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Summary: Season 1 spinoff We all know the story of the Winchester family, and when John turns up missing Dean gets the help of his younger brother Sam and his rock star best friend/ex Paige Kroeger.
Paige Kroeger opened the door to the room backstage after the concert just ended and lied down on the couch "Baby, your dogs' drunk again.", referring to the golden retriever sleeping on the floor.
Ryan walked in and sat on the arm of the couch Paige was resting on "If I find out it was Becky again I'm gona ask your brother to fire her. Rustys' had enough beer this month." He joked.
They heard an "Uh oh." followed by a crash outside in the hall of the arena. "Chad needs to cut it out with that scooter. He'll get himself killed."((If you've ever been to one of their concerts and wondered what that motorcycle like noise was, that's it, I think…)) Paige laughed as she rested her head on the side of his arm.
"Now I know why I let Mike have my turn this week. Do you think they survived it? I don't think so." Ryan said.
"You can be such an ass." Paige joked.
"Yeah, I know baby." Ryan laughed as he leaned towards her for a few quick kisses.
They heard some foot steps outside the door and they quickly broke the kiss and began playing rock, paper, scissors just to act like they weren't doing anything. Chad walked in rubbing his shoulder "Come on, we have people with backstage passes tonight and you know they want autographs. Even though I don't think I can sign any." He said as he headed back out the door.
"That was close." Ryan muttered as he ran a hand through his dark hair.
"Too close. Listen, I need to talk to you about something so meet me at my bus after we're done here." Paige whispered before they walked out the door into the hallway, which was full of fans.
"Alright, remember to stay near me if you don't want someone to grab your ass." Ryan said as he handed her berry colored Sharpie to her"You left this in my trailer."
Paige laughed a little "I saw you got Daniel pretty good." Ryan smiled as he remembered drawing on Daniel's face when he passed out from too much beer.
After signing a few magazines and CDs, Paige thought she heard someone calling her name. She looked over the people that were in front of her and saw a familiar face among the crowd. She motioned Chad over to her and told him to take over for her wile she went to talk to the person. "Dean Winchester! How the hell do you get back here!" she said joyfully smacking his shoulder.
"I know the right people. Actually your guitar tech remembered me and asked if I wanted to see you. Of course I said yes and he let me backstage. So, how've you been since we last saw each other?" Dean asked with a smile.
"Better than I was. Hey, I tried to call you but it always says it's not available." Paige said.
"Yeah, about that. I got a new cell phone a wile back and I've been busy doing the family business." Dean explained "Which brings me to the reason why I'm here."
Ryan walked over to the talking friends and tapped Paige's arm "Paige, someone needs your autograph." He said as he led her away from Dean. She knew he said someone needed an autograph, but his eyes told a different story.
Once they got to a secluded area of the hall Paige put her Sharpie in the pocket of her blue jeans and crossed her arms "What is it Ryan?" she asked.
"Who were you talking to?" Ryan asked.
"You know Dean. You didn't need to drag me here to ask me something you already knew." She said as she started to walk back to finish the conversation.
He grabbed her shoulder before she got too far and spun her around "I don't trust him. Remember last time you hung out with him? You came back heartbroken and depressed. I don't like seeing you like that." Ryan said.
"Baby I told you it wasn't him who caused it. It was his asshole of a brother who did it." Paige lied.
Ryan let out a sigh and let go of her shoulder "Alright. Go ahead and finish your conversation." he gave her a quick kiss "Just tell me before you do something stupid."
Paige nodded her head and walked back to were Dean was, wile Ryan went to the room back stage to hang out with Chad, Mike and Daniel. Dean was sitting on one of the equipment boxes when she rejoined him "Sorry about that. That person wanted the whole autograph package. Now what were you going to tell me?" Paige asked.
"Ok, do you still remember some of the stuff I told you about hunting the supernatural?" Dean asked
Paige opened a strawberry sucker and started to snack on it "Yeah. Why? Are you asking me to help you with something?" she asked.
Dean nodded his head "Yup."
She thought a little bit then looked back at him "I'll tell you what. We leave at 6:30 in the morning for Vancouver; I'll think about it tonight and if I call you, meet me at the north gate before we leave."
