IDENTITY CRISIS CH.10

"Did you find anything?" Sam asks as he meets Dean inside his room.

"No. The first three floors are clean." Dean replied. "I don't get it. Shouldn't it have killed somebody by now?"

"Maybe whoever is doing this knows that we're onto them. I mean we've searched this hotel up and down and didn't find anything. Maybe its all over with." Sam suggested.

"I guess we'll just have to wait until the morning to find out." Dean said as he started taking off his coat and shoes. "If its not over, then somebody else dies and we're still no closer to killing the d*mn thing."

"Which is another problem, to figure out how to kill it." Sam let out a sigh.

"Why don't we sleep on it. Then tomorrow, hopefully, we'll get some answers."

"Yeah, alright." Sam said with a sigh, while walking to his room.

The next morning Sam woke up first and took a shower, before he went down to Alex's room to get Hana.
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"Hey! Excuse me! Can you get your baby to stop cryin'? I'm trying to sleep here!" The woman from New York yelled, while banging on Alex's door.

"Yeah, and so are we." The man, who was also from New York, yelled. He was standing in his door frame with a tall thin woman with short brown hair, who was wearing a red laced slip. "Right now, I'd rather hear that baby cry, then your bangin' on the door."

"Aww. I'm sorry, does little brothuh have a hangovuh?" The woman said in a mocking tone.

"No. I can control my drinkin', unlike you apparently." He says as he's about to close the door.

The woman was now frustrated and turns towards her brother. "What's your problem? This doesn't involve you!"

A few doors between them, a man walked out of his room. "Excuse me, could you guys keep it down out here?" He asked a little sheepishly. "I haven't had a decent nights sleep-"

"Shut up!" Both of the New Yorkers yell, causing the man to creep back inside his room, rather quickly.

Sam had heard some people yelling as he came down the stairs. Then he came through the stairwell door and saw a woman pounding her fist on Alex's door.

"Whoa. Hey, what's going on here?" Sam said running in front of the woman to get her to stop making noise.

"This woman, who apparently sleeps like a rock, has been lettin' her baby cry for the past five hours non-stop. Some of us need our beauty rest."

"Like it would do you any good." Her brother yells at here.

"Shut up, Ricky!" The woman hears the baby cry again. "Arrr! If you don't do somethin', I'm going to call child services on her." She said looking up at Sam with her hands on her hips.

"Alright, alright, alright. Just calm down." Sam said getting irritated with this woman that he just met. "She's a new mother, she's still trying to get a hang of things. I'll take care of it."

"Yeah, well she should do it somewhere else." She said folding her arms. "Like at a house, like normal people do."

"Angela! Leave the man alone! He said he would take care of it!" By now Ricky had walked up to his sister and grabbed her arm. "I'm sorry about her." Ricky said, while dragging Angela away from the door.

"Don't talk about me like I'm a child!" She said struggling in his grip.

"Will you just shut the h*** up?!" He said as he pushed her towards her door.

Sam watched as they both slammed their doors shut, all the while wondering why Alex was letting Hana cry for five hours. He reached into his pocket and quickly unlocked the door. Once Sam got inside, right away he noticed that the room was cold and he saw a sheet from Alex's bed on the floor. Now worried, Sam looks over at Alex's bed to find it empty.

"Alex?" Sam yelled wondering where his cousin was.

He noticed that the bathroom door was closed, so he knocked a few times before he opened it. Panic started to rise as he saw the empty bathroom.

"Alex!" Sam yelled hoping that she would respond to him. The only response he hears is Hana's crying. "Hana." Sam said as he rushed over to her crib.

He was about to pick her up, but he saw something move in the corner of his eye. As he turned his head, he saw that the sliding glass door was wide open, causing the red curtains to blow in the wind. He ran over to the balcony and walked through the snow that had blown through the door.

Sam walked out onto the balcony hoping to find Alex, but once again he found nothing. Suddenly a horrible thought entered Sam's head. "Oh no." He looked over the edge of the balcony, thinking that Alex had fallen, but he didn't see anything. All he could see was snow, so he couldn't tell if he was right or not.

