AUTHOR'S NOTE:
So, I have kind of missed writing a story that has Adam in it and now that I'm in Season 8 of the show and there's still no Adam back, I miss that kid, and so I'm taking a bunch of things and mixing it all together. Sam and Lily, Lana and Dean, Kat and Adam…I have a really interesting story line planned out. This takes place Season Four before Lucifer rises and I wouldn't call this 'Hunting Demons' or even entirely 'Supernatural' because different things will happen and have happened, but it will be fun, I promise, I'm excited about it.
WARNINGS: Language, Violence, Character Death, Sex, Dark Themes
ENJOY!
xxxx
24 year-old Alana Meckenzie found herself tossing and turning that night, listening to the wind whistling in the trees as she kicked at her sheets. She was restless and she was trying her best to sleep, but it just wasn't happening no matter how hard she tried to do just that. Ever since moving from Kansas to Windom, Minnesota to look after her youngest cousin, Kathryn Meckenzie, Lana had been trying to acclimate to life somewhere else. She got her nursing degree figured out, she worked at the local hospital, and she got to look after her cousin.
The problem was, Lana had far too many secrets under her belt and didn't even know what to do about it all since she was trying to be a guardian right now. Katelyn, the eldest Meckenzie cousin, was off being an awesome hunter and Kalli was nowhere to be seen and Kathryn, the youngest, wasn't completely focused on her first year of college. On top of that, Lana hadn't seen Sam Winchester in five months, or even heard from him other than him telling her that he was going to be fine with Lily—not since Dean went to Hell and left her mourning him.
"We should have tried harder," Lana said with tears in her eyes, hands on Dean's jacket. "You can't just be done for, Dean."
Dean smiled sadly, kissing her gently. "God, I'm going to miss you." "Let me fix this! Somehow!" Lana told him earnestly. "I can't live without you and you know that!"
Somehow he did know that, mainly because he knew that he couldn't live without her either and it was wrong to do this to her. He had had to save Sammy though and so this was his price to pay—something Lana had known was coming even though it had broken her heart. Dean had gotten to have a really great year with Lana, and with Lily and Sam, and he knew that this was what was waiting for him.
"Well…maybe you have a piece of me," Dean tried, running his thumb along her stomach. "A half backed scheme is still a scheme."
"I suppose so," Lana responded with a smile. "Hopefully it works, I just…I would rather that you be there too."
The half baked scheme hadn't worked and Lana had been upset about it, but she and Dean had been trying to have a kid since she came back from the dead and it didn't seem like that was going to happen. It wasn't 'in the cards' for them and she had to get used to that and then she lost him and now she didn't know what to do with herself except look after her cousin. Besides, Sam was with Lily Harte and she could handle him for now. She was always able to handle him.
Lily and Sam met in Stanford and were good friends and then Jess happened and hunting happened and she left school to follow Sam and Dean. They treated her like a little sister (well, Dean did) and then Lana came into the picture on a hunt and Dean and Lana hooked up and the threesome fighting team became a foursome hunting team. The four got really close and they withstood everything: Sam dying, Lana dying, Lily and Dean almost dying more than once, and all sorts of demon fights.
They withstood finding out that Lana's biological father was Azazel, the yellow eyed demon, and that her mother was a powerful witch that had been possessed for nine months and gave birth to Lana, and things seemed good. No one even knew that Lana had known before meeting the boys about John having another son, Adam Milligan, in Monnesota where her cousins lived. In fact everything seemed perfect during Dean's last year and then…Lana just had to leave and Sam and Lily understood.
What no one understood was how bad Lana felt about it all.
"Lana, you can't tell them…promise me," John told her.
Lana narrowed her eyes at him. "You want me to lie to them?"
"They don't need to know about Adam—Adam doesn't need to be in this life. Dean won't understand." John shook his head. "Not the way he feels about his mother."
"You can't just keep a brother from them!" Lana exclaimed, sighing when John shushed her. "Look, I hate lying to Dean. I did it for long enough and then I rectified it, so you can't just expect me to lie!"
"It's not your place to tell them anything," John told her. "After everything I've been through with your mother, the least you can do is—"
"—let you tell them yourself?" Lana finished for him.
John sighed at her stubbornness. "Lana, just…promise me, okay? Promise me."
