"What do you mean there are things I don't know about Hope?" Dani questioned calmly. Bobby glanced over at the boys and then she noticed Dean walking out of the room and towards the kitchen. She looked at Sam whose facial expression hasn't changed since he spoke, he was watching her intensely. She wondered if she should, no, she wouldn't do that, she has worked hard on blocking it out and even though it took years she's only used it when she's needed to.

Dean returned with a glass of a dark liquor which she assumed was Whiskey because that was all Bobby drank and gave it to her with a nod. She turned to Bobby and slammed it on the table in front of her spilling some of its content. Dani was never a patient person, yet she could keep calm in many situations, this however was not one of them. She also has a problem with anxiety which intensified near her 18th birthday, but she has learned to control it over the years, thanks to Pamela.

"You want to get it over with and just tell me what the fuck is going on?" Dani snapped wanting to know what could be so devastating that she needed alcohol. Bobby gave her a scowl before nodding and proceeding with the information.

"Hope is part witch, which you already know, but she is also part demon, she has evil inside her that she has learned to control, but it can be broken. Anything can make her snap and change, lose control in an instant. She has the power to destroy the world, that's what she was created for. Hope was born from a witch, a long line of powerful witches, both her parents were possessed when her mother was impregnated. She's more powerful than any being created because she is the only being ever created that is a demon, but has a pure soul, she's the first generation of her kind. Sam & Hope were meant to lead yellow eye's army but we don't know what the end game is. Hope's blood is sacred, it can be used for many rituals and spells, including opening the gates of hell." Bobby waited a second observing Dani's face before continuing.

"Your mother was killed by demons who we think that they were looking for you. John was never able to find out why, but he went back after the fire was put out to check out the house and found sulfur. We've been trying to figure out why your mother was killed and if has any connections to yellow eyes or Hope, but we haven't been able to find any connections concerning you or your mother." Bobby looked up at the younger hunter when he was done, he knew she was going to be a bit overwhelmed with the news. Finding out her best friend is a demon, and that demons killed her mother was going to definitely hurt and upset her. Dani blinked a couple of times, she blocked out as much as she could about that day and now they were making her re-live it.

John told Bobby to keep things simple when explaining things to Dani, he never wanted her to know the entire truth. Hope being part demon was a secret that everyone but Dani knew. No one ever told her because they didn't think she would chose to live this life. She didn't come from a family of hunters. John and Bobby thought that she would eventually leave, go to school and never look back. They looked for other family, but she didn't have any, she didn't have no one. John also thought it wouldn't be a good idea because she would want revenge, and although that's what made him start hunting, he didn't want this for her. But she didn't go anywhere, she had nowhere to go, so she stayed here, learned about all the things that go bump in the night and then eventually started training.

Anyone would think she was crazy for accepting to go with these men that she had never met, let alone stay and live with another older man she had never met. But she was distraught and young, and she trusted Sam and Dean so she stayed and chose to become a hunter. Everyone's eyes were on Dani, watching her closely. No one said anything after the revelation, just stood there and waited. Dani let out a shaky laugh, grabbed the cup of whiskey in front of her and chugged the entirety of it. She turned around and walked out of the room without a word. Dani stormed out of the house and ran in to the junk yard. She ran until she was a good distance from the house and stood next to a random car.

"Dammit!" she yelled kicking the car then falling down to the ground. She leaned against the car and her head begin to spin. Hope was a demon, part demon, whatever, she was still part of a family of things that killed her mother. She suddenly wondered why nothing gave her away, salt, demon traps, holy water, or even that silver necklace that Dean gave her. Sure, she noticed that when Hope got angry her eyes darkened, but other than that she would have never guessed she was a demon, she always thought it had something to do with her being a witch. Would she ever become friends with her if she'd known, especially now that she knew her mother had been killed by her kind? It was too late for that, Hope is one of her best friends, a sister she's never had and she has grown to love her, she could never turn her back on her no matter what she was.

Hope was missing, and no matter how she felt right now, no matter how mad she was about everyone keeping her out of the loop and lying to her, she still had to find her. She would never forgive herself if something happened to her because she decided not to care. She had to just push it aside for now and hope it wouldn't change anything, especially the way she saw her friend, because right now she couldn't decide if her friend was a monster or not. She shook her head and swore she would never think of her friend as a monster. She was still Hope, no matter what she had inside her, just like Sammy was still Sammy. Dani looked up when she heard the crunch of gravel and looked up to see Sam walking towards her.

