Chapter 3
"I'll say it again. What the hell is going on in this town?"
Dean questioned as the three of them were sitting down outside the small liquor store in Washington.
"This seems like a fun case."
Adeline commented thinking about the ghost and then the big foot as she unwrapped a sucker.
"Whatever you say Kojak."
Dean told her eyeing the green blow pop she just stuck in her mouth. They watched as a girl rode past them on her bike a magazine fell out of the crate she had in the back.
"Ah, she's starting young isn't she?"
Adeline commented as she picked up the "Busty Asians Beauties" magazine.
The three Winchesters followed her and saw the crate she left by the door that said sorry. They continued following her to her house. Dean knocked on the door and the little girl answered shortly.
"Are your parents' home?" Sam asked her.
"No." The girl answered looking at the three of them.
"Have you seen a really, really furry…" Dean started but stopped.
"Is he in trouble?" The girl asked them cutting Dean off.
"No!" Sam told her surprised.
"We just want to make sure he's alright." Adeline joined in.
"He's my teddy bear, I think he's sick." She told them the last part in a whisper.
"Amazing." Dean told the girl looking for a badge.
"We're teddy bear doctors." Adeline smiled at the girl only the smile didn't reach her eyes, it never did.
"Can we see him?" Sam asked the girl. They followed her up to her room.
"He's in my bedroom he's pretty grumpy, Teddy there're these nice doctors here to see you!"
She shouted to him before opening the door. Adeline looked at her brothers in a "what the hell?" expression and they gave her the same as the giant teddy bear shouted for the girl to close the friggin door.
"All I wanted was a Teddy that was big, real and talked. But now he's sad all the time not ouch sad but ouch sad in the head. He says weird stuff and smells like the bus!" The girl told them.
"Little girl…" Dean started.
"Audrey." The girl told them not wanting to be called little girl.
"Audrey, how did Teddy become this way?" Adeline asked her as she put her hands in her pockets.
"I wished for it at the wishing well."
"I see." Adeline said as Dean opened the door again to see the bear. That thing is seriously creepy thought Adeline as they peered in the room.
"Can you believe this crap? This is a terrible world, why am I here?" The bear asked them depressed.
"For tea parties!" Audrey answered her bear.
"Tea parties? Is that all there is?" The bear whined. Dean closed the door again and turned to Sam and Adeline.
"How the hell are we supposed to execute that thing? What set it on fire? Shoot it?"
Dean asked them quietly. Adeline shrugged her shoulders in response she had no idea what to do about the creepy ass bear.
"Dean, this isn't the main problem."
"Where are your parents?" Dean asked the girl he had noticed the lack of them too.
"My mom wished they were in Bali, so I think they're in Bali."
"Well we think your bear has…uh lollipop disease." Dean told her as he caught the sight of Adeline with her lollipop in her mouth.
"It's really contagious so is there anyone you can stay with?" Sam asked the girl.
"My neighbor down the street." The girl told them.
"Uh, one more thing can you tell us were this wishing well is?" Adeline asked her.
"So you think it actually works?" Sam wondered.
"Only one way to find out."
Dean answered pulling out a coin just as Adeline dropped one in the well.
"What did you two wish for?" Sam asked them curious.
"You're not supposed to tell." Adeline winked at him.
"So are the two people who ordered the Italian foot long with extra jalapenos?"
Adeline and Dean looked at each other with raised eyebrows before going over to the delivery man to collect their all sat down at the table and Sam couldn't help the amused smile on his face. His two siblings had the same wish and it only made him remember more that the two were more alike than they thought.
"This is extra especially delicious."
Dean commented eating his sub. He looked towards Adeline and saw her nod her head in agreement.
"So this definitely goes on the list."
Dean told them handing Sam the newspaper he was just reading. Sam saw the lottery winner and then the nerd with the hot fiancée.
"Excuse me, you can't eat outside food here."
The owner of the restaurant told Dean and Adeline.
"Well I'm not eating the inside food here." Dean told him pulling out a badge.
"Health inspector you got a 1 19."
"A rat infestation?!" The man exclaimed.
Everybody left the restaurant leaving the owner, Dean, Sam and Adeline left. The three siblings were back checking out the fountain.
"So what would you wish for?" Dean asked their brother.
"For you go back to your old life and have the white picket fence dream?"
"No Dean, it's impossible for us to go back to our old lives." He told his brother. Adeline looked at him curious Sam had told her a bit of what happened before Dean came back to get him.
"So what would you wish for?" She asked him.
"Lilith's head on a plate, bloody" Sam answered.
Adeline snorted and Dean shook his head with a smile.
"Hey, what's that?"
Adeline asked bending down to get a better look at the coin she spotted. Dean bent down and tried to pick it up but it won't budge. They tried everything they could think to get the coin out of the fountain, a crowbar and even a sledgehammer. But none of them worked the sledgehammer even broke in half and almost hit the restaurant owner. Sam grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil and rubs an imprint of the coin.
"Here, you and Addy look into this." Sam told them before running out.
"Wonder what kind of magical coin it is."
Adeline commented as they walked back to their motel room.
"No idea."
Dean said just as group of boys ran in their direction, they saw they were running from a tiny blonde boy.
"What's your problem?" The boy asked Dean before glancing at Addy rudely.
"Nothing." Dean told him and the boy ran off.
"Ah." Adeline whispered clutching her stomach just as Dean's started rumbling.
"This can't be good."
Adeline told him as they walked at a faster pace to the motel. They both got inside the room at the same time. Adeline's stomach felt a bit better so she started looking through the books they had. Dean followed suit and called Adeline over when he found a picture of the coin.
