The Family Business

Chapter Nine

Dean grunted hard. Seeing Lucifer seemed to set off a spark inside him and he broke free from the demons around him and ran straight forward towards the demon. Lucifer just held his hand out and stopped him mid-air. It knocked the breath out of him and he just hung there limp.

He shook it off and began to speak, "LET HER GO." he was breathing deeply and angrily.

"I'm really sorry, Dean, but I need her. She's special to me."

"I'M NOT AT ALL SPECIAL TO YOU!" she yelled. She began to cough from the way this force was holding her up in the air. She felt like she was choking. She quit talking and focused on getting her breath.

Dean began to spell out a demon fleeing ritual, but Lucifer just turned his head. Brooklyn's breath caught roughly in mid-air. She was still hanging in the air when she began to hunch over coughing. Coughing blood. Lots and lots of blood.

Dean's eyes opened in horror and glanced back and forth between his sister and the king of hell. "Stop that!"

The demon man behind Lucifer just smirked, but did nothing. Lucifer let him sink it in for a good solid minute in which Brooklyn really thought she was going to die. She couldn't breathe anymore, forcing her skin to turn purple. She was terrified at the amount of blood gushing out of her. Something inside her felt like it was twisting and turning which felt excruciatingly painful. The pulse in her ears grew louder and louder, slower and slower. She just kept coughing up more and more blood. A few seconds later, other clunks of something were coming out with the blood.

"Stop! I'll do anything! Stop!"

Lucifer let her go. She instantly fell and rolled over on the theater floor gasping for air. She spat out the rest of the blood in her mouth which burned of an iron taste. She felt like she would pass out. But she held on to her consciousness.

"Funny. That you would do anything just to save your sister. The one who has been keeping secrets from you."

Sam and Dean both were confused while struggling underneath their captors.

"Look. Shut up, dumbass. What is it that you want? Get to the point." Sam spat impatiently.

Brooklyn was now attempting to sit up, glancing worriedly towards Tom. She began to crawl in his direction on her side of the room. He was slunched over and unconscious by the wall. Blood was trailing behind her as she managed to pull all her bodyweight with her arms over towards him. Suddenly she was pinned down again.

"Uhmghhfhh" she grunted loudly which led to her coughing up more blood. She landed on her back facing toward the ceiling. Invisible chains were pulling her down, pinning her to the ground. Fear controlled her emotions and all she managed was to hold back the tears. She felt like she was going to die. Her body was covered with her own sweat and her body prickled with chills. She felt even more weak. Blood not only trailed from her mouth, but it began to come out of her nose too.

The sight of the blood around her made her dizzy. Then it became hard to breathe. Her lungs felt collapsed and the blood coming up through her esophagus didn't help the desperate situation. She was shivering with fever, but still, she was pinned to the ground.

She screamed out in pain, "Help!" but it only made it worse. "Please." she couldn't help it anymore. She sobbed and sobbed as she feared the next breath would be her last. Her brothers were both unable to get to her. Tom was unconscious. Lucifer found her. Now she was contemplating whether dying would be better than spending her whole life trapped with Lucifer.

But she couldn't.

She couldn't leave her brothers, or Tom, here. She couldn't. That would leave them being tortured their whole lives under the oppression of the king of hell. 'No.' she thought. So with all her strength and willpower left, she managed to keep pulling in breaths as her energy slowly drifted off.

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"At the moment, your sister is suffering three hemorrhages, Six broken ribs, a collapsed lung, a severe case of Hantavirus, and complete shutdown of her organs. To be honest, I'm quite surprise she's still living." said the demon who originally came in for Brooklyn, but was sitting in the back of the room watching.

"We are going to leave here with her, without a scene. You will not do anything to intervene with our exit. If one of you lays a finger on her, I will explode her heart. Understand? I will stop hurting her, if you agree to this."

"Yes! Yes!" they both shouted horrifically, eyes fixed on her.
"Thank you. I might see you two another time." he winked and walked over to Brooklyn. He picked her up and slung her limp body over his shoulder.

"Real soon!" Dean shouted as they left, clearing the room. Now they were the only ones in that auditorium, including Tom who was beginning to wake up.