Sioux Falls, South of Dakota. At Bobby Singer's.
5:07 am.
Leaned against his desk, Bobby stared at the young woman attentively as she was sat in the middle of the couch in his messy living room. She would bring her hands up and put locks of her hair behind her ears every once in a while before putting her hands on her lap. She didn't look nervous but she surely didn't look at ease either. So far, Bobby thought she was taking what was happening to her not too badly. There were worse reactions. He glanced at the two Winchester brothers. They were sat on two chairs across from the brunette of 5'6" tall. They seemed to be listening carefully at every words that left her mouth, but Dean seemed to be studying her, analyzing her. He was staring at her as if he was waiting for her to make a Freudian slip. However, Sam seemed to have some sympathy for the young woman. He looked at her with soft eyes and there was not an ounce of suspicion in his manners, unlike his older brother. The old man turned his gaze back to the woman as she was telling them about the visit of that angel and once she finished, Dean spoke up.
"His name is Castiel," Dean told her and she looked up at him.
"So all of this is... Real?" She asked hesitantly.
"I'm afraid so," Sam replied making her look at him. He gave her smile full of sympathy and she realized that he was certainly the one out of the two brothers to be sweeter to people. Dean seemed too agitated and careless, and above all he seemed to have something against her. "Don't worry, we'll find a way to send you back home."
"God," she moaned as she put her face in her hands "It's all a very bad dream and I'm gonna wake up."
"I'm sorry kiddo, but it ain't a dream," Bobby said and she groaned louder and wilder against her hands. Dean and Sam looked at each other, Dean murmuring that she was crazy.
"How come he was wearing a trench coat?" Kate asked all of sudden as she looked up at them.
"What?" Sam asked frowning his eyebrows.
"I had asked him why he was wearing a trench coat and where his wings were and he told me it was irrelevant," she explained.
"He was right, it's irrelevant," Dean replied as he stood up and went to the kitchen. Kate glared at him as he walked away.
"It's his vessel," Bobby replied pulling her attention back to him "His vessel was dressed like this so the winged-man decided to keep wearing those clothes."
"Vessel?" Kate asked "What do you mean exactly by vessel?"
"Meatsuit, if you prefer!" Dean replied as he came back with a beer in his hand.
"He is possessing a person?" Kate asked alarmed as she looked back and forth at Bobby and Sam.
"Yeah, this is why you can't see his wings," Sam replied.
"Well, yeah he can show them off once in a while like he did with this idjit there," Bobby said nodding his head at Dean who was leaning at a wall. Kate couldn't help but smile as she looked at Bobby when he called Dean an idjit. It reminded her of her old man.
"What kind of angels are they? I mean how can they even possess people? Isn't it the bad guys who do that kind of things?" She asked, face full of confusion.
"Hum yeah, in a way," Sam replied "Dean told us that Castiel's vessel had prayed for this to happen. So I guess they really need the person to be okay with being possessed by an angel. Demons, however, they won't be as careful of your wishes. If they want to possess you, they will."
"That's a very reassuring thing to tell me, thank you Sam," Kate replied with sarcasm.
"This isn't important," Dean said "What is important is that you go back to where you're from asap because we don't have time to babysit you or anyone else-"
"Babysit me? I never asked you to babysit me," Kate cut him off as she frowned her eyebrows at him.
"Yeah, well the trench coat angel did," Dean told her almost bitterly.
"Well, I don't care what the angel said or didn't say!" She stood up "I'm not going to stay here as you follow orders that you obviously don't want to and-" She was cut off by Sam who stand up.
"Kate, stop," he said "The thing is that you don't have anywhere to go," he told her gently as he motioned her to calm down and sit down but she didn't do anything so he sighed and continued "You don't even exist in this world. As far as I know, we're the only people who know that you do exist and that can really help you." She looked at him weighing the pros and the cons in her mind. "You have every right to walk out that door and to find a way back home, back your dimension on your own. But if you are honest with yourself you will know that this isn't the best thing to do." Kate kept her gaze locked with his before she sighed and sat down. Sam softly exhaled in relief.
"Don't you go thinking you're really good at manipulating my mind," she said pointing at the tall man "You just pointed out true facts..." She mumbled. Sam couldn't help have a little smile.
"Now that we've all agreed, I say we start digging a little bit," Bobby announced.
"Does that mean we put aside the breaking seals?" Sam asked looking at the old man.
"What? No, we better not if we want to avoid Armageddon," Bobby replied as Kate looked back and forth at the two men. Dean was staring at her when she turned her head to him and caught him staring at her. He didn't even look away.
"What?" She sharply asked.
"Nothing," he replied scoffing as he walked towards the middle of the room.
"Okay, Sam and Dean you keep your mind on the apocalypse and I will work on the lady's problem," Bobby said as he pointed books to the brothers "Those were the ones I was working on. Keep digging in them."