"It's a Babylonian coin marked by Tiamet a chaos deity. You place the coin in a well and it grants any wish but they turn sideways."
Dean informed her just as his stomach started rumbling again. Adeline gasped in pain as hers started hurting. They raced to the bathroom together and made it in their just in time.
Dean kneeled at the toilet while Adeline kneeled at the bathtub.
"This is sooo wrong." Dean groaned before they started puking.
"I wouldn't have to puke in the stupid bathtub if you would just let me have my own room." Adeline told him pissed before upchucking some more.
"Stop whining Addy. I need to keep an eye on you until we figure out your whole soul thing."
Dean argued coming up for a breather then flushed the toilet.
"I was doing fine on my own before you two came back into the picture." She argued with a groan.
"Yeah, tell that to your soul." Dean groaned back to her.
That's how Sam found them a bit later. Arguing in between puking.
"You guys okay?" He asked worried about them.
"The wishes turn bad Sam. Very bad." Dean groaned before flushing the toilet.
He relayed the information they found as Adeline ran the shower getting rid of her puke that refused to go down the drain. When the tub was all clean she came back out and sat down on the bed with Sam.
"Bed buddy?" She asked him.
She really didn't want to sleep on the couch after that fiasco. Sam nodded his head feeling sorry for his sister. Adeline patted his knee gratefully and went underneath the covers as Sam and Dean talked to each other in hushed voices.
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"Adeline."
Adeline heard a voice and looked around her house confused. She knew none of her traps had gone off so no one should have been here with her and she thought she had the heat on as she felt a cold tingle on her skin. But yet she saw the trench coat figure standing by her couch.
"Damn it, I need to update my house. Don't suppose you'll tell me how to ward against an angel?" She asked him walking over to sit on her couch.
Castiel looked her over before he sat down next to her. "It's getting worse." He told her with that constipated expression.
"How about you tell me how to reverse it then or at least tell me what's going to happen?"
Adeline sighed knowing he was talking about her soul.
"Happiness would reverse it over time." Castiel told her.
"Well that's just dandy." Adeline told him sarcastically.
"So what brings you to my humble home?" She asked the angel.
"We're not in your house, not really. This is a dream." Castiel told her.
"Even better."
She muttered as Castiel cocked his head Adeline remembered then they just finished a case that included a creepy ass bear and a Babylonian coin.
"What are you doing in my head then?"
"I came to help you. There is a way to prolong your condition."
Adeline waited for him to tell her what it was but he stayed silent. She raised an eyebrow looking at him.
"And that is?" She asked a bit annoyed with the angel. Really? Can't he just spit out already?
"I would have to block some of your memories from you, the ones that have left the most damaging scars on your soul."
"Well do your angel thing then." Adeline yawned tired even though apparently this was a dream so that didn't even make sense to her.
"You would forget probably quite a few things, important events that have happened in your life." Castiel warned her trying to get her to understand.
"Blue eyes, just block the damn memories." Adeline told him quietly if she could prolong her soul breaking then it was fine even if she would forget.
"You would most likely forget them."
Castiel told her guessing to who she was thinking about at the moment. Adeline turned her bright green eyes to Castiel and he saw just how sad, tired and in pain she was, all in that look she gave him.
"Get rid of them." She whispered.
Castiel nodded his head then put his hand on her forehead. Adeline closed her eyes at the warmth of his hand and couldn't help that small tear that was coming down her face. Castiel searched inside her head and had blocked a few memories from her when he took his hand off her with a frown.
"This doesn't make sense." He told her as she opened her eyes confused.
"What doesn't?"
She asked wiping the tear off her face. Why was that there she wondered? Before looking back up at Castiel.
"Someone has already blocked quite a bit of your memories."
He told her confused only an angel could of have done that. Castiel put his hand back on her forehead and looked through some of her memories to see if he could find who did it but they had erased any trace of themselves.
"Ah." Adeline commented wondering who the hell did that.
"Well that does explain a few things." She added remembering how she had quite a bit of blank spots over the past three years.
"Adeline, this is a cause for worry."
Castiel told her with a frown taking his hand off her forehead. Adeline couldn't help a small frown when he did, she liked how warm his hand had felt then she grimaced. Did she really just think that?
"Can't be too much of a worry seeing as you were doing the same thing as them." She told the angel.
"I was blocking the memories from you until we could heal your soul for good. Whoever messed with your head erased them Adeline. You could have had important things just plucked right out of there and you can't remember if you did or not."
Castiel said trying to get her to understand but Adeline just hummed lost in thought.
"So how many things did you end up blocking out?"
She asked ignoring the whole other issue that some angel erased her memories. After all there really was nothing she could do about that.
"Three years ago, blocked most of what happened then. That's where most of the damage was and I can't even fathom what the other angel erased of the past three years." Castiel told her worried.
"Ah, well we'll find out someday Flyboy."
Adeline grinned at him. She actually felt a bit at peace, not worried at all.
"So how is my soul looking now?" Castiel looked into her green eyes and frowned it should have been much better but it only got a little better after he blocked out some memories.
"Not too much better. What did you do to become like this?" Castiel asked her.
"Hmm, can't remember."
Adeline joked with an eye roll. Castiel frowned he didn't like that she seemed to be joking about this but on the other hand she seemed to be in a much better mood than before. He wondered what Adeline's personality would be like if her soul was not breaking.
"I'll see what I can find out."
Castiel told her before disappearing leaving Adeline to stew in her thoughts. "What the hell did I do?" She asked openly worried now that she was alone.
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"Have a good dream Adeline?"
