A/N: And here is chapter 2!
Katie was looking at her menu when she got the feeling that someone was coming toward her. She didn't need her powers to tell her who. Ever since she came in they seemed to be aware of her presence more than one should of their stalker. Without thinking Katie stood to her feet in hopes of making it out of the door. She grabbed her bag and was about to head for the door when a hand wrapped around her shoulder.
"And where do you think you're going?" Dean asked and Katie's eyes went to his. And for the first time she had no doubt that he was looking right at her.
"Uh.." Katie stammered. She racked her brain for a believable story. "I was actually just headed to the bathroom, never have five big gulps in one morning" she tried pulling from his grasp but he held on tighter. Katie's eyes turned to his hand on her shoulder, back to his eyes with a look that would've put fear in a weaker man but not this one. "Interesting" she thought for a brief moment, before she remembered that the ass was man handling her. "Hey guy, I'm not sure what type of girl you think I am, but take your hands off of me"
"Dean" Sam urged looking around as they began getting some unwanted attention.
"Sit" Dean ordered and Katie rolled her eyes. The hunter raised his jacket a bit revealing a gun. "Now" Katie shook her head. So she had a couple of options. She could use her powers to get out of this, or she could sit and see how this plays out. She decides on the second choice, she was actually talking to them, this could be her in. Katie nodded before sliding into the seat.
"Whatever" Katie said as Dean took a seat next to her and Sam across from them. "What is it that you want from me?" Dean pulled the gun from his pants pointing it toward her under the table.
"That's funny" Dean chuckled. "I was just about to ask you the same thing" Katie didn't like guns. They were primitive, noisy, and just plain messy. "You're following us, and we want to know why" Katie looked over to Sam who slightly shook his head before turning back to Dean. He sighed in frustration before pulling out his gun and slipping to Katie's side again, causing her to inch back a little.
"Now is that a gun or are you just really happy to see me?" Katie asked and Dean pushed the gun into her side harder.
"Dean" Sam warned before turning to Katie. "Look, are you following us or not?"
"How about or not" Katie replied looking over to the youngest Winchester. "C'mon you and your brother aren't just gonna shoot me right here in front of all of these people" she chuckled turning back to Dean. "That would be stupid and I would like to believe you're smarting than you look"
"Ok, so then tell me" Dean said. "How did you know we were brothers?" Katie mentally kicked her own self in the ass. If she didn't look suspicious before, she definitely looked suspicious now. Maybe there was a way to get around this.
"I mean, well—" she stammered looking between the two brothers, which was probably not helping her sound believable. "Anyone could look at you two and just know you're brothers, doesn't take a rocket scientist" Sam and Dean shared a look.
"Yeah, I'm not buying it" Dean replied pushing the gun a little harder into her side and pulling the clip. Katie knew it was going to happen sooner or later. She had a problem with her anger sometimes, and this guy pushing a gun into her side was definitely not helping. "Who the hell are you and why are you following us?" And that's when Katie had, had enough.
"That's gonna be enough of that" Katie said before she lifted her hand and with a flick of her wrist Katie made the clip flip back and then with a pointed a finger toward Dean making his hand place the gun back into his pants. "Haven't you heard the old saying, "Guns don't kill people, macho idiots with guns kill people" Both Winchester looked with wide eyes at the woman before jumping to their feet.
"Witch!" Both Winchesters say at the same time. They knew there was something off about this woman, but they didn't see that coming.
"You evil bitch!" Dean snapped. "It's you isn't' it, the one behind the murders" Katie rolled her hours. Of course on seconds after revealing her secret she would be accused of being a murder. "Answer me!" Katie looked around to see eyes looking over toward them.
"No" she replied. "I'm not the one behind these murders you jackass, I'm not evil" she shrugged. "A bit of a bitch, but definitely not evil" Katie stood to her feet as both men seemed to stand a little straighter.
"Yeah, like we're going to believe that!" Dean said. "After all of these years of hunting, you want us to believe you're the real life Glenda?" Katie shook her head.
"More or less, yeah" Katie said. "Look I'm here because you two need my help" Dean scoffed.
"Helped with what?" Sam asked and Dean turned to his brother in disbelief.
