Okay just to let you guys know.. This first chapter is what happens at the very end of 'The End' chapter two will be what happened in the beginning. So I kinda did it back wards. So please stay tuned and read the next one because that's were all the good stuff happens.
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Dean
He was glad to see Sam and Jo pull up in Ryce's black mustang. He had to wonder where Ryce was and why she was not with them.
His son's words played back to him, "It was your fault that she's not here." It could not have been real. It was just Zachariah's idea of a sick joke to get him to bend to his will.
That was all it was right. He watched as Sam walked up to him alone. "What made you change your mind?" He asked.
"Long story. The point is, maybe we are each other's Achilles' heel. Maybe they'll find a way to use us against each other, I don't know. I just know we're all we got. More than that, we keep each other human." He said to his baby brother.
"Thank you. Really, thank you. I won't let you down." This time Sam sounded like he meant it. And maybe he did. Maybe things could work out. "Oh, I know it. And you are the second-best hunter on the planet." He was glad to have Sammy back. "What do we do now?" Sam asked. "We make our own future." He said smiling slightly
Jo
She was happy that they were together again happy that Dean had changed his mind.
Why he did, it wasn't important. What she hoped now was that he would come to his senses and see Ryce again.
She shouldn't have left her. She should have stayed. Something just didn't seem right. Ryce seemed off more than usual.
Getting out of the car, she yelled at the boys. "Hey guys while I am happy for your reunion and all, I need to get this bit of gorgeous steel back to it's owner." Dean looked over at her as she walked over to the driver side door.
"She's gonna kill me as it is." "Where is Ryce? " Dean asked. Ryce really thought that Dean no longer cared. Personally, Jo thought she was idiot.
So did Bobby he was always mumbling something about her being a stubborn idjit.
Smiling at the memory, she answered Dean "With Bobby she's still healing from an attack by a djinn." She saw the look in his eyes.
He knew what could happen when you go up against one of those. He knew what they could show you and how it could screw you up.
It had done it to him and now her friend was going through the same thing. She drove alone letting the boys ride together.
That black beauty following closely behind. They had questions for her and she wasn't ready to answer them just yet.
Sam had seen the way Ryce was acting when they were together. But as always, there was more to the story than anyone saw.
She drove fast to get back to Bobby's house. Ryce would be proud of her driving skills. And would yell at her for going so damn fast.
She could hear Ryce yelling at her now. "You better not scratch my baby Joanna!"
Ryce
Jo was gone. She was off to Sammy's rescue. She wanted to go but this massive set of stitches she had in her left side made it impossible to drive.
Plus the mix of painkillers and jack were making her just a bit delusional. The pain was getting to her. Not just the pain in her side but also the pain in her heart.
She missed Dean more than she should. That stupid man had left her so why was she the one curled into a ball having nightmares.
When the night came, she sat on her dad's porch swing doing what she did best. Taking her pills, drink and smoke her reds like there was no tomorrow.
She wanted to call him and beg him to come back to her. Pride was the only thing keeping her from doing that.
Like momma and Lynryd Skynyrd used to say, "Ain't no need to worry, there ain't no use to cry." Sadly that is all she does.
The injury she had gotten had been dealt by a djinn. It showed her greatest nightmare not her greatest wish.
When she woke up the realization that the world could wind up that way scared her. She went from one nightmare to another.
What a nightmare it was. Full of dark liquor, pills and that black car driving away as if the devil was right behind.
Dean
"Sam what happened after I left?" He asked quietly. "I don't know Dean I wasn't there," He heard Sam take a breath before speaking again.
"The last time I saw her she was helping me out." Sam said vaguely. "To be honest Dean she didn't look so good. What happened after we uh you know separated?"
He really didn't want to answer that. "We split up she went home to Bobby." Was all he would say on the matter. After a couple days of driving they finally were at Bobby's.
He let out a sigh when he drove under the Singer's Salvage sign. Jo would tell him nothing. Ryce sure had one hell of a bulldog.
To be fair she was Jo's bulldog too. "Dean you need to go." Jo said not happy that he had followed her here. He was surprised at that she didn't seem to mind before.
He looked up to the porch when he heard footsteps. His breath caught when he saw her standing there. Her once long black hair was now cut to her shoulders she had stopped striating it.
Letting be it's naturally curly way. Her face was thinner and held a lot more anger than it used to. Tight jeans rode low on hips to accommodate her stitches.
Black tank showed her midriff and covered most of the damage. Jo had said that Ryce had been attacked by a djinn. She said that Ryce had one hell of a scar forming on her left hip.
Ryce
She was so lonely. How could she be lonely with her dad, Ellen and son in one house was beyond her.
But Dad and Ellen's budding romance made her feel the loneliness even more. Even her son had found someone.
Bright little Casey. So happy and filled with optimism. J.B. had told her about the lives they lead and strangely, the girl was okay with it all.
When she heard the familiar roar of her baby, she smiled. Jo was back. The smile was wiped off her face when she heard the thunder of the Impala behind it.
