BUGS [PART THREE]
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"Wow, Dean. It's like I'm seeing you in a whole new light."
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"Not the time, Jules!"

• • •

The family of four pull up outside the local university, Dean had made an appointment with one of the professors to see if the bones they found checks out.

Juliet is quick to jump out of the car, eager to stretch her legs. She holds the box of bones in her hands, her jacket covering the top, so no one can see inside the box. She can imagine that it wouldn't be a very nice thing for the college-goers to see, a skull and a bunch of bones. They would think they were freaks.

The hunter lets out a sigh of relief as she stretches her back as Sam and Dean get out of the car, the latter of the two making his way round the back and opening the car door, he smiles as eyes identical to his, stare up at him.

"Someone's in a happy mood, huh?"

Harlow smiles up at her father as she energetically nods her head, "Uh huh. I wanna see inside the school!" Dean laughs as he unbuckles her from her booster seat and carries her out of the car on his hip.

As Dean carries her round to where Juliet and Sam are waiting, Harlow looks up at him with both of her eyebrows raised, "Daddy?" Dean hums in reply, letting her know that he's listening. "Why don't I go school?"

Dean pauses in his footsteps, she's never asked that question before, at least not directly to him. The hunter shakes his head as he resumes walking. "Well..honey. Erm..." He looks up to Juliet, lost on what to say. The said huntress chuckles as she swoops in to save him from hurting his brain from thinking of an answer. Honestly, if he's not careful, Dean will lose the last remaining brain cells he has, which isn't many.

Juliet shakes her head as she brushes some of Harlow's hair from her face.

"What your father is trying and failing to say is; we're always on the road, honey. Mine, your daddy's and uncle Sammy's job doesn't allow us to stay in one place all the time. We're always moving which means you won't be able to get a good education, it's complicated."

Harlow nods her head, "It's otay, mommy. I rather you and daddy teach me stuff."

Juliet smiles and places a kiss on her daughter's head.

"I'm glad it doesn't upset you, bub. Me and your dad love teaching you new things, too."

Dean smiles as he adjusts his grip on Harlow, feeling her slipping down. He uses his free hand to boop her on the nose, causing her to purposefully go cross-eyed. "See, that's why you're my favorite child."

Harlow giggles, "I your only child, daddy." A thought then strikes the five year old girl and she looks to her mom, hope shinning in her emerald green eyes. "Can I have a brother or sister, mama?"

Dean chuckles as Juliet's eyes widen, having not expected that question to come from her daughter. The huntress fumbles with her words and instead, turns to Sam and shakes the box that's in her hands. "So, the bones."

Sam chuckles and shakes his head as a pout pulls at Harlow's lips from being ignored. "That's not very nice." Dean chuckles and places a kiss on the side of her head. "You're mom just doesn't know what to say, honey. Why don't you ask her again, later?"

Juliet, hearing Dean's words, sends him a glare that has him hiding in his daughter's hair as he tries and fails to hide his laughter.

Sam decides to humor Juliet and switch the subject to the box in her hands. He motions to it with a nod of his head, "So, a bunch of skeletons in an unmarked grave." Dean decides to partake in the conversation as he sets Harlow down and grabs her hand instead to stop her from running off into oncoming cars as the family of four continue walking towards the university. Dean pulls a face, like an upside down frown, before replying to Sam.

"Yeah. Maybe this is a haunting. Pissed off spirits? Some unfinished buisness?"

Juliet gives her boyfriend a look at his use of language, which the oldest Winchester brother holds his hands up to. Silently telling Juliet that he didn't mean to use vulgar language in front of their daughter. The brown-haired huntress just rolls her eyes in reply as a smirk pulls at the corners of her lips.

Sam, not noticing the silent exchange between the two, shrugs his shoulders in reply to Dean's earlier theories. "Yeah, maybe. Question is, why bugs? And why now?"

Juliet, still smirking, turns to look at Sam.

"Hate to break it to you, Sammy but those were two questions."

The younger Winchester brother ignores her and Dean takes that as his que to ask his brother a question he's been dying to know the answer to since they followed Matt. "Yeah, so with that kid back there...why'd you tell him to just ditch his family like that?"

Sam, thrown off by Dean's question, has to think for a second before answering knowing what his brother can be like and knowing how quick he is to stick up for their father.

"Just, uh...I know what the kid's goin' through."

Dean raises an eyebrow at that, not satisfied with his brother's answer. Juliet crosses her arms as she sighs, "Oh, boy. Here we go." Dean ignores her and continues to look at Sam with his eyebrows still raised.

"How 'bout tellin' him to respect his old man, how's that for advice?"

Sam sighs, "Dean, come on."

They stop walking and Harlow, feeling the tension start to rise between her father and uncle, moves to stand next to Juliet, who adjusts the box in her hands so she can hold it with just one while her now free hand holds Harlow's. The two brother's have a stare off for a few moments before Sam sighs, knowing what his brother is really getting at.

"This isn't about his old man. You think I didn't respect dad. That's what this is about."

Dean rolls his eyes, not about to admit to his brother that that's how he's truly feeling. Juliet, who's always been able to read her boyfriend like he's an open book, gives the said man a look and raises both her eyebrows.

Dean feeling her stare on him, sighs before shaking his head.

"Just forget it, all right? Sorry I bought it up."

Sam shakes his head, not letting Dean do what he always does; drop the topic before they can actually talk it out. Juliet gives Dean another look, knowing what he can be like, too. But she also knows what Sam can be like, growing up wasn't easy for him but that's not to say sometimes he didn't make it easy. If anything, both father and younger son are as bad as each other.

Dean and her were the good little soldiers whereas Sam always clashed with John, the two never seeing eye to eye. Hell, she's had numerous times where she has butted heads with John but never moreso than Sammy.

But she knows that John just wanted to protect her youngest Son from the harsh world, and she gets it now she has a child of her own. She'd want to protect Harlow from anything and everything, too.

Sam continues to look at Dean with a certain look on his face that looks like a mix between frustration and pleading for Dean to understand.

"I respected him. But no matter what I did, it was never good enough."

Juliet tilts her head at Sam's words as she furrows her eyebrows.

"Sammy, that's not how it was at all. John loved you."

Sam just scoffs as Dean, too, tilts his head.

"So what are you sayin'? That Dad was disappointed in you?"

Sam kisses his teeth as he shakes his head so vigorously that Juliet thinks his head might actually come flying off.

