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"I really don't think going into the Roadhouse and announcing you see people dying before it happens to be a great idea," Dean announced his frustration after the trio left Salem and crossed into Missouri.
"Well I wasn't really planning on announcing it to the whole bar, no," Sam said back, his hands thrown up in the air as if he didn't know how to win this fight.
"Just chill, both of you. We still have a good amount of time before we get there and I don't want a headache the size of Montana right when I have to go put up with Jo Harvelle," Lex sighed, reclining in the back seat all by herself. Dean saw her feet propped up on his duffel as she laid down across the leather. He smiled remembering a moment from high school.
"Dean, I really don't think this is a good idea," Alexis was buckled in next to him, holding onto her seat belt for dear life as he drove faster on the abandoned country road.
"Oh shut it, you big baby. What's life without a little risk? Dad will never know," he cocked a smirk at her, his whole face lit up with the excitement of driving the Impala. It was going to be his someday, and he'd blare the music just the way he wanted too. No one would tell him otherwise.
"If you crash this car and kill us I will track you down in heaven or hell and kick your ass Winchester," she shrieked slightly as he veered off road for a minute before righting himself again. So it had only been his third time ever driving a car, but come on, this was exciting.
Finally coming to a lake they always visited when they were in Colorado, Dean pulled off the road and parked in front of the water below the towering mountains. The sky was turning grey above them and he could tell a storm was coming in. Lex finally perked up and jumped out of the car with her shirt flying off behind her and her fingers working on her pants. Flip flops got lost in the sand and Dean watched as she stripped down to a bikini and jumped into the lake.
Taking her lead, he stripped down to his trunks and cannon balled in after her. The water was cool, but warm enough for a quick swim. Grabbing onto Lex's ankle, he pulled her back towards him and dunked her under with his arm holding her down. He was about to let go when she kicked him in the shin and he swore loudly, losing his grip on her.
"Bitch," he swore at her, rubbing his leg under the water as she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Ass," she smiled widely at him, her white teeth bright in the ever darkening sky. He started to feel the raindrops fall on his head and dove down again into the black water. It was so peaceful here, just Lex and him and no responsibility. No worrying about his twelve year old brother. Nothing but them.
"Hey, let's eat in the car and then head back. I can see lightning coming, we better get my sexy butt outta here before it gets fried," he joked, both of them heading to shore and putting their clothes back on over wet suits.
Climbing into the back seat of the Impala, Lex sat down on one side and then stretched her legs over the seat and onto his lap. He looked down at her bright blue toenails and rolled his eyes as she passed him a hamburger and a bag of chips they had picked up a few miles back.
"I almost don't want to go back to school anymore," she said, her voice a little sad but also honest. Dean knew how much she loved school though, and knew even if he begged her to stay with him, she'd go back. It was in her mind that finishing high school was a must, and she had even skipped ahead a year and was in Dean's class. Something that made it easier to get through the day.
"I don't know what you see in that hell hole. I'd rather fight demon after demon then continue freshmen year." He shivered, the car now cold with his clothes damp. He looked over at the pretty girl to his right and noticed her body covered in goosebumps and her shirt sticking to her breasts in a way that made him look away quickly.
Damnit Dean, don't blush.
"Well, the day when the hunting comes to an end I'll be well educated and you'll be fixing me a burger. Think about that next time you want to drop out, hotshot," she poked him in the side and then climbed into the front seat. Her butt hung close to his face as she squirmed over the seat and started the car up to get the heat on. Slapping it in jest, he enjoyed the sound she made a little too much when she felt it.
"Come on, Lex, let's get back before our dads decide it's a great idea to surprise us with ice cream early or something. Sam is probably almost awake from his sugar induced nap too," he climbed up front with her and watched her smile at him with the rain falling heavily in the window behind her.
It was like they were in their own world, the storm cutting them off from the rest of civilization. Her blue eyes were still bright and sparkling in the dark front seat and he couldn't help smiling back. All he had to do was lean over and kiss her, that's all. Then maybe he'd finally have what he always wanted. Her.
