Heaven's Child ≫ SPN

10.2

"C'mon," Dean was shaking his head with a sad look.

I glanced up at him from behind the syrup bottle I was holding up side down on my plate. "What?" I asked, finally putting it down and loudly sucking at the tips of my fingers. I eagerly took a large spoonful of pancake, syrup, chocolate chip and whipped cream and practically moaned when I put it in my mouth.

"Do you know how much sugar is in all that?"

"Do you know how much processed fat is in all that?" I nodded at his plate.

Dean shrugged with a thoughtful expression.

"Hey," Sam started. "What are all the creatures you drained?"

"Um," I stuffed another large spoonful in my mouth. "Regular vampire was my first, then the alpha, a werewolf, a demon, Cas..." I shrugged. "That's it."

"How come you didn't drain Crowley?"

I shrugged.

"Maybe you did and you didn't know."

I snorted. "Trust me," I winced as I remembered the pain that came with changing, "I'd know."

"If Crowley had a Child of his own, he'd know how to protect himself from something like that," Kevin added. "That's what I'd do, at least."

Dean said something back but I was suddenly too distracted to hear it. I was busy eying the window behind our table. There was something in the woods. And it was something evil.

"Hell-o?" Sam snapped his fingers in front of my face.

"Yeah?" I said, swallowing loudly and giving him my attention.

His face was serious now. "What's wrong?" I could feel Kevin's frenzied glare from beside me. I immediately picked up my knife and started cutting myself another piece of holy deliciousness, shrugging nonchalantly.

"Nothing, why?" Kevin relaxed a little beside me.

"You totally zoned out."

"I did?" I held the urge from looking at the window again. I needed to get away.

I took my chance when the waitress appeared with our drinks.

"Hey, where's the bathroom? Got a little too much chocolate on my face."

"A little," Dean scoffed.

"Sure, go straight down and to your right."

I slid out of the booth without looking at Sam or Dean just in case my face gave anything away. I walked down the hallway like she said, but instead of going to the right, I made a left into the kitchen.

"Hey Marie—turn on the AC will you. I'm burning up." The man that was cooking didn't even turn around to make sure that I was Marie. That's what you get for growing up naive in a small town.

I hesitantly looked to my right and found the on switch.

"Thanks!" he had to shout it since the AC made an incredibly loud noise.

Slowly, making as little commotion as possible, I tiptoed across the kitchen and out the backdoor.

It was quiet, except for the cool wind bustling through the leaves. Everything was still. I kept a watchful eye, glaring at the leaves, the trees, waiting for something to jump out.

And something did.

"Ah! Damn it! Stupid! Little!" I sighed heavily, closing my eyes to take a deep breath. "I'm going to kill you someday." I told the dumb squirrel as a matter of factly. "You and your entire furry family."

Suddenly, a terrified yelp sounded from the kitchen behind me. I immediately turned already at the pounding at the door but it was sealed shut. And I mean shut shut. I was pulling at it with all what I had but it didn't budge.

"What the..." I breathed. But the man was still screaming.

I frantically searched for the nearest window and caught a glimpse of our waitress crouched in on top of him, his throat bleeding into a cup. When he was finished, she turned her face to me, a small delicate smile on her lips, godless blackness in her eyes.

"Crap."

I scrambled around the corner of the building to get to the front door, but it too was air tight.

"Damnit, damnit, damnit."

Dean finally caught sight of me trying to get in the diner. "Liz?" He started to get up, his countenance matching the horror on mine. "What happened?" He tried to pull the door open but it wouldn't budge.

"I don't know," I was breathing hard, "The waitress—she killed the cook but she took his blood—she's using it for something—"

But Dean suddenly flew on the opposite side of the diner, invisible knives clawing his neck.

"Dean!" Sam shouted, but something clawed his arm and then his face and he was too busy with the pain to focus on anything else.

"Sam!" I roughly kicked and shoved and punched at the door but it seemed to be sealed shut with some powerful magic.

I watched with wide eyes as the same invisible creature clawed Kevin in the stomach and held him against the wall, Kevin's screams echoing throughout the diner.

"Son of a bitch!" I screamed desperately, breaking off the door handles in my frenzied grip, but the doors were still closed.

"Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the luckiest gal of them all?" The demon in the waitress made slowly stepped to the center of the cafeteria, blood splatters all over her apron and neck. She scanned the area around her, smirking a little at the sight of Dean pinned to the wall and bleeding, Sam on the floor and gasping, and Kevin in the corner, clutching his side, face gleaming with sweat.

"Who are you." Dean spat.

"Smart." She turned to him with a grin. "All the other bimbos at the supermarket charged at Heaven's Child but I knew we wouldn't stand a chance. So I ran."

"Guess you're not as smart as you think." Sam coughed. "She's here."

"I know." She finally spared me a look, the same victorious grin on her face. "But she's outside—my little daevas will make sure she doesn't get in."

Daevas. Bringers of darkness. Ancient demons. Can be turned into slaves.

It was one of the demon entries I made a long time ago. If I hadn't had the conversation with Sam about demons and my journal, I would've never had remembered anything about the Daevas. I've never hunted one before—barely anyone has. They never make an appearance and only a hand full had seen them, and we know little information about their kind. But I knew just enough.

Daevas hated light.

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