The Legacy of Hunters
Chapter One: The Winchesters
Based on events of Season 1
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize throughout the story I do not own.
Rating: Rated T for violence and language.
Also, this is AU. Adding onto that point, the timeline is different. In some episodes of Supernatural there are weeks or a month between their hunts.
None of us is as smart as all of us. ~Ken Blanchard
Lost Creek, Colorado
"Dude, check out the size of this freakin' bear."
Carter Graves looked across the room to see two men. One had shaggy brown hair and was bent over a map of the area and the other had short, dark hair and wore a leather jacket. The dark haired one was looking at a picture on the wall. She raised an eyebrow but didn't comment and instead decided to stay beside her older half-sister, Lily Tipton.
"There are a dozen or more grizzlies in the area." The shaggy haired guy said, walking to stand beside the other man.
"Definitely not a nature hike, then."
"You boys don't plan on going near Blackwater Ridge, do you?" another man said, appearing almost out of nowhere. He wore a light green hat and a jacket; he also had a mug in his hand. Carter inconspicuously nudged her twenty-one year old sister. Blackwater Ridge had had many disappearances recently, which was exactly why Carter and Lily were in Colorado.
The two men by the picture turned around and the shaggy haired one said, "Oh, no sir. We're Environmental study majors from UC Boulder. Just workin' on a paper."
What a load of crap. Carter resisted the urge to roll her eyes and instead looking at her half-sister. Lily's attention was focused on the shaggy haired man. For a few seconds it was like he was the only guy in the room, then the man beside him cleared his throat.
"Recycle, man." Guy number two commented, holding out a fist.
"Bull." The man with the mug told them, walking over to his desk. The two men shared a quick look. "You're friends with that Hailey girl, right?"
Lily suddenly stepped forward, "Yes sir, we are." All three men turned towards the two girls.
The park ranger crossed his arms and said, "Well I'll tell you exactly what I told her. Her brother filled out a form saying he wouldn't be back until the twenty-fourth. So it's not exactly a missing person's since it's only the twenty-second. Now you tell that girl to quit worrying, I'm sure her brother and his friends are fine." He shuffled a few papers on his desk and drank from his mug.
The short haired man said, "That Hailey's quite a pistol, huh?"
"That's putting it mildly."
"You know, if I could show her that form I'm sure it'd calm her down some. Seeing her brother's return date and all."
Crap, we should of thought of that. The fourteen year old scolded herself mentally. The ranger nodded his head and got the appropriate papers. After handing them over to the two men, the four left the building.
Carter adjusted her red baseball cap and watched as Lily started talking to the two men.
"I'm actually going over to Hailey's right now," Lily started off with a small smile, "Since I'll already be over there do you care if I take the form? I mean, so you don't have to go out of your way and all."
"Sweetheart," the dark haired man smiled back, "I know you're not friends with Hailey and you know I'm not friends with Hailey. So why don't you just tell me what you're doing here."
Carter considered just grabbing the paper and making a run for it, but the man had already placed it in his jacket pocket. So, she tried a different approach. "We're not friends with Hailey, but we are friends with her brother. Lily here is actually his girlfriend. But Hailey and Lily don't get along all that well—"
"What's his name?" Shaggy hair guy asked.
"How about you tell me?" Rule number seven: In times of confusion, answer a question with a question. Over the years, Carter had compiled a list of rules. None were written down, though. Originally, the rules were written down on a piece of paper that the teen took with her everywhere. Now, though, she knew the rules well enough that she'd burned it with a candle so it was just a pile of ashes.
"Without looking at the form." Lily tacked on, crossing her arms.
"Screw this," the dark haired man rolled his eyes in annoyance and walked over to a black car. "Come on Sam."
The shaggy haired guy, Sam, went over to the passenger side and glanced at the Lily's car, a blue Mustang. He did a double take towards the trunk and said, "Dean, they're hunters."
"You know about hunting?" Lily questioned cautiously. Carter looked at her sister's car and saw the Devil's Traps etched into the doors of the car. It wasn't very big, only about as big as her palm. Sam and Dean returned to stand before the two girls.
"Demons, Werewolves—" Dean started off.
"Vampires, Shape-shifters, and all kinds of other bumps in the night." Lily said with a relieved look. "Wow, this'll be so much easier. So I take it you guys know there's a case here with this Hailey girl and her missing brother."
Sam answered, "Actually, we're looking for our dad. He left us some coordinates and they lead to Blackwater Ridge." Carter looked between the two guys and saw a slight resemblance. Despite having different eyes and hair, there was something in their faces that looked alike.
"A friend of ours sent us here, she said something about a hunt."
"But we're not on a hunt," Sam said slowly, "We're looking for our dad."
"Just hold on a sec, Sammy." Dean told him. "This can't be a coincidence. Dad sends us here and we run into two other hunters, it's got to be a case. We should know what we're walking into before we actually walk into it, Sam."
"How about this," Lily cut off Sam's reply, "We go and talk to this Hailey girl, see what she knows. If it's a case we can work together, if not we'll see ya' around."
The two men shared a look and nodded in unison.
The drive to Hailey Collins's house wasn't that long. When the two cars pulled up to the house, Carter was instructed to stay in the car. Like always.
"Completely unfair," she muttered as she watched Lily, Sam, and Dean go inside as a curly haired woman let them in. Just because she was too young to pull off being a detective or any other kind of job she had to stay in the car. Every. Time.
