The next day, Kate woke up after a very rough night. She had spent the whole night thinking about running away from this place since her life was threatened by that hunter. But what Sam had told her was true: on her own she won't be able to find a way back home. So if she has to go through Dean's threatening behavior towards her in order to get back home, then she could do it. She had survived being a bullied kid, she could survive this.
She walked to the second bathroom that was upstairs with clothes and a little bag with her necessary to get herself prepared for the day. She took a quick shower, put on her underwear, the denim pants she was wearing the previous day and a simple blue t-shirt. As she looked at herself in the little mirror above the sink, she noticed the little cut that was on her throat. She immediately recalled the exact events from last night. She sighed before she looked for a first-aid kit. She found a little one under the sink and took a band-aid. She put it on her neck and looked at herself in the mirror. She felt stupid for not defending herself but the thing is that she could feel that this Dean character was going through something more difficult than she could imagine. Still, if he didn't have any blade, she would have kick him right where she kicked Sam at her arrival.
She looked in her little toilet-bag trying to find a toothbrush. When she didn't, she realized it was the thing she knew she had forgotten to buy when she was shopping. She sighed and decided to put some eye-liner on. She wasn't a big fan of make-up but she couldn't live without some eye-liner. She looked at her wet hair that reached a little bit past her shoulders and decided to let it get dry on its own. She glanced at the band-aid on her throat and decided to go back to her room to take a little scarf to put on. She didn't want what happened last night to be the topic of the day.
When she arrived downstairs, she heard the three men talking about something. She looked down to the carpet where her beer had dropped last night and found no beer but a large dark round. She assumed the liquid poured there. She was pulled from her thoughts when she heard Dean saying they'll be gone for a week upmost. She walked to the living room and looked at the three men. Bobby was the first one to notice her.
"Morning Kiddo," he told her. The two brothers turned to look at her.
"Morning Katie," Sam said smiling "Slept well?"
"Good morning," she replied "And well, not really," she tried not to look at Dean but she could feel his gaze on her. "But some coffee will make it all right."
"I'll pour you some," Sam said as he walked to the kitchen "Want some breakfast too I suppose?"
"Hum yeah, why not?" She replied as she walked to the kitchen, passing right by Dean whose eyes were glued to her. She sat down and Sam brought her a cup of coffee.
"Want bacon and sausage?" He asked her.
"No, a bowl of cereal will be enough," she replied and he nodded as he brought everything in front of her. "Thank you, Sam."
"You're okay?" Sam asked her and she looked up at him.
"Yeah, why're you asking?"
"You seem a little off this morning," he told her as he sat down on the chair right next to her. "Did you have a bad dream or something you wanna talk about?"
"No," she replied after a second of hesitation "I'm okay. Just a little bit tired and… I really wanna go back home."
"Don't worry about it. You will get back home," he reassured her and she gave him an almost smile as she nodded.
"Oh by the way," she said as she put a spoon full of cereals in her mouth "Toothbrush."
"What?" Sam asked as her words were not really audible through her chewing. She swallowed.
"Toothbrush. That's what we forgot to buy yesterday," she told him and he let out a light chuckle.
"I'll give you one," he told her and she looked at him with a slightly exaggerated expression of disgust. "One that I haven't used yet, Kate."
"Oh alright then. Thanks."
"The boys are leaving on a case, Kate," Bobby said as he walked in the kitchen.
"A case?" She asked looking at Sam.
"Hunting case," he told her and she nodded.
"That means we're gonna spend our time together to search for a way to send you back home," Bobby said as she started eating while nodding her head "And I've had an idea last night… Maybe I could ask for Pamela to check on you."
"Who's Pamela?" Kate asked after swallowing.
"A powerful psychic," he replied as he crossed his arms on his chest "She could be helpful." And Sam tilted his head in agreement.
"You really think a psychic could find out what to do while the angels don't know any crap about that?" Dean asked as he arrived behind them. Kate glanced at him before looking right back down at her bowl. Sam noticed her reaction and he frowned confused.
"I don't know anymore than you do Dean, but we've gotta look at every possibility," Bobby said as he looked at the dirty-blond-haired man. "Anyway, that's not your problem. You've got a case to go to right now."
"Yeah, right," Sam said as he stood up. "I'll go pack my bag and get you this toothbrush."
"What's with the scarf kiddo?" Bobby asked suddenly realizing that she had a scarf on while it wasn't a very chilly day.
