FLASHBACK
"And you promise, no matter what happens, you'll always be here, Uncle Bobby?" a 16 year old Amberly asked, her warm golden brown eyes widened at what he was asking her to do, for her own safety. He was asking her to get as far away from him, from her aunt Karen and the town she'd grown up in as she could. To lose contact with the only family she had left.
She found herself scared suddenly. Everything she knew about life, up to 12 hours ago, when an army of zombies stormed the town and killed her mother, her father and her older brother Jesse, then her aunt Karen, was nonexistant.
She'd seen it all, and helped fight off the zombies alongside her uncle Bobby. All that death takes a toll on a 16 year old's psyche.. And now, her uncle Bobby kept telling her that she couldn't stay, that he "broke" everything he touched.
Bobby sighed and ruffling her hair as the remainder of the bodies burned on a pyre nearby said quietly, "Amberly, I know, if there were another way, kid.. You could stay.. But there's just not. I break everything I touch. You have that address book.. You have all my phone numbers. I want you to check in, write me letters, but most importantly, I want you to go out and have a normal life. Be a kid for Christ's sakes. Forget about everything you saw and had to do last night, and be an innocent. It's what your mama, your aunt Karen woulda wanted for ya.. They wouldn't want me draggin ya off on hunts, killin monsters you're not even supposed to think exist."
Amberly fought back the tears, and Bobby handed her a set of car keys, smiling a little. "Your 16th birthday present's out in the shed.. Me and your daddy have been working on it a while now, baby girl. There's money in the dash, and there's a non traceable cell phone in the console. Switch 'em out so noone finds ya. And Amberly?"
"Yeah Uncle Bobby?"
"I do love ya kid.. I just know if you stay with me, you'll never have a normal life.. Bein' a hunter's kid ain't something I'd wish on anyone.. And I'm about to start lookin for any more of those bastards. Not gonna let what happened to your aunt Karen happen to anyone else's people. Somebody's gotta do it."
"I know, Uncle Bobby... Just promise me.. You won't die before I get married, or anything like that. And take care of yourself. I'm gonna worry. I promise I'll write and call. I love you Uncle Bobby."
The 16 year old raked a hand through her dirty blonde hair, and slowly, reluctantly let her uncle's embrace go as she walked towards the shed behind his house.
She gaped at the car when she saw it. A Playboy Pink (pale pink) 1969 Mustang convertible. She turned to hug her uncle again as she wiped the tears from her eyes, trying to picture her uncle and her father out here, working on it, getting it ready for her 16th birthday, which would have been next week, on Halloween night.
"Look out world, here I come.." an uncertain 16 year old Amberly Adams said quietly, as she slid into the drivers seat and backed slowly down the driveway.
The farther the salvage yard, and her old childhood home, her Uncle and aunt's house got from her rearview, the more she wanted to turn around, go back, insist that he let her stay.
But she knew that as usual, her uncle was only trying to protect her, like her mother and father, her mom's sister, her aunt Karen would have.
She stopped at a gas station about 20 miles out of town, and opened the glovebox, gaping at the money in the envelope, the fake id..
No longer was she Amberly Adams, daughter of Mike and Jean Adams, niece of Karen and Bobby Singer.. Now her name was Katherine Amberly Kersh.. And she was according to the forged documents in her lap, a legally emancipated minor.
Had she known the circumstances that'd bring her back to her uncle, the man she loved just like he were a second father at times, the house she "ran away" to when her parents just didn't understand, then she probably never would have left.
END FLASHBACK
AUTHORS NOTE:
This is totally alternate universe ssn 7. It happens post Sam's meltdown, because Kat is Sam's pairing. Lots of changes, not on a big scope, but some pretty big ones, all the same.
You might have noticed, I chose to make Kat Bobby's niece. This is done because I didn't want to rearrange all the prementioned events on the show from seasons 1 - 6 to make him her father.. But, he is her uncle.. In this fic, Karen had a sister named Jean. So Kat is Karen and Bobby's niece. It's just all around simpler.
Dean and Jo will be reunited, because I love Jo.. And who knows.. I might find some way to bring Bobby back from the dead, and have him paired with Ellen. Sorry in advance for the flashback, and the bittersweetness of it, it was needed to flesh out Kat's past. Bear with me, I'm trying to write a fanfic for Supernatural, but this is my first ever attempt at one.
I had to give Sam something good in his life, cause I am a die hard Samgirl. Read and Review if you liked this, please? No flames, though. Like I said. First attempt at writing anything for Supernatural and though I've been a fan since the beginning, some things might be a little fuzzy.
