Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 2 of Prophet's Daughter. I hope that you guys will enjoy this next part of the story.
Chapter 2
The Third Winchester
Azure stood next to Sam who was leaning against the hood brushing his teeth. She was looking at the lake that the Impala had been parked next to. She took a soft breath as she ran her hand through her brown hair. She had to admit that this was fairly nice and peaceful.
Dean was laying in the front seat across both passenger and driver's sides. Dean twisted around getting the younger two's attention and opened the door which nearly dumped him onto the ground.
"Hey. How'd you sleep?" Sam asked his brother softly unsure if it was wise of him to ask that question, but he did so anyways.
"How'd you think?" Dean questioned as he climbed out of the car. "I'm starving. Let's get breakfast."
"Where? We're like two hours from anything." Azure pointed out looking at the older brother as she put her hands in her pockets.
"But I'm hungry now." Dean complained looking at the two of them as he came around to the front of the car.
"There's probably still a sandwich in the back seat." Sam said thinking that there was a sandwich in the back. He knew that Azure had bought enough to keep them going until the next city.
Dean turned around rubbing his hand over his face tiredly. He reached through the open back window and pulled out a paper bag. He opened it and sniffed, then he leaned his head back and and inhaled. "It's tuna."
A phone began to ring causing the three of them to blink.
Dean tossed the bag into the back seat and puts his hands into his jean pockets.
Sam spat out the toothpaste foam from his mouth.
Dean leaned in through the front window and rummaged in the glove compartment, pulling out the ringing phone. Dean smacked his head on the roof as he tried to get out. Dean looked at the phone blinking.
"Isn't that Dad's phone?" Sam questioned looking at Dean.
Dean flipped the phone open and pressed the button putting it up to his ear. "Hello?"
Azure pursed her lips together as she looked at Dean who had a look of agitation come across his face. She knew that it wasn't a good sign.
"He can't come to the phone. Can I help you?"
Azure swallowed the lump in her throat with worry written across her face. This day was getting weirder and weirder. Her father quit calling her causing her to worry and it was like every time she tried to call… he would ignore her call.
"Well, sorry to be the one to break this to you, pal, but John died more than two years ago. Who is this?" Dean pulled the phone away from his ear looking at it in shock.
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The three of them got out of the car.
"Dean, look, the best I can tell, Adam Milligan is real." Sam said looking at his brother.
Dean unlocked and opened the trunk,and then the weapon's box.
Sam looked at the open folder that had some paper that was inside of it. "Um, born September 29, 1990 to Kate Milligan. No father listed on the birth certificate. He's an Eagle Scout."
Dean pulled out assorted weapons out of the trunk including Ruby's knife.
"Graduated from high school with honors and currently goes to the University of Wisconsin… biology major, pre-med."
Dean closed the weapons box.
Azure took a breath watching the older brother with her lips pursed together.
"Dean? You listening?"
"This is a trap." Dean said as he closed the trunk. He walked past Sam.
Sam let out a breath and closed the folder.
Azure looked at Sam. "He's over stressed."
Sam looked over at Azure. "You don't think this is a trap?"
Azure shook her head. "I don't think it is." She said looking at him. "My father would've told me about this… and he hasn't."
Sam swallowed the lump in his throat and nodded his head.
The three of them entered the diner the bell ringing on the door. They scanned the diner and Dean found an empty table in the corner with four chairs.
Dean moved the other chair to the other side of the table for Azure to sit next to them. He didn't want Azure to be near this Adam Milligan until they tested him out.
The three of them sat down, ensuring that he would sit in the other chair.
Sam thumped John's journal and the folder onto the table. "Dean, I'm telling you, the kid checks out."
"Great, so he's an actual person on the planet. Suck's he got a demon in him." Dean said looking at his younger brother.
A waitress came over with menus and some glasses of water. She put them down in the front of them. "Hi. Welcome to Cousin Oliver's." She said with a smile.
"Thanks." Sam said smiling in thanks.
