Cassie ran into Colleen that night before they left the award dinner. At first, she considered not bringing up the matter of her husband but she didn’t want to be seem as a push over.
“Excuse me,” she said to Colleen who was putting on lipstick in the mirror.
“Yes?”
“I know what you tried to do at your job with my husband and I just want you to know that it was stupid,” Cassie said as she got into the other woman’s face.
The girl moved back as though she had been attacked. Her face turned red and she dropped the lipstick tube into the sink.
“I……uh,,,,,,,uh, what do you mean?”
“I mean it is not wise to mess with another woman’s husband whether you’re just fantasizing or other wise.”
Colleen bit her lip as she reached to pick up her lipstick from the sink. She used a paper towel to clean it off before she placed it back in her bag with her shaking hands.

Cassie almost felt like a heel but not quite, women needed to understand that when a man wore a wedding ring or was known to be married that they should pass on “making a play for them.”
“I’m, I’m sorry it was dumb,” she stuttered.
Cassie rolled her eyes, “Damn straight it was dumb and don’t let it happen again,” Cassie said before she strutted out of the bathroom feeling on top of the world. She was mid giggle when she ran into Monica who had come toward the restrooms to check on her. When Colleen walked pass them they held in laughs as though they were two teenage girls.
“You really said that?” Monica asked as Cassie followed her outside to meet Dean at the car.
“Yeah I did,” she said as she bit her lip then shrugged.
“I’m proud of you I knew you could handle her,” Monica said before Dean opened Cassie’s door for her to get in the car.
Monica waved as they drove off.

Dean was curious about the animated conversation.
“Should I ask what you two are gossiping about that has you blushing?”
Cassie wasn’t certain Dean would echo Monica’s sentiments about her actions so she hesitated.
“I um…..”
“Oh come on you two were talking about me right?” he said with a smirk as he turned from the road to smile at her.
“Yeah, um well not really,” she stalled.
She didn’t want to lie, though she was concerned that he would think she had been childish. Dean looked at her again.
“Okay what’s going on? I know you were upset earlier now you are a bit too giddy.”
“You know me really well which can be just annoying a times,” she commented dryly.
Dean shrugged, he couldn’t help he knew her like the back of his hand, he also had a feeling he needed to know what had happened.

Meanwhile, Vickie tried desperately to take control of her mind and body. She chanted silently in an unknown tongue before she watched John drop to the floor. She raced to his side.
“I’m so sorry,” she began before John put his hand over her mouth.
He stared in her eyes as she tried to see if the demon was still resident. Even though it seemed to have gone for the present time, he quietly led her to the basement before she realized what he was up to.
“John no, I am fine now.”
He tied her hands behind her back before he frowned and covered her mouth with duck tape.
“I’m sorry this is for your own good.”
Tears welled up in her eyes as she nodded, she knew he was right. She knew she could become possessed all over again if she wasn’t careful. She leaned back on the sofa as she looked up at him.

She wondered how she thought she could ever hurt him. She had to have a chance to tell him the truth. Tears fell onto his hands as he reached to touch her cheek. He really felt she was sorry for what she had planned, though he had no idea what it could have been.
“This is just precaution, okay I need to go get some things.”
She nodded as she tried to retain her bearings. John left the basement with a heavy heart, he certainly hoped he wouldn’t have to waste his wife if the thing took her over again. He pulled out his cell phone to phone Dean to let him know what was up and ask if Alexis could spend the night but he never made it to the car.

Dean’s phone rang just one time and when he pulled it out of his pocket, he stopped mid sentence.
“I, uh….”
“What is it?” Cassie asked as she looked curiously at her husband.
“It was Dad but it must have been an error, only one ring and no message,” he said as he looked at Cassie with a raised eyebrow.
“You can ask him when you take Alexis home.”
“Yeah so back to what’s going on with you.”

