Hunter: Part 2
Dean decided to look around the house and figure out what he killed. He searched the main floor, kitchen, bathroom, and living room and found nothing. He proceeded to check upstairs he searched both rooms and the joint bathroom and found nothing. Once he got to the master bedroom he smelled something so foul. He held his nose. He smelt it getting stronger in the bathroom.
He pulled back the shower curtain and saw blood, carnage, and bones. He shut the curtain.
“Fucking sick”
He hesitated to open the bloody closet next to it but opened it anyway. He saw meat suits hanging up on hangers like clothes. These were fresh.
“Fucking shapeshifters! Great now I gotta burn the place”
He walked back downstairs in a hurry to get back to the gas station. He stopped short, he heard screaming coming from below.
“Help! Somebody help me please!”
He checked all the doors to see if there was a basement. In the kitchen, he found a side door with a huge lock on it. He hated wasting silver bullets so he punched it off.
He walked down the squeaky stairs. The dust was overbearing. He wondered how anybody could scream through all of it. Spider webs all over the ceiling looked as if it was abandoned months ago. He heard a voice call out.
“Who’s there?”
“Mmmm you first”
Dean made direct eye contact with a young woman who was chained up. The chains were rusty and her clothes torn.
“Please help me!”
“Okay just hold on a second. How do I know you're not a shapeshifter?”
“Is that what they’re called?”
Dean didn’t answer, he didn't buy the act.
“I’m not, I promise I’m not. I’ve been chained up here for weeks… I think I’m not sure how long it’s been. That thing looked like my fiancé but it wasn’t.”
“Your fiancé? Okay look let me just test it.”
“Okay”
He walked over to the young woman with his silver knife at the ready. She backed away in fear.
“Relax I just need to put it against your skin”
She held out her right arm and he gently placed the knife on her skin.
“Your clean”
“Okay great let me go please”
Dean took her chains and broke them apart with his hands.
“Thank you!”
“Do you have a family? A place you could go?”
“Liam was my only family”
“I understand you can stay with a friend of mine”
The young woman nodded.
“What’s your name?”
“Rose”
“Okay Rose I’m Dean”
“Thanks for saving me, Dean”
“I need you to go upstairs put some fresh clothes on grab whatever you want from your fiancé's stuff and fast”
“Okay”
They both quickly walked up the basement stairs. Rose went into Liam’s bedroom while Dean headed for the car. Dean sped all over to the gas station and charged into the store.
“Gasoline where?”
The cashier looked at Dean in confusion.
“Dude this is a gas station there is gas everywhere … weren’t you just here”
“The gallons of gasoline you keep in the back and don’t tell me you don’t have any because I know you do.”
“Taking some for the road? Smart.”
“Where?”
“Here you go but it’s empty gotta fill it up”
Dean walked over and rustled 20$ out of his pocket and slammed it on the counter.
“Keep the-“
“Yea I know Mr fancy man keep the change”
Dean walked away in a rush to get back to the house. He quickly filled the gallon container.
Once he got back to the house he started to pour gasoline on the steps. Rose came out wearing Liam’s baggy clothes and holding a small duffle bag.
“You’re setting the place on fire?
“Go wait in the car”
Rose didn’t question Dean; after all, he did just save her and seemed to know what he was doing.
Dean poured gasoline all over the house. Before he turned on the stove he searched the place for money and valuables. He only found 700 in cash.
He then turned on the stove and took a match from his pocket and threw it in the basement. He walked out as if he was fireproof and got in the car.
He took a deep breath and let it out.
After hours of being on the road, Dean was tired and his eyes felt heavy. He swerved off the road a couple of times, almost hitting trees. Rose jumped out of her sleep and saw Dean was barely staying awake.
“Hey I could drive if you're tired”
“No, I’m fine”
“Look you're going to kill us both, trust me let me drive, just tell me where we are going and I’ll get us there. You need rest.”
“Relax we’re almost there”
Rose realized Dean wasn’t too trusting and stubborn. She didn’t bother him anymore about driving but she did stay awake to keep him from crashing.
“So you kill shapeshifters?”
“Yes… among other things”
“Other things such as”
Dean sighed.
“Vampires, werewolves, demons, etc you get the picture?”
“Those… those things are real”
“If shapeshifters are real then you better believe the rest are.”
“Wow okay so why do you have to do it like you just like too… or?”
Rose looks at Dean in curiosity. She stares at him, almost pressuring him into an answer.
“Because I’m the only one that can”
Rose didn’t ask any more questions she could see Dean was very closed off and most likely grumpy from lack of sleep. She turned to face out the window. She had to let all that information soak into her brain for a minute.
