>ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE PT 1<

Something bad is about to happen.

Alayna roughly shoved the thought away, trying to focus on the map in front of her. The bad feelings had graduated into thoughts now. Instead of getting a dark, foreboding twisting of her gut, she would suddenly, randomly get a flash of thought.

Something really bad is about to happen.

The car slowed behind the Impala, and Alayna glanced up to see they were approaching a small cafe that seemed to be open. It wasn't until that moment that she realized how truly hungry she was. The four of them hadn't eaten since breakfast.

"Hey, don't let Sam forget the extra onions this time, huh?" Karoline handed Alayna some money before she could get out of the car fully.

"You know that's right." She took the money, letting the car door close behind her.

"Oh, and some pie!" Karoline added quickly and Alayna just gave a slight wave of acknowledgement as she joining Sam out in the parking lot and headed inside.

"They better get that pie." She looked up startled to see Dean standing by her open car window. She smiled slightly, scooting over into the passenger seat so he could slide in next to her.

"She will," She let him pull her in closer, her eyes fluttering closed as he pressed his lips to her neck briefly before raising the volume of the music playing on the car radio. He pressed his lips to her neck again, which caused a small groan of protest to escape her lips. "You make it so obvious," She murmured, turning her head to meet his lips with a soft kiss that he broke with a chuckle.

"They don't know." Karoline rolled her eyes at Dean's cocky tone of voice. They hadn't exactly told Alayna and Sam that they were dating yet, though Karoline was sure they could tell. Either way, they were telling them tonight. "Besides, I'm not allowed to kiss my girlfriend?" A smile pulled at her lips at his last word. Her attention was pulled to the radio when the sound became staticy and distorted.

"What the Hell." She whispered, fiddling with the dial a moment only for it to go dead silent.

"Kare..." Something in his voice made her look up and when she did her whole world just froze. In the window where Sam and Alayna once stood talking with the waiter was empty, the whole cafe was empty. No one in sight. She grabbed two guns out of the glove box, handing one to Dean before cocking her own and getting out of the car. They ran into the cafe quickly, but quietly. The sound of some sort of country song playing in the back round drowned out the deadly silence as their eyes danced from one dead costumer to the next.

"Alayna?" Karoline called, keeping her gun drawn as she moved around the small building looking for her sister, this awful feeling gnawing at her brain. "Sam?"

"Kare." She turned back to see Dean by the door looking at something on the handle. She crossed over to him in two steps and her eyes widened as she saw what Dean was looking at. Sulfur.

"Sam! Alayna! Sammy! Layna!" Karoline couldn't distinguish her shouts from Deans as they raced back outside, desperately searching for the younger two. Needing them to answer. Needing to know they were okay. Karoline turned to Dean, his wide eyes meeting her own.

***

The first thing Alayna became aware of was a tired pounding behind her eyes and a low, pained moan, which she dimly realized was coming from her own lips. As her eyes fluttered open, the ache faded as the world grew brighter. She was looking up at the cloudy sky with a structure that looked like a barn to her right and some other old, run down building to her left.

The cafe.

She jackknifed into sitting position, her breath coming faster as she remembered what had happened to her. Well, her and... Sam. Sam. Shit. Where was he? What had happened? The last thing she remembered was taking a breath to reply to Sam. There hadn't even been a flash of pain, just one minute she was there, then she smelled the sulfur, and the next she was waking up on the grassy ground, surrounded by old, decrepit buildings.

"Sam!" She yelled the name into the silence that surrounded her as she stood up, fear beginning to rise within her. What if her bad feeling had been about Sam? What if he was... No. No, no, no, no. She couldn't think like that. "Sammy!" She shouted the word again, only to get no answer. She flipped open her cellphone to check for a signal, but it was dead. She mentally cursed herself for forgetting to charge it the previous night.

Kari. Dean.

When Ava had been taken, her fiancee had been killed in their bed. What if Karoline and Dean... What if... She felt her breathing come faster and faster as she spun around and around, searching desperately for anything even remotely familiar. With a massive effort, she forced herself to take a deep breath. Then another. She had to calm down if she wanted any prayer at getting out of here. She had to find Sam. Then, together, they would find a way to get back to Karoline and Dean. Get out of this town.

