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“Hey! Behind you, Sam!” Dean yells.
Sam turns around in time to avoid getting bit. He grabs the ghoul and roughly shoves it towards Dean, who shoots it in the head, thus ending another hunt.
“Wow, that was close,” Sam pants, and wipes some sweat off his face.
“Yeah, glad that’s done. Let’s get out of here.”
Dean starts to walk off towards the church parking lot where he left Baby, when he spots you sitting on a tombstone.
“Shit. She’s back,” he says and gestures towards you.
Sam looks over and rolls his eyes but keeps plodding along towards the car.
“Who cares? She’s just staring at us like always. And we’ve tried catching her… didn’t work,” he mumbles.
Dean looks back over, but you’ve disappeared. “Yeah, whatever.” And he tags along after Sam.
When he reaches Baby he digs in his pocket, fishing out the keys. As he starts to unlock the door, he hears a familiar growl behind him. “You’ve got to be shittin’ me,” he complains.
He turns around to see the ghoul glaring at him, ready to attack. “How the hell did you come back to life?” he asks it, as it lunges towards him.
Sam pulls out his gun, and takes aim, but the church is blocking any light where they parked, making it hard to tell which shadow is his brother and which one is the ghoul. He can hear it snapping its jaws at Dean though.
“Try to move it closer to the cemetery, Dean. I can’t see well enough to shoot.”
“Yeah, I’ll try,” he grunts.
Sam moves around Baby, into the light from the moon and streetlights just as the ghoul gets thrown near his feet. He jumps back and Dean comes forward, pulling his gun out too. Both brothers take aim and fire, but both miss as the ghoul lunges towards Sam at the last second. Sam gets knocked over, hitting his head hard on the cement. He groans and drops his gun. Dean reaches him in time to shove the ghoul over again. This time his aim is true.
He turns his attention back to his brother. Laying his gun down he reaches to cradle Sam’s head in his hands.
“Hey, Sammy. Hey. You alright?” He tries to fight the panic as his brother fails to respond to him.
He lays Sam back down gently. Pulling his hand away, he realizes that there’s some blood on it. He quickly checks for a pulse, and breathing. Both are present, but the breathing seems too shallow. He catches some movement out the corner of his eye. Thinking the ghoul is back, he grabs his gun, and aims. Before he fires off a round, he sees that it’s you. You’re closer than you’ve been before, but you don’t seem like you’re going to attack. He frowns at you. He’s unsure of your motives, but maybe you can help. He knows you’re not human, but that’s about all him and Sam really know about you.
“Hi,” he says cautiously. “Can you help him?” He nods his head towards Sam.
You look from Sam to Dean to the ghoul. You seem unhappy with the idea of helping the Winchesters. Finally you come to a decision. You sit back some, away from the scene, but still in the parking lot. “No.”
“Why?!” He stares at you. “Can’t you help? Look, I don’t know what the hell you are, only what you aren’t, but are you trying to tell me you don’t know how?” He doesn’t believe you can’t, but thinks it’s more that you won’t. He’s right.
You look away a bit. “I’m not here for you.” You look back at him. You seem calm. There’s no hatred, but there’s also no sympathy in your eyes.
“Fine!” Dean spits out. He prays for Cas to come help his brother.
A moment later and there’s a flutter of wings. Castiel kneels down by Sam’s head, on the other side from Dean. He touches Sam, using his grace to heal him. As soon as Sam is recovered and starting to sit up, there’s a quick movement next to Dean, and the ghoul also starts to come around.
“Damn it!” Dean yells. He aims his gun, but only hits the ghoul in the leg, slowing it down, but not killing it.
Sam reaches for his gun as Castiel stands up looking perplexed. He points towards the edge of the parking lot at you. “Why is there an imp here?” he asks.
“A what?” Dean snaps, looking at Cas, momentarily distracted. Thankfully Sam is paying attention as he puts a bullet right between the eyes of the ghoul who was seconds away from biting Dean.
“An imp,” Castiel repeats looking at the brothers. “And we should leave because I think she’s just going to keep bringing that ghoul back to life.”
Dean and Sam stand up, flicking their eyes from the ghoul to you, ready to use force if they need to.
“Why?” Sam asks.
The boys look at Cas, waiting for answer, and that’s when you seize the moment to resurrect the ghoul yet again.
“It doesn’t matter right now. Let’s leave,” Castiel repeats.
The Winchesters both sigh as they see the ghoul getting back up. This time, though, they make it back to the car before it attacks, but not before Dean shoots off a warning shot in your direction, and puts another bullet in the ghoul’s head.
Castiel and Sam just look at him as they pile into Baby.
“What,” he says, starting the engine, “I didn’t hit her.” He grins and peels out of the parking lot, leaving you alone with the monster.