After dinner Sam helped Jaylee do dishes. She washed, he dried. Sam broke the silence after awhile.
"So what's with the new look?" Sam asked. She smiled and handed him another plate.
"People change Sam, grow" She answered eyes on the plate she had been scrubbing. "Why? You think I look stupid?"
Sam laughed and shook his head. "I don't think you look stupid. You look so grown up." Sam nudged her shoulder and Jaylee grinned. She was so happy she wouldn't have to worry anymore. She could focus on work and school without the little voice in the back of her mind constantly asking, "Where are they?"
Sam and Jaylee finished with the dishes and moved to the living room plopping down on the couch by Dean.
"So what are our plans for this weekend?" Dean asked a huge smile on his face.
Jaylee frowned "Uhm…. I have work."
Dean made a face. "Work? Our fist weekend back and you have work?" He asked annoyed.
Jaylee thought for a moment. "I guess I could tell Jack I am sick." Bobby gave her a disapproving look. "What? They just got back! Plus jack won't miss me for a day." She gave him a smile and he sighed. Jack was short for Jackson. Jackson owned the hardware store in town and after much convincing from Bobby that she was a good worker he hired her. She had been working there for 4 months and hadn't taken a single sick day. With both him and Lou there she figured they would survive 2 or 3 days without her.
"Nice! We can cause chaos!" said Dean bouncing up and down on the couch.
"Not tonight though." Jaylee interrupted "I am wiped."
Dean frowned "Seriously?"
Jaylee nodded. She got up, hugged all her boys, and headed off to bed.
Jaylee was awoken by the weight of someone laying on the bed beside her. She turned to face them.
"Dean?" She saw his green eyes in the light that came through the window.
"Yeah." He whispered "Sorry I woke you up." She shook her head "No problem. Something wrong?"
"No" He answered, "Sam is just snoring really loud and the couch is not comfy."
Jaylee understood. "Well I'm awake now….tell me bout some of your hunts maybe it will help me fall back asleep."
"Ok" He agreed
He told her about two teens he had saved from a possessed doll and a woman who had become a vampire. He told her about a old man Elroy and his dog Conrad who had sniffed out a spirit in an animal shelter. He then got to a person whose story stuck in her head.
While on a normal hunt Sam and Dean found a series of books that told their entire life story. They went to the publisher looking for the author 'Carver Edlund' and found that it was in fact only a pen name. They pleaded with the publisher to tell then his real name and after a bit she caved and told them his name was Chuck Shurley. He did not know that Sam and Dean were real until they found out about the novels and sought him out. He didn't believe them at first slamming the door in their faces several times. They finally proved who they were when they told him their last name which wasn't in the books. Chuck was surprised at first saying "Well, there's only one explanation. Obviously I'm a god." To which Sam replied "You're not a god" But Chuck didn't believe him and went on a spiel about how sorry he was that he was such a "A cruel, cruel, capricious god" and he was horrible for putting them through everything that had happened. After talking to The angel Castiel they found out he was a prophet of the lord which meant he could see the future.
"He sounds.." She yawned "Pretty awesome."
Dean stretched "Yeah but not at first" but Jaylee was already out cold. Dean closed his eyes and before he knew it he was asleep too.
Jaylee woke up to the sound of heavy footsteps coming up the stairs.
"Oh no" She tried to get out of her bed but she was tangled in her blankets. "Shit!"
Sam came barreling through the door and jumped flying on to her bed pinning her underneath him. "Good morning sunshine!"
"Ugh…mpft…sammhhh….you…..ahhhh" She tried to talk but she was buried underneath her comforter and Sam was on top of that. Ever since she could remember Sam had been doing this. They had been gone for so long she had forgotten about the routine.
She shoved him off the bed and he landed on the floor with a loud 'thud'. She laughed and moved to the side of the bed peeking her head over. Sam was sprawled on the floor and frown on his face.
"Sorry" she said "A girls gotta breathe!"
"That hurt you jerk!" he fake whined
"Stop being a little bitch!" She spoke back to him. "Now go I gotta get dressed"
Sam got up still whining and complaining about a sore butt.
Jaylee grabbed he favorite tank top. It had a quote that she was in love with printed in black across the army green material that quote said "What is hidden in the snow, comes forth in the thaw." She grabbed a pair of ripped black jeans and her trusty bullet belt before slipping her boots on and walking down stairs.
She braided the strands of hair that fell on either side of her head and grabbed the hair gel out of her bag.
"Girl! How many times I gotta tell you not to fix your hair in the dining room!" Bobby yelled from his office.
Jaylee ignored him continuing to run her fingers up and through her hair. Sam and Dean were seated at the table. Sam was on his laptop reading the local papers and Dean sat eyes trained on Jaylee.
She looked up noticing him.
"What?" She questioned. "He's hungry" Sam answered for him. Dean nodded.
Jaylee sighed and turned on her heel towards the kitchen.
"You're lucky I'm hungry."
She prepared Pancakes and turkey bacon making sure to burn the bacon a bit for the boys. She also made two small fruit bowls for Sam and her adding extra grapes for the both of them. Dean practically inhaled his food rushing back to the kitchen for seconds.
"NEVER STOP COOKING US FOOD!" He yelled from the kitchen.
After breakfast they watched the news and let the food settle especially in Dean stomach which emitted a small growl every now and then. They decided after a bit to go into town and see a movie, hang out then, get some lunch. Bobby opted out saying he was tired and had things to do around the house, but Jaylee knew it was because he had a huge crush on the waitress in Keke's diner and he had made an ass out of himself the last time they had visited.
Walking outside Jaylee smiled. "Baby!" She cooed. She was talking to Dean's 1967 Chevy Impala. The car she had first driven. She remembered being 10 sitting on Dean's lap steering while he worked the pedals.
"I missed you!" She hopped in the backseat looking for her necklace she had left tied to the back of Dean's headrest. She untied the small necklace and put it on. She had tied it there 2 days before the boys had left not thinking she wouldn't get it back for another year.
Dean started the car and loud classic rock filled the cabin with good feelings. Jaylee told Sam to roll his window down and he did letting the warm spring air rush in. Deans phone rang a low guitar riff played. Dean held the wheel with one hand while he reached into his pocket to get the phone.
"Hello….what's wrong?" Deans brow wrinkled and he looked around. "What do you mean? Calm down!"
Then Dean slammed on the breaks. Jaylee flew into the back of Sam's seat.
"What the hell!" Jaylee yelled "Dean are you crazy you could have-" But she stopped.
Standing in the middle of the road was a man. He looked up distressed, his face unshaven and his clothes wrinkled. Sam and Dean were out of the car in seconds. Jaylee sat up and pushed the front seat up so she could get out of the car. The man was now looking around and chatting nervously with Dean.
"Okay, We'll go back to bobby's and figure it out. Just calm down" She heard Dean tell him. Jaylee didn't understand what was happening. This man had appeared out of thin air, and Sam and Dean ran up to him without hesitation.
"I don't understand I was at home and I saw you guys getting into a car crash over by that tree and now I'm here" The man spoke.
It hit Jaylee then. This was Chuck the prophet.