"Don't move!" She whipped around, her eyes locking on the man, who was threateningly brandishing a piece of wood that looked like a chair or table leg. She took a step towards the dark skinned, tall man, but he raised the wood higher, the warning clear. "Don't," His black eyes were narrowed into suspicious slits as they trained on the brunette.

"It's okay," Alayna held up her hands to show she wasn't the enemy as she took in his camouflaged suit. He was in the army. "Do you know where we are?" She questioned, knowing it was the fastest way to get him to believe she was innocent.

"No," He answered, slowly lowering the piece of wood. "I was hoping you'd be able to tell me," Alayna shook her head and shrugged her shoulders helplessly in response.

"I know about as much as you," Not entirely true but partly. "What's your name?" Alayna asked as she lowered her arms and he tossed the chair leg aside.

"Jake," He replied, glancing around at the surrounding buildings. It looked like something out of a Clint Eastwood movie. There was even a building that had 'Saloon' painted on it with small, sliding doors at the entrance.

"I'm Alayna," She told him earnestly, not tearing her eyes away from the town as she spoke to him. "Let me guess," This time she did turn to look at him. "You have some ability. Something that if you told people about, they'd think you were crazy," Jake's eyes were wide and wary at the same time.

"Yeah..." His eyebrows furrowed as he spoke the word hesitantly. "How did you know that? I've never told anyone,"

"Because I have one, too," This was it. Whatever the demon had in store for all the children like her and Sam, it was happening now. Right here. And they had front row seats.

"Hey!" The female voice called out before either of them could say another word. "Is anybody here?" She kept yelling, and Jake and Alayna exchanged a glance as he picked his stick back up. Alayna crept towards the wall of building to their right, peeking from behind it to see a young, blonde woman pulling her jacket tightly around her while yelling. "Anybody!"

"Hey!" Alayna shouted back to her, stepping out from around the corner after having judged that she was no threat. She whipped around to face Alayna, her dark, heavily lined eyes wide and scared.

"Who're you?" She stepped back as Jake came up beside Alayna to study the woman.

"My name's Alayna. This is Jake," Alayna introduced herself and Jake to the woman, who narrowed her eyes but didn't move away again.

"I'm Lily," She answered cautiously, and Alayna nodded before scanning their surroundings again.

"We should look for others," Alayna decided, the other two both nodded and followed the short girl as she began walking towards the sound.

"Why this way?" Jake questioned, looking around the surrounding area.

"Why not?" Alayna shrugged, not knowing why she had chosen this way herself. Just that it felt like the right choice.

"You asked me if I have an ability," Jake began and Alayna flicked her gaze to him briefly. "Do you?" He turned to look at Lily. "You too?"

"How...how do you know that?" Her voice cracked as she spoke the words fearfully.

"We all have them," Alayna answered her, glaring at Jake, who wasn't exactly easing her into the idea that they all had some sort of power. Jake shrugged unapologetically in response to her look. "How old are you?" Alayna changed the subject with another question she needed answered, those seemed to be in full supply this year.

"Twenty-three," Lily answered just as Jake grabbed Alayna's arm and put his other across Lily's chest, prohibiting her from going any further. "What is it?" Lily asked anxiously, and Jake responded with a finger to his lips.

"Hello?" He called out as the three of them walked up the stairs and on the wood porch around the building. "Anybody there?"

"Hello?" An answering call made her heart squeeze. Sam. Alayna pushed passed Jake, ignoring his shout for her to wait. "Hey!" Sam rounded the corner and relief coursed through Alayna's veins. He was alright. He was unhurt. "Alayna," He breathed out, practically jumping up the stairs while she flung herself at him, winding her arms around his neck tightly.