John woke up beside Vickie in the basement. His head ached and Vickie was crying. It was dark and he wondered what the Hell was going on. After she finished crying, she looked up at him and noticed her face was bruised.
“What happened to you?”
“Oh John they are all upset at me they think I have gone soft and they knocked you and dragged in here,………I am so sorry.”
He looked in her eyes and knew how he had fallen for her despite her bad intentions she had a good heart. He moved his arms to put them around her despite them both being taped up.
“Hey it’s okay, I think we will have help coming soon, I just wish I could have warned them of what they are stepping into.”
“Maybe we should pray,” she suggested humbly.
John bit his lip he hadn’t really prayed in a while and never with much intent. He felt maybe this was the time. The both nodded and closed their eyes. Vickie tried hard to focus as tears stung her eyes, Oh God what have I done?
“Dean I confronted Colleen.” “For what reason?” he asked as he tried to keep his eyes on the road. Cassie shifted in her seat, damn he didn’t know I knew so this will look bad.
“I um heard about the work situation.”
“Oh big surprise I guess Monica told you well it is work related and I didn’t want to drag that mess home with me.”
“I get that,” she said quietly.
“I wasn’t hiding anything, Cas.”
“I know,” she said even quieter.
Okay here is where my submissive skills might come in handy, please God I don’t want to fight I want to be a good person. Then Cassie realized they had pulled over to the side of the road.

“Hey you,” Dean said as he turned toward her.
“What are you doing?” she asked with her eyes wide as he reached toward her.
“Colleen has never and will never mean anything to me,” he said as he stroked her cheek.
She looked up at him with love in her brown eyes.
“I know.”
“There was nothing to tell she is young and reckless and her lies are getting her fired.” “Yeah?”
Dean reached for the hem of Cassie’s short black dress. “If this wasn’t the side of the road this dress would be history.”
How could I ever doubt him, maybe I should just tell him why I am so afraid of happiness.
“Again? You know you say you like it but you keep wanting to take it off,” she said with a smile as he leaned down to kiss her and his hand moved up to caress her bosom through the soft material. His tongue went in her mouth and she melted against him breathless. Then the phone rang again. This time it was insistent and didn’t stop, before Dean groaned as he turned from Cassie to reach in his pocket before he opened his phone.

“Dean something is up with Dad, I think one of us needs to get over there,” Sam said without preamble.
“What? How do you know?”
“I had a vision Dean, he is in trouble.”
“Okay I’m on the road, hey um call Alexis is at our house just tell her something that won’t freak her out okay.”
When he hung up Cassie was staring at him because he was suddenly in entirely different mood.
“What’s up?”
“I need to go to Dad’s, Sam thinks there is a problem.”
“Let’s go.”
She said as she straightened her dress and smoothed her hair.
“Are you sure?”
“Why did I have you teach me about the Supernatural if don’t plan to let me use my knowledge?”
Dean smiled, “Okay but we don’t know what we are walking in to and……I need you to be careful.”
“I will I promise.”
She nodded. She knew he worried about all of them, Cassie wondered sometime who the father of the Winchester clan really was.

Sam leaned back in the bed, he was uneasy about Dean going to help Dad alone as he tried to call his father for the fourth time. Sarah watched him uneasily.
“You know you should go to, if it is big trouble he will need your help.”
“But you need me here with the twins.”
“No, we will be okay you need to help your brother, I understand really, I’m not afraid to be alone, Sam.”
He leaned down to kiss her with the lavish use of his tongue. She smiled when he leaned up.
“I love you, Sam.”
“I love you too, Sarah, I’ll be back as soon as I can but if I’m not in an hour then…”
“You have hunted for years whatever is going on I think you and your family can handle it, I believe that.”
Then she read his mind, I don’t want to lose you was the thought foremost that she saw.She had never done it before nor planned to do it again but it was nice to know his heart. She smiled as he pulled her to him again before he got up to dress to leave.

They heard the coven members as they came down the basement stairs. John had taken the tape from Vickie’s mouth so they could speak in low tones, though it had taken time and energy since his hands were also tied. He figured since their home had been taken over she was safe or he hoped so. She had apologized and insisted she thought she had been doing the right thing all those years in the coven. When they heard the footsteps, they stopped talking.
“So I see you to have made up,” the red head said.
She was tall with long hair and green eyes as she stood over them.
“Why are you here in my house?” John demanded.
“Your wife was getting weak she really fell for you in the end, too bad she won’t have a chance to be a real wife to you since you both will be dead.”
“But why?”