Dean asked his sister as he saw her sit up slowly. Her hair was sticking up all over the place and he smiled thinking back to the old days when her hair was longer but it did the same thing it was doing now. She was so cute back then with her light green, sleepy eyes and her long wavy, blonde hair with that brush of freckles on her nose. Dean wouldn't ever tell her but he was so glad to have her back with him even if she was snarky and sarcastic instead of curious and questioning like she used to be. I guess that's what happens when you grow up, especially raised in this life Dean sighed sad at the thought.
"Sure, Deanybop."
She answered with a yawn. Dean's smile came back at the old nickname.
"Pull over."
She told him suddenly. Dean did and watched with a bit of concern and a bit of amusement as she got out of the car and dry heaved. Nothing came up she took a few breaths of the chilly air then got back inside the car.
"Well, I would say you're almost cured." Dean told her as he started driving again.
"Bite me."
She said him before she took a sip of her water. Dean eyed the bottle and recalled how she's only been drinking water or soda for the past few months.
"So why did you stop drinking?" He asked her wondering what the deal was with that.
"No idea." She answered honestly wondering herself.
"Well, you were a mean drunk."
Dean said not believing her but he couldn't help recalling the last time he saw her drunk. She was picking all sorts of fights at the bar they were at she even started fighting with him and Sam until she passed out, he had to carry her sorry ass back to the motel. Dean chuckled to himself recalling the memory.
"I was wasn't I?"
Adeline said recalling the same memory with a small smile.
Dean looked back at her and smiled himself. That was a real smile Addy was giving him not a smirk or a grin an actual genuine smile even though it was small.
"So am I forgiven then, now that you're smiling at me Addy?"
Dean couldn't help but ask. Adeline frowned in thought what was he talking about.
"For what?" She asked him confused.
"You know for the stuff I said to you at dad's funeral." Dean answered with his eyes on the road.
"Sure, you could say I've forgotten all about that."
Adeline told him wondering what the hell Dean told her. All she could recall was the funeral, then her leaving the funeral with Bobby telling her to take care of herself and that Dean didn't mean what he said. Must've been pretty bad to have it blocked from my mind.
"I've forgiven you too Addy." Dean said softly. "In fact I was beating myself up about it all these years. I knew it was my fault you when you left me the second time. I did want to go see you, you know before I got dragged down to hell but I also didn't because then I would be admitting to myself that I was in fact dying and I didn't want our last memory to be sad, I preferred it being angry and pissed off at each other." He continued eyeing Adeline from the mirror.
"Ah."
Adeline commented understanding his reason even though she was hurt from his not visiting her during his last year alive.
"It hurt me you know. Finding out from Bobby that you were dead and in hell no less from a deal to save Sam. You didn't come say goodbye to me and that hurt. I kept waiting for Sam to come find me to tell me the news but he never did. Guess I was such a crappy sister that even my little brother didn't think he could come to me for help, instead he goes to a demon. Even though I would've dropped everything to help him and you too Dean."
Adeline admitted hesitantly. She knew how hard it was for Dean to tell her his true feelings so she decided to do the same.
"I'm sorry Addy."
Dean apologized again realizing just how much he had hurt his little sister.
Sam frowned but kept his eyes closed not wanting to let his siblings know he was awake and had been for a while. He heard the whole exchange between them and he had some words he wanted to say to them but he knew how upset they were at him for learning what had happened to him during the time Dean was dead.
"It's fine Dean."
Adeline sighed as she leaned her head against the cold window and it wasn't long until she fell asleep. Dean smiled sadly at the sight of her and looked over at Sam who now had his eyes open and he seemed to be looking at her too.
"See that Sammy. That's our sister, she's barely a year older than you. Yet something terrible happened to her while we were separated. Something so awful that according to Cas her soul is breaking. It's my fault, I should of listened to you when after the first three days we were separated from her. I should have put my anger aside and got her back."
Dean's grip on the steering wheel hardened and Sam sighed saying nothing as they drove to the psych ward. There was nothing he could say to make Dean stop beating himself up, after all it was true. Sam couldn't help but blame himself too after all he could've got her himself but yet he didn't, he didn't even go to her when Dean died. He was afraid she would blame him for getting their brother killed. But now he knew she didn't think that at all.
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The three of them pulled into the church and got out to see if Anna was here. Adeline cocked her gun and Dean raised his eyebrows at her.
"Can't be too careful."
She told him with a smirk. Dean looked over his sister curiously she seemed different than she had a few days ago. She still refused to wear any FBI garment but she was less sarcastic about it and she was smiling now not just smirking or grinning. Dean didn't dare share his thoughts aloud but Adeline seemed happier somehow. Maybe a little heart to heart was all she really needed.
"Hi Anna, we don't want to hurt you. I'm Sam and this is my brother Dean and my sister Adeline." Sam introduced them as soon as he saw the redhead girl.
"Sam? Not Sam Winchester?" She came over surprised.
"And you're Dean, the Dean?"
Sam and Dean were surprised Anna sounded like she knew them. Anna walked over to Adeline and Adeline gave her a funny look.
"Adeline…." Anna whispered with awe.
Adeline took a step back when she saw Anna's hand come toward her face.
"Sorry, it's just the angels' talk about you all the time. The three of you. The angels' say that they think Dean can save them and they don't like Sam at all."
Anna turned her eyes at Adeline. "They're very curious about you though Adeline. I feel like I know you...all of you." Anna told them as she took in the three of them.
"That's nice to know..." Adeline frowned, she didn't like knowing that the angels were curious about her.
"When did you first start hearing voices?" Sam asked the red head.