"Can I…"
"We're actually waiting on somebody." Dean said looking up at her.
She slapped the menus down on the table annoyed.
"Thank you." Sam said as he picked up his menu only to have it slapped down.
Dean takes his glass and then poured it into the potted plant behind him.
"What are you…"
Dean put the glass between his knees and pulls a flask out, unscrewing the top.
Sam looked at his brother with his brows furrowed. "Holy water?"
"Yup." He said as he filled the glass under the table. "One sip of Jesus juice, this evil bitch is gonna be in a world of hurt." Dean waited until Denise walked passed and was out of sight before putting the glass in front of the empty spot on the table. Dean pulled out a felt-wrapped package and undid it.
"And what if he's not possessed?" Azure questioned looking at Dean.
"Then he's a shapeshifter." Dean said as he set some silver cutlery down onto the table. Dropping the silverware that had been on the table onto the floor.
"Hence the silver." Sam said as he moved to put the journal on top of the menu.
"Look, either way, this thing is gonna bleed. I mean, using Dad as bait? That's the last mistake of its short, pitiful life."
Sam frowned which caused Dean to look at him.
"What?"
Sam let out a breath rubbing his mouth. "Dean… listen. There's an entry in Dad's journal." Sam flips through it. "From January of 1990, saying he's headed to Minnesota to check out a cast. That's roughly, oh, about nine months before the kid was born."
"Coincidence." Dean said looking at his brother. He saw the look on Azure's face and he could tell she was believing what Sam was saying.
"Coincidence. Now two pages of the journal… torn out." Sam indicated to the remains of the pages that were deliberty left because the journal was a three ring add and remove pages type of journal.
"You're not actually buying this, are you?" Dean questioned looking at the two of them.
"Look, man, I don't want to believe it either, I'm just saying it's possible." Sam closed the journal and picked it up waving it. "I mean, Dad would be gone for weeks at a time, and he wasn't exactly a monk." He put the journal away. "I mean, a hunter rolls into town, kills a monster, saves the girl… sometimes the girl's grateful."
Azure looked away her cheeks flushing bright red.
"Well, now I'm thinking about Dad sex. Stop talking."
"Maybe he slipped one past the goalie."
"Dude." Dean snapped. "She doesn't want to hear it either. Look how red she is."
Azure cleared her throat shyly.
The door chimed as a young man came into the diner.
Sam looked up and then Dean and then Azure watching the young man looking around. "Adam?"
Adam looked over.
Sam raised his hand.
Adam came over. "You Sam?"
"Yeah. Uh, this is Dean and Azure."
"Hey." Adam said as he sat his backpack down on the floor next to the empty chair before sitting down. "So, um… how did you know my dad?"
"Uh, we worked together. Except Azure here." Sam explained softly.
Adam looked confused at Sam. "How did he die?" He asked softly.
"On the job."
"He was a mechanic, right?"
"A car fell on him." Dean said looking up at Adam.
Denise came up to the table with a smile on her face. "Hey, Adam. How you doing?" She asked as she put a glass of water in front of him.
Dean leaned forward taking it.
Sam frowned and Azure lowered her head some.
"Oh, I'll take that. I am very thirsty." Dean said taking a sip.
Denise eyed him displeased. "The usual, Adam?"
"Uh, yeah. Thanks, Denise."
Denise walked away.
Adam took the glass of holy water and rank it down as they watched. When nothing happened they knew Adam wasn't possessed.
"So, uh, when's the last time you saw John?" Sam questioned feeling rather uncomfortable asking this to Adam.
"I don't even know. It's a couple years."
Dean pulled out his gun and aimed it Adam.
"Why did you decide to call him now?"
"I didn't know who else to call. He's the only family I got."
Sam blinked a few times in confusion.
"My mom's missing."
"Really? I'm sorry? Uh, for how long?"
"It's tragic, really. But if you're John's kid, how come we've never heard of you?" Dean questioned looking at Adam.
"'Cause John and me didn't really know each other. Not until a few years ago, anyway."
