Bless the Broken Road

By TheQuietHufflepuff

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Everything Zach knew changed when he was just a toddler. Life became a lot scarier, and a lot harder. Now he... More

Aesthetics
Playlist
Season One
Never Normal Again
01. Pilot
02. Wendigo
03. Dead in the Water
04. Phantom Traveler
05. Bloody Mary
06. Skin
07. Home
08. Asylum
09. Scarecrow
10. Faith
11. Nightmare
12. Shadow
13. Hell House
14. Something Wicked
15. Provenance
16. Dead Man's Blood
17. Salvation
18. Devil's Trap
Season Two
19. In My Time of Dying
20. Everybody Loves a Clown
21. Bloodlust
22. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
23. Simon Said
24. No Exit
25. The Usual Suspects
26. Crossroad Blues
27. Croatoan
28. Hunted
29. Nightshifter
30. Houses of the Holy
31. Born Under a Bad Sign
32. Tall Tales
33. Roadkill
34. Hollywood Babylon
35. Folsom Prison Blues
36. What Is and What Should Never Be
37. All Hell Breaks Loose (Part One)
38. All Hell Breaks Loose (Part Two)
Season Three
39. The Magnificent Seven
40. The Kids Are Alright
41. Bad Day at Black Rock
42. Sin City
43. Bedtime Stories
44. Red Sky at Morning
45. Fresh Blood
46. A Very Supernatural Christmas
47. Malleus Malleficarum
48. Dream a Little Dream of Me
49. Mystery Spot
50. Jus in Bello
51. Ghostfacers
52. Long Distance Call
53. Time Is on My Side
54. No Rest For the Wicked
Season Four
55. Lazarus Rising
56. Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
57. In the Beginning
58. Metamorphosis
59. Monster Movie
60. Yellow Fever
61. It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
62. Wishful Thinking
63. I Know What You Did Last Summer
64. Heaven and Hell
66. Criss Angel Is a Douchebag
67. After School Special
68. Sex & Violence
69. Death Takes a Holiday
70. On the Head of a Pin
71. It's a Terrible Life
72. The Monster at the End of This Book
73. Jump the Shark
74. The Rapture
75. When the Levee Breaks
76. Lucifer Rising
Season Five
77. Sympathy for the Devil
78. Good God, Y'all!
79. Free to Be You and Me
80. The End
81. Fallen Idols
82. I Believe the Children Are Our Future
83. The Curious Case of Zach Winchester
84. Changing Channels
85. The Real Ghostbusters
86. Abandon All Hope...
87. Sam, Interrupted
88. Swap Meat
89. The Song Remains the Same
90. My Bloody Valentine
91. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
92. Dark Side of the Moon
93. 99 Problems
94. Point of No Return
95. Hammer of the Gods
96. The Devil You Know
97. Two Minutes to Midnight
98. Swan Song
Book Two

65. Family Remains

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By TheQuietHufflepuff

INT. CAR - NIGHT

Sam woke from sleeping in the backseat of the car. Dean and Zach were studying some papers.

"What are you two doing?" Sam asked.

"What's it look like we're doing?" Dean shot back.

"Like you two are looking for a job."

"Yahtzee," Dean and Zach replied, sharing a look.

Sam sat up. "We just finished a job like two hours ago. Zach looks exhausted."

Zach nodded. "Yeah, this dick woke me up to help."

Dean glared at him before saying, "Adrenaline's still pumping, I guess. So, what do you two think... Cedar Rapids, Tulsa, or Chi-Town?"

Sam looked between them before saying, "I am all for working. I really am. And I think Zach might be, too. But you got us chasing cases nonstop for like a month now. We need sleep."

"Yeah, we can sleep when we're dead," Dean said.

"You're exhausted, Dean."

"I'm good."

Zach looked at him and shook his head. "No, you really aren't. You're running on fumes, and you can't run forever."

Dean looked between them. "And what am I running from?"

"From what you told us," Sam replied. "Or are we pretending that never happened?"

"Stratton, Nebraska. Farm town. A man gets hacked to death in a locked room inside a locked house. No signs of forced entry."

Zach yawned and said, "Sounds like a ghost."

"Yes, it does."

Sam sighed and flopped back down. Zach sighed and closed his eyes.

EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - DAY

As the Impala drove into the house road, there was a SOLD sign hidden in the grass.