“I know it’s a lot”
“I want to help”
Dean briefly looked at Rose then put his eyes back on the road.
“Help? Help with what?”
“The monster killing”
“If I had a penny every time I heard that.”
“Those creatures took something from me… the love of my life… we were gonna get married… have kids…you know start a family. The whole stupid white picket fence thing.”
“It’s not stupid”
“It is now”
Dean didn’t know what to say.
“I want to help”
“You need to understand what you’re signing up for… this life comes with sacrifices”
“Everything I had to live for died…”
Dean felt bad for Rose, he understands the pain of losing someone to these monsters. Just thinking about who he lost made him change his mind.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea I never recommend this to anybody but if you want to who I am to take that decision from you”
“Well thank you”
“This decision made this ride a whole lot shorter so we are here”
“Where is here?”
“Home”
They pull up to a dusty old bunker with a steel door. It was hidden in the woods about 5 miles from the road. There was a man outside smoking a cigarette. His face was sweaty like he was running in a marathon. His t-shirt had little tiny drops of what looked like blood.
“Welcome back, you brought in another stray”
“This is Rose she will be joining us”
Rose looked at the man suspiciously; something about him seemed untrustworthy. She walked closer to Dean; the man noticed and weirdly smiled at her.
“Don’t worry about Mack”
Rose just followed Dean down the stairs where more people were reloading guns and craving stakes. Dean stopped in the middle of the room.
“Everyone listen up!”
Everybody in the room gave Dean their attention.
“This is Rose she will be joining us, I want y’all to teach her everything you know”
Dean then pointed to each person to quickly introduce Rose to everyone.
“This is Jack”
“Hi Rose”
“This is Blake”
Blake nodded.
“This is Davina and Lily”
Rose smiled at each person uncomfortably. She wasn’t good at meeting new people.
“Davina will take it from here I have to go do something”
“Okay mmmm make sure you get rest”
Dean smiled at Rose and then walked away towards a room in the back.
“So what was the creature?”
“I’m sorry?”
“The creature that destroyed your life that made you turn to hunting”
“Oh shapeshifter”
“For me werewolves”
“You're so calm about it, how?”
“I guess I’m just not dealing with it. Lily and I ran into Dean about three weeks ago. We left our town because it was infested with werewolves.”
Davina gestured to Rose to sit in a nearby chair. Rose sat in the uncomfortable wooden chair.
“Dean and everybody drove back with us a week later to wipe them out but they were all gone.”
Rose didn’t know what to say.
“I know it’s a lot but if you’re serious about it then you need to train. Blake is a trainer he’s training Lily tomorrow maybe you should join them”
“Yea maybe”
Davina saw the uncertainty in Rose’s eyes.
“And if you aren’t serious let Dean know when he comes back and he’ll take you to Momma Leanne.”
“Who is Momma Leanne, she helps you live a normal life”
“How is that?”
“I don’t know I choose to come here”
Rose suspected that Momma Leanne is who Dean was taking her to before she changed her mind.
Dean came back over to make sure Rose was settling in okay.
“Everything okay?”
“Yes, are you going to rest now?”
Dean laughed.
“Don’t worry about that, we are all about to get some”
Rose smiled. Something was happening to her, that feeling she got when she met Liam. That tingly feeling in her heart like butterflies fluttering all around trying to bust out.
“D can you help Rose get settled in? I have to tell Mack to come back in.”
“Yea no problem she can bunk with me and Lily.”
“Great, I didn't think she’d want to share a room with Blake.”
“Yea he snores way too loud.”
Hours later, Davina, Lily, and Rose are in bed.
Rose stares over at the bunk bed where Davina and Lily are and whispers.
“Hey?”
“Yea?” Answered Davina
“Do you hear that?”
“Hear what?”
“Sounds like an alarm”
Davina immediately jumps out of the top bunk bed and puts her boots on. She grabs her gun off the table. Rose jumps up and goes after her.
They both creep back into the main hall and there it was the alarm going off. Flashing red lights and a loud siren. Dean, Blake, Jack, and Mack are all at the bottom of the stairs with guns ready. Davina walks up behind Dean.
“What’s going on?”
“Something tripped the alarm”
“Well duh but what is it”
“I don’t know”
Davina rolled her eyes.
“How about one of you go check”
Mack heard Davina and volunteered himself. He walked up the stairs slowly and pushed open the door. He only saw a tiny rabbit.
“It’s just a little bunny rabbit”
Everybody relaxed and put their guns down except Dean.
“Relax it’s just a rabbit Dean you scared of rabbits” Jack teased
“No Jack I’m not but rabbits can’t trip my silent alarm unless it was at least 5 feet tall”
They all looked back at the door.
“Close the door” shouted Rose
