Disclaimer: I don't own Darcy Valover she belongs to the wonderful SeerBlack. I also don't own Supernatural it belongs to Kripke and he's not handing it over anytime soon so from now on I'll borrow the Winchesters without asking him. Its sooo not stealing.
A/N: Welcome to 2008! So new years resolutions...Uh well...erm...um..OH! I know I will finish writing this series this year. I really doubt it so lets change that to I'll finish my other longterm unfinnished projects and call it quits eh? Seer is out for a month so anyone who wants to keep this story going will have to IM me and prod me to write. Keep me talking about it ask lots of questions. I had planned on Dar not having much of a role in this one but she had other plans. Anyway R&R and I hope to hear from you guys soon!
Go Fish
Chapter One
June 10th, 2007, Raining Cloud's Hunters' Resort, Montana
It was one of those days that hunters rarely get to experience. The kind where despite the sucky weather everything is going perfectly well. Having finally escaped the clutches of Brenda No-sex-until-you're-married Brown Autumn and Dean made up for the lost time and had spent most of the morning locked in their room…Only after spending all of last night hovering over Will, Athena, and Duck as they fixed Scarlet to the perfection that only a hunter truly understands in their car. Sam had taken Darcy for a tour of the Resort and the two had been gone with John following at their heels all afternoon. The rain was pouring down and the winds blew as if a hurricane were about to strike, which it had been pointed out that Montana doesn't get hurricanes but that fact was ignored. Autumn slid out of Dean's grasp, pausing in her search for clothes only long enough to admire the sleeping naked man in her bed and wonder how the hell she'd managed that, a thought that frequented her mind when she was feeling particularly normal.
After having showered and scarfing down a bowl of dry cereal, adding milk to the list of things she needed to pick up, Autumn settled in over her computer to work on her neglected real job. Publishers never seemed to understand that actually killing the monsters was more important than writing the children's books that they inhabited. Its not really odd that she didn't notice a change in the weather until Athena came in soaking wet with her favorite gun over her shoulder.
"Good to see you finally got out of bed. Did he eat a bottle of Viagra or something?" Teenie asked propping her gun against the door and peeling off her shoes and socks.
"Something like that," Autumn muttered distractedly. "Where you headed?"
"Change then I'm going to get in some training. We've got the Christmas rush coming in so it'll be fun to watch the green hunters." Teenie replied ignoring her sister's distraction. Autumn nodded and left her sister to it.
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"This is a day off for you guys?" Darcy asked as she and Sam skirted the shooting booths.
"Pretty much," he grinned down at her. "Don't worry, the action will pick up about night fall when the drinking really gets underway."
"No, I kind of like it." Darcy explained. "I don't get to hang out at hunter havens too much, banned from most of them."
"Oh," a waft of sadness ran through their mental link. "It was good of Will to get you a place here though, he's not usually so easily won over."
"I think he's doing it for Teenie," she explained immediately hating herself for brining up the blond. Sam's thoughts shuffled and she scrambled for another topic. "So Autumn and Dean always spend their days off like that?" Sam laughed.
"Depends on how long its been since we've had a break." she got the idea that it didn't really depend on anything that the fact that they could was usually all the more reason the pair needed. Not that she could blame them she'd seen their thoughts on each other and what days like today were like for them, she'd take advantage of that sort of thing anytime.
"Hallo!" Teenie greeted jogging up as they came out of the shooting range. She'd ditched her jeans and pulled on a pair of shorts even pulling her hair back. "I'm heading out to check out the newbies maybe get a little training in want to join?"
"Nah, think I'll grab a coke and get moved into my new room." Darcy told her with a shrug nudging Sam forward. "You should go Sam, I'm not always going to have you around to make nice with everyone." He started to protest but she cut him off, quickly heading for the bar. Will was leaned over the bar in deep discussion with the bartender, Gus, in which the name 'Jen' kept coming up.
"AH! Darcy!" Will turned around slinging an arm over her shoulder. "Have a seat, what's your poison?"
"I'll have a coke," she said quickly scanning the bubbling thoughts that rushed in on her for any threats, when none proved themselves she relaxed a bit.
"Nothing stronger?" Gus questioned reaching for a glass.
"Underage," she told him with a gentle smile slipping onto a barstool next to Will.
"Really?" Will shrugged. "We don't really pay attention to that around here, long as you have an ID on you that says otherwise. Who cares, right?"
"I'll still have a coke," Darcy insisted. Gus didn't seem to mind sliding her the cola. "When can I move to my room?"
