Chapter One: Dreams of the future
Maddie awoke in a cold sweat remember the night that her dad died, she still couldn't believe it had been 4 yearsShaking her head she looked around the motel room she had rented for the night, she had been tracking this group of vampires for two weeks getting close but never close enough to kill them without being killed herself. That's when she realized she wasn't alone, some one was in the bathroom, reaching under her pillow slowly she pulled out the gun she had put underneath it before she went to bed. Getting of the bed making sure not to make any noise she threw the bathroom door open and pointed the gun at the women standing on the other side.
"Trista? What the hell are you doing here?" Maddie un-cocked the gun and lowered her arm while awaiting the other women's answer.
"It's nice to see you also Maddie," Trista responded sarcastically. "I didn't realize you had missed me that much."
"I take it you've also been tracking the vamps?" Maddie tried to get back on track.
"No actually, I had another vision, guiding me here; to this precise place. Funny how you're here right?" Maddie shook her; I still don't understand her ability.
"So that means what? That we are supposed to do this together? C'mon you know I don't get you ability, mine? It's so much easier to understand, I move things." Trista rolled her eyes at Maddie, we both know your ability isn't that easy and we both know you can barely control. "Look the vamps are my top priority right now, I could use some help though, there's like 6 or 7 of them and trying to take them at once would only kill me. You think we can take care of them first and then talk about where this dream is going to guide us?"
"Yea, yea you got your self some blades?" They were walking towards the bed when she got close enough Maddie reached down under her bed and pulled out her black duffel bag throwing it at Trista. Opening the bag she looked confused at Maddie "Arrows? Seriously that's only going to put a hole threw them, I mean it's not going to kill them."
Maddie rolled her eyes, "They're tipped with dead mans blood, it's like poison to them, so yea I know the arrows won't kill them but they'll slow them down so we can kill them without to much hassle, at least that's what I'm hoping. I don't have any knives though so yea."
"You don't have any knives? Oh my god seriously? What kind of hunter are you?" Maddie yanked a weapon out of her other bag, "well why didn't you say you had an ax? Then I wouldn't have been so rude."
"Can we just do this? Are you a good shot? Or should I shoot the arrows and chop there heads off?" Trista glared at Maddie, "I'm sorry, I just haven't slept much in the last two weeks, I hate vampires, there so annoying."
"Alright, are we going now?" Maddie looked over at the clock and back at Trista.
"Sunrise, they go to sleep for the day and then we have the advantage. So we got about an hour, I'm going to shower and change, do what you want." Maddie grabbed a change of clothes and walked into the bathroom. Trista sighed; I hope your right about this John.
Maddie turned back to see Trista lagging behind her, "Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with you? We've only been walking for like twenty minutes."
"Twenty minutes is way too fucking long when you have a car that's in perfect working condition that could have drove us the distance." Trista was pissed she didn't wear the right shoes for hiking through the woods.
"Uh the engine would make them aware of our presence before we want them to be and on top of that I'm driving my baby through the woods, she isn't allowed to have a scratch on her! I don't care if you get a scratch." Maddie smirked back at Trista who rolled her eyes getting more frustrated by the second. Maddie had only walked three more steps before she heard a yelp and loud curse she turned around and couldn't help the laugh that came out of her mouth, Trista had tripped over a twig and landed on her ass in the mud.
"Oh yea cause this is so fun," Trista was angrier then before but Maddie couldn't stop the laughter that was coming out of her mouth, "Fucking shut it and help me up!"
"I'm sorry, you just" at this point laughter over took Maddie's body again, taking a deep breath she blow it out slowly and reached her hand out, "I'm sorry, it was just so funny, your face was awesome." Trista scowled as Maddie pulled her up out of the dirt and started brushing her pants off.
"Damn it, these were brand new pants, ya know?"
"Are you sure you're a hunter? I mean most hunters could careless about their appearance but every time I turn around you're either fixing your makeup or your hair."
"Well a girl's gotta look good; I mean you never know who you're going to run into, especially in our line of business." Trista smiled as she remembered her last boyfriend, Travis, I remember when I ran into him. Maddie rolled her eyes trying not to gag. "I'm serious Maddie, I mean with my dreams guiding me places I have to be ready for anything and that could mean really hot guys."
"Oh, yea like Travis maybe? Who you know turned out to be a werewolf?" Maddie was getting slightly mean but she didn't care right now. "Remember how he almost killed you and I had to save your ass."
"Well how can I forget when you keep reminding me?" Trista rolled her eyes. "I really liked him and you shot him; that still doesn't sit well with me."
"He almost killed you." Maddie and Trista had this fight every time they saw each other, "If I hadn't shown up you would have died. Plus how did you expect to have a relationship with him? He has his time of the month and you have yours? It doesn't work like that, he killed whether he knew it or not, he did so I killed him. I get that you were in love or what ever with him but seriously shit happens, move on and get yourself ready because I'm fixing to have some fun." Maddie pointed at the house indicating to Trista that they had arrived.
"A shack in the middle of the woods, are they stupid or just confident that they haven't been tracked."