"Thank God you're okay," Alayna's whispered words were muffled by his shirt as she buried her face in his shoulder. Sam wrapped his arms around her waist tightly as they staggered for a moment. That's when Alayna saw who was standing behind him. "Ava!" She exclaimed in surprise, releasing Sam to hug her instead, but something made her pull out of the hug. She felt... wrong. Something about her felt wrong. Alayna shook off the feeling and embraced Andy as well. "How're you holding up?" She questioned, knowing the kid was probably freaking out.

"Still hoping this is just one hell of an acid trip," He responded meekly, making her laugh genuinely.

"This is Sam," Alayna told Jake, who was regarding Sam with a look of distrust. "We can trust him,"

"Yeah? And how do I know I can trust you?" He had a point, but Alayna shrugged dismissively.

"You don't. But, I'd say your chances are better with us than on your own," She pointed out, and she could tell her argument struck home with him.

"I'm Jake," He introduced himself to Sam before Lily did the same with a half raised hand.

"Are there any more of you?" Sam questioned, glancing at Alayna, but she shook her head.

"How did we even get here. A minute ago, I was in San Diego," Lily spoke up timidly, shoving her hands into her jacket pockets.

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, I went to sleep last night in Afghanistan," Jake told her, making Alayna's eyebrows raise incredulously before she turned to Sam.

"They're both twenty-three, and they're like us," Alayna nodded back to Ava and Andy as she said 'us'. "I didn't ask, but I'm willing to bet the abilities started a little over a year ago," Alayna turned back to Jake and Lily as she continued. "You began to realize you could do things that weren't supposed to be possible," They just stared at the short girl in shock.

"I have visions. I see things before they happen," Sam offered when they still said nothing.

"Yeah, me too," Ava agreed with Sam.

"And I can put thoughts into people's heads - like, make them do stuff," Andy grinned excitedly as he spoke. "Oh, but don't worry. I don't think it works on you guys," He began ascending the steps as he talked. "Oh, but get this - um, I've been practicing. Training my brain, like meditation, right? So now it's not just thoughts that I can beam out, but Images, too - like, anything I want. It's like bam! People, they see it," Sam and Alayna exchanged an amused glance as Andy showed no signs of slowing down his ramble. "This one guy I know - total dick - I used it on him. Gay porn all hours of the day," Alayna couldn't help but let out a small laugh as he giggled at his own joke. "It's just like... You should have seen the look on his face,"

"Andy," Alayna cut in, and he looked around to see no one except her and Sam looking even remotely entertained. He muttered an apology before stepping down the stairs to join Ava at the bottom.

"So you go, 'Simon says give me your wallet,' and they do?" Lily snapped, sounding offended and pissed at Andy's story. "You have visions?" She glanced at Sam and Ava. "That's great. I'd kill for something like that,"

"Lily, listen, it's okay," Sam began, only to be cut off by her furiously accusing voice.

"No, it's not. I touch people and their hearts stop. I can barely leave my house. My life's not exactly improved, so screw you. I just want to go home,"

"And what? We don't?" Jake was the only one to speak up after her rant. She whirled on him with rage, pointing a finger at him

"Hey!" Alayna stepped in front of Jake before she could advance further. "Look we all want to go home, okay?" Alayna swallowed hard as she thought of what that meant to her. "We just have to find a way out of here,"

"Who brought us here?" Andy asked a very good question. Alayna met Sam's eyes and nodded for him to tell them everything they knew. They were involved as much as we were. They had a right to know.

"It's less of a 'who'. It's more of a 'what'," Sam began dejectedly.

"What does that mean?" Ava asked, her voice growing slightly panicked.

"It's, uh..." Sam trailed off uncertainly.

"A demon," Alayna folded her arms over her chest as she spoke the word unapologetically. "A demon is trying to wage a kind of war against humanity and he's using us to fight for him," She ignored Sam's incredulous look as she explained the situation as concisely as she could. They didn't have time to sit around for story time. They had to get out of here. They needed to find Dean and Karoline and stop this demon. They were wasting time.

"So, we're soldiers in a demon war to bring on the apocalypse?" Jake reiterated, anger seeping into his voice.

"Well, when you put it like that-" Jake cut Sam off before he could finish his protest.