"Okay," Sam replied nodding his head. "I'm gonna make some coffee first."
"Can I help?" Kate asked as Sam was making his way to the kitchen.
"I think Sammy can make coffee without your help sweetheart," Dean replied sarcastically and she bit her tongue preventing herself from telling him to fuck off.
"Actually, I was talking about the research," she said and Dean huffed a little bit as he sat down behind Bobby's desk, put down his beer and opened a book.
"It's not an easy and pretty reading," Bobby told her.
"I'm sure it's not mister Singer but-"
"No mister Singer," he cut her off "Not at all." He shook his head. He hated when people called him Mister Singer. It made him feel like a teacher or some other crap. "Bobby."
"Okay hum sorry," she said before she coughed "Look, I've already figured it's going to be filled with dark, traumatizing things. But if we're two, the work will be done faster and I'll be able to get back home sooner." He stared at her and was hesitant. He wasn't sure that it was a good idea to show what their world was founded by to a woman from a world where supernatural didn't exist at the slightest. "Besides, I'm really good at researching. Very organized and very careful to every single facts," she told him with a little smile. He sighed and nodded.
"Alright, alright," he told her making her smile a little bit as he handed her the book that was in his hands. "We'll team up."
"Wait, Bobby! How am I supposed to translate all of this if you team up with her?" Dean asked as he looked up, his hands thrown at his sides.
"Oh yeah, I forgot that you and Sam aren't excellent at Latin," Bobby sighed "You know what?" He said turning to Kate who looked up at him. "You'll work with Sam on finding a way back home and I'll work with him."
"Oh okay, no problemo," she replied nodding her head. Sam arrived right at this moment with a coffee carafe in one hand and he managed to hold four mugs in the other. He put it down on the coffee table and started pouring it.
"I hope you like your coffee black, Kate," Sam said as he looked up at her and she nodded.
"Bobby, do you have any notepad and pen?" She asked and he nodded as he walked around his desk to open a drawer.
"Do you trust her?" Dean asked in a very low whisper making sure that only Bobby heard him.
"We don't have the choice if angels told you she was to be protected," he replied in a whisper while Kate was telling Sam that he was going to pair with her because Dean can't work on his own.
"Still doesn't mean we have to trust her," Dean whispered before meeting Bobby's eyes as the old man stood up with a notepad in his hand and grabbed a pen on the desk.
"We'll see," Bobby just said as he walked to the woman. Dean stared at her for a long few seconds before he looked down at the book in front of him. He couldn't help but be suspicious about her. What if she was more than just some chick lost in their dimension? Should he really trust the angels about this one?
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Sam was almost hypnotized. He was staring at the little brunette as she was writing down things on the notepad that Bobby had given her almost two hours ago. She would read two pages or more before writing down a few words. Her gestures had caught his attention when he glanced up to look at Bobby when one of his phones rang for the fourth time. She was very methodic and very concentrated. Nothing seemed to distract her at all. The moment they sat down around the kitchen table to have more room to work than around the coffee table, she had written at least fifteen pages of words and the only times their eyes met it was when she was taking her mug of coffee to drink. He had given her small smiles, polite and gentle smiles. She hadn't returned any of them the first times. But when he sighed showing his tiredness and boredom, she had looked up and gave him an amused little smile that made him smile fully before she lowered her head back down to the book in front of her.
Sam was pulled from his thoughts when a beer was suddenly put down right in front of him. He looked up to see his brother standing there with a growing smirk on his face.
"Hum no, thanks. It's actually still a bit early for beer," Sam replied and Dean shrugged as he took the bottle of beer back. Sam noticed that his brother's hand was holding a bottle of whisky "Or any other kind of alcohol." Dean scoffed.
"You found anything?" He asked him nodding his head at his pile of books.
"Not really," Sam replied "Just that there's a bunch of dimensions and they are locked one from another so normally getting through them is impossible." Dean glanced at the brunette as she looked up.
"You've had better luck?" He asked her.
"Depends," she replied as she turned a few pages of Bobby's notepad and then ripped a few up. "This is for you and Bobby. And this is for my problem," she said as she handed them a few pages and kept a few for herself. The brothers looked at her with a confused and curious frown on their faces as Dean put down the bottle of beer and took the pages from her hand. He looked at them and read quickly to find that it was a few notes over the apocalypse and the breaking seals. He looked back and forth at her and the papers in his hand.
"What is it?" Sam asked.
"There was a few references to the apocalypse and the breaking seals, so I thought why not write them down so you have them in hands in case you haven't read this book yet," she told him and he raised his eyebrows. "I've noted the pages of that book so you can check if you need more developed blahbla but this is a sort of sum up and key words and expressions."
"And this is good stuff," Dean said as he was skimming through her notes. Sam grabbed a few pages from Dean's hands and skimmed through them too.
