Title: The C-Team (Part One)
Author: walkingdean
Word Count: 2611
Trigger Warnings: Cursing, Mention of Blood, Mention of Death, Mention of Mental Illness, Mention of Sex
Summary: The reader is babysitting when something goes wrong. The Winchesters storm in, but it turns out she’s not completely inexperienced with the supernatural.
Fic:
It was drizzling. It was the type
of downfall that reminded even the oldest of men of those magical days whenever
they would beg their mother to go out and splash in the rain. It was the brand
that an older sister could use to scare her squeamish brother by slightly
hydroplaning on the way home from his practice. This breed of weather was
natural to the citizens of Campbell Station as it was natural, but something
that their programmed, simple minds weren’t used to was about to arise. No, it
wasn’t some new fashion line that Kanye West proclaimed was the “step above the
step above the future”. It was something that would cause even the most
religiously-adamant humans to stop their prayers and question whether this
world was theirs like their Father made them believe. But before you understand
this bone-chilling tale, it is important that you know the story that made
headlines- and to the notice of two very important men.
“Jacob! I told you to get out of
the bath ten minutes ago!“ Her fingers rattled against the banister of the
old wooden stairs. A crack of lightening flashed in the window behind her like
a warning from God to get the child out of the water. Reluctantly, her feet
relocated her to the top of the stairs where rustic paintings hung by thin strings
that were so tense she could almost hear them screaming out for relief. The
planks on the floor creaked with each ounce of pressure that was placed upon
them as she slung the bathroom door open, revealing an eight year-old boy clad
in only a towel, which was wrapped around his body up to his shoulders as if he
were a housewife that had just gotten done with a well-deserved bubble bath-
with rubber ducks. He cocked his
brown-haired head to the side with his blue eyes sparkling with sass as he
placed his hands upon his hips.
“Don’t you know it’s not nice to
walk in on somebody? I’m going to tell my parents that you don’t knock!”
Jacob’s thin legs marched towards her with confidence as he slid past, heading
to his room that was ever so mature with a sign on the door that sloppily read
‘Jacob’s Castle of Doom- Nobody Allowed’. She hiked her own legs up and
urgently chased after the boy, yet her fist didn’t block the closing of the
door in enough time to snag the young boy. She dropped the hardened hand as a
sigh ran from her pursed lips. The lock turned fiercely.
“Jacob, you have three seconds to
open this door before I call your parents,” Her red cheeks puffed out of anger
as her temper began to boil. The door wasn’t moving.
“One…” the stern phrase spun from
her tongue with irritation. “I’m so not getting paid enough for this,”
“Two…” Her hand began to intertwine
its fingers around the brass door handle, anticipation filling her veins.
“Thr-,” A nightmarish shriek
erupted like lava from an unnerved volcano from behind the wooden door. Her
eyes grew in confusion as the screeching continued to get louder. Swing after punch after blow from her hands
did nothing the burst the door open. She felt that not even the wrath of God
could force the forsaken thing open as she let her foot collide with the door
next to the handle. The barrier exploded to reveal Jacob sprawled and submerged
in a natatorium of scarlet blood that was spreading fast. His eyes flickered to
her as a cry for help for he could no longer speak from the pain that was
eating away at his flesh. But it was not only the pain, but the ghastly figure
that lingered above his demolished body, sucking every ounce of life from the
boy. The being made its way to Jacob’s face which he dissolved down the bone,
rendering the boy unrecognizable besides the crystal irises that remained in
their sockets. Red orbs pervaded through all of the blood with their glow that
paralyzed her in her spot as they charged towards her, but before the monster
could ravage her body as well it evaporated and left behind a gust of wind—and
a hard story to tell Jacob’s parents.
Dean slammed the laptop down in
front of Sam with a sense of pride and success that didn’t help alleviate the
younger brother’s irritation with the treatment of his electronic as he rolled
his eyes and took a look at the screen. Dean looked on with an eyebrow raised
in amusement as he awaited a response from the concentrated man. His hazel eyes
met his brother’s green gems with perplexity.
“I know, right? That’s some freaky
shit right here,” Dean pointed to the device with certainty as he pulled up a
chair across from Sam in the bunker’s library. He rested an elbow upon the
surface of the mahogany table that used to be the home to many poker games back
in the day. Sam raised his brows at his older brother in disappointment.