"Hum," Kate started and she could feel Dean's gaze on her. She could feel him waiting for her answer. She knew she shouldn't keep what happened last night a secret but she also knew that he was going to leave for a few days and if she was lucky enough, once he'll come at Bobby's she'll be back to her world. Besides, as nice as Sam and Bobby are towards her for the moment, they may take Dean's side and even threaten her life even more. "I'm a little bit cold."
"Then why don't you put on a warmer top?" Sam asked as he was standing in the doorway and she looked down at her t-shirt and cursed herself in her mind.
"I wanted very badly to put that t-shirt on," she blurted out "I find it cute, don't you?" Sam and Bobby frowned. What was even cute in a simple blue t-shirt?
"I'll never understand women," Bobby said as he walked out of the kitchen shaking his head. Sam chuckled as he left to pack his bag. Kate's eyes immediately turned to Dean only to find him staring back at her. His gaze was intense and the fact that he had beautiful deep green eyes didn't help her feel any more comfortable. They heard Bobby answering a phone call from some hunter but they never broke the eye contact.
"Is it a big one?" Dean asked her suddenly in almost a whisper.
"What?" She asked.
"The cut. Is it a big one?" He asked her, his eyes still locked with hers.
"Not that big," she simply replied. He nodded and looked away, sighing. She stared at him wondering what was wrong with him when Bobby hung up.
"Balls!" Bobby exclaimed before he looked up to find Dean still there. "What are you doing? Your brother went to pack his bag and you're standing here making small talk! Hurry up you idjit!"
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"You're sure this Pamela won't be upset, right?" Kate asked as Bobby and she walked out of his car heading to the psychic's house. It had been a day since the Winchesters had left for their case and after many researches, Bobby had called Pamela to tell her about Kate. The woman accepted to see her if it wasn't going to take another one of her five senses away. Kate had asked Bobby and he had told her that she had helped him and the brothers on a case that made her lose her eyes.
"I'm sure," he replied.
"But you said the last time you asked for her help, you got her eyes burned out!" She said in a shouted whisper.
"Yeah, well it doesn't mean she won't help you or take her whole anger at me on you," he replied as they were now standing in front of the psychic's frontdoor. Bobby knocked loudly and Kate took a deep breath.
The door opened after a woman shouted that she was coming and Kate was more than surprised to find herself facing a woman who looked just… Ordinary. Pamela was wearing a simple black top and black pants, and boots that reached her knees. The only item that made her look maybe a bit more like a psychic was the sunglasses that she was wearing while she was in her house. Aside from that she looked like the casual cool woman that lived a rock 'n roll life.
"You're late Bobby Singer," the woman said immediately as Kate stared at her.
"My watch tells me that I'm in time. You're too early," he snapped back at her and she scoffed before she turned her head to Kate.
"And this must be the impossible girl from another world," Pamela said as she reached for Kate who immediately pulled her hand out.
"Yeah, this is me," Kate said as Pamela grabbed her hand with her two hands and a smirk appeared on her face.
"For sure, you're not from here," Pamela said as she rubbed her hands against Kate's hand "You give off a very different kind of energy… Very different and very sweet," Kate looked down at their hands and wondered if what this woman was telling her was true. "Well, let's get inside," Pamela said giving her a smile before she let go of Kate's hands and walked in followed by Kate and Bobby.
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After half almost an hour of little chat to explain the problem, Pamela asked Kate to sit right across from her so she could hypnotize her but it didn't work. The second time, Bobby's phone rang which distracted the two brunettes. The third time, it was still ineffective. Pamela took off her glasses and rubbed her fingers on her eyelids before she decided to ask Kate to lay down on one of the two sofas that was in her living room. She tried to get into her memory lane but once again nothing happened and Pamela knew that it was Kate's fault. The young woman was not concentrated at all. Especially after Bobby went to talk on the phone with the two brothers.
"I need you to concentrate," Pamela told her and Kate nodded and tried to concentrate but all she could think of was how weird the situation was. "Okay, you're not concentrated at all."
"I'm sorry, it's just-"
"Weird?" Pamela cut her off. "Yes, I know. Especially if where you come from there's no things like that."
"There are. But I kinda never believed in those kind of things back then," Kate said as she sat up.
"Kate, it doesn't even work here since you can't get your mind on a full concentration," Pamela told her as Bobby came back.
"I was talking with Sam and Dean," he said "They're apparently facing a bitter witch."
"Perfect timing. Go all witchy for Halloween," Pamela said and Kate frowned.
"Witches exist in this world too? Like real witches?"
