HEY so my computer with chapter 3 and 4 finished has not been turning on for 3 weeks and is toast. Which is why I haven't posted anything. (I'm writing this message from my phone) I'm posting this chapter cause thankfully it's been saved in my doc on here before my computer caped out... hope you like the chapter, when I get my computer fixed I will re write and post as soon as I can.

Chapter 2

The day had been long and everyone's eyes were about ready to fall out of their heads by the time they gave up for the night.

"I think I need new eye balls." Nichole rubbed at her eyes trying to ease the pain in them, her eye lids felt like sandpaper.

"Me and you both sister." Bobby groaned, talking a walk to the kitchen to stretch his legs.

Sam looked at his brother "We should call Cas see if he knows anything."

Dean nodded in agreement, folding his hands on the table resting his forehead against them. It'd been a long day of driving and his talk or fight with Nichole had just taking a lot out of him. But Dean was just happy to see his daughter was healed, physically anyways.

Nichole got up from her chair walking over to the kitchen looking around in the cupboards. Signing she closed them up and walked back into the living room area looking at her father.

"Can I borrow the keys?" Nichole held her hand out.

Dean stared at her out stretched fingers and then back at her face. Nichole rolled her eyes her hand dropping to her side.

"There's not snacks left in the kitchen." Nichole explained "I want to hit up the local food mart and get some food for tomorrow morning."

"I just stocked the kitchen a couple days ago." Bobby said looking at her weirdly.

"Try almost over a week. Can I have the keys or do I have to hitchhike?"

Nichole looked over to her uncle for help but Sam was as tired as Dean was and was over thinking the simple request. Probably trying to no over step any faults that might follow their decisions

"Fine." Dean signed raising his hips off the chair in order to reach the keys in his pocket "Done leave your phone behind."

Dean kept his grip as his daughter took hold of the keys, their eyes locked. His face told her that he was tired and wasn't in the mood for the smart ass reply she had brewing about how she wasn't a child.

"I'll be back."

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Nichole signed, the traffic lights above her father's car were red at a four way stop. The roads were silent as she sat there, locking the doors and turning down the music. Finally the lights changed to green and Nichole pulled forwards, the snacks she'd brought to hold them over we in the back here she'd laid them. Her mind still racing form her encounter at the corner store.

The road back to Bobby's was twisty but bare which allowed Nichole to speed without fear of crashing head on into someone.

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"Sam!" Dean called grumpily for his spot on the couch, Lap top in hand.

"No, leave it alone. I'm not going to help you spy on my niece."

"She's my daughter, I'm doing what fathers do." Dean said defending himself.

Nichole had gone to high school and lived at Bobby's for a while, she still had some friends who lived and had jobs in the area. But she hadn't hung out with them more than a couple times a year and all the sudden she was going out with them all the time. To Dean that only meant one thing, there had to be a boy involved.

Sam laughed shaking his head at his brother, Dean had been trying to turn on Nichole's phone GPS for almost an hour now.

"Maybe she's just hanging out with some friends." Sam said sitting in a chair across for Dean.

"Male friends." Dean scoffed under his breath.

"She's 19."

"Yea! You were a 19 year old boy once. You know what 19 year old boys think about. Sex Sam, sex." Dean said going quite and focusing back in on the phone.

"I'm sorry and you lost your virginity at what age." Sam smirked at his brother.

Not looking up from the phone Dean shot a "Shut up."

"Hey boys I got a hit." Bobby grumbled, holding out a book to them.

"What is it?" Sam sat up.

"You ever hear of the arachne? It's this monster that like a spider wraps his victims in a web. The arachne with either bit their captive to turn them into an arachne or feed on their flesh." Bobby explained reading a page in a old book.

Dean shivered "That's just great."

"I thought you didn't have a problem with spiders." Sam teased.

"Yea when I can crush'em under my boot."

The front door silently opened and closed behind as Nichole returned, her eyes were heavy and her body was run down. Her and her friends had been swimming and she'd fallen on the hard tile deck, at least that's what she'd say if any of her family noticed.

"Living room." Dean called, hearing Nichole starting up the stairs to her bedroom.

She'd been coming home and then going to her room for a couple hours before coming to be social again, it was driving Dean nuts. He's daughter had been pulling away slowly since Austin and her hospital, he often wondered if getting Cas to change her memories was a god thing or not.

"Dad I'm really tired." Nichole sighed, not moving for the 6th step, leaning the top of her body over the railing to see everyone in the living room area.

"Then you better make your way down here so I can say what I have to say and then you can go do whatever you do up in your room." Dean said in his father tone. Which sounded a lot like his voice when he scolded Sam on hunts.

Moving slow trying to ignore the pain in her side Nichole moved into the living room standing in the middle waiting for her father to speak.

"You have fun?" Dean asked.

The confusion was evident on Nichole's face as she looked to Sam and Bobby for clarification on what was happening.

"Yeah I guess." Nichole's voice was unsure, as she shrugged.

"You guess- you were gone for over 6 hours." Dean stood up then, so he stood taller than his daughter.