"That will work. I'll try to wake up that early." Dean said, handing her a piece of paper "Here's my new number. Call me later tonight."
Paige got up to go join Ryan and her brothers for some drinks "Well, talk to you later. You still have the Impala right?" she asked.
He had that stupid grin of his as he started to walk towards the doors "You know it. And Paige," she turned around to face him "You sang great tonight."
"Thanks Dean." She said with a smile. When he walked off she said to herself "He will do great things." as she grabbed the handle to the lounge and opened the door.
Chad smiled as she walked in "Hey sis, we're having a tequila drinking contest! Wana join?" he said as he held up a shot glass.
Paige shook her head at the totally unexpected invitation "Nah I'll pass. But you guys don't drink too much. Last time you had a contest, you and Ryan ended up racing electric floor buffers up and down the halls of Freedom Hall in Louisville. I'll keep score though." Ryan started to move towards the end table to join the contest "No Ryan, you won last time. Give Daniel and Mikey a chance."
Chad, Mike, and Daniel all sat around the table as Mike opened the tequila bottle "Let's do this thing!" Chad said as he held out his shot glass
Ryan rolled his eyes and went back to drinking his beer "Should I find and hide the floor buffers?"
Paige nodded her head "Please do, and no joy riding without me!"
"Alright. Hey, can one of you stay sober enough to keep score? Join us when you're drunk enough!" Ryan said as he and Paige walked out the door into the hall.
later that night
Paige was in her bus getting some of her belongings together into the same red and black duffel bag with the tiger on one side she got from New Clarksville High 5 years ago. She had just called Dean and told him she took the offer and she was wondering what it was about when Ryan's arms wrapped around her waist and he started to kiss her neck "Were do you think you're going?" he asked
"I'm going to help Dean with something. I'll probably be back in a week." Paige said as she slipped out of his embrace.
Ryan let out a sigh and spun her around "Even though I don't like you leaving without saying anything about it, you can. I'll tell Chad and the guys were you're going."
"Thanks, I'll see you in the morning. I love you." Paige said as Ryan pulled her into a good night kiss.
"I love you too. And stay out of trouble ok." He replied as he walked out the bus door.
"I'll try." She whispered to herself as Ryan shut the door and she continued stuffing random items into her bag.
The next night
"Paige? Paige, wake up." Dean kept saying as he nudged her with his elbow from the seat beside her.
"What?" she moaned as her hazel eyes met his "Where are we?"
He turned off the car and the radio which was playing Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd faded out "Stanford University."
Paige jolted up in her seat "No! You know perfectly well I do NOT want to be here!"
"Come on Paigey, he probably broke up with that girl by now." Dean said with a pout.
She sat there for a few seconds "Fine! And stop doing that look! It never really works!" Paige said with a scowl after she got out of the car.
Dean couldn't help but laugh "Sure it doesn't. It did just then." He said sarcastically.
She pointed a finger at him "You can it." She looked at the front door of the apartment, then to the shadowy fire escape "Let me guess, the front doors' not your option."
"You know me well." Dean said with a smirk.
As they started to climb the fire escape, Paige couldn't hold her curiosity in "Dean, why did you come and get me in San Francisco and now we're getting Sam?"
"I'll tell you once we get Sammy." Dean replied.
She was starting to get impatient with her best friend "Why?"
"Because I don't like explaining things twice now come on." Dean said.
As soon as they got into Sam's apartment, Paige sat down on the couch and Dean just walked around looking at stuff. Paige glanced at a clock on the wall which read 2:25.
"You woke me up at 2 in the morning?!" Paige said with an annoyed tone of voice.
"Shut up!" Dean hissed, not paying attention to an end table that was in the path of his random walking.
There was a few footsteps in the other room and a figure emerged from what Paige suspected was a hallway. It went and hit Dean, which he returned the favor and pinned the figure down on the floor.
"Easy tiger." Dean said.
"Dean?" The figure, who Paige clearly recognized as Sam asked. Dean replied with his idiotic laugh "You scared the crap out of me!"
"And you're out of practice." Dean said.
Sam shoved him off and punched him in the shoulder "Or not…"Dean muttered.