About forty-five minutes later, the trio emerged from the home. "Finally," Carter mumbled. Sam and Dean went into their car and Lily into the Mustang. "Well?" she prompted.
"We'll talk about it at the diner; we're eating with Sam and Dean." Lily stated, starting the engine and putting the car into drive before following the black car containing the two men.
When the four hunters parked at Little Red's Diner, they entered the building together and sat in the back corner with Sam and Dean facing the door and Lily and Carter facing the boys. After ordering three coffees and a Dr. Pepper, Carter didn't like coffee, the oldest hunters filled Carter in on what they had learned at Hailey Collins's house.
"Her brother hasn't checked in with her and her other brother in three days." Lily told her sister, "Tommy, the guy who's missing, sent a video to her four days ago and Sam caught a shadow in the background. So there's definitely something out there."
"Hailey and her younger brother have also taken it upon themselves to go into the woods with a guide to find Tommy." Dean added, "I'm thinking we meet up with them tomorrow morning so they don't get themselves hurt."
Carter cleared her throat, "And how exactly are we going to explain why I'm there?"
Dean raised an eyebrow at the fourteen year old, "Shouldn't you be in school or something? How old are you, thirteen?"
"F.Y.I., Dean, I'm fourteen. And no I shouldn't be in school out here when I live in Tennessee." The teen replied heatedly.
"So you guys live in one place, you don't travel?" Sam asked sounding genuinely interested.
Lily nodded, "Yeah, we live with my Aunt Maria in Tennessee. I decided to take Carter with me since she was having some trouble at school." The older sister turned a pointed look at the youngest hunter. "Which I still don't understand completely myself."
Carter shrugged and looked away, "It was one fight."
Just then the waitress walked by and told the four, "Sorry, but the food's going to be a little while longer. We have a new cook."
Once she'd left Sam pulled out a laptop and began researching. When the waitress brought them their drinks Carter flicked her crumbled up straw container at her sister.
"Quit!" Lily laughed when the straw container hit her in the nose. "So, find anything interesting Sam?"
Sam nodded, "Listen to this, Blackwater Ridge doesn't get a lot of traffic. Local campers, mostly. But, this past April two hikers went missing out there, they were never found. In nineteen-eighty-two, eight hikers also went missing. Rangers blamed it on a grizzly attack. And again in nineteen-fifty-nine and again in nineteen-thirty-six."
"Every twenty-three years." Lily stated.
"Just like clockwork," Sam nodded. He went back to typing on his laptop and continued to even when the waitress brought their food. Sam got a weird look on his face and said, "Hey, watch this." He pointed to the screen for his brother to see. "Right there. You see that?"
"Is that the shadow you saw?" Dean asked, his mouth full of hamburger.
"Gross." Lily commented, making Carter hold back a laugh.
"Yeah," Sam continued, "It only happened in a fraction of a second. Whatever it is, it's fast."
Unexpectedly, Dean slapped his brother's shoulder, "Told you something weird was goin' on!"
"I've got one more thing," Sam clicked away on his laptop a few more times before closing it. "In 'fifty-nine, only one person survived. He was just a kid, barely crawled out of the woods alive."
Dean made Sam eat then the four went out to the cars. Deciding to split up, Carter and Lily went to book two hotel rooms while Dean and Sam interviewed the only survivor.
Lily had given Sam and Dean her cell phone number at the diner and Dean gave her his, so when she had the rooms Lily called Dean and gave out the information.
Carter flung herself onto one of the two beds in the motel room and stared at the ceiling. It was another hour and a half before there was a knock on the door. By then it was eleven at night and Carter was bored to tears. She answered the door, gun in hand, and let in the two brothers. "Did you talk to the survivor?" the fourteen year old questioned, closing the door as Sam and Dean entered. She put the gun back on safety and put it on the nightstand by her bed.
"He was hesitant to talk to us at first, but he eventually told us what happened." Sam admitted.
"Lily! Sam and Dean are back!" Carter half-shouted through the bathroom door where her sister was getting dressed after her shower. "You'd better wait to tell us, she'll kill me if we don't wait."
Several minutes later found Carter sitting cross-legged on her bed, Lily with a towel wrapped around her head standing beside Sam, and Dean leaning against one of the walls.
"So," Sam started off, "Mr. Shaw, the survivor, told us it was too fast to see and that it roared. It came at night and got inside his family's cabin."
Dean picked up where his brother left off, "It also unlocked the door. Didn't break the door or go through a window. Drug his parents out the cabin and left him alive. Guy's got a four-claw scar on his shoulder, too. Not very pretty."
"Skin-walker?" Carter suggested, "It's fast, right? Maybe a black dog?"
"Something like that," Dean straightened up and looked at his brother before saying, "Alright Sammy, let's get to bed. I suggest you two do the same," he added, inclining his head towards the Graves girls. "We've got an early start in the morning."
Once Sam and Dean had received their room key from Lily, they left. Carter and Lily went to sleep like Dean had recommended, both hoping that all went well the next morning.
a/n: So for those of you that have read the original Legacy of Hunters series, I'm obviously doing a rewrite and starting at Season 1 instead of Season 3. There are a lot of major changes.
Please review, tell me what you think. I'm writing chapter 22 now so…*thumbs up*. I figured it'd be okay to start posting a chapter once a week. Next update on Friday.