Supernatural

Ally had cleared the entire left hallway. She was on her way back to find Logan when she spotted a shadow flickering from a corner. She slowed her pace and held her gun up ready to fire. It didn't use normal bullets. They were small capsules instead that splattered holy water upon contact. It wasn't enough to kill, but it could stun a demon long enough to either make a quick escape or capture them. Ally stopped at the very edge of the corner re fingering her grip around her pistol. Then with one fluid motion she stepped out of the corner and into the view of the next hallway. There was nothing. Her flashlight stretched its beams to the end of the short hallway, but there was nothing but tarp and concrete flooring.

Tentatively she made her way down to the very end and placed her hands against the wall, running them down the smooth cold surface. The back of her neck prickled and she turned around firing her gun. A sizzling hiss sounded followed by her being thrown to the ground and a body on top of her. Hands surrounded her neck. There was no pressure, but a blazing feeling left her gasping. She struggled throwing the body off of her, but finally succeeded with a thud. She scrambled back up. Her flashlight had rolled off but she still had her gun aimed between two glowing maroon eyes.

A chuckled sounded in her ear. It was mocking. Then a voice spoke to her.
"How sad. You have to use a gun to fight a demon. You couldn't do anything with your own bare hands. How pathetic." Ally smirked laughing as well and then cast her gun down throwing her own hands up in the air.

"What's pathetic is that you would attack me just by yourself. That's a mistake."

"The mistake is your pride." The demon responded and lunged at her.

Ally fell back as the demon lunged at her. She used her momentum and the demon's weight to push her legs up against his middle and throw him back wards. She rolled back up in a ready position. There had been a groan, but now there was no noise. She couldn't see where her flashlight was, and now she didn't have her gun. She cursed inside her mind at her own stupidity of falling for the trick and constantly circled around, never letting her back stay in one position for too long. Then she stood still. For a full minute she did nothing but stand, facing the end of the hallway. Then, with a whirl she turned a kick around aiming for the demon. His hand gripped around her ankle sending a burning spasm through her leg.Tears swelled in her eyes, but she managed to escape with a twist. The demon came at her again and with each touch was another burn to her.

She wondered for a split second if this was the feeling that demon's had to holy water. The thought didn't last long as she fell back against a hook and latch. It was one of the traps set up. She scooted up and pressed her foot hard down on the release, allowing a rope to release the contents of a shower of holy water from one of the lamp fixtures. Like a fire in water, the demon began to sizzle. Boils sprung up and Ally took her opening to place a binding spell on him with the rosaries set around. Finally, after the binding took its place, the demon collapsed to the floor.

Ally sighed and stepped over the body and grabbing the flashlight. She searched for her gun and picked it back up and quickly went to find Logan. She had expected to see him in the midst of some battle, but it was hardly a battle to the death. She watched and shook her head in amusement. When he had her collapse to the ground and Logan looked up to find her she just smiled and walked away. His voice called back for her in denial.
"What? It worked didn't it?"

Logan jogged up to Ally. "We were right. These demons go down the same as the others."

Bobby had secured most of the ground floor when he heard the commotion upstairs. Bobby spun around when he heard Charlie begin barking. Suddenly, Bobby was pushed back. He dropped his gun and flashlight. Bobby quickly regained balance and punched the figure under it's jaw.

Bobby sprinted to the gathering room where the front door was. The figure jumped at Bobby but was stopped by an invisible barrier.

The figure was a fat man with a messy beard and stained shirt. The man looked up at the ceiling where there was a devil's trap painted. The man looked at Bobby terrified.

Bobby smirked, "fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life son." Bobby then exorcised the demon.

Ally had been watching from the landing above where Bobby was confronted by the sin that she expected to be gluttony. She couldn't help but smile by the fact that her uncle would try to preach a lesson to a demon before exorcising it. Once the demon was accounted for, Ally took the stairs down to her uncle two at a time and the three with Charlie keeping guard as well stood circled with each other waiting for the four other sins to show up. She checked the ammunition in her gun and reloaded it up.

"Okay, there are four left. Neither of us should have a problem with them unless there is something you two aren't telling me about yourself. I have Pride down and Bobby just got gluttony. Logan was all over lust, so that leaves greed, wrath, envy, and sloth."

