The time period for this one is during season 5; in this story Ruby isn't dead!
Dean Winchester woke up at 3:30 a.m. at Woodlands Motel in Tucson, Arizona. He looked over at his girlfriend Jo Harvelle, who was laying next to him.
Dean didn't really see that one coming, he always had looked at Jo like a little sister, until about 6 months ago. He, Ellen and Jo were working on a case together when Jo was taken. It took him and Ellen four days to find her and when they finally did he finally admitted to himself that he loved her, but not as a little sister anymore. Jo told him she had the same feelings and since then they had been a couple.
Like any person who knew Dean Winchester, Ellen wasn't exactly thrilled that her daughter was in a relationship with him but then she realized at least he can protect her and deep down Dean was a good guy at heart.
Dean smiled and kissed her head which woke her up.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." Dean truthfully told her.
"It's okay." She smiled. "Were you thinking about the case?"
Dean and Jo had been working on the Tucson case since Monday, it was now Friday. This was one of the most frustrating cases he had ever worked on. He and Jo were on the hunt for vampires but they couldn't find the nest or any of the vampires for the matter.
Dean nodded. "I just can't figure out why it's so hard to catch them. Normally Sam and I would be on their trail after a day but this one is different."
This was the cold, hard truth. Something was different about this case. It wasn't a normal vampire case. These vampires were leaving their victims wherever they drank their blood. The weren't taking them back to the nest which was part of the reason Dean and Jo couldn't find it. Normally they would follow the vampire there, but they can't figure out who the vampires were.
"Dean, something is weird about this town. The vampires want something different than most. They aren't trying to create new vampires and it seems as if they aren't worried about being caught."
"That or they are too cautious." Dean told her.
"What do you mean?"
"Well you see, most vampires would take their victim back to the nest and finish them there. Or they would turn them into a vampire. But they are just breaking into people's houses and killing them there. They really don't want us to find the nest. Which is normal, but this time something's different. I think they're teasing us and I think they have someone there that knows us."
The look on Jo's face dropped. A tear dropped down her face before Dean realized what was wrong.
"We'll find her Jo. I promise." Ellen went missing two weeks ago and all signs pointed in the direction that she was in Tucson. The problem was they couldn't find her in Tucson either.
"I know we will Dean. But we need to find this nest and these vampires before more people die."
Dean nodded. "Let's go back to sleep."
It wasn't until one in the afternoon when Dean and Jo woke up. That was the only good thing about working a vampire case, he got to sleep in.
"I was thinking, we should check out the college." Jo told Dean.
"Okay, but why?" Jo was talking about Arizona University which was about seven minutes from their motel.
"Well some of the kids were college age, and even though they didn't go to U of A maybe they know some people that go there. It's not really anything but we don't have anything yet, so can we at least check it out?"
"U of A?" Dean asked.
"University of Arizona." Jo confirmed. "I know cool college kid talk." She laughed.
Wow, he could not believe he did not think of that on his own. It makes perfect sense. A lot of kids go to an in-state school. Someone there had to know two of the victims who were college aged and grew up in Tucson.
"Let's go!" Dean grabbed Jo and ran to the impala.
"Jo you are a freaking genius. And I normally don't say that to people." Dean smiled at her.
"Thanks?" Jo laughed. She loved when Dean was happy, the life of a hunter was depressing a lot of the time so when either of them smiled or laughed it was a great moment.
They got to the campus and went off by themselves and try and find as many people as they could that knew Rachel Bounty and Nick Gellar. Neither of them were having any luck until Jo found somebody who happened to know them both.
"Hi, do you happen to know these people?" Jo asked a girl showing them two pictures. They have been doing this for an hour and a half just showing pictures and asking people if they knew either of them.
"Um yeah, actually. Why?" The girl responded.
"Laurel Hudson. FBI." Jo told the girl and showed her the fake badge. "Can you come with me, please?"
The girl just nodded and followed Jo over to a nearby park at the campus. The sat down on a bench when the girl freaked out.
"Oh my gosh! Are they okay? What happened? Are they dead? Did they kill someone? Oh god, oh god." The girl started screaming.