"Was? Is. Always has been."

The look of annoyance in Dean's eyes changes to a much softer look.

"Why would you think that?"

Sam's arms flail wildly as he debates to speak his mind to Dean and Juliet. After a few moments of internally arguing with himself, he comes to a decision and with one final sigh, he comes clean and opens up to his brother and bestfriend.

"Because I didn't want to bowhunt or hustle pool - because I wanted to go to school and live my life, which, to our whacked-out family, made me the freak."

Harlow looks to her Uncle with a pout on her lips as she crosses her arms and squints her eyes at him. The said Winchester eyes her, seeing a mix of Dean and Juliet in her action. He's broken out from his train of thought by Harlow's voice.

"Hey! That's not very nice. Grandpa isn't a mean person and we are not whacked-out!"

Sam goes to reply and say something about John, most likely to set her straight on who and what kind of person her grandfather really is, but after receiving harsh looks from both Dean and Juliet, he decides against it.

Juliet's eyes soften as she eyes Sam, "You were never a freak, Sam. Don't you say that. John never stopped loving or caring about you. Hell, he even stopped by Stanford on more than one occasion."

Before Sam can reply to Juliet, Dean snorts and nods his head from side to side, as if he's contemplating his brother's words. "Yeah, you were kind of like the blonde chick in The Munsters."

Sam rolls his eyes at Dean's reference and looks to Juliet, silently asking her for her help but the only Sullivan descendant just shrugs her shoulders as if to say she doesn't know what to say to her boyfriend's words.

Sam looks back to his brother, "Dean, you know what most dads are when their kids score a full ride? Proud. Most dads don't toss their kids out of the house."

Dean nods his head, "I remember that fight. In fact, I seem to recall a few choice phrases comin' out of your mouth."

Sam ignores him, "You know, truth is, when we finally do find dad...I don't know if he's even gonna wanna see me."

Juliet throws her arms up, slightly pissed off.

"Now you're just being stupid."

Sam shakes his head but doesn't reply to Juliet's words.

Dean sighs and shakes his head, not liking that his brother is feeling the way he is. "Sam, Dad was never disappointed in you. Never. He was scared." His little brother furrows his eyebrows as he smirks, slightly confused. "What are you talkin' about?" Dean exhales, "He was afraid of what could've happened to you if he wasn't around. But even when you two weren't talkin'...he used to swing by Stanford whenever he could."

The smirk on Sam's face slowly fades as Dean continues, "Keep an eye on you. Make sure you were safe."

The color drains from Sam's face as he feels all the air leave his lungs, like he's just been slapped in the face with one of Juliet's shoes.

"What?"

Dean nods his head, once more.

"Yeah."

Sam exhales a breath, "Why didn't you or him tell me any of that?"

Juliet narrows her eyes at Sam. "I literally just did, not even five minutes ago. What do you hear when I open my mouth? I didn't realize that I was on mute. Also, it works two ways, Sammy. You could've picked up the phone and then maybe he would have told you."

Sam stares at the two other hunters, his expression one of sadness but they don't dwell on it for long as Dean checks his watch and takes the box from Juliet's arms. "Come on, we're gonna be late for our appointment."

Dean and Juliet walk ahead, the latter of the two still keeping a tight grip on Harlow's hand. Sam follows behind them, his mind reeling at the pieces of new information he's just recieved. Of course he heard Juliet, but he wasn't sure whether she was just saying it to make his feeling less hurt.

• • •

In one of the college classrooms Dean, Juliet and Sam stand and talk to the college Professor, Dean had made the appointment with as Harlow looks around the room in wonder, being as this is her first time in a classroom.

The college Professor eyes the three hunters with an eyebrow raised, apprehensive about them. "So, you three are students?" He looks to the five-year old child, wandering around the room. "Students with a kid?"

Dean and Juliet share a look with one another, if they had a penny for everytime they were asked about Harlow, well they wouldn't be living in motels. Sam, feeling his brother and best friend's annoyance rolling off them in waves, is quick to nod his head, "Yeah. Yeah, uh, we're in your class - Anthro 101?"

The Professor nods his head, believing the younger Winchester brother. He motions his head back to Harlow, still curious about the child. "And the girl?" Juliet smiles politely at him, "Couldn't find a sitter in time." She smirks as the older man takes her word for it, that response always works like a charm. The Professor nods his head at Sam in reply to them being in his class, "Oh, yeah."

Dean looks to the teacher and raises an eyebrow at him as Harlow comes running over and stands between him and Juliet.

"So, what about the bones, Professor?"

The said man turns back to the now open box of a skull and bones that sit on his desk, under a desk light. They'd just been analyzed by the college Professor.

"This is quite an interesting find you've made. I'd say they're 170 years old, give or take. The timeframe and the geography heavily suggest Native America."

Juliet and Sam share a look before the former one of the two turns back to the Professor, her head tilted in curiosity. "Were there any tribes or reservations on that land?" She frowns as the older man shakes his head, "Not according to the historical record." Seeing the dissapointed look on Juliet's face, the Professor feels like he isn't being much help, so he gives them another bit of information. "But the, uh, relocation of native peoples was quite common at that time."

Sam nods his head, "Right. Well, are there any local legends? Oral histories about the area?"

The Professor pauses, thinking of an answer before nodding his head, too.

"Well...you know, there's a Euchee tribe in Sapulpa. It's about sixty miles from here. Someone out there might know the truth."

The three hunters share a look with one another before Dean turns to look back at the Professor and nods his head with a small smile on his face, "All right."

• • •

Juliet sits in the passenger seat of Baby as Dean drives down a dirt road, Sam sits in the back with Harlow, the little Winchester reading a pop up book on dinosaurs, her current new interest.

The sun shines down on the family of four, causing the car to feel like a sauna on the inside. Juliet cracks open her window as her sunglasses sit on the slope of her nose. They decided to make use of the information that the college Professor had given them and are making their way to that said location.

The huntress looks to her boyfriend with one of her eyebrows raised as the said man curses under his breath.

"Damn it."

She tilts her head at him, "We're not lost are we?"

Dean scoffs at the teasing tone in Juliet's voice, shrugging off her words and trying to play it cool, "What? No.." The brunette eyes him from over the frame of her sunglasses as she chuckles, "Ha. I asked you if you knew where we were going and you said and I quote, "I'm an expert with directions, babe. Have some faith in me" and look at that, we're lost."