"Whenever just give me a shout and I'll show you where it is." Will told her leaning over his shot glass and staring at the wooden table. "Where's Teenie at? I think she and I need to have a talk." Darcy had seen Will's question coming and could feel his anxiety and worry over the topics he'd have to broach with the blonde and she found something akin to pity welling up inside her for him. But she hadn't expected the flair in Gus's thoughts for a bartender he seemed intimately involved in his patrons' lives.
"She went out to the track to do some running." Darcy answered quickly moving back to her previous subject. "Think you could show me to my room now?"
"No, I'm a little busy," he easily rose from the barstool that she'd have to swing down off and started for the door. Clapping a hand on a man entering with a tin foil hat. "But my best buddy here would love to show you to your room, Darcy."
"Oh," a sly smirk slid across Marc's face as he took Darcy in. "So you're the stain on the good name of hunters?" There was something almost teasing to his voice and from his thoughts she knew he was only joking that he got a good kick out of the thought that any one hunter could really be considered so horrible so young.
"That's me," She beamed at him downing her coke.
"Good, about time hunter's name got stained. All the shit seems to land on us trackers and its just not fair." He gave a low sweeping bow, "Marc Lyming at your service Madame."
"Darcy Valover. Lick me and I'll relocate your testes to you nasal cavity." Marc laughed at her patting her hand which remained on the bar. He leaned in with an absolute air of conspiracy around him.
"Have you ever licked a car battery?" she shook her head. "You don't want to either. Psychics are like licking car batteries."
"How'd you" he cut her off.
"Not here unless you want someone to but a bullet in your chest. Let's get your stuff and I'll show you to your room." Darcy slid to the ground and followed him to the Daemon's cabin.
"Hey Plays With Fire," Marc grinned soon as they entered the cabin sweeping Autumn into a bear hug.
"Hey Tin Head," she laughed flicking the foil dunce hat on his head.
"Don't diss the hat, Autty." Darcy hung back watching the two's interaction, she'd never seen Autumn so relaxed and joking with anyone.
"Baby, the hat might work on aliens but in our line of work aliens are the least of our worries so ditch it." Marc rolled his eyes.
"I don't wear it for the aliens. It wouldn't work against them anyway." he turned back to her as if suddenly remembering he'd been escorting her. "So, Darling Darcy where are your things?"
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Sam had bowed out about two seconds after Will had walked up. Athena could think of about a million places she'd rather be than walking with Will Raining. Granted two years ago Will Raining was the only place she wanted to be a lot had happened since then. So with him directing him toward the river now she found her heart racing, her palms sweaty, and her mouth way too dry. He didn't look to be in a much better state, whatever he was about to say was taxing his courage. He finally stopped when they got to the bank and leaned into a tree watching her. Athena was doing her best to play it casual, after all they used to take walks like these all the time. She knelt down picking up a stick and started drawing in the mud, nothing very clever just random shapes staying far away from the one shape she wanted to draw the most: a heart.
"I love you." He blurted out. Athena turned sharply to face him pulling herself up so she could stare him as close to in the eye as she could which was only the chest but the view was still nice at least. "I love you and I think you still love me. I don't think you ever stopped."
"Will," She started but he stepped forward cupping her face in one hand using the other to brush stray hair from her face.
"Shhh. Just let me get this out and then you can say whatever you want. Okay?"
"Okay," she nodded resisting the urge to nuzzle her face into his hand.
"Athena, I know I screwed up. I know you don't trust me and you have every reason not to. But I need you. Since I met you it seems like every time you leave my sight I'm suddenly facing my own mortality by means which would never even cross my mind under normal circumstances. You're my good luck charm. You save me. Athena," he said her name again as if it were the most delicious word ever created. "Athena, I had looked through all those journals dozens of times and never once saw the answer to the leithfold. When you came back, whatever your motives were, the answer just suddenly appears." For the longest moment he was silent just staring into her eyes and she was truly starting to fear he could see straight into her. "Whatever you need or want I'll do. Just tell me what I've got to do."
"I want to trust you again, Will. I miss you," she smiled knowing the tears were threatening to spill. Damn him! How could he make her cry? "I miss having you around. I miss being able to pick up my phone anytime and you be right there. I miss not even having to pick up my phone or turn around to know you had my back no matter what. I miss you telling me everything and being able to tell you everything. I miss my friend, Will."
"Friend?" The way his voice cracked at the work broke her heart but she nodded removing her face from his hand where it still rested.
"Will, you broke my heart. I understand that you were trying to protect me. Believe me any other girl would find that to be the most romantic thing ever. Mack told me as much. But,"
"But you're not any other girl."
"No, I'm not. You want me in your life as anything more than that hunter chick you used to bang? You have to prove that I can trust you."
"How?" he demanded to know and she could see the desperation clearly painted on his face.