"Calm down! Calm down!" Jo told the girl. "What's your name?"
"Mackenzie Ross. Please tell me what happened to Nick and Rachel." The girl begged.
Finally! Jo though to herself. She had found someone knew them.
"I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but they are both dead. I know that much be hard to here but we need to figure out what happened to them so can you please tell me how you know them." Jo told her.
The girl shed a few tears before she started talking about them. "I went to high school with them. Rachel was a friend, we never really hung out or anything but we talked in school a few times."
Jo nodded before asking some questions. "What about Nick?"
Mackenzie broke down crying again and it took Jo a few minutes to calm her down.
"Nick was my high school boyfriend. We dated for two years before I came to U of A and he went to Washington University."
Jo smiled a little when she said U of A but she couldn't break her cover.
"I'm so sorry Mackenzie, I know this is hard. But we need to figure out who would want to hurt them. Did Rachel or Nick have any enemies?" Jo asked her. Jo hated this part, she had to ask dumb normal FBI questions so nobody would catch on. It got quite annoying.
"No! Not anyone, Rachel didn't hate anyone and nobody hated her and Nick and I don't speak anymore so I really couldn't know." The girl confessed.
"Why is that?" Joe asked.
The girl broke down yet again. This girl was getting on her nerves, she gets it, she lost her father but there comes a point when you need to pull yourself together.
"Nick got me pregnant and after I had our daughter Jackie, he just left for Washington University. Didn't even say goodbye."
"I'm sorry, but it seems this person knew where they both lived. Did they go to a bar often maybe? Where someone could follow them home?"
"Yeah actually, it's called Owen's, it's right around the corner from the campus. All the college kids go there. Nick and Rachel were here on spring break so I guess that's why they could have been there." Jackpot.
"Thanks for your time!" Jo told her and got up and ran as fast as she could to get to Owen's. She called Dean on the way.
"Dean! Meet me at Owen's! It's right around the corner!" Jo yelled into the phone and quickly hung up.
Jo and Dean were waiting at Owen's for what seemed forever. Then finally they realized something. Three people around the age of 30 come into the bar. Normally it wouldn't be weird for friends going to a bar at hat age except everyone else was about 20 and Dean could feel it in his skin. This was them.
"Jo." Dean tapped her on the shoulder and pointed them out. She nodded. They were watching them for about 10 minutes when they saw a college girl leave shortly followed by the group of three leave.
"That's our cue." Jo said. Dean placed money down on the table and he and Jo raced out the impala and followed the pickup truck which had the people in it.
"Wait, what are we gonna do? If we follow them into the house we can save the girl but we won't be able to find the nest if we kill them. If we don't follow them in the girl dies but we find the nest." Dean told Jo.
"Well not necessarily, we can not go in and as soon as they leave we call 911 because she will live that long and then we can go to the nest."
Dean knew this was risky as the girl did have a possibility of dying but if they didn't find the nest a lot more people would die.
"We have to get to the nest." Jo just nodded and Dean parked a few houses down from where the truck had just parked.
About 10 minutes later Jo and Dean saw the vampires come out and Dean took off behind them. Jo called 911 and explained that she heard a girl scream and that's it. She and Dean were driving for about 25 minutes when they finally reached where they were going.
Dean realized they were at an old warehouse.
"So this is it." Jo said.
"This is the nest." Dean told her. "Jo."
"Yeah?"
"We need to be careful, we don't know how many there are and there are only two of us. And if we happen to find your mom in there you have to leave her. We'll save her but we need to kill all the blood suckers first."
Jo nodded. She prayed to whatever God there was for her mother to be alive. She couldn't bare losing her mom, she meant the world to her even if they butted heads all the time.
Dean and Jo got their weapons and went around back. The found a small entrance and Dean followed Jo in. The quickly noticed two vampires sleeping and Jo and Dean ran up to them and cut their heads off so quickly they didn't even make a sound. Dean turned to Jo and motioned they move forward.
The went through two more rooms killing another vampire. The Vampire made a sound however so they had to be extra careful.
Dean and Jo finally made it to the biggest room where they saw six vampires looking right at them. They recognized three of them from the bar.
