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𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗎𝖾 𝗈𝖿 1𝗑09 - 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲
▬▬▬ THE CAR IS PARKED BY A PAYPHONE, where Sam is looking through a phonebook, "All right, so there are a few psychics and palm readers in town. There's someone named El Divino. There's, uh," He laughs, "there's the Mysterious Mister Fortinsky. Uh, Missouri Moseley,"
Dean interrupts Sam,"Wait, wait. Missouri Moseley?" He asked.
"What?" Sam asks.
"That's a psychic?"
"Uh, yeah. Yeah, I guess so." Sam looks back at the book.
Dean goes into the backseat of the car and pulls out John's journal, "In Dad's journal, here, look at this." He opens to the first page, "First page, first sentence, read that."
Sam reads, "I went to Missouri and I learned the truth."
Dean shrugs, "I always thought he meant the state."
✫☆✫
They arrived at Missouri's house, Missouri is escorting a man out of the house while Dean, Elena, and Sam sit on the couch, waiting.
"All right, there. Don't you worry 'bout a thing. Your wife is crazy about you." The man thanks her and she closes the front door behind him, "Whew. Poor bastard. His woman is cold-bangin' the gardener."
"Why didn't you tell him?" Dean asks.
"People don't come here for the truth. They come for good news." Elena and the brothers stare at her. "Well? Sam and Dean, come on already, I ain't got all day." Missouri leaves the room. The three exchange a confused look and follow her into the next room.
"Well, lemme look at ya." Missouri laughs, "Oh, you boys grew up handsome." She points a finger at Dean, "And you were one goofy-lookin' kid, too." Dean glares at her while Sam smirks.
"Sam." Missouri grabs his hand, "Oh, honey, I'm sorry about your girlfriend." The boys are shocked. "And your father, he's missing?"
Elena steps in front to greet Missouri, "Hi, I'm -"
"Ah yes, Elena." Missouri says.
Elena was now shocked that she knew her name.
"How'd you know all that?" Sam questioned.
"Well, you were just thinking it just now."
Sam raises his eyebrows, surprised.
"Well, where is he? Is he okay?" Dean asked.
"I don't know."
"Don't know? Well, you're supposed to be a psychic, right?" Dean starts to get desperate.
"Boy, you see me sawin' some bony tramp in half? You think I'm a magician? I may be able to read thoughts and sense energies in a room, but I can't just pull facts out of thin air. Sit, please."
Sam smirks at Dean and the three sits down. Missouri snaps at Dean, "Boy, you put your foot on my coffee table, I'ma whack you with a spoon!"
"I didn't do anything." Dean protests.
"But you were thinking about it."
Dean raises his eyebrows. Sam and Elena smiles.
"Okay. So, our dad, when did you first meet him?" Sam asks.
"He came for a reading. A few days after the fire. I just told him what was really out there in the dark. I guess you could say, I drew back the curtains for him." Missouri says.
"What about the fire? Do you know about what killed our mom?" Dean asks.
"A little. Your daddy took me to your house. He was hoping I could sense the echoes, the fingerprints of this thing."
"And could you?"
"I," She shakes her head.
"What was it?" Elena asks.
"I don't know. Oh, but it was evil." Missouri mutters.
✫☆✫
Awhile later, everyone was still at Missouri's house. "So, you think something is back in that house?" Missouri says.
"Definitely." Sam said.
"I don't understand." She says
"What?"
"I haven't been back inside, but I've been keeping an eye on the place, and it's been quiet. No sudden deaths, no freak accidents. Why is it acting up now?"
"I don't know. But Dad going missing and Jessica dying and now this house all happening at once,
it just feels like something's starting." Sam says.
"That's a comforting thought." Dean says.
✫☆✫
At Jenny's house, Jenny returns to the kitchen.
"Oh, baby, either we have rats or Mommy's going crazy." Jenny says, She sees that the playpen is empty, "Ritchie? Ritchie?" She falls out, she then panics and rushes into the other rooms and tries to find him, "Baby, where are you?" She comes back into the kitchen, breathing heavily. She sees milk leaking out from inside the refrigerator. She goes over to it and opens the door.
