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sweetiecelin · 3 months ago
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The Blind Leading the Blind
Chapter 2
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You and Sam the biggest idiots. Sometimes, when you want to see something you have to take a step back. It's just you and Sam are just into being really good friends. Everyone else can see beside you dumbasses.
Chapter Summary/Warnings: Mentions of death/killing, Sam and you just getting on each others nerves, Hurt(no comfort), jealousy
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You woke up with a sharp pain shooting through your head. The headache reminded you of the worst hangovers you had when you were a teenager, going to parties every other night. Using both your hands, you started pressing on your temple- as if that was going to work. You barely remember getting to your bed, the flannel you were wearing was haphazardly discarded on the floor. 
When you looked at your nightstand, there was a glass of water and a bottle of generic aspirin with a little note, “Thought you might need these after last night, Sam”. God sometimes, he was truly the best. 
After you popped a couple of the pills, you found the willpower to get out of bed. Slowly making it out of your room, the bunker’s lights were testing your strength to even get out of the hallways. You managed to stumble your way to the kitchen, just to have the nauseating smell of Dean’s “hangover cure” fill your nose. Dean stood in front of the stove, mumbling one of the classic rock songs that was stuck in his head. 
Covering your mouth you made your way to Sam sitting at the table, drinking one of his nasty ass protein shakes he made. You stared at the mixture with pure disdain.
“I don’t know how in the hell you drink those,” You muttered, while shielding your eyes the best you can from the overhead lights beaming at you.
Sam looked at your expression and then at the drink, “It’s good for you, you should try it sometimes. Y’know instead of clogging your arteries with Dean.”
Snorting, you just shook your head, “At least it doesn't taste like ass.”
Dean agreed, still attending to the food, “She’s gotta point, Sam. At least this tastes amazing if I do say so myself.” 
Trying to ignore the aching feeling in your stomach, you start preparing to eat the greasy food in front of you s Dean plopped at the table. There were two different eggs, bacon, toast and sausage. You managed to put some food on your plate as Dean started devouring what he already grabbed. 
“So, while you two took your sweet time getting up, I found us a case.”
Your mood suddenly shifted from miserable to intrigued, “Really? What is it?”
Sam continued as Dean kept shoveling food into his mouth, “Well, if you’d let me continue, it’s a group of kids that went missing in a small town, Dewhurst. All lived in the same town, all went missing along the same road.”
You turned to him, “So maybe a lady in white?”
“No, unfortunately a completely different MO. So it doesn’t match the profile-” Sam had started.
Dean cut in, raising his hand motioning to stop, “Can we eat first and discuss details later?”
Both you and Sam had shared a look. The two of you know that the older Winchester would like to enjoy the few moments of peace that came with his meals now. 
You looked at the plate in front of you, and the empty cup Sam’s shake was in, “Sam, can you just help me finish this, if I eat all of it I won't be able to keep it down.”
Looking at you with amusement, he reluctantly agreed. You managed to get most of the egg on your plate, some pieces of bacon down, but just stared at the rest repulsively. Noticing this, Sam really tried to help clear your plate
After eating, you all went to the library, taking seats at one of the tables there. Sam pulled up his laptop, trying to pull up all the information he had already collected. You always appreciated his organization when it came to cases, it made it easier when you just wanted to jump in and help. 
“So, like I was saying- all teenagers, all the same strip of road, missing with no trace of them going anywhere. They all went to different schools, different grades and different class schedules.” Sam picked up from the place he left off in the kitchen.
You ticked your head to the side, “How about extracurriculars? Maybe there’s a connection that way? Or do the families know each other?”
“Yeah, no connections through programs- Wait, it looks like all the families were connected through city events,” Sam followed up, barely letting his eyes leave the laptop as he attempted to dig deeper.
You glanced at the brothers before sighing, “I guess it’s time to move our asses and burn that ghost.”
Dean agreed, so all of you went to pack your ‘go bags’. Less than thirty minutes later, you were all piled in the car.
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Five hours later, you arrived in Dewhurst. Dean attempted to get two rooms, but there was only one left. You all agreed that the bed situation would be figured out later. Once settled, it was decided that it was time to go work with local law enforcement. While Sam and Dean were dressed in their professional suits, you were wearing a nice blouse and blazer, accompanied by a tight pencil skirt. The skirt was solely to manipulate the male sheriff to be more willing to share details about the case.
It worked. And on his deputies too.
While you and Sam gather more info; The families were descended from the original founding families, minus one- The Winslows. The other families became integral to the development of the town. Collins for the mine, Thompsons for the port, and Jamisons for mainly being the family more often than not in power.
You chatted up the deputies to see if there was more to the case. Deputy Crawford was the first one to crack, “It was so gruesome that some of the new officers may have gagged a little. The body had been torn apart, almost in half. I just hope the kid wasn’t alive when he was split in two.”
“Wow, that sounds terrible,” you feigned naive shock, “Was there anything off about the scene too you? Besides the body,” you probed just a little further, running your hand down his arm.
His eye returned to yours, with a glint of something else, “Aren’t you just a curious cat? I’m sure there’s more details in the report.”
“Well, I’m just naturally inquisitive about weird things; It’s why I joined the FBI y’know,” 
“Someone might get the wrong idea when you mention ‘weird things’, more adventurous things.” He grinned at you.
When Sam was finished discussing the investigations of the deaths, he noticed your little exchange. How the deputy was sneaking glances of your body up and down, how you were a bit too flirtatious with him. He headed your way and managed a suave way to pull you away from the conversation, bringing you to a less populated part of the station. 
Calling your name he started in on you, “What the hell are you doing? We’re supposed to be professionals, not hooking up with one of the cops we’re supposed to be working with,” Sam hissed at you, boring into your eyes.
You yanked your arm away from his grasp, “I don’t know what the hell has gotten into you, but I am a perfectly grown woman and a skilled hunter. I know what the fuck I’m doing.”
“Yeah? That’s why you’re flirting with him?” 
“Listen Sam, stop being a dick head. I’m getting more information on the case.”
“How, by throwing yourself at him?” He started glaring into you, which only fueled your irritation. You huffed and walked away from him to Dean who was just looking at the tiff you and Sam just had.
He opens his mouth to say something but the look you shoot his way stopped him. Sam shortly followed you with clenched fists, pushing past Dean outside to the car. Dean thought about the scene he witnessed before Sam dragged you away, and just chuckled.
Shortly later, all of you arrived at the motel. It was time to decide who had the beds or the one chair in the corner of the room. 
You looked at the tall brothers and giggled, “Guess I’m taking the cuck chair.”
Immediately they both turned and looked at you, but it was Dean that spoke first, “The what chair?”
“The cuck chair,” You said like it was general knowledge, “You know the chair the husband sits in when his wife-”
Sam put his hand up to signal you to stop, “Jesus, please don’t continue. You’re not taking the chair, one of us can go sleep in the impala.”
Dean sighed and agreed, “We all need to be well rested if we’re going to investigate the scenes tomorrow.”
“Okay, then I’ll be the one to sleep in the impala,” you replied, “I’m sure I fit better, than either one of you crammed into the backseat.”
Shaking his head, Sam rebuked you, “No, just share with one of us.”
You looked at him with shock, “Yeah, like Dean will share and I’ll sleep next to you after the shit you pulled at the station? Hard pass.”
Dean just rolled his eyes, walking away to one of the laptops that was on the motel table. He was tired and done with listening to the two of you bickering. He thought the two of you should just confess your feeling to each other, but you two were just too fucking blind to see the signs. How you stared at Sam, how you always listened so deeply when he explained something about the current book he was reading or about new lore he came across. Or how Sam would always push you to share something with him and being disappointed when you clammed up, how Sam would simply listen to you rant about the stupid crap some hunter pulled in the pass. One of the last straws was this exact situation, which happened a little too often when you were on cases or at the bar, when either of you would get jealous when Sam or you flirted with other people openly in front of each other.
