Shriek

Chapter nine

Hours later Ezra groaned as he opened his eyes to find that he was back in his room at the bunker. Ezra sat up confused by everything that happened, but he didn't quite remember everything. "What the hell? What happened?" Someone knocked on Ezra's door causing him to snap out of his thoughts. "Um, it's open." The door opened and his aunt and uncle walked into the room.

"Hey sweetie, are you feeling alright?" Kristina asked. "You gave us all quite the scare."

"I'm fine now." Ezra said simply but he didn't say much more about that. Still, Sam noticed that Ezra was bothered by something. "What?" Ezra asked when he noticed the look his uncle was giving him.

"You look like your dad when he hides his pain," Sam answered. Since he knew his brother so well he knew when his nephew was hiding something. "So you wanna tell us what's really going on."

"Do I really have to?" Ezra asked as he laid down on the bed. "I don't want any chick flick moments."

"Ugh you've been hanging around your father too long," Kristina laughed. There were too many moments where Ezra acted like a mini Dean. "By the way don't make me cut your hair." It was what she always said when Ezra wouldn't tell her something.

"Oh come on really?" Ezra complained but knowing that his aunt and uncle wouldn't let it go he decided to sit up and tell them. "Aunt Kristina? Do you remember when we went back in time by accident and got stuck in 1522 and I told you that I felt like I didn't belong? I still feel that way now, might have been the reason Amara got to me.. I feel like the black sheep of the family, everyone can do something, Mary's able to manipulate elements, mom is good at writing and Dad knows his way around the weapons," he continued. "Hell Emma is an amazon, but me.."

"Ezra..." Sam began but Kristina cut him off.

"I got it, can you check on the baby?" Kristina asked. He nodded and then shared a kiss before he left. "Ezra come here, I want to tell you something." She gestured for her nephew to sit by her so she could talk with him. Ezra sat next to his aunt and looked down, everything that happened to him proved his theory that he was weak.

"What is it? If it involves telling my parents I'm not going to do it." Ezra said.

"I didn't say I was going to tell your parents, I said I was going to tell you a story," Kristina responded. Her words at least made Ezra smile a bit since she was making a joke. "I've been where you are believe it or not, I felt out of place when I first started hunting, hell even before that I always did," she continued. "I couldn't tell anyone about my empath abilities, not even my parents, they would have thought I was crazy, so I know it feels different and I know your mother would say the same."

"My mother? No way, she was all into that," Ezra said not believing that his mother would feel the same. "She's so confident though."

"Yeah I know but she had to learn how to be and so did I, at first we didn't have a clue what we could do or how to deal with it," Kristina answered. "I remember when she first told me that we were empaths I didn't know what she was talking about or that it would draw in the man of my dreams," she continued. "But I had to be patient and accept that these abilities were a part of me and I couldn't then no one else would."

"But I don't know what I can do, all I got are these abilities and this angelic tattoo that I don't even know what I can do about it."

"Just because you don't know doesn't mean you won't," Kristina responded "Every empath has any ability and every person has a talent, you just have to find out what this is using this," She playfully touched her nephew's forehead which caused him to smile. "Now I don't have to cut your hair." Ezra laughed since he felt much better than when he did earlier. It also felt good getting that off his chest but he wasn't sure if he should tell his parents or not especially since he wanted to prove to his father that he could handle a case on his own. "I better go before Junior drives everyone downstairs crazy with his crying, by the way he wanted to give you his dragon." Ezra was a bit embarrassed when his aunt handed him the plush but didn't have the heart to give it back.

"Thank you, Aunt Kristina." Ezra said Kristina kissed Ezra on the forehead before leaving him alone in the room. The minute the doors closed, tears started to form out the corner of his eyes and he laid down. Despite his aunt reassuring him it still didn't hide how he felt and he allowed the tears to come down. The amount of crying that came out caused him to pass out from exhaustion.

***

Claire was in her room trying to sleep that night but she was tossing and turning. Her head hurt like crazy and she did everything she could to stop the pain. However, the minute she sat up her eyes glowed brightly and she was pulled into a vision.

Claire found herself in the bunker, but something was different. Sam, Dean, Shela, and Kristina's personalities had completely changed as well. The scene changed and suddenly she saw Ezra and Mary's eyes change from their normal eye color to gold. The scene changed yet again and all she could see was darkness and within the darkness, she heard an evil laugh and a silhouette of a male with silver eyes. Fear clouded her thoughts and she forced herself out of the vision noticing that she was back in her room.