She paced around and around in circles. They would come back, they'd been through some pretty tough scrapes already but she couldn't get rid of the nagging sense of abandonment. What would stop Dean from leaving her again like he did at the diner? What would stop him from convincing Sam that she had died and there was no point coming back for her? She shook the thoughts from her astral mind and sat down on the bed, staring at her prone body. Darcy glanced over to the table and noticed most of her possessions sat there. Her wallet (fake id's included), mobile and a small amount of photographs. She frowned as she meandered over to them and picked them up, her fingers trembling as she traced a slender digit over the faces.
Photo's of her and her sister, her school friend Amy, Teenie and Autumn after a hunt, Sam smiling at the camera as she took a photo of him. Pain welled up inside her and she twirled around to face herself, throwing the photos at her head. They whisked into the air and fluttered down harmlessly onto the bed or on the floor.
"You're so pathetic, why can't you just wake up!"
No words came in answer and she flopped onto the chair beside the bed. She had thought about taking a walk through the rest of the hospital to figure out where-about she was in the country. She had decided against it in the end not wanting to walk out of the room and then find she couldn't walk back in again. The door scraped open and she watched as a young doctor ushered two young women in and then left. It didn't take long for her to figure out who they were; the blonde and red hair gave them away almost instantaneously. Athena and Autumn Daemon were visiting her in hospital. She smiled as she imagined Dean or Sam dialling them up after seeing the photos.
She watched as they just stood there, a look of shock on their faces. Obviously they hadn't believed the boys when they had told them, or rather they thought it had been a prank or something. Teenie turned and shut the door as Autumn took a seat next to the bed and just stared at her. Darcy stood up and walked over to her body so that the seat would be empty for Athena to sit in. But she didn't instead she bent down and picked up the photos that littered themselves over the ground and she bit her lip before grabbing the other photos and placing them back on the table. Autumn looked at her younger sister and shook her head.
"So he wasn't joking. I mean, sometimes I wish Valover would die but this? A car accident wasn't the way I was expecting her to go."
"Maybe we should sit with her for a few days. In case she wakes up."
A day or so later:
Darcy had spent most of the time that she was awake (could ghosts even sleep?) watching the two Daemon sisters sit there next to her bed. After a while they had looked at the photos and swapped stories. Athena had been smitten with the picture of Sam but Autumn had assured her that Dean was by far the hotter brother. Occasionally her cell would buzz with an incoming phone-call but it was never answered, the missed calls piling up in her memory. They had called the two boys and reassured them that Darcy was still fine and hadn't changed although that wasn't exactly the best news to tell them. Doctors had continued to come in and check on her but with longer periods between visits.
They were all waiting for the boys to come back and tell them that it was time to let her go. Once or twice Darcy had seen a woman watching her and she knew that a reaper was waiting for her to let go herself, but she wouldn't. She wouldn't let go of the life that had been denied to her. She wouldn't give in to the constant urge to just let go and let everyone figure out their lives without her. She sat cross-legged at the end of the bed and helping the girls play their card games against each other. They had a better way of waiting than Sam did. He just sat there and watched her for hours on end; she had heard him tell Dean that he was scared if he looked away that he would miss her. Dean had been unable to just wait and he had gone off to do whatever Dean did best.
A loud squeal of victory sounded from Teenie was cut short by the harsh clearing of a throat. A middle-aged woman stood before them, her glossy blonde hair greying at the temples and sky blue eyes hardened and glaring at the two young women. She stared at them incredulously and then focussed her gaze on Darcy's body, her features never softening. She walked over and slapped her daughter's cheeks before she became satisfied that she was indeed in a coma. She turned back to the girls and with a short tone of voice dismissed them.
"You two can go and get lost now. There's no point waiting around for her to wake up, she's gone she is. Now, where's that doctor?"
She watched in horror as her mother grabbed both girls by their elbows and marched them out of the room, calling to the doctor as she did so. Athena struggled in her grip demanding to know who she thought she was and that she had no right to say whether Darcy was dead. Autumn shot daggers and cussed at the older woman before she was released. Darcy felt anger pour down through her and she willed the door to slam closed and lock. She wasn't going to let her mother (who hadn't even spoken to her in nearly twelve years) decide that Darcy was dead. She turned to her body and stared at it, willing herself to wake up.
That's when she felt herself change.
Sam watched the scenery whiz past him as his older brother drove the impala toward the 'nearest' hunt he could find. It still ached him that he wasn't back at the hospital waiting for Darcy to wake up and keep him company. He had finally managed to convince Dean to call her two friends that he had found in the photo pile when he had been going through her duffel. Those photos had shown him a side of Darcy that he had rarely seen. She had looked almost care-free and comfortable with herself and the way she was although that was probably before she had learnt that she had shape-shifter DNA floating around in her. Darcy only had a few possessions that she had labelled important to her and the fact that she had one of him made things so much harder.