Still pissed, you sat down and grabbed the folder that the sheriff gave the boys to look at crime scene photos. Something was off, you just couldn’t pinpoint it. You scanned the images trying to find similarities between the pictures, it was like trying to play a game of iSpy but everything just blurred together. 
Finally, you saw it. It was words that were carved into the far corner of the room. It was something ‘hid it’. You thought about what one of the detectives said, there was one of the four families that founded the town that was killed.
“Hey guys, what did we find out about the Winslows?” 
“Winslows,” Sam glanced up at you before typing away at the keyboard in front of him, “1836, all family members had their throats slit in their beds, one of the daughters had been found with a knife in her hands with her throat slit too. Law enforcement at the time had assumed she did it.”
Dean added on to your initial questions, “They assumed?”
“Yeah, Mortimer Jameison said ‘Melinda was deranged, had conversations with herself’ and John Thompson shared that she had tried seducing several of the men in town to quote ‘lead them down the path of the Devil’. And last but not least, Nicholas Collins claimed that she tried to drag his sons down to hell with her.” 
Sam looked up, eyes bouncing from Dean to you, “How much do you want to bet that Melinda’s a vengeful spirit out for those who wronged her?”
You shook your head, “Then why hasn’t she been doing this the entire time? Why start now?”
“Maybe she was tired of the lies being spread about her? Or she was framed?”
Sam typed away again, “She could’ve been brought back since there was a new addition added to the local history museum. It was about the four families, but her stuff wasn’t included, which I get since it was a popular opinion that she's the one who killed them.”
You showed them the photos, “Do you guys see here, that there’s those carvings that say ‘hid it’, there’s one at every scene.”
“So guess, we’re gonna burn Melinda’s bones tonight, rest and then drive back? Case closed.” Dean remarked with a smirk.
But you and Sam both disagreed, he’s the one that spoke up, “I don’t know you guys, it sounds too easy. Something’s up.”
“As much as I don’t want to agree right now, I think Sam’s right. What if it’s something else, maybe an object she’s attached to, or it’s another spirit completely.”
Dean sighed, “You guys just love to make cases complicated, don’t you?”
“I don’t know, it feels off,”You mentioned shrugging as you got off of the bed. “Maybe we should poke around the museum or ask people in town? Maybe some of the families?”
“Yeah, some of the people that had some of their kids killed, asking about the history about the importance of their families?” Sam retorted, leaning back in his chair.
“No, jackass, ask about their kids. You know better than that, Samuel.” You side-eyed him from your stance around the table. You were getting tired of his attitude, and he was getting tired of yours. 
Dean was just tired of the both of you.
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winchesteranatomy · 11 days ago
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Dean is protective. Same is possessive.
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notebookpapers · 3 months ago
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“stucky or sambucky?” Both. I think it’s objectively funnier if this dude can’t stop falling for Captain America
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fandom-hoarder · 2 years ago
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Don't think about Sam saying, "You'll take Ketch but not me?" and thinking of Benny and Dean in purgatory, and holding onto Dean's, "I don't care if he dies!"
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lacilou · 2 years ago
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Sweet, sexy Sammy.
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Imagine finding out Sam’s in love with you
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Anon Request: OOH can I have a Sammy x reader where Sammy gets all jealous bc this guy is talking to Y/N but he’s flirting but she doesn’t realize it. and Sammy gets all jealous and kinda picks fight with him mostly bc hes emotionally drained and (maybe a little intoxicated bc he’s so emotionally drained) but protective!sammy but Y/N is nice about it bc she honestly doesn’t like the guy. but the reader and him aren’t official. she tries to get him to focus not on the guy all fluffy? (sorryifitstoospecific)
Pairing: Sam x Reader
Word Count: 1,600
Warnings: language
A/N: hope you like it, anon! If you guys hadn’t noticed by now, I have a thing for younger Sammy and his hair… enjoy :)
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nottyoursbutmine · 3 months ago
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twilight 3
i apologize for not posting but here’s this pls forgive me - obviously i’ve been in a paul lahote frenzy so this is basically a wolfpack rec list
personal fav 💐
masterlists:
masterlist @sethsclearwater
masterlist @findmeinforks
paul lahote:
distance makes the heart grow fonder @ervotica
where do we go @fashionteahouse
the prophecy @jogetsobsessed
lash out @everlesslahote1
stay part two @findmeinforks 💐💐
the tortured fangirls department - my boy only breaks his favorite toys part two @agreeewrites 💐
the one @lunajay33
request @prettypinkporkchop 💐
scared of losing you @bless-my-demons 💐
pretty @fashionteahouse
embry hall:
reassured insecurities @wolfpackenthusiast
jacob black:
steady steps @prettypinkporkchop
the porches view @mossingvines
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bet-on-me-13 · 1 year ago
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Harley and Ivy meet Jazz while she's Interning at Arkham, and think she's their daughter from the Future. Somehow.
They're not wrong.
Turns out the Fentons decides to test a Prototype Ghost Portal one day 18 years ago and accidentally made a Time Portal instead. Deeming the experiment a Failure, they were just about to close it and start again when a Baby was launched out of it and into Jack's arms.
The moment he looked into her Eyes he knew he wanted to keep her. Maddie was much the same.
They did Try to return her at first, but turns out the Portal was Unstable and constantly shifting between dozens of different TimeZones, so they could never find where/when she came from. She could either be from Earth 18 years later, or Mars 5 Million Years Ago. No way to tell.
So without any other option they decided that she was their Daughter now.
It helped that she looked so much like them, and that both had been in the Lab for 9 Months straight building the Portal so nobody would question the sudden Baby. They just told the Hospital they had an At Home Delivery and officially made her their Daughter.
They raised her believing that she was their's Biologically, because after a while they honestly forgot she wasn't.
Now Jazz is working as an Intern at Arkham Asylum, and has met the 2 Patients she will be helping take care of.
Doctor Pamela Isley, and Doctor Harleen Quinzel. Aka, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.
This should be an interesting internship.
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samsrowena · 9 months ago
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i don't care if it's cliche i deserved to see rowena with a little black cat that follows her around everywhere. and maybe it's a familiar, maybe it's not but either way the cat hates everyone but her. and dean for some reason
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sunday-bug · 2 months ago
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Would you be willing to write a fic about Bucky getting jealous? Maybe she’s being a little too friendly with Steve or Sam and he isn’t usually jealous but something that was said puts him in his head too much. The reader notices when he gets teary eyed and frustrated maybe? 👀
Yes!!! Absolutely. I may be taking too many liberties with this ask, so if you want something softer please lmk 🫶🏻 The reader is a total brat/her & Bucky are friends with benefits because he won’t commit.
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You laugh heartily at Sam’s joke, touching his arm as you lean forward, full of giggles. The four of you were all a little tipsy, enjoying a nice day on the patio.
“What’s so funny?” Bucky asks with an annoyed tone.
“He compared Redwing to R2D2, like his little droid companion that saves his ass,” you explain, still giggling a bit.
“Hilarious,” Bucky says sarcastically, sipping his drink.
“Fine, grump ass,” you say, standing up. “Steve, wanna get a refill in the kitchen with me?”
“Sure,” Steve says, following you into the kitchen.
“He is being a grump today,” you say to Steve, taking his glass and refilling it.
“Yeah, I don’t know what his deal is,” Steve replies, taking the glass back from you. “Thanks.”
