"No," Dean said stubbornly. "I know we can track them." Sam looked at Dean and then back at Dave with a look of shock on his face.
Is he serious?! Sam knew that Dean was stubborn but there was no way that Dave could hunt in the condition he was in; he had three cracked ribs and a dislocated shoulder but neither Dave or Dean would let Sam drive Dave to the hospital. Dave kept claiming he would be fine without some doctor telling him to rest but Sam knew better.
"Dean," Sam tried again they had been hunting vampires all over California and it was the vampires that had injured Dave. These vampires were not like the ones that they had fought while trying to get the Colt before their father died. These vampires were easier to kill... that is if you call a kill by decapitation, sunlight and stake through the heart easier to kill. Thankfully, Dave had known about this type of vampires. All thanks to his friendship with the Slayer, one Buffy Summers.
The Winchesters knew Buffy the slayer as Dave had met her whilst on a hunt in Sunnydale and they had became close friends; however they had fallen out of touch after Dave just up and left with Dean when their dad went missing they fell out of touch. Ever since, whenever they saw each other it almost always came to blows.
As they headed back to the Impala, Sam continued to badger Dean about calling in Buffy and the other Scoobies. "They could help Dean," Sam practically shouted. Why does my brother have to be so pigheaded? Couldn't Dean see that Dave was starting to like the idea of trying to bury the past with Buffy.
"No," Dean said again, completely ignoring Sam's request and the look in Dave's eyes.
But before Sam could respond, both Sam and Dean were both surprised when Dave walked over, picked up the Impala keys and said to Sam, "Come on Sam if he wants to be stubborn we can go by ourselves."
Both Sam and Dean guessed that Dave had a kind of soft spot for Buffy as when they were in the same room together they killed each other but whenever Dean badmouthed her he defended her from his older brother.
Dean stood in the room his arms crossed as Sam followed Dave from the room. When he realized he was fighting a losing battle Dean groaned, picked up his leather jacket and followed his two younger brothers from the room.
When Dean got to the car, he noticed Sam and Dave in the front and Dave in the driver's seat. Dean said, "Oh no you should be hospitalised there is no way you are driving my car."
Dave just smirked and turned on the ignition. Since Buffy had been his friend, and neither of his brother's, it was only fair that he got to see her again.
Luckily, their hunt was in Southern California, so it had only taken a few hours before the three Winchester Brothers arrived in Sunnydale a few hours later. When they arrived in Sunnydale, Sam and Dean were both asleep so Dave drove straight to Buffy's house. He knew that he had to get to her as soon as possible. With typical stubborn attitude, Dave had not told his brothers how much pain he was in, or how much it hurt him to move and not even an angry Buffy would hit him while he was injured.
Buffy had been in the kitchen whilst the Impala pulled up. Upon hearing the car, Buffy headed out the front door, ready fight. She did not know Dean's car, as Dave had his bike before he had gone with Dean, and Dave had left his bike with Bobby after his dad died claiming he needed to be with Sam and Dean. As soon as she saw Dave got out of the car and practically crawled towards the door she ran towards him. She knew that he needed her help as he could barely stand.
She ran to him and supported him; and as much as she had wanted to hit him, she could not stand to see the man that she had been friends with, that she nearly fell in love with and then had her heart broken by in so much pain. When he left, he was healthy and strong, now it was as if he was someone different, broken almost and it hurt her to know that the strong man she knew was brought to this. She had known that she cared for him, but she wanted him as a friend more than her boyfriend; it was only when he was gone she realised she should have told him.
Dave tried not to smile as Buffy wrapped an arm around his waist and tried to support him. He was nearly a foot taller than her as she was around 5'5 and he was around six foot three inches in height and towered over the golden slayer. Buffy supported him all the way to the couch in the living room, as it was the closest room to the hallway. As she tried to slip out from under him, he collapsed on top of her and she became trapped underneath him. As much as she hated to admit it, she missed his warmth, his touch and even though he was unconscious, she missed the way he had touched her with so much caring and never wanting to harm her in anyway.
She breathed heavily, warming his neck but with him being out cold he could not feel her underneath him. She decided to check how injured he was and she could see straight away his shoulder was dislocated by the way that it was taped up. She also saw that three of his ribs where cracked. As she catalogued the injuries, she swallowed her pride and decided to try and bury the hatchet but now she was more worried she would have to bury him.
With his injuries, Buffy did not want to take the chance and use her strength to lift then move Dave, for fear of hurting him further. She decided that she would have to chance it and began to push him up off her. She pushed his stomach up so that she could slip from underneath him.
However, as she slipped out from underneath him he rolled off of the couch and hit the floor with force. "Shit," Buffy muttered. She had been trying to help him rather than injure him any more. He groaned as he hit the floor and his eyes sprung open. Buffy smiled at him innocently, a smile that Dave had not seen for over a year. The smile was her show of forgiveness, though she did not have to tell him that.
Buffy tried to pull Dave to his feet but, like his older brother would have, he pulled her down to his level and twisted his body so he was on top of her and said, "I know we should have rang but we need your help."
She just nodded with a twinkle in her eye and a smirk hovering on her lips, then because for the first time ever they were completely alone she leant forwards and kissed him.