Patience never expected that. "I never hunted in my life."
"You're a legacy. Your grandma, your dad. C'mon! Please?" Claire begged.
Alex sighed.
"Fine. If I need a break anyways." Her textbook was getting blurry. "I'll get dressed."
"Yes!" Claire bumped her fist. She was so lonely these days, Alex and Jack were attending college, her parents were dead, and her friends were scattered across the country. "Patience, I promise you this will be fun."
What happened that weekend, none of them expected anything that strange.
Alex took out her silver knife.
"Gross." She hated djinns. Plus every monster out there. "Well, we found the missing girls." They just managed to save them before they were drained of blood. "Whatcha think Patience?" She never thought that having a psychic around would be so useful. She managed to save all three before the djinn poisoned their minds by warning them beforehand.
"This was what my family does?" Patience hated to admit she had fun. No wonder Claire loved hunting. The rush was amazing. "When's the next hunt?"
"That's the spirit." Claire slapped Patience on the back.
"Be serious. This was one djinn." They barely made it out alive. "Sam and Dean had a hard time hunting as it is, same with Jody and Donna." Alex put her weapon away. "Did you call 911?"
"They are on their way. We gotta hide the body."
Once they hid the djinn's body, they watched from a few feet away as the ambulance takes the girls away. "I see some shovels, let's bury the bastard."
After they buried the djinn in its backyard, they walk back through the house.
"Now that this is done, I really have to go back to my homework." Alex was really behind.
"Same here." Patience was working at a day care part time, she used her paycheck to attend community college to get her social worker degree. "It was fun, but like Alex said, we can't do this forever."
"Fine. I'm tired anyways." Claire needed a break for a few weeks. "I can head west to visit, I need a vacation." She was about to leave when she spotted a crystal. "What's this?"
"Claire!"
"What?"
"These are master magicians. Everything here might be jinxed." Alex warned. She knew a few lore about djinns, her former vampiric family told her stories. That cursing someone with a mere touch wasn't all they did. "We need to burn this place down."
"I agree."
"Fine." Claire was curious, but she knew better than to touch anything she wasn't familiar with. Sam and Dean told her about magic tokens. "Got a match?" Before they can do anything, they were started by a cat who knocked over a bottle.
"What the. Stupid ca..." Claire passes out on the floor.
"Claire? Oh god." Alex falls next to her.
Patience didn't have time to react before seeing the cat transform into a teenage girl.
"Sweet dreams."
Patience woke up in her home.
"Where am I? Claire? Alex?" She was startled to hear her alarm going off. "What the..."
"Patience! Breakfast!"
"Dad?" Where was she? She groggily gets up. When she looked around, she realized she was home. "What?" When she heard knocks, she jumped.
"You have a test this afternoon! Get dressed, I'll drop you off before you head to school."
Huh? Patience was so confused. School? When she looked at herself, she was startled on what she saw.
"This can't be real." She was much thinner and younger. Her stress lines were gone. "Where am I?" When her dad opened the door, she jumped.
"Patience! You have ten minutes. Get dressed." James Moseley closes the door.
Was everything she been through a dream? Not knowing what else to do, she got out of bed.
"Dad?" Huh? The kitchen was empty. "Dad?" Patience checked the living room. When she didn't see anyone, she went upstairs. "Daaaadddddd!" Where was he? She went to his room, and was startled to see a cat. "Hi?" A cat? Her dad was allergic. "Hi kitty, what's your name?" The cat meowed and walked out of the room. "Hey! Where are you going?" When the cat looked back at her, Patience knew she had to follow it.
When they went out the front door, Patience was surprised to see where they were.
"What the..." What is this place? It was a endless hallway. "Why did you take me here?" The cat just meowed. When she heard a familiar voice, she turned around. "Hello?"
"Patience! Alex!" That voice.
"Claire?" Her memories. She looked at the cat. "What's this about?"
The cat disappears.
"Thanks for nothing." Hearing Claire's voice, she follows the direction of the voice.
Claire grunts as she cut off the vampire's head. Seeing Patience, she waves her over.
"Finally! I been waiting!" She puts her blade away. "You been dreaming too?"
"Yeah."
"I don't get it. If this is a djinn's fantasy, it's not very creative. I was with my parents, but that's not the weird part. I never became a hunter."
"What's so bad about that?" She was with her father, just like old times.
