Written in Blood Ch 13
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Chapter 13
It took a couple hours before the cops finally left. The last squad car left, the Impala left where Dean parked when we all arrived at the motel. Sam and I darted for the car; he went to the driverâs seat and I to the passengerâs seat. We got out of the town before Sam broke the silence.
âWhyâd Dean go get you before getting me?â
âHuh? Oh. I donât know. The last time I saw him was when I was at university for nursing back in Michigan. Sure, Iâve had patients of the supernatural variety. But I never hunted.â
âYou got no claim in thisâŠâ
âMy brother got pulled into this by John,â I interrupted. âThe sooner we find John, the sooner I get Tyler back home.â And the sooner I get back to finding a new nursing job.
~~~
We pulled up to a junk yard. Sam seemed to want to tell me to remain as he climbed out. I was out of the car before he could say anything. I was half way to the house before Sam caught up to me.
âAeryn, wait,â he called. âDo you even know what youâre gonna say?â
âDo you still have that photo of you and John?â
Sam pulled it out and I snatched it from him.
âGood. Iâm gonna ask if Joseph has seen John and just run with whatever Joseph said.â I knocked on the door and waited.
The door cracked open and I flashed a soft smile at the elderly man. âAre you Joseph Welch?â I questioned.
âYeah. Why?â
I held up the photo of John and the boys. âMy friend here and I are looking for the older man in this photo.â
Joseph stood behind the door for several seconds before stepping out and taking the photo from me. I stepped back to allow him outside. He led the way from the door, I kept at his side while Sam was at his other side.
âIâve seen him,â Joseph said. âCame by about three or four days ago. Saying he was a reporter.â
âThatâs right,â I said, eyes flittered quick to Sam. âHe and I are working on a story. My friend hereâs worried as neither of us heard from him lately.â
âI donât know what kind of story youâre working on with the questions he asked me.â
âAbout your wife Constance?â Sam dared.
âHe asked where she was buried.â
âI know this is hard, Mr. Welch,â I said, my compassion from my short nursing career seeped in. âWe wouldnât be asking if it wasnât necessary.â
Joseph sighed.
âIn a plot behind my old place at Birkenridge.â
âYou moved?â Sam asked.
âI wasnât going to live where my children passed.â
âMr. Welch,â Sam started as I started for the Impala. âHave you heard of a woman in white?â
Shit. We didnât need this.
âA what?â Joseph asked.
âItâs a ghost story,â I cut in. âSpirits of women spotted on the sides of roads. It has Latin origins. Legend states that the woman killed the children due to the unfaithfulness of their husbands.â
âWhat are you implying?â Joseph angrily took a couple steps toward me.
Sam jumped between the two of us. â
âA ghost story,â I cut in. âLatin myth states that a woman in white is a woman that had killed her children in anger due to the unfaithfulness of her husband. They wander the sides of roads, looking for unfaithful men; killing them.â
Joseph turned to me, anger on his face. âAre you sayingâŠSure Iâve made some mistakes, but ConstanceâŠ.Sheâd never kill our children.â Sam stepped between the two of us as Joseph stepped forward. âNow, the two of you get the hell out of her.â
I didnât need to be told twice. With a head nod to Joseph, who had an expression of either anger or grief â or both â I turned for the Impala. Sam followed a few seconds later.
âWhat the fuck was that, Sam?â I demanded the second we drove off. âTaunting the man like that.â
âOh, all of a sudden youâre Dean? Lay off, Aeryn.â
âI mean it. Manâs lost his entire family that night and has to live with the guilt.â I sighed as Sam handed me his phone.
âHere,â he said. âItâs already dialing.â
âWait ⊠whaâŠâ
â911, whatâs youâre emergency?â
Um ⊠âYes, I was just driving and saw an apartment building on fire.â
âGrandville and Dawson,â Sam whispered.
âAt Grandville and Dawson,â I repeated to the dispatcher. âI think theyâre gonna need police as well.â I hung up before the dispatcher could speak.
âWelcome to the life of crime,â Sam said.
I startled when his cell rang in my hands minutes later. âCounty morgue,â I spoke.
âAeryn? Youâre the one that called the fake 911 call? Pretty illegal there.â
âDonât blame me, blame your brother.â I looked at Sam. I thumbed through the options and got Dean on speaker.
âWe gotta talk,â Dean said.
âTell me about it,â Sam said. âThe husband was unfaithful. And Constance is buried at her old place. Thatâs Dadâs next stop.â
âSammy, listen.â
âI donât understand why Dad didnât destroy the corpse yet.â
âThatâs what Iâm trying to tell you,â Dean half snapped. âDadâs not here. He left Jericho.â
âHow do you know?â
âI got his journal.â
âHis what?â Just for once Iâd like to get all the information.
âDadâs hunting journal,â Sam said. âDean and I got our own. Itâs something that we never leave behind.â
âWell, Dad left his,â Dean jumped in. âAnd it said the same ex-Marine crap whenever he wanted us to go somewhere.â
âCoordinates. Where?â Sam questioned.
âI havenât figured it out.â
âThis isnât like Dad to just skip out half way through a job,â Sam pointed out. âWhat was so important to get him to do that?â
I happened to look up to see Constance in the middle of the road. âSAM!â My body moved instinctively as he braked hard, wishing for once I had the seat belt on. A deep chill washed over my body before a voice with a slight echo from the backseat requested to be taken home.
Sam refused and Constanceâs voice rose when she demanded to be taken home. I jolted with the doors locked before struggling to open mine. The car sped forward and Sam attempted to steer. This was not the way I imaged being killed; car crash caused by a woman in white. I should have just refused Dean when he asked for help two days ago and found a different hospital to work at.