Logan nodded. For a moment it was quiet. The only sound was the creaking of a chandelier above them. Logan cocked his gun as he heard laughter approach them.

Out of the shadows came four figures. Each one somehow resembling the sin they represent. Logan didn't even wait to hear them speak. As soon as they were in the light. The demon that represented wrath was on the floor with a bullet between the eyes. The other demons charged and Logan spun and knocked greed to the ground. Logan cocked the Colt and shot the demon.

Charlie barked loudly as Bobby was having trouble with envy. He had fallen to his back and was using his shot gun as a separation between the two of them. Ally turned her head from Greed who was still moving in a sluggish manner to Bobby. The action cost her as greed soon had his arms around her. She elbowed a punch to his gut but her arm was caught and twisted behind her back. Charlie rushed to her aid and lunged at the demon sending the three of them sprawling to the floor. Charlie continued to shred his teeth in to the demon that was squirming from the pool of holy water that glistened on the ground. She whistled to Charlie who ran to her leaving him, where Logan then took over finishing Green off in the death pool.

Bobby had managed to use his weight to gain an advantage over Envy. Grasping his shot gun he quickly stood up and shot a loud blast through the demon leaving a large hole in the center of its body. Ally stood up and wiped the grime that had gotten around her face from the fighting on her sleeve. It was truly quiet and Ally felt the release of heavy weight off of her shoulders. She turned to Logan and then Bobby who was hobbling his way over to her.

"It's a shame that we didn't destroy the act of the seven deadly sins along with the demons themselves."

Logan knodded, "Wouldn't that be something." Logan patted Bobby on the back and did the same with Ally.

They then went to work burying and salting the bodies of the victims. They poured gasoline onto them and threw a match into the hole. They stood in silence as the bodies burned, adn when there was nothing left, they headed to the cars.

"Well, we'll see ya later Bobby. Thanks for the help." Logan said as he unlocked the Impala.

Bobby knodded and gave Logan a sincere look, "You keep in touch now boy." Bobby gave Logan a knod.

Charlie whimpered as Ally went towards the Impala. He stood in the middle between Bobby's and Logan's car and wagged his tail in hope. Ally stopped and wrapped her arms around his furry body and kissed his head with a rub between the ears.

"I'm sorry, but I have to leave you with Bobby. I will see you again soon." she said and then stood back up and placed herself in the passenger seat. Bobby whistled for Charlie and he obediently turned around and walked off with a trout and jumped up into the back of his truck bed. Ally gave one last wave to her uncle through the window before Logan took the car out of the construction zone and back onto the high way.

An hour passed by and neither one said anything to the other. Silence between them were normal. It gave time for each of them to have their private thoughts. It was only after the silence was extended past an hour that it became unsettling. As the silence bordered this period and the evening gave way to the night Ally thought of something to say to clear the air. Her voice was low and quiet and just above a murmur.

"You hungry? I think there is a waffle house near bye."

Logan glanced over at Ally, "Yea sure." Logan took the next exit to the waffle house. He pulled into the parking lot and shut off the Impala.

Logan and Ally walked inside and sat down in a booth in the corner. For the past hour, Logan had thought of nothing specific. His thoughts were just a blur of random, mixed with the road that past beneathe them.

As soon as the car pulled to a stop, Ally was out the door and walking briskly up to the Waffle House entrance. The lights glared over head and besides a waitress and a cook in conversation, there was only one other person in the restaurant. Ally grabbed a table the furthest away from them and scooted all the way into the window. Logan followed in after and took a seat across from her. She averted her eyes to the waitress walking up to them and stopping right before their table and handing out two menus.

"Just call out for me when you are ready to order hun."

Ally nodded and smiled and opened up to look at the items on the menu. She drum rolled her fingers on the table in a consecutive pattern and then closed the menu back up.

"You know, I'm actually not that hungry."

"You should eat something." Logan responded.

Ally sighed and opened up the menu back up, not looking intently, but just glancing down at the names. She really wasn't hungry, she just wanted to get off the road and be able to see the interior of something else other than the Impala. After turning the pages back and forth numerous times, Ally heard Logan call for the waitress and order for both of them. The menu's were taken away and Ally sat with her hands in her pockets staring out at the window. It wasn't raining yet, but the air smelled heavy and fresh like it could start raining any moment.