"What do you mean?" Sam questioned his brows furrowing wondering why Adam and their dad didn't know one another.
"My mom never talked about him. I knew some stuff."
"What kind of stuff?" Dean questioned gripping tightly onto his gun.
"My mom's a nurse, and Dad came into the ER, pretty torn up. Hunting accident or something. I knew his name. John Winchester. That's about it. We're not exactly a nuclear family."
"Yeah, well, who is these days?" Sam questioned knowing that was very true.
"So, when did you, uh, when did you finally meet him?" Dean asked taking a breath.
"When I was twelve. My mom had one of his old numbers, and…"
Dean tightened his hand on the gun.
"And after I begged her… God, twenty four seven… she finally called him. God, when John heard he had a son, he raced to town. I mean, he dropped everything. He drove all night."
Denise put the plate of food in front of Adam. "There you go."
"Thanks."
"Well, that's heartwarming."
Adam indicated at his food. "You mind?"
"Please, dig in."
Adam took the napkin out from under the silverware without touching it to put it onto his lap.
Dean cocked the gun not liking the idea that he didn't touch the silverware.
"He would swing by once a year or so." He said as he picked up the fork and knife, and nothing happened.
Dean glanced away.
"You know, called when he could. But still…" Adam took a bite and Dean uncocked the gun and put it away. "He taught me poker and pool and even bought me my first beer when I was fifteen. And, uh… he showed me how to drive. Dad, he had this beautiful 'sixty-seven Impala."
"Oh this is crap. You know what, you're lying." Dean snapped looking at Adam.
"No, I'm not."
"Uh, yeah, you are."
"I'm sorry, but who the hell are you to call me a liar?"
"We're John Winchester's sons, that's who." He pointed to himself and Sam. "We are his sons."
Adam stared at Dean and then to Sam and then back to Dean. "I've got brothers?"
"No, you don't have brothers. Look man, I don't know if you're a hunter or what kind of game you're playing here."
"I have never been hunting in my life." Adam said looking at Dean telling him the truth.
"Whatever. I'm out of here. Come on, Sam. Azure." Dean said as he got up.
"I can prove it."
Azure looked at Adam her brows furrowing together. She had a bad feeling about the whole thing that was going on, and it made her worry even more. Why hadn't her father called her?
SPNSPN
Dean held a framed picture of Adam and John in which John was wearing a baseball cap.
The two brother's examined the photo as Azure looked around the living room with a nervous look on her face.
"He took you to a baseball game?" Dean questioned sounding rather miffed about the idea of their father doing that.
"Yeah, when I turned fourteen. Dad was around for a few of my birthdays."
Sam held up John's journal and opened it to a page. "September 20, 2004. One word. 'Minnesota'."
"He took you to a freakin' baseball game?"
"Yeah. Why? What'd Dad do with you on your birthday?" Adam asked as he took the photo back.
"Oh…" Dean frowned.
Adam looked away.
"Adam, you said you called Dad because your mom was missing." Sam said looking at the younger man.
"Yeah."
"How long has she been gone?"
"Three days."
"Who was the last person to see her?"
"Mr. Abbinanti, our neighbor. He saw her come home Tuesday night, but she never showed up to work on Wednesday."
Dean looked at another photo of his dad hugging Kate. He took in the fact of how much she looked like his mom. Anger slowly began to rise in him.
"Did you call the police?" Azure questioned as she looked at Adam, her brows furrowing a little bit, wondering if he had done that.
"Mom's supervision at the hospital did. And then I drove down here as fast as I could." Adam looked down thinking. "I should have been here."
"What'd the, uh, what'd the cops say?" Dean asked wondering what the police said. He knew that parents going missing weren't always a good thing.
"That they, uh, they searched the house. They didn't find anything." Adam looked down thinking. "She wouldn't leave without telling anybody. It's like she just dropped off the face of the earth, you know?"
SPNSPN
Azure and Sam came into the room, Sam held onto some papers.
