The Hunter and The Wiccan

Jus in Bello

Sam and Dean shuffled awkwardly around each other before sitting down, heavily, on the cheap, moldy bed and looked around their jail cell, jiggling their chains slightly.

"How we going to Houdini ourselves out of this one?" Dean asked his younger brother, not really expecting an answer but needing to break the stifling silence, he certainly didn't expect Sam to bolt up, eyes widening with realization.

"I think you just answered your own question." Sam breathed, wanting to hit himself for not thinking of it sooner

"You want to explain that, Sammy, or are we going to play the guessing game?"

"Houdini, Dean, that's it!" He exclaimed, excitedly

"Did they knock a few bolts in your brain loose? Because you're not making any sense, man."

"Don't you get it?! Dude, we have the Charmed Ones on our side, all we have to do is get them to magic us out of here." Sam explained

"That could work except for one tiny, tiny, little detail. How are we supposed to call them? They took our phones; I highly doubt anybody out there is going to lend us one, so how are we going to ask them to Houdini us out of this?"

"… We're screwed." Sam deadpanned

"Yeah."


Dean jogged into the impound lot and quickly popped the trunk, hastily putting weapons and amulets into a duffle bag, his head shot up when the lights started flickering and swore when he saw the gigantic cloud of black smoke coming towards him. He slung the bag over his shoulder and ran back inside where Sam and the others had lined the windows and doors with salt and spray painted the floors with devil's traps, Dean yelled out a warning, "They're coming! Hurry!" as he slammed the door shut, throwing a gun to Sam as they ran into the main office where everyone else was.

"Uh, Sam?"

"Yeah?"

"Now might be a good time to call Piper."

"Yeah." Sam agreed, quickly grabbing the phone and dialing, heart beating fast as he prayed for someone to pick up, he smiled in relief when he heard Piper's sweet tone.

"Hey, Piper, we could really use some help right now." He told her, cursing when the black smoke hit the building, causing dust to fall from the ceiling as the building shook.

"What was that? What have you two gotten yourselves into now?"

"It's a long story but basically we're stuck in a police station surrounded by demons." Sam informed her, casually

"… We'll be right there."


Piper sat on a desk, fiddling with her anti-possession necklace, and watched as Sam showed her sisters how to hold the shotgun. She looked up when she heard footsteps coming towards her and saw Dean standing in front of her, looking tense.

"Hey." She smiled at him, widely, and he grinned back at her, relaxing when he realized that things weren't awkward between them.

"Hey. Look, Piper, thanks for helping us, you guys didn't have to."

"Well, you guys helped us with the Wendigo and Elias, this is the least we can do."

"That's not true; this is a lot more dangerous than the cases we helped you guys with. Just accept the thanks, Piper; it's not something I do very often." He told her and she reluctantly nodded in agreement. They sat, watching their siblings in silence, chuckling when Phoebe accidently rammed the butt of the gun into Sam's gut, making him grunt in pain.

"I guess it's a good thing you already taught me how to shoot a gun, huh?" Piper asked, smiling at him

"Yeah, although I'm starting to wish I had taught your sisters as well." Dean told her, wincing when he saw Sam slid to the floor, holding his groin, moaning in pain, and Dean looked at the sisters with wary eyes, wondering if everyone would be safer if he took the guns away from them. "I'm not afraid to admit that the thought of being anywhere near your sisters while they have those guns, scares the shit out of me." Piper started laughing at the confession before flinching in sympathy as Sam ducked to avoid Phoebe's shotgun, he looked over at them with pleading eyes, mouthing 'help me' before turning to look out at the demon filled parking lot with longing.

A loud crash made them jump up and rush into the room, guns pointed, to see a blonde demon stuck in a devil's trap and Piper instinctually flicked her fingers causing everybody to freeze, including the demon, and she tilted her head in surprise, "Huh, I guess that does work on them." Piper unfroze the rest of the room and Dean sighed, exasperated, when he saw the demon, "So, how do we kill her?"

"We don't. Piper, can you unfreeze her?" Sam asked, walking towards the blonde and scratching the trap with his knife

"But she's a demon." Piper protested

"She's here to help." Sam told her, making her look at him incredulously before turning to Dean, wide eyed, and he sighed, rolling his eyes, nodding his head in agreement and she reluctantly unfroze her and the demon strutted out of the devil's trap, stopping in front of Piper, looking her up and down, making her and Dean tense up, before recognition dawned on her face and she leaned in and whispered, reverently, "A Charmed One." Dean shifted uncomfortably before tugging Piper towards him, making the blonde's eyes snap over to him, analyzing him, what she found made her laugh, darkly.

"Only you, Dean-O. I wonder though, have you told her your little secret yet?" She called over her shoulder before the door closed behind her.

"I-I don't like her." Piper told Dean, uncomfortable with how the demon had looked at her, Dean threw an arm over her shoulder as they headed for the door.

"Welcome to my world."


Piper, Prue and Phoebe stood in front of the unprotected doors, guns ready, and immediately started shooting when the demons flooded through the doors, Prue telekinetically flung half of the crowd into the wall before doing the same to the rest, Phoebe had quickly abandoned the gun after almost blowing Piper's head off and was now in a hand-to-hand fight with two demons, she blocked a punch from one, twisting his arm and drop kicking him before levitating to avoid a hit from the other one, Piper cart wheeled out of the way before shooting the demon full of salt shells and roundhouse kicked the one behind her, splashing her with holy water.

