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Season
Two
Episode
One: Call To Darkness
By
Kittsbud & Tree
Part
Two
Interior
of Haris’s Complex
Sam could feel something wet tickling his throat as
it dribbled from his chin all the way down his neck.
Was something dripping on him? Damned if Dean wasn’t
playing another one of his pranks…
The hunter moved and the sudden motion
jarred the muscles in his body, sending spikes of raw
pain down one side of his back. He groaned, daring to
open an eye as the memory of the fireball and landing
hard came back to him.
“Sammy?”
A disheveled, bloodied John Winchester hovered over
his son, but only a few of the original group of hunters
stood behind him. More of their number had been lost
to the new explosion and ambush, some so gruesomely
that their entrails now lined the walls like a demonic
tapestry of human body parts.
Smoke filled the concrete corridor
mixed with the stench of seared, still burning flesh
and Sam gagged as he took his father’s hand as
it was offered in assistance. “What..?”
“Booby
trap.” John confirmed Sam’s grisly assumption
and glanced back at the half a dozen men still with
him. “We’re boxed in. Fire in front, fire
behind…” And maybe more tripwires…
Sam took a minute to let his spinning
head settle and rubbed the back of his palm under his
nose. It came away a shade of scarlet and he realized
just what had been dripping down his neck. The impact
from the explosion had given him a bloody nose and lip
from being slammed into the wall. Better that than the
fate of his companions who had been at the head of the
column. “There has to be another way out. Maybe
if we can get back to the chamber…”
“We can’t.” Bobby
appeared from the gloom and nodded back down the passageway.
“The fire’s already headed this way. I just
checked.”
Sam shook his head. There was another
way out, he sensed it. Pushing past his old friend he
began to jog back the way they had come. About halfway,
he paused, looking at the walls around him. They were
different here. Strange marks and symbols had been etched
into the concrete, and one side of the wall was a slightly
different color.
Haris wouldn’t make changes to
the complex like that unless there was a reason.
Sam
hunkered down, letting his fingers trace a mark on the
floor. It looked like a blood trail, and it was fresh.
Dean? The young hunter winced. He was clutching
at straws. The blood could belong to anyone –
maybe even one of the men behind him.
One
thing the blood did tell him, no matter whose it was,
was that the tunnel had another exit. The dried red
ooze pooled in one spot as if the injured party had
paused a moment. Then, the blood trail headed right
up to the wall of the corridor and stopped.
Sam moved closer, noting two gouges
in the floor that finished midway in the corridor.
“There’s a hidden door
here somewhere!”
At his cry, the weary hunters gathered
closer, eager to hear any options now that they were
backed into a corner – literally.
“What do you see, son?”
John leaned over, blotting out what little light there
was, but Sam didn’t need it.
Letting
his fingertips gently move over the symbols carved into
the walls he carefully searched for the trigger mechanism
he knew had to be there. It was as if some part of his
mind knew what he had to do.
Halfway up the wall, he stopped and
carefully traced over a familiar sigil with the end
of his left forefinger. Taking a breath, Sam pushed,
hoping he was about to open a secret doorway rather
than set off yet more explosions.
Beneath his hand, the wall began to
move outwards towards him until another smaller corridor
was revealed. A blast of fresh air hit him in the face
from their new escape route and Sam and his companions
inhaled greedily. Breathing the stale fumes of burnt
viscera suddenly made them feel nauseous.
“Come on, let’s MOVE!”
John didn’t wait to congratulate his son. He didn’t
even pat the tallest Winchester on the back as he moved
past him to lead the way. Instead, John simply resumed
command of his motley troop, and Sam followed.
The new passageway was only a small
branch of a larger section, opening into another anti-chamber
after only a short distance. The air was still fresh
in the room, and there was no sign of the enemy.
Or Dean…
Sam looked around, instantly recognizing
the area where he’d been held captive earlier.