"Well that or this is a trap." Maddie smiled as Trista smirk turned into a frown.
"Your joking right? I'm not prepared for a trap. You said this was going to be easy."
"Prepared? How do you prepare for a trap? You are incredible and not in a good way." Maddie grabbed the arrows and bow leaving the ax for Trista.
"I can't believe you use an actually bow."
"It's what my dad taught me on and it's never let me down yet so that's all that matters." Maddie smiled as she ran her fingers down the string remembering the first time she tried using, "Are you done criticizing me and ready for a fight?" At Trista's nod they both approached the shack as quietly as possible, peeking in through the windows to see 5 sleeping and one snacking on a younger girl, sitting on the other side of her is a little boy no older than seven.
"We can't wait, we have to do this now, hit the one that's enjoy himself right now and we'll worry about the other five later." Before Trista could finish her whole sentence she felt the rush of air and something barely touch her ear and by the end of the sentence the male vampire had let out a slight gasp and was reaching to pull the arrow out. His motions had slowed and fell to the ground before he had pulled it completely out. Trista raised an eye brow at Maddie who smirked back.
"That fast enough for you? You get him and any other one you can but your responsibility is to get the innocents out, I'll handle the rest." Maddie raised an eyebrow to make sure that she understood.
"Alright, but we move fast, and hit them hard." At Maddie's nod she continued, "Alright let's hit this bitch."
Maddie walked up to her car wiping her face off and stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the two kids from in the shack standing with Trista next to her car.
"I told you to get them out, not to make them our problem." Trista rolled her eyes at Maddie's words.
"Just because you don't like people doesn't mean that I'm going to leave two innocent kids in the middle of the woods, open the car and we'll drop them off in town." Maddie unlocked the doors and opened the trunk; she pulled her shirt off and put a new one on, wiping the blood that was on her face and arms off onto the soon to be discarded shirt. She jumped into the car and peeled out, stopping only when they got into town, leaving the innocents at the local Denny's and proceeded forward to the motel room she had rented for the night. After they had both showered and changed they each sat on the two twin beds staring at each other.
"So I can tell your dying to tell me about his dream or vision or whatever so tell me." Maddie wasn't exactly comfortable with the abilities that she had acquired in the last year, she could barely control them and she didn't have her dad to help her; god I wish he was here.
"You've heard of the Winchester's right?" Trista was trying to figure out the best way to tell Maddie what they had to do.
"Yea, Sam and Dean right? There dad knew my dad, they use to hunt together right after everything with my mom happened before I was even old enough to remember him or his boys. What about them?" Maddie was intrigued, her dad had told her a lot about the Winchester's about how she was more like them then she could ever imagine but never elaborated.
"We have to find them."
"Find them? What do they have to do with your vision or whatever?"
"There dad, John, he told me that we needed to find them. That together we'll be stronger then apart, I just know that we definitely need to find them and at least talk to them."
"Finding them is next to impossible, I've tried before but the other hunters are really protective of them. Isn't there dad dead? How did he tell you?" Maddie was hesitant and confused.
"My visions aren't just from people I met randomly, there from people I've never met and spirits that are trying to reach out or that want to find me. John found me and whether he's dead or not I know that we have to do this."
"Why me? How am I going help or how are the four of us going to be stronger?" Maddie hated hunting with other people they always seemed to slow her down but she had gone on one of these visions with Trista plenty of times and it had always ended better then she could ever imagine.
"Maddie, I don't question my visions, I don't question the people that give me my quests I just go with it and this is one that I know I'm not suppose to do alone. Are you doing this with me or are you going to leave me hanging?"
"Alright, I'll go with you but I don't think that we're going to find them as fast as you think we are." Trista smirked
"Are you ready to leave or do you just wanna waste some more time." Maddie glared at Trista but started to pack her bag more than willing to get of this hick town in the middle of Tennessee.
It had been two days since they left Tennessee, Trista had a destination but she hadn't shared it with Maddie only telling her where to turn and which exits to take. At this point Maddie was unsure whether she was guessing or if she actually knew where she wanted to go. Pulling into a motel parking lot she nudged Trista trying to wake the fellow hunter.
"Trista, I'm way too tired I need to get a room and get some fucking sleep." Trista woke violently looking around she saw the motel and a smiled formed on her face. John said she would find it on her own.
"I see you found our location on our own." Maddie looked at Trista who was smile at something outside of the car. Motioning out the window she went on "Should we say hi?" Maddie looked up at the vending machine's which were located right in front of her car, she saw the two men they had been looking for. Before she could respond Trista had jumped out of the car and headed towards them. Maddie turned the car off and hurriedly made her way after Trista; catching up to her she started talking.
"What are you going to say Trista? Hi, my names Trista and I have this vision quest and your dad came to me and told me to find you? Do you know how insane you're going to sound?" Trista shrugged and continued to walk towards the Winchesters. When she was close enough for them to hear her she started talking.