"What the hell is he doing here?" She mumbled to herself. Taking a deep breath, she walked out on to the porch.
Dean
He had to do something. He wanted to say something to her but what could he say.
He stood there as she came down the steps. "My baby, you brought her back in one piece." She said smiling at Jo.
"Well of course why would I other wise. You would have me drawn and quartered." Jo said laughing.
"Sammy how are things?" She said to his brother who smiled back. "Much better now that I know what I need." he answered.
"You knew that already Sammy you just had to remember it." Sam just nodded. "Well any who I need to get out of here Jo wanna come with." Jo nodded and slide into the passenger seat.
Ryce didn't look his way not once as she slid into the driver seat. She was completely ignoring him. Could he blame her no, did he blame her yeah he kinda did. This time he was left standing there as she drove away.
Ryce
It was quiet in the car. The only sounds coming from the engine as they drove down the road.
Well it was that way until Jo just had to say something. "What was that about?" Jo asked never taking her eyes off the road.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." She replied.
"Yes you do Ryce; all you've wanted was to see him. And when you get the chance, you completely ignore him. What the hell is going on with you?" Jo snapped. Anger flashing in her chocolate eyes.
"Look he left meleft me standing there as he drove away. What hell was I supposed to do Jo?" Ryce yelled back.
"Tell me was I supposed to throw myself at screaming 'oh baby so glad you came back' I don't think so." She said snorting.
She was actually shaking with the anger that vibrated through her small frame.
"You know I get that I really do Ryce, remember that will you. Remember that out of all of us I know what you're going through. But I forgave Sam." She said the anger fading from her voice.
But Ryce she was mad. "Yeah I get that. You know what I'm going through, but tell me this after Sam left Dean and he found you for the first time did you throw yourself at him?" Ryce said looking at her.
Jo wouldn't answer she hadn't of course in fact she had sent him on his way.
"That's right Joanna you didn't you told him to leave you couldn't take the pain he had caused. Just 'cos you forgave Sam doesn't mean I can forgive Dean." She said slamming the palm of her hand on the steering wheel.
"But you want to, isn't that what is important." Jo said hoping to get through to her. "Damn it I want to I really do but I don't know if I can." Tears were beginning to roll down her cheeks.
"Ryce pull over smoke a cigarette and calm down." She did just that. Pulling into an abandoned pay and go. She got out of the car and lit up. She saw that Jo had followed.
"God Jo I'm so messed up right now. All I see is his face. How he looked at me with that stone cold look of his. And how he just left me. Left me standing there watching him drive away. How am I supposed to get over that?" She said pleading with her friend to give her answers.
"You can't Ryce you just have to move on from it. And if you can't do that, you have to move on from him. The question is can you do that?" Jo said looking her straight in the eyes.
Ryce had no answers for that. Could she move on from the pain he caused her? Could she move on from him if she couldn't?
"I don't think I could ever move on from Dean. It seems to be a problem I have in my life." She said giving Jo a sad smile.
"Remember Chad, I thought I finally had gotten away from all that was even going to marry him." "But Dean came back and changed all that right." Jo said finishing for her giving Ryce her own sad smile. "Jo what am I going to do?"
"I wish I knew how I wish I knew."
Dean
He and Sam sat in Bobby's living room. When he looked around, he saw the photo albums laid out on the coffee table.
He was sorely tempted to look at them. "And what the hell are you doing here?" Bobby growled at them from the kitchen.
"Bobby don't, give him a chance will you." came Ellen's deep drawl. "Hey Bobby, how's it going?" He watched the older man scowl deepen.
"Good to have ya back boys. Now tell me what been going on." He said never cracking a smile but the glint in Bobby's eyes told Dean everything.
"Well the thing is I saw the end. And let's just say we didn't fair very well." "And why Winchester is that?" he looked over to see Ryce leaning in the doorway. "Demon virus." Everyone in the room was surprised.
Except Ryce, he had to wonder at that. "What happened to the rest of us?" Jo asked pushing her way past Ryce.
Well now how to answer that. "J.B. and Cas were all that was left." Again every one had the reaction that you were supposed to have except Ryce. "We need to talk Dean, now." She said walking out the door.
"Jo get J.B. off the bus please. And don't let him talk you into driving my car while I'm gone." Ryce threw over her shoulder.
Ryce
He wasn't telling them everything. What she saw sounded too much like what she had seen.
With some differences. She climbed into the Impala waiting for him to join her. "Where to?" Dean asked after he turned the car on.
"Motel and get your mind out of the gutter, we need to talk and that's as private as were going to get." She snapped and instantly regretted it when she saw his hands tighten on the steering wheel.
"Sorry I shouldn't have snapped." She was being mean and she just needed to stop. "What do you need to talk about?" He asked sounding disgruntled.
She had to remember that this was hard for him to. Considering when he arrived she had completely ignored him and was now making him drive to a motel so they could talk.
"We need to trade war stories." She said without looking at him. "Were going to need something to drink aren't we." She nodded this was going to be one hell of a talk.