INT. FARM - DAY

INT. HOUSE - DAY

"Boy, three bedrooms, two baths, and one homicide," Dean said. "This place is gonna sell like hotcakes."

They entered the kitchen and opened cabinets. Dean spotted something on an empty piece of wall and said, "Hey, check this out." He knocked on the wall to find it hollow. "Huh."

"It's probably a dumbwaiter," Sam guessed. "All these old houses had them."

"Know-it-all."

"What?"

"You said..."

"What?"

"Never mind."

They entered a bedroom.

After looking around, Dean said, "Well, no bloodstains, fresh coat of paint; it's a bunch of bupkis."

"Needle's all over the place," Sam noted.

"Yeah - power lines."

"Great," Sam and Zach muttered.

They looked in the closet and saw a doll head on the floor.

"Uh..." Sam began.

"Well, that's super disturbing," Dean commented.

"Think it got left behind?"

"By who? Unless Bill Gibson likes to play with doll heads."

A car and moving truck approached.

"Uh-oh," Sam and Zach said.

Dean glanced between them. "I thought you two said this place was still for sale."

"Apparently it's not," Sam replied.

EXT. FARM - DAY

A dog and a boy, Danny, exited the car.

"Come on, Buster!" Danny called. "Good dog!"

They ran off. A man, Brian, a woman, Susan, and a girl, Kate, had also gotten out.

"What do you think?" Susan asked. "It's nice, right?"

"Diid anyone bother to check if we get a signal out here?" Kate questioned.

"Actually, I did, Kate," Brian replied. "But we decided to move anyway, just to ruin your life. Come on. Let's unpack."

Another man, Ted, had gotten out of the truck.

Kate turned to Ted. "Uncle Ted, please back me up here."

"Kate's right, Bri," Ted said. "You're ruining her life."

"See?"

"Thanks for the help, Uncle Ted," Brian stated.

"Calling it like I see it, buddy," Ted told him.

"Hey," Susan called.

"What?" Brian asked.

"Be nice."

"I am nice. What do you think? We do okay?"

"I don't know."

"Who are they?" Kate wondered, seeing Dean, Sam and Zach coming down the stairs from the front door.

"Can I help you?" Brian questioned.

"Hi," Sam greeted. "Are you the new owner?"

"Yeah. You guys are...?"

"This and Mr. and Mr. Stanwyk," Dean replied. "I'm Mr. Babar. County code enforcement."

"We had the building inspected last week. Is there a problem?"

"Asbestos in the walls, a gas leak - yeah, I'd say we got a problem," Sam said.

"Asbestos?" Susan repeated. "Meaning what?"

Zach looked at her. "Meaning until this house is up to code, it's uninhabitable."

"Whoa whoa whoa," Brian protested. "You're saying we can't stay here?"

"It's a health hazard," Dean informed. "You don't want to."

"Hold up. We just drove four hundred miles," Ted said.

"There's a motel just down the road. Till this gets cleaned up, I suggest you stay there."

"All right, and what if we don't?" Brian asked.

"Well, you get a fine or you go to jail. Pick your poison."

"One night. One night, and I'll take care of everything, ASAP, I promise."

"Yeah, you do that."

"Another motel?" Kate complained. "Awesome, Dad. I hope this one has hooker sheets, like the last one."

"Danny!" Susan called.

"Come on, Danny!" Brian said.

EXT. CURRY'S HOME - DAY

"What diid the room look like when you found it, Mrs. Curry?" Sam questioned.

"I already told the local boys, there was blood everywhere," Mrs. Curry replied.

"And Mr. Gibson - where was he?" Dean wondered.

"Everywhere."

"How long have you been cleaning Mr. Gibson's house?" Zach inquired.

"About five years."

"So you knew him pretty well," Dean guessed.

"Well, not really well. He was real private. Not the easiest man. Not that I blame him."

"What do you mean?" Sam asked.

"His wife dies in childbirth. Daughter hangs herself in the attic twenty years later. I'd be bitter, too. I think I got some pictures." She went to get them and came back. "Here."

"Thanks," Dean said. "Can we keep these?"

"Suit yourself."

"Now, why'd the daughter kill herself?" Sam questioned.

"I don't know. That was before my time."

"Did you ever notice anything odd in the house when you were cleaning it?" Zach asked.

"Like what?"

"Things such as the lights going on and off, things not being where you left them."

"No. Well, maybe there was one thing."

"What's that?" Sam inquired.

"Well, sometimes, I thought I heard like a... rustling in the walls."