Your fingers brush as Bucky and Sam walk into the kitchen too. Bucky notices your close proximity to Steve, and his eyes darken. Sam looks between you and Bucky, and you see the unspoken tension click into place for him.
“Hey, Steve, I gotta question about the shield, you got a minute?” Sam asks, trying to clear the room for you and Bucky. Steve nods and walks outside with Sam.
“What’s up Bucky?” You ask him with an ornery smile, already knowing the answer.
“Don’t play dumb,” he says, grasping his glass a little too tight.
“I’m not sure what you mean. You’ll need to use your words and spell it out for me,” you say, tracing your finger around the rim of your glass.
“Why are you doing this?” He spits out. “You’re flirting… you’re-you’re…”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” you say, doe eyed.
“Cut the shit. You’re trying to work me up,” he huffs out, tension building in his shoulders.
“Work you up, baby boy? Now why would I do that?” You ask innocently.
You watch his jaw clench as he walks over, towering over you, “You’re acting like a little brat.”
“Hmm,” you rub your chin in mock concentration, “and you’re acting a bit possessive of someone that isn’t yours.”
Bucky gets closer to your face and speaks in a dark, dominant voice, “I don’t care. I don’t want to see you flirting, touching, anything… with anyone other than me. You understand?”
“Mmm, that’s where you’re wrong baby. I can flirt, touch… fuck whoever I want. If I’m not your girl, I’m whoever’s I want to be,” you say into his ear with venom.
Bucky groans, “That’s not how this works, doll. You’re mine.”
“Yeah? You wanna make that official, Barnes?” You whisper across his lips.
He presses his hips into you and backs you into the wall, “You’re such a spoiled fucking brat,” his tongue pushes into your mouth and he whines desperately. “But yes. Be mine.”
“That’s what I thought,” you say, kissing him back.
-the end-
Also I love Sam Wilson and I know he’d never willingly flirt with Bucky’s girl ok I’m sorry that I wrote this 😭
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princeofpirkstein · 4 months ago
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winchesteranatomy · 2 years ago
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Absolutely love the Dean X Amara storyline; Sam was like a jilted lover the whole time ❤️❤️
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strawlessandbraless · 11 months ago
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Cas: Dean, Amara is dangerous. You can’t just charge in
Dean: we’re not, ok
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Castiel.exe has stopped working
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zwoftt · 1 year ago
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head empty just sam confirming that braius’s design had to “out sexy” dorian.
and then he flirted a bit with orym.
my man is out for blood. he is really trying to get those insecurities and denial and trauma out of blue boy HELPPP
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hikaaa-bi · 1 year ago
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a little too fast huh alice.. you can't hide your feelings with sarcasm and jokes forever
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future-dregs · 1 month ago
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Sam steps through their motel room door, two coffees held precariously in one hand.
Its early.
He's exhausted.
Dean is still sleeping. Yesterday they were in Lawrence.
Sam sets their coffees down, crosses over to Dean's bed, claps a big hand down on his brother's leg to wake him up.
"Dad?" Dean's voice is slurry. He's still half asleep but he tries to wake up quick. Legs over the edge, feet on the floor, blinking up real quick. His face doesn't change when Sam's comes into focus, but it's so still that Sam knows its purposefully neutral.
Sam feels like he's swallowed vinegar. His chest is tight, and there's a spike of something hot and violent behind the suddenly increased thump of his heart. He wants to spit in Dean's coffee, feeling stupid for having brought it.
He wishes their father were here right now, if only so he could fight with him. He wants to yell, and break things. It's too early in the morning for him to feel this mad.
He doesn't say anything.
Dean doesn't either. Just pulls his shirt over his head. Sam hears the bathroom door lock after it latches.
There's nothing else for it. No outlet that won't cause a scene. Sam finds the cord of the floor lamp and wraps it around his palm, pulls unceasingly until the tips of his fingers go purple, let's off and then snaps it sharp a few times, just until the rage gets small enough for him swallow, stuff it down at the bottom of his belly and let smolder.
When Dean comes back out, hair wet, clothes sticking to him, Sam has the local early morning report playing quietly on the TV.
His coffee is now cold, Sam's is gone, but he tells Sam thank you for it anyway, drinks it like it's good.
The necklace Sam gave him years ago is riding in middle of his chest. As it always is. Sam finds the slight tan line of the black leather lace around his brother's throat and zeroes in on it. Watches the skin flex as Dean cracks his neck.
They won't end up talking until the afternoon, and then only about lunch, but Dean pats Sam twice on the back, low under his shoulder blade, gives his nails a scratch down his spine as they're getting ready to leave, and Sam figures that that means they're pretty well alright.
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loverslantern · 5 months ago
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The Hunter and The Witch~ Dean Winchester x f!reader
Description: To obtain a mystic gun capable of destroying the demon that killed their mother, the group must team up with John and face off against vampires.
Warnings: cannon violence and gore, John Winchester, arguing, girl kissing (not really a warning but), slightly jealous Dean??, reader being a nerd
Word Count: 8.5k
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Dead Man's Blood
(Masterlist, Previous Chapter, Outfit Board)
 The cafe is quiet except for the distant chatter of conversations that melt together, the clinks of glasses and dishes, the clacking of a keyboard, and the shuffling of paper. So, maybe quiet isn’t the right word. Nevertheless, the steady background noise is peaceful. It brings me back to the days when I’d linger in cafes to study for an upcoming exam in both high school and college. Though, I suppose, looking through various obituaries and news articles to find our next hunt isn’t that different. “Well, man,” Dean starts, folding his newspaper. “Not a decent lead in all of Nebraska. What’ve you got?”
  I lean back in my seat, pushing away from the screen I’ve been looking out for God knows how long. “Nothing of note in Iowa, Kansas, or Missouri,” I announce, noting some of the states surrounding Nebraska. The various tabs open for each state are a little concerning. “Unless you count a woman in Iowa who managed to fall 10,000 feet from an airplane and survive.”
  “Sounds more like ‘That’s Incredible’ than, uh, ‘Twilight Zone,’” Dean remarks.
  “Yeah definitely weird but not that concerning,” I nod. It surely reeked of the supernatural because there was no human way to do that, but it also wasn’t a top-of-the-list concern when no one got hurt and it seemed like an isolated event.
  “Hey, Sam, you know we could keep heading East. New York. Upstate. We could drop by and see Sarah again. Huh?” Dean suggests, smirking as he leans his elbows on the table. “Cool chick man, smokin’” he whistles. I shake my head, mentally grimacing. Yeah, she was attractive but to say it aloud and whistle about some girl your brother was clearly into? A little weird. “You two seemed pretty friendly. What do you say?”
  “Yeah, I dunno, maybe someday,” he answers vaguely. “But in the meantime, we got a lot of work to do Dean, and you know that.”
  “Yeah, alright,” Dean gives in.
  “You get anything in the states you checked?” I ask Sam, knowing he had looked at Wyoming, Colorado, and South Dakota. More states that surround the state we currently reside in. “Yeah,” he exhales. “Uh, a man in Colorado. A local man named Daniel Elkins was found mauled in his home.”
  “That’s certainly one way to go,” I mumble.
  “Elkins?” Dean echos. “I know that name.”
  “You do?” I ask.
  “Doesn’t ring a bell,” Sam shakes his head.”Sounds like the police don’t know what to think,” he continues as his brother mumbles Elkins under his breath and pulls out their Dad’s journal. “At first they said it was some sort of bear attack and now, they’ve found some signs of robbery.”
  “You know, sometimes it amazes me how the police solve anything,” I remark. Sure, if it’s supernatural related then they don’t have the upper hand of knowledge but seriously a bear attack and a robbery are two completely different things.