"September eighteenth. In fact first words I heard clear as a bell, Dean Winchester is saved." Anna told them.
"Trippy." Adeline told the girl looking at Dean.
"That's why the demons are after her, she can tune in to angel radio." Anna sighed relieved that they believed her. She didn't anymore people thinking she was crazy.
"Are my parents okay?" She asked them then thinking about her mom and dad.
Dean opened his mouth to tell her they were dead but Ruby bursts through the doors of the church.
"You got the girl, good let's go!" She exclaimed.
"Oh her face!" Anna backed up scared.
Adeline looked over at Ruby then walked over and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"I know, not the best looking girl is she?" Adeline told her as Sam told her she was here to help.
"I wouldn't be so sure." Dean said.
"We have to hurry!" Ruby told them sternly.
"Why?"
"Because a demon's coming, big timer. We can fight later, Dean."
"Well that's pretty convenient, showing up right when we find the girl with some bigwig on your tail." Adeline said walking over pulling out one of her guns.
"I didn't bring him here, you did." Ruby told them.
"What?" Dean asked her confused at how a demon followed them.
"He followed you from the girl's home. We got to go now!"
"Dean, Addy."
Sam got their attention and they looked to where he was pointing. An angel statue had blood coming down it's eyes.
"It's too late. He's here." Ruby said softly. Sam took Anna and put her in a closet while Dean and Addy checked out the freaky statue.
"No Sam, you got to pull him right away."
"Whoa hold on a sec."
"Now is not the time to bellyache about Sam going dark. He does his thing, he exorcises that demon, or we die."
Ruby snarled back at Dean. Adeline looked over towards the door as the demon came in. She didn't like where this was going and glanced at Sam then back at the demon who coughed.
"That tickles, you don't have the juice to take me Sam."
He told them.
The demon pulled Sam his direction and basically pushed him down the stairs. Adeline shot her gun at him trying to get him to stop. The demon turned her way and narrowed his eyes.
"Oh, sweet little Addy with a broken soul thinks she can shoot me."
He smiled at her before he shoved her against a wall, hard. Adeline coughed and groaned. Her head was pounding and it sounded she had heard a crack from somewhere.
Dean pulled out his knife and went over to the demon trying to stab it but he got his arm.
"Hello again, Dean."
The demon smiled at him before hitting him against something. While Dean was fighting Ruby went to where Anna was and took her someplace safe.
The demon was punching Dean around when Adeline looked over. She got up slowly and cursed, her ankle was broken or something. Always the damn ankle. But she saw Dean needed some help so she barred the pain and limped as fast as she could to him and jumped on the demon's back getting a choke hold on him. The demon stopped hitting Dean and instead grabbed her arm and flipped her off his back and slammed her onto the floor. He then put a foot on her stomach to make sure she stayed.
"Now what was that for, sweetheart?"
He snarled down at her. Adeline glanced behind him and saw Sam with the knife.
"Dis...trac...tion." She coughed as Sam plunged Ruby's knife into Alistair.
"You're gonna have to try a whole lot harder than that, son."
He told Sam turning to fight him now. Adeline took in a shaky breath and rolled over before coughing some more. She wasn't surprised to see some blood and she knew her head was cut somewhere because she could feel the warmth of her blood as it started pooling down.
While Alistair was distracted Sam helped Adeline up and wrapped her arm around his shoulder and then helped Dean up.
"I apologize for this Addy." Sam told her as he picked her up and started running towards their only way out.
"Yay, a window always wanted to go out of one with someone carrying me." She told him dryly before he jumped out.
Adeline coughed and rolled off of Sam. He ended up taking most of the force especially since she ended up landing on him. Dean pulled Adeline's arm and hauled her up before wrapping his arm around her waist so he could carry her that way.
"That wasn't too bad. Also Dean, I'm not some handbag you can tote around."
She breathed out feeling her arm and shoulder bleed. Sam got up and they made for the car quickly.
"Shut it Addy." He told her before he tossed her into the backseat.
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Sam was finishing doing Adeline's stitches. So far he counted four, two in her head, one in her arm and the other in her shoulder and she had a nasty scrape along with a bruise but didn't need any stitches there.
"Why the hell did you jump on him?" Sam asked her.
Adeline winced at the sound of his voice, her head was killing her after being thrown around by different people.
"He stopped pounding on Dean, didn't he?" She retorted bitterly as Sam set her down on a chair so he could work on himself.
"You probably have a concussion."
Sam sighed helping her put on a non-bloody tank top now that she was fixed up.
"Yeah, well honestly I probably had that before I was slammed into the ground thank you very much."
Adeline closed her eyes and sat back willing the pain to go away, maybe she should drink some whiskey. She heard Dean coughing in the bathroom and turned her head towards it.
"You're welcome by the way." She grumbled sore.
Dean came out of the bathroom with a glare as Sam started stitching himself.
"You almost done?" He asked Sam.
"I just started Dean." Sam hissed in pain as he thread the needle through his skin.
"Well, great anytime you're ready. I just have a dislocated shoulder." He grumbled before taking a swig out of a bottle.
"I can get it for you, if you come my way."
Dean turned to Adeline and shot her a mean look.
"What you did was stupid, it was beyond stupid." He growled but walked over to her.
Adeline held her hand out to him and Dean pulled her up. Adeline hissed in pain and Dean sat down in the chair.
"I totally saved your life with that move even if it was stupid." Adeline stuck her tongue out at him.
"What are you a proud kid?" Dean asked her giving her a look before turning to Sam.
"So, you lost the magic knife." Dean said to him as Adeline used one arm to help her balance taking a look at Dean's shoulder.