"Like a rat?" Dean guessed.

"Yeah."

"Must have been some big sons of guns out there, huh?"

"Wouldn't know. Never saw any."

"Do you happen to know where Mrs. Gibson and her daughter were buried?" Sam asked.

"They were both cremated."

Sam, Dean and Zach headed back to the car.

"All right," Sam said. "So it probably wasn't the mom or the daughter. Whose ghost was it?"

"I don't know," Dean replied. "But I say we give that place a real once-over and see."

Zach nodded. "Yeah. At this point, that's probably our best bet."

EXT. FARM - DAY

"Code enforcement, my ass. There's no asbestos," Ted informed.

"You sure?" Brian asked.

"Hell, yes. I've built enough homes to know that. No gas leak, either."

"Who were those guys?"

"Not from the county - I can tell you that."

They began unpacking the vehicles. Kate saw someone at a window.

"Hey!" Susan called, startling her daughter. The window was empty. "You okay?"

"Yeah," Kate replied. "I just thought I saw something, that's all."

"It-it's gonna be great here, Kate. It really is."

"Yeah, Mom. I'm sure. Everything's gonna change."

INT. DANNY'S ROOM - NIGHT

"Danny! Are you unpacking?" Susan asked.

Danny, who was playing a handheld video game, replied, "Uh, yeah. I'm almost finished." He heard something and put down the game to investigate. "Hello? It's okay. I'm Danny. Hi!"

INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT

""Zucchini will grow, but the soil is too acidic for beets." Do you understand any of this?" Susan asked.

"Can you smell that?" Brian questioned, opening a cabinet door and flinching. "That. It smells like a raccoon died up there or something."

"That's pleasant. Thank you. Can I continue having a conversation with myself?"

"Well, I'm listening. A... vegetable... garden."

"What are we doing, Bri?"

"What do you mean?"

"Us. On a farm. Talking about zucchini."

"It's gonna be different. I promise you. We're gonna be happy."

"And if we're not?"

"We will be. We have to be."

"I can't put the kids through another year like the last."

EXT. FARM - NIGHT

The car pulled up. Sam, Dean and Zach saw the lights on inside the house.

"Crap," Dean muttered. "So, what now?"

"We could tell them the truth," Sam said.

"Really?"

"No, not really."

Zach nodded. "Yeah, we don't want to freak them out."

INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT

"Hey, guys!" Ted called. "You're gonna want to come see this!"

Brian and Susan came to look: the word GO was drawn on the wall in red.

"What the..." Susan began.

Brian scratched at the word. "Crayon. Danny!"

"Yeah?" Danny asked.

"Get your butt down here!"

"Tell you what - if my kid did this-" Ted was cut off.

"He's not your kid, Ted," Susan retorted. "Just butt out." Ted left. "Hey. Go easy on him. The teacher said he might act out."

"Hey, buddy," Brian greeted. "Something you want to tell me and your mom?"

"I didn't do that," Danny said.

"Okay. Look, just tell me the truth, and all you got to do is clean it up, okay? No punishment."

"But I didn't. The girl in the walls did it."

"The girl in the walls?" Susan repeated.

"She wants you to go and me to stay."

"All right, one last time - the truth, buddy," Brian told his son.

"That is the truth. I can stay, but she hates grownups. And if you don't leave, she's gonna get really, really mad!"

"All right, go to your room."

"Mom! If Andy were here, he'd believe me!"

"Upstairs! Now!"

INT. KATE'S ROOM - NIGHT

Kate was lying in bed, one hand over the side. "It's okay, Buster. It's okay. I hate it here, too."

There was the sound of licking.

"Ugh," Kate groaned. "Ew, Buster! Gross! What's the matter with you?"

The door opened; it was Buster.

"Oh, my God," Kate said. "Oh, God."

Kate turned to look. The closet door slammed and Kate screamed.

INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT

"Ew! Ew!" Kate cried.

"It's okay," Susan reassured.

"What's going on?" Danny asked.

"Katie, baby, baby," Brian sad. "Calm down and tell us what happened."

"I just got molested by Casper the pervy ghost!" Kate yelled. "That's what happened!"

"Ghost?"

"Yes, dad! A ghost!"

"It's the girl in the walls!" Danny realized.

"Who?!"

"Both of you, knock it off," Brian told them.

Somebody knocked on the front door. Ted opened the door and Dean, Sam and Zach entered.

