Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 3 of See You Again. I hope that you guys will enjoy this next chapter. I know that it has been a while since I've written for this series, and I promise that I will try to update this as often as I can. But I had wanted to try to write the other fics to get them caught up to a chapter 2. So I hope that you guys enjoy this next chapter of See You Again. I want to wish you all a happy thanksgiving.
Chapter 3
Ghost in the Water
Andi took a soft breath as she slowly put her duffel bag into the trunk of Dean's car. She knew that the boys had gone to go and get breakfast and she really didn't blame them for wanting to get some food, but she honestly wasn't hungry when Sam asked her to join them. She closed the trunk of the car and then wiped her palms on her ripped faded blue jeans. She let out a soft breath as she moved to go into the diner. Her blue and black flannel flew in the wind revealing the black tight tank top she wore underneath. She slowly came over to the table where the brothers were sitting.
"You know, Sam, we are allowed to have fun once in a while." Dean complained looking at his brother like he had burst his bubble. He pointed at Wendy who walked past Andi,whom was wearing short shorts. "That's fun."
Andi wrinkled her nose. "Really Dean?" She slowly joined them at the table quirking her brow a little bit. "Is that all you can think about? Is having fun?"
Sam shook his head and looked at his brother. He knew that Dean was bad, but he didn't think this bad.
Dean shook his head and handed the newspaper over to him. "Here, take a look at this, I think I got one. Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin. Last week, Sophie Carlton, eighteen, walks into the lake, doesn't walk out. Authorities dragged the water, nothing. Sophie Carlton is the third Lake Manitoc drowning this year. None of the other bodies were found either. They had a funeral two days ago."
"A funeral?" Sam asked as he folded the paper looking up at his older brother.
"Yeah, it's weird, they buried an empty coffin. For, uh, closure or whatever."
"Closure? What closure? People don't just disappear, Dean. Other people just stop looking for them." Sam complained, he was beginning to get antsy with the whole idea of hunting even though they hadn't found their father yet. He wanted to find their dad and hunt down the thing that killed his girlfriend.
"Something you want to say to me?" Dean questioned raising his eye brows looking at his brother.
"The trail for Dad. It's getting colder everyday."
"Exactly. So what are we supposed to do?" Dean questioned leaning forward in his seat. He wanted to know what his little brother thought that they should do. There was really no clues leading to where their father was.
"Sam, you have to give it time." Andi said softly trying to get the younger Winchester boy to understand, even though she already knew that he probably wasn't going to listen to her because she wasn't part of the family. He hadn't really listened to what she had said for the last few days and he had gone off on her the day before for no reason. He was becoming more hostile as the days went on. She knew that he wanted to find John so he could get to the bottom of what was going on. And well that wasn't going to be happening any time soon. And wherever John went… it bothered her to no end that he had taken off the way that he had.
Sam ignored what Andi had said. "I don't know Dean. Something. Anything."
"You know what? I'm sick of this attitude. You don't think I wanna find Dad as much as you do?"
"Yeah, I know you do, it's just…."
"I'm the one that's been with him every single day for the past two years, while you've been off to college going to pep rallies. We will find Dad, but until then, we're gonna kill everything bad between here and there. Okay?" Dean said looking at his brother, saying it very calmly. He was being very serious with what he was saying.
Sam rolled his eyes at what Dean said.
Wendy walked by distracting his brother.
Andi groaned and then smacked him lightly. "How far?" Her phone began to go off and she looked at the number and saw that it was none other than her mother calling her. She looked at the brothers. "I'll be outside. Just hurry it up alright?" She said as she slipped outside. She brought her phone up to her ear. "Hello?" She shifted on her feet a little bit when she heard her mother's soft British accent on the other end of the line.
Of course her mother would be calling her from across the pond checking in on her and begging her to come home.
"Are you ever coming home, Andrea?" Her mother's smooth British accent came across the line which sent a longing moment into her heart.
Andi let out a soft sigh running a hand through her hair closing her eyes. "Mum, I'm still busy here. I promised the Winchesters that I would find their father." She said softly into her phone ignoring the pang that she felt in her heart. She couldn't just simply drop everything and return home. John had brought her there for a reason and she wanted to follow through with whatever it was.
"Andrea… you're place is here. You're not meant to be hunting. You're place is here in Britain."
"Is that you telling me mum? Or is that someone else talking?" Andi questioned, her tone turning rather defiant. She knew that her mother wouldn't just simply ask her to come home if it was on her own, someone was asking her to pull the strings to be brought back home and she wasn't about to be swayed all that easily.
"Andrea darling you know it's your place."
"Mum." Andi let out a soft sigh. "I promised the Winchesters that I would help them find their father. I was brought over here by John to help on a few cases. You know that." Andi rubbed her temples. She saw the two brothers come out of the Inn. "You know I keep my promises mum. Doesn't matter how long they take."
"Andrea…"
"I have to go mum."
"Andrea don't you…"
Andi hung up on her mother letting out a soft sigh. She hated the idea that her mother wanted her to come back to Britain so badly and get back to work. Honestly with what she was doing right now, she was happy.
Dean gave Andi a look. "Alright there Andi?"
Andi forced a smile on her lips. "Fantastic."
"You don't look alright." Sam said looking at her concerned.
Andi quirked her eyebrows. "Oh so you're going to be concerned about me after having an attitude with me a few days ago?" Andi snapped, looking at him huffing a bit in agitation. "I'm fine seriously. Just my mum wanting me to return home that's all and I told her I wasn't."
The three of them got into the Impala.