"Yeah, saving your guys' ass." Sam growled to him.
"Who was that demon?" Sam then asked his brother.
"No one good." Dean hissed as Adeline started poking around his shoulder.
"We got to find Anna." Adeline told them as she brought her weight to her good foot and placed a hand on the back of Dean's shoulder to support him.
"Ruby's got her. I'm sure she's okay." Sam told her.
Adeline took her other hand and pulled his shoulder back in place and caused Dean to yelp.
"A little warning would've been nice!" He exclaimed in pain.
She rolled her eyes with a smirk. "Baby." She joked hobbling to the empty chair beside him.
"Are you sure about Ruby? Cause, I think it's just as likely she used us to find radio girl. And then brought that demon in to kill us." Dean said as Sam moved on to stitch his arm.
"No, she took Anna to keep her safe." He argued reaching his hand out for the bottle of whiskey.
He poured the stuff on his arm hissing in pain before handing it back to Dean.
"Yeah." Dean sighed not believing this bull.
"Why hasn't she called to tell us where she is?" He asked getting up and pulled out a bag of frozen peas and held it to his shoulder.
"Because that demon is probably watching us right now, waiting to follow us right back to Anna again. That's why he let us go."
Dean chuckled, "You call this letting us go?"
"Yeah, I do. Look killing us would've been no problem to that thing. A couple more smacks to Addy and she would be more than just severely concussed!" Sam shouted the last part.
Adeline lifted her head from the table with a glare at her younger brother.
"You need to stay awake." He told her explaining.
"That's why we got to lay low, keep Adeline awake for twenty four hours and wait for Ruby to contact us."
"How is she going to do that?" Sam shrugged his shoulders at Dean and Dean turned around from the bathroom mirror slowly.
"Why do you trust her so much?"
Sam sighed, "I told you."
Dean put down his frozen peas and walked over at sat down by Adeline but not before nudging her broken ankle. Adeline opened her eyes with a glare at him.
"You got to do better than that. Hey, I'm not trying to pick a fight here. I mean I really want to understand, but I need to know more I, no we deserve more." Dean said to him and pointed at himself and Adeline.
Sam nodded his head slowly, "Because…she saved my life."
Sam told them the story of how Ruby saved his life during the time that Dean was in hell. Adeline listened with a bit of interest but she kept thinking about how the pain in her head would go away if she could just sleep. But anytime she closed her eyes either Sam would start talking louder or Dean would kick her ankle lightly. Sometimes both happened, Dean even at one point got into her jacket pocket and pulled out a sucker unwrapping it for her before he opened her mouth and clamped it shut.
"I hate you." She mumbled as she pulled it out and started licking it slowly as she listened to Sam, now with better focus.
"Sam…too much information." Dean told him when he got to the part of him and Ruby sleeping together.
Adeline raised her eyebrows, "Jeez Sammy, didn't want to know everything about you."
"Hey, I told you I was coming clean."
"Yeah, but now I feel dirty and that I should have my hands over Addy's ears."
Adeline snorted at his response. Dude, I think you forget how old I am.
"Okay, well, uh backstabbing imagery aside…so far all you've told us about is a manipulative bitch who, uh, screwed you, played mind games with you and did everything in the book to get you to go bad." Dean continued taking a peek at Adeline to see how she was doing before turning back to Sam.
"Yeah, well there's more to the story." Sam argued.
Dean leaned forward, "Skip the nudity, please." Dean told him as Adeline smirked.
Sam sighed and got back to his story. A knock on the door sounded just as Sam finished telling them about him and Ruby.
"Impeccable timing." Adeline commented as Dean shouted not now to the woman.
"Sir, I've got clean towels."
Dean got up figuring she wouldn't leave until he took the damn towels from her so he opened the door.
"Couldn't you just leave them at the door?" He told her in that deep voice of his.
The maid walked right into the room handed the towels to Dean. She closed the door and shut the curtains before walking over to Sam.
"I'm at this address." She told him handing him a piece of paper.
Sam looked up at her confused, "I'm sorry. What?"
"Go now, go through the bathroom window, don't stop, don't take your car, don't pass go. There are demons in the hallway and in the parking lot." The maid told them.
Adeline looked at Dean who was just as clueless as her.
"Ruby?!" Sam asked the woman.
"Okay, yes, so I'm possessing this maid for a hot minute. Sue me."
"What about…." Sam started but Ruby interrupted him.
"Coma girl? Slowly rotting on the floor back at the cabin with Anna, so I've got to hurry back. See you when you get there. Go!" Ruby told him before walking out the door.
Dean watched her go still holding the towels.
"So, who's going to throw me out this window?" Adeline asked her brothers with raised eyebrows and a crunch as she pulled her empty sucker stick out.
They turned to her and frowned, "Don't go jumping on people's backs anymore." Dean told her setting the towels down on the table before going to her and pulled her up, wrapping an arm around her waist.
"Ankle was already broken before that, damn that wall for being so hard." Adeline joked.
Dean shook his head not believing the situation they were in.
"So I guess, Sam here can throw you out and I can catch you?" Dean suggested to her.
"Yeah whatever." She grumbled as Sam came over and lifted her up bridal style.
They all walked into the bathroom and Adeline frowned at the size of the window.
"This is going to hurt." She realized looking at the window that was just big enough for them to get through.
Dean opened it and climbed out slowly then jumped to the ground with a curse. He held his hands out to Adeline and Sam turned so her head and arms could go out first. She wrapped her arms around Dean's shoulders wincing.
"Here comes the hard part."
