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Dancing the Spiral

Word count: 4K (this is the longest One-shot I've ever written)

Masterist of Everything

A/n: Written for @dontshootmespence ‘s 8k celebration! here is I for Insanity!!! If you scare easily this might not be the fic for you. But i think it came out awesome. I took a lot of inspiration from my time playing White wolf’s World of Darkness, and you might recognize some stuff from The Golden Knight. Also big thanks to @donnaintx and @emilyshurley for being my sounding board, giving me ideas for the monsters and telling me to go to bed when it was late.

A/N 2: Also i put some breaks within the fic. They don't mean anything other than this is a good pause place if your eyes hurt.

Warnings: graphic depictions violence/gore, themes of horror and insanity, SNAKES

Summary: Kelsey has a disturbing Dream about herself and the Winchesters and now she has to try and understand it before it’s too late.

“How are you ss-sleeping, Kelsey?” The doctor asked as he leaned back and looked at her studiously. His lisp caused her obvious discomfort as she relived the vivid imagery of her nightmare.

“Not bad,” Kelsey lied dropping her gaze to the floor as she avoided eye contact with the man. She was new to this practice but wanted to give the doctor a chance. In her opinion, it was not going well, but it could be going worse. Any minute now he could turn into a snake man and she would snap her eyes open. She had not slept in nearly a week and she had started hallucinating.

“You’re not a very good liar. You just said that you didn’t really like this practice but were going to give it a try. So why don’t you tell me about what’ss bothering you.” He licked his lips and pulled out a notepad.

Kelsey rolled her eyes.

“Sam I’ve been having this dream. You’re in it, and so is your brother.” She was pacing outside a motel.

“Come on, Kelsey, it sounds like you’re gonna start explaining a sex dream.” Kelsey closed her eyes and inhaled deeply as she fought with herself. She heard a noise and jerked her head around, but nothing was there to see. “Get a goddamn grip. Plenty of people deal with insomnia and bad dreams. They don’t go running to their new boyfriends trying to explain that the monsters might be real.”

“But most people also get some sleep despite those things. They don’t stand around hearing and seeing shit that isn’t there.” She muttered in argument.

“Yeah well they don’t talk to themselves either,” She quibbled back.

“You okay?” Sam asked as he stuck his head out of the motel room door. “I saw you standing out here pacing and wasn’t sure if you were going to come in or not.”

“Yeah, I’m gonna come in. I don’t think you were going to go in. I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to bother Sam with this.” Kelsey babbled until she realized that Sam was staring at her like she had a second head. “Sorry, not sleeping.” She gave a weak smile.

“No problem, we’ve all been there,” Sam said. “Dean and I were just doing some research for a job.”

“That sounds exciting,” Kelsey said trying to contain her thoughts in her mouth. Dean gave her a quick smile and a wink as she came into the motel. “What kind of job are the FBI working on in town?” She had a serious case of Deja Vu and surreptitiously found a mirror to look at herself in.

“We’re looking into some suspicious missing person cases. We’re not really sure what the connection is but we’re hopeful. You okay?” Sam asked.

You caught yourself staring at the mirror and realized you had inadvertently picked out the outfit from your dream. You were muttering something and not listening to your boyfriend so quickly tried to recover.

“Missing persons, I haven’t heard about anyone.” She was pretty out of the loop on missing persons working in the ER and things had been worse lately, but she figured she would have heard about at least one.

“We’ve been keeping it quiet,” Dean said a little too quickly. She looked at him oddly.

“Dean, if there is a connection between these people I don’t know what it is.” Kelsey saw Sam say to Dean from his laptop.

“There has gotta be a connection. Why are these people being targeted?” Dean’s voice rumbled. “Maybe they are looking for something, demons don’t just possess people for no reason.”

“I don’t think they are demons, Dean,” Sam said.

Kelsey’s head was spinning. She blinked rapidly trying to clear her mind of the hallucination.

“Kel, maybe you should sit down.” Sam’s voice was like the surface of a still lake as Kelsey broke the surface for air. She shook her head vigorously, fleeing the room.

“Kelsey, wait!” Dean stood to try and catch her but she was off and gone.