Dean started baby up. "Let me get this straight." He began to drive down the road. "You told your mother that you weren't going to hop onto the next available flight out of here to return to Britain?"
Andi scoffed. "If I was going to hop on the next flight out of here don't you think that I wouldn't be doing that right now instead of with you?" She shook her head. "No, I told her that I wouldn't be doing that. I am keeping myself to my word. I promised you boys that I would help you find your father and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to help you find John."
Sam looked back at her. "Thanks for this Andi."
Andi nodded her head. "Yeah any time."
SPNSPN
Dean pulled the Impala up outside of the Carlton house.
The three of them stepped out of the car and walked up to the door. Dean knocked on the door.
Will Carlton opened the door.
"Will Carlton?" Andi asked looking at the young man that had opened the door.
"Yeah, that's right." He said softly with a nod of his head.
"I'm Agent Parks. These are my partners Agent Ford and Agent Hamill." She said pointing to Dean and Sam. "We're with the US Wildlife Service."
Dean held up his ID. "Can you show us where your sister drowned?"
Will nodded his head. He led them out towards the dock where his father was sitting. "She was about a hundred yards out. That's where she got dragged down."
Andi stayed a bit further from the dock on the land while Dean and Sam stood on the dock looking out at the lake.
"And you're sure she didn't just drown?" Dean questioned the young man wanting to make sure that it wasn't just some sort of drowning.
"Yeah. She was a varsity swimmer. She practically grew up in that lake. She was as safe out there as she was in her own bathtub."
"So no splashing? No signs of distress?" Sam asked Will as he looked out at the lake.
Will looked at Sam. "No, that's what I'm telling you."
"Did you see any shadows in the water? Maybe some dark shape breach the surface?"
"No. Again, she was really far out there."
"You ever see any strange track by the shoreline?" Dean questioned looking at Will.
Andi's eyes kept looking out at the lake an unreadable expression was on her face.
"No, never. Why? Why, what do you think's out there?" Will asked looking at Dean in confusion.
"We'll let you know as soon as we do." Dean said turning on his heel to walk back to the car.
Sam went to follow his brother.
"What about your father?" Andi asked tearing her eyes from the water.
The brothers stopped and turned.
"May we talk to him?" She asked politely, putting her arms behind her back looking at the young man curiously.
Will looked at his father and then turned back looking at Andi. "Look, if you don't mind, I mean… he didn't see anything and he's kind of been through a lot."
"Of course." Andi said offering a kind smile. "I understand." She turned and began to walk with the boys.
"Looks like we have a little bit more to look into." Dean said as they got into the Impala.
Andi nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah."
SPNSPN
"Now, I'm sorry, but why does the Wildlife Service care about an accidental drowning?" Jake Devins, the Sheriff of the town asked looking at the three of them.
Andi shifted her weight. "Are you certain that it was accidental? Will Carlton saw something grab his sister."
"Like what?"
The four of them walked into his office.
Jake motioned for them to sit in the chairs. "Here, sit, please. There are no indigenous carnivores in that lake."
Andi, Sam, and Dean took seats in front of his desk.
"There's nothing even big enough to pull down a person, unless it was the Loch Ness Monster."
"Yeah." Dean laughed. "Right.
Sam and Andi glanced at Dean.
Andi shook her head at him.
"Will Carlton was traumatized, and sometimes the mind plays tricks. Still…" Jake took a seat. "We dragged that entire lake. We even ran a sonar sweep, just to be sure, and there was nothing down there."
"That's weird, though, I mean, that's, that's the third missing body this year." Dean said leaning forward looking at Jake wondering if Jake would give them some more information.
"I know. These are people from my town. These are people I care about." Jake said nodding his head.
"I know."
"Any way." Jake let out a sigh rubbing his face. "All this… it won't be a problem much longer."
"What do you mean?" Dean asked his interest was intrigued now with what Jake had just said. Something was going on in the town and Jake knew.
"Well, the dam, of course."
"Of course, the dam. It's, uh, it sprung a leak."
"It's falling apart, and the feds won't give us the grant to repair it, so they've opened the spillway. In another six months, there won't be much of a lake. There won't be much of a town either. But as Federal Wildlife, you already knew that."
"Exactly." Dean said with a nod of his head.
Andrea Barr, Jack's daughter tapped on the door. "Sorry, am I interrupting?" She asked looking into the room.
The three hunters stood up quickly looking at the young woman that came into the room.
"I can come back later." She said softly with a small smile.
"Gentlemen and Lady, this is my daughter." Jake said introducing Andrea.
"It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Dean." Dean said shaking Andrea's hand.
"Andrea Barr. Hi."
"Hi."
"They're from the Wildlife Service. About the lake." Jake explained to his daughter about why the three of them were there.
"Oh." Andrea said surprised that the three of them were there for that since there was only a short amount of time that it was going to be gone.
Lucas, her son came in around her.
"Oh, hey there. What's your name?" Dean asked with a small smile.
Lucas walked away without speaking to Dean.
Andrea followed her son.
"His name is Lucas." Jake said watching them leave the room.
"Is he okay?" Sam asked looking at Jake.
"My grandson's been through a lot. We all have." Jake said standing up going towards the office door. "Well, if there's anything else I can do for you, please let me know."
The four of them leave the office.
"Thanks." Dean said with a smile. "You know, now that you mention it, could you point us in the direction of a reasonably priced motel?"
"Lakefront Motel. Go around the corner. It's about two blocks south." Andrea said giving him directions to the motel.
"Two… would you mind showing us." Dean said with a charming smile.
Andi looked at Sam with a look of confusion. Was he really trying a pick up line that way?
