Emma Winchester wasn't afraid of much. Growing up in a family of hunters left a person almost too prepared for some of "life's little mysteries", and people either learnt to repress their fear, or run away screaming to the nearest insane asylum.
That didn't mean anything about being able to fight though. She wasn't afraid of things because she was able to put a face to the thing hiding under her bed (or in a lake, the forest, ect.), and that in itself was half the battle. In the Winchester family, Emma seemed to come in at the shallow end of the gene pool. Her father, deceased mother and her two brothers were all better fighters than she was, and she knew the reason why. She was a klutz. She was able to defend herself and a few others decently enough, but she just didn't have the grace and edge on the battle field that her family had. Also, she was short, and she still didn't see how that was possible since Dean, her parents and grandparents were all tall, and Sam was a freaking giant. She had proven herself useful on hunts though, as she was excellent at speaking and translating latin, and could do research better and faster than anyone, even Sam.
Emma couldn't remember ever having a normal life. Her mother had been killed by a demon when she was three years old, and after that, her childhood took place largely in the back seat of the family Impala with Sam. Her father never said as much, but she knew he wished she had the skills that her brothers had in fighting. She was trained just as hard as Sam and Dean, but she always managed to stumble during what was supposed to be a killing blow, or some other catastrophe that would have led to her death long ago if not for her siblings and father. Her father had managed to teach her enough basic defense moves to keep her alive, and she was mostly left behind on a majority of the family hunts.
After Sam left the family business behind for college, Emma's father had gotten even harder to deal with. If he had been moody before, he was Dr. Jeckyl now, with an emphasis on the Hyde part. Soon after that, Emma also left her family behind, but instead of leaving the only life she knew behind, she went to help their fellow hunter, Bobby, out. She was able to run a large part of the telephones that helped undercover hunters all over the country keep up their fake I.D's and their covers safe if any local police called. Her father thought she should be helping him and Dean find the demon that had killed her mother, but he was so mad at Sam leaving his life behind that he was just relieved that she was still technically in the family business. In her spare time, she worked at a diner, and even though she was happy and safer, she missed going on what few hunts her father had let her on, and just helping people.
One day though, Dean showed up in the diner, and Sam was with him. Her baby brother had never looked worse. Not saying anything, she led them to the back of the diner and had Dean explain everything that had happened.
Ok, yeah, I know this is crap, but I am really hoping it gets better, I just wanted to get the backstory out of the way.
Disclaimer-If I owned Supernatural, I would not be writing fan fiction. It and all its characters belong to Eric Kripke.