"Sam? Dean?" When they turned towards her Dean's mouth full of a Milky Way bar, a coffee cup in one and Sam with some Cheez-it's and a soda both raising there eyebrows, "Hi, my name Trista and I have these vision, they like send me on quest and I got one from your dad, he came to me and told me to find you. That the four of us have to work together, we'll be stronger that way." Maddie's jaw dropped when Trista basically repeated her words word for word.
"Whoa, crazy women," the spiky haired, brown eyed one wiggled his fingers in Trista's face trying not to laugh, "First of all our dad's dead; he died almost a year ago and second of all what the hell is a vision quest." He looked over at the shaggy haired one trying to figure out if the chick in front of him was serious or not.
"I know your father died a year ago but look I have these vision, they send me on journeys or quests to certain places or people. I get the visions from people that are searching for help; they can be dead or alive. So that answers both of your questions, can we at least talk? Just the four of us and try to figure out what it is we're supposed to do?" Trista knew that if either of them listened to her it would be Sam, the shaggy haired one, he had his own visions, he knew what it was like and she could see he almost believes her.
"You might as well listen to her; she won't leave you alone till you do." Maddie spoke for the first time, surprising both of the boys who seemed to be unaware of her presence.
"We'll give you twenty minutes and when you still can't convince us then you have to leave. We're working on something right now." Sam answered before Dean could come up with some sarcastic reply. Maddie smirked at the annoyed look that came across his brother's face.
"Wait your working on something? Like what a spirit or something?" Maddie was excited she was itching for a good hunt and being stuck in a car with Trista for two days just made her want to scratch that itch even more. Dean and Sam both turned toward her almost examining her, "What?"
"What do you know about spirits?"
"The same if not more than you do." Maddie was getting angry, who were they to judge her when they don't even know her.
"Yea I doubt that," Dean stated as he turned towards Sam, "Let's get out of here now."
"No wait, Ten minutes tops. I'll talk to Sam and you two can stay out here." Sam nodded his head but Dean jumped in before Sam could say a word.
"Oh no no, I am not leaving you alone with freaky vision quest girl not for one minute let alone ten." Dean grabbed Sam by his wrist pulling him towards the black impala but Trista wasn't done yet.
"Look, I get that your protective of Sam and that you made a deal with the devil so to speak for your life but I need one of you to listen." Dean let go of Sam's arm and twirled around to face Trista.
"How do you know about that? We haven't told anyone about my pact yet."
"Your dad told me, in my vision. He also told me that you wouldn't believe me, you drink too much coffee and that I needed to talk to Sam if I wanted to be listened to." Trista raised her eyebrow as Dean blew out an angry breath and leaned against his car.
Dean and Maddie stared at each other as they waited neither knew what to say. Maddie looked around getting uncomfortable with the silence. She cleared her throat and checked out the man sitting in front of her, from his black boots, up to the way his jeans fit him perfectly to the black shirt covered by his leather jacket and final to his face, green eyes, full lips and spiky hair. He has a pout on, god he is good looking,
"How old are you?" He was oblivious to her checking him out because he doing his own checking out, she's hot, she was wearing tight blue jeans, red tank top, flip flops and the barely healed knife wounded on her upper right arm.
"I'm 20, why?" Maddie glared at Dean, trying to figure out if he was truly curious or was going to be condescending in some way.
"Aren't you a little young to be hunting?" condescending it is then and a bit hypocritical.
"And when did you start hunting? Huh?" Before he could answer she went on, "I hunted with my dad since I was little. When my dad died I continued hunting by myself and I've been doing it alone for 4 years now, so don't pretend like your some kind of expert and I'm just a little girl trying to learn from you."
"I wasn't," Dean's eyes went wide while she was talking; "I think that you should be doing normal stuff not killing things that other people can't believe in." Before Maddie could answer; the door of the motel room opened behind them and out came Trista and Sam both seemed satisfied with the conversation.
"Dean, we're going with them."
"Whoa, wait where the hell are we going," Maddie turned towards Trista. "I told you I would go with you to find them not continue this little journey. I don't like people, that's why I don't hunt with others. So you go with them and I'll go my own way."
"No we're all going to stick together, we have to." The seriousness in Trista voice and on Sam's face scared Maddie a little bit. "Look just for a little while; if we can't get along we'll go our own ways, alright?" Sam was the first to agree with a nod of his head followed by Dean and Maddie was the last and most reluctant to agree.
"Then let's go, let's start our journey."
"Wait, I'm not leaving my car here," Trista and Sam stopped and saw Maddie hadn't taken a step closer to the Chevy. "I refuse, this car is my baby."
"Well, I'm not leaving my impala here so looks like we're at a standstill." Dean put his hand on his own car.
"We'll drop Maddie's off at Bobby's we can tell him and Ellen what's going on and then get serious about this quest we're suppose to go on." Looking for approval from the two car owners when Sam got it he walked towards the black impala while Trista and Maddie head towards the red mustang. "Just follow us." Maddie stared at Trista as she got in the car but Trista ignored her reached over and turned the radio on and that's how they rode for quite some time in complete silence to a guy's place they had never met before with guys that they barely knew.