Dean looked at Adam. "Give us a minute." He said leaving the room with Sam.
Adam looked over at Azure. He blinked a few times as he looked at her. "Can I ask you something?" Adam asked softly.
Azure slowly turned her head to look at the younger man. "Hm?" She tilted her head some. "What would be that question Adam?" She couldn't help but wonder what his question was.
"My brothers…" Adam began, biting his lower lip. "Are they…"
"What Adam?" She asked softly.
Adam sat down on his mom's bed. "Are they good men?"
Azure nodded her head. "Yes, the best men that I've ever had the chance to meet."
"You never met my dad?"
Azure shook her head. "No, I never did." She said softly.
Dean came to the door of the room holding up a photo. "Hey, does your mom know Joe Barton?"
"Uh, I don't think so. Why?" Adam asked looking at Dean.
Dean looked back at Sam and then to Adam. Dean then looked down seeing something at Adam's feet. Dean came over closer to get a closer look.
"What is it?" Adam asked.
Azure slowly kneeled down. "Scratches."
"Watch out." Dean flipped the edge of the comforter and looked under the bed. He got up. "Give me a hand with the mattress." Dean said tossing the pillows aside.
Adam helped Dean with the mattress getting it off of the bedrame.
Underneath the bed was a large vent to fit someone though.
Sam and Azure looked at it.
Dean looked at Sam which caused Azure to blink a few times. The two of them raised their fists for rock-paper-scissors. Sam picked rock and Dean picked scissors.
Sam smirked and Dean waved his arms frustrated and put his hands on his hips. "Every time."
SPNSPN
Dean cleaned his shotgun while Azure sat there looking through some research.
There was a knock on the door.
Dean turned his head, his brows furrowing.
Sam went to the door and opened it.
Adam entered the room looking at them. "Who the hell are you?"
"Adam, hey." Sam said closing the door behind Adam.
Dean flipped a cloth over the shotgun so Adam wouldn't see it.
"Take it easy." Azure said slowly getting up to her feet.
"No, don't tell me to take it easy, okay?" He snapped looking at her causing her to reel back. "My house is a crime scene, my mom's probably dead, and you three… well, you tell me to call the cops, but you got to bail before they show? So, who are you really?"
They didn't answer him. They couldn't he was an innocent and it was already bad enough that Azure was with them and she was innocent when it came to this world, but she was learning quickly.
"Cops didn't know where to look for my mom, Dean, but you did. And I heard you talking earlier… something about grave robberies." Adam spotted the shotgun poking out from under the cloth. "You're not mechanics. I just want to know what's going on." More silence he was met with. "Please."
"We're hunters." Sam said looking at Adam telling him the truth.
"Sammy!" Dean said looking at his brother with narrowed eyes, not liking the idea that Adam now knew what they did.
"He deserves to know, Dean."
"What do you mean 'hunters'?"
Azure swallowed the lump in her throat as she looked at the three boys. She couldn't bring herself to say anything of how much the three of them looked like one another.
SPNSPN
"Okay, so...basically, you're saying that every movie monster, every nightmare that I've ever had, that's all real?" Adam asked looking at them.
"Godzilla's just a movie." Dean said looking at Adam. His ego was still a bit sore knowing that an innocent now knew what they did.
"We hunt them. So did Dad." Sam said softly.
Adam nodded his head. "Okay."
"'Okay'? That's it?"
"What am I supposed to say?" Adam asked as he looked at Dean.
"That we're liars, that we're crazy. Nobody just says 'okay'. Other than her." Dean said pointing at Azure.
Azure rolled her eyes at Dean's antics.
"Well, you're my brothers. You're telling me the truth right?"
"Yeah."
"Then I believe you. Now, what took my mom?" Adam asked looking at them.
"We're not sure. Something's in town stealing bodies, living and dead, but we don't know what." Sam said letting out a soft breath.
"There's a long list of freaks that fit the bill." Dean admitted as he rubbed his mouth.
"You think maybe she might still be alive?"