Several cells lined one wall, and in the nearest, Zack
Murzak peered through a small rusted hatch.
At the sight of the hunters Murzak
backed away, his eyes widening in sudden fear.
“You bastard! You led us down
here to burn!” More jeers followed as the remaining
hunters spotted the man who had betrayed them, giving
them up to the very thing he was supposed to hate.
“Leave me here…leave me
to burn. It’s nothing more than I deserve…”
Murzak’s voice was surprisingly fearless, as if
he had accepted his fate, maybe even welcomed it.
Sam shook his head, wasting valuable
seconds to find the keys to unlock Murzak’s cell.
The chain rattled as he tried several until the right
one slipped into the lock. “You don’t deserve
to die so easily. Not after what you did to my brother…”
The door swung open, but Sam held the
other hunters back. They’d want to string Murzak
up. Maybe kill him outright for his transgressions.
Sam didn’t want that. He wanted to make Murzak
suffer for Dean’s sake, he wanted the hunter to
know what it was like to watch as your own sibling was
possessed and tortured. But most of all, Sam wanted
answers. He wanted to know why Murzak betrayed them,
why he’d work for a demon and just why Haris had
had Dean possessed.
“He comes with us topside.”
Sam’s statement was final. It was a growling order
that none of the hunters wanted to argue with. The building
was crumbling. There was no time for internal struggles
among the group.
Grabbing Murzak under one arm, Sam
began to drag him from the cell. Realizing his plan
to interrogate the traitor later, Bobby took hold of
Murzak’s free arm and shuffled him forward.
“Which way?” John looked
at the two corridors they had to choose from, uncertain
which would be their escape route.
“That
one.” Sam bobbed his head. “Keep going until
you reach the stairs. They’ll take us right back
up outside the complex.” The stairs Dean joked
about. The stairs we almost fell down on our asses…
The bittersweet memory gnawed at him.
Would that be the last time he’d ever see Dean?
At least as his true self?
Sam’s face twitched as he tried
to quell the anger that coursed through his being. Anger
he’d never felt before, not like this. As he climbed
each step to the surface, the rage grew stronger. He
wanted to kill someone, something, hell anything and
he wondered in that moment which Winchester was truly
the marked one. Dean may be under a demon’s influence,
but Sam? The anger, the urge for revenge was all his
own.
For
you or Dad, the things I’m willin’ to do
or kill, it just….it scares me sometimes...
They had once been Dean’s words,
but as Sam shoved Murzak into the daylight beyond the
steps he had to admit that for Dean, there was probably
nothing he wouldn’t do either.
Behind him, the clatter of boots on
concrete told Sam the other hunters and his father were
almost clear of the complex too. Letting go of his panting
captive, he turned just in time to see the upper levels
of Haris’s lair explode in a cacophony of sound
and blistering heat.
Sam braced himself, barely keeping
his footing as the ground seemed to rock in a two mile
radius of the collapsing structure.
Murzak wasn’t so lucky, his bone-wrenching
grunt signaling he’d hit the dirt face first.
He spat out blood where his teeth had cut into his own
tongue with the impact, but Sam didn’t feel sorry
for him, he couldn’t.
The minor injury would be the least
of the turncoat’s worries if he didn’t help
them find Dean. Dean who might have been in the building
when it exploded. Dean who might be burning alive in
the underground passageways and tunnels. Dean who was
suffering the living hell of having his body controlled,
even if he was safe.
Sam watched as flames licked over the
rubble and debris that was the only evidence the complex
had ever existed. At his side, John placed a hand on
his youngest’s shoulder.
“We’ll find him, Sam…”
* * * *
Unknown
Location
It
started with the smell, part mold, part body odor, completely
disgusting. Another breath; stagnate air that spoke
of a space well used and then sealed up tightly. Dead
air, now that he chanced a deeper breath. A smell that
spoke of decay and death, one that he could only hope
was not emanating from him. But no, dead men couldn’t
smell could they? And didn’t smelling entail breathing
and breathing meant being alive? Damn! So much for being
dead!