"I'm fine," she called out before he could say anything. Sam looked down at the brunette that was sitting by the wheel of a junk car hugging her knees and knew she wasn't fine, her rapid breathing and rocking gave her away, but he nodded and sat next to her not saying a word. Neither hunter said a word for a while, they just looked up at the sun that was still high in the sky and sat there. "Did you know?" Dani asked after a long silence, her breathing finally returning to normal. She looked over to see Sam nod. "Did you know when we were younger?"

"I knew about Hope since she came to live at Bobby's, I didn't know about your mom till a couple of years ago. My dad thought it would be a good idea not to tell you so that you wouldn't go seeking out revenge. You weren't part of this life, but you chose to be anyways without even knowing about your mom." Dani didn't know what to say; she probably would have still chosen to become a hunter even without knowing about her mother being killed by demons. Yes, the life of a hunter is not ideal, but the satisfaction you get from saving lives makes everything worth it.

She didn't have any other family, so she didn't have anything or anyone to lose, till now, now she had a family and she would be devastated if she lost any of them. But she did, she lost both Sam and Dean at one point and even Hope, and it was the hardest thing she had ever had to overcome since the death of her mother. After she and Sam broke up, she swore she would never talk to him, but after he died in front of her eyes she decided to put the past behind them. It was hard, but it was part of life, part of the life of a hunter and she understood that fairly quickly, but that didn't mean it was easy.

"I would have chosen to be part of this life even if I knew about my mom. Saving the lives of those who can't defend themselves has great meaning, and even though you wanted out doesn't mean I've never thought about living a normal life or having children and getting married, I've thought about it a lot, I think about it all the time, but I can't have that, and that's okay," Dani whispered as her eyes watered, but she blinked them away and looked away from Sam. The truth was she was scared, but Hope helped her through it, Hope made her braver and tougher. Hope was her rock.

She knew becoming a hunter was dangerous, and not a career just any one would take, but Dani knew she was meant to be part of this life; she didn't know why, just like she hadn't known why she was so attracted to this beautiful man sitting next to her. Sam looked over at her and then reached out to take her hand in his. He watched as she looked down at her their hands and then up to his eyes. His green-hazel eyes stared in to her brown orbs until the sound of more crunching gravel interrupted their contact. Dani pulled away her hand quickly out of reflex, she looked up and saw Dean with a smirk on his face. She knew he had seen them already.

"Am I interrupting anything?" he asked with a grin. She saw Sam turn and look at his brother, possibly giving him a death glare and she smiled. She missed this, she missed being with the boys, and most especially she missed Hope. Wiping away a stray tear, Dani stood up from the ground.

"I'm going to do everything I can to find Hope, without your help, I can do it on my own, it's my fault she's missing and we don't need your dad turning in his grave for hunting with me again." she announced. The girl sure was stubborn, but she was also just really pissed at the moment, pissed at the boys for keeping such a secret from her, pissed that Hope was missing and pissed that no matter how much time they spent apart, her feelings for Sam never wavered. She began walking towards the house, but the sound of Dean's deep voice stopped her.

"You aren't alone in this sweetheart, we care about Hope and we care about you too and no matter what your stubborn ass says, we're going to help you. Our dad is dead, he can't control us any more… I'm sorry we didn't call…we're stupid." Dani looked back at Dean and couldn't help but smile, not because of what he said, but because he's always had that effect on her. Dean could always make her smile, even when they were younger. Dean had a caring side, but not many people saw that, because he exposed his toughness more than anything else. She looked at Sam and he returned her smile. Sam has come a long way since their teen years. While Dean hasn't changed at all, Sam had grown and matured. She fell in love with him since that first day in the cafeteria.

For years they've been on and off, sleeping together every once in a while, the man was just too hard to resist. They officially dated in high school their senior year, for 2 years before he broke up with her. They stopped talking for a while, then when he began hunting again, when Dean dragged him back she was there and they began talking again, but she was still angry at him. She would never admit it but she missed her best friend. About a year after that, they met up again because there was an accident and Dean was pretty hurt, John called her, which surprised the heck out of her. She and Dean had their history but that was a story for another time. She dragged Hope with her and they stayed with the boys for a while. They had just lost their dad and things were spiraling for them.

