Survive and Thrive

Chapter-4

Lia was awake. But she didn't look any better. Dean hugged her. "I'm so glad your awake." She tried sitting up and screamed in pain. "Hey, Lia don't move" Sam said trying to soothe her. "Who are you?" she said. I could see her face scrunch up in pain as she sat up with Deans support.

"Well, Lia you were hurt, pretty badly, and we found you." I said. She was breathing pretty hard. Tears started trickling down her face. "I'm sorry about the shouting, just that this is really painful" she said. "Where's my shirt?" She said. "Um you were clawed on your stomach and back so we had to take it off" I said. "Ok" she said her eyes fluttering open and shut. "Dean are you ok? "she said woozily. "I'm fine, Lia" he said. She passed out again, probably cause of pain. "I hope she will be ok" Dean said looking concerned. "She will be fine, as long as the wound isn't infected" Sam said. "Can I bathe?" He asked. "Yeah of course" I said. I showed him the bathroom and got him some clean clothes to wear. I went down. "Hey, Julie" Sam said. "Yeah?" I said. "The next time Lia is conscious; you are going to have to take her to the shower and bathe her cause I can’t and nor can Dean" he said. "If the wounds get infected it could get even worse, and we don't want her passing out in the shower" he said. "Oh man, I don't think she's going to like that" I groaned.

Just then Dean came down. He looked refreshed. His damp curls were sticking to his face. “I can take care of the baby now” he said. “Well now that you are ok, the baby needs diapers” Sam said. “I will go and get them from the store, it’s a short walk there” Dean said. “I’ll come with you, we need more stuff” I said. “Ok, the both of you go, and take a knife” Sam said. “Yeah, better for protection” I said. I grabbed two knifes one for me and one for Dean. We left the house. “So, is your house really far away?” I asked him. “Yeah, its pretty far from here... Its about an hour’s walk away.” He said. “Jeez, must have been really tiring with a baby” I said. “Well yeah, pretty awful” He agreed. I stopped and doubled up on the road. “Hey, Julie what happened?” He said in alarm. “Augh I forgot to take painkillers” I said. “Wait a minute, your hurt too?” He said questioningly. “Well… yeah, someone lit Walmart on fire and then s**t fell on me and there’s a pretty bad gash on my chest” I said. “Oh my gosh, do you want to go back?” He asked. “Nah…we need a lot of stuff” I said. We continued walking and quickened our pace because it was already 4 in the afternoon. Once we got there, we picked up loads of diapers, food and clothes for the baby, Dean, Sam and Lia. We rolled back all our stuff using a shopping cart. We reached there just before dark. Lia was awake. We unloaded the things and food and changed the baby into a diaper. I sat next to Lia and told her about the bath. I walked over to the kitchen where Sam, Dean and the baby were. “Well, I told her…but now what do I do?” I asked Sam. “Told her what, Julie?” Dean asked. Sam explained. “Um, you should use warm water and please use soap. It will burn but she might get an infection if she doesn’t use the soap” he said. “Ok, will do” I said.. Then she showered. Once her new clothes were on I brought antiseptic cream and bandages. The boys cleaned off all of the blood on the sofa and put a new cover on it. I helped Lia down the stairs. She could walk now, but it was painful. She looked completely different and refreshed. She had grey eyes a mischievous smile and beautiful wavy hair. We ate dinner and decided that Dean, Sam and the baby would sleep with in a room. The baby slept with them because it was familiar with Dean and Sam’s magic on the baby always worked. Because they had the baby with them, they got the biggest room. Me and Lia were sharing my bedroom. We all were super tired so we went to bed.