"Hey, Sam, where's the cof...fee..." Dean asked trailing off as he entered the room. "What happened?"

"I don't know." Sam said walking back into the hotel room and closing the door.

"Where's Alex?" Dean asked worried.

"I don't know!"

Dean noticed that there was snow in the room and realized that the balcony door was open all night. "Do you think she fell?"

"I said I don't know!" Sam yelled irritated with Dean. As they both glared at each other, they were interrupted by Hana's crying. Sam quickly got over his anger and picked up Hana, as Dean walked out onto the balcony. He looked down and noticed that the snow was higher up in the area under Alex's balcony, then all the other rooms.

"Dean, she's really cold." Sam said holding Hana's head against his shoulder.

"Here." Dean rips a blanket off of the bed and rushes over to Sam. "You watch Hana. I'm gonna go find Alex."

After Dean handed over the blanket, he ran out of the room and down the stairwell. He shoved the door opened and ran over to the spot that was under Alex's room. At first Dean couldn't tell if there was anything there, but then he noticed that the ground wasn't level. Dean fell to his knees and started to dig a hole in the snow. His cold fingers brushed up against something solid. As he pulled more snow away he realized that it was an arm. Dean moved to where he thought her head would be and started to dig. It didn't take long for Dean to hit her face with the tips of his fingers. He started brushing the rest of the snow off of Alex's pale face.

"Alex, can you hear me?" Dean asked with worry and panic in his voice. After he didn't get an answer, Dean uncovered the rest of her the best that he could. "I'm gonna get you outta here. Don't worry." Dean said as he picked her up in his arms with her head resting on his right shoulder. He held her close, to warm her and himself up.

Alex's right arm was limp and hanging to her side swinging as Dean ran up the stairs. Dean kicks the door open still holding Alex in his arms. At this point Dean didn't care about anything, other than his cousin's health.

"Sam! I found her!" Dean yelled as he walked towards Alex's door.

Sam rushed over with Hana wrapped up in the blanket in his arms. "Set her on the bed." Sam said as Dean walked into the room.

Dean rests Alex on the bed and starts to take off her layers of shirts, leaving on the last one. "Fill the bathtub up with warm water." He said as he pulled off Alex's socks. He had to take off as much of the cold clothes that he could to help warm up her blood stream.

"Alright." Sam said as he went over to the bathroom. "You should check her pulse."

Dean rests his hand on Alex's neck and tried to feel her pulse. "It's weak. Hey, make sure that water isn't too warm."

"Why?" Sam asks walking out of the bathroom to see Dean.

"We have to be careful or else her heart could fail on her."

"How do you know this?"

"I saw it in a movie once."

"That makes more sense now." Sam said then went back into the bathroom. "The water is ready."

Dean picked up Alex and walked her into the bathroom. Sam backed out of the bathroom and watched as Dean carefully lowered Alex into the bathtub.

"Come on, wake up. You gotta wake up for me Alex." Dean commands her frantically. "Come on, come on, come on." He says while shaking her a little. "D*mn it Alex!"

"Anything?" Sam said, while coming back into the bathroom holding Hana on his shoulder.

"No, not yet." Dean says and looks up at Sam. "How's Hana?"

"She's starting to warm up a little. I think she'll be fine."

"That's good."

Sam decided to place Hana back into her crib, then he came back into the bathroom.

"Come on Alex, you can do it. Just wake up for me, please? Alex?" Dean says while patting her face. He starts to get more scared, because she still doesn't respond. "Alex!"

Sam grabs a rag off of the counter and runs it under warm water. He sits on the toilet seat and starts to gently rub the cloth across Alex's forehead. "Maybe you should check her pulse again." Sam suggested.

Dean checks her pulse. "Her pulse is getting stronger."

"Alex?" Sam asks trying to wake her up. "Alex you have to wake up for us. Hana needs you."

After they didn't get a response, they both got more worried. "This isn't good." Dean said running his hand through his hair.

"Dean, she probably needs to be hospitalized." Right after Sam said that a miracle happened.

Alex let out a small cough and her eyes flutter open just a crack.