“This is a creepy ass temple,” Dean groaned looking at the abandoned building. He didn’t want to be here and wasn’t sure if the souls of the people that had been brought here wanted to come either.

Kelsey sat up on the floor of her apartment gasping as the world spun. She tried to count ten but kept losing focus. She stood and went to the freezer and grabbed an ice cube. The cold helped restart her train of thought and stir her from the brink of the abyss she felt like she was standing over. Kelsey rubbed her arm scratching the imaginary bugs that she knew weren’t there.

She needed to go to the temple. It was the only way she was going to figure this out.

“You mean if it is even real,” She sighed at herself. She pulled out her phone and sent Sam a text apologizing for the way that she had rushed out. She confirmed that she was in fact, really okay. “Liar.”

She packed a few items and left in search of where she thought the temple was. Or at least where Dean thought the temple was, when she had hallucinated being him. She was starting to no longer care how crazy it sounded.

“Kelsey?” Sam asked as she realized she had been standing in front of the somewhat ruined temple. “What are you doing here?”

“Um, listen this is gonna sound weird,” She said

“Not any weirder than anything else you’ve done today,” Dean muttered, but Sam elbowed him.

“No, it’s true. I think. I uh, had this weird dream about this temple and you guys and these snake monsters. Anyway, I had to figure out what was going on. But I haven’t been sleeping so I’m not sure what's real anymore.” Kelsey continued to babble.

“Wait, snake monsters?” Sam asked, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.

“Yeah, they were snakes, but not quite. And they had arms and claws. And I think they can possess people, but I think that’s kinda crazy and I don’t feel so good.” Kelsey curled up a little as her muscles cramped from the lack of sleep.

“No, it’s okay,” Sam said wrapping his arms around the tired brunette.

“Sam,” Dean’s voice sounded like a warning.

“No, she needs to know. What you were dreaming about, it’s real.” Sam said, pulling her close.

“It is?” Kelsey whispered. “I don’t know what’s worse, that those monsters are real or that you believe me.”

“What do you mean?” Dean asked.

“I’ve been hallucinating a lot,” Kelsey admitted. “But I didn’t think that you guys would really believe me.”

“The missing people aren’t really missing. It’s more like they’ve been possessed.” Sam said.

“So then what is this creepy temple?” Kelsey asked, pointing to the building that was falling apart.

“It’s an entrance to a supposedly creepy shadow world,” Dean said.

“The Spiral,” Kelsey said, shaking her head and rubbing her face.

“How did you know that?” Sam asked, looking at her as he and Dean pulled out shotguns.

“I’m not sure, but what are you going to do with those?” She pointed at the guns. “If they are spirits can you actually touch them?”