"I was twelve." Claire dreamed about being with her mom and dad again, but she been poisoned by a djinn before. At least she seen her parents again, even in a dream. "Come on, we have to wake Alex up."
Alex was sitting with her grandma when the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." A eight year old Annie runs to the door. Seeing two women, she looked relieved. "Finally!"
All three woke up groggily.
"Morning. How long were we out?" Alex was sore from the hard floor.
"Dunno. Thirty minutes?"
Patience looked at her watch.
"Forty." She corrected. The hell was that about? She looked around. "Where is she?"
"Who?"
"Catgirl." The cat, she she transformed into a woman. "Never mind." She saw things, maybe the cat was a figment of her imagination. She stretches. "Let's go back." There was another case, which was weirder than the last one.
A Few Days Later
"Okay, a man was found dead with massive blood loss." Alex was reading the local newspaper.
"A vamp?" Claire was getting her machete ready.
"That's the thing, no bite marks, no holes, nothing."
"Witch?"
"Maybe. Whattaya think Patience?"
"Hmm?" Patience couldn't stop thinking about her dream. Why was she dreaming about her dad? They hadn't spoken since she left that night. "What? Oh, maybe." That girl, shapeshifter?
"I can check for hex bags." Claire was going to check out the crime scene.
"I'm gonna call Jody." She worried about her girls, all three checked in from time to time.
"I can head to the library, see if there is something we never heard of." Patience needed to get out of their motel room for a few hours. She was an only child and craved her privacy.
"Sounds good, let's check in before nightfall." Alex was going along with Claire.
Patience stared at the words, but couldn't read them. Her mind was wondering, where was she going with her life? She couldn't help but think about her dream. Going to school, living with her father. A normal life. She sighed and closed her book. She needed to get some air.
Patience was walking down the street when she heard screams. Her hunter instinct kicking in, she ran to the alley.
"Oh my god." What was that thing?
The creature was invisible, but Patience with her psychic abilities could sense it. A man was laying on the ground, his eyes rolled in the back of his head, whatever was attacking him, he was dying. Patience had no time to lose. Taking out her handgun, she shoots at the shadow.
The creature screeched in pain and quickly disappears in the gloom. Once Patience couldn't sense it anymore, she checks out the guy.
"Sir? Are you alright?"
"Hughhj." He moaned.
"I'm calling 911."
Once he was taken away, Patience called Claire and Alex, filling them in on what they saw.
"I don't know. It was invisible. I didn't find any hex bags, or see anyone close by. I can go to the hospital, keep an eye on things. Okay. Bye."
Later at the hospital, with Patience acting like his girlfriend, she asked if he was going to be okay.
"I'm afraid I can't say, he's a John Doe. We are in the process of trying to track down his relatives. You say you and him just started dating?" Before Patience could answer, they were interrupted by Claire.
"FBI. Agent Johansson." Patience's eyebrows raised at the name. Guess Claire wasn't interested in rock aliases. "This new patient. I need to speak to him."
"I'm afraid that is impossible. Hospital policy."
"I'm conducting a case. May I speak privately?" She nodded at Patience. She saw Alex dressed in scrubs inside the unit. When they left, Patience snuck inside.
"Hey. What did you see?" Once Patience filled her in, Alex was deep in thought. "So this mystery monster was responsible for the latest attack?" She looked at the guy. "I didn't find any hex bags or any mystical object on him. But I'm not calling out witch just yet." She looked at his chart. "Massive blood loss, yet no marks." She quickly checks him over. "Patience, is there anything you can read off him?"
"I can try." She barely can control her visions. After a minute, she shook her head. "Sorry."
Alex looked up.
"We gotta go. Doctor is on his way. Can't risk being caught." They quickly sneak back out.
They waited for Claire, they hoped she managed to get some info. Once Claire reunited with them, they go back to the motel to compare notes.
"Okay. I managed to find out something. The guy at the hospital? He was lucky. If Patience hadn't shot at that thing, he would have had all of his blood sucked out."
"Nasty. Was he the only victim?"
"We know there was another one. A James dela Cruz. Early twenties, was attending college. Found dead a few days ago completely exsanguinated."
"What's the link with him and John Doe?" Alex was taking notes, their wall was covered in notes and pictures.
"Both were of Asian descent. James, he was a grad student studying to be a doctor. He was in town visiting his grandma."
"And John Doe?"
"Called Jody, she's calling in for some favors."