Sam just rolled his eyes at what his brother said.
Andrea laughed. "You want me to walk you two blocks?"
"Not if it's any trouble?"
"I'm headed that way anyway." Andrea turned to her father. "I'll be back to pick up Lucas at three." She turned to her son. "We'll go to the park, okay, sweetie?" Andrea pressed a soft kiss on Lucas's forehead.
Dean waved as they left the police station.
Jake nodded his head.
"Thanks again." Sam and Andi said at the same time with a small smile as they left with Dean and Andrea.
The three hunters followed Andrea down the street.
"So, cute kid." Dean said to Andrea.
"Thanks." Andrea said not really taking on his pick up lines. She was a mother after all and didn't do half-assed pick up lines.
"Kid's are the best, huh?"
Andrea glanced over at him and ignored what he said.
Andi shook her head. Dean was really cruising for a hookup wasn't he.
Sam let out a soft sigh shaking his head at his brother's antics. "Come on." He told Andi softly.
She stopped in front of the building. "There it is. Like I said, two blocks."
"Thanks." Sam said offering her a small smile.
Andrea turned and faced Dean. "Must be hard, with your sense of direction, never being able to find your way to a decent pickup line." Andrea said turning and leaving. "Enjoy your stay."
Andi began to laugh.
"Kids are the best?" Sam asked looking at his brother with a raised eyebrow. "You don't even like kids."
"I love kids." Dean said defending himself.
"Name three children that you even know." Sam challenged back to his older brother.
Dean tried to think.
Sam waved his hand and walked into the motel.
Dean scratched his head. "I'm thinking."
"Don't burn your brain out trying to think Dean." Andi said following Sam inside of the motel.
SPNSPN
Sam typed away on his laptop while his brother is going through his clothes and Andi is looking at her cell phone.
"So there's the three drowning victims this year." Sam said looking up from his computer.
"Are there any before that?" Andi asked not looking up from her phone as she sent a reply on her phone.
"Yeah." Sam said bringing up the window. "Six more spread out over the past thirty-five years. Those bodies were ever recovered either. If there is something out there, it's picking up its pace."
Dean tossed something onto the bed. "So, what, we got a lake monster on a binge?"
"This whole lake monster theory, it, it just bugs me." Sam said rubbing his face.
Dean came over to his brother reading over his shoulder. "Why?"
"Loch Ness, uh, Lake Champlain, there are literally hundreds of eyewitness accounts, but here, almost nothing." Sam let out a sigh. "Whatever it is out there, no one's living to talk about it." He scrolled down to the comments of the article.
Dean pointed at the comments. "Wait, Barr, Christopher Barr. Where have I heard that name before?"
"Andrea." Andi said looking up from her phone. "Might have been her husband."
Sam looked closer at the article. "Christopher Barr, the victim in May. Yes, apparently he took Lucas out swimming. Lucas was on a floating wooden platform when Chris drowned. Two hours before the kid got rescued." Sam clicked the picture to get a better look at it and scratched his head. "Maybe we have an eyewitness after all."
"No wonder that kid was so freaked out. Watching one of your parents die isn't something you get over." Dean said shaking his head.
Andi nodded her head. "And you just don't get over being stranded out in the middle of the water either for that long floating after seeing someone drown either. So we try to talk to the kid?"
"Yeah." Dean said with a nod of his head.
SPNSPN
Dean, Sam, and Andi walked up to Andrea who was watching her son who was coloring.
"Can we join you?" Sam asked Andrea with a small smile.
Andrea looked up looking at the three of them wondering why the three of them were there. "I'm here with my son."
Dean looked over and saw Lucas. "Oh. Mind if I say hi?" He said as he wandered over to Lucas.
"Tell your friend this whole Jerry Maguire thing is not gonna work on me." Andrea said looking at Sam with a look on her face that she didn't find Dean's act amusing.
Sam took a seat next to Andrea looking at his brother. He rubbed his face. "I don't that's what this is about."
Andi pulled a Lucky Strike out lighting it up. She took a drag from it letting the smoke come out of her lungs. "Lucas lost his father right?"
Andrea nodded her head. "Yes that's right."
Andi nodded her head. "Dean would know something about losing a parent. Well I suppose he would be better than me. I lost my father as well, but I suppose it would be better than a woman coming to him and talking to him. Better to relate to with another guy." She said with a small smile.
Andrea looked at her. She didn't understand why Andi was being so open with this. Telling her about Dean losing a parent and losing her own parent and telling her that they could relate to Lucas and maybe somehow get him to talk maybe.
"Besides." Andi blew some smoke from her lungs. "I'm not the best at talking to kids. Haven't been around any in years. He would be the first one that I've seen in a long time."
Dean came back towards them.
"Lucas hasn't said a word, not even to me. Not since his dad's accident." Andrea said softly.
"Yeah, we heard. Sorry." Dean said looking at her with a sad look. He didn't really know what else to say to her other than that.
Andrea nodded her head.
"What are the doctors saying?" Sam asked leaning forward putting his elbows on his knees looking at her with a wondering look.
"That it's a kind of post-traumatic stress."
Andi blew the smoke from her lungs. "That can't be easy. For either of you."
Andrea shook her head. "We moved in with my dad." Andrea admitted softly. "He helps out alot. It's just… when I think about what Lucas went through, what he saw…."
"Kids are strong. You'd be surprised what they can deal with." Dean said softly looking at Lucas who headed in their direction.
"You know, he used to have such a life. He was hard to keep up with, to tell you the truth. Now he just sits there. Drawing those pictures, playing with those army men. I just wish…."