"And we've been picked?" Both Sam and Alayna nodded in answer to Jake's question. "Why us?" Was his next one.

"We haven't figured that out yet," Alayna admitted begrudgingly, glancing away from him. "Look, what we do know is-"

"Alayna," She was cut off by Ava, and, when she turned back to look at her, she got that same funny feeling that Ava was somehow not the same woman they'd met earlier. "Psychics and spoon-bending is one thing, but demons?"

"I know it sounds crazy," Sam tried, only to be interrupted by Jake again.

"It doesn't just sound it," Jake snapped irately, causing Sam to whirl around to glare at him.

"I don't really care what you think, okay?" His voice rose as he grew more and more annoyed with the soldier.

"Hey!" Alayna interrupted the impending fight by putting a hand on Sam's chest and forcing him to back up a step. "If we're all here, that means that whatever this demon has in store for us, it's starting,"

"She's right. We have to-" Sam was, again, cut off by Jake.

"The only thing I got to do is stay away from wackjobs, okay?" He descended a step before turning to face Sam and Alayna again. "I've heard enough. I'm better off on my own. FYI - so are you," With that, he turned and began walking away from them.

"Jake, wait!" Alayna called after him, knowing beyond a doubt that he wouldn't make it on his own. "Jake!" He ignored her and was soon out of sight. Alayna let out a groan of exasperation before starting to follow him, but Sam's hand on her arm stopped her. "Something bad's going to happen, Sam. I can feel it," Alayna was stunned to see the hesitation and reluctance in Sam's gaze as she met his eyes with her own. "I'm not going to stand by and let another person get hurt. I won't," She stated with an air of finality in her voice before she tore her arm from Sam's grip and jogged in the direction Jake had gone.

She closed her eyes spinning in a small circle and stopping when her brain screamed for her to do so. She opened her eyes and followed the path she was facing to an abandoned building, grabbing an iron bar that was conveniently leaning against the wall outside of the door.

When she opened the door, she saw a small, childlike figure with hooked claws for fingers and a terrified Jake backing up near the far wall. Without any hesitation, she swung the iron, causing the spirit to dissipate into black smoke and fly through the door, causing Sam and the other psychics to rush to avoid it.

"FYI," Alayna spoke with an edge in her voice to a still petrified Jake. "That was a demon," She walked outside, leaving Jake no choice but to follow her.

"And that thing. I'm not sure, but I think it was an achiri - a demon that disguises itself as a little girl," Sam informed him while Alayna nodded, handing him the iron rod and picking up another for herself. There was a pile of them by the fireplace in the room the demon had been in.

"You okay?" Alayna nudged Andy gently to get his attention, for he had been adamantly looking at the ground with no sign of comprehension.

"Give me a minute," He held up a hand to show he was okay. "I'm still working through 'demons are real'," Alayna gave a soft, strained laugh at his words, trying to make them feel at least a little bit better.

"Hey, look at that," Her eyes rose at Sam's words, and she followed his finger to the brass bell that was hanging over a well. Alayna frowned, not understanding, but she followed him anyway as he walked towards it. "We've seen this bell before," Oh. Comprehension dawned on her, causing her eyes to widen at the realization. "I think I know where we are now. Cold Oak, South Dakota,"

"The town was said to be so haunted that every resident fled from it," Alayna added helpfully, running her fingers over the markings on the bell. Sam and Alayna had debated working this as a job a few months back, but they'd decided against it because no one was getting hurt.

"Swell. Good to know we're somewhere so historical," Ava chimed in sarcastically.

"Why in the world would that demon or whatever, put us here?" Lily was much more serious than Ava appeared to be.

"I'm wondering the same thing," Sam assured her, but she didn't look comforted at all.

"You know what? It doesn't matter," Alayna's eyes snapped to Lily as she began shaking her head and turning around. "Clearly, the only sane thing to do here is get the hell out of dodge,"

"Wait, Lily!" Alayna called after her, and, unlike Jake, she actually stopped to listen to what the short girl had to say. "The only way out of here is through miles and miles of woods,"

"Beats hanging out with demons," She retorted, and Alayna couldn't argue with her logic.