She breathed as Dean started walking backward as Sam let go of her legs. She hissed in pain as she lifted her legs and couldn't help a few yelps come out as her ankle hit the window sill before Dean set her back on her feet er foot. Adeline kept an arm around his shoulder and he wrapped one around her waist to help her walk. They waited for Sam to come out the window with their bags and they walked as fast as they could to the nearest car to jack it.
"Never again, will I save your life Dean." Adeline groaned in pain as she got in the backseat of the car.
They made it safely to the cabin and saw Ruby sitting with Anna. Adeline was spacing out as they all talked. Dean noticed and waved his hand in front of her face as Sam explained to Anna her parents were dead.
"Why is this happening to me?"
She sobbed as Adeline looked around with a frown. She felt her a tingling sensation on her skin as Anna announced they were coming. The lights started flickering, "Leave me. I'll only slow you down." Adeline told Dean as she took her arm off him.
"Not leaving you Addy. Back room."
Dean tried getting Adeline there with Anna but she kept squirming out of his arms and hopped away.
"I'm staying with you guys."
"Damn it Addy, you're hurt."
Dean growled as he went over and grabbed a shotgun. Sam did the same and Adeline pulled out her own that she carried with her then went over and sat down where Sam was earlier.
"This is suicide for you Addy, go to the damn closet." Dean yanked her up by her elbow causing her to curse in pain.
"Damn it, Dean that hurts." She hissed at him with a glare his way.
"Where's the knife?" Ruby asked interrupting them.
"Uh, about that…" Dean started, Ruby stood up with from looking in the bag.
"You're kidding." She said not believing they lost her knife.
"Hey, don't look at me." Dean said nodding his toward Sam.
"Thanks a lot." Sam told him sarcastically.
Dean cast him a smile before letting go of Adeline. He gave up, his sister was too damn stubborn. If she wanted to sign her death warrant fine let her he thought pissed, knowing he wouldn't let her die.
"Great. Just peachy. Impeccable timing, guys really." Ruby scolded them.
They heard something coming outside so Dean stood halfway in front of Adeline and beside Sam with his gun ready. The door opened and a gust of wind ruffled everyone's hair before Castiel and Uriel walked in the cabin.
"Please tell me you're here to help. We've been having demon issues all day." Dean asked them still holding up his gun.
"Well, I can see that." Uriel commented looking at Ruby. His glance flicked over Adeline before looking back at Ruby.
"You want to explain why you have that stain in the room?" he finished.
"Just can't seem to get rid of it." Adeline answered with a smirk looking at Uriel.
Uriel looked back at her, "I like her." he commented to Castiel, he knew there was something about this girl that intrigued him she in fact intrigued all angels they just couldn't figure out why so they all kept their distance from her.
"We're here for Anna." Castiel told them and frowned when he saw Adeline, he glanced down and saw the slight black and blue on her ankle before her pants covered it.
"You're hurt." He said looking at her with furrowed brows.
"Good job Sherlock." Adeline replied sarcastically. This angel is seriously something else.
"Here for her like…here for her?" Dean asked cutting in.
"Stop talking. Give her to us." Uriel told him.
"Are you going to help her?" Sam asked them.
"No. She has to die." Castiel blatantly replied to Sam.
Great, Adeline thought annoyed as she closed her eyes to make the pounding stop. Maybe she should have listened to Dean, Anna might've been safer if one of them was with her. Adeline cocked her gun getting ready for a fight and Castiel frowned over at her.
"You know Christmas is coming up?" Adeline told the angels' frowning.
"You wanna kill in the spirit of Christmas?"
She continued grabbing Dean's shoulder to help her stand up, then took it off when she got her balance. Dean and Sam looked over at Adeline and gave her a look like she was crazy. Even Castiel glanced at her confused at the mention of the birth of Christ. Adeline just shrugged her shoulders, it was true Christmas was coming up in a couple weeks.
"She has a concussion." Dean stated as if trying explain his sister.
"Out of the way." Uriel told them moving closer to the door where Anna was kept.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I know she's wiring into your angel radio but that's no reason to gank her." Dean took a step closer to Uriel blocking his way.
"Don't worry. I'll kill her gentle." Uriel told them mockingly.
"You're some heartless sons of bitches, you know that?" Dean growled.
"As a matter of fact we are. And?"
Castiel said surprising Adeline. Sure they were cruel but she remembered how Castiel healed her sprain from before and how he had blocked some memories prolonging her soul from splitting.
"And Anna is just an innocent girl!" Sam argued to the angels.
"She is far from innocent."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means she's worse than this abomination you've been screwing. Now give us the girl." Uriel threatened them.
Adeline looked at her brothers and they both glanced at her then at each other. They nodded their heads all agreeing.
"Sorry, get yourself another one. Try j-date."
"Who's going to stop us you two and your crippled sister?" Uriel growled at them as he stepped closer to Dean.
"Or this demon whore?" He added before he grabbed Ruby and pushed her against the window, breaking it.
Ruby got up to attack him but Uriel grabbed her by the throat to hold her there so he could kill her. Dean grabbed a hammer and went over to Uriel to hit him with it but Uriel stopped him by grabbing his arm. Dean then tried throwing a punch at Uriel but Uriel grabbed his fist and started pushing it back before hitting Dean's face a couple times.
At the same time that was going on Castiel walked over to Sam.
"Cas, stop…please." Sam said backing up so he was in front of his sister.