Lucas walks up with the picture he drew in his hand.
"Hey sweetie." Andrea said softly to her son.
Andi smiled softly as she used the bottom of her boot to put out her cigarette.
Lucas handed the picture he drew to Dean.
Dean smiled a small smile. "Thanks." He said softly to the young boy. "Thanks, Lucas."
Lucas headed back to the bench.
Dean looked at the picture that Lucas had given to him and handed it to Andi.
Andi took a close look at it. "Thank you for your time Andrea." Andi said with a smile. She tapped Sam on the arm.
Sam got up to his feet knowing that there was something going on. "Andi?"
"Come on."
Dean tossed the keys to Sam which he caught with ease.
"What's going on?" Sam asked as he caught up with Andi who was walking quickly down the sidewalk.
"That picture that Lucas gave to Dean."
"What about it?" It's the Carlton house." Andi began to explain to him. "I think we should go and check it out alright? Just to make sure that it isn't a fluke. I mean Sophia Carlton? What if it is going to target another?"
Sam nodded his head. "Alright Andi. I see what you mean." He said to her softly knowing that she was beginning to ramble, but making sense with what she was saying.
SPNSPN
Sam slowly drove by the Carlton house.
Andi groaned looking out the window. "Shite… looks like we're too late."
The two of them got out of the car and walked up slowly.
"What happened here?" Sam asked flipping his badge.
"I don't understand how the Wildlife Services would want to know about an suicide drowning in a sink." The paramedic said closing the ambulance up.
Sam and Andi looked at one another.
"Thank you." Sam said with a nod of his head. He led Andi towards the Impala. "We gotta get back to Dean."
"I don't know what the hell is going on." Andi said shaking her head. "But it ain't no monster that is for sure. I mean no monster or creature would do this type of thing."
"I have to agree with you there." Sam said with a nod of his head.
"But now we got a problem. What the bloody hell is it?" Andi asked looking at him. She knew that they were in trouble and big trouble. They needed to figure out what it was and fast before more bodies tallied up.
Sam nodded his head. "Yeah. We gotta tell Dean." He said as he drove towards the motel.
SPNSPN
Sam opened the door coming in with Andi right behind him.
Dean looked over from where he was sitting on his bed.
"So, I think it's safe to say we can rule out Nessie." Sam said running a hand through his hair.
"What do you mean?" Dean asked in confusion looking at the two of them.
Sam took a seat next to his brother. "We just drove by the Carlton house. There was an ambulance there. Will Carlton is dead."
"He drowned?"
"Yeah. In the sink." Andi said, as she sat down on the couch that was across from the beds. She put her elbows on her knees looking at them.
"What the hell?" Dean said in confusion. "So you're right, this isn't a creature. We're dealing with something else."
"Yeah, but what?"
"I don't know. Waterwraith, maybe? Some kind of demon? I mean, something that controls water… water that comes from the same source." Dean said thinking of the possibilities.
"The lake." Sam said with a nod of his head.
"Yeah."
"Which would explain why it's upping the body count. The lake is draining. It'll be dry in a few months. Whatever this thing is, whatever it wants, it's running out of time."
"And if it can get through the pipes, it can get to anyone, almost anywhere." Dean said thinking rubbing his mouth as he stood up, "This is gonna happen again soon." He sat down in a chair.
"And we do know one thing." Andi said looking up biting her lower lip. "We know this has got something to do with Bill Carlton. It's killed his two children."
"And we took a chance and asked around." Sam began looking at Andi.
Andi nodded her head telling Sam to continue.
"Lucas's dad, Chris…. Bill Carlton's godson."
"Let's go pay Mr. Carlton a visit." Dean said getting up to his feet.
SPNSPN
Sam, Dean, and Andi walked down the path going towards the dock that Bill Carlton was sitting on.
Andi stopped in her tracks as soon as Sam and Dean stepped onto the dock. She couldn't bring herself to come onto the dock.
Dean turned and saw Andi wasn't coming onto the dock.
She waved her hand telling him that it was fine.
"Mr. Carlton?" Sam said looking at Bill Carlton.
Bill looked up seeing Sam and Dean approaching to him.
"We'd like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind."
"We're from the, the Department…." Dean began.
"I don't care who you're with. I've answered enough questions today." Bill said cutting Dean off rudely.
"Your son said he saw something in that lake. What about you? You ever see anything out there? Mr. Carlton, Sophie's drowning and Will's death… we think there might be a connection to you or your family." Sam said softly trying to get Bill to give some information to help them out with this.
"My children are gone. It's… it's worse than dying. Go away. Please."
Sam and Dean walked back to Andi who was at the end of the dock and they walked back to the Impala.
"What do you think?" Sam asked looking at his brother.
"Ah, I think the poor guy's been through hell. I also think he's not telling us something." Dean said looking at them.
Sam leaned against the Impala.
"So now what?"
Dean froze.
"What is it?"
"Huh." Dean said looking back at the house. "Maybe Bill's not the only one who knows something." He said pulling out the picture that Lucas had drawn. Dean looked at his brother.
"What do you mean Dean?" Andi asked looking at the older Winchester in confusion.
"I have to talk to Lucas."
SPNSPN
"I'm sorry, but I don't think it's a good idea." Andrea said looking at the three of them.
"I just need to talk to him." Dean said looking at her. He was pleading with her. All he wanted to do was talk to her son and figure out what was killing these people. He wanted to make sure it didn't strike again. "Just for a few minutes."
"He won't say anything. What good is it gonna do?"
"Andrea, we think more people might get hurt." Sam explained to Andrea softly. "We think something's happening out there."