As the red head stood before them, she changed from a woman into a wicked evil thing with long talons and yellow eyes. John gasped. The demon made a loud sound that could have been a laugh if it had been human. Then it changed back to human form. If he hadn’t spent his life chasing them he might have been dead from horror but his experienced allowed him to stay calm. I sure hope Dean and Sam get here really soon, though.
“So you used them to get to me.”
“I always knew you Winchesters were smart. You know when you killed Azazel that was only the beginning of the end of you. So we gave you time to build families and pretend to be normal, hey your sons needed a break.”
John quirked his eyebrow.
“Okay we wanted them to get comfortable. It benefited all of us. Then you fell for a cute little witch that happened to belong to a coven run by little old me, though most of them had no idea.”

It dawned on John it had been no coincidence that he had fallen for Vickie he had been ripe to settled down just like his sons had. However, he couldn’t regret having had a chance to teach others about what lay in the dark beyond the veil. Because of his teaching there were many who knew the secrets and ways to go past the fear to kill off the evil things and be protected. He only wished had taken Cassie’s stance against evil and stepped up to believe in God. Maybe it wasn’t too late, she had told him he had to only believe. He had become aware recently that was the only true step to the ultimate protection against evil, faith in a higher power.
“And who the hell are you?” John asked when he realized that the thing stared at him. “You would never be able to pronounce my real name so just call me One Who Deceives,” he said before she turned to go back upstairs, “Don’t get any ideas,” she said as she walked away.

Dean parked down the street from his father’s house but he frowned when he realized Cassie had on the wrong shoes for a rescue. He frowned at her as she stood in front of him.
“Um, can you run in those?”
“No, I actually brought some comfortable shoes just in case we decided to dance,” she said as she turned around to put on a pair of lower heeled closed in shoes that were still nice but more for walking.
“Good love that be prepared attitude,” he said as they started toward the house before his cell went off again.
“What’s up?” he asked when he saw it was Sam again.
Cassie stood beside him with her hands on her hips.
“Dean there are Demons there.”
“What? You didn’t tell me that,” Dean said as he turned around to go back to the car to get different weapons.
“Sorry I didn’t want to worry Sarah earlier and I am on the way too.”
Dean asked Sam to give him more details of his vision while they were on the line and Sam described everything that had happened with John and Vickie. He also let him know that most of the witches that had taken over the father’s house still did not know they were being led by a demon.

“Great so they have been going along with this thing with no idea?”
“I know it makes it hard they have allowed themselves to get in deep.”
“If it weren’t for the damn demon I would call the police but then ………”
“No, we need to handle this,” Dean said.
“I’m almost there wait for me,” Sam said as he hung up and four minutes later pulled up behind Dean’s car.

Cassie and Dean were embraced against the Impala when Sam saw them. He shook his head because he had no idea that Cassie was with Dean. He had to laugh when he saw his brother was dressed in a nice suit.
“You were at an event?”
“Yeah?”
“Sorry.”
“No we were on the way home, don’t laugh.”
“It was a work thing,” Cassie said.
Dean swallowed as he looked at her.
“Cassie, Sam is here now why don’t you take his car and go home.”
Cassie frowned, “No.”
“Don’t argue, this isn’t the time.”
Sam tried not to smile,” We need to get a move on you two.”
Cassie looked from Sam to Dean. She rolled her eyes as he hugged her.
“Fine but only because of the kids, Cassidy could be driving Alexis crazy.”
“That’s my girl,” he said with a final peck on the cheek.
Cassie raised her eyebrow at him, he knew she hated that term, girl.
“I’ll pray for you two okay,” she said.
“Please do,” he said as he handed her his car keys as she looked up at Sam then smiled back at them as she walked away.

TBC

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