  Dean hums absentmindedly in acknowledgment, flicking through the journal. “There, check it out,” he announces, flipping the book around for us to see. A phone number resides on the page right next to the name. “You think it’s the same Elkins?” Sam asks.
  “It’s a Colorado area code,” Dean points out. 
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  Sam kneels on the wooden porch, the flashlight illuminating his work with the lockpick. It’s not too long before the lock clicks, and the door creeps open with a turn and push.
  “Looks like the maid didn’t come today,” Dean comments, looking over a table cluttered with books and papers. Otherwise, this room was pretty clean at least in terms of the crime. “Hey, there’s salt over here. Right beside the door,” Sam announces, lingering by the front door. 
  “You mean protection against demon salt or, ‘oops I spilled the popcorn’ salt?” Dean asks, his interest tuned into a journal he discovered on the desk.
  My flashlight guides my eyes across the room. It didn’t happen in this room, it doesn’t seem like the perpetrator(s) came from the front door into the entryway. “It’s clearly a ring,” Sam clarifies. “You think this guy Elkins was a player?”
  “Definitely,” he answers. I wander a little further into the house, the real mess lying in the next room over, the door knocked off its hinges. “That looks a hell of a lot like Dad’s,” Sam says. I look over my shoulder, and both boys are checking out the journal. “Yep, except this dates back to the 60s,” Dean responds.
  I step into what looks to be an office, or what’s left of it. It’s pure destruction. If you told me a tornado came through this room I’d believe you. Broken and overturned furniture litter the floor, books and papers scattered about. I can barely see the floor, it's all covered. “Whoever this guy was, he put up a hell of a fight,” I comment as I carefully step further into the room, glass crunching beneath my shoe. Glass but no broken windows. “Whatever attacked him, it looks like there was more than one,” Sam adds, looking up at the ceiling. I follow his gaze to the broken sunroof, the source of the glass.
  Where did the police get a bear attack from even if he did have scratch marks on him? Did they think it fell into the sunroof? I could understand the robbery considering the mess, but a bear? Seriously? I shake my head at the thought, walking over to the cleared-off desk. Whatever was atop it was on the floor now. “Do you think whoever or whatever did this was looking for something?” I ask, taking in the mess again. Some of it was from fighting, but the desk's open draws, which were barely hanging on, suggests it may be more. It could be an added motive. “Maybe,” Sam answers before his attention turns over to his brother who is crouched down and examining the floor. “You got something?” Sam asks.
 “I dunno,” he answers. “Some scratches on the floor.”
  “Death throes maybe?” Sam suggests, referring to the last moments before the end. 
  “Yeah, maybe,” Dean says, grabbing a nearby notebook. He opens a page, placing it over the scratches before using a pencil to scratch over it revealing the marks better. “Or maybe a message.” He peels up the paper, some blood soaked into the back, but the markings are clear. “Look familiar?” He asks, holding it up.
  “Three letters, six digits,” Sam answers. “The location and combination of a post office box. It’s a mail drop.” The message was an incredible feat to manage before death took him under. To be able to scatch it out…it must be more than important.
  “Just the way Dad does it,” Dean adds. 
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 A simple letter rests in Sam’s hand. The letter was found in the post office box. “‘J.W.’” Sam reads off the envelope, “You think that's John Winchester?”
  “I mean your Dad clearly knew the guy,” I offer, his number is inside the journal. “Maybe he even learned this way of communicating from him.” 
“Should we open it?” Dean asks, something uncertain yet insistent in his voice. But, no one gets to answer the question on each of our minds when, instead, there is a knock on the driver-side window. Dean gasps and flinches, his arm raised in defense. “Dad?” he breathes, his fist lowering. The door beside me opens then, hazel eyes looking at me expectantly. I raise my eyebrows with a tight-lipped smile as I scooch over. He takes my seat, closing the door behind him. “Dad, what are you doing here?” Sam asks. “Are you alright?”
  “Yeah, I’m okay,” he answers simply. He looks the same as the last time we saw him, with messy dark hair similar to Sam’s cut and a ragged beard. “I read the news about Daniel, I got here as fast as I could. I saw you three at his place.”
  “Why didn’t you come in Dad?” Sam questions, his voice soft as if he knows the answer.
  “You know why. Because I had to make sure you weren’t followed…by anyone or anything,” John responds. He sounds more paranoid than anything. It sounds like a sad excuse to avoid speaking and seeing his kids again, but I keep those thoughts to myself. “Nice job of covering your tracks by the way,” he compliments. And it’s like being buttered up before the roast— before you’re put right back on the fire that eats at you until you forget your self-worth. 
  “Yeah, well, we learned from the best,” Dean answers with a proud smile on his face as his chest puffs out a little bit.
  “Wait, you came all the way out here for this Elkins guy?” Sam points out.
  “Yeah. He was... he was a good man. He taught me a hell of a lot about hunting,” he reveals. I guess I was somewhat right on my assumption. “Well, you never mentioned him to us,” Sam shrugs.
  “We had a... we had kind of a falling out. I hadn't seen him in years,” he explains, gesturing towards the envelope. “I should look at that.” Sam hands it over easily, and his father wastes no time in opening it. “'If you're reading this, I'm already dead',” he reads, trailing off. “That son of a bitch.”
  “What is it?” Dean asks.
  “He had it the whole time,” he answers vaguely as if we know what he's talking about. “Has what?” I ask.   “When you searched the place, did you, did you see a gun? An antique, a Colt revolver, did you see it?” He asks each question one right after the other almost frantically.   “Uh, there was, there was an old case but it was empty,” Dean answers.
  “They have it,” John announces.
  “‘You mean whatever killed Elkins?” Dean asks. John opens the door, shifting to get out. “We gotta pick up the trail.” But before he can make it out of the vehicle Sam stops him, “Wait. ‘You want us to come with you?”
  “If Elkins was telling the truth, we gotta find this gun,” he explains, doing that thing where he’s insanely unhelpful.
  “The gun–why?” Sam pushes.   “Because it's important, that's why,” he replies. I roll my eyes, for a guy who wasn’t very present he managed to be incredibly irritating. “Dad, we don't even know what these things are yet,” Sam reasons. 
  “They were what Daniel Elkins killed best: Vampires,” he reveals, finally being helpful.   “Vampires? I thought there was no such thing,” Dean answers.
  “You didn’t?” I ask, surprised.
  “You did?” He throws right back with a just as surprised tone as mine.
  “Yeah,” I say like it's obvious. “I took down a nest back in college.” It was the first and only time I had encountered a vampire let alone a vampiric hunt. Students started to go missing, seemingly picked off one by one, and like any school word had spread quickly. It was weird, yes, but with no bodies and only having gossip I had nothing to work with. No one saw anything, the picks were clean and concise. Well, that was until certain bodies did show up. Four out of nine bodies were found, two were located near or around campus grounds, and the others were left in the town that was a short drive from the school. I managed to pull some strings and cash in ‘I owe you’ to see the bodies firsthand. My initial thought was vampires but the thought was more of a joke than anything, I thought I was watching too much Buffy. But then some research made a joke no longer a joke. It was vampires and I had to kill them.
  I can remember it still, the way the heads went flying and how blood caked my clothes. Buffy makes it look cleaner than what it is. 
  “You did?” John asks, his voice dripping in disbelief and sass. “Don’t sound so surprised,” I mumble, my distaste for him almost painfully clear in the curl of my lip. He has been here for less than five minutes and I’m already a little irritated. I’d like to think that I’m not a hateful person, that I don’t hold grudges or malice but when it comes to John Winchester suddenly I’m the biggest hater you’ve ever seen. “Well, I thought they were extinct. I thought Elkins and—“ he throws a glare at me. “And others had wiped them out. I was wrong.”   “You were,” I agree, smiling a little at the slow turn of his head as he stares at me with daggers. 
