Disclaimer: supernatural is not mine outside of my dreams so nooooooooo I do NOT own it... Seriously that's obvious! You're going to a fanfiction site, its name is fanfiction dot net I mean seriously why I have to add this on every freakin chapter I have no idea *siiiiiigh*...
A/N: So I'm currently bundled up under the covers, wearing my scarf and jacket and everything except my gloves cause I can't type with them on :P, while it's snowing heavily outside! It's truly beautiful, the first snow of the season and everything is covered in white, so no TV, no Internet and no electricity all I have is my 3G and iPhone to save me, and I come up with this amazing story XD XD! Why I'm not playing outside in the snow you're asking? Well because I just came back from a snowball fight or should I say battle or clash of the titans with my brothers and have snow melting down my back! *shivers* yes I know I predict I'm gonna get sick any minute now! I even built a snowman! Well more like snowwoman with boobs and ass -I insisted on making them- and even little flowers from my crafts collection as nipples! Hahahahahaha my dad simply shook his head at me saying that if I was a guy he'd understand and that he has no hope for my mind anymore... Completely down the gutter! But it was really fun and my sexy snowwoman was... Well SEXY! Anyway nooooow for the actual story, hope you enjoy it; I know I love it...
CHAPTER ONE:
PROLOGUE PART ONE:
"I wouldn't do that if I were you..." A woman's calm quiet voice called out to Dean as he stood, hesitating in the dark alley.
He'd been about to engage in his usual routine; enter a bar, drink enough booze to make an elephant unsteady on its feet but didn't seem to hold that much of an effect on him anymore, pick his pray for the night, fuck her to kingdom come, and be gone without a trace before the first rays of light appeared across the horizon. A dull lifestyle. As good as the sex might sometimes be it somehow always left him hollow and unsatisfied. It was like the women he took were never good enough; always missing one thing or another.
'Her eyes are too wide', 'Her legs are too skinny', 'Her boobs are too big', 'Her voice is too low', 'She has a beauty spot on the wrong side of her chin'!
Why there was a 'right' and 'wrong' place to have a beauty spot he had no freakin idea, and since when do guys complain about big boobs!?
Sometimes he felt like there was something wrong with him, other times he contributed those feelings to simply being picky, and others yet he blamed Sam for rubbing off his chick-flick-ness on him.
Normally, he ignored those 'chick-flick' moments, as he called them, stuffed those irrational thought and feelings to the back of his mind and went on to have fun in the best way he knew how; acting in a typical no-commitment Dean Winchester kinda style.
Then, however, there were days like this one; where he'd be eaten out by guilt and grew a painful knot in the pit of his stomach that made him want to go look for the closest darkest corner he could find and be miserable. It was irrational, crazy irrational; it wasn't like he was... Being unfaithful to his woman or something, which -in itself- was ridiculous, but was how it felt like nonetheless. He was a no strings attached kind of guy. He didn't have, never had, and most likely never will have a single woman to be tied down to. That was simply the way he rolled.
So, what was the problem...? To that he had no answer.
In that precise moment, he was having one of his irrational 'attacks'.
A week ago, he and Sam had crashed in a motel to start looking for the thing that had killed Jessica. And today had been a normal day to what he'd started to call their new routine; wake up, run around the whole town only to come up empty handed in the end, then finally end his day by going to a bar to blow some steam from the accumulated frustration, that of course was code for going to get laid. But just as he was walking towards the bar's entrance, his stomach had started churning unpleasantly, and an irrational need to flee and go...
Go do what? He had no idea what those strange urges were all about...
And that was when the woman in the shadows with the quiet voice had called out to him, just as he was about to swallow those damn feelings and steel himself to hopefully a night of no sleep and much fun.
"Someone you really don't want to anger will be furious if you do..." She said trailing off with amusement lacing her words.
She walked out of the shadows towards him and he tensed. He couldn't help but be on alert, especially when addressed in such a way.
She was gorgeous to say the least, but it was common for demons to possess physically beautiful people. The girl looked to be barely out of her teens, if that, dressed in comfortable clothes; skinny blue jeans, a black tee shirt of some rock band he didn't recognize, a military green parka, and sturdy black combat boots. Her hair was of a coppery reddish color, long, straight, and pulled back in a high ponytail. She was slightly tanned, which made the freckles dusting her cheeks and nose a bit less pronounced, and her eyes, which were framed with dark eyeliner, were disturbingly familiar; a warm hazel green he could swear he'd seen before, but try as he might he couldn't put his finger on it. She had a cute little nose and pouty lips that were turned up in a smirk as she gazed at him.