Dean rolls his eyes, not actually annoyed with Juliet. He knows that from the tone of her voice she isn't annoyed at him, either and is more than likely just making a point. Before he can counteract that said point, Juliet nodding her head gets his attention. She subtly motions towards a man that's walking up the road. "Hey, we can ask him for directions. It doesn't look like that big of an area, I get the feeling that this is an 'everybody knows everybody' kinda neighborhood."

Dean nods his head and rolls down his window once the Native American is close enough and is in hearing distance.

"Excuse me, sir. We're lookin' for a man named Joe Whitetree, I don't suppose you know where to find him? That's if you know him at all."

Juliet smirks and gives Dean a knowing look as the Native American man nods his head and explains that the best place to find him is the diner a few minutes up the road.

Dean nods his head and thanks the man before continuing on in the direction the stranger had told them to go.

• • •

Dean, Juliet and Sam enter the diner that the stranger had pointed them in. Juliet holds Harlow's hand as the three hunters look around the building before their eyes land on another Native American Man with white long hair, tucked away in a corner of a booth, playing cards.

The three hunters share a look before walking over to the white haired man, out of the three hunters, Sam takes the lead and decides to strike the conversation.

"Joe Whitetree?"

The said man nods his head as he eyes all three hunters. Sam lifts a curios eyebrow, "we'd like to ask you a few questions, if that's alright?"

Without leaving much room for a reply, Dean decides to do what they've always done; cover their tracks and hide who they really are from strangers.

"We're students from the university."

Joe Whitetree takes one look at the three hunters and the little Winchester before shaking his head, "No, you're not. You're lying."

Dean looks taken back by the man's abruptness. The older Winchester brother sighs, "Well, truth is." Once again, before Dean can finish what he's saying, the Native American shakes his head, again. "You know who starts sentence with "truth is"? Liars."

Harlow, knowing that a long-winded conversation is about to happen, decides to take herself out of the narrative and takes a seat at the nearest table, making sure to be in eye view of her parents.

Back with the three hunter's, Dean exchanges a look with both Juliet and Sam, both best friends, like the children that they are, try to stiffle their laughter at Dean being called out. Juliet shakes her head as she places a hand on Dean's shoulder while addressing the man sitting in front of them.

"Oasis Plains? Have you heard of it? It's a housing development near the Atoka Valley."

Joe smiles as he turns to Dean and motions to the huntress with a nod of his head, "I like her. She's not a liar."

Dean looks as if he's about to punch the white haired man. Juliet sees this and is quick to rub his back soothingly which works albiet only lightly.

Usually, Juliet would be smirking at not being called a liar but Joe's words aren't exactly true, if you look at the more bigger picture. She's been lying to the boys' for weeks now and she still wants to shout it out from the rooftops and put their minds to rest on where their missing father is, but she won't because she promised John...well more like he ordered her not to and like the good little soldier she is, Juliet had and will continue to obey.

She's broken out from her thoughts by the sound of Joe's voice. Her eyes come back into focus and sees him already staring at her. "I know the area."

Sam furrows his eyebrows as he tilts his head like a curious puppy that's just been told he's about to either go for a walk or get fed.

"What can you tell us about the history there?"

Joe eyes Sam as he pauses his card game to give the Winchester's his full and undivided attention.

"What do you wanna know?"

Sam exhales a breath as he shares a look with Dean and Juliet before turning back to look at Joe, deciding to be honest about what's happening, seeming as the man values honesty.

"Something... something bad is happening in Oasis Plains. We think it might have something to do with some old bones we found down there - Native American bones."

Joe pauses for a minute, like he's processing the information that Sam has given him. The Native American man sighs before nodding his head, as if he was having a silent agreement with himself. He looks back to the three hunters as he says his next words.

"I'll tell you what my grandfather told me, what his grandfather told him," Juliet looks at Joe like she's holding out on every word he's about to say as if it's a lifeline, "Two hundred years ago, a band of my ancestors lived in that valley. One day, the American cavalry came to relocate them. They were resistant, the calvary impatient. As my grandfather put it, on the night the moon and the sun share the sky as equals, the calvary first raided our village. They murdered, raped."

Juliet feels her heart break at hearing the ordeal that these people went through, no one should have to go through life like that. Every country in the world has a history that they're ashamed of, and this is theirs. The huntress feels like saying something, comforting the man but decides against it and instead continues to listen to the story.

"The next day, the calvary came again, and the next, and the next. And on the sixth night, the calvary came one last time. And by the time the sun rose, every man, woman, and child still in the village was dead. They say on the sixth night, as the chief of the village lay dying, he whispered to the heavens that no white man would ever tarnish this land again. Nature would rise up and protect the valley. And it would bring as many days of misery and death to the white man as the calvary had brought upon his people."

Dean shrugs his shoulders as he pulls a disgusted face, "Insects. Sounds like nature to me. Six Days."

Joe eyes Dean with a certain look in his eyes like he can't tell if the older Winchester brother is being serious or if he's making a joke out of the situation. Either way, Joe's next words really hit home how dire the situation really is.

"And on the night of the sixth day, none would survive."

Dean, Juliet and Sam share a look with one another at hearing those words. They need to put an end to this, now and if they can't do that, then they'd do what they always do, try and save Matt and his family and after that... try and ward people off from ever going back to the Oasis Plains area.

• • •

The three hunter's, plus the Winchester child, exit the diner and make their way back over to Baby. Making conversation about what Joe said as they do.

"When did the gas company man die?"

Dean, holding Juliet's hand, looks to Sam as he mentally adds up the dates in his head before answering his brother's question.

"Uh, let's see, we got here Tuesday, so, Friday the twentieth."

Sam raises an eyebrow, "March twentieth?"

Dean nods his head as Juliet rolls her eyes. The older Winchester brother smirks at Sam, feeling one of Juliet's sarcastic comments brewing.

Without missing a beat, that's exactly what she does.

"No...I think he means January twentieth. Honestly Sam, some days I really question your so-called "intelligence"."

Sam rolls his eyes, "Yeah, thanks." He shakes his head, "If you had let me finish, I was going to say, that's the spring equinox."

Dean raises an eyebrow at Sam's way of putting it.

"The night the sun and the moon share the sky as equals."

Juliet shakes her head, looking at Sam.

"Why didn't you just say it how Dean said it? Why make it difficult for him? Y'know he sometimes struggles if you don't put it in simple terms." She smirks as the brother's share a look, both unsure if the insult was for both of them or just Dean. They don't think on it for long as a thought crosses Juliet's mind, a thought that she shares with the two brother's.