"Mommy."
"Oh my God!" She takes Ritchie out of the refrigerator and holds him in her arms. A few moments later, there is a knock on the door. She answers it and sees Sam, Dean, Elena, and Missouri, "Sam, Dean, Elena. What are you guys doing here?"
"Hey, Jenny. This is our friend, Missouri." Sam introduces.
"If it's not too much trouble, we were hoping to show her the old house. You know, for old time's sake." Dean says.
"You know, this isn't a good time. I'm kind of busy."
"Listen, Jenny, it's important." Missouri smacks Dean on the back of the head, "Ow!"
"Give the poor girl a break, can't you see she's upset?" Missouri faces Jenny, "Forgive this boy, he means well, he's just not the sharpest tool in the shed, but hear me out." Dean looks stunned.
"About what?"
"About this house." Missouri says.
"What are you talking about?"
"I think you know what I'm talking about. You think there's something in this house, something that wants to hurt your family. Am I mistaken?"
"Who are you?"
"We're people who can help, who can stop this thing. But you're gonna have to trust us, just a little."
Jenny looks unsure.
A few moments later, Missouri, Elena, and the boys are in Sari's bedroom.
"If there's a dark energy around here, this room should be the center of it." Missouri says.
"Why?" Sam asks.
"This used to be your nursery, Sam. This is where it all happened."
Sam, Dean, and Elena glances at the ceiling. While Missouri looks around the room, Dean then pulls out his EMF meter.
"That an EMF?" Missouri asks.
"Yeah."
"Amateur." Dean glares at Missouri, he nudges Sam and shows him that the EMF is beeping frantically.
"I don't know if you boys should be disappointed or relieved, but this ain't the thing that took your mom."
"Wait, are you sure?" Sam asks. She nods.
"How do you know?"
"It isn't the same energy I felt the last time I was here. It's something different."
"What is it?" Elena asked.
"Not it." Missouri opens the closet, "Them. There's more than one spirit in this place."
"What are they doing here?" Dean asks.
"They're here because of what happened to your family. You see, all those years ago, real evil came to you. It walked this house. That kind of evil leaves wounds. And sometimes, wounds get infected." Missouri says.
"I don't understand." Sam said.
"This place is a magnet for paranormal energy. It's attracted a poltergeist. A nasty one. And it won't rest until Jenny and her babies are dead."
"You said there was more than one spirit."
"There is. I just can't quite make out the second one." Missouri said.
"Well, one thing's for damn sure, nobody's dying in this house ever again. So whatever is here, how do we stop it?" Dean asks.
✫☆✫
They all went back to Missouri's house, Dean , Elena Sam, and Missouri are sitting around a table. On the table are different herbs and roots.
"So, what is all this stuff, anyway?" Dean asked.
"Those are herbs and roots Dean." Elena told him.
Dean glared at Elena thinking how'd she know this stuff.
"Angelica Root, Van Van oil, crossroad dirt, a few other odds and ends. I'm glad you know your stuff Elena, did that friend of yours teach you?" Missouri says.
Elena eyes widened, she knew she was talking about Bonnie.
"What friend?" Elena tried to play it cool.
"Oh honey, you haven't told them yet?"
"Told us what?" Sam and Dean asked the same time.
Everyone was silent.
"Nevermind, let's get back to this." Missouri says.
Sam and Dean really wanted to know what Elena is hiding from them.
"Ok so, what are we supposed to do with this?" Dean questions.
"We're gonna put them inside the walls in the north, south, east, west corners on each floor of the house." Missouri said.
"We'll be punching holes in the dry wall. Jenny's gonna love that."
"She'll live." Missouri slyly says.
"And this'll destroy the spirits?" Sam asks.
"It should. It should purify the house completely. We'll each take a floor. But we work fast. Once the spirits realize what we're up to, things are gonna get bad."
✫☆✫
Everyone went to Jenny's house again, Missouri is walking Jenny and her kids outside.
"Look, I'm not sure I'm comfortable leaving you guys here alone." Jenny says.
"Just take your kids to the movies or something and it'll be over by the time you get back." Jenny, still slightly unsure, she leaves with her kids and Missoru goes back inside.