"What they didn't tell you?" Pamela asked her surprised.
"No, I-I thought there was only like demons, angels and maybe some other monsters. But witches? Come one the next time you're gonna tell me that werewolves are real too!" Kate said letting out a scoffing chuckle. When she realized the two others were quiet, she stopped and looked back and forth at them. "Werewolves exist?"
"Honey, every little monsters and creatures exist in this world," Pamela told her.
"Pamela!" Bobby exclaimed.
"What? She needs to know if she's gonna stay here until we find a way to send her back," Pamela replied as she turned around to face the old man.
"Vampires? Werewolves? Ghosts?" Kate said.
"As real as us," Pamela replied.
"How is it that no one knows about them?" Kate asked with frowned eyebrows.
"Most of the people are stupid in this dimension, Kate," Pamela told her.
"At least, that's another thing in common with my dimension," she said making Pamela laugh.
"Okay, you know what? Hypnotizing you doesn't work. So I think we're going to spice things up just a little bit."
"What do you mean?" Bobby asked Pamela.
"For starters, you can leave. I'll call you when I'm done with her," the psychic said as she stood up and then turned at Kate "And you and I are going to do some witchcraft. After all this is Halloween."
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Kate remembered very well the time she and her cousin Alina, had tried to cast some spells. They were sixteen by then and all Kate wanted was to cast a spell on her mother to make her want to move to Lawrence so she could leave that terrible school and get closer to where her father lived. Her cousin wanted better grades and she wanted her little sister to obey her completely. All they ended up having was a month of no going out and no watching the new tv show of that moment Buffy the Vampire Slayer anymore. Simply because after they stopped the fire in Kate's bedroom before it went wilder, their mothers had found out that they were trying to do some witchcraft. They immediately blamed the fantasy series.
This time, sitting on the floor in the middle of the living room where they had pulled the curtains shut to be in the dark, Kate realized that the witchcraft she had tried with Alina was absolutely nothing to the one Pamela and she were doing. The ingredients, the patterns to draw, the Latin things to say. It was all different from the five little candles and so-called magic powder they had bought in the prank-shop. But, things got even more real when Pamela brought a knife.
"Alright, light the candle," the psychic told her as she stood outside the round weird pattern drawn on the floor. Kate did as told and looked up at the psychic. "Now, get in the middle of that pattern and put the candle right in front of you." Kate did so and Pamela whose sunglasses were on the top of her head gave her a little smile. "Take off your scarf. Bobby's not here for quite a while and I am blind so I won't see the cut Dean did to you."
"How…"
"I'm a very good psychic," Pamela told her with a wink. It was weird to see a woman whose eyes were actually white fake eyes wink and joke around that much. Kate threw the scarf away and looked at Pamela. "And now, your arm." Kate gave her arm to Pamela and understood immediately that she was going to cut her. "Just a little bit heeere," Pamela said and Kate winced a little bit when the blade traced a thin line on her forearm. "Just enough to make some blood drop on the pattern. Don't worry, you're nto the only one who's going to lose some blood," she told her before cutting her palm too and letting a few drops of blood fall on the pattern. "Okay, ready?"
"I can't back down now, huh?"
"Read the spell," Pamela told her with a little smirk. Kate coughed before she read the spell out loud. Once she finished she looked up at Pamela.
"What? There's no flashing light or something like that?" Kate asked "That's a little bit disappointing."
"Wait," Pamela whispered "Can you hear?"
"Hear what?" Kate asked in a whisper as she felt a shiver run down her spine.
The sound of harsh hoof steps became more and more audible for the two women. Kate turned her head to look at the doorway leading to the staircase as it was coming from there.
"What is it?" Kate asked, fear filling her voice as the steps were louder and louder.
"Whatever it is, it is coming to us," Pamela told her as Kate turned her head to look at her "And there's something else."
"What?"
"I can see," Pamela told her when suddenly the sound of steps stopped.
"You can see me?"
"I can see everything," Pamela told her.
"But your eyes are still white. How… How…" Kate coughed and tried to speak but no sound would come out of her mouth. She gripped her throat and tried to scream but nothing happened.
"Kate, I think I know what this is… We made a terrible mistake… I shouldn't have made us do this spell… Its-"Pamela said before a force slid the two women apart. Kate's back landed on the couch while Pamela's back landed on the opposite wall.
Suddenly, the steps started again. Kate turned to look at the doorway and gulped when her eyes fell on the giant shadow on the floor of what was coming downstairs.
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At Bobby Singer's.
