Welcome to any new comers to the story, and to all those who followed Renegade from start to finish.

Well, I'm back. It's summertime, and I'm feelin' good. I'm gonna pump out as much as I can before I head off to, gasp, COLLEGE! I really hope you enjoy the reading and all comments are welcome!

PS- I still don't own any rights to Supernatural or it's characters.

Trouble in Mind

It had been a year now, and she knew it was time to move on.

Katie rolled the ticket from hand to nervous hand. This would be her last visit. This... this was it. Goodbye.

Not a day went by that Katie didn't think of her lost sister. Not a day went by that Katie didn't feel the pit of hatred and malevolence towards the Winchesters.

She tried to hunt them down, only to find Bobby's house burned down and the Impala in storage. She wanted revenge against Dean for her sister's death, Sam for leaving.

It was the utter despair and reminder of her loss that every note of music, every car, and every everything in the country and that was driving her out.

She had already tried the slums and bars of Mexico, just shooting el chupacabra for the sport, but the drinking and fighting got her detained by Los Federales and deported back to the United States. So she made a new plan, keep hunting, just somewhere not on this continent. The span of an ocean should get her far enough away from the memories.

Once she got the nerve to get off her run down chopper she began the trek to a small, hidden cave, somewhere on Mount Tom in the woods of Massachusetts. It was there that she had buried Autumn's ashes and tags. It was there that the young girls declared their two person sisterhood, Renegade.

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"Come on!" a tween-aged Autumn laughed as she began scaling the rocky cliff-like wall. The small trees and brush grew at an angle to compensate for the insane steepness of the wall. Katie approached it with a little less ease, increasingly aware of the distance she was putting between herself and the ground. She looked down briefly, wavering. "Autumn, I don't know..." but when she looked up Autumn was gone. There was no way she had already made it to the top. Determined to find her friend Katie continued. She got to a point where the wall was flat rock, no grips besides the crevasse where her feet were, the small twig anomaly where her hand held, and a lip just inches out of her reach. "Autumn! I'm stuck!" There was no reply. Katie decided to make a reach, but she would have jump up and relinquish her foot hold and branch. She made the grab swinging both arms up. She caught the edge with the finger tips of one hand. She couldn't reach the twig or foot hold any more. "Autumn!" She looked down, she didn't remember being this high up. Her fingers were tired and started to slip. "Au-" and her fingers gave out.

A hand shot out of what seemed like the same flat rock, just above the ledge and grabbed Katie's arm.

"Whoa there, Tobs', tryin' leave a little too fast, don't ya think?"

"Please don't let me go."

Autumn chuckled, "Ha! Trust me, I'm always gonna be there for you."

"I don't think now's the time for humor," Katie said glancing down, "but thanks for the peace of mind."

"Come on, now, I've got ya," and she began hoisting her up. What Katie didn't see from below, was that the lip, was actually a large indent into the rocky wall, kind of a mini cave.

Katie flopped on to the rock floor breathlessly, "Thanks."

"No problem, Tobs'. We're gonna be friends for a long time, and I'm not gonna go any where, so get used it!"

Katie eyed Autumn curiously, "How do you know you're not gonna leave without me?"

"Well, we're sisters! Not 'sisters' like siblings, but sisters, kinda like the travelling pants thing. But we're the sisterhood of... good music, huh? Yeah. TNT, Carry On, Renegade kinda sisters."

"Oooh, Renegade. I love that song."

"Renegade we're are then. I like the sound of that. Tobi and Sanchez... Renegade. Anyways, we're sisters, and even if we're far apart, I'm always right there for ya."

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Katie made the climb a lot easier this time around. She may still be short but had gained at least a few inches, and now had training and strength to do even more difficult climbs. But she made the climb to her sister, who was so very far apart but was still in Katie's heart.

Katie gave Autumn the hunters burial, the pyre of fire and burying the ashes. When Katie reached the edge of the cave she took a deep breath before hoisting herself over. The cave seemed so much smaller than the first time the girls had found it, but that's what happens when you're forced to grow up.

She crawled to where she neatly stacked a handful of rocks, just over the ashes. Katie did and didn't want to say goodbye. It was too hard. She rolled into the fetal position, forehead on the dirt, rock floor, and let herself breath the air that was so filled with memories. She didn't know how tears managed to roll down her cheeks. She had already cried so much, she didn't think there were any tears left. Yet, they were there, lightly splashing and making small divots of mud below her face.

She looked up when a breeze stirred a piece of paper before her. She hadn't left that there. She picked it up and unfolded it.

I should have been able to save you.

- D.

Katie raised up in a fury, hitting her head on the low ceiling. How dare he? How, how did he even know Autumn was here? Katie tore the paper to small shreds and let the breeze take it out of the cave. Who was he to come here? The statement was so obvious, so... so...

There were hikers voices approaching below. Katie quickly looked to her sister, "good... goodbye."

Katie quickly scaled back down the wall and rushed away, covering her tracks so that no one else could find the resting place. Although, the Winchesters knew, so what did it matter?

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"Dean." Sam shove his brother awake in the old DBS Vantage they hotwired back in Michigan. "Dean, wake up! Is that? Is that Katie?"

Dean shot up at the name. The brothers watched the girl push her motorcycle to the side of the road. She walked around, straddled the bike, crammed something into her jacket pocket, and the engine roared to life.
It was definitely Katie. Although her hair was now dark brown, shoulder length, straight bangs, and without the poof it used to have, that girl was without a doubt Katie.

"I have to go after her." Sam whispered turning the key.

Dean stopped him. "It's best to let her be."

"Dean, we have no one left besides a fruit-loop Cas and a demon, don't you think..."

"No."

Dean got out of the car and headed to Katie's trail. He remembered how he and Sam followed Katie for a week, on Sam's request, and it led them here. Of course, Dean's curiosity got the best of him when Katie stopped in the middle of the woods of Massachusetts with what looked like a curse box in her hands.

He and Sam trailed her carefully, but she was either too drunk to notice or to emotionally taxed to care. He followed, and once she left investigated. When he saw the rocks in the cave, he knew. He left his note, and left.

When he got to the trail, he couldn't bring himself to follow it. Taking that trek would only bring back memories of his failure. He turned back to the rust color Vantage where his brother sat fidgeting wanting to chase down Katie. Dean couldn't let her get dragged into their mess again. He couldn't let Sam do the same thing he did to Autumn.