"Sonofabitch, Sam we gotta go" Dean flipped his phone shut and dug for his keys as he marched to the driver side of the car.
"And what, just give up on looking for Crowley-?"
"He's not here. He baited us out here Sam." Dean barked and started the engine. "He's at the house. He brought the goddamn dogs" He snarled and floored it once Sam got down into the car. The black classic tore up the dusty back roads, sending clouds of dust into the air before he slid onto the tarmac.
"HEEL"
The thunderous voice snapped Pepper out of her daze from being knocked back by the powerful shot. She groaned and her eyes hooded over as she looked up.
"Now. Let's try this again, Virginia. I am willing to make a…settlement with you." The king fixed the cuffs on his shirt under his sports jacket. The invisible creature growling at his side. "Shall I..reiterate the terms" He said more than asked and Pepper swallowed.
Finding another bout of strength she wobbled to her feet. Bracing herself on the door that hung from its hinges, from the way she hit it more than the force of impact. She felt a sting on her lip and reached up with the back of her hand, looking down at the blood smeared over her creamy skin. Carefully she put the weight on her mangled ankle, anchoring her feet again, preparing to take another shot. Her brows knitted together as she raised the gun, not at the hound, but at the man before her; if she could really call him a man. A scowl twisted her face and her finger moved to the trigger, "How about I put a pretty silver bullet in that mouth, Crowley?" She snarled.
"Already a Winchester" He smirked
"Nope, just a southern born girl" She smirked back at him, and just as fast as she pulled the trigger, the hellish weight was bared down on her, and the foul smell washed over her. The smell of burnt flesh, The snarls shook her ears and she could feel the paws on her abdomen, the nails biting into her delicate skin making her scream out in agony. She could feel the air from snapping jaws, and the weight on the gun across her, pushing the barrel against the open jaw of the creature above her.
Kadence heard the struggle and she started stripping from her jacket as she began to phase, her clothes melting away and her breaths turning to pants. Fur melting and rising into her skin, the white smoke and blue sparks trailed behind her before she finally phased into a wolf. The stone colored, mutant sized canine roared out into the house, tearing open the doorway from the room leading into the kitchen; having a direct line to where the struggle was taking place. Kadence launched herself at the attacker.
There was a sound like two major league, NFL football players colliding into each other. And the Dining table snapped in half as the two canines fought. However, for Pepper it was confusing, how could the solid one see the other? Focusing a little more, she knew that coat and five foot frame anywhere. Yelps and howls rang through the house and made her ears ring. She laid there in a daze then, gripping her side tight as she tried crawling away, her right ankle torn and ripped right through her sweats and boot, her left side ripped along with a few other gashes.
Crowly smirked and marched over, "I usually don't bother with petulant.." He snapped and took a fist full of the red hair making her yelp and twist around, trying to give some slack and her scalp some relief. "Humans" He snarled and lifted her higher. Just high enough where she still couldn't stand, but low enough to where she couldn't bring her feet under herself, all of her weight hanging by the fistful of hair. Just before he spoke there was a stripe of headlights that crossed over his eyes, and the dirt sliding against tires. Both of their attention turned to the bay kitchen window where the massive wolf was still wrestling with the hound beneath her.
Sam spotted the giant animal first as he got out of the car. "What the hell…is that" He swallowed and stared for another moment before his brother pulled his twelve gage from the back. "That- I thought Hellhounds..we couldn't see them" He huffed when an axe was shoved against his chest.
"Doesn't matter. It's dead when I get in there" Dean growled and kicked the lock on the front door and made a beeline for the kitchen. Just as a bark and a loud Howl shook the house. Then silence.
Crowley was gone, the hound dead under the blood stained wolf as its body heaved with deep breaths. Pepper had fallen to the floor, being dropped by her assailant. Dean stormed into the kitchen with his twelve gage cocked and loaded, aimed right at the granite colored wolf. The white in her fur stained a scarlet red from her own blood mixed with the hound. Hearing the gun cock Kadence spun around and laid her ears back in fear, tucking her tail and backing against the wall. Dean took a shot and she yelped but dodged it by milliseconds as she cowered against the wall, another shot rang out and it was like a moving target.
"Stand still you son of a bitch!" He roared in frustration and took another shot, ahead of her snout, splintering the wood on the doorframe, making her stop short.
"Dean!" Pepper cried, finally able to snap back into it, Sam kneeling down next to her to keep her from hurting herself even more. "Dean stop!" She pleaded with him.
Dean raised the gun again, aiming it right between the wolf's eyes, the fear and pain flooding the moon white eyes as soft whines left her nose, lowering her whole body down to the floor. "What do you mean stop!?" He demanded.
"She saved me!" She shouted back and gripped her side as Sam started to put layers of paper towels over her gushing wound. "Dean..Dean that's Kadence" She breathed feeling the loss of blood starting to take its toll.
Dean lowered his gun and stared at her, wide eyed and dumbfounded but angry at the same time. A dangerous mix for a Winchester. Shifting on his feet he furrowed his brows in confusion looking back to the wolf against the wall. Kadence stared right back at him with wide, fearful eyes and she slowly moved. Watching Dean like a hawk, making sure he would allow her to move. Once he didn't move she moved back to the invisible corpse that she had killed. Placing a paw on the invisible body. An image fading in the shape of a dead hellhound. The broad shoulders and neck, the sculpted legs, narrow hind end. The burnt and charred hide with huge gashes in its side and around the neck, which was bent in a way that..clearly wasn't supposed to be. Laying her ears flat again she glanced at Dean and cowered against the back wall again.
"See?" Pepper told him quietly.
"Get out" He spoke lowly and nodded at the wolf.
"Dean-"
"I said, git!" He barked and lunged forward at her, making her yelp and bound out of where she came in. "Damn dogs" He grumbled and walked from the room.
Sam watched and looked back at a heart broken Pepper, seeing that before the obvious pain. "Come on..Let him cool off" Sam said softly as he gently picked her up from the floor.
She leaned into him and let him carry her to the bathroom. "She wouldn't have hurt me..she-"
"I know," Sam caught her and set her down on the side of the tub.
"I..I wanna see her." She moved to get up but Sam stopped her.
"Pepper, not right now. I need to patch you up first…"
"Sam.." she pleaded and winced at her ankle as Sam started peeling her boot away.