“Dean, we’re not doing this.
There’s tons of better cases out there somewhere,” He slung the laptop back
around to where the crude light was no longer blaring in eyes and now in the
presence of his brother. Dean had an expression similar to a toddler’s whenever
they can’t buy their favorite cereal.
“But, Sammy. A girl who magically wakes up with three
boobs? We can’t pass this up. Some extreme devil worship could be at work
here,”
“Or extreme, hidden plastic
surgery,” Sam retaliated quickly with reassurance. “I know the field has been a
little barren lately, but keep looking. There’s gotta be something worth our
time and not our porn fantasies,”
The older brother rolled his eyes
at the rejection as he began to surf around for anything the least bit
supernatural. Links upon links swirled around the pages like the sky whenever a
rider is riding the teacups. Dean began to read some of the news stories out
loud to Sam who was too caught up in reading an old journal he found in the
study.
“Okay, Sammy. The best
possibilities I’ve found so far are cannibals that are feasting on senior citizens
in Oklahoma or-. Holy shit,” Dean’s mouth dropped open with shock and intrigue
that he felt ashamed to express, even to himself. His eyes focused in on one
headline in particular.
“Dean…” The younger Winchester shut
the journal and looked at his brother with concern dancing vigorously in his
eyes.
He tore his eyes away from the
screen to let them lock with Sam’s in astonishment as his lips trembled in
fascination. “So, this babysitter was watching this kid while the parents were
out on a date. She claims a ghost cleaned the kid like a barbecue rib on the
Fourth of July in less than five seconds flat. It went for her, but then it
disappeared. They have her in a mental hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia,
mania, and sociopathic tendencies,”
Sam grimaced at the poor girl’s
fate. “Yeesh. Most people just get the crazy card and are sent on their way,
but this girl is getting the full on treatment. Says a lot about how the kid
was skinned,”
Dean nodded his head in agreement
as he shut the computer down and began to stand up. “So, are we gonna do this
or do I need to go by myself and leave you to read some more of the Anne Frank
chronical over there?” He stated with a sarcastic smile. Sam rolled his eyes as
he agreed and left the library, leaving behind his cherished reading material.
The eerie white walls that cuddled
the equally pale floors reminded him of the last time he was in the hospital. Dean
had a habit of staying away from healthcare facilities that didn’t specialize
in curing gunshot wounds with liquor and floss like he had grown accustomed to.
It was when Sam had lied in a bed unconscious for days which felt like years
until a mysterious and troublesome solution had been made apparent. He had
learned his lesson with angel possession and the painful arsenal that it
carries: death, hurt, and a really bitchy brother. But this time he wasn’t here
for familial matters. He was here for what he had been doing all of his life-
saving people, hunting things, the family business.
“So,
why would the feds exactly get involved with a sicko like this?” The nurse
pondered aloud. He kept walking with authority ahead of the brothers as if
being a nurse at a low-grade mental institution granted him the right to act
better than others. “I mean, it’s not even what she did. It’s the fact that she’s
fucking crazy is what freaks me out. When I give her medicine, I’m always
paranoid she’s gonna think I’m the ‘ghost’ that ate that poor little boy and
attack me or something,”
Sam
locked eyes with his brother with a mutual understanding of what to do. “Hey,
uh, it would make sense if you were scared of her for, I don’t know, eating a
person. Mental illness doesn’t mean someone’s crazy,” Sam confessed as he saw
the nurse shake his head slightly, pause at a door and begin to unlock it. The
nurse back away and swayed his arms in a way to motion for the men to make
their way into the clean-kept room. The only things that were inside were a
mattress and a barred window that barely let any sunlight crawl through. The sun
could be perched right outside, and someone would never be able to see it’s
brilliance through the slits. Along the mattress sat a girl with a frail frame.
Her cheeks were sunken in with her brown eyes that had a dull glow to them that
mimicked the radiance they once possessed. Her body was curled into a ball onto
the stale palette, her face gazing at the men I silence. Not a single bit of
her body moved, much like Jacob’s door.