"Hello, Dean Winchester..." She said in a sinister little voice as amusement flooded her eyes.
Dean tensed, his hand automatically going to the back of his jeans were he had his gun. Paranoid? Yes. Better paranoid than dead.
She raised an eyebrow at him while taking a step back that appeared to be for his peace of mind not her own.
"Chillax..." She said in amusement, "I'm not here to take a bite out of you or anything..."
"Yeah, well, sorry if I don't believe you," He said roughly as he held her at gunpoint, she knew too much for him to not suspect she might be dangerous. "Who the hell are you?"
"Wow impatient, are we?" She mocked.
"Answer the damn question or you'll get to experience first-hand how impatient I can get!" He threatened dangerously, but for some reason that threat only seemed to increase her amusement as she bit her lip to try and suppress her chuckles.
"Hold your horses, cowboy. There's really no need for all of this." She told him her voice shaking with suppressed laughter.
He cocked his gun threateningly while staring dangerously at her.
She on the other hand rolled her eyes at him, "Seriously… you really don't change..." She muttered then sighed shaking her head. "Alright, alright, fine. My name's Leen."
He gave a curt nod, "And how do you know me?"
She opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out so she closed it then repeated the same motion three more times before giving a big sigh, "That's a really long story, one you won't even believe, so can we please skip that question?"
He looked at her uncertainly, not planning to drop the matter but wanting to gain at least some information out of her, "What do you want?"
"To help you." She said and for the first time every trace of humor left her face.
He hesitated for a second raising a mocking eyebrow at her.
"Help me?" He repeated, "Help me do what exactly? Dig my own grave?"
She rolled her eyes at him again, "Nooo…!" She sighed in exasperation, before steeling herself and deciding that maybe telling him the truth could help with his trust issues, as much as she was allowed to anyway.
"Listen," She started seriously, "I know what's happening to you…"
He frowned at her; did she mean his dad being missing? Or… could she be talking about the irrational things he's been feeling recently…? No, nothing was going on with him he was just being… moody… or something…
"And I know that it's becoming more frequent… I also know that you're in huge danger D-Dean."
"What's that supposed to mean?" He asked easing up a bit on her, yet never lowering the gun.
She threw her hands up in exasperation, "Look, I'm not a demon or witch or something, here, see?" She asked fishing a silver well-worn rosary with crimson red beads from beneath the collar of her shirt, then started taking things out of her pockets, "Holly water," She splashed a bit on her hand, "salt," she opened a small bag and stuck a finger in the white crystals.
"Ok, ok, I get it!" He said interrupting her as she was digging her hand back into her pocket to produce god only knew what else.
He lowered his gun, yet still held it at his side, just in case.
"How do you know I'm in danger?" He asked.
"I have my sources..." She answered cockily but backtracked at his warning look.
"Seriously," She started again, "You wouldn't believe me if I told you..."
"Try me." He challenged cockily.
She sighed then looked around at the dark alley. Her eyes fixed on a dark corner and narrowed dangerously.
"Not safe." She stated quietly her hand going to the back of her jeans from where she produced her own gun. It was a serious piece of work too, all black with some kind of symbols or ancient language craved in the metal in a silvery color.
She aimed it at the place she'd been staring at with one hand while grabbing Dean's forearm with the other and started dragging him with her as she cautiously started walking backwards towards the exit.
"Cover me." She whispered to him after quickly glancing behind her. The words came naturally to her like she was used to working with him, like she trusted him, which was stupid on her part; you don't just hand your safety to someone you just met.
"What is it?" He asked her as he turned the other way facing the exit.
She ignored him, "Your car?"
He hesitated for a second not wanting to drag a total stranger with him to his car, ok so yes he did that a lot, but only to women he planned to screw and did not know about anything supernatural. Not that this Leen girl wasn't beautiful, she was more than that, but for some reason the familiar feel he got off of her disquieted him.
A low rumbling noise temporarily made him thrust his worries about the girl to the back of his mind and he went back on alert.
"That eager already, sweetheart?" He couldn't help but say with a smirk thrown behind his back at her.
