Chapter Seven- Visions of sugarplums and candycanes!
And yet another chapter. Sorry this one took so long. I now have to work during my prime writing hours which seem to be right in the middle of the night. So I don't get to write as much as I would like. But I got this one out and hope that everyone enjoys it. PS. A little swearing in this chapter. Nothing that kids in America don't hear every day of the week, but I thought that I should inform you all of it!
Chapter Seven- Visions of sugarplums and candycanes!
"So what's going on with them? Sam said that he didn't want to talk until you came back." Dean said as he saw his sister coming back from talking with Caleb and Pogue.
"Yeah?" Kaze asked, looking down at her brother who was still laying on the couch, with the cold washcloth on his forehead, ignoring Dean's question. "So did it work at all? Did my magic help at all?"
"Yeah, not half as nauseous as I was last time. And the headache really isn't all that bad. Thanks. So you guys want to hear what's doing?" Sam asked as he gingerly sat up from his reclining position on the couch.
"Yeah, what was it this time?" Dean asked, waving at the others in the room to come closer so that Sam would only have to go through this once.
"It started off blurry-" Sam started to say.
"Wait. What started off blurry?" Reid and Tyler asked at the same time. There was a small titter of laughter from the Sons but not from any of the other occupants of the room.
"His vision. What else would it be?" Kaze asked, scorn evident in her voice at the stupidity of the boys.
"Oh yes, stupid us to have thought that it might be something else?" Reid said, all of the sarcasm he could amass behind the statement.
"Look, you don't like how things are going, you can leave. You want to help, you gotta help our way. There is no two way street here. To use a wonderful cliché, it's our way or the fucking highway!" Kaze said as she progressively got closer to Reid with every word she said. As she finished her statement, she was right up in his face. Despite the fact that Reid was a little bit taller than Kaze, she was still intimidating enough that Reid wisely backed down.
"Okay, who said anything about 'streets'? We just want to know what's going on! You can't just bust in here, Beth after years of no contact, and have brothers having seizures, and not tell us what's going on! We just want to know what is going on! This concerns us too. These are our friends!" Tyler spoke up.
"Oh wait, did we fail to mention that Sam is psychic? Cause, I could' a sworn we had." Dean said, putting an innocent expression on his face.
" Seriously?! You're psychic? Why didn't any of us know about this?" Caleb demanded.
"Okay first, since when do you need to know every little detail? And second, who cares? My brother has something to say." Dean retorted, revving up for an argument.
"We care! You can't just come into OUR town and mess with us like this! We need to know everything that is going on here!" Pogue yelled, getting more irate.
"You don't need to know! Shit! Like my sister said, if you hadn't seen her at Nicky's, you never would have known that we were here! And it's not like you own the town, and are the law enforcement around here!" Dean shouted back.
"That is ENOUGH! You all are just making Sam's headache worst, so shut the fuck up and let him speak, you moronically gifted chowder heads!" Kaze yelled, to get everyone's attention. Instantly, everyone's attention was on Sam, so that he could tell them about the vision.
"You don't mean me?" Dean asked into the silence with a slightly offended tone.
"You are the king of the moronically gifted chowder heads! Now everyone shut up!!!" Kaze said, exasperated with all of the guys in the room. "Sam needs to get this out now, then we can take him back to our hotel room, so he can rest! So everyone just shut up!"
"So like I started say, everything started off blurry, kinda like how your vision is when you get knocked out, then you wake up so I think I was seeing what was going on through somebody's eyes. So the vision cleared and I saw the kids all sitting on the floor of what looked like a cellar and all of them are chained up. Like old fashioned manacles like they used back in the 1700's and the 1800's." Sam paused to catch his breath, still suffering from the effects of the vision.
"Sounds like they could be in the old colony. There are a lot of old cellars there and I think that there would be those kind of manacles there." Caleb supplied, a little less upset than he had been earlier.
"It's not impossible. It's the old colony. I wouldn't doubt that there is shit like that there. The question now is how are we going to find them, and how will we rescue them?" Reid asked, rubbing his hands together in anticipation.
"First, you are not part of this, and second shut up and let Sam finish." Dean said.
"What do you mean that we aren't part of this?! These are our friends! We have a right to be part of this!" Tyler spoke up.
"You aren't trained for this, we are. We have trained all of our lives for shit like this! What the hell have you guys trained for? Swimming? Using your daddy's money to buy that new CD that you just can't live without?" Kaze snorted with derision.
"ENOUGH! You can all bicker like children all day long, or you can all work together and get these kids back, and defeat your enemies once and for all! But you can't do that if you remain divided the way you are right now!" Lenore roared. Everyone in the room stopped arguing, and looked at the mild-mannered vampire in shock. The Winchesters shut up because they had never really seen Lenore raise her voice before, and the Sons, because they were afraid that something would happen to them if they didn't shut up. "Now Sam, was there anything else? Anything that would help us find them?" She asked nicely.
"I still think that there should be full disclosure from all involved parties." Reid groused.
