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A/N - This is a story for anybody out there who has a sister. I have two, and I know that as we grow and mature we will become each other's best friends.
Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of.
You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.
~Amy Li
Chapter one - Inseperable
How do people make it through life without a sister? This was a question that Emma often pondered over. If it wasn't for her older sister Holly then she was certain that she would be ten feet under by now; Holly was truly her rock, she was her best friend. Emma's older sister had been there when she took her first stumbling steps, she'd watched her go through her first childhood crush, and then her first true relationship, and then she'd sit there with a tub of ice cream whilst Emma got over break ups too. She was everything that an older sister should be.
This moment was no different. Emma was sat on the edge of the hard seat, watching through the bars, as her older sister stood in front of the police officer and gave him a piece of her mind.
"No, how about you listen to me? My sister would never do any of that crap sober! She was drunk, the bitch started on her, put two and two together..." Holly argued, her cheeks blazing the same crimson color as her hair.
The officer simply raised his eyebrow. "Ma'am, your sister attacked the poor woman."
Holly scoffed immediately. "Poor woman?" She looked around in disbelief. "Poor fucking woman? Excuse me for my language officer but that 'poor woman' was playing tonsil tennis with my sister's long-term boyfriend. That 'poor woman' is a filthy, two timing, conniving man-stealing slut!"
Emma looked down at the dazed memory of seeing her beloved Tom locking lips with another woman. Of course, she'd been devastated and furious at the same time. All she wanted to do was let her anger out, so she literally pounced on the blond bimbo and punched her a few times. Sitting in a prison cell over night was worth making that bitch pay.
"If you'd please just calm down for a moment Ma'am-"
"I am calm." Holly pointed out, her lips pursed tightly together. Emma knew immediately that her sister was anything less than calm, she knew that she was secretly livid. "Just get my sister out of here, she won't do it again."
The officer nodded. "You're lucky that it's her first offense."
Emma sighed in relief; She really couldn't stand staring at the same cell for a moment longer. All that she wanted to do was get the hell back to civilization and have a hug from her sister, and then maybe burn everything that Tom had left at their apartment.
"Thank you officer! That's the kind of cooperation that I was looking for." Holly muttered as she perched on the wooden desk in front of her. She watched the officer walk towards Emma's cell, mumbling something on his way, and then glanced towards her younger sister, flashing her a smirk as she mimicked the police officer. She gave him a fake salute and then screwed her face up and silently mumbled.
Emma had to bite the inside of her lip to stop herself from giggling. The situation was actually quite serious, she'd managed to land herself a night in a prison cell and her boyfriend had cheated on her, but her sister managed to make her smile nevertheless. Still, she had to remain composed because laughing in the face of the law was probably a very stupid idea.
"Bye officer," Holly winked before turning back in the direction of her car and slinking her arm around her sister's shoulders. "So, you're a rebel now."
Emma laughed, despite the pit in her stomach that was slowly lurching. All of the adrenaline of actually being put in a cell for the night was rapidly disappearing, and being steadily replaced with the realization that her boyfriend had cheated on her.
Holly could read her sister like a book. She was furious. If it wasn't for Emma being chucked into the cell then she would have marched over to Tom's by now and done some serious damage of herself, though she was certain that if she did then she would be facing a life sentence. Nobody messed with her sister and got away with it. "Em, he's not worth it." They stopped in front of her car as she used her spare hand to fiddle through her bag and find the keys. "You know what? Let's go back to the apartment and burn every single thing he left there. Then we can sit down with a bottle of wine and a movie, yeah?" She fished the keys out of her bag and then unlocked the car, before letting go of her sister and getting into it.
"That sounds good." Emma admitted, adding as much enthusiasm as possible to her voice, as she too got into the car. She knew that Holly was trying hard to cheer her up and she didn't want to be a buzz kill. The sisters fell into a small state of silence, which was something that was rare for the two of them. No matter what, even if the end of the world happened, they would always find something light hearted to talk about.
But Emma didn't really feel like conversing, she had too much to wrap around her head. Tom, whom she was certain she was falling for, had cheated on her with the town bike. Her eyes instinctively narrowed as she pushed a hand through her long, silky brunette hair. "I'm just so angry." Emma suddenly stated, her voice dry. By now, the car was moving along the road and back towards their flat. She watched the familiar scenery pass by.
Holly gripped her steering wheel tightly between her hands, simply nodding as she did so. She was truly livid. Every morsel of her body wanted to go straight to the garage that Tom worked at and run him over several times. But she couldn't because, at the end of the day, how would that really help Emma? She needed to cheer her sister up before she even contemplated revenge. Oh, there were so many different scenarios going through her mind of how she could make Tom pay for his stupid mistake... but they could wait, and get more calculated with time. For now, her number one priority was her sister.