John told her that it was better if they didn't hunt together, he also told her something else, something she would never repeat to anyone, something she wasn't sure she understood and something she would not be able to do. He also made her promise for her and Hope to hunt without the boys, they could cover more ground and cases separated and in general it was just safer for them all. She didn't understand, but she agreed, but John wasn't alive anymore, so that meant she didn't really have to listen to him anymore, right? A year later, Bobby called needing help with the gates of hell. Sam disappeared and she rushed to help. She watched as Jake stabbed Sam in the back and held him as the light faded from his eyes. Then Dean made a deal to bring him back. She was pissed at Dean for doing such a thing, but she was also grateful, it made her realize that she couldn't live without Sam.

She couldn't believe it though, now Dean had a year to live and then he was going to hell. Everything changed that day for all of them. She and Sam were almost inseparable since then, meeting up every couple of weeks to see each other and hook up. She didn't want to label their relationship, didn't want to have her heart broken again, so she just met up with him and enjoyed it. They texted each other all the time and were working together to find something to get out of Dean's deal. Dani kept her promise and didn't hunt with the boys, but not always, they couldn't stay away from each other for long. Sometimes they worked cases together, but they tried not to make it long term.

Let's take it back to high school, Sam didn't make his first move till after Dani and her first boyfriend broke up, not to say she remember most of it because she was pretty drunk but Sam was there for her that night and after. She remembered Sam being there for her, holding her and taking care of her, and she remembered tattoos; Hope and Dean were there too, until they disappeared to do lord knows what leaving Dani and Sam alone. She woke up in Sam's bed, in his boxers and sweat shirt, but she knew they didn't do anything, Sam was more than respectful, unlike her ex, Nick. There was blood everywhere the next morning and it was the scariest thing to wake up to, especially when she didn't know what happened the night before.

Out of the 4 of them, Sam was the lightest weight, he could keep up with the group that was until he couldn't any more. He was always the first one to get drunk. Dean could out drink them all, but Dani and Hope were right there on his tail, she never understood how such a small girl could hold her liquor so well, but then again she wasn't always like that, she guessed years of practice and trying to keep up with Dean. The trio walked towards the house in hopes of good news, but nothing. Bobby hasn't heard anything, Hope's GPS was still off, and none of her aliases had popped up. The trio decided to drive back down to Smith Falls State Park and double check the area. They returned 24 later with no luck and no leads.

Two weeks later

Dani had been up night and day looking into Hope. Sure a hunter could cover their tracks, if they wanted to, but Hope was missing, why would she cover up her tracks? Where could she be? She barely slept, barely ate, tracking anything and everything she could, Hope's GPS, credit cards, aliases and anything else she could think of. After a couple of days she managed to hack into different security systems in the immediate area of Smith Falls State Park. She spent days looking through footage before she finally found something. It was 3am when she found some footage of Hope at a gas station and some hopefulness soared into her heart. The footage shows Hope stepping out of a car, her long brunette hair blowing behind her. She wasn't sure it was her that was until she switched camera's and viewed the footage from inside the gas station.

She watched her grab a coke, a bag of chips and a pack of cigarettes. She took screen shots of Hope's face, there was only one full frontal image that she was able to save as proof that it was definitely Hope. Looking at the time stamp, she noticed it was from three days ago, so if Hope had stolen a car, she should have made it back to Bobby's by now. But that wasn't the case, she wasn't here. Maybe she didn't want to come back. Maybe she was running? But running was Dani's thing…

With the computer in her lap she fell asleep and somehow managed not to drop the laptop on the ground. She awoke to a noise in the kitchen. Sitting up and glancing at her wrist for the time, she noticed it was still dark out, it was only 6 in the morning, and she had fallen asleep for about 2 hours. She looks over into the kitchen to see Dean making breakfast. Dean does not make breakfast. Reaching down to the floor to find her purse, she found it missing.

"Looking for these?" Dean asked holding up a small yellow bottle before placing it next to the stove top. "Or these?" he asked pulling another light yellow containers with blue pills inside. He sat it down next to the other container.

"Dean…" she started getting up slowly from the couch.

"You fucking promised," he whispered harshly shoving the pan with the eggs back and turning off the stove.

