Breaking Point of Life / Book 13 / The Life Series / Supernatural Season 14

Mint Condition

The day of Halloween, Dean, Aiden, Amara and I were in Dean's and my room, watching horror movies on the TV, eating pizza. "He must have brought them back, back from hell, again. Hell Hazers 3, it lives again. And now back to Hatchet Man, All Saints Day. There'll be no further interruptions."

On the TV, a man was mopping a corridor and then stopped to steal candy out of a vending machine when his hand got stuck. Hatchet Man came up behind him, carrying two hatchets, wearing a gruesome half mask over his scarred face.

The man looked at Hatchet Man. "Hey, this area is closed off. I said beat it, buddy."

Hatchet Man swung the hatchet at the man's outstretched leg. Blood splattered across the candy machine while the man screamed in agony. A door opened further up the corridor, and a woman appeared.

When Hatchet Man said the line on TV, Dean and Aiden were quoting him excitedly. "Time to slice and dice."

Amara and I exchanged an amused look, rolling our eyes, getting more pizza to eat while we watched. The woman on TV screamed. Someone knocked on the door.

"Yo," Aiden called.

Sam walked in. "Hey."

Amara and I noticed right away that Sam had shaved his beard off, but Dean and Aiden didn't yet.

"Hey," Amara told him.

"What are you doing?" Sam asked.

"Horror marathon on, family movie night," Dean answered. "Just made our way through the Halloweens and now we're about to..."

Dean trailed off when he noticed Sam had shaved.

Aiden, confused, followed Dean's gaze, stunned to see Sam had shaved, too. "Ow, wow."

"What?" Sam asked. Aiden touched his cheek. "Oh, yes, I shaved."

"I mean, it's so smooth," Aiden told him. "It's like a dolphin's belly."

Dean, Amara and I smirked.

Sam chuckled a bit in amusement, pulling up a chair to sit down. "Yeah, yeah. Hey, uh, I wanted to check up on you guys. You doing okay? I mean, this is probably the first time Aiden and Amara have come out of their rooms in almost a week."

"Well, since when is okay part of this job, huh?" Amara asked. "Aiden and I thought it best to hole up in our rooms so that we didn't lose control while we were waiting on news for a new hunt."

"Yeah?" I asked. "And how often have you two been getting sick because you haven't made a kill in so long?"

"How did you know we were getting sick?" Aiden asked.

"Because that's what happened to Ness when she had the mark and she went too long without making a kill," Dean answered. "The stronger the mark got, the more often she had to kill, or she would get sick more often."

"If you go too long without making a kill, both of you could die," I told them. "At least until we can find a way to break the link between you two."

"Well, that's where Brandon is at right now," Amara told us. "Searching around the globe for ways to break the link, and Ketch is helping him long distance, because Brandon still can't stand the sight of Ketch since he killed his dad."

"Right," Aiden agreed. "Cas is, you know, showing Jack the ropes, and Dark Kaia and her spear are in the wind and we have no clue where Michael is or what he's up to. And not that I'm complaining, but the house is full of strangers, so..."

"So your plan is to just lay in your rooms, or hang out with Dean and Ness and watching Hatchet Man movies?" Sam asked. "Seriously?"

Dean gave Sam a look. "All Saints Day is a classic."