We eventually pull up to an abandoned house. Sam and I share a look. Constance spoke again how she couldnât go home. His expression changed as a pressure pushed in on me; controlling my body.
Get the fuck out, I told it, unable to stop myself from pushing Sam back against the seat; it folding back under the force.
Iâm so sorry, Sam, I thought to him as Constance spoke, âHold me. Iâm so cold,â through me.
I struggled against Constance as she attempted to kiss him; her hand reaching into his chest. In my mind, I pictured pulling Constance back away from myself. Somewhere out of the car, a gunshot echoed. Constance stopped fighting me. Another shot. She loosened her control, but didnât leave my body.
I sat up off of Sam, who sat up as well. No words were needed. He started the car.
âHold on,â he said.
The force from Sam pressing on the gas pedal pushed me back into the seat. Heart started pumping faster as adrenaline filled my system as I saw the house grow ever closer. I braced as Sam crashed through the wall, it crumbled around the car. Unable to go any further, the Impala rested in what was the living room. My breathing slowed as the rush came down.
âSam âŠâ I started. âAbout what just happened.â
âDonât worry about it. It was Constance.â
âSam!â Dean appeared at the passenger door. âAeryn! You two okay?â
âMore or less,â I said, moving to push open my door. âIf you donât count being possessed by a ghost.â
Dean flashed a glare at Sam, who had come around to join us, just as a bureau was pushed toward us. I stumbled back a couple steps while the brothers were pinned to the car. Lights flickered around us and my gaze shot around the room, a chill fell over my body. I could hear the faint sound of running water just as a chorus of two young children called out: âYouâve come home, Mommy.â
It was as if I suddenly saw Constance before me, facing the children in fear. The children flashed from where they stood at the top of the stairs to behind their mother. Constance screamed as she and the children melted into the pool of water.
My breath came ragged while the chill dissipated, head snapped a little at the sound of the falling bureau. Sam was at my side to help me up while Dean walked over to the water spot.
âSo, this is where she drowned her kids,â Dean said.
âItâs why she couldnât go home,â I said, partially using Sam until I gained my balance.
âShe was too scared to face them,â Sam finished.
âFind the weak spot, didja?â Dean slapped Sam in his chest.
I didnât miss the grimace as pain washed over him.
âBeats blasting Casper in the face,â I shot back.
âSaved your asses.â Dean turned to the car. âI will tell you this, Sammy. You mess up my carâŠâ He looked to his brother. âIâll kill you.â
It didnât take too long for us to work the Impala out of the house and Dean to ensure it was in perfect condition. We were back on the road with one of Deanâs classic rock tapes playing and Sam looking at the coordinates in Johnâs journal and a map. I hung over his shoulder with a flashlight lighting the journal and map.
âDad went to Blackwater Ridge, Colorado,â Sam said.
âCharming,â Dean replied. âHow far?â
I tiled my head. âSome six hundred miles.â
âIf we shag ass, we can make it by morning.â
âDean,â I started, my words drifting off.
âYouâre not going,â he picked up.
âMy interviewâs in ten hours,â Sam said. âI gotta be there.â
âYeah, whatever. Iâll take you home.â
I clicked off the flashlight and slumped back into the backseat. I wasnât too sure what I wanted to do. I still needed to find Tyler and get him home, yet I needed to get back to Michigan and find out how much trouble I was in.
~~~
I slid out of the back seat and slipped into the front passenger seat. Sam closed the door and leaned in the window. It had taken a few hours to get back to his apartment in Palo Alto and the ride was quiet save for the music.
âCall me when you find him,â the younger brother requested, receiving a nod from Dean. âMaybe weâll meet up later.â
Sam patted the car and turned away. Dean leaned over, throwing his arm over the back of the seat. Unable to move and acutely aware of how close Dean was, I sat there with my hands in my lap.
âSam?â He turned back. âWe made a hell of a team.â
âYeah. Oh, you need to find an anti-possession charm for Aeryn.â
Dean leaned back away and looked at me, questions forming on his face. Instead he drove away.
âDean, back when Sam and I were dealing with Constance,â I began as an image of a fire flashed in my mind. Then another of Sam. âDean, we need to go back. Somethingâs happened at the apartment.â
âSamâs a big boy,â Dean countered.
âI think itâs Samâs apartment.â I was hesitant, unsure if the two visions were connected.
Dean slowed just a hair as he pulled a U-Turn in the street, cutting off the few drivers; gaining a couple laying on their horns. He sped up, killing the distance back to the apartment building. I was out of the car before Dean put it in park; with him racing past me into the apartment building. I began knocking on doors, yelling fire, hoping someone would hear and help get others out. Some doors behind me opened, people dared to question the late night disturbance. Until some closer to Samâs apartment saw the smoke and started to knock on other doors. Flames started licking out from the apartment as I approached, slowing down. A hand grabbed my arm and pulled me back.
Dean and I locked eyes for a second before I turned and followed them out; Dean pushing Sam in front of him. All the while Sam yelled for Jess. He managed to get past Dean, but I planted myself, grunting when the six-foot man collided into me.
âLet me by, Aeryn,â he demanded.
âLike hell I am.â He had a few inches and probably twenty pounds on me, I didnât care.
Anger flashed over his face and the thought that he would push past me to get back into the apartment popped into my mind. Instead he stared at me, anger still on his face. Anger not directed at me. He turned away as the first of the fire trucks arrived on scene. I looked at Dean, worried that I over stepped.
âJess was his girlfriend,â he explained. âWanted to settle down and not have anything else to do with hunting.â
We headed over to the Impala where Sam was sorting through the weapons and tossed a shotgun into the trunk.
âWe got work to do.â A sinking feeling washed over me.