As he began to lean towards her, a loud knock scared the crap out of them and they saw a dark figure standing outside of the door. Lex tensed up behind him as he covered his body with hers as the thing tried to get the door open. Dean felt on the ground for a gun and Lex pulled a knife from her jeans pocket, and they both waited to meet the thing hunting them.
"I swear to God Dean Winchester, if you've been groping my daughter I'll have your head on a stake!" Mr. Jones yelled, his wet face in view now as well as his own dad's. John Winchester held in a laugh but then gave his son a look that meant he was in big trouble for taking the car.
No vending machine food for a month? Check.
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A few hundred miles later Dean pulled into the packed Roadhouse parking lot and shook Lex and Sam awake. The sign could be seen for miles around and the hunters were out by the dozens tonight. Passing a few on the outside, he noticed Lex fixing her white v-neck t-shirt so that it wasn't revealing too much to the handsy older gentlemen. He laughed to himself, putting an arm across her shoulders and pulling her to his side.
"Just cause you're covering them up doesn't mean they can't see them, Lex," he joked with her, her freckled face turning bright red as Sam opened the doors and they walked in.
Jo was finishing up a game of Deer Hunter in the corner and Ellen was busy behind the bar. Ash wasn't anywhere to be seen, but soon enough Jo came walking towards them with her hips in full swing mode and her lips turned up flirtatiously. As much as Dean might have wanted to like her, the girl was younger than Sammy. It was just too weird a thought with knowing her as a baby and all.
"Couldn't stay away, could you?" She smiled up at him, Lex already gone off to the bar to get a drink.
"Something like that," he said back, Sam coming to stand next to him.
"Hey Jo, is Ash in?" His brother asked, his body tense and ready to get back on the road already.
"Yeah, he's back in his room," she nodded her head while she spoke, her blonde hair flipped behind her with a quick hand. Sam walked off quickly without him, Jo turning as he passed by her, "And I'm great. Thanks for asking Sam."
"He's got a lot on his mind, we're kind of in a hurry," Dean reassured her, and then left her there to join Sam in back.
After coaxing a naked Ash into clothes and out into the bar, he and Sam searched on the laptop for the symbol that his brother had scratched down on the paper. As Ash told them what city to go to and Sam pushed on different things, the air around them got a bit tenser and he could feel Jo listening in. Wishing she'd go away, Ash finally agreed to do what they'd asked and all they had to do was wait.
The night dragged on a little, random hunters stopping to say hello and Lex was talking to one of her dad's old friends in the corner as Dean sat down at the edge of the bar. Jo was walking around and cleaning up, leaving him to some much needed peace and quiet. Short lived though, as a group of hunters started a shouting match about a game of pool.
"Don't you just love this place?" Lex muttered sarcastically, sitting down next to him and getting a bottle of beer. She took a long drink before putting it down next to his and then resting her head on her hand. She stared over at him, her eyebrows raised waiting for an answer. He was stuck for a moment though, lost in thought about the last time he was here.
"Yeah, it's a real winner. I think it's got the prize for best asshole customers three years running," he commented, the sound of glasses and bottles breaking as the fight heated up in the corner. Lex laughed and started picking at her blue nail polish, her fingers never good at staying still.
Looking up over at the jukebox, he noticed Jo putting in some quarters before picking out a song. Soon enough, 'Can't Fight This Feeling' by REO Speedwagon came on and he laughed. Jo chastised him on not liking the song, completely ignoring Lex to her best ability as she tried to get some info about their questions for Ash out of him. Lex sighed loudly next to him, her fingers grabbing for the beer bottle again.
"It's a family matter, Jo, no offense," he said, trying not a pick a fight with the tiny blonde.
"Why is Alexis in on it then?" She stated obviously, now including his best friend. He wanted to shake her, both of them really. They had this dislike that had existed too long and neither of them really remembered the reason for it anymore.