"Lily, we don't know what's going on yet. We don't even know how many of them are out there," Sam pointed out logically, attempting to reason with her.

"Yeah, they're right, we need-" Jake began, coming to our aid.

"Don't say 'we'," Lily snapped, whirling on them with a finger pointed at Jake accusingly while her other hand was wrapped tightly around her necklace. "I'm not part of 'we'. I have nothing in common with any of you,"

"Look, I understand-" Alayna started, but Lily didn't let her get any further.

"You don't know anything!" She snapped at Alayna as the brunette came closer to her. "I to-" Her voice cracked before she could finish her sentence, and her eyes began watering. "I accidentally touched my girlfriend," Alayna took a small steep back, her mind reeling at the news, and she found she could no longer meet her eyes. Her biggest fear was hurting Sam. Karoline. Dean. All of them. Hurting the people she loved most in the world. That had happened to Lily.

"My boyfriend died protecting me," this time it was Lily to look up at her. "It was my fault, so, yeah... I understand."

"I didn't-"

"It doesn't matter," Alayna cut her off. "My sister is out there, and his brother and I have no idea what's happened to them," Alayna glanced back at Sam to see him grow stiff at her words. "We're all in bad shape, but I'm telling you, the best way out of this is to stick together,"

"Fine," Alayna pulled the jacket around herself tightly as Lily finally accepted that they were right.

"Okay," Alayna spoke the word brusquely as she began walking through the village with the other psychics following. "We have to gather as much as we can to fight the demons, or, at least, keep them at bay. Iron, salt, silver - any weapon, really,"

"Salt is a weapon?" Jake's disbelieving tone brought a wry smile to Alayna's lips.

"It's a brave, new world," Sam replied, making Alayna let out a slightly forced laugh.

"Hopefully, there's food in your world cause I'm freaking starving," Andy commented, and Alayna's stomach let out a soft growl of agreement. When they got inside the building, they split up to search for anything of use. Alayna took the kitchen area, rummaging through the cabinets of old, long forgotten food to find something edible or sharp.

Something bad is about to happen.

Alayna frowned as the thought jammed itself into her head again. It was almost as if someone was talking to her inside her own head. She hadn't thought about the weird messages she'd been having. She just assumed that this was the bad thing. The demon had kidnapped - Something really bad is about to happen - Sam and her.

"Hey," Alayna jumped, spinning around to face the man that had spoke the word softly. Andy jerked back away from her in surprise, and she realized that she was brandishing a rusty knife in her hand. She quickly straightened from the squat she had been in and set the knife down on the wooden table.

"Sorry, I'm just a little on edge," Alayna apologized with a sigh, running a hand through her hair. "Just having a rough day, you know?" She made a half-hearted attempt at a joke.

"It's cool," Andy shrugged, giving her a lopsided grin. "I mean, I just found out demons are real. I'm pretty sure we're all having a rough day," Alayna forced a laugh, wishing it was real as she leaned on the counter. "I-I'm sure they're fine," Her eyebrows rose as her gaze fixed on Andy again.

"Who?" Alayna asked, even though she was ninety percent sure she knew who he was talking about.

"Karoline and Dean," He answered, and she was momentarily surprised that he still remembered their names. "I only talked to Dean for a few minutes, but he seemed cool. And Karoline, well-"

"I got it." Alayna cut him off by raising a hand, earning a deep chuckle from the boy. "I hope they are," Alayna replied to Andy's statement.. "I really hope so,"

"Hey, check it out," Andy lifted two miniature burlap sacks before turning his head and yelling, "Guys, I found something!" It wasn't until Alayna read the label on the sacks that she understood his excitement.

"Salt," she muttered with a grin as the others gathered around them.

"That's great, Andy. Now we all can-" Sam began only to be interrupted by Alayna, who had suddenly realized they were one member short.

"Where's Lily?" Alayna asked, her own voice sounding foreign as her stomach twisted and this terrible feeling made her shiver.

"Lily..." Ava repeated timidly.