"I don't know," she shook her head. "I wish I did. Will, I really wish I knew how to fix this. Maybe it just can't be fixed. Maybe we're not meant to be fixed." Her eyes were burning and she folded her arms over her chest turning away from him she hurried away. He called after her a few times but didn't move to follow and that was good. She couldn't face him right now.
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"Sue has visions too." Darcy explained over dinner that night. "While I'm here I'm going to work on getting a better work up on the demon's whereabouts and try to find a pattern in his attacks. There has to be a pattern. But these visions, Sue's grandmother was a psychic soon as his abilities started she trained him to control them. She's since passed on, but he can teach you a bit, Sam. I called him this morning and he agreed that with our line of work you could use the ability to predict the visions and even harness them so that you can trigger them." Sam and Dean were hanging on Darcy's every word Autumn seemed to be the only one who wanted to question Darcy.
"So where is Sue?" Sam asked eager to find away to get control on his abilities.
"Rockport, Cali," Darcy grinned. "You'll get sun, and be right on the beach. Good place to sit back, relax, and discover your vision on/off switch."
"We're still sitting here why?" Teenie asked immediately and Darcy felt the blonde's thoughts brush her mind she wanted to get away from Will for a little while and sort things out.
"Because we can't just all pick up and leave to one of Valover's mysterious contacts places." Autumn answered quickly choosing not to voice the scenarios of what could be waiting them.
"No, you're right, Aut." Dean nodded stirring the food on his plate around in thought. "We won't all go." He said after several pained minutes of thoughts making the other four hunters stop and stare at him. "Aut, you and Teenie aren't really involved with the demon so you stay here take a hunt and we'll meet back up."
"We're not involved with the demon?" Autumn asked her tone too calm and level for the thoughts blazing in her mind. "No, Martha and baby Nick don't get us involved at all. I mean she was only my best friend since the crib." she shrugged in an overly casual manner and Teenie sent Sam and Darcy looks that told them both it was time to run for cover.
"That's not what I meant," Dean attempted to sooth. "I meant Sam's visions don't affect you. You'll be more useful here."
"Whatever," Autumn shook her head staring at her plate. After a beat she pushed away from the table and went out the door John-dog on her heels. Dean started to go after her but Teenie caught his arm when he passed her.
"Give her time, you don't want to be near her when she's like this." Teenie said softly sounding more like the older sibling than she had any right to. Dean gave the door a longing look before going to his room after a few minutes the sounds of his weapons being brought out for cleaning could be heard in the kitchen.
"Anyone else's potatoes not fully cooked?" Sam asked the silence that followed.
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"Let them go, you can do me a favor." Jen told her flipping through her filing cabinets.
"I'm not staying to do paper work, Jen-Jen. I'll do anything for you but I'm not sitting here lost in a file while my family chills on the beach." Jen turned a smile on Autumn.
"That right there is what's bugging you, Autty. Dean's not pushing you away, he's not giving you the kiss off. If he was I'd have the boy a gun point right now. He's just telling you its okay not to give up your whole life to fit into his. You independent do-it-yourself types usually kill for that in a partner."
"Oh," Autumn ground her teeth dropping back into the wall. "It seems like we're never together lately and I know I'm being clingy but I can't help it. He's the first guy worth pay attention to in a long time. The first one who has thought I was worth anything."
"Autty, I want to show you something." It took Jen several minutes to extract two thick files and drop them on her desk for Autumn's inspection. One was her own while the other was just entitled Winchester and could have belonged to either of the three men. "This is your file alone, for the past three years, and I keep pretty condensed files on you because I know where you are all the time and don't have to detail you work as much as some of the loons that call this home base." she indicated to the slightly thicker file. "The thinner one here is rumors only on the location and hunts of Winchesters at random over the last ten years. What does this tell you?"
"That you have too much time on your hands?" Autumn asked hopefully.
"No, this says that you're a workaholic, that you love what you do, and have never let anyone or anything tie you down, Teenie excluded. The Winchester file is all vague half truths about what went down. Winchesters are completely wrapped up in themselves. I've known John pretty much my whole life, and if he taught his boys anything its not to let anyone too close. Dean's taking a huge risk with you. You're both taking huge risks and believe me no body thought you'd last this long, and I don't just mean your little romance. I mean no one thought you and Dean would be able to get along long enough to hunt together for what seven months?" Jen met her eyes and Autumn finally caught the gist of what she was saying.
"I need to shut up and be patient. He needs to look into this for Sammy."
"You got it. Besides, its not like Marc couldn't track him down if he did decide to take off on you." Autumn laughed.
"He's not going to take off, I'm the one that leaves in the middle of the night with no explanation. So what's this favor?"