Focusing, he could now pick out noises;
the sound of shoes scuffling on the floor not far from
him. Straining, he could hear more noises, the sound
of machinery at a distance. The echo of voices from
outside the space he currently inhabited. Human voices,
but none that he recognized.
Okay, so this was getting him nowhere,
time to include vision into this equation. Slowly, he
peeled crusted lids apart, lashes unweaving, allowing
the white glow of fluorescent bulbs to assault his pupils.
His first sight was of the dingy floor that he was laying
cheek down against. Without moving his head, he took
in the space around him.
The floor itself was an uninspiring
gray, parts of it chipped away to reveal concrete beneath
while other areas bore stains whose origins he didn’t
want to consider. Further on, he spotted two sets of
boots, standard issue paramilitary boots, boots that
were being worn on some fairly large feet. Allowing
his eyes to follow the footgear upwards to the bodies
that were attached, he saw two of the biggest men this
side of World Championship Wrestling. Imposing was an
understatement and although neither held a weapon, he
felt certain that was because they didn’t need
one to carry out their assigned duty.
Completing the observation, his eyes
stopped on theirs and in that instant a flood of memories
washed over him. Black eyes, coal black demon eyes stared
blankly at him. Black eyes that he had seen far too
many times before; the firefighter in Missouri, in the
young man he had killed outside the Sunrise Apartments,
in Meg, and in his dad.
“Black
eyes that you have too!”
Possession; the swirl of black fog
that was spewed out of Zack’s mouth only to envelop
him in a chest crushing embrace. Pain as he felt himself
being torn apart from the inside out as the invader
sought to subdue him. Pure malevolence; as Haris stared
down at him, encouraging him to ‘give in’,
‘let go’, ‘have peace’.
Peace, what a concept that was! Had
he ever known peace in his entire life?
“No,
you haven’t! But you can! Give in, let go, have
peace!”
And there had been Sam! His memory
replaying sad, pleading eyes, not black like his, begging
him, pulling him, hugging him close as he thrashed under
the pain. Sammy’s voice, cracking with fear, yet
a moment of defiance as he spat words at the yellow-eyed
figure towering above them both.
“Ignore
him. You’re here because of him. The pain should
have been his pain, not yours. It’s all his fault!
He doesn’t care about you! Give in, let go, have
peace!”
He
struggled to a seated position, thankful that there
was a wall behind him to support the body that felt
as though it had been torn apart and reassembled without
any heed to the instructions. There was still pain,
beckoning him to return to blissful darkness. Pain was
a friend, had been a common companion over the past
two decades, perhaps the one constant thing he could
always count on never letting him down, never leaving
him.
“Mom
left! Dad left! Even Sammy left! They all leave you.
But you don’t have to be alone anymore! Give in,
let go, have peace!”
The words reverberated inside his skull,
bouncing around his consciousness like the silver ball
of a pinball machine being repeatedly struck by the
flippers.
“Give
in, let go, have peace!" Such a simple request
to follow, close your eyes, submit to the darkness,
both inside and out.
“NO!”
another voice, a stronger voice shouted back! "Resist,
hold on, stay strong!" Deep within him this
new voice sounded, pouring out of the very marrow of
his bones. Stronger than the voice that was picking
at the scabs in his wounded psyche, this voice sounded
familiar.
“Get
up, you’re a Winchester! You’ve never given
up on anything in your life! Resist, hold on, stay strong!”
Spurred by optimism, he pushed off
from the wall. A dozen different muscle groups shouted
out in protest and vertigo threatened to put him right
back on his gluts. Biting his bottom lip till blood
flood and tainted his tongue with copper, he found as
he always did, the internal strength to push himself
past physical discomfort.