"Lily!" Sam's call was much louder than Ava's had been, but there was no response. Alayna brushed passed all of them and bolted out of the house, her mind forcing her to turn and look at the windmill to her right. Her hands flew up to her mouth when her eyes landed on the body hanging from it.

"Oh, my God!" Ava cried out as her hands flew up to her mouth in shock and fear. "Okay, that - that's officially just... Sam, she's dead! She's dead! You said we were chosen for a reason. That is not chosen. That's... killed," She spoke, her words quick and strung together as she whirled around to face Sam. "Okay, you know, we have to get out of here."

"I second that notion," Andy agreed.

"Not sure that's an option," Jake deduced his eyes still trained on Lily's lifeless body.

"What?" Ava demanded incredulously.

"Lily tried to leave and... you see how that turned out," Alayna gestured to the body. "It's not like the Demon 'accidentally' strung her up right in the center of town. It's a warning."

"We got to gear up for the next attack," Sam added, nodding in agreement with Alayna's logic.

"Oh, gear up?" Ava echoed sarcastically.

"Yeah," Sam spoke up softly as he and Alayna exchanged worried glances.

"Okay, well, I'm not a soldier. I can't do that!" Ava protested, and finally Alayna just had, had enough. She'd been acting different since the moment Alayna had gotten there. Something was wrong.

"Well, unless you want to die, then you have to," Alayna turned to her abruptly, her voice apathetic. "We need to prepare," Ava pushed passed the rest of the group to hurry back inside the house.

"I'll get her down," Jake told them, jerking his chin toward the corpse.

"You know, I was just thinking about how much Dean and Karoline would help right now," Sam confessed, causing Alayna to stiffen.

"I know what you mean," Alayna forced down the worry and put on a strained smile. "We need a phone,"

"You know you may not need one," Sam and Alayna both turned to Andy as he spoke up. "I, uh, I mean, I've never tried it long-distance before. Do you have anything of Dean or Karoline's on you. Like something they touched? Something personal?" Sam checked his pockets for something, but he came up empty.

"I got something," Alayna spoke up, pulling Karoline's wallet which she still had from when Karoline handed it to her earlier. "This should work, right?"

"Yeah, it'll work," Andy answered, taking the wallet, bringing his free hand up to his temple and squeezing his eyes shut.

***

"This is it. All demonic signs and omens over the past month." Karoline looked over the map Bobby had laid out on the hood of the Impala.

"Are you joking? There's nothing here." Dean turned to Bobby after he looked over the map quickly, but Karoline kept her gaze firmly on the map.

"Exactly." Bobby shrugged, not knowing what else to tell the two.

"Come on, there has to be something," Karoline finally turned to the older man, her blue eyes desperate. "What about normal stuff. Or low-level. Like exorcisms, stuff like that."

"That's what I'm telling you: there's nothing," He shook his head, genuinely sorry he couldn't give her anything more. "It's completely quiet."

"Well, how are we supposed to look for Sam and Alayna?" Karoline felt Dean grow tense next to her as he asked that question, the hand that had once been draped loosely around her waist tightening slightly. "What, do we just close our eyes and point?" Karoline's phone rang, saving Bobby from having to answer. She took a step away from the two boys, as she answered the phone.

"Ash, what do you got?" She questioned as soon as the line clicked through. She had called everyone the minute her and Dean had realized Sam and Alayna were missing. Bobby. Tom. Ash. Axel.

"Okay, listen, it's a big negatory on Sam and Alayna-"

"Ash!" She nearly whined. "You got to have something. This is like searching for two needles in a three-thousand mile haystack, right now."

"Listen, Kare. I did find something." Karoline perked up at his words, turning to meet Dean's gaze.

"What?" She prompted when he didn't continue.

"I can't talk over this line, Kare." He told her, something in his tone of voice worrying her.

"I don't have time for-"

"Make time, okay?" Ash cut in brusquely. "Because this-" He cut off suddenly, his voice muffled as he spoke to someone else. "Not only does this almost definitely help you find your sister and Sam, this is, it's huge. So, get here. Now." He hung up before Karoline could respond. She stared down at her phone before snapping it shut.

