Title: Back To Reality
Author: Dagana
Summary: Pilot AU. Dean brings Kate along to get Sam from Stanford when John goes missing. Dean/Sam/Kate. Has not been Beta'd.
Disclaimer: Nope, sorry, I don't own them… Wish I did- could ask but I probably will not receive.
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Author's Note:
Okay, this hasn't been Beta'd mainly because I may have bombarded my Beta with about five or six chapters and I don't think it's fair to send anymore until she's ready and recovered from the first round, so any mistakes are mine.
If anyone would like to be a Beta for this story just let me know if there are any major problems. I can never see my own mistakes and it's usually my downfall.
Please Enjoy
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Chapter One-Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Dean Winchester was panicking. It had been two weeks since John Winchester had last attempted to call his oldest son and Dean's gut feeling was going into overdrive. Going from one draw to another before moving back to the worn bed, Dean hastily packed his duffle with most of his meagre belongings. Time was wasting, and Dean needed to leave that night if he was going to get to Palo Alto. To Sam.
It was about four years since the argument which had torn the Winchester clan apart. It had resulted in Sam running off to Stanford from which he had attained a full-ride. Their father running off and burying himself in hunts; and Dean staying behind to take care of his then eleven year old half-sister, Kate.
While his father and brother travelled literally to opposite ends of the country, Dean had gone to Pastor Jim Murphy and Bobby Singer for help- even though he found it hard to ask for some. The two siblings rented an apartment in Sioux Falls so that Kate could go to school and have the chance at some small sense of normalcy. While Dean made some legitimate money working at a local garage. He still went hunting either by himself or with Bobby on weekends and holidays, but it wasn't the same. Nothing was the same anymore.
The apartment door opening and closing, however, ended Dean's reverie.
Pausing momentarily, the elder Winchester looked up from where he had been packing some of his shirts to meet the gaze of his fifteen year old sister. Kate's head was tilted slightly to the side in a questioning look, her backpack still hanging from one shoulder as her other hand held the doorframe beside her. The silence ensued for a few moments, the silent questions allowed to hang between the two siblings; Kate was confused as Dean hadn't talked about a road trip, while Dean was trying to create a legitimate cover which his sister would fall for and agree to take the trip he had planned.
"Dean?" The fifteen year old prompted.
Dean stuffed the shirts he held into the duffel as he silently berated himself for teaching his younger siblings how to aim well placed questions at people through only the use of a name. Sam did the exact same thing, Dean was reminded, as his thoughts momentarily sent him into the past and back to the times when he had both his brother and sister to keep him company when their father took off for days and weeks at a time.
"Go pack some things. we're headed out." The elder Winchester sibling answered as he took a silver gun from the drawer beside his bed and checked the clip inside before putting it in the waistband of his jeans.
"What's wrong?" Kate asked as she came into the room, slowly taking her backpack from her shoulder. It was the end of the assessment period and tomorrow would mark the beginning of the courses which were due to officially start after the holidays.
"Need to take a road trip… get your stuff."
"Am I staying with Uncle Bobby?" Kate continued as she remained where she stood on the opposite side of Dean's bed as he removed the hunting knife from beneath his pillow. It was a normal thing for Dean to leave Kate with Bobby if a hunt was urgent and the elder sibling was unable to bring the younger. But today, to Kate's surprise, Dean shook his head.
"Not this time, squirt, I'm sorry."
"What's going on Dean, your scaring me."
This caused Dean to pause once more. It took a lot for Kate to admit fear, especially to Dean who both she and Sam alike his hero-worshipped growing up. But this fear was not of darkness, it was the motives behind Dean's sudden decision to leave. The past four years had been surreal; no moving around, a place to call home, a permanent school with permanent friends. Normality. Just like Sam in Stanford.
Dean straightened with a sigh as he sat on the end of his bed and motioned for Kate to sit beside him, the younger sibling complying. Even though she was in the height of her teenage years, the one-and-only female Winchester sibling still retained her childish qualities and Dean wanted to keep it that way for as long as he could.
"Dad's missing squirt… we need to find him." Dean explained as he put an arm around his sister who still wore the light jacket she had gone to school in. Kate shifted uneasily at this. Things had been awkward in regards to their father since Sam had left for college. Sure, the patriarch visited when travelling to Bobby's for information, but he only phoned to give Dean co-ordinates for hunts that needed to be taken. If Dean was willing to suddenly pack up and leave the normality they had been experiencing, then it must be bad.
"He's been missing before." Kate pointed out, remembering the week of uncertainty a few years previous when John Winchester had disappeared in Clifton where a Devil's Gate happened to be. Dean, who was then Seventeen, was on the verge of calling Jim Murphy when their father had returned and had pretended as if nothing had happened.
"Yeah, but not for this long- not even a voicemail. Something's wrong."
Kate began to play with the hem of Dean's open flannel shirt, which revealed the dark t-shirt he wore underneath. "What are we going to do? We're going to need some help…"
"That's why… We're going to Stanford to get Sammy."
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A/N: Well, there's the first chapter and I hope you liked it. I've got three spn stories going at once but this is set before ''Night's Child' and 'Stages Of Grief' so please do go and check them out and tell me what you think.
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