A Ripple in Time

(This story/chapter comes from the show Supernatural. I do not own the charters Dean, Sam, Bobby, Chuck, Zachariah and Castiel (Cas).)

November 15th 2009, 11:30 p.m. – Late Sunday night you pull into your driveway after a long three and a half hour drive from Chicago. You grab your things you got from the convention of your favorite TV show, Supernatural.You go in your house and put everything on the table. "Oh, it's so good to be home," you say to yourself. You decide to take a shower and then go to bed. Before you go up to your room you grab the stuff you brought in. You go through it all again and while starring at the photo of Sam Winchester signed by Jared Padalecki, you say, "If only you were real." You have watched the show since the beginning and when Sam lost his girlfriend like that you felt so badly for him all you wanted was to be with him. Then you lay down with the photo next to your bed and fall asleep.

You wake the next morning around eight by a pounding on your door followed by, "Ash? Are you going to get up?"

You groan and yell back, "I'm skipping today. Nothing important going on anyway."

"Can I at least see you before I leave? I haven't seen you since Thursday for cryin out loud," your mother asks (yes you live with your mother. With being in college, it's cheaper to live at home than on campus). You roll out of bed and open the door.

"There's my angel," she says with a smile while you roll your eyes. She peers in and sees you got a lot of things representing your favorite character. "Dream of him last night?" she asks looking at the photo by your bed.

"Oh ha-ha and no," you comment.

Your mom hugs you, "Well sweet, I have to go. I will see you later and then you can tell me all about your trip." She leaves and shuts the door behind her.

You grab the photo of Sam and say, "I can't believe how much you haunt me. You do even in my dreams.

You turn your computer on and write an email excusing yourself from your classes today. Your stomach growls so you decide to go down and get something to eat quick. Before you make it to the fridge you hear, "Auntie!" You smile and turn to see your four-year-old niece running up to you. You pull her up and give her a big hug.

"Morning Cheeks," you say while kissing her forehead.

"Morning. Guess what! Today we're learning about the letter O," she announces.

You smile, "Now that's not fair. You didn't even give me a chance to guess."

"Oh sorry," she says and giggles.

Your sister comes in the kitchen, "Come on Steph it's time to go."

"Go? Where?" you ask being surprised that she's even up this early.

"Got to run some errands and it'll take a while," she replies.

You open the fridge to get some juice out, "Ah. Well have fun with that," you reply knowing how much of a handful your niece can be…especially in a store.

"Yeah with this one who knows what will happen," your sister says jokingly about Steph. You look up from pouring juice at her and slightly jump when you think you see Sam in the window behind her. She notices your facial expression, "Are you ok?"

You snap out of it, "Hmm? Oh, yeah I'm fine. Just more tired than I thought."

"I bet you are. Who knows how much sleep you actually got over the weekend," she comments.

"Yeah when you figure that out will you let me know cause I don't remember much of anything," you reply jokingly.

She picks up her keys, "Come on hunny."

Steph comes out with her coat and shoes on, "I'm ready!"

You smile at her and say, "Do I get a kiss?"

"Oh! Of course," she says coming over to you. You exchange a kiss on the cheek and then they go out the back door. You go into the living room and look out the front bay window. You watch your sister and niece pull out. You glance in the opposite direction they were going and see a tall, broad-shouldered man with wavy brown hair standing in the sidewalk with his back to you.

Although you find that odd and strange, you choose to ignore it. You turn on the TV and watch a movie while finishing your breakfast. You can't stop yawning so you decide to just sleep there on the couch. A few minutes go by before you begin to hear shouting coming from outside. All the voices are male. They kept asking each other questions like, "What the freak happened?", "Where the hell are we?", and "Who lives here?" Living in a quiet neighborhood, you know something's up. You peer over the back of the couch, which is in front of the window, to see who it is.

You see three men who look familiar from the back. Just then one of them turns in you direction but doesn't see you. You fall off the couch when you see it's Sam. Lying on the floor now, you hope they didn't hear or see you do that. "There is no way this is happening. It's got to be some kind of joke," you say trying to make sense of it. Deciding you have to go out there, you crawl into the dining room where they can't see you through the window. You sprit up to your room to get dressed, put a light amount of make up on and brush your hair.

You walk downstairs and realize you have no idea how to handle this. You stop and think for a second…"Ok. My car is on the road. I can just be casual and act like I am leaving," you decide. It's not the best plan but it's a plan. You grab your keys and phone then go out the back door. You turn to walk down your driveway and see Sam standing at the end of it. He doesn't see you until you accidently kick a stone with your boot.

As he turns to face you, a gust of wind blows towards you. Your long burgundy colored hair sways in the wind and your eyes lock on his. You continue to walk towards him. He doesn't move a muscle. It is as if he is frozen in place because of you. Just then Dean comes up next to him and asks, "Dude what are you starring at?" Dean turns to see you walking up to them. Dean puts his hand on Sam's shoulder. "Well I can't say I blame you," Dean says causing Sam to smile.

You smile to yourself because you know they're talking about you. The only thing that keeps bothering you is why they are here. You know these have to be the actors from the show since Dean, Sam and Cas are just characters. At the convention, you got to meet them all and everything but you weren't aware you made that great of an impression to get them to come all the way to your house. You weren't sure what to say but they started the introductions.

Sam was still speechless so Dean stepped in, "Hi, um I'm Dean Winchester. This is my brother Sam and our friend Cas."

You have dreamt night after night that Sam would be real. Now you see the person who plays him right in front of you. You wonder if there is a slight chance you are still asleep. Without them noticing you give yourself a small pinch to make sure. As it turns out no, you are not dreaming this is real.

TO BE CONTINUED….