Inside the house, Sam goes into one of the rooms with a hammer. He kneels down by the wall and begins using the end of the hammer to hit against the walls. While he is doing this, a plug on the other side of the room takes itself out of the outlet. A lamp begins to move on its own also. The plug snakes its way towards Sam. Downstairs in the kitchen, Dean and Elena are punching the wall with a small axe. Behind them, a drawer begins to open on its own. In the basement, Missouri is looking around. She brings a bag full of herbs to the wall. She hears a noise and turns around to see a table coming towards her. She screams as it pins her against the wall. Back in the kitchen, Dean and Elena also hear a noise. They quickly ducks just as a knife hurls itself into a cabinet. Dean places a table in front of in front of Elena and him as more knives come through it.
Upstairs, Sam is chopping a hole in the wall. The lamp crashes to the ground he turns around to see what the noise was, and the cord wraps itself around his neck. Sam falls to the ground, trying to get the cord off. Eventually, he lies weak on the floor. Dean and Elena run upstairs and into the room.
"Sam!" Both Elena and Dean yelled.
Dean rushes over to Sam and tries to get the cord off, but it won't budge. Elena then kicks a hole in the wall and places the bag of herbs inside. A blinding white light leaves the room. Once the spirit is gone, Dean looks at Sam, who is completely weak, he unravels the cord from around Sam's neck and pulls him into a fierce hug. Elena stares at them, relieved.
✫☆✫
A few hours later, Dean, Sam, Elena, and Missouri are standing in the extremely messy kitchen.
"You sure this is over?" Sam asks.
"I'm sure. Why? Why do you ask?"
"Never mind." Sam sighs, "It's nothing, I guess."
They hear Jenny enter the house, "Hello? We're home." She comes into the kitchen and looks around, "What happened?" She asks.
"Hi, sorry. Um, we'll pay for all of this." Sam says, Dean and Elena look confused.
"Don't you worry. Dean's gonna clean up this mess."
Dean stands there, not moving.
"Well, what are you waiting for, boy? Get the mop." Dean begins walking away. "And don't cuss at me!" He walks away, muttering under his breath. A little while later, Missouri, Elena, and the boys leave the house. Jenny waves and shuts the door behind them.
✫☆✫
Later that night, Jenny is in bed, reading a magazine. She yawns and puts the magazine on her bedside table. After turning off the light and sliding underneath the covers, she goes to sleep. A few seconds later, she opens her eyes, startled. The bed begins to shake violently. She screams and gets out of bed. Meanwhile, outside, Dean, Sam, and Elena are sitting in the car.
"All right, so, tell me again, what are we still doing here?" Dean asks.
"I don't know. I just, I still have a bad feeling."
"Why? Missouri did her whole Zelda Rubenstein thing, the house should be clean, it should be over." Dean says.
"Yeah, well, probably. But I just wanna make sure, that's all."
"Yeah, well, problem is I could be sleeping in a bed right now."' Dean slides down in his seat and closes his eyes. Sam looks up at Jenny's bedroom window and sees her screaming, just as in his dream.
"Guys. Look!" The three rush out of the car and run towards the house.
"Elena, you grab the kids, Sam and I will get Jenny."
Inside Sari's bedroom, the figure made out of fire is standing by her closet. In the hallway, Dean and Sam rushes to Jenny's bedroom door.
"Jenny!" Sam yells.
"I can't open the door!" Jenny cries out.
"Stand back!" Dean yelled, he kicks down the door and the three of them bring her downstairs.
"No, my kids!"
"Elena got your kids, come on."
While carrying Ritchie her arms, Elena goes to Sari's bedroom, where she is screaming for help. Elena goes to her bed and picks her up in her other arm.
"Don't look. Don't look!" They leave the bedroom.
Outside, Dean, Sam, and Jenny rush out of the house. Inside the house, Elena rushes down the stairs and puts the kids down on the floor, "All right, Sari, take your brother outside as fast as you can, okay?" Sari nods. Suddenly, an invisible force makes Elena fall to the floor. She slides backwards into another room, crashing into a table. Sari screams and runs outside with Ritchie. They rush outside to Sam, Dean, and Jenny. Dean kneels down to Sari's eye level.