Patience was writing notes. She was curious on what she saw. Seeing her father's face in her mind, she quickly brushes him away. Not now.
"I can look online. See if there is anything unusual."
"Okay, most monsters like to hunt in the dark. Both men were attacked in broad daylight. Be careful."
Claire and Alex told Patience they were going back to the hospital to check for more clues. Patience was going to stay behind to see if she can find anything on the computer.
"Not a witch. Curse?" When Alex was doing her inspection back at the hospital, she said he had no marks or tattoos on him. "I didn't find anything yet, you'll be the first to know." Patience hung up the phone. After another empty search, Patience closed her laptop. She was about to look over her notes again when the phone rang. "Find out anything?" When the voice came over the phone, Patience almost dropped her cell.
"Dad?" She was happy to hear from him. "I missed you so much." She wanted to cry.
"This is just business." His cold tone made her tear up.
"Okay." What did he want?
"Your grandma called, said you were on a hunt."
"Yes sir." She always was intimidated by him. Always being a perfect daughter, obedient, a star student, always making sure she never upset him.
"That thing you are after, it's called a Sigbin. Don't know what it is, and don't care. She said it came from the Philippines, it feeds of the shadows of men. You can't kill it by unconventional means, so far no hunter been able to kill it. Good luck." The phone clicked off.
Patience wanted to cry. Hearing the doorknob opening, she quickly wipes her tears away.
"We're back. We have food. Patience? Is everything okay?" Alex saw her red eyes.
"I got a name of that monster."
After they finished eating, they strategized on what to do next.
"A sigbin? Never heard of it." Claire was having a drink, she always had something strong when she was on a hunt.
"Called Jody, she said Bobby is doing research." Alex declined to drink, she disliked hard liquor. "She said this creature only hunts during daylight. Why I have no idea. Of course you never heard of it. It never been seen outside of Asia according to Jody."
"Well, until Jody calls back, want to see a movie?" Claire saw some PPVs on the motel menu. "We can watch Kill It Before It Dies."
"I never heard of it." Patience rarely watched television.
"Jody and Donna both recommended it. Said it isn't cheesy like most monster movies."
"My granny was a extra in this movie, she said I was too young to watch it." Alex was curious to watch it. "I'll make the popcorn." There was a microwave in their room.
"If they said it was good, then I trust their judgment." Patience went to find a comfortable spot on the bed.
They were lost in the story when the phone rang. It was getting good, Billy just managed to save Sally-Mae's best friend form from the evil beast.
"Your grandma looks like you." Claire remarked. Katherine, the name of the best friend in the movie was played by Alex's late grandma. Her character was hugging Sally-Mae for saving her life.
"She does, except I'll never dress like that." Alex was always a tomboy growing up. "Hello? We're fine. We're just watching a movie. Uh, huh. Ewwww. Okay. Where can we find this thing. A museum? Let's just hope it exists. Okay. Thanks Jody. Bye."
"What did she say?" Claire was dying to see what happens next. She had to see if Billy saved the girl.
"Killing it isn't hard, even as a shadow, it is vulnerable. Just that we need a weapon."
"What kind of weapon?" The movie was good, but Patience was too distracted to know what was going on. She couldn't stop thinking about her dad.
"Jody is asking around. Bobby called another hunter, that guy said that thing likes to collect children's hearts. It gets its strength from eating blood from a man's shadow, once it gets it's fill, it goes after children and takes their hearts as souvenirs to make trinkets."
"Why?" Her dad forgotten, Patience was curious.
"Who cares? Bad enough that it kills people. It goes after kids." Claire took out her gun. "How do we ice it." She had silver bullets, hopefully it was enough.
"Immorality? Lore is unknown outside of myth and stories. All we know it wakes up only during the Holy Week. After midnight, it becomes whole. That's when it hunts kids, and makes its amulets. It's completely invisible in its true form."
"Midnight is only a few hours away." Patience had to kill this thing. "Where is this weapon?"
"So how to we do this?" They had the dagger, they stole it from the local museum. When they discovered what it was made of, all three were grossed out. It was made out of bones of small children. All three vowed to destroy it afterwards. "We are lacking the sun." Claire was the one holding the dagger, both Alex and Patience refused to touch it. Alex didn't want to be haunted, and Patience was scared to see past visions of the children's deaths.
"Plus we are women. This thing prefers men." Alex had no clue what it looked like.