"My husband, the others, they just drowned. That's all."
"If that's what you really believe." Andi said softly looking at the young woman with a soft look. "Then we'll go. But if you think there's even a possibility that something else could be going on here please…. Let Dean talk to your son."
Andrea took a breath and then nodded her head. "Alright."
Dean walked into the other room to talk to Lucas.
Sam looked at Andi. "You think that he might be able to get something out of Lucas?"
Andi let out a soft sigh rubbing underneath her eyes looking at him. "In all honesty Sam. I have no clue. But I'm hoping that he might be able to give us something that will be able to help us out. Just a little bit of an inkling."
"Can't you call your mom?" Sam asked looking at her wondering if her mother could give her some sort of information that would be able to help them with this case.
"Sam, no I will not call her to ask her for help on this." Andi said snapping. "I refuse to ask her for any sort of help. Remember she asked me to abandon you and Dean to go back to jolly ol' England?"
Sam pursed his lips together. "Sorry." He said looking down. He hadn't meant to overstep the line asking for her to call her mother to see if she knew anything that could help.
"There's just things that you don't know Sam." Andi said looking at him with a sad look. "And it is one of the reasons why I don't want to return home. Let alone talk to her alright?"
Sam nodded his head knowing that she was upset now with what he had asked her.
Dean came out with another picture drawn by Lucas. "I think I figured it out." Dean said with a small smile.
"Did you?" Andi asked softly.
Dean nodded his head. "Yeah."
SPNSPN
Sam looked at the picture that Lucas had drawn of a church.
"Andrea said the kid never drew like that till his dad died." Dean said to them.
Andi nodded her head blowing the smoke out of her lungs from her cigarette.
"There are cases… going through a traumatic experience could make people more sensitive to premonitions, psychic tendencies." Sam explained to his brother.
"Whatever's out there, what if Lucas is tapping into it somehow?" Dean asked looking at them. "I mean, it's only a matter of time before somebody else drowns, so if you got a better lead, please."
"Alright, we got another house to find." Sam said looking at the picture.
"The only problem is there's about a thousand yellow two-stories in this country alone."
"See this church? I bet there's less than a thousand of those around here."
"Oh, College Boy thinks he's so smart."
"Dean." Andi said scolding the older brother. "Sam's right. There's not many of those around here."
"You know… um…. Dean…"
Dean looked at Sam. "What?"
"What you said about Mom…. You never told me that before."
"Oh God, we're not gonna have to hug or anything, are we?"
Andi reached up and smacked him. "Quit being an asshole."
"Don't hit me damn it."
"Well don't hide shite from your brother." Andi scolded Dean.
SPNSPN
Sam, Dean, and Andi walked up to a white church with a yellow house right next to it.
Dean looked at the picture that Lucas had drawn.
Andi looked at it and then looked at Dean with a tired look. "Do you think that might be it?"
Dean took a breath. "Let's hope we're right on this."
"Yeah you and me both before someone else dies." Andi said with a firm nod of her head agreeing with what the older Winchester said as the three of them walked up to the home.
Dean knocked on the door and a woman answered the door.
"May we come in ma'am?" Andi asked softly in a polite tone.
The old woman nodded her head allowing the three of them into her home.
"We're sorry to bother you, ma'am, but does a little boy live here, by chance? He might wear a blue ball cap, has a red bicycle." Dean said to Mrs. Sweeney with a small smile.
"No, sir." Mrs. Sweeney said with a shake of her head. "Not for a very long time. Peter's been gone for thirty-five years now." She let out a soft sigh looking at a picture of Peter that was on the side table. "The police never…. I never had any idea what happened. He just disappeared."
Sam pointed to his brother the toy soldiers that were on the table.
"Losing him… you know, it's… it's worse than dying."
Dean glanced at his brother and then Andi.
Andi moved closer to Mrs. Sweeney putting her hand on her arm. "Did he disappear from here?" She asked softly. "I mean, from home?"
"He was supposed to ride his bike straight home after school, he never showed up."
Dean picked up a picture off of the mirror looking at it closely. He turned it around. "Peter Sweeney and Billy Carlton, nineteen seventy."
SPNSPN
Dean drove down the road.
"Okay, this little boy Peter Sweeney vanishes, and this is all connected to Bill Carlton somehow." Sam said looking over at his brother.
"Yeah, Bill sure as hell seems to be hiding something, huh?" Dean said scoffing a bit.
Andi shook her head. "And Bill, and the people he loves, they're all getting punished."
"So what if Bill did something to Peter?"
"What if Bill killed him?" Sam asked looking over at his brother.
"Peter's spirit would be furious. It'd want revenge. It's possible." Dean said thinking.
Andi nodded her head. "Sounds about right. Angry spirit. Wrongful death. Not knowing what happened to him. You know not having your body found and not having closure for your family. If that ever happened to me…. I would certainly be doing the same thing."
SPNSPN
Dean, Sam, and Andi got out of the car.
"Mr. Carlton?" Sam called out as they approached the house.
An engine roared to life alerting them that there was something wrong.
The three of them rushed around the house only to see Bill going out onto the lake in his boat.
"Hey, check it out."
Dean and Sam ran down the dock.
Andi stopped before the dock. She couldn't bring herself to go onto the dock. Her feet were rooted to the ground. Her heart rate accelerated and her mouth went dry. Andi gasped as she saw Bill's boat flip over.
Sam and Dean came back to where she was standing.
"Andi what the hell is wrong with you?" Dean snapped at her.
"Dean…" Sam said softly.
"No, Sam. She froze right on the spot and didn't help." Dean said reeling back at his brother. His green eyes narrowed.
