Tainted Need
Chapter 1
I watched as the moon glided across the sky as if it were a sturdy galleon that was being hit by reckless and foamy ocean waves. The deep black sky which was now beginning to bring out the glittering of the stars. The many things that had been my one and only hospice from this tragic world which I lived in.
Just thinking about it made me choke back tears of mourning and grief. I closed my eyes and felt the salty tear gather under it before I opened my eyes and let the tear slide gently down my cheek, then hitting the soft pillow which was being crumpled in my arms.
"Darleen. It's time." I heard Veranda call from the door to my bedroom, I turned to face her as another tear slipped down my face. She looked at me sympathetically but we both knew that the time was near and we couldn't stop it even if we tried. Today would be the day when I would be told what my mission would be and why I would have to do it.
I took a deep breath before getting up, dropping the pillow back on my bed and walking towards Veranda's outstretched arm. She walked me down the stairs to where the man sat at the table with a beer in his left hand.
"Veranda..." I cautioned but she placed a reassuring hand on my shoulder as she slowly lead me forward until I was sitting opposite the man whose head was down. The man had a mop of brown hair which laid messily on his head as if he'd just got out of bed.
As soon as I had settled down, his head shot up and he looked at me warily. He had brown eyes which looked dead as if he'd had enough of what he was doing.
"Ah... Darleen." The man smiled briefly, his voice rough, almost like someone scratching their hand against some wood. I cringed slightly at the thought.
"Who are you..?" I asked cautiously and the man looked at me through his eyes which had formed into slits.
"John Winchester and you're the one my son's going to settle down with." John laughed and I looked at him, wide-eyed. What did he mean that I was going to marry his son? I barely knew him, let alone his son.
"I'm sorry... what?" I growled, watching as John took a careless drink out of his beer bottle and coughed softly.
"You're going to marry Dean. Why? Because your mother and father were good friends of mine and they said that if they ever had a daughter, she would have to marry to my eldest son because they would most likely be the ones keeping each other in line." John said coolly and I turned to look at Veranda who was looking at me sympathetically.
"Darleen, you've been trained your whole life to be the woman who would keep him in line. You've been trained as a woman with extremely good senses, knows how to research, can get into people's minds, you own abilities that only one woman could have taught you. The woman who happened to have brought you up, is in fact, the most adept hunter trained." John said slowly as he watched me with a calm and cautious gaze.
"Veranda, is this true?" I asked as I looked over to her and she nodded, not looking me in the eye. I sighed and looked over at John again.
"So what do I have to do?" I scoffed, looking John straight in the eye and leaning on the table in front of me.
"Get him to fall in love with you." Veranda spoke up and I watched her through the corner of my eye.
"And how the hell am I supposed to do that when I don't even know him nor love him?" I asked, clear irritation noticable. They both sighed.
"You leave tonight." John said simply, getting up and drinking the last drop of his beer before walking out of the back door. I growled under my breath and got up, storming past Veranda and stomping up the stairs.
"Darleen..." Veranda started as she followed me up the stairs and into my room. I grabbed a bag and shoved all of my needed clothes in there as well as the weapons etc.
"Don't even start." I snapped, shoving my black ripped skinny jeans, a plaid shirt and my black leather jacket on then shoving my feet into my black combat boots and grabbing my bag. I pushed past Veranda again and grabbed her car keys which were on the key holder and opened the front door. Clicking the unlock button and throwing my bag on the passenger seat and getting in.
"Darleen please be careful." Veranda shouted from the front door, I waved and drove off in her land rover to where John had left co-ordinates to where Dean and Sam were.