She froze then made a choking sound while directing a disgusted look at him.
"Oh my... Please... Just... No, NO!" She looked positively creeped out and disgusted by his flirting. Wow, now that was one low blow to his ego.
"What?" He looked at her in confusion; he'd never had any woman EVER react that way to his flirting.
"Not now, ok? Where's your car?!" She repeated urgently.
He sobered up as another grunt sounded, this time closer to them and she pushed into him to move faster.
"This way!" He told her, grabbing one of her arms and moving down the street towards his impala, his eyes darting around looking for any sign of danger.
She followed after him in a jog, and as they reached the impala she swerved around sharply and muttering something intelligible under her breath she fired her gun. The bullet flashed red and hot as it soared towards the creature. One bullet, one hit, one kill. An ear splitting screech sounded and the creature disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
She paused in front of the car for a second, let her eyes trail over it, smirked then quickly jumped in the car and Dean hurried to drive them away as fast as he could.
Once settled down, she brought her smoking gun up before her face, and with a smug smirk blew at the barrel, "Eat that motherfucker!" She said in triumph.
Dean's lips momentarily twitched at that before he sobered up and his suspicions about the girl arose once more.
"What the hell was that all about?" He asked her seriously.
"Oh, you know, just an ickle-wickle monster..." She said with a bright smile.
He rolled his eyes, no shit Sherlock.
"What kind of monster?" He clarified as if talking to a five year old.
"A Succubus..." She said in a bored voice getting comfortable in her seat and going to stare out the window.
"A Succubus?" He asked in surprise.
"Yeah, you know, as in beautiful beast who feeds on sex and men."
"And it was what? Looking for its next prey at the bar?" He frowned; just as he was there, and just as she came up to him. No, this certainly did not look like a coincidence. With his lifestyle he'd learnt that nothing was ever a coincidence.
"Oh, it was most definitely looking for its prey..." She looked at him pointedly.
"What?" He asked in confusion glancing at her from the corner of his eye.
"You were its prey Dean. It was after you. It had gone there especially to watch you then when she got the chance quite literally sink her teeth in you."
"Why would she be after me? I don't remember ever pissing off a Succubus… I don't think..."
She sighed, "First of all, there isn't a monster or demon out there that isn't pissed at you for one reason or another, but no; it was supposed to be the first big step in their master plan, I suppose. The one I was sent here to make sure it doesn't succeed."
He glanced at her again, "Who're they?"
"I dunno, some monsters or demons or something who are trying to conquer the world, you know... The usual..." She waved her hand in dismissal.
"And how exactly will me being caught by a Succubus help them do that?" He asked in confusion; all a Succubus would do is suck his energy up till he was left with nothing and ultimately die. "They want me dead?" He knew from personal experience that it was never as simple as that, and he was proven right with her next words.
"No... Well, yes, but no... They want to use you to get to the location of a very important person…" She trailed of worriedly, "If they are able to find that person things will get messed up, big time!"
"Someone I know?" He asked in confusion.
"Well, not exactly... You haven't met them yet but you will soon enough…" She told him enigmatically.
He frowned at her, his eyes leaving the road for a moment to stare at her as he tried to make sense of what was happening and what she was telling him.
There was a moment of silence as he mulled over what she was telling him, where she'd leaned over to fiddle with the cassettes in his glove compartment and busied herself with studying the titles with a soft smile.
"Some things never change, aye?" She mumbled to herself, smiling softly.
"You said you were sent here... Who sent you?" He asked finally breaking the silence.
"Someone who cares about you a lot, and wants to make sure that you still have a future to come back to at the end of the day." She told him mysteriously with obvious excitement and amusement lacing her words.
She seemed to enjoy playing the whole mysterious person with the riddles and unknown origins, maybe a little too much even.
"Dad?" He asked, not being able to think of anyone else who would be so interested in his safety and protection that he would send someone to help keep him out of trouble.
"No, not really. Someone higher up the scale…" She said with amusement like she was laughing at some private joke or something. "Someone who wants to make sure you do all those great things that you haven't done yet..."
He frowned at her seeing that she wasn't going to elaborate.
"A Succubus is a hard thing to kill..." He trailed off looking pointedly at her and trying to use a different approach.
She raised an eyebrow at him, "And...?"
"You killed it with one bullet."