  “Most vampire lore is crap,” he starts, his voice gruff, looking back at his boys. “A cross won't repel them, sunlight won't kill them, and neither will a stake to the heart. But the bloodlust, that part's true. They need fresh human blood to survive. They were once people, so you won't know it's a vampire until it's too late.”
  “The way to kill them is decapitation,” I add. “Interestingly enough the story to get it right is a work of fiction, though, of course, you could argue that it was only presented that way and the author knew more than any normal person would. The final blow in Carmilla, written by some Irish guy, is her head being struck off. Before that was a stake through the heart but, it’s interesting that he would add the decapitation aspect especially when it’s the first ever Vampire novel so it’s not like he changed things to be different.”
  “Are you done?” John remarks, unamused.
  “Yeah, now I am,” I respond, equally unamused with him.
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  “Wake up! Come on,” a voice demands. I grumble something incoherent, my fingers softly curling into the warmth beneath my hand. The something beneath my hand rumbles with the “Mm-hmm,” that follows from its lips. 
  My eyes squint open, my hand resting on Dean's chest, fingers clutching his shirt, his arm resting around my waist. We didn’t fall asleep like this when John hated the very idea of us sharing a bed even though we’d done it before. I know John doesn’t trust me, even though I haven’t done anything to warrant such feelings. It’s more like he doesn’t trust who I am and he makes it known with every look and side comment. Yet, as much as he hated it, he didn’t want me in a separate room because it would “waste time and money.” So, we had slept back to back which felt so horribly unnatural.
  I do not make a move to separate from him. He rubs his eyes and I want to bury my face into the pillow in a desperate attempt to grasp onto the remains of sleep but the sight of his messy short hair going every which way, and his eyes barely being held open from the sleep that clings to them keeps my attention. Even on interrupted sleep, he looks so good. “I picked up a police call,” John announces, the faint noise of radio static proving his statement. 
  “What happened?” Sam asks, his voice laced with sleep. Dean’s hand drops from his eyes going, instead, to my hand on his chest. He gives it a little squeeze and it would be so easy to just fall back into a sweet sleep with the butterflies that dance in my stomach. But, the harsh reality of, well, reality comes crashing back when John answers, “A couple called 911, ‘found a body in the street. Cops got there. Blood was missing. It's the vampires.”
  “How do you know?” Sam asks logically. But, John is already halfway out the door forgoing explanations as he typically does. “Just follow me, okay?” he responds, shutting the door behind him. 
“Huh, vampires,” Dean muses, his eyes still half open. “Gets funnier every time I hear it.”
****
 The spin of red and blue lights shatters the atmosphere, a long cloth placed over a body in the middle of the road, yellow tape sanctioning off the area as cops work the scene, and a certain irritating Winchester talking to a cop as we are forced to wait by the Impala like kids waiting while their parent talks to an old friend and you just know you’re going to be waiting forever. “I don’t see why we couldn’t have gone over with him,” Sam complains, sulking slightly. 
  “Should’ve let us sleep,” I agree, mumbling. I don’t see the point in dragging us from bed just to put us on the back burner, but I guess that’s John for you. 
  “Oh, don’t tell me it’s already starting,” Dean responds.   “What's starting?” he asks. But he doesn’t get his answer as their father approaches, Dean putting his focus there. “What have you got?” he asks his Dad. 
  “It was them alright,” John confirms. “Looks like they’re heading west. We’ll have to double back to get around that detour.”
  “How can you be so sure?” Sam asks, arms crossed. 
  “Sam…” Dean warns.
  “I just wanna know we're going in the right direction,” he snaps at his brother.
  “We are,” John answers vaguely.
  “How do you know?” 
  John hands something small to Dean, answering with “I found this.” 
  Dean cups the long and sharp tooth in the palm of his hand. “It’s a…” he tries to find the words, “a vampire fang.”
  “It’s not necessarily a fang,” I correct. “An entire set of teeth that look just like that descends when they attack, covering the normal set of teeth.” 
  “Any more questions?” John asks, looking at Sam expectantly, a certain bite to his words. Sam remains quiet, his eyes flicking away—the kind of answer his father wants. No, an answer he expects. “Alright, let’s get out of here, we’re losing daylight,” John orders. He walks to his truck, a vehicle I suddenly love because he doesn’t have to be in the same car as us. “Hey, Dean why don’t you touch up your car before you get rust?” he throws back the comment, “I wouldn’t have given you the damn thing if I thought you were going to ruin it.” 
  I look at Dean with widened eyes. His face drops. Drops. My heart might as well drop with it. I dig my nails into my palms in an attempt to control my mouth, my teeth clenched painfully to hold in my own comment. I should make him apologize. I should do more than that but I know it will only make it worse for them and that is the last thing I want. Yet, saying nothing feels worse so the word slips out before I can reel it back in. “Asshole,” I grumble beneath my breath, opening the back door to the Impala.
  “What’d you say?” John asks, seemingly having super hearing, pausing short of his truck. The stiffness in his shoulder is familiar, or similar. So, I duck into the car with an, “I didn’t say anything.” I expect him to say something or for him to make some sort of move. I see the unamused look on his face even as I close the door behind me, creating a barrier between us. I half expect him to drag me from the car and make me answer him. Dad said I never knew how to hold my tongue or when to stop. And maybe he was right.
*****
  The Impala rolls down the road, following John’s truck. “Vampires nest in groups of eight to ten,” Dean reads from the passenger seat. “Smaller packs are sent to hunt for food. Victims are taken to the nest where the pack keeps them alive, bleeding them for days or weeks. I wonder if that’s what happened to that 911 couple.”
  “I didn’t see the corpses well enough but it’s likely,” I answer, though I don’t know why John didn’t let us see the body or do any work.
  “It’s probably what Dad's thinking. ‘Course it would be nice if he just told us what he thinks,” Sam grumbles, a certain furrow to his brow.   “So it is starting,” Dean remarks.
  “What?”
  Well, this is my queue to keep my comments to myself and let them talk this out. 
  “Sam, we've been looking for Dad all year,” he explains. “Now we're not with him for more than a couple of hours and there's static already?” 
  “Hm. No. Look, I'm happy he's ok, alright?” he responds. “And I'm happy that we're all working together again.” “Well good.”
  “It’s just the way he treats us like we’re children,” Sam adds, seemingly unable to help himself. But I’m here for the John bashing. 
  “Oh God,” Dean mumbles. 
  “He barks orders at us Dean, he expects us to follow 'em without question. He keeps us on some crap need-to-know deal.”
  Sam’s not wrong. His vagueness is one of his worst traits which is saying something because he has a long list of horrible traits. He’s really the King of being as vague and unhelpful as possible for a reason I simply can’t discern. Maybe it makes him feel like he has some power or the upper hand.
  “He does what he does for a reason,” Dean reasons.   “What reason?” Sam pushes.
  “Our job!” Dean snaps. “There's no time to argue, there's no margin for error, alright? That's just the way the old man runs things.”   “I’d argue that leaving you guys in the dark can lead to more error,” I comment, accidentally saying my inside thoughts out loud. Luckily, I’m pretty much annoyed as Sam challenges his brother. “Yeah well maybe that worked when we were kids but not anymore, alright. Not after everything you and I have been through, Dean. I mean, are you telling me you're cool with just falling into line, and letting him run the whole show?” 
  A heavy silence fills the car as Dean stares at his brother like he’s trying to muster the right words. “If that’s what it takes.”