Adeline's head started pounding even worse than it already was as Castiel touched two fingers to Sam's forehead causing him to fall. The angel looked over at Adeline whose eyes were scrunched up in pain, yet she kept them open waiting for him to knock her out as he did Sam. Only he bent down and touched her ankle causing her to groan at the touch. He healed her broken ankle and her bruised back along with the head and arm injuries. Adeline looked at him confused at why he was doing this in the middle of a fight. He turned his back on her heading for the door so Adeline jumped onto his back wrapping her arms tightly around his neck.
"Thank you for healing me, but I can't let you get to her." She told him.
"Why not?" He growled pulling her arms off him and tugged her so she was facing him. She was so soft, Castiel realized as he held her.
"Dean would kill me." She smirked.
Castiel looked at her weird and was about to ask her another question but three things happened all at that time.
A light appeared and Castiel and Uriel disappeared leaving them and Adeline fell to the ground throwing up blood before falling unconscious.
Dean was on all fours panting from his brutal beat up with Uriel. He spit some blood out his mouth and looked around.
"What the?"
He got up and went over to Ruby and pulled her to her feet.
"Come on." He told her.
Sam grunted as he woke up and Dean and Ruby went over to him. Ruby knelt down beside him asking if he was okay. Dean looked over to where Adeline laid on the ground covered in blood. He went over to her quickly and checked for a pulse and sighed relieved when he found one then checked her over for any injuries, he couldn't find any open wounds. He got up and opened the closet door to where Anna was.
"Anna!" he shouted upon seeing her and ran over to her.
He looked at weird markings she had done on the mirror and table.
"Are they gone?" She asked him breathlessly.
"Did you kill them?" Dean asked wiping a cloth around her arm.
"No. I sent them away. Far away." Anna answered as Sam carrying their unconscious sister came into the room with Ruby.
"You wanna tell me how?" Dean asked her.
"That just popped into my head." Anna answered him looking at the marking on the mirror.
"I don't know how I did it. I just did." Dean looked at her curious then looked over at his sister.
"I will kill that damn angel. What the hell did he do to her?" Dean asked Sam.
"I don't know." Sam answered looking down at her. He used his sleeve and wiped the blood off her mouth.
"We got to get Anna somewhere safe." Dean said before getting the girl who wandered off.
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Sam looked at his sister draped on the couch, Ruby had changed her blood spilled clothes so at least she didn't look like a murder scene anymore. Just in a very uncomfortable sleep. Sam sat down on the table to watch her sleep worried about her she had been unconscious for a day. He was about to go downstairs to Dean but yelped when he saw Adeline sitting up looking at him with squinted eyes.
"Well that was a trip." Adeline told him shaking her head.
She looked around and noticed they were in Bobby's house, then looked down and saw she was dressed in a fresh pair of cargo pants which were black and was wearing a purple tank-top.
"How long was I out? What exactly happened?" She groaned looking for some candy in her pockets. Empty, she frowned.
"A day, I don't exactly know. Dean says there was a light and Castiel and Uriel disappeared in it. We drove over to Bobby's to keep Anna safe who actually caused the light making the angels disappear with some sort of blood sigil." Sam told her as he handed her a hex bag.
"That's to keep demons and angels away." He answered her unspoken question.
"What did Cas do to you?"
"Nothing….that I know of. Last thing I remember is that light and this sickening feeling of being ripped apart before I threw up blood and well passed out I guess." Adeline told him pushing away him and a worried Bobby so she could get up.
"Hey Dean!"
Sam shouted remembering he wanted to know as soon as Adeline woke up he also had some information on Anna. Dean smiled at Adeline relieved to see her up he had some questions for here but first he checked to see what Sam had found out about Anna.
"Hey Anna, I'm Pamela. Dean's been telling me what's been going on. I'm so excited to help you."
Adeline watched as Pamela interacted with Anna. Adeline took a real quick look up and down at the psychic and smirked. She looked good and was glad to see she was doing well after what she heard what happened to Pamela's eyes.
"I know you're eyeballing me, over there Addy." Pamela looked around Anna to smile big at her.
"I know how to appreciate beauty." Adeline told her.
Pamela laughed at her remark and went over to hug Adeline. Adeline kept her arms at her side not really liking the attention.
"You seem different since I last you." Pamela told her letting her go.
"Your essence is off." Pamela frowned.
"So, I've been told. But we're not here for me, we're here for the red head over there." Adeline pointed back over at Anna.
"I'll sum you up later." Pamela told Adeline before going back to Anna.
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Adeline felt her skin tingle and looked around and frowned when she saw Castiel. "Get out of my damn head! Can't I have any sort of peace?" She glared at him.
"Glad to see you're feeling better." Castiel told her as he walked closer to her.
"What did you do me by the way?" She asked him and he tilted her head not understanding.
"I healed you." He told her thinking that was obvious.
"Not that." Adeline waved her hand dismissing that.
"The whole throwing up blood and then falling unconscious thing. It felt like my insides were ripping out." She narrowed her eyes at him.
"When did that happen?" The angel asked her stepping even closer to look her over.
"When the light appeared, when you were trying to kill Anna." She said stepping back she tripped on a rock that was behind her and fell in the snow.
Castiel loomed over her with a frown. "I didn't do that. I would never harm you."
Castiel told her looking down into her green eyes. This troubled him finding out this news though. It sounded like the sigil affected her somehow unless it was just a coincidence and her soul was almost at its breaking point. He looked around her dream and took in the mountains and the small cabin behind him.
"Why do you dream of the snow ridden mountains in Alaska?" He asked her curious.
Adeline closed her eyes and wished she could feel the coldness of the snow but it was just a dream.
"This is one of my homes." She answered looking into his blue eyes. His eyes are so blue.
"Care to help me up?" She asked holding her hand out.