"Sam you've got to be kidding me?" Dean asked glaring over to his brother before turning back to Katie. "Please tell me you don't believe this—" he shook his head trying to think of what this woman was. "This—"
"Ok, let's be grown ups for a minute and stop with the name calling" Katie interrupting the man's rant. "You don't see me here calling you a macho idiot?" she tilted her head a bit. "Wait" she smiled. "I did call you that didn't I" she shook her head. "I'm sorry continue" Sam and Dean looked at the witch curiously. Neither had met a witch that seemed so normal. Well not normal, the woman in front of them definitely was not normal, but she didn't scream evil baby eater either.
"Dean, look I'm not saying that I trust her, but in the slight chance what she's saying is true, we could at least hear her out" Sam said and Dean shook his head in disbelief.
"I can't believe this" Dean said throwing up his hands. He knew his brother had been out of the hunting game for a while when he was off to Stanford, but this was hunting lesson 101. There's no talking to witches, there's no listening to witches, you kill them and that's that.
Katie watched the oldest Winchester amused. A while ago this would've offended her, some not liking her simply because of how she was born, but now she didn't care. But this was different. The youngest Winchester seemed to be breaking some misconceptions she had about hunters.
"You know this place is supposed to be known for their pie" Katie said and Sam and Dean turned to her looking confused at her random comment. "I mean that's sure to turn that smile upside down, Mr. Grumpy"
"You know what, just talk you—" He shook his head. "Just talk" Katie nodded and they all sat back in the booth. This time Sam and Dean chose to sit next to each other, across from Katie.
"Ok, I'll talk, you'll listen, and no more guns" Katie said and Dean turned his head from her. "Agreed?"
"Yeah, agreed" Sam replied before nudging his brother.
"Whatever" Dean added.
"So what is it that you're supposed to be helping us with?" Sam asked and Katie turned back to him, seeing as he was the only one who wanted to listen.
"Your case" Katie said "You have a dead girl and assuming these murders are connected to the others, there's going to be another, a male sometime soon" she looked between the two men. "I'm here to help you find him before it's too late" Dean scoffed.
"And why would believe we even need your help" Dean snapped standing to his feet. "We've been doing this for a long time sweetheart, without the help of some pain in the ass witch" Dean looked over to his brother. "Sam, let's go" without waiting for a response he turned and headed for the door. Sam glanced over to Katie once more before standing to his feet and following after his brother.
"So you've probably already found the symbols that's on all the victims?" Katie asked her voice a little louder than intended. She looked around the diner for any unwanted attention, but no one seemed to be looking. Sam stopped and turned back to her.
"Symbols?" he asked and his brother stopped as well but only because he couldn't believe his brother was buying into this woman's game, whatever it was. "What symbols?"
"C'mon Sam, there are no symbols" Dean replied and Sam looked over to him. "We've both looked at the victim's photos ourselves and there are no symbols" he looked over to Katie. "She's trying to play us, and I for one am not listening to her crap anymore" he shook his head. "Now let's see Carol's sister before I'm old and gray" Dean turned and pushed out of the door.
"Look at the pictures again Sam" Katie said and he looked over to her. "And then see if I'm playing you as your brother seems to believe" Sam slightly nodded before turning and leaving. "What a first impression?" Katie sighed to herself before grabbing a jacket and heading out the door to follow after them.
Dean was still in disbelief as he drove the impala to the hospital. He still can't believe that he left that diner with that woman still alive.
"Can you believe that—" he shook his head. "There's not even a word to describe that" he scoffed. "And the nerve of her to assume we needed her help, especially since she's probably the one behind the murders" Dean glanced over to his brother who only seemed to be half listening as he looked down to his laptop. "What are you looking at?" He knew his brother had the heart of gold and all that, always giving people the benefit of the doubt, but she was witch. "Please don't tell me you believe that garbage" Sam looked over to his brother. "Sam, you looked at those photos, I looked at them and there's no symbols" Dean turned back to the road his hands gripping the stirring wheel.
"Dean there's no harm in just—" Sam stopped as he looked at the screens. Dean glanced over to his brother.
"What?"
"There's something" Sam said bringing the screen closer to his face. "It's small, but it's there" he looked over to Dean. "That's probably why we didn't see it before" he turned back to the screen. "But it's there, we need to see Carol's body to see if she has the same marking"
"Fine, we'll go to the morgue, after we talk to Lisa's sister" Dean nodded.
