Hero Dean but with a twist.
FIREWALKER 2
Piper pulled her cat Silver closer and tightened her hold on David's hand. They both coughed, the smoke was getting thicker by the second and Piper knew Silver was going to start clawing her any minute.
"Piper, it's so hot." David sniffled.
"I know. Mom will get us." Piper promised. Though it had been a long time since their mom had stopped calling to them frantically and she had started crying and then coughing. It had gotten quiet after that except for the roar of the fire building up and burning all their things.
Piper had pulled her little brother David from his bed and led him to the bathroom. They were sitting in the bathtub because the way down the stairs had been blocked by the fire. Their mom had been downstairs and there was no way past the fire except the windows which had bars on them. The bars that were supposed to keep them safe.
"I'm scared." David whimpered scooting closer to his big sister.
"Me too." Piper admitted. She couldn't lie to David. He was only five but he believed everything she told him. She didn't like to lie to him but she did sometimes. She wasn't going to tell him Santa wasn't real until he was eight like her. She had cried when she found out the truth from a mean girl at school. Not in front of her of course but she had been mad at her mom for a few days.
She had demanded to know about everything else she believed in and her mom had sighed and told her the truth. Piper had prayed that there was one more covered lie when she asked about her dad and regretted it the moment she saw the pain etched across her mother's face.
"No, Piper, daddy isn't coming home. He gave his life to protect this country. I would never lie about that. I was just trying to keep you happy and a child for as long as I could."
Piper sort of got it. She liked to see David happy. He had been too small to really remember a lot about their dad so Piper told him stories. David loved the stories accompanied with pictures from the photo albums. That was how daddy stayed alive. That was how Piper grew up too fast.
"Piper, mom's not coming." David coughed.
She blinked her stinging eyes trying to remember what the firemen at school had taught her. There was nothing. Not unless they could suddenly walk through walls or through fire. If she could just find a way to save David.
Silver jumped from her arms and started to run madly around the room trying to find a way out. He started meowling.
"Piper?"
"No, David, mom's not coming. Daddy…"
The bathroom door splintered inward pieces flying everywhere before Piper could tell David it was their dad that would be coming for them.
Smoke poured into the small room and the flames licking at the edges. Then he walked in. He was tall with green eyes wearing a red shirt rolled up at the sleeves with jeans and boots and he wasn't even coughing.
"Silver!" Piper cried out before breaking into a coughing fit. Her cat made a mad dash through the opening.
"Sorry, kid, I'm just here for you." The green eyed man rasped as he grabbed towels and soaked them through. He wrapped them quickly around them both. "Hold on to each other." He commanded and they listened.
He lifted them up easily and rushed through past the fire down the hallway that was barely starting to catch. He kicked another door in and yanked down the stairs that led to attic easily. Like he wasn't carrying two terrified kids.
Piper had forgotten about the attic but she would have never been able to reach the stairs anyway.
The man set them down and ushered them up the stairs. They went quickly. Piper coughed hard but this man was going to save them. She just knew he was. He had walked through fire to save them. Her heart ached a bit. Silver was gone. Her dad had given her Silver the day he had left. Now he was dead too.
The attic was quickly filling with smoke as the man pulled the stairs into place. He still hadn't coughed once.
"All right guys this isn't going to be easy but you're not dying tonight. Not on my watch."
"There is no way out." Piper coughed. "The windows have bars."
"There is always a way, kiddo." The man smiled.
He had a beautiful smile and for one brief moment Piper wondered. "Are you an angel?"
The man chuckled. "Dean the angel. Has a ring to it huh? But no, far from it, kid."
"I'm Piper. This is David."
"Piper then. You're both brave but we need to get a move on your mom is waiting for you."
"Our mom is alive?" Piper nearly squealed with joy.
"What kind of hero would I be otherwise?"
Piper threw her arms as far as she could around Dean and David followed suit. He tensed up and gently pushed them away.
He moved towards the attic window that would be just big enough for them to get through if it didn't have the bars.
"Piper. David. I needed you to dig around as fast as possible and find me something I can tie together." He ordered as he began to throw powerful kicks at the window.
Piper ran for the corner of the attic because she remembered something from when their mom had been organizing things in there and Piper had helped.
Her dad's duffle bag full things was still there including the bundle of rope.
She handed it to Dean who smiled broadly at her. "Nice."
The fire was coming fast. The heat was intense and floor was beginning to smoke. Any moment it was going to give.
Dean gave three solid kicks and the window along with bars gave on one side and dangled down. The smoke began to pour out through the opening.
Dean shoved all the dangerous pieces aside and Piper didn't miss the sharp edge of glass slicing his arm deep. He didn't even flinch. Mindlessly he wiped the blood on his jeans and kept shoving
"Hold each other again." He yelled. Everything was suddenly so loud. He wrapped the rope around their waists and did other things to harness them together.
The flames shot through the floor and Piper saw Dean's pants catch on fire. "Son of a bitch." He growled as he looked down and stamped it out.
The floor began to crack. Dean tied off the rope on a still solid rafter.
"Never stop taking care of your little brother." Dean said. He shoved them hard out of the opening and they both screamed in terror but they didn't fall, somehow the bars of the window held the rope out from the side of the house far enough that they didn't crash back into the side of it.
Within minutes it felt like a thousand hands were on them, their mom was there crying, sweet, sweet oxygen filled their lungs.