Dean looked down.
Adam looked at Sam and Azure seeing them looking down. Adam swallowed the lump in his throat and nodded his head realizing what they were trying to tell him. He looked down. "Oh. How can I help?"
"You can't." Dean said looking up at Adam.
"This thing killed my mom. If you're hunting it, I want in."
"No."
"Dean, look, maybe…" Sam began.
"Maybe what?" Dean snapped cutting Sam off with an agitated look on his face.
"He lost his mother. Maybe we can understand what that feels like." Sam said looking at Dean.
"Why do you think Dad never told us about this kid, Sam? Huh? Why do you think he ripped out the pages?"
"Because…"
"Because he was protecting him!"
"Dad's dead, Dean."
"That doesn't matter! He didn't want Adam to have our lives, okay? And we are gonna respect his wishes."
"Do I get a say in this?" Adam asked looking at the brothers.
"No!"
"No."
Dean headed for the door. "Babysit the kid." Dean snapped to his brother and Azure.
"Where are you going?"
Dean grabbed his jacket. "I'm going out!" He yelled as he left the room.
Sam let out a breath.
Azure slowly put her hand on his shoulder squeezing it lightly.
"Is he always like that?" Adam asked softly looking at Sam.
Sam let out a dry laugh. "Welcome to the family."
Adam looked down.
"Here." He said pulling out his gun and ejects the clip. "I'm gonna teach you a few things."
"Uh, Dean said…"
"I know what Dean said." San held the unloaded gun out to Adam. "And I know what it's like to want revenge."
Azure pursed her lips together as she wrapped her arms around herself knowing that this was a good idea or not.
SPNSPN
Azure slowly wiped one of the shotguns down, while Adam practiced disassembling a gun, and Sam cleaned a shotgun.
Adam looked over at Sam. "Sam… how did Dad really die?" He asked softly knowing that it probably wasn't the right choice
"Demon." Sam said softly knowing how much trouble he would be in.
"You hunted it down? Got revenge?"
"Dean killed it."
"So it's over for you."
Sam looked over at Adam. "It's never over."
The lights suddenly went out and then something rattled.
"What the…" Adam began only to be shushed by Sam.
The three of them slowly stood up.
"Stay here." Sam told both Azure and Adam. He loaded the shotgun he held and slowly went to the door. He opened the door slowly and looked around aiming the shotgun in the direction he looked in. He turned hearing a noise. There was a vent near the ceiling. Sam aimed at it. "It's in the vents. Go!" Sam fired at the vent and hustled his brother and Azure out of the room following right behind them.
The rushed down the stairs.
"Where's your car?" Sam asked looking over at Adam.
"Over here." Adam said.
"Alright, keys."
"Here." Adam headed for the passenger side of his truck along with Azure.
Sam to the driver's side. Sam fumbled with the keys only to have something grab his ankle. It pulled him to the ground and under the truck. Sam grabbed the truck to resist being pulled under.
"Sam!" Azure and Adam yelled.
The Impala showed up outside of the motel.
"Dean, help." Adam yelled as he and Azure grabbed one arm of Sam.
Dean quickly came over and grabbed his brother's arm and pulled Sam free.
Azure grabbed the dropped shotgun and fired it.
Dean looked over at Sam, Sam looked at Adam, and Adam flopped onto the ground onto his ass.
SPNSPN
Adam's truck backed out of the space. He had parked right over a sewer grate, which was half opened. Dean got out of the truck and approached the grate, aiming the shotgun. There was blood on the edge of it. Dean got up and headed past Sam who was leaning on the Impala. "She winged it. Did you see anything?" Dean asked looking at his brother.
Sam looked up at his brother and shook his head. "I didn't get a good look."
"What the hell is that thing?" Dean questioned rubbing his mouth. Never once had they come across a case like this.
"Why...who… should we go after it?" Adam asked looking at his brothers.
"No, no. In that maze? That thing's long gone."