****
 We drive for what feels like an eternity, though it must only have been a couple of hours, the sky falling to darkness. Dean is on the phone with his father, keeping in touch with him even as we follow after his car. “Yeah, Dad. Alright, got it,” he answers before hanging up. “Pull off at the next exit.”
  “Why?” Sam asks with a certain edge or bite to his voice.
  “Cause Dad thinks we’ve got the vampire��s trail,” Dean responds.
  “How?” 
  “I don’t know; he didn’t say.”
  Suddenly I’m pushed back into my seat as the Impala goes faster, fast enough to overtake Johns truck. The car swerves in front of it, my body jerking sideways and forward as the vehicle swerves again and slams to a stop. My heart stammers in my chest as I look out the window, John's truck nearly missing the side of the Impala. “What the frick, S–” I yell, my cursing cut off as Sam gets out of the car. “Oh crap here we go,” Dean mumbles, following him out of the vehicle. I sigh, rolling my eyes, as much as I expected an argument to break out this is a very dramatic and dangerous way to start it. Even so, I follow them out of the Impala as Dean calls out for his brother.
  “What the hell was that?” John yells, stomping over to his son.
  “We need to talk.”
  John steps closer, getting face to face with him and I half expect him to grab Sam by the collar and shake some “sense” into him. “About what?”
  “About everything. Where are we going, Dad? What's the big deal about this gun?”
  “Sammy, come on, we can Q and A after we kill all the vampires,” Dean says.
  “You’re brothers right, we don’t have time for this,” John adds.   “Last time we saw you, you said it was too dangerous for us to be together. Now out of the blue, you need our help,” Sam yells. “Now obviously something big is going down, and we wanna know what!”   “Get back in the car.”   “No.”   “I said get back in the damn car.”   “Yeah. And I said no.”
  “Okay, you made your point tough guy,” Dean tries again, hovering between his father and his brother. But, of course, his words are directed at his brother. “Look we're all tired, we can talk about this later. Sammy, I mean it, come on.” Dean grabs him, pushing him back toward the car. He gives in, allowing his brother to move him along even as he glares at his father, mumbling, “This is why I left in the first place.”  “What’d you say?”
  Sam steps forward, snapping back, “You heard me.”
  “Yeah. You left. Your brother and me, we needed you. You walked away, Sam.”
  “Sam…” Dean warns.
  “You walked away!” John yells in his face.
  “Come on, stop,” I urge, trying to push John back as Dean had tried with his brother. But he just shoves me off, forcing me back a couple of steps.   “You're the one who said don't come back Dad, you closed that door, not me. You were just pissed off that you couldn't control me anymore!”
  Dean jumps in the middle, forcing them apart. “Listen, stop it, stop it. Stop it!! That's enough!!”   They don’t say another word; they just glare at each other over Dean’s head. “That means you too,” Dean adds, looking at his father. Despite the harsh words that linger in the air and the unspoken jabs that are begging to be said, they back off. Each step back into their vehicles. Dean sighs, the tension clear in his shoulders until he turns to me, brows furrowed as he half yells, “Are you okay?” The question is genuine despite how harsh they sound escaping his lips. There's a silence that falls between us; I don’t know why he asks me; it’s not like I was the one arguing. Perhaps it was because I stumbled back as his father shoved me or because he knows I do not like arguments. Either way, I nod silently, and he gives a single nod back, the stress soon returning to his face.
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  With the sun on our back and the tree line at our front, blocking us, I watch a beat-up Camaro pull up the old barn. A man in a t-shirt walks up to the car, shielding his eyes as he escorts the person inside and making a very good guess it’s likely they’re both vampires. “Son of a bitch,” Dean curses. “So they’re really not afraid of the sun?”
  “Direct sunlight hurts like a nasty sunburn. The only way to kill ‘em is by beheading,” John answers and I roll my eyes at the repetition especially when half the information is something I already said. “And yeah, they sleep during the day—doesn’t mean they won’t wake up.”
  “So I guess walking right in’s not our best option,” Dean remarks.
  “Actually, that’s the plan,” John answers, immediately creeping from the treeline back to where the Impala and his truck are parked. 
  Weapons are handed out like candy on Halloween night, the machete's blade seeming to gleam as the sun hits it just right. Grasping the hilt reminds me of that day long ago, how my hand shook as I killed the first vampire. They look human, and the blood that falls is so human that it’s like killing one instead of a vampire. I had to remind myself they weren’t human and that they killed so many. Then, it was almost too easy.
  “So, you really wanna know about this Colt?” John suddenly asks.   “Yes sir,” Sam answers.
  It's just “a story, a legend really. Well, I thought it was. Never really believed it until I read Daniel's letter,” he starts. “Back in 1835, when Halley's comet was overhead, the same night those men died at the Alamo. They say Samuel Colt made a gun. A special gun. He made it for a hunter, a man like us only on horseback. ‘Story goes he made thirteen bullets, and this hunter used the gun a half dozen times before he disappeared, the gun along with him. And somehow Daniel got his hands on it. They say... they say this gun can kill anything.”
  Something unsettling settles in my gut, something I don’t want to discern. We aren’t in the nest, and yet it’s like the fight-or-flight instinct has kicked in. “Kill anything like supernatural anything?” Dean asks. The same thought eats at my mind but where concern hits me surprise hits him.
  “Like the demon,” Sam connects, and I feel foolish. Maybe it’s a survival instinct, or maybe it’s selfishness that makes me worry more about a weapon that can kill me rather than a gun that can kill the yellow-eyed demon. I don’t think I’ve ever been afraid of dying, at least not totally, especially when what I am makes it incredibly difficult to kill me, to begin with. But now I’m aware of something that can. It won’t be like a bullet wound you can maybe heal from; there won’t be hope—just death. Gone in the blink of an eye with no goodbye or warning.
  “Yeah, the demon. Ever since I picked up its trail I've been looking for a way to destroy that thing. Find the gun -- we may have it,” John answers.
  I want to be happy for them. I’m trying to be happy. I’m trying to push the fear away because isn’t it an irrational one? But I am scared. What if I don’t get a goodbye? What if it winds up in the wrong hands and I’m at the other end of it? Technically, right now it is in the wrong hands if the vampires do have it. “No offense, I'm glad this is an opportunity to get the damn thing,” I start, my fear turning into anger. “But did you, oh, I don't know, plan on informing us about this before we go into the place that has this gun, or was it Sam that convinced you?” I’m not an idiot; I am aware of the possibility that this could’ve been left out for God knows how long. “I mean, this could literally kill me, like end-end me, and you were just gonna, what, not mention it? ‘Cause it would’ve been a great warning.”
  He doesn’t answer, and I’m not sure if he’s going to acknowledge me, which is answer enough. I move to try to get in his way. “You know, somehow I find a new reason to dislike you, which is kind of impressive.” I know I’m being mean as if a jab could heal the panic in my veins.
  “You should be grateful I haven’t sent your ass back home,” he bites.
  “Yeah well, this ass saved your life back with the Daeva’s.”
  “Y/N,” Dean says, carefully touching my arm. But I step out of his hold, my shoulders going up as if trying to un-feel the touch, which is weird because I never do that with him. “No, Dean, this is serious,” I reason, my voice higher in an attempt to be louder, though it never nears a yell. I don’t dare look at him, weary of the hurt that might pass over his face.
  “Were you going to say something if Sam hadn’t called you out?” I ask him again. But, I’m sure I know the answer. He pauses for a beat too long, and I feel foolish again. I’m arguing with a guy who couldn’t care less about what happens to me. The anger simmers in my gut, bubbling down until it’s replaced by shame. “You know what? Never mind,” I give up. “Let’s just go kill the vampires.” I shake my head, walking away from the group towards the run-down barn. 
