I stood in front of Dean and Sam Winchester, in the park where I arranged to meet them.
"So yeah, like I said, I'm your cousin."
"Wait, what? How is that possible?" Dean looked at me with a stern face.
"Mary, my aunt, had a sister, Michelle, my mother. My mum didn't want anything to do with the family business, which I hear you're part of," I explained.
"We've been a part of it ever since we were old enough to fire a gun," Sam spoke up.
"Never mind that, why come and find us now and not find our dad, your uncle, when our mum died?" Dean crossed his arms.
"Being younger than Sam might have something to do with that, making it physically impossible since I wasn't even born," I snarled.
Sam let a small smirk reach his face. "She certainly sounds like you, Dean."
"Sam, shut up," Dean snapped.
"And anyway, my mum only told me the full details a couple of years ago and you two are not easy to find,"
"You've been looking for us for two years?" Sam asked with astonishment in his voice.
"My mum told me if anything ever happened to her, I was to search for the two of you and tell you who I was and how she died and you would take care of me. I have no one else. I don't know anything about my mum's family, I have no brothers or sisters and my dad died years ago. You're the only family I have," I told them.
"Hang on, you said she told you tell us how she died, what's that all about?" Dean raised an eyebrow.
"She said she knew leaving the family and the hunter life behind would come back and bite her in the back. She was right; she was walking home from work one night and got attacked by a vampire. She came home two nights later and told me to stake her and start searching for you." I took a deep breath and sat on the bench to my left. "It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, but I knew if I refused to kill her, she would go out and get herself killed some other worse way, like walking into the sun."
Sam sat next to me on the bench and put his head in his hands.
"So, what? We just take you in, take you everywhere with us like a pet dog?" Dean asked. "It's dangerous enough with me and Sam together."
"Dean, we're the only family she's got, we can't just leave her on her own," Sam tried to reason.
"I'm not asking to be a hunter, my mum would roll over in her grave, but I could stay in the car or in a hotel when you have to work," I reasoned.
"When was the last time you ate something? I can't make this kind of decision without pie," Dean asked me
"I had a banana earlier and a few chocolate bars yesterday," I answered.
"Come on then, I saw a place that looks like they do good pie."
Dean turned and walked away.
Sam stood up and looked down at me.
"It looks like you're with us now," he smiled.
"But Dean said . . ."
"If Dean hadn't already made the decision then he wouldn't be taking you for pie; welcome to the family."
Sam put his arm around me and pushed me in the direction Dean, and now Sam, was walking ahead in.
I took a deep breath and took a step forward.
I had a feeling things were going to be very different from now on.