"Alright, so, we don't know what it is, but we do know who it's going after. Joe Barton, Adam's mom…" Sam said letting out a soft breath.
"And Adam. It was under his truck, just waiting for him."
"It set a trap, and I walked right into it."
"Doesn't matter. You're right… there's a pattern. Joe Barton was a cop. I'm pretty sure he helped out Dad. So we've got him, Dad's girl, and his son."
"All the people Dad knew in town." Sam said realizing the truth. His lips pursed together into a thin line. Now, that was dangerous.
"At least we know why it's back."
"It wants revenge." Adam said softly.
Azure, Dean, and Sam looked at him. They knew that he was right on the money about this… whatever John had gone after, it was back and it was going after the people that John knew.
SPNSPN
The four of them entered Adam's home.
"Grab your stuff. We'll hit the road." Dean said looking at Adam.
Adam flipped on the lights and headed up the stairs.
Sam sat down at the table. "We shouldn't leave." Sam said as his injured ankle hit on another chair.
"Yeah, let's just stay here, where the kid's mom got ganked. Good one."
Azure kneeled down to check Sam's ankle.
"I'm serious."
"No, Sam, we're gonna take the kid, we're gonna drop him off at Bobby's, and then you and me are gonna come back here and finish what Dad started."
Sam stopped moving looking up at his brother as Azure took the ace bandage from his hand. "How? We got no leads, no witnesses. We do have what this thing wants."
"You want to use this kid as bait? That's why you want to stay here?" Dean said looking at his brother with a dumbfounded look.
Azure slowly banaged Sam's ankle.
"Maybe this thing will come back. We could train Adam… get him ready."
"He could die, Sam."
"We could all die, Dean. Even if we do kill this thing, there are tons of other freaks that want revenge, on Dad, on us. What if they find the kid instead and he's not ready?"
Adam returned into the kitchen with his backpack over one shoulder. "I'll do it. Whatever it takes, I'll do it. I want to do it."
Dean looked at Sam, who in turn looked at his brother.
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Sam fired his gun quickly in succession with three small pops coming from the gun. He had hit his mark of the smaller ring and they were all close together.
Adam watched with wide eyes as Sam lowered his gun. "Whoa."
Azure watched with her arms crossed a small smile on her lips. She had learned only a few days ago to fire a gun from the brothers and she had gotten fairly good at it. She knew that this was something that they could do as a family together.
"It's easy. Just feel the recoil and time the trigger pulls. Three taps." Sam said as he held out the gun to Adam.
"Yeah?"
"Go ahead." Sam said with a smile.
Adam slolwy took the gun and moved in front of Sam. He fires three times, kicking up leaves, but all three shots hit the sign, fairly close together, one on and two inside the inner ring.
Sam grinned happily.
Dean watched from a distance leaning against the Impala and shook his head looking away.
Adam looked at Sam. "Beginner's luck, right?"
Sam shook his head. "Nah, man. You're a natural. Good shooting." Sam said clapping Adam on the back.
"Thanks."
SPNSPN
Azure rested her head against her hand listening to the story that Sam was telling to Adam. She had read it in her father's books many many times. It was something that she knew about. Granted she didn't want to know as much as she did, but in a way it was nice… and this was nice not reading this part.
"So, then we lit it on fire." Sam said leaning back in his seat.
"With a homemade flamethrower?" Adam asked looking at Sam.
"Yeah. They're easy to build. I'll show you."
"That is some job you got, man." Adam said leaning back against the seat.
"Being a hunter isn't a job, Adam. It's life. You're pre-med. You got a girlfriend, friends?"
Adam nodded his head at the questions that Sam was asking.
"Not anymore you don't. If you're really gonna do this, you can't have those kinds of connections, ever. They're weaknesses. You'll just put those people in danger, get them killed."
Dean looked away knowing that was very true. Sam had gone through it, and now having Azure… he was pretty sure that she was going to go through the same thing. But he knew that Azure wasn't having any of it. She went along for the ride anyways.