"So, every year 'round this time, anybody in the Oasis Plains area is in danger. Larry built this neighborhood on cursed land."

Dean nods his head as he squeezes Juliet's hand, feeling her anxiety start to spike by just the sound of her voice, he winces as he knows what he's going to say next won't be helpful in the slightest.

"And on the sixth night - that's tonight."

Dean, Juliet and Sam exchange looks of worry as the tallest one out of the three furrows his eyebrows, the thought of the Pike family being killed making his stomach churn. "If we don't do something, Larry's family will be dead by sunrise. So how do we break the curse?"

Juliet purses her lips as she tries and fails to come up with a way that can break a curse that seems to be so powerful. She looks to Sam, her brown eyes shining with sadness. "I don't think we can, Sammy. At least not a curse this powerful, I think the only person that could break the curse is the person that casted it, but like Joe said, the chief created the curse as he lay dying... he's dead, and has been for quite some time, so that's out of the question."

Dean nods his head, "Jules is right." It's then a figurative lightbulb goes off in his head, an idea striking him. "You don't break a curse. You get out of its way. We've gotta get those people out now."

Harlow looks up at her mom as Dean and Sam get inside the car, "Are you and daddy gonna save the day again, mommy?"

Juliet smiles at her daughter's question as she lifts Harlow up and sets her on her hip before booping her nose.

"What kind of question is that? Of course we are."

With that, the Winchester-Sullivan family pile into the car and make their way down the road, their next destination being the Pike residence.

Hopefully they can make it there in time and get the family out before nightfall, but Juliet has a sneaking suspicion that it's not gonna be as easy as it sounds.

When is it ever?

• • •

Dean drives the Impala with Sam and Harlow sitting in the back while Juliet sits up front, riding shotgun. The older Winchester brother is on the phone to Larry Pike as he drives. Juliet shakes her head, thankful that the road they're driving down is clear for the night. She would hate for Dean to crash the car.

"Yes, Mr. Pike, there's a mainline gas leak in your neighborhood."

Juliet strains her ears to hear what's being said on the other line, she has to admit that there are perks to having better than average hearing.

"God, really? And how big?"

"Well, it's fairly extensive. I don't want to alarm you, but we need your family out of the vicinity for at least twelve hours or so, just to be safe."

"And who is this, again?"

"Travis Weaver. I work for Oklahoma Gas and Power."

Juliet shakes her head, silently cussing her boyfriend for using a name that's so obvious as well as a name that Larry would know. There's no way he would fall for it, Juliet has a feeling that Larry just isn't that dense and judging by Mr. Pike's reply, Juliet's assumption is correct.

"Uh-huh. Well, the problem is, I know Travis. He's worked with us for a year, so who is this?"

Juliet internally face palms as she can see Dean start to panic. She resists the urge to knock him upside the head as all the older Winchester can muster is an "uh" before he hangs up the phone and gently throws it in Juliet's direction. The said brunette catches the phone, unfazed as she looks at her boyfriend with an eyebrow raised.

"Really? You decided to pose as Travis? The guy who also worked on the construction sight on Oasis Plains."

Dean shakes his head as he mentally kicks himself.

"I know, I know. It was the first name that came into my head."

Juliet sighs, "It's okay. We just have to think of another way to try and get them out of the house."

An idea then strikes Sam. From the backseat of the car, he leans foward and holds his hand out over the front bench seat. "Give me the phone." Dean and Juliet share a look at Sam's demanding tone but Juliet gives him the phone anyway, knowing that they're running out of time.

Sam takes the phone from Juliet and the said huntress watches him from the rearview mirror as he dials a number as soon as the phone is in his hands.

Juliet furrows her eyebrows as Sam puts the phone to his ear, she has a hunch that she knows who he's calling, she's just curious as to how he got his number.

"Hello?"

Juliet's thoughts are confirmed as soon as she can hear Matt's voice through the other end of the phone.

"Matt, It's Sam."

Before the youngest Winchester brother can say anything else, Matt's panicked voice sounds through the phone's speaker.

"Sam, my backyard is crawling with cockroaches."

It seems Harlow heard that last part as the five year old pulls a look of disgust, shaking her head and sticking out her tongue. "Yucky." Normally, Juliet will laugh and agree with her daughter but seeing as they're on a time frame Juliet just nods her head, not that Harlow noticed. The little Winchester may be young but she knows when her family is stressed, it doesn't happen a lot but this is one of those times where she can feel it in the atmosphere.

Sam shakes his head before forgetting that Matt can't see him and can only hear him. His nexts words comes out rushed.

"Matt, just listen. You have to get your family out of that house right now, okay?"

From the tone in Matt's voice, Juliet can picture him tilting his head with eyebrows furrowed as questions start to circle the young teenagers head, questions that they don't have the time to answer.

"What, why?"

Sam shakes his head, once more. "Because something's coming."

"More bugs?"

Juliet pulls a face as she hears what Matt says. She can't help but feel impressed at how quickly the teenager has connected the dots. The huntress can't help but have the fleeting thought that he would make a good hunter.

Sam nods his head, "Yeah, a lot more."

Juliet's heart bleeds at hearing the unsure tone in Matt's voice as the teenager thinks about how to convince his family to get out of the house before all hell breaks loose.

"My dad doesn't listen in the best of circumstances, what am I supposed to tell him?"

Sam sighs, knowing that feeling and what Matt is saying all too well. The taller Winchester brother can sympathize with the teenage boy, seeing so many similiarities between him and Matt when it comes to their father's.

"You've gotta make him listen, okay?"

Dean shakes his head, feeling that Sam's answer isn't good enough. He takes his eyes off the road to glance at his brother in the rearview mirror. "Give me the phone." Sam pauses, reluctant to do what Dean says and the older Winchester brother can see this, so he gives Sammy a look. "Give me the phone."

Hearing the no nonsence tone in his voice, Sam gives his brother the phone.

Dean keeps his eyes on the road as he drives the car with one hand on the steering wheel as the other hand holds his phone up to his ear.

"Matt, under no circumstances are you to tell the truth, they'll just think you're nuts."

"Bu-but he's my-"

Juliet shakes her head and narrows her eyes at Dean as he cuts Matt off, "Tell him you have a sharp pain in your right side and you've gotta go to the hospital, okay?"

"Yeah, yeah. Okay."