"Yeah, well, what can I say? I'm good at what I do." She said cockily with a smug smile as she looked sideways at him.
"That being what? Hunting?"
"Yep." She said popping her P and went back to gaze outside the window.
He stared at her in silence. There was something very unsettling about this girl; she reminded him too much of someone, though who that person was he couldn't say for sure.
"Who exactly are you?" He asked in frustration.
She smiled at him, "Someone who will have much to gain from you staying alive…"
Another enigmatic response.
He huffed in anger. Whatever he did the girl refused to elaborate; all she did was speak in riddles! The more he asked the more confused he got!
"Look," She started seeing his temper flare at her attempts to evade his questions since she wasn't sure if she should answer them, "I can tell you... But I'm pretty sure you won't believe me if I did."
"Try me!" He repeated what he'd said to her the first time she told him that, this time with more emotion.
"Ok, fine!" She surrendered; this thing was getting out of hand. She was supposed to come here, do what she had to do, and go back home in a couple of days maximum. Look what was happening; at this rate it'd take her a month to get him to even consider letting her help him. She should've known really; he had always been too stubborn for his own good. "But seriously… Not here, not now, and most definitely not while you're driving at the speed that you are!
"Ok! I'm pulling over then!" He countered, moving to do just that.
"No, take me to whatever motel you're staying at. Sam needs to hear this too and I am not going to go through this impossible conversation twice. Plus, he's the logical and smart one from the two of you; he might very well believe me without much of a fuss."
"Hey!" He protested childishly.
"Ain't nothin but the truuuuth…" She said in a singsong voice.
"Cocky much…?" He huffed.
"Yeah, well. They say I take after my dad, so... blame him..." She said barely able to contain her amusement and ended up bursting out laughing.
He rolled his eyes at her; this girl's sense of humor was waaaay too weird.
When they reached the motel, he parked the impala, and just as she was about to open the door and get out he grabbed her wrist.
She looked questionably back at him.
"One wrong move and I swear I won't hesitate to-" He started threateningly.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." She interrupted waving him off and removing her arm from his grasp, "You're gonna kick my ass, kill me before I can blink blah blah blah... I know the drill D-Dean, come on!"
She stepped out of the car and started walking towards the motel.
When they reached the door to the room the two brothers were staying at, Dean unlocked the door and called to his brother while silently gesturing for Leen to step in.
"Hey, Dean, did you-?" Sam started but the words froze on his lips when he saw that his brother had brought company.
"Oh... Err... Hey..." He started awkwardly, knowing that there was only one reason for his brother to bring a woman with him.
"Err... Sorry... I didn't know you were bringing someone with you, just give me a sec and I'll be out of here..." He said while hastily grabbing his laptop and some of his stuff. Inwardly, however, he was seething; first of all, they were looking for Jess' killer, and second, Dean had to understand that he wasn't hunting alone anymore! This room was his as well, he couldn't just assume that his brother was going to be alright with it and leave?! And without so much as a warning too!
"Sam, no!" The girl said. He looked up at her with surprise; his brother wasn't in the habit of telling his numerous conquests of his life story, so why would he tell this girl about him?
The girls face contorted in disgust then as if just realizing what the situation they were in looked like, "Oh my god! No, no, no! I have absolutely no intention of-" She made a choking disgusted noise, "-with him, like ever!"
Dean frowned at her again; the girl was sending his ego one blow after the other. He couldn't understand why her reaction to him was so... Negative... It was like he was some kind of hairy smelly gorilla or something...
"Oh... Sorry, I just thought-" Sam started looking a bit confused.
"Do not think along those lines, like ever! Please, just... Oh, god this is wrong on sooo many levels...!" She complained gesturing wildly with her hands, "Could we please go back to the actual reason I'm here? Other that being emotionally scarred for the rest of eternity?!"
Dean cleared his throat, "Yeah... Err... Sam, this is Leen. I was going to the bar when she helped me dispose of a Succubus-" He started telling Sam only to be, unsurprisingly, interrupted by her scoff. He wasn't being completely truthful, yes, but he also wasn't about to admit to being the damsel in distress of the situation.
"Err, excuse you!" She exclaimed in amusement/indignation, "I saved your sorry ass from that Succubus who was, just FYI, mere seconds away from sinking her teeth in you!"
He grinned a bit sheepishly at her. "Yeah... Well...-"
She groaned in exasperation.