"Dean…. Stop it." Sam said shaking his head. "She has a fear of water. She won't go onto the dock." He was trying his best to explain why Andi had stopped where she had.
Dean looked at Sam. "How do you know this?" He demanded from his younger brother looking square into his hazel eyes.
"I've known for a long time." Sam told his brother. "For years in fact. Since she was 10 in fact." Sam rubbed his arm hating the fact that he was telling his brother Andi's phobia. She had almost drowned when she was ten and he had to pull her out of the lake.
Dean looked at her and saw the look on her face. "Andi…."
"Just shut up." Andi said looking at him. "We got work to do." She didn't want to hear it not when he started going off on her and didn't even bother to ask her what was wrong. He just went right for the jugular.
SPNSPN
Lucas sat in a chair rocking back and forth.
Andrea sat next to him holding a paper bag and a plastic container. "Baby, what's wrong?"
Sam, Dean, Andi, and Jake walked into the office.
"Sam, Dean, Andi…" Andrea said standing up. "I didn't expect to see you here."
"So now you're on a first name basis. What are you doing here?" Jake asked looking at his daughter.
"I brought you dinner." Andrea said holding up the plastic container up.
"I'm sorry, sweetheart, I don't have the time."
"I heard about Bill Carlton. Is it true? Is something going on with the lake?" Andrea asked looking at her father with a concerned look. She wanted to know the truth.
"Right now we don't know what the truth is. But I think it might be better if you and Lucas went on home."
Lucas looked up and whined, looking afraid. He jumped up grabbing Dean's arm.
"Lucas, hey, what is it? Lucas?"
"Lucas."
"Lucas, it's okay. It's okay. Hey, Lucas, it's okay. It's okay."
Andrea pulled Lucas away from Dean and led him outside.
Jake threw his jacket down and went into his office.
The three hunters followed him.
"Okay, just so I'm clear, you see… something attack Bill's boat, sending Bill, who is a very good swimmer, by the way into the drink, and you never see him again?"
Dean glanced at his brother. "Yeah, that about sums it up."
"And I'm supposed to believe this, even though I've already sonar-swept that entire lake? And what you're describing is impossible? And you're not really Wildlife Service?"
Dean looked at him surprised. How did he figure it out that they didn't work for the Wildlife Service?
"That's right, I check. Department's never heard of you three."
"See, now we can explain that." Dean said trying to explain to him.
"Enough." Jake said cutting Dean off. "Please. The only reason why you're breathing free air is one of Bill's neighbors saw him steering out that boat just before you did. So, we have a couple of options here. I can arrest you for impersonating government officials and hold you as material witnesses to Bill Carlton's disappearance. Or, we can chalk this up a bad day, you get into your car, you put this town in your rearview mirror, and you don't ever darken my doorstep again."
"Door number two sounds good." Sam said softly, not wanting to be arrested.
Andi nodded her head in agreement with what Sam had said.
"That's the one I'd pick." Jake said looking at them.
SPNSPN
Andi laid across the backseat of the Impala as they were waiting at the traffic light.
"Green." Sam said alerting his brother that the light had turned green.
"What?" Dean asked looking over at his brother in confusion not making the Impala go.
"Light's green." Sam said again to his brother with a soft sigh.
Dean turned right instead of going left.
"Uh, the interstate's the other way." Sam said looking at his brother in agitation.
"I know." Dean said ignoring what his brother said.
"Dean what is your problem. We're supposed to be getting the hell out of here. Job's over." Andi said as Dean drove down the road.
"I'm not so sure." Dean said as he drove.
"If Bill murdered Peter Sweeney and Peter's spirit got its revenge, case closed. The spirit should be at rest." Sam said looking at his brother.
"Alright, so what we take off and this thing isn't done? You know, what if we've missed something? What if more people get hurt?" Dean questioned looking over at his brother.
"Why are you thinking that Dean?" Andi questioned as she sat up in the backseat, stretching her back out hearing a pop from her lower back.
"Because Lucas was really scared." Dean said remembering the scared look on that little boy's face.
"That's what this is about?" Sam asked looking at his brother.
"I just don't want to leave this town until I know the kid's okay."
"Who are you? And what have you done with my brother?" Sam questioned looking at his brother.
Dean glanced at his brother. "Shut up."
Andi let out a soft chuckle hearing Sam and Dean's banter, she thought it was cute, but there was a feeling deep in her gut that something was wrong.
SPNSPN
Andi got out of the car putting out her cigarette blowing the smoke from her lungs running a hand through her tousled hair.
"Are you sure about this? It's pretty late, man." Sam said looking at his brother as they stood on the porch.
Dean rang the doorbell.
Lucas opened the door and grabbed Dean's hand looking afraid.
"Lucas? Lucas!" Dean said in surprise.
Lucas tore down the hallway.
The three hunters took off down the hallway following him to the bathroom.
Lucas pounded on the door.
Dean pushed him over to Andi who held onto him. Dean kicked the door open.
Sam rushed into the bathroom. "Andi!" He yelled for her. He knew that he was going to need help since he had a feeling that there was no way if it was a spirit that he wasn't going to be able to pull Andrea up out of the water.
Andi swallowed the lump in her throat seeing Lucas latch onto Dean knowing that Lucas wasn't going to let go of Dean and there was no way that Dean was going to be able to help Sam with Lucas holding onto him in that death hold. Andi moved quickly to help Sam.
The two of them tried to pull Andrea up out of the water. They continued to pull against the invisible force until she was completely up out of the water.
Andrea coughed up water.