"This is all my fault." Emma blinked back tears as she turned harshly from the window.
"Excuse me?" Holly momentarily whipped her head in Emma's direction, her eyebrow raised. "Emma, this is not your fault! You didn't make him stick his tongue down another woman's thr-"
"Okay, I don't need a mental reminder," Emma cut her sister off, her hands waving wildly around in the car. "Look, it is my fault... you know how I am; I'm not the type of person to jump in bed with somebody until I know that I love them. I practically pushed him towards her."
Emma and Holly were bipolar opposites in that respect. Emma was so much more old fashioned... she couldn't go the full way with someone until she knew that she loved them with all of her heart. She'd only had sex once, and that was with her high school sweetheart. Back then, she thought it was love. Her supposed high school sweetheart ended up breaking her heart straight after so she vowed to herself that she needed to be in love with the person before they went all the way.
Holly, on the other hand, had so many notches on her bed post. She just couldn't help it, but she slept with everybody and anybody. She didn't really believe in all of the relationship crap and she just liked to have fun. Her idea of fun resulted in one too many drinks before waking up in the morning next to a complete stranger.
"Emma, don't you dare try and blame yourself! I know that you really liked him but if he's going to be a dick and cheat on you then he's just not the right one. One day, you will find someone who will accept you and your beliefs for what they are, and you will be madly in love with him." Holly paused when she realized that she was being too much of a sappy girl. "Y'know, and all that shit..." She added for good measure.
Emma couldn't help but smile as she lent over to squeeze Holly's shoulder. "Thanks sis, for everything."
"Hey," Holly was quick to dismiss her efforts. "What are big sister's for? Now, let's go find us a bottle of wine."
Emma sat in the car and smiled to herself as she watched Holly ponder over the best wine to buy. She still felt numb inside but, somehow, spending time with her sister always helped her to feel much more cheerful than she should be in certain situations.
"Get out of the car!"
Her attention was suddenly torn away from the shop window, and redirected to the sound of a demanding voice. She turned to see a man in black clothes stood on the other side of the car door, a gun raised in his hands. Emma raised her eyebrow as she was in too much shock to even contemplate what was happening. One moment she was sat watching her sister, the next she was face to face with a thug.
"I said, get out of the damned car or I'll blow your fucking brains out!"
Emma didn't waste anymore time. She shakily unlocked the passenger door and then pushed it open. As soon as she had, the man gripped her arm and pulled her roughly out of the car, causing her to fall flat on her face. It felt like she was on the floor for ages, until a hand grabbed her hair and pulled her up again.
"Where are the keys?"
She looked into the robber's eyes and then glanced towards the rental shop. Somehow, her sister hadn't heard the commotion, there were people around them though, watching, but too scared to intervene. Some of them had their cell phones out to alert the authorities, some of them were too terrified to move.
Emma looked back towards the rental shop... Holly had the keys, but she couldn't put her older sister's life in danger. If Holly found out what was happening she would stupidly advance on the thug and refuse to give him the car, and he had a gun in his hands.
"Y-You can't have the keys." Emma was shocked to hear how dry and shaky her own voice sounded.
The man's eyes narrowed. "Excuse me?" His grip around her hair tightened, causing her to yelp in pain. "You are in no position to tell me what I can and can't do." He glanced around frantically at the growing crowd and then pushed her up against the car. "If you don't tell me where the keys are, I'll kill you."
"You can't have this car."
Everything else that happened after that moment felt like it was all in slow motion. Emma looked around at the crowds of people, before hearing a loud bang, which was suddenly felt a burning, searing pain in her stomach. It was so intense that it caused an ear-piercing scream to erupt from her mouth before she stumbled to the floor. This was followed by commotion from the crowd. Emma gripped on to her stomach as she watched the majority of them step back a pace of two, whilst others were frantically giving directions on their cells. She took a deep, ragged breath as she continued to cry out in pain, and then looked up at the person who had shot her.
The man took one look at the damage he had done and suddenly sprinted away from the scene.
"Emma?"
Emma's attention was suddenly focused on Holly, who was stood at the doorway of the rental shop. Her hands were gripped tightly against the frame of the door, and her blue eyes were widened in disbelief. "No!" She suddenly screamed out as she sprinted towards her younger sister at full speed. "No, no, no!"
Within seconds, Emma was suddenly pulled into her sister's arms and was looking up at Holly, her eyes wide with fear. Every single pain was sharpening more and more by the second.