"That's the price we pay. You cut 'em out, and you don't look back. There's only one thing you can count on. Family."
"Sam." Dean called out to his younger brother.
Sam looked over his brows furrowing a little bit.
"Can I talk to you?" Dean said getting up.
The two brothers left Azure and Adam alone together.
Adam looked over at Azure. "You know the stories that Sam was telling?" He asked curiously.
Azure looked over and slowly nodded her head. "I've known their stories for a few years. My father…" Azure trailed off for a moment thinking. "He is an author… Went by the name of Carver Edlund. And he wrote about them… he thought that they were just characters in a book… and well… they showed up one day on our doorstep… and I soon find out that the stories were real. All 100% real and it scared me to know that there had been so much going on with them… It made my heart hurt… Those two have been through so much… and they deserve so much better than the hand that they got dealt with." Azure took a soft breath running her hand through her hair in thought.
Adam nodded his head in understanding.
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Sam poured salt along every window and door while Azure and Adam nailed boards over every single vent.
The last vent that was in Kate's room with the vent cover was mostly off, remained unsalted and un-nailed-closed. They stood over it.
"Alright. We've closed off every other way into the house. If this thing's coming, it's coming through here."
A loud creak was heard from inside of the house.
Adam looked at Sam. "You were saying?"
"Adam! Adam!" A woman's voice yelled from inside of the home.
"Mom?"
"No."
"Mom!"
"Adam!"
Adam took off down the stairs.
Azure handed Sam the shotgun and the two of them quickly followed Adam.
"Mom."
"Adam, wait!" Azure called after the young man.
"It took me, but I got away."
Adam hugged his mom.
Sam aimed the shotgun. "Adam, step away from her."
"Sam, what the hell?!"
"She's not your mother!"
"Adam, who… what is going on?"
"Get away from him!" Sam snapped gripping the gun tighter in his hands.
"What's going on?" Kate questioned looking at them.
"You listen to me." Sam said looking at Adam.
"It's really her, okay?" Adam said looking at his brother.
"There was too much blood. Your mother's dead. There was too much blood in the vents!" Sam shouted shoving Adam away from Kate.
Adam quickly took the shotgun.
"Adam!" Kate yelled looking at them.
"Shoot it!" Azure said as she remained hidden behind Sam keeping herself as safe as she could.
"They're crazy! Honey, it's me!"
Adam pointed the gun at Kate, then at Sam and Azure looking confused and terrified.
"Look… Adam!" Sam said trying to get his brother to understand.
"Honey, it's me!"
"Look, that's not your mother!"
"Baby, please!"
"Shoot it! It's not human!"
Adam leveled the gun at Kate and smirked. "I know." Adam suddenly hit Sam on the chin with the but of the shotgun and Sam went down landing on Azure.
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Azure slowly woke with being duct taped to a chair. A soft groan left her lips.
"Silver. No wonder none of the tests worked. You're not shapeshifters. You're ghouls." Sam groaned out as he strained some against his bindes.
"You know,I find that term racist." Kate said looking at Sam with narrowed eyes as she waved the knife in her hand. She sniffed his neck and nibbled at his ear. "Mmm. Fresh meat. So much better than what we're used to."
"I should've known." Sam said looking at Kate with narrowed eyes. "It was the fresh kills that threw me. Ghouls don't usually go after the living. See, you're filthy scavengers, feeding off the dead… taking the form of the last corpse you choke down."
"And their thoughts. And their memories. Like Adam, for instance." The ghoul said as he walked over.
"Well, we are what we eat."
"You're monsters." Sam said looking at them.
The ghoul walked over to Sam and drew the knife over his arm.
The ghoul in Adam's form looked at Sam. "You know, you use that word a lot, Sam."
The other ghoul drank Sam's blood.
He thunked the knife into the table next to Sam's head. "But I don't think you know what it means."
Kate looked up. "His blood, it tastes different."
"Our father was a monster? Why? Because of what he ate? He never hurt anyone, Sam. Living, anyway."