"We heard screams," Dean informed. "What's going on?"

Brian looked at the men. "Oh, you three! Did you touch my daughter?!"

"What? No."

"Who are you guys?"

"Relax, please," Sam said. "You have a ghost."

"A ghost."

"I told you!" Kate cried.

"It's the girl!" Danny added.

Brian glanced at his kids. "Both of you, relax." He turned to the hunters. "What are you guys playing?"

"Your family's in danger," Zach explained. "You need to get out of the house now."

The lights went out in the house.

"What the hell?" Ted wondered.

"Nobody move!" Dean and Zach yelled.

"Buster!" Danny called.

Buster was howling. Brian got out of the house followed by Ted, Sam, Dean and Zach.

EXT. FARM - NIGHT

Brian called out for the dog. "Buster! Buster? Buster! Buster!"

"What the hell?" Ted asked again.

The words TOO LATE were painted in red. The others came out onto the porch.

"Buster!" Danny yelled.

"Go back inside," Brian instructed. "Go!"

"We are not the bad guys, but you're in danger," Dean warned.

"First thing's first," Sam said. "Yogurt to get your family out of here."

"Head to the motel I was talking about. You'll be safe there."

"What are you three gonna do?" Brian asked.

"Oh, no!" Dean cried. "Oh, come on! Oh, come on!" The tires on the vehicles were all slashed.

Zach frowned. "Guys, the guns are gone. So's the... Basically, everything is gone."

"Truck's no good," Ted informed.

"Both tires slashed," Brian added.

"What kind of ghost messes with a man's wheels?!" Dean yelled.

"What's going on?" Kate wondered. "What's going on?" She saw the girl and screamed. "She's there! She's there!"

"Where?!" Susan questioned.

"She was right there in the woods!"

"What's a ghost doing outside?" Dean asked.

Sam glanced at him. "You want to stay and find out?"

"Everybody inside," Zach instructed.

"Are you crazy?" Ted shot back. "We need to get the hell out of here!"

"In what?! We're being hunted by a ghost! Everyone inside now! Move!"

INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT

"Whatever's outside, it can't get in this circle," Dean said. "As long as the salt line is unbroken, this is the safest place to be."

"Safe from ghosts?" Brian asked.

"Yes, as a matter of fact."

"Okay. I'm not listening to this anymore. Come on. I got to get my family out of here. Let's go."

Zach's eyes flashed, showing his irritation. "No one is going anywhere until we kill this thing."

"Sir, please. This is what we do," Sam explained. "Just... trust us."

"You hunt ghosts?" Danny asked.

"That's right," Dean replied.

"Like Scooby-Doo?"

"Better."

"You saw her outside, right?" Sam questioned. "Okay. Does she look like either one of the girls?"

"Her," Kate said. "She was paler and a lot dirtier, but that was her."

"That's the girl in the walls," Danny realized.

"So it's the daughter?" Sam asked.

"That girl in the picture - She - She's dead?" Susan asked.

"She killed herself inside this house."

Dean frowned. "So, what. The maid got her story wrong? Rebecca wasn't cremated?"

"Unless her spirit's just attached to something inside the house."

"She hung herself in the attic, right?"

"You two want to babysit? I'll check it out."

Ted glanced between them. "Look - I don't care who hung themselves where. Maybe something is going on here, but-"

"It's a spirit, man," Dean told him.

"No, it's just some backwoods hillbilly bitch, and I'm not about to sit around here waiting for her to go all Deliverance on my ass."

"Well, nobody's leaving the house."

"Stop me."

Zach narrowed his eyes. "Listen, man. I've got a gun. You don't get your ass back in the circle, you're gonna have yourself a third hole."

Sam glanced at him. "Zach, you don't have a gun."

"And? Dean and I aren't letting that bastard or anyone else die tonight."

"You two cool?"

"Go," Dean and Zach told him.

Sam left the room.

"Hey, Fonzie, Richie," Ted called. "Question for you two. This indestructible force field made out of salt... Have to be kosher stuff, or what?"

"Knock it off, Ted," Susan said as there was a sound. "Sh..."

"What was that?" Kate asked.

They looked around. The girl opened a door and entered.

"Mom," Kate called.

Dean glanced at the family. "All right, everybody stay calm. She's a ghost. She can't come in the circle."

The girl continued to approach. She stopped at the edge of the salt, revealed she was holding a knife, and stepped over the line.