"It can be tricked." Patience looked up the lore, the site said it can be summoned by a virgin. Gender doesn't count. "All I need you to do is to hide. It's blind, it won't be able to see me. But, once it starts drinking it knows its been tricked. As soon as I pass out, you know it's beside me."
"How can we see this thing? Neither one of us is psychic." Alex didn't want to lose her friend. Patience said she could see the shadow, but only because she was psychic.
"Just use your hunter instincts. I trust you. Hurry, midnight is less than an hour away."
"I don't like this." Alex hated this plan.
"Patience is never wrong about anything she sees. She always said to look with your mind, not your eyes. Guess we can test this theory." Claire was ready. "She's done. Alex, watch out for anything unusual."
They watched as Patience finished the ceremony. Both were vary careful not to move, they were scared to spook the creature. They only waited five minutes before they felt a chill.
"It's here." Alex whispered. She didn't see anything, but she felt a presence.
"I know." Claire fought evil before, but she always faced it. What she was seeing was nothing. But she knew they weren't alone. Once they saw Patience fall over, they knew they had their one shot. "Let's move." Claire forced herself to use her instincts.
The creature screamed as Claire stabbed it. She didn't see anything, but she knew where to stab it. She then twists the knife five times. Once she "saw" the shadow disintegrate, she knew it was dead.
"It's gone. Alex, check Patience."
Patience was unconscious. The creature's bite was poisonous to humans, it drugged them so it can feed on their blood. To hide from danger, it used the person's shadow to feed on their blood. It was the only way to hide from hunters.
"Uhh. Where am I?" Patience was groggy, she was knocked out when the sigin bit her. Seeing Claire and Alex, she remembered. "Is it gone?"
"Yep. We were lucky, the clock just struck midnight." Claire was holding the knife. "We still have one more task."
Present Day
"Yeah, we found out how that creature entered the country. The museum's display was on a tour. They were showing off artifacts from Asian cultures. The Sigin, it came from that college student who donated it from his family's collection. Guess they couldn't figure out how to kill it, we checked the family's history out, his great grandfather was a hunter. It was inside a sealed box. Guess it was damaged when someone accidentally dropped it." Patience shuddered at the memories of its 'tongue.'
"But that hunt isn't why you're here."
"No." Patience couldn't care less about that. "It was that vision I had about my dad. We hadn't spoken face to face in years." James checked in from time to time, but refused to see his daughter in person. She looked at the Shaman. "Was that you?" The cat.
"I am many, but I only show my power to whom that seeks answers. You must have been calling for help. Someone close by must've heard your call." Enola scoops out a cup of tea from the pot that was sitting on top of a fire. She and Patience were outside, Enola preferred to be outdoors whoever a Vision Quest was being done. "Here. Drink this. The answer you will seek is inside of it.
"Is it safe?" It looked like ordinary tea, but around here, who knows.
"I wouldn't have been hired here if it wasn't." She smiled. "You're not the first psychic I seen. Your grandma, she was questioning her own gift back in her day. My great grandfather was her guide. And before you ask, he was a hunter too. Whatever you seek, it will be answered. But try not to get distracted by your fears."
"What do you mean?" What fears? Her nightmares?
"Your friends are waiting for you. The faster you finish this, the sooner you can go home." She holds up the cup.
Patience takes the tea and downs it.
Huh? Where was she? Her house? She was in her childhood bedroom. This must be her vision quest. She opens the door.
"Hello?" No answer. Seeing a light, she goes downstairs. It looked exactly the same as she left it. She teared up. It's been so long since she was home. Looking at the back door, she saw a bright light. That was the door was the night she left for good. The last time she walked away from everything she knew. That light, she knew her father was on the otherside. She goes towards it. Before she could go towards it, she gets attacked by a werewolf.
She calmly takes out her gun and shoots it in the heart. The werewolf disappears. She takes another step. A vampire goes to attack her. She flips it over, and seeing a poker from her dad's fireplace, she stabs it in the neck. The vampire vanishes. The last attack, a ghost startled her, she fell on the floor.
"Ow!" Patience found herself on the hard ground. "What the..." She looked at the Shaman in disbelief. "How did I get here? You didn't say it was dangerous."
"You didn't ask." She pours another cup. "Want to try again?"
Back in Magic School, Alex was watching Kevin teaching kindergarten to Micaela's class. She, Jody and Claire were waiting for Patience who was doing her vision quest.
