A/N: I should have mentioned this earlier. Darcy belongs to the wonderful and talented Seerblack so if you have any questions about her go to Seer.
Chapter Three
Autumn couldn't have been happier when Dean got to their room that afternoon. They weren't too late and she had gotten rid of her unwelcome car pool buddy. She barely had time to question him before he had her wrapped in his arms and was kissing her.
"Slow down, cowboy." Autumn pulled back opting to sit on the bed. "What'd you find?"
"Nothing, so we've got time." he leaned into the dresser watching her.
"How much time?" she asked.
"Enough." he switched gears. "What happened yesterday?"
"Athena and I were in the middle of something." she dismissed, hoping he would just drop it.
"What something could be too secret to come around?"
"Nothing." he stared at her in disbelief. "Sometimes something can be nothing, babe."
"But nothing is always something, right?"
"Yea, when its not nothing."
"I'm not even going to go there." Autumn smiled glad she'd deverted the conversation about the dangers of hitch hikers for a little longer.
"What are we doing, now?"
"We check hospital records and find all the kids born this month and the end of last."
"I'm guessing you've got our ID's?" Dean nodded pulling a plastic card out of his pocket and handing to her.
"They're taking the clinic, we've got the county hospital." he told her while she inspected to card.
"I'm Erma Goodlick?" she scrunched up her nose.
"Sam wouldn't let me make your first name Ima." Dean grinned.
"You're a strange little man Dean Winchester."
"Naw, her name was Darcy. Sweet girl too. We talked for a while."
"Still, you shouldn't have picked her up, Teen." Sam chided. It hadn't been hard to get the information they need. The two sat in a back office painstakingly writing down the names and addresses of all the women who'd had a baby in the past month.
"I know, but I couldn't just leave her out in the rain. No harm no foul, Sam."
"That's not the point. What if she'd not been just an innocent young woman? If she'd been-I don't know Athena." she slid a hand over his.
"If she'd been a spook we hunted long before you guys, if she'd been some shady guy she couldn't have been worse than vampires and werewolves. We would have been fine." she gave his hand a gentle squeeze.
"Still Teenie." she rolled her eyes and returned to her work.
"We're not little girls, Sammy. We can take care of ourselves." she muttered.
Darcy leaned into the wall between the two motel rooms. She couldn't believe how easy they were to find. That may have been part of why they were so hard to track, they hid in the open. She picked at the seam of her jacket waiting on one of the hot rods to pull into the parking lot. Though, she was in no great hurry to see Autumn again the girl did have an interesting mind. Definitely hid more than a few dark secrets and the images that had flitted through about Dean were more of the Winchester than she'd wanted to see.
The red Mustang pulled in and she feigned a relaxed pose ducking her head so as not to be immediately recognized. All she needed was Autumn to pull her gun. But she couldn't feel Autumn's mind so Darcy didn't see the need to worry about guns. Athena hopped out of the car laughing and pointed a finger threateningly at a tall man with a hair cut that made her think briefly of a sheep dog.
"You try it and I swear I'll hold you by your toes and shake ya."
"Uh huh. I doubt you could if you tried." the man laughed. The pair were quickly covering the distance between them and her. Sam looked up and their eyes met, Darcy found her eyes darting anywhere but his face.
"Darcy?" Athena stopped in front of her. She glanced up into Athena's smiling face. "Sam, this is the hitcher. Darcy this is Sam."
"Nice to meet you." Sam shook her hand putting on a happy face, but she felt the wave of suspicion.
"I uh forgot my"
"Wallet. Yea, come in I've got it inside. I saw it sitting back there when we were unloading this morning." Athena took the room key from Sam and let them in. "How'd you find us anyway?"
"You must have said you were going to stay in a motel." she shrugged. "I just had to ask if anyone had seen your car. Not exactly the model of discretion."
"Yea, Autty's baby. She's sooner get rid of me than that damn car." Athena rolled her eyes handing over the wallet.
"Thanks." Darcy smiled. "So you get to see the baby yet?"
"Oh, no." Athena shook her head and Darcy caught Sam moving out of the corner of her eye. "My cousin was resting so Sam and I went out to lunch and came back here instead."
Sam was trying to signal Athena to get rid of the brunette woman, but she told him no. Darcy held herself like they did. It was obvious she was trying to act natural, and straining herself to do so. The door opened behind him and all three of the room's occupants turned to see Autumn and Dean mouths open gawking.
"Hello, Darcy." Autumn recovered setting herself in a rather intimidating stance. "What are you here for?"
"Forgot my wallet." she held up the leather before tucking in her pocket.
"Darcy, you remember Autumn and this is her sex slave Dean." Athena introduced his brother, and Sam caught Autumn's nostrils flare as she fought the crimson blush that was taking over.
"Not a slave, willing participant." Dean smirked reaching out to shake Darcy's hand. "You know my girl?" he slid an arm around Autumn's waist pulling her to him and successfully removing the anger and blush.
"No, she gave me a ride into town." Darcy looked the four of them over again assessing her situation. "Well, it was nice meeting you boys. But I've got to scat." she eased past Autumn and Dean out the door. None of them spoke until they were sure she was gone when Dean broke.
"You picked up the hitch hiker?" Autumn shrank away. "Do you have any idea what kind of people hitch?"
"The kind with out a car?" Athena asked sitting down on the bed like a teenager preparing for a lecture she'd already heard.
"Axe murders and rapist." Dean glared at her. "What the hell made you pick one up?"
"WWJD, man. Have a little faith, she's a good kid that needed ride. No biggie." Athena shrugged.
"Autumn?" he turned to her.
"I said no, she was driving. I kept guard up the whole time, and we got lucky. Nothing happened." Autumn didn't bother to defend her sister.
"Dean, I've already had a talk with Athena. They won't do it again, will they?" Sam stepped in.
"No way in hell." Autumn agreed. Athena just dropped back on the bed arms over her head.
"What ever happened to 'love thy neighbor'?"
"That was before thy neighbor became a statistical nutcase." Dean argued.
"Dean, who told you that?" the younger blond asked sharply.
"What does your list look like? Too many people?" Autumn broke in before Dean and Athena could get really started.
"Nope, Wyoming has something like two thousand people and only three of them were born at the clinic in the last six months." Athena bounced back into the conversation.
"One was a seventeen year old girl. So, we can cross her off, she's not our woman." Sam offered. "What about you?"
"We got four that are living in Wyoming in the past month. Wanna take a look?" Dean handed Sam their notebook.
A/N: Ima was the name of the wife of a Mr. Goodlick that managed a store my dad used to work for I just couldn't pass up the chance to use the name that's amused me for so long. Sounds like something Dean would come up with anyway.
