Daughter of the Moose (sequel to 'Married to a Moose')

Chapter 31

I opened my front door once I got home and was taken aback by what I saw..... There was blood everywhere, and two bodies that I could barely recognize as being my parents. I couldn't make out any facial features on them anymore and blood coated everything. It was all over the table by the door, the inside of the door, and the floor. There was a threat on the wall written in red lipstick. I pulled out my phone with shaky hands and called my real dad.

"Sup Alex?"

"Dad, you need to come here now. Things are so bad right now. I need you. Something bad happened."

"Relax Alex. Just tell me what happened."

"My parents....... Are....... Dead."

"What? How?"

"I don't know. I just got home from school and.... Th- they are on the floor and there's blood everywhere and I just don't know what to do, and there's a threat on the wall, and I'm scared dad. There's no one in the house, but I'm scared."

"Why didn't you call the cops?"

"I want to make sure it's not something supernatural. Just please, come over here."

"We are on our way. Dean will drive. Don't hang up, I'm gonna keep talking to you." I heard the rumble of the impala through the phone which was reassuring.

"Alex, just take deep breaths and try to stay calm. Go sit on the porch. We are almost there. It's gonna be ok."

"I'm just scared. What if they wanted me?"

"You're gonna be ok." They pulled up a few minutes later. My dad, Dean, and I went inside. They looked around at the crime scene for a while and at the threat which they didn't see when they walked in. I pointed it out to them. It said 'nice try guys. I'll get you soon' in red lipstick.

"Guys, I need some air." I said, getting queasy from the blood. They nodded.
I sat outside and couldn't help myself from shaking. It wasn't cold out, but I was shaking like a leaf with no capability of stopping. Dean noticed.

"Hey, you ok?" He asked, concerned. I shook my head no.

"I brought something for you." He walked to the impala, and grabbed something from the backseat. Only as he put it on me, did I realize what it was. It was my green blanket.

"Thanks Dean. And I hope you know that although I said that my parents and I didn't really love each other, I didn't do this."

"Of course. You'd never do this. Don't even think that I would consider that a possibility." I nodded. He sat for a couple minutes with me, just trying to calm me down and stop my shaking. Then my dad called for him. "Hey, can I go for a minute?" He asked, not wanting to leave me again.

"Yeah."

He went inside and soon they both came out. They had grabbed my stuff from upstairs. They shut the door behind them, showing me that they were done. I had calmed down quite a bit and could form coherent thoughts.

"Dad, I have a question."

"What's that sweetheart?"

"What are you gonna do with me now? You aren't gonna send me anywhere else are you?"

"Of course not. You are coming back with us."

"But I thought you 'wanted me to be safe'."

"I do, but clearly this didn't do that." He said with a sort of sadness in his voice. I climbed into the impala, and fell asleep in my green blanket on the way to the hotel. When we arrived, I got out and grabbed my stuff from the trunk. I walked to my room and put my stuff down on the bed, then walking out to the boys. I sat down on the couch and didn't say a word. I couldn't form any sort of emotional response, I just sat there, numb and emotionless. I was truly scared, but for whatever reason could not show it.

"Hey Dean, you mind giving us a minute?" My dad asked. Dean shook his head no, then left the room.

"Alex, I have a question for you."

"Huh?" I said unenthusiastically.

"You do know that I never stopped loving you right? You know I didn't want to hurt you, it's just that I wouldn't be able to live with myself if you died on my watch and I didn't want to risk it right? I just didn't want to lose you and I never ever stopped caring about you."

"I know that, dad. I just felt abandoned by both of you. I'm sure Dean told you about why I really didn't want to leave, so it hurt that you took me back."

"He didn't tell me anything. Why were you so extra upset?"

"They just didn't understand me and they didn't love me and I didn't love them. I was treated like some person staying in their house and not like a daughter. I felt like I had to hide myself from the world, whereas with you two, I feel accepted. Then, you decide to take me back, and it was like I wasn't good enough yet again. Like I wasn't the person you wanted me to be."

"I'm sorry you didn't feel like you belonged over there. I didn't know that. And that is totally not why I took you back. I just wanted you to be safe. I didn't know that was going to happen, and I'm sorry I sent you away. I love you exactly how you are, and Dean does too. I don't expect you to be perfect and you are always enough."

"I love you too. I just don't know what I'm supposed to feel about what happened. I don't know if I should be crying or what. I just feel sort of numb, and scared. And I forgive you for taking me back there. I may have been mad, but I forgive you. I am, however, scared that whatever killed them is really after me. I don't want to die, dad."

"You're safe with us. No one is gonna get you. Dean and I will do whatever it takes to keep you safe, and I mean safe. Nothing is gonna kill you on my watch. We just have to figure out what that was that killed your parents. No hunts for a little while though. Ok?"

" You think someTHING killed them? And I totally get the no hunting. I actually agree." I said. Not hunting for a while actually sounded like a good idea and made a lot of sense.

"Yes. We don't know what, but it was something supernatural. We'll figure it out. Don't worry."

Dean came back in after a while. "Hey Dean?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for bringing the blanket. I can't believe you remembered how much that helps me."

"It helped me when I needed it. I can't ever forget about it."

"And, thanks for not telling my dad about why I didn't want to stay there. I would have been totally ok with you telling him, but you didn't."

"Of course Alex. You trusted me with that and you didn't tell me I could so I didn't."

The three of us sat there on the couch and spent the rest of the night watching random tv shows. I was glad to be home.