Piper and David were put on stretchers and Piper looked up waiting for Dean to come down. He stood at the opening smiling at her and then the flames consumed him and she started to cry.
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"There is no way those kids tied that rope around themselves like that." The fireman said as they poked through the now destroyed house.
"Well we haven't found a body and we've searched twice."
"Sometimes the heat is so intense it could completely consume a body."
"Hasn't happened in ten years for me."
The two firemen looked at one another. "You saw it too didn't you?" They said in unison.
"Man, I thought you were going to think I was high."
"Same here, dude but I saw him. I saw that man walk through the fire when we drove up and we found the mom out cold on the front lawn."
"Me too and then I saw him again in the flames when those kids were just suddenly coming down on that rope."
"No one is going to believe us and those kids are too traumatized to be taken seriously even if they said anything."
"Something so incredible and we can't tell anyone."
"Figures."
A loud rumble of a car grabbed their attention where they stood out on the porch by then.
"Sweet ride."
They watched the black Impala disappear down the street.
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Piper sat on the steps of the porch of her grandmother's house sipping on lemonade. She wanted to sit in the fresh air. The smell of smoke lingered in her nose or at least that was what she felt.
They had been in the hospital for three days and now they had to stay with their grandmother until they found another house.
She was inside baking cookies and her mom had gone to the store to get some things with the many gift cards they had received. David was taking a nap.
She really missed Silver. So much that she could hear him meowing. She looked up and gasped. Dean leaned back against a black car and on the hood was a cat carrier with Silver inside.
Piper might only be eight but she knew Dean should be dead or at least horribly burned and he stood there looking like a breath of fresh air and completely unharmed well except for some strange marking on his arm. Even the gash he had gotten was gone. None of it mattered. She ran towards him and hugged him hard. They would all be dead if not for him.
Dean ran his hand over head and she stepped back. "You know your cat is lot more trouble than he's worth." He rasped.
"My dad gave him to me the last time I saw him before he died."
Dean looked uncomfortable but he handed the carrier to her. Silver growled and hissed.
"Knew there was a reason I saved you, you furry shit."
Piper giggled. "Oh Silver, I thought I was never going to see you again."
Dean went up to the trunk and opened it. He pulled out some boxes and bags and set them at the edge of the driveway.
"Got the fur bag some food and stuff. There's other things too." He motioned to the things and ran his hand through his hair.
"What are you?" Piper asked.
Dean leaned back against the car once again. "Don't think you're ready for that bedtime story."
"I saw you walk through fire and I know you did it more than once for my mom, for me and David, and even for Silver. I may be eight but I'm not a little kid."
"Oh if anyone knows about growing up too fast, it's me." Dean sighed.
"Well?"
Dean looked away and then back at her. "You sure?"
She nodded slowly suddenly afraid. She set down the carrier.
He blinked and his green eyes went completely black.
Her heart rate shot up but she didn't move. Silver hissed and cringed back as far as he could go. She'd snuck enough horror movies online to know what black eyes meant. "If you're evil then why?" She whispered.
He blinked his eyes back to normal. "You think I'm evil." He asked almost pained.
"You're supposed to be. Right?"
He smirked and stared down at his boots. "I've never been one to follow the rules and besides I turned too fast to lose all my humanity that quickly. I never had kids of my own well sort of and maybe someday I won't walk through fires to save kids but I was there so why not?"
"How did this happen to you?"
"Practicing to be lead detective someday?"
Piper raised an eyebrow.
Dean looked away with a loud sigh. "I wanted to save the world." He whispered. "I wanted to protect my little brother." He stressed the my as he looked back at Piper.
"Can you be fixed?"
"What makes you think I want to be fixed? I'm free to do whatever I want whenever I want without the guilt eating me inside and out."
"I think you're full of shit." Piper stressed.
"You kiss your mom with that mouth?"
"Hey, you said it too."
Dean chuckled. "Look, kiddo, I gotta run before your grams thinks I'm trying to kidnap you." He started towards the driver's side.
Piper ran and hugged him again. This time he hugged back.
"I'm going to pray for you." She sniffled.
"He gave up on me a long time ago." Dean growled his eyes flashing black again for a brief moment.
"Tough. You saved my family so I have to at least try."
"I like you, kid. You remind me of someone."
"Who's that?"
Dean sighed and looked fondly at her. "The one that will walk through fires for me. At least I hope he still will."
"See, you do want to be fixed."
He got in the car and started it. "Yeah, well part of me isn't comfortable with getting comfortable letting kids and kitties burn to death."
"Dean?"
"Yeah."
"I still think you're an angel."
He huffed and shook his head. "I bet you believe in Santa too."
He drove away before she could reply.
She watched the car until it was gone and stayed by the driveway until her mom came home. She had to explain how Silver was alive and in her hands and as she went through the boxes and tears slipped past her eyes. She had to explain how their photo albums and laptop and other irreplaceable things were there.
She really didn't have to lie to her mom though. Her mom took one look and her eyes filled with tears as she pulled Piper into a tight hug. "The firewalker." Was all she said. Piper nodded.
That night she prayed for Dean who in her mind would forever be a misguided angel.
She would pray for him every night for as long as she thought it would make a difference. She might not be able to walk through fires for him but Dean Winchester deserved to be saved too.
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Thank you for reading! Hope you enjoyed! Please review!
Not sure if I should do a Dean POV?