Juliet watches as Dean hangs up the phone, putting it back in his pockert before meeting his brother's eyes in the rearview mirror, once more.

"Make him listen? What are you thinkin'?"

Juliet shakes her head as she eyes Dean from the corner of her eye, "Hate to break it to you, hon but I think Sam's honesty idea is a bit better than your burst appendix idea."

Dean doesn't reply but Juliet knows that he heard her words and is just silently brooding like the big baby he is. Her brown eyes meet Sam's green ones in the rearview mirror, she gives him a small smile at seeing the expression on his face, like he's just seen someone kick a puppy.

Sam returns her small smile with one of his own, silently telling her that he's okay.

• • •

Half an hour to an hour later, Dean pulls up outside the Pike residence, Juliet turns and looks at Larry from the car window, the man stands in the window, looking out from behind the curtain and peering at them with a pissed off look on his face. Juliet looks to Dean as she kisses her teeth, "He doesn't look very happy."

Dean shakes his head, slightly pissed off at the Pike family still being in the area.

"Damn it, they're still here," he turns to Juliet and Sam, "Come on."

All three hunter's get out of the car, Sam making sure to go round the side of the car and lift an asleep Harlow out of the booster seat, carrying his niece in his arms before making their way up the driveway.

Juliet raises an eyebrow as Larry storms out the house, followed by Matt, before pointing at the hunters, motioning to Baby with a nod of his head, "Get off my property before I call the cops." The three hunter's share a look at Larry's words before Sam, still carrying Harlow, timidly takes a step foward.

"Mr. Pike, listen."

Matt seeing the angry expression on his dad's face at hearing Sam's voice, decides to try and help the Winchester-Sullivan family get Larry to listen. "Dad, they're just tryin' to help."

Larry doesn't listen to his son and instead just points back to their home, "Get in the house!" Matt sighs as he looks to Dean, Juliet and Sam with a sad look in his eyes. "I'm sorry. I told him the truth."

Dean looks at Matt, a frown on his face as he tilts his head. "We had a plan, Matt, what happened to the plan?" Juliet rolls her eyes at Dean and his words, gently hitting him in the stomach. "Shut up." She looks to Matt with a small smile on her face as she nods her head at the teenager, "You did good, Matt. You tried and that's all that matters."

The said teenage boy smiles at Juliet's words, his heart swelling at hearing the genuinity in her voice.

Sam shakes his head, feeling like they're getting off track. They don't have long left before the bugs start attacking, they need to move quickly. "Look, it's 12:00 AM. They are coming any minute now. You need to get your family and go, before it's too late."

Mr. Pike scoffs, not believing a word that comes out of Sam's mouth. "Yeah, you mean before the biblical swarm."

Juliet rolls her eyes, her patience wearing thin as they stand around talking. It's not getting them anywhere. She turns to Matt's father with a certain look of frustration sparkling in her eyes.

"Look, you jackass. We're only doing our job. We don't have to try and save you and your family but we're good people, so despite what you say or what you think, we'll try. But, I really don't believe that you're this stupid. Do the math, Larry. What do you think really happened to Lynda Bloom and Dustin Burwash? There were spiders left in the realtor's towel, the gas company guy's corpse was covered in bugs and you seriously don't think somethin' weird is going on in this place?"

Juliet's words cause Larry to become angrier and angrier to the point where Dean notices and is quick to take a protective step in front of her, he agrees with what she says, of course he does but he thinks she could have said it in a better way, but on the other side they're pushing for time they don't have.

Larry shakes his head, as if he's shaking off the anger, before scoffing once more as well as rolling his eyes. "I don't know who you are, but you're crazy," Dean, hearing this man call his girlfriend crazy, takes a deep breath holding back the urge to punch Larry in the face, not caring that he's some fancy buisness guy but no matter how much he wants to knock his lights out, he manages to resist as Larry continues, "You come near my boy or my family again, and we're gonna have a problem."

Dean glares at the older man, his voice clipped as he addresses him.

"Well, I hate to be a downer, but we've got a problem right now."

Matt, having ignored his dad had told him, still stands outside watching as the hunter's and his father go back and forth. Deciding enough is enough, Matt tries to interject, once more. "Dad, they're right, okay? We're in danger."

Larry, having had enough of his Son, turns on him again. Not liking that these strangers have Matt in on whatever game they're trying to play. "Matt, get inside. Now!" The said teenager shakes his head as he metaphorically stomps his foot on the ground, having enough of being told what to do or being shut down before he has the chance to put his voice foward.

"No! Why won't you listen to me?!"

"Because this is crazy! It doesn't make any sense!"

Sam sighs, trying once more to get through to Larry.

"Look, this land is cursed! People have died here. Now, are you gonna really take that risk with your family?"

Dean and Juliet share a look as a buzzing sound echos around them, getting louder and louder and more intense the longer they stand there. Before Larry can reply to Sam, Dean's voice intercepts and he holds up his left hand to stop them from talking and to get their attention.

"Wait."

Everyone goes quiet as they listen to the continuous buzzing.

"You hear that?"

Juliet bites her lips, nervous as she grabs Dean's bicep. The insects buzzing even rouse Harlow, who was so sound asleep that not even the shouting had woken her, Juliet can't blame her daughter as she usually isn't up at this time and the buzzing is so loud that it feels the ground beneath her feet is starting to vibrate.

The five year old starts to fuss, scared of the buzzing sounds. Harlow reaches for her mother and father, wanting to be comforted by them. As Juliet takes Harlow from Sam's hold, she turns to Dean with a worried look on her face.

"It's starting."

The oldest Winchester brother squeezes her hip in reply before wrapping his arm around her and Harlow.

Larry, confused, furrows his eyebrows.

"What the hell?"

Juliet watches as the fluorescent bug light on the Pike's front porch begins to glow as it overheats, killing several bugs at a time. Juliet looks to Dean, chewing on the inside of her cheek. "we don't have a lot of time." Dean nods his head before turning back to Larry, "All right, it's time to go. Larry, get your wife."

The feeling of Juliet's hand on his arm gets Dean's attention. He looks down to the woman he loves and the mother of his child, his heart breaking in two at seeing the worry in her eyes as she shakes her head, "We're not gonna get them out in time, Dean."

Before Dean can reply and give his girlfriend some faith, Matt's voice gets all of their attention.

"Guys."