  I creep between the trees, careful of where I step so that I don’t make a sound, even though I’m outside the barn. I take a couple of deep breaths as I walk; I need to have a clear head. This isn’t the kind of hunt you can be careless on; one wrong move and it all goes up in flames. I clear my head of any leftover anger or negative emotions; I need to lead with focus, not emotions. 
  I move closer to the barn, finding a window that looks easy to get into without making so much noise. That is key. I lift myself onto the thin windowsill, cautious as to not let my legs or any body part slam into the wall. And with the knowledge that the boys are close behind, I move into the barn. I move silently, first observing the layout and the countless hammocks filled with vampires as well as the occasional vamp that rests on the floor. 
  Ever so slowly, I move forward, careful to step over the beer bottles as I move as quietly as a mouse. Inch by inch, I lurk towards a random vampire in a hammock. A lone vampire, or at least one that’s farthest away from the others, even if far isn’t far at all.
  I stand over his sleeping figure like a predator ready to pounce on its unsuspecting prey. Ever so carefully, I lift my blade, hovering it above its neck. With one quick motion, I know I am a hypocrite. Blood drips down its neck in waves like a relentless ocean; its eyes shoot open as the blade is plunged deeper. Its mouth parts in an attempt at a screech it can’t possibly make as its head is severed from its body. It did not get to warn the others. It did not get to say goodbye.
  I pull my blade from the mess; blood seeps into the fabric of the hammock and drips to the floor. I sense the Winchesters enter the barn as I pick my next target. The goal is to get as many asleep so that should they wake, it’d be a slightly easier fight. Again, I take my stance over a vampire when I hear the faint clink of a glass bottle knocking over. I hold incredibly still, so still, I feel like the narrator in “Tell-Tale Heart.”
  By luck alone, the vampire beneath my gaze does not stir, nor do any others. I turn my head slowly to where the noise originated, seeing Dean and Sam at the other end of the barn near each other. I swallow roughly, focusing in on the task at hand. Again, I drive my blade into the pale neck of the resting creature, blood spraying onto my cheek. I move to the next, stalking forth with my raised blade when an unearthly roar breaks the silence. The vampire beneath my gaze shoots up, clutching my wrist before I can lay the blade onto it. The machete vanishes from my hand, appearing in my other. I swing the blade; the cut is uncoordinated and messy in my non-dominant hand, slashing off its hand. My wrist is free as the limb goes flying, a horrible screech coming from the vampire as it clutches its wrist, blood spurting from where the hand used to be, bone exposed to the air. Glass shatters somewhere overhead, and I switch the weapon back to my dominant hand, unable to get another swing in when I dodge the lunging vampire.
  “Run!” John yells from the same direction as the broken glass. I sidestep just in time, narrowly avoiding a swing from a vampire lunging at me. More of them surge toward me, their snarls filling the air. Reluctantly, I turn and run. My heart pounds in my chest, the sound almost drowning out the thudding of their footsteps behind me. I race toward the back of the barn, but there’s no clear exit—just solid walls and shadows. I sprint toward one of the walls. My legs push forward harder, willing myself to pass through before I crash into it. 
  The world blurs for a heartbeat, and then I stumble forward, my feet skidding on the dirt outside. I glance back, breathless, at the wall I just passed through. A small smile tugs at the corner of my lips, I’m getting really good at the whole teleporting thing. But enough celebrating, I quickly round the outskirts of the barn and make my way up the hill to where the distinct figures of the Winchesters wait. A look of relief passes over Sam and Deans face at the sight of me but I can’t say the same for John. I know he doesn’t care if I get injured or die. 
  “They won't follow. They'll wait till tonight. Once a vampire has your scent, it's for life,” John informs, slightly out of breath.   “Well, what the hell do we do now?” Dean asks.
  I wipe the blood from my cheek with the back of my sleeve, glad that I decided to wear dark clothes today. “I’ll go back in there and finish it,” I answer.
  “No, you’re not,” Dean declares, taking a single step toward me.
  “Why not?” I ask. “I already killed two and—”
  “You did?” John cuts me off, reflecting the same surprise he did before.
  “No, my machete is just normally covered in blood.” 
  “You’re not goin’ back in,” Dean says firmly.
  “Dean—”
  “Not on my watch.”   “Oh, come on. This is quicker than waiting until night and you can have your special gun sooner,” I reason, following him as he walks away. 
  “Not happening.”
  “Don’t you want that gun?”
  He stops short of the Impala's trunk, his expression firm as he faces me. “Not at the expense of your life.” His eyes are set on mine, a challenge burning behind his irises.
  “I’m very capable of doing it myself,” I argue, my chin raised to meet his gaze head-on.
  “I know you are,” he replies, his voice low and sure. “‘Doesn’t mean I’m lettin’ you go.”
  “I don’t have to listen to you, you know,” I point out, the words sounding childish on my tongue.   His brow arches, the faintest flicker of amusement crossing his face. He wets his lips, voice dropping lower, “I don’t see you goin’.”
  The words hang heavy between us. He’s got me, and he knows it. I swallow hard, my pulse thrumming in my throat. His eyes drop briefly, flicking to the small space between us like he’s daring me to move. He tilts his head slightly, waiting, his confidence annoyingly attractive. His fingers brush my wrist, featherlight, trailing down the inside. It tickles my skin, my breath hitching slightly, loosening my hold on the machete. He doesn’t rush—his hand glides lower, steady, until he slides the weapon from my grasp as if he already knew my answer before I had the chance to utter it.
 “We’ll need dead man’s blood,” I manage, my voice quieter than I intended. His eyes flick back to mine, dark and unreadable, the weapon now clasped firmly in his hand alongside his own. He nods, his lips parted slightly.
****
  After splitting up from John and Sam—and some lying and distracting on our part— Dean and I managed to grab the dead man's blood from the local funeral home. Afterward, it took some extensive convincing, including arguing that it would be safer for me to act as bait instead of Dean to be where I am now.
  Now, I lean over the car’s popped hood, peering at the engine while the Winchesters watch from somewhere in the trees. “Car trouble?” a woman's voice asks. I turn around to see a dark-haired woman with thin eyebrows and striking blue eyes standing with another girl lingering behind. It didn’t take them long to show up. “Let me give you a lift. I’ll take you back to my place,” she purrs.
  I lean against the front of the Impala, tilting my head slightly as I eye her. “I’m sure you’d like that,” I respond, biting my bottom lip, purposefully teasing. She steps closer as expected, so close I can smell the lingering metallic scent of blood on her mouth as well as her strong perfume. She grabs my jaw roughly, her fingertips digging in as she holds my face firmly, forcing my head back an inch so that she can use our small height difference to her advantage. I let her do what she wants, I’m not afraid of her or the other vampire. I’m just here to get her close enough for a good shot. “Would you like that?” she asks, spinning my question.
  “I’m sorry, but I’m not Buffy and you’re not Spike,” I smile teasingly. 
  Her smile deepens, turning a little wicked. “You know, I should kill you for what you did to them.” 
  And I know she’s talking about the two I killed and the third I hurt. “Will you?” I challenge. I’m sure she won’t, at least not now. They like to play with their food. So, just as expected her eyes trace down my face, the collum of my neck, and dip beneath my shirt. “We could have some fun first,” she answers, eyes tracing back up.