"So she was right" Sam said looking back over to Dean. He knew it was a long shot that his brother would even consider working with a witch. "Maybe we could—"
"Don't even think about it Sammy" Dean was shaking his head. "So she was right about the symbols, that still doesn't mean we should trust her" Sam shook his head as he turned to look back out the window.
"It probably doesn't even matter" Sam sighed. "We didn't even get her name"
It didn't take long to find the huge hospital that seemed to be placed in a secluded part of the town. Sam and Dean pulled into the parking lot of the hospital and looked over to the building.
"So, long lost cousin?" Dean asked looking over to his brother.
"I guess" Sam said shaking his head as they hopped out of the impala. Katie parked a good distance from them as she looked up to the institution. She watched as the brothers walked toward the entrance.
"Happy stalking Katie" the witch muttered to herself before climbing off of her bike. She tossed her bag in the bike's trunk before following after them.
As Sam and Dean arrived at the mental hospital, Katie was a good distance behind them.
"Looks like my stalking days are far from over" Katie thought as she followed the guys into the hospital. She quickly entered through the sliding doors dipping behind a lady and her wheel chair.
"Is that you Dolly?" the woman asked looking down to Katie. Not sure what to do Katie just smiled up to the woman, hoping not to gain too much attention. "I knew you would visit, they said you wouldn't but even after five years I knew you would come"
"Yeah" Katie said with a slight nod as she tried to split her attention between the woman and the brother. She watched as Sam and Dean talked and walked with a nurse before turning back to the woman. "Traffic was hell trying to get here, I'm actually starving, I'll be right back" Katie slipped past the woman just in time to see Dean and Sam walking over to a set of double doors.
"So you're Alison's cousins?" the nurse asked as she watched the nurse type in a code to unlock the door.
"Yeah, haven't seen or heard from her in a while" Dean asked as the door swung open. "Just want to see how she's doing after everything that happened"
"Cousins?" Katie thought. She had to admit it was a good lie, but it did have its risks.
"We didn't know Alison had much family" the nurse said as they walked into the restricted area. Katie wanted to catch the doors before they closed but didn't want to get too close and get caught. As soon as the coast was clear she ran up to the doors, but not in time to keep it open.
"Damnit!" Katie said looking around the lobby. She spotted a man in blue scrubs pushing a cart filled with scrubs and uniforms. "And there's my in" She followed the man to a locker room where he stacked the spare uniforms before leaving. Katie snuck into the room grabbing one of the uniforms.
"Nurse Katie" the witch says before taking off her jacket. When she was all done and donned her disguise with a simple spell she sent her clothes to her bag outside. She took a deep breath before leaving the locker room. "Just stay calm and don't look suspicious" Katie wasn't that great an actress and hoped she was caught too easily. She walked over to the doors Sam and Dean entered to see them still talking to the nurse. She quickly ducked her head under the small window when Dean turned in her direction.
"Thanks" Sam said as the nurse walked away. He looked over to his brother who seemed to be distracted by something. "Everything alright?"
"No, it's just I thought I saw something" Dean said. "Or someone?"
"You don't think she'd—"
"I guess we'll find out soon enough" Dean said before turning and heading to Alison's room. Sam glanced back to the doors before turning to follow after his brother.
Katie stood at the locked doors, pressing in codes, but nothing was working. She sighed when an idea popped into her head. She looked around to make sure no one was looking before placing a hand over the lock.
"Screw this" Katie says before taking a deep breath and closing her eyes. "Lock that keeps me front and center, unlock now, so I may enter" there was a clicking sound before the door swung open. "There's definitely some perks to this whole which thing" Katie looked around once again before passing through the doors. She walked down the hall until she saw another nurse looking through a file at the front desk. "Uh excuse me?" Katie walked over and the nurse looked over to her.
"Can I help you?" the woman asked eyeing Katie suspiciously.
"I'm looking for Alison Marks room" Katie said with a nod. "The doctor wants to see her for her session" The nurse looked at Katie before turning and pointing down the hall.