All of them look to Matt before turning in the direction the teenage boy is looking; up to the sky. Juliet's eyes widen at the hoards of bugs that looks to be flying in their direction, the buzzing has gotten unbearably louder, now. There are millions of bugs, so many that they blanket the sky, covering the moon and blocking out its light as if they were clouds.

Larry feels his heart stutter at the sight before him, his eyes the size of saucers at the onslaught of bugs getting closer and closer to the house...closer to them.

"Oh my God."

Sam looks to Dean and Juliet, the latter of the three holding her daughter in a tight grip as the said five year old whimpers in her mother's shoulder at hearing the bugs come closer and closer. Sam's eyes say what he's thinking, but the younger Winchester brother voices it anyway.

"We'll never make it."

Dean exhales a breath, knowing that his brother's words are true. He looks to the house, a 'Plan B' forming in his mind.

"Everybody in the house. Everybody in the house, go!"

They all rush into the house, Dean making sure that Juliet and Harlow are in front of him, so nothing can happen to them if they're in front of him and in his line of view.

• • •

Juliet holds up the door open so Sam and Dean are able to get through. Once everyone is safely inside the house, she slams the door shut and locks it with a click before turning to Larry, one of her eyebrows raised. "Is there anyone else in the neighborhood?"

Larry shakes his head as he catches his breath, Matt looking scared beside him. "No, it's just us."

Juliet feels relief at those words, happy that they're able to solely focus on the one family instead of loads of people. She also feels slightly pissed off, you would think that with everybody else having the right idea and gettin' out of dodge that he would have taken his family and done the same. Before she can voice her thoughts to the older man, Joanie walks in from the kitchen a look of confusion on her face as she eyes the hunters and Harlow before turning to her husband, curious.

"Honey, what's happening?"

It's then Joanie can hear the buzzing sound from outside...the swarm of bugs which are getting louder and louder the closer they get.

"What's that noise?"

Instead of answering his wife, Larry turns to her, his voice laced with panic.

"Call 911."

Juliet rolls her eyes, knowing that calling the cops won't help. The hunter watches as Larry's wife doesn't move and the said man notices this, too. Anxiety pumping through his bloodstream, Larry's voice starts to rise.

"Joanie!"

Joanie flinches at the tone of her husband's voice and does as he says. She picks up the house phone and dials the number as Juliet turns and glares at Larry for his tone of voice towards the woman who is meant to be his wife.

"Don't shout at her, it's not her fault. If you hadn't started building on this stupid plot of cursed land, none of this would have happened. Not one of those people would have died!"

Dean and Sam share a look at how tense Juliet is. Don't get them wrong, this reaction isn't rare from Juliet, but Dean narrows his eyes as his girlfriend is more worked up than usual. He approaches her with caution and gently places his left hand on the small of her back, rubbing the spot which calms her instantly.

The older Winchester brother looks to Larry, unlike Juliet, his voice is calm.

"I need towels."

Larry, contemplating Juliet's words, takes a second to reply to Dean's voice. He can't help but feel like Juliet's words ring nothing but truth. He shakes his head as he looks to Dean and motions to a door behind him with his thumb.

"Uh, in the closet."

Sam looks to Larry. "Okay," He looks to Matt as he sees the boy start to panic, looking as if he needs a distraction. "We gotta lock this place up, come on - doors, windows, fireplace, everything, okay?"

Matt nods his head but before he and Sam can set foot on the first step, Harlow looks to her Uncle. "I can help, please?" Sam smiles and nods his head, "Sure, angel." He holds his hand out for his niece, who takes it. The three of them go up the stairs to secure the house as Dean goes to retrive some towels.

Joanie puts down the phone, a look of panic on her face as she looks to Larry and Juliet.

"Phones are dead."

Juliet groans as Dean comes back in with towels in hand, "They must have chewed through the phone lines." He starts to put the towels at the base of the front door. He's just laid the last one down when the power goes out, the house being enveloped in darkness.

Juliet sighs, starting to get more annoyed.

"Add the power lines to that, too."

Larry feels his pockets, "I need my phone." He picks up his cell phone and turns it on, groaning as he looks at the bars in the top right corner of the screen. "No signal." Juliet rolls her eyes at that, not that anyone can see her as the house is pitch black but that doesn't mean they can't hear her.

"Don't you listen? If they've cut through the phone and power lines, what do you think they're gonna chew through next? Idiot, honestly." Dean eyes Juliet, he knows she's right but she doesn't have to be so rude about it. He turns to Larry, his voice calm yet firm. "Juliet's right, you won't get one."

The hunters and household members look to the window as the bugs start to slam into the window with a thud, more bugs pile up causing the windows and doors of the house to become blacker. Dean looks from the window to the doors, the buzzing now starting to become unbearable.

"They're blanketing the house."

Juliet watch, along with the others, as millions and millions of bugs begin swarming the doors and windows, covering the entire building as the seven of them watch, Sam, Matt and Harlow having rejoined them.

Larry turns to the hunters as he holds his wife and son close, "What do we do now?"

The three hunters share a look at Larry's words as Juliet pulls Harlow closer, protecting her daughter as more and more bugs collect on the house. Harlow buries her head in her mother's stomach, just the mere thought of the bugs making her scared.

Sam turns to Larry as Dean walks over to his girlfriend and daughter, threading his fingers through his daughter's waves. "You're okay, baby. We're not gonna let anythin' happen to you. Promise."

Sam sighs as his eyes move from Larry to Matt, to Joanie and then back to Larry. "We try to outlast it. Hopefully, the curse will end at sunrise."

Larry looks at Sam with skepticism, "Hopefully?"

Juliet holds Harlow closer as Dean goes into the kitchen and rumages through the cabinets until he comes across a can of insect killer spray. He walks back into the foyer with the spray in hand. Joanie raises an eyebrow at the can in his hand, "Bug spray?" Dean gives her a look at the comment, "Trust me."

Before Joanie can reply, a creaking sound echos around the house. They all look to the fireplace where the sound is coming from. Matt looks to the hunters, his voice going up an octave. "What is that?"

Sam glances and Matt before looking back to the fireplace, "The flue."

Dean looks around the house, eyeing the stairs before voicing what he's thinking, "All right, I think everybody needs to get upstairs."

Just as Dean says that, hundreds and thousands of bugs suddenly come into the house from the fireplace, they start to swarm around them. Larry, Joanie and Matt scream as they try to protect themselves while Juliet tries her best to shield Harlow who's a whimpering mess in her mother's arms. The huntress looks up as Dean sprays the bug spray, using his lighter to make the spray flare up. Harlow shields her eyes in Juliet's shirt, not wanting to be blinded by the fire.