"What was that?" Dean asked, his green eyes shining with hope.

"I don't know," She admitted. "But, Ash says it's huge.

"I guess we're going to the Roadhouse," He nodded for her to follow as he got into the Impala, they had left the Buick back at Bobby's house when they had met up with him. The five hour trip was spent in tense silence, it only magnified when they turned the corner to see the roadhouse was nothing more than a pile of rubble on the ground.

"What the hell?" Dean whispered, but Karoline didn't stick around. She jumped out of the car quicker then she ever had, racing across the street and over to the debris. Nothing was left. The entire thing was destroyed.

"Oh, my God..." She whispered, spinning in a circle as she looked around desperately for anyone. Ash. Ellen. Axel.

"You see Ellen?" Her attention snapped to Dean as he and Bobby came over to her.

"No. No Ash, either." Bobby answered when the blonde didn't. Her eyes caught a small flash and her gaze turned downward to a small watch. Ash's watch. She knelt down to pick it up, immeadiatly jerking back with a gasp when she saw it was still attached to a hand. Ash.

"Damn it." Karoline let herself fall back onto the ground, dropping her head into her hands as she repeated the words over and over again.

"Hey, hey," Dean knelt down in front of her, forcing her to look up at him.

"What's happening, Dean?" He shook his head, wishing more than anything that he could give her the answers she was looking for.

"I wish I knew."

"This is..." Bobby trailed off, not having any words to describe what he was thinking. Dean looked up at the older man then back down at Karoline.

"I need to call Axel," She whispered, pulling her phone out. "He might know what Ash was going to tell us." She explained without them having to ask, but she didn't raise her eyes from her phone as she dialed Axel's number easily and raised the phone to her ear.

"Kare?" His voice made it clear how weird he thought her random call was.

"Axel, I need you to do me a favor." She trained her gaze on her hands as she spoke.

"What's wrong?" He inquired worriedly.

"Something happened," She shook her head, daring to look up at the mess that was left of the Road House. "The Road House... it burned down."

"What? How?" His voice rose slightly, his bewilderment and worry clear.

"I don't kn-"

"What about Ellen? And Ash?" His questions kept pouring out, cutting her off.

"I don't know where Ellen is." She told him, shaking her head.

"And Ash?" He repeated when he realized Karoline had yet to answer him about his best friend's whereabouts. Karoline shook her head silently, her eyes zoning in on the watch. "Where's Ash?"

"Axel, I'm so sorry." She apologized without really saying it, but she didn't need to. The tone in her voice made it clear.

"Damn it!"

"Axel-" She was barely able to say his name before there was a loud clatter on the other line and then it went dead. She looked down at the phone in defeat, slowly closing it. She looked up at Dean, but he already had a good idea what had gone down on the other side of the phone call.

"What the hell did Ash know?" Dean asked, no one having the answer. "We've got no way of knowing where Ellen is. Or if she's even alive. We've got no clue what Ash was gonna tell us. Now, how the hell are we gonna find Sam and Alayna?" Dean's words were rushed and tense only making Karoline panic more.

"We'll find them." Bobby promised, his voice coming in and out as a sudden pain erupted in the back of Karoline's skull.

"How?" Dean inquired heatedly. Karoline let out a groan of pain as she grabbed at her head. "Kare?" She could barely make out Dean's voice anymore. She heard the cry of pain pass her lips, images flashing through her head. An old town. A giant gold bell. And just like that it was gone. She blinked rapidly as she straightened up, the first thing she saw was Dean's wide, worried eyes. "What was that?"

"Probably, just a headache," She brushed it off, letting Dean help her to her feet.

"You get headaches like that a lot?" Bobby asked, his own voice laced with concern.

"No," Karoline shook her head confused. "I think... I think, I saw something." She admitted, looking between the two men.

"What do you mean? Like a vision? Like what Sam gets?" Karoline opened her mouth to respond to Bobby's questions, but Dean beat her to it.

"What? No!" Dean protested immeadiatly, his hand wrapping around her waist comfortably.