The
two standing walls of muscle never blinked as he rose
to his feet. Never moved, apparently content in the
fact that he posed no threat. He walked right up to
the nearest of the twin gorillas, standing a full head
shorter than either of them. ‘Sammy-size’
except his brother would never have as much muscle mass
as these two, and if he had any say, never the black
stained eyes!
Sam!
“Resist! Hold on! Stay Strong!”
The room’s one and only door
was directly behind gorilla number one, but it might
as well have been a continent away. He thought about
trying his luck, he’d done it before hadn’t
he? Spit in the face of the devil, screw the odds, fight
like there’s no tomorrow, never let them see any
fear!
“But
you do have fear, don’t you? You were afraid of
your father and being a disappointment in his eyes.
You’re afraid of your brother and what he might
become. You’re afraid of being alone! Give in,
let go, have peace!”
It wasn’t fear that moved him away from the wall
of intimidating flesh but a much more basic need. Thirst!
It drew him away from his strange introspection and
dialogue. It silenced the voices vying for his attention.
A small sink mounted on the wall to his left teased
with the promise of water.
Moving
to the rust stained bowl, he twisted on the knob but
only a trickle fell from the spout. Holding his cupped
hand beneath the meager flow, he greedily scooped it
into his mouth, spitting out the first bit along with
the leftover taste of blood. He filled another handful
and sipped this one eagerly. Two more handfuls and the
tap gave out, solitary drips mocking his remaining thirst.
He straightened and caught sight of
a face in the cracked mirror that hung above the sink.
A bruised and battered visage stared back at him. Hazel
eyes that looked dull and exhausted and dark circles
underneath telling him that his body had not been treated
kindly. Blood coated the upper right side of a torn
green shirt, a hole peeking out of the material and
suggesting a wound that should likely be more painful
than it currently was.
As he touched his shoulder, fingers
guided by the reflection in the mirror, a flash of black
startled him away from the physical inspection. Black
eyes, flashing over the weary hazel, stared back out
at him from the glass. Black eyes of possession. Black
eyes of a demon, buried deep within him.
“Give
in, let go, have peace!” It beckoned him,
sweet temptation like a lover calling him to a soft,
warm bed.
A thousand thoughts rummaged through
his mind. I was possessed! I am possessed! How can I
still see out of these eyes? NO, NO and NO! He shook
his head back and forth, denying the vision, denying
the obvious, denying the truth of what stared back at
him. His eyes were hazel, sometimes green, but never
black. Not now, not ever! Push it down, make them hazel,
don’t give in!
Timidly, reluctantly, he lifted his
face and once more allowed the lids to barely peel apart.
The black was gone once more and the exhausted green
shown through. A smile burst inside him and he felt
optimistic, if only mildly.
“I’m
proud of you son! Resist! Hold on! Stay Strong!”
his father’s voice encouraging him as he so rarely
did in life.
He moved away from the mirror, afraid
to tempt fate any further, afraid that the hazel eyes
were more an illusion than the black ones. It took just
a few seconds to really canvas the entire room/cell.
No furniture, no belongings, just trash and the two
human mountains of meat. He began to pace, since there
was nothing better to do, and besides, he always paced
when his mind was working on something. He was on his
third pass of the room when the squeak of rusted hinges
drew his attention.
Yellow-eyes
glaring, sinister smile spread across an otherwise human
face, Haris unfolded his hands and spread his arms open
wide like a parent inviting a child into a hug.
“Welcome
home, Dean!”
* * * *
Outside
Haris’s Complex
By the Impala
Sam didn’t know how long he’d watched the
complex burn. He didn’t even notice the other
hunters once again gathering around as John and Bobby
began counting heads and giving out instructions.
It was only the yelp of a once long-time
friend that brought him back from his stupor.
“Kill me…it doesn’t
matter. Just make it quick…”
“Quick, Zack? Hell, you don’t
deserve quick, not on a good day even.” Bobby
shot the man who had once been his ally a look of contempt,
but didn’t join the other hunters as they surrounded
Murzak.