"Fine," Lana said shaking her head. "I promise…"
The promise had made her feel like crap, having only made it because she met up with John after meeting the boys and she thought maybe she owed him that much. She just decided not to talk about it anymore and instead she just kind of went with the flow and stayed with the boys and befriended Lily and things were good. Then Dean died on her and she just couldn't take it anymore—she moved to Minnesota to take care of Kat when Kate wanted to leave to hunt and now this was her life.
Being awake in the middle of the night.
Sighing loudly, she got up and headed to go and get some coffee, smiling a little bit at her 19 year old cousin, Kat, who was sitting up actually doing her homework. Other than the scratch of her pencil on her math homework, the only sound was Lana's percolator making her some coffee to feel a little better. So, Lana smiled a little bit more and then sat down at the island counter with Kat and looked over her shoulder.
"I thought you told me that you did your math homework already," Lana said making that tsking noise with her tongue.
Kat laughed a little and nodded. "Yeah, but that was only because I knew you'd be mad if I said 'no'. So…why can't you sleep?"
"Just having a hard time sleeping," Lana said shrugging. "I haven't really slept a whole night through since Dean died—seeing him in Hell and everything in my sleep."
"Right," Kat replied before reaching over to set her hand on her cousin's. "Hey, you're going to make it through this. I mean Lily calls all the time, right? She and Sam have been doing great."
"The calls have been less and less," Lana admitted, chewing on her lip.
It was actually really odd that Lily wasn't calling as much because she and Lana had become such great friends, but at the same time, Kat understood. Losing Dean was hard on all of them and she had Sam and Lana had her family, and so it made sense that they would separate a little bit. Still, Kat knew that Lana relied on hearing from Lily and seeing how Sam was. She needed to know that that family of hers was still alive and well.
"She'll call again," Kat assured her before looking back at her homework. "Now, you understand Trig, right?"
Lana laughed and rolled her eyes. "Of course I do."
xx
Lily sighed loudly as Sam and Dean began to argue, eating her Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and wishing she could figure out what to do here. Lana would know what to do, but Lana was also in the dark about Dean being alive because Dean wanted her to be able to move forward. Ever since Dean had come back to her and Sam, Lily had hoped that he would find Lana and the four could be a hunting team again, but instead, Dean had wanted to go about everything differently, even hearing that Lana had been having nightmares about him in Hell…in fact, especially then. That meant that she would tell them that she knew what he did and Dean didn't want anyone to know what he did or that he remembered it.
"You don't think that Lana knows about Cas already?" Lily asked suddenly, making the boys look at her. "I mean, he mentioned her by name last hunt."
Dean sighed loudly. "If Lana knew I was around, she would have been here already. If anyone can track me down, it's her."
"She knows all of his aliases, etc.," Sam said, agreeing with Dean. "I still don't get why we can't tell her."
"Because I know where she is, and she's happy with her cousins," Dean responded angrily. "She has always deserved a better life and now she has it."
"She'd rather have you," Lily told him sincerely. "I think it's kind of really cruel of you to be like this."
Dean nodded because he knew it was true—in fact he was kind of really mad at himself because he knew that Lana wasn't pregnant either, so their half baked scheme hadn't even worked. What if she thought that was some kind of sign that she wasn't allowed to have anything to do with Dean at all? Dean was afraid that Lana had already decided for herself that she and Dean weren't even meant to be and he couldn't handle that.
"Besides, I miss her," Sam admitted with a shrug. "Plus, you know how good she is with all of these witch hunts."
Dean shook his head. "No…she'll beat my ass for not telling her sooner."
"Probably, but you'd deserve it," Lily told him. "You tend to try to control everyone else's life because you think it's best, but you need to let her choose. Hell, you dodged her when you came back. She was looking for you."
"She probably doesn't even think about me anymore," Dean tried, sighing loudly.
He knew they were right about that too—he had already been told that Lana visited his grave once a week, and that day she'd been by before he had been brought out of Hell by Castiel. Still, Dean had seen her when he was wandering about trying to find Sam, Lily and Bobby, and since then he had told Castiel not to tell Lana anything about it. Since Dean was Castiel's charge at the moment, he'd been avoiding Lana's calls the last four months and that had her irate and distraught, Dean knew. It was almost like he had stripped her last bit of faith away from her and he hated himself for that a little bit.