"Because, she is. That's it, nothing amazing. She just is. Can we get another beer?" He groaned quietly, Jo stomping off to get some more beer and Lex giggled next to him. He felt her bend in next to him, her lips lightly touching his ear as she sang into it.
"What started out as friendship,
Has grown stronger.
I only wish I had the strength to let it show..." She laughed, the REO song now burned into his mind for the rest of the night. Oh, how he was going to enjoy the constant reminder that the lyrics gave him.
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A few days passed and they were finally getting settled into their first place of sleep other than the Impala. The last fight had been a crazy one, Sam now even more convinced he was going to be a killing pawn for the yellow-eyed bastard. Even after telling Ellen and Jo about the whole thing, Dean didn't feel any better about it. Now they were somewhere in Arizona and Lex was on her computer turning in assignments or something.
"So, these kids are actually being drug into the river and killed by this ghost just because they don't forward an email? I thought that was some urban legend," Dean said, sitting on his bed across from Sam. His brother shrugged his shoulders, not really knowing what to say.
"Well, that one was about a girl in a sewer, and was spread across more than the teenagers in one town. I don't know how this one is getting around. It's getting adults too though, at least since yesterday," Sam showed him the article in the paper about a woman in her thirties to be the tenth drowning victim in the last week.
"If we don't watch out, that whole pop rocks and soda thing will be the death of us," Lex joked from her bed, the lovely pull-out couch in their vintage hobo styled suite. Such luxury a hunter gets.
"I can think of worse things." He said honestly, pulling his gun from the waistband of his jeans and setting it on the side table.
A little while later Sam left to find somewhere to get some food and Lex finished her work at about the same time. She stretched and yawned loudly as she got up and walked over to his bed. Grinning down at him, she crawled up next to him and they went through the channels on the TV together. Finding a show they used to watch all the time when they were kids, Lex rested her head on his chest and he absentmindedly began twirling a tendril of her hair around a finger over and over again.
"Jo is totally in love with you, you know," she stated during a commercial break, a snicker escaping her lips as she peered up at him now.
"Oh shut it, you. She'll get over it as soon as a good looking guy walks into the Roadhouse, it's nothing to worry about," he prayed to himself that that was true. Lex propped herself up so that she was looking over him now, her face staring down at his.
"Would it be such a bad thing to fall in love? I mean, our parents did it and sure none of their lives turned out that great, but at least they had each other, right?" His breath caught at the comment, wondering if she knew he was thinking about the same thing most of the time.
Sure, he was almost in love with Cassie. And it wasn't for a lack of effort, but every time he went to say he loved her, Lex's face would pop up and he wasn't ever sure if he wasn't picturing his best friend in almost all the relationships and one night stands he had. He did care for Cassie though, deeply, but that was never going to work out. Knowing Lex was probably thinking about that too, he remembered their last conversation had been a fight about Cassie. Lex didn't think she was good enough to worry so much about and Dean was pissed that she didn't accept that he might have found the one. But even he knew she wasn't, and he think he hurt Alexis when he said that her opinion didn't matter to him. That she didn't matter to him.
All so untrue.
"I guess not, but who the hell am I going to find that would accept all this shit?" He almost wished she would say it was her, to say that she was in love with him. But he knew, even if she did, nothing would come of it. He'd put up a wall and push her away again, he didn't want to drag her all over the country when he knew her heart stayed in Salem.
"I don't know Dean, it's just a nice thought sometimes to think that someone will be home worrying about you and wanting you to be safe. I hate being so freaking lonely all the time. It's a shitty feeling," she flopped unto the bed again and turned her back to him. He didn't know what to say, because he felt exactly the same way. Instead, he rolled over on his side and pulled her back until she was flush against him and held her. She was crying softly, the loss of family probably plaguing her mind and he wished he could take the pain away. Kissing the side of her neck, he rubbed her stomach with his hand and tried to calm her down.
"I'll always be worrying about you. You're not all alone anymore Lex."