"Dean, what the hell are you doing here?" Sam asked.
Paige clicked on the lamp that was on the table beside her "We were just looking for a beer Sammy. Do you have any by the way?"
Sam laughed at the unexpected occurrence "You always know how to make an entrance don't you?"
"Damn right I do. I'm a rock star, it's expected of me." Paige stated as she got up from the couch.
"She gets a laugh, I get a punch. Very funny." Dean said in his sarcastic tone of voice.
Sam laughed and shook his head "Alright, let's get back on subject. Why the hell are you two here?"
"Well we need to talk." Dean began.
"Sam, is everything alright?" a voice Paige didn't recognize asked as the main light clicked on revealing a blonde haired girl around her and Sam's age.
Sam turned to face her "Yeah everything's fine. Oh, Jess this is my brother Dean and my friend Paige Kroeger. Guys this is my girlfriend Jessica."
Jessica took a good look at Paige "You look familiar, have we met?"
'I go through this every time I'm inrtoed to someone.' She thought "Have you ever seen the case to a Nickelback CD?"
"Oh yeah, you're that one girl!" she replied.
Paige nodded her head but inside she was thinking 'Man what a blonde. Sammy must have been desperate after our breakup. He went from rock star to cheerleader….good lord.'
Dean let out a laugh "Wait, did Sam say you're his girlfriend?! No offence, but you're WAY out of my brother's league! Love the Smurfs." he said referring to her shirt.
"I'll just put on some clothes." Jessica said.
"No no, wouldn't dream of it." Dean replied.
Paige turned to face Sam "Hey, do you mind pulling your idiot brother out of la-la land and get to the point why he woke me up at 2 in the morning to come here? I don't even know yet and I want to go back to sleep."
"Sure, glad to." Sam replied as he went over in front of Dean to stand by Jessica "I believe you had something to talk to Paige and I about, what is it?"
"I'd prefer it if she's gone." Dean said.
"No no, whatever you have to say you can say it in front of her." Sam replied. Paige just rolled her eyes.
"Alright. It's dad. He hasn't been home in a few days." Dean stated.
"So he's working overtime on a Miller Time shift. He'll stumble back in sooner or later." Sam replied.
Dean's face turned more serious "Let me rephrase that. Dad's on a hunting trip and he hasn't been home in a few days."
"Jess excuse us." Sam replied "We have to go outside"
"Come on guys, you can't barge in my apartment in the middle of the night and expect me to hit the road with you." Sam said as they were walking down the stairs.
Paige didn't respond since she was trying to fight back the denied jealousy 'Still, how can you go from rock star to cheerleader? It doesn't make sense!'
"Maybe you didn't hear me Sammy. Dad's missing. Paigey did you hear me?" Dean asked.
Paige snapped back into reality "Huh? Oh yeah, sorry I was half-way falling asleep but I heard what you said the first time. John's missing and you need our help."
Dean did his smile again "That's why she's my favorite."
"Awww thanks." Paige replied
"Anyways….. Remember the poltergeist in Anaheim or the Devil's gates in Cliffton? He was missing then too. Dean he's always missing and he always fine." Sam said.
"Not for this long. Now are you coming or what?" said Dean.
"I'm not." Sam said.
"Why not?" Dean asked.
"I swore I was done hunting. For good." Sam said
"Oh come on, it wasn't easy but it wasn't that bad." Dean said as he headed towards the door leading outside where the Impala was.
"Oh yeah? When I told dad I was scared of thing in my closet he gave me a 45!" Sam said.
"Well, what was he else was he supposed to do?" Dean asked.
Sam had an annoyed look on his face "Dude, I was nine! He was supposed to say 'Don't be afraid of the dark.'." Paige couldn't help but laugh "What's so funny?"
"When I was nine I would have been glad to have a gun under my pillow because you never knew if Lucas was gona try to kill me in my sleep or not." Paige said.
Dean nodded his head "Well, were just glad he didn't. Lucas…… that bastard."
Lucas was Paige's stepfather who tried to kill her because he thought she killed her mother Veronica, who was also John Winchester's best friend in high school. Lucas was shot in the chest by Dean after he snuck into the high school they went to for a short time and went on a shooting. He later died on the way back to prison in Alberta, Canada. That's one of the reasons Paige considers Dean to be her best friend since he saved her from being killed again.