Jo turned to her left and saw her mom passed out and hanging by her arms from the ceiling. When she saw this anger raced through her so fast she didn't even think before she picked up her machete and ran to the vampires and cut two heads off.
It happened so fast they nor Dean realized what was going on until after the fact.
"Shit." Dean muttered to himself.
Dean raced towards them and killed one before getting thrown across the room. Jo was fighting the female one from the bar, and Dean was proud to see, Jo was kicking her ass.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? Two love birds?" One of the vampires said to Dean. "My name is Frank." The vampire smiled.
"My name is cut your mother effing head off." Dean yelled and got up. The vampire put up a small fight but Dean was much of a better fighter and cut his head off.
Dean ran over to Jo and helped her finish off the woman. Jo turned to him and screamed something but it was too late. One of the vampires had already bitten the back of Dean's neck. The good thing was this wouldn't change him but this would make him weaker. The vampire was beating Dean up when Jo ran over and cut his head off.
"No body messes with my man." Jo smiled and helped Dean up.
"This leaves one." Dean told her.
The last one was nowhere in sight so Jo and Dean were just trying to keep alert. They didn't see anything when all of a sudden she heard a scream.
Dean looked over and saw a vampire right under Ellen and was getting ready to bring her down and kill her.
"Jo. Your mom." Dean said.
This was enough for Jo to know what he meant. Jo raced over when the vampire spoke. Dean though of something and ran the other direction.
"Now, we wouldn't want mommy dearest to die because of her daughter, would we?" He asked sarcastically.
"Leave her alone!" Jo screamed, taking another step closer towards her mother.
The vampire held up a knife and pointed it towards Jo. "Stop right there. Don't move. If you come any closer I'll kill her.
This caused Jo to stop and then she realized Dean wasn't any where in sight. Jo needed her mom to be okay, she needed to find a way to kill this vampire.
"Okay, fine! Just don't hurt her. Please." Jo pleaded with him.
The vampire walked over towards Jo and smelled her hair. "Well don't you smell nice. I bet you taste just as good." He said.
He took the knife and cut her arm. "Let's see." He was getting ready to attack when his head tumbled off.
Jo looked up and saw her mom smiling.
"Mom!" Jo screamed and hugged her. "But how did you get down?"
"As much as I know that Dean is a douche, he does know what he's doing. I know you want to be with him and since he just saved me I guess I have to let you be with him." Ellen said smiling.
That just made Jo hug her even tighter.
"As much as I hate the burst this little party, I think we should probably leave." Dean said.
Jo and Ellen agreed and the three of them left arm in arm.
After the terrible week they had, Ellen went to visit Bobby and Jo and Dean left for San Diego, California to investigate some strange deaths. The car ride was a long one so after the first few hours it got quiet between Jo and Dean because they ran out of things to say, which didn't happen often with them, especially Dean.
"Well I know we aren't that kind of lovey-dovey couple but today is our sixth month anniversary." Jo told Dean.
"I know, it's been a crazy six months. An even crazier year. But I am happy I had you since, well you know."
"Dean." She grabbed the hand that wasn't on the steering wheel and held it. She knew exactly what he meant. Sam.
It had been one year since that night.
It had been one year since Dean showed up at the "new" roadhouse with Bobby.
It had been one year since Dean broke down telling Jo and Ellen what had happened.
It had been one year.
One year since Sam tried to kill Dean.
"Do you want to know the worst part?" Dean asked her.
Jo wasn't sure what he meant.
"He wasn't even possessed Jo. He knew exactly what he was doing. Ruby finally got to him. My dad was right. I should have known. My own brother tried to kill me because I was trying to help save the world! Hell, I did save the world, well I helped. How could my own brother try and kill me. I don't understand."
"Dean, I'm so sorry." Jo had never heard that part. She only knew he tried to kill him. She assumed he was possessed. She assumed wrong.
"Jo." Dean looked at her.
"Yeah?"
"I love you." That was the first girl, besides his mother, he told he loved. He truly meant it too. He really did love her and with Sam going all dark side he needed her more than anything.
"I love you too Dean." Jo smiled and the continued in silence to San Diego.