"Remember when you got really mad at her when she didn't tell you that she was back to life?" Lily tried, smiling a little at Sam as he sat on their bed with her. "I think this is the same thing only far worse. She fought tooth and nail to keep you alive after you made that deal and you haven't told her jack about being back."
Dean ran his hand down her face. "She's the only one to call for this hunt?"
"The only one—even Bobby says we should call her," Sam put in quickly.
"Well, Bobby's been trying to hint at Lana since I got back," Dean told them and then he looked defeated and sighed again. "Great…she's going to kick my ass."
xx
"So, I slept last night, did you?" Kat asked as she came down the stairs that morning.
Lana was in the kitchen with breakfast made, pouring some coffee into a thermos for Kat and smiling at her cousin. She actually hadn't gotten any sleep at all, wondering how Dean was faring in Hell and wishing Castiel would answer his summons, and trying to practice her powers. Her mother had been telling her time and time again to just get in touch with her inner Lana, and she had been, but the amount of power she had stored away frightened her—she could heal, and pop in and out like a powerful demon and like the angels…didn't that have to mean something?
"Are you ready to eat breakfast and then head out with me to get Adam?" Lana asked instead, changing the subject.
Kat sighed loudly. "Lana, I love you, but you have to get some sleep. I always feel like I'm going to die when you drive me on no sleep and coffee."
"Why? I'm an awesome driver," Lana told her, giving her a look.
"No, I know, but sleep deprivation will at some point catch up with you," Kat explained as she took a seat at the table and looked at her pancakes. "Even Adam and Aaron are worried about you."
Lana laughed at that. "Aaron is always worried about me because he's had a crush on me since we met. Hasn't stopped trying to get in my pants since either."
"Well, what can I say? That best friend of mine is a perv," Kat said with a laugh of her own. "But still…at least take a power nap."
"Can't—I work today," Lana explained, sighing when Kat made a face. "I know, I know, that's even worse because I have to take care of people. I will power nap on my break, okay?"
Kat nodded and took a bite of pancakes. "Good, as long as you promise."
"I promise," Lana laughed before handing Kat her thermos.
She had naturally fallen into the 'Mom' mode here and sat and ate breakfast with Kat before they got ready to go and get Adam. Lana had been looking after Adam even more after finding out that John was really John Winchester and also Sam and Dean's father, and she really liked the kid. Besides, he had a thing for Kat and Kat had a thing for him—even Aaron approved. Adam was a good kid, with a good head on his shoulders and he wanted to study medicine too. In fact, he was in Pre-Med at the college there.
Originally, he was going to go out of state to college, but Kat had changed his mind and so now they went to college together and still lived at home. Adam's mother was on her own and Lana worked with her, Kat wanting to live with family since her whole family were hunters and originally from Kansas. Then they had moved here to Minnesota when Kat was little and now her father traveled a lot and her mother traveled with him. It was a development that hadn't happened until Kat's graduation, but then Lana moved to town and it was like everything was changed.
Kat was happy to get to the house, going in while Lana checked her makeup, always keeping it light, but needing to keep it on to hide the bags forming under her eyes. She could handle a lot, but she was starting to notice the toll it was all taking on her and Kat wanted to help, but she also wanted to be around Adam. So, she came in and she knew Adam's mother had already left for work, so she went up to his room and knocked on it.
"I know you're already here!" Adam said laughing as he opened up the door. "I saw you drive up. How is Lana?"
Kat shrugged a little bit. "Considering her fiancé is still dead, she's actually doing great."
"Dean, right?" Adam tried, smiling when Kat nodded, glad he was right. "I'll do my best to keep the subject off of death."
"Good, because death is morbid," Kat teased, smiling when Adam stole a kiss from her. "I really don't want to take this Trig class though."
"Math is good for us," Adam said with a smile.
Kat nodded slowly. "Yeah…at least for you, Mr. Pre-Med."
Lana had never said Dean and Sam's last names to Kat, just their first as she knew that saying their last names would tip her off. She had met John Winchester at Adam's birthday parties too, having helped Adam to cope with meeting John when he was 12. No one knew that Lana knew, and even she hadn't known. Florence and John had been close and then parted and Lana met John and he told her his name was John, and that was it. Then she was back in Kansas after that one birthday party and by the time she saw John again, it was after she'd been hunting with Sam and Dean and then she knew his last name and everything in head got put together and he'd made her promise.