"So you all ready to spill your deepest darkest secrets?" Dean asked, and when no one replied, he said, "Didn't think so."
"Dean. Shut up!" Kaze hissed at her brother. "Sam was there anything else?
"No, not much. Just that Chase kid, he came in and started taunting the kids. I think I remember him saying something about how they would all eventually join him. It's a little fuzzy as I have the feeling that whatever drugs were used to knock the kids out, were still in their systems. Everything about the vision was fuzzy. There's nothing else that I can remember. Maybe later you can do your thing and help me remember, but right now I just want to sleep." Sam said the last part as he was covering up a huge yawn.
"Okay. Let's get you to bed and when you wake up, then we'll try again." Kaze said as she ran her fingers through her brother's long locks of hair. Sam leaned into the touch and tried to cover up another yawn but was unsuccessful.
"We need to get you back to the motel." Dean said, leaning down to help his younger sibling up.
"You could stay here." Caleb offered quietly. Kaze, Sam, and Dean all turned to look at the eldest of the Sons looking at them. "It's closer to town. And my mom is out of town right now, and we have lots of room. Plus I don't know if there are any books in the library that could help with the hunt, but you're welcome to check. I just-" Caleb looked down at this point. "I want to help out any way that I can. We all got off on a bad start. Let me make it up to you all. Even you guys can stay here if you want. Um… what kind of sleeping arrangements do you need?" Caleb said, indicating Lenore and Eli.
"Somewhere with really heavy, dark curtains. We can stand a little sunshine, but not prolonged periods of it." Lenore stated. Caleb nodded and started to think of the rooms that had heavy dark curtains. He suddenly remembered that he had offered rooms to his ex-girlfriend and her family. He looked at them, waiting for their answer.
Dean, Kaze, and Sam looked at each other, silently communicating with their eyes. They seemed to have reached a decision as Dean turned to Caleb and asked, "Where can we put Sasquatch over here?"
Later that night, after Kaze and Dean had gotten Sam settled in one of the rooms, and had settled themselves, Kaze left Dean to take a shower in his room and wandered down stairs, trying to find the library. She was hoping to find something to read. She couldn't sleep because of everything that had happened that day. All of the revelations that had gone around, all of the lies uncovered, the truths that had come out to play. Kaze laughed a low laugh at the last thought.
"Hey." Came the quiet voice from the shadows of the hall.
Kaze whirled around at the sound, and then relaxed a little bit when she saw that it was just Caleb. "What are you doing down here?"
"Going to the library to get myself a scotch to help me sleep. You?" He replied.
"Library to find something to read. But a scotch sounds really good." She looked at her ex-boyfriend as they both started walking to the library. "So I want to apologize. I never should have run out on you guys, but I panicked. I should have told you guys so that you wouldn't have worried but I wasn't thinking all that strait at the time."
"Yeah." Caleb took a deep breath before continuing. "It's okay. I realized soon after you and your brothers explained things this afternoon, that you did what you had to. I don't blame you. I think that if something like that had happened to me that I would be just as freaked out by it as you were."
"God look at us. Actin' like a bunch of pansy teenagers!" Kaze laughed out loud as they reached the library and walked into the warm room. There was a fire going in the fireplace, and three of the five comfy armchairs were filled. "Hey guys." Kaze said softly at Reid, Pogue and Tyler.
"Hey" Pogue was the first one to reply back. Both Reid and Tyler had slightly petulant looks on their faces. But eventually Tyler replied with a "Hey." followed by Reid's "Hey."
"Guys, ease up." Caleb said. "How would you feel if you went through half the stuff that she had to go through?" He asked quietly, waiting for an answer from his friends.
"God, I feel like I'm five again, and my mom is telling me to be nice to you guys cause you couldn't help it that you were all dorks and I was the only really cool one. I can forgive you for the running away, but the not calling and telling us where you were? That still makes me a little mad." Reid said, as he got up to hug Kaze. "Just don't do it again, please? I don't think that we could take that again." He whispered the last part into her ear so that no one else could hear.
"I promise." she hugged him tighter for the last couple of seconds of the hug then let him go. She turned to Pogue and got a smile out of him and a huge hug. When he finally let her go, she turned to Tyler to get a hug from him.
"I've missed you." He whispered in her ear. "You don't know how much."
"Me too. I miss our pranks." She whispered back.
He laughed loudly, causing the other Sons to look back at them from where they had all taken seats in front of the fire. "Pranks" was all that he had to say for everyone in the room to cringe in fear. Laughter echoed out of the library, and drifted up the stairs and into the bedroom of Dean. He tilted his head as though listening closely and smiled a little when he could make out the sound of his sister's laughter. He let out a relived sigh, no matter what happened to Sam and him, his sister would have friends to turn to. He turned out the light, and went to sleep, the warrior in him waiting and anticipating the fight ahead.
And so that is the end of this chapter. I am really sorry that it took forever for me to write this. My muse disappeared on me, and it took forever for me to find her again. I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter and remember to review please!