The Unknown

Wendigo

Chapter 14

We end up near a large rock as Roy is still ahead of us "Haley! Over here!" He's loud and startled me as we all ran towards his voice "oh my god" The campsite looked a mess, tents were torn and bloody and all the supplies were scattered. No signs of her brother and his friends anywhere. I slowly walked towards the tents "looks like a grizzly" Roy speaks up from behind me as Haley and Dean look around "tommy?" Her question caused me to turn to her and it was like I was looking at myself "tommy!" She slips off her backpack and walks around the campsite with a panicked look on her face and all I could do was watch her. 

Sam seemed to be observing me and Dean followed his eyes. I walked over to her before trying to keep her quiet "shh" she doesn't seem to stop "tommy!" I gently grab her shoulders "shh-hh-hh" she looks at me "why?" I look around "something might still be out there" "Sam! Sylvia!" I gently let her go and run towards Dean as Sam rubs my shoulder "you alright?" I looked up at him after we stopped "um yeah.." Dean looked at us as we crouched down "the bodies were dragged from the campsite, but here the tracks just vanish. That's weird" 

"That's weird" we say that last part at the same time and look at each other before standing up "I'll tell you what, that's no skinwalker or black dog" I nodded at his statement "it could be a wendigo" they look at each other before looking at me "I'm not entirely sure, but we are in the woods.." They shrug and walk back towards the campsite as Haley picks up a bloody cell phone causing her to cry. I frowned and started towards her as Dean spoke "hey, he could still be alive" she looked at him before we all heard screaming "help! Help!" I looked at the boys as Roy led us to where we heard the screaming "help! Somebody!" There seemed to be no one. 

"It seemed like it was coming from around here, didn't it?" She looked around frantically and I looked up seeing the leaves move slightly and I ran back towards the campsite "no! No! Shit!" They are all behind me and they look around "our packs!" Haley looks around with a frown and Deans comes up to me "why did you run like that?" I looked at him "I'm for sure now..it has to be a wendigo" he squinted and pulled me towards Sam as Roy complained about his GPS. Haley looks at us "what the hell is going on?" "It's smart. It wants to cut us off so we can't call for help" Roy looks at Sam "you mean someone, some nut job out there stole all our gear"

I follow Dean and Sam off to the side "good let me see dad's journal" Dean pulls out their dad's journal "Sam what are you thinking?" He hands it to him "I think Sylvia might be right" he flips to a page and points to a stick figure drawing. Dean shook his head "wendigos are in the Minnesota woods or, or North Michigan. I've never seen one this far west" I looked at him "it's still possible dean, all of it fits the screaming with no one there, the campsite, the empty forest" Sam nodded and added on "the claws" Dean sighed "great" he took out his pistol "then this is useless"

Sam gives the journal back to Dean and starts back before stopping "we gotta get these people to safety" I scoffed "you think Mr. Hotshot over there is gonna listen to you?" Dean chuckled at my nickname for Roy. He shrugged "it's worth a try". Back at the campsite Sam addresses them "All right, listen up, it's time to go. Things have gotten...more complicated." Haley squinted "what?" "Kid, don't worry. Whatever's out there, I think I can handle it" I laughed at his statement "it's not me I'm worried about. If you shoot this thing, you're just gonna make it mad. We need to leave. Now" I could tell where this was headed and I stepped forward slightly "one, you're talking nonsense. Two, you're in no position to give anybody orders." I sighed "relax" 

Sam couldn't stop "we should've never let you come out here in the first place, all right? I'm trying to protect you" it was like a switch went off in my head and I suddenly knew why he was acting the way that he was. Roy walked into Sam's personal space and I stepped right in between "you protect me?" "Enough, both of you" I tried to get them to stop. "I was hunting these woods when your mommy was still kissing you goodnight. Dean got closer as well "yeah?It's a damn near perfect hunter. It's smarter than you, and it's gonna hunt you down and eat you alive unless we get your stupid sorry ass out of here." Roy laughed, "you know you're crazy, right?" Sam looked off before looking back at him "yeah? You ever hunt a wen-" I quickly covered his mouth. 

"That's enough Sam" I caught his eyes and he seemed to calm down as we backed up. Haley yelled out Roy's name and Dean spoke to Sam "chill out" "Stop. Stop it. Everybody just stop. Look. Tommy might still be alive. And I'm not leaving here without him." There was a long pause as I gently took my hand away from Sam's mouth and gently rubbed his back "we need to have a talk" he looked down at me and nodded slowly. 

Dean looked around "It's getting late. This thing is a good hunter in the day, but an unbelievable hunter at night. We'll never beat it, not in the dark. We need to settle in and protect ourselves" she looked over to him. "How?" He motioned for her to follow him and I pulled Sam off to the side "what the hell was that?" He rubbed his mouth "he was starting to piss me off, he doesn't understand that what's out there could kill him" I squinted and gently took his hand "I know what's really going on, it's about Jessica..isn't it?" He looked down at our hands and nodded slowly "I know how you feel, I thought if I was fast enough I could stop Anthony from reaching the bridge. I wasn't fast enough, and being out here with Haley and seeing how she is for her brother, it's just like watching that day on repeat" 

He gently rubbed the back of my head with his free hand and sighed "it's just, I want to get this all over with. I can't stop thinking about her" I frowned and nodded before gently kissing the back of his hand "then you gotta let things flow, we already know what's out there now we have to be cautious" he blushed softly and nodded before letting go of my hand and walking off.