Chapter 3

Someone Else's Life (Jo Dee Messina)


The drive to the crime scene was not very long but awkward. Dean had been so caught up in trying to figure out what was up with Kat that he didn't even put in a cassette tape. The silence, although welcomed by Sam, was still unsettling. Kat could see Dean watching which made it even more difficult to deal with the headaches of thoughts she was retrieving from the usual host of this skin.

There were thoughts of anger and sadness at being left in a hotel alone. There was anger towards the world for the card of fate that had been dealt to the real Kat. Kat was hearing everything and anything that the real Kat ever wanted to say to Dean and even Sam. Although all of the thoughts and emotions were causing a hell of a headache, Kat knew that the anger and unspoken words with the unshown emotions had definitely tipped the odds more in her favor. She was brought out of her thoughts when the care came to a stop.

In front of the threesome was a normal looking two-story house. It was a very familiar house to Kat, having been the most recent murder and alter suicide only 2 nights ago. Sam was the first out of the car not being able to feels so trapped by the heavy silence and thick tension. Dean's fingers were drumming against the steering wheel as he let out a sigh from the overweighing tension.

Dean truly couldn't understand what was happening. He and Kat were finally getting over all the conflicts caused by secrets. Sure every once in a while she would get frustrated by him being too protective, but that's just how he was. He knew that she had to have known that by now. Not that Dean minded, but it really wasn't usual for Kat to come onto him like that. He felt kinda bad about turning her down, but his brother was in the room, seriously. There are just some things you and your brother don't do or share with each other and that was right up there with marrying on another and getting all chick flicky and hugging all the time!

Kat was afraid of her cover being blown so she decided to try to fix things before they started to suspect her. She needed to get close enough to kill them by hurting them most first. She really wasn't too worried being fully aware that neither of the could truly ever shoot their Kat.

Kat- "Sorry about earlier. It's just not a good day. You know? And it's just so hard to resist you sometimes." winking and putting on a false innocent smile.

Dean- "Hey, I'm right there with you. I am so damn irresistible. But, I mean Sam was in the room. So now that that's over, let's go check out what these stupid bastards are up to this time."

Dean got out of the care followed by Kat who was trying to hide her anger as best as possible and was doing a good job. Although Sam did see something very off about her.

Sam had sensed something off from the moment she had woken him up that morning. First off it really wasn't like her to actually wake him up let alone how she went about it. To him, she just seemed to be acting extremely different. There was just something about the way that she was doing everything and acting that he just couldn't put his finger on. He was going to tell Dean but figured that he would just brush him off. Sam just wasn't in the mood so he stored it in the back of his mind.

Sam was brought out of his thoughts by the sight of Dean and Kat making their way over to him. It seemed as though they had made up and Kat seemed to be acting a bit more normal again although there was still something.

Dean- "They do like to pick the creepy places." staring up at the very pleasant typical house.

Sam- "It's not creepy. This is what they call normal, Dean. You should really try it sometime."

Dean- "Exactly. Normal is creepy. Right Kat?"

Kat was quickly going back into the real Kat's thoughts and memories. She was going past all the current ones of pain and how screwed the real Kat felt, to a memory that seemed very similar. It only took mere seconds for her to find it and reply to Dean with Kat's words from the past.

Kat- "Yep. I swear we are the only family that is freaked out and scared of normal!"

Sam- "Sometimes I wonder just what you two would do if you settled down. Both of you would be at the PTA meetings, insisting the kids knowing how to kill things and kick the asses of the things in the dark. Heck, you would probably insist on doing searches first to make sure the place wasn't haunted. And of course there would be rock salt shooting courses. Hunter would love it, but poor Riley." laughing.

Dean- "What about Riley?" curious as a protective father would be.

Sam- "Just when she starts dating. You'll probably shoot the guy with rock salt first…" interrupted by Dean holding up his hands.

Dean- "She is never and I mean NEVER going to be dating!"

Kat- "Do we not have more pressing issues?" getting tired of the role she had to play. She just wanted to have some fun, kill them, slowly, and leave.

Dean and Sam looked at her and Dean motioned with his hands an "after you" gesture as they entered the most recent murder scene.

The house was a mess! It was obvious that the victim had tried to fight back in a losing battle. Which had them all stumped because it was a woman that had killed a very strong man and afterwards she just disappeared until they found her, also dead.

Dean- "She must have had help. Probably a small group of shifters."

Sam- "Haven't we already confirmed that!"

Dean- "Just making an observation to prove your theory, college boy."

Kat- "So real quick recap of what happened."

Sam- "Well, the murdered man and his dead girlfriend were together and recently started have some kinds of problems or something. It seemed that they were different or at least she was. Someone saw her leave after his murder."

Dean- "But if you look at the body, there is no way that a chick could have done that. No matter how tough or what she was on."

Kat- "So then they found her body too?"

Sam- "Yeah only they found it miles away."

Dean- "We're thinking that the shifters killed the real her and dumped the body once they were done."

Kat- "Sounds like a pretty good theory."

Sam- "How does a day at the library sound since there aren't any clues here?"

Dean- "Like something geeky sidekicks would enjoy all too much." sighing not looking forward to the trip.

Kat- "Why don't you two do research while I check around here and some of the other places?"

Dean reluctantly agreed. The places seemed pretty safe and he knew he could tell his girlfriend apart from some stupid double. He gave her a gentle kiss as he and Sam walked to the car and headed off to do some boring research.

Kat knew this was way too easy. She waited till they were out of sight and headed towards the warehouse to join in some of the fun.