"What do you want to hear?" Nichole's tone now suspicious "We did a couple lines in the pool bathrooms than went skinny dipping. Oh and after that we decided to hunt the water demon-" Pausing at the look on her father's face -"I'm kidding."

"Dean." Cas's deep voice rang from behind Nichole. she jumped feet into the air.

"What?" He looked over his daughter's head.

Cas said nothing just looked at Nichole's back, hopping Dean would get the message that they needed to talk privately about her. Dean nodded, Sam had also caught the side glances between the angel and is brother and stood, letting them know he wanted in on the conversation.

"I've got a case to talk to you about." Cas said lamely. trying to cover the silence "How'd your side? you fell hard."

Nichole's eyes went wide as she took in what the angel had said to her, her eyes feel into slit after the shock as she turned on her father.

"You've got to be kidding me, You had his pixie ass follow me!"

"Hey!" Dean scolded at the language and tone that came out of his daughters mouth "You've been disappearing for hours at a time almost every day for weeks now. Cas was the next best thing to a phone track."

"I'm 19 years old I'm an adult, you can't do that."

"In Canada! Welcome to America. I'm your father and above that I know about the real shit in this world. You can't just go off whenever you want without expecting me to keep tabs on you!" Dean was getting angry now. "I know you need time to heal after Austin's death-"

"-UH Dean" Cas tried to stop him but Dean ignored him.

"-But this had gone on for long enough, You can't keep blaming yourself for this and mopping around here like a tweenster who's pet gold fish just died."

Dean and Nichole were so much alike in many ways, they were both hard to read when they wanted to be and were both equally stubborn. The worst part was when they wanted to hold a grudge they could and Nichole was holding a big one.

"oh yeah?" Nichole's voice was chilling, she took a single challenging step towards her father.

After they just stared at each other the house deathly quiet Nichole pulled the fakest smile across her lips and nodded once at her father before turning and walking upstairs to her room. Once she was gone Cas came back into Dean's line of vision a sour look on her face.

"What." Dean snapped, feeling like he was the one who'd just got scolded.

"Austin isn't dead Dean." Cas stated.

Dean rolled his eyes taking a seat on the chair behind him, Cas was so damn oblivious to humanity sometimes even though he'd been with them for years now.

Sam took the lead with Cas seeing that Dean was to fed up to deal with the angel right now.

"We know that Cas, we're the ones who'd called you."

Cas nodded stupidly "Yes well, I looked over Nichole as asked. She hasn't been hanging out with school friends."

Dean's head snapped up to look at Cas, if he was implying what Dean thought he was implying there was going to be hell to pay.

"Austin!?" Cas nodded "That SON OF A BITCH."

"But we let him go." Sam clearly taken back. "Why'd he risk coming around Bobby's"

"To see his mate." Cas tone voiced that it should be obvious.

"What?" Dean was so far confused now.

"Is that not the term you use?"

"Cas, mate as in life partner sort of thing." Sam said trying to explain.

"We'll you humans don't seem to stay together very long, unlike animals."

"Back on topic, why is he here?" Bobby cut in.

"To see Nichole."

Dean's heart dropped, Nichole and Austin were friends they weren't together, he voice his thought to the room but Cas seemed to disagree.

"That isn't- they weren't- aren't together Cas." Dean said, pounding his fist on the coffee table.

Sam sat beside his brother, both looking like parents who'd gotten bad news "How long has he been in town?"

"I don't know when they started meeting exactly." Cas shrugged, he'd only started looking in on her after Dean called earlier him and asked where she was.

"Here's a question, how come you didn't tell us once you knew he was in town?" Dean shouted.

"I assumed you knew."

Bobby laughed without humour "Oh yeah these look like the faces of 3 people in the know."

"Where the hell is he now?" Dean snapped, getting Cas attention back on him.

"How should I know, you told me to follow Nichole. After she left the park Austin when in another direction and I followed her back here."

"I cannot believe this." Dean snapped, he was shaking in anger.

"Dean calm down." Sam's words fell on Dean's stubborn ears.

"SAM! God fixed you, put you up on that plane. THAT is the only reason you're still not sipping Demon juice. There is not a shadow of a doubt that Austin is still hooked and now he's after my daughter, YOUR NIECE!"

"I KNOW THAT DEAN!" Sam took a breath and spoke again, calmer this time. "All I'm saying is before you start cleaning your shot gun we talk to Nicky about this."

Nichole, she'd been sneaking behind his back, seeing that slimy blood drinking freak. She could have been hurt he could have killed her.

"That might be a problem." Cas said in his serious voice.

Dean shot him a look.

"Nichole left out her window."

"Cas what the hell!" Dean growled, shooting from his chair stopping around the room collecting his jacket and gun.

Sam followed his brother grabbing his things, telling Bobby to stay here and call if Nichole ended up back here. Though Sam doubted she would, his niece was stubborn and they'd all lied to her. Let her feel a great amount of pain when the truth might have saved her. And if what as was saying about "Mates" Then Nichole felt a great deal for Austin and would do anything to help him. Sam and Jess had happened years ago but he still held a torch for her never letting her go completely. If Dean had known that there was a way to bring her back and tell him he'd be pretty damn pissed too.