  Her head tilts down, her hold on my face tightening as her lips brush mine. Her hand slips to the back of my head, grabbing a handful of hair and tugging. My lips part in a groan, my head harshly bent back, giving her the chance to crash her lips to mine. She kisses me roughly and fast, all teeth and tongue before pulling away and licking her lips as if savoring the taste. “Heard you had a boyfriend,” I remark. “You think he’d mind you–” She cuts me off with her lips, teeth clashing with mine. My hands grasp the Impala behind me, the cold metal digging into my palms contrasting with the heat of her mouth. 
  She gasps, an almost choking noise as she pulls away and I know the shot has been taken. My eyes fall to her chest, the arrowhead sticking out. “Dammit,” she curses. The Winchesters emerge from the trees, crossbows in hand and unreadable expressions on their faces. Her hands fall from my face as she steps back, my chest heaving a little as I try to catch my breath. “It barely even stings,” she claims.
  “Give it time, sweetheart,” John answers. “That arrow’s soaked in dead man’s blood. It’s like poison to you, isn’t it?”
  Real surprise passes over her features, a hand coming up to cradle where she’s been hit as she staggers backward, wavering before she collapses to the asphalt. “Load her up,” John directs, moving to the other vampire who’s also on the floor with an arrow through her. “I’ll take care of this one.”
  I turn around, shutting the hood of the car just as I hear the familiar squelch of blood.
****
  The campfire burns bright in the middle of the small clearing of woods. She's still unconscious, secured with a rope around her that she could tear easily the moment she awakens. “Toss this on the fire. Saffron, skunk's cabbage, and trillium. It'll block our scent and hers until we're ready,” John orders as he walks back into the clearing with his eldest son in tow.
  Dean sniffs the bag contents and coughs, “Stuff stinks!”
  “That’s the point. It has to be strong enough to cover your scent,” I smile while simultaneously feeling bad for finding his reaction to the ingredients funny. “You can dust your clothes with the ashes and they, hopefully, won't be able to detect you.” I move to him, willing to take the bag from his grimacing face. 
  “‘You sure they’ll come after ‘er?” Sam asks as I carefully separate and dump the ingredients into the fire.
  “Yeah,” John answers. “Vampires mate for life—”
  “Didn’t seem she cared about that with Y/N” Dean remarks, cutting off his father. I give him a pointed look. And he just responds with, “What? She was the one who looked real into you.” There's a certain edge to his voice that I can’t quite discern, something almost snarky.
  “Well, one thing interpretations got right about vampires is how inherently sexual they are,” I explain. “I’m not sure why but I guess it makes sense considering how they take the blood is intimate.” Still, Dean doesn’t seem particularly satisfied with that answer.
  “She means more to the leader than the gun,” John continues. “But the blood sickness is going to wear off soon, so you don't have a lot of time.”   “A half-hour oughta do it,” Sam answers.   “And then I want you out of the area as fast as you can,” John orders.
  “But…”
  “Well, Dad you can’t take care of them all yourself,” Dean cuts his brother off.
  “I'll have her and the Colt,” John reasons.
  “That’s hardly a lot of protection,” I point out.
  “And if I remember you wanted to go in with less,” he bites back.
  “I also have abilities that you don’t. I can stay with you, ‘make sure you get it safely.”
  “‘Don’t need your protection,” he answers. I figure ego has some part of his decision so I drop it, if he doesn’t want backup then he doesn’t want it.
  “But after. We're gonna meet up, right?” Sam asks. “Use the gun together. Right?” There's a long pause, the question hanging in the air for one too many seconds. “You're leaving again, aren't you? You still wanna go after the demon alone. You know, I don't get you. You can't treat us like this.”
  “Like what?”
  “Like children,” Sam answers firmly.   “You are my children. I'm trying to keep you safe,” he reasons. I bite back my comment about how ironic that is coming from him as I walk a couple of steps away.   “Dad, all due respect but, uh, that's a bunch of crap,” Dean says, all heads snapping to him.   “Excuse me?”
  I half expect him to back off, instead, he doubles down. “You know what Sammy and I have been hunting. Hell you sent us on a few hunting trips yourself. You can't be that worried about keeping us safe.”   “It's not the same thing, Dean.”   “Then what is it? Why do you want us out of the big fight?”   “This demon? It's a bad son of a bitch. I can't make the same moves if I'm worried about keeping you alive.”   “You mean you can't be as reckless.”
  “Look... I don't expect to make it out of this fight in one piece.” The atmosphere seems to change, becoming a little heavier in the wake of his words. “Your mother's death ... it almost killed me. I can't watch my children die too. I won't.”
  I’m sure there is some truth to his words but at the same time, he's been a horrible father to them, leaving them alone as mere kids to fend for themselves, forcing them into the hunting world at a young age, and even bringing them on hunts when they should’ve been worrying about school not their lives.   “What happens if you die?” Dean points out. “Dad, what happens if you die, and we coulda done something about it? You know I’ve been thinking. I ...think maybe Sammy's right about this one. We should do this together.”
  Sam nods.
  “We're stronger as a family, Dad. We just are. You know it,” Dean argues. It may sound cheesy but it holds merit.  “We're running out of time. You do your job and you get out of the area. That's an order.” His answer is unsurprising and yet the way Dean looks down and the way Sam clenches his jaw makes me want to deck John Winchester until he agrees.
****
  We quickly follow after John, having already killed the vampires in the barn and freed the container of people they had. Of course, it’s against what we were directed to do but we aren’t exactly known for following rules, so there's that. We ditched the Impala some ways back, sticking to the trees with our crossbows as we approached John's truck and the group of vampires.
  We arrive in time to see John get knocked to the ground, his plan going south immediately. He’s backhanded into the door of his truck just as one of many arrows flies through the air, hitting the other vampires that crowd around. We emerge from the trees and I switch my crossbow to my off-hand to unseathe my machete. I easily walk up to one and in one clean motion send their head flying, the body buckling to the floor.
  Quickly I turn, my crossbow raised to shoot a vampire that was creeping up on Dean. “Don't!” someone yells. I pause, eyes landing on a vampire who looks like a rock band reject with his arm around Sam’s neck while Dean tries to lurk forward with a machete. “I'll break his neck. Put the blade down,” the man orders. Everything stands still for a moment as I drop both my weapons. Dean, however, pauses until the man tightens his hold on Sam’s neck and then the machete is dropped to the ground with a clink.
  Suddenly, the man’s arm is forced from Sam’s neck. It shakes as it's pulled away by an invisible force, his face contorting with confusion as he loses the ability to control his limbs. My head tilts slightly as I control him, forcing his other arm to remain at its side so that Sam is free to stumble away, his brother immediately dragging him behind him. The knees of the man buckle, forcing him to kneel on the asphalt. “You people. Why can't you leave us alone? We have as much right to live as you do,” the man cries and I falter. 
I falter. The one thing you’re never supposed to do in a fight. But, it doesn’t matter because his head is cleaned off his body before he can get up. John standing behind him, blood dripping from his machete. “Lutherrrr!!!!” the girl from before screams a horrible guttural scream that seems to reverberate in my ears. She’s dragged away by another vampire, fighting against their hold as she stares down John and her lover's body.
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  I stand over the little table in the motel room making sure I didn’t leave anything when John enters—the first we’ve seen him since last night. “So boys,” he starts immediately, the door closing behind him feeling like a death sentence.
  “Yes sir,” Sam answers, both boys straightening out like soldiers.
  “You ignored a direct order back there,” he starts.
  “Yes sir,” Sam answers.   “Yeah, but we saved your ass,” Dean intervenes, nervous looks thrown his way from Sam and I.
  “You're right,” John, surprisingly, nods.   “I am?”
  “It scares the hell out of me. You two are all I've got. But I guess we are stronger as a family. So...we go after this damn thing. Together.”   “Yes sir,” they say in unison.
  “And I guess you can be there too,” he adds, looking over at me.
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