Logan sat silently. He didn't know where they were headed. They had just finished a job, but had no other leads to go on. They had the whole road ahead of them and for the first time, Logan had no idea where to go.

The waitress walked up their table and placed to plates of food in front of Logan and Ally. Logan began to eat, but noticed Ally wasn't eating that much. Logan shrugged it off for a while.

Logan looked up at Ally, "you've been quiet."

Ally shrugged and looked down at the table. She just didn't feel quite that much like talking. She had really been in thought about the demons they had just fought. She wondered if they had just decided to watch a Morgan Freeman movie and to copy after the killer or if they really were the seven deadly sins. If they were, then no matter what there was no way to destroy them. As long as people continued sinning, the demons would appear again.

"Logan." She had her eye brows knitted together in a bit of confusion, "Those demons. Did you study who the people were that they killed?"

It was a question out of the ordinary. The two of them didn't care much for getting close to a dead body's past. They had their own problems to worry about. Now though, Ally began wondering if the demons were only acting out as reapers and if the people brought their own deaths upon them. She started to wonder if possibly it was everyone's sins that caused the seven deadly sins to take on that persona. Ally began to speak her thoughts out loud.

"Say you have seven groups of people. One group is very greedy and one is very wrathful all the way down the list of the cardinal sins. What if, for each act that represents those sins, those demons we faced take on those sins, like Jesus in a way except less noble. And the more they took in, the worst they became? And what if, that each time they were killed, another person would become the host for the next sin."

This was what worried Ally. They had come across demons that looked like humans before, but it seemed more and more to Ally that they were fighting humans that had just been possessed by the sin of the world.

"Logan, what if were just on a wild goose chase this time and those demons will keep coming back? What is the point? And also, we can't kill every demon there is. What's the point? They just keep coming back. And it's not like we can bring back the life of the person who died?"

logan sat back and thought for a long moment. Ally had made some good points. Logan decided to be completely honest with her.

"Ally, Bobby went over the history of those people because he had the same idea you did. They were just people. As far as we could tell, they were like all other victims of possession. Random." Logan looked out the window for a moment.

"Personally," Logan began, "I think the world is going to end bloody." Logan looked back at his sister, "but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight. Think about all the people we've saved. If we would've just thrown in the towel because we think it's pointless, then all those people would be dead right now. I think we need to protect as many people as we can." Logan smiled.

Ally shook her head and rephrased her words, "I guess I didn't mean it like that. I'm happy that we saved those people, but-" She shrugged, "I don't know. I don't know what I meant by that. I'm just tired. I haven't had sleep in a while."

Looking out the window again and spotting the car, Ally thought about every where they had been. They had been through almost every single state except Pennsylvania. Ally had refused. She had known people from there and to her they were all completely Amish. It would be the last place she would go. Yet, there wasn't a place they had been that didn't bring some sort of surprise and new twists to their already spiraling life. Ally thought back to the dream that she had had. It made sense now. Even if there isn't a point to what she is doing. Even if Logan was right about there not being a God, even then, she couldn't just turn her back on it, because it was a part of her now. It would either trap her, or follow after her.

"Here you go."

Ally turned away from her thoughts to the steaming plate of food being set down in front of them. Bacon, pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream. Ally turned hers around and then saw the message. It was a smiley face. She laughed and shook her head.

"Very funny Logan."

She grabbed her fork now feeling hungry and began eating.

Logan smiled and continued eating. After they were done, Logan paid for the food and they stood to leave. It was pitch black outside and it was beginning to rain a little.

Logan unlocked the Impala and they both got in. Logan started the car but let it sit in the parking lot for a couple minutes. Logan still didn't know where to go.

This was what Ally was afraid of. She had noticed it when they had been on the road for an hour without saying anything to each other after leaving the construction zone. They literally had no where to go. They had been so used to going from one mission to the next, that now that there was nothing at the moment, they were confused as to where to go. Ally looked down at her hands in her lap. They were gripping and fidgeting with her shirt.

"Uhm." She hesitated for words or for an idea of what to do. "Want to go see a movie or something?"