The men were mad. They wanted retribution
for their dead friends and they didn’t care what
unspeakable or cruel acts they inflicted on Murzak to
get it. Some spoke of a lynching, others had ideas for
much more graphic and bloody torture. These were hunters,
they’d seen enough in their hidden, death-filled
lives not to care if a little more blood spilled, not
even if it was from a man who had once been one of their
own.
John
watched, but didn’t try to intervene – deep
down part of him felt the same way. Murzak had tricked
them all, maybe cost Dean his life. Why should he be
spared now? I can’t let them kill him.
John cringed, his emotions torn in
two different directions. Murzak deserved a beating
maybe, but not death. Taking his life would make them
worse than the things they hunted. It would make them
murderers.
Two
wrongs, don’t make a right…
The elder Winchester squirmed at his
own recollection, rubbing at the ache in his neck that
seemed to throb with each new dire thought. Haris had
used those exact words to Dean while he’d been
in John’s body back at the cabin. He’d had
to watch, to suffer the demon’s actions as it
used him as a puppet. He’d had to see his son
torn to pieces by unseen hands – hands being directed
by the creature within him. Was that what Dean was feeling
now if he was alive? Was that the fate Zack had given
his son? Having to watch as his body did horrific things
to other humans?
“Dad,
we can’t let them hurt him.” Sam interrupted
any further reflection as he walked to his father’s
side, his own face still sullied with blood and despair.
“Zack was possessed, Dad! He couldn’t help
luring Dean and me here as bait. The demon inside him
is the same one that took Dean…”
“You’d stand up for him,
even after what happened to your brother?” John
stuck his hands in his pockets and looked at the man
before him. The man who had once been the tiny baby
Dean had plucked from the flames of their home. He’d
never say it, but he was proud of Sam – proud
of the sensitive young man he’d become. Just as
proud as he was of Dean. He simply found it a lot harder
to say.
Sam nodded, never realizing the pride
his actions stirred in his father. “We need him.
He might know where Dean is, or at least something that
might help us find Haris.”
“I think I already know where
Dean is, and you’re not going to like it…”
Bobby fidgeted as he crossed over the enclosure, fumbling
with the peak of his trademark soiled baseball cap before
continuing. “Some of the men think they saw one
of Haris’s boys dragging Dean out of that chamber.
Looks like he wasn’t in the building at least.”
“And if he was being dragged
he wasn’t going willingly, demon on board or not.”
Sam looked across to where Zack was now pinned by the
other hunters, every one of them eager to tear him a
new ass or worse. “Murzak is the only one who
can give us a lead…”
“If he’s willing,”
Bobby pointed out, stowing his sawn-off shotgun in the
rear of his weather-beaten pick-up. “I’ve
known the man a long time, and I’m telling you
there’s something off about this whole deal with
Haris.”
Sam’s gaze settled on his father.
He’d already told John Zack had been possessed,
but was there more? Right now, if there was, it didn’t
matter. Zack Murzak was their only link to Haris –
their only link to Dean’s whereabouts.
“I
think you’re right,” The young hunter agreed.
“But we’re not going to find out what’s
going on with the rest of the men about to eviscerate
him. We need to get him alone. I need to get
him alone…”
John Winchester’s eyes narrowed
and several creases appeared in his brow in surprise.
He was usually the aggressive one. Hell, Dean had inherited
his short temper, but Sam? Sam was all Mary. He was
the placid one. He was the thinker of the family.
The grizzled ex-marine took down a
long breath and licked his parched lips. Eventually,
he nodded to the crowd surrounding Murzak. “I’ll
handle the other hunters. While Bobby and I keep them
busy you take Zack to the cabin I’ve been using.
Take the second dirt track off the highway and follow
it to a fork in the road. Go left and it’s about
half a mile further down. I’ll meet you there
later…”
John paused, forcing back words that
were on the tip of his tongue. He didn’t want
Sam hurting Murzak even though the traitor deserved
it. If there was any interrogating to be done, then
he would be the one to shoulder it. Sam didn’t
need anything else on his conscience.