Andi leaned back letting out a soft sigh. She was glad that they were able to get Andrea out of the water and not have her drown and have Lucas lose another parent. Not in such a horrible way.
Sam looked over at Andi taking in her drenched form. "You alright?" He asked trying to catch his breath from using his strength even with Andi's help it still took the breath out of him.
Andi nodded her head. "Yeah, I'm fine." She said softly.
SPNSPN
Sam, Andrea and Andi are sitting in the living room.
"Can you tell me?" Sam asked looking at her.
"No." Andrea said shaking her head.
Dean looked through the notebooks on the bookshelves.
Andrea started to cry. "I'm going crazy." She said putting her head in her hands.
Andi moved from where she was sitting moving towards the woman. She kneeled in front of Andrea. "No, you're not. Tell us what happened. Everything that you know." Andi said softly. She knew what it felt like being thought of as crazy, but they weren't here for that.
"I heard… I thought I heard… there was a voice." Andrea said looking at Andi with tear filled eyes.
"What did it say?" Andi asked softly trying to sooth the older woman.
"It said… it said 'come play with me'." Andrea said sobbing. "What's happening?'
Dean pulled out an old scrapbook that said Jake- 12 years old and opened it. He flipped through the pages. He closed it and walked over to them. He put down the book in front of Andrea. He opened the book and turned it to a page that had a picture of Explorer Troop 37. "Do you recognize the the kids in these pictures?"
"What? Um, um, no. I mean, except that's my dad right there. He must have been about twelve in these pictures." She moved her finger to another picture of Jake as a child and he's standing next to Peter.
Dean looked at his brother and then to Andi. "Chris Barr's drowning. The connection wasn't to Bill Carlton. It must have been to the sheriff."
"Bill and the sheriff… they were both involved with Peter." Sam said pursing his lips together.
"What about Chris? My dad… what are you talking about?" Andrea asked in confusion.
Dean looked sideways. "Lucas?"
Lucas looked out the window.
"Lucas, what is it?"
Lucas opened the door and walked outside.
Everyone followed him.
"Lucas, honey?" Andrea called her son wondering where he was going.
Lucas stopped and looked at the ground and then to Dean.
"You and Lucas go back to the house and stay there, okay?" Dean asked looking at them.
Andrea pulled Lucas into the house.
"Go." Andi told them. "I'll stand here. Get the shovels."
The boys nodded their heads and went back to the car.
Andi took a breath hoping that this was the right spot. She hoped that Andrea's boy was right with this spot.
Dean and Sam returned with three shovels.
Sam handed the second shovel that he was carrying to Andi.
The three of them began to dig where Lucas had pointed at in the ground. Sam's shovel clanked against something. The three of them began to dig with their hands and pulled up a red bicycle.
"Peter's bike." Sam said softly.
"Who are you?" Jake demanded pointing a gun at the three of them causing them to turn around.
"Put the gun down, Jake." Sam said trying to plead with him.
The three hunters put their shovels down onto the ground.
"How did you know that was there?" Jake demanded wanting to know how the three hunters knew that the red bike was there in the ground.
"What happened? You and Bill killed Peter, drowned him in the lake and then buried the bike? You can't bury the truth, Jake. Nothing stays buried." Dean said looking up at Jake with an accusing look.
"I don't know what the hell you're talking about." Jake said tightening his hold on his gun.
"You and Bill killed Peter Sweeney thirty-five years ago. That's what the hell I'm talking about."
Andrea ran down to her father. "Dad!"
"And now you got one seriously pissed of spirit."
"It's gonna take Andrea, Lucas, everyone you love. It's gonna drown them. And it's gonna drag their bodies God knows where, so you can feel the same pain Peter's mom felt. And then, after that, it's gonna take you, and it's not gonna stop until it does." Sam told him.
"Yeah, and how do you know that?" Jake demanded.
"Because that's exactly what it did to Bill Carlton." Andi said looking up at Jake. Her voice calm and cool. She was trying to get Jake to see the truth, but she knew that he probably wasn't going to see what they were saying.
"Listen to yourselves, the three of you. You're insane." Jake said shaking his head not believing what the three of them were saying. "Who the hell were these people?"
"I don't give a rat's ass what you think of us. But if we're gonna bring down this spirit, we need to find the remains, salt them, and burn them into dust. Now tell me where you buried Peter somewhere. Tell me you didn't just let him go in the lake." Dean snapped looking up at Jake.
"Dad, is any of this true?" Andrea asked looking at her father.
"No. Don't listen to them. They're liars and they're dangerous."
Andi raised her brows as she crossed her arms looking at Jake like he was more of a liar then they were.
"Something tried to drown me. Chris died on that lake. Dad, look at me."
Jake looked at his daughter.
"Tell me you… you didn't kill anyone."
Jake looked away from his daughter.
"Oh my God."
"Billy and I were at the lake. Peter was the smallest one. We always bullied him, but this time it got rough. We were holding his head under the water. We didn't mean to. But we held him under too long and he drowned. We let the body go and it sank."
Dean glanced at his brother and friend.
"Oh, Andrea, we were kids. We were so scared. It was a mistake. But, Andrea, to say that I have anything to do with these drownings, with Chris, because of some ghost? It's not rational." Jake said shaking his head.
"Alright, listen to me, all of you. We need to get you away from this lake, as far as we can, right now."
Andrea turned her head and spotted Lucas going down to the lake. She gasped.
"Lucas!" Jake yelled for his grandson.
The five adults run down to the dock fearing the worst that Lucas would be pulled down into the water.
"Lucas!" Dean yelled.
