The Unseen

Derek

I can still hear her with my headphones on, a guy that looks like me on the outside but we're different inside...Oh my God, Dean...I move back to where Mai is and she opens her eyes looking confused. I take my headphones off and look into her dark eyes.

"The guy, was his name Dean?" She nods and I feel a stab at my heart. "Dean's my big brother, complete dick and always somehow gets the girl...I'm sorry for my dick brother." She blinks and moves close beside me. I pull her against my shoulder and I try not to feel what I feel for her.

"How are you two related?" I don't know if it's a compliment or an insult. "I mean you're so nice while he's a huge dick. I'm happy that you're the better one," She kisses my cheek and it's all I can do to not kiss her. We pull up in front of the warehouse but there's a bike parked outside, a bike I know too well. "Cole, give me your gun, I need to kill someone." I hand her one of mine and we both get out, guns out. It may be murder but he deserves it. He's sitting on my chair with a grin on his face which is almost identical to mine.

"Hello, little brother," His face changes when he sees Mai, the mocking in his eyes dim with regret. "Mai, I didn't know you were part of the Unseen," He sees the others behind me and focuses on one of them. He gets up and walks over to Renee who I can see hates him already. "Hello beautiful, my name's Dean Jones, what's your name?" She gives him the finger, I want to hug her so much right now. "Mai told you about the cheating, then?" He air quotes cheating and Mai shoots him, he screams in pain but that only has salt rounds which only hurts ghosts and demons. His eyes turn white and I'm very confused. He disappears but just before he does, he changes into that vampire from Buffy that Buffy dated that she killed, I can't for the life of me remember his name. Cole is staring at the spot that Not-Dean had been and Mai looks confused. I decide to ask an important question.

"Was that the vampire from Buffy that Buffy dated that she killed?" They all shrug and I walk to my room to see my brother dead. "HOLY SHIT!" They run in and Mai seems to be stuck between sadness and happiness, so am I. Cole makes a decision.

"Titanium Python ," Renee frowns while the rest of us get into action. Cole grabs her arm and they walk out but I can still hear. "We're leaving and if you want to stay here, we understand." More like he understands if you don't want to hang out with him.

"I want to kill who killed my Dad and Nathan," Her voice is husky and I know she's crying. "Also, this life is my family's legacy, it's not going to die with my Dad," I catch a glimpse of Cole hugging her and I look at Mai who is wearing her 'I ship it' face. They come back and I'm finished packing. Renee's phone rings and it says unknown caller. She answers it and walks a little away. "Hello?" She looks scared. "Hello detective Montgomery, how can I help-" She must've been interrupted and she looks confused. "Why would I kill my dads? They were all I had left," She hangs up suddenly and looks at Cole. "We need to go now, the cops are tracking my phone." She removes the sim card and Toby nods approvingly.

"They track the number not the actual phone," She smashes it for good measure. "We could've gotten you a new sim card," We grab everything and get in Red. I drive with Mai and Toby in the cab with me. Cole and Renee huddle together, we drive calmly past the cops. Renee has a hoodie covering her face and hair so as the cops look at us, they don't see anything unusual about a couple of teenagers in a truck. I turn on the radio and All This Time plays, I turn it up. I can feel vibrating from the back and I want to turn around but I'm driving. Toby opens the little window. "Is someone's phone going?" Renee is holding her box and she opens it. She lifts out a phone and answers it.

"Hello?" Someone talks on the other end and she nods. "Yeah, we're coming to get her but it might take a couple of days," More talking and she nods. "We'll meet you halfway in Gadsden, Alabama. Goodbye and thanks for calling," She hangs up and she looks glad. "Bait's wife is bringing Hannah to Gadsden. Hannah is Bait's granddaughter...Seriously, what's the guy's name?" We all shrug and I drive until we cross the state border. I pull over and get out, rubbing my eyes.

"For health and safety reasons, someone else needs to drive," Mai slides in front of the wheel and I climb into the back. I use my bag as a pillow and my jacket as a blanket, I miss that moldy old warehouse, it had heating. I drift off and I'm in my house, no, it's not real. Me and Cole look around scared. The bathroom door is ajar, it's not real, wake up. Cole pushes the door open and Mom is dead in the shower, her eyes are glassy. Hank, my stepdad's head is in the toilet while the rest is across the room, WAKE UP. I open my eyes and sit up, breathing hard. Cole watches me with Renee asleep on his chest. "I'm okay, just a trip down memory lane." I don't let myself fall back to sleep and I just watch the horizon. After a couple of hours, Toby starts driving and Mai sits beside me.

"You're still having the dreams?" I nod and she puts her head on my shoulder. "I think Renee is the only one who didn't see the corpses of her parents. She's the sanest out of all of us and probably had college picked out, probably Harvard, Yale or Princeton." Renee's eyes open and look at Mai.

"It was Princeton, I was working on my essay," She realises that she's on Cole's chest and doesn't move. "It feels like a lifetime ago instead of hours ago. Anyway, if I went there, my 'unfair advantage'," She air quotes unfair advantage.  "Wouldn't get me that many friends, what killed my dads might have saved me a lot of lonely days." For the death of your dads. We sit in silence and I become a pillow when Mai falls asleep. I check the time and figure out that we'll be there in five hours. Toby pulls over and Cole takes over. Renee uses Cole's jacket as a pillow and just stares at the stars. Toby seems to be struggling with something.

"Renee, there's something you need to know," Oh shit, he's going to tell her that it's his fault that she's an orphan, he hasn't done that for Mai yet. "Someone wrote a list of the Unseen members and Raum found it. I think Raum was the guy who took Dean's place," I look at Cole who heard everything and his hand tighten around the wheel. The phone rings and Toby answers it. "Hello?" His eyes go wide. "Find salt and make a circle, if there's anything iron, you can use it as a weapon. We'll be there as quickly as we can," He hangs up and opens the little window. "Cole, we need to go faster. She's getting attacked by Raum and he won't give up." Cole speeds but I know we have no chance of getting there in time unless Hannah can fight him off which is unlikely...Unless she had training, I hope she does or we're in trouble, all of us.