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Nichole had gone into her room and listened to her dad and uncle fight with Cas, they had all fucking lied to her. How could they do that, they kicked Austin out the second he'd turned into something he wasn't. It wasn't his fault they should have tried to help him.

Nichole didn't both packing a bag as she slipped onto the roof of Bobby's house climbing to the side, using the window ledge and bricks on the house to climb as far down as she could before jumping. Austin had told her which motel he was staying at, it wasn't to0 far away. Nichole knew she could reach it before night fall, she just hopped she'd gotten enough head start on her father.

Nichole ran for a good 5 minutes before slowing down, figuring she was far enough away to slow down now. Her mind drifted to a couple weeks ago, just after her dad and uncle just showed back up at Bobby's. The night she found out Austin hadn't been killed like her family said.

"Kim this is crazy." John her boyfriend laughed, watching her climb up a small mountain of rocks and dirt.

They were both high as kites while Nichole remained sober, laying on the grass below shirt pulled up to just under her bra. loving the feel of the sun directly on her skin.

"Nicky come join us!" Her friend squealed

"Naw I'm good." She signed, pulling her shades down over her eyes.

She laid there listening to her friends kissing and laughing as they stumbled climbing around on the rocks, she hoped they weren't so stoned as to think they could fly or something because she didn't feel like explaining that one to the cops.

The sun was shining hot warming her body when someone stepped up beside her blocking the heat.

"Dude your blocking my sun." Nichole groaned, pulling her glasses up to rest on her forehead.

"Sorry I didn't realize you could own a big ball of gas in the sky." Austin's voice startled her, as she looked up seeing how it was.

"NO," Nichole gasped on the verge of crying "Who the hell are you, what are you playing at!"

Austin held out his hands taking a step away from the now standing girl in front of him, not wanting to scare her.

"I assumed your father wouldn't have told you the real story." He sighed.

"The hell are you talking about."

"Nicky it's really me I promise, come walk with me and I'll tell you about that night."

"I know what happened That night, Austin died you black eyed son of a bitch!" Nichole's body was shaking with both anger and the fear to hope that Austin might still be in there.

"Nichole everything alright down there?" John seemed to have sobered a little bit at seeing the distress of his friend.

Nichole spared a look away from Austin's body, looking up the rocks to her friends "I'm actually late to get back home, I'll call you guys later."

They nodded and turned back around to whatever the hell they were doing before.

Nichole grabbed Austin's bodies arm, dragging him across the street to go behind the store ally way, she was going to take care of this ass hole. She didn't know how just yet, she had nothing on her.

"Who are you!" She growled pushing him hard against the wall.

"It's me!"

Nichole shook her head looking down, the fact that this Demon still sounded like Austin only hurt her more.

"Stop it, stop it!"

"Nicky." Austin's voice was soft, he reached his arms out holding her shoulders. "I promise you, it's me. If you'd let me go I brought a couple things to help."

Nichole stepped back, shaking his hands off her shoulders, she watched carefully as he moved pulling a bottle of water (holy water) and then a silver blade from his back pocket. Nicole knew she should call her dad, uncle Sam or Bobby anyone really, but she wasn't thinking straight.

She watched on as Austin cut himself bleeding red human blood and splashed holy water on his face, and she watched on as nothing happened.

"It's not possible." Nichole cried, looking up into those dark brown eyes.

"I promise you it is, I can explain it if you let me."

Nichole nodded, her arms wrapped around her body to protect herself from his coming words.

She felt betrayed by her family, how was she supposed to trust them from here on out, they lied to her about something so important. Her father had always made a big deal about family Austin was a part of hers and they claimed he was part of their too. Nichole looked around finding herself standing in the middle of the motel parking lot.

"You know your brothers are worried sick about you." Crowley's annoying voice came from behind Nichol e.

Turning slowly on her feet hoping that maybe she'd just imagined the voice, Nichole sighed deeply when she saw that wasn't the case.

"What do you want Crowley? I'm not in the mood."

Crowley made a tisk tisk noise with this tongue "I'm here to help you, you'd think pleasantries would be exchanged first."

"After all you've done." Nichole snapped , arm crossing over her chest.

"I think I've been quite helpful to you and your family."

Nichole rolled her eyes, he thinks helping a little along the way makes up for the damage done.

"If you're not here for anything other than to piss me off, I was going somewhere." Nichole said turning away.

"Your father were right to keep Austin's whereabouts a secret-"

"-They didn't lie about his location, they lied about his life. My Father always makes a big deal about family being the most important thing, when one little thing goes wrong with Austin they kick him out!" Nichole fought to keep her voice level.

"You are aware that your friend is still drinking the demon juice." Crowley asked, looking behind her to Austin who was standing outside his motel room.

"Yes. He unlike my family told me everything." Nichole snapped, turning and walking towards Austin.

"Not everything." Crowley muttered before disappearing.