Kate frowned. "I thought you said ghosts couldn't cross the circle."

"They can't," Zach replied. "She's not a ghost."

"Shoot her! Shoot her!" Ted cried.

"Yeah, about that..." Dean began. "Go, go, go! Move!" Dean and Zach fought her while the girl screamed and the others ran.

"Hey!" Sam yelled, shining a light in her face. It hurt her eyes and she ran.

EXT. FARM - NIGHT

"Hey. You okay?" Brian asked.

"Where is everybody?" Dean wondered.

"Hiding."

"All right, go get them. Go. Go get them." He turned to Sam. "So, it's not a ghost."

"So, it's just a girl?" Sam questioned.

"It's not just a girl. It's psycho Nell. I'm telling you, man-humans."

"So who is she, then?"

"We don't know. Maybe it's the daughter, Rebecca. Maybe she didn't hang herself."

"Dude, no. She'd have to be like fifty years old by now."

Zach sighed. "Well, Dean and I don't know. What'd you find in the attic?"

"Some old junk. I found Rebecca's diary. That's about it."

"I wish you'd found a howitzer," Dean commented. "Listen, we got to get this family safe. I mean, it's just a human, so they can make a run for it. We just got to hold her off."

"We're okay," Susan reassured.

"Danny! Ted!" Brian called. "We got to go!"

"I'm good!" Ted said.

"Danny, buddy, we got to go!"

"Told you it was some crazy bitch."

"Yes, you did," Dean and Zach replied.

"Head to town," Sam instructed. "We'll take it from here, okay?"

"Danny, come on, baby! We're leaving!" Susan told her son.

"Danny, we got to go!" Brian said.

"Brian, where - Where is he?"

"Danny!"

EXT. FARM - NIGHT

"Danny!" Susan called.

"Suse, Suse, Suse. We will find Danny, I promise you," Brian reassured.

"No."

"No. Take Kate and go now. Now, while you still have a chance."

"Not without Danny."

"We will find him."

"I am not going anywhere with Mom alone," Kate argued.

"She's right," Dean agreed. "Until we find your son, the safest place for you right now is in the shed."

"I am not going in there either."

Zach turned to Kate. "Yeah, you are. It's the best defense. The windows are boarded up. It's got one door. It's our best shot right now. Trust us."

"Suse. Kate. Go. Go," Brian said.

Sam looked at Brian. "All right, you and me will take outside. You three take the house. Let's go."

INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

Dean, Ted and Zach poked around the room. Ted found a butcher knife. Dean and Zach investigated the walls.

"What are you two doing?" Ted asked.

"She's human," Dean replied. "She had to come from somewhere." He took the knife and shined a flashlight around the walls, then went in. "Come on."

Ted and Zach came up behind Dean. They went further in. Dean and Zach found a hole in the floor and looked through.

"You two aren't going down there," Ted said.

Dean glanced at him. "Well, do you want to? Zach?" He didn't answer and he glanced down, realizing his brother had already started down. "Son of a-"

Ted said nothing. Dean started down after his brother.

"Please nobody grabbed my leg. Please nobody grab my leg," Dean muttered.

He joined Zach and they shined the lights around the room. A rat corpse was inches from their faces. They startled. They saw Buster, torn to shreds.

"Dog," Dean commented. "It's what's for dinner. Danny?"

"Find anything?" Ted asked.

"Yeah, her kitchen," Dean and Zach replied.

"Her what?"

Dean and Zach looked around more; there was artwork on one wall, two stick figures drawn in what seemed to be blood.

Ted turned and came face-to-face with the girl. She stabbed him.

Dean and Zach hurried back. Ted's head came through the hole.

INT. SHED - NIGHT

"Look, why are we standing here?" Brian asked. "Let's go in. Let's check the house."

"We have to wait for those guys and girl to get back, okay?" Sam said.

There was a knocking sound and Dean and Zach's voices sounded. "Sam, it's us."

"Help me out."

They moved what was holding the door shut and opened the shed door. Dean and Zach entered.

"Did you two get Danny?" Susan questioned.

"No," Dean and Zach replied.

"No? Well, where's Ted?"

"He's outside."

"Well, why doesn't he come inside?"

"Because Zach and I had to carry him out. I'm sorry," Dean apologized.

"You're... what does that mean? What does that mean, you're sorry?"

Realization dawned on Brian. "Are you saying that he's dead?"

"No. No, he's not saying that he's dead. You're not saying that, are you?"