“The monsters are called Naag, and we are hoping that they are repelled by salt like other ghosts,” Sam said as they loaded the firearms with the salt rounds.

~~~~~

“We have to go through the door. No matter what.” Sam said as they approached the entrance of the temple.

“What happens if we don’t?” Kelsey asked as she realized she was seriously underprepared.

“We don’t leave ever,” Dean responded, giving her a quick glance over his shoulder.

“But we will, it’s gonna be okay, just stay close,” Sam comforted. The three of them walked into the temple, and all gasped as if they were being stabbed all over by icicles.

They panted as they tried to gain an understanding of their surroundings in the inky black. Kelsey knew something about what they had done was wrong but she wasn’t sure what it was. Their eyes adjusted slowly to the dimness until finally, they saw the temple in its full splendor all around them.

“Where the hell are we?” Dean asked as he turned around slowly.

“The spiral,” Sam answered. “I think.”

“Yes,” Kelsey suffered a momentary lapse of lucidity as her vision doubled with a view of splendid statues and Snake men. “This was their entrance to protect. This is the first circle. We shouldn’t be here.”

“Why?” Dean asked, lifting the shotgun again.

“Normally you enter the spiral in your sleep,” Kelsey said, “We walked in.”

“How do you know that?” Sam asked, grabbing her forearm gently, to look at him.

“I’m not sure,” Kelsey seemed to struggle to grasp the answer to the question. “I think I dreamed about it.”

“More importantly, why does it matter that we were awake.” Dean interrupted her thoughts.

“We’re here in the flesh. We are in their world. We have to play by their rules. They can hurt us, and possess us.”

“That explains why the others were brought here, so they could be possessed,” Sam said looking over her shoulder and said to Dean. He released Kelsey’s arm.

“Yeah but for what purpose?” Dean asked looking back at his brother.

“It’s a trap,” Kelsey’s eyes went wide as she looked up at Sam, then bolted for the doorway they had just come through.

“Kel, that’s not gonna-” He cut off as she leaped through the doorway and disappeared. “Work… huh, I guess she found the door, come on.”

Sam and Dean came through the door and found Kelsey covering her ears and screaming.

“What the hell?” Dean asked as he and Sam went over to her. She turned and scraped her nails across Dean’s face as she say him first. “Fuck!” He yelled as he backed up.

“Kelsey! Hey, it’s Sam. Stop!” He commanded as he tried to keep her hands at bay from attacking him. “Find the door!” Sam shouted over her screeching.

“There!” Dean shouted as he saw the outline in the empty dark room. The smaller dark-haired woman had finally gotten the upper hand on Sam, and Dean ran at her, throwing her over his shoulder toward the door with Sam right behind him. Dean kicked the darkness and the light flooded the dark, blinding them momentarily as they moved through the door.

“Where the hell are we now?” Dean asked as he looked around the open field.

“Endurance?” Sam threw out the word like Dean should know what it meant. Kelsey squirmed in the older brother’s arms.

“Will you put me down please?” She asked, sounding her normal calm self again.

“Are you going to scratch me again?” Dean asked as he lowered her feet to the ground.

“I’m sorry,” She said wringing the hem of her shirt.

“It’s healed, like it never happened,” Sam said looking at Dean.

“What does endurance mean?” Dean asked, ignoring his brother’s statement. His face still stung even if the wound wasn’t there.

“It’s the third circle of the Spiral,” Sam said.

“So what was that?” Dean asked, jerking his thumb over his shoulder to the now no longer there door.

“Rage,” Kelsey said, wiping at the tears streaking her cheeks. “Sorry, it was like all the anger and frustration I’ve been holding on to without my sleep hit me like a tidal wave.”

“It’s okay,” Sam said, knowing that this realm would bring out the worst in all of them.

“It’s not, but we don’t have time for that,” Kelsey said.

“You know, not to kick a gift horse in the mouth but you seem much more together here,” Dean said looking at Kelsey’s clear eyes.

“This place is madness,” Kelsey said cryptically as she walked forward and down an almost limitless mountain.

“What the hell does that mean?” Dean asked, throwing his hands up.

“Maybe everything is top-see turvy here, and because of that the world makes sense to her?” Sam suggested taking off after her.

“Right,” Dean mumbled, rolling his eyes.

The group walked for what seemed like hours. They were tired and there was no end in sight to the landscape. Let alone a door or entryway.

“Do you think we missed it?” Sam asked concern crossing his face. None of them wanted to get stuck here and face the corruption of their souls that awaited them.

“I don’t think so,” Kelsey said as she did a slow circle to look around.

“If you say something cryptic and creepy, like the door will show up when we least expect it, I’ll-” Dean was interrupted and they all cried out in surprise as the ground literally fell out from beneath them.

~~~~~

“Well that hurt,” Kelsey groaned before looking around. “Sam? Dean?!” She cried out the names of the brothers looking for them frantically, before the chilling reality that she was alone struck her.

“All alone?” A voice called from the shadows of the temple. Her fall from the previous circle had brought her back inside.

“Who’s there?” She whimpered, as she started to walk through archways toward the voice.

“Sssomeone who knowss who you are,” the voice seemed to mock her. It stayed hidden in the shadow, but she assumed it belonged to one of the Naag, who resided and protected this part of the Spiral. It continued to hide away from where she could see.

“My master is looking for sssomeone like you. What is your name, foolish one?”

“I thought you knew who I was?” She chided.

“Sslip of the forked tongue. I know what you are.” The masculine voice corrected itself.

“I’m a person,” She said the sliver of doubt caused by her dream cracking back open.