She wouldn't have even kept the promise if her mother hadn't ganged up on her later and told her to keep it a secret. Someday that secret was going to bite her in the ass, but right now she didn't care—she just cared about getting Kat and Adam to school and then getting to work, and so she smiled at them when they came out. They got into the car and Kat turned the radio on, Lana looking back at Adam, who was handsome as ever…must have been a Winchester trait.
"Good morning, Adam," Lana said with a smile on her face. "How are you today?"
Adam smiled at her. "Pretty good, actually. You acclimated these five months?"
"Adam!" Kat chastised.
"Chill, Kitty-Kat, he didn't ask me about my dead fiancé," Lana explained, trying to make a joke even though it still hurt to think of Dean as dead. "Minnesota isn't Kansas, but I still like it."
Adam nodded slowly. "Good, I'm glad. It's not a bad place to be."
"Not at all," Lana agreed before switching the subject to math.
She was trying to keep them quizzed and smiled at them and waved as she dropped them off on the campus before she went to the hospital. Lana checked in and then went to change into her scrubs, pulling her hair back into a pony tail and then going to check on some patient's. At one point she went back to the Nurse's Station to work on some files, her cell phone vibrating in her pocket. When she pulled it out and it said it was Lily, Lana told Adam's mother that she was going to take a quick call, and then went outside the building.
"Oh my God, I've missed you!" Lana answered the phone.
Lily smiled at that. "I've missed you too, you have no idea! Look, though, I kind of need to come to you and ask for your witch expertise."
"Thank God, I've been dying for a hunt. This is nice, this normal life and everything, but I miss you and Sam so much that I actually miss killing things," Lana admitted with a smile. "Anything I can do to help you with evil witches, I am more than happy to do."
"Good, because Sam and I are on our way and we have a surprise for you," Lily explained slowly, glancing at Dean.
xx
Dean wasn't sure how he felt about Lily and Lana chatting like nothing was wrong, but he knew that this was his fault. Lily was hinting about him being a surprise and he just didn't know what to do—Lily's face meant that Lana was excited and the moment she saw him, what would she do? God, he remembered how pissed off he was that she didn't call him and tell him that she was alive, and he got that, he did: she didn't remember. She had been resurrected by her family because they still needed her, and she had moved on.
Hell, Dean had too.
He had gotten all of his affairs in order and then been ripped apart by Hellhounds and an angel decided to take him out of Heaven. Sure, he'd become a monster down there and he needed to be stopped, but he hadn't expected to be brought back and have to climb his way out of a grave…something Lana had also done before. Honestly, she was the first person he had wanted to contact when he got back, but he knew she had promised him that she would move on and she had moved to Minnesota for crying out loud. Besides, just in case he hadn't gotten to stay he didn't want her hopes up and then by the time he realized he was there for good, he was too scared to go to her.
"Ten bucks says we have to give them time alone in the house," Lily said wiggling her eyebrows from the back seat after getting off of the phone with Lana.
Sam chuckled. "I'd take you up on the bet, but you'd win."
"Very funny," Dean told them rolling his eyes, but he was nervous—God…he hadn't been this nervous since the first time he and Lana had been about to be reunited. "We'll be lucky if she doesn't beat my ass back into the ground."
"True, but my money is on make-up sex because she's been celibate since you died." Lily told him with a shrug. "That, and you've been celibate since you came back. You tried that one time, but you couldn't."
"Because you were thinking about Lana," Sam added with a nod. "Though you could bet against us…"
Dean scoffed. "You know I never bet against the Giant and the Munchkin when they agree on something."
This time Dean had to laugh though when Lily smacked his shoulder and Sam pushed on his arm, the three of them close as ever these days. Lily put her headphones in as she laughed it off, Sam pulling out his phone to text Lana, and Dean tried to take deep breaths. He'd been digging things up on her since he had come back and she had such a better life now, didn't she? She didn't need him, right? But Dean Winchester needed her.
Note: That's the beginning, I hope you guys like it so far! I really just wanted there to be an overview so that a little history is already there. The girls have been around in the Winchesters' lives for a while, Adam is in the picture, and yes, one of the warnings is character death and couple of characters will die. I just really had this idea in my head and I had to run with it. Next chapter soon; I'm on a roll with this. Feedback is always appreciated!