"We were in the walls and she attacked," Dean explained.

"Oh, my God."

"And he and I couldn't get to him in time."

"Uncle Ted is dead?" Kate asked.

"We shouldn't have left him alone. I'm very sorry." He and Zach went back outside.

Sam read Rebecca's diary.

"We'll find him, Suse," Brian told his wife. "We will."

"Where else is there to look?" Susan questioned. "Danny's dead, isn't he?"

"No, Suse."

"He is. Why not? She killed my brother. Now she killed my son."

"No, Danny is alive."

"No, no, he isn't."

"Yes, he is. Do you remember what he said about the girl who lived in the walls? She said he could stay."

"No. No. I just don't understand why this happens to us. I mean, we're good people. We're a good family."

"What happened to Andy happened, okay? I cannot change that. But I will find Danny, I promise you. And when I do, we are gonna be fine. You and me, the kids, we're gonna be fine."

"Okay."

Sam, who'd been pretending to read, returned to actually reading.

EXT. FARM - NIGHT

Brian stared up at the house.

"Andy your son?" Dean asked.

"Oldest," Brian answered. "He got himself killed in a car accident last year."

"I'm sorry," Dean and Zach apologized.

"It nearly tore Suse and I apart. Still could, I imagine. That's why we moved here. Fresh air, fresh start. Not even my line. Marriage counselor. 'Course, she might be right. After all, what could possibly go wrong in the country?"

"He and I are getting your son back," Dean said. "If it's the last godforsaken thing we do."

"Why do you two care so much?"

"Because someone has to," Zach replied.

"Dean. Zach," Sam called as he appeared, holding up Rebecca's diary. "We gotta talk."

INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

"What is that?" Dean and Zach asked.

"Rebecca's diary," Sam answered. "I just finished reading it."

"And?"

"That girl back there? Pretty sure she was Rebecca's daughter."

Dean frowned. "Rebecca had a kid?"

"It's all she talks about. Being pregnant, being ashamed of being pregnant."

"Jeez, rent Juno and get over it. Wait, why kill herself after the baby?"

"Maybe because her dad called her a dirty little whore and said he was gonna lock the baby up."

Zach frowned. "Why would he say that?"

Sam said nothing.

Dean and Zach exchanged a look and said in sync, "Oh, gross."

"Yeah," Sam agreed.

"So the daddy was the baby daddy too?" Dean questioned.

"Dude was a monster, Dean."

"Wow, a story ripped from an Austrian headline. Humans, man, dude. So she's been locked up her whole life?"

"You two saw her eyes. Has she ever seen light? She's barely human."

"Okay, so, what, then, she's been caged up like an animal and she busts out and tanks dear old Dad? Slash Grandad?"

"I guess."

"Well, can't say I blame her."

"I'm sure her life was hell, Dean. It doesn't mean she gets a free pass for murder."

"Like you know what hell's lie."

"I didn't..."

"Forget it."

Zach pursed his lips and in an attempt to change the subject asked, "So where do we find her?"

Dean glanced at him. "Kid's gotta eat, right?"

"What?" Sam asked.

"He kept her hidden, locked up, but he had to feed her, didn't he?"

"I guess."

"Dean and I think we know where," Zach said.

INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT

Danny was bound and gagged on the floor. He woke up and struggled. He looked around and tried to scream. He saw the girl come through a hole in the wall. She smiled and held up a live rat. He tried to scream more. She looked at him, confused, and broke the rat's neck before biting in. Danny kept trying to scream.

INT. DUMBWAITER SHAFT

Dean, Sam and Zach busted a hole in the kitchen wall, letting light into the shaft.

"Could've kept her hidden for years," Sam noted. "Kept her fed, nobody would ever know."

Brian flinched away from the open shaft and called, "Danny! Danny!"

Dean shined a light down the shaft. "Watch out, I'm going down."

Zach nodded. "I am too."

"No," Brian protested. "That's my son."

"We know it is, but he and I said that we would get him. We will. Let us." He crawled through the hole and climbed down the shaft.

Dean rolled his eyes, looked up and down the shaft, scooted through the hole, and started climbing down the shaft after Zach.

"Hey, you got curtains?" Sam asked. "We need rope."

Brian went looking while Sam held the light on Dean and Zach.

INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT

Dean and Zach hit the bottom of the shaft and looked around. There was a rosary on the floor with a large wooden cross.