"Lucas! Baby, stay where you are!" Andrea yelled for her son.
Lucas was pulled into the water by an invisible hand.
Jake stops when he sees Peter's head is visible above the surface.
Dean and Sam run to the end of the dock diving into the lake.
"Oh my God." Andrea said removing her jacket getting ready to jump into the lake at the edge.
Andi stopped her. "Don't. He will take you."
"No! Lucas!"
"We'll get him! Just say up there with Andi on the land!" Sam said diving under
Dean came up for air and then a minute later Sam comes up. "Sam?"
Sam shakes his head.
"Lucas, where are you?" Andrea questioned hoping that her son was alright. She wanted her son safe and sound in her arms.
Jake takes off his jacket as Sam and Dean dives back down. He wades into the water. "Peter, if you can hear me… please, Peter, I'm so…. I'm so sorry"
"Daddy, no!" Andrea yelled struggling against Andi's arms, but Andi wouldn't release her.
"No, don't." Andi said keeping her firm hold on Andrea. "If you go he will kill you too."
"Peter. Lucas…. He's he's just a little boy. Please, it's not his fault, it's mine. Please take me."
Dean and Sam come up for air.
"Jake, no!" Dean yelled.
"Daddy! Daddy! No!"
Andi held onto Andrea to keep her from going into the lake after her father.
Dean and Sam dive back into the water.
"No!"
Sam comes up shaking his head.
Andrea mouths no.
Dean comes up holding Lucas who isn't moving.
Andi lets out a sigh of relief.
SPNSPN
The three hunters walked out of the motel.
Dean opened the car door and Sam tossed the duffel that he carried in.
"Look, we're not gonna save everybody." Sam said looking at his brother.
"I know." Dean said giving him a look.
"Sam, Dean, Andi." Andrea said coming up to them with Lucas beside her who was carrying a tray of sandwiches.
"Hey." Dean said with a smile.
"We're glad we caught you. We just, um, we made you lunch for the road." Andrea said with a smile. "Lucas insisted on making the sandwiches himself."
Lucas looked up at his mother. "Can I give it to them now?" He asked with a smile.
"Of course." Andrea said with a smile kissing the top of her son's head.
"Come on, Lucas, let's load this into the car." Dean said with a smile.
Andi chuckled lightly as Lucas darted around her to help Dean.
Sam looked at Andrea. "How you holding up?"
"It's just gonna take a long time to sort through everything, you know?"
Sam sighed looking at her with a sad look. "Andrea, I'm sorry."
Andrea looked at Sam shaking her head. She didn't want his pity. "You saved my son. I can't ask more than that. Dad loved me. He loved Lucas. No matter what he did, I just have to hold onto that." She said softly.
Andi smiled a small smile. "That's a good way of thinking about that." She said looking at Andrea. "Keeping the good memories close of your heart is always a good thing."
Dean put the sandwiches in the car. "Alright, if you're gonna be talking right now, this is a very important phrase, so I want you to repeat it one more time."
"Zeppelin rules!" Lucas said laughing happily.
Dean grinned. "That's right. Up high." Dean said holding his hand up for a high five.
Lucas gave him a high five grinning happily like a child should.
"You take care of your mom, okay?" Dean said with a smile, knowing fully well enough that Lucas would take care of his mom.
"Alright."
Andrea came up to Dean and gave him a kiss on the lip. She pulled away with a smile on her lips. "Thank you."
Dean looked dumbfounded for a minute, then scratched his head going around the car. "Sam, Andi move your asses. We're gonna run outta daylight before we hit the road." He said getting into the car.
Andi and Sam shared a look with one another before getting into the car laughing lightly. They knew that he was embarrassed by being rewarded with a kiss for saving Andrea's son.
Dean started the car up.
The three hunters smiled at Andrea and Lucas who wave goodbye to them.
Dean puts the car into drive and began to drive down the road.
"I have to admit he's a cute kid." Andi said looking back at the fading pair as they left town. "I'm just glad that we were able to help them."
Dean hummed at what she said. "I'm glad that you kept her out of the water."
Andi nodded her head. At least he was thankful for her keeping Andrea out of the water. She was willing to keep Andrea out of the water. But if Andrea would have gotten to that water, then there would have been a problem.
"Just wish you would have trusted me more with your fear of the water." Dean said looking back at her giving her a hurt look.
"You would have made fun of me Dean." Andi said softly looking down at her hands. "After all it's a phobia of water. I mean who's afraid of water as an adult?"
Dean shook his head. "It would have been nice to know before hand."
"I'm sorry alright?" She said softly.
"No, Sammy knew this for years. That's what hurts, Andi." He said looking back at her through the mirror.
"The only reason why he knew is because he saved me from drowning." Andi snapped looking up at him. "I'm sorry that I never told you alright? I was afraid alright? Telling one's fear is something that isn't easy alright?"
Dean nodded his head stiffly as he kept driving down the road. His hands gripped the steering wheel tightly. He didn't understand why Andi would keep it a secret from him. He thought that Andi would have told him that she was afraid of the water, but she didn't, and that was what bothered him.
Andi let out a soft sigh looking out the window. She didn't think that she needed to tell Dean of her fear of water. It was something that she had wanted to keep a secret.
Sam pursed his lips. He knew that his brother was upset, but he had no right to be upset with Andi for keeping her fear of water a secret. He knew that this trip was going to be a long one because Dean was upset.
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This is the end of Chapter 3 of See You Again. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. I know it kind of matches up with the third Chapter of my old story with this title but I promise you I revamped it some. Please let me know what you guys think and I'll update as soon as I can with this story. Until next time guys.