"What do you think she's seeing?" Alex was curious, but she knew it was none of her business.
"Probably the future." Claire hated those dreams, she hunted a lot to get out that frustration. She wasn't interested on doing her own quest, she didn't care.
"Maybe it's more personal then that." Jody knew how much she missed her father. Plus the news her grandmother was murdered. "I seen a cafeteria downstairs. Claire, you want to join me for a cup of coffee?" She knew Alex wasn't leaving her family behind.
"Sure. Alex, want a cup?"
"No thanks. After this, Kevin and I are going home." She knew where her door was. "I'll be seeing you around, if you need me, just call."
"Okay." Claire knew that Alex wanted out of the life. But her dreams about losing her daughter, she came along to hunt with Jody and Claire as necessary. Her husband studied magic to keep his mind strong, as a witch/former Elder, he knew their daughter was coming into her powers. "If you see Patience, we'll be downstairs."
Patience was getting frustrated. She fought and lost over a dozen times.
"This is getting to be tiring. I beat everyone, but before I could get to the door, I lose!" Patience dusted her clothes off. "What am I doing wrong?"
"You are fighting with your emotions. You are afraid of knowing."
"Of what? Those nightmares? My dad? Bull. I don't care." Patience knew she was lying. She was afraid.
"Don't fight it. Just go along with it. Otherwise, you'll wonder forever." She hands her another cup.
Patience was back in her home. She had to know. What was her future like? Ignoring all the monsters that came at her, she opens the glass door.
"Micaela! You're late!" Alex was living at her house? Since when? Patience was surprised to see a teenaged girl walking in with a backpack.
"Geez mom. You're just as bad as Aunt Claire." She picks up a banana from the kitchen island. "Where's Granny Jody?"
"On a hunt with Claire. There's a nest of vamps attacking Sioux Falls."
"Again? Why aren't you with them? I thought you were hunting again."
"I have my own business here. Your father is already at the school, get going."
"School? Lame. I miss Magic School. The kids here are so prejudiced." Micaela uses her magic to throw the peel to the garbage can. "They hate witches."
"Well magic was exposed sooner than we expected. Plus with the School burnt down, magic went havoc after the First Witch gave magic to everyone." Alex uses her own magic to give Micaela her lunch. "Have a good day, and come straight home after school."
"I will." Micaela rolls her eyes. "Good luck with your hunt!"
"You too." Micaela walks out the door.
Patience looked surprised to see Alex staring at her.
"Morning sleepyhead."
"You can see me?" She thought this was a vision quest.
"You stayed up late again." Alex shook her head. "Didn't Phoebe tell you about rest? She was a doctor, but knew more about being a psychic than anyone she knew. Shame that Sacred Meadows doesn't exist anymore. Since you lost your job, you been doing nothing but try to get your visions back."
"My powers are gone? How?" Patience wanted answers, she didn't expect this.
"Don't you remember? It was over a decade ago. The First Witch was afraid of the future and gave everyone magic to fight. She didn't expect everyone to fight among each other." She gets up and grabs her car keys. "Just be careful when you visit your dad, witches aren't the only ones that are getting hunted. Those so called 'Magic Gangs' are ruthless. They hate psychics just as much as witches and hunters. I already made you breakfast, just warm it up. See you later." Alex walks out the door.
Visiting her dad? What was Alex talking about. Seeing a computer, she checks her email.
'Miss Turner, we have reviewed your application are are interested in a interview. Call us at 555-8574.' Miss Turner? Damn. She was still single. She checks another one.
'Hey! Long time no see! Mom and Dad are wondering if you want to visit. Uncle Sam and Aunt Piper are driving them up the wall, since both lost their powers, they been asking my parents for protection from another one of those gangs. Dad won't let me hunt, said it was too dangerous. Later!' It wasn't signed. Patience knew Dean and Jenna were having a baby, but he/she wasn't born yet. She wondered who that child was. She checks another email.
"Oh no." She teared up.
'Miss Turner. We must ask for payment, your last check bounced. As much as we are a care facility, we cannot have patients with a outstanding debt. Please make arrangements immediately.' Her dad was in a nursing home? Checking the address, she rushes out.
It was only a quick trip, but it felt like she drove for hours. Patience teared up seeing her dad.
