Death Brings True Love and Hope Back
AN: I do not own the characters nor am I making money. They belong to Eric
Summary: This takes place the summer after the car crash. John is dead, Sam and Dean need to pick up the pieces so they go to Bobby's, but one of the brothers does not want to be with anybody because he is slowly falling apart on the inside out. Hope you enjoy the story R&R
Chapter 1
Cassie hadn't believed what Sam had told her over the phone so she drove to this hospital to see for herself. Despite the fact that she didn't believe that Sam wouldn't lie to her, she didn't want to take it to heart. However as she sat down beside the man she has loved since she first met him several years before in Athens, Ohio and again earlier in the year; she still couldn't believe the doctor's diagnosis. They told her that her lover will never again wake up, but even if he did he would suffer repercussions. She had broken down after the doctor had left them, she could only take comfort in Sam as she cried for the man she still loved.
Three days later
It had been while since the car crash and a lot had changed. First Dean Winchester had astonished the doctors after he woke up after being in a coma for a week. Secondly, John Winchester was now dead because of his foolish deal with a demon, the same one that brought Dean back to life. Thirdly, Dean, and Sam had gone to Bobby's since they needed to heal from everything. Thankfully the reaper had healed some of Dean's wounds, but not all of them for some reason.
Sam was worried about his brother because he spent the entire time outside under the car taking it apart. Dean then began to reassemble the Impala and he hadn't once listened to the doctor. He knew he wasn't supposed to be doing anything because his ribs were still banged up. Besides that Dean mentioned a few times he might leave in the middle the night and not come back, which had resulted in Sam and Bobby watching his every move.
However not even their watchful eyes could have kept Dean from running and even though Dean's not one to run from trouble or pain. He's the one to head face first into battle without a second thought.
Being the shoot-first-asks-questions-later type of person isn't normally a real
bad thing, but he had begun to come apart. He wanted his dad back; he wanted to stop watching him like he was a broken china doll. Mostly he wanted to hunt again. He wanted to feel useful and alive again. Finally, Dean took off in the middle of the night just like he said he would only to get himself in over his head so to speak.
Dean had wanted a simple salt and burn hunt, but it ended up being a lot more. The hunt had turned into a vampire's nest with six vamps in it. Luckily he got out alive, but he was worse for wear. Because of the new hunt his previous injuries were worse. He needed a place to crash and soon or he wasn't going to be awake for long. Dean decided against his better judgment considering his condition to go to a friend's place. He barely made it to their front porch and didn't bother to wake up the person inside.
It was three in the morning when Cassie Robinson heard the noise coming from her front porch. She grabbed her telephone and a bat before going to investigate. She hadn't expected to find her former lover lying on the porch covered in blood. "DEAN," she practically screamed. She knelt down to check his pulse using the side of his neck.
Cassie took note of all his wounds before she slowly helped him into the house, he was in and out of consciousness the entire time, but somehow she got him to her bedroom before he completely lost consciousness. Dean was not totally aware of what was happening but he knew he was safe and that seemed to be the only thing that got through to his weary brain.
After stripping him down she went retrieved her first aid kit plus a few towels, water to wash him off with and the telephone she'd abandoned on the front porch. Her mother who was a retired nurse had shown her how to stitch up injuries and she'd done it a few times. That part was a breeze what concerned her was the look of the deeper wounds. She took a look at the one cut that went from his neck to his shoulder; it was a large gash and looked to have bite marks near it. She wasn't sure what had happened to him, but she figured in his line of work the bites were a vamps doing.
"Why were you so careless with yourself?" She asked not expecting an answer, "I don't understand why you'd go into battle hurt, you could have waited, I should have known you would do something this reckless," Cassie said to his sleeping body.
She had no idea how he could sleep through what she had done to him to patch him
up. She could hear his calm breathing and it helped to soothe her nerves over his condition. He was obviously bone tired.
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Sam didn't notice Dean missing until the next morning.
"Dean took off , he must have slipped passed the trap wire,"
"What wire?" Bobby asked him with an arched eyebrow.
"I set up a wire so that if Dean left I'd know about it, but he must have known," Sam said, "We have to find him."
"Sam, he's not going to want to be found you know that right?" Bobby said "We'll find him only when he wants to be found."
Sam only half listened to Bobby as he told him that Dean wouldn't be back until he felt like it. His stubborn brother was in no condition to go wandering off anywhere.
"Maybe he went to
Cassie's," Sam said before he picked up the phone then dialed her
number by heart, "Hi, I don't mean to bother you this earlier,
but Dean is gone. Did he happen to show up there?"
Cassie
wasn't sure what to say, but the truth seemed the best thing, "Yes,
but I think he needs time, Sam let him heal before you come see him.
I won't let him hunt anymore till he's better, trust me he is in no
shape to fight anyone or anything"
"Cassie, if he's hurt you can't take care of him," Sam said.
"You under estimate me Sam, I have taken care of myself since I went off college. I don't consider your brother a burden either and I know you're thinking it right now," she said with anger in her voice, "So till I tell you it's okay, just stay there. I'll take care of Dean," she said before hanging up she added, "He doesn't need anyone but me right now, or he'll only take off again."
After the phone call she laid down before she wrapped her arms around a still sleeping Dean, "Please God, I hope I did the right thing," she said before she laid her head on his chest then closed her eyes.