Castiel eyed her hand skeptically before he reached for it and pulled her up. He ended up accidently pulling her too hard though and she ran into his chest.
Adeline gasped at how warm he felt then looked up at him. He was looking down at her and was wondering how she was so warm and so soft. Adeline broke the contact though by stepping back.
"So Flyboy, you must have a reason for being here so go on…" Adeline said leaning against the log cabin.
"I'm here to ask for Anna. She's not…."
"She's a fallen angel blah blah blah. Yeah I know what she is and I told Dean to give her to you. I mean we have enough on our plate already." She complained.
Castiel looked at her surprised. "So you'll willing hand her over."
Adeline looked at him with a duh expression.
"If I have to choose between a goody two shoe, red head or my brother, I'm going to pick my brother. So go away and let me dream in peace."
Castiel frowned at the blonde girl before him, she was a peculiar thing. She felt so soft, yet was so hard on herself and others. The times he came to visit her she had dreamed of home, yes it was a different one than last time but it was still home to her. He remembered how she shed a tear last time he visited her in a dream. He knew she didn't cry over Dean's death or seeing him again. He also knew she was snarky, sarcastic and rude a lot, yet she had sweet sides to her. Like when she thanked him for healing her sprain months ago. She was in anguish, still is he realized but she thanked him for something that was so simple and meant it fully.
"What's up Blue eyes?" Adeline asked him with a sigh seeing he wasn't leaving and that he kept looking at her.
"Do you remember why you shed a tear when I blocked your memories?" Castiel asked her wondering.
Adeline looked at him confused and raised her eyebrow, "Don't remember, you kind of blocked it." She answered looking at him wondering why he was asking her something like that.
.
Castiel just kept looking at her and Adeline rolled her eyes before looking back at her snow topped mountains.
"Maybe, I really treasured that memory you took. Like it could have been my favorite or something. Or maybe it was a really painful memory. Look either way it doesn't matter, it's gone right?" Adeline tried explaining to him a bit annoyed.
Castiel nodded his head and then left her.
"Catch ya, later blue eyes." Adeline said to the empty air before she went inside her log cabin wondering what that was about. Freakin angels.
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"How did you find us?" Sam asked surprised at seeing Castiel and Uriel in the barn they were at.
Dean glanced at Anna sadly then turned to Sam.
"I told them." He admitted to Sam.
"Why would you do that?" Sam asked flabbergasted at his brother.
He turned to Adeline who didn't seem surprised at all and narrowed his eyes at her figuring out she was in on it.
"Because they gave him a choice either kill me or you, I know how their minds work."
Anna went over to Dean and kissed him. "I forgive you." She whispered against his lips before turning towards the angels.
"Okay, no more tricks. I'm ready."
"I'm sorry." Castiel told her stepping a bit closer to her and cast a glance at a yawning Adeline. She shouldn't be tired already he thought.
"No you're not, not really." Anna told him pulling him out his thoughts of the Winchester girl.
"Don't you dare harm a hair on that pretty girls head!" Alistair told him before dumping a battered Ruby on the ground.
Castiel and Alistair started fighting and Adeline couldn't help but wince when Alistair got a punch in. She turned and saw Uriel killing all the lesser demons easily. She whistled impressed at the angels even if Castiel was outmatched. She noticed Alistair had Castiel by the throat and frowned pulling out her gun and whacked him on the head with it.
Alistair turned to her and knocked her on the ground before straddling her and punching her.
"I think you broke my nose." Adeline told him more calmly then she should be, before shooting her pistol at his heart.
Alistair chuckled, "That won't do a thing to me sweetheart."
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got the message considering that would've killed a normal person and at least painfully hurt a normal demon." Adeline said shooting him again.
"That time was because I like shooting things." She told him just as Dean came up behind Alistair and sliced his head. Alistair gave her one last punch before stepping on her as he turned to Dean.
"I'm disappointed in you Dean, you had such promise." Alistair told him as he started strangling Dean and then Sam when Sam came over to help.
Castiel was sitting up and was looking Adeline over with wide eyes. She had helped him but why?
"I'd say we're even now Flyboy." She coughed and spit out some blood. "Man, blood taste gross."
She groaned leaning her head back and closed her eyes in pain. She hadn't broken her nose before and it hurt like a bitch.
"Close your eyes, close you eyes!" Adeline heard Anna scream.
Adeline snorted, already doing that Anna. Castiel looked over at Adeline perplexed, he knew she was in pain yet she had a smirk on her face. He touched her nose faintly the same time Anna's grace returned to her.
Adeline flinched at the warmth and couldn't help but open her eyes as Castiel fixed her nose. Castiel's baby blues met her green ones surprised as Anna's grace shone around them.
"Pretty." Adeline commented at the light that surrounded them.
She squinted as it got brighter than it disappeared. "Thanks for that." Adeline told him getting up and touching her nose as she faced him.
Castiel looked at her strangely, "Your eyes should have burned." He said and moved even closer to her to examine her. She seemed perfectly fine he realized.
"Uh well, they seem to be intact." She commented just as confused as he was.
Uriel started yelling and Castiel turned to look and frowned.
"Uriel, let's go she's gone." He told him even though he wanted to stay and ask Adeline some questions about what just happened. Perhaps he'll get a chance the next time they would meet.
Adeline clamped Dean then Sam on the back.
"Good work, they bought it." Adeline told them before she took a sucker out of her pocket. She frowned when she saw it was broken but she stuck it her mouth anyways. Your eyes should have burned, Castiel's parting words came back to her and they bothered her more than they liked.
Then why didn't they?