"Dad?" James Turner was older, his hair was greying. But that's not frightened Patience. It was seeing him staring up in a blank stare. He was looking up at nothing. "Daddy?" Oh god. She goes to hold his hand and gets a vision.
"You won't hurt my daughter!" He was younger, he was slightly older than when Patience ran away from home. He was holding a knife. Was that the wraith that everyone was after? He was laughing.
"I killed everyone on my list, the witch was easier than I expected, with her new powers, I am invisible. Shame her ex husband was vanquished again. He could have saved her. I don't just hunt just anyone anymore, I have a preference. Your mom, she was delicious." He licked his talon. "I plan to dine as much as many psychics and witches before I get to the First Witch. But I still need Patience. I'll give you a free pass, you are a psychic, but I rather dine on gourmet, rather than gas station food."
Patience couldn't help but smile at her father's face. He looked insulted.
"No one hurts my daughter." He lunges at the wraith, unfortunately, with his new psychic abilities, he sensed James attack and throws him on the floor.
"Dad!" She was surprised to see the wraith look up.
"I'll see you soon, your dad's fate, it is inevitable." She watched helplessly as her dad was attacked.
Patience woke up with Claire tapping her.
"Patience! Patience! Jody and I are going home. You want a ride? The students were nice enough to repair that bridge." That bridge collapsed under their weight while they were running away from those werewolves.
Patience was looking up at the shaman.
"Will that really happen?"
"You tell me. Everything you see, it is just visions. Whether or not it comes true is up to you. Your gifts are merely a guide."
Patience looked at Claire and shook her head.
"I'm going home. My dad, he misses me."
"Okay. Ask Amanda to show you a doorway back to your hometown."
Buckhead, Georgia
James Turner was about to make some lunch when the doorbell rang. When he answered it, he was shocked to see his daughter standing on the front porch.
"Patience?" He teared up when she leapt in his arms. He never realized how much he missed his daughter.
"Dad. You're in danger. Get the car keys, we leave now."
"Okay." James no longer was angry at his daughter. His mom told him that she was in danger, as with him. Plus his nightmares. He knew now why his daughter left. "We'll take your car. It yours anyways." He was staying at a hunter's safehouse, he agreed to run when that monster attacked.
The wraith smirks when he looked around the empty house. Thanks to his new psychic and hunter abilities, he saw the witches coming. Shame that James was gone, those hunters were stronger than he expected.
"Oh well." He didn't care about the psychic anymore, he had others to hunt. He leaves the Turner House.
The young witch grimaces in pain as she was stabbed.
"You're strong. I like that." The hunter smirks as he slices her neck. "Nothing personal, just making sure you're not the First." Jason cleans up his knife. "How long do I have to do this. All I care about is the half-breed." He was currently trying to hunt down Jesse.
"Just till I find out how to enter Magic School. I need a glamouring spell, I need to enter that rehab facility. It needs to be destroyed."
"A glamouring spell? Why? You are not even from this world. I doubt anyone would recognize you." Jason liked this knife, it wasn't just for hunting, he just wished he knew what this was. There was etchings on the blade.
"My counterpart is dead. Besides, I have my orders." It took him awhile, but he was now a Colonel. He hated witches, but he needed to use their tricks. A few spells, and they gave him his rank. "Knox is impossible to get to, but Magic School and Scared Meadows are not." He had to destroy both places, he had orders. "Kill as many witches as you can, if you see any psychics, kill them too."
"Sure." Jason's ancestors used to be hunters. "I have someone that I have to hunt anyways." Jesse, he wasn't just a half breed, he was also the conduit for the Source of All Evil. He knew there was another half demon child out there, but wasn't sure if he was eligible to be evil. He was not just part demon, he was also half angel. "Do what you have to do. I have some hunting to do."
Piper was back in San Francisco, her sisters said they found something in Sacred Meadows' Observatory. It was locked up, but Hannah went inside to get a scroll she forgot about. When she read it, she immediately called Paige. It was a spell left behind by their great grandma, Pilar. She was literally on a plane that was about to fly back to Lawrence when her sisters called, begging her to come back with them. Hearing their panicked voices, Piper knew she had no choice but to listen. She called Sam telling him she'll be delayed by a few days, luckily the plane was still sitting in the runway.
As she was looking at the spell, her eyebrows rose. She recognized her own writing.
"Huh." This spell. Why was it locked up? "Why was this hidden Pilar?" It was nothing she heard of. No wonder her sisters called her. "This can be useful."