The idea was controversial to where they were which literally could have been the middle of nowhere. Ally kept her eyes in front of her as Logan started pulling out of the parking lot and back onto the road.

"Where are we going?"

There was no answer for a few seconds. Ally wondered if Logan was struggling even himself to answer, but finally he responded.

"I don't know. Where do you want to go?"

Ally hadn't thought of this before. It never had been where did she want to go, it had always been where were they supposed to go. Having a choice now made her so aware of how little choice she did have. The idea of being able to choose where to go left her dumbfounded and unsure. Where was there to go? They had been through every state in the united states and Ally didn't include Pennsylvania in that list. She replaced their state with the District of Columbia. That more of a state than they were in her mind. There were tons of other countries they could go to. There would be demons there for sure as well. That thought made Ally for relaxed. Not knowing where to go frightened her a little.

"Vacation?" She smiled a little at the irony of the word. They couldn't ever go on vacation really, but the word sounded nice.

"Vacation sounds real nice."

Logan shrugged, "Sounds good." Logan pulled onto the road.

Ally looked at him, "Where too?"

Logan smiled, "the next nicest place we pass by."

For a while they drove on. Logan and Ally kept conversation going to keep the time flying by.

When morning came, Ally was curled up asleep on the seat with her blanket around her. The car was pulled into a deserted side road. Desert stretched out as far as the eye could see on either side of the road. The rising sun peaked over the horizon and Ally blinked her eyes open and sat up, bringing the blanket around her like a shawl.

"Oh look at that."

She smiled with delirium and tire still in her eyes. The colors shined brightly and Ally watched with Logan as the sky changed from bright pink hues to a clear blue with few wisps of clouds dotting the view every now and then. After about thirty minutes of silence Ally looked over at Logan and patted his shoulder.

"We should go on a real vacation for these last ten months. Somewhere random out of country. I'm sure there will still be demons where ever we go, so we won't get bored. And we can always ask Bobby for a few credit cards from the morgue for spending money."

Logan knodded, "It's an idea." Logan said looking into the sunrise.

After a moment of silence Ally spoke up, "how could you make that deal Logan?"

Logan shrugged, "cause I couldn't live with you dead. Couldn't do it."

"So now I live and you die?"

Logan smiled, "that's the general idea, yea."

Logan couldn't tell if Ally was serious, sad, or being funny, "Logan, what you did was selfish."

"Yea it was selfish, and I'm ok with that. Truth is, I'm tired Ally. I mean, its like there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

"That light is hellfire Logan."

"Eh, whatever." Logan said looking over at Ally. "You're alive. I feel good, for the first time in a long time. I got a year to live Ally, so why don't we make the most of it, so why don't we kill some evil sons-of-bitches and we raise a little hell?"

"You're unbelievable."

Logan smiled, "Very true."

Ally repositioned the seat up as Logan pulled out onto the high way again. After a few seconds of thought she turned to him still a bit appalled by his care free attitude in their situation.

"Have you even had any sleep?"

"No I have not!" he responded with a smile and turning on the radio to the only shared favorite radio station between the two. High way to hell began to play and the two sat still for a few seconds letting the song sink in before filling the car with laughter.

"Damn Logan. Look where we are heading. This high way leads straight to hell its self."

She motioned towards a sign with a grin on her face. It was the first land marker they had seen revealing where they were heading. It read 'entering Nevada,' and Ally had an interesting thought in her mind.

"You know...I can count cards right?"

Logan smiled, "Yea I know."

The road sped past them and everything in Logan's mind blurred. The clock was ticking and soon Logan wouldn't be around anymore. Logan wasn't sure if he cared or not. He just knew that for 10 months, he could at least try and be happy for the first time in a long time.

Logan looked over at Ally who was staring out the passenger window. Logan knew she could carry on without him. She had too

Logan looked back out the windshield, and for the first time, Logan was afraid...

"Hit." Ally spoke the single word earning her her fifth twenty one for the hour. Counting cards was a knack she had picked up from a group of demons she and Logan had staked out once. Needless to say they were imitators. They possessed a human soul to live again, but they had to take on the bad habits of that human as well. The one she had ran into was a black jack dealer. Imitators were generally harmless. They were just demons who wanted to live again and feel what life was like.