Dean uses the make shift flame thrower on the bugs, his index finger pressing down on the trigger of the insect killer until he feels his finger start to cramp up, but even that won't stop him. The fire keeps some of them away.

"All right, everybody upstairs! Now! Go, go!"

Juliet hands Harlow to Sam, who picks his niece up and carries her up the stairs behind the Pike family. Juliet pauses on the middle of the steps looking down at Dean as he gives them enough time to get up the steps. The fire illuminates his face, his expression being one of concentration. Juliet can't help but admire his good looks.

"Wow, Dean. It's like I'm seeing you in a whole new light."

Dean backs his way towards the stairs, going up them backwards as he continues to throw all he's got at the bugs that are trying to follow them.

"Not the time, Jules!"

The said huntress nods her head, "Yeah, you're probably right."

The mother and father follow Sam, Harlow, Matt, Larry and Joanie up the stairs and into the attic. Dean letting Juliet go first so he can protect her incase any bugs try and ambush them. Once they are all in, Sam shuts the attic door just as the bugs fly up the stairs and past the corner. It's all quiet for a moment before sawdust from the ceiling starts to fall down onto them. The familiar sound of buzzing bees start to get louder as a crunching sound also greets their ears.

Joanie looks up in shock, "Oh, God, what's that?"

Juliet looks up, "Something's eatin' the wood."

Harlow, back between her mother and father, continues to whimper in fright. Not liking this hunt one bit. She, like her mother, hates bugs at the best of times but being here and witnessing the bugs hound them, well it's enough to put her off for life.

Matt looks up at Juliet's words, knowing that there's only one type of insect that can chew through wood like it's a slice of cake.

"Termites."

Dean, sensing that the bugs are going to get through any minute, motions for everyone to edge more into the corner of the attic with his hands, "All right, everybody get back. Get back, get back, get back!"

They all do as he says, Juliet taking her jacket off and wrapping it around Harlow's small frame as another layer of protection between the bugs and her daughter's skin, while the three Pike family members move as far into the corner of the attic as possible.

A second later, the bugs chew a hole through the, now worn and damaged, ceiling. They swarm around them and the room, the bees stinging any part of skin they can as Sam and Dean start to frantically patch up the hole in the ceiling using a piece of cardboard and a brush to hold it up, this only brings relief to them for a fleeting second.

Soon, two more holes are chewed through the wood of the ceiling. Dean tries his best to ward them off with the bug spray but eventually that runs out, too. Nothing seems to be working anymore and all that's left to do is protect each other, Dean, Juliet and Sam do their best to protect Harlow using their jackets to cover her, while the Pike family remain huddled in the corner, all of them swatting the bugs away with their bare hands.

To all their relief the sun starts to rise and miraculously, just like they hoped, the bugs start to leave the same way they came in, through the holes in the ceiling. Confused yet thankful, the hunters share a look before going to check it out, Juliet letting out a breath she didn't know she was holding as they watch the bugs leave and fly off into the sun in one big colony..they had survived and made it through the night with only a few stings. Well, apart from Juliet, the only one out of the seven people to pick a day to wear a short-sleeved shirt. She hisses in pain as she looks down to see her arms covered, top to bottom, in bite and sting marks.

• • •

The Winchester-Sullivan family approach Larry the next morning. Juliet is unable to refrain from feeling a sense of relief at seeing the older man load boxes into a moving van. Dean raises an eyebrow at the Pike man, Harlow holding onto her father's hand as he does.

"What, no goodbye?"

Larry laughs as he looks to the family of four, giving each of them a toothy smile.

"Good timing. Another hour and we'd have been gone."

Juliet smiles as Larry shakes her in hand before doing the same to Sam and Dean, who also return the gesture. Juliet raises an eyebrow as she eyes the moving van and the boxes that are loaded inside the vehicle.

"Are you guys leavin' for good?"

Larry gives her a nod in reply to her question, "Yeah. The development's been put on hold while the goverment investigates those bones you found. But I'm gonna make damn sure no one lives here again."

Juliet gives him a small smile at his words, happy that Larry won't continue with his building project and is actually putting a stop to his plan, as well as stopping people from trying to build homes on the land in the future.

Sam tilts his head at Larry, "You don't seem too upset about it."

The hunters watch as Larry shrugs his shoulders, "Well, this has been the biggest financial disaster of my career, but..." Juliet smiles as Larry looks over to Matt, who's carrying a box to the garbage. "...somehow, I really don't care."

Dean and Juliet stand by the car, leaning against Baby's side as Sam walks over to Matt and talks to him. They can't hear the words being exchanged between the two but they can see the smile on the teenage boys face, happy that him and his father are building some kind of relationship up.

Juliet looks down at the bite and sting marks covering her arms, kissing her teeth as she starts to scratch at them. They're painful but Juliet's sustained worse injuries than bite marks in her long career of hunting.

Dean notices the look of discomfort on his girlfriend's face and gently grabs her arms in his, being careful not to irritate any of the bite marks dotted on her smooth skin. He gently rubs his thumbs over one of them, tutting.

"I'll rub cream on them later for you. They look like they're going to be a bitch."

Juliet hums as she nods her head, "They're startin' to feel like a pain in my ass now. Stupid bugs, hate the fuckers." Dean laughs at the mouth on her before leaning down and kissing the top of her head with affection that's only for her.

Juliet smiles up at him before leaning on the tips of her toes to kiss him. Harlow jokingly makes a disgusted face from the back window, a face which both parents see. Dean, in return, pulls a funny face back, that has his daughter giggling from inside the car.

The brunette huntress can see Sam approaching from the corner of her eye, she turns to him as he, too, leans against the side of the Impala. The four of them watching Larry and Matt, the father and son getting along very well.

Sam sighs, his eyes showing the sadness he's feeling on the inside. He turns to Dean and Juliet, "I wanna find Dad."

A pit forms at the very bottom of Juliet's stomach at hearing those words. John...everytime he's mentioned it's like her world comes crashing down. It's like the universe is reminding her of what she's keeping from the two brother's, reminding her of her betrayal. She knows once the truth comes out, and it will, that Sam wouldn't see it that way...but Dean, he's a whole other cookie. He'll see it as a betrayal of his trust, her lying to him this whole time about where John really is and who he's really hunting.