"Somebody get an ambulance here now!" Holly was barking orders at every member of the public, but her voice was slowly becoming more and more distant to Emma with every second that passed.
Holly glanced down at her younger sister, tears streaming from her face. One moment she was in the shop buying wine, the next she heard the loud gun shot, and then the scream.. the scream that caused her to drop the wine bottle in a flash second. When she heard it, she instantly knew that it was Emma.
"Holly," Emma tried to force out her sister's name from her mouth, but she was suddenly coughing up liquid.
Holly winced when she saw the blood that was coming out of Emma's mouth. "It's okay, an ambulance is coming."
Emma continued to cough as the pain in her stomach began to slowly numb, her vision becoming more and more blurred. "I... couldn't let him... get... you." She moved her shaking hand and gripped Holly's with it. Tears fell down her cheeks as she tried to gulp back blood. "I.. love you."
"Don't you dare say that!" Holly snapped, her voice desperate, as she gripped her sister more tightly. She looked down at the injury to see blood steaming from Emma's stomach and instantly winced. She was terrified, but she couldn't let Emma just give up hope. "You're going to be okay, you have to be okay... so don't you dare say your goodbyes to me!"
Emma's eyes drooped closed, and then suddenly snapped open again, as her body rapidly became paler and paler.
"Emma, come on, talk to me!" Holly was sobbing by now, her body shaking violently, the fear inside of her reaching a climax. Emma shared one last look with her sister and then her eyes rolled to the back of her head, which caused Holly to gasp.
Holly's world literally stopped for a few moments when she realized that her baby sister wasn't breathing. "No," She whispered, her voice raw. Then reality hit her. "Emma, wake up," She shook her sister, her own head shaking in disbelief. "EMMA, WAKE UP! PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!"
"Ma'am, you really need to-"
Holly's head snapped up to meet the eyes of a concerned civilian, which caused her to look around at all of the other people who were gathered around. She suddenly lost it. "GET AWAY FROM US!" She yelled so loudly that the remaining people moved backwards. Some of them walked right away from the scene, but the concerned others still loitered. Holly didn't care.
She embraced her lifeless sister's form and sobbed violently.
Emma was dead.
The Impala drove down the back lane, rock music blaring from inside of it. "Nothin' like some AC/DC in the morning." Dean grinned, from ear to ear, cheerfully as he bobbed his head along to the music.
His brother raised his eyebrow, amused at Dean's particularly chipper mood. But then he looked back down to his laptop... they needed to find some sort of hunt and he was the only one in a sensible enough mood to search for one.
Suddenly, Dean's phone went off, causing him to lean over and flip it open. Sam turned the radio down for him as he put his cell against his ear. "Dean Winchester."
He was instantly met with the sound of violent sobbing. "Dean, thank god it's you!"
Even though he could barely understand anything that the woman was saying, Dean instantly knew who it was. "Holly! What's wrong?" Holly was now sobbing so uncontrollably that she couldn't come up with any words. Dean raised his eyebrow, concerned, as he knew that something was definitely going on with her. Whatever it was happening was serious. "Hey, calm down."
Sam glanced towards his brother curiously.
Holly took a deep breath and managed to steady herself. "I didn't know.. who else to call. Emma's-" But as soon as she thought about her sister she was in another fit of tears. "Emma's dead."
Dean was in utter shock. "What?" He questioned in disbelief; he knew how close Emma and Holly were, and he knew how devastated Holly was. After all, he had experienced something similar with Sam's death. "Listen, I'm on my way. I'll be there as soon as possible... go back to your apartment, try to clear your head, eat something-"
"Don't tell me to act normal when she's gone!" Holly snapped so loudly that Dean couldn't help but flinch. "I'm sorry," She told him instantly.
"It's okay," Dean couldn't help but feel slightly emotional. "Just wait at your apartment for me, I'll be there as soon as I can."
"Okay," Dean closed his eyes; he hated how helpless she sounded, and how lost she obviously was. "Bye."
"I'll be there soon." Dean clicked his cell phone shut and then stared ahead, dumbfounded. Holly's little sister was dead, his best friend's little sister was dead. He could barely think straight.
"What was that about?" Sam questioned, causing Dean to come crashing back to reality.
He turned briefly towards his brother, but not before trying to get his emotions into check. "I've got a friend in Wyoming-"
"Are you sure she's just a friend?"
"Yeah, dude, she's like my best friend." Dean pointed out, before shaking his head in disbelief. "We're heading out there, her sister's... dead." It still felt weird to say, Dean just couldn't believe it. Holly and Emma were practically inseparable, they did everything together. He hadn't seen either of them in almost a year, and now his best friend's life was turned upside down.
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