Chapter 2

Bobby Singer had been on his own since his wife had passed on and since then had kept to himself, never really let anyone get too close. He helped other hunters on occasion, but never asked for their help in return, even though he knew that they would.

After Bobby had hung up the phone he began to think about the night that he met her, his little girl.

On a job about 12 years ago, probably one of the worst he had ever been on because he had actually known the people who lived there. He hadn't made it in time to save them. They had been taken by some type of monster, which to this day he still does not know what it was. When he had finally arrived at the house, it was dark and he didn't see or hear anyone. He was about to leave when he heard a noise upstairs, he slowly pulled out his gun as he went up the stairs and quietly checked each room and had still found nothing. He had finally reached the last bedroom and opened the door and heard a noise coming from the closet. He went over to the door and opened a little bit at a time, he found something that he wasn't expecting to find. A little girl with the bluest eyes he had ever seen. Now, Bobby was not a huge fan of kids, he liked them well enough from a distance. But there was just something about this girl that just tugged at his heart strings.

"Hey' he whispered, 'what's your name?"

No answer, just more tears.

"I'm not going to hurt you, sweetheart. I'm a friend of your parents, I'm here to help."

"Sarah, my name is Sarah Watson. Do you really know my parents?", she said as looked up at him.

He chuckled and said, "Yeah, I have known your parents for quite a long time. Can you tell me what happened tonight?"

"Well, there were strange noises coming from downstairs, I heard them and ran into my parents room and woke them up. My dad went downstairs first, and then me and my mom heard a thud. She got up and left the room and yelled down the stairs and asked if everything was okay."

"Then what happened?"

"She came back in the room and told me to hide in the closet and not to leave there no matter what I heard. So I listened and went in the closet and stayed there. I heard a scream and then another thud. I really wanted to see what was going on, but I couldn't leave the closet."

"You did a good job listening to your mom."

"Where are my mom and dad?"

"I don't know, honey."

"Did the thing that was making those noises do something to them?"

He had to admit that this girl was smart. "Yeah, I think so.", he told her. As he said it tears started to form and well up in her eyes, and she ran in to his arms and hugged him. He really didn't know what to do, so he hugged her back awkwardly and told her everything was going to be okay. She pulled away from the hug and looked at him as she wiped away her tears. "You said you were a friend of my parents, how come we never met?"

This girl just knew how to cut to the chase; he wanted to give her an answer but just didn't know how to explain it to her. He had known the Watsons' back when they were hunters. They gave up hunting when they found out that they were going to have a kid, so they settled down into a nice normal life, up until now that is. Bobby also knew that they really hadn't had any other family besides him though, as he thought about this he knew that he was going to have to take care of her, because there was no one else.

"Me and your dad had lost touch with one another until he called me last week and asked if I wanted to stop by for a visit. I told him yes, and that is what I am doing here now."

"Oh, okay, so what's going to happen now?"

"Well, I guess you will be staying with me for a while until I can find out what happened to your parents."

"Okay, can I get my stuff?" she sniffed.

"Yes, of course you can get your stuff, Sarah."

She ran down the hall to her room, he followed her and helped her gather and pack up her stuff. When they had finished, Bobby picked her up and carried her out to the car and then went back inside to grab her things. On his way out with the last of the bags, he noticed a photo album on the living room table and grabbed it figuring that she would one day want to have some kind of memories of her parents.

They had finally gotten on the road Sarah had cried most of the way and had eventually fallen asleep in the front seat. The car pulled into a motel parking lot Bobby got out of the car and went to check in. When he came back to the car he picked her up and carried her to the room, placed her on the bed and covered her up. As soon as he had done that, she opened her eyes and looked at him.

"Hey, Sarah-Bear", as he called her that he wondered where in the hell that had come from. She giggled, and when that happened he knew that this was going to work.