She just needs to hang on a little longer.

The Winchester brother's don't notice the far away look in Juliet's eyes, or so she knows. She's brought back down to earth at the sound of Dean's voice, replying to his little brother. "Yeah, me too."

Sam sighs, "Yeah, but I just... I want to apologize to him."

Dean raises an eyebrow at his brother, a genuine look of confusion flashing across his face.

"For what?"

Sam shrugs his shoulders as he exhales a breath he didn't realize he was holding. He feels good for opening up to Dean, like a weight is being lifted the more he speaks. "All the things I said to him. He was just doin' the best he could."

Juliet chuckles as she pushes her thoughts to the back of her mind, "I think that's the first time I've ever heard you say that. He does love you, Sammy. Y'know that, right?" She smiles as Sam nods his head before both of their attention goes back to Dean as he gives his brother a small smile, "Well, don't worry, we'll find him. And then you'll apologize. And then within five minutes, you guys will be at each other's throats."

Sam laughs as he nods his head, "Yeah, probably."

They stand in silence for a few seconds and in those seconds, Juliet has let her thoughts carry her away, once again. She can't help but feel like once they find John, him and Sam won't be the only ones who're gonna be at each other's throats. She just has this nagging feeling that once they find John, her and Dean aren't going to be as good as they are now. She can't help but feel like once the truth is out, it'll either make them or break them and she hopes to any and all gods that it doesn't break them.

Sam sighing breaks her reverie, she watches as he glances between her and Dean before motioning to the car. "Let's hit the road."

Dean nods his head at his brother's words, agreeing with him as he fishes the car keys out of his front left pocket. "Yeah, let's."

Juliet smiles as she rushes to the passenger side door of the car, smirking in triumph as she beats Sam to it by a second. She gives him a cheeky smile. "Hey, I have the boo-boo. I call shotgun." Sam pouts and looks to Dean, who shrugs his shoulders. "She called it, Sammy. Can't argue with that."

Sam jokingly groans like a kid before sulking off to the back door of the car, sliding in next to Harlow as Dean and Juliet get in the car, shutting their respective doors behind them. Dean turns the keys in the ignition and just as he sets his foot down on the pedal to drive off, Sam pipes up from the back.

"Hey, guys. Do you think bugs have kinks?"

Dean snickers as Juliet turns in her seat and points a finger at her best friend in warning. "Hey! Just because you're unhappy that you didn't get the front seat, doesn't mean you get to tease me like that, moose."

There's a beat of silence before Harlow tilts her head in confusion, having processed her uncles words.

"What does "kink" mean?"

Sam laughs as Juliet turns red at her daughter's question, she gives the five year old a sheepish smile. "I'll tell you when you're older, baby." She sighs in relief as Harlow seems to be satisfied with her mother's answer. Dean shakes his head as he presses his foot down on the gas and accelerates down the road, leaving Oasis Plains behind them.

• • •

That night Dean and Juliet sit in bed, the former of the two rubbing soothing cream onto Juliet's arms to help with the bug bites and bee stings. After applying the last bit, Dean leans down and places a kiss on each of Juliet's arms. "There, that should at least bring you some kind of relief from the pain."

Juliet smiles at him gently, "Thank you, babe."

Dean nods his head, "Anything for you."

They look to the single bed, adjacent of theirs, where Harlow is sleeping soundly. It took them five bedtime stories and two glasses of warm milk before the five year old could acrually settle, too scared from the events of the last few days and neither parent can blame their daughter...if they were her age they would be just as scared, too.

Dean moves his eyes from his sleeping daughter and back to Juliet as they both settle in bed for the night, Dean drapping one arm around her waist as she snuggles into his warmth. "So, why couldn't you sleep well at the house? You were tossing and turning all night, like something was on your mind."

Juliet's brain freezes at Dean's words and she's lucky that the lights in the motel room are switched off as she can only imagine the look on her face, right now. She racks her brain for an answer...for anything other than the truth. Not wanting to look suspicious by taking a long time to answer, Juliet finally thinks of something.

"Okay, you got me..."

Dean raises an eyebrow at her words even though his face can't be seen.

"...I guess it was because it was an unfamiliar feeling, sleeping in a house that someone was clearly planning on buying. It just... it didn't feel right to me."

Dean's eyebrow continues to be raised, "And that's all? There's nothing else?"

Juliet feels her blood run cold and her heart stutter at what Dean is implying. Does he know that she's keeping something from him? Does he know that, that something is to do with John? Instead of voicing her questions, Juliet sucks in a deep breath before exhaling, making it sound like a tired sigh.

"That's all, Dean. Promise."

The huntress places a kiss on his cheek, muttering one last goodnight before laying her head down on the lumpy motel pillow and closing her eyes. Letting herself sucumb to the tiredness.

The said man narrows his eyes at the back of his girlfriend's head. He knows something is up, he can sense it. Before he was chalking it up to her being worried about John and his whereabouts, but now? Now he can tell it's something more. He won't push her, of course he won't. He made that mistake in the past and the results weren't in his favor, so he'll bide his time and wait for her to come to him. How bad can it be?

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Authors Note

And that's a wrap on the episode 'Bugs'.  This one was a long one, so I apologize about that. Personally, I would have grabbed a snack and a coffee/tea and get comfortable as you read it, but that's just me!

I'm sorry I haven't uploaded in 2+ months, honestly my inspiration for this book has been really hit and miss at the moment, but don't worry I don't plan on abandoning it! I have too many ideas to just do that. It's my baby, I swear!

I hope you liked the little ending scene I added in! Just a reminder that we are getting closer to Dean finding out. I know it may look like the story isn't going anywhere at the moment, but things mainly start to kick off around the episode 'scarecrow'. I won't say much but I will say this, in that episode Dean will have an inkling as to why Juliet has been acting like she has whenever John is mentioned.

The next episode will of course be 'Home' which is another one of my favourite episodes, considering as we get to see John, Mary and maybe someone connected to Juliet, too?

Hopefully the wait for the next chapter/episode isn't as long as the wait for this one! Fingers crossed 🤞

Also we get to meet Missouri, I wonder if she will know what's up with Juliet? Will she find out about her secret? Who knows, oh wait! I do 🤭

I will say this, Juliet will feel the tiniest amount of weight be lifted from her shoulders when she meets Missouri.

Please don't forget to vote and comment your thoughts, this chapter hasn't been edited but I will get round to doing that at some point!

Until next time...❤️