"Sari, where's Elena?" Dean asks, both of the brothers starts to get worried.
Sari cries, "She's inside. Something got her." Sam and Dean look at the front door. It slams shut on its own.
✫☆✫
Sam and Dean rush to the impala, Dean opens the trunk and grabs a rifle and an axe, he also gave Sam weapons too. They rush to the front door and begin chopping away at it.
Inside the kitchen, Elena gets flung into a set of cabinets. She stands up and is pinned against the wall by the invisible force. She can't move any part of her body. The fire figure makes its way towards Elena. Dean and Sam continue chopping down parts of the door. Eventually, they makes a hole that is able to step through. They walks through the house, looking for Elena.
"Elena? Elena!" They both call out to her. They find Elena. As they look at the fire figure, both brothers raise their guns.
"No, don't! Don't!" Elena yells.
"What, why?"
"Because I think I know who it may be. I can see her now."
Suddenly, the fire vanishes. Instead, standing in front of them is Mary Winchester, exactly as she was the night she died. Both Sam and Dean expression softens. In shock, they lower their guns slowly.
"Mom?" Dean whispers, Mary smiles and steps closer to him.
"Dean." She says.
Tears form in Dean's eyes. Mary walks away from him and goes to Sam. Dean watches her, never taking his eyes off her.
"Sam." Sam smiles weakly, crying. His mother's smile fades, "I'm sorry."
"For what?" She looks at him sadly, but says nothing. She walks away from them and looks up at the ceiling.
"You get out of my house. And let go of this poor girl." Once again, she bursts into flames. When she is entirely engulfed, the fire reaches the ceiling and disappears. The force holding Elena to the wall is released. She walks over to the brothers and the three of them look at each other, stunned.
"Was that really her? Your guys's mom?" Elena asks.
"Yeah." Sam says.
"Now it's over." Dean said.
✫☆✫
The next morning, Dean is standing by the car with Jenny, looking through old photos.
"Thanks for these." Dean says.
"Don't thank me, they're yours." Dean puts the trunk of photos into the car. Sitting on the front steps of the house, Sam and Elena is joined by Missouri.
"Well, there are no spirits in there anymore, this time for sure."
"Not even my mom?" Sam asked.
"No."
"What happened?"
"Your mom's spirit and the poltergeist's energy, they cancelled each other out. Your mom destroyed herself going after the thing."
"Why would she do something like that?"
"Well, to protect her boys and Elena of course." Sam nods, with tears in his eyes. Missouri goes to put her hand on his shoulder, but she stops herself, "Sam, I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"You sensed it was here, didn't you? Even when I couldn't." She slightly whispers.
"What's happening to me?" Sam asked.
"I know I should have all the answers, but I don't know."
"Sam, you ready?" Sam nods and goes to the car. So does Elena. Jenny thanks all of them.
"Don't you boys be strangers."
"We won't." Dean says.
"And Elena, it's alright if you're not ready to tell them the rest of your private information to them." Missouri says. Elena thought for a moment and nods, she went inside of the car. They drive away.
✫☆✫
At Missouri house, she comes inside and sets her purse on the table.
"That boy, he has such powerful abilities. But why he couldn't sense his own father, I have no idea. And that Elena, she doesn't know what's coming." Missouri says. There, John Winchester was sitting at the couch.
"Mary's spirit, do you really think she saved the boys and the girl?" John asks.
"I do."
John nods sadly and twists his wedding ring on his finger.
"John Winchester, I could just slap you. Why won't you go talk to your children?"
"I want to. You have no idea how much I wanna see them. But I can't. Not yet. Not until I know the truth." They both share a look.
"So Elena, tell me more about her, how did she come across my boys?"
"Well, she stumbled across them by faith I guess we should say, but she is destined to save the world, John, your boys should be prepared, not now, not tomorrow, nor next week, but in fourteen years."
John looked a little frighten.
"What's fourteen years?"
"I can't say what, but everything will be played out by one powerful man."