Dean Winchester knew seeking out to see his little brother Sam Winchester was common sense as he was family, even if Sam was considered the black sheep. However, upon seeing Sam's hot girlfriend Jess...that was a complete different story.
Jess brought Dean unwanted memories. Memories that he kept far in the back of his mind.
The memory of Aurora Woods.
And that name took Dean Winchester a walk down memory lane just a year before the beginning of his "road trip" with Sam.
Another day alone, another hunt solved. All Dean wanted to do know was to find some relief. From a woman. And not just any girl. The girl he had been eying for the last twenty minutes since she stepped foot into the smoky crowded bar with her black cowboy boots and tight shorts with a worn out leather jacket over her white shirt.
She stood among a group of men laughing as they joked around. They all, the woman and the men had similar shades of rich golden hair but her were longer curling in locks to her shoulders framing her sun-kissed skin. However, her eyes were the brightest, shining with a beautiful soul gazing blue that made Dean's loins tighten and heart beat faster.
She turned to look in his direction and smiled as she lifted her glass to him and emptied her half filled glass of beer. The youngest looking man on her right stared over at Dean and glared. She rolled her eyes and smacked his chest playfully that earned a laughter from the group.
By the end of the night, Dean left the bar alone and buzzed out of his mind but he noticed the beautiful woman standing beside a dark coloured 1967 Dodge Charger. She seemed to be smiling at him and had taken off her jacket. Her face seemed flushed in the moonlight and Dean admitted she looked very exotic standing there before him.
"Hi, I'm Aurora Woods. You must be new in town. Haven't seen ya around." Dean grinned flirtatiously and leaned back against his black 1967 Impala as she stood just a footstep away from him.
"I'm Dean Winchester, just stopping by for a rest and leaving soon," she pouted and rested a small hand on his chest seductively.
"So soon?" Dean swallowed a lump of nerves back down his throat trying to catch his breath. "Well, why don't you stay another day and I guarantee you that you'll know what Heaven feels like,"
And with that Dean and Aurora left separately in their respective cars towards the motel where Dean was staying at.
When the morning rays crept through the closed curtained windows of the cheap motel, Aurora moaned awake, not liking the fact she was awoken from the sunlight after an amazing night. She turned over with the blanket pooling at her waist. Dean peeked his eyes opened and snuggled with the goddess beside him.
"Morning beautiful," all he received was a moan and a tighter grip around his stomach. Dean chuckled into her hair and fell into another peaceful sleep.
When Dean first met Aurora, he was intending to stay only for one more night, however he stayed for one week and he didn't regret spending every moment he had when he wasn't hunting with her. She was funny and even had the same taste of music that he did. She drank beer. She hustled for money when needed and she had the sex drive just like him.
Dean could possibly he was in love for the first time. He watched Aurora walk towards him after she spoke with the same group of men she was with the first night he saw her. The look in her eyes were cheeky and mysterious.
"Come on Dean, I wanna introduce you to some people," and with that she pulled him up from his spot and dragged him over to the bar where the glaring looking large men stood with their arms crossed over their chest and a glass of beer in hand. "This is Dean,"
The eldest looking one narrowed his eyes at Dean and analysed him, "He looks rough around the edges. Does he treat you right Aur?"
She grinned and glanced over at Dean, "Yeah he does, what do you think Eric? If you say yes then the others are sure to follow." She spoke so confidently. Dean never felt intimidated besides being near his father but with these men he just had to gain their approval.
"Passable." With that he took he emptied his glass and poured another one from the jug behind him. And the other three grunted their approvals and drank their beer. However, the youngest looking man kept his eyes narrowed at Dean and refused to give his consent.
"I don't like him," Aurora rolled her eyes. She placed her hands on her hips and huffed trying to look angry and intimidating which succeeded as the others winced back but the youngest still held his stance.
"Why not? You're such a party pooper Adrian. I'm not a little girl anymore that will come running back to you if and when he breaks my heart." Said Adrian rolled his eyes.
"It's not like that. It's the fact that his a hunter and I, for one despise hunters," Dean sucked the air abruptly. He was so confused at how they knew. How they knew that he was a hunter did he give himself away to Aurora one of those nights?
But Aurora just glared at him. Her breathing heavy and the other men who Dean now assumed as her brothers stepped back as the two fought by staring.
"So you're saying, you don't like me? That you despise me too? if you have forgotten brother-" she hissed out his title and Adrian recoiled back in shame and hurt, "-that I am too a hunter."
One of the three unnamed brothers stepped forward and placed a large hand onto her shoulder and she instantly calmed down. "Hey now, you know Ad didn't mean that. He's only looking out for you as a twin." Twin Dean thought as he observed the twins. "And Ad, Aur is old enough to deal with her problems if she needs us she'll tell us, ok?"
"Yes Daniel," Daniel's words seemed to calm the two instantly as they smile weakly at each other and hugged with Adrian whispering words into Aurora's ear.
"Daniel is peace maker in the family. He seems to be able to calm the twins like that," Eric spoke to Dean as he had moved over to stand beside Dean, towering over him like a giant. "You want a beer?" Dean nodded not trusting his dry mouth and throat. "Good," Eric poured Dean and glass and Aurora found her way beside him again which he felt much better knowing that she was there for him.
"Anyway, Dean, these are my brothers as you have probably already guessed. This is Eric, the eldest. Mark, Daniel and Alex. They're from my dad's first marriage which leaves Adrian and I to my dad's second marriage." Dean nodded and muttered a 'hey' accompanied with a handshake to the said brothers. "I'm the youngest and the most spoilt. Our dad died with Adrian and I were five."
Mark took over as he was the first to finish his beer, "Our mum died from lung cancer then dad remarried the twins' mum a few years later,"
As a hunter, Dean noticed the small details, the way the brothers winced and Aurora's eyes glazed over when they mentioned the twin's mother. "How did you become a hunter?" after answering that question there was suddenly a tensed atmosphere around the bar, the other patrons sensed it too. The foreboding feeling before the real storm.
Adrian spoke in a low hateful tone, "Our dad was a hunter, he hunted day and night when Rora and I were just one, he was obsessed with what we never knew but mum got worried and paranoid that he was cheating on her, soon after she committed suicide. I never forgave him for that but Rora continued his hunting business when he got himself killed during a hunt."
Aurora hissed out at Adrian to stop his hateful ranting of their father. Dean felt uncomfortable and he was speechless unsure what to say. "That's quite enough Adrian"
They left the bar later that night after a few more drinks and easy going chat with her brothers. The ride back to his motel was uncomfortable as Dean tried to ask questions that ran around his hunter mind but he couldn't. He knew he shouldn't.
"I'm not a flower, ask me what you want Dean,"
He laughed nervously as he parked the car. "Why did you start hunting? Even when hunting killed your mum?"
A short silence engulfed the car and the only light was the moonlight. "I was closer to dad than any of the brothers. He felt that I needed the extra protection from the monsters. I grew up travelling most of my childhood with him, learning how to hunt, learning everything about the work he did. And I knew what he was obsessed about."
"Why didn't you tell your brothers?" Aurora looked down.
"I don't break orders," Dean nodded understanding. She had grown up in an environment just like him. She had grown up with guns and violence.