Sam
noted the pause, realizing his father’s thoughts.
He was acting out of character. Acting like a man
possessed…
He wanted to laugh at the idea, but
somehow it just wasn’t fitting, not now, not ever
to a Winchester. “I’ll wait for you,”
he finally settled, waiting for his father to address
the throng massing around the Impala.
John
took his son’s word without further questioning
and turned back to the group of hunters, hands still
tucked into his pockets. The men were still angry, but
at his throaty tones they stopped their ramblings and
focused on his impromptu speech.
“Men, I wish I could say today
had been a victory, but I can’t. We’ve lost
good friends, some of us have lost family members…”
As John spoke, Sam let the words play
in his mind, but he didn’t truly listen.
Lost family members…Dean…
Regrouping was important. But for Sam,
stealing Zack Murzak away to their hideaway was something
more – it was vital.
Sliding between a huge ape-sized hunter
and the Chevy without being noticed, he grabbed Zack’s
wrist so hard it made the elder man gasp.
Sam instantly put a finger to his mouth
and then made a slicing motion across his throat, indicating
more noise could mean death. The hunters wanted blood,
and only the conspirator’s would do. “Get
in the car…”
Sam carefully pulled at the handle,
trying to open the Chevy’s heavy door without
instigating the usual ear-splitting creak that signaled
the car’s true age. It was worse than the sound
of Dracula’s coffin lid being opened.
The move was half successful and only
a small groan erupted from the hinges.
Murzak gulped down air and then squeezed
his body through the small gap Sam had made until he
was perched on the bench seat. He didn’t move,
didn’t try to escape or rebel.
“Haris is on the run, he’s
not as certain as he once was. We can regroup, build
a stronger army to fight him…”
Sam could hear his father’s voice
as he bounced down behind the wheel of his brother’s
baby. This was Dean’s car, and he should be here
driving it. It felt wrong, alien even as he turned the
ignition key and cranked the tiger of an engine to life.
When the stereo suddenly blared to
life as if controlled by some ethereal force it simply
added to the torment. Rock music blaring, rock music
that only Dean could gain pleasure from. Rock music
that said it all as Sam pulled away, tires spinning
wildly in the loose earth as he applied far too much
gas in his haste to escape his torment.
You're caught in a crossfire
Of a greater love than man has ever known
Caught in a crossfire
And you've got to choose which way you're gonna go
Caught in a crossfire
In a world of darkness turn to the light…
Maybe
the Kansas
lyrics said it all, because what Sam chose to do
next could ultimately decide his brother’s earthly
fate. Perhaps his own fate too.
*
* * *
Inside Impala
Sometime Later…
Zack Murzak kept his eyes firmly fixed on the countryside
outside the car, not daring once to look at the young
man at his side. The Winchesters had been his allies
and he had fed them to the wolves as surely as he drew
breath.
He knew what it was like to feel the
sting of the demon within. Knew the torture of being
possessed and having no control over his actions, and
yet still, he had done it willingly. Perhaps that was
the thing that hurt most.
Willingly. No, what he had done hadn’t
been voluntary. It had been necessary.
Murzak flinched as Sam reached across
the interior of the Chevy and he expected the backlash
of the young hunter’s hand. He deserved it, after
all.
Instead, Sam simply switched off the
hard rock that had been assaulting their ears since
leaving the complex. As he flicked the button of the
ancient player, his gaze shifted to meet Zack’s.
There was anger in those soulful eyes,
anger and a kind of fear Murzak knew all too well. Having
family was a curse to a hunter sometimes. It left openings
for the enemy. Sam was learning that the hard way now.
“Where
has Haris taken my brother? And why? Why the hell would
he suddenly lose interest in me in favor of Dean?”