Everything was going good… until the tide started turning, it seemed like word that the Charmed Ones were there had gotten out because a handful of demons left their previous fights and instead ganged up on the sisters. Prue got telekinetically thrown into the wall so hard it cracked, screaming in pain when the demon stepped on her hand, breaking it, so she brought her other hand up to fling him away from her but before she could he grabbed it and twisted it back so far there was a distinct snap, he lifted her up by her throat and slammed her against the wall again before bringing up a knife to stab her.

Phoebe got picked up by her throat and thrown into the wall before another demon pulled her up by her hair and backhanded her, sending her to the floor as the demon kicked her over and over, one of her ribs breaking, making her scream in pain, Piper stumbled back into the wall due to a kick to the stomach and she shoot at the demon a couple of times, sending it to the floor, before rolling out of the way of a punch and trying to shoot him but the gun was out of shells so instead she rammed the butt of her gun into his face, she shrieked in surprise and dropped the gun when another demon grabbed her from behind so she kicked off the wall, making them fall to the floor where the demon rolled on top of her and went to stab her so she quickly froze her and the entire room, saving her sisters as well.

Piper scrambled up and saw her sisters in pain from their severe injuries, she also noticed the demons starting to unfreeze and hastily started to chant, "Demon's soul hides behind an innocent's face. This witch's magic casts you out of this place!" black smoke poured out of all the demons mouths, pooling on the ceiling before disappearing in an explosion of light, the possessed people collapsing, and Piper quickly turned on the recording of Sam's exorcism before finally allowing herself to slide down the wall, exhausted. Prue slumped to the ground, holding her hands to her chest in pain, grimacing at soreness of her bruised throat, Phoebe leaned herself against the wall, clutching her ribs and sore stomach, resting her bruised cheek against the cool wall. The brothers and Henriksen stumbled out of the office and looked around, eyes widening at the large amount of people passed out on the floor, and they looked at the sisters with a new found respect in their eyes, these girls were bad ass.


Dean sat on the curb outside the Motel, looking up when Piper sat down next to him, offering silent comfort, not pushing him to talk about it. That's one thing he liked about Piper, she didn't push, and she let you talk when you wanted to talk and if you didn't want to talk than that was fine, she would just be there for you. It had been hours since Ruby had made that snide comment about his deal and she hadn't asked about it once, seemingly sensing that he didn't want to talk about it. She really was a cool girl, she wasn't even acting awkwardly over the fact they had slept together, she wasn't being clingy or needy, she was acting like it hadn't even happened… which was great… really, really great… so why the hell was it pissing him off so much?

"Are you okay?" Piper asked him, quietly

"I'm fine."

"If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine, I understand, but please don't lie." She whispered and he nodded in agreement and so they sat in silence for awhile, looking up at the sky, enjoying each other's company, Dean looked over and noticed Piper shivering slightly so he shrugged off his jacket and draped it over her, making her thank him and smile at him gratefully.

"I'm not going to push you to talk but I would like it if you would listen to what I have to say. I haven't been doing this as long as you have but I do know how hard it is to deal with the fact that sometimes good people die and I know that when they do, you blame yourself, you tell yourself that you should have protected them, that if you had done something different they wouldn't be dead right now and you agonize over every little detail and try to convince yourself that it was your fault but you have to believe me when I tell you that you couldn't have done anything, none of us could have done anything, trust me, I have looked over every possible thing we could have done differently and there is just nothing we could have done and that's just… just terrible. It's a horrible feeling and I'm so sorry that you have to experience it and I would take it away if I could… but I can't so I hope this helped you… even if it was just a little and if it didn't, I understand." Piper tried to comfort him before standing up and kissing him on the cheek "Goodnight, Dean." She turned around to leave when a hand on her wrist stopped her, she turned back to look at Dean.

"You did, you know. Help me, I mean. Thanks Piper." He told her, sincerely, getting ready to go back to his room

"Hey, do you maybe want to go and get some pie from the diner down the street? My treat." Piper offered, hesitantly

"Yeah, sure, but you're not paying, it's on me." Dean told her and they started arguing back and forth about who was paying as they got into the car and he immediately cranked the music so that she couldn't argue anymore, making her huff angrily before cracking a smile at him when he pointed at her, singing along to the song, terribly.


Sam rushed out of the room, worried because Dean hadn't been in his bed, before freezing when he saw him asleep in the car with Piper in the passenger seat, covered by his leather jacket. Sam smiled, walking up to the car, quietly opening the door and then he slammed his hand against the horn, making them both bolt up, and he quickly ran away, laughing his ass off, before Dean could process what had happened.

"Love the hair, man!" Sam called over his shoulder, making Dean snap out of it

"You are so dead, Sammy!" Dean shouted, chasing after him

These were the moments that mattered; these were the moments that they were going to remember, not Lilith or any of that other crap, these moments, the good ones, the ones that meant something. And this moment, getting chased around the parking lot by his pissed off big brother as the three girls, who had come to mean so much to them, laughed in the background, was one of the best ones yet.


Please review. I do not own Charmed or Supernatural.

I'm not sure I got all the characters right, if I didn't just tell me and I'll try to do better next time.

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