INT. SHED - NIGHT

"It's okay," Susan reassured. "Shh. It's okay."

One of the boarded-up windows burst in. Susan and Kate screamed.

INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT

Dean and Zach found one of their guns, each picked one up, and checked them.

"Bitch is a klepto," Dean muttered.

"No kidding," Zach said, finding another gun, and checked it.

"Come on. Danny. Danny."

They heard Danny trying to scream.

"Danny?" Dean and Zach called.

Dean and Zach found a hole in the brick wall. He shined the light through and they saw Danny, still bound and gagged. They both grabbed a butcher knife and cut Danny's bonds. Danny scrambled through the hole.

"Your dad's upstairs," Dean told him. "Come on. Watch your head, watch your head."

"Hurry, he's coming back," Danny warned.

"He?" Dean and Zach repeated.

"Her brother."

An inarticulate yell sounded. A boy tackled Dean and Zach, the former of whom dropped the light.

INT. SHED - NIGHT

Susan held a rake. They watched the open window nervously. A knife came through the wall right behind them and they screamed.

"Oh my God!" Kate cried.

INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT

Dean, Zach and the boy struggled while Danny watched.

INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT

Sam dropped one end of a rope of knotted curtains down the shaft. Danny appeared at the bottom.

"Danny!" Sam called.

INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT

Dean, Zach and the boy fought. Dean and Zach lost a gun.

INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT

Danny tried himself into the rope. "Okay!"

"Pull," Sam instructed.

"Come on, buddy," Brian said. "Come on, buddy. Don't look back, Danny. Just come on, come."

They hoisted Danny up the shaft.

INT. SHED - NIGHT

Susan and Kate looked around. A box against the wall moved.

"Mom," Kate called.

Susan shoved Kate behind her and tried to hold the wall with the rake under the bottom.

"Mom!" Kate repeated.

INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT

Danny was out of the shaft.

"Come on," Brian said. "You okay? It's okay."

"Get him out of here," Sam told Brian. "You gotta go."

Brian and Danny left. Sam shined a light down the shaft.

"Dean? Zach?" Sam called.

INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT

The boy stabbed at Dean and Zach. Dean held the boy off with the light, grabbed his gun and shot it. The boy fell. Sam came in through the hole.

INT. SHED - NIGHT

The girl broke down the wall. Susan and the rake were caught underneath. The girl held up a knife, ready to stab, but was yanked out by the ankle.

"Mom!" Kate called. "Come on, Mom."

The girl screamed outside. Outside, there was the sound of stabbing, then a pounding on the door. Susan and Kate screamed.

"Suse!" Brian yelled.

Susan and Kate rushed to the door and Susan opened it. Brian was outside, holding a bloody knife.

EXT. FARM - NIGHT

Kate cried. Susan held Danny. Sam, Dean and Zach came out the front door and saw the girl's body.

EXT. FARM - DAY

Dean jacked down the Impala after he'd replaced the tires. Sam pulled Dean and Zach's duffels out of the repacked trunk and threw them in the back of the car. Brian and Susan walked over.

"Thanks for the head start," Dean said.

"Why doesn't it surprise me you guys don't like the police?" Brian replied.

"It's sort of a mutual-appreciation thing, really," Sam answered.

Brian shook Dean's hand, then Zach's . "Well, thank you."

"Thank you," Susan repeated.

"You okay?" Dean and Zach asked.

"No, we're the opposite of okay, but we're together." Brian took her hand. "Thanks."

Dean and Zach nodded.

EXT. OVERPASS - DAY

Sam, Dean and Zach got out of the car. Sam came around to Dean's side with burgers. Dean unwrapped his, looked at it, and wrapped it back up.

"You okay?" Sam questioned.

"You know, I felt for those sons of bitches back there," Dean admitted. "Lifelong torture turns you into something like that."

"You were in Hell, Dean. Look, maybe you did what you did there, but you're not them. They were barely human."

"Yeah, you're right. I wasn't like them. I was worse. They were animals Sam, Zach, defending territory. Me? I did it for sheer pleasure."

"What?" Sam and Zach questioned.

"I enjoyed it, Sam, Zach. They took me off the rack, and I tortured souls, and I liked it. All those years, all that pain. Finally getting to deal some out yourself. I didn't care who they put in front of me. Because that pain I felt, it just slipped away. No matter how many people I save, I can't change that. I can't fill this hole. Not ever."

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