Once the dealer who served at the table Ally occupied took a break, Ally gathered her earnings and went to go find Logan. It didn't take her long to find him, and it didn't surprise her either.

Logan sat at the bar. He had two fingers wrapped around a shot glass. There were a couple empty ones by him already. Logan tilted his head back and swallowed the last one down. After a moment, Logan wiped his hand across his face and rubbed his eyes.

An attractive bartender walked up to Logan and smiled, "Can I get you anything else?"

Logan looked up at her and smiled.

That's when Ally came over and sat by him, "Just the check please."

The bartender looked at Ally and back at Logan, "Okay," she said as she smiled again at Logan and walked away.

Logan hung his head for a second and looked over at Ally, "you know Ally, we are allowed to have fun every once-in-a-while." Logan pointed at the bartender, "that's fun."

Ally burst out laughing and grinned at Logan as she tilted her head looking back at the waitress tending to another person.

"That's fun?" she questioned him turning back to him. "You are telling me that you would rather spend the last days of your life screwing bar tenders than hanging out with your little sister?"

Logan took a moment to think and then shook his head and turned around back on his bar stool hopping off.

"No. Just the hot ones."

Ally scoffed and followed after him.

"Jeez you perv. How would you feel if I had the same habits as you?"

"Well I can tell you the guy you were with wouldn't be feeling much for a few weeks."

"Thanks." She rolled her eyes and stopped to look around. "Well we are here, so what do you want to do?" She looked back at him and shrugged. She had already expended her risk at counting cards. She didn't want to get thrown out before she could even reach her desired quota.

"Maybe I'll just try my luck out again."

Ally smiled with joy and excitement. "Oh, we should go to one of the poker games or something then."

"Not that kind of luck Ally."

"Logan!" Ally yelled after him with shock on her face as he walked off with a grin. She shook her head and then went to find a side restaurant. She was getting hungry again and the cash she had accumulated could have treated her to a five star restaurant. But she would just settle for fries and a soda.

*A few hours later*

"Logan, stop it! You're in no condition to make bets!!" Ally yelled at Logan across the pool table in the hotel bar they were at. Ally looked over at the burly looking man that was smiling at Logan. The man was the classic tough biker look. "My brother is a little sauced to be making bets."

"He insisted," the man said

"Yea, but you've already taken what? Two bills off him already?

"S-shut up Ally, I'm fine."

"You're not fine, you're drunk!" Ally yelled.

"Let's make it 500." Logan said stumbling on his words.

"500!?" Ally yelled appauled.

"Alright," the man said while putting 500 dollars on the table, "your break." The man then started putting the pool balls into position.

Ally and Logan exchanged a look while the man wasn't looking. Ally and Logan smiled at eachother.

Logan aligned his shot, looking drunk again, and hit the ball. On his first hit, five of the solid balls went into different pockets. The man had a dumbfounded look on his face. The game continued until Logan had knocked the eight-ball in and collected his 500 dollars. Logan and Ally began walking up to their hotel room. Logan had decided they deserved to stay in a nice hotel for once.

"Big brother, may I be so honored as to call you an ass hole?" Ally said with a smile on her face as Logan took out the hotel room key for probably one of the nicer hotels the two of them had ever entered.

He laughed a bit and opened the door. "You may."

"You are an ass hole. And that other guy, well he probably just feels like a jack ass made from the ass hole."

"I bet he does. But which ass is sleeping in a five star hotel tonight?"

Ally grinned and ran straight into the room as soon as it was open. She dashed to one of the rooms and jumped on the bed and screamed.

"'Oly shit! NO SPRING MATTRESSES! You know what this means?"

Logan laughed and mumbled to himself. "Doesn't matter now does it? I'm going to be the only to know."

Ally reappeared and walked into the kitchen and opened up the small refrigerator and let out anther shrill squeal as she brought out a fruit tarts and other delectables.

"This may very well be the best place we have ever stayed at. Vacation is awesome. We should do this more often!"

Logan shrugged and corrected her, "Should have. We should have done this more often."

Ally's face fell and she put back the items taken from the fridge. "Logan...," she started and then stopped and sighed, "I think I just decided. Maybe we should spend this time with Bobby as well. It wouldn't be fair to him otherwise. I mean all of this...it seems nice, but it feels bittersweet."