"Forth door on your right down the hall" the nurse replied. Katie smiled and with a nod turned and headed for the room. The moment she stepped near Alison's door, she could hear Sam and Dean's voices on the other side. She peeked into the room to find Sam and Dean standing, watching as the young woman stood staring out of the window seamlessly unaware of their presence.
"Allison?" Sam said and Dean looked over to him. "Uh, Allison can you hear me?" Sam took a step toward the woman, while Dean stayed in place. This was definitely a Sam type of situation. "My name is Sam and this is my brother Dean" Sam looked over to Dean who only shook his head.
"C'mon Sam, this is pointless" Dean replied. Sam glared over to his brother before turning back to Allison.
"Look we need to ask you some questions about your sister Lisa" Sam replied, still no reply from the woman. Sam shook his head before turning back to his brother. "What do we do now?" Dean shrugged. Katie had, had enough.
"And you say you don't need me" Katie said walking into the room. Dean and Sam turned taking a step back as she walked toward them. "This seems like the perfect time to have a witch up your sleeve"
"I knew you were here" Dean said pointing to the woman. Dean moved his hand about to reach for his gun when Katie held up her hand.
"Really, just don't" Katie said and he looked over to her. "We did this already remember, I'm a witch so your gun really isn't a match" she looked between Sam and Dean. "Guys, really I'm just here to help, you want to ask her some questions and she doesn't seemed to be Ms. Chatty Kathy" Katie walked over and they stepped back once again.
"Ok, how can you help?" Sam asked and Dean scoffed loudly looking over to his brother.
"You can't be serious here Sam" Dean snapped. "Were you not listening to me during that car ride here" Dean turned to Katie. "Her, witch" Dean pointed to himself. "Us, hunters, we don't work with witches"
"Right now Dean, do you have any better ideas?" Sam asked and Dean glared at him before turning to Katie who shrugged.
"If you do I'll leave right now" Katie said and after a brief moment of silence Katie nodded. "That's what I figured, look we don't have much time, I have to do this before that nurse finds out you two aren't Allison's cousin and that I'm don't actually work here" Katie turned and with a flick of her wrist closed the door. Sam and Dean shared a look before turning back to her.
"Look, fine, you wanna help, but I promise you, you make any move I don't like, you're gonna be sorry" Katie just rolled her eye before walking over to stand next to Allison, who still just stared aimlessly out the window. Katie looked over to her for a moment and sighed. Whatever happened to her must have been big. "Allison, I'm Katie" Sam and Dean quirked an eyebrow. It was the first they'd heard her name, if that really was her name. "We know what happened to your sister was terrible and right now all we want to do is make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else"
"That's it?" Dean asked and Katie turned to him. "We could've done that"
"Would you just shush" Katie snapped before turning back to the woman.
"Did she just shush me?" Dean asked looking over to Sam who only shook his head before turning to Katie and Allison.
"Allison, I'm going to take a peek inside your head" Katie said raising her hand to the woman's head. "I promise it won't hurt one bit"
"How do you know that?" Dean asked and Katie turned to him.
"Because I've been doing this whole witch thing for a while now, now if you wouldn't mind I do need to concentrate" Katie said before turning back to Allison. "This may feel a little weird but it'll be over before you know it" Katie lifted her hands placing them on either side of Allison's head. Dean and Sam watched her closely as she began reciting something, he voice so low that they could barely make out what she was saying. Sam heard what sounded like Latin, but she spoke so quick and fluently. Neither knew what they were watching, when suddenly Katie's eyes began glowing a bright white light. The brother's shared a looked before turning back to the scene in front of them.
"Hey" Sam said taking a step toward Katie. "Are you alright?" Dean caught his brother's arm. Right now neither knew what the hell was happening and until they did, there would be no touching of the glowing witch woman.
"Sam—" Dean warned when Katie's eyes seemed to flash back to their normal color. She released Allison who stood as if nothing had happened .
"Whoa" Katie said turning back to the brothers. "That was a trip" she took a step toward them, when she stumbled forward. Without thinking Dean reached forward catching her arm and steadying her. In that moment they stood there, their eyes only on one another, before both remembered their situation. Dean quickly let go of Katie's arm taking a step back.
"Thanks" Katie said and he only shook his head in response.
"Don't mention it" he mumbled before turning back to her. "So, what did you find out?"