Bobby's eyes were glued to one of his books when his phone rang again. The old man could always lost count on the number of phonecalls he got per day. He never complained but there were times when he wished he could have some peace because as much as he liked helping all those hunters out there, he also liked having some free time out of hunting or researching or answering this damn phone because some hunters don't know how to get a book and research on their own.
"Yeah?" He replied grumbling.
"Bobby, it's Dean."
"Dean," Bobby sighed "What can I do to you? You don't remember how to take care of a witch?" He said sarcastically.
"Wow, you're in a bad mood," Dean said on the other end and Bobby rolled his eyes "Did the girl do something to get you mad?"
"Kate didn't do anything, Dean. She's at Pamela's right now actually-"
"You let Pamela on her own with that girl?" Dean cut him off. Bobby slid away the book he was reading and stood up from his chair.
"Yeah, I did, Dean. Got a problem with my decision?"
"Bobby, we're still not sure if we can trust her. You can't let Pamela on her own with a stranger we don't know nada about her!" Dean told him and Bobby frowned. Sure they didn't know as much as they wanted about that girl. But Bobby had a feeling she could be trusted and Pamela didn't show any kind of resentment about her. As a matter of fact, Pamela seemed to like and trust that girl pretty quickly.
"Pamela wouldn't have asked me to leave them two alone if that girl, whose name is Kate by the way, wouldn't be trustworthy. So stop judging my point of view you idjit and tell me what you called for!" Dean stayed silent for a short moment and then sighed.
"Sam and I had a little visit from the angels," Dean said "Castiel and one of his douche friend called Uriel. And apparently the case we're on is one of the 66 seals."
"Balls!" Bobby exclaimed.
"It's the raising of Samhain, you heard about it?" Dean told him and Bobby frowned as he actually remembered having heard or read something about it.
"Sounds familiar," he replied as he looked down at the pages on his desk; the ones that Kate had written down. He frowned as he took one in his hand.
"Yeah, well the douchebag Uriel is a specialist," Dean said "And-"
"Dean, you fucking idjit!" Bobby cut him off.
"Excuse me?" Dean asked.
"Shut up! The raising of Samhain, she had written it down! Kate had written it down when she did her first searching the other day!" Dean stayed silent.
"She didn't when it was going to happen I suppose so-"
"She did! Once Samhain rises, he is able to summon creatures from the depths of the Pit and unleash all these morbid entities on the world. On the final day of Celtic Harvest," Bobby told him as he read the paper "Anyway, she added a little note on the side… The demon can be fooled by people wearing masks?"
"That sounds a bit unrealistic," Dean said on the other end. "Anyway, I'm gonna tell Sam all of this. It might help us prevent this town to get burned off the map."
"What?"
"Uriel, the specialist, he's going to destroy this town if we don't kill off the witch in time."
"Then what are you doing on the phone with me? Go get rid of that witch now!" Bobby shouted at him before he hung up on him.
He looked down at the page in his hand and took the other pages before he sat down and read them completely. Every page showing him more and more how helpful that little brown-haired had been. He glanced at his phone and decided to call Pamela to see how everything was going on there.
He dialed the number and waited. No answer. He decided to call a second time hoping he wasn't disturbing them on whatever they were doing. Nothing again. He frowned. He looked at his watch and realized that Pamela was supposed to call him an hour ago no matter what. He dialed her number a third time and cursed when there was still no answer. He threw his phone on his desk, cursed loudly and stood up to go to Pamela's as quickly as possible.
Author's note :
Here is another chapter for you dear readers :)! Sure there's no much scenes with our two favorite boys but I truly think that it makes the story more realistic. The thing is that I think that if a character had to come from nowhere on the show, the same way Kate did, the boys wouldn't be the ones watching after her. Bobby would be the one watchinG after her, helping her out with her problems,... At least for the beginning I think that'd go like that! But don't worry, the boys are coming back at Bobby's after they've solved this case and there'll be plenty more of scenes with Kate and them ;) I just really want to stick as closely as possible to the main plot of the show but I still want to make this story as original as possible !
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I can't wait to read your reviews! By the way I want to sincerely thank each of the persons who took time to let a review. Your reviews were very kind and they encouraged me more than ever to write more and to update as often as possible! You guys are awesome !And thank you very much for those who corrected a few msitakes of mine, I took note of them for next time. Oh and sorry for the mistakes of this chapter... I think I might have done more than on the previous chapter since I didn't have time to re-read...
I hope to update the next chapter tomorrow so stay tuned!
Love,
A.