It seemed like Sam was trying anything not to go. He just kept going on and on about the stuff Dean and Paige already knew "Come on Dean, just think about the way we grew up. The weapon training, melting the silver into bullets, Dean we were raised like warriors!"
"So what are you gona do? Do you think you're gona live some normal, apple pie life? Is that it?" Dean asked.
"No. Not normal, safe."
"And that's why you ran away."
"I was going to collage. It was dad who said if I wanted to leave I should stay gone and that what I'm doing."
"Well dad's in real trouble right now if he's not dead already. I can feel it."
There was a pause for a second and Dean continued "Paige and I can't do this alone."
"Yes you can." Sam replied
"Well we don't want to." Paige said after clearing all of the thoughts in her head and finally responding to something
Sam let out a sigh "So, what was he hunting?"
The three walked over to the back of the Impala) and Dean popped the trunk "So, why weren't you with dad?" Sam asked.
"I was working my own gig down in Louisiana." Dean replied as he dug through the trunk for something.
Paige leaned up against the side of it "John let you work a job by yourself?" she asked in a sarcastic tone.
Dean just looked at her funny "I'm 26." He went back to digging through the truck and grabbed a tape recorder "Ok, last I heard from him he was working on some kind of murder spree up in Jericho, California, another one in April, December 04, 03, 98, and 92. 10 over the next 20 years, all of them men and all on the same 10 mile stretch of road. It started happening more and more so he went to investigate. I didn't hear anything for a wile, then I got this voice mail." He said as he pushed the play button on the tape recorder.
The tape was fizzy, but Paige clearly recognized the voice on the tape as John's even though she had only heard from Dean over the past 5 years.
"You know there's EVP on that?" Sam said.
"Good job Sammy, kind of like riding a bike. Now give our newbie Paigey a chance." Dean said as he rewound the tape "Now because of that, I slowed down the tape and cleaned it up a bit." He explained as he pressed play again.
"I can never go home……" the woman's voice whispered on the other end.
Paige looked over at him "That was too easy. She said 'I can never go home.' "
Dean nodded his head "Yeah, I know. So are you two in?"
"Hell yeah." Paige said with a smile, her hazel eyes burning with excitement at the upcoming challenge, the same way Dean's were at the moment.
Sam still had a doubtful look.
"You know it's been 2 years. Never bothered you, never asked you a thing." Dean said.
"Alright, I'll go. I'll help you find him. But I have to get back first thing on Monday. Just wait here." Sam replied as he started to walk back to the apartment.
Paige tilted her head in curiosity "What's on Monday?"
"I have an interview." Sam replied.
"A job interview? So skip it." Dean said
Sam looked at him like he was stupid "It's a law school interview. It's my whole future on a plate."
"Law school?" Dean and Paige both asked at the same time.
Sam nodded his head "So we got a deal or what?"
Dean mouthed a 'yeah' and Paige nodded her head.
while Sam was getting his things
Paige was sitting on the hood of the car while Dean was cleaning out some of the guns, just staring at the stars under the orange glow of the city lights "You know you lied about the 2 year thing."
"Yeah I know. A year didn't seem long enough. And get off my car! You probably dented it!" Dean said.
Paige hopped off and pretend to be offended "Are you calling me fat?!"
Another stupid smile from Mr. Sarcasm "Maybe……"
"Oh really? Why don't I just grab that pistol and shoot you with it?" Paige joked.
"It's filled with rock salt. It won't kill me." Dean said as he continued what he was doing.
"No, but I'd prefer you live and suffer through it then die and not suffer." Paige stated.
"Ooh! It's that a threat Ms Rockstar?!" said Dean as he put the gun he was cleaning in the trunk and shut it.
"Damn right it is!" Paige said, trying to mimic Dean.
"Alright you two, I don't want anyone to get in the hospital because one shot the other with rock salt." Sam said from behind them
Paige turned to face him then started to walk towards the backseat door "You can bet I won't be the one who gets shot."
"Hey!" Dean said back.