He remembered that day when the photo had been taken. Somewhere between that ghost at her ex's house and the kelpie they had stopped for a break and just did nothing. The sun had shone for most of the morning allowing them to go for a walk together and she had brought a camera with her. Dean had decided to catch up on sleep before he spent the night shooting pool and picking up chicks something that both Sam and Darcy had been concerned about. They had stopped to sit on a stone wall and just bask in the sunlight when Darcy had raised her camera and asked him for a photo almost frightened that he would say no. He just smiled at her as she took the photo and then laughed when she put it back into her pocket embarrassedly.
"Happy thoughts there Sammy?"
Sam looked over to his older brother and smiled softly, stretching his arms out and cracking his fingers. Dean yawned and then pulled over to the side of the road, turning of the ignition as he pulled out the map and stared at it. The bright bubbly tones of Sam's mobile buzzed and he reached over and answered the call, frowning when the doctor's voice drifted over with audible yells and shouts of women.
"Ah, Mr Chasseur this is Doctor Adams. It's about Ms. Caro."
Sam's heart froze and he could barely stammer out the words.
"What- she hasn't has she?"
Dean looked at him concerned and held his hand out for the phone, but Sam waved him off and turned away from him. The doctor sighed and the shouting grew louder in the background. There was a pause and the shouting ceased for a few moments.
"A woman claiming to be Ms. Caro's mother has come forward demanding that she be taken off life-support and be allowed to pass away. However a disagreement has occurred between her and two of her friends over who should be in charge of 'pulling the plug' as they put it… Mr Chasseur?"
Darcy never mentioned her mother, or why she would ever want to return. All he knew from either her or her journal that she used for hunting was that her mother lived somewhere in the rural regions of Colorado and was unlikely to ever bother with her since they had a falling out twelve years ago.
"Don't take her off. We're coming back."
"Woah- there Sammy…'
"We're currently unable to anyway, her door appears to be jammed shut. Excuse for a moment."
Sam could hear arguing in the background followed by some animated talking from the doctor and what Sam thought to be a nurse. He heard the doctor curse and waited.
"It would be best if you returned soon. I hope to see you shortly."
The doctor hung up and Sam switched off his mobile with some confusion. Something had obviously gone terribly wrong back there and if there was a chance that Darcy's nutjob mother was going to kill her then he had to get back there. He turned back to Dean and gave an apologetic look before he spoke, rubbing his forehead with his palm.
"We have to get back to the hospital Dean."
Dean nodded his head and turned the classic car on, revving it up and doing a sharp U-turn back toward the hospital. As much as Dean hated to admit it to Sam (and himself) part of him actually felt relieved that someone would use some initiative and put Darcy out of her misery. Even after the surgery had gone well and they had managed to repair her broken body they knew that the chances of Darcy ever reawakening were slim at best. Dean had always maintained that what was dead should stay dead and that if Darcy died then there was no way they were going to bring her back to life. He had stamped his foot down when Sam had suggested visiting a cross-roads demon and then told him that after another two months of her being in hospital that they should let her move on rather than having to salt and burn her later.
The look that his brother had given him was enough to make Dean feel a twinge of guilt about how harsh he sounded, but Sam had to know. Darcy had placed her life in their hands without even asking them to take it- if they had wanted to take it. Apart from the fact that Sam was dating Darcy and had some sort of freaky mental connection to his younger sibling that made him only slightly distrustful of her, Darcy could have just walked in and out of their lives and nothing would have changed. Sure, Dean had grown accustomed to having her around and had become fond of her after finding out that he was stuck with her but he would never take it any further than that, every word Dean had spoken to Darcy as she lay in that coma was to reassure Sam, because without Sam and his stability Dean would have lost it by now.
And now, according to Sam they had to put their claim on who had control of letting her die. Although from what he had heard there had been plenty of screaming and yelling in the background. He could only imagine what the two Daemon's were doing to her mother. A small smile slipped onto his face as he thought of Autumn and how suited they had been for each other, before she had ripped out his heart and slammed her heel into it only half a billion times. Knowing Autumn she probably didn't trust Darcy as far as she could throw her and that it was Teenie who had adopted the younger woman as her friend. Sam would like Teenie, she was bubbly and fun- the complete opposite of his serious brother. He shook his head and focused back on the road. He still had to get them back in one piece.
"Dean! God, watch out for the other people on the road."
"Do you want to get to the hospital before or after her mother kills her? Because if it's before I suggest you stop complaining."
Sam gave Dean a reproachful look and went silent. Sam always went silent when he was angry except for when he was angry at the way Dean was acting and that's when Sam wouldn't let things drop. He reached over to turn up the music instead and hummed along to the soothing tones of Metallica as they pounded through the speakers. And so they were back to the not talking thing as Sam stared out at the scenery and Dean payed attention to the road.
A/N: I really can't explain what happened at the end. It kinda went good and the flopped. Oh well. I'll be updating this randomly since I'm working more on the Dean and Sammy one. Review and enjoy!