Dean
and Sam quickly erased their fed aura and replaced it with their rugged, ‘I know
too much for my own good’ dispositions. They both stood in front of the girl,
Sam’s brooding figure lurching much higher than his brother’s. “Hi, Y/N. I’m
Sam. This is my brother Dean,” he began awkwardly. I was in an asylum once. You’d think I would know how to go about this,
he thought to himself.
“So, we
know you’re not crazy. Hell, our lives are crazy so whatever tea you’re sipping
from, sister, we have the whole gallon,” Dean interrupted his brother during
the awkward silence. Her eyes immediately shot to him as his eyes ran shivers
down her spine. They had the same glimmer as Jacob’s. “So, this whole ghost thing. Did you smell anything
funny, kind of like eggs recently? Any cold spots, things moving by themselves,
electronics messing-,”
“It
wasn’t a ghost,” She finally spoke with a cracking voice from a lack of water.
She had been rejecting food and water for days from either trauma or protest;
she wasn’t sure herself. If it was for protest, it would be against everyone
who assumed she was crazy. “I mean, I said that at first, but now I know it’s
not. It didn’t give off the vibe as a ghost,” She began to squirm slightly from
the excitement of finally releasing her thoughts to someone she thought might
listen. They were the first people to even consider the supernatural aspects of
the situation.
Sam
cocked his head in interest as he made a quick glance with his brother. “What
do you mean ‘vibe’? Do you mean you’ve been involved with ghosts before?”
She removed her elbows that were
caging her knees to reveal more of her face. It was pale from the lack of
sunlight and nutrients, but more so the fright that she had felt lately. Sam
was more concerned with an answer to the question at hand, but Dean was
captivated by her face. Not in a negative way, but it put him in a trance of
relaxation that he hadn’t felt in a long time by just looking into someone’s
eyes. Not since his mom.
“You guys said you drink from the
crazy fountain, right?” She asked as her eyes traded between each of their
glares. She sighed as she began to prepare herself. “Well, I can sort of see
these things—things that other people can’t see. Whenever you see a blank hallway,
I see a man standing with an ax taking a nap in his frontal lobe. If you feel a
cold spot, I see your grandmother hugging you- or slapping you based on your
life decisions,”
The younger Winchester’s mouth
dropped slightly while Dean’s lips came together in thought. “So you’re a medium?”
The older brother asked in a calming way. There was no sense of doubt in his
speech which she appreciated even more than usual given her stressful week.
“Y-yeah, if you want to call it that.
But whatever attacked Jacob- that was no spirit. That was something that looked
like it crawled from the depths of hell. It was grey with slimy skin and red
eyes. Super skinny and tall. Its teeth were sharp like razor blades that tore-,”
Her voice stopped as the memories of the attack came back. “Listen. All I know
is that was some sort of evil thing. There was nothing pure about it,”
Dean sat himself up from leaning
against the wall and crouched down next to her without breaching into her space
on the mattress. “I know that this is a hard thing to talk about and Sam and I
are grateful for the information you’ve given us. We hunt things like this- the
things that do nasty shit like what happened to Jacob and we’re gonna find this
son of a bitch and we’re gonna gank him. But we need you for this. Sam and I
can’t sense stuff like you can. Are you in?”
She gazed into his eyes for what
seemed like eternity while electricity shot through them both with the intimate
connection. Her eyes shifted to Sam who was supporting Dean in his efforts to
recruit her. “If it means I get to leave this place, I’m game.”Dean tapped her
on her knee thankfully as he helped her up to her feet. She placed her hands on
her hips and looked out the window to see the nurse standing guard right
outside. “So, how are we gonna do this? I can’t exactly skip out of here,”
Sam grinned as he wrinkled his nose
slightly in retort. Her mind began to swirl with possible ideas of what they
could be planning. Did they have a trampoline outside her window to fall down
on? But how would they get through the bars?
“We have a friend that can get us
through pinches like this. Just close your eyes and you won’t feel a thing,
okay?” Sam drowned his eyes into hers with reassurance that she trusted. She
couldn’t explain it, but for some reason she trusted these two with no voice in
her head begging her not too. There was no stranger-danger vibe even though she
had only met them five minutes ago. They felt like childhood friends that she
had come across in the supermarket. She closed her eyes while Dean called out
the name ‘Castiel’. A cold front circulated through her body as she felt the
world outside her eyelids spinning and the world faded to black.