Demons, Demigods and Hunters (Percy Jackson/Supernatural)

Chapter 46

Anna

Anna peeked over the railing in time to hear Meg say,

"You." Suddenly Sam grunts as a body-less shadow attacked him. Dean flew across the room, crashing into some crates. Anna drops down, carefully resheathing Eleos. A sword can't stop a shadow. But words of power, that might do something. Anna made the three clawed gesture again, the familiar motion to ward off evil reassuring.

'Mother, I hope what I do next is wise, rather than desperately, recklessly clever.'

She whispered Hah-ri, and the hieroglyph for silence appeared. She gripped the rusty railing and pulled. The creaky metal stayed silent under her hands. N-dah, protect, was next, because almost as soon as the boys woke up, they began to antagonize Meg. The divine words flared in the unstable purple of hybrid magic.

"Hey Sam, don't take this the wrong way, but your girlfriend? Is a bitch." Dean goads. Sam glances as best he can toward Dean, straining against the zip ties.

"Yes. The whole thing was a trap. Running into you at the bar, following you here, hearing what you have to say. It was all a set up wasn't it. And the victims were from Lawrence." Sam rambled, looking to stall for time.

"That doesn't mean anything. It was just to draw you in. That's all."

"You killed those two people for nothing." Sam glared at her.

"Baby I've killed a lot more, for a lot less." Meg smirked. Anna felt sick, knowing she had done the same; it didn't matter that most of them had been monsters, or that they'd been building up to a war. She had plenty of mortal and demigod blood on her hands too.

"You trapped us. Good for you. It's miller time. Why don't you kill us already?" Dean growled. Meg's head snapped around. Anna quietly crept from cover to cover, trying to get close to one of the boys.

"Not very quick on the uptake are we?' Meg leaned forward, malicious glee written across her face, 'This trap isn't for you." Sam and Dean both paled.

"Dad."

"Anna."

Anna stiffened. She slowly extended the clawed rings. She would have to be fast if this trap really was for her.

"It's a trap for dad." Sam sounded sure. Dean looked worried for a moment before pasting on a cocky grin.

"Oh sweetheart. You're dumber than you look. Because even if dad is in town, which he isn't, he would never have walked into something like this. He's too good." Dean stated it like fact, every fibre of his person believing in his father. Anna could still dredge up memories from when she used to believe the same thing. Then she'd gotten a first hand lesson in exactly what a mortal parent was willing to do for their child. Not just her father, but the parents of other demigods she'd watched die in the crossfire between their children and the monsters they fought. Meg uncrossed her legs, standing up.

"Oh, he's pretty good. I'll give you that. But you see, he has one weakness. Well, maybe two." She tweaked at Dean's coat, as she eyed him skeptically. Anna dodged out of the shadows, taking the opportunity Meg's turned back presented her. Sam looked up at her, his eyes wide. She held her finger up to her lips. He nodded. She leaned down and swiped through the zip cords that bound him to the pillar.

"And what's that." Dean stalled, looking over at Anna working on freeing Sam. She got one hand free just as Meg announced that John Winchester was in town, and that she understood the weakness of every parent. Their children.

"But you know Dean." She continued. Anna sawed faster. She really should have sharpened these claws again before she left camp. 'I'm not just waiting for your daddy. I want that bitch, Anna, you said Sam?" She pressed her drakon bone knife into Sam's hand. Then Anna rolled away behind a crate as Meg turned towards Sam.

'That was close.' She thought to herself. Sam kept his hands behind his back as she approached him. She crouched in front of him.

"What about her?" Dean growled viciously. Meg seemingly ignored Dean, whose tone had grown low and dangerous. The blonde squatted down in front of Sam, tapping the end of the younger Winchester brother's nose.

"Did you know Anna isn't even her name? No of course you didn't. But you boys don't need to worry about what I'm going to do to her. No, she isn't going to the daevas. I'm saving her for me. See, her family is special. Your Anna even more so." Meg chuckled as she got close to Sam. Anna tuned out Meg as best she could, trying to ignore the churning in her gut about her name. Anna managed to get to Dean, and began to saw through the ties around him. She didn't even bother to try with Eleos, the ties were too tight, she'd only end up cutting his hand off.

"Come on Sammy, you and I can still have some dirty fun." Meg whispered into Sam's ear just as Anna got Dean's left hand free. She started to work on his other just as Sam snarled back at Meg.

"You wanna have fun? Go ahead then." Sam surged forward, smacking into Meg. The two fought viciously, as Sam struggled towards the table in the center of the room.

"Get the alter!" Dean yelled. Anna cut through the last of Dean's rope before turning and tackling Meg just as Sam flipped the table in the center of the room. Loud snarls filled the room as the shadowy demons dragged Meg to the window. She screamed as she was thrown out of it. Anna turned around to glare at Dean.

"You couldn't have told me to flip the table while I was untying you?" Dean shrugged.

"Didn't want to give you away." Anna sighed heavily as she helped him to his feet. They all crowded around the shattered remains of the window. Meg lay on the pavement, her body surrounded by broken glass.

"I guess daevas don't like to be bossed around." Anna murmured, even as an odd feeling niggled in the back of her mind; as though she'd forgotten something. Dean looked over at his brother.

"Hey Sam. Next time you wanna get laid, pick someone who isn't buckets of crazy." Anna choked on the laugh that bubbled out of her throat.