"Men!" She huffed, shaking her head and walking towards one of the beds and plopping down on it.
"What are you waiting for?" She asked a moment later, seeing as they were both just standing there staring at her. "Have a seat, you two are gonna need to be sitting down to hear this."
Glancing at each other for a moment they nodded and moved to do as she said. Sam sat back on the chair he'd previously occupied after turning it around so he was facing her, and Dean went to sit on the other bed opposite her.
"Ok..." She started before clearing her throat and moving so she was resting her elbows on her knees with had her hands laced under her chin as she looked at them. "Like I told Dean before, you're both in grave danger... You have monsters and demons after you because they think you two, or one of you two, is the key to finding someone very important..." She paused for a second trying to gather her thoughts.
"Find who?" Sam asked hesitantly.
"Someone they are terrified of because she will destroy so many of them it isn't even funny... Their myths and prophecies state that once she reaches her full power, the king of hell himself will be no match to her..." She said seriously, with no trace of humor whatsoever.
The two brothers shared a look.
"Isn't that good? I mean even if they find this... Creature you're talking about, it's not like she can't take care of herself if she's as powerful as you say..." Dean commented.
"Wait a second!" Sam interrupted with frustration. "Can someone tell me what's going on here? You two just burst in here out of nowhere and start talking about myths and prophecies and just expect me to understand what's going on?!"
"Sam... I was sent here, ok? Someone who wants you both to stay alive sent me here to help you... While looking for you two, I noticed a Succubus hunting your brother so I stepped in and took care of it. Dean was -is- distrustful and demanded I explain how I know him and what I'm doing here, so I insisted we find you first so I don't need to have this crazy conversation twice... We good?" She explained looking expectantly at him.
He nodded his head after a moment, curious about what she had to say.
"Ok, good. So, my exact orders were to stick around for a few days and help out if necessary till you pass through a specific state -and no, I'm not telling you which-. Once there, I am to take you to meet someone who will turn into a very important part of both of your lives, especially yours, Dean, and then when that is taken care of I am to go on my merry way and finally get out of your hair... Basically, I have to try and make sure that the future doesn't change..." She tried to explain this as clearly as possible without saying stuff she shouldn't.
"The future... You talk about that like..." Sam started uncertainly.
"Like I know what will happen, yes..." She continued for him.
"What? How-" Sam asked startled sharing another look with his equally surprised brother.
She sighed, "I'll get to that just... Just listen to me for a sec..."
"To answer your question, Dean... No, that's not good at all! I said she was powerful when she reaches her full power, right now she has no power at all and as of yet she's a simple human being... However, she is very well protected and impossible to find by all but one person, someone they call The Crown's Righteous Man... Prophecy states that he's her soulmate, her other half, and ultimately her one point of weakness."
"So what you're saying is... They want to find this girl, and to do that they need to find her other half and use him to lead them to her?" Sam said trying to make sense of what she was telling them.
"Exactly... Because her powers won't be unlocked till she meets him... It's like her powers are in... Like, a state of coma waiting to be awakened..." She said nodding at him.
"And you're telling us this because what? They think this righteous man is one of us?" Dean asked.
"Yes." She nodded.
"And are they right? Is he one of us?" Sam asked.
"Unfortunately they are... They don't know which one of you it is though... But that doesn't really help you much..."
"Do you know? Which of us it is I mean?" Dean asked.
"Yeah, it's you, Dean..." She said looking at him in the eye.
He looked a bit shocked at that, "I... I wouldn't really call myself a 'righteous man'..."
"Well, I would... Cause that's what you are..." She said smiling at him.
"And how do you know of all of this exactly?" Sam asked her suspiciously.
"Well... That's because I know who she is... This woman they're looking for... I know her... She's-"
A/N: brrrrrrrr! It's soooo coooooold! My fingers are freezing! This calls for hot chocolate woooohoooo! And yes yes I knooooow, a bit of a cliffy... Sorry... I just really wanna know who you guys think Leen is... Please review telling me of your guesses and who you guys think she is! Even if I already have the next chapter up by the time you guys read this please tell me who you think she is! Be creative! She is a bit of an impossibility that's the only hint I'm giving you! Except for the ones I dropped all along the chapter that is! Okidoki then off to writing the next chapter with me! Over aaaaand out!