"Good stuff? It's great stuff! It's huge," Sam exclaimed and Kate couldn't help but chuckle a little bit at his reaction. The brothers looked at her as she bit on her bottom lip trying to herself from laughing fully. Dean couldn't help but glance at her lips.
"What's going on?" Bobby asked from his seat next his desk.
"Kate," Sam said to Bobby "She found out that some seals don't weigh the same as others. And she found at least twenty seals and how they're supposed to happen. And damn a lot of other things."
"Where did you find all of this?" Bobby asked as he stood up and walked to them.
"Here," she showed the book laying in front of her "It talks about other dimensions and also their version of the apocalypse and apparently some are the exact same no matter the dimension." Bobby took the book and started looking at it while Dean gave the other pages to his brother and sat down on the chair between the brown-haired woman and Sam. He drank a very long sip of his bottle and Kate couldn't help but look at him when he did that.
"Well done kiddo," Bobby said pulling her attention back to him. She smiled up at him.
"I would suggest studying the Bible and every other religious books," she told him and Sam chuckled at her little enthusiastic advice.
"Yeah, but what about your problem? Did you find a way back home?" Bobby asked and she shook her head.
"I found basically the same than Sam. Nothing is supposed to go through dimensions, only powerful entities can make that happen and it has to be done very carefully or else. Oh and if there's no mojo on one side, there's no possibility of traveling through dimensions. Although some dimensions are connected through sort of little dimensions like Purgatory or Hell or something else called the Void," she said before shrugging "It's all very vague to be honest. But no one can go through dimensions, it's impossible so I don't really know..."
"No matter what," Dean started making Kate look at him "You made it to here, so you should be able to make it back there."
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After hours of researches, Dean had gone outside to take care of his car and Kate was starting to get hungry. She looked up at Sam sitting right across from her. He was deep in his reading, his wavy hair falling on the upper part of his face. As if he felt her gaze, he looked up at her questioning her with his eyes.
"Aren't you a bit hungry?" She asked him and he couldn't help the little corner smile that grew on his face. He looked down at his watch and realized it was noon. Sure she'd get hungry. They were up for hours doing nothing but researching and drinking black coffee. He realized that not only they didn't have any breakfast this morning, she didn't even eat since she came out of nowhere yesterday.
"You must be starving," he blurted out and she chuckled nervously as she nodded.
"Just a little bit," she lied and Sam could see behind her lie. He stood up and walked to the fridge. There were only a few bottles of beer and two or three other things that were not eatable at all. He opened a few cupboards before turning around.
"I think it's time for grocery," he said as he looked at her. "I won't take very long."
"Can I come?" She asked. "I really need to refresh a little bit and to clear my mind."
"Hum yeah I suppose it's alright," he agreed "We could buy you some clothes too. I mean we don't even know how long you'll have to stay here."
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When Kate and Sam walked out of Bobby's house, Dean was walking this way. He was wearing a dark blue mechanic suit, his hands were black with grease and he had a bit of grease on his forehead. Kate's eyes immediately met his when she walked by Sam's side towards Bobby's car. She didn't break the eye contact and neither did he until he arrived three steps away from them.
"Where are you going?" He asked his brother who had stopped walking.
"Bobby gave me his car keys, we're going in town to get a few things to eat. And also I thought it'd be good to buy Kate a few clothes." Dean glanced at the young woman in his little brother's too big clothes and he couldn't agree more.
"Alright but do you think she can go?" He asked.
"Yeah, why not?" Sam told him.
"I don't know, what if she tries to escape or something happens and you can't protect her. Or worse you can't protect yourself because she distracts you," Dean told Sam as Kate stared at him not two feet away.
"Or what if she hears you talking about her as if she wasn't there and she decides you can be a real jerk," Kate said interrupting Dean's little speech. The older brother turned his head to the woman and looked at her with a half glare half annoyed look.
"Alright, you know what? I think she-"Sam said before stopping himself "Kate, you will be just fine, right?" Sam said turning his head to look at her. She simply nodded as she glared at Dean who rolled his eyes before turning around to go back to wherever he had come from.
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Author's note :
Hello everybody!
So here is the second chapter of my first fanfiction! I've been hesitating for so long to publish one because I'm not so confident about my writting skills... Besides, I'm french and I wanted very badly to write this story in english for many reasons. But mainly because I'm first year student in an English degree and I thought it would help me improve my english :3 But also because I think fanfictions written in english reach more readers than the ones written in french... Also, I was wondering if someone could help me correct my typos and all those kind of things that might make the reading less smooth and also less enjoyable.
Okay, so I apologize for every single typos that made you cringe or else. And I truly hope that you will enjoy my story as much as I enjoy writing it :)
I've got a very ambitious and long project in my mind for this story. It's certainly going to be more than one stories depending on how this first one is received by you readers. So please, leave a review to tell me what you thought about it, to yell at me for making so many stupid typos or whatever!
Thank you very much for the first reviews, that really made my day!
A.