"It's not like that anymore," Dani whispered standing by the couch.

"I'm not doing this shit again! You do not need this… I held you in my arms dammit, I thought you were going to die." He explained trying to keep his voice down. Dani bit her lip not knowing what to say.

"I kept my promise, I still am," she whispered after a couple of seconds of awkward silence. She could tell Dean was pissed, his nostrils flared and he was glaring at her. She couldn't look him in the eye, she stared at the ground biting her lip so hard she tasted blood. "I'm sorry."

"What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking I needed to find my best friend so things could go back to the way they were. Your father must be turning in his grave that we are even in the same room right now…" Dani spat. Dean rushed over to her holding back the urge to grab her and shake the stupidity out of her.

"My father is out of the picture! I don't care what he said before. I care about you, we are all in this together, and I don't care anymore. I don't care. We are sticking together from now on."

"Your father made me promise, he told me things…" she couldn't continue. She's never repeated the words John Winchester told her.

"I don't care. I'm done being daddy's good little soldier. There's a war coming and we need to stick together." Dani nodded, not sure what to say any more. Dean let out an angry breath and then wrapped his arms around Dani and allowing her to bury face in his chest.

"I made scrambled eggs and bacon," he told her after a couple of seconds. "And herbal tea. You need to eat."

"You eat it first and I'll wait and see what happens," Dani said and Dean chuckled, the vibration of his laugh vibrating though Dani making her laugh. She pulled away to be able to look at Dean in the eyes.

"It's not the same any more Dean. I'm not in that same state of mind. I'm a different person. It won't happen again, never. I'm not hooked, I can stop whenever I want… I just needed them to stay up, " Dani explained taking back the pills and putting them in her purse. Dean still didn't believe her. He would have to keep a close eye on her. They ate in silence before retreating back the living room to watch TV. The sun started rising behind the television and before she knew it, her eyes had fluttered closed and she was out cold cuddled next to Dean. When Dani woke up she was in her bed, in her room, alone. Her room was bright, the sun radiating through the curtains. She stretched out with a long yawn before finally retreating out of the bed and downstairs to the kitchen.

"Good morning sleeping beauty." She turned around to find Sam and Dean sitting at the table. Sam was in front of his computer as usual and Dean was eating.

"How long did I sleep?" Dani asked as she grabbed items to make breakfast.

"23, 24, maybe 25 hours," Dean announced.

"What?" Dani yelled out. "Why did you let me sleep that long?" she asked as she started scrambling her eggs on the skillet in front of her. She was extra hungry and already knew it was from the amphetamines withdrawal kicking in. Sleep, hunger, and…

"Thought you promised to stay away from them?" John Winchester called from the fridge. Hallucinations, right on schedule. John continued talking and Dani closed her eyes trying to ignore him.

"You needed to sleep plus I tried waking you up… Sam's found a case," Dean spoke.

"It's in Stratton, Nebraska, a couple of hours from here. Man was reported dead in a locked room, no sign of entry, sounds like a ghost." Sam explained.

"Great, easy salt and burn and then we can get back to finding Hope. I've got a lead." Dani said as she grabbed her laptop. Dani showed them everything she had found and all the footage. She had lost Hope's trail after the gas station but she would continue looking through security footage.

"Pack it up we leave in an hour," Dean announced standing up from the table as Bobby walked in.

"Possible case in Stratton, could be a lead on Hope or just another case. Keep me posted if you hear anything." Dani said walking past the older hunter who nodded. He watched Dani turn around to walk out of the room, but then she stopped and stuck her head back in the room. "Hey Bobby, thank you." Dani said with a smile which Bobby returned. Bobby was the only father figure she had, the only adult in her life and she loved him so much, she never wanted him to feel unappreciated because he saved her. He let her live with him, provided for her and cared for her.

Bobby also taught her everything she knew. Dani went up to her room, everything she needed already in her car although she knew she needed to do laundry soon. The three hunters packed up Dean's impala, but not before Dean and Dani argued about taking her car. She knew she wasn't going to win so instead of taking two cars, she moved her things to Dean's car and they were on their way. Dean driving, Sam in the passenger seat and Dani sitting in the back between the brothers. The drive to Stratton would be about 7 hours, but Dani was hoping Dean would cut some time out of that because she was itching to get to the town, itching for a hunt.