"Well a lot" Katie said turning to Allison. "That girl has a lot going on in that head of hers"
"Fine, well then how about you give us the cliff notes versions" Dean said and Katie turned back to him, her feeling of irritation clearly written on her face. "Did you find out anything that might help with this case?"
"Yeah, I did" Katie replied closing her eyes. "I would tell you but someone's com—" Katie was cut off by the door swinging open. "—ing" There standing was the nurse who'd lead Sam and Dean in, along with two clearly armed security guards.
"I looked into Allison's files" the nurse said glaring between Sam and Dean. "there are no cousins listed by your names"
"Well—" Dean said with a shrug. "We're third cousins, twice removed" he looked over to Sam.
"Uh—" Sam shook his head befor turning back to the nurse. "Right, yeah, her father's mother's is our uncle's, sister" Sam didn't quite know if that made sense, but it was worth a shot.
"Yeah, I'm not buying it" the nurse spat her eyes landing on Katie. "And who are you" she looked over Katie's clothes. "I know every nurse in this department, and you're definitely not one of them"
"Well you see, funny story" Katie said
"Save it" one of the guards said. "You three are coming with us" they took a step forward and without hesitation Katie raised a hand and with a flick of her wrist made everyone in the room freeze. She turned back to the brothers and twirled her finger toward both of them releasing them from the magic.
"What the—" Dean looked around the room as everyone seemed to before frozen in place. "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything" Katie replied. "They're fine, which is less than what I'll be able to say for us, if we're still here when they unfreeze." And without a response needed Katie slipped passed the guard and ran out of the room. Sam and Dean looked around the room once more before turning back to the guards and nurse, noticing one of the guards slightly move. Without a word both brothers ran out of the room and out of the hospital catching up to Katie.
"What about—" Sam sputtered as they ran. "What about the security cameras, won't it be weird for them to see us coming in, but not going out?"
"Right" Katie said stopping and turning back to the hospital. " Cameras that show us in this building, erase now so we can uh—" Katie hated coming up with spells off the top of her head. They always sounded so weird. "Get away without yielding" Katie turned back to the brothers who seemed to be staring at her with a look of both curiosity and suspicion.
"Yielding?" Dean asked.
"Hey, you try coming up with a spell on the spot like that" Katie snapped. "It's hard and annoying to think of words that rhyme"
"We have to get out of here" Sam said turning to Katie. "Can you tell us what you saw back there, after we see Carol's body to see if she has the symbol"
"Sure, but I've already seen the body" Katie replied. "I know a friend who's like a semi awesome hacker slash buffoon, but whatever, she has the symbol and he death is definatly connected to the others" Katie watched as the brothers shared a look. She noted that since she's actually met them, that they did this a lot. "I can meet you guys at the bar that's a block away from your hotel"
"Not following us uh?" Dean asked and Katie just shrugged.
"Look we know the one, we'll meet you there" Sam interrupted.
"Eight o'clock?" Dean asked. Sam looked between his brother and the witch and could've sworn he was witnessing some weird sexual thing. But he couldn't be, Dean literally hated this woman.
"Yeah, that's cool" Katie replied as her Dean's eyes never parted from each other. "I have nowhere to be" They were interrupted by the sound of an alarms, Sam looked over to his shoulder to the hospital.
"Looks like our friends are back" Sam said turning back to his brother and Katie who were still staring at each other. "We should probably—uh get going" Sam swatted Dean's shoulder. "Dean"
"Right, yeah, c'mon" Dean said turning and heading for the impala.
"Yeah" Katie said turning as well and heading for her bike. Sam stood there for a moment still confused at what just happened before shaking it off and running over to the car as well. Sam and Dean got into the car and sped out of the parking lot, both feeling at ease once the hospital was out of sight.
"So" Sam said and Dean looked over to his brother. "What was that back there, with you and the witch?"
"What are you talking about Sam?" Dean asked and Sam just shook his head.
"Nothing, I just thought" Sam turned to look out the window. "I think I forgot that you were, well you for a moment" Dean looked over to his little brother totally confused before turning back to the road. "Well at least we know her name now" Sam said looking over to Dean.
"Yeah" Dean replied his eyes trained on the road ahead of him. Sam shook his head before turning back to look out the window, unaware that the name 'Katie' was now echoing in his brothers head.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed it!