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1997, July
"Sammy! You just hit me in the ribs!" A young female voice whined from the back of a moving vehicle, causing the two adults up front to roll their eyes.
"I'm sorry, Bells! I can't control what I do in a dream. YOU pinched me on purpose!" An equally young male voice whined back, causing a growl to sound from somewhere back there as well.
"Will you two knock it off? Sammy, stop flailing in your sleep. You're in a car. Bells, no pinching. Don't make me separate you because I do NOT want to be in the middle."
Dual chuckles came from up front, causing hunter green eyes to flash at the two adults in the mirror, "Hello, PARENTS! Can you help me please? I'm thirteen, not thirty!"
Charlie Swan turned and looked at the trio in the back, "I'd say you're doing just fine with the two seven year olds, Dean."
Road trips were ALWAYS a hoot with this group.
John Winchester and Charlie Swan had been best friends since diapers, and hunters since the death of John's wife six and a half years ago. Dean was old enough to remember the fire that had trapped his mom to the ceiling and the bad man who was trying to hurt his younger brother and Bella.. He'd been fiercely protective ever since.
Oddly enough, Sam and Bella shared a birthday and were more often mistaken for twins. Sam had dark, sandy hair he'd inherited from his mother and Bella had dark hair from Charlie. Since it was apparent that Dean was also Sam's brother, they just assumed the two young children were twins. It worked well on some of their hunts. The kids always loved to be involved, and lately Dean was taking more to the profession than he used to.. He had a great skill for it as well as the drive and (when Bella and Sam were safe) focus.
John and Charlie were on the way to Phoenix, Arizona. There had been reports of all sorts of variety- a potential hunter's delight. So the kids had hopped in the Impala that Dean coveted more than his dad did and took off, packed with plenty of snacks, books, clothes and games for the kids in the back.
Sam had sat behind Charlie with Bella in the middle and Dean behind John, as he always sat behind the driver. It basically made him the driver of the backseat and he liked that. Bella had refused to not sit beside her Dean, so she stuck herself between her two favorite boys. Charlie and John had shared a silent look, amused by Bella's apparent crush on the teen.
They had just hit the state line when Charlie's personal line had started to ring.. Renee.
Renee was Bella's mother. Once Bella had hit age one, Renee had taken off. She was tired of being pinned down. She wanted to go out, live life.. And forget that her best friend Mary Winchester had been burned alive. She'd left Bella with Charlie because even at that age, she refused to leave Sam.. And the only one who could get her to stop crying was Dean.
"Hey Belly-Bean! It's your mom." Charlie crowed to the young female. She was engaged in a very heated game of travel Connect-4 with Dean.
"Tell mommy I'll talk to her later. I have to concencrate or Dean will win." She muttered in reply, her eyes not leaving the small board.
Charlie shook his head and flipped open his phone, "Hey Renee. Bella said she will call you later. She's gotta CONCENTRATE." John snorted, holding in his laughter at Bella trying to use such an adult word as concentrate..
Then he saw Charlie pale.
"Renee, you can't do that. You haven't had her since she was one. Why on Earth should I give her to you?"... "Well I don't care! Bella's still receiving a proper home-schooled education."..."You left her, Renee! What court on Earth would give you custody?!"..."UNFIT PARENT!?"
With that, John took Charlie's phone and threw it out the window.
The car held a very potent silence..
Bella looked up at the back of her daddy's head, "Daddy?"
Charlie turned and look at his daughter in the back.. One hand each clutching one of her boys, her beautiful brown eyes looking up at him in a watery plea.
"Sweetie... Your mommy wants you to come stay with her for awhile. She wants you to go to a real school and make some friends.. She says you won't be happy with us anymore."
"But I am happy! I swears! Don't send me away."
Charlie turned and looked out the windshield.. Silence descended on the car once more.
Two hours later, Bella was kicking and screaming as Renee forced her into her Jeep and buckled her into a booster-seat. She was kicking, screaming, biting and clawing but Renee was not budging. Sam and Dean were yelling for her, trying to get to her while John and Charlie held them back. Tears were running down all their faces.
Renee faced Charlie cooly, "If you decide you want to visit, call ahead first. You may come.. Alone."
John looked stricken. Renee had never had a problem with him that he knew of. At one point, she'd been like his sister. What had Mary's death turned HER into?
Bella beat on the windows.
"Daddy! Sammy! Dean! SAVE ME! Uncle John! HELP! Don't let her take me!"
Dean fought harder against his father's hold.
"BELLA!"
Renee quickly hopped in her vehicle and sped away..
Dean and Sam sagged in the hold of the older men and they all stood defeated as they watched their girl disappear...
AUTHORS NOTE:
We are having a wonderful contest on the site I frequent very VERY often, Tricky Raven. TR is now open to more fandoms as well, so don't feel like you can't join if you don't only write Twilight(wolves). I will post the contest information below...
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Artists, we hope you'll join us, too! You'll have more categories to enter this year than ever before!
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