"No. He was no monster. But the thing that killed him was. A monster named John Winchester."
Sam looked at her.
Azure swallowed the lump in her throat knowing that this wasn't a good sign.
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There was a stab wound in Sam's side and Adam dug his finger into it.
"Thanks to your daddy, my brother and I grew up on our own. At least we had each other."
Adam licked his finger. "Like you and your brother. Inseparable."
"Actually, it was very hard to get you on your own… and this silly little girl." Kate said looking at Azure who was passed out in the seat from blood loss.
"Like you said, Sam, the only thing you can count on is family."
Kate drank more of his blood before licking her fingers. "And for twenty years, we lived like rats."
"Graveyard after graveyard, all that stinking flesh."
"Then we thought, 'hey, why not move up to fresher game'?"
"And we knew just where to start." Adam said as he dug the knife into the cut that was already on Sam's arm. "Revenge… it's never over, is it, Sam?"
"First, it was John's cop friend, then his slut, and then his son." She pointed at herself then Adam as she brought John's loved ones in.
"Then I called John, but the son of a bitch was already dead."
"So I guess you and Dean will have to do instead… and your little bit on the side." Kate said looking at Azure licking her lips.
"Dean won't interrupt us this time. We're gonna feed on you nice and slow… like we did with Adam."
"Oh, and by the way, he really was your brother." Kate said looking at Sam, causing him to struggle. "You should know that."
"He was still alive when we took our first bites."
"And he was a screamer."
They each then opened long gashes along his arms. Blood dripped into the bowls catching it.
"Sam the more you struggle, the faster you bleed out. So you might as well lie back and relax."
"Hey!" Dean yelled at them appearing aiming a shotgun. He fires and Adam hit the wall with a hole in his shoulder.
"Dean, they're ghouls!"
Dean paused then firing at Kate. Blood splattered onto the wall and her headless corpse fell to the floor. "Which means headshot."
Adam slammed Dean, breaking a lot of glass on the way down.
Dean grabbed Adam and slammed him down. He quickly took a metal bar and tried to slam it on Adam's head and he dodged.
Azure slowly came to and groaned softly.
"Dean!" Sam yelled at his brother.
Dean came over to Sam and cut the ropes and duct tape. He grabbed some towels and put them onto Sam's arms. He slowly helped Sam up. "Come on. Come on. Come on. Hang on. Alright, here we go. Here we go. Hang on, buddy. Alright."
"Thank you."
"That's what family's for, right? Keep pressure on that." He said as he moved towards Azure to get her undone.
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Sam looked over at his brother as Azure stood next to him. "You sure we should do this?" Sam asked Dean.
Adam's body was wrapped up in sheets and laid on top of a pyre.
Dean opened a bottle of lighter fluid. "Ghouls didn't fake those pictures. They didn't fake Dad's journal." Dean said as he sprinkled lighter fluid over Adam's body. "Adam was our brother. He died like a hunter. He deserves to go out like one."
"Maybe we can bring him back. Get a hold of Cas, call in a favor." Sam said softly looking at Dean.
"No, Adam's in a better place." Dean said as he lit a match before tossing it onto the pyre and his body went up in flames."You know, I finally get why you and Dad butted heads so much. You two were practically the same person."
Sam looked over at his brother.
"I mean, I worshipped the guy, you know? I dressed like him. I acted like him, I listen to the same music. But you were more like him than I will ever be. And I see that now."
"I'll take that as a compliment."
"You take it any way you want." Dean said looking at his brother.
Azure pursed her lips together.
Dean looked at Azure. "Are you still sure you want to be travelling with us?"
Azure looked at the older brother. "Yes, I'm sure."
Dean nodded his head with a nod of his head.
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This is the end of Chapter 2 of Prophet's Daughter. I hope that you guys enjoyed this part. Please let me know what you think of this chapter and I'll update as soon as I can. Please review and let me know what you would like to see in future episodes. Would you like to see Azure with Sam or Azure with Dean? Until next time guys.