“With a dead-end job, who wonders where they should truly be in the world. You are kind to people because they aren’t kind to you. But you have never felt like you really belong.” He sounded almost clinical in his appraisal of her. And it stung her just how close to the mark he had fallen.

“How do you know so much about me?” She asked as a tingling feeling had started to spread throughout her body starting at her toes and fingers. Her skin was becoming ethereal like she was fading out.

“We’ve been watching you. You have much doubt. This ss-circle is not for those who don’t believe in themselvesss.” He hissed a laugh.

“If you’ve been watching me, then you’ve been waiting for me. Why? Unless you knew I was coming here. But even I didn’t know I was coming here?” Kelsey was thinking in circles and stalling out. Her fear and exhaustion were starting to get to her as she continued to fade from her own few.

“Pleassse, Psssychic. You always knew this is the road you were going to take. Ever ssince you had that dream,” He spoke with a villainous laugh. Kelsey’s body was disappearing rapidly now as her doubt about her entire life ate her away.

“Psychic?” She whispered.

“Now, I will claim you as mine,” The Naag was suddenly in front of her. A hideously deformed beast that stood well over eight feet tall. It was haunched back on a thick tail and a cobra-like hood flared around its fanged head. Two meaty arms protruded from its sides with long menacing claws. Something grabbed Kelsey’s invisible arm and tugged her roughly.

“Sam?!” She cried as she flung herself around the tall man.

“I saw you first, but don’t thank me or anything,” She heard Dean mumble.

“What happened?” She asked, looking at the two men.

“We were separated from each other, but thankfully after walking through some of the interior structures, we walked through the door by accident. I don’t know what caused us to become visible to each other,” Sam explained, giving Dean a significant look. Kelsey would ask him about that later. Then she remembered what the Naag had said to her.

A Psychic, that meant that she knew what was going to happen here. A sinking feeling of dread fell like a rock in the pit of her stomach.

“Don’t let the Naag bite you,” She said realizing that her moment of silence might have seemed suspicious. “I saw one right before you grabbed me.”

“We haven’t seen anything,” Dean said, looking around with his shotgun lifted again. The agitation and fear of the men was palpable.

“And they never will,” A serpentine voice hissed in her ear. She spun around to see the Naag from the previous circle towering over her and Sam.

“RUN!” She screamed. Other Naags were audible in the distance as Sam and Dean didn’t ask questions and took off away from where the spirit was.

“There!” Dean called pointing his gun to the side. “There is the door.” The temple was starting to collapse around them. Heavy stone blocks falling all over.

“Kelsey, come on!” Sam called urging the girl to run faster. She cut the corner, dodging falling rubble just in time to see the Naag from before collide into Dean’s back. He howled in pain, the large body of the Naag fell from her view as the door and the other Naag closed in on them. Another smaller Naag latched onto Sam, just as Kelsey caught up to them.

They crashed through the doorway with the two Naags clawing for purchase on their skin.

“That was anticlimactic,” Kelsey groaned as the scenery had not changed between circles of the Spiral. “Be on the lookout!“

Kelsey grabbed the monster on Sam by an unidentifiable appendage and yanked, tugging it off of his back before it had time to bite him and claim him for itself.

“Find the door, I’ll get Dean. This is the last circle, so watch for the betrayal.” She was turning away and found the older Winchester staring at her. The look in his eye was murderous and she felt the air leave her chest as his arm struck her middle and sent her flying across the width of the large temple hallway.

“Guess you found it,” She muttered to herself weakly. She blinked repeatedly and shook her head to clear it, before clambering awkwardly off the ground. Dean was charging toward her and she sidestepped in time for him to slam into the wall and fall in a crumple.

She couldn’t see the Naag anywhere but knew that something had happened between Dean and it. She invoked her second sight, a thing she hadn’t realized she could do and saw the misshapen atrocity that was coiling itself around Dean’s essence. She sighed, knowing that this would be the one time Dean would be happy to know that the scars of his life were working for him as the Naag struggled to fit itself into all the grooves. She reached for the bite mark that marred the back of his shoulder-blade and worked her first two fingers into the infernal wound.