Sam’s voice was low; his tone hinting that although
he appeared in control, he was balancing on a fine line
that he might tumble from any second.
“He hasn’t lost interest
in you, Sam. Of that I’m sure. Let’s just
say he’s found additional interests…”
Murzak’s grizzled yet handsome features twisted
in shame. “I wish I could tell you more, but I
don’t know anything…”
“Don’t
know anything? You had one of Haris’s kids inside
you for God knows how long and didn’t get any
scrap of his plans?” Sam slammed a fist down onto
the dash so hard he grazed the skin from his knuckles
and red welts began to appear across his hand. Better
his hand though, than Murzak’s face. He’s
lying. Meg knew what the demon had been up to while
she was possessed. She remembered Sunrise…
Murzak re-fixed his gaze on the passing
trees; they were easier to look at than the pained young
man at his side. Easier to focus on as he remained silent.
“You bastard!” Sam’s
boot hit the brake pedal so hard Murzak was thrown forward
with the sudden loss of momentum. He reached out, catching
himself on the dash just in time to save his face from
slamming into the windshield.
Sam ignored the fact that his prisoner
was shaking. He ignored the fact that he’d blocked
off the road with the Chevy’s mass. All he could
think about was the hurt, the blame. Zack had instigated
the trap. Zack was the one who deserved to feel his
rage. He needed an outlet, even though he knew neither
he nor Dean should have fallen for the ruse Murzak had
set off in the first place.
Sam grabbed Murzak’s collar with
his grazed hand, the color draining from it as he squeezed
hard, pressing the elder man up against the side window.
“Where’s Dean? Where the hell has that Sonofabitch
taken my brother!”
Zack’s throat bobbed as he tried
to swallow, tried to breath. He couldn’t answer
even if he wanted too, Sam was pressing so hard against
his neck. He coughed, meekly struggling against the
attack until Sam realized what he was doing.
The young hunter let go and recoiled.
He was losing perspective. Losing control. Blinking,
he took a long breath to calm his jangling nerves. “Just
tell me where to look…”
Murzak rubbed at his neck, realizing
Sam’s assault would probably leave bruises –
still, that was far less than the injuries he’d
have received from the angry mob of hunters they’d
left behind. “Haris will kill me if I tell you
anything. Dean is probably dead by now. Haris doesn’t
take kindly to his kind of retorts, you know that…”
He watched Sam, eyes wary of a further attack. “Why
should I risk the demon’s anger for a man that’s
already dead?”
The sentence was like a harsh slap
to the face, and Sam’s earlier anger returned,
striking from the darker corners of his psyche like
some venomous creature. He couldn’t stop the anger;
he couldn’t stop the pain of reliving the moment
Dean had been taken over by the black miasma over and
over again in his head.
“You
need to forget about Haris and worry about what Dad
and I are going to do to you if you don’t start
talking.” Sam tried to hold back, tried to push
the feelings away, but for Dean, he couldn’t.
“We’re getting my brother back, and I don’t
give a damn if you live or not in the process…”
Murzak’s expression clouded with
fear, his eyes widening until they looked like they
would pop from his skull. From John or Dean he had expected
this kind of behavior, but Sam?
If he hadn’t known better, he
would have thought the younger Winchester had been possessed
too. But then, according to Haris’s acumen, the
gifted children could easily be turned into the dark
creations he envisaged for his human legion. Maybe Sam
had already been pushed into the first steps down that
road and didn’t even know it.
How much loss, destruction, and torment
could one soul take before breaking and accepting a
new fate, a new destiny?
Zack knew that point of no return,
he’d been there. Perhaps that was what scared
him most now. He had done what was necessary, set traps,
watched the innocent die – some friends even,
and all for one reason.
In Sam’s mind, he had a reason;
an incentive to tread that dark path now, and that reason
was Dean.
Murzak’s muscles relaxed and
he accepted the inevitable. In that moment, he was certain
that Sam would do anything, kill even for his brother.
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