"I'm just saying." Bobby shrugged. Again, Karoline felt the small nip of pain at the back of her head, and her hand immeadiatly flew up to press against her forehead.

"Come on, she's not some psychic." Dean argued, rolling his eyes like it was the most absurd thing he'd ever hear. Karoline let out a soft whimper, leaning against Dean for support as she felt like her head was going to explode. More images of the dirty, old town flashed through her mind. Sam. Alayna.

"Kare? Kare!" Dean cradled her face in his hands as she blinked back to reality. "Hey, you okay?" Karoline just shook her head and Dean glanced back at Bobby worriedly before returning his gaze to Karoline.

"I saw them," She whispered, confused by her own thoughts. "Sam and Alayna. I saw them." She looked from Dean's wide eyes to Bobby's.

"It was a vision." Dean shot Bobby a look that he ignored.

"Yeah, I think so," She nodded, straightening up as the pain subdued. "I can see why Sam always looks like he's sucking on a lemon. Damn, that hurts." Dean let out a soft chuckle that didn't really reach his eyes.

"What did you see?" He asked, curious and anxious for the answer.

"A, uh... a bell." She nodded, sure of the image etched into her mind.

"What kind of bell?" Her gaze shifted passed Dean to Bobby at his question.

"It was big, with this engraving," She explained, her choice of words catching Bobby's attention. "This big tree. Oak, I think."

"I know where they are." Dean eyes snapped to Bobby as Karoline's eyes widened.

***

Sam worked on unscrewing the iron pipe from the contraption in front of him while Jake worked opposite him. It was lucky that Jake had found a sort of scrap metal shed at the far end of the town. Sam glanced up as he heard metal screaming in protest, and his eyebrows rose as Jake ripped off a metal stick like the iron was paper. "I-I'm not superman or anything," Jake began protesting in response to Sam's impressed glance. "It's no big deal,"

"You were in Afghanistan when this started?" Sam decided to make conversation. If they were all stuck here together, they may as well get to know each other.

"I started getting headaches, then, uh, there was this accident. This guy flipped his vehicle on a bad road, got pinned underneath. I lifted it off him like it was nothing. E-everybody said it was a fluke adrenaline thing,"

"But, then you did it again, right?" Sam guessed, and Jake gave a small smile.

"Bench-press eight hundred pounds, stone-cold calm," Sam just gave a small chuckle. He had really gotten the bad end of this whole 'psychic' thing. "I never told anybody, of course. It's just too crazy,"

"Yeah, well, crazy's relative," Sam informed him, letting out another small chuckle.

"I'm starting to get that," Jake bent down to study the old mechanism some more as he continued. "You and your girl, you see a lot of this?"

"Alayna's, uh, Alayna's not my girl," He corrected, causing Jake to glance up at him, straightening again.

"Oh, sorry, I just assumed..." Sam shook his head and shrugged.

"I like her," He explained continuing his work with the pipe. "But, with everything that's been going on..." Sam trailed off with a shrug.

"Oh," Jake narrowed his eyes at Sam but decided not to press the matter. "Well, I, uh, appreciate what you two are doing here," His answer surprised Sam, who stopped working.

"What are we doing?" He questioned, raising his eyebrows curiously.

"Keeping calm, keeping them calm, especially considering how freaked to Hell you both really are," Sam managed an uneasy smile, unnerved at how well Jake had read the situation. "I've been in some deep crap before myself. I know the look,"

"Want to know the truth?" Sam asked earnestly, and Jake remained silent, waiting for him to go on. "My brother Dean, he's always telling me how he's gonna watch out for me, how everything's gonna be okay, like I've been telling them,"

"Yeah?" Jake prompted as Sam glanced back at the house portion of the building where he knew Alayna was working on calming down the two innocent ones in the company.

"I don't know if I believe it this time," He confessed openly. "I mean, the size of what's coming - it's bigger than anyone's ever seen. I mean, it's gonna get bad, and I-I don't know if-"

"If we're gonna make it," Jake finished for him, having had those thoughts himself more often than he could count. "It doesn't matter if we believe it. Only matters that they do."