Dean howled in pain, as Kelsey’s fingers dug under his skin trying to reach the end of the Naag’s ethereal tail. Sam’s gun fired behind her but all she could do was hope that the rock salt affected the Naag, as she couldn’t let herself be distracted at this crucial moment. She exclaimed as she hooked her finger on the spirit then stood, ripping it from its almost settled location within Dean’s essence. Dean crumpled to the ground as the bite on his back healed like it never existed.

Kelsey flung the Naag spirit against the opposing wall and pulled Dean up from the ground.

“I found the door!” Sam shouted as he ran to join them and take Dean’s weight from her.

“Let’s go, we can’t waste anymore time,” Kelsey urged the brothers in front of her so she could keep an eye out for the other Naags she knew were close behind and Sam and Dean started to sprint for the door. She smiled to herself knowing they were within spitting distance as the door came into view.

Something snapped around Kelsey’s ankle and she gasped as the ground met her face rapidly.

“Pessssky little bitch,” the atrocious snake-man hissed as it pulled itself against her chest. “I liked him, but if you wanted me so badly,” It coiled its tail around her leg as if to cuddle itself close to her warm body. “All you had to do was say so.”

Kelsey uttered a blood-curdling shriek of pain as the millions of tiny dagger-like teeth sunk into her collarbone.

“Kelsey!” Sam cried as he heard her and turned to see the spirit disappear. He shoved Dean through the door and ran back over to her as her body started to convulse and bubbles formed around her slightly purple lips. “Shit,” Sam cursed as he worked to get his hand under her head to keep her from choking. The light behind the door was fading and unknown to Sam, more Naags were starting to come into the hallway.

Kelsey gasped and then sputtered like she had been drowning. Her eyes snapped open as she steadied herself.

“Come on, we have to get out of here,” Sam said standing her up and supporting her around the waist.

“You have to go,” She croaked as he half dragged her.

“I’m not gonna leave you,” Sam said firmly. They stepped through the door together, as claws from one of the Naags raked along Sam’s arm and grabbed Kelsey around the waist to try to pull her back through the door.

“Sam!” she screamed his name, terror was written on her face.

“Dean!” Sam shouted as he turned trying to get a better grip on the brunette. Dean came around to grab her as well and their combined strength was enough to balance out the strength of the Naag.

“Ssshhhhe’ss mine,” Kelsey gagged on the hiss as the Naag used her voice to speak.

“No,” Sam argued.

“Go on, Psssychic,” The spirit struggled with the word. “Tell them what you saw in your dream. Tell them how you knew this would happen and you came anyway.” Tears fell from Kelsey’s eyes as Sam’s face contorted with pain. She had known she wouldn’t make it, and she had come to save them anyway.

“I’m not going to let you die,” Sam grunted as he pulled doubly hard. A joint popped loudly in Kelsey’s arm.

“We’re not winning,” Dean growled lowly.

“Ssssshhe won’t die with me.” The Naag hissed like a dark soothing balm. Kelsey seemed to battle with herself momentarily as the claws around her waist pierced her flesh.

“Don’t worry, Sammy,” Dean tried to bolster his brother.

Kelsey’s body went limp suddenly and the brothers were pulled close to her face. Dean let go with the limited space of the doorway, and Kelsey grabbed Sam’s face with her free hand to kiss him deeply.

“Thank you,” She whispered against his stun-slack lips. “I will find you.”

She twisted her arm around, breaking his hold on her forearm and was pulled back through the door.

“And that’s where I wake up,” Kelsey finished her recount to the therapist who made little notes in his book. “If I’m honest, I’m tired. I haven’t dreamed since then. I just don’t know what to make of it.”

“Interesting,” The man muttered as he moved to put his notepad down. He stood, and something in his eyes caught Kelsey’s attention.

“Doc, you okay?” She asked fear causing her voice to shake. She was trying to be subtle in the way she scooted down the couch toward the door. “Doc?”

“He’sss long gone. But don’t worry, I think you’ve been looking for me,” His face contorted horrifically and she screamed as the door to the office slammed open. Sam and Dean rushed